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Classical Stuff You Should Know

195: Isaac Asimov's "Foundation"

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5696 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Asimov's excellent sci-fi trilogy is worth a read. Plus, space capitalism!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to classical stuff.

0:10.7

You should know a podcast about the future and science fiction and the greats of the last 40 years of science fiction authors.

0:21.0

My name is Thomas Magby.

0:22.2

I am joined as always by Mr. A.J. Hanenberg and Mr. Graham Donaldson.

0:26.4

Now, today we are talking about a little known fact.

0:30.9

I sometimes talk about getting my degree in psychology.

0:33.9

I actually got my degree in psycho history.

0:36.1

That's a little bit of thing.

0:39.5

And so it's this fascinating. It's what's coming next, Magvi. It is what's coming next. Now,

0:41.5

unfortunately, it's a lot of symbols, as I remember, but we can also

0:44.7

predict 500,000 years in the future. I forget what the numbers are. Pinpoint accuracy.

0:48.9

Yeah, so, man, yeah, I guess we'll get into this.

0:52.2

Psycho-history sounds like the autobiography of the Joker.

0:55.5

Yeah.

0:55.9

Yes, exactly right.

0:57.2

Or like that girl you knew in college.

1:00.2

We got a lot of psycho history.

1:02.8

That's just what you entitled to your dating time.

1:05.2

We got psycho history.

1:05.7

That's what that is.

1:09.5

Anyway, yeah, I think we're going through the foundation.

1:12.0

Yeah, we're going to talk about Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy.

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