1-1: Chernobyl "1:23:45"
Science Fiction Film Podcast (2019)
LSG Media
4.7 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2019
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
Matthew and Dean embark upon their special coverage of the hit HBO miniseries, Chernobyl. Despite struggling with some of the pronunciations of the names, the lads consider the larger themes of trust, denial, sacrifice, and the terrifying beginning to the Chernobyl disaster.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Matthew, it's time. |
| 0:02.1 | We're talking Chernobyl. |
| 0:03.2 | This is something we've wanted to do for a while. |
| 0:05.3 | We have taken a Battlestar Galactica hiatus in a decision to pursue something that is very interesting, very hot, and very different for us. |
| 0:18.4 | There's a lot of advantages to it. |
| 0:20.4 | The cynic will say, you guys are just trying to capture whatever, and that's not wrong. But it also has to be interesting. There's plenty of new shit we do not discuss. That's true. Can't hop on every hype train. I mean, if that was the case, we would just do an MCU podcast, right? And we'd be on the top of the world. |
| 0:40.4 | But no, in all seriousness, |
| 0:45.8 | this is going to be an interesting little side experiment for us that I'm looking forward to, and that is discussing the HBO series, |
| 0:49.7 | Chernobyl, mini-series, to be specific, I think it's only five episodes, |
| 0:53.7 | which suits us just fine. And we are going to be, to be specific, I'm, I think it's only five episodes, which suits us just fine. |
| 0:55.8 | And we are going to be, if you're listening on YouTube live, we're going to be releasing |
| 1:00.3 | these on the science fiction film podcast feed. So that's the move. That's what we plan to do. |
| 1:06.6 | They're not, we, we toyed with making a couple available and putting the rest behind our paywall on bonus. |
| 1:12.1 | We talked, we had a lot of different things we discussed and we ended up landing on, let us, let us just put it on the science fiction film podcasts. |
| 1:20.8 | We'll put it out there. |
| 1:22.3 | And most people who are searching for podcasts will just search for titles and will pop up. |
| 1:29.3 | And then all of our current listeners don't have to worry about finding a new feed. |
| 1:34.3 | And those of those of those of the people that listen to our podcast will not have to pay to listen to this. |
| 1:41.2 | So that was the decision. |
| 1:42.8 | And that's how we landed on this whole thing. And it was a subject that was of great interest to this. So that was the decision and that's how we landed on this whole thing. |
| 1:45.3 | And it was a subject that was of great interest to me. And having lived during this disaster |
| 1:52.6 | and not knowing anything about it when I was a kid, truth be told, nobody did, obviously. |
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