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Alienating the Audience
Andrew Heaton and an army of nerds plunge deep, deep into films, books, and TV shows to ask: what's science fiction really about? What is The Twilight Zone really exploring? What are the underlying themes of Star Trek? What is the worldview of Star Wars? Also sometimes Heaton performs comedy on other planets.Podcasts
Much Ado About Garak
Published: Dec. 4, 2023, 8:26 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 15 seconds
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Doublethinking George Orwell's 1984
Published: Nov. 16, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 40 seconds
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Why Picard's Last Season Is So Much Better Than The Others
Published: Nov. 9, 2023, 8:04 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 11 seconds
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Super-Intelligent Spiders And A Sleeper Ship: Children of Time
Published: Nov. 2, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 32 seconds
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The Corporate Dystopia of Jennifer Government
Published: Oct. 27, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 7 seconds
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There Are Infinite You's in the Multiverse
Published: Oct. 19, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 17 seconds
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Escaping the Truman Show
Published: Oct. 12, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 15 seconds
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Snowcrash Created the Metaverse
Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 10 seconds
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Meeting Celebrities at Sci-Fi Conventions
Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 49 seconds
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Soylent Green is People!
Published: Sept. 12, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 42 seconds
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The Hilarious Fantasy of Terry Pratchett
Published: Sept. 5, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 38 seconds
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Strange New Worlds is the Star Trek We Deserve!
Published: Aug. 29, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 30 seconds
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Trapped In John Malkovich
Published: Aug. 22, 2023, 7:20 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 28 seconds
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Reproduction in the Final Frontier
Published: Aug. 15, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 13 seconds
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Intergalactic Politics in "The Expanse"
Published: Aug. 8, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 39 seconds
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Nixon Selling Pizza on the Moon
Published: Aug. 1, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 6 seconds
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Published: July 25, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 seconds
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If You Leave the Holodeck On Too Long...
Published: July 18, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes
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Peacemaker is the Ultimate Loserhero
Published: July 11, 2023, 4:22 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 44 seconds
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Send in the Clones
Published: July 6, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 5 seconds
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The Ineffable Planet of Sentient Goo
Published: June 20, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 5 seconds
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Rick And Morty is Hilarious Nihilism
Published: June 13, 2023, 7:30 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 44 seconds
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The Fifth Element Is Teenage Scifi
Published: June 8, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 20 seconds
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Irritating Vulcans in "Enterprise"
Published: May 31, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 20 seconds
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Lady Terror in "Don't Worry, Darling"
Published: May 18, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 22 seconds
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Jesuits in Space!
Published: May 12, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 34 seconds
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The Sith are Emo Fascists
Published: May 4, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 45 seconds
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They Live is fear of Reagonomics
Published: April 13, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 18 seconds
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If Sociopaths Had Super Powers: The Boys
Published: April 11, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes
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But What if We Swapped Brains?
Published: April 5, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 33 seconds
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Only You Can Save JFK - Stephen King's "11/22/63"
Published: March 28, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 29 seconds
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How Time Travel Works in "Interstellar"
Published: March 20, 2023, 7:22 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 40 seconds
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Every Single Star Trek Android, in Erratic, Sloppy Order
Published: March 16, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 35 seconds
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Dark Side of "Moon"
Published: March 6, 2023, 8:13 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 7 seconds
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Why the Jedi Order Failed
Published: Feb. 27, 2023, 8:10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 23 seconds
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Maoists and Space Aliens
Published: Feb. 20, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 23 seconds
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The Mirror Universe in Star Trek
Published: Feb. 13, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 19 seconds
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Her is the Ultimate Breakup Film
Published: Feb. 6, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 40 seconds
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Dilbert Meets Orwell in "Severance"
Published: Jan. 31, 2023, 12:31 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 28 seconds
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Only Watch "Flash Gordon" on Acid
Published: Jan. 23, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 51 seconds
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Hollywood Sermonizing vs. Good Storytelling
Published: Jan. 19, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 28 seconds
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Andor Loves Public Choice Theory
Published: Jan. 9, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 31 seconds
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Moriarty on a Starship
Published: April 14, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 11 seconds
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"The Prisoner" is Deliciously Campy
Published: March 24, 2022, 6:20 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 seconds
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How to Write Kickass Science Fiction
Published: March 3, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 59 seconds
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Of Goblins and Autism
Published: Feb. 24, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 29 seconds
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Scottish Starfleet Draft Picks
Published: Feb. 17, 2022, 7:41 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 51 seconds
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Animatronic Humans of the Apocalypse
Published: Jan. 28, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 20 seconds
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"The Singularity Comes For Home Office Equipment"
Published: Jan. 12, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 35 seconds
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Humanity is Underrated: the Deathworld Series
Published: Nov. 18, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 38 seconds
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Keeping up with the Cardassians
Published: Nov. 4, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 14 seconds
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Waterworld is an Aquatic Western
Published: Oct. 21, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 46 seconds
