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Warning: We messed up the microphone settings so Joe sounds quieter than usual. No guest this week so we selected a topic from the filler pile - Things In Spaaaaaaaaaace. First up is Waiting for Godot in space and John Carpenter’s first film: Dark Star (1974) with clear Catch 22 style banality in extreme circumstances. Next up is Peter Hyam’s High Noon in space: Outland (1981) with stunning performances, interior set design and music but some shaky external space footage. We finish with a guilty pleasure comfort movie in Stuart Gordon’s truckers in space movie: Space Truckers (1996) it might be 8% on Rotten Tomatoes but we give it three square pigs out of five. Also: From the bedroom to the boardroom. Five Finger Fillet. Malcolm McLean. Red Dwarf. Disney’s The Black Hole (1979). The central flaw of Silent Running (1972). Shpaesh Marshall Connery on Eh-oh! Villains like Berkoff. Polydichloric Euthimal. Jack Bauer on Countdown. Space golf, space squash and space fighting. Explosive decompression mythbusted. Introvision explained. 2000 AD’s Ace Trucking Co. Optic Nerve Studios’ Glenn Hetrick. The Guyver. Hypnotoad! We play a game of “That’s No Moon”