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🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 86 minutes
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It’s time for another movie episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind and this time Robert and Joe are talking about 1972’s “Silent Running,” in which Bruce Dern and his robot pals are caught in an endless chase. It’s a discussion of sci-fi, space botany, environmentalism and the relationship between humans and the forest.
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| 0:51.0 | Hello, this is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor, writer, director, and swimmer and I love films. Come join me on my podcast, Films To Be Bared With, where I invite a special guest over, I tell them they died, then I get them to discuss their life through the films that meant the most to them. |
| 1:18.0 | I always get them the most, what made them cry the most, etc. At the end, they pick a film to go and neck off in and take to heaven, life, death, and movies. |
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| 1:37.0 | Welcome to Stuff To Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeart Radio's Has tof Works. |
| 1:41.0 | Hey, welcome to Stuff To Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lam. And I'm Joe McCormick, and today of course we're going to be doing a movie episode. |
| 1:53.0 | That's right, we've been trying to do one of these a month, just because there are so many films we love and so many films that either have wonderful tie-ins to scientific and cultural topics that we've discussed in the show. |
| 2:05.0 | Or they allow us to discuss new things and new angles that wouldn't necessarily necessitate an entire episode on their own. |
| 2:14.0 | Alright, so what's on the docket today? |
| 2:16.0 | Well, this month we're looking at really one of my, I have to say it's one of my favorite films. |
| 2:21.0 | In terms of thinking about films you saw at a definite point in your life that had an impact on your outlook. |
| 2:28.0 | And the film is 1972's Silent Running. |
| 2:32.0 | I saw it for the first time this weekend. |
| 2:35.0 | Oh, yeah, never seen it before. I'd seen like stills from it. I think I'd seen stills of the robots because it's a very robot heavy film, despite being one obsessed with nature and environmental themes. |
| 2:47.0 | The robots can awful lot of screen time. |
| 2:49.0 | They do. |
| 2:50.0 | Yeah, I think if you're having trouble picturing the film, if we just mention like geodesic domes in space with forests in them, Bruce Dern, |
| 2:59.0 | and then three diminutive robots that kind of shamble around, that's silent running in a nutshell. |
| 3:07.0 | Now this was directed by Douglas Trumbull, right, who was like a visual effects guy for many years. |
| 3:13.0 | Yeah, yeah, he provided special photographic effects for such classic sci-fi films as 2001, a space odyssey. |
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