Open World Chat
By John Odum and Mark Card
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Discussing all "genre" media and geek culture.
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Patriarchy in the Movies pt 1: Fridging
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Oct 26, 2026 |
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Recasting pt 2: Jaws, A Clockwork Orange, This is Spinal Tap, The Thing
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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Recasting movies pt 1!!! The Princess Bride and Blade Runner
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Sep 28, 2026 |
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Absolutely Perfect TV episodes
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Sep 14, 2026 |
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The Odyssey and beyond: Greek myths onscreen
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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Roles that Can't be Recast (just pack 'em up and put 'em away)
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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When Star Trek Has Failed Itself
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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When We Make Contact Part 3: The International System
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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When We Make Contact Part 2: Religion and Culture
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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When We Make Contact Part 1: Economy and Politics
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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Our Favorite Fictional Sociopaths
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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The Cli-Fi Episode! Climate and Environmental Destruction in Sci-Fi
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May 25, 2026 |
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Our favorite death scenes
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May 11, 2026 |
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Our Favorite Parasites
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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A look at spoiled characters
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Sci-fi Bracketology 2026!!!
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Star Trek: State of the Franchise
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Resistance Movements in TV and Movies
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Movies you wish you could see for the 1st time again
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Sci-fi that will make aliens laugh their asses off at us
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Movies that don't know they're horror movies
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Science as the Bad Guy - When sci-fi hates science
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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"Look at Us Now: A Comic Book Movie" Filmmaker Vee Rodriguez on what comics mean to us
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Villains who make a good point
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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TV themes! Mark and John Share Their Top 10s!
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Movie and TV apocalypses - what makes a good one and some examples
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Genre Swapping! Movies that flip genre in mid-viewing
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Fascism in Sci-Fi
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Time Travel in Film and TV (and what a mess it is)
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Utopian fiction (and is anybody buying in?)
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Our Favorite Fight Scenes
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Why does the Right hate Superman (the movie AND the character)?
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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20 Films to get you through the Trump Era
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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The Sounds of the Movies
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Jim Shooter: Superhero or Supervillain?
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Identity in Sci Fi: Who Am I Really?
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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The best bits from film soundtracks
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Cursed productions: figuratively and..... literally?
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May 26, 2025 |
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The scariest moments in film and TV
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May 12, 2025 |
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Hidden gems from legendary directors
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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The REAL masterpieces of legendary directors
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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The Democracy Episode! Policy, Cybersecurity and more!
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Christ figures in sci-fi and fantasy
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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How will DEI pushback affect geek media?
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Movies that Shouldn't be Remade (plus a few stinker remakes)
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Movies that should be remade, and a few already remade well
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Franchise fatigue - is it a thing?
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Underappreciated good stuff
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Dumb sci fi
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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The Top 18 Evil AIs
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Drugs, Drug Culture, and Addiction in Sci-Fi
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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The Love Episode!!!
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Federation and Empire? Imperialism in Star Trek
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Top 18 most influential sci-fi movies
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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When Sci-Fi and Comics are Repackaged Greek Myths
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Star Trek and Military Power
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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The 70s and sci fi paranoia cinema
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Cavemen vs Astronauts
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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9 sci fi movies that don't know they're sci fi
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Science, Church, and State: Revisiting 'A Canticle for Liebowitz'
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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SO many vampires! Our fixation on vampires
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Invaders - How immigration fears have fueled horror
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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The Complex History of Women in Star Trek
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Scorsese, Coppola, Tarantino and hatin' on Marvel
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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The War Episode! Sci-fi War, Honor and Fascism with Dr. David Kyle Johnson
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Paul Cornell talks PROJECT: CRYPTID and his other projects
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Is the Hollywood Blockbuster on the Way Out?
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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What's with all these bad Supermen?
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Dan Mishkin and Gary Cohn talk everything from Blue Devil to Geoff Johns to Leo Kottke
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May 29, 2023 |
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Catching up on Screambox and more with Bloody Disgusting's Alex DiVincenzo
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May 14, 2023 |
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Talking Picard
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May 01, 2023 |
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Science episode! AI and gray goo nanobots with Piper Welch and Kam Bielawski!
