Weirdhouse Cinema: Robot Jox
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2020
⏱️ 92 minutes
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What if the nations of the Earth solved all their problems with giant robot gladiatorial battles? That’s the concept behind 1990’s “Robot Jox,” directed by horror wizard Stuart Gordon and written by military sci-fi author Joe Haldeman. Join Rob and Joe for a discussion of mech politics in this Christmas Day episode of Weirdhouse Cinema.
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| 0:00.0 | In 1968, five black girls were picked up by police |
| 0:03.9 | after running away from a reform school in Mount Meg's Alabama. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm writer and reporter Josie Defi Rice, |
| 0:10.3 | and in a new podcast, I investigate the abuse |
| 0:13.1 | that thousands of black children suffered |
| 0:15.3 | at the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children |
| 0:18.8 | and how those five girls changed everything. |
| 0:22.6 | Listen to Unreformed on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, |
| 0:26.5 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.2 | In 1980, cocaine was captivating and corrupting Miami. |
| 0:34.3 | The car kills, they just killed everybody, it was hell. |
| 0:37.2 | Setting an aspiring private investigator |
| 0:39.2 | on a collision course with corruption and multiple murders. |
| 0:42.4 | The detective agency would turn out to be a front for a drug pilot, |
| 0:45.7 | would claim he did it all for this CIA. |
| 0:47.8 | I'm Lauren Bright-Pacheco, join me for murder in Miami. |
| 0:51.4 | Check my walking into the devil's den. |
| 0:53.8 | Listen to Murder in Miami on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, |
| 0:57.6 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:00.4 | The war on drugs is the excuse our government uses |
| 1:03.5 | to get away with absolutely insane stuff. |
| 1:05.9 | Stuff that'll piss you off. |
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