We spend about as much time on plot as this story did, which is to say hardly anything. Instead we gave local shoutouts, threw unprovoked shade on Stockton, and generally had a hard time wrapping our head around the premise.
Richard gave it a 4.5, Ryan never got around to scoring it.
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In the best prediction of the future yet, the internet (Logic) meets it's first hacker, a snotty 12 year old. There's fawning, there's Ryan mispronouncing names, Richard spoils a book he recommends, and we go over the first year of X Minus One while insisting on calling it a season.
Ryan gave it a 9.9, Richard a flat 9.
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It's the episode that broke Richard. 50s husband caricatures deal with their equally thinly drawn wives with robots. Having not listened to "Perigi's Wonderful Dolls," they don't see the twists coming.
Richard loses it about halfway through and filibusters for twenty minutes on places to get a good steak. Seriously, you could listen for the science fiction take of "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" or the robot revolution so subversive that the robots don't know they've won, but really, it's just to listen to Richard have a meltdown over how much he hated this episode.
Richard gives it a -1 so as to make sure no one listens to this episode ever. Ryan split with that and gave it a 4 for similar reasons.
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Time traveling vacationers visit 1955 and manage to not almost hook up with their parents in the Ray Bradbury tale "To The Future." We quibble over who the protagonist really is, talk about vague war, and for once Ryan doesn't have to be drug along to like a Ray Bradbury story. He still rates it lower than Richard.
7.5 for Ryan, 8.5 for Richard.
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We explore a goofy premise well executed in Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall"...usually I try and pick three things that happen, but mostly we just try and figure out how this story happens. And yet, we kind of liked it.
Richard parsed out a 7.75 and Ryan a flat 7.
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This week we (eventually) tackle X Minus One's erstwhile Elon Musk taking on space travel. Richard gets what he wished for Monkey Paw style; we discuss the relative lack of merit in poorly formed internet debates about economics, and we wonder out loud if engineers move in herds. It's 4s all around as we decide that's the worst thing we can say about an episode.
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We take on a Bradbury two-fer that may not have actually happened and definitely contains both the X Minus One intro and part of the Dimension X intro. In the combining spirit we get the house death of "There Will Come Soft Rains" and the killer kid invasion story "Zero Hour" where we don't mention The Whispers once because we didn't know it was a show based on "Zero Hour" when we recorded the episode.
Topics include narrative GIFs, more neglectful parents, and Godzilla.
Combined ratings go to Richard with an 8 and Ryan with a 7.
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Today we learn that aliens have a bad grasp of the idea of 'quarantine' and 'warning' as we travel into the Outer Limit. On deck is people bad at science, weird alien morality, the Fantastic Four, and Richard all but invites you to sucker punch him.
Ryan suffered from fatigue giving it a 5, Richard liked the characters enough to give it a 6.
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Since Ryan doesn't know why his files are too big, we need to make a mini episode to fill a five-Wednesday December. This month we play "Who Wore it Best," comparing stories adapted by other radio anthologies. Up first is Escape's version of "Mars is Heaven" from 1950. We discuss story efficiency, pointless town hall meetings, and who not to reveal your misgivings to.
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Ted makes his triumphant return for another Bradbury where people return from Mars to find a strange family. The finer points of the robot revolution are discussed, Ryan still doesn't know how food works, and Richard announces something that's been happening for six months in his new segment People from the Future who Don't Know What Happened in the Past.
Richard gave it a 4.75
Ryan gave it a 4
Ted suggested disturbing things regarding antennae...
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We go underground for the first of our bunker tales. We discuss people bad at their jobs, the old paper and pencil game Paranoia, and terrible last lines.
Richard gave it a 5.5 but Ryan needs to watch you experience that last line, giving it a 3.5 in an issue of how to rate the bottom episodes that will not be settled this episode.
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An old man enlisting carnies to go into space--what could go wrong? Ryan achieves the impossible, Richard contemplates libertarianism without the hatred of the poor, and we discuss how many cylinders are too many cylinders.
