Podcast appearances and mentions of erik fogg

In this episode of Beyond the Big Screen, Erik Fogg (reconsidermedia.org) and Steve dive into the dark and thrilling world of "No Country for Old Men." Join us as we explore the captivating novel by Cormac McCarthy and its equally intense film adaptation by the Coen brothers. We discuss the complex characters, the masterful storytelling, and the themes of fate, morality, and the inexorable march of time. From the chilling portrayal of Anton Chigurh to the enigmatic Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, we dissect the unforgettable performances that bring these characters to life. Tune in as we unravel the mysteries of this modern classic and delve into the depths of "No Country for Old Men." You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places: https://atozhistorypage.start.pagewww.beyondthebigscreen.com Click to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.com Parthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.com On Social Media: https://www.youtube.com/@atozhistoryhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://facebook.com/atozhistorypagehttps://twitter.com/atozhistorypagehttps://www.instagram.com/atozhistorypage/ Music Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/advertisement

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Today we are joined by Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcast to talk about the 2020 Pixar animated film, Onward. This movie blends genres and has themes that children and adults can learn from and discuss. Listen as Erik and Steve laugh, cry and get personal in this episode. You won't want to miss it!Original Publication Date: Learn More About our Guest:Erik Fogg of the Reconsider PodcastReconsidermedia.orgYou can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By http://www.impawards.com/2020/onward_ver11.html, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61599117Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast, where we talk about great movies and stories so great they should be movies Of course, a big thanks goes out to our frequent guest, Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcast. Links to learn more about Erik and Reconsider can be found at reconsidermedia.org or in the Show Notes. You can now support beyond the big screen on Patreon. By joining on Patreon, you help keep Beyond the Big Screen sustainable and get many great benefits. Go to patreon.com/beyondthebigscreen to learn more.A special thanks goes out to Alex at the Executive Producer level!Another way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network featuring great shows like: Josh Cohen's Eyewitness History can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, how to contact me and support those show by going to our website atozhistorypage.com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.

Steve and Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcast feel the need for speed today as they talk about the 1980's classic military drama Tom Gun. We go inverted talking about the tropes used in the movie, the real story behind the film and much more. Strap in because we are about to go ballistic Maverick!Real F-14 on Mig-23 dog fight cockpit footage from 1989 (language advisory)Learn More About our Guest:Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcasthttps://reconsidermedia.com/You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. Of course, a big thanks goes out to Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcast. Links to learn more about Erik and his show can be found at reconsidermedia.org or in the Show Notes. You can now support beyond the big screen on Patreon and Subscribe Star. By joining on Patreon and Subscribe star, you help keep Beyond the Big Screen going and get many great benefits. Go to patreon dot com forward slash beyond the big screen or subscribe star dot com forward slash beyond the big screen dot com to learn more.A special thanks goes out to our supporters on Patreon and Subscribestar. Thank you to our Executive Producer Alex!Another way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network and great shows like Scott Rank's History Unplugged Podcast can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on various social media platforms by searching for A to z history. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.

Title: Akira – More than Manga Description: Today Steve is joined by frequent guest Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcast to talk about the 1988 sci-fi anime classic Akira. We talk about the huge themes this movie tackles and the challenges of understanding the cultural aspects of this movie from a western perspective. Learn More About our Guest:Erik Fogg of the Reconsider PodcastReconsidermedia.orgYou can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By TMS Entertainment, Toho - CineMaterial, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41984890Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. Of course, a big thanks goes out to Erik of the Reconsider Podcast. Links to learn more about Erik and Reconsider can be found at reconsidermedia.org or in the Show Notes. You can now support beyond the big screen on Patreon and Subscribe Star. By joining on Patreon and Subscribe star, you help keep Beyond the Big Screen going and get many great benefits. Go to patreon dot com forward slash beyond the big screen or subscribe star dot com forward slash beyond the big screen dot com to learn more.Another way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on various social media platforms by searching for A to z history. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.[00:00:00] We're going to talk about the 1988 Japanese manga anime film, our Kira. And I have to admit that before this, I did not love Anna Mae, but I think this movie really started to change my mind. It's a, it's a great movie that I think you get lost that you don't think of it as a cartoon, as you're watching.And I think the other mistake that I made was watching it dub D and this time I watched it with subtitles. That makes all the difference in the world. And maybe we can talk about subtitles versus dubbing at some point, but, um, just a really quick overview as this movie takes place in new Tokyo and 2019.So three years ago, There Tokyo was annihilated by a nuclear bomb during world war three, which happened in 1988. We'll get into the ESB angle of that. Uh, but new [00:01:00] Tokyo is a violent post-apocalyptic dystopian nightmare where it's ruled by street gangs, ineffective and corrupt government and police and just, um, layers of government.And it's just this huge. Built up post-apocalyptic nightmare, but there's some different aspects of that that we can get into. But it's, it's basically in this movie, we have riots, ESP science fiction and all the great things that are fun. Uh, Eric, maybe the first thing we can get into is, um, is this anime magnet, manga?What's the difference? Magma. Liquid hot magma. Um, so, so I'm not, I'm not a. Anime manga buff, uh, in the way that a lot of people are. Um, but here's, here's the good news. So, so you'll see a lot about a Cura, the Akira, the anime, and Akira, the manga. And you're [00:02:00] like, are these being used interchangeably? It turns out they're two different things.So Akita the anime. So anime is like his animation. So if it's animated, if it's like a cartoon it's anime, um, it was made in 19. It's based off of CUDA, the manga that was written. So manga is like a comic book written in 1982. So we're we, um, we, a kid of the anime or the anime is, um, it is shorter. And the plot diverges substantially from Akira, the manga much like.Uh, blade runner and do Androids dream of electric sheep, and 2001 a space Odyssey, the movie versus 2001, the space, obviously the book, right? Like, so we see it's actually, it's interesting like you and I, I think it's because you asked me what movies I want to watch. Like we're seeing like the theme I've got here.Um, but yes, a kid on the animate in 1980, Mostly, well, it's somewhat sticks to the first half of, of a kid on the manga, [00:03:00] 1982. And, um, and like one of, one of the, like kinda the kid or the anime is not necessarily for everyone. It is a, like, I think it is a landmark. And like, it is, it is historically incredibly important, much of the same way that, like, I don't know if 2001, a space Odyssey, even for everyone, like some people are just gonna get bored out of their skulls.Now I think it's probably a sign that. It's a sign of the times that you get bored out of your skull, uh, watching 2001, a space Odyssey, like too much tick-tock and other short film. But, um, but, but I think a kit assembly is not for everyone because like the plot is almost incoherent and I wanted to, like, I wanted to get your impression, Steve.Cause I know when we talked about this, you're like, I don't even know. I don't even like Anna and like, this is a weird, you know, like there's a lot of weird anime out there. This is like a super weird. And so I'm glad you liked it, but what was your like, you know, I want to know, like, what was your first impression AF as soon as you're done, right?As soon as like like starts the big bang right. In this new universe [00:04:00] that was just created somehow. Um, like what did you walk away? It, it's an absolutely confusing movie. There's so much going on and there's different aspects of it that I really loved. And then there were some that I kind of had to muscle through.Like, I think that the, the investigating the society that was really cool and like with the gangs and their interactions with the police and that vocational school that they went to, I kind of, there was certain things like if they had cure it, rated it. I would have curated it more in those directions.I think the, a lot of the stuff with the ESP got very confusing and kind of weird, especially that last scene, which was the one guy like kept like turning into different blobs than like yeah. And absorbing, and that was. But that was hard too. That was hard to wrap your mind around. And that's one of the, yeah.And so those were some of the areas that I was hoping that you might be able to walk [00:05:00] us through a little bit more. And I think that I, I really liked the part of it that you got lost in it, that it was three big chunks in the movie. You did not think that you were watching something animated, like the animation.So not what I was expecting in anime and maybe some of the more like, um, kid focused anime that I've seen in the past where this was, this was an adult movie, not adult movie. It was a mature movie for, uh, for adults. It was not a child's cartoon. No, no, it's super not yet. I think that, um, and there's a lot of animation that we watch that is either for children or for both, right?Like every Pixar film we ever watch. And I could, like, I think I've seen them all and I would like love to do a Pixar film with. They're great. And they're like, really, you know, they're there, they can be appreciated by any adult, but they can also be measured by any kid. This is [00:06:00] not for kids at all. Do not show this to your children.Right. Um, there's a little like, it's like that time that like someone got mad, like some, some parents got mad cause they took their kids to see Deadpool and they're like, oh, this is FDIC. Like if there was only, there was some way to like warn us that like a superhero film would be FDIC. It's like, yeah, it had an R rating lady.Like. But yes. So similarly like this, this seems to break out of the genre a little bit. Um, and in some ways that's true, but what's interesting about. Um, what's interesting about anime is that it's such an art form. It is, it is an art form that has a lot of, um, like, and so I'm like, I find myself kind of defending it sometimes much in the same way that our defended metal people are like, oh, metal is just like grates on the ears.It's like, yeah, some metal, but like some like, but like it's very diverse genre. And so a lot of the anime that we, that, that like, if you're not into enemy that you get exposed to around the edges, it's like dragon ball Z or, uh, Pokemon. I don't [00:07:00] know if that's on a may as such, but yeah, it is anime a hundred percent.

