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Atlas Shrugged seems to be everywhere today. Randian villains are in the news. Rand remains influential on the right, from the Reagan era to the modern libertarian movement. Perhaps most significantly, entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen who are moving into government with DOGE, have been influenced by Rand, and, fascinatingly, Andreessen only read the novel four years ago. Hollis Robbins (@Anecdotal) and I talked about how Atlas Shrugged is in conversation with the great novels of the past, Rand's greats skills of plotting, drama, and character, and what makes Atlas Shrugged a serious novel, not just a vehicle for ideology. Love it or loathe it, Atlas Shrugged is having a moment. Everyone brings a preconception of Ayn Rand, but she has been opposed by the right and the left ever since she first published. Other than Jennifer Burns' biography, academic study has largely declined to notice Rand. But Rand deserves our serious attention, both as a novelist, and as an influence on the modern world. Here are a couple of excerpts.We talk a lot these days about, “how can I be my best self?” That's what Rand is saying. She's saying, actually, it's not about earning money, it's not about being rich. It is about the perfection of the moral life. It's about the pursuit of excellence. It's about the cultivation of virtue. These are the important things. This is what Dagny is doing. When all the entrepreneurs at the end, they're in the happy valley, actually, between them, they have not that much money, right?Also this.What would Ayn Rand think about the influencer economy? Oh, she'd despise it. She would despise it… all these little girls wanting to grow up to be influencers, they're caught in some algorithm, which is awful. Why would you want to spend your life influencing others? Go create something. It's a hard medicine.And.Her aesthetic is very classical, draped. She doesn't wear flowery patterns. She wears draped, clearly close-fitting gowns and gray tailored suits and a minimum of jewelry, though she does have this bracelet chain made of Rearden metal. You don't know when she possibly has time to go shopping, but she's perfectly dressed all the time in the fashion that we would understand as feminist. She wears trousers, she wears suits, but when she goes out, this black velvet cape. I think it's important to see her as that, even though nobody talks about that in terms of this novel, what a heroine she is. I know that when I was reading her as a teenage girl, that's it.TranscriptHenry: Today, I am talking with Hollis Robbins, former dean of the humanities at Utah University and special advisor on the humanities and AI. We are talking about Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Hollis, hello.Hollis Robbins: Hello. I'm really glad to have this conversation with you. We've known each other for some years and follow each other's work. I was trained as a scholar of 19th-century American, Victorian, and African-American literature, mostly novels, and love having conversations with you about big, deep novels. When I suggested that we read this book, I was hoping you would be enthusiastic about it, so I'm really happy to be having this conversation. It's hard to know who's interviewing you or what conversation this is, but for you coming at this middle-aged. Not quite middle-aged, what are you?Henry: I'm middle enough. No. This is not going to be an interview as such. We are going to have a conversation about Atlas Shrugged, and we're going to, as you say, talk about it as a novel. It always gets talked about as an ideology. We are very interested in it as a novel and as two people who love the great novels of the 19th century. I've been excited to do this as well. I think that's why it's going to be good. Why don't we start with, why are we doing this?Hollis: I wanted to gesture to that. You are one of the leading public voices on the importance of reading literature and the importance of reading novels particularly, though I saw today, Matt Yglesias had a blog post about Middlemarch, which I think he just recently read. I can credit you with that, or us, or those of us who are telling people read the big novels.My life trajectory was that I read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead before I read Dickens, before I read Jane Austen, before I read Harriet Beecher Stowe or Melville or the Brontës. For me, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead were foundational novels as novels. I wondered what it would be like to talk to somebody whose experience was flipped.Henry: Right, I'm 38 and I'd never read this book. I was coming at it partly having read all those other books, but partly for my whole life, people have said, "Oh, that's really a bad book. That's so badly written. That book is no good." The number one thing I can say to people is this book is fun.Hollis: It's really fun. I was going to say usually what I forget to do in talking about books is give the summary. I'm going to hold up my copy, which is my dog-eared copy from high school, which is hilarious. It's got the tiniest print, which I couldn't possibly read now. No underlining, which is interesting. I read this book before I understood that you were supposed to underline when you liked passages in the book.It was interesting to me. I'd probably read it five or six times in my youth and didn't underline anything. The story is--- You can help me fill in the blanks. For readers who haven't read it, there's this young woman, Dagny Taggart, who's the heiress of the Taggart Transcontinental Railroad fortune. She's a woman. This takes place in about, I think, the '40s, '50s. Her older brother, Jim Taggart, is CEO. She's COO, so she's the operations person. It is in some ways the story of her-- It's not quite a bildungsroman. This is the way I tell the story. It's the story of her coming to the realization of how the world works. There's many ways to come at this story. She has multiple boyfriends, which is excellent. Her first boyfriend, his name is Francisco d'Anconia. He's the head of d'Anconia Copper. He too is an heir of this longstanding copper fortune. Her second is a metals magnate, Hank Rearden, who invents this great metal, Rearden metal.Really, it's also the story of the decline of America, and the ways that, in this Randian universe, these villainous group of people who run the country are always taking and extracting from producers. As she's creating and building this great railroad and doing wonderful things and using Rearden metal to do it, something is pulling all the producers out of society, and she's like, "What is going on?"It turns out there's this person, John Galt, who is saying, "I don't like the way the country is run. I don't like this extractive philosophy. I am going to take all the producers and lure them voluntarily to a--" It's a hero's lair. It's not like a James Bond villain lair. It's a hero lair in Colorado called Galt's Gulch. He is John Galt. It ends up being a battle between who is right in a wrong world. Is it the ethical person, Dagny Taggart, who continues to strive and try to be a producer and hold on to her ethics in this corrupt world, or is it somebody saying, "To hell with this. I am going on strike. You guys come with me and let the world collapse." How's that for summary?Henry: No, I think that's great. I couldn't have done a better job. One thing that we can say is that the role of reason, of being a rational person, of making reason the sole arbiter of how you make choices, be they practical, ethical, financial, whatever, that's at the heart of the book, right?Hollis: That's the philosophy. We could go there in a second. I think the plot of the book is that she demonstrates this.Henry: What she has to learn, like what is the big lesson for Dagny, is at the beginning, she hasn't fully understood that the good guys use reason and the bad guys do not, as it were.Hollis: Right. I think that's right. I like thinking about this as a bildungsroman. You said that the book is fun. Her part of the book is fun, but not really fun. The fun part of the book, and you can tell me because every time you kept texting me, "Oh my God, Jim Taggart. Oh my God, Jim Taggart. Oh my God, Jim Taggart."--Henry: These guys are so awful. [laughs]Hollis: They're so awful. The fun parts of the book, the Rand villains are the government entities and the cabals of business leaders who she calls looters and second-handers who run the country and all they do is extract value. Marc Andreessen was on a podcast recently and was all about these Rand villains and these looters. I think, again, to get back to why are we doing this and why are we doing this now, Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged is in the air with the second Trump administration.Henry: Yes. In a way, we're doing this because the question is, is this the novel of the future? Right? What we're seeing is it's very influential on the right. Rand's ideas have long been a libertarian inspiration. Elon Musk's read her. You mentioned Andreessen, Peter Thiel, all these people. It goes back to the Reagan days. People in the Republican Party have been quoting Ayn Rand. Then more broadly, we see all these worries about social collapse today. What happens in the plot of Atlas Shrugged is that society does slowly collapse.Dagny has to realize it's because of these people who are not using their reason and they're nationalizing things and taking resource away from proficient entrepreneurs and stuff. It's all about infrastructure, energy, people doing exploitation in the name of the common good, ineffective political leaders, people covering up lies and misdemeanors, people being accepting of what is obviously criminal behavior because it's in the cause of the greater good. We have free speech, all these topics, energy production. We're seeing this in the headlines. When I was reading this book, I was like, "Oh my God, how did she know?"Hollis: How did she know?Henry: How did she know.Hollis: I think the bildungsroman aspect of this as a novel. It's hard to read it as a novel. I think it's hard. By the way, I have to really I applaud you for not, until you got almost to the end of the book, texting me about this person or that person, or how it's political. I admire you for looking at the book and coming to the book as an expert in novels.What she comes to terms with, and it's a real slowly-- It's not even scales falling from her eyes. She doesn't sit and say, "Oh my God, the world is corrupt." She just is like, "That person's corrupt. I'm not going to deal with them. That person's corrupt. I'm not going to deal with them." She just keeps going, but she doesn't ever accept with a fatalism that she's living in this world where every single person who's in charge is going to let her down.Henry: It's also interesting to me that she doesn't complain.Hollis: No.Henry: Now, that reminded me of I wrote about Margaret Thatcher in my book. She was another big one for however hard it was, however difficult it was, why would you complain? Let's just go to work. A lot of people found her difficult for that reason. When I was reading this, I was like, "Ayn Rand clearly has the same idea. You can nationalize every last inch of the economy. I'm going to get up and go to work and try and beat you. I'm not going to sit around and complain." It's a very stern attitude in a way. She's very strict with herself. I found the book to be-- I know Rand is very atheist, but a very Protestant book.Hollis: Yes, it really is.Henry: Intensely Protestant, yes.Hollis: That's a nice way to think about it. A certain kind of Protestant, a Weberian Protestant.Henry: Sure.Hollis: Not a Southern Baptist Protestant who believes in the absence of reason. I was thinking I was teaching in Mississippi years ago. I was teaching a course on Wordsworth and had to do a unit on Voltaire because you can't really understand Wordsworth unless you understand Voltaire. There was a woman in my class. She was a version of Presbyterian who doesn't believe in reason, believes that in the fall, man lost their reason.Therefore, she asked if she could be excused from class because I was talking about Voltaire and the importance of reason. She said, "This is against my religion. If you believe that man has reason, you are actually going about it wrong, so may I be excused?" Which in all the years I've had people ask for excuses to miss class, that was a memorable one.Henry: That's unique. [laughs]Hollis: It's interesting because, again, I should get back to the novel, the opposition from Rand is as strong on the religious right as it is on the left. In fact, very strong. When Atlas Shrugged came out, William F. Buckley famously had Whittaker Chambers write the review. He hated her. He despised her. He despised the fact that she put reason first.Henry: Yes. I think that's worth emphasizing that some people listening will think, "I'm Rand. These nasty ideas, she's on the right." She's been ideologically described in that way so many times. Deirdre McCloskey in the Literary Review has just in the most recent edition written an absolutely scathing article about Rand. That's libertarian opposition to Rand.McCloskey is saying Hayek is the real thing here and Rand would have hated everything that Hayek did. She got everything wrong. I think the opposition to her, as you say, it's on both sides. One thing that's interesting about this novel is that because she created her own philosophy, which people will have different views on how well that went, but there isn't anyone else like this. All the other people like this are her followers.Hollis: Exactly.Henry: She's outside of the other systems of thought in a way.Hollis: We should talk about Rand. I'm going to quote a little bit from this book on feminist interpretation of Ayn Rand. Let's talk a little bit, if we can, about Dagny as the heroine of a novel, or a hero, because one of the really interesting things about reading Rand at this moment is that she's got one pronoun, he, him, man. She is in this era where man means man and women. That there isn't men and women, he and she, and now it's he, she, and them. She is like, "There's one pronoun." Even she talks about the rights of man or man believes. She means everybody, but she only means man too. It's interesting.I was very much part of the first pronoun wars in the 1980s when women scholars were like, "He and she." Now we're thrown out the window with that binary. Again, we don't need to talk about pronouns, but it's really important to understanding Rand and reading this novel, how much she embraces men and the male pronoun, even while she is using it both ways, and even while her story is led by this woman. She's beautiful. She's beautiful in a very specific way. She's tall, she's slender, she's got great cheekbones, she's got great shoulders, she's got long legs.Her aesthetic is very classical, draped. She doesn't wear flowery patterns. She wears draped, clearly close-fitting gowns and gray tailored suits and a minimum of jewelry, though she does have this bracelet chain made of Rearden metal. You don't know when she possibly has time to go shopping, but she's perfectly dressed all the time in the fashion that we would understand as feminist. She wears trousers, she wears suits, but when she goes out, this black velvet cape. I think it's important to see her as that, even though nobody talks about that in terms of this novel, what a heroine she is. I know that when I was reading her as a teenage girl, that's it.Henry: I want to be Dagny.Hollis: I want to be Dagny. I want to have capes, right?Henry: There's a very important scene, it's not too much of a plot spoiler, where Hank Rearden has invented this new metal. It's very exciting because it's much more efficient and it's much stronger and you can build new bridges for the trains and everything. He makes a bracelet of his new metal. It's a new steel alloy, I think, and gives it to his wife. His wife basically doesn't care.She's not really interested in what it takes to earn the money, she just wants to have the money. You get the strong impression throughout the book that some of the people that Rand is most scathingly disapproving of are wives who don't work. None of those people come out well. When Dagny goes to a party at the Rearden house and she is romantically involved with Hank Rearden, she sees the bracelet.Hollis: She isn't then, right? Isn't she not then?Henry: No, but they have feelings for each otherHollis: Right. Reasonable feelings for each other.Henry: That's right, reasonable feelings, but they're not currently acting on those feelings. She sees the bracelet and she exchanges her, I think, diamonds-Hollis: Diamond bracelet.Henry: -for the Rearden metal bracelet with the wife. It's this wonderful moment where these two opposite ideals of womanhood that Rand is presenting. It's a great moment of heroism for Dagny because she is saying, "Who cares about glittering diamonds when you have a new steel alloy that can make this incredible bridge?" It sounds crazy, but this is 1957. Dagny is very much what you might call one of the new women.Hollis: Right.Henry: I think in some ways, Rand-- I don't like the phrase she's ahead of her time. I've read a lot of 1950s fiction. This is not the typical woman.Hollis: No, this is not Cheever. This is not a bored suburban housewife at a time when the way the '50s are taught, certainly in America, it's like women could work during the war, then they were suburban housewives, there was bored, there were key parties and all sorts of Cheever sorts of things. This is not that. I read this first. I was only 15 years after it was published, I think, in the '60s, early '70s reading it.This, to me, seemed perfectly normal and everything else seemed regressive and strange and whiny. There's a lot to be said for reading this novel first. I think if we can talk a little bit about these set pieces because I think for me reading it as a novel and hearing you talk about it as a novel, that novels, whether we're thinking about-- I want to see if you want to compare her to Dorothea or just to any other Victorian women novel that you can think of. That's the closest, right? Is there anybody that's closest to Dorothea from Middlemarch? Is that there are these set pieces. People think that Rand-- the idea is that she's not a great writer. She is a great writer. She started in Hollywood. Her first book, The Fountainhead, was made into a movie. She understands plotting and keeping the reader's attention. We go forward, we go backwards. There's her relationship with Francisco d'Anconia that we see her now, years after, then we have flashbacks to growing up and how they became lovers.There are big meeting set pieces where everybody's in the room, and we have all the backstories of the people in the room, what is going to happen. There are these big party scenes, as you say. For example, this big, glorious, glamorous party at the Rearden house, Francisco is there. Francisco and Hank Rearden get in a conversation, and she's like, "I want to go see what my old boyfriend is talking to the guy I like about."There are these moments where you're not supposed to come at the book that way in this serious philosophical way. Then later on when there's this wonderful scene where Francisco comes to see Dagny. This is much later. Hank and Dagny are lovers, so he has a key to her apartment. He walks in and everybody sees immediately what's going on. It's as good as any other farce moment of somebody hiding behind a curtain, right?Henry: Yes.Hollis: Everything is revealed all at once. She's very good at scenes like that.Henry: Yes, very good. She's very good at high drama. One of the phrases that kept coming back to me was that this book is a melodrama of ideas.Hollis: Yes.Henry: Right? It's not a novel of ideas as such, it's a melodrama of ideas. I think one thing that people who think she's a bad writer will say is it's melodrama, the characters are flat, the prose is not lyrical, all these different things. Whereas when I read it, I was like, "She's so good at melodrama." I feel like, in some ways, it does not feel like a 1950s novel because there's so much excitement about technology, so much feminism, just so many things that I do not associate--Maybe I'm being too English, but I don't read John Cheever, for example, and think, "Oh, he loves the train." Whereas this book is very, very exciting as a story about inventing a new kind of train that goes really fast," which sounds silly, but that's a really Dickensian theme, that's in Middlemarch. Actually, that's what Matt Yglesias was talking about in his excellent piece today. What does feel very 1950s is you've got the Hollywood influence. The dialogue, I think, is not always great, but it is often great.I often would read pages and think, "This would actually be really good in, not an A++ movie, but in a decent crime movie or something. This would be quite good dialogue." There's a comic book aesthetic to it in the way that the scenes play out. Just a lot of these '50s aesthetics actually are present in the book. I'm going to read one paragraph. It's from part one. I think we should read out loud a few bits to give people a sense.Hollis: Yes.Henry: This is when Dagny has built a new train line using grid and metal to make the bridge so that it can go over a valley. I think that's right. The train can do 100 miles an hour. It's this very, very exciting new development. It means that energy can be supplied to factories, and so it's a huge, big deal. This is when she's on the train going at 100 miles an hour and she just can't believe it's happening."Things streaked past a water tank, a tree, a shanty, a grain silo. They had a windshield wiper motion. They were rising, describing a curve, and dropping back. The telegraph wires ran a race with the train, rising and falling from pole to pole, in an even rhythm like the cardiograph record of a steady heartbeat written across the sky. She looked ahead at the haze that melted rail and distance, a haze that could rip apart at any moment to some shape of disaster.""She wondered why she felt safer than she had ever felt in a car behind the engine. Safer here where it seemed as if should an obstacle rise, her breast and the glass shield would be the first to smash against it. She smiled, grasping the answer. It was the security of being first with full sight and full knowledge of one's own course, not the blind sense of being pulled into the unknown by some unknown power ahead."That's not MFA prose or whatever, but it turns the pages. I think she's very good at relating we're on the train and it's going very fast to how Dagny is thinking through the philosophical conundrum that is basically going to drive the whole plot forwards. I was reminded again and again of what Virginia Woolf said about Walter Scott, where she compared Scott to Robert Louis Stevenson. She said that Stevenson had beautiful sentences and dapper little adjectives. It was all jeweled and carefully done. You could marvel over each sentence.She said, "Whereas Scott, it's just page after page and no sentence is beautiful," but she says, "He writes at the level of the page. He's not like Stevenson. He's not writing at the level of the sentence. You have to step into the world." You can say, 'Oh, that wasn't a very good sentence,' but my goodness, the pages keep turning and you're there in the world, right?Hollis: Exactly.Henry: I think she made a really important point there and we just undervalue that so much when we say, oh, so-and-so is not a good writer. What we mean is they're not a Robert Louis Stevenson, they're a Walter Scott. It's like, sure, but Walter Scott was great at what he did. Ayn Rand is in the Walter Scott inheritance in the sense that it's a romance, it's not strictly realistic novel. You have to step into the world. You can't spend your whole time going, "Was that a great sentence? Do I really agree with what she just--" It's like, no, you have to go into this utopian sci-fi universe and you have to keep turning the pages. You get caught up and you go, "Wow, this is this is working for me."Hollis: Let me push back on that-Henry: Yes, good.Hollis: -because I think that was a beautiful passage, one of my favorite passages in this book, which is hard to say because it's a really, really big book. It's a memorable passage because here she is in a place at this moment. She is questioning herself. Isn't she questioning why? Why do I feel safe? Then it strikes her. In this moment, all interior while all this stuff is happening. This whole Rearden metal train bridge set piece is one of the highlights of at least the first half of the book. You come away, even if we've had our entire life up to her, understanding her as a philosophical this woman. How is that different from Dorothea or from Elizabeth Bennet? Yes, Elizabeth Bennet, right?Henry: Oh, no, I agree. My point was purely about prose style, which was to say if you say, "Oh, she writes like a Walter Scott, not like a Robert Louis Stevenson," you're going to deny yourself seeing what you've just said, which is that actually, yes, she has the ability to write philosophical characters.Hollis: When I first read Pride and Prejudice, I read it through the lens of Rand. Now, clearly, these heroines had fewer choices. Dorothea marries Casaubon, I don't know how you pronounce it, because she thinks he's a Randian expert, somebody who's got this grand idea. She's like, "Whoa, I want to be part of this endeavor, the key to all mythologies." Then she's so let down. In the Randian sense, you can see why she would have wanted him.Henry: That's right. I think George Eliot would have strongly disagreed with Rand philosophically. The heroines, as you say, what they're doing in the novel is having to realize that there are social conventions I have to understand and there are things I have to learn how to do, but actually, the key to working all that out is more at the moral philosophical level. This is what happens to Dagny. I think it's on the next page from what I just read. There's another passage where it says that she's in the train and she's enjoying. It's working and she's thrilled that her train is working. She was trying not to think, but she couldn't help herself.She said, "Who made the train. Is it the brute force of muscle? Who can make all the dials and the levers? How is it possible that this thing has even been put together?" Then she starts thinking to herself, "We've got a government who's saying it's wrong to do this, you're taking resources, you're not doing it for the common good." She says, "How can they regard this as evil? How can they believe that this is ignoble to have created this incredible thing?"She says she wants to be able to toss the subject out of the window and let it get shattered somewhere along the track. She wants the thoughts to go past like the telegraph poles, but obviously, she can't. She has this moment of realization that this can't be wrong. This type of human accomplishment can't be against the common good. It can't be considered to be ignoble. I think that is like the Victorian heroines.To me, it was more like Fanny Price, which is that someone turns up into a relatively closed system of ideas and keeps their own counsel for a long time, and has to admit sometimes when they haven't got it right or whatever. Basically, in the end, they are vindicated on fairly straightforward grounds. Dagny comes to realize that, "I was right. I was using my reason. I was working hard. I was being productive. Yes, I was right about that." Fanny, it's more like a Christian insight into good behavior, but I felt the pattern was the same.Hollis: Sure. I'll also bring up Jane Eyre here, right?Henry: Yes.Hollis: Jane Eyre, her relationship, there's a lot to be said of both Mr. Darcy and Mr. Rochester with Hank Rearden because Hank Rearden has to come to his sense. He's married. He doesn't like his wife. He doesn't like this whole system that he's in. He wants to be with a woman that's a meeting of the mind, but he's got all this social convention he has to deal with. Rochester has to struggle, and of course, Bertha Mason has to die in that book. He ends up leaving his wife, but too late. If we're going to look at this novel as a novel, we can see that there are these moments that I think have some resonance. I know you don't seem to want to go to the Mr. Darcy part of it.Henry: No. I had also thought about Jane Eyre. My thought was that, obviously, other than being secular because Jane Eyre is very Christian, the difference is that Hank Rearden and Dagny basically agree that we can't conduct our relationship in a way that would be morally compromising to her. They go through this very difficult process of reasoning like, "How can we do this in a good way?"They're a little bit self-sacrificing about it because they don't want to upset the moral balance. Whereas Mr. Rochester, at least for the first part of the book, has an attitude that's more like, "Yes, but she's in the attic. Why does it matter if we get married?" He doesn't really see the problem of morally compromising Jane, and so Jane has to run away.Hollis: Right.Henry: One of the interesting things about Rand, what is different from like Austen and the Brontës and whatever, is that Dagny and Hank are not in opposition before they get together. They have actually this unusual thing in romance and literature, which is that they have a meeting of minds. What gets in the way is that the way their minds agree is contra mundum and the world has made this problem for them.Hollis: I think in a way, that's the central relationship in--Henry: Yes. That was how I read it, yes.Hollis: Yes. The fact as we think about what the complications are in reading this novel as a novel is that here is this great central romance and they've got obstacles. She's got an old boyfriend, he's married. They've got all these things that are classic obstacles to a love story. Rand understands that enough to build it, that that will keep a lot of readers' interest, but then it's like, "That's actually not the point of my book," which is how the second half or the last third of the novel just gets really wiggy." Again, spoiler alert, but Hank is blackmailed to be, as the society is collapsing, as things are collapsing--Henry: We should say that the government has taken over in a nationalizing program by this point.Hollis: Right, because as John Galt is pulling all the thought leaders and the industrialists and all the movers of the world into his lair, things are getting harder and harder and harder, things are getting nationalized. Some of these big meetings in Washington where these horrible people are deciding how to redistribute wealth, again, which is part of the reason somebody like Congressman Paul Ryan would give out copies of Atlas Shrugged to all of his staffers. He's like, "You've got to read this book because we can't go to Washington and be like this. The Trumpian idea is we've got to get rid of people who are covering up and not doing the right thing."They've blackmailed Hank Rearden into giving up Rearden Metal by saying, "We know you've been sleeping with Dagny Taggart." It's a very dramatic point. How is this going to go down?Henry: Right. I think that's interesting. What I loved about the way she handled that romance was that romance is clearly part of what she sees as important to a flourishing life. She has to constantly yoke it to this idea that reason is everything, so human passion has to be conducted on the basis that it's logically reasonable, but that it therefore becomes self-sacrificing. There is something really sad and a little bit tragic about Hank being blackmailed like that, right?Hollis: Yes. I have to say their first road trip together, it's like, "Let's just get out of here and go have a road trip and stay in hotels and have sex and it'll be awesome." That their road trip is like, "Let's go also see some abandoned factories and see what treasures we might find there." To turn this love road trip into also the plot twist that gets them closer to John Galt is a magnificent piece of plot.Henry: Yes. I loved that. I know you want to talk about the big John Galt speech later, but I'm going to quote one line because this all relates to what I think is one of the most central lines of the book. "The damned and the guiltiest among you are the men who had the capacity to know yet chose to blank out reality." A lot of the time, like in Brontë or whatever, there are characters like Rochester's like that. The center of their romance is that they will never do that to each other because that's what they believe philosophically, ethically. It's how they conduct themselves at business. It's how they expect other people to conduct themselves. They will never sacrifice that for each other.That for them is a really high form of love and it's what enables huge mutual respect. Again, it's one of those things I'm amazed-- I used to work in Westminster. I knew I was a bit of a libertarian. I knew lots of Rand adjacent or just very, very Randian people. I thought they were all insane, but that's because no one would ever say this. No one would ever say she took an idea like that and turned it into a huge romance across hundreds of pages. Who else has done that in the novel? I think that's great.Hollis: It really is hard. It really is a hard book. The thing that people say about the book, as you say, and the reason you hadn't read it up until now, is it's like, "Oh, yes, I toyed with Rand as a teenager and then I put that aside." I put away my childish things, right? That's what everybody says on the left, on the right. You have to think about it's actually really hard. My theory would be that people put it away because it's really, really hard, what she tried is hard. Whether she succeeded or not is also hard. As we were just, before we jumped on, talking about Rand's appearance on Johnny Carson, a full half hour segment of him taking her very seriously, this is a woman who clearly succeeded. I recently read Jennifer Burn's biography of her, which is great. Shout out to Jennifer.What I came away with is this is a woman who made her living as a writer, which is hard to do. That is a hard thing to do, is to make your living as a writer, as a woman in the time difference between 1942, The Fountainhead, which was huge, and 57, Atlas Shrugged. She was blogging, she had newsletters, she had a media operation that's really, really impressive. This whole package doesn't really get looked at, she as a novelist. Again, let me also say it was later on when I came to Harriet Beecher Stowe, who is another extraordinary woman novelist in America who wrote this groundbreaking book, which is filled--I particularly want to shout out to George Harris, the slave inventor who carried himself like a Rand hero as a minor character and escapes. His wife is Eliza, who famously runs across the ice flows in a brave Randian heroine escape to freedom where nobody's going to tell them what to do. These women who changed literature in many ways who have a really vexed relationship or a vexed place in academia. Certainly Stowe is studied.Some 20 years ago, I was at an event with the great Elaine Showalter, who was coming out with an anthology of American women writers. I was in the audience and I raised my hand, I said, "Where's Ayn Rand?" She was like, "Ha, ha, ha." Of course, what a question is that? There is no good reason that Ayn Rand should not be studied in academia. There is no good reason. These are influential novels that actually, as we've talked about here, can be talked about in the context of other novels.Henry: I think one relevant comparison is let's say you study English 19th-century literature on a course, a state-of-the-nation novel or the novel of ideas would be included as routine, I think very few people would say, "Oh, those novels are aesthetically excellent. We read them because they're beautifully written, and they're as fun as Dickens." No one's saying that. Some of them are good, some of them are not good. They're important because of what they are and the barrier to saying why Rand is important for what she is because, I think, people believe her ideas are evil, basically.One central idea is she thinks selfishness is good, but I think we've slightly dealt with the fact that Dagny and Hank actually aren't selfish some of the time, and that they are forced by their ethical system into not being selfish. The other thing that people say is that it's all free-market billionaire stuff, basically. I'm going to read out a passage from-- It's a speech by Francisco in the second part. It's a long speech, so I'm not going to read all eight pages. I'm going to read this speech because I think this theme that I'm about to read out, it's a motif, it's again and again and again.Hollis: Is this where he's speaking to Hank or to Dagny?Henry: I think when he's speaking to Dagny and he says this."Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he want. Money will not give him a code of values if he has evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose if he has evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent."The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him with his money replacing his judgment ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered, that no man may be smaller than his money."Hollis: That's a good--Henry: Right? It's a great paragraph. I feel like she says that in dozens of ways throughout the book, and she wants you to be very clear when you leave that this book is not a creed in the name of just make money and have free market capitalism so you can be rich. That paragraph and so many others, it's almost biblical in the way she writes it. She's really hammering the rhythms, and the tones, and the parallels. She's also, I think, trying to appropriate some of the way the Bible talks about money and turn it into her own secular pseudo-Aristotelian idea, right?Hollis: Yes.Henry: We talk a lot these days about, how can I be my best self? That's what Rand is saying. She's saying, actually, it's not about earning money, it's not about being rich. It is about the perfection of the moral life. It's about the pursuit of excellence. It's about the cultivation of virtue. These are the important things. This is what Dagny is doing. When all the entrepreneurs at the end, they're in the happy valley, actually, between them, they have not that much money, right?Hollis: Right.Henry: The book does not end in a rich utopia, it's important to say.Hollis: It's interesting. A couple of things. I want to get this back since we're still in the novel. Let me say when we get to Galt's great speech, which is bizarre. He says a similar thing that I'll bring in now. He says, "The mother who buys milk for her baby instead of a hat is not sacrificing because her values are feeding the baby. The woman who sacrifices the hat to feed her baby, but really wants the hat and is only feeding the baby out of duty is sacrificing." That's bad. She's saying get your values in order. Understand what it is you want and do that thing, but don't do it because somebody says you have to. She says this over and over in many ways, or the book says this.Henry: We should say, that example of the mother is incidental. The point she's always making is you must think this through for yourself, you must not do it because you've been told to do it.Hollis: Right, exactly. To get back to the love story aspects of the book because they don't sit and say they love each other, even all the great romances. It's not like, "I love you. I love you." It's straight to sex or looks and meetings of the minds. It's interesting. We should deal with the fact that from The Fountainhead and a little bit in this book, the sex is a little rapey. It's a difficult thing to talk about. It's certainly one of the reasons that feminists, women writers don't approve of her. In the book, it's consensual. Whatever one wants to think about the ways that people have sex, it is consensual in the book. Also in The Fountainhead.I'm sure I'll get hate mail for even saying that, but in her universe, that's where it is. What's interesting, Francisco as a character is so interesting. He's conflicted, he's charming, he's her first lover. He's utterly good in every way. He ends up without her. Hank is good. Hank goes through his struggles and learning curve about women prioritizing. If you don't like your wife, don't be married to your wife. It's like he goes through his own what are my values and how do I live them.I know you think that this is bizarre, but there's a lot of writing about the relationship of Hank and Francisco because they find themselves in the same room a lot. They happen to have both been Dagny's lovers or ex-lovers, and they really, really like each other. There's a way that that bonding-- Homosexuality does not exist in her novels, whatever, but that's a relationship of two people that really are hot for one another. There is a lot of writing. There are queer readings of Rand that make a lot of that relationship.Again, this isn't my particular lens of criticism, but I do see that the energy, which is why I asked you which speech you were reading because some of Francisco's best speeches are for Hank because he's trying to woo Hank to happy valley. Toward the end when they're all hanging out together in Galt's Gulch, there's clearly a relationship there.Henry: Oh, yes. No, once you pointed out to me, I was like, "That makes sense of so many passages." That's clearly there. What I don't understand is why she did that. I feel like, and this is quite an accomplishment because it's a big novel with a lot of moving parts, everything else is resolved both in terms of the plot, but also in terms of how it fits her philosophical idea. That, I think, is pretty much the only thing where you're left wondering, "Why was that in there? She hasn't made a point about it. They haven't done anything about it." This I don't understand. That's my query.Hollis: Getting ready to have this conversation, I spent a lot of time on some Reddit threads. I ran Atlas Shrugged Reddit threads where there's some fantastic conversations.Henry: Yes, there is.Hollis: One of them is about, how come Francisco didn't end up with anybody? That's just too bad. He's such a great character and he ends up alone. I would say he doesn't end up alone, he ends up with his boyfriend Hank, whatever that looks like. Two guys that believe in the same things, they can have whatever life they want. Go on.Henry: Are you saying that now that they're in the valley, they will be more free to pursue that relationship?Hollis: There's a lot of things that she has said about men's and women's bodies. She said in other places, "I don't think there'll ever be a woman president because why would a woman want to be president? What a woman really wants is a great man, and we can't have a president who's looking for a great man. She has to be a president." She's got a lot of lunacy about women. Whatever. I don't understand. Someplace I've read that she understands male homosexuality, but not female homosexuality. Again, I am not a Rand scholar. Having read and seen some of that in the ether, I see it in the book, and I can see how her novel would invite that analysis.I do want to say, let's spend a few seconds on some of the minor characters. There are some really wonderful minor characters. One of them is Cherryl Taggart, this shop girl that evil Jim Taggart meets one night in a rainstorm, and she's like, "Oh, you're so awesome," and they get married. It's like he's got all this praise for marrying the shop girl. It's a funny Eliza Doolittle situation because she is brought into this very wealthy society, which we have been told and we have been shown is corrupt, is evil, everybody's lying all the time, it's pretentious, Dagny hates it.Here's the Cherryl Taggart who's brought into this. In the beginning, she hates Dagny because she's told by everybody, "Hate Dagny, she's horrible." Then she comes to her own mini understanding of the corruption that we understand because Dagny's shown it in the novel, has shown it to us this entire time. She comes to it and she's like, "Oh my God," and she goes to Dagny. Dagny's so wonderful to her like, "Yes. You had to come to this on your own, I wasn't going to tell you, but you were 100% right." That's the end of her.Henry: Right. When she meets Taggart, there's this really interesting speech she has where she says, "I want to make something of myself and get somewhere." He's like, "What? What do you want to do?" Red flag. "What? Where?" She says, "I don't know, but people do things in this world. I've seen pictures of New York," and she's pointing at like the skyscrapers, right? Whatever. "I know that someone's built that. They didn't sit around and whine, but like the kitchen was filthy and the roof was leaking." She gets very emotional at this point. She says to him, "We were stinking poor and we didn't give a damn. I've dragged myself here, and I'm going to do something."Her story is very sad because she then gets mired in the corruption of Taggart's. He's basically bit lazy and a bit of a thief, and he will throw anyone under the bus for his own self-advancement. He is revealed to be a really sinister guy. I was absolutely hissing about him most of the time. Then, let's just do the plot spoiler and say what happens to Cherryl, right? Because it's important. When she has this realization and Taggart turns on her and reveals himself as this snake, and he's like, "Well, what did you expect, you idiot? This is the way the world is."Hollis: Oh, it's a horrible fight. It's the worst fight.Henry: Right? This is where the melodrama is so good. She goes running out into the streets, and it's the night and there are shadows. She's in the alleyway. Rand, I don't have the page marked, but it's like a noir film. She's so good at that atmosphere. Then it gets a little bit gothic as well. She's running through the street, and she's like, "I've got to go somewhere, anywhere. I'll work. I'll pick up trash. I'll work in a shop. I'll do anything. I've just got to get out of this."Hollis: Go work at the Panda Express. Henry: Yes. She's like, "I've got to get out of this system," because she's realized how morally corrupting it is. By this time, this is very late. Society is in a-- it's like Great Depression style economic collapse by this point. There really isn't a lot that she could do. She literally runs into a social worker and the social-- Rand makes this leering dramatic moment where the social worker reaches out to grab her and Cherryl thinks, "Oh, my God, I'm going to be taken prisoner in. I'm going back into the system," so she jumps off the bridge.This was the moment when I was like, I've had this lurking feeling about how Russian this novel is. At this point, I was like, "That could be a short story by Gogol," right? The way she set that up. That is very often the trap that a Gogol character or maybe a Dostoevsky character finds themselves in, right? That you suddenly see that the world is against you. Maybe you're crazy and paranoid. Maybe you're not. Depends which story we're reading. You run around trying to get out and you realize, "Oh, my God, I'm more trapped than I thought. Actually, maybe there is no way out." Cherryl does not get a lot of pages. She is, as you say, quite a minor character, but she illustrates the whole story so, so well, so dramatically.Hollis: Oh, wow.Henry: When it happens, you just, "Oh, Cherryl, oh, my goodness."Hollis: Thank you for reading that. Yes, you could tell from the very beginning that the seeds of what could have been a really good person were there. Thank you for reading that.Henry: When she died, I went back and I was like, "Oh, my God, I knew it."Hollis: How can you say Rand is a bad writer, right? That is careful, careful plotting, because she's just a shop girl in the rain. You've got this, the gun on the wall in that act. You know she's going to end up being good. Is she going to be rewarded for it? Let me just say, as an aside, I know we don't have time to talk about it here. My field, as I said, is 19th century African American novels, primarily now.This, usually, a woman, enslaved woman, the character who's like, "I can't deal with this," and jumps off a bridge and drowns herself is a fairly common and character. That is the only thing to do. One also sees Rand heroes. Stowe's Dred, for example, is very much, "I would rather live in the woods with a knife and then, be on the plantation and be a slave." When you think about, even the sort of into the 20th century, the Malcolm X figure, that, "I'm going to throw out all of this and be on my own," is very Randian, which I will also say very Byronic, too, Rand didn't invent this figure, but she put it front and center in these novels, and so when you think about how Atlas Shrugged could be brought into a curriculum in a network of other novels, how many of we've discussed so far, she's there, she's influenced by and continues to influence. Let's talk about your favorite minor character, the Wet Nurse.Henry: This is another great death scene.Hollis: Let's say who he is, so the government sends this young man to work at the Rearden Mills to keep an eye on Hank Rearden.Henry: Once they nationalize him, he's the bureaucrat reporting back, and Rearden calls him the Wet Nurse as an insult.Hollis: Right, and his job, he's the Communist Party person that's in every factory to make sure that everything is--Henry: That's right, he's the petty bureaucrat reporting back and making sure everyone's complying.Hollis: He's a young recent college graduate that, Hank, I think, early on, if it's possible even to find the Wet Nurse early scene, you could tell in the beginning, too, he's bright and sparkly right out of college, and this is, it seems like a good job for him. He's like, "Woohoo, I get to be here, and I get to be--" Yes, go ahead.Henry: What happens to him is, similarly to Cherryl, he has a conversion, but his conversion is not away from the corruption of the system he's been in, he is converted by what he sees in the Rearden plant, the hard work, the dedication, the idealism, the deep focus on making the metal, and he starts to see that if we don't make stuff, then all the other arguments downstream of that about how to appropriate, how to redistribute, whatever, are secondary, and so he becomes, he goes native, as it were. He becomes a Reardenite, and then at the end, when there's a crowd storming the place, and this crowd has been sent by the government, it's a fake thing to sort of--Hollis: Also, a very good scene, very dramatic.Henry: She's very good at mobs, very good at mobs, and they kill, they kill the Wet Nurse, they throw him over. He has a couple of speeches in dialogue with Rearden while he's dying, and he says--Hollis: You have to say, they throw him, they leave him on this pile of slag. He crawls up to the street where Rearden happens to be driving by, and car stops, and so that finding the Wet Nurse there and carrying him in his arms, yes.Henry: That's right, it's very dramatic, and then they have this dialogue, and he says, "I'd like to live, Mr. Rearden, God, how I'd like to, not because I'm dying, but because I've just discovered tonight what it means to be alive, and it's funny, do when I discovered it? In the office, when I stuck my neck out, when I told the bastards to go to hell, there's so many things I wish I'd known sooner, but it's no use crying over spilt milk," and then Rearden, he goes, "Listen, kid, said Rearden sternly, I want you to do me a favor." "Now, Mr. Rearden?" "Yes, now." "Of course, Mr. Rearden, if I can," and Rearden says, "You were willing to die to save my mills, will you try and live for me?"I think this is one of those great moments where, okay, maybe this isn't like George Eliot style dialogue, but you could put that straight in a movie, that would work really well, that would be great, right? I can hear Humphrey Bogart saying these things. It would work, wouldn't it?She knows that, and that's why she's doing that, she's got that technique. He's another minor character, and Rand is saying, the system is eating people up. We are setting people up for a spiritual destruction that then leads to physical destruction. This point, again, about it's not just about the material world. It's about your inner life and your own mind.I find it very moving.Hollis: These minor characters are fantastic. Then let's talk a little bit about Eddie Willers, because I think a lot about Eddie Willers. Eddie Willers, the childhood three, there were three young people, we keep going back to this childhood. We have Dagny, Francisco, because their parents were friends, and then Eddie Willers, who's like a neighborhood kid, right?Henry: He's down the street.Hollis: He lives down the street. He's like the neighborhood kid. I don't know about you. We had a neighborhood kid. There's always neighborhood kids, right? You end up spending time with this-- Eddie's just sort of always there. Then when they turn 15, 16, 17, and when there's clearly something going on between Dagny and Francisco, Eddie does take a step back, and he doesn't want to see.There's the class issues, the status issues aren't really-- they're present but not discussed by Rand. Here we have these two children heirs, and they don't say like, "You're not one of us, Eddie, because you're not an heir or an heiress." He's there, and he's got a pretty good position as Dagny's right-hand man in Taggart Transcontinental. We don't know where he went to college. We don't know what he does, but we know that he's super loyal, right?Then when she goes and takes a break for a bit, he steps in to be COO. James is like, "Eddie Willers, how can Eddie Willers be a COO?" She's like, "It's really going to be me, but he's going to be fine." We're not really supposed to identify with Eddie, but Eddie's there. Eddie has, all through the novel, all through the big old novel, Eddie eats lunch in the cafeteria. There's always this one guy he's having lunch with. This is, I don't know, like a Greek chorus thing, I don't quite know, but there's Eddie's conversations with this unknown person in the cafeteria give us a sense, maybe it's a narrator voice, like, "Meanwhile, this is going on in the world." We have these conversations. This guy he's having lunch with asks a lot of questions and starts asking a lot of personal questions about Dagny. Then we have to talk to-- I know we've gone for over an hour and 15 minutes, we've got to talk about Galt's Speech, right? When John Galt, toward the end, takes over the airwaves and gives this big three-hour speech, the big three-hour podcast as I tweeted the other day, Eddie is with Dagny.Henry: He's in the radio studio.Hollis: He's in the studio along with one of John Galt's former professors. We hear this voice. Rand says, or the narrator says, three people in the room recognize that voice. I don't know about you, did you guess that it was Galt before that moment that Eddie was having lunch with in the cafeteria?Henry: No, no, no, I didn't.Hollis: Okay, so you knew at that moment.Henry: That was when I was like, "Oh, Eddie was talking, right?" It took me a minute.Hollis: Okay, were you excited? Was that like a moment? Was that a big reveal?Henry: It was a reveal, but it made me-- Eddie's whole character puzzles me because, to me, he feels like a Watson.Hollis: Yes, that's nice, that's good.Henry: He's met Galt, who's been under their noses the whole time. He's been going through an almost Socratic method with Galt, right? If only he could have paid a little bit more attention, he would have realized what was going on. He doesn't, why is this guy so interested in Dagny, like all these things. Even after Galt's big speech, I don't think Eddie quite takes the lesson. He also comes to a more ambiguous but a bad end.Hollis: Eddie's been right there, the most loyal person. The Reddit threads on Eddie Willers, if anybody's interested, are really interesting.Henry: Yes, they are, they're so good.Hollis: Clearly, Eddie recognizes greatness, and he recognizes production, and he recognizes that Dagny is better than Jim. He recognizes Galt. They've been having these conversations for 12 years in the cafeteria. Every time he goes to the cafeteria, he's like, "Where's my friend, where's my friend?" When his friend disappears, but he also tells Galt a few things about Dagny that are personal and private. When everybody in the world, all the great people in the world, this is a big spoiler, go to Galt's Gulch at the end.Henry: He's not there.Hollis: He doesn't get to go. Is it because of the compromises he made along the way? Rand had the power to reward everybody. Hank's secretary gets to go, right?Henry: Yes.Hollis: She's gone throughout the whole thing.Henry: Eddie never thinks for himself. I think that's the-- He's a very, I think, maybe one of the more tragic victims of the whole thing because-- sorry. In a way, because, Cherryl and the Wet Nurse, they try and do the right thing and they end up dying. That's like a more normal tragedy in the sense that they made a mistake. At the moment of realization, they got toppled.Eddie, in a way, is more upsetting because he never makes a mistake and he never has a moment of realization. Rand is, I think this is maybe one of the cruelest parts of the book where she's almost saying, "This guy's never going to think for himself, and he hasn't got a hope." In a novel, if this was like a realistic novel, and she was saying, "Such is the cruelty of the world, what can we do for this person?" That would be one thing. In a novel that's like ending in a utopia or in a sort of utopia, it's one of the points where she's really harsh.Hollis: She's really harsh. I'd love to go and look at her notes at some point in time when I have an idle hour, which I won't, to say like, did she sit around? It's like, "What should I do with Eddie?" To have him die, probably, in the desert with a broken down Taggart transcontinental engine, screaming in terror and crying.Henry: Even at that stage, he can't think for himself and see that the system isn't worth supporting.Hollis: Right. He's just going to be a company man to the end.Henry: It's as cruel as those fables we tell children, like the grasshopper and the ants. He will freeze to death in the winter. There's nothing you can do about it. There are times when she gets really, really tough. I think is why people hate her.Hollis: We were talking about this, about Dickens and minor characters and coming to redemption and Dickens, except Jo. Jo and Jo All Alones, there are people who have redemption and die. Again, I don't know.Henry: There's Cherryl and the Wet Nurse are like Jo. They're tragic victims of the system. She's doing it to say, "Look how bad this is. Look how bad things are." To me, Eddie is more like Mr. Micawber. He's hopeless. It's a little bit comic. It's not a bad thing. Whereas Dickens, at the end, will just say, "Oh, screw the integrity of the plot and the morals. Let's just let Mr. Micawber-- let's find a way out for him." Everyone wants this guy to do well. Rand is like, "No, I'm sticking to my principles. He's dead in the desert, man. He's going to he's going to burn to death." He's like, "Wow, that's okay."Hollis: The funny thing is poor John Galt doesn't even care about him. John Galt has been a bad guy. John Galt is a complicated figure. Let's spend a bit on him.Henry: Before we do that, I actually want to do a very short segment contextualizing her in the 50s because then what you say about Galt will be against this background of what are some of the other ideas in the 50s, right?Hollis: Got it.Henry: I think sometimes the Galt stuff is held up as what's wrong with this novel. When you abstract it and just say it, maybe that's an easier case to make. I think once you understand that this is 1957, she's been writing the book for what, 12 years, I think, or 15 years, the Galt speech takes her 3 years to write, I think. This is, I think the most important label we can give the novel is it's a Cold War novel. She's Russian. What she's doing, in some ways, is saying to America, "This is what will happen to us if we adopt the system of our Cold War enemies." It's like, "This is animal farm, but in America with real people with trains and energy plants and industry, no pigs. This is real life." We've had books like that in our own time. The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver said, that book said, "If the 2008 crash had actually gone really badly wrong and society collapsed, how would it go?" I think that's what she's reacting to. The year before it was published, there was a sociology book called The Organization Man.Hollis: Oh, yes. William Whyte.Henry: A great book. Everyone should read that book. He is worrying, the whole book is basically him saying, "I've surveyed all these people in corporate America. They're losing the Protestant work ethic. They're losing the entrepreneurial spirit. They're losing their individual drive. Instead of wanting to make a name for themselves and invent something and do great things," he says, "they've all got this managerial spirit. All the young men coming from college, they're like, 'Everything's been done. We just need to manage it now.'" He's like, "America is collapsing." Yes, he thinks it's this awful. Obviously, that problem got solved.That, I think, that gives some sense of why, at that moment, is Ayn Rand writing the Galt speech? Because this is the background. We're in the Cold War, and there's this looming sense of the cold, dead hand of bureaucracy and managerialism is. Other people are saying, "Actually, this might be a serious problem."Hollis: I think that's right. Thank you for bringing up Whyte. I think there's so much in the background. There's so much that she's in conversation with. There's so much about this speech, so that when you ask somebody on the street-- Again, let me say this, make the comparison again to Uncle Tom's Cabin, people go through life feeling like they know Uncle Tom's Cabin, Simon Legree, Eliza Crossing the Ice, without having ever read it.Not to name drop a bit, but when I did my annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin, this big, huge book, and it got reviewed by John Updike in The New Yorker, and I was like, "This is freaking John Updike." He's like, "I never read it. I never read it." Henry Louis Gates and then whoever this young grad student was, Hollis Robbins, are writing this book, I guess I'll read it. It was interesting to me, when I talk about Uncle Tom's Cabin, "I've never read it," because it's a book you know about without reading. A lot of people know about Atlas Shrugged without having read it. I think Marc Andreessen said-- didn't he say on this podcast that he only recently read it?Henry: I was fascinated by this. He read it four years ago.Hollis: Right, during COVID.Henry: In the bibliography for the Techno-Optimist Manifesto, and I assumed he was one of those people, he was like you, he'd read it as a teenager, it had been informative. No, he came to it very recently. Something's happening with this book, right?Hollis: Huge things are happening, but the people who know about it, there's certain things that you know, you know it's long, you know that the sex is perhaps not what you would have wanted. You know that there's this big, really long thing called John Galt's Speech, and that it's like the whaling chapters in Moby-Dick. People read Moby-Dick, you're like, "Oh, yes, but I skipped all the chapters on cetology." That's the thing that you say, right? The thing that you say is like, "Yes, but I skipped all the John Galt's Speech." I was very interested when we were texting over the last month or so, what you would say when you got to John Galt's Speech. As on cue, one day, I get this text and it's like, "Oh, my God, this speech is really long." I'm like, "Yes, you are the perfect reader."Henry: I was like, "Hollis, this might be where I drop out of the book."Hollis: I'm like, "Yes, you and the world, okay?" This is why you're an excellent reader of this book, because it is a frigging slog. Just because I'm having eye issues these days, I had decided instead of rereading my copy, and I do have a newer copy than this tiny print thing, I decided to listen on audiobook. It was 62 hours or whatever, it was 45 hours, because I listen at 1.4. The speech is awesome listening to it. It, at 1.4, it's not quite 3 hours. It's really good. In the last few days, I was listening to it again, okay? I really wanted to understand somebody who's such a good plotter, and somebody who really understands how to keep people's interest, why are you doing this, Rand? Why are you doing this, Ms. Rand? I love the fact that she's always called Miss. Rand, because Miss., that is a term that we

