No Exit
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Sep 19, 2026
Musa MuhaiyaddeenHOST
Now, the straight path is what takes you to the escape route that takes you outside of this elemental world.
Musa MuhaiyaddeenHOST
You know, Sartre, an existentialist, wrote a book called No Exit.
Musa MuhaiyaddeenHOST
And this was the existential point of view that there's no way out of this.
Musa MuhaiyaddeenHOST
You're stuck here and that's it.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
Okay.
MarcusHOST
I do think No Exit is overrated, but that's not the point.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
Okay.
MarcusHOST
In the Roadrunner cartoons, what makes them brilliant is While a coyote is us, we are him.
Trent HornHOST
Aquinas also quotes Pope Gregory the Great who said, While many people object to the idea of endless punishment for a finite crime committed in this life, they should at least be open to the idea of endless punishment for the endless crime of perpetually rejecting God and his goodness.
Trent HornHOST
As the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre portrayed in his play, No Exit, hell is bound by an unlocked door that the damned simply refuse to walk through because their own desire to sin is what torments and keeps them in hell.
Trent HornHOST
Another objection would be that after a million years, it would be cruel to keep someone in hell who probably doesn't even remember what put them there in the first place.
Trent HornHOST
But that assumes that nothing happens in the million-year interim.
Charles PignalHOST
Mm.
Olivia Kate MenziesHOST
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Charles PignalHOST
Oh, wow.
Charles PignalHOST
Okay.
Charles PignalHOST
... uh, right.
Olivia Kate MenziesHOST
That's the other part of the hell.
Charles PignalHOST
I mean, I remember reading No Exit, I don't know, maybe when I was 18, which I, I think is this-
Olivia Kate MenziesHOST
Mm
Adrienne DawesGUEST
Yeah.
Adrienne DawesGUEST
No Exit was huge at that age.
Adrienne DawesGUEST
Yeah.
Adrienne DawesGUEST
yeah that was the big i remember really with no exit really really heavy because it was like what is going on here how are what are they playing what's the game
Brian James PolakHOST
right yeah
Adrienne DawesGUEST
that really fascinated me i'm trying to think what else i mean of course shakespeare we were you know kind of like requisite because i was like more of like um a writing like when i went to sarah lawrence i was in a you're assigned a first year studies class and mine was literature and i was like why am i not in theater But they put me in literature because I had so much of that literature background in like my high school.
Adrienne DawesGUEST
Yeah.
Adrienne DawesGUEST
You know.
Ashish SenGUEST
And he'd asked me to act in...
Ashish SenGUEST
in No Exit, Sartre's No Exit, which he directed for the BRT then.
Ashish SenGUEST
And it was a very, very interesting production, which was done at Yavanika.
Ashish SenGUEST
Mahesh gave a lot of time to interpretation and gave us lots of scope for interaction between actor and director.
David DedrickHOST
I think we're just getting some fabulous stuff happening.
Ian BoothbyHOST
So they're saying that it's a brilliant modern spin on Sartre's No Exit.
David DedrickHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Ian BoothbyHOST
Oh, that's interesting.
Harry DonoghueGUEST
Yeah.
Andrew BriggsHOST
No Exit was originally written as a play and I would imagine, I mean, over 90% of people have probably only ever read and not seen a live performance.
Andrew BriggsHOST
Do you think there's anything that gets lost in kind of trying to translate it from a play into a written work?
Harry DonoghueGUEST
Right now I teach these classes on Greek tragedy and the Oresteia.
Jack MateHOST
[laughs]
Richard OsmanGUEST
Uh, by Jean-Paul Sartre, and it's called Huis Clos.
Richard OsmanGUEST
And the idea of Huis Clos is these three people who are in hell, and they, they just, like, two of them are exes, and one of...
Richard OsmanGUEST
It's just three people who are gonna be together for eternity, and they're, and they're each other's nightmare.
Richard OsmanGUEST
And so the idea behind that thing is hell is other people.
Scott TobiasHOST
Alexander Ullam's feature debut, It Ends, has been billed to some degree as a horror movie.
Scott TobiasHOST
But it's more of an existential experience that critics have widely compared to Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, a play that 28-year-old Ullum had never heard of until the reviews started rolling in.
Scott TobiasHOST
It Ends starts with four young friends getting into a Jeep, planning to get food together.
Scott TobiasHOST
Instead, they find themselves on an endless road they can't escape.
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