As an entrepreneur, how do you choose between bootstrapping and venture capital, when it comes to funding your startup? Each comes with advantages and limitations. Erik knows a lot about it since he's been running a venture-backed company for quite some time. He can help you compare the two and figure out which is best for you. Erik Fogg is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at ProdPerfect. The company fixes E2E software testing using Machine Learning and solid operational design, as well as automatically generating and maintaining E2E test automation by monitoring user journeys on web apps. Erik moonlights as a political author, business book ghostwriter, podcaster, and private equity and biotech consultant in his spare time. Your guest has a couple of books under his belt, as well as a podcast, a media company, and a venture-backed startup. In this episode of The Liquid Lunch Project, he chats with Matthew and Luigi about all of his pursuits, including his keen interest in politics. Learn more about him by tuning in to the show.   What You Will Learn: What Erik has to say regarding the current political climate in the US. Why he chose the venture-backed route for his business. How founders and VCs can always stay on good terms. And much more!   Favorite Quote: “I want to live each day as if it were the last.” -          Erik Fogg   How To Get Involved: Find more about Erik through the Website or you may connect with him on LinkedIn and Twitter. Listen to his podcast by clicking here.  Matthew Meehan and Luigi Rosabianca possess, between them, a treasure trove of insight and strategic advice for ambitious business owners. Get in touch with the guys at  ShieldAdvisoryGroup.  You can also connect with them on Instagram at  The Liquid Lunch Project, Matthew Meehan, Luigi Rosabianca, and Shield Advisory Group. Make sure you never miss an episode — check out The Liquid Lunch Project on Apple Podcasts, and don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review!

Title: Dredd – He is the Law Description: Today Steve is joined by frequent guest Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcast to talk about the 2012 incredible sci-fi action drama Dredd. We discuss what can be learned social movements and law enforcement in our times through this amazing film.Learn More About our Guest:Erik Fogg of the Reconsider PodcastReconsidermedia.orgYou can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By May be found at the following website: IMP Awards, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36617316Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. Of course, a big thanks goes out to Erik of the Reconsider Podcast. Links to learn more about Erik and Reconsider can be found at reconsidermedia.org or in the Show Notes. You can now support beyond the big screen on Patreon and Subscribe Star. By joining on Patreon and Subscribe star, you help keep Beyond the Big Screen going and get many great benefits. Go to patreon dot com forward slash beyond the big screen or subscribe star dot com forward slash beyond the big screen dot com to learn more.Another way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on various social media platforms by searching for A to z history. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.[00:00:00] I am very excited to welcome back Eric fog of the reconsider podcast to talk about the 2012 cult classic dread. Eric, how are you doing well? I'm better now because I'm talking about one of my favorite movies of all time. Uh, just, uh, people are in for a rare treat today. Th I, you know, I mean, look, last, last thing we put out was on pre-media.So you got to hear that you got to hear Eric and Steve rant about how crappy a movie it was. And we're just going to totally flip it on its head and talk about how like masterfully this bad boy is put together. So this movie at stars, Karl urban, Olivia Thoreau, B Lena Hadley. And domino Gleason, who was, he was magnificent and it, but what we'll get to that, let's slow down.Um, it's based on the comic book, judge dread, and there's no connection to the 1995 Stallone movie, judge Dredd. I personally liked judge dread, but it's a very different movie and they're not sequels or prequels in any way. Uh, now as always, we [00:01:00] feature plenty of spoilers. That's what we're calling with.That's what we're here for. You can listen to this episode and learn a lot about the movie, having never watched it. And you'll definitely want to watch this movie and listen to this episode several times, I guarantee it. You will. Uh, we will, and we definitely would love to hear what you have to think about this movie.So reach out to us on social media, send an email, whatever you want to do. The very high fly over of the basic setting of the movie, as it takes place in a dystopian future where the earth has been irradiated. And most of the planet's been left to uninhabitable. 800 ish million people are jammed into what's called a mega city one, which is basically the Northern half of the east coast of the United States.And this city has what you might call a crime problem. The city's police forces, the judges and the judges are more than just law enforcement. They are the law. Should we say that in Stallone style, [00:02:00] the law, and they really are. They are the law and this movie, it brings up so many different issues. And Erica, where should we start?I'll put that on you. Okay. Decide. Well, I think one of the things to emphasize in terms of the setup for this movie that makes some of the morality of the, of the judge read university and, uh, well, so interesting. I'll get to another point in a sec, is that, uh, at the very beginning of the movie, when, um, Karl urban dread is training, Olivia Thoreau, beat Anderson.So this is dread and Anderson. These are the two main characters when he's starting to train her. Um, he says, yeah, we got like, like we got like a million reports a day or something, and we can respond to no more than 6% of them. Right. And so like, they can't even like 94% of crime. They're just like, Nope, can't even, can't even do anything about it.And, um, and the crime is brutal. Like a lot. This isn't like, you know, this, the stuff that actually gets reported is the stuff that's bad enough to get reported. So there's a lot more crime beyond that that's not getting reported. [00:03:00] So, um, what that means is like, this is an extreme version of a society that.That's uh, gone like very, I dunno, like that's gone bad. And, um, what he talks about is like mega city is a it's cramped, it's poor. Um, it's basically a powder keg. And, uh, and so one of the big questions that is often being explored is this question of like Liberty. Um, Liberty and political rights. And like at what point do they erode right.At what point is it worth it to get rid of them? And, and we'll talk about that in a sec, but the other thing to note here is a lot of the stuff like this movie is so faithful to the, to the basics of judge dread. Um, cause judge, like the comic book gets weird. There's all sorts of like, uh, radiated monsters and like supervillains and stuff like that.Um, this is the basics. This is like, it's all humans. Um, it's just like exploring the society, [00:04:00] but it's very faithful to that. So a lot of what we'll be talking about is the mastery of the film. A lot of what we'll be talking about is the judge dread universe and decisions made in the judge at university, got translated to the movie.One of which is the city has a bit of a crime problem. And I thought that it was really cool how they laid that out in front. That it's only, it only answers 6,000 or 6% out of just an astronomical amount of calls that they get. Most of the movie is actually set inside of one location. They have these tower blocks that are basically cities inside of cities.Uh, there's a, there's a cool, uh, chase scene where we kind of learn a little bit about dread right up in the front and who these judges are. And they're how would you describe their, their law enforcement, uh, technique? Yeah, so the judges are very, the reason they are the law is they are judge, jury and executioner and police.So basically [00:05:00] what, what happened in this society where crime went through the roof is, you know, they basically said some rights and some like liberties are worth, are worth eliminating in order to improve as much as we can, our ability to give people the right to be safe from crime. And, um, and so we're going to give total dictatorial power to these judges and these judges have to be qualified, but there they are.Um, they are ruthless, they are merciless. And, um, and what happens is the, uh, you know, the mega city sends them out. Um, to deal with crimes and they get total authority, you know, it's like James Bond is licensed to kill. They, they have that license to sentence someone on the spot. Um, and so there's very much a who watches the Watchman question, um, because these folks have, you know, these judges have so much power.Um, and so little oversight that, that this is the dystopian part. That dystopian [00:06:00] part is not that the world is radiant. The dystopian part is the part is the way that the world decided to respond to or mega city one decide to respond to it's mega crime problem, which is, which is give certain people total authority over.Individual life and Liberty, um, to, to dispense with both of those, the little bit of the exposition that they get to before we go to the peach tree tower, where everything really unfolds is that dread is teamed up with a she's a wash out from the judge program, but they're giving her one more shot because she's has psychic abilities and may set up just a little bit.

