848. Escape from the Multicurse: The Cloverfield Paradox

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Our three co-hosts are stuck in the multiverse and need to get back to their home universe. Clearly, the only way to do that is to explore our cultural obsession with multiverses, alternate timelines and parallel worlds, and tie it all into a conversation about post-modern art, pop culture, and the lessons these stories teach us. Also, each episode, one of them is an asshole who will probably sabotage the whole thing. This week we discuss 2018’s The Cloverfield Paradox! Features: Michael Swaim: https://bsky.app/profile/michaelswaim.bsky.social Adam Ganser: https://bsky.app/profile/ganz.bsky.social Abe Epperson: https://bsky.app/profile/abeepp.bsky.social Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Check our store to buy Small Beans merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-small-beans-store?ref_id=22691

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0:00.0	You're about to hear the recorded audio diaries of Michael Swain, Adam Ganser, and A. Epperson,
0:16.0	transmitted to you from another dimension through the wonder of podcast technology.
0:26.6	Lost in the multiverse, they have to dig into a different piece of multiversal fiction each episode in the hopes of finally discovering a way back to their reality.
0:30.6	How do they know this isn't their reality?
0:32.6	Because one of them is being a real asshole.
0:35.6	Will our heroes ever make it home? or will they inadvertently explore our obsession with
0:40.2	multiverses, alternate timelines, and parallel worlds, and tie it all into a conversation about
0:46.1	postmodern art, pop culture, and what it means to be a human right now.
0:51.2	This is Escape from the Multicurse. I was furious at this movie until the very end
0:59.0	when I realized, oh, it is a Cloverfield tie-in. Oh, it is. Oh, thank goodness. That's like Cloverfield's
1:05.0	deal, right? They're like, they market it not at all. Yeah. They have like slushoushow yeah i can't believe you doubted it man
1:13.2	you got to have confidence in this team i had had doubt for 141 minutes in this movie no
1:19.6	no really that's when they thrive at the end under pressure right yeah because they tell you all
1:25.5	the answers right Right, right.
1:28.6	Also, I mean, spoilers, I guess.
1:31.4	The funniest thing about it is when the monster's head burst of the clouds, I was like, oh, yeah, that's what it looked like.
1:38.8	Like, I forgot.
1:39.6	Like, you know how you're supposed to expect it?
1:41.4	You're like, oh, I'm looking forward to that monster.
1:43.6	I forgot what it looked like so hard that it was like, oh, yeah.
1:47.7	That's right.
1:48.4	It's strange because some people think the Cloverfield monster is iconic.
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