Hey, Jay, you hear me now?

Yep.

Oh, now I can see you.

Perfect.

Okay, you know, Skype is just a terrible, terrible thing sometimes.

It's been really horrible lately.

Either way.

Okay, so let me just jump into something with you

because outside of Hollywood decodes that you are known for, you've also been talking a lot about some modern Brave New World parallels, which I think are all very, very apt.

I dig into that book a lot on this show as well, because for all of the times that people reference 1984, Brave New World is so much more where we are.

1984 is a great guide to how the media works.

But in the book, what is it, in the book, failing to take the state mandated drugs or a crime, as you pointed out.

Have you ever done a breakdown of equilibrium, though, the Christian Bale movie?

It's on our list to do.

So my wife and I were actually going through a series on all the dystopian films chronologically

in terms of when the movies are set.

So we just did Robocop and the island and a bunch of those Terminator era.

And then now I think equilibrium will be coming up in the near future.

So it's actually one we're going to get to.

But yeah, you're absolutely right to liken that to Brave New World because, you know, in the film

Christian Bale's son, if I recall,

is basically a child spy and he, you know,

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