All Systems Read: A Murderbot Podcast

We took a break from the main story to talk about two of the short stories: Compulsory, along with Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory. 

Talking Points: 

• Our listeners are so smart 
• Supplemental Documentation
• Expanding our TBRs
• Angry geese and angry bears 

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CW: Suicide (~29:19-35) 

Welcome to our discussion on the second half of Exit Strategy, Book Four of The Murderbot Diaries. 

Talking Points: 

• A (water) drinking game 
• Brave vs Caution vs Coward vs Trauma 
• Shooting out a knee as an act of kindness 
• Burnout 

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Welcome to our discussion on the first half of Exit Strategy, Book Four of The Murderbot Diaries. 

Talking Points: 

• Branding ft. Dropout.tv
• Murderbot Media Showdown Sunday
• I Love Hue
• (Words) 
• Reunited and it feels so good

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Welcome to the long awaited second half of our discussion on Rogue Protocol, Book Three of The Murderbot Diaries. 

Talking Points: 

• BFF (Bot Friends Forever) 
• Oh Miki you're so FINE, you're so FINE 
• Support women's wrongs 
• Client's aren't just humans

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Welcome to the first half of our discussion on Rogue Protocol, Book Three of The Murderbot Diaries. 

Talking Points: 

• The cracker wrapper in the sink
• REDACTED 
• Aphantasia 
• The right kind of unrealistic 
• A new bot 

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Welcome to the second half of our discussion Artificial Condition, Book Two of The Murderbot Diaries. 

Talking Points: 

• Exploring the Corporation Rim 
• Superman and Murderbot are hopeful 
• Murderbot riding a horse / Dogs are predators 
• The horrors of being a construct 
• Hand holding 
• And, of course, more ART

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Content Warning: Sex work, forced body modification from 27:00-32:46

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Welcome to the first half of our discussion Artificial Condition, Book Two of The Murderbot Diaries. Click here for a transcript of this episode.

Talking Points: 

• Code Switching
• Studying Human Behavior 
• 100% Completion Rates 
• This podcast would like to sponsor Kevin R. Free.  
• The Brave Little Toaster 
• And, of course, ART

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Welcome to the second half of our discussion All Systems Red, Book One of The Murderbot Diaries. 

Talking Points: 

• Hacking personnel files 
• Managing your emotions
• Mass murder (kind of) 

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Join the ASR hosts to talk about the first four chapters of All Systems Red, the first book in The MurderBot Diaries series! 

Talking Points: 

• Trusting yourself and your SecUnit 
• The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon 
• Hating the Corporation Rim 
• Murderbot (And Jess's) failing performance reliability 

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Jess (she/her) and Raven (she/her) sit down to talk about why people love The Murderbot Diaries series. Basically, a short introduction to the hosts before they start the book club aspect of the show. 

Talking Points: 
-How they found the books
-Reacting to the Murderbot TV trailer
-Martha Wells being a badass 
-Being Neurodivergent and learning humanity from Murderbot 
-How to bully your friends into reading the book

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