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We Love Dick: A Philip K. Dick Podcast

Join Wa and Foot on their quest to read through all 124 Philip K. Dick short stories. Tangents, foul language, and overly personal anecdotes are expected.
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Sep 24, 2024

We're joined by Regan, FPS killer and socialist, to discuss The Hanging Stranger. Things get sentimental as we recall moments of pure joy, scruitinize one anothers' relationshipshttps://welovedickpodcast.libsyn.com/ to politics, and throw shade on Foot for his vile cowardice.

 

As always, music and production by the illustrious Cary Daniels:

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Mar 20, 2024

We have seen Dune 2 and will discuss shortly. In the meantime, enjoy the story of Benny Cemoli -- a non-existant cult leader invented by the omniscient, mechanical New York Times. We compare the lengths of pneumatic tubes, erotic fanfic manuscripts, and ChatGPT's influence.

Sweet jams and production by Cary Daniels:
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Oct 18, 2023

We're back to fulfill a listener request from Rumi J! Under discussion in this episode: the mind/body problem, transcending existential dread through ultimate frisbee, and Foot's hatred for Terrence Malick.

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Jul 23, 2023

If you had to travel 2000 years into the past, what knowledge would you use to dominate the ancient world?

If you met a time-traveling repairman of 2043's most lucrative gadget, what question would you ask him?

If you gave an ipad to a medival peasant, how long would it take him to find porn?

Join us for thrilling exploration of these questions and more.

 

As always, music and production by the Mighty Cary Daniels:

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May 11, 2023

Pussy so good it reduces rugged explorers to tamed livestock. Aliens so old they don't even remember how their technology works. A cosmos so vast even millennials can afford a home. Join us as we discuss PKD's condemnation the 'low aesthetic plateau' of mankind via a sci-fi reincarnation of Circe.

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Mar 22, 2023

We're back to talk about the mechanics of backwards-time, hate on Christopher Nolan, and ask hypothetical questions about immortality. 

SWABBLES!

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Feb 20, 2023

The gang is back to examine 1969's THE PRESERVING MACHINE. We talk about the collapse of society, what survives, Trolls World Tour, and potential new media technologies. Would mutant music sound good to modern ears? Would pop music survive in the wilderness?

Songs we wanna hang out with playlist.

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Dec 9, 2022

Happy Holidays!

In this episode: the benefits of city living, the theory of the x-gene, and we continue our discussion of how an individual could change world events.

Take the Dark Core Faces Test and let us know how you do

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Oct 24, 2022

We welcomed Producer Cary on the microphone for the first time to talk about Stargate. We talk about the wilhelm scream, 5th avenue candy bars, and ask what Ra was doing all that time before our heroes showed up.


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Oct 1, 2022

You know what it is. Part 2 of A Scanner Darkly

We talk about the back half of the novel and a bit about the movie.

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Sep 4, 2022

The wld dudes and dudette are back to deliver the big D - Substance D. In this discussion, we dive into the dark underbelly of down under California and disagree on the depths of drug addition, describe the development of McD's and discover youtube datura trips.

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Jul 26, 2022

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, we're talking about John Carpenter's THE THING and its source material Who Goes There?

We talk the mechanics of absorption, the effectiveness of the animal blood serum tests, who got turned first, and the coolness of Kurt Russell. (Dorsa - this is for you<3)

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Jun 4, 2022

The Crawlers!

Does anyone read these? I stress over which parts of the episode to highlight, but it feels entirely possible that no one ever even notices or cares. Is it possible that these descriptions are.... tears in the rain?

If you care about the short summary of the podcast episodes, email us at welovedickpodcast@gmail.com  and tell me in detail why you're such a sicko.

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May 17, 2022

As promised, we read John le CarrĂ©'s 355 page spy novel. We speculate on what's real, how difficult it is to seduce people, if  it's pulp or not, and the 2011 adaptation.

 

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Apr 13, 2022
Momma E is back to talk about precognition, time travel, and Big Noodle.   Email us at welovedickpodcast@gmail.com

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Mar 25, 2022

The second bonus episode! We're ostensibly discussing HBO Max's newish Sci-Fi show, but we mostly spend the time praising our king, Ridley Scott, and try to figure out what went wrong with everything that followed the first two episodes.

 

**Spoiler alert**

we spoil everything.

 

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Feb 14, 2022

In this 1953 story, PKD ruminates on anarchy, technology, and war.  We, in turn, gab about SLC Punk, how we'd fare in the Mad Max wasteland, and whether Foot could start a motorcycle without Google.

 

Upcoming bonus ep: Raised by Wolves

 

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Feb 3, 2022

Foot and Wa talk Jackass, Dave Bautista's Drax, Dick's sense of humor, and answer listener emails.

 

Wa's thing: The Afterparty

Foot's thing: Defector ??

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Jan 12, 2022

Happy new year! In this episode we do our best to get cancelled by discussing culpability, racism, and model building.

 

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Foot's thing: The Riddle of Scheherazade

Wa's thing: https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/le-creuset-skinny-grill/

Nov 30, 2021

For 1.5 hours, we talk about how sick Dune was.

Nov 14, 2021

In this week's episode we read Dick's 1953 story FAIR GAME. We talk about the history of math and science, the Junior Olympics, credulity and the Jude Law classic - Enemy at the Gates.

 

Foot's thing: 1979 erotic historical drama Caligula

Wa's thing: DUNE

Production by Cary!

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Oct 28, 2021

In this installment of WLD we dive into what's a realistic reaction to extreme circumstances, the merits of The Last Duel, if it's possible to identify somebody impersonating your friend on AOL instant messenger, and the paranoia of McCarthyism. 

Wa's thing: The French Dispatch

Foot's thing: The Stuff

 

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Oct 14, 2021

In this episode we delve into the mechanics of pod people replacement, Patrick Stewart's career, relating to your kids via sports facts, and Space Jam 2.

 

Foot's thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito_Coast_(film)

Wa's thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred_Thousand_Kingdoms

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Jul 31, 2021

Momma E returns to talk about another story adapted into an episode of Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams. We discuss how advertising makes us feel, the invasive tactics of advertisers, and the pernicious influence of advertising,.

Momma E's thing: F9

Wa's thing: Space Jam 2

Foot's thing: Censor

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Jul 11, 2021

We read Philip K Dick's 1957 "Misadjustment"

We discuss who you can trust when on the run from the law, the "assassins" game, weird sexual sentences, and the ethics of owning sentient robots.

Wa's thing: What About Bob?

Foot's thing: America: The Farewell tour

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