Utopia: Did the British TV Program Predict Our Present Dystopia? with Sean McCann of the Wake the Dead Podcast.
William Ramsey Investigates
William Ramsey Investigates
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🗓️ 7 October 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey. |
| 0:02.3 | Investigates on today's show. I have a very special guest. This will be our 16th show. |
| 0:06.0 | His name is Sean McCann. Last name is spelled MC-C-A-N-N. |
| 0:10.5 | And he operates the Wake the Dead podcast. So you can check that out. I'll put a link to his podcast. |
| 0:15.3 | In the show notes. And we've done a lot of film analysis covered many things Rosemary's baby eyes wide shut |
| 0:23.4 | White noise we just did woke and get out and I invited him on to talk about the show that I watched which I kept seeing |
| 0:31.1 | Clips of it through my social media and it clearly reflects or was prescient as according to what's going on in the world today. |
| 0:39.2 | It's about a virus and when I was watching the show, I watched the original, which I will put |
| 0:44.0 | a link to the original on archive. |
| 0:46.4 | You can watch it on Internet Archive. |
| 0:49.0 | But just the themes that are in there from 2014, right? |
| 0:52.8 | And won a lot of awards in England, |
| 0:55.2 | is my understanding. |
| 0:56.1 | They won like a BAFTA award or something like that. |
| 0:58.4 | But it's a really fascinating show. |
| 1:00.1 | I highly recommend people check it out. |
| 1:01.9 | There was an American version that came out in 2020. |
| 1:06.0 | It was actually promoted by David Fincher originally. |
| 1:08.6 | He was involved in it. |
| 1:10.4 | And then there was some kind of |
| 1:11.8 | production issues and he dropped out but eventually got done and I think John Cusack is kind of |
| 1:18.7 | one of the main characters but there's some familiar characters from the UK in this in this |
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