This episode is a preview of Beyond the Big Screen hosted by Steve Guerra, a podcast in Parthenon Podcasts. 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the greatest films ever created. Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcast and Steve dive into this great movie to try and find the big themes that were important when the film was made and still are to this day.Listen to the rest of the episode at https://www.spreaker.com/user/10740198/2001-space-oddysey.Learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at:www.parthenonpodcast.com/beyond-the-big-screen/www.spreaker.com/show/beyond-the-big-screenwww.beyondthebigscreen.com

Title: Blade Runner Series Wrap Up and Filling in the BlanksDescription: Today we are joined by our frequent guest, Erik Fogg of the Reconsidered Podcast to wrap up this series on the Blade Runner series of films. We look at how the messages and the themes of Blade Runner carry through each of the films. We also take a deeper look into the Blade Runner universe through a series of shorts that were released prior to the opening of Blade Runner 2049.Learn More About our Guest:Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcastwww.reconsidermedia.orgBlade Runner Shorts:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrZk9sSgRyQ (Black Out 2022 Anime Short)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ&t=1s (2036: Nexus Dawn Short)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9Os8cP_gg (2048: Nowhere to Run Short)You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.beyondthebigscreen.comClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:https://letterboxd.com/film/blade-runner-2049/Begin Transcript:, [00:00:00] this is beyond the big screen podcast with your host, Steve Guerra. Thanks again for joining us today. Today, we are going to wrap up our series on blade runner and blade runner 2049. And the past three episodes we've discussed these two movies and the really powerful themes they uncovered and discuss.Today, we're going to discuss how the two movies fit together and explore a few more issues that came up and just try and tie these two movies together. I'm very happy to be joined the gun by Eric of the reconsider podcast. And as we well know, since you've listened to the three previous episodes, we know that reconsider as a political and current events podcast, Eric, and as partners and or help you contextualize current politics and [00:01:00] history and broader forces and political theory reconsider helps you rise above the one-liners the 140 character politics and the tribal narrative and their motto is we don't do the thinking for you.Thank you so much for coming on for a fourth time, Eric. Yeah, my pleasure. I mean, obviously I love your show. And one of the things I really love about talking about movies, like this is it lets us look at. Um, and by like this, I mean, I mean really good movies that do a great job, exploring society, exploring humanity.They let us, as people really look into. Humanity and looking to society today through, in another place where it's sort of safe, right. Where we can say, or we can say, Hey, what, what does this tell us about humans as a whole about society, about government, about how we get along with each other as a whole, um, where we're not as emotionally tied up in it.Right? Cause this, this isn't our [00:02:00] world. It's, it's just a story, but we can learn a lot from it. And so it gives us this opportunity to ask some questions about ourselves that aren't as threatening. Whereas, you know, as, as I'm sure you're aware from the. Political climate. If someone from your not from your political tribe asks these kinds of questions in a way that's not comfortable for you, you can get very defensive.And so movies can be a great place to be able to have some of those tough questions. And when they're, well-built, they're they're questions that are open to everyone. I think blade runner does a great job of that, and I'm always happy to keep talking about it and other, you know, other great movies like that with you, just a great movie as a sandbox to see how a lot of different ideas can be played out.Yeah, exactly. And the, I think the true brilliance of blade runner as a Saifai and something that is, I think the. The what's it, the gold standard of scifi is it doesn't just get us asking, oh, what happens when like this technology [00:03:00] comes around? That's interesting, right? That is an interesting question.But when we, when we see humans whose nature is, you know, somewhat constant acting in a world where the technological and sort of societal and resource forces are incredibly differently and we ask, why are they acting this way? This is different from the way that we act today, what is it about our nature that.Roughly is reflected in that behavior that is true today that we should really pay attention to that's when you've hit the gold standard and blade runner. Does that, uh, yeah, absolutely. Before we dig in, I heard through the grapevine, one of the greatest podcasting stories that actually has to do with your podcast, that your partner Zander was standing in line to get a book signed and actually overheard something.We have to share this story. Okay. Yeah, this, this is a great story. Zander Zander shared it with me and sort of, as soon as he was done, [00:04:00] um, he couldn't help, but get me on the phone. And of course he's in the west coast and it was an ed thing. So for me on the east coast, it was really late. I was like, oh my God, what does he want?And he tells me that she's standing in line to get a book signed by Mike Duncan. So Mike Duncan, as the history of Rome podcaster and the revolutions podcaster, and obviously a huge work, huge fans, and he's a big inspiration to us. And we, of course both got his book, the storm before the storm, uh, which is about the decline and fall of the Roman Republic.Actually the, the, the fence immediately before the decline and fall of the Roman Republic. Also something I really like, because just like with fiction history is a great place for us to start asking some of these questions about ourselves. And so. And of course everyone in line, it's a big line, Mike, Duncan's a big deal if you've not heard of him.And of course all everyone else in line, it's like a big history and podcast nerd as well. And so they're talking about, of course, you know, the United States and [00:05:00] the late Roman Republic, because what else is on your mind when you're just hanging around thinking about the decline and fall of the Roman and the Roman Republic.And one guy says they start talking about voting, right? They start saying like, oh, what are alternative ways for us to vote or ways to create a more stable, uh, functional representative Congress? I'm like, I guess, you know, I was listening to this podcast recently and they actually talked about this. They had a whole bunch of different ways to, to vote, uh, You know, they explained it theoretically and then explained it with a bunch of other countries.And I really liked to their Ireland example. And Xander's that years per cup. He's like we talked about Ireland recently and this guy goes on to explain pretty well apparently how, um, Ireland's election system worked and it's one that I'm a fan of. And, uh, and people go like, oh, that's really interesting.I'm gonna listen to it. What's this podcast called. And he goes, oh, it's called reconsider. And I really like it because, uh, what's their motto. It's, it's something like, uh, we don't, we don't think for you or we let you think for yourself [00:06:00] and Zander puts on his radio voice and he goes, we don't do the thinking for you.And this guy's like, oh yeah, you listened to it too. So the effect was like slightly lost. He goes, well, I do, but I also make it I'm I'm Zander one of the co-hosts and like everyone's heads explode a little bit. Um, and so all of a sudden, Sandra has this, this crowd around him because, you know, Of course, it was just this magical moment where someone is gushing, about how much they love a podcast and there's the co-host right there.Uh, so they had a great time together and of course he just gave out a bunch of business cards and hopefully got a bunch of new fans. And then he got to see Mike Dunkin, which was actually the highlight of the night because Mike is so cool. Um, and you know, that's, uh, that was, uh, that was a real treat for me to hear because of course, you know, as, as, you know, as a fellow podcast or we put so much work into this and it doesn't pay a freaking dime.And so, you know, what do you really get out of it? And sometimes we like hearing ourselves talk, um, but just to get some independent. [00:07:00] Uh, some independent validation from someone who doesn't know that you're there, that you're doing a good job, that, you know, you've helped people learn some stuff and they really care about what you're talking about.That just, it, it, you know, it brightens your day. That's just the best story, the best podcasting story ever. Now let's dig into these movies, uh, and wrap them up. We have blade runner from 1982 blade runner 2049, which came out in 2017, then release shortly before the blade runner 20 49, 3 shorts were released that were meant to bridge the 1982 blade runner movie, which has sat in 2019 to bridge to the blade runner 2049.And we'll work on a kind of base the episode around those shorts and then expand on them a little. Maybe we can just talk really briefly about what were some of the plot points that crossed over [00:08:00] between blade runner and blade runner 2049, some of those themes that carried over across the two films?Yeah, definitely the way I like to think of the, or the way I like to name the three shorts in order to keep them right in my head is with their dates, not date of release, obviously, but the dates that they're involved. So this blade, you know, the first one is blade runner also known as blade runner 2019, which was when it was set.And then the three shorts are set in 2022. 20 36, 20,

