Probably Unanswerable Questions
How many times did Cage die?; Is the movie responsible for the 2016 election?
In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:16:34Read transcript
- Rita watching Hendricks die 300 times is the baseline; applying Gladwell's 10,000 hours, Cage probably died close to a year's worth of deaths. — Chris Ryan
- The hosts say the opening news montage includes Hillary Clinton, implying she is president in 2020, in a movie released in 2014 before the 2016 election; the question is whether the movie is responsible for the 2016 result.
- The joking answer: disaffected voters saw it and said not my president; others blame the Russians, Facebook disinformation or a heartland backlash, but it's Doug Liman's fault, and the other host agrees.