Certainly Dubious

It's the Halloween episode, and Mark and David turn down the lights to swap stories. They cover Halloween traditions and the horror movies they love (and the horror movies that scarred them). Mark tells a few personal stories he still can't explain. David talks about seeing horror movies way too young and finding it difficult to suspend disbelief today. Mark and David veer into fun topics...

Is Nolan’s Time Genius or Nonsense? Memento, Inception, Interstellar, and Tenet Mark and David discuss Christopher Nolan’s recurring use of time across films with guest Mark Wiberg, debating whether it’s brilliant or overly complicated. Wiberg ranks Interstellar highest for its time pressure on humanity, relativity set pieces like Miller’s planet, and the emotional video-message sequence, wchhile...

This week Mark and David ostensibly talk about the book and movie versions of Solaris. Solaris is a story that asks some deep questions like: What are the limitations of Science? How do you determine if an entity is conscious? What are 50 ways to kill your re-animated loved one? However, Mark triggered David by asking about AI. This causes David to go on a long and tedious explanation of why LLMs...

Mark and David watched "The Legend of Boggy Creek" and discuss the Fouke Monster and the Big Foot legend. Should the creature be called: The Fouke Monster Big Foot Sasquatch The Squatch We veer into: How truly atrocious "The Legend of Boggy Creek" movie is Our appreciation for the musical interlude in the movie The personal vendetta the Fouke Monster has for one group of people The...

Earlier in June more UAP documents were declassified. A document dump, if you will. Ostensibly, that is the topic of this weeks Certainly Dubious. We also veer into topics such as these: Calling them UAPs vs UFOs Science changes its mind and has an attitude In which we accidentally talk about Covid 19 Fighter pilots are heroes and no one should ever doubt them The Drake equation and the Fermi para...

Welcome to the Certainly Dubious podcast, where two longtime friends take on the intriguing and the bizarre with opposing viewpoints. We invite you to listen in and pick a side: Mark "the open-minded" and David "the skeptic." So, sit down with your coffee, tea, beer, or the ubiquitous bottle of water and listen in while two old friends talk about things that they are in no way qual...