Liberal souls are people who are genuinely curious and interested in the world, they find vanity boring, and they live to see themselves and others flourish existentially in their finite time on the planet.

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In this episode we dive into the fabulous 2016 film Arrival; directed by Denis Villenueve and based on a short story by Ted Chiang. In this episode we discuss the contextual nature of language, seeing the big picture, education and learning, fractal reality, the importance of failure, the importance of excellence, foresight, choosing the hard path, and having an existential meta awareness of death all the time. I am stoked because, for the first time in three years, David is back on the show! Thanks for listening!

Big thanks to Graham King for joining me on episode 90!

In this episode we chat about the great film Boogie Nights (1997) by Paul Thomas Anderson. In this episode we wrangle with notions of:

• The essence of Faustian bargain being that you don't even ask for what you really want, and the isolation that comes with not knowing what you want
• The importance of apologies
• Exploitation
• The desire to make something good
• The state of film and quality films
• Stigma
• Plucking knowledge and art from the teeth of taboo and custom
• Surrogate parental instincts
• Flattery from insecurity
• Great films giving homage to other great films
• The mindblowing cinema that is Boogie Nights

Additional Spoiler: Magnolia - 8:20

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