Ryan was charmed to an 8, Richard gives it a rounded up 7.
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We get our first mis-delivery episode as a nervous man gets a kit to build a man and promptly makes a clone of himself that is brimming with confidence, including the confidence to do away with his nervous self. The word 'nebbish' gets used a lot, Richard asks for another impression recasting, we can't remember the names of things, and we wax on about a lost episode again.
We both give it a 7.
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Earth has its first encounter with aliens in the vastness of space and then runs into a problem of what to do next. It's a first contact without Vulcans, Picard, or "Spirit in the Sky"...including Ryan's disappointment that it's not the version with the bombastic captain, a general admiration of the competent crew members, and a lengthy coda about things that need words. Did I leave it on because I'm lazy or because I couldn't find a clean cut? You decide...
Ryan lands another 7.5 and Richard goes for 8.5
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I went to a wedding, then a birthday party, then at the last second decided to celebrate Back to the Future Day, but better late than never, right? Right?
Aaaaannyway...Ray Bradbury takes us back to Mars and reveals that Ryan doesn't know much about poetry, confuses Bradbury stories named from poems (despite his insistence, the house dying episode is a different poem...) and Richard proposes the idea of Wonder Fatigue.
Richard lands at an 8 and Ryan gave it a 7.5
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More stranded aliens and another contentious doctor/commander relationship while we contemplate an intergalactic Improv Everywhere, a brief thought on a CW version, and Richard makes the case for Coneheads.
Ryan gives it an 8
Richard landed on 7.5
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We slog through a western in space where the subtlety in allegory gives way to a giant hammer of obvious. Mistakes were made, Ryan comes dangerously close to achieving his goal, and we discuss the value of doing a bad job well.
Fives all around.
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Well, it's what's on the tin. We go spelunking to find a deeper meaning in a regular ol' story set in space. As usual, this means a visit to Richard's reading corner and an exploration of the non-existent "episode two" of this X-1 episode.
Ryan gave it a 5.5
Richard gave it a begrudging 4.02 (4...he really gives it a 4)
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We finally cover an episode we keep talking about and proceed to not talk much about the otr X-1 episode "Cold Equations." A rambling discussion about ethics and science fiction story telling, adult stories and a lot of gushing. Can we make a good episode out of a good episode, listen and find out.
10s all around.
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What if Wheaton's Law was enforced by a deadly disease? We explore that idea discussing the X-1 episode "Courtesy" by Clifford Simak. Topics range from plot convenient deaths, an entire culture overreacting as one, and perhaps one of the biggest jerk characters we've had so far. Plus Richard makes the case for Clifford Simak.
Ryan gave it a 6.5
Richard gave it a 7.5
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This week we talk about the otr X-1 episode "Almost Human," gangsters and robots, the author of Psycho, Pinocchio and Frankenstein and what makes a good robot story, we invite our listeners to speculate on how different directors would approach the story, and halfway through demanding an Iron Giant musical we halfass our way through an Almost Human musical. All in one episode! We're back, baby!
We both gave it a 4.
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So, every once in a while there are five Wednesdays in a month, and we're a small podcast that can only afford storage for four, especially when we get chatty. But we don't want to leave you hanging for the week, so here are some outtakes as Ryan tries his best to get the hosts talking to adjust their levels.
Subjects include the legitimacy of probiotics, Richard's culinary inventions and novel health product, some awful covers of various songs, and the science of butt wiping. You're warned...We'll be back in full force next week with the killer robot tale, "Almost Human."
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Kids, right? We quibble on whether Bradbury's poetry in the text can overcome issues with the story, on who is the worst about 'kids these days,' and how your iPad is going to lead to your kids feeding you to a lion. Or something.
Richard gave it a 6.5
Ryan gave it a 3
In this episode we answer the question, "What if The Parade was kind of boring?" Richard spoils an unrelated Clifford Simak story and talks about Barney Miller, we lament the early demise of Iron Man Dugan, and we start to establish a "bell curve" to our ratings.
We both gave it a 4.
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