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What if the most transparent documentary ever made shows you everything, and you still don't know what's real?

Steve and Kale both went to see Nathan Fielder's You Can See Everything, the three-hour documentary in which Elizabeth Holmes invites Fielder and co-director Oppenheim into her home in the final weeks before she reports to federal prison. Sixteen cameras, long zoom lenses, a 4:3 frame, and a woman who insists she has never lied to anyone.

We do our best to avoid spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, so we steer clear of the second half. We get into Holmes's two voices, the fight over "a character I created," Billy's unsettling presence, the Who's on First scene, and Fielder himself as the film's most unreliable narrator. From there: The Prestige and performers who never break character, David Blaine, C. S. Lewis on looking at versus looking along, narrative supremacy, and why people desperately want to be fooled.

Then the conversation turns outward: the Tesla Roadster demo and the reaction to it, masculine and feminine coding online, Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae, the need for a frontier, and Kale's argument that the Aztecs fell because they had become a death factory. What happens to a civilization that loses its horizon and turns to decadence?

"When you say you can see everything, it means you can see nothing." - Kale

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold Open

2:31 Welcome

2:40 Seeing You Can See Everything

4:40 Fielder, Oppenheim and Holmes

9:01 The Trailer

11:40 What the Trailer Hides

15:24 Sixteen Cameras in 4:3

21:12 The Silicon Valley Myth

24:37 Holmes's Two Voices

26:00 "A Character I Created"

36:39 Perception Is Reality

45:35 Who Is Billy?

56:56 Who's on First

1:01:28 The Unreliable Narrator

1:07:13 The Prestige

1:10:49 David Blaine

1:15:31 C. S. Lewis

1:26:40 Narrative Supremacy

1:35:55 Shared Reality

1:50:12 The Audiobook That Played Itself

1:51:39 The Tesla Roadster

2:03:09 We Need a Frontier

2:09:54 Camille Paglia

2:18:32 The Aztec Death Factory

2:29:06 A Technological Slave Class

2:35:37 Space, the Last Horizon

2:47:02 A Massive Experiment

2:57:37 The Scapegoat

2:58:45 Girard and the High Church

3:04:41 Thomas More's Utopia

3:09:18 You Can See Nothing

3:11:43 Sign-Off

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Sexual Personae - Camille Paglia

Out of the Shadows - Jay Stratton

Utopia - Thomas More

God in the Dock (includes "Meditation in a Toolshed") - C. S. Lewis

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