Aug 7, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 9 segments
We're back with another Recommend or Refute conversation. John finally decides to watch a good movie and is blown away by Paul Thomas Anderson's epic character piece **The Master (2012)**, Ryan goes…
John GarciaHostRyan KingHost
So, I mean, in the previous episode about AI, I mentioned that I watched Bicentennial Man and I really thought long and hard about whether or not I should bring it.
And then decided to adapt an Asimov thing with Robin Williams where you watch a robot turn into Robin Williams and then accept death and find love.
And it's... just so confusing for anybody watching it, given the context of where Robin Williams went from there.
And, uh, very sad, uh, that, that one, I would say like, if you haven't seen it, it's, it's going to fucking blow your mind and melt your face.
Uh, so instead of talking about that, because we talked about it at length and AI in comparison, I'm going to talk about another movie that I watched that I didn't expect to watch.
And, uh, One of my friends, she saw that this was on, I think it was at the Paramount that they showed it.
Yeah, this summer for the Summer Film Classics before they shut down for renovations.
And she really wanted to see it, but she couldn't because scheduling conflicts and all that.
She had no idea what it was about other than that it looked like it was going to be a Paul Thomas Anderson film and it was going to look, it was going to be depressing potentially.
So, I mean, in the previous episode about AI, I mentioned that I watched Bicentennial Man and I really thought long and hard about whether or not I should bring it.
And then decided to adapt an Asimov thing with Robin Williams where you watch a robot turn into Robin Williams and then accept death and find love.
And it's... just so confusing for anybody watching it, given the context of where Robin Williams went from there.
And, uh, very sad, uh, that, that one, I would say like, if you haven't seen it, it's, it's going to fucking blow your mind and melt your face.
Uh, so instead of talking about that, because we talked about it at length and AI in comparison, I'm going to talk about another movie that I watched that I didn't expect to watch.
And, uh, One of my friends, she saw that this was on, I think it was at the Paramount that they showed it.
Yeah, this summer for the Summer Film Classics before they shut down for renovations.
And she really wanted to see it, but she couldn't because scheduling conflicts and all that.
She had no idea what it was about other than that it looked like it was going to be a Paul Thomas Anderson film and it was going to look, it was going to be depressing potentially.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
