From the Vault: Bandersnatch
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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As Netflix is set to remove its most ambitious creation on May 12, we revisit this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind. From its literary origins in the mirror realm of Lewis Carroll to its terrifying appearance in Charlie Brooker's “Black Mirror,” the frumious Bandersnatch is a monster from which it is useless to flee. Robert and Joe follow its trail through a maze of choice, freewill, advertising and streaming media. (originally published Jan 9, 2020)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:08.4 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to |
| 0:26.7 | like it. And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there are no |
| 0:31.3 | girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:40.8 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:43.1 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:44.5 | And I am Joe McCormick. |
| 0:46.0 | And it's Saturday, so we're going into the vault for an older episode of the show. |
| 0:49.6 | This time we're going back several years to an episode we did on the Black Mirror episode Bander Snatch. |
| 0:56.3 | This was before Weird House Cinema, not a Weird House Cinema episode. |
| 1:00.3 | We featured it in a, we featured it in a core episode and talked about all kinds of things connected to the plot. |
| 1:09.9 | This was not a Weird House cinema episode. This was predisposed. kinds of things connected to the plot. Uh, this, sorry, beep, we, beep. |
| 1:12.3 | This was not a Weird House cinema episode. |
| 1:14.5 | This predates Weird House. It was a core episode where we talked about all kinds of |
| 1:17.9 | things related to the plot. It originally aired January 9th, 2020. |
| 1:23.0 | Now, why are we talking about it right now? Well, it's my understanding that Netflix is |
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