The L0WL1F3 Podcast

The full crew is back to discuss a stupid orb and a stupid gameshow. Shadowlink endures a technical issue. CoinOps discovers sarsaparilla.Links:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/https://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/https://youtube.com/@l0wl1f3pod?feature=shareddiscord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

This ep, CoinOps, Shadowlink, and Xero are joined by the inimitable Dr Sil to discuss Solarpunk, its potential as a response to dystopian genres, and the importance of seeking solutions to existential problems.Links:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/https://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/https://youtube.com/@l0wl1f3pod?feature=shareddiscord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://blackbirdcoop.com/

So, we've been talking about Harlan Ellison a lot off-mic (and a little bit on mic) and it just so happens that Xero has a buddy who's just recorded several audio-versions of Ellison's writing. Luis Moreno joins Xero, Scum, and CoinOps for an extended discussion on Ellison's life, works, and controversies.Links!https://www.luismorenotheactor.com/https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/https://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/https://youtube.com/@l0wl1f3pod?feature=shareddiscord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

From ChatGPT-fueled inquiries to daylight abductions, from the gutting of libraries to the Tesla backlash, from the Technocracists to the Tradwives, this episode has it all! And by "all" we mean like "a fraction of a percent."Links!https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/https://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/https://youtube.com/@l0wl1f3pod?feature=shareddiscord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

Oleg returns with more insight into the fall of the Soviet Union, and more parallels to the current situation in the US. Also: vodka.https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/https://youtube.com/@l0wl1f3pod?feature=shared

Watching this pre-9/11 movie, at this point in history, is like catching a glimpse of an alternate, but still kinda shitty, dimension.https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/https://youtube.com/@l0wl1f3pod?feature=shared

It was a hell of a year last week.Links!https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/https://youtube.com/@l0wl1f3pod?feature=shared

CoinOps, X3R0, and Dan welcome special guest Oleg to discuss some interesting similarities between the fall of the Soviet Union and what's happening here and now.Hit us up:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/https://youtube.com/@l0wl1f3pod?feature=shared

We kick off season 5 looking back at some media from 2024 that got us through.Hit us up:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

This week, CoinOps can finally shut up about the epic 1969 Sam Peckinpah western: The Wild Bunch. Yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw.Send a wire:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

How 'bout a little slice of news? We've got mysterious drones, Pokemon feeding AI, global destabilization, and a corporate correction.https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

This ep: a film about every conspiracy theorist's wettest dream. We got re-education camps, a totalitarian government of elites, and something that's not entirely unlike Sasquatch.https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

This ep, we talk about 1998's "Enemy of the State," a 2 hour and 12 minute movie told in a series of consecutive Vine clips.Hit us up!https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

Spoopy Season concludes with a discussion on the 2000 film, "The Cell." Slim Goodbody may make an appearance.Hit us up:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

Spooky season goes into overtime, the first of many future crimes of the, ahem, L0W-L1F3Force!Hit us up!https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

L0WL1F3 returns with a discussion about a highly-kinetic anime and a cerebral film about a guy that returns to Monke. Harembe wept.Hit us up!https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

The conclusion of our, uh, conversation about Coppola's "The Conversation", a film that prefigured several problems that we now see with the surveillance state, and our position within it. Yay!Hit us up!cyberpunklibrarian.comhttps://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

The crew discusses a Coppola film about a surveillance expert afflicted with shitty opsec and Catholicism.Hit us up!cyberpunklibrarian.comhttps://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

This ep, our good buddy Cyberpunk Librarian joins us to explain the recent Hachette v Internet Archive hullabaloo.Hit us up:https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

This ep, we enlist the help of Soft Rock to talk about satire, trolling, and Poe's Law.Hit us up:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

We cannot believe this took two episodes.Find us here:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

The story of a sentient mustache with vertigo that hunts down renegade robots and the bass player who created them.Find us here:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

This ep, the crew talks about what happened in Butler, PA, and also SeigedSec's hack of The Heritage Foundation. Hit us up:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

Just gonna put a big ol' CONTENT WARNING right up front here. This episode deals with AI image generators and pornography made about people without their consent. It's not great. Deets:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

We pick up where we left off, in the future of 2009. Mick Jagger is all that remains.Hit us up!https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

Freejack (1992), a movie about time-travel body-snatching, a billionaire's quest for extended life, and Mick-fucking-Jagger. (Part 1 of 2)Hit us up!https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

