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Motherboard Does Dune: Oil, Spice, and Environmental Destruction

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VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

BONUS SERIES: Dune is out! And it's the biggest movie in America. In this special series, Motherboard and friends dissect all things Dune. In this episode, we look at how Frank Herbert approaches oil, environmental destruction, and what it can tell us about how we treat our planet. Note to CYBER listeners: We're doing this series in addition to our normal CYBER episodes, which will still be released this week.

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0:00.0

did enjoy the film um and that video i mean i it's maybe boring to go into here but like it was

0:07.7

just one of those like comic situations where they had like the guys first day attending bar at the

0:12.5

amc movie theater was like just then as we were showing up and it took him like 25 minutes to make

0:18.4

the pinia calada for the guy in front of us and I was just like tearing

0:21.1

my hair out because we were just like it was already we like shut up at the time like oh the previews

0:26.0

oh the previews and it was just like one comical thing after the other like he ran out of wine just

0:30.7

as he was pouring wine uh for a carina for my partner and then he he goes to get our beers and the kegs tapped. I'm like, that's it. We're out of here. Uh, so it was like a lot of high stress to start that,

0:41.4

uh, movie going experience. But it was, uh, I, I liked it. We're going to get into it a little bit,

0:46.9

uh, I think, uh, with our guests here, which maybe this is a good segue to introduce them.

0:52.9

We have Jacob Baccarac, the novelist, and June film, uh, Liker.

1:01.5

Uh, he's going to, he's going to bring some spice here, uh, later on.

1:04.6

And Claire Evans, Claire L. Evans, author of broadband and technology, writer, and speculative fiction,

1:13.6

enthusiast, and anist, completist.

1:17.3

And we're going to be talking about doing the film, where it's at, how the weekend went,

1:22.9

and then we're going to get into the theme of the day, which is oil and ecology and climate change and how Dune talks about those things.

1:30.3

Anyway, that's enough of me.

1:31.4

What about Tim Marchman? Hi, Tim Marchman.

1:34.4

I'm so glad to be here.

1:37.8

Nice.

1:39.0

Should we play the Dune music?

1:41.8

Let's play it.

1:42.8

Okay.

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