112: Can Sell Culture

Night Call

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4.6 • 564 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Night Call finishes up Y2May with some great calls and emails about the 2038 Problem that explain what it actually entails. Then we debate the merits of parallel universes and whether people just like theories because they offer a way out. And a surprise venture

into the recent rash of cancellations and Cancel Culture in general. Does cancellation provide people with a sense of control in a time when there is none? Can any societal ill ever actually be corrected by cancelling a singular person? How long is the cycle

for cancellation narratives really? What are the possibilities cancellations open up for larger conversations about culture, racism and capital? Does anyone ever actually get or stay cancelled? Should we retroactively beloved artists for fucked up shit? Can

you separate the art from the artist? Then we receive an amazing call about the “WWW = 666” Y2K era conspiracy, and finish up with a discussion from our home bunkers about end of the millennialism and prepping for disasters.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human.
0:04.5	It's 2.38 a.m. in a parallel universe. And you're listening to Night Call.
0:16.3	Welcome to Night Call, a call-in show for our dystopian reality. I am your host, Molly Lambert,
0:25.0	and with me, as always, are Tess Lynch and Emily Yoshita. Hey guys. What's up? So we last week
0:33.1	talked about the kind of science, computer programming reality behind Y2K and what it actually was.
0:41.0	And one of the things we discussed was that there is something called the 2038 problem, which is,
0:47.9	as you can tell from the title, going to happen in 2038.
0:52.3	And we got a bunch of both helpful and very like straining the capacity
1:00.0	of my brain right now emails and calls from listeners about what the 2038 problem is so yeah test
1:09.5	you want to like talk a little bit about, I don't know, what you've
1:13.6	learned? I can go through like my basic understanding of it. I'm so scared to get into this,
1:18.7	but I have to, first I want to shout out a couple of people who wrote in. We're going to pull
1:24.0	from what they said. We got former software engineers, very, very smart people who
1:30.5	I don't know what capacity they work in software. But yeah, it was amazing to have this explained,
1:38.2	and it was truly humbling. I have to say that one thing that might, that was a through line that might make sense before we get into the meat of these emails is that you may have noticed if you have a Mac that recently you had to update your computer to the computer iOS to Catalina.
1:55.6	And if you did that and you had some older software on your computer like Word, I believe Excel, Scrivener,
2:02.4	those might all of a sudden have Xs through them. And so one of the things that I kind of drew
2:08.3	from this, having updated to Catalina just a couple of days ago, is that that is because Catalina can't
2:14.3	work with 32-bit software. It has to work with 64-bit software. Yeah. So some of these
2:20.1	kind of antiquated programs that we're using will eventually no longer work unless you
2:26.1	upgrade to the 64-bit. So even if you can't, yeah, if you can't understand some of what's going on
2:32.6	here and know that in real life it actually does affect you.
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