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June 23, 2026 - We Are Pat, Mahesh Daas on data centers, and A Night at the Disco
Filmmaker Rowan Haber joins us to discuss the new documentary We Are Pat, which revisits Julia Sweeney’s famously androgynous Saturday Night Live character through a 2026 lens. Once built around the question of whether Pat was a man or a woman, the film asks what that joke meant then, what it means now and whether Pat can be reconsidered or reclaimed. We Are Pat is available on Apple TV, Prime Video and Fandango at Home.
Mahesh Daas, president of Boston Architectural College and co-author of the graphic novella I, Nobot, returns for AI: Actual Intelligence. This month, he looks at data…
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