Aug 21, 2026 · 37 min · 17 segments
We go back to 1901 where JP Morgan buys Carnegie Steel for $480 million without spending a penny of his own money and creates the world's first billion dollar company. Then to the 60s, where a…
In the 80s, the crazy inventor was kind of like a thing.
You don't really have like a Doc Brown in 2026, do you? because like in the 80s we were looking forward to the future where we were like these crazy events should have been looking back to these crazy events well even like flubber for example if you look at like films of the 80s and 90s it was like crazy inventors that were inventing crazy things that we i guess fantasized about having in the future but in 2026 we don't really have like those kind of crazy creators anymore.
The
big theme in films, I think, are like branching universes, timelines now.
That's the whole shtick, isn't it? Marvel's doing it.
There's so many films that reference
timelines.
Is that because this universe is so, the universe, this world is so shit, we have to imagine that the possibilities of multiple timelines and multiple universes, where we could go to another
universe where things aren't quite so shit.
Yeah, it's quite depressing, right? Not really.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once came out in like 2022.
It's about like multiple universes and this lady.
It's wacky and weird.
Maybe
Sorry.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is probably my second most favourite film of all time.
Do you know what? I will watch that before the next recording.
I'll give you an honest opinion of it.
Have you
seen it?
I've not seen it.
In the 80s, the crazy inventor was kind of like a thing.
You don't really have like a Doc Brown in 2026, do you? because like in the 80s we were looking forward to the future where we were like these crazy events should have been looking back to these crazy events well even like flubber for example if you look at like films of the 80s and 90s it was like crazy inventors that were inventing crazy things that we i guess fantasized about having in the future but in 2026 we don't really have like those kind of crazy creators anymore.
The
big theme in films, I think, are like branching universes, timelines now.
That's the whole shtick, isn't it? Marvel's doing it.
There's so many films that reference
timelines.
Is that because this universe is so, the universe, this world is so shit, we have to imagine that the possibilities of multiple timelines and multiple universes, where we could go to another
universe where things aren't quite so shit.
Yeah, it's quite depressing, right? Not really.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once came out in like 2022.
It's about like multiple universes and this lady.
It's wacky and weird.
Maybe
Sorry.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is probably my second most favourite film of all time.
Do you know what? I will watch that before the next recording.
I'll give you an honest opinion of it.
Have you
seen it?
I've not seen it.
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