We talk about being late, airports, slow walkers, networking in Latin American lobbies, trains, standardized time, life and death by bureaucracy, Chiune Sugihara (Japan’s Oscar Schindler), the Japan-Germany alliance during WWII, frenemies, a story of escape, the fall of the USSR, motifs and gimmicks in art and literature (Haruki Murakami, Ridley Scott, Wong Kar Wai, Peter Greenaway, Wes Anderson), BTS, evading the algorithms, Phoenix vs Tucson philosophies of lawns, and Asimov’s rules of robotics.

Mentioned in this episode

Jenny Odell's books How to Do Nothing and Saving Time

The Man in the High Castle television series

Kleo television series

The Windup Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway film)

Stinkweeds Record Store

Foundation television series adapted from Asimov

The Bear television series

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