Dec 27, 2024 – Just last week, former President Trump floated the idea of eliminating the debt ceiling. Back in 2016, he also suggested that the US could never default on its debt because it could simply print more money. But what if these ideas were...

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Join me for a summary exploring an innovation of the use of bone-anchored plates in class 2 correction. This was a clinically novel idea presented by Hugo De Clerck, who has been an innovator in the use of bone-anchored plates and has published seminal papers on the topic for class 3 treatment. Hugo explores the use of bone-anchored plates in the mandible, combined with a Herbst appliance. He presents his data of 90 patients treated in Brussels by his research team. PROTOCOL Customised bone anchored plates in lower anterior mandible – digitally designed per patient with surgical guide Transmucosal between lower canine and 1st premolar Herbst: modified to attach from upper 1st molar to the lower bone anchored plates Procline upper incisors prior to fitting Bone anchored-Herbst Expansion of the upper arch 2-3 modifications to Herbst piston to lengthen during treatment Duration 10 months HOW DOES IT WORK Growth of the mandibular body: mainly, bone modelling. Average growth 5-7mm, whereas conventional herbst 2-2.5mm of chin projection. New growth of bone as ramus moves backwards, resulting in lengthening of the mandible Force generation: in similar to the conventional functional appliance, with contraction of medial and lateral pterygoid and stretching of the suprahyoid and temporalis muscle Lower incisor proclination: No lower incisor proclination: There is a distal force on the mandibular dentition instead of a forward force from conventional functional appliances, due to the appliance attaching to the mandibular body, not the dentition Condylar displacement: Longer duration, of up to 10 months which results in stimulation of growth of the body of the mandible, conventionally this stops with a herbst as the lower incisors procaine, resulting in only 2 months of condylar displacement and therefore less stimulation of growth Glenoid fossa remodelling. The glenoid fossa remodelled in a forwards direction, however it was small and unpredictable, with some posterior remodelling Rotation of mandible – similar to the conventional functional appliance, a posterior rotation reduces the effects, anterior rotation enhances, for every 1 degree 1.1mm increase projection. Achieve via expansion and removable appliance Upper molar distalisation: Hugo saw this as unfafourable and advised lengthening the herbst piston to reduce upper molar distalisation, therefore maximising mandibular lengthening Age 13-15 Not possible with miniscrews, due to the quantity of force Breakages of Herbst still occur Is growth maintained long term – unable to state No control as requirement for cbct of untreated patients. Contributions Contents: Farooq Ahmed Edited and produced: Farooq Ahmed

