Podcast 32: We are Hugh!

We capped off another long work week for Joey and I with a very fun podcast. We went in to the early hours of Saturday recording, but kept it strong through to the end. I think you will really enjoy the discussion topics this week. We were hoping to have my friend Rhett come and join us for I-Borg, but he was so scared that he made up some lie about having a party at his cabin this weekend. Pretty lame. This podcast covers episodes 21-24 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5.

Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    I Fight Dragons
    JC Hutchins 7th Son Novel
    Famke Janssen looks nothing like Kamala

Famke Janssen as Kamala

Kamala as Kamala

    Arranged Marriages
    Imaginary Friends: How far should pretend go?
    Rhett is lame
    Humanizing the enemy
    Would you kill the enemy?
    Peter still hates Ensign Ro
    What if your idea of the afterlife is wrong?
    What do you want for your funeral?
    What do you say to someone dealing with the death of a loved one?

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Here are the ratings that we gave for each show:
The Perfect Mate: 48 min 40 sec
Peter: SciFi - 6 Television - 5
Joey: SciFi - 6 Television - 6

Imaginary Friend: 42 min 01 sec
Peter: SciFi - 6 Television - 4
Joey: SciFi - 6 Television - 5

I-Borg: 36 min 22 sec
Peter: SciFi - 9 Television - 4
Joey: SciFi - 8 Television - 4

The Next Phase: 39 min 46 sec
Peter: SciFi - 7 Television - 4
Joey: SciFi - 5 Television - 6

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Podcast 31: It's the way we were born

We were pretty concerned with how this podcast was going to go. But we think things ended up turning out ok. Due in part to our special guest Anne. But This podcast covers episodes 17-20 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5.

Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    I Fight Dragons
    JC Hutchins 7th Son Novel
    Gender Roles
    "Born that way"
    What is the difference between homosexuality and mental disorders?
    Cause & Effect - didn't we talk about this before?
    Duty to truth vs. backing up your team
    Anne needs to hide a body, who is willing to help her?
    Raising children via contract
    Compromising vs. giving up

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Here are the ratings that we gave for each show:

The Outcast: 1hr 08min 04sec
Peter: SciFi - 6 Television - 6
Joey: SciFi - 6 Television - 4
Anne: SciFi - 6 Television - 8

Cause & Effect: 36min 00sec
Peter: SciFi - 9 Television - 6
Joey: SciFi - 8 Television - 3
Anne: SciFi - 6 Television - 2

The First Duty: 33min 28sec
Peter: SciFi - 4 Television - 6
Joey: SciFi - 3 Television - 4
Anne: SciFi - 2 Television - 7

Cost of Living: 54min 13sec
Peter: SciFi - 3 Television - 3
Joey: SciFi - 3 Television - 4
Anne: SciFi - 3 Television - 3

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Updated Podcasting Schedule for Season 5+

It appears Peter has finally given up on trying to get the podcast under two hours, so we will be returning to our former "4 episode per podcast" format. Below is an updated schedule to help your correlate your watching with our podcast, continuing past the end of Season 5 and into Season 6. I know we have some returning guests, and there is a possibility for a visit from what I'm going to tentatively call a "hostile guest", so be sure to tune in!

Podcast 30 (Recorded 2009-Aug-14, will be published Monday)
The Masterpiece Society
Conundrum
Power Play
Ethics

Podcast 31 (2009-Aug-21):
The Outcast
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
Cost of Living

Podcast 32 (2009-Aug-28):
The Perfect Mate
Imaginary Friend
I Borg
The Next Phase

Podcast 33 (2009-Sep-4; Season 5 wrap-up):
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow, Part I


Podcast 34 (2009-Sep-11):
Time's Arrow, Part II
Realm of Fear
an of the People
Relics

Podcast 35 (2009-Sep-18):
Schisms
True Q
Rascals
A Fistful of Datas

Podcast 36 (2009-Sep-25):
The Quality of Life
Chain of Command, Part I
Chain of Command, Part II
Ship in a Bottle

Happy Birthday, Gene

Had he lived to see this day, Gene Roddenberry would be 88 years old today. While I have taken the occasional opportunity to disagree with some of his politics and philosophy, I wanted to take the opportunity today to say how much I really appreciate what he did.

The act of creation is usually painful - the struggle to bring into this world something that you love is a feeling that I've been very familiar with. Even though nothing I've done has reached the state of acclaim that Mr. Roddenberry's has, I feel I can appreciate what it must have taken from him to bring us things like Star Trek.