This ep, the team talks about Atlas, SEO jackassery, and how Google is pretty much useless now.Hit us up:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

This ep, the crew has invited Butcher to describe what it was like to spend a few days in the Mohave at Neotropolis.Check out his photography at:https://www.instagram.com/ambrose_butcher?igsh=MWV1dW51aDY4b3RxbA==Hit us up:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

"You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit."Talk about a movie that tells on itself. Yeesh.Also: NeonDystopia.com has published its first piece of fiction!Check out the author's stuff here:https://www.android-press.com/product-page/rivers-in-your-skin-sirens-in-your-hairAnd hit us up here:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

"You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit."Talk about a movie that tells on itself. Yeesh.Also: NeonDystopia.com has published its first piece of fiction!Check out the author's stuff here:https://www.android-press.com/product-page/rivers-in-your-skin-sirens-in-your-hairAnd hit us up here:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

"No, I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker that's searching through existentialism through a hail of bong smoke or something."We'd sigh, but we're coughing.Hit us up here:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

This ep, the whole crew is here to talk about scams, a bridge, planes, TikTok, and other news. Hit us up here:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

This ep, Shadowlink and CoinOps welcome writer/director/producer Andrew McGee for a discussion on filmmaking, the creative process in general, and what actually deserves a remake.Check out Andrew's work:https://www.andrew-mcgee.co.uk/Hit us up here:https://www.neondystopia.com/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/

This Ep, Xero digs into the concept of "bread & circuses" a bit, while Shadowlink and CoinOps comment and tangent wildly. Scum is absent due to a cold, alas.Hit us up here:https://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia/discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

This ep, the squad just goes ahead and talks about Election 2024, the Palestine/Israel bloodbath, the current state of (cough) AI, and the unrelenting desire to eat the rich. Note: this is not in fact the first half of a two-parter; we managed to make ourselves miserable in the time allotted.Scum's sources:http://tinyurl.com/8m5ufcjnhttps://archive.is/LNF9Phttp://tinyurl.com/y82vhy2dhttp://tinyurl.com/595cj8ykhttp://tinyurl.com/47sexktshttp://tinyurl.com/5vvrbnfmhttp://tinyurl.com/yfc5d33whttp://tinyurl.com/48kn6vy6http://tinyurl.com/59na445khttp://tinyurl.com/3xb84xxjhttp://tinyurl.com/383c4n9zhttp://tinyurl.com/3mv92uv9http://tinyurl.com/mrx59w27http://tinyurl.com/yrj7whv7http://tinyurl.com/3k7azbfshttp://tinyurl.com/4tpwjdk6http://tinyurl.com/492rtncdhttp://tinyurl.com/4y9j46apHit us up here:rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3patreon.com/neondystopia discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

To kick off the new season, we figured we'd talk about some gems that made it into the public domain. We figure we can get to how bad 2024 is gonna suck in later episodes.rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3patreon.com/neondystopiadiscord.gg/M6fGZERb7Zhttps://youtube.com/@L0WL1F3Pod?feature=shared

Here it is! The season finale! And what we have for you, dear listener, is a long episode that is shorter than the movie being discussed. We're talking about the 4 hour and 47 minute cut of the 1991 Wim Wenders epic: Until the End of the World, a film (and soundtrack) unlike pretty much anything out there. Come for the prescient technology, stay for a dead-nuts accurate prediction of how we act today, especially if you're reading this description on a handheld device. Hit us up!rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3 patreon.com/neondystopia discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

It's right in the title! This episode, 3/4ths of the squad return to discuss some of the books, music, films, shows, and video games that helped us through what was otherwise a rough year. (Shadowlink experienced a catastrophic hardware failure, alas.) Join CoinOps, Xero, and Scum as explain what they liked and what it did to them. His us up:rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3 patreon.com/neondystopia discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

The full gang is back! Shadowlink returns to join Scum, Xero, and CoinOps for discussion of the 2009 dystopian vampire movie: Daybreakers. This movie's about a lotta things that bear absolutely no semblance to modern times whatsoever. Come for the plague started by a bat in 2019. Stay for the allusions to genocide. And abject corporate greed. And the problem of dwindling resources. And Willem Dafoe's shotgun crossbow.Hit us up:rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3 patreon.com/neondystopia discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

