Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 5:37pm
: Mark! Techtonephiles! 🤖 ♥ 6:00pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Good evening Mark, Dan, and all!!! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
newton: Blumineral Distopioids! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi all! Love me some dystopianisms... 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Handy Haversack: Mark! Techyons! 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
chresti: Hi Mark and techtonicians! 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
newton: dont mind me , Im in a time zone warp for 2?days   6:02pm
David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids here gathered. 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Handy Haversack: Wait, didn't Ken and Andy just do this show? And use that COVID-era graphic?

Try just replaying that episode and saying that Andy is Dan. The gum makes it sound like an accent!

♥ 6:03pm
PaulRobeson1925: HELP 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
newton: I dont know when they pain meds will kick in, or have they already? 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Deano de los Muertos: Mark! Tuning in from the woods in PA, standing amongst the family alpacas and llama 🦙   6:04pm
Listener Robert: How do we read the horizontal axis? 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
Deano de los Muertos: Hey Dan and the rest 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
Bas NL: Techtonic: The Movie. 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
Spikey BXL: Greetings Mark, 🫡 Commander Morfitt, assembled thronglets. 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:02

Eh…rather unsuccessfully 🤖 ♥ 6:05pm
ultradamno: Did Brazil stipulate a year that it was set in? ♥ 6:06pm
Folsom: Didn't Seven Second Delay do this last week? 6:06pm
morphe': Was just talking about the book = Day of the Triffids [dystopian disasters in our own time[which has a whole petroleum conspiracy aspect not in the original or the remake] .. 🤖 ♥ 6:06pm
herb.nyc: Movies! “Let’s go to the pictures, darling…”🎶 sang Wreckless Eric   6:06pm
Listener Robert:

↳ ultradamno @6:05

"Somewhere in the 20th Century" 🤖 ♥ 6:06pm
DjLorraine: Ultraviolet had electronic payment/surveillence. 🤖 ♥ 6:06pm
Webhamster Henry: There are a few radio shows of both original and adapted SF that are pretty good predictors.   6:07pm
yippie: i liked to watch repo man when i was 3 years old 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ DjLorraine @6:06

I never got around to watching that..good? 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
ultradamno: So definitely at the top of the graphic 6:08pm
morphe':

↳ Song: "Dystopian movies w/Dan Morfitt"

Re-posting from the other day/night:
"The dreams our stuff is made of : how science fiction conquered the world"

[full text]

archive.org...

  6:08pm
yippie: i had it on betamax   6:09pm
Listener Robert: It was "The President's Analyst" that said every phone was bugged. ♥ 6:09pm
Steve Del Sol: We got Bluetooth because Heddy Lamar or some other actress of that period invented it for signal jumping for radio security during WW2.   6:10pm
yippie: and now i always forget to charge my headphones 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
listener james from westwood: "The lost seeing-stones are not all accounted for!" 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
tim: Hey Mark, Dan and crew! 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
ultradamno: I think Metropolis was 2026 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ listener james from westwood @6:10

Pedant!   6:12pm
Purvis: Let's Visit the World of the Future

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FHx2nLFMAzE

🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
ultradamno: I can't do other than horror films.

Yes. Paper cutter. M3gan 2 is coming

  6:13pm
yippie: Ronald Reagan didn't want to name it Star Peace 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
Ken From Hyde Park: And ... action! 🎬 Hello. 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
ultradamno: Niece. Not daughter. Her parents die straight away ♥ 6:13pm
Folsom:

↳ Steve Del Sol @6:09

Hedley! 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
tim: Small Wonder!!!!! 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
DjLorraine:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:08

I adore it. I showed it to a top thai chi instructor and he didnt like the fantasy martial arts parts. But i like the human rights aspect and caring for another bits. 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
ultradamno: 2.0, yes 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
Spikey BXL: The first one was al dente 🤖 ♥ 6:16pm
tim: Agree on the dystopian sequels. I think 28 Days and 28 Months works well.   6:16pm
Listener Robert:

