275: Blink 2017 Edition (Extemis, The Pyramid at the End of the World & The Lie of the Land)

As opposed to Blink 2019 edition.

It’s surprising to me that an episode so clearly about propaganda actually didn’t cause much of a splash at all when it landed. Kind of seems like everyone shrugged and looked right past it, even though it explicitly mentions a few people that this episode is clearly sending up. Weird. It’s Extremis, The Pyramid at the End of the World and The Lie of the Land written by Steven Moffat, Peter Harness, and Toby Whithouse and aired on May 20 and 27 and June 3, 2017.


Show-notes:


3:32: The comic is called The World Shapers.
6:19: In case you don’t remember this prehistoric meme
39:45: Lol just looked it up, Nebraska doesn’t even border Texas.
45:21: This was the exact Gandhi quote according to Goodreads. Here’s more stuff Gandhi apparently wrote about fear and love too. And here are some articles that could potentially shed some light on the controversy surrounding Gandhi.
56:55: Lonely Island songs we reference here: I’m on a Boat, Threw it on the Ground, Like a Boss, Jack Sparrow. Also check out our other podcasts, Triple Play, Inevitable, and Zenith.
1:00:06: Official (?) site of the Church of Last Thursday
1:22:48: The Strenuous Life was a 1899 speech by Theodore Roosevelt

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