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Month: December 2015

  • Episode 083: Legs From Here to Tuesday

    Episode 083: Legs From Here to Tuesday

    This episode contains: The force awakens again, 2D v. 3D, why 3D at all?, 3D TV and video games, times seeing the force awaken, IMAX, The Dark Night, Happy Feet, quick Steven Star Wars story, listen to BS Podcast for a full review of The Force Awakens Brain Matters: How the Brain Wakes You Up,…

  • Episode 082: Scared in a Low Polygon World

    Episode 082: Scared in a Low Polygon World

    This episode contains: Return of the harmonica, Miles Greb and After the Gold Rush, getting sh*t wrong, grinding in RPGs, listening to podcasts while playing video games, Everquest, Fallout, science v. science fiction segments, Thor is a god, dice and ability mods Guest Item: Domesticating canids, 3,000 year difference, Bronze Age, genome evidence, genetic drift,…

  • Episode 081: Briny Sublimation

    Episode 081: Briny Sublimation

    This episode contains: Posh dinner party, spices, scuba diving classes, enriched air diving, oxygen in the atmosphere, breathing pure oxygen, Twister and Michael Crichton, J.J. Abrams early career, no interview/guest The Week in Space: Ceres bright spots identified, Nano-Mercury Terminators From Outer Space, Dawn spacecraft, salt deposits, briny solution, haze above spots,  briny sublimation, Ultima…

  • Episode 080: We Don’t Need No Education

    Episode 080: We Don’t Need No Education

    This episode contains: Jerky for dinner, Nick Offerman, videos to not drinking alone, science or drinking show, Batman v. Superman, if it is above 70% on RT then Devon will see it, out of words, lame corporate x-mas party, Batman becomes Ironman, powered by pain and justice, Batman should be dead Untitled: water bears have…

  • Episode 079: Law and Orbit (Dun Dun)

    Episode 079: Law and Orbit (Dun Dun)

    This episode contains: Devon is a certified open water diver, 60 ft, out of air, emergency ascent, all day in a swimming pool, wet suits, breathing under water, buoyancy control device, decompression sickness, dive tables, dive computers, first world problems, life-time certification, enriched air, diving the Titanic This Week in Space: certified astronaut, atmospheres of…