Dan talks to Proper Horrorshow about the book: The Mandibles, a worrying economically accurate depiction of life after the collapse of the dollar as we follow a family going through society after the event.

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This week on the podcast, returning guest Lionel Shriver talks about her latest book, Abominations: Selected Essays From A Career Of Courting Self-Destruction. A collection of her writings from outlets like The Spectator, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal, the book also contains some previously unpublished pieces a well as speeches and other public addresses, including a eulogy for her brother. Lionel is perhaps the consummate “thought criminal,” and in this conversation, she talks with Meghan about how she came to assume this mantle (hint: she supported Brexit) and what frustrates her most about culture war discourse. They discuss the Covid lockdown policies, the state of the literary arts, the new gender movement, and the differences between America and the U.K. when it comes to fears about nuanced positions being “weaponized by the other side.” They also consider the “am I canceled or am I just paranoid?” conundrum and wonder how much longer the culture wars can really go on.  Finally, Lionel reflects on how perceptions of our own happiness change over time and how, if she could send a message to her younger self, it would be, “you're not as miserable as you think.”    In the bonus portion for paying subscribers, Lionel stays overtime to talk about Meghan's second favorite subject: end-of-life options. Her last novel, Should We Stay Or Should We Go, took a darkly funny look at this subject by considering a dozen parallel universes for a couple who planned to kill themselves when they turned 80.  Lionel and Meghan pick up on where their conversation left off from Lionel's last visit to the podcast and talk about their feelings about their own deaths and what it means to enter old age without children or close family. Uplifting stuff!    Guest Bio:   Lionel Shriver is a columnist for The Specator and the author, most recently, of Abominations: Selected Essays From A Career Of Courting Self-Destruction. Her  fiction includes The Mandibles, Property, So Much for That, the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harper's, and the London Times, and she currently writes a regular column for The Spectator in the UK. She lives in London and Brooklyn, NY.

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In this very special episode Cedric sits down with Matt Odell to discuss science fiction, privacy, freedom, personal responsibility, Snowden, Elon Musk, Julian Assange, The Mandibles, staying humble, stacking sats & how to survive the chaotic, post-truth world that we live in right now.  This podcast is brought to you by River Financial. Get $20 free when you sign up for River and purchase Bitcoin, and up to $10,000 free when you purchase miners. Build your Bitcoin wealth at River today at: partner.river.com/matrix Coinkite is a leader in security and hardware manufacturer, est. block 141,000. Maker of some of the most iconic Bitcoin products, such as OPENDIME, COLDCARD, BLOCKCLOCK, SATSCARD, TAPSIGNER and SATSCHIP. For 5% off use this referral link: https://store.coinkite.com/promo/B81AD35FE804254094F9 Recently, I decided to partner with crowd health to help fix the healthcare system. You're challenging the traditional status quo, then why are you still paying expensive insurance premiums? Experience the freedom and affordability of cash payments and community-funded healthcare with CrowdHealth. Go to joincrowdhealth.com and use code MATRIX now and experience freedom from health insurance by utilizing Bitcoin. Right now you can get your first six months for just $99 per month.  Make sure to search for Bitcoin Matrix in your podcast app and click subscribe! And if you have the time please leave a review wherever you listen. Stream the Bitcoin Matrix podcast on the Fountain app for sats here: https://fountain.fm/show/8jJhCIKzojSARTePnCxM Subscribe to the Bitcoin Matrix on YouTube at tinyurl.com/bitcoinonyoutube Follow Matt Odell on Twitter: @ODELL Check out his article Survival here: https://odell.ghost.io/survival/ Follow Cedric Youngelman on Twitter: @CedYoungelman Follow the Bitcoin Matrix Podcast on Twitter: @_BitcoinMatrix

It’s another Playful Learning mini, this time joined by the fab Claire Timmins, senior teaching fellow at the University of Strathclyde – where we talk about mandibles, Minecraft, Articulate and Mike and Mark’s embarrassingly poor knowledge of the physiology of speech reproduction. As with the whole series, we’re looking at answer the questions: Also our… Continue reading Claire Timmins, Minecraft and articulate mandibles – PGZ@PL games and practice mini

For episode 140, we have three featured movies that are opening this week. The Japanese crime thriller Sagasu (aka Missing) is one of my favorite films of the year and we review it at (28:34). Bruce Purkey and Eric Holmes review the apartment based paranoid thriller Something in the Dirt (16:34).Incredible But True (6:33) is the latest feature from Mandibles filmmaker Quentin Dupieux. Arrow streaming subscribers can check this first rate comedy out starting November 7!Subscribe to our Deepest Dream YouTube Channel for more movie reviews and interviews: https://www.youtube.com/c/DeepestDreamDotComShirts, hoodies, drinking glass, stickers and more FYF merch is up on findyourfilmpodcast.com!Email:Greg Srisavasdi: editor@deepestdream.comEric Holmes: hamslime@gmail.comBruce Purkey: brucepurkey@gmail.comJoin our CinemAddicts Facebook Group, where we give Blu-rays and DVDs out weekly to our members!Find Your Film is on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!Check out Force Five Podcast:  https://www.forcefivepodcast.com/For more info on Middle Class Film Class: https://www.mcfcpodcast.com/Support the show

Grab your massive guns and avoid those eggs! It's time to leap into the crossover event of the new millennium. No, it's not Alien vs Predator, it's Alien AND Predator. Join us as we combine these two beloved 80s action horror franchises, for a series of ridiculous games and fun.We're joined by guest-players Ben Robinson and Jon Williams, of the Geeksploration podcast. Issue #2 of Jon and Ben's comic book series Space Oddities is here! You can get the digital versions of both issues for just $5 over at this link - www.drivethrucomics.com/browse/pub/19399/Beefy-PressGet all information on Space Oddities, including how to order a physical copy, here - benrob33.dreamhosters.comAnd subscribe to Geeksploration the Podcast, here- www.geeksplorationpodcast.comIn this episode of Gateleapers, players must know the price of merchandise, pitch ideas to Dibney, decode YouTube comments, and know their pop-culture aliens and predators.Follow us on Twitter @GateleapersFollow Jason on Insta @ZenFlowPaintingFollow Geeksploration on Twitter @geeksplorepodMusic: BoucheDag by Alexander Nakarada (serpentsoundstudios.com)Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Opening Predator theme played underneath a section that genuinely reviews and critiques. So, yeah.