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What Makes a Terrible Sidekick
Published: Oct. 11, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 18 seconds
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It's Time to Watch Babylon 5
Published: Sept. 9, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 36 seconds
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We Are Legion, We Are Bob
Published: Aug. 12, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 3 seconds
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The Giant Universe of Doctor Who
Published: July 29, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 2 seconds
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Jordan Morris on Satire in a Dome
Published: July 27, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 49 seconds
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Los Angeles is Hideous
Published: July 13, 2021, 7:02 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 49 seconds
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False Memories in Science Fiction
Published: July 8, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds
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Logan's Run is Afraid of Baby Boomers
Published: June 24, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 seconds
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M. R. Carey on Hopeful Dystopias
Published: June 10, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 35 seconds
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The Bioethics of Gattaca
Published: May 27, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 14 seconds
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Andy Weir on "Project Hail Mary"
Published: May 13, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 4 seconds
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Jedi Warriors and Islamic Mysticism
Published: April 29, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 10 seconds
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Kurt Vonnegut Hated War
Published: April 12, 2021, 5:18 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 19 seconds
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Galaxy Quest is the Greatest Sci-fi Comedy, Ever
Published: April 1, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 58 seconds
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The Time-Backwards Robot Monster
Published: March 18, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 8 seconds
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Darth Vader is a 19th Century Supervillain
Published: March 4, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 51 seconds
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Watchmen Part 2: The Greenwood Massacre
Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 52 seconds
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Watchmen's Fake Psychic Squid Attack
Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 43 seconds
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Are We Living in Demolition Man?
Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 19 seconds
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If An Insane Asylum Was an Entire Planet
Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 39 seconds
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Mad Max Has the Best Barbarians
Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 43 seconds
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Why "The Mandalorian" Works
Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 47 seconds
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Deadly Sex Objects in The Stepford Wives
Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 4 seconds
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Vagabonding: Two Santas for Life Day
Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds
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The Villainess from "Ex Machina"
Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 45 seconds
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The Future of Humanity Involves Gene Upgrades and Cyborgs
Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 37 seconds
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The Alternate History Where Nazis Won
Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 21 seconds
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Vagabonding: The Voyage Home (for Ska)
Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 53 seconds
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The Last Policeman
Published: Nov. 12, 2020, 7:23 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 59 seconds
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The Philosophy of "The Matrix"
Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 59 seconds
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"The Road" is the Ultimate Dystopia
Published: Oct. 22, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 17 seconds
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A Million Steve Jobs and the Future of AI
Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 15 seconds
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Gays in Starfleet
Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 29 seconds
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Published: Oct. 1, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 44 seconds
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The Black Hole - Movie Club
Published: Sept. 17, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 48 seconds
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Assemble Your Own Star Trek Series
Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 52 seconds
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Vagabonding: The Lizard Man of Staten Island
Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 49 seconds
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Philip K. Dick Is About Broken People (And Robots)
Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 44 seconds
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Vagabonding: Return to the Fembot Homeworld
Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 16 seconds
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How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 50 seconds
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Vagabonding: The Return of Nick
Published: Aug. 13, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds
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How They Made Mystery Science Theater 3000
Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 58 seconds
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Vagabonding: The Wrath of Nick (Comedy)
Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 5:57 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 37 seconds
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Vagabonding: Nick and Heaton meet the Spacehead god (Comedy)
Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 5:48 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 11 seconds
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Vagabonding: Nick and Heaton go to Narnia
Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 5:44 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 23 seconds
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Vagabonding: Heaton Gets Totally Recalled (Comedy)
Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 5:36 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 47 seconds
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Vagabonding: Hot Detroit! (Comedy)
Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 5:33 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 25 seconds
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Philosophy in the Delta Quadrant Star Trek: Voyager
Published: Aug. 6, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 seconds
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Why We Love Supervillains
Published: July 31, 2020, 5:48 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 16 seconds
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Vagabonding: Murder Accusations (Comedy Sketch)
Published: July 29, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 22 seconds
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Let's Fight About "The Undiscovered Country"
Published: July 23, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 52 seconds
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Religion's Two Treatments in Science Fiction
Published: July 16, 2020, 8:33 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 13 seconds
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V'ger, Sybok, and Whales! Star Trek's Least-Appreciated Films
Published: July 9, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 2 seconds
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The Mythology of Star Wars
Published: July 2, 2020, 7:46 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 55 seconds
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Should We Be Worried About the Lack of Aliens?
