Summary
A man makes a terrible sculpture of his girlfriend...out of Soylent. (Guess what..."they are now separate.") He then makes a flyer to try to give that sculpture away. The flyer goes viral. Why-oh-why did he do it? We find out.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the island at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:07.0 | Emory, what is the best worst science fiction movie you've ever seen? |
| 0:15.0 | I'm going to say Event Horizon. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, good choice. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, what about you? |
| 0:21.0 | I mean, there's so many choices. |
| 0:23.0 | I mean, Logan's run. |
| 0:24.0 | You got your Westworld, that 70s movie. |
| 0:27.0 | Um, one of my favorites is RoboCop. |
| 0:32.0 | Thank you for not smoking. |
| 0:34.0 | Should we just talk about bad sci-fi movies for the rest of the episode? |
| 0:38.0 | Yes. |
| 0:39.0 | No, no, I mean, this is the perfect way to start this episode because a lot of science fiction |
| 0:44.0 | tries to predict the future and here is an example of that. |
| 0:48.0 | Soil and green is made out of people. |
| 0:52.0 | Okay, so that's the old movie, but in real life, |
| 0:56.0 | Soil and is a lot of things. |
| 0:57.0 | It's a startup that makes this meal replacement powder and drink that are popular in the tech crowd. |
| 1:03.0 | It's like an efficiency hack for people who don't want to prepare actual food. |
| 1:08.0 | And some people use it to lose weight. |
| 1:10.0 | It's made out of a lot of hard to pronounce ingredients, but it is not made out of people. |
| 1:15.0 | Except in this one example, Amory, right, where this weirdo made a sculpture of his girlfriend out of it. |
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