154: Innocence in the Postapocalypse
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Today's Stories Are Soul Food episode covers two new dystopian tales, a book and a show. The book is Leif Enger's "I Cheerfully Refuse", which Brian cheerfully despised for Leif's overly luminous characters and bass-playing giant protagonist. The show is Amazon Prime's "Fallout," which Nate skipped his way through, watching the innocence of the virginal protagonist be stripped from her episode by episode through violence, immorality, and (apparently) cannibalism. Nate talks about how the show's potential was ruined because the director, Jonathan Nolan, had only one trick: take innocence and corrupt it. Beyond that, the show never gets beyond the video game logic which bounds it. Brian asks why the destruction of the innocent seems to be the theme of most postapocalyptic fiction, and the guys talk their way through Margaret Atwood, The Road, Mad Max, and other tales of scientific dystopia. Why do we love such stories? Brian answers that it's because our lives are so easy. Listen to the episode to see if Nate agrees...
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| 0:00.0 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:04.5 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees. |
| 0:06.9 | I fell. |
| 0:07.6 | Made a ghost of a king on a row. |
| 0:09.8 | There we go. |
| 0:11.1 | Recording. |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to Sass. |
| 0:15.1 | The change of gears for me is always. |
| 0:18.5 | What's the change of gears? |
| 0:19.4 | What are we changing from? |
| 0:20.3 | Changing from our conversation. |
| 0:22.1 | We're just going to continue. |
| 0:23.5 | We have our off-camera combo and now we're going to have our on-camera combo and accidentally |
| 0:27.6 | say the same things. |
| 0:29.8 | That's very informative. |
| 0:31.9 | Perfect. |
| 0:33.0 | Good. |
| 0:34.2 | Yes. |
| 0:34.7 | Oh, the world is just a basket of rabid kittens right now. |
| 0:40.6 | You reach in there expecting love and affection and get savaged. |
| 0:45.3 | You're going to go insane and then you're going to die. |
| 0:48.8 | People thought it was the bats, but actually it's the rabid kittens. |
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