↳ yippie @6:13

But he didn't call SDI Star Wars either. That was a derisive name given by its opponents. 🤖 ♥ 6:16pm
Bas NL: "I'll be back..." said it all. 🤖 ♥ 6:16pm
ultradamno: Zombies aren't really dystopian though...more catastrophe. 🤖 ♥ 6:16pm
erik: Can we talk about the stormtrooper decals on people's cars, they realize the Empire is evil right? the Storm troopers are the bad Nazi guys, the Rebels are the good ones. 🤖 ♥ 6:17pm
Handy Haversack: Well, Alien is a perfect horror movie, and Aliens is a perfect action movie. ♥ 6:17pm
common: alien is perfect. better than aliens, i think. 🤖 ♥ 6:17pm
ultradamno: Many prefer Aliens, I am not among them. ♥ 6:17pm
Adi From Sheffield: I didn't mind Alien 3   6:17pm
mdashkin: You might say that Night of the Living Dead was the rare dystopian film that produced a bunch of sequels... 🤖 ♥ 6:17pm
Spikey BXL: Yaphet Kotto RIP   6:18pm
Tom from Stirling: Alien!?

Aliens!?

Yes, please

🤖 ♥ 6:18pm
ultradamno: Sometimes I want to defend Protheus...then I remember Luther playing that squeezebox and singing Love The One You're With. 🤖 ♥ 6:18pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Spikey BXL @6:17

Always remembered on WFMU! 🤖 ♥ 6:19pm
ultradamno: Again. zombies not dystopian. Unless they establish and authoritarian regime.

I HATE Don't Look Up more than any movie that will be named today.

🤖 ♥ 6:19pm
ultradamno: Americathon redux. 🤖 ♥ 6:19pm
Deano de los Muertos: Don’t Look Up was great 🤖 ♥ 6:19pm
erik: how can don't look up have a sequel, they all die? 🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
ultradamno: No.   6:20pm
Tom from Stirling: Alien: Earth !! Coming out this summer. 🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ ultradamno @6:18

That one wasn’t bad, imo 🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
tim: Don't Look Up sounds good. I don't recall when it came out. 🤖 ♥ 6:21pm
Spikey BXL: Escape from New York 🤖 ♥ 6:21pm
ultradamno: There are some really arresting scenes in Prometheus for sure. ♥ 6:21pm
bleubombersune: I am probably mistaken, Dan you remind of Michael Moorcock 🤖 ♥ 6:22pm
ultradamno: Alphaville is a good one   6:23pm
Tom from Stirling: Elysian is actually very good. 🤖 ♥ 6:23pm
ultradamno: Also Fassbinder's World On A Wire mini-series ♥ 6:24pm
The Butterman: District 13 the 4th sequel to District 9. Love that film. Sharplo Copley should have won an award for that role.   6:24pm
Maarie in Chicago: It's like, let's go live on Mars.... Hi, everybody.   6:24pm
David (in London): Blomkamp actually wrote an intriguing screenplay for a never made Alien sequel. 🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
Deano de los Muertos: Upgrayedd ♥ 6:25pm
p_glow: Crocks Shoes debut in Idiocracy as shoes only idiots would wear 🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
ultradamno: Idiocracy makes suggesting The Truth About De-Evolution inevitable 🤖 ♥ 6:26pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Waterworld   6:26pm
David (in London): The Postman. 🤖 ♥ 6:28pm
ultradamno: Chopping Mall! I mean if M3gan and Wall-E count... 🤖 ♥ 6:28pm
DjLorraine: Dark City 🤖 ♥ 6:28pm
Deano de los Muertos: Costco gets more like the movie version every time I clock in 🤖 ♥ 6:29pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @6:28

www.youtube.com...   6:30pm
Purvis: Cyberpunk dystopia   6:30pm
?: Idiocracy - the costumer needed to to buy shoes that people in the future would wear and she found these really ugly shoes for cheap. She asked the producer if she should clear usage with the shoe company and the producer said don't bother, these shoes are so ugly this company won't be around by the time the movie comes out. Those shoes were Crocs. 🤖 ♥ 6:30pm
Webhamster Henry: The Big Bus! ♥ 6:30pm
Troy:

