2024-04-12
55 分钟David Sirota, co-creator of the hit comedy Don’t Look Up, joins us to discuss his book Back to Our Future, about the massive political impact of ’80s pop culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hello, and welcome to episode 565 of Geek's Guide to the galaxy.
I'm David Barr Kirtley, author of the book save me, please and other stories.
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So again, the book is called save me, please and other stories, and its available now on Amazon.com.
and our guest today is David Sirota.
Hes the editor of the political news site the Lever, and his writing has appeared in jacobin magazine and the Guardian.
He served as Bernie Sanders speechwriter during the 2020 presidential campaign, and his podcast, Meltdown, about the 2008 financial crisis, was named one of the best podcasts of the year by the Atlantic.
And in this interview, well be discussing his work on the Netflix movie dont look up, about vacuous elites who ignore the danger of an approaching comet.
And his book back to our future, how the 1980s explained the world we live in now, our culture, our politics, our everything.
And now heres our interview with David Sirota.
All right, so were here with David Sirota.
Welcome to the show.
Thanks for having me.
Okay, so in your book back to our future, you talk about how as a kid, eighties pop culture was almost like your religion.
So tell us about that.
Yeah.