{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hit Factory","title":"UNLOCKED: Contact feat. Aaron Thorpe","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/15924ff8\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":7491,"description":"Podcaster, writer, and Twitter's Most Wanted Man™ Aaron Thorpe returns to discuss Robert Zemeckis's 1997 science fiction masterpiece 'Contact' starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey. It's a thrilling, expansive film that explores Big Questions about science and faith while maintaining a profoundly moving sense of wonder throughout.\r\n\r\nWe discuss Contact's origins as both film treatement and eventual novel by the brilliant Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan, explore the film's ideological opposition to the neoliberal hegemony of the mid-90s, and make a case for the necessity of a post-scarcity (perhaps even spiritual) perspective to the success of a humanist political project. \r\n\r\nFollow Aaron Thorpe on Twitter (while you can!).\r\n\r\nListen and Subscribe to Trillbilly Worker's Party and Support the show on Patreon.\r\n\r\nListen, Subscribe to, and Support Struggle Session.\r\n\r\nRead Aaron Thorpe at his Substack Space + Light.\r\n\r\n.\r\n\r\n.\r\n\r\n.\r\n\r\n.\r\n\r\nOur theme song is \"Mirror\" by Chris Fish","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/w3xxeT7j6QImFQd9WPi27NuU4F6pBtgBGrXYp2WG5-k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzEyMTczLzE2MTMz/NTY5NjEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}