“Everything is due to accident” | topic: The Soul of Money, After Yang, Rogue Heroes, and the fall of USSR | a conversation with Lionel & Jim

We discuss the making of video clips for promoting our podcast and the futility thereof. The unruly beard is disparaged. Lionel brings up an episode of CSI where a civil war re-enactor was killed and found to be wearing a girdle as a response to Jim's thought experiment of having to be sewn into his clothes like foot soldiers in the civil war. We talk about the history men's fashion, men's vanity, and men's impossible expectations for both men and women.

Next, Jim brings up a book he had recently consumed called The Soul of Money by Lynn Twist, which he both enjoyed and did not enjoy. Jim shares a story from the book. This launches us into a discussion about what is enough or feels enough in our consumer society.

Jim talks about a movie he was impressed by called After Yang, starring Colin Farrell about a family who has purchased an android to look after their adopted daughter. This is one of a list of indie science fiction films Jim came across recently - we will probably cover others in future episodes.

Lionel talks about a book he read about the fall of the Soviet Union called Armageddon Averted by Stephen Kotkin which covers the events of 1970 to 2000 in the Soviet Union and eventual Russian Federation.

Lionel also relates a book/tv show combination called Rogue Heroes created by Stephen Knight who also created Peaky Blinders. The book and show cover the origins of the SAS during the second world war. Lionel continues giving interesting details about this show and book and pivoting to the battle of Midway until Jim informs him he has to leave and the show skids to a stop.

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