Broadcasting live out of Tasmania’s Edge Radio studios 4-5pm (AEDT), Media Mothership explores how media shapes our understanding of the world around us. Host Dr Craig is joined by Lord Taylor to discuss today’s topic on Deefake satires, AI chatbots and the impact of AI on pop culture today. As well as our big announcement of our own experiment in this area starting from next show.

Episode Links 

• The Last Three Presidents Play ‘Minecraft’ Together in a New TikTok Deepfake Satire | Cracked.com https://www.cracked.com/article_37138_the-last-three-presidents-play-minecraft-together-in-a-new-tiktok-deepfake-satire.html?newsletter-cat=comedy
• Minecraft “Joe Biden blows up Trump's Minecraft House (AI Voice Meme)” https://youtu.be/cKuV2gQeZzw
• The Presidents discuss their top 5 animes https://youtu.be/IkaAZE_UGMo
• The Presidential Zomboys vs. Der Eisendrache https://youtu.be/aoMH0rF2z9g
• NFL Fox Sports at Hiroshima Crazy Footage (AI Voice)  https://youtu.be/_mJUf3noWjQ
• Replika users fell in love with their AI chatbot companion. Then they lost them - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-03-01/replika-users-fell-in-love-with-their-ai-chatbot-companion/102028196
• Nick Cave slams AI bot ChatGPT: 'A grotesque mockery of what it is to be human' | Mashable https://mashable.com/article/nick-cave-chatgpt

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Broadcasting live out of Tasmania’s Edge Radio studios 4-5pm (AEDT), Media Mothership exlpores how media shapes our understanding of the world around us. Today’s topic explores the film 'Prey (2022), the latest addition to the Predator film franchise. Host Craig Norris is joined by guests  Max Travers (adjunct associate professor – Sociology, UTAS), and Michael Sweet (PhD candidate – PhD student in law researching alcohol control in the Northern Territory.

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• - Prey trailer: https://youtu.be/wZ7LytagKlc
• - Max Travers University profile:  https://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/sociology/max-travers
• - Michael Sweet Research profile:  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Sweet-4

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Broadcasting live out of Tasmania’s Edge Radio studios 4-5pm (AEDT), Media Mothership exlpores how media shapes our understanding of the world around us. Today’s topic explores the mid-point and the 1951 radio drama ‘Three Skeleton Key’.

Media news - testing the realism of Jack’s death in James Cameron’s ‘Titanic’ and Cate Blanchett on Tassie footy. 

Episode Links 

• - Three Skeleton Key (1950) https://youtu.be/P2zT2DRFJxE
• - James Cameron Went And Did A Scientific Test To Prove That Jack Had To Die In 'Titanic' https://uproxx.com/movies/james-cameron-scientific-test-titanic-jack-death/  
• - MythBusters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPDxtclZzVU  
• - Cate Blanchett on Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Go to Tasmania and they play REAL football’ https://www.themercury.com.au/entertainment/cate-blanchett-on-jimmy-kimmel-go-to-tasmania-and-they-play-real-football/news-story/56e906a2c10cedb85128f76859cc5d21
• - Eric Edson - Mid-point, going into act-3. The heroes darkest hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6tXEwqkSnc   

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Guest Eilidh Doureen author of ‘Two bodies three fools' and host Craig Norris about the Mary Robinette's MICE theory of writing short stories. We then use this theory to analyse the classic 1950 radio drama 'Three Skeleton Key'.

Episode Links

• Three Skeleton Key (1950) https://youtu.be/P2zT2DRFJxE
• ‘Two bodies three fools' https://www.amazon.com.au/Two-Bodies-Three-Fools-romantic-ebook/dp/B0BBV1S1NJ
• Short Stories — With Special Guest Instructor Mary Robinette Kowal https://youtu.be/blehVIDyuXk

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Host Dr Craig Norris discusses the concept of the midpoint sequence and the point of no return in the classic radio drama 'Three Skeleton Key'  (1950).

Episode Links

• Three Skeleton Key (1950) https://youtu.be/P2zT2DRFJxE
• Eric Edson - The Point Of No Return For Your Hero - Midpoint Sequence: https://youtu.be/ASvHCXt8RU8
• The heroes darkest hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6tXEwqkSnc
• Austin Butler's voice coach explains why he sounded like Elvis in his Golden Globes speech - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-17/austin-butlers-voice-coach-on-why-he-still-sounds-like-elvis/101857896
• ‘The Simpsons’ Dominates Disney+, Embarrasses ‘The Evil Corporation’ | Cracked.com https://www.cracked.com/article_36649_the-simpsons-dominates-disney-plus-embarrasses-the-evil-corporation.html?newsletter-cat=comedy

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Host Dr Craig Norris discusses the creative meme work of Hannah Rogers with 'sad book memes' and the concept of the inciting incident in the classic radio drama 'Three Skeleton Key'  (1950).