↳ DjLorraine @6:28

Good one! 🤖 ♥ 6:31pm
ultradamno: Silver Streak is a vivid movie memory from when I was a kid 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
ultradamno: Wheatley's High Rise is underrated, I don't know if Cronenberg's Crash qualifies but I'd say Videodrome and eXistenZ do...   6:32pm
Matt from OK: Still need to see Idiocracy. The dystopian tangent for that one goes back to the HG Wells’ Days to Come, and Woody Allen’s 1960s adaptation, Sleeper. One of the greatest dystopian movies. 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
ultradamno: ...his son's excellent Infinity Pool also.   6:32pm
Zolenskify: Snowpeircer is the train movie.   6:33pm
Purvis: Impending dystopia:https://www.local3news.com/local-news/chattanooga-makes-history-as-the-first-city-in-u-s-to-establish-quantum-computing-network/article_7e4868c8-a9ae-49a7-a3d4-bc4ecf3b3027.html ♥ 6:33pm
p_glow: They Live 🤖 ♥ 6:33pm
tim: I think Satire is valuable. Might not change anything but it sure ruffles feathers that need to be ruffled.   6:33pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ ultradamno @6:32

The Shrouds-Cronenberg's new creepy film. 🤖 ♥ 6:34pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ ultradamno @6:32

Shivers? 🤖 ♥ 6:35pm
ultradamno: There is also a Snowpiercer TV show that concluded recently. Bong's Mickey 17 falls in with the Infinity Pool, Dual and Substance artificial double horror. 🤖 ♥ 6:35pm
Spikey BXL: Absolutely loved ep. 4 of the seventh season of Black Mirror.

Thronglets!

🤖 ♥ 6:36pm
ultradamno:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:34

Not a zombie movie, but within spitting distance 🤖 ♥ 6:36pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ ultradamno @6:36

I'm always shocked that Pontypool isn't discussed more around these parts. 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Spikey BXL @6:35

There are plenty of Black Mirror things that are pretty real. Like killer robot dogs, social credit etc. 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
tim: Omega Man! 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
Handy Haversack: Can one spoil a fifty-year-old movie?   6:37pm
David (in London): The dark satanic mills of the midlands did give us Black Sabbath, though, so it’s swings and roundabouts... 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
Deano de los Muertos: I hated the Will Smith movie. Read the book. 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
ultradamno: Pontypool is wonderful! Autopsy of Jane Doe is another that doesn't quite come up enough 🤖 ♥ 6:38pm
ultradamno: A bit of an abstraction, but I think the No End House season of Channel Zero counts ♥ 6:38pm
Troy: Hell comes to FrogTown (not a classic but fun). 🤖 ♥ 6:38pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ ultradamno @6:35

I’ve started watching that, but very early in 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
ultradamno:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:37

Last Man On Earth is the way to go   6:39pm
Tom from Stirling: Dan knows his movies. 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
Spikey BXL:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:37

Metalhead, another fave episode of mine   6:40pm
Purvis: https://archive.org/details/frankenhooker-1990_202406   6:40pm
Mattynotimes: I love you Dan Morfit 🤖 ♥ 6:40pm
Spikey BXL: Also, the comic Transmetropolitan deserves a mention   6:41pm
David (in London): The version of Dredd with Karl Urban is rather good, if little known. 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ ultradamno @6:39

I’ve seen it! Much more like the book ♥ 6:41pm
Johnny Walsh: "Johnny Mnemonic" (sp?) ♥ 6:42pm
PaulRobeson1925: Look at all the shoot em up movies America shovels out for the rest of the world.
What are the two big ones in every theater overseas right now? The Accountant 2? &…

Laughable(?) this is our current state of film. Guns in movies are so unimaginative. Machine guns in a movie make me want to vomit on the floor

🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
ultradamno: The Watchmen TV show is OK...the Snyder movie is terrible, The Boys may have one-upped it.   6:42pm
Listener Robert: "Watchmen" is about Thatcherite policies??!!! ♥ 6:42pm
Squints: wooHOO.

ok then.

hey HEY hey.

