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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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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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.
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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?
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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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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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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/
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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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
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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Join us as we discuss the inspiration for the Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger classic Total Recall. In this episode, we talk about memory, Michael Ironside, and the things we watched as kids.
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The latter half of our first back to back recording session. In which we discuss the morality of pet ownership, good/evil splits, and very little of this very short story.
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Momma E is back once again for a deep dive into Dick’s Electric Dreams. This week we’re reading The Hood Maker. We discuss where thoughts come from, what you could do with an invisibility cloak, the allegory of the cave, and the attractiveness of Rod Sterling.
Brand new guests! Bones and Roach join the cast as we discuss Nick at Nite, how to break up, organelles, and unicellular murder.
Again, our levels were a little wacky, so sorry for sucking at this thing we've only been doing for two years.
Intro: Takuya Kuroda - Piri Piri
Outro: Cloudkicker - We're goin' in. We're going down.
Join Wa, Foot, and Momma E as they discuss The Minority Report. Really, they try to wrap their heads around a single time paradox for one hour. Do they succeed? Tune in to find out.
Intro/outtro: Jib Kidder - Windowdipper
Join us for a classic PKD diversion: Mars, interstellar war, conspiracy, and crippling depression. We discuss cats VS dogs, terminal illness, and what the hell is wrong with the youth of today.
Intro: Adebisi Shank - Genki Shank
Outro: Adebisi Shank - International Dreambeat
Back again with a relatively short story about the metaphysical Martian wub. Join us as we discuss Deism, The Mummy, and the Spider-Man franchise.
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In this Episode, Wa's boss (codename Deemer) joins us to discuss space flight, depression, Donnie Darko, and whether or not humans should be upgraded.
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Double E is back in action as we FINALLY return to Man in the High Castle. We wrap up the novel with this episode, discussing two-dude-threesomes, Alan Watts, Her, and Joaquin Phoenix.
Congrats to Double E on delivering her baby. She is now, officially, Momma E.
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Outro: "Mind over Mind" lecture series, Alan Watts
Wa and Foot are back and spanning three time zones to bring in our next guest, Vaid. Join us as we discuss killer pinballs in "Return Match" while laughing too loudly and obliterating our mics.
Sorry guys. We suck.
Intro:
Weddings - Show and Tell
Outtro:
Weddings - It's You Not Me
In this episode, we welcome our 2nd guest - FRANKINCENSE. Under discussion: partisan politics, toilet seats, and The Republic.
"The Eye of the Sibyl" was published in 1987 and is one of the first pieces written by PKD after his whole "2-3-74" thing.
Intro: DJ Ghostchild vs dFly - Intro
Outro: Great Voices of Bulgaria, Women's Choir - Djore Dos
After a long hiatus (Wa moved to the Philippines), we are back to indulging our love of Dick. This episode features our first guest, and is installment no. 1 of a 3 part series wherein we discuss The Man in the High Castle.
Also in this episode: conspiracy theories, workplace attitudes, and horror movies.
Intro:
John Wizards - Muizenberg
Outro:
ABSRDST - Even if We Were Birds
Welcome to 2016! Wa and Foot are back, discussing this posthumously published story from 1977. Discussed this week: family stories, hypostatis, and the playing of footsie.
Intro: The Treme Brass Band - Caledonia
Outro: Made In Heights - Wildflowers
Happy New Year! Foot is away this week, having sequestered himself in a cabin for New Years, so here is the very first episode of We Love Dick! This episode was recorded in September as a test run for the podcast. The story under discussion was "A Terran Odyssey," first published in 1963, then developed into Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb, which was published in 1965.
This week: straight read VS alt read, Coke VS Pepsi, hallucinations VS schizophrenia, The Wire, Fight Club, and The Story So Far.
From the Episode:
Dr. Hagopian
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Down to Clown
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Paranoia Agent OST - Shiroi Oka, Maromi no Theme