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2001: A Space Podyssey
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Podcast dedicated to the history, science and legacy of the all-time classic film and one of the greatest works of art of the twentieth century, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick’s ”2001: A Space Odyssey.” Featuring in-depth explorations into the films, books, and comics of the ”Odyssey” universe and the broader works of Clarke and Kubrick, along with the real-life science behind it and the latest developments in space exploration!
Episodes
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Episode 70 - MARVEL "2010" Comics with Eli Schwab and Virginia Smith (2010: The Year We Make Content)
Our friend Cosmic Lion comics publisher Eli Schwab and artist & animator Virginia Smith are back to help us dig into the the first volume of MARVEL's adaptation of "2010" from 1985. Follow along with the pictures on the episode page! We also hear what the original writer J. M. DeMatteis and...
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Episode 69 - My Bowman's Back (2010: The Year We Make Content)
After being trapped for months, Brad has finally cracked step 10 and escaped the Zero Gravity toilet, and the team's back to celebrate the return of our favorite steely-eyed missile man... Keir Dullea! And the actor who plays him, David Bowman! Though Dullea's interviews and Kubrick's notes...
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FREE PATREON GIFT - "Destination Space" (1959) Commentary
For this festive Patreon bonus, it's another first reaction commentary of a movie/TV show we've never seen. This month, we're not sure which it is. It's Rip Van Ronkle's "Destination Space!" The effects look just about as real as that name but wow, are there some cool - and familiar - designs…
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FREE PATREON GIFT - "2061" Introduction and Chapters 1 & 2 - Arthur C. Clarke (July '25 Book Club with Eli Schwab)
The party never stops at Clavius Base on Patreon, where we put out an extra hour + of extra episodes AND a community fanzine every month! For this free holiday bonus, join us for the inaugural "2061" Book Club episode, co-hosted by our friend Cosmic Lion Comics publisher Eli Schwab! We'll be…
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Episode 68 - Max Meets the Monolith (2010: The Year We Make Content)
We've finally reached the point where we have to address Max addressing TMA-2, preferably not claws-out with that crunchy pod. The additional meanings of the Monolith in 2010, how it's activated, bu what (or whom)...and the additional mysteries of "Big Brother." The massive differences between…
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Episode 67 - Stanley Kubrick's Numbers with R.H. Vatcher (part three)
We're back from fall break to wrap up our discussion with film scholar R.H. Vatcher on the hidden numbers and meanings in Stanley Kubrick's films. (Apologies for the variable sound quality - the AE-35 unit was faulty.) Robert defines model theory and the possible games Kubrick is playing, along...
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Episode 66 - Stanley Kubrick's Numbers with R.H. Vatcher (part two)
We're back with Kubrick scholar R.H. Vatcher to conclude our discussion of 42, model theory, abstract math, and dive into the occurences meaning of 57 in "Full Metal Jacket." The concept of democide, and darkest tragedies, perversions and horrors of war encoded into "Full Metal Jacket." Plus…
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Episode 65 - Stanley Kubrick's Numbers with R.H. Vatcher (part one)
We know Stanley Kubrick was a chess player and logic puzzle fanatic. What conscious and subconscious meanings did he bury in his later films through numbers and patterns? What is the role of model theory? Who better to lead us through the various bridges of this numbers maze than a structural...
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FREE PATREON BONUS - Pinocchio HAL and the Convention Crusade with Virginia Smith
For July's first Patreon Bonus episode, we continue our conversation with Virginia Smith and try to determine if HAL gets to become "a real boy." The differences in how Kubrick and Hyams treat HAL and Discovery. How both directors deal with space and Space, and somehow create that Odyssey sense…
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Episode 64 - HAL Resurrection, Act IV: The Chandra Factor with Virginia Smith (2010: The Year We Make Content)
We're kicking off a summer of guests with our pal Virginia Smith, here to take on a very special subject: the father and son duo of Dr. Chandra and HAL! How Dr. Chandra's relationship with SAL prefaces her brother's return and sets him up bibically & mythologically as both the chosen one and the...
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Episode 63 - HAL Resurrection, Act III: Absolution
Looking intimately at the scenes of HAL's death and rebirth, one theme stands out above all others: purpose. We all need a purpose in life and so do Heuristic Algorithmic Learning machines. The more sentient we are, the more complex that purpose becomes. So it's no wonder our red-eyed amnesiac is...
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Episode 62 - HAL Resurrection, Act II: The Return of Douglas Rain (2010: The Year We Make Content)
The sequel is written, the crew is hired, the red light is plugged in. To bring HAL back to life, they'll need that secret sauce: the Canadian theatre superstar that is Douglas Rain! But first, they have to find him. Reshaping HAL's character and choices from the book to script of 2010, the...