Remain alive.
No matter what occurs.

♥ 6:42pm
Squints: Mother of mercy. 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ ultradamno @6:42

People ripped the show…I really enjoyed it. ♥ 6:43pm
Folsom:

↳ David (in London) @6:41

The one thing I didn't like about it is that there wasn't much of the Mega City One, I want all of the different blocks with the goofy names. 🤖 ♥ 6:43pm
ultradamno: The "english take on politics" talk make me think of all-time favorite Repo Man (US, but Alex Cox)   6:43pm
Listener Robert:

↳ ultradamno @6:42

But the Snyder movie did have the great opening credits sequence. 🤖 ♥ 6:44pm
ultradamno: Of course The Fly is horror. 🤖 ♥ 6:44pm
tim: I like Croenenberg a lot!   6:44pm
Tom from Stirling: Yep, Dan knows his movies. David Cronenberg! 🤖 ♥ 6:44pm
tim: Existenz was killer! 🤖 ♥ 6:44pm
ultradamno:

↳ Listener Robert @6:43

I'd have to watch a second of it twice to verify...that just will not happen. 🤖 ♥ 6:45pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ ultradamno @6:44

The Fly does have a great Goldbloom-y monologue in the middle. and of course "Hi kids! This is how a fly eats!" 🤖 ♥ 6:45pm
ultradamno: I love eXistenZ's very guts. Underrated. A lot of Myst referencing going on. ♥ 6:45pm
Henry Hudson's Distant Relative: Thank you for introducing us to Dan Morfitt. (Maybe most Techtonic listeners already knew about him, but I didn't.) 🤖 ♥ 6:45pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:42

I just looked up The Accountant….the poster is just Ben Affleck holding a gun lol 🤖 ♥ 6:45pm
chris in the redwoods: the ports thing is William Gibson (which probably came from Scientific American)   6:46pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ chris in the redwoods @6:45

Great writer 🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ tim @6:44

Existenz and the 13th floor en.wikipedia.org... are both "what is reality" tropes 🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
ultradamno: If you like the days later fast zombies movies, I highly recommend MadS, which is on Shudder 🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ Tom from Stirling @6:46

i devour each and every book of his immediately upon release :)   6:48pm
Listener Robert: "The Matrix" was a good short subject framing a boring feature film. 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ chris in the redwoods @6:45

I understand Netflix is (finally) doing a Neuromancer! I hope they make it 80s-futuristic and not contemporary.   6:48pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ chris in the redwoods @6:47

Yep, me too 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @6:47

Which, like The Crazies, has a little more claim on dystopia. 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
Handy Haversack: I seem to be the only one who hated The Matrix.   6:48pm
MKT in Inwood: Don’t forget Max Headroom: the megacorporation was ZikZak — “We Make Everything You Need, You Need Everything We Make” 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:48

oh. my. god! that is fantastic news! :) 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:48

I didn't like it that much. Fun effects, it felt kind of padded to me. 🤖 ♥ 6:49pm
ultradamno:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:48

Well, keeping The Sandman going much longer is probably out of the question (though I do hope Selick's Ocean At The End Of The Lane still happens) ♥ 6:50pm
PaulRobeson1925: Why for example does Ireland not have a film industry and show Irish movies in their theaters? Why is it Accountant 2 and Warfare? 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
chris in the redwoods: battle royale is great!   6:50pm
chresti: Lord of the rings 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
ultradamno: There was a train in Hunger Games... ♥ 6:50pm
Troy: Battle Royal is a classic! ♥ 6:50pm
Johnny Walsh: "Empty Metal" Must See! 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
tim: Oh yeah! Battle Royale was a good watch.   6:51pm
Larrson Arrows: Your talking about the matrix. I don't know if you already did strange candy. I'm from Oregon so I can't really talk to you.   6:51pm
David (in London): Children of Men, a grim UK dystopian gem. 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
Spikey BXL:

