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872. Escape from the Multicurse: Solaris (1972)

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Small Beans

Comedy

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

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 1972’s Solaris, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky! 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

0:38.5

explore our obsession with multiverses, alternate timelines, and parallel worlds, and tie it all

0:44.7

into a conversation about postmodern art, pop culture, and what it means to be a human right now.

0:51.0

This is Escape from the Multicurse. I love that about you. I'm willing to use this as an

0:58.5

intro. I don't give a shit. Oh, I couldn't. I was, I thought we explicitly said I would do the

1:04.4

intro. I'm sorry. You said that would really help you out. So I waited for a moment where I could

1:09.8

start the intro. Suffer. Now we're in it. Well, I'll say moment where I could start the intro.

1:11.4

Suffer with it. Now we're in it.

1:12.4

Well, I'll say I think it makes a great intro because this is what I was saying.

1:16.3

A, well, you were suffering off mic.

1:19.3

It's kind of what the movie's about.

1:21.0

It's kind of what all Russian fiction is about.

1:25.2

No kidding.

1:26.9

Dostoevsky, babe. Yeah, okay, but let me, so then let me at least do the... fiction is about. No kidding. Dust A. F.

1:27.8

Yeah.

1:28.1

Okay.

1:28.5

But let me so, then let me at least do the nominal thing.

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