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David B Hobbs

@deebeehobbs.bsky.social

been enjoying Middlemarch as a novel about why you shouldn’t marry H.P. Lovecraft

an excerpt from Chapter 49 of Middlemarch by George Eliot:

“Well, you know, Casaubon was a little twisted about Ladislaw. Ladislaw has told me the reason—dislike of the bent he took, you know—Ladislaw didn’t think much of Casaubon’s notions, Thoth and Dagon—that sort of thing: and I fancy that Casaubon didn’t like the independent position Ladislaw had taken up. I saw the letters between them, you know. Poor Casaubon was a little buried in books—he didn’t know the world.”

November 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

New pod up on the reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York City Mayor:

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94: New York is Now

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 11/11/2025 · 57m

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November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

We watched and discussed Abel Ferrara’s 4:44 Last Day on Earth and found much that was enjoyable:

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93: Time I had Some Time Alone

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 11/04/2025 · 52m

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November 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

New pod up on Gattaca plus I do a startling Macron ventriloquism while we discuss the Louvre robbery:

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91: I'm Looking Through You

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October 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

My cohost and I BRUTALLY disagree about the wonderful film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior:

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89: Life is a Highway

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 10/07/2025 · 52m

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October 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

New podcast up on the possibility of AIRBORNE RABIES:

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88: What's in Your Head?

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 09/30/2025 · 45m

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September 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

New pod ep on Triangle of Sadness:

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86: How Can I Bring You to the Sea of Madness

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 09/16/2025 · 50m

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September 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

On Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the film that anticipated and created many of the current anxieties about AI:

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85: On that Day the Dead Shall Wake Thee

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 09/09/2025 · 54m

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September 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

New pod ep on Ancient Egyptian ideas about the afterlife. Plus anecdotes about Reebok Pumps and brain-tormenting hypotheticals about life after death:

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83: A Brief History of the Afterlife Four Ancient Egypt

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 08/26/2025 · 50m

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August 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

Grab the bull by the…antlers?!

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August 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

A Brief History of the Afterlife Part Three: the Epic of Gilgamesh, Mesopotamian afterlife, and the quest for immortality:

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82: A Brief History of the Afterlife Three

The End of the World with Michael and Stu · Episode

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August 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

New podcast on prehistoric ideas of the afterlife, featuring discussions of Neanderthal and Denisovans, cave art, grave goods, Göbekli Tepe, and so much more:

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81: A Brief History of the Afterlife Two

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 08/12/2025 · 52m

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August 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

New pod on Albert Brooks’s Defending Your Life:

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80: A Brief History of the Afterlife One

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 08/05/2025 · 53m

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August 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

New pod ep on how belief in chemtrails allows people to avoid accepting the reality of human-influenced climate change, with forays into Wilhelm Reich and Naomi Wolf:

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79: I Still Dream of Orgonon

Podcast Episode · The End of the World with Michael and Stu · 07/29/2025 · 48m

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July 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

There should be a name for that feeling you get when drinking a liquid and you suddenly realize there is something solid (and unexpected) floating in said liquid as it enters your mouth. Something more specific than "total horror."

July 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

New pod on 28 Days Later focusing on its roots in British Romanticism and its overlap with out collective experience of Covid lockdowns:

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75: The Days Are Long And the Nights Will Throw You Away

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July 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM

Stu

@stuwatson.bsky.social

New pod on billionaires’ brains and ludicrous tech utopianism. Plus I make a coveted reference to William Shatner’s Tek War:

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