Robot Daddies and Terminator 2 [with Michael Hobbes!]
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Terminator 2 is about a boy, his mom, and a killer robot, sure, but is it possible that a movie about a surrogate cyborg father has some daddy issues to unpack? Join Sarah, Alex and Michael Hobbes as we discuss the best movie of 1991.
Our guest Michael Hobbes is a reporter for HuffPost. He is also the co-creator and co-host of You’re Wrong About and Maintenance Phase.
Terminator 2 is a movie about two robots from 2029 to present day [1991] Los Angeles. One is sent by resistance leader John Connor to protect his childhood self from the second robot, which is sent back by Skynet—an AI neural network dedicated to eradicating humans.
The movie follows young John Connor (Edward Furlong), his mother Sarah (Linda Hamilton) and their robot protector (Arnold Schwarzenegger as they try to survive the pursuit of T-1000 (Robert Patrick) while also doing whatever possible to stop the technological developments that will make possible the future human/robot wars.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Sarah Marshall. |
| 0:00.9 | Hello, Alex Steed. |
| 0:02.2 | What are we going to talk about today? |
| 0:03.6 | We're going to talk about Terminator 2, Judgment Day. |
| 0:07.5 | What is why our dads about? |
| 0:09.6 | Why Our Dads is about trying to understand our relationships with our dads and our culture's relationship with what dads are by watching lots of movies and talking to our friends. |
| 0:24.9 | Is there anything special by way of guests in this episode? |
| 0:28.1 | There is. We have my, you're wrong about co-host Michael Hobbs guesting on this episode. |
| 0:34.4 | It's really cool. Why did Terminator 2 come up as what we should talk about with Michael |
| 0:38.7 | Hubbs? Well, it was his suggestion, but it's a movie that we all independently love, and I think |
| 0:43.9 | have a strong emotional connection to. Do you think people know that they have strong emotional |
| 0:50.0 | connections to Terminator 2 or that they just love it? I think people in America have an amazingly hard time knowing what is and is not an emotion. |
| 0:59.0 | So I don't know. |
| 1:01.0 | But to me, it's a highly emotional movie. |
| 1:03.9 | It's like Land Before Time in terms of like having this lovely, steady parental figure who then has to be killed by lava. |
| 1:14.9 | And about just losing it and, you know, crying like the little boy that you are |
| 1:21.6 | who's losing your robot daddy who you only had for a few days. |
| 1:27.8 | Like, I don't know, I think that there are a lot of movies that do things that the people |
| 1:32.4 | who love them never mention as a reason why they love them, but at least can't conflict |
| 1:39.2 | with their love of it too much. |
| 1:41.9 | And to me, another example of this is Scarface, which is a movie about being |
| 1:47.0 | murdered in your own home, inevitably. Just about the death drive of capitalist masculinity. |
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