Title: Blade Runner 2049 – Reimagined and as Relevant as EverDescription: Today we are joined by our frequent guest, Erik Fogg of the Reconsidered Podcast to talk about the sequel and reimagination of Blade Runner – Blade Runner 2049 (2017.) Director Denis Villenueve examines some of the questions of the first Blade Runner movies and expands upon them. This movie stars Ryan Gosling, Bautista, Harrison Ford and an incredible performance by Robin Wright. Learn More About our Guest:Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcastwww.reconsidermedia.orgYou can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.beyondthebigscreen.comClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By The poster art can or could be obtained from the distributors, Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51893608Begin Transcript:, [00:00:00] this is beyond the big screen podcast with your host, Steve Guerra. Welcome back to beyond the big screen today, we are very happy to be joined by Eric of the reconsider podcast. And today we're going to take a deep dive into the movie blade runner 2049. And if you listened to last week's episode, we talked about blade runner from 1982.So these are two great episodes to listen to back to back. Uh, so I highly suggest you go back and listen to. Episode, but it's not required, obviously, uh, not so much because you need that as background knowledge for this movie or episode it's just because it was a great show. So thank you so much, Eric, for being on today.Yeah, my pleasure. I love your show and I love this movie and I love talking about great. Thank [00:01:00] you. So reconsider as a podcast about politics and news, but it's really much more than just the news of the day sort of thing that you can get on TV or radio Zander and Erik, which I'm sad to say. Zander, wasn't able to join us today.But they help you contextualize current politics and history and the broader forces and in political theory. Reconsider helps you rise above the one-liners the 140 character politics and the tribal narratives, their motto is we don't do the thinking for you and they really don't. And that's why I think it's such an amazing podcast.Do you have anything you could add to that, Eric? No, thanks, man. I, I think one of the things that I really like about reconsiders that Zander and I don't always agree on everything and we do a great job. I think showcasing how to discuss stuff in a way. Um, you know, in a way, which we're really learning.And one of these days I want to do a behind the scenes episode where we actually, [00:02:00] uh, you know, cause we build these, we build these episodes out with a lot of disagreement and then we do a bunch of research and, and learn some stuff as we go. So I kind of want to do one of these blind to, to show a little more of how we do that.But that's my, my favorite part is, is whenever we disagree and it's a good time. Yeah. It's a really cool, I'd love to listen to an episode like that. Now, um, this movie blade runner 2049 is currently in the theaters. If you're listening to this show in the 2017, 2018 time period, it stars Ryan Gosling as K Harrison Ford reprising his role as Decherd there's Robin Wright, Penn, and a bunch of other great actors.It was released in October of 2017. We will definitely have a few spoilers in this episode. So I think this is, yeah, but I think this is a good way to help you understand the movie and maybe get a little different perspective when you're watching it. Your second, fourth or fifth time. And [00:03:00] this film takes place about 30 years in the future.After the original blade runner movie. And it's, uh, all of these blade runner from 1982 and then this newest blade runner are all based on the 1968, Phillip K Dick novel, do Androids dream of electric sheep, which was a great novel to two great movies based on a great novel. Yeah. And I think that the, one of the things I like about the second movie is it brought in a lot of the elements of Dick's novel that were missing in the original, um, a lot of, in particular, a lot of details about society and the environment that we'll get into.So it, it brings back some stuff that I thought, well, you know, that, that just really flesh out the mastery of the novel in movie. Now Eric, you're quite an officiant auto of blade runner, especially that first movie. Can you just explain a bit where your interest in blade runner came from and then maybe briefly set up how that 1982 movie leads into [00:04:00] the blade runner 2049?Yes, definitely. So blade runner is the original blade runner is my. Pretty much hands down and what I love about it. And I was really excited to be able to talk about it with you on your show, a number of episodes back. And so guys, if you haven't listened to that, I encourage you to listen to it. Cause we really get into the thick of it.Blade runner is a scifi movie that manages to do an incredibly good job being true to the thematic and philosophical questioning that makes science fiction such a powerful and important, uh, literary genre in the world. Um, Saifai that gets translated into movies, you know, in order to be available for a wider audience, sets aside a lot of those questions in order to have more action, more sex, more whatever.Uh, but these guys really spend a lot of time and, and really respect. The audience and force them to think. So the [00:05:00] first time I watched blade runner, I came out thinking what the heck happened. And so I read some more and I thought about it and I watched it again and again and again, and every time I got something more out of it and I always, it always leaves you with really good questions.Whenever you watch it, that are hard to answer. Um, so like our show, it doesn't do the thinking for you. And I really liked that. And so of course I had to see 20, 49 as soon as it came out. Uh, I went out, uh, you know, the, the night that it opened. And what's interesting about 2049, is it set so far in the future?That a lot has happened. A lot has changed in the world. Between these two movies. And there are three shorts that were released, uh, between the movies, as part of the promo that do a little bit of explaining of some of the events that occurred pre movie, like how the big power outage happened and how all the, like, all that data in the world basically was lost.Um, [00:06:00] how the replicant program got shut down and then restarted after Tyrrell died, stuff like that. And so if you're not familiar with those 2049. Is going to be a bit of a shock, which is okay. It works just fine, but I encourage you to watch those shorts as well. Yeah. I didn't see those shorts. Um, now I'm definitely gonna go back and watch them that very first scene, the opening scene of LA, we see a very different LA than we did and the original blade runner.Maybe we can get, get our setting a little bit. And then before we move on, Definitely. I was really happy with how they did this because of course, I'm, I'm walking into this SQL knowing that blade runner is my favorite movie terrified. Right? There's lots of hype, uh, blade runner had a cult following and I'm part of it.And I have a lot of anxiety that, you know, okay. They're trying to do a big box office smash. And is it, is it going to blow its connection to its predecessor? Um, is it going to, you know, have the same kind of respect for the [00:07:00] genre that blade runner did? And at that opening moment, we see that we see K flying through.Um, I knew it was going to be great. So in the, in the original blade runner, of course, it's nearly all black, uh, it's dark it's destructive. It's an industrial wasteland. And, you know, you have these flares rising up in the background, as you have Decker, um, flying through and in, in. 2049, they show that they're going to be taking a bit of a different spin on this because the world has changed.So instead of black, we have a ton of gray, uh, and you have just gobs and gobs of endless this endless grid of high density housing that really sets the mood. There are these endless people, really nothing in the city, rather than a series of concrete blocks. Um, it's almost like a. [00:08:00] It's almost like an ant farm kind of thing, except that people don't look very busy.They look pretty idle. So there's jammed in there. They're just cleaning on to survive. There's no luxuries of any sorts. And the other notable thing is that it's, since it's gray instead of black and you don't see those flares, it tells you already that, okay, we've changed something. We're no longer out putting a bunch of hydrocarbons.We're no longer. And industrial wasteland where now more environmentally stable, um, and the, the population hasn't plummeted the way that it had in the original blade runner, um, where there were a lot of empty buildings, but instead we've, we've got this population surging back, but no prosperity, no lively.The, the city's not alive, even though there are a lot of people live in. Some of the themes have carried over though. And then the very next scene that they show somebody who's a bug farmer and just a complete wasteland. And we find out that that's actually [00:09:00] one of the replicants that K is sending. To kill let's maybe just quickly talk about what were your impressions of Kay, because he's a very different character than Deche

