TEASER: Crawl Out Through the ‘Fallout’

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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A successful TV adaptation of the Fallout video game franchise has everyone excited about the post-apocalypse again so we thought it was a good time to finally do a bonus episode we’ve been threatening for a long time.

Cultural critic, journalist, and YouTuber Noah Caldwell-Gervais comes on this episode of Angry Planet to discuss all things Fallout. It’s a long episode, we dive into a lot of topics including

Jason’s globe from 1937
The peculiar pleasure of vacuum tube technology
Cold War memories
The anxiety of worrying about dying in a nuclear blast
West Coast vs East Coast Fallout
In defense of Fallout 76
Power armor and Soviet Tanks
Vault-Tec the ultimate villain

Full spoiler warning for all of the Fallout video games and the entire TV show.

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0:00.0	Love this podcast support this show through the a cast supporter feature
0:05.1	It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. If you take the mood of the early Cold War era,
0:14.0	the duck in the early Cold War era, the Duck and Cover era, that sort of came out of the World War II optimism, and that
0:35.0	the tension between the imminent and potential destruction of the entire world
0:37.0	and the absolute extraviganza consumerism
0:42.0	that we're both going on in the early 50s.
0:44.7	You take that vibe and then you move it conceptually a hundred years into the future
0:50.3	where nothing socially has really changed, but we also have lasers.
0:54.6	And you also like take that world that feels familiar, but now because we've introduced
1:00.1	sci-fi elements, it isn't exactly. Then you destroy it and you layer on like all of these
1:06.7	post-apocalyptic tropes that have been like so classic ever since you know media, media started considering, well, what would happen at the end of the world
1:15.8	ended? So there's all sorts of influences in there that are classic from like the Twilight Zone
1:20.1	episode where like the nuclear war happens and the fellow like who's a misanthroat breaks his
1:26.0	glasses and that's the end of his good times and his empty world that's only him now.
1:33.0	Like that's so old as far as like how we think about nuclear war now,
1:42.0	but there's a consistency in a throughline as to like what are the
1:46.0	emotions around apocalypse, like what is the aesthetic of apocalypse, and like there is
1:58.4	sort of an Americanism in post-apocalyptic media that fall out really embraces like the the duck and cover arrow was so unique and so strange and I think like to modern
2:10.6	eyes it seems like a very silly and naive era which it kind of is but like maybe
2:18.8	we've just sort of gotten used to the apocalypse to the point that where the idea of like this looming over us being new just doesn't like rate anymore like it's it's interesting
2:29.0	because fallout sort of like reconnects us to that time where like the idea of apocalypse was just as strange and
2:38.8	free-wheeling and anything goes is anything else.
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