We Love Dick: A Philip K. Dick Podcast
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We Love Dick: A Philip K. Dick Podcast
Join Wa and Foot on their quest to read through all 124 Philip K. Dick short stories. Tangents, foul language, and overly personal anecdotes are expected.
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44. War Game
Wa issues an open Monopoly challenge to all listeners. Foot realizes videogames have hamstrung him with toxic coping mechanisms. Momma E gets highbrow...
43. The Hanging Stranger
We're joined by Regan, FPS killer and socialist, to discuss The Hanging Stranger. Things get sentimental as we recall moments of pure joy, scruitinize...
42. If There Were No Benny Cemoli
We have seen Dune 2 and will discuss shortly. In the meantime, enjoy the story of Benny Cemoli -- a non-existant cult leader invented by the omniscien...
41. Faith of our Fathers
We're back to fulfill a listener request from Rumi J! Under discussion in this episode: the mind/body problem, transcending existential dread through...
40. Service Call
If you had to travel 2000 years into the past, what knowledge would you use to dominate the ancient world?
If you met a time-traveling repairman...
39. Strange Eden
Pussy so good it reduces rugged explorers to tamed livestock. Aliens so old they don't even remember how their technology works. A cosmos so vast even...
38. Your Appointment Will Yesterday
We're back to talk about the mechanics of backwards-time, hate on Christopher Nolan, and ask hypothetical questions about immortality.
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37. The Preserving Machine
The gang is back to examine 1969's THE PRESERVING MACHINE. We talk about the collapse of society, what survives, Trolls World Tour, and potential new...
36. Psi-Man Heal My Child!
Happy Holidays!
In this episode: the benefits of city living, the theory of the x-gene, and we continue our discussion of how an indivi...
35.5 Stargate
We welcomed Producer Cary on the microphone for the first time to talk about Stargate. We talk about the wilhelm scream, 5th avenue candy bars, and as...
35.b A Scanner Darkly part 2
You know what it is. Part 2 of A Scanner Darkly
We talk about the back half of the novel and a bit about the movie.
Emai...
35.a A Scanner Darkly part 1
The wld dudes and dudette are back to deliver the big D - Substance D. In this discussion, we dive into the dark underbelly of down under California a...
34.5 The Thing
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, we're talking about John Carpenter's THE THING and its source material Who Goes There?
We talk the mechanics...
34. The Crawlers
The Crawlers!
Does anyone read these? I stress over which parts of the episode to highlight, but it feels entirely possible that no one ever eve...
33.5 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
As promised, we read John le Carré's 355 page spy novel. We speculate on what's real, how difficult it is to seduce people, if it's pulp or not, and...
33. A World of Talent
Momma E is back to talk about precognition, time travel, and Big Noodle. Email us at welovedickpodcast@gmail.com
follow us on twitter @wldpod...
32.5 Raised by Wolves
The second bonus episode! We're ostensibly discussing HBO Max's newish Sci-Fi show, but we mostly spend the time praising our king, Ridley Scott, and...
32: The Last of the Masters
In this 1953 story, PKD ruminates on anarchy, technology, and war. We, in turn, gab about SLC Punk, how we'd fare in the Mad Max wasteland, and wheth...
31: The Eyes Have It
Foot and Wa talk Jackass, Dave Bautista's Drax, Dick's sense of humor, and answer listener emails.
Wa's thing: The Afterparty
Foot...
30. Tony and the Beetles
Happy new year! In this episode we do our best to get cancelled by discussing culpability, racism, and model building.
Follow us on twit...
29: Fair Game
In this week's episode we read Dick's 1953 story FAIR GAME. We talk about the history of math and science, the Junior Olympics, credulity and the Jude...
28: IMPOSTOR
In this installment of WLD we dive into what's a realistic reaction to extreme circumstances, the merits of The Last Duel, if it's possible to identif...
27: Eletric Dreams: The Father Thing
In this episode we delve into the mechanics of pod people replacement, Patrick Stewart's career, relating to your kids via sports facts, and Space Jam...
Episode 26: Sales Pitch (Electric Dreams)
Momma E returns to talk about another story adapted into an episode of Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams. We discuss how advertising makes us feel, the...
Misadjustment
We read Philip K Dick's 1957 "Misadjustment"
We discuss who you can trust when on the run from the law, the "assassins" game, weird sexual sente...
The Days of Perky Pat
We're Back!
In this episode we discuss the power of nostalgia, the rules of board games, and leaving society behind to live an examined...
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (Total Recall)
Join us as we discuss the inspiration for the Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger classic Total Recall. In this episode, we talk about memory, Michael Ironsid...
The Alien Mind
The latter half of our first back to back recording session. In which we discuss the morality of pet ownership, good/evil splits, and very little of t...
Beyond Lies The Wub
In this episode: keeping animals alive at sea, ego-less creatures, and addiction.
Listen to the Dennis's neanderthal voice
Email us at wel...
Electric Dreams: (The) Impossible Planet
Living up to our biweekly schedule, we're back with another Electric Dreams episode. This time, we discuss The Impossible Planet from 1953 - which is...
Electric Dreams: The Hood Maker
Momma E is back once again for a deep dive into Dick’s Electric Dreams. This week we’re reading The Hood Maker. We discuss where thoughts come from, w...
Oh, to Be a Blobel!
Brand new guests! Bones and Roach join the cast as we discuss Nick at Nite, how to break up, organelles, and unicellular murder.
Again, our lev...
The Minority Report
Join Wa, Foot, and Momma E as they discuss The Minority Report. Really, they try to wrap their heads around a single time paradox for one hour. Do t...
Precious Artifact
Join us for a classic PKD diversion: Mars, interstellar war, conspiracy, and crippling depression. We discuss cats VS dogs, terminal illness, and wha...
Not by its Cover
Back again with a relatively short story about the metaphysical Martian wub. Join us as we discuss Deism, The Mummy, and the Spider-Man franchise.
A Little Something for us Tempunauts
In this Episode, Wa's boss (codename Deemer) joins us to discuss space flight, depression, Donnie Darko, and whether or not humans should be upgraded....
The Man in the High Castle (Part 2)
Double E is back in action as we FINALLY return to Man in the High Castle. We wrap up the novel with this episode, discussing two-dude-threesomes, Al...
The Adjustment Team
WLD welcomes it's fourth guest, Myrrh, to the show to discuss one of Dick's earliest stories. We touch on the mechanics of adjustment, the Mandela eff...
Return Match
Wa and Foot are back and spanning three time zones to bring in our next guest, Vaid. Join us as we discuss killer pinballs in "Return Match" while la...