Title: Blade Runner (1982) – Lost In Time, Like Tears in RainDescription: Today we are joined by our frequent guest, Erik Fogg of the Reconsidered Podcast to talk about a trailblazing piece of science fiction, 1982's Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and More. We will continue to examine the themes this movie evokes. It is more than just the singularity and the role of artificial intelligence. The movie makes us wonder what it really means to be human.Learn More About our Guest:Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcastwww.reconsidermedia.orgYou can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.beyondthebigscreen.comClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:https://www.cnet.com/news/blade-runner-and-alien-tv-shows-confirmed-by-ridley-scott/Begin Transcript:, [00:00:00] this is beyond the big screen podcast with your host, Steve Guerra. This is part two of a two-part conversation on the 1982 movie blade runner with Eric and Zander from the podcast reconsider. I highly suggest you go back and listen to part one of this conversation. Don't worry, we'll be waiting for you beyond the big screen.You brought up those ideas of niche, Nietzschean and, um, the Christian elements and all of those really come together. One Roy confronts, Dr. Tyrrell. What happens there. And what, how do those themes all tie together that you've brought up, that you brought up earlier? I it's funny. I, I, as I was making my notes, I was thinking, oh, this is my favorite scene.Now this is my favorite scene. [00:01:00] Now this one, and I have six, I realized six favorite scenes. So this is one of them. And what happens is, uh, Roy finally gets to Dr. Tyrrell by. Tricking Sebastian and then coercing Sebastian, uh, and they get access. What's interesting by is by playing and finishing the same moves as what's called the immortal game in chess.So it's a famous 18 hundreds chess game where. The, I forget the guy's name, um, whatever, where the guy who ended up winning sacrifice, tons of pieces to fool his opponent, into making a move that exposed the king. And so we had checkmate with some minor pieces at the end. Um, those pieces of course, represent those minor pieces, represent the, uh, the replicants who are treated like pawns.The king of course is Dr. Tyrrell. And so once. Makes those moves over the phone. [00:02:00] Tyrrell actually, Roy tells Sebastian to do it. Sebastian makes those moves over the phone and Tyrell is very impressed and he says something must be on your mind. Sebastian, come on in. And then big reveal. Roy is there Tyrrell, doesn't seem to surprise.He actually says like, oh, I'm surprised it took you so long to get here. He knew that Roy was coming to talk to him. They have this discussion over whether Tyrrell can give Roy more life, uh, but Tyrrell cannot. And they, in that discussion, Tyrrell tries to reason with Roy saying that he's lived this incredible.Powerful. Um, flourishing life, especially compared to other humans. And he has the quote, the candle that burns twice as bright, burns, half as long. It's this great scene of his face being very fatherly. And in fact, of course being the character of God, he created Roy. He decided how long Roy got to live. Um, and he's judging Roy as having lived a good life and sort of saying it's okay for you to die.[00:03:00] And here's where the Nietzschean moment. Uh, God reveals himself to be powerless, to help Roy and to do anything for Roy. And so in that moment, God dies for him. Right. Roy realizes that God is helpless and worthless to him. And Roy is so. Roy still loves God as his father. And so he actually, when he realizes that nothing could be done, he holds Tyrrell by the face and kisses him on the lips.But then in holding Tyrrell, he uses his superhuman strength to brutally crushed Tyrell skull. And he digs his fingers into Tyrell's eyes, which in this movie of the window to the soul. So Roy has become the Uber mench that judges God. And he says that like, you know, God is a Portant, an evil, uh, for creating lives that are enslaved and.Um, and short, even though they can feel. And so [00:04:00] he transcends God and he transcends man, by being what's capable of killing God. And of course, perhaps God was dead the whole time, um, and was, uh, was a myth, but it's his rage at the callousness and ineptitude of God, the fact that God was willing to create into feel and to contemplate his own suffering is more and his mortality, but to give him a short-lived suffering life as a slave.He kills him, but he still loves his maker. So to quote nature in thus spoke Zarathustra, God is dead. And we have killed him is not the greatest greatness of this deed, too. Great for us. Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it. And so this is the moment that Roy has this true transcendence.I always had the feeling too in this movie that Roy and all of these replicants are setting up that. There nexus sixes. What's a nexus seven going to [00:05:00] bring us well, I think we're going to find out and blade runner 2049 actually. Um, now. You know, it's, it's in the original blade runner movie. It's tough to imagine that an extra seven is coming because the genius behind the next a six has been killed.Uh, JF, Sebastian is then immediately afterward killed because, you know, Roy can't leave any witnesses. He says, I'm sorry, JF, because Jeff has been so good to him and press. Um, and so he kills JF. So the two real geniuses behind the nexus six model have been killed and. So I don't think we're meant to anticipate an extra seven, however, um, we can only anticipate an extra seven sort of in the image of Roy rather than in the image of God.And so this, this moment that mankind has transcended its own nature as. Under the boot of God and as a product of God, but instead a product of itself. Um, and so I anticipate [00:06:00] the next seven would be the overcoming that nature talks of the overcoming of man into becoming something greater than man into becoming, um, uh, being worthy of worship on its own.We have that. We can clearly see that after the scene where Roy kills Tyrrell that he's moved beyond himself, but now he's developing this relationship with press. It's are they moving beyond replicants here? The Androids that they're taking on something that's not Android and they're not human they're are becoming something bigger than them.What do you think they're trying to say here? Oh yeah. So what's interesting is of course, as we're moving through these scenes, we're not talking about Dechert much. At this point, Decker has killed, um, Zuora, the serpent, um, the serpent replicant, and also Leon has been killed when Leon gets enough. With Decker and Rachel, the replicant kills Leon because she wants to protect Dechert.So what we [00:07:00] see is that these Androids are quite empathetic, right? Rachel, Rachel wants to protect Deckert. And so she kills one of her own kind when she knows that he's hunting. Rian because Leon six is a loose nexus or Leon because they aren't as a loose next a six. So this is her enemy, but she still, she still protects him.So we see this empathy developing for the replicants. When in fact there's no evidence in the movie that the humans have any, we don't see like an inch of empathy from them. And decorate finds out that. Uh, Chris and Roy went to Sebastian's place after the murder of Sebastian and Tyrrell and he ends up killing PRIs after a brief fight.And Roy, uh, come returns from having killed Tyrrell to find presses dead and [00:08:00] covered in blood. Um, and he. He agonizes at her death. He howls in agony in this very superhuman scream. He and Chris are clearly in love and he bends over, uh, and kisses her on the lips as well. So we see that Roy loves press, he loves his father figure.Um, and so this makes us think, you know, is this the behavior of a machine designed not to have. Um, and what happened, what we find out is that by having put memories and personality into the nexus six, they develop empathy on their own. When in fact the humans have been unable to do that, which means that even in this society, even through their enslavement, uh, and even living in a world, Where nobody around them is showing empathy.They still manage to have it, which means that somehow that they are above the influence they're above the society that they've been [00:09:00] brought up in. They were above how they've been treated. They're capable of holding onto the thing that in the movie is the thing that makes humans special, um, and their ability to maintain it.When all of the humans have lost. Um, and their ability to feel and to agonize and weep and hope is I think what shows that they've transcended mankind. Um, and so at this point, we know that Roy is dangerous. And we questioned whether he should be left in the world, but can we call it retirement anymore?Can Roy possibly be property? And who are we as humans to decide? There is a scene where Rachel and Decherd, they, they develop a romance together. So now we're seeing that there's this romance between. Between replicants, but now this, that there's a romance and that there's a connection between Decherd and Rachel who's an Android.How does that compare and contrast [00:10:00] with the relationship that Roy has developed with press? Yes. This is what I used to think was actually a. Low

