The Skiffy and Fanty Show Podcasts

The Skiffy and Fanty Show Podcasts

Episode 39 — Your Nihilistic Delusional Fantasy (of Doom)

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow2.7–YourNihilisticDelusionalFantasyofDoom/Sandf–Episode2.7–YourNihilisticDelusionalFantasyofDoom.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSEveryone’s talking about it:  the recent Big Hollywood anti-contemporary-fantasy rant!  So, like good little specfic nuts, we’ve decided to join the discussion with our own take on fantasy and its supposed bankrupt nihilism.  We try to have a little fun while doing it, but fun is really hard to manage when you’re dealing with so much dumb! Feel free to shoot us an email at skiffyandfanty [at] gmail [dot] com, leave a comment, or follow us on Twitter.  We hope you enjoy the episode! Note:  If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes page, or feel free to email us with your thoughts about the show! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode 39 — Download (MP3) Intro and Main Discussion (0:00 – 33:05): “The Bankrupt Nihilism of Our Fallen Fantasists” (Also known as the Great Head in Sand “I’m Not Listening” Game) “Is Science Fiction Getting More Conservative?” (Alternatively, you might ask if it’s leaning the other way too!) Our new intro music is “Time Flux” by Revolution Void (CC BY 3.0). That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next week.

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The Skiffy and Fanty Show 38 — Torture Cinema Meets the Last Airbender

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow2.6/Sandf–Episode2.6–TortureCinemaMeetsTheLastAirbender.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSThere’s nothing quite like watching someone’s career crash and burn like a WWI biplane at the end of a dogfight.  This week we talk about the (arguably) worst movie of 2010:  The Last Airbender (written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan).  We won’t ruin the episode for you, except to say that it’s quite painful.  Tune in and enjoy at your own expense! Feel free to shoot us an email at skiffyandfanty [at] gmail [dot] com, leave a comment, or follow us on Twitter.  We hope you enjoy the episode! Note:  If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes page, or feel free to email us with your thoughts about the show! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode 38 — Download (MP3) Intro and Torture Cinema Meets The Last Airbender (0:00 – 34:44): The Last Airbender (IMDB) (Where you can read up on all the acting careers that have now been destroyed…) Racebending (i.e., info about The Last Airbender‘s racefail moments) (Because we know you want to be pissed and in pain at the same time while you watch this crap…) Our new intro music is “Time Flux” by Revolution Void (CC BY 3.0). That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next week.

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The Skiffy and Fanty Show 37 — The Eaton Edition (Part Two)

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow2.5b–TheEatonEditiondayTwot/Sandf–Episode2.5b–TheEatonEditionDayTwo.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSAnd we’re back with the final installment of our special Eaton Editions of the show.  This episode has some discussion of topics we’re going to probably bring up at length in future episodes, along with further geeking out, pontifications, and other such amusements.  We hope you enjoy the episode and we’ll see you next week with your regular programmed episodes! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode 37 — Download (MP3) Our new intro music is “Time Flux” by Revolution Void (CC BY 3.0). That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next week.

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The Skiffy and Fanty Show 36 — The Eaton Edition (Day One)

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow2.5a–TheEatonEditiondayOne/Sandf–Episode2.5a–TheEatonEditionDayOne.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSComing to you almost-live from the Eaton Conference in Riverside, California, we present to you the first edition of our discussion of the conference, our experiences, random geekery, and other fun things.  The second part will go up tomorrow. Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode 36 — Download (MP3) Our new intro music is “Time Flux” by Revolution Void (CC BY 3.0). That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next week.

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The Skiffy and Fanty Show 35 — Newsies and Mary Anne Mohanraj

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow2.4–NewsiesAndMaryAnneMohanraj/Sandf–Episode2.4–NewsiesAndMaryAnneMohanraj.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSIt’s about time we gave you all a little bit of happy news, and that’s what this episode is (mostly) about.  Upcoming movies?  Check.  Fantastic science discoveries?  Check.  Stuff about the new Batman movie?  Check.  More happy things?  Check.  See?  We’ve got it all, including an interview with Mary Anne Mohanraj of the Speculative Literature Foundation. Feel free to shoot us an email at skiffyandfanty [at] gmail [dot] com, leave a comment, or follow us on Twitter.  We hope you enjoy the episode! Note:  If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes page, or feel free to email us with your thoughts about the show! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode 35 — Download (MP3) Intro and News (0:00 – 16:39): Anne Hathaway and Tom Hardy to Play Catwoman and Bane (respectively) (You can pretty much guarantee that there will be a lot of sexy in The Dark Knight Rises). Joseph Gordon-Levitt Pegged to Be in The Dark Knight Rises (maybe as the villain) (Like I said…sexy.) U.S. Biotech Company Patents New CO2-eating, Hydrocarbon Pooping Organism! (The oil companies half clap as their plans to destroy the Earth slowly go down the toilet…) Kepler Discovers First Earth Sizes Planets inside the Habitable Zone (Halliburton begins planning the invasion…) Juan of the Dead — A New Cuban Zombie Comedy! (Opportunistic capitalists rejoice.) Battlestar Galactica Online Open Beta Now Live! (So say we all! Total Recall Remake — It’ll Follow the Source Material More Closely (And Arnold will probably make a cameo in Quaid’s magic Mars adventures.) Interview w/ Mary Anne Mohanraj (16:49 – 31:39): The Speculative Literature Foundation (The initials also spell out Stegosaurus Lawncare and Friends) Mary Anne Mohanraj’s Website Strange Horizons (Definitely better than getting your hand stuck in a car door.) The Canada Council of the Arts (Where good Canadian stories go to “discover” themselves…) The End:  Reading and Writing (31:40 — 34:50): Our new intro music is “Time Flux” by Revolution Void (CC BY 3.0). That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next week.

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The Skiffy and Fanty Show 34 — Interview w/ Lauren Beukes

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow2.3–InterviewWLaurenBeukes/Sandf–Episode2.3–InterviewWLaurenBeukes.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSSouth Africa is on the literary attack. This week we talk to Lauren Beukes about her novel, Zoo City, which was recently released in the United States. There’s no question of the week this time around, but do feel free to shoot us an email at skiffyandfanty [at] gmail [dot] com, leave a comment, or follow us on Twitter.  We hope you enjoy the episode! Note:  If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes page, or feel free to email us with your thoughts about the show! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode 34 — Download (MP3) Intro and Interview w/ Lauren Beukes (0:00 – 36:05) Lauren Beukes’ Website(Ms. Awesome-sauce herself beckons you…) Moxyland by Lauren Beukes(Read it) Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (Also, read this.  Or else…) Zoo City, the Soundtrack (because we know you want to bust an aposymbiotic groove!) Sidekick by Adeline Radloff S. L. Grey’s Website Deadlands by Lily Herne Miss Gay Western Cape (Oh, you know you want to click and find out what this is…don’t you?) Our new intro music is “Time Flux” by Revolution Void (CC BY 3.0). That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next week.

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