Message: “How Social is our Media?”

After answering some questions from the Storyverse, we use Louis CK’s rant on cell phones to springboard into a discussion of social media. Is the price we pay for connectivity worth it? How social, exactly, is our media?

In this Episode:
01:30 – StoryMen Lightening Round
21:00 – Sabbath-Keeping Drug Dealers and Other Moral Villains
35:00 – Louis CK’s Anti-Cell Phone Rant
41:00 – Is our Social Media Anti-Social?

Story Men - March 25, 2014

True Detective featuring Scott Poole

True Detective featuring Scott Poole

The StoryMen welcome professor of American History Scott Poole. Scott's an expert in the sociology of horror, so he dives in with us to discuss the groundbreaking first season of HBO's True Detective. IN THIS EPISODE: 0:00 – Scott Poole and the Horror of True Detective 10:00 – The High Cost of Horror: Lovecraft, Carcosa and the King in Yellow 18:00 – True Detective is Just Plain Gorgeous 22:30 – SPOILERS 29:00 – Russ, Pessimism and that Ending 38:00 – Is TRUE DETECTIVE anti-female, anti-Southern, or anti-Christian? 50:00 – Favorite moments in the show

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