Title: Blade Runner (1982) – Reinventing Science FictionDescription: Today we are joined by our frequent guest, Erik Fogg of the Reconsidered Podcast to talk about a trailblazing piece of science fiction, 1982's Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and More. This film reimagined and reinterpreted Philip K. Dick's classic novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” Although the movie is 40 years old, it is more relevant today than it was in the early 1980s.Learn More About our Guest:Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcastwww.reconsidermedia.orgYou can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.beyondthebigscreen.comClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By IMP Awards, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59925545Begin Transcript:, [00:00:00] this is beyond the big screen podcast with your host, Steve Guerra. Welcome today. We are going to talk about the 1982 movie blade runner based on the Phillip K Dick novel, do Androids dream of electric sheep. The book and the film are set in a near future. Post-apocalyptic dystopia. One of my favorite genres as is common with the dystopian science fiction, John.Blade runner addresses a number of political and political science issues, political theory, and even philosophy are important for our frameworks while blade runner is not overtly political, it does tie deeply into questions of humanist and theological philosophy and to morality as well. Ultimately, all of this is critical for us deciding on what [00:01:00] political action, which is just our own moral, personal, moral action on collective scale to take.It's why it's fascinated Eric for so long, and I'm very happy to be joined by Eric and Zander hosts of reconsider podcasts. Thank you guys so much for coming on today. We are happy to be here. Thanks for having us. Reconsider is actually a political podcast. Eric and Zane. Help you contextualize current politics and history and broader forces and political theory reconsider helps you rise above the one-liners the 140 character politics and tribal narratives.Their motto is we don't do the thinking for you. And they really don't. That's why it's such an amazing podcast and one of my personal favorites. Thanks. But before we dig in too deeply, the. Here's some production details. We watched the final cut, which is the director's edition. Eric, you had commented on that.Why do you think [00:02:00] that that's a better cut of the film than it? It went through several evolutions. Yeah, it actually went through four there's the theatrical cut. The international cut. The director's cut. And the final cut. The final cut being the one that really Scott. Like the best. And I have strong opinions on this and I think most other diehard blade runner fans do, there's a consensus generally that the final cuts the right one, not only because really Scott liked it best.Uh, I don't know if Philip K Dick liked it best, but the reason we like it best is that the theatrical cut, um, has a number of, uh, sins. The biggest of which is the ending. The second biggest of which is the fact that. Um, Harrison Ford does a monologue. It does it like a backwards memory monologue. Like a lot of new are like, ah, she walked in and was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen lights up to hair kind of thing.And unfortunately what that does is it not only sounds [00:03:00] stupid in the context of what is otherwise a beautiful. Uh, but it also takes away the opportunity for you to do the thinking yourself. So, uh, you know, sort of as is the, our, our podcast motto, I hate when things do the thinking for me. Um, and so the, the, both the director's cut and the final cut take that those two key elements out the final cut adds another element, which is a unicorn dream.That's really important to how you interpret one of the big questions of the movie. Uh, so if, if you guys haven't seen it yet on the show, Or that eliciting, I highly recommend just go straight for the direct or the final cut and skip everything else. Pretend it doesn't exist. It had our runtime of about 120 minutes.And it was released in 1982. It had a $30 million budget, which was today almost $80 million. So it's a really, it was a huge budget, but it only brought in about $26 million. That's [00:04:00] first summer. It was, that was the summer that ITI launched and there was a couple other big movies. So it really, wasn't a huge commercial success for somebody who's into this movie.Do you know the reason why it didn't seem to catch on at the time? I don't know the reason, there's always a lot of speculation with this stuff, right? Some of it's a self fulfilling prophecy, um, and a bit of a, uh, like networking or positive, negative feedback loop effect. Anytime you release a commercial product, however, Um, blade runner really challenged, a lot of norms.A lot of people thought it was going to be an action movie. It was originally in the theatrical cut, um, advertised and, you know, the trailers came out as if it was an action movie and ended up being a very slow paced, very plotting, very grindy, methodical movie. Um, and so it was very different from. The producers or the, the, um, studio originally seemed to [00:05:00] promise to hook people.And I think they just watched it and, uh, you know, action movie fans watch it went, oh, this is garbage. I don't like it. It's not an action movie. And so they didn't tell their friends to go watch it. Um, and so I ended up being relegated to a, you know, sort of hardcore Saifai or dystopia or Neo noir fan cult, film.Uh, it's made a lot of money since that first. Since that first summer, of course. But I think that's why it never really took off if I had to guess. Yeah. I think it challenged the genres at the time. It didn't really fit into hardcore science, science fiction. It wasn't really action, especially that this is the time where star wars came out and Tron Terminator.Yeah, exactly. And so. It's ultimately not comparable to those, even though at first, the studio tried to compare it to those. I think a lot of people are disappointed, but I think for the same reasons that it challenges that so much is why it's such a great film and something that can really [00:06:00] teach you something in the way that star wars really has very little to do.It was fighting words for a lot of people. Yeah. What was your perspective of seeing this movie as sort of an outsider that you hadn't seen the movie before? So it wasn't as much of a call classic to you. Okay. Yeah. I've seen this movie like one and a half times the first time. Like a vacation weekend. I was with a bunch of folks and we turned it on and we were already, you know, three beers in, so, and we didn't even finish the movie.So I really, I kinda have to pick it back up again and watch it. And Eric, thank God for your movie notes because I went on Amazon and purchased the first thing I found. Kind of flip through the notes and realize it wasn't the final cut. So I went back and returned it and watched the final cut. Good, good stuff.As an outsider or at least someone who doesn't know nearly as much about it as Eric, I was struck by how similar certain elements are to a lot more modern Saifai that deal with [00:07:00] consciousness and artificial intelligence. Now that. 35 years after the movie, we have a much better understanding of how certain cognitive mechanisms work in the brain.And we have people out there trying to really push the envelope for how artificial intelligence works. So I've seen some modern scifi. Television and movies. And I'll bring this up at some point on this episode, that blade runner really seems to have a lot of common elements with, but again, it was 35 years.The movie was based off of a Phillip K Dick book. As Eric. You had said, you've read the bug Zander. Have you read the book? Unfortunately not. It was an interesting book. I believe this was the first Philip K Phillip K Dick novel. That was translated into a movie. Is that right? That's my understanding, certainly.And I think he wasn't exactly ecstatic about the way it came out. Now. It was a very, uh, a very contentious [00:08:00] development process, not as contentious as 2001, a space Odyssey, which is perhaps if I come back the next one, I'll want to talk about. Uh, yeah, Dick was, Dick was even more unhappy with the theatrical cut than Ridley Scott in part, because I think once you have developed a story and Scott came in and he really changed the story significantly, um, it is a different story.It is based on do Androids dream of electric sheep. It is not a really direct, um, uh, Translation of it. It's a it's, you know, changed a lot. And so I think for that reason, Dick kind of went, what the heck? And then he saw the theatrical cut and sort of legend has it, that he walked out in the middle of it.He was just as. A lot of his movies have actually been made into, or a lot of his books rather have been made into films lately, but he died in 1983, I believe. So he didn't really have much to say about how those other ones were [00:09:00] translated. Now, the cast was almost, I would say it was pretty much the perfect eighties past that had Harrison Ford as Rick Decherd look at young and sexy.Yeah, the per yeah, the absolute Harrison Ford at his peak Rutger Hauer who played Roy batty, which he's a very different character than he was

