117: Starship Loopers

Night Call

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 564 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The girls are joined by writer Ezekiel Kweku for the top half this week. A Ghislaine news roundup and some television show fueled speculation about why Ms. Maxwell was staying in New Hampshire. Then it’s Randonautica, the creepy geocaching app taking Tik Tok by storm. Would any of us be game to follow a set of random directions to potentially enchanting surprise locations? Or does that sound like the worst idea ever? Then it’s a deep dive on the American flag with noted flag expert Ezekiel. Can the flag be reclaimed for good or is it out of bounds forever? For the second half of the show, Super Producer Joelle Monique joins us as we talk about Paul Verhoeven’s satirical adaptation of Robert Heinlen’s Starship Troopers. Is an obvious critique, like Verhoeven’s critique of fascism in Starship Troopers, always implicit in images or will it always go over some people’s heads? Does good intent matter if your image goes viral out of context as a GIF? Fascism, flags, and flaming bugs on an all new Nighy Call!

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.3	It's 12.02am on Klandathu.
0:07.9	And you're listening to Night Call.
0:13.6	Hello and welcome back to Night Call, a call-in show for our dystopian reality. I'm Tess Lynch, and with me are
0:24.3	Molly Lambert and Emily Yoshita. Today we are also joined by special guest Ezekiel Kweku. He's a writer and editor based in Oakland. He's also politics editor at New York Magazine's Intelligencer, and people send him photos of flags,
0:38.8	which we will get to later.
0:40.3	We're very excited to have him on today.
0:41.9	Welcome, Ezekiel.
0:42.8	Thank you.
0:44.0	Nice to have you on.
0:46.7	We have some breaking news this week.
0:49.9	As of this morning, I think, Molly, you tweeted that, like, a hundred different people
0:54.0	texted you that we got Gilane.
0:57.4	We got her.
1:00.0	Ezekiel, have you been following?
1:01.5	Are you an Epstein head?
1:02.8	Are you, uh, I, I had to like follow him professionally.
1:10.3	Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
1:11.9	So I don't know if I would call it being an Epson head.
1:15.0	It's not voluntary in your case.
1:17.1	Yeah, totally involuntary.
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