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com presents, the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello, and it's welcome to episode 300. currently.

Hello, and it's welcome to episode 373 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show will be discussing the issue of pretentiousness and art

and reviewing several recent science fiction movies that listeners have called pretentious, including

High Life, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Starfish, High Rise, Upstream Color, Under the Skin,

and Another Earth. And this may involve spoilers for any of those movies,

so just be aware of that.

And I'm joined by three guests.

So first up we've got Anthony Ha, making his 13th appearance on the show.

He covers media, advertising in pop culture for the news site Tech Ranch, where he also hosts

the podcast Original Content. A chapbook of the short stories called Love Songs for Monsters was published

by Youth in Decline in 2014, and his short story late train appears

in the February issue of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Rislet.

So Anthony, welcome to the show.

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