five minute arrival

time loops, somewhere in time, costumes, identity, names, earliest memories, cancer, fate, and galician portuguese. #arrival

lockdown, monoliths, apathy, ship locations, numerology, quebec nationalist lionel groulx, signs, indpendence day, 24-hour news cycle, fake news, agenda setting theory, the social dilemma, the hong kong poster mistake, and peter singer's the life you can save

lockdown hoarding, no new gun licenses, montana, forest whitaker, max weber, linguist vs translator, jessica coons, dialects, jargon, ssbi, tv tropes' the worm guy, the dow jones, the sanskrit mistake guest: sean german from the next scene #arrival

premonitions, miscommunication, language as the basis for civilization, epistemology, objectivist vs interpretivist, the score, johann johannsson, max richter, and ampas rule 15e #arrival

character introductions, the day the earth stood still, godzilla, archetypes, close encounters, 2001, greenland, halpern's paranoia, room 237, fibonacci, spirals, breathing, and monoliths. guest: chris frain #arrival

the shape of the shell, encoding, decoding, manipulating gravity, the shape of the entryway, 15 eunomia, disorientation, map orientation and political power dynamics

the long hallway, 2001, going toward the light, the nave as movie theater, oxygen levels, john scott haldane, a canary in a coal mine, titles, seeing different parts of the elephant, alien design, xenomorph toys, unrest, the mist, and the meaning of 12 guest: niall mcgowan #arrival

a timing problem, hands, whiteboards, semiotics, katie porter, logorama, alien sound design, alien shape, alien names, and darmok #arrival #moviesbyminutes

colonizing language, translating kangaroo, parables, darmok, rom com moments, power and communication, stargate, "what is your purpose on earth?", limits to language, abbott and costello, non-linear time, and memory of the future

tower of babel, social penetration theory, alien design, the darkling sea, trusting science, songbird, lockdown, abbott and costello, and perspective guest: dave pallas #arrival #moviesbyminutes