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

horse imagery, bureaucracy, sacrifice, lasky, caterpillar symbolism, musical cue: heptapod b, ian’s overnarration, location coordinates and maps, sheena easton, semasiography, and the grass mud horse

exposition, montage, narration, my octopus teacher, nonlinear orthography, dating and communication, connection, guy fawkes, contact, realism, immigration, right wing conspiracies, astronaut owen garriott, and free will vs determinism guest: molly bailen #arrival #moviesbyminutes

sapir-whorf hypothesis, linguistic determinism, behaviorism, colonization, sturmfrei, piraha, pormpuraaw, neo-whorfianism, muted group theory, pontypool, mahjong #arrival #moviesbyminutes

2010, the abyss, cinematography, zoom calls, logograms, free will, china as antagonist, storytelling in different mediums, and the need for plot. guest: curtis bloes #arrival #moviesbyminutes

face blindness; c4 explosives; and pointing, across ages, across cultures, across species, across time.

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the score; bomb timers; editing mistakes; nonlinear understanding; hate crimes against asian americans; red dawn; altering films for foreign audiences; google translate; soybean prices; plus chinese aggression, culture, and navy.

guest: eric deutsch

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orientation in time, mansplaining fractions, collaboration vs competition, russian stereotypes, poisoning, chernobyl, non-zero-sum games, constructivism, listening, and abbott as christ figure.

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star trek vs star wars, steven seagal, blade runner, tarantino, alex garland, christmas jones, clint eastwood, parenting, talking out problems, charlize theron, sandra bullock, margot robbie, julie strain, sigourney weaver, geena davis, living through screens, kitchen sinking, alien design, perception, and the monsters are due on maple street.

guest: brad mendenhall

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speech act theory, liturgy, ritual, abbot and costello as hands, present tense, seeing vs knowing, slaughterhouse-five, mystics, plato's allegory of the cave, finding nemo, and raising a child without time.

guest: father david mowry

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learning heptapod b, the secret, language and memory, coping with future knowledge, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, maslow's hierarchy of needs, future dating profiles, masking genre, princess mononoke, and having no villain.

guest: austin prior

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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

individualism, elite access, an inconvenient truth, torrents, unstuck in time, adaptation, acting choices, clunky dialogue, defining treason, conflict styles, and lost.

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the day the earth stood still, road to perdition, clandestiny, maury, the life cycle of an egg, the burden of knowing the future, and astrological signs.

guest: hayley mervini and katie tomeny

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one last montage, social penetration, uncertainty reduction, expectancy violation, privacy vs secrecy, and free will. (plus something fun)

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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 

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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