Episode Links

• Sad Book Memes https://www.instagram.com/sadbookmemes/
• Inciting incident by Jerry B. Jenkins https://youtu.be/hOSP7yM1fQs

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Host Dr Craig Norris discusses the new works that have entered the public domain in 2023 and the opening act of the classic radio drama 'Three Skeleton Key'  (1950) in terms of setting up the life of your characters and building up the story.

Episode Links

• Gaming Like It's 1927 https://itch.io/jam/gaming-like-its-1927
• Check out Duke's Public Domain Day article or Copyright Lately's round-up
• Sherlock Holmes joins a first Oscar winner and the 'ice cream' song in the public domain https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/public-domain-2023-sherlock-films-books-songs-cec/index.html
• Australia: National Library releases out-of-copyright works https://www.nla.gov.au/stories/news/2022/public-domain-2023#
• 3 Mistakes Screenwriters Make In Act 1 That Ruin A Screenplay - Michael Hauge https://youtu.be/RGYHGc0pTeI

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Host Dr Craig Norris and guest MA Marcus Johson explores the final minutes of 'House on Haunted Hill'  (1959) in terms of key tropes like the Kansas City Shuffle, and also discuss Henry Cavill news with other end of year news and speculations.

Episode Links

• What's the Difference Between Ironic Endings and Ambiguous Endings?https://youtu.be/5SX6UyJb-h0
• Henry Cavill Releases Statement on the Warhammer Cinematic Universe That He's Building — GeekTyrant https://geektyrant.com/news/henry-cavill-releases-statement-on-the-warhammer-cinematic-universe-that-hes-building
• HENRY CAVILL JOINING AMAZON PRIME VIDEO’S ‘WARHAMMER 40,000’ FRANCHISE https://www.wcluradio.com/2022/12/22/henry-cavill-joining-amazon-prime-videos-warhammer-40000-franchise/

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Host Dr Craig Norris explores minutes 65-70 of 'House on Haunted Hill'  (1959) in terms of Chekov's Gun, and the latest pop culture news  including KFC Spain releasing the Otaku burger, Miyazaki's new film  announced, and the latest superhero casting speculations. 

Episode Links

• Chekhov’s Gun: When A Writer Doesn’t Deliver On Their Promise by Adam Skelter https://youtu.be/aRCg2zkIjlc
• StudioBinder. What is Chekhov's Gun — How Knives Out Perfects the Setup and Payoff. https://youtu.be/zQ1Feczm93A
• KFC releases an Otaku Burger…in Spain?!? https://soranews24.com/2022/12/02/kfc-releases-an-otaku-burger-in-spain/
• Studio Ghibli announces release date for Hayao Miyazaki’s new anime movie, releases key art https://soranews24.com/2022/12/13/studio-ghibli-announces-release-date-for-hayao-miyazakis-new-anime-movie-releases-key-art/
• Henry Cavill fans react to him being dropped as Superman: “He deserved better” https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/film/henry-cavill-fans-react-dropped-superman-3367761
• Henry Cavill won’t return to The Witcher despite losing Superman role https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/16/henry-cavill-wont-return-to-the-witcher-despite-losing-superman-role

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Host Dr Craig explores minutes 60-65 of 'House on Haunted Hill' (1959) in terms of gaslighting, and the latest pop culture news including an interesting series of examples of mashing up Seinfeld and Twin Peaks. Broadcasting out of Edge Radio studios, Hobart TASMANIA.

Episode Links

• House on Haunted Hill (1959) https://youtu.be/2gcMeJbN0FM
• In a dream come true, Mike Flanagan announces he's adapting Stephen King's The Dark Tower https://www.avclub.com/mike-flanagan-adapting-the-dark-tower-stephen-king-1849869660
• Why ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Twin Peaks’ Go Together So Well https://www.cracked.com/article_36138_why-seinfeld-and-twin-peaks-go-together-so-well.html?newsletter-cat=movies-tv
• British Film Institute releases latest top 100 film list of all time, but why should you care? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-02/british-film-institute-top-100-films-released-but-are-they-right/101661420

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