55: Five Altairian Dollars a Day

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🗓️ 4 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Brad just read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the first time (and Will reread it for the eleventy-thousandth), and now we're here to discuss the book's cheeky sci-fi Anglicisms and cavalier relationship with reality and metaphysics, its endless influence on pop culture, the career of Douglas Adams, and more. Thanks to all of our supporters who made this episode possible! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Brad.
0:01.0	Yes.
0:01.9	I fulfilled a lifelong dream this weekend.
0:04.0	What's that?
0:04.8	Well, when I was a little boy, I saw a movie.
0:06.9	You may have heard of it.
0:07.6	It's an indie.
0:08.5	It was a small production by 20th Century Fox called Star Wars.
0:11.9	And it was about a young farm boy who grew up to save the rebellion and defeat a fascist empire.
0:20.6	He fought a war in the stars?
0:22.5	He flew an X-wing starfighter and he used it to blow up the bad men.
0:28.2	Oh, wow.
0:28.5	And I have done that now.
0:30.3	And a lifelong dream has been fulfilled.
0:33.1	I put on a virtual reality headset.
0:34.9	Oh, wow.
0:35.3	A new bleeding edge technology.
0:38.8	And I got in the cockpit of a Starfighter, and I shot up a bunch of tie fighters and
0:43.0	then got killed over and over and over again in multiplayer online.
0:46.1	You sat in the X-wing.
0:47.7	I have been in the X-wing.
0:49.4	You've been inside the X-Wing.
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