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Our SECOND EVER Open Epilogue!

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Episode highlights:

Mal watched 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time, and talked about it every day for three weeks

Stanley Kubrick’s astonishing team and the mind blowing scale of the project

He tried to purchase preserved human embryos from a Chicago biological supply company for research

He applied for insurance from Lloyd’s of London against the discovery of extraterrestrial beings before the film’s release

The movie came out in 1968, a year before the moon landing, with basically two pictures of Earth from space to work from

Shots that still hold up 60 years later

What makes this movie transcendent

Why Kubrick told actors not to emote

The book and the movie were written simultaneously by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, then diverged at the end

Clarke was a techno-optimist atheist who envisioned transcendence through technology; Kubrick saw something darker

The bad news monolith

Also: the phone in your pocket

Is evolution terrifying? Is it good?

Kubrick collapses linear time

Moon landing was…probably real

97% of people can’t identify human-made vs ai-gen music

A friend who spent 20 years making about 500 songs — AI makes a thousand in an afternoon

The communal difference between art and AI slop

Provenance is the point

The porn-pocalypse — news, politics, food, music, everything is porn now

When we dehumanize art we don’t experience anything

Why the viola is out of tune on purpose

The Great Man theory of history is stupid

The idea that you can’t make art because you don’t meet criteria for profitability is “the worst way to treat yourself”

Idolatry is worshipping the thing you make

The two basic human needs

Speaking of which… another Open Epilogue on March 23rd!

And in the epilogue…

Grand Theft Auto cheat codes

How to achieve the bliss of absolute focus

A fierce and exhausting debate about patriarchy

We picked out three moments we all loved and tied them up with a little copy/paste-able bow.

“Everything is porn now” (46:18) — Jordan defines porn: taking something real, subtracting everything except one sensation, and reproducing it at scale for profit — and applies it to news, politics, food, movies, music…everything. We’re living in a porn-pocalypse.

“The viola is slightly out of tune” (49:39) — Tom explains that orchestras sound beautiful precisely because they’re not perfectly in tune, in a gorgeous defense of imperfection as the actual source of beauty.

“Is the terror because it’s bad, or because everything has to die?” (~28:00–27:20) — Mal wonders if maybe the dissonant horror the monolith inspires isn’t a warning, it’s just what evolution feels like from the inside.

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