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Mark Russell talks Jesus (and other stuff)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Grant Patterson of the WNFC esports Dojo on competitive gaming and game culture
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Star Trek Science Advisor and Professor of Biology Dr. Mohamed Noor
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Steve Morris of Shelfdust on the top 50 comics events of all time
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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2022 in TV! What's good and what's better
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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The 2022 review part 1! Comics and Movies and Games, Oh my!
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Namor? Rorschach? Hannibal Lecter? Who is and isn't an anti-hero with author Philip Baruth
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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The geek science episode! Jeffery Adkins talks black holes, time travel, and how sci fi gets it wrong!
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Andrew Liptak on the history, challenges, and power of cosplay
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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NY Comic Con chat! This is what happens when Jim and John run out of people to talk to.
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Tim Russ Revisited! From the vault - Star Trek's Tuvok on diversity in Trek, greedy capitalists, and more!
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Sandman chat with Ryan Higgins (Comics Conspiracy)!
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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John Ostrander! Suicide Squad! Grimjack! Hexer Dusk! The Treatment of Creators! More!
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Kaitlyn Booth (Bleeding Cool) on Comic Con and Warner shenanigans
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Jim Infantino on his novels, Carmine, and The Ballad of Barry Allen
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Joe Glass on The Pride, his brand new book Young Men in Love, and the state of LGBTQ+ representation in comics
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Luke Thompson enters a Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Captain America, "flag characters," and patriotism, with Dr. Mark Card
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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All Things Zelda with Den of Geek's Matthew Byrd
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Stuntwoman Elisabeth Carpenter on the industry and her work in projects such as Divergent and Obi-Wan
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May 23, 2022 |
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Sarah Gailey on "The Vampire Slayer" and more!
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May 09, 2022 |
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Deconstructing the Prime Directive with Dr. Mark Card
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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The politics of the Krakoan X-Men with Elana Levin
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Librarian Carolyn Brennan on libraries as the front lines of censorship (with some video game recommendations thrown in)
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Nate Cosby talks about his new "Alter Ego" comic
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Roy Thomas! Comics! Partying in Vermont! His life as a rocker! And more!
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Does Gen Z Own Star Trek Now? Lacy Baugher Milas joins Jim and John to talk this and many other things.
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Weekly World News CEO Greg D'Alessandro guests (with intro featuring Shannon Wheeler)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man) on the Mueller Report, The Bible, the quality of Portland coffee, and what's still funny
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Jenny Jarzabski of United Paizo Workers and Paizo Freelancer Joe Blomquist: Are Unions Finally Coming to the Nerdosphere?
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Caitlin Rosberg (The AV Club) on Dune and the nexus of genre, format, form, and media.
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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George Marston (GamesRadar+) on NFTs, their role in the comics industry, and what the heck they are, anyway
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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John and Jim review the buzz going into and coming out of DC Fandome
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Peter Galbraith, in which we don't end up talking about the Prime Directive, on What Went Wrong in Afghanistan (and Who's to Blame)
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Archeologist Nathan White on Archeology in Genre Media (what they get wrong, and what they unfortunately get right)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Emmy-winner Steve Benen (The Rachel Maddow Show) on the politics of the past, present, and future - as well as Star Trek, Firefly (and X-Men...?)
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Sean Branney and Andrew Leman (Co-founders, The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society) on the "art vs. artist debate" and more
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Alexander Dunst ("The World According to Philip K Dick"): PKD's Legacy, Impact, and more.
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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Film Critic Margot Harrison: The Ever-Changing Meaning of "Strong Woman Character"
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Rich Johnston (Bleeding Cool): comicsgate, the industry's cycles of outrage, and more
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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Jim Dandeneau (aka Jim Dandy, Den of Geek): cinematic universes and superhero politics
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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A Conversation with Star Trek's Tim Russ (part 2)
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May 31, 2021 |
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Paul Wilson and Tony Panacchio: The latest "Conjuring" Film, working with Shatner, Stan Lee, and much more
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May 25, 2021 |
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Tim Russ (Tuvok): Race and diversity in Star Trek
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May 15, 2021 |