Ep 13: Matthew Mc-Comet-Hey

Micah and Ryan catch up with Ryan's super-commuter lifestyle, summarize the movies of 2014, and discover how Matthew McConaughey helped us land on a comet. Get the incredibly detailed shownotes here, and delve into topics including:

• The word milieu
• Shia Labouf
• The connections between method acting, Methodists, and algorithms
• A Methodism to his madness and more Methodism to his madness
• Are we living in the 21st century? When did it happen? (Hint: It's not the same century as "the 2000s")
• Year Zero
• Zero to One (best book ever)
• The upcoming Singularity Movie. Kinda like Scary Movie.
• Neil deGrassfed Bison
• Ryan's improv experiences. This is NOT therapy!
• The TV show Nashville
• Pikachu and that weird art thing that sounds like it. Pecha Kucha.
• People in bands. Band people, Banned people.
• The democratization of music, the capitalization of music, and the fascism of music.
• Not capitalizing words. See also ee cummings.
• It takes two mirrors to look at your life. That's just logic.
• Binaural audio (see this binaural music video)
• How Interstellar is the sequel to True Detective, via that Dylan Thomas poem.
  • True Detective (best show ever) and philosophical pessimism
  • How Interstellar led to scientific discoveries
  • Rage against the dying of the light
• Yes And Man, Yes Sandman
• Optical Delusion(s)
• The difference between Maxwell's Demon and Descartes' Demon
• Alright, alright, alright