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Episode 61 - HAL Resurrection, Act I: The Mystery of Pod G
In anticipation of Dr. Chandra reactivating everyone's favorite psychotic processing unit, we're reevaluating the story so far. Since we last saw HAL, we've read more Clarke, researched more on '2001' and '2010,' talked to more guests, and, of course, we've gotten to know SAL. What we've learned...
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Gold Easter Egg (FREE PATREON BONUS MINI)
A free surprise for your Easter basket! Become a "Kuritsa" member on PATREON to open the other eggs! Help children now with UNICEF Find more at spacepodyssey.com BlueSky @spacepodyssey Instagram @spacepodyssey2001 Facebook at @spacepodyssey Twitter @spacepodyssey email us at...
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Episode 60 - Zip Line to DISCOVERY (2010: The Year We Make Content)
We're trying to keep it together on the solar system's most extreme theme park ride: the spaceship-coupling triangle Zip Line! As we get set to board DISCOVERY, we're looking into LEONOV's mission directive and the humanitarian cooperation between Russian and American crews. Bak on Earth, Victor...
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FREE PATREON BONUS MINI: This Week in 2001! April 1, 1968
This week in 2001 History! Wondering what kind of goodies are available on Patreon? There's already an hour and a half of bonus audio up there, and here's a bonus fun-size freebie! Check out a free taste of our occasional Patreon closeup on specific days when movie history was being made. 57…
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BONUS ANNOUNCEMENT: PODYSSEY PATREON IS LIVE! (not an April Fool's joke)
It's not an April Fool's Joke! We're on PATREON...seriously! Check out the Luxury Pod to Clavius with nonstop service to the lunar base at two convenient subscription levels! Find us at Patreon.com/spacepodyssey HOT FRIES tier ($2 a month) -bonus episodes -access to the ship's commissary...
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Episode 59 - Marketing An Odyssey with Virginia Smith, Part 2 (2010: The Year We Make Content)
Flash back 40 years to the Spring of 1985, when "2010" fever went worldwide and everyone was making contact! Follow the pictures on the episode page for a few surprises! From cereal to Crunch 'N Munch, from mail-in clothing to calendars, international posters and stickers! From Ford concept cars…
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Episode 58 - Marketing An Odyssey with Virginia Smith: Part 1 (2010: The Year We Make Content)
Virginia Smith is taking us back to 1984 to explore the official “2010” studio marketing guide! Budweiser, Apple, J .C. Penney, Target, Walmart, Kinko’s, Sheraton, and B. Dalton are just a few of the many familiar brands clamoring for a piece of MGM/UA’s massive “Space Odyssey” campaign. Follow…
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Episode 57 - Lost in Translation (2010: The Year We Make Content)
For optimum silliness, follow along with the images! When Dr. Kovalev threw his phone at us, we thought he was just sick and tired of following Brad around the ship translating all the Russian signage. Turns out, he installed Google Lens so we can finally figure it out for ourselves. Learn…
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Episode 56 - Helen, Bob, James & John: An Actor's Life (2010: The Year We Make Content)
An inspiring, surprising, and occasionally silly hour with four of the finest actors in film history. Thanks to the Peter Hyams - Penny Perry secret sauce of perfect casting, we’re exploring the legacy and creative lives of four acting legends: Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, James McEachin, and John...
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Episode 55 - Spacewalking is a Game of Kuritsa (2010: The Year We Make Content)
SEE: Walter & Max, The Amazing Floating Chicken Tightrope Act! LEONOV has reached DISCOVERY and is docked a safe distance away. Strap on your helmets as we join Drs. Curnow and Brailovsky outside the hatch on the ultimate thousand-yard trip through the void... The similarities to real-life EVAs,...
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Episode 54 - Europa and the Pirate Clipper (2010: The Year We Make Content)
“All these worlds are yours, except Europa…” The Europa Clipper successfully launched in October, its mission: determine the habitability of Jupiter’s ice moon and the potential for drinkable water underneath that ice. With that comes the almost certainty of some form of life under the icy…
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Episode 53 - Jack Kirby's Space Odyssey with comic book publisher Eli Schwab (part 2)
After orbiting Jupiter's violent volcanic moon, we've seen IO from both sides now. Back in range and resuming regular transmissions, we present by popular demand another slice of Odyssey aficionado and world famous comic book publisher, Eli Schwab! Digging into Jack Kirby's dynamic, sometimes...