We continue our Season of Spoop with another movie review, this time with 2009's Pandorum. Come for the tribe of mutant cannibals, stay for the ship's chef, who is also a cannibal. Surprise appearance by Norman Reedus, and featuring Ben Foster eating a cricket. Hit us up: rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3 patreon.com/neondystopia discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

This ep, the squad tackles one of the "video nasties" from 1981, namely a movie called "Evilspeak." Clint Howard is a student at a military academy who uses an Apple computer from the era to conjure Bull from Night Court. Xero and Scum enjoyed it more than they expected. CoinOps drinks a beer. Watch along: The movie: https://youtu.be/lQ0yH-xo_CA?feature=shared A short "making of" doc: https://youtu.be/5K_EQ7kS-BQ?feature=shared A brief con appearance by Clint Howard: https://youtu.be/gLqZCCVG3Tw?feature=sharedHit us up: rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3 patreon.com/neondystopia discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

This ep, Xero exposes CoinOps and Scum to the 1990 dystopian fascist rollerblade epic featuring Corey Haim and Patricia Arquette. It's charmingly batshit insane. Come for Haim performing many of his own stunts, stay for the first appearance of a certain Oscar winning composer's legendary first industrial music single. Check out the movie here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS1UkAri7T8 Find us here: rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3 patreon.com/neondystopia discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

This ep, CoinOps, Scum, & Xero dive into some recent news topics such as labor issues at Grindr, the "Replicator Initiative," Gizmodo's AI gambit, Amazon's periodical armageddon, the Indian moon landing, billionaires orbiting Venus, and an interesting fella named Reza Ray Beluchi. Find us at: rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3 patreon.com/neondystopia discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z Sources:https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/grindrs-controversial-rto-policy-causes-employee-exodus/ar-AA1gpfw3https://time.com/6221545/grindr-ceo-george-arison-tweet-conservative-politicians/https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/ai-took-my-job-literally-gizmodo-fires-spanish-staff-amid-switch-to-ai-translator/https://fortune.com/2023/08/01/oceangate-co-founder-venus-expedition-titanic-deepsea-vehicle-submersible/https://breakingdefense.com/2023/08/replicator-revealed-pentagon-initiative-to-counter-china-with-mass-produced-autonomous-systems/https://www.independent.co.uk/space/chandrayaan-3-budget-interstellar-cost-b2399815.htmlhttps://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/extreme-athlete-reza-baluchis-sea-voyage-cut-short-by-coast-guard-again-7983551

This ep, Cyberpunk Librarian comes in hot with a breaking story about two extremely niche library service providers in Ohio. It was a battle for the ages that actually happened in 2020 over the course of 9 months, and the story is both wilder and dumber than you can possibly imagine. Come for the creation of the "NCIS Hacker Scene Award." Stay for the revelation that we might actually be breaking this story here for the first time, for real. rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3 patreon.com/neondystopia discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z And check out our homie at: https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/

This week, CoinOps, Xero, and Scum take on the 1999 cult classic "Mystery Men." Come for the haunted bowling ball, stay for Tom Waits being himself. Hit us up: rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3 patreon.com/neondystopia discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

"He conducts electricity!""He talks to reptiles!""He's the man!"Feat. special guest: https://www.instagram.com/blasphemoose/rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3 patreon.com/neondystopia discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

This ep: A surprise guest! A forgotten anime classic! Cybertooth tigers! Everybody gets stabbed in the belly! rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3 patreon.com/neondystopia discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

This ep, CoinOps and Xero are joined by Darkstar to work our way through some fairly recent news, from Trump's indictment to the Wagner march, with a little bit of sub talk thrown in. rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3patreon.com/neondystopiadiscord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

This ep, Scum talks about how the Right thinks that the children yearn for the mines, Xero discusses the billionaire and his blood boy, and CoinOps celebrates the noble Orca.https://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/ https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia https://discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z

This ep, Erik Geist is back! Scum surveys Magnus Hirschfeld and the Weimar gay scene! Xero provides political insight! CoinOps takes a quiz!https://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/ https://www.patreon.com/neondystopia https://discord.gg/M6fGZERb7Z Erik's stuff!www.strange-reflection.com

This ep, the crew is joined by special guest Geist to discuss the events leading up to the Treaty of Versailles. Surely there are no modern parallels.https://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcastpatreon.com/neondystopiahttps://discord.gg/M6fGZERb7ZAnd check out Geist's stuff:www.strange-reflection.com