Best Tola Marts Podcasts (2024)

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13: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1:29:51

2M ago1:29:51

1:29:51

Tola and Tim are joined by our wonderful editor, Paul, to discuss the 1984 cult classic, "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension." Featuring an all-star cast including Jeff Goldblum as one of the least-weird characters, Robocop's Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd as John Bigbooté, Yakov Smirnoff, Ellen Barkin, Clancy…

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12: Aniara 1:31:13

4M ago1:31:13

1:31:13

The boys talk “Call Your Boyfriend,” ABBA, The Swedish Chef, tasty pastries, the best dates to visit Minnesota, “The Rapture,” bleak (and unwatchable?) movies from Scandinavian directors, "Funny Games" (grrrrrr...), misunderstood "happy" endings, Avenue 5, Silent Spring, the cold calculus of actual human colonization, "A City on Mars" by Kelly and …

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11: Snowpiercer 1:24:43

5M ago1:24:43

1:24:43

In this episode the guys join the future Captain America, the former archangel Gabriel, the future Kim Ki-taek, the former Caligula, and the former Gene Kranz as they circumnavigate a frozen Earth in Bong Joon-Ho's 2013 Snowpiercer. They explore the mysteries of apex predators vs. reindeer, the merits of late- or post-capitalistic societies and mer…

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10: Life 2:03:37

1y ago2:03:37

2:03:37

In this episode the guys welcome a very special guest: their long time friend, Naval Aviator and retired NASA astronaut Jeff Ashby and talk about a FMECA gone wrong, the ISS, radios, ground communications, TDRS, schedule, crews, procedure vs cowboyism, creative plumbing solutions, clean vs clutter, the miracle of velcro, Jeff's Sleeping Pod Project…

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9: Moonfall 2:31:10

1+ y ago2:31:10

2:31:10

In a very special The Monte Hall Effect, Tim and Tola's friend and colleague Shane Malone joins them as guest judge/panelist to help them unravel the vast mysteries of Roland Emmerich's 2022 box office bomb "Moonfall" and to discuss a new TMHE feature called 'Splainin' Science, the University of Minnesota vs University of Colorado, the brilliant XK…

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8: Solaris (2002) 1:37:54

1+ y ago1:37:54

1:37:54

Tola and Tim take on Tola's favorite film of all time- not just his favorite SF film, but literally the film he says "changed his life"- Steven Soderbergh's 2002 adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's classic science fiction novel "Solaris." They discuss the challenges of talking about your favorite film, bad film marketing, Tim uses the word "titular", Smo…

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7: Forbidden Planet 1:27:35

2y ago1:27:35

1:27:35

Tola and Tim got together with our families this summer to watch Forbidden Planet. Join us as we discuss Leslie Nielsen vs George Pappard, the archetypes of Star Trek, robot gender, philology, Born Sexy Yesterday, creepy creepers being creepy, Powers of Ten, bourbon-generating robots, murderous tree sloths, the Wizard of Id, Dark Phoenix, The Lady …

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6: Dune (2021) 2:12:07

2y ago2:12:07

2:12:07

Tim and Tola return to the Denis Villeneuve ouevre to discuss his 2021 film "Dune" as well as the days when you could make a TV miniseries for $28, getting past the things that the 12 year old you thought were perfect, concubines vs spouses, swordfighting, spaceships rolling coal, reactionless propulsion, how Stellan Skarsgård will make your movie …

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5: Interstellar 2:18:55

2y ago2:18:55

2:18:55

005 - Interstellar After a long sabbatical, Tim and Tola discuss the 2014 Christopher Nolan film "Interstellar" as well as historical dramas, cocaine and hookers, the dreaded 2021 heat wave (we actually recorded this conversation quite some time ago), the awesomeness of LEGO Batman, building your movie around your cinematography, Dylan Thomas, watc…

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4: Arrival 1:49:02

2+ y ago1:49:02

1:49:02

Tim and Tola discuss the 2016 Denis Villeneuve film "Arrival", as well as SETI, car insurance, THE IMPORTANCE OF WATCHING THIS PARTICULAR FILM BEFORE LISTENING TO THIS PARTICULAR PODCAST, J.R.R. Tolkien, Icelandic composers, Broadchurch, remembering 9/11, professorial salaries, security clearances, Speak'n'Spells, training and executive decision ma…

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Episode 3: Annihilation 1:42:19

3y ago1:42:19

1:42:19

Tim and Tola discuss the 2018 Alex Garland film “Annihilation,” as well as how midwesterners argue, how things fall to Earth, how high Jennifer Jason Leigh appears in this film, locating your scientific headquarters, the fact that lighthouses are invariably sited on the coast, getting tickled by giant crocodile sharks, how chemo is like being stabb…

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2: Ad Astra 1:38:00

3y ago1:38:00

1:38:00

Tim and Tola discuss the 2019 film "Ad Astra." Director James Gray said that this was going to be the most accurate portrayal of spaceflight ever put in a movie. Did he succeed? No. No he did not. Yet we found this film's scientific failures were actually overshadowed by its artistic failures. But along the way we had a lot of fun discussing the fe…

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003 - Dr. Zihong Guo from Xiantao, China 49:49

3y ago49:49

49:49

Dr. Zihong Guo, engineering and technical marketing professional, discusses growing up in "Double Dragon Village" outside of Xiantao in Hubei Province, China not far from the provincial capital of Wuhan, a name that you may have heard about in the news recently. Zihong and I talk about what he learned growing up on a commune farm, what life was lik…

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1: Sunshine 1:26:45

3y ago1:26:45

1:26:45

Tim and Tola talk about the 2007 Danny Boyle film "Sunshine." A bunch of people travel to the Sun with a nuclear bomb the size of Manhattan. What could possibly go wrong? Some of the things we talk about: engineers vs scientists, risk analysis, what happens if you suddenly find yourself in outer space (tl;dr: you don't explode), why you shouldn't c…

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002 - Dow Constantine from Seattle, WA 32:06

3+ y ago32:06

32:06

Tola interviews King County Executive Dow Constantine, the leader of the sixteenth largest municipality in America. Dow has lived his whole life in Seattle, and talks about life before Microsoft and Nirvanna, the Seattle Freeze, finding love at a college radio station, preserving the arts in Seattle, raising the next generation of music fans, and w…

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001 - Mark Bromberg from Elmira, NY 1:24:25

3+ y ago1:24:25

1:24:25

Host Tola Marts starts close to home in his first podcast, interviewing his uncle Mark Bromberg about growing up in Elmira, New York, experiencing college in the 1970s at the University of Syracuse, and then waking up one day to find himself in Atlanta, Georgia.By Tola

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13: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1:29:51

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12: Aniara 1:31:13

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11: Snowpiercer 1:24:43

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10: Life 2:03:37

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9: Moonfall 2:31:10

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8: Solaris (2002) 1:37:54

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7: Forbidden Planet 1:27:35

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6: Dune (2021) 2:12:07

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5: Interstellar 2:18:55

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4: Arrival 1:49:02

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Episode 3: Annihilation 1:42:19

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2: Ad Astra 1:38:00

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003 - Dr. Zihong Guo from Xiantao, China 49:49

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1: Sunshine 1:26:45

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002 - Dow Constantine from Seattle, WA 32:06

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001 - Mark Bromberg from Elmira, NY 1:24:25

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