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Darryl Cooper joins me to discuss the archetypical significance of UFO's and AI as a "living myth" of the modern era. Are they real? Will AI replace humanity, as so many predict? Or are aliens and AI two different manifestations of the same Archetype for the technological age?To hear more from this podcast and get bonus content, including essays and podcast episodes that aren't available anywhere else, subscribe to my substack, https://astralflight.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_me...

Today we focus on Tarantino's later films, which I consider to be everything after Kill Bill Vol. 2My guests are Spendo, who was on the first episode, and Isaac Simpson, who has been on this show three times before and has his own excellent podcast, which I've appeared on several times, The Carousel.Become a paid subscriber on my substack and get access to several paid-only episodes, including "The Ladies of Lynch," "Darryl Cooper on UFO's and AI," and "True Detective Season 2."

We got the sci-fi dystopia...without the cyborg killer cops!Today me and my guest Granite Mountain Movie Club, found here on youtube, discuss several science fiction classics and cult classics: Robocop, Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, Back to the Future 2, Demolition Man, and Judge Dredd. Is America in 2024 better or worse than the future depicted in these films?Follow me on twitter @astralflite to listen to these podcasts live and join the discussion, and follow me on substack at a...

Charles Haywood joins me once again, this time to discuss Elon Musk and the future of American politics. This episode was based on his review of a recent biography of Elon Musk, published on his blog The Worthy House. I highly recommend everyone go read through this blog, it's an education in history and political philosophy in and of itself. Follow me on twitter @astralflite and substack at astralflight.substack.com. There's a lot more content on substack than on iTunes and Spotify, an...

I discuss Freud with Garfieldbot, writer at "The Egg Report" on substack. He's writing a long series of articles reconsidering many of Freuds ideas, which he thinks are embedded in the framework of the modern individuals understanding of themselves, their relation to the world, and the primary mode of describing human interactions for all of the 20th century.Perhaps now its time for people like us to dispel these ideas, and you can do so without reading a now out of print book, The Ordeal of ...

I make the case that American Psycho is a failed feminist critique of toxic masculinity, but succeeds as a film, with Bateman as the hero, despite the directors best efforts.I then veer off wildly and give a details breakdown of the difference in narrative structure between film vs digital storytelling, and explain the characteristics of post-modern film, of which American Psycho is one of the last.This episode was recorded live on twitter last year, follow me @astralflite and listen live and...