Episode 05: Literature for Aliens and Being Perfect
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President Jimmy Carter’s death reminds us of the Voyager spacecraft, specifically its “golden record” — a recording of scientific information about Earth and some of our planet’s greatest art. But it has no literature on it! Nate and Mason conspire to add some works of fiction for when aliens stumble upon Voyager’s husk floating in the distant galactic reaches. Nate also reviews Michael Schur’s How to Be Perfect, in which the The Good Place creator explores different schools of philosophical ethics in his quest to become a better person. We can relate.
Works Cited this episode:
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
Contact, Carl Sagan
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss
Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss
Fox in Socks, Dr. Seuss
Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn
The Shawshank Redemption, dir. Frank Darabont
The Magic Flute, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
Galaxy Quest, dir. Dean Parisot
King Lear, William Shakespeare
How to be Perfect, Michael Schur
Aristotle’s Ethics
The Apology of Socrates, Plato
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, dir. Ed Solomon
The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D’Oh of Homer, William Irwin, Mark T. Conrad and Aeon J. Skoble, editors
Chicken Soup for the Soul, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, editors
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig