Hello you. Welcome to You Are Good of Feelings Podcasts about movies. Today we're talking about a beautiful mind. We're talking about it with the great Nathan Shurick. I am your host, Alex Steed. I'm so happy that you're here. You are Good at Feelings Podcasts about

movies is exactly what it sounds like. We are a podcast. We watch movies and we talk about what they

make us consider with regard to who and how we are in the world. We're not film critics.

People are watching movies and talking about feelings. That's what we're doing.

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American Biographical Drama film about mathematician John Nash, who won a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. I love this description from Wikipedia. The story begins as

Nash being portrayed as a brilliant but socially awkward mathematics doctoral student at

Princeton University. Yep. Oh, it continues. After Nash's hard, this is a long intro paragraph to a wiki.

After Nash's hard fought graduation, Nash accepted secretive work in cryptography at the Rand Corporation, where his competitive

ambition and subsequent personal mental stress to gain the age-limited Fields Medal in

mathematics contributed to his delusional thoughts about Cold War spies and his delusional role

in thwarting anti-American agents. I can't believe that this is what we're doing in the interest of Wikipedia.

This led to his colleagues and wife eventually realizing he was severely mentally ill,

and he was subsequently diagnosed as schizophrenic.

Yes, that is what happens.

That is what we're going to be discussing.

And Nathan, we had Nathan talking about her recently, was the doctor's sleep.

Nathan is just a delight.

So, Nathan is just a delight.

So Nathan, I can introduce himself more at the beginning of this episode, but he is a nonfiction

obsessive.

It talks a lot about nonfiction books.

Social media is just a real delight across the board,

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