Badlands Story Hour Ep. 106: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Burning Bright and Chris Paul dive into one of the greatest sequels of all time...Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and how its warnings about AI, time wars, and humanity’s fate hit even harder in 2025. With Elon Musk warning we’re at the event horizon of the singularity, is Skynet fiction or prophecy?

They explore the battle between AI deception vs. AI learning, the religious undertones of John Connor as a messianic figure, and whether the real villains were the robots, or the humans who tried to stop progress. Plus, how the film eerily mirrors Starlink, Tesla, and the rise of machine intelligence today.

Also in this episode: The media’s obsession with war narratives, the Deep State’s panic over peace talks, and why elites keep pushing a U.S.-Russia conflict. If Terminator 2 was a warning, are we ignoring the signs?