Parker Posey: There’s a TV broadcasting images of the end of the world in the bar where the dogs play poker, and the commercial breaks are long-form interviews of great thinkers and artists giving advice on how to save the planet.
Beck Hansen: It’s funny. It’s alive. It’s this beautifully maddening experiment of trying to translate this feeling you have about how you want to connect with people in the real world.
Posey: Yes! I didn’t have a nightmare, but I did have these fantasies that were, like, hallucinations.
Hansen: I love film. I was talking to somebody who’s getting into collecting rare rocks.
Posey: That is a whole other realm.
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Hansen: I’ve always wondered, “Is there a point where you stop?”
Posey: It’s like asking, “Do you still like your arms? Do you still like wearing shoes?”
Hansen: Maybe not an ambassador but definitely a product. Yeah, I was the white part of the Oreo.
Posey: [Stands up and leaps in the air] It’s kind of like a jolt of feeling lucky, because that is such a big part of it.
Hansen: Always.
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Posey: That never goes away.
Hansen: Of course, you don’t want it to be co-opted in a crass way, but at the same time, it’s in the fabric of things, so just let it be.
Posey: It’s such a different time now. It’s a whole other school.
Hansen: It’ll progress the way it’s going to progress.
Posey: I may or may not get killed by a zombie.