Episode 318 - Pi and Top 5 Micro-budget Movies

About this episode

Robert and Ira discuss the film Pi and share their top 5 micro-budget movies.

This week, Robert unravels spirals of obsession like a man who’s seen too much, while Ira tries to remember how to add without using his phone. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss Pi and share their top 5 micro-budget movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a compulsive Jew and you’re obsessed with patterns and mathematics and nature and a cute Latina neighbor tries to be your friend and you befriend an Hasidic Jew who talks about the Talmud and you see how everything in the world even the stock market is in the form of a Golden Ratio, Golden Triangle, Golden Rectangle and ultimately a Golden Spiral, and another Jew tries to talk you out of what you’re doing, and a mysterious woman gives you a chip for your computer, but you trip out on drugs and try to pull a chip out of your head and you collapse and your cute Latina neighbor comes to your aid and you hit your head and you watch a bug and you go back to the old Jew and confront him, and that mysterious woman and her henchmen chase you and want what’s in your head, and the Hasidic Jew saves you and wants what’s in…

People in this episode

Hosts: Robert, Ira

Topics covered

• Pi
• micro-budget movies
• obsession
• mathematics
• Talmud

Keywords

• Golden Ratio
• Golden Triangle
• Golden Rectangle
• Golden Spiral

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Pi, Talmud

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