HEP - 6 - The Hobos Shall Inherit the Earth

In this week's episode we analyze the intellectual insanity that is Pontypool and dig into the deep questions raised by the film. Does language infect the way we perceive reality? Was the Ludovician born in Canada? Are musicals really all that bad?

Then, we expound the wonders of the outdoors, and Tony reveals how he escaped a life of being a rocket-wielding, fire-starting, almost-got-charged-with-a-felony supervillain and joined sacred and ancient order of the Cyber Monks. (Or maybe he did some community service IT work for some churches. Eh, close enough.)

Finally we slam a magazine into our verbal machine guns and mow down Hollywood's misrepresentation of firearms.

One more reminder: Our flash fiction contest for a short story involving a Men in Black style witness protection program is still going. Keep it under 500 words. If you win, we toss you five bucks and read it on the air. Send all entries to hepodcast@gmail.com.

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Links for the Nerdy:
Pontypool on Netflix (in the US). Watch it.
The Sapir-Worf Hypothesis. (No not that Whorf.)
Stephen Hall's Raw Shark Texts. It is a book. With pages and also ideas.

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HEP - 2 - Audio From Our Secret Moon Base

Time travel, men in sunglasses, low budgets, and a bizzare variant of other conversations are featured in our second podcast.

Listen as Albert and Tony tell you how to man up. On our love - hate relationship with Chuck Palahniuk. We even cover wobbly toilets in this podcast. Is it even possible that you could want more? Hit subscirbe, channel the ancient old gods of the RSS feed, or find us on iTunes, the Zune Marketplace, and well, here.

A few items of note:

We discussed a pair of movies that are available for free on YouTube.

12 Angry Men (1957)

Rope (1948)

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The movie for next week will be I Saw The Devil, and it is available on Netflix and other fine disc rental emporiums.

This man is from the future. And the past. And the fucking moon. Vote Albert Berg 2012.

Human Echoes Podcast - 1 - It Starts With Donkeys

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This podcast is here because text could no longer contain the thoughts of two young writers named Tony and Albert. You, and the rest of the world may not even know it yet, but you have been deprived of the dulcet tones of these handsome and charming examples of evolutionary perfection.

Listen, as we talk about donkeys in the most profane ways. Stand in awe as we make light of domestic abuse, Breaking Bad, and the smell of basset hounds. Commute with the knowledge that we are with you in your car, explaining how to fix the ills of the world.

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Keep up with us next week as we review and talk about the movie Lunapolis.