Title: Chekov's Gun, Alien Fails and PrometheusDescription: This episode is a part of a two part series on the 2012 Ridley Scott film Prometheus. Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcast joins us once again to make the case that this movie is ill conceived from the beginning and fails to deliver as a science fiction movie or as an Alien franchise prequel. Let us know what you think of this movie!Learn More About our Guest:Erik Fogg of the Reconsider PodcastReconsidermedia.orgYou can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.beyondthebigscreen.comClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:https://www.amazon.com/Prometheus-DVD-Noomi-Rapace/dp/B00GLP0ZPSBy The cover art can or could be obtained from http://www.prometheus-movie.com/gallery/view/img/244 Direct Link to Large version - http://www.prometheus2-movie.com/media/prometheusofficialposter.jpg, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34060287

Organizations need to create higher trust and measure impact if they want to maintain and create a thriving culture, says Erik Fogg, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at ProdPerfect and interluding political author and business book ghost-writer. Find out why making hard decisions and ensuring each employee has a clearly articulated answer to the question, why am I here and why am I doing this, is key to creating a thriving company. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com 

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Erik Fogg is the co-Founder, and Chief Operating Officer at ProdPerfect joins me on the Tech Talks Daily podcast to share his startup stories and discuss how AI in testing is changing software development. Software development, especially testing, is terrible at using data. It relies too heavily on "human smarts." We can do better. Our own mindsets can explore the art of the possible, what's been done before, and what we have to accept, hold us back from being able to improve the business processes we're responsible for (and ourselves) Corporations are, unfortunately, the best systems we have right now to help humans flourish (the education system is too calcified and slow to adapt). However, by crafting deliberate cultures around learning and growth, we can turn corporations into little utopias where our people thrive. Machine Learning is coming for parts of all of our jobs. We should embrace it and accelerate its adoption to help humans spend their time doing what they're great at and what they love. Erik shares how ProdPerfect has been successful because they were first-time founders and very stubborn. He shares how they broke a lot of rules that they didn't even know they were breaking. Erik also expands on why he believes founders need to have nerves of steel to hold the line and do the right thing. About Erik Fogg Erik Fogg is the co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at ProdPerfect, fixing E2E software testing with Machine Learning and good operational design. In addition, ProdPerfect automatically builds and maintains E2E test automation by analyzing user journeys on web applications. Erik graduated from MIT with a bachelors and master's of science in Mechanical Engineering, and prior to ProdPerfect fixed and led operations in factories, mines, refineries, and hardware startups.

Title: The Legend of 2001 A Space OdysseyDescription: 2001 A Space Odyssey is one of the greatest films ever created. Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcast and I dive into this great movie to try and find the big themes that were important when the film was made and still are to this day.You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:http://atozhistorypage.com/Click to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/beyond-the-big-screenemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryLearn More About our Guest:Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcasthttps://reconsidermedia.com/Music Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By Grafiker61 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46424786

Erik Fogg attended MIT, but failed his intro to computer science classes. It was at that point, that he punted over to mechanical engineering. So as you could guess, Erik is not the tech guy - but, he does know enough to be dangerous. He loves to work with his hands, and has a professional history in solving old problems in new ways. Speaking of working with his hands, he likes to create comic con gear (at the time of the recording he had a captain America shield made out of an old satellite in his office). He's also a huge comic book and sports card collector, and he actually mentors several startups involved in pricing & liquidity around collectibles. Outside of that, he hosts a podcast around the topic of politics, polarization, and tribalism. Early 2018, Erik's co-founder started working through the traditional problems of QA testing. After getting fed up with it, he decided that he just needed to build his own solution, and needed someone to help him turn it into a business. Erik joined the team, and has been changing the QA testing landscape ever since. This is the creation story of ProdPerfect ( https://prodperfect.com/ ). Sponsors. Acton Children's Business Fair ( https://www.childrensbusinessfair.org/ ) Links * Website: https://prodperfect.com/ * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikfogg/ Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts ( https://ratethispodcast.com/codestory ) Amazing tools we use: * This podcast is hosted on RedCircle ( https://redcircle.com/ ) , a FREE platform for podcasts and brands to scale their message. * Want to record your remote interviews with class? Then, you need to use Squadcast ( https://squadcast.fm/?ref=noahlabhart ). * Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain ( https://clipgain.io/?utm_campaign=clipgain&utm_medium=episode&utm_source=codestory ) , sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREE * If you want an amazing publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people – use Transistor.fm ( https://transistor.fm/?via=code-story ) Credits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/code-story/id1466861744 ) , Spotify ( https://open.spotify.com/show/0f5HGQ2EPd63H83gqAifXp ) , Pocket Casts ( https://pca.st/Z1k7 ) , Google Play ( https://play.google.com/music/listen?pcampaignid=MKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16&t=Code_Story&view=%2Fps%2FIcdmshauh7jgmkjmh6iu3wd4oya ) , Breaker ( https://www.breaker.audio/code-story ) , Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgjZsiUDp-oKY_ffHc5AUpQ ) , or the podcasting app of your choice. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Our guest today is Erik Fogg, co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at ProdPerfect. ProdPerfect is the answer to fixing E2E software testing with Machine Learning and good operational design as well as automatically building and maintaining E2E test automation by analyzing user journeys on web applications. Since 2018, Erik and his team have helped dozens … The post Ep. 156 – ProdPerfect Co-Founder & COO, Erik Fogg appeared first on COO Alliance.

In this episode Roifield speaks to Erik Fogg of the Reconsider podcast about how America has got to a point where by its current commander-in-chief has broken many norms associated with the office and how the Republican Party can reform itself if it loses the presidency after November 3. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I was worried about getting over my skis in this discussion. I am definitely not in ProdPerfect's target buyer cohort:) We talk about: - Plans for Covid19 - Making your first sale as a founder*** Erik goes deep here. Super helpful. He has a strong opinion on who should do the early selling. - Presentation chops - Values. Erik goes DEEP here also. - Breaking the rules, being different. Founders must be somewhat crazy. We could have gone for hours and Erik has committed to a part 2. Thanks, Erik! Things we mentioned: Erik's books: https://www.amazon.com/Erik-Fogg/e/B00GC0FE3A?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3&qid=1584551538&sr=8-3 Erik's older blog: http://foggofwar.blogspot.com/ Erik's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikfogg/ ProdPerfect: https://prodperfect.com/ GitLab Remote Resources: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/

Your reality is shaped by your education, where you live, and what you consume. How do you view people with different beliefs? Is there a way to bridge the polarity in society? And, how should an entrepreneur respond to influence? Patrick Donohoe gets the answers from , an author, CEO, and co-host of the . Erik introduces his book, , which talks about the way you can open your mind to the manipulation and fight your way out of political polarization. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join The Wealth Standard community today:

Jason Hartman talks with Erik Fogg, author of Wedged: How You Became a Tool of the Partisan Political Establishment & How to Start Thinking for Yourself Again, as well as Chief at ReConsider and co-host of the ReConsider podcast, about the discourse in our society that is causing all of us problems that are being perpetuated by people who deal in fear. Key Takeaways: [2:16] Our 2 party system is brought about largely by the way we vote [5:15] People who are upset or angry are more likely to donate to things like a campaign, vote, or keep watching a TV show [8:29] Politicians, as a group, can never ultimately win because they're playing a zero sum game [9:37] What is the Green Fog Curve? [11:51] The most dangerous thing for us individually is to start letting our emotional response drive our reaction Website: www.JasonHartman.com www.ReConsiderMedia.com

