125. Pop Culture Petri Dish: Megacities

Small Beans

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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From Blade Runner's vision of Los Angeles to just plain old current-day Los Angeles, the PCPD boys delve into Megacities both fictitious and all-too-real. Judge them with Dredd and you Coruscan't go wrong!

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0:00.0	Welcome,
0:02.0	again, to another pop culture Petri dish.
0:05.0	I am one of your hosts.
0:07.0	Abe Epperson, and here with me, as always, is my co-host.
0:11.0	Chris Rimmiras.
0:12.0	Hey, man.
0:13.0	So this is the program where we talk about.
0:17.0	I say program like I'm a fucking old lady.
0:22.0	This is the podcast where we talk about we talk about how science fiction and science fact meet and vice versa.
0:29.6	What are we talking about today, Christian?
0:32.0	Today we are going to be covering mega cities.
0:35.0	Ooh.
0:36.0	Yeah, you know, Judge Dread is one of the big ones, for sure.
0:40.0	But also Blade Runner, the city of Los Angeles and Blade Runner would count as a mega city I mean Los Angeles now is technically a mega city
0:47.6	a mega city is any city any continuous urban development area with a population of more than 10 million people.
0:57.0	So really, I mean, right now we have, we currently have 32 mega cities in total across the world.
1:05.0	Most of those are in Asia.
1:07.0	We have a couple of them here in the United States,
1:09.0	Los Angeles and New York.
1:11.0	And then yeah, so that's pretty much that concept
1:15.9	taken to the sci-fi realm of like Judge Dread Mega City
1:21.0	1 where it's just miles and miles of people
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