Blast from the Past (1999)

Brendan Fraser Redux!

Episode 2 of the Science at the Movies podcast, hosted by Abigail James and Freda Werdiger, titled "Blast from the Past (1999)" was published on May 19, 2022 and runs 67 minutes.

May 19, 2022 ·67m · Science at the Movies

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Summary

It's been too long without our favourite comedy/adventure 90's hero, and this time he's joined by Alicia Silverstone. Meanwhile, Sissy Spacek is hamming it up in the basement with Christopher Walken, reading Dale Carnegie and Reader's Digest and developing an alcohol dependency. But Abi and Freda find a way to take this all very seriously. Cuban Missile Crisis? Terrifying! Fallout Shelters? Freaky and True! Tsar Bomba???? Get out of here!.It's party time in my radiation station..Here is some excellent material for you:Nukemap by Alex WellersteinVox videos on nuclear fallout shelters:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gKhm09PKPQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUcQ7hESI-M (Bert the Turtle)Cuban Missile Crisis:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UbVuTXg4CQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwnPo_A9LJA&t=2793s (Vasili Arkhipov and perspective of submariners in B59)Survey on Nuclear Fallout Sheltershttps://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/Songs about Fallout Sheltershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7N9JeH3SzEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFUqh7uF1G4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Description

It's been too long without our favourite comedy/adventure 90's hero, and this time he's joined by Alicia Silverstone. Meanwhile, Sissy Spacek is hamming it up in the basement with Christopher Walken, reading Dale Carnegie and Reader's Digest and developing an alcohol dependency. But Abi and Freda find a way to take this all very seriously. Cuban Missile Crisis? Terrifying! Fallout Shelters? Freaky and True! Tsar Bomba???? Get out of here!

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It's party time in my radiation station.

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Here is some excellent material for you:

Nukemap by Alex Wellerstein

Vox videos on nuclear fallout shelters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gKhm09PKPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUcQ7hESI-M (Bert the Turtle)

Cuban Missile Crisis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UbVuTXg4CQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwnPo_A9LJA&t=2793s (Vasili Arkhipov and perspective of submariners in B59)

Survey on Nuclear Fallout Shelters

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Songs about Fallout Shelters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7N9JeH3SzE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFUqh7uF1G4

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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