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Episode 8: Revolutionary Virology (w/ Cody Wilson)

Added 2020-04-27 07:54:40 +0000 UTC

A viral CAD file has escaped from a research lab in Austin, and its engineer is pursued across the world by authorities. His name is Cody Wilson. The most dangerous man in the universe, or something like that. I don't really know. That's just what the media told me. He's a bad, bad, bad man. Or does he just want you to think that? Or does the FBI just want you to think that? I can't really keep track of it all. It's so confusing. Feints within feints. So I'll just say, he's a friend of mine. Though he did pick up an underage girl from a Sugar Daddy hookup site, and then fled the country. I suppose that would make him, in the end, kind of like the Roman Polański of Libertarianism. I'll leave it to you to judge for yourself whether he's a revolutionary, a terrorist, a rapist, a hero.

Naturally, Cody Wilson is also a producer of the sure to be endlessly controversial movie, "TFW no GF," so he's here to throw his hat into the ring, and returns from the shadows to promote the epic new film, and to tell all... well, we mostly talk about Baudrillard actually. But that's probably more interesting anyway. I always love talking to him, and we ended up with a great conversation on the corona pandemic, simulation, revolution, narrative, culture, teleonomy, the closure of the internet, crisis theory, normality, accelerationism, and hiding illegal CAD files for 3D printed guns in underground bunkers built on Minecraft servers.

(Intro Theme: "Spirits" by Cor Serpentis, from the album Atria. Outro Theme: "Lifetime of Grey Skies" by Nishiki Prestige, from the album XOXO. Interlude: "Hunting Hour" by Cor Serpentis, from the album Atria. All music courtesy of Lovecrypt. Episode mastered by Tryppocales Records)