647: The Terminator

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Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Forget the time displacement device: in this podcast Diamond Feit, Jeremy Parish, and James Eldred take you back 40 years to 1984 to the debut of the sci-fi action classic, The Terminator.

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0:00.0	This weekend, Retronauts,
0:04.8	Retronauts. Nice night for a walk. Oh, yeah. Hello and we're talking about a 40 year old film today, a very important
0:37.8	40 year old film and some video games based on said 40 year old film. That's right, as you can tell by my impeccable
0:44.2	impersonation. We're talking about The Terminator. And I'm your host today.
0:49.6	Laundry day for me is everyday Diamond Fight. And joining me are two guests. Let's start with
0:54.8	our guests in Tokyo first. I'm James Eldred and this is not my honor person
1:00.3	nation this is just how I talk. Okay.
1:04.0	You're all good, James, you're all good.
1:06.0	And far away in the great state of North Carolina.
1:09.8	It's Jeremy FU-I-A-Hole. sorry, that didn't come out quite right.
1:15.0	That was pretty good.
1:16.8	Self-Sensorship.
1:18.0	Jeremy Parish.
1:21.1	All right.
1:22.0	So yes, the Terminator, it's, you know, we're recording this in October of
1:26.4	2024. The film came out in October of 1984 and it's a very 1984 movie. It's very timely. It's got time travel in it and they even talk about something happening 40 years from now.
1:39.3	So we should be seeing a Terminator every day now according to this movie so we're looking forward to that
1:44.4	This movie did not predict the utter banality of the AI revolution
1:50.4	It made AI seem so cool and not just a bunch of stupid grifters.
1:55.6	And it didn't predict the utter banality of the apocalypse.
1:59.8	It's just, it's much slower.
2:01.9	It's way less exciting. Twice is depressing, half as exciting.
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