Lights, camera, action! Rob and Jess are discussing movie and TV terms in this filmic episode of Words Unravelled.
🎥 Why do Brits call movies “films”?
🤷🏼♂️ Why has Allen Smithee directed so many terrible movies?
🙀 Why is there a “dead cat” on every Hollywood set?
These questions answered, and many more, in this episode crammed with film and television etymology.
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New York Times bestselling Author Michael Lewis is, as one interviewer recently put it, “a kind of guru of our age”.
This is because, in books like Moneyball, The Big Short and Going Infinite, not to mention his own podcast, he has chronicled some of the big social and economic seachanges of our time – from the global financial crisis, to the cryptocurrency market, and how online gambling companies have managed to wage something of a “war against young men”.
Sometimes, he even seems to anticipate the sea changes. Last year, he all but predicted Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE manifesto, when he decided to investigate what American civil servants actually do. And the catastrophic risks that might come from decimating the federal government.
Today, Michael Lewis, on all of this, and what he thinks comes next for the American government. Plus, whether he thinks our own prime minister is “gutless” for delaying a ban on TV gambling advertising.
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Artificial intelligence is being weaponised amidst mounting protests in Los Angeles to mislead and misinform. An AI-generated video claiming to show a National Guard soldier provoking protesters in LA has racked up over 1 million views – and counting – on TikTok. AI chatbots are also spreading fake news: internet users are turning to AI bots for verification, only to be given unreliable and inaccurate results. Vedika Bahl explains in this edition of Truth or Fake.
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