The Hello and welcome to episode 565 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

I'm David Barr Curtley, author of the book Save Me, Please, and Other Stories.

Publishers Weekly says,

Vissural settings and robust characters will have readers marveling at how much currently

is able to fit into a limited page count.

For SF fans with no time to sink into a doorstopper, these concentrated doses of genre goodness will hit the spot.

And Kirkus Refuse writes, currently employs sharp, concise pros that compliments his pucish

sense of humor.

The author's passionate voice breeds life into this wonderful array of tales.

So again, the book is called Save Me Please and Other Stories, and it's available now on Amazon.com.

And our guest today is David Sorota. He's the editor of the political news site The Lever and his writing has appeared in Jacobin magazine and The Guardian. He served as Bernie Sanders Speech Writer during the 2020 presidential campaign and his

podcast meltdown about the 2008 financial crisis was named one of the best podcasts of the year by The Atlantic.

And in this interview we'll be discussing his work on the Netflix movie Don't Look Up,

About Vacuous Elite to Ignore the Danger of an Approaching Comet,

and his book Back to Our Future, how the 1980s

explain the world we live in now.

Our culture, our politics, our everything.

And now here's our interview with David Sorota.

All right, so we're here with David Sorota.

Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

Okay, so in your book, Back to Our Future,

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