We Love Dick: A Philip K. Dick Podcast

Welcome to 2016!  Wa and Foot are back, discussing this posthumously published story from 1977.  Discussed this week: family stories, hypostatis, and the playing of footsie. Intro: The Treme Brass Band - Caledonia Outro: Made In Heights - Wildflowers

Happy New Year!  Foot is away this week, having sequestered himself in a cabin for New Years, so here is the very first episode of We Love Dick!  This episode was recorded in September as a test run for the podcast.  The story under discussion was "A Terran Odyssey," first published in 1963, then developed into Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb, which was published in 1965.

This week: straight read VS alt read, Coke VS Pepsi, hallucinations VS schizophrenia, The Wire, Fight Club, and The Story So Far. From the Episode: Dr. Hagopian http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/3/34651/1808153-hugoinspect.jpg Down to Clown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmiYyC4-FGw Intro Fighter X - BIG Jr.   Outro Paranoia Agent OST - Shiroi Oka, Maromi no Theme

This episode gets controversial when PKD forces Foot/Wa to discuss ABORTION and RACE.  This week's story, The Pre-Persons, was written shortly after (and in response to) the Roe V Wade ruling. Intro Carolina Chocolate Drops - Trouble in Your Mind The Honeydrips - Fall from a Height (The Field Way)

Wa and Foot continue their Dickery with this short, written in 1979.  They discuss THE SYSTEM, THE MAN, and AUTHORITY. Intro The Ditty Bops - Wake Up   Outro The Fall of Troy - The Dark Trail

It’s time for a tiny 6 pager: Strange Memories of Death, published in 1979.  Apparently, based on real events from the life of PKD.  This episode, Wa and Foot discuss poverty, ambition, and their mothers. Intro: Ambry - Postcards from California Outro: ミドリ - ひみつの2人

Wa and Foot discuss another PKD story: Holy Quarrel.  First published in May of 1966.  Discussed this week: AI, fears of death and the infinite, philosophical bullshit, good movies where people talk to machines. Intro: Mega Drive - Mainframe Outro: Macross 82-99 - Fun Tonight

Foot and Wa begin their journey down the path to eventually becoming sick of doing this. We discuss another Philip K. Dick short story: The Electric Ant. We also talk about our greatest fears, earliest memories, and favorite movies.