The idea of the Bitcoiner Book Club is to discuss books that seem relevant to the subjects and themes related to bitcoin, or otherwise found to be meaningful or interesting to bitcoiners (at a minimum), and therefore worthy of discussion. 'The Mandibles' by Lionel Shriver is one such book, so we got a crew together to discuss. Please note: MANY SPOILERS! Enjoy! -- More from the guys: MATT: https://twitter.com/ODELL BEN: https://twitter.com/BTCsessions GUY: https://twitter.com/TheGuySwann JAMES: https://twitter.com/jamesob More from me: TWITTER: http://bit.ly/2P7PUjA YOUTUBE: https://bit.ly/3aBbZxg MEDIUM: http://bit.ly/2Zk0Dex SUBSTACK: Money Messiah If you're in Canada and looking to buy bitcoin at competitive rates, with an emphasis on privacy and security, check out bullbitcoin.com. Once you buy bitcoin, taking custody of it is extremely important, if you want to maximize the benefit of this unique asset. The Coldcard hardware wallet is one of the most popular and trusted devices for doing just that. Visit them at Coinkite.com, to learn more about the great features of this wallet, and the other awesome products they have available for self-sovereign bitcoin enthusiasts. If you (or someone you know) need a little help with setting up your Coldcard / custody solution, visit bitcoinsupport.com to browse packages available for making sure you get set up securely and properly. If you're in the US, the best option is Swan Bitcoin. Use this link to get $10 of free bitcoin! http://bit.ly/3rvxVlA

“A Fourth Turning lends people of all ages what is literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to heal (or destroy) the very heart of the republic.” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, Nat and Neil are joined by Adil Majid to discuss their key takeaways from The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe. The authors uncover how history moves in cycles, or "turnings", and how our past could very well predict our future. This episode will challenge the way you have traditionally thought of time as linear, and open your eyes to cycles that are much bigger than ourselves. We cover a wide range of topics including: What is a turning, and how does each generation influence the next turning? Gold, Bitcoin, and inflation of the US Dollar The possibility of parallel systems Current events that may be leading us to the climax of the crisis era The four themes (High, Awakening, Unraveling, and Crisis) and the ways they have tied in to the events of American history And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and Adil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode. Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the show: Athletic Greens (1:41) Major brands freeze Youtube ads (2:15) Blinkist (2:48) Oatly: The New Coke (3:25) Bankless (5:09) Martyrmade Podcast: Thoughts on Ukraine (47:05) China and Taiwan conflict (50:14) SNL Skit: Republican or Not (1:06:19) SNL Skit: Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks (1:06:39) The Political Compass (1:08:40) Balaji Srinivasan on Communist Capital vs. Woke Capital vs. Crypto Capital (1:09:59) Full Send Podcast with Donald Trump (1:15:34) Man enters White House with knife (1:22:56) "I support the current thing" Meme (1:25:32) Operation Warp Speed (1:32:00) Cases of Polio-like Symptoms in the Bay Area (1:35:07) Dalio's Long-Term Debt Cycle (1:38:32) Episode 7: A Crash Course in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cryptocurrency (1:40:12)   Books Mentioned: The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe Dictator's Handbook (4:23) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Sovereign Individual (6:15) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) King, Warrior, Magician, Lover (32:14) (Book Episode) The Mandibles (43:14) Seeing Like A State (54:15) (Nat's Book Notes) Demon in the Freezer (1:30:48) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1:37:35) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Alchemy of Finance (1:39:13) Denial of Death (1:40:21) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Scale (1:40:35) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Sapiens (1:40:40) (Book Episode 1) (Sapiens Episode 2) (Nat's Book Notes) Homo Deus (1:40:40) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes)   People Mentioned: Neil Howe William Strauss Ray Dalio (45:36) Lyn Alden (51:04) Joe Rogan (1:14:05) Steve Bannon (1:35:35)   Show Topics 0:19 Adil Majid joins the podcast today to help Nat and Neil break down The Fourth Turning by and William Strauss Neil Howe. You may remember him from some of our previous episodes (#7, #33, #34, #35, #71), so go check those out if you haven't already! 4:39 The Fourth Turning was written around the same time as Sovereign Individual, and shares some connections as both books discuss adapting to the next phase or cycle in civilization. 9:18 The four turnings: "The High", "The Awakening", "The Unraveling" and "The Crisis". The current cycle, also known as "The Crisis", would have started around 2005, and may go on until around 2026. These turnings are such a zoomed out way of looking at periods of time, and most people that are living have not been around long enough to experience each turning. "Over the millennia, man has developed three ways of thinking about time: chaotic, cyclical, and linear. The first was the dominant view of primitive man, the second of ancient and traditional civilizations, and the third of the modern West, especially America.” 14:51 Neil talks about some of the bigger, zoomed out cycles such as the ice age cycles and climate cycles. We only see the micro-cycles because that's our perspective on time. 15:40 In some religions such as Christianity, time is thought of as linear. Rather than accepting the cycles and seasons of the year and time, we try to fight them to create this linear constancy, because that's what we are familiar with and what we can see. 17:50 Trends in substance abuse and alcohol. The way that our parents' and grandparents' generations treated alcohol is much different than how the younger generation treats it. This brings us to the four archetypes discussed in the book: Prophets, Nomads, Heroes, and Artists. Prophets give birth to Heroes, and vice versa while Nomads give birth to Artists, and vice versa. In theory, this will determine your archetypal behavior. 24:17 The turnings tie into the generations. As one comes of age, they influence the next turning. Based on the timeline from the book, we've all been in a Crisis era for most of our adult lives (if you're around 30). What does it mean now that we're within a few years of coming out of this period of crisis? 26:06 The "High" occurred post World War 2, between 1946-1964. This period of time was big on collectivism and community. It was not a High for everyone, however, as this was before the civil rights movement and the women's suffrage movement. After WW2, people began creating a better life and enjoying the high after surviving the war. Their children grew up in a time of abundance, but the abundance wasn't experienced by everyone, and this led to different civil movements as they entered the period of Awakening. 30:55 Between the Awakening and the Unraveling is a long period of decline. The Awakening is a period of challenging the morals of the previous generation, and the Unraveling is putting those things into practice. From there, it then leads to the period of Crisis. 34:36 We see this conflict today where older Gen Z and Millennials are growing up with student loan debt.  The previous generation grew up in a period of abundance off the High of post WW2, which paved the way for that generation to live a comfortable life. 38:28 Where did the Crisis start? Nat, Neil, and Adil discuss several events such as 9/11, the Iraq war, and the 2007 financial crisis that may be marked as the start of the Crisis. 45:26 Not every Fourth Turning has to end in war, but every previous one has ended in a war, thus why the conflict in Russia/Ukraine is so notable, as well as conflict between China and Taiwan. 50:33 Gold, Bitcoin, and inflation. Which country could tip the scale?  55:03 Preparing for the Fourth Turning. Neil makes a connection to The Mandibles, where if the Government ever decides to cease wealth or shut down the stock market, the value that we currently hold in the market will decrease significantly, although we may have thought it was safe.  “Really know where your money is.” 1:00:28 Adil describes the technological arms race that's happening. Ideas shifting in political parties even within the past decade.  1:09:55 Woke capital, communist capital, and crypto capital. Is there a possibility for parallel systems where one area of the country/world may align with one ideology and another area aligns with another approach? The Internet, as an example. 1:16:59 Another symptom of the crisis mentality is mistrust of organizations that were typically trusted by previous generations. 1:21:09 The storming of the Capital on January 6th. This had the potential to be a climax moment, but didn't end up turning into something massive. 1:25:29 This year's Oscars brought a shared moment between everyone. Most things you see in the media will produce two total opposite reactions, whereas in this particular moment, the experience and reaction was very much the same across the board. These shared moments create a sense of unity. 1:35:16 This book is controversial, partly because the concepts in this book are hard to prove as factual. It's comfortable to think we have everything figured out, without challenging anything or institutions. 1:38:41 Thanks for listening! Make sure to grab a copy of the next book we will be covering, Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung. Stay tuned, as Adil will be back for another future episode where we discuss Seeing Like A State.   If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS and @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode. You can now support Made You Think using the Value-for-Value feature of Podcasting 2.0. This means you can directly tip the co-hosts in BTC with minimal transaction fees. To get started, simply download a podcast app (like Fountain or Breez) that supports Value-for-Value and send some BTC to your in-app wallet. You can then use that to support shows who have opted-in, including Made You Think! We'll be going with this direct support model moving forward, rather than ads. Thanks for listening. See you next time!

Shaun Newman is a Canadian podcaster, and former oil and gas employee. The Shaun Newman Podcast has become a national phenomenon after Shaun began asking tough questions about Canadian policy. He sat down with Vance Crowe to talk about why he quietly left the trucker convoy, his 2 month media blackout, and where he is taking the SNP in the future.Shaun's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SNewmanPodcastThis is a sponsored link April's book club book April 24th (The Mandibles): https://amzn.to/36PY2yjPODCAST LINKS —Vance Crowe Podcast Website: https://www.vancecrowe.com/podcastApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vance-crowe-podcast/id1463771076Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/08nGGRJCjVw2frkbtNrfLw?si=WUCu-FoyRRu9U_i-1gJZfgRSS: https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-vance-crowe-podcastYouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCigB7W5bX_gCinJxev9WB8w/YouTube Clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJKKb66A5_4ZcsE-rKI24ygBuy a sweatshirt, T-shirt or mugs from the podcast! Check out the Articulate Ventures Merch Store: https://teespring.com/stores/thevancecrowepodcastSubscribe to the podcast for email notifications on new episodes, invites to events and other exclusive content — http://eepurl.com/gSTfk5ABOUT THE VANCE CROWE PODCAST — Vance Crowe interviews people with an expertise that you would want to know about, but might not think to ask. He prompts his guests to think about their work in novel ways, discusses how it applies to regular people and has fun sharing stories and experiences.SUPPORT THE PODCAST —Rate the Podcast |  https://ratethispodcast.com/vcpJoin the Articulate Ventures Network | https://network.articulate.ventures/ —We are a patchwork of thinkers that want to articulate ideas in a forum where they can be respectfully challenged, improved and celebrated so that we can explore complex subjects, learn from those we disagree with and achieve our personal & professional goals.Contact Vance for a Talk | https://www.vancecrowe.com/ —Vance delivers speeches that reveal important aspects of human communication.  Audiences are entertained, engaged, and leave feeling empowered to change something about the way they are communicating.  Vance tells stories about his own experiences, discusses theories in ways that make them relatable and highlights interesting people, books, and media that the audience can learn even more from. Join the #ATCF Book Club | https://articulate.ventures/category/atcf-book-club

From a hit and run, to a new spin an a franchise, how's about another episode of REVIEWS! Thank you for listening! Email us at boothwindow@gmail.com and/or follow us on social media @throughtheboothwindowpodcast @theobveeus and @caitlinstow

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[1:55] Overview of Balderton [3:46] What do you think makes for a good VC?  [5:32] Where are you making big bets going into 2022? [6:30] Why is there a difference in the US and Europe when it comes to web3? [7:52] What is your take on the NFT opportunity? [13:26] Opportunities in fintech [17:52] Team vs Idea - what is more important? [23:36] Organizational design from Series A to Series B [33:02] SaaS metrics for companies Balderton has invested in [35:39] If you could start a movement to change something or further a cause, what would it be and why? LinksBalderton CapitalRob Moffat (Medium)SponsorsChargebeeE-residencyBook recommendation: Mandibles

