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Tommy Wallach reveals the existentialist philosophy underlying We All Looked Up, his bestselling YA novel, and its companion record of the same name.  With an apocalyptic asteroid bearing down, can life on Earth retain its meaning?  Discussed: humanism, death, existentialism, mass death, Christian brotherly love, Lars Von Trier's Melancholia.

Justin Bieber's human condition through the eyes of existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.  Does the Bieb sing in good faith?  How does he confront fame, anguish, and the Hole? Discussed:  Existentialism Is a Humanism, Existentialism and Human Emotions, and Being and Nothingness by Sartre, "Nowhere Man" by the Beatles

Inside MACHINA, the Smashing Pumpkins' mad, misunderstood masterpiece.  Dismissed in 2000 as the work of an egomaniac, the project instead shows Billy Corgan fearlessly deconstructing his ego and belief mechanisms, and coming to some scary conclusions. Discussed:  C.G. Jung, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, John Lennon/Plasic Ono Band, primal therapy, Ingmar Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly, The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited by Sam Vaknin, Disarming the Narcissist by Wendy Behary