Super Critical Podcast - Overthinking Nuclear Pop Culture
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- Website
- https://www.supercriticalpodcast.com
- Description
- Podcast over thinking movies about nuclear weapons with policy analysis, quasi-science, pop culture debates, and too many puns.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2022-07-19 18:01
- last episode published
- 2022-07-19 00:45
- publication frequency
- 29.6 days
- Contributors
- Tim Westmyer
- Author
- Super Critical Podcast
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 81
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- TV & Film
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Episodes
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| 2022-07-19 | In this episode, we watched a whopper, err WOPR of a movie in the 2008 direct to video-on-demand sequel to the classic nuke movie called WarGames: The Dead Code. What could go wrong when you put artificial intelligence back in charge of the nukes and t... |
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| 2022-07-05 | In this episode, we found ourselves in the danger zone watching a surprise nuclear weapon plot in the fun movie Top Gun: Maverick (2022) where Tom Cruise needs to teach a crew of hot shot misfits to airstrike a uranium enrichment facility on the Death ... |
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| 2022-03-31 | In this episode, we investigated a distress beacon to find our new artificially intelligent WMD friend in the Star Trek Voyager episode “Warhead” (s5 e25 - 1999) where the crew picks up smart bomb hitchhiker hellbent on finishing his military mission. ... |
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| 2022-01-31 | In this episode, we flipped our way through the pages of the Choose Your Own Adventure book, The Brilliant Dr. Wogan (1987), where a missing scientist might have a radiation neutralizer that can end the threat of nuclear war. How does the multiple endi... |
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| 2022-01-03 | Note: we originally planned this episode to be release mid-December 2021 but a combo of sick kid + forgetting the SD card before traveling for holidays messed up that plan. Enjoy! In this episode, we found a bootleg DVD in our stocking of the 1964 TV ... |
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| 2021-11-21 | In this episode, we went interstellar with our intercontinental ballistic missiles to talk about nuclear weapons in two science fiction shows: The Expanse and Battlestar Galactica. How are nuclear weapons used as weapons (and themes) in these two stori... |
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| 2021-10-29 | In this episode, we watched the documentary False Alarm (2021) about that time in 2018 no one talks about anymore when the people of Hawaii received an erroneous warning on their phone that North Korea fired a nuclear armed ballistic missile and they h... |
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| 2021-10-19 | In this episode, we called opened our nuclear launch code safes to pull out the DVD box for Crimson Tide (1995) about two leaders on a submarine butting heads about whether to launch nuclear missiles and possibly start and/or stop WWIII. How accurate d... |
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| 2021-08-22 | In this episode, we called our sommelier for advice on the best atomic alcohol to drink while watching the Alfred Hitchcock movie Notorious (1946) telling a spy romance story that discovers uranium ore stashed in a wine bottle owned by ex-Nazis hiding ... |
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| 2021-07-05 | In this episode, we put on our skis and telemarked our way to the winter lodge to watch the movie The Heroes of Telemark (1965) about a team of Norwegian resistance fighters sabotaging a heavy water plant during WWII to prevent Germany from getting clo... |
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