Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2025-08-25
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Chinese scientists construct a robot capable of carrying a human fetus to term -- will the government allow this in the public sphere? A California man finds his recreational Cessna repeatedly stolen.
Ben Bowlin discussed Gattaca by Howard Mahmood and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Gattaca
Gattaca is a science fiction film about a dystopian future where children are genetically engineered for perfection and natural-born citizens face systemic discrimination.
Discussed“this my concern here is more again the idea of how this opens up the traditional pregnancy and birth process to some other technological propositions that maybe people aren't comfortable with and maybe we shouldn't be comfortable with it because we've all surely seen Gata.”
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a chilling dystopian masterpiece that envisions a technologically advanced future society sustained by pharmacological distraction, engineered conformity, and the systematic eradication of deep human emotion and critical thought.
Discussed“anyway, ethics aside, this is a brave new world. Shout out to Huxley. We don't know how far this is going to come to term. Thank you for the drum roll there, Dylan.”
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