Pontypool Review - HEP - 6 - The Hobos Shall Inherit the Earth

In this week's episode we analyze
the intellectual insanity that is
Pontypool and dig into the deep questions
raised by the film. Does language infect the way we perceive
reality? Was the Ludovician born in
Canada? Are musicals really all that bad?

Then, we expound the wonders of the outdoors, and Tony reveals
how he escaped a life of being a
rocket-wielding, fire-starting,
almost-got-charged-with-a-felony supervillain and joined sacred and
ancient order of the Cyber Monks. (Or maybe he did some community
service IT work for some churches. Eh, close enough.)

Finally we slam a magazine into our verbal machine guns and mow
down Hollywood's misrepresentation of firearms.

One more reminder: Our flash fiction contest for a short story
involving a Men in Black style witness protection program is still
going. Keep it under 500 words. If you win, we toss you five bucks
and read it on the air. Send all entries to [email protected].

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Links for the Nerdy:

Pontypool on
Netflix (in the US). Watch it.

The Sapir-Worf
Hypothesis. (No not that Whorf.)

Stephen Hall's Raw Shark
Texts. It is a book. With pages and also ideas. 

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