Midweek Mini-Podcast: We need movie ideas

 Joey and I have run out of Star Trek movies, that we plan on podcasting about. We have a few ideas, but frankly we want to know what you, our loyal listeners, want to hear us discuss. So Joey threw together this little mini-podcast before he left on vacation. Please send us in your ideas by blog comments, email, or google voice. No idea is too stupid*. Thanks for listening.

*We reserve the right to mock you if we think your idea is too stupid.

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Podcast Movie Special: Star Trek Insurrection

 Much like our verbose online discussion of Watchmen, Joey and I split on our enjoyment of this movie. He loved it and I thought it was only ok. Hopefully, our listeners won't be split on their enjoyment of our review of the second-to-last TNG film.

Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    Joey's Culture Corner: Mordant's Need by Stephen R. Donaldson
    Blog posts about Watchmen: Peter and Joey
    Gilbert & Sullivan do not belong in Star Trek
    Would you rather be a Borg or a Sona?
    Would zippers still be used in the future?
    Music by Shayna Zaid

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Podcast 84: Alan Alda Lovefest

  What a great night of podcasting we had! One of our new listeners JD sent us in a great picture of him wearing a piece of TrekWest 5 Paraphernalia (see image below). And of course we were introduced to one of the few season 6 bright spots, the great Alan Alda. It's clear what his acting experience lends to sub-standard writing. It almost becomes passable. One last thing is that JD actually called in on our Google Voice and left a message. Joey didn't notice it until after the recording was over, so we'll have to respond to it next podcast. Sorry about that JD. This podcast covers episodes 5-8 of The West Wing, Season 6.

For our iTunes subscribers: it appears that blogspot may have been going through a temporary outage when our FeedBurner feed (on which the iTunes listing is predicated) was updating this week. This may have caused your iTunes to not see the latest entry. We have tried to force a refresh through the FeedBurner service, this should force iTunes to see the post...whenever Apple decides to check again. Sorry for any trouble.

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Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    Joey's Culture Corner: Grace is Gone
    Principles of an American Life: Article 7 of the Constitution
    The Sword of Damocles
    Jellyman Kelly by James Taylor
    Burning the American flag
    Alan Alda impersonation
    Josh Woodward's track Morning Blue

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Here are the ratings that we gave for each show:
The Hubbert Peak: 37min 11sec
Peter: Television - 5
Joey: Television - 6

Dover Test: 19min 18sec
Peter: Television - 5
Joey: Television - 5

A Change is Gonna Come: 19min 56sec
Peter: Television - 6
Joey: Television - 7

In the Room: 25min 22sec
Peter: Television - 6
Joey: Television - 7

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Podcast Movie Special: Star Trek First Contact

 Our long standing TW5 intern Aaron joins us this week to talk about the 2nd TNG movie: Star Trek First Contact. Ostensibly this is an action movie set in a sci-fi world that made Joey and I split in our enjoyment of it. Regardless of that we both loved the performance by Alfre Woodard as she clearly stole the show. See this movie at least for what she offered as an actress. Plus, androids and cyborgs kissing! What could be more sexually charged?

Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    Joey's Culture Corner: Heart & Souls
    Joey gets sentimental/emotional about the Enterprise
    Joey gets signals from outer space
    Pete gets turned on by the Borg Queen
    Alfre Woodard gives the best performance in this movie
    What's more sci-fi than cyborgs and androids kissing?
    Music Intro: Hear Me by Imagine Dragons

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Podcast 83: Now with Merchandise

 What an incredibly busy week and podcast. We at TW5 are proud to announce that we now have TW5 merchandise! Check out our store link at Cafe Press. Listener Jim institutes a new rating system due to his extreme hatred of what is going on in the episodes. Check it out, you will laugh your head off. We discussed episodes 1-4 of The West Wing, Season 6.



Various topics discussed in this podcast include:
    Announcing TrekWest5 merchandise from Cafe Press
    Joey's Culture Corner: Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
    Principles of an American Life: Article 6 of the Constitution
    The WW writers really screw up the character of Leo
    Don't go skeet shooting with Aaron
    Joey should watch the movie Dirty Dancing
    Music Intro: I Fight Dragons

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Here are the ratings that we gave for each show:
NSF Thurmont: 49min 31sec
Peter: Television - 7
Joey: Television - 5

The Birnam Wood: 20min 53sec
Peter: Television - 7
Joey: Television - 7

Third Day Story: 17min 14sec
Peter: Television - 8
Joey: Television - 5

Liftoff: 23min 32sec
Peter: Television - 9
Joey: Television - 7

If you have something to say then we welcome your comments below, or feel free to email us at trekwest5@thehomestarmy.com, twitter us at hashtag TrekWest5, or leave us a voicemail at 801-788-4913.