Episode 204: Space Geisha

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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2015

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: "I am NOT talking about bartending."

A kind of two-parter this week.

First up, a meditation on invasive thoughts, how they can take over our lives, and how we can maybe learn to deal with them.

Second (starting about 38 minutes in), a VERY SPOILER-HEAVY dissection of the amazing new time travel movie, Predestination.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:02.0	Oh, good morning, sir.
0:03.6	Good morning.
0:04.6	How are you?
0:05.6	Good, good.
0:06.6	Man, you called an audible on me.
0:07.6	I wish I'd known to prepare for this.
0:08.6	I know, I know, but you know, we got to throw you a curve ball, as they say, in the NFL.
0:14.8	Well, if I'd known, I would have done pre-tod my time differently.
0:19.2	I would have bombed up.
0:20.5	Yes, I am not talking about bartending.
0:23.4	Not.
0:24.4	Okay, so what we want to do what we talked about?
0:29.0	Yeah, I do.
0:30.0	I really do.
0:31.0	Okay, so it's two important pieces of information for this episode.
0:33.6	Okay.
0:34.6	Depending on how much you believe in the paradox of predestination, this may be useful or
0:37.7	not.
0:38.7	Yes.
0:39.7	But first of all, we're going to talk about a movie that came out four days ago, called
0:43.0	predestination.
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