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Episode 52 - Jack Kirby's Space Odyssey with comic book publisher Eli Schwab (part 1)
Marvel Comics legend and trailblazer Jack Kirby is known for his work with Joe Simon and Stan Lee, creating Captain America, The Fantastic Four, Thor, The Hulk, The Silver Surfer, and countless other unforgettable superheroes. But in the 1970s, he also created a comic book adaptation (and...
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Episode 51 - Syd Mead & The Art of "2010" (2010: The Year We Make Content)
We've got the Need for Mead... IT'S the return of the Captain of Concept Design, Syd Mead! There are so many fabulous illustrations in the "Art of 2010" book and no way we could fit them all in one episode. This time, we're checking out designs for the aerobraking sequence, from detachable…
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Episode 50 - Aerobraking (2010: The Year We Make Content)
Refreshed and lava-burned from a red hot Io summer, we're back on the Leonov to take the ultimate orbital roller coaster ride - aerobraking! As Soviet-American relations warm and mutual respect grows among scientists aboard the ship, the themes of loyalty, common humanity, and faith in each other...
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Episode 49 - A Fan Odyssey with Virginia Smith (2010: The Year We Make Content)
"2010" was MGM's major motion picture of the year, with major hype, media train, and even merch (!?) Leap back to December 1984 with Virginia Smith, and experience what it was like to be a young fan of the most influential science fiction of the 20th century, right at the peak of the party! Hear...
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Episode 48 - HAL & SAL with Virginia Smith (2010: The Year We Make Content)
Science fiction artist, video game animator, and media science communicator Virginia Smith joins us to discuss the world's most famous computer twins. While HAL was off flying a spaceship to Jupiter, incapable of error, his sister SAL-9000 was back in Urbana, Illinois identifying each of his...
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Episode 47 - LEONOV: Meet The Crew! (2010: The Year We Make Content)
We've examined the ship, now let's get to know our cosmonaut crew mates aboard LEONOV. Here are the stories of our super-scientist, coffee-chugging Russian roomies and the fascinating lives of the great actors who played them. (Aside from Captain Kirbuk, who is, of course, "The Queen.") Hope...
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Episode 46 - The Road to Arecibo (2010: The Year We Make Content)
The collapse of the Arecibo Observatory in 2020 marked the end of an era for generations of astronomers, climatologists, SETI researchers, and space enthusiasts. From 1963 until its closure in 2023, Arecibo, Puerto Rico housed the world’s largest radio telescope, and “2010” was originally going…
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Episode 45 - Solar Eclipse 2024!
Monday, April 8, marks the biggest, longest, most widely visible solar eclipse to cross the United States in a long time, and the last one for 20 years! Celebrate the eclipse experience, the history, myth and lore, and amazing science that only comes in that breathtaking few minutes. Tips on how…
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Episode 44 - Syd Mead, Visual Futurist (2010: The Year We Make Content)
For our first look at the book "The Official Art of 2010," we pay tribute to the genius of concept artist Syd Mead, his career in industry and in entertainment, and his unique vision. He imagined not only cars, spinners, ships of sea, air and space, but immersive now worlds around them.…
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Episode 43 - Sealab 2010: At Home With Heywood (2010: The Year We Make Content)
Haunted by his past, Dr. Floyd moves to Hawaii and makes a new life with marine biologist wife, Caroline, and young son, Christopher. Still healing from years of tragedy, he finds himself at a crossroads to reinvent his purpose. Taking the last opportunity to atone for all that had gone horribly...
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Episode 42 - 2024: Odysseus in Space (A Year on the Moon)
We're back on the Moon! Thanks to the success of our aptly named "Odysseus" lander, NASA and Intuitive Machines are kicking off a year full of amazing lunar landings and experiments. As the crew of Artemis II prepare to launch next September, what could be our future on the Moon? What are the...
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Episode 41 - The Very Large Array Telescope (2010: The Year We Make Content)
Sunrise at the Very Large Array Telescope (VLA), and Drs. Floyd and Moisevitch have to plan a bi-lateral salvage operation between opposing world powers in less than two minutes. It's 2010's new space race, as filmed during the Cold War in '84. Dial in on the real-life function and history of the...
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Episode 40 - 2010: The Year We Make Content
2010 Year has docked! We’re celebrating the 40th anniversary of Peter Hyams & Arthur Clarke’s knockout followup, 2010: The Year We Make Contact with a year of exciting discoveries following the team who rediscover Discovery One! And, of course, we still have plenty more to come on 2001. This…
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Episode 39 - Behind The Concierge Desk
Checking in to the universe's most exclusive hotel, it's time to unpack, explore, and maybe play a little chess. Is that a Louis XVI throne pod? Dave and Frank's relationship, and humans' innate need for each other. Long-term isolation: is it tao, torment, or vacation? Gilded cage or petrie dish,...
