Episode 647 • • 1:50:58 - 1:57:30
647: Flood the Zone
Charlie Kaufman, BAFTA Speech and Marketing Culture
The hosts play a 2011 BAFTA speech by screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, who critiques the modern world as being built entirely on marketing and mass-produced entertainment. Kaufman argues that movies and media are designed solely to sell products, leaving people "lonely, empty, and scared." The hosts discuss Kaufman's perspective as a form of "hope" through honesty.