Ep. 21: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison - Part II

In Part II of our breakdown of Harlan Ellison’s 1967 Hugo Award winner, we're all in on the AI apocalypse! 

Craft beer pairing and Gen-X tangents—what more can you ask? 

This is classic horror fiction, apocalyptic sci-fi, and two guys overanalyzing everything with a pint in hand like you've never heard!

Spoilers ahead, so read the story first! Or read it after. Just read it, period! 

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Credits

• Theme music: "Beer Cast Boogie" by Paul Lorello, performed by Sid Seizure and the Conniption
• Ambient music: Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse (Dig his stuff on YouTube)
• Edited by Paul Lorello

Produced by Sid Seizure

Chapters

• 0:00 Part I Recap
• 3:09 Discussion begins
• 8:50 Paul flubs his lines
• 11:59 Hellraiser
• 12:59 Back to the story
• 14:23 Hate speech
• 16:04 Where are all the flying cars?
• 19:25 AI, consciousness, and humanity
• 26:01 Back to the story
• 26:32 The hurricane bird
• 29:09 The fat lady laughs
• 31:13 In the ice caverns
• 32:24 Benny loses it
• 34:04 Ellison's story logic
• 34:51 Resolving plots when writing
• 39:15 Back to the story
• 42:00 Ted's fate
• 42:48 Let's drink to ChatGPT!
• 44:15 Alec's final thoughts
• 46:36 How's your beer?