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Episode 38 - In the Orbit of the Odyssey with R.H. Vatcher
R.H. Vatcher is BACK to toast in the New Year with a smorgasbord of insights from his 2019: The Odyssey Brief: BREACHING THE HULL OF DISCOVERY PARTS III AND IV. Uncovering the many cultural elements revolving around this elliptical journey, from Jungian breakthrough to the groundbreaking…
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BONUS SPECIAL: A Clavius Christmas
Crusty socks hung with care, meat tube trimmed, hot fries smoking on an electrical fire... We're ready for Christmas, but is HAL? Help children now with UNICEF Find more at spacepodyssey.com BlueSky @spacepodyssey Instagram @spacepodyssey2001 Facebook at @spacepodyssey Twitter @spacepodyssey…
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Episode 37 - Beyond The Beyond: ”2001” and the Future of VFX
Every science fiction movie since "2001" has been inspired, directly or indirectly by it, often even employing its original visual effects pioneers. For one artist, slit-scan was just the beginning... Cinerama to IMAX to the future of moving images with MAGI - Douglas Trumbull has always been at...
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Episode 36 - A Super SKYLAB 50th Anniversary!
Step right up, folks, step right up - following our interview with Victor Scherrer, it's the SKYLAB Super Show!! SEE: the famous Commander Conrad and his parasol acrobatics duo, Weitz & Kerwin! SEE: Big Al Bean the weightless weightlifter, with "Shades" Garriott & Jumpin' Jack Lausma and the twin...
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Ridley Scott Birthday Bonus!
Today (November 30) marks the birthday of one of the greatest filmmakers of all time (and Brad's old boss), Sir Ridley Scott! To celebrate, we've dug into the archives to hear just how much his cinematic journey has echoed our very own Stanley Kubrick. From "2001" to "Alien" and "Blade Runner,"...
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Episode 35 - SKYLAB Spectacular with NRL’s Victor Scherrer
On this very special Thanksgiving episode we have a legendary guest, SKYLAB all-star Victor Scherrer of the Naval Research Laboratory, who co-designed the solar cameras for the Apollo Telescope Mount. He shares with us an intimate history of the program, the challenges and the victories of...
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Episode 34 - Behind The Beyond: VFX of the Infinite
Would there even be a "Space Odyssey" without the inestimable impact of two educational short films: "Universe" (1960) and "To The Moon and Beyond" (1964)? Not without the (Oscar-winning?) all-star team making history: Douglas Trumbull, Con Pederson, and Wally Gentleman! The agony and the…
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Episode 33 - Jupiter and Beyond
The pod has left Discovery, and now it's just us, Dave, and Gyorgy Ligeti. Through the monolith and into the stargate, we're hurtling past exploding nubulae ... alien civilizations ... Scotland? How far beyond Jupiter is the infinite, or has it been right here the whole time? And how similar is...
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Episode 32 - A ”Shining” HALLOWEEN with R.H. Vatcher
It's Halloween, and it's "The Shining." What we talk about with author R.H. Vatcher is so terrifying and twisted, instead of a summary here's an episode Bingo card. Play along at home (if you dare...) B-I-N-G-O -Glacier National Park -NOW (National Organization for Women) -shadow as allegory…
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Episode 31 - Through The REDRUM Looking Glass with R.H. Vatcher (”The Shining” and ”2001”)
"2001" and "The Shining" are the ultimate twin enigmas of cinema, but how much of Kubrick's commentary is actually onscreen? Turns out, an ashtray is not just an ashtray. R.H. Vatcher reveals the clues hidden throughout the labyrinth of images within images. Take the plunge with us through the...
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Episode 30 - Pictures Within Pictures with R.H. Vatcher (”Full Metal Jacket” and ”The Shining”)
This episode contains discussion and clips of dramatized physical and verbal abuse, murder, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised. Call 988 or go to 988lifeline.org to get 24/7 call, text and chat access to trained crisis counselors who can help people experiencing suicidal, substance use,...
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Episode 29 - At The 1964 World’s Fair with R.H. Vatcher
It's our first in a series with author R.H. Vatcher! We're talking about all the connections he has revealed between 2001 & the 1964 World's Fair. Also, Katharina Kubrick's memories of the fair and the elusive history of IBM's connection to the film. These are some deep discoveries and crazy...
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Podcast dedicated to the history, science and legacy of the all-time classic film and one of the greatest works of art of the twentieth century, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick’s ”2001: A Space Odyssey.” Featuring in-depth explorations into the films, books, and comics of the ”Odyssey” universe and the broader works of Clarke and Kubrick, along with the real-life science behind it and the latest developments in space exploration!
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