Happy New Year and welcome to The Obsessive Viewer's 2021 Year in Review episode! It's our annual episode where Tiny, Mike, and I share our movie viewing stats for the year and our top ten favorite movies lists. So join us as we reflect on another odd pandemic year and hope for a better year in 2022.      Timestamps   Show Start - 00:36   Stats and Stat Tracking   Letterboxd - 04:18 Thoughts on Our Years – 06:07 Mike's 2021 Stats – 15:33 Tiny's 2021 Stats – 23:54 Matt's 2021 Stats – 31:00   Honorable Mentions and Movies We Missed   Movies We Missed – 43:08 Honorable Mentions – 48:57   Top Tens of 2021   Numbers Ten to Six – 59:08 Numbers Five to Two – 1:59:49 The Obsessive Viewer Top Movies of 2021 - 2:57:28 Our Number Ones – 2:58:21            2022 Movies We're Looking Forward To - 3:17:38 Closing the Ep – 3:21:48   Related Links   OV034 – 2013 Year in Review, Top Movies and Viewing Stats OV089 – 2014 in Review Part I – Viewing Stats and Worst Movies OV090 – 2014 in Review Part II – Best Movies of 2014 OV148 – 2015 in Review – Best and Worst Movies of the Year and Viewing Stats OV199 – 2016 Year in Review – Best and Worst Movies of the Year and Viewing Stats OV231 – 2017 Year in Review – Best and Worst Movies of the Year and Viewing Stats OV266 – 2018 Year in Review – Best and Worst Movies of the Year and Viewing Stats OV306 – 2019 Year in Review – Best Movies of the Year and Viewing Stats OV332 – 2020 Year in Review – Best Movies of the Year and Viewing Stats   Links to Coverage Over the Year   IFJA Awards 2021: “Mass” and “Drive My Car” Big Winners for This Year's Awards OV350 – CODA (2021) & Candyman (2021) – Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer, Eternals, and MCU Fatigue – Sept 6 - With Mike Dune (2021) – Oct 14 $5 Patreon: Patreon Potpourri - 001 – The Last Duel, Dune, and Halloween Kills - Oct 12-15 $5 Patreon: Immediate Reaction - Dune (2021) Parking Lot Special - Oct 21 OV355 – The Last Duel (2021) & Mass (2021) – Halloween Kills, HIFF2021 Wrap Up: The French Dispatch, King Richard, The Power of the Dog, and Petite Maman – Oct 23 - With Ben OV356 – Dune (2021) – Rust On-Set Tragedy, Dune: Part Two Announced, and Halloween Plans – Oct 28 - With Tiny and Ben $5 Patreon: Commentary - Dune (2021) - Nov 19 $5 Patreon: Patreon Potpourri - 004 – Pig, Petite Maman, Spencer, Dating & New York, and Titane - Nov 28 OV358 – FYC Potpourri – Being the Ricardos, The Card Counter, Spencer, House of Gucci, The Lost Daughter, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Titane, Mandibles, and More – Dec 10 - With Ben $5 Patreon: Patreon Potpourri - 007 – Luca, Licorice Pizza, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and The Lost Daughter - Dec 14 OV359 – Extended Potpourri – IFJA Nominations, The Tragedy of Macbeth, American Crime Story: Impeachment, The Green Knight, When They See Us, West Side Story, and Nightmare Alley – Dec 18 - With Tiny OV360 – Spider-Man: No Way Home-  Dec 22 - with Fekkes   Recent Patreon Content   $1 Tier 152 - OV B-Roll - "Music of Our Youth" - Condiments on Hot Dogs, Jack's Mannequin, High School Dating, and High School Society - Nov 3, 2021 153 - OV B-Roll - "Erotic Almond" - Belfast, Matt's COVID Anniversary, Spider-Man Tickets, Don't Look Up, and Nightmare Alley - Dec 6, 2021 154 - OV B-Roll - "Tiny Time" - End of 2021, Small Engine Repair, Christmas Shopping, and Some Time Off - Dec 15, 2021 155 - OV B-Roll - "The Alpha Strain" - The Return of Fekkes, Malignant, The Secrets of Dumbledore, Fekkes' Prospective Top Ten, and Halloween Kills - Dec 20, 2021   $2 Tier TV Reaction - Foundation - S01E07: Mysteries and Martyrs - Sept 19, 2021 TV Reaction - Foundation - S01E08: The Missing Piece - Nov 19, 2021 TV Reaction - Chapelwaite - S01E08: Hold the Night - Nov 29, 2021 TV Reaction - Foundation S01E09: The First Crisis - Nov 29, 2021   $5 Tier Commentary - The Matrix (1999) - Dec 13, 2021 Patreon Potpourri - 006 - Nightmare Alley, Summer of Soul, The Harder They Fall, and Cyrano - Dec 10, 2021 Patreon Potpourri - 007 - Luca, Licorice Pizza, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and The Lost Daughter - Dec 14, 2021 Patreon Potpourri - 008 - C'mon C'mon, Passing, The Power of the Dog, and Ninjababy - Dec 19, 2021   Help Support the Podcast Official OV Merch: Our TeePublic Store Obsessive Viewer – The homepage for all the things we do. Obsessive Viewer Presents: Anthology – Matt's solo podcast exploring science fiction anthology storytelling in television's first golden age starting with The Twilight Zone. Obsessive Viewer Presents: Tower Junkies – Our spinoff podcast dedicated to Stephen King's magnum opus, The Dark Tower and related topics. Episode Homepage: ObsessiveViewer.com/OV361

In the second episode of Tech Mirror, Johanna is joined in conversation by Melinda Cilento, CEO at CEDA and host of the Economist's Corner; Stilgherrian, journalist and host of the 9PM Edict; and Dr Emily Van Der Nagel, lecturer in social media at Monash University.   Together, the group discuss Johanna's interview with Minister Fletcher while examining Australia's approach to tech policy and the strengths and weaknesses of the government's recent round of regulatory changes.  This episode was produced by Anna Davies. Tanvi Nair and Amy Denmede provided invaluable research support, and Ben Gowdie production support only an avid podcast listener can provide. Send us your questions: techpolicydesign@anu.edu.au Follow us on Twitter: @TPDesignCentre  Relevant Links:  Dr Van Der Nagel on the Anti-Trolling Legislation: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-11-30/online-bullying-trolling-identity-verification-legislation/100658084  Sex and Social Media: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54703063-sex-and-social-media  The Economist's Corner Podcast: https://www.ceda.com.au/NewsAndResources/VideosAndPhotos/Economy/The-Economists-Corner-Episode-1  9pm Edict Podcast: https://stilgherrian.com/the_9pm_edict/  Stilgherrian's Paper on Encryption: https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/03/31/encryption-debate-in-australia-2021-update-pub-84237  The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver: https://www.goodreads.com/fr/book/show/27064345-the-mandibles  Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism by Jillian C. York: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56047610-silicon-values  Lawless: The Secret Rules That Govern Our Digital Lives by Nicolas P. Suzor: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43504846-lawless  TheGovLab: https://thegovlab.org/  Technology and Public Purpose Project: https://www.belfercenter.org/project/technology-and-public-purpose  New America: https://www.newamerica.org/  Electronic Frontiers Australia: https://twitter.com/efa_oz?lang=en  ZDNet: https://www.zdnet.com/au/  iTnews: https://www.itnews.com.au/  Lawfare – Arbiters of Truth (With special thanks to the Australian host, Evelyn Douek): https://www.lawfareblog.com/topic/arbiters-truth  eSafety Commissioner: https://www.esafety.gov.au/ 

We nearly come to blows over The Last Duel plus we also discuss House of Gucci, The Power of the Dog, Eternals, Mandibles and Biggles: Adventures in Time. 0:00 - Intro 10:30 - Review: The Last Duel 58:25 - Other Stuff We Watched: House of Gucci, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Eternals, Succession: Season 3, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas, The Power of the Dog, Biggles: Adventures in Time, Mandibles 1:36:35 - This Week on DVD and Blu-ray 1:40:55 - Outro

In this episode, Ben and I discuss several 2021 releases we have watched in preparation for the IFJA end of year awards voting.   Timestamps Show Start - 00:31 Ben's New Website - 02:18 FYC Potpourri - 12:41 Matt: Being the Ricardos - 12:51 Ben: The Card Counter - 21:40 Matt: Spencer - 30:14 Ben: House of Gucci - 39:19 Matt: No Man of God - 47:43 Ben: The Lost Daughter - 53:24 Matt: The Eyes of Tammy Faye - 1:00:06 Ben: Titane - 1:10:43 Matt: Petite Maman - 1:18:28 Ben: Mandibles - 1:26:06  Movies Still on Our Radar - 1:30:00 Closing the Episode - 1:34:34 Related Links The Movie State- Ben's new website Recent Patreon Content   $1 Tier 150 - OV B-Roll - “The New Laptop's Maiden Voyage" - Criterion Flash Sale, The Merits of Aaron Sorkin, No Time for Titane, and Another Pizza Scare - Oct 19, 2021 151 - OV B-Roll - "Dune by Frank Herbert" - Feb 12, 2021 152 - OV B-Roll - "Music of Our Youth" - Condiments on Hot Dogs, Jack's Mannequin, High School Dating, and High School Society - Nov 3, 2021 $2 Tier TV Reaction - Foundation - S01E07: Mysteries and Martyrs - Sept 19, 2021 TV Reaction - Foundation - S01E08: The Missing Piece - Nov 19, 2021 TV Reaction - Chapelwaite - S01E08: Hold the Night - Nov 29, 2021 TV Reaction - Foundation S01E09: The First Crisis - Nov 29, 2021 $5 Tier Patreon Potpourri - 002 - The Hand of God, Eternals, tick tick...Boom, How I Met Your Father, and Trailers: Uncharted and The Black Phone - Nov 17, 2021 Commentary - Dune (2021) - Nov 19, 2021 Patreon Potpourri - 003 - The Mitchells vs the Machines, King Richard, Belfast, tick, tick...Boom!, and Mass Effect on Amazon - Nov 25, 2021 Patreon Potpourri - 004 - Pig, Petite Maman, Spencer, Dating & New York, and Titane - Nov 28, 2021 Patreon Potpourri - 005 - No Man of God, West Side Story, Judas and the Black Messiah, and Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time - Dec 5, 2021  Help Support the Podcast Official OV Merch: Our TeePublic Store Obsessive Viewer – The homepage for all the things we do. Obsessive Viewer Presents: Anthology – Matt's solo podcast exploring science fiction anthology storytelling in television's first golden age starting with The Twilight Zone. Obsessive Viewer Presents: Tower Junkies – Our spinoff podcast dedicated to Stephen King's magnum opus, The Dark Tower and related topics.   Episode Homepage: ObsessiveViewer.com/OV358

Boomer, Brandon, and Alli discuss the psychedelic sci-fi anime Paprika (2006), an explosively imaginative movie about shared dreams from the genius Satoshi Kon https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 00:40 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) 05:15 #swampboox 11:52 Pig (2021) 14:10 There's Something Inside Your House (2021) 17:24 The MCU 19:02 The Paper Tigers (2021) 24:30 We Need to do Something (2021) 27:52 The Medium (2021) 31:00 All Light Everywhere (2021) 33:50 Benedetta (2021) 36:08 Jumbo (2021) 38:40 Mandibles (2021) 40:16 Cryptozoo (2021) 43:27 Paprika (2006)

The Bloody Awesome Movie Podcast focuses on a single film per episode, usually a new release (hopefully theatrically at some point) giving a spoiler-free review. Then Matt Hudson (@wiwt_uk) from What I Watched Tonight and Jonathan Berk (@berkreviews) from Berkreviews.com will introduce a variety of movies or pop-culture-related topics in a series of segments. However, for this week we are covering the Tribeca Film Festival so we are rapidly discussing spoiler-free reviews of the films we saw from it. Review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) Directed by Jason Reitman Written by Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan Starring Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Carrie Coon, Logan Kim, Celeste O'Connor, and Paul Rudd. IMDb.com Synopsis: When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind. 61% RT critic, 59 Metascore, 7.8 IMDb user score, and 3.4/5 on Letterboxd RELEASE location / DATE: Theaters Chuffed Headlines Movie/Pop culture news that caught our attention Matt's Headline: Ridley Scott Blames The Last Duel Bombing on Millennials Jon's Headline: Jurassic World Dominion: Prologue - Full Scene (2022) Media Consumption Movies, TV, Video Games, Music, Podcasts (not ours), etc that we use to pass the time Matt's others: Rotten Tomatoes is Wrong (Pointe Break), Happy Sad Confused (Reitman) Tick Tick Boom, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, King Richard Jon's others Blank Check - Vampires / The Santa Clause; Serial season 1 - all 12 episodes Nightmare Alley (47), King Richard, The Uninvited, Swan Song, Mandibles, Belfast, The Beta Test BAMP on Twitter | BAMP on Instagram | TeePublic Merchandise Jon on Twitter | Jon on IG | Jon on Letterboxd.com Matt on Twitter | Matt on IG | Matt on Letterboxd.com Berkreviews.com | WhatIWatchedTonight.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bloody-awesome/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bloody-awesome/support

Fire ordinarily helps the boreal's black spruce trees. Now it threatens them too; ‘Culturally cosmopolitan' Bronze Age mummies found in China have surprising origins; Scientists peer into the depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot; Metal impregnated mandibles give these ants a razor-sharp bite; Andew Weaver, Canadian climate scientist turned-politician, on COP26.

In 2004, a little show about a group of paranormal investigators aired on the SciFi (SyFy) channel.  No one anticipated how much of an impact the show would have.17 years later and the paranormal has become mainstream and Ghost Hunters has spawned numerous other shows and point of views.Join us as we talk with Paranormal forefathers, Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango about the upcoming season, paranormal investigations, mandibles, and magic!Steve GonsalvesFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephen.gonsalves.75Twitter:https://twitter.com/stevegonsalves1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevegonsalvesofficial/Dave TangoFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/officialdavetangoTwitter:https://twitter.com/davetangoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/davetango/Discovery Plus: https://www.discoveryplus.com/T.A.P.S.: http://the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com/And if you love us (and how could you not - we're adorable), remember to Like, Join, Subscribe!YouTubeFacebookInstagramTwitterWebsite

Randy plugs his appearance on another podcast. Clark sends “Lamb” to the slaughter and Russ geeks out over “Halloween Kills”.   Films: The Legend of Bloody Mary (2008), Mandibles (2020), Miracle Valley (2021), Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977), Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021), Escape Room (2019), Lamb (2021), Halloween Kills (2021), Upgrade (2018), Impractical Jokers (TV), Impractical Jokers: The Movie (2020), The Jerky Boys (1995), Ghoulies (1984), Deerskin (2019), Wrong Cops (2013), The Artist (2011), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), The Thing (1982), The Room (2003), Best F(r)iends: Volume 1 (2017), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Daisies (1966), Final Destination (2000), Rift (2017), The Evil Dead (1981), Titane (2021), Border (2018), Halloween (2018), Scream (1996), Mother! (2017)    Hey, we're on YouTube!  Listening on an iPhone? Don't forget to rate us on iTunes!   Fill our fe-mailbag by emailing us at Podcast@TheOverlookTheatre.com Reach us on Instagram (@theoverlooktheatre) Facebook (@theoverlookhour) Twitter (@OverlookHour)

Mark and Simon's guest is Luke Wilson, who stars in depression-era sports drama 12 Mighty Orphans. Plus we have reviews of Mandibles, about simple-minded friends Jean-Gab and Manu who find a giant fly trapped in the boot of a car, and decide to train it in the hope of making their fortune; Fauci, a glimpse into the life of infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci who has led the U.S. fight against every epidemic the country has faced from AIDS to SARS to Ebola, and of course COVID-19; Gunpowder Milkshake, about three generations of women who fight back against those who could take everything from them, starring Karen Gillan and Lena Headey; The Starling, starring Melissa McCarthy and Timothy Olyphant; musical adaptation Everybody's Talking About Jamie, about a teenager from Sheffield who wants to be a drag queen; Nic Cage's Prisoners of the Ghostland about a sadistic gang leader who is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment; and Mark reviews Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, which is re-released this week. Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents'. Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app. We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment 00:25:31 Box Office Top 10 00:46:14 Gunpowder Milkshake Review 00:53:09 12 Mighty Orphans Luke Wilson Interview 01:07:16 12 Mighty Orphans Review 01:11:23 WTF 01:15:55 Rose Plays Julie Review 01:25:52 The Starling Interview 01:29:13 Mandibles Review 01:32:02 A Clockwork Orange Reissue Review 01:43:34 Prisoners of the Ghostland 01:51:03 Fauci Review 01:56:00 Everybody's Talking About Jamie Review