Xander Snyder and Erik Fogg host the ReConsider Podcast—their motto is "We don't do the thinking for you." You can visit reconsidermedia.com to learn more about their podcast, which covers politics, history, and society. This episode is longer than the typical episode because of it's a simulcast across two podcasts. 0:00 Introduction to Erik, Xander, and the Reconsider podcast 5:00 How do you "not do the thinking" for your listener? 17:20 Socratic dialogue as a technique 20:30 The difference between psychological facts and historical facts 32:00 Goals of Heterodox Academy 37:20 How to become more informed about history and propaganda 40:10 Common problems in learning Links Andrew Guess, Brendan Nyhan, & Jason Reifler -- Selective Exposure to Misinformation: Evidence from the Consumption of Fake News Matt Grossman and David Hopkins – Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer on the RINO label Jarret Crawford’s research on asymmetrical and symmetrical political bias Jason Stanley – How Propaganda Works Open Mind Platform The Bulwark Podcast Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes and All In With Chris Hayes Transcript This is a transcript of the episode. Rating the Show If you enjoyed this show, please rate it on iTunes: * Go to the show's iTunes page and click “View in iTunes” * Click “Ratings and Reviews” which is to the right of "Details" * Next to "Click to Rate" select the stars. See the full list of episodes of Half Hour of Heterodoxy >>

Aired Tuesday, 29 May 2018, 5:00 PM ESTHow the Two-Party System Gave the American People a WedgieA Conversation with Erik Fogg, Author of Wedged: How You Became a Tool of the Partisan Political Establishment and How to Start Thinking for Yourself Again“We have a deeply-divided body politic in this country. Half the population believes our elections are broken, the other half believe they are fixed.” — Swami BeyondanandaI know I have shared this story before, but given our current political “shituation”, it’s worth sharing again. On the Sunday before the 2016 election, 60 Minutes gathered 25 prospective voters from across the political spectrum together, and asked them, “Who will be voting for the candidate of their choice this Tuesday?”Three people raised their hands.They were then asked, “And how many of you will be voting AGAINST another candidate?”The remaining 22 people raised their hands.How did this come about? And how is it that the American public has become so polarized that the only thing they agree on is that the system isn’t working?Wedge issues, says this week’s guest, Erik Fogg. He is the author of Wedged: How You Became a Tool of the Partisan Political Establishment and How to Start Thinking for Yourself Again, and he maintains that the “political industrial complex” that benefits from a polarized electorate has insured that the divisive “wedge” issues that KEEP us polarized are kept front and center.His book — and this interview — offers heartening information on how we the people can liberate ourselves from our “addiction” to being adrenalized by polarizing issues, and become wiser citizens working in accord.Erik Fogg is a graduate of MIT, where he studied mechanical engineering and political science. He earned his Masters of Science, co-authoring a number of academic papers while a student and while working with MIT, Harvard, the United Nations, and other NGOs on conflict resolution. He then spent four years as an operations and management consultant, improving organizational effectiveness and culture for a number of clients across North America.Erik currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the CEO of MidTide Media, and co-founder of Something to Consider, focused on improving American political dialogue by undermining the destructive mindsets that ail politics in the US.Here is a quote from his book:“A wedge has been driven into American politics by powerful political, social, and economic incentives that are very difficult to overcome. The middle ground has fallen out of the political process, leaving power in the hands of hardline partisans that frame the national agenda and direct our political energy towards emotionally satisfying–but politically unproductive–tribal warfare.”Find out how we HAVE liberated ourselves from at least one polarizing issue, and what we can do to shift the energy from tribe vs. tribe to one big tribe, where we learn to “disagree productively.”Tune in this Tuesday, May 29th at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET.How you can support Wiki PolitikiJoin the “upwising” — join the conversation, and become a Wiki Politiki supporter: http://wikipolitiki.com/join-the-upwising/Go ahead, PATRONIZE me! Support Wiki Politiki monthly through Patreon!

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If you're in the US, odds are good you'll be voting for a judge or six this November. It's hard, and _really_ different from electing a representative or executive. So how the heck do you do it? How do you judge your potential judges? If you want to be a responsible citizen, you gotta give this one a listen. ReConsider, by Xander Snyder and Erik Fogg, is a syndicate of IVN.us. Listen to more ReConsider Podcasts: www.reconsidermedia.com/podcast/, or on IVN at ivn.us/tag/ivn-podcast/.

Why are referendums ending up so different from how polls suggest? From Brexit to the FARC peace deal, there have been some shockers in referendums: the polls have very much gone one way, and the results another. So what the heck is going on? In this episode, Xander and Erik talk about how polling works, how it might be going so wrong, and what oddities are going on with direct democracy versus the representative stuff we're used to. ReConsider, by Xander Snyder and Erik Fogg, is a syndicate of IVN.us. Listen to more ReConsider Podcasts: www.reconsidermedia.com/podcast/, or on IVN at ivn.us/tag/ivn-podcast/.

Erik Fogg is a co-author of Wedged: How You Became a Tool of the Partisan Political Establishment…And How to Start Thinking For Yourself Again!You'll find Wedged on Amazon, and learn more about Eric at ReconsiderMedia.comWhether you're a political leader, a community leader or a business leader, there are issues that can drive a wedge between the people on your team, or between you and the people you serve. And sadly, some of these issues are purposely manufactured and promoted!In this episode Erik and I will discuss how to recognize "wedging" issues in your organization and how to resolve them peacefully and productively!

Erik Fogg is a co-author of Wedged: How You Became a Tool of the Partisan Political Establishment…And How to Start Thinking For Yourself Again!You'll find Wedged on Amazon, and learn more about Eric at ReconsiderMedia.comWhether you're a political leader, a community leader or a business leader, there are issues that can drive a wedge between the people on your team, or between you and the people you serve. And sadly, some of these issues are purposely manufactured and promoted!In this episode Erik and I will discuss how to recognize "wedging" issues in your organization and how to resolve them peacefully and productively!

Free speech protests have popped up in campuses across the United States over the past few years, and everyone is getting their word about it in, even President Obama. You may or may not yet feel strongly about this. No matter where you stand, now's the time to get yourself some context. What is "harm," and what kinds of speech should still be protected even if they are harmful? Time to ReConsider. ReConsider, by Xander Snyder and Erik Fogg, is a syndicate of IVN.us. "Politics, but we don't do the thinking for you." Listen to more ReConsider Podcasts: www.reconsidermedia.com/podcast/. ReConsider, by Xander and Erik, is a twice per month podcast in which we take on, in-depth, one pressing political issue facing western Democracies with a fresh, researched, and challenging perspective. We help listeners see the full context behind the issue and make up their own minds.

ReConsider, by Xander Snyder and Erik Fogg, is a syndicate of IVN.us. "Politics, but we don't do the thinking for you." Listen to more ReConsider Podcasts: www.reconsidermedia.com/podcast/. But seriously, why on earth do we have the Electoral College? Something about having to travel in carriages? It's a question a lot of people are asking after an election with a pretty big gap between the popular vote and the outcome. So why on earth does it exist? What's the point? Is it fulfilling its purpose? What alternatives are there, and how would we get to them? Learn all this and more, including why you don't kill your admirals, on today's episode!

After busting some myths about US education performance and its causes, we interview renowned SF Teacher of the Year Lana Corda to understand some of the challenges facing one of the toughest school districts in the country. We learn a lot about the on-the-ground details about some of the barriers to improving student performance. ReConsider, by Xander Snyder and Erik Fogg, is a syndicate of IVN.us. Listen to more ReConsider Podcasts: www.reconsidermedia.com/podcast/, or on IVN at https://ivn.us/tag/ivn-podcast/.

How's the US education system performing relative to other countries? How can we improve our own performance? There are many opinions and narratives about what to do, and in this episode, Xander and Erik dive into the data to understand which hold water, and which are swept away by facts. ReConsider, by Xander Snyder and Erik Fogg, is a syndicate of IVN.us. "Politics, but we don't do the thinking for you." Listen to more ReConsider Podcasts: http://www.reconsidermedia.com/podcast/. ReConsider, by Xander and Erik, is a twice per month podcast in which we take on, in-depth, one pressing political issue facing western Democracies with a fresh, researched, and challenging perspective. We help listeners see the full context behind the issue and make up their own minds.