176 - The Social Network
Added 2025-02-12 07:00:24 +0000 UTCThe lads pledge to the Phoenix Club and destroy democracy as they cover David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin’s 2010 techbro parable: The Social Network. Topics include Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ iconic score, the polarizing nature of Sorkin’s writing, and what it means to live in a world ruled by Augustus Caesar wannabes like Mark Zuckerberg.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
The Social Network. Dir. David Fincher. 2010
“10 Years Later, Author Ben Mezrich On The Book Behind ‘The Social Network’” by Anhar Karim. Forbes. October 20th, 2020.
“A Young Mark Zuckerberg’s Early Mistake” by Shachar Bar-on. 60 Minutes. January 13th, 2008.
“Facebook’s Other Privacy Issue” by Eriq Gardner. The Hollywood Reporter, November 30, 2007
“Tell-All Book: Zuckerberg Set Up Facebook To Get Laid” by Nick Douglas. Gawker. May 22nd, 2008.
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Interstitial: “The M.A.R.K.-BOT” // Written by A.J. Ditty // Feat. Brian Alford as “Mark Zuckerberg”
Comments
I hate to disagree with AJ but I have to say there’s a strong possibility I was wearing American Apparel thigh highs while Zuck and Parker were having that conversation on the other side of the country. They were def a thing for while in the late aughts!
Virginia Paine
2025-03-13 12:46:03 +0000 UTCI did sound design and original intermission music for my high school's production of The Farnsworth Invention. Proudest moment of my 3-year theatre career :)
Thom Coté
2025-02-21 16:35:06 +0000 UTC
