Blade Runner Series Wrap Up with Reconsider

Description: Erik Fogg of the Reconsider Podcast joins us again to discuss the 3 Blade Runner shorts and wrap up the themes that cross over between Blade Runner 2019 and 2049. If you enjoyed the episodes on Blade Runner 2019 and Blade Runner 2049, you will definitely enjoy discussing how the movies fit together.

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Links to the Blade Runner Shorts:

2022 Black Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrZk9sSgRyQ

2036 Nexus Dawn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ&t=1s

2048 Nowhere to Run

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9Os8cP_gg&t=3s

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Reconsider

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"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Begin Transcript:

Thanks again for joining us today. Today we are going to wrap up our series on blade runner and blade runner 2049 and the past three episodes. We've discussed these two movies and the really powerful themes they uncovered and discussed. Today. We're going to discuss how the two movies fit together and explore a few more issues that came up and just try and tie these two movies together. I'm very happy to be joined again by interest of the reconsider podcast and as we well know since you've listened to the three previous episodes, we know that reconsider as a political and current events podcast, Eric and as partners and or help you contextualize current politics and history and broader forces and political theory, reconsider helps you rise above the one liners, the 140 character politics and the tribal narrative and their motto is we don't do the thinking for you. Thank you so much for coming on for a fourth time, Eric. Oh yeah, my pleasure. I mean obviously I love your show

and one of the things I really love about talking about movies like this is it lets us look at, um, and by like this, I mean, I mean really good movies that do a great job exploring society, exploring humanity. They let us as people really look into humanity and looking to society today through in another place where it's sort of safe where we can say. Or we can say, Hey, what, what does this tell us about humans as a whole about society, about government, about how we get along with each other as a whole where we're not as emotionally tied up in it, right? Because this, this isn't our world. It's just a story. But we can learn a lot from it. And so...

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