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WHAT WENT WRONG

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

WHAT WENT WRONG

Sad Boom Media

Hollywood, Acting, Directing, Blockbuster, Movie, Flop, Film, Disaster, History, Tv & Film

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

A very real fear of nuclear war drove Stanley Kubrick to create one of the greatest satirical films ever made - but it wasn’t always a comedy. Find out where the idea for 1964’s ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’ came from, how a rival film almost ruined its chances of success, and which major role Peter Sellers had to drop out of mid-production.  

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0:00.0

Hello, and action, and welcome back to what went wrong, and action. Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to another episode of What Went Wrong, your favorite

0:25.3

podcast, full stop that just so happens to be about movies and how it is nearly impossible

0:29.9

to make them, let alone a good one, let alone a satire for the ages that we simply cannot

0:35.4

seem to escape. It's just endlessly relevant. As always,

0:39.7

I'm Chris Winterbauer joined by Lizzie Bassett. Lizzie. Tell us about what movie we're learning to

0:44.8

love today. We are talking about Dr. Strange Love or how I learned to stop worrying and love the

0:51.2

bomb. I can't do the voice, obviously, but I do love this movie,

0:54.7

so very, very much. I just, yeah, you said it, Chris. This movie gets funnier every time I see it,

1:00.5

which is both great for entertainment value and terrible for the state of our world, because it

1:05.5

gets more and more relevant every year that it exists. It seems there will always be a large circular table filled with incredibly inept,

1:14.8

mostly men, ruining our lives and figuring out a way for them to survive.

1:19.4

The image that comes to mind right now is like Sam Altman, Elon Musk's, Mark Zuckerberg,

1:23.9

Jeff Bezos, hanging out in the war room.

1:26.0

You know, deciding how they're going to live through the AI apocalypse as we all are fed to the machines at the end of the day.

1:32.9

They're thrilled about it, just as they are in Dr. Strangelove.

1:36.5

Obviously, this is, I think, our third Stanley Kubrick movie that we are covering.

1:41.5

It's a fun one.

1:42.3

I don't think it's going to be quite as dark as some of the other ones.

1:44.9

But this is, I think, my favorite Stanley Kubrick movie.

1:48.5

Mine, too.

1:49.2

I think for a lot of people, it is.

1:51.0

Yeah.

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