Super Critical Podcast

In this episode, school is out for nuclear winter break, so we binged the Netflix series Daybreak about high school stud... Read more

In this episode, we play a nice game of chess. After five minutes of that, we put on the 1983 Cold War movie and techno-... Read more

In this episode, we prepared for Judgment Day by watching all of the Terminator movies (1984-2015/forever). How did the ... Read more

In this episode, we maxed out our conference call lines while debating the 1964 drama-thriller movie, Fail-Safe. What ha... Read more

In this episode, we did the math about what happens when you add a missing nuclear weapon together with neo-fascists and... Read more

In this episode, we got political and watched the infamous “Daisy” commercial run by the Lyndon Johnson for President ca... Read more

In this episode, we figured out how an RBMK reactor explodes by watching the hit HBO show Chernobyl. What caused the nuc... Read more

In this episode, we see how many scientists in the desert it takes to build an atomic bomb by watching the 1989 movie “F... Read more

In this episode, we boldly overanalyzed what no one had deemed necessary to overanalyze before: the nuclear nonsense in ... Read more

In this episode, we picked When the Wind Blows out of the children’s book bin to see what advise the 1982 graphic novel ... Read more

In this episode, we explored the history of nuclear weapons as told by the movie Jaws (1975). What happened to the USS I... Read more

We want to share with Super Critical Podcast listeners an episode of the Authors of Mass Destruction podcast run by Dr. ... Read more

In this episode, we explore what happens when someone with superhuman speed tries to finish the nuclear arms race in Sup... Read more

In this episode, we wanted to learn more about the mobile infantry, so we talked about Starship Troopers, both the 1997 ... Read more

In this episode, we ring in the holidays with the Weird Al Yankovic song, Christmas at Ground Zero. What does this 1986 ... Read more

In this episode, we debated the virtues of nuclear disarmament and democracy over a couple of days this month, specifica... Read more

In this episode, we tried to get healthy during quarantine by watching an episode of the TV show Gilligan’s Island calle... Read more

In this episode, we place bets on the biggest fight in the cinematic universe: nuclear weapons vs. asteroids. What do th... Read more

In this episode, we took advantage of the new world-wide federal holiday to watch the sci-fi action blockbuster Independ... Read more

In this episode, we took the midnight train going anywhere... far away from the bad TV mini-series, Atomic Train (1999).... Read more