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Terminator 2: A Good Movie That Hates Itself
Why do the screenwriters appear to want to avoid creating fear of the mechanical monster?
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Our True Disturbing Ghost Stories
During this episode, we tell our true ghost stories.
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Gary Varner
31:34
The Terminator: In a Crushing Development, He Is Terminated
The movie makes time paradoxes work well enough by keeping things ambiguous
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Worst Bigfoot Hunters Discuss the Alien Movies
During this episode, we discuss a feeble attempt at bigfoot hunting--needless to say, there was no finding bigfoot--then we turn to talking about the…
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Gary Varner
37:23

February 2025

The Terminator: Sarah’s Son Will Save the World
A couple of moments in the film reveal waitress Sarah as the decisive military leader she will later become
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Weather control or Controlling the Weather?
Here, we discuss weather manipulation.
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Gary Varner
28:24
Terminator: The Sci-Fi Classic Forty Years On
The best thing about this first movie is that it adheres to the classic view of futuristic robots, cold, callous machines that are bent on one objective
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Clouds of the Military
Here we talk about the military and clouds forming.
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Gary Varner
37:40
RoboCop 2014: Murphy Is a Real Boy After All
After his wife confronts him with troubling news about his son, Murphy starts a chain of events that enables him to confront key sources of crime and…
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Discussing Hurricane Helene. Part 2
On this episode we discuss more hurricane Helene and Milton.
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Gary Varner
31:02
Does a Lack of Empathy Make You More Efficient?
Robocop (2014) tests out that thesis when Murphy, now a robocop, is matched against actual robots
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Discussing Hurricane Helene. Part 1
On this episode, we discuss hurricane Helene.
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27:49
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