Episode 52 — Schizophrenic Computers, Weird News, and Bad Movies
http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow4.0a–SchizophrenicComputersWeirdNewsAndBad/Sandf–Episode4.0a–News–SchizophrenicComputersWeirdNewsAndBadMovies.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSOur super special episode is here. Half of it, anyway. Jason Sanford, John Ottinger, and Adam join us for a discussion about the SF/F/H movies coming out in June, some really weird science news, and film adaptations of SF/F books. A few jokes are had at Shaun’s expense and Inception gets what’s coming to it… (This episode is half of a much larger recording. The second half is discussion oriented and is focused on religion in SF/F and our thoughts on why fantasy literature fairs better than science fiction. I expect that episode to go up on Monday, if not earlier.) Tune in and enjoy! 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 52 — Download (MP3) Intro, Upcoming Movies, and News (0:00 – 56:16) Yellow Brick Road (at Bloody Disgusting) (We’ll ruin the movie for you: the bad guy is foot fungus contracted in the woods.) X-men: First Class (IMDB) (Somewhere Stan Lee is wiping his butt with $100 bills.) Super 8 (IMDB) (In which J. J. Abrams ruins some trains and childhood innocence…) Trollhunter (IMDB) (UV lights also work on Newt Gingrich.) Green Lantern (IMDB) (Ab porn. That’s all this is. Two hours of a hot guy’s abs.) Transformers: Dark of the Moon (IMDB) (Whatever…) Bradley Cooper Anxious to Adapt Dan Simmons’ Hyperion (Which will come out right after The Hangover: Alcoholics Anonymous Edition.) Adolf Hitler Had an Army of Talking Dogs ($10 says they learned by watching re-runs of Mickey Mouse…) Pyramids (Possibly) Discovered in Tanis, Egypt Using Satellites (We’ll find the Ark and start melting Nazi brains…) Scientists Inflict Computers with Schizophrenia (Isaac Asimov wakes up and says, “WTF? Did nobody read my frakking books?”) 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.
The Skiffy and Fanty Show 35 — Newsies and Mary Anne Mohanraj
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.