Film critics Van Connor and Becks Perfect are back with your ultimate movie guide for the next seven days, with a look at Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Gunpowder Milkshake, Prisoners of the Ghostland, and Mandibles; along with the best picks on Freeview, streaming, and DVD. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we swallow our pride and subject ourselves to a new dating show concept crossing species and time, made possible by prosthetics, Netflix, London, and Rob Delaney (Catastrophe).About Sexy Beasts on Netflix"It's like ‘The Dating Game' meets ‘The Masked Singer' meets ‘The Purge' ... and ‘Wipeout,'" said Jeff."A kind of ‘Come Dine with Me' (U.K. Channel Four) feel ... where narration ... is cheeky and makes fun of each contestant," compared Shindy."It's [Netflix] going full circle to doing network television and trying for that audience, which might be the future. And it may be the beginning of the end of network television," opined Mat.Press play to hear what happens after the crew unmasks their true feelings after the Spoiler Alert (08:53):Sexy Beasts Makeup (07:23)Everyone's hot: How real are the connections? (08:58)Seriously, these people can't get dates in the age of dating apps? (09:47)Blind date success stories: Watch out, we get personal (14:39) (23:05)Where are they now? (24:40)Our favorite ‘beasts' (26:05)Stream it or Leave it? And our respective spirit animals (42:38)What else we're watching (44:48)Mat: A Glitch in the Matrix, a documentary on HULUJeff: Road Runner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, in theatres and VOD, and Mandibles on VODShindy: The Hunt, a film on HBOMax, The White Lotus, a series on HBOMax*Become a Stream It or Leave It Fan*Newsletter: Subscribe to Stream It or Leave It on Substack to be first to get alerts about our newest episodes. Follow @StreamitLeaveit on Instagram and Twitter.Follow the crew: Shindy Chen: @shindychen on Instagram and Twitter, @realshindychen on TikTokMat Sanchez: IG @matflixx, Twitter: @mrmatsanchezJeff Kuns: @spqanglemqker*This episode was brought to you by Scribe, a financial content agency. Scribe produces blogs, articles, website and product copywriting, ebooks, pitch decks, and whitepapers, for everyone from late-stage fintech startups to the world's biggest banks and financial brands.*Stream It or Leave It Podcast ©Pod Barn, LLC. For...

Welcome back to the Horror. Cult. Trash. Other. Podcast! This is the latest of our Original Vs. Remake episodes that we release on the last Friday of each month and, for a Summer Screams special, we're discussing all three versions of Piranha as well as our favourite and least favourite new releases of the month. We also discuss the films we watched as part of our press pass for this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival including Pig, Mad God, Faceless, Mandibles and more. Email us at horror.cult.trash.other@gmail.com and check us out on Social Media at the following links www.facebook.com/horrorculttrashother Twitter - @horrorculttrash Instagram - @horror.cult.trash.other Theme song is Stick Around by Gary's band, One Week Stand. Check them out on Spotify, iTunes and many other digital distributors!

The Punisher Movie. The Punisher 1989 Watch Party. Must Watch Movies. Action Packed Movies.Tensions were high in this tense, action-packed Binge-Watchers Podcast episode as the crew sits down to react to The Punisher 1989, Nicky Lates says the movie is about Dolph Lundgren portraying Dolph Lundgren, Atom refuses to provide the audience with details in fear of ruining the movie watch party experience, Dangerous Dave tries to reel everyone in, and Johnny Spoiler sees red and doubles down on being obnoxious as a saving grace, and things explode...A fan reminds us about the sorted history of the sci fi movie, Cyborg,  we point the fan in the direction of our review of Cyborg and its sequels, and we recommend a new movie called Mandibles, which plays out like a French version of Dumb and Dumber with a giant fly chewing scenery.Tonight we are supported by sponsors and affiliates.Loved Again Media is an amazing mom and pop movie subscription box service serving up movie nostalgia and more, listeners get 15% off with promo code: binge. You can also win a gift card for signing up. Visit them at: https://lovedagainmedia.com/binge7-day FREE trial of STARZ. Grab the link here or visit our website for details.Field of Dreams 30th Anniversary Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital https://amzn.to/3m4D5VQNow Streaming on Redbox, Richard Dreyfuss and Mira Sorvino star in the action-packed thriller CRIME STORY. An ex-mob boss takes a deadly path of revenge when he and his family are targeted in a home invasion robbery. Stream CRIME STORY instantly on Redbox On Demand today. Rated R. From Paramount Pictures. Outro music: Schoolyard Swing by Cast Of Characters.Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/bingewatcherspodcast)

Jeff Cannonball joins the show to memorialize NJHC heroes with rest stops along the NJ Turnpike.   (NOTE: This recording was interrupted frequently by one of my dogs.  Blame them, not me… also my brain was broken for this recording) who's coming out to the show on 9/3? SNG news/review policy Slutbomb- Promo 2021/Kirkby Kiss Jeff Cannonball Ekulu The Chisel is from London.  We were both wrong.  They did not raise a Manchester Flag what do you call the new Double Echo album? FATFUK!!!! They Might Be Giants/Depeche Mode hardcore and punk people in the wrestling world God's Hate/Brody King broken butts weird Jeff stories Chris from Saves The Day gets a toilet in a truck stop Tom Schlatter - This Ship Will Sink talk I fucking Love The Assistant Dave Ackerman/Andy Scarpulla/Tear It Up/Forward To Death Planet On A Chain I couldn't remember Gogol Bordello's name Zero Zero is fun Threefold Misery people and Songs Of Separation people can get along just fine Floorpunch shirts I can't pronounce “Degenerics” Chronic Sick two NJHC dudes struggling to remember the title of the Kiss It Goodbye LP Bitter Branches “He doesn't need to be here” Mandibles tranforms me benches provided by Monster Magnet   to get your copy of the latest issue Sex And Glue Zine visit SEXANDGLUEZINE.com or sexandgluexine.bigcartel.com   for contact about booking as a guest on the show or for advertising, please email sexandgluezine@gmail.com   find me on IG @sexandgluezine     Please visit the sponsors essexcoffeeroasters.com (use the promo code SNGZINE10 to get 10 percent off your entire order)   sonixcollaborative.com

This week, we watch a story about two idiots who find a giant fly in the back of a stolen car. Part Bill and Ted, part Dumb and Dumber, part Beavis and Butthead….insert any dumb pair of guys in comedy history… this film does enough to stand out from its influences. At just over an hour long, this film will make you laugh and wish for more once the credits roll. Mandibles (2020), directed by Quentin Dupieux .

We once had an idea about a couple of idiots who found a giant cockroach and tried to train him to serve ice cream cones. But everyone told us that no one would ever want to watch a movie about bugs. Guess they were wrong! Join Robert and Ira as they discuss MANDIBLES and share their top 5 foreign films. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you've ever wondered what it would be like to be one of two simple-minded goofball buddies who are paid to drop off a mystery briefcase, and discover the car you steal has a humongous big ass fly in the trunk, and you decide to train it to earn money, but when your car breaks down, along comes a blonde cutie who mistakenly thinks you had sex in high school, and she offers to take you home, feed you, and lets you swim in her pool, and then this girl who was in a skiing accident and always screams, notices fly shit in your car, so you tell her it's from your pet dog, and so you have to steal a dog, but then after the big ass fly eats the little pooch, the screaming girl sees the big ass fly and tells the others about it, and she is hauled off to the loony bin, then this podcast is for you!

We once had an idea about a couple of idiots who found a giant cockroach and tried to train him to serve ice cream cones. But everyone told us that no one would ever want to watch a movie about bugs. Guess they were wrong! Join Robert and Ira as they discuss MANDIBLES and share their top 5 foreign films. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you've ever wondered what it would be like to be one of two simple-minded goofball buddies who are paid to drop off a mystery briefcase, and discover the car you steal has a humongous big ass fly in the trunk, and you decide to train it to earn money, but when your car breaks down, along comes a blonde cutie who mistakenly thinks you had sex in high school, and she offers to take you home, feed you, and lets you swim in her pool, and then this girl who was in a skiing accident and always screams, notices fly shit in your car, so you tell her it's from your pet dog, and so you have to steal a dog, but then after the big ass fly eats the little pooch, the screaming girl sees the big ass fly and tells the others about it, and she is hauled off to the loony bin, then this podcast is for you!

In episode twenty-seven of Void Video, the guys buzz about Quentin Dupieux' new buddy comedy Mandibles, which centers around two friends who discover a giant fly and attempt to domesticate it; in the first half of the episode the guys discuss the overall concept and give their general thoughts, then they fly into spoilers for the second half! What are you theories on the fate of some of the characters? What about the fly's origin? Maybe you just want a place to chat movies with cool people? Come let us know in the Void Video Discord: https://discord.gg/PJWPVZxcRE Follow Void Video on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VoidVideoPod Follow Evan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thatevanjordan Follow Nick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AGeNT_ReLLiK Follow Evan on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/thatevanjordan/ Follow Nick on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/agent_rellik/

Dave and Alonso are grateful for foreign movies. Subscribe (and review us) at Apple Podcasts, follow us @linoleumcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, you don't eat or sleep or mow the lawn. Join our club, won't you? Alonso's streaming pick of the week: THE BOOK OF HENRY Dave's streaming pick of the week: OKLAHOMA!

This week on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review M. Night Shyamalan's newest high-concept thriller OLD, the latest attempt to jumpstart a Hasbro franchise SNAKE EYES: G.I. JOE ORIGINS, the Kate Beckinsale action comedy JOLT, Netflix's "Die Hard on a Plane But with a Vampire" thriller BLOOD RED SKY, the giant-sized fly comedy MANDIBLES and the Shudder horror film KANDISHA! Old - 3:32  Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins - 21:25  Jolt - 43:27  Blood Red Sky - 51:33  Mandibles - 58:36  Kandisha - 1:04:24  Review Round-Up - 1:11:07  Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and follow Witney at @WitneySeibold, and head on over to www.criticallyacclaimed.net for all their podcasts, reviews and more! 

This week, Adam and Kevin head back into the absurd world of Quentin Dupieux with his latest comedy, Mandibles. Other titles discussed include Blood Red Sky, Wrath of Man, and Zola. 0:00 - Intro 1:33 - Mandibles review 17:06 - Watch list 27:25 - New releases web: http://filmpulse.net twitter: http://twitter.com/filmpulsenet facebook: http://facebook.com/filmpulse

Randy is back on his Mubi bullish.. Clark is back on board with Shyamalan and Russell decides to use the whole show to talk about a Tiger King Halloween Special in July.   Films: Curse of Aurore (2020), Sweat (2020), Old (2021), Tiger King (TV), Ghost Adventures (TV), Halloween Special: Horror at Joe Exotic Zoo (2020), LuxuryDark (TV), The Fear Footage: 3AM (2021), Mandibles (2020), Zola (2020), The Missouri Breaks (1976), The Happening (2008), The Shallows (2016), The Visit (2015), Split (2016), Signs (2002)   Hey, we're on YouTube!  Listening on an iPhone? Don't forget to rate us on iTunes!   Fill our fe-mailbag by emailing us at Podcast@TheOverlookTheatre.com    Intro Music by Engineer Randy Reach us on Instagram (@theoverlooktheatre) Facebook (@theoverlookhour) Twitter (@OverlookHour)

Episode 238: What's Old Is Still Old Fondly we joke about not being able to do this on the radio like we used to, but find another show that offers up 13 movie reviews in a single episode. Cause that is what you get from Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy here including documentaries ranging from sharks to Woodstock '99 and Alvin Ailey to Val Kilmer. There are vampires on a plane (Blood Red Sky), giant flies in a trunk (Mandibles) and the end of our world played for laughs (How It Ends) and drama (Settlers). Megan Fox is hunting a serial killer (Midnight in the Switchgrass), Ben Platt has a mentally ill sister screwing up his plans (Broken Diamonds) and Mark Wahlberg takes a cross-country walk for his gay son (Joe Bell). Finally the G.I. Joe franchise gets rebooted again (Snake Eyes) and could there be a twist that gets Erik to finally like an M. Night Shyamalan movie (Old) after 22 years? 0:00 - Intro 3:10 - Playing with Sharks 9:05 – Ailey 15:15 – Woodstock: Peace, Love & Rage 26:05 – Mandibles 32:48 – Midnight in the Switchgrass 41:10 – Broken Diamonds 51:13 – Blood Red Sky 1:06:15 – Settlers 1:17:14 – How It Ends 1:26:04 – Joe Bell 1:46:17 - Val 2:01:43 - Snake Eyes 211:16 – Old 2:34:45 - Outro

Tyler and David discuss what they've been watching, including Casanova, Last Love, Scaries Stories to Tell in the Dark, The 11th Green, Count Dracula, Littlerock, The War of the Worlds, Actor Martinez, Jolt, Sweat, Black Widow and Mandibles.

Some high profile flicks out this week in theaters and on VOD. Let's break 'em down with Hope and George...

MANDIBLES MOVIE REVIEW In the crazy world of films by writer/director Quentin Dupieux (“Deerskin”, “Keep an Eye Out”), almost anything goes. His absurd and often surreal comedies set up some pretty odd premises and his latest is no exception. Two not terribly bright thieves on a mission to deliver a mysterious suitcase, end up getting… Read More »Screener Squad: Mandibles

MANDIBLES MOVIE REVIEW In the crazy world of films by writer/director Quentin Dupieux (“Deerskin”, “Keep an Eye Out”), almost anything goes. His absurd and often surreal comedies set up some pretty odd premises and his latest is no exception. Two not terribly bright thieves on a mission to deliver a mysterious suitcase, end up getting… Read More »Screener Squad: Mandibles

Movies reviewed include How It Ends starring Zoe Lister-Jones & Cailee Spaeny, Mandibles (fyi hilarious film!) Joe Bell, and the Val Kilmer documentary Val. La La Land and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm are also covered! Subscribe to our Deepest Dream YouTube Channel! Join our CinemAddicts Facebook Group! Check out our site Deepest Dream! You can contact Bruce & Eric via Twitter!