↳ ultradamno @6:50

No food car though   6:51pm
Listener Robert: I notice the dystopian movie you're all overlooking, which in my experience is like a projective test: "They Live". 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @6:50

Speaking of dystopian sequeling...of course the original books were a trilogy...but it has kept going. ♥ 6:52pm
Johnny Walsh:

↳ Listener Robert @6:51

You betcha. 🤖 ♥ 6:52pm
tim: The Thing! 🤖 ♥ 6:52pm
ultradamno: I'm here for a projective test and to chew bubblegum! ♥ 6:52pm
The Butterman: Fireball! Fireball! ♥ 6:53pm
PaulRobeson1925:

↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:50

Accountant 2 is Dystopia and any time you see machine gun in a film. Retched 6:54pm
morphe': Richard Dawson was also in Hogan's Heroes 🤖 ♥ 6:54pm
chris in the redwoods: Black Mirror is an absolute treasure 🤖 ♥ 6:54pm
Handy Haversack: Pretty sure it was before the BD dog. 🤖 ♥ 6:54pm
ultradamno: The Waldo Moment is the ep I keep going back to, and one of the more flat-out dystopian 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark, Dan, all.   6:55pm
Larrson Arrows: I was thinking about brain candy not strange candy. 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
tim: Thank Mark and Dan!   6:55pm
toni denzo: How about ranx ♥ 6:55pm
Henry Hudson's Distant Relative: Good God. I just had a flash. Some (evil?) genius uploads the entire WFMU archives (playlists, chats, etc.) into an AI agent. Maybe delete this, Mark. 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
ultradamno: Though this will get us into the single best TV show in history: The Twilight Zone 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Dan! 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Deano de los Muertos: Great show, thanks Mark and Dan   6:56pm
drew: Dawson was a comedian and actor before Feud. I think the womanizing thing was as much character/schtick as anything else. 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
ultradamno: mastodon.social...

mastodon.social...

♥ 6:56pm
Troy: Great show! Thanks. ♥ 6:57pm
bleubombersune: Mark and Dan great discussion. All stray safe and be well   6:57pm
Tom from Stirling: The new Westworld is very good. ♥ 6:57pm
Mike Sin: Fantastic show! Appreciate the suggestions. 6:57pm
morphe': Hearing Dr Who ... thinking QUARTERMAS and also the Dalek films ... War of the Wotlds too.. 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Spikey BXL: Mark, Dan ⭐⭐⭐ 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
ultradamno: Rollerball! Soylent Green!   6:58pm
Fredericks: No mention of Brazil?   6:58pm
Maarie in Chicago: Thanks, Dan, and Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
chris in the redwoods: oh, they're listening! lol
thanks, Mark and Dan! 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
ultradamno:

↳ Fredericks @6:58

Well, I did 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Spikey BXL: It was a coup brick   6:58pm
David (in London): Great show both. 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ chris in the redwoods @6:58

As long as they pledge.   6:59pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Fredericks @6:58

next time ♥ 6:59pm
PaulRobeson1925: Great team chemistry, Dan & Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:58

of course, because of doge, they can only pledge $1 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
ultradamno: They Follow might qualify...the first is more a curse movie 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @6:59

Smile 2 seems to be going in that direction too 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Mark and Dan!!! 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
ultradamno: And just for robots. Ex-Machina and Companion 🤖 ♥ 7:01pm
ultradamno: Companion my fav of the year so far (have not seen Sinners yet, but going this week)....also liked The Monkey 🤖 ♥ 7:03pm
ultradamno: (if Ex-Machina is boys need to fear their sexbots, Companion is sexbots need to fear their boys) 🤖 ♥ 9:21am
ultradamno: It just occurred to me...no one mention RoboCop....what a robocopout!