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Warning. This episode contains spoilers for the movie Quintet, which is an inside joke that you'll get in about 20 minutes.

And we're going to start off this episode with a quote from Donald Trump's second favorite

Corinthians, first Corinthians, that you all probably already know. And here's the

quote, when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child,

but when I became a man, I put away childish things. And today we're going to argue against

putting away certain childish things. So-called childish things.

It's also our episode of Science Fiction University before Valentine's Day.

Yes.

So this is kind of a theme of love and how we came to love science fiction.

Yes, indeed.

In our last episode, we talked about Frederick Pohl and his story,

the day the icicle works closed,

which is a fairly sophisticated example of economic science fiction.

In this story, corporations, corrupt politicians, and the media are the villains.

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