Published: June 25, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 10 seconds
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Star Trek Conspiracy Theories include "The Transporter is a Murder Box"
Published: June 18, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 33 seconds
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We Can Freeze You: How Cryonics Works
Published: June 10, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 16 seconds
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Battlestar Galactica & The War On Terror
Published: June 4, 2020, 9:14 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 16 seconds
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Is Life Worth Living in a Perfect Utopia?
Published: May 21, 2020, 8:58 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 38 seconds
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Turns Out, We're All Probably Martians
Published: May 14, 2020, 8:18 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 1 second
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How to Build a Giant Robot
Published: May 7, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 5 seconds
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Twenty Years After the Zombie Apocalypse
Published: April 30, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 56 seconds
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Deep Space Nine is About Outsiders
Published: April 23, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 4 seconds
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Buddhism, Optimism, and Black Mirror
Published: April 16, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 57 seconds
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Marry Bop Kill: Star Trek (Live Show)
Published: April 12, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 49 seconds
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How to Make Money on Mars
Published: April 9, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 3 seconds
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Pitch Us On Stargate!
Published: April 2, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 33 seconds
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Starfleet Draft Picks (Live Show)
Published: March 27, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 35 seconds
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Nano Robots Aren't Trying to Kill You
Published: March 26, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 40 seconds
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The First Modern Zombie Novel
Published: March 19, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 17 seconds
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Hugh Howey on Making an Entertaining Apocalypse
Published: March 12, 2020, 10:46 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 56 seconds
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Understand Every Scifi Hero through Dungeons & Dragons
Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 41 seconds
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If We Met Aliens Could We Even Communicate?
Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 11 seconds
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Who To Kill or Not Kill if You've Got a Time Machine
Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 5 seconds
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How Midichlorians and Harry Potters Wizard Genes Work
Published: Feb. 5, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 19 seconds
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Stop What You're Doing and Watch "Picard"
Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 40 seconds
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How to Build a Colony Ship
Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 17 seconds
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The Meaning of Spock
Published: Jan. 15, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 56 seconds
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When Darwin Meets Star Trek
Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 5:35 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 11 seconds
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Let's Argue About "The Rise of Skywalker"
Published: Jan. 2, 2020, 2:26 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 1 second
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Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
Published: Dec. 18, 2019, 7:44 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 58 minutes 4 seconds
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The Tarkin Doctrine and Imperial Apologists
Published: Dec. 12, 2019, 4:40 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 41 seconds
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Robert Heinlein: Individualism and Free Love on the Moon!
Published: Dec. 5, 2019, 12:56 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 53 seconds
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Reptoid Aliens Shouldn't Have Nipples
Published: Nov. 26, 2019, 7:55 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 14 seconds
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The Ethics of Holodeck Sex Romps and AI in Star Trek
Published: Nov. 20, 2019, 10:24 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 59 seconds
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Isaac Asimov's Robots are Smarter than Whales
Published: Nov. 19, 2019, 9:46 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 5 seconds
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The Twilight Zone's Nostalgic Cold War Bunker
Published: Nov. 18, 2019, 6:07 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 56 seconds
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P1 What Bladerunner Is Actually About
Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 10:31 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 32 seconds
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P2 The Economics of "Dune"
Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 10:28 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 58 seconds
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P3 Cold War Kirk vs. Picard the Moral Relativist
Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 10:25 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 45 seconds
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P4 The Politics of Star Wars
Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 10:23 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 41 seconds
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P5 Varys is the best Game of Thrones character
Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 10:20 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 34 seconds
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P6 Regarding Batman's Political Affiliation
Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 10:11 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 43 seconds
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P7 Star Trek vs. The Orville
Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 10:07 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 9 seconds
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