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Stuff You Should Know

SYSK’s Summer Movie Playlist: Special Effects: A Short History

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Special effects have been around since the first movies. In fact, the techniques the earliest filmmakers created are still around today, we just use computers to do them faster and cheaper. Put on your beret and get ready for SYSK film class.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.0

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0:06.2

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0:10.2

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0:15.8

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0:21.5

Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect.

0:27.2

In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition,

0:31.5

and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

0:35.1

So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told

0:39.8

that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works. Listen to KillSwitch

0:44.9

on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. OpenAI is a financial

0:51.9

abomination, a thing that should not be, an aberration, a symbol of rot at the heart of Silicon Valley.

0:57.6

And I'm going to tell you why on my show, Better Offline, the rudest show in the tech industry, where we're breaking down why Open AI, along with other AI companies, are dead set on lying to your boss that they can take your job.

1:08.2

I'm also going to be talking with the greatest minds in the industry about all the other ways the rich and powerful are ruining the computer. Listen to Better Offline

1:14.6

on the iHot Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you happen to get your podcasts.

1:21.2

Hey everybody. Welcome back to the playlist. It's me Josh. And this episode is all about

1:26.2

special effects. We tried to cram as much as we possibly could into this episode,

1:31.0

and there's a lot to talk about with special effects.

1:33.8

And there's all sorts of different kinds of special effects.

1:36.6

Most of the stuff we think of today is all CGI,

1:39.4

but that's built on things that people used to have to build with their own hands

1:42.8

to make amazing movies look believable. I hope you enjoy this episode, and I hope you've enjoyed this playlist.

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