Chillpak Hollywood Hour #288
November 19, 2012 | 
Author Today’s show is one of those special episodes where your friends in podcasting get on a roll and throw out the structure in favor of an organic, enlivening exchange that still manages to touch on such topics as The PEACE Fund (Protecting, Educating and Aiding Children Everywhere), the “Looper effect”, General David Petraeus and sex scandals, the most unfortunate entertainment headline in recent memory, news from HBO’S “The Newsroom”, the Daniel Craig “Bond” films, and the Sean Connery “Bond” films.
There is an “Explanation of the Week” involving Mitt Romney and there is a lengthy debate over 007′s latest big-screen adventure.
The theme of this week’s show? If you don’t stand for something, you’re likely to Skyfall for anything!
This week on YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour.
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Dear Guys,
very interesting episode, particularly the question of do you know someone and Phil’s point about people projecting their hopes onto Obama (as he sought to elicit from them), they loved what they thought he was, not who he actually is. Which is the nature of infatuation, which is volatile and illusory and always doomed, which might say alot about our democracies, elections, what we expect and what’s expected to be delivered. Infatuation with this or that commodity and watching prices sky rocket then crash is also the same short-term market idiocy that’s at the free-market heart of our economies, be in stocks or bank loans (except to old school businesses like oil which demand and get long-term investments). Maybe it’s a positive form of shock therapy, instead of smashing countries up and terrifying people into accepting economic and political privatisation and austerity, you delude people into buying shit or voting for shit. Same outcome for both scenarios, though.