Break Room Review: Recent Episodes

Break Room Review Crew- Josh and Mike

No one wants to listen to shop talk!

Pop open the cooler, get some shade and listen to Josh and Mike discuss books and articles they've read in between knocking it out at work.

It beats hearing about who took the last pair of ear plugs.

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We talk Martin A. Lee's book Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond. 

The 1960's history appears even more relevant in the current 2020 social and political climate. 

Mike here, the audio got a little rough and we had to cut the show short. I think the audio we have is fun. I hope you enjoy. 


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The Crew talks Jason Schreier's Blood Sweat and Pixels, a book about video games. "You know" gets said a lot too.

Kinda Sources:

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sweat-Pixels-Triumphant-Turbulent/dp/0062651234

kotaku.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardew_Valley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shovel_Knight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU12_OWH7bA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYfe9caNqfA


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Take a load off and get some AC!

This Break Room Review, Josh and Mike talk Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon. An imprisoned communist revolutionary, Nikolai Salmanovich Rubashov, accounts his life as he awaits a show trail for his life.  Arthur Koestler, a former communist party member based many of the events and scenarios in Darkness at Noon on 1930's communist party events and people but never uses actual names.  

Disclaimer: Break Room Review will not buy you ice cream and give you a hug after you listen to this one.  


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Why talk about an article discussing a 23 year old movie? It beats talk'n shop.

Josh and Mike take off the safety vest, sit down in the break room and talk about David Roth's recent article in the New Yorker.  The 1997 Paul Verhoeven's film "Starship Troopers" has never been more relevant as faceless bugs terrify humanity. Or is it humanity terrifying the bugs? 

David Roth article: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-starship-troopers-aligns-with-our-moment-of-american-defeat

Red Letter Media video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkEdyq3UE5M

Lincoln Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QotxGy4CKk

Brent Lang article: https://variety.com/2020/film/news/polly-platt-sexual-harassment-paul-verhoeven-1234707039/


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