William isn’t interested in talking about his butt hole, but he’s got a lot to say about Mars! And Tony is fascinated with movies set in places that aren’t the places they’re filmed. Amazing! Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
Quality of eggs from chickens living in someone’s yard vs convenience of store bought “commodity” eggs. Go. –Bloodsparrow
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Yeah. I don’t get that reference .
Hari Seldon is a major character from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Series. He’s the founder of “psychohistory”, a science that allows one to predict the future of a given human population, providing that population is large enough (and, really, integrated enough). The population of a galactic-scale polity where all of the star systems can freely and in the same time-frame interact with one another is the kind of population that reaches the psychohistory threshold, so Seldon is able to map out the entire future of the galaxy that he lives in. But, like all future-predicting technologies, the science really only works if the predictions are secret and guarded, a fact which motivates the formation of the titular Foundation.
LOL lrn 2 reference 1960s serial sci-fi, N00b!1!!
The original Foundation Trilogy was published from 1951 to 1953.
Two sequels and one prequel were published from 1981 to 1988.
A final book (a sequel to the prequel) was published in 1993, making 7 Foundation books in all, though in a shared universe with Asimov’s Robot and Empire novels.
The “shared universe” novels combined count 14 – 18 books, depending upon whether or not certain “standalone” novels are counted (I’ve read only 15, myself… I should remedy that…). Out of the 18 books, 10 books were published in the 50s, 6 books were published in the 80s, and 2 books were published in the early 90s. None of them were published in the 1960s or 1970s.
Like the Foundation Series, the first books of the Robot Series were written in the 50s. All three Empire Series books were written between 1950 and 1952.
All told, I think it’s fair to call the Foundation Series and, really, the entire Foundation-Robots-Empire shared universe “50s Sci-Fi”.
Just sayin’.
Tony,
All you have to do is get William to move his planetary focus toward the outer rim of the solar system by three places and you’ll be golden.
She’s right. Just make sure he never catches on to what you’re doing.
You totally can skip over whatever this butthole commentary was all about.
Perseverance: Future Me to Past You, Perseverance landed safely on Mars and in just a few days Ingenuity should be taking off for it’s first flight. WHEEE! 😀
Amazon orders: That still sounds like some sort of scam.
I’m not familiar with Tony’s trashy New Zealand horror film or really many trashy horror films (not really my genre) but one I caught years ago and enjoyed was Black Sheep (2006). That’s ridiculous, awful, and gory. It has an almost Shaun of the Dead vibe with the comedic horror.
Kewanee is in Illinois, not Iowa.
Wait, Magnum PI crossed over with Murder She Wrote? I don’t remember that at all. I’ll have to search for that.
The main takeaway I had from Murder She Wrote was that I never wanted to be Jessica Fletcher’s friend. As any friend of her had a disturbingly high probability of either being murdered or being a murderer. Which now makes me kind of wonder, was Jessica actually secretly killing all the victims and then setting up other people to take the fall for it?
Eggs: I’ve never noticed a difference in the quality of an egg; so I’d vote for the convenience of getting them from the store.
Huh, I thought I was listening to 488 for most of this episode (got interrupted near the beginning and finished it up a couple of days later). I just looked at the site and was very confused looking at the page for 488. It appears I accidently deleted ep 488 from my podcast listening app; so I’ll have to go back and listen to that one later I guess.
The frass is always with you but the sass takes works to keep. 😉