We review episodes 76-77 of the 2011 anime, with comparisons to chapters 185-187 of the manga. We're starting the Chimera Ant arc! RIP to the 1999 anime. Think of all the good faces we'll never get to see. Our show's Social Media: Twitter | Tumblr Find the hosts elsewhere online: Devon's Twitter | Devon's Tumblr Skye's Twitter | Skye's Tumblr Keith's FurAffinity

Novelist Lionel Shriver is known for placing social topics (sometimes radioactive ones) inside the frame of fiction. Her 2003 novel, We Need To Talk About Kevin, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction and was made into a 2011 film starring Tilda Swinton, was told from the perspective of a mother whose son commits a school shooting akin to the Columbine massacre. Lionel's thirteen other novels take on such subjects as obesity, the US healthcare system, the national debt, global overpopulation, and homegrown terrorism. Her new novel, Should We Stay Or Should We Go, is about suicide, specifically the pros and cons of ending your life on your own terms before nature-or modern medicine-prolongs it in ghastly fashion. Lionel spoke with Meghan about her new book and also her feelings about illness, medicine and her own death.  As an American who's lived in the UK for several decades and still lives in New York part time, Lionel also offers her thoughts about single payer health care and what the venerated National Health Service does right as well as often gets wrong.    Guest Bio: Lionel Shriver's fiction includes The Mandibles, Property,  So Much for That, the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin.  Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harper's, and the London Times, and she currently writes a regular  column for The Spectator in the UK.  She lives in London and Brooklyn, NY.

Silenzio Bruno!: Antje, Simon und Schröck genießen das La Dolce Pixar-Vita von LUCA, versuchen dem CHAOS WALKING von Tom Holland und Daisy Ridley auf New Earth zu folgen und beziehen kurz im MALASAÑA 32 – HAUS DES BÖSEN Quartier. Darüber hinaus werfen sie aber noch einen Blick auf die Wunder und Verführungen von THE UNHOLY, treffen Robin Williams HINTER DEM HORIZONT oder interessieren sich für die Lebensumstände der Yakuza in A FAMILY, der jetzt frisch auf Netflix startet. Außerdem arbeiten sie sich durch die unfassbaren wie dann kurzfristig verschobenen BUDDY GAMES, während in der Videothek um die Ecke ein nettes SCARE PACKAGE auf sie wartet. Für die Nostalgiker wird's dann noch mal kuschelig und für die Mediathekenfreunde recht vielfältig. Denn wir ziehen zum einen mit den EWOKS und ihrer KARAWANE DER TAPFEREN in den KAMPF UM ENDOR und weisen zum anderen noch mal auf Titel wie DER GIFTANSCHLAG VON SALISBURY (ARTE), SCHWARZE ADLER (ZDF) oder MEIN BRUDER HEISST ROBERT UND IST EIN IDIOT (ARD) hin. Doch damit soll es noch nicht genug sein. So geht es unter anderem noch um die FANTASY FILMFEST NIGHTS XL, die ab heute beginnen, und als Empfehlung für unsere österreichischen Freunde auch um das SLASH 1/2, die Kurzausgabe des SLASH FILM FESTIVALS in Wien. Kurz gesagt: wir stellen Euch ein paar weitere Tipps der beiden Festivals vor. Also so Titel wie CYST, HOST, MANDIBLES, BAD HAIR oder KANDISHA. Flankiert von Selbstläufern wie CONJURING 3, A QUIET PLACE 2 oder POSSESSOR. Wie dann da noch Nicolas Cage und seine Trüffelschwein-Revenge-Story PIG, das Bo Burnham-Spezial INSIDE oder Diskussionen zu THE ART OF SELF DEFENSE, THE EMPTY MAN und die neue Serie der MONSTER AG rein passen, müsst Ihr selbst rausfinden. Wir wünschen Euch auf jeden Fall viel Vergnügen dabei. Und beim Rest auch. Bleibt gesund und gut drauf. Wir haben das Ende des Regenbogens fast erreicht. Dies Sendung wird unterstützt von Bitburger.

The war has raged for at least 100 million years. Armored warriors boil up out of the ground and surge across the battlefield. Mandibles clash. Bodies are torn asunder. As the will of one colony clashes with another, forces advance, withdrawal and sometimes whole populations perish in the Earth. Such are the wars of the ants, compared to which the wars of humanity are but a blip. In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the history and tactics of ant warfare, and what humans can learn from it all. (originally published 6/18/2020) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

The war has raged for at least 100 million years. Armored warriors boil up out of the ground and surge across the battlefield. Mandibles clash. Bodies are torn asunder. As the will of one colony clashes with another, forces advance, withdrawal and sometimes whole populations perish in the Earth. Such are the wars of the ants, compared to which the wars of humanity are but a blip. In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the history and tactics of ant warfare, and what humans can learn from it all. (originally published 6/14/2020) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

The war has raged for at least 100 million years. Armored warriors boil up out of the ground and surge across the battlefield. Mandibles clash. Bodies are torn asunder. As the will of one colony clashes with another, forces advance, withdrawal and sometimes whole populations perish in the Earth. Such are the wars of the ants, compared to which the wars of humanity are but a blip. In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the history and tactics of ant warfare, and what humans can learn from it all. (originally published 6/12/2020) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

In episode 433, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn do the thing and review Mortal Kombat, and Chris reviews The Father, Mandibles, and the Florida Film Festival midnight shorts program, plus much more! Support the show and remember to damn the man, save the Empire! Listen to all back episodes of Cinema Crespodiso for FREE at...

Spoiler Alert We preface this podcast with a ‘spoiler alert' as this novel is different from the more formal economics works we usually discuss on this podcast, and we wish to give the listener the chance to opt-out and read the book first if they wish. We greatly enjoyed the read and even if we don't see eye to eye on much of the economics in this novel, we found the indulgence of literature a valuable endeavor to make more tangible some of the human aspects of economics — including the fear of collapse. *** Lionel Shriver is the author of several prize-winning novels including the best-seller We Need To Talk About Kevin (2003) and A Perfectly Good Family (1996). Her novels typically tackle difficult societal problems. She is also a contributing journalist to publications such as The Economist and The New York Times. She joins BCG Chief Economist Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak in conversation to discuss her book, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047, a riveting and dystopian take on the destructive potential of national debt, currency crisis, and inflation as experienced by one fictional family across several generations and socio-economic circumstances. They discuss the novel, why economic dystopian novels are rare, and the way in which the novel can make the fears of economic collapse come alive. *** About the BCG Henderson Institute The BCG Henderson Institute is the Boston Consulting Group's think tank, dedicated to exploring and developing valuable new insights from business, technology, economics, and science by embracing the powerful technology of ideas. The Institute engages leaders in provocative discussion and experimentation to expand the boundaries of business theory and practice and to translate innovative ideas from within and beyond business. For more ideas and inspiration, sign up to receive BHI INSIGHTS, our monthly newsletter, and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

O fio de sutura catgute é feito de intestino de gato? Por que cirurgiões amarravam fios de sutura cheios de sangue no paletó? Por que um cirurgião faria um curso de bordado? Ficou curioso? Ouça o episódio da nova série "Corte e Costura". Imagem: Tratando os feridos em Waterloo. 1815. Sir Charles Bell.  Referências Alexis Carrel – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Acesso em 15 de agosto de 2018. Disponível em: https://www.nobelprize.org/.../1912/carrel/biographical/ CARREL, Alexis. Anastomose bout a bout de la jugulaire et la carotide primitive. Lyon méd, v. 99, p. 114-116, 1902. CARREL, Alexis. La technique opératoire des anastomoses vasculaires et la transplantation des viscères. Lyon Mèdical, v. 99, p. 859-62, 1902. GUDGER, Eugene Willis et al. Stitching Wounds with the Mandibles of Ants and Beetles. A Minor Contribution to the History of Surgery. Journal of the American Medical Association, v. 84, n. 24, 1925. LATONA, Jessica A. et al. Fundamentals of Sutures, Needles, Knot Tying, and Suturing Technique. In: Fundamentals of General Surgery. Springer, Cham, 2018. p. 39-64. MACKENZIE, David. The history of sutures. Medical history, v. 17, n. 2, p. 158-168, 1973. MUFFLY, Tyler M.; TIZZANO, Anthony P.; WALTERS, Mark D. The history and evolution of sutures in pelvic surgery. Journal of the royal society of medicine, v. 104, n. 3, p. 107-112, 2011. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jordanoaraujo/message

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, a podcast where we reach out to friends to talk about what we've been watching. It's as simple as that. Joining Nicolas Rapold this time is veteran critic Jonathan Romney who writes for leading film publications such as Sight & Sound and Screen Daily. Here Jonathan gives us a terrific account of his favorites from the Venice International Film Festival. It's a jam-packed preview of bold new movies to look out for down the road. That includes the newest films from Pedro Almodovar, Frederick Wiseman, Gianfranco Rosi, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa, plus highlights such as the provocative New Order; Soviet-era historical drama Dear Comrades; the period romance The World to Come; Regina King's philosophical conversation piece One Night in Miami; Indian music drama The Disciple; and the giant fly comedy Mandibles. Please note that because of the long distance connection the audio volume may vary. Photo by Steve Snodgrass

After six months of COVID19 in Australia the panel discusses whether it's time to say this is the new normal, and that we can neither wait for a vaccine nor indefinitely extend emergency powers. Australian PM Scott Morrison announced a deal with AstraZenica for provide a coronavirus vaccine for all Australians in 2021, but is that even feasible or just an announcement driven by politics? And isn't it too early for the PM to discuss mandating a vaccine before it even exists? (2:10-37:45). Daniel Andrews is pushing for an extension to Victoria's state of emergency powers for an additional 12 months. What will this mean for democracy in Australia and do the current circumstances really warrant such infringement on our civil liberties (hint: no)? (37:45-51:25). Culture picks this week include the new Microsoft Flight Simulator; Conversations with John Anderson, and The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver (-1:03:40).   Show Notes:   COVID19 and the Path to Pragmatic Acceptance; Scott Hargreaves https://ipa.org.au/ipa-today/17130   Revolt over Daniel Andrews' coronavirus power grab: Rebecca Urban, Damon Johnston and Nicola Berkovic https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/revolt-over-daniel-andrews-power-grab/news-story/88673d2c726d75477bf2cbbdb95d7f8a   State of Emergency Must Be Extended But It's No Blank Cheque For Andrews: Derryn Hinch https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/state-of-emergency-must-be-extended-but-it-s-no-blank-cheque-for-andrews-20200825-p55p6v.html   Victorians cannot keep sacrificing liberties without a safety net https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/victorians-cannot-keep-sacrificing-liberties-without-a-safety-net-20200825-p55p7i.html     Culture Picks: the new Microsoft Flight Simulator https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/p/microsoft-flight-simulator-standard-preorder/9nxn8gf8n9ht   Lockdowns, Vaccines and Debt (Conversations with John Anderson), with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtnYSEGViOnb7k8ezUaWUww   The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver https://www.amazon.com.au/Mandibles-Family-2029-2047-Lionel-Shriver-ebook/dp/B0152XGO18/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Mandibles&qid=1598424125&sr=8-1&tag=

Hello! Again! We’ve done another one of these! Chris and Pip cross the egg event horizon as they check in on island life, two weeks later. You can find this bonus episode on YouTube, if you like. As ever, our intro music is Clambake by The Mandibles. Some show notes! Here’s the website that lets [...]

Author of A Book of Silence Sara Maitland, medievalist John-Henry Clay, and writer Lionel Shriver face the crowd to contemplate the many sides to solitude. Chaired by Rana Mitter with an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead. “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company”. Was Jean Paul Sartre right or are we just hot-wired to prefer the company of others? Is it even possible - as the famous hermit St Cuthbert once did - to experience true seclusion in our age of hyperconnectivity? And as we flock to cities in increasing numbers why do so many of us feel so isolated and alone? Sara Maitland has lived by herself for the last twenty years on an isolated moor in northern Galloway, taking pleasure in silence and solitude. She is the author of numerous short stories, novels and non-fiction books including A Book of Silence. Lionel Shriver's novels include The Standing Chandelier, The Mandibles, and We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her forthcoming collection of stories Property, explores how our possessions act as proxies for ourselves. John-Henry Clay is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Durham University whose main research interests are in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon history and archaeology, and the themes of conversion and religious identity. John is also the author of historical fiction including The Lion and the Lamb and At the Ruin of the World. Producer: Luke Mulhall

The geographer Danny Dorling; Lionel Shriver, the author and patron of Population Matters; and Stephen Emmott, author of 10 Billion, join Matthew Sweet and an audience at Sage Gateshead to debate whether we should have fewer children. In 1968 a Stanford university professor, Dr Paul E. Ehrlich, published The Population Bomb. This call to arms became a global bestseller, influenced public policy and made its author a celebrity. It predicted mass starvation in the US and an England underwater by the year 2000. It also suggested adding ‘temporary sterilants' to the water supply as a way to stem the ensuing crisis. For decades it has come under fire for its alarmist tone and laughable foresight but with global population set to hit ten billion by 2050, will Ehrlich eventually be proved right? Danny Dorling is Professor of Geography at Oxford University and the author of Population 10 Billion. His research focuses on housing, health, employment, education and poverty. His recent books include Do We Need Economic Inequality? The Equality Effect, and he co-wrote Why Demography Matters.Lionel Shriver's novels include The Standing Chandelier, The Mandibles, and the award-winning We Need to Talk About Kevin. Lionel is a regular columnist at The Spectator and has written for numerous other publications including for The Wall Street Journal, New Statesman, and The Economist. She is a patron of Population Matters.Stephen Emmott is the author of Ten Billion, which he performed as a drama at the Royal Court Theatre. He is a Professor at Cambridge. His work develops new computational methods and ways of thinking about complex living systems. Producer: Craig Templeton Smith.

Lionel Shriver, Marlon James and Steve Jones join Rana Mitter for a Free Thinking discussion about inheritance recorded at this week's Hay Festival. The discussion ranges from family relationships to the planet we are leaving for future generations, from money to morality, genius to ideas about goodness and evil. Lionel Shriver's latest novel called The Mandibles depicts a family living in a near future America where the dollar has crashed and food is scarce. She is also the author of We Need To Talk About Kevin, Big Brother and A Perfectly Good Family. The biologist and geneticist Steve Jones' latest book No Need For Geniuses looks at Paris at the time of the French Revolution, when it was the world capital of science. Marlon James won the Booker Prize for his most recent novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. His other books include Crow's Devil and The Book of Night Women.

The Orange Prize-winning novelist talks about her dystopian vision of economic collapse in the US at a Guardian live event recorded in London

Lionel Shriver's latest novel, The Mandibles, is set in 2029, and also in 2047, and looks at what might happen in America should the economy completely collapse. She reveals what inspired her to tackle this subject matter.Music critic Pete Paphides reviews A Moon Shaped Pool, the new album from Radiohead and the group's first since 2011's The King of Limbs.Richard Linklater, acclaimed director of Dazed and Confused and Boyhood, on his latest offering, the nostalgic 1980s college film, Everybody Wants Some!!Painting with Light: Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Modern Age is a new exhibition at Tate Britain exploring how the emergence of photography influenced painters. Spanning 75 years across the Victorian and Edwardian ages, the exhibition brings together paintings from artists including Millais, Rossetti, Whistler and Sargent, and photographs by pivotal figures such as Julia Margaret Cameron.