Our adventurers grow and agree to disagree!

Episode breakdown:

• In our opening segment, we discuss lobbying by Google and tech companies (00:02:09), which leads us to talk about copyright, user data and privacy, and semantic bubbles. 
• We then turn our focus to discuss Man on Wire. Peter tells us how he came upon this film (00:26:21).
• We break down the movie - Petit’s dream of the walk between the Twin Towers (00:28:42), his earlier daring walks (00:29:59), the ‘heist’ (00:32:00) and the big walk (00:39:18).
• We talk about the aftermath of the walk - Petit’s arrest (00:41:26), his connection to the towers (00:44:02).
• We discuss the gradient of impressions we had of the movie (00:47:07).
• We move on and introduce the subject of our next episode - Hunt for the Wilderpeople, an indie movie by Taika Waititi (01:04:14).
• After the ending theme, we have a little bonus - a promo clip to our friends’ podcast, Jumbled (01:06:14).

 

Don’t Be Evil, Rana Foroohar.

Ted Talk - Beware Online ‘Filter Bubbles’.

The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray.

Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.

Short Q&A with Petit.

Philippe Petit: The Journey Across the High Wire TED Talk.

An older documentary about Petit Himself.

 

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Cover art by Azeecreations.

‘Celebration’ theme by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com). 

The intro bit was performed by the talented Bill Sunderland from the Escape This Podcast (EscapeThisPodcast.com) and Solve This Murder Podcast (SolveThisMurder.com).

 

The episode was recorded on Jan. 10th, and originally released on Feb. 9th, 2020.