Congratulations, well done, and thank you, Gene. I hope you're enjoying your "mission...to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before."

Podcast 30: Shamefully returning to what Joey wants

As Joey likes to put it, the experiment failed. We have moved back to our 4 television episode per podcast format. I was really hoping that we could shorten the podcast length but it seems that it does not matter how many Next Generation television episodes we cover we still seem to end up over 2 hours. Oh well it was worth a try. We were pleased to have Jared pop in on us this week to lend his assistance on Ethics. And we also had lots of listener comments (thanks to Listener Jim, My Friend Jon Madsen, Simon, and Julia). This podcast covers episodes 13-16 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5.

Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    JC Hutchins 7th Son Novel
    Welcome to listener Julia
    Genetically Engineering things: Sharktopus and Humans
    What wins: Rights of the one, Or, the Good of society?
    Granting Asylum
    Passionate street sweepers
    Rabbits and Pregnancy Tests: Who came up with this one?
    Stump Jared: TW5 3, Jared 1
    Assisted Suicide
    Moral Absolutes: 2+2≠4
    Medical testing: What is too far?

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Here are the ratings that we gave for each show:
The Masterpiece Society: 51min 49sec
Peter: SciFi - 8 Television - 5
Joey: SciFi - 8 Television - 3

Conundrum: 17min 53sec
Peter: SciFi - 6 Television - 4
Joey: SciFi - 7 Television - 6

Power Play: 19min 06sec
Peter: SciFi - 5 Television - 3
Joey: SciFi - 6 Television - 3

Ethics: 1hr 18min 02sec
Peter: SciFi - 4 Television - 6
Joey: SciFi - 3 Television - 8
Jared: SciFi - 2 Television - 7

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Podcast 29: I don't remember saying any of this

Out of fear of saying something really stupid we decided that we needed to make sure we had some sort of female presence on this weeks television podcast. We invited a couple of women but only one was able to join us: Katie. And as a result we had a great time. Katie did a fantastic job and we look forward to having her come back on. This podcast covers episodes 10-12 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5.

Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    JC Hutchins 7th Son Novel
    Introducing the idea of a Book Podcast: Flash Forward
    Grandparents raising their grandchildren
    Great Popsicle ideas
    Disciplining children
    Joey is okay with his daughter killing people
    Finding ways to keep the voices out
    Coping Strategy: Imaginary Friends
    Correlation & Causation
    Rape as a storytelling device
    Memory: forgetting and remembering

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Here are the ratings that we gave for each show:
New Ground: 55min 38sec
Peter: SciFi - 3 Television - 4
Joey: SciFi - 6 Television - 6
Katie: SciFi - 7 Television - 3

Hero Worship: 42min 32sec
Peter: SciFi - 7 Television - 5
Joey: SciFi - 7 Television - 6
Katie: SciFi - 5 Television - 9

Violations: 59min 35sec
Peter: SciFi - 4 Television - 3
Joey: SciFi - 6 Television - 6
Katie: SciFi - 3 Television - 3

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Podcast 28: Not tonight honey, I have a headache

We geeked out so hard to these episodes that I ended up getting a pretty powerful headache. So by the time we got to the last episode for this podcast we had to turn out the lights in order for me to continue on. Thankfully my friend Jon Madsen was there to help pick up my slack. It was really fun to have an original series cross-over with Leonard Nimoy reprising his role as Spock. Another consequence of our geeking, is that my experiment to reduce podcast length goes right out the window. I guess all I can say is thank goodness we didn't discuss 4 episodes or this might have gone to 4 hours. We almost died recording this one. This podcast covers episodes 7-9 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5.

Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    JC Hutchins 7th Son Novel
    Keeping an open dialogue
    Term Limits: Good or Bad? (Joey hates Orrin Hatch) (example of the abuse of power)
    Cowboy Diplomacy
    Max Headroom comes to Star Trek
    The Butterfly Effect: time travel problems
    Schrodinger's Cat

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Here are the ratings that we gave for each show:
Unification Part I: 1hr 12min 25sec
Peter: SciFi - 5 Television - 4
Joey: SciFi - 5 Television - 3
Jon: SciFi - 4 Television - 5

Unification Part II: 59min 30sec
Peter: SciFi - 5 Television - 4
Joey: SciFi - 6 Television - 3
Jon: SciFi - 3 Television - 5

A Matter of Time: 51min 16sec
Peter: SciFi - 7 Television - 4
Joey: SciFi - 8 Television - 5
Jon: SciFi - 5 Television - 3.5

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