GizmoSapiens Podcast

Chris and Matt discuss the state of the state of the Space Industry!

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Chris and Matt talk about a smattering of topics about business:

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Chris and Matt pay tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart and Walter Koenig who we have lost this week.  

In addition, Chris and Matt Discuss Television:  VisionQuest, NCIS, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and other new TV that has come out or is coming out.

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Chris Interviews Science Fiction and Fantasy author TD Wilson about his latest story coming out in a new SciFi Anthology.

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Chris and Matt Discuss Low Earth Orbit and the fact that its getting VERY crowded in Space around Earth/Terra and soon to be the moon.

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Chris and Matt discuss the finale of Star Trek Strange New Worlds as well as recap much of Season 4.  

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Chris and Matt discuss how America's relationship with food is quietly being rewired. In Episode 287, "Grazing and Gorging," we start with the news that America is falling out of love with pizza — once the country's go-to, now getting squeezed by price, quality, and competition — then widen the lens to two forces reshaping eating habits behind the scenes: weight-loss drugs shrinking portions and appetites nationwide, and a growing shift away from three square meals toward all-day snacking. Turns out the story isn't that Americans are eating less — it's that they're eating differently.

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It's been a wild few weeks in orbit. Show 286 — "Solar Shenanigans" — rounds up a month-plus of space news into five big-picture storylines: a heated global launch race where China is landing rockets and scrubbing Moon missions in the same news cycle, SpaceX's Starship notching its softest landing yet while still fighting its oldest problem (the heat shield), a genuinely wild plan to put AI data centers into orbit running headlong into questions nobody's answered about space e-waste, the Trump administration's push for 1,000+ launches a year colliding with cracks in America's crewed-spaceflight backup plans, and a batch of science wins and losses — from the sharpest space telescope yet to the last of the Mercury 13 passing at 87. Grab your helmet; it's a lot.

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Season 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is officially in full swing, and Show 285 — "Strange Enterprises" — is our deep dive into the first seven episodes. This season has swung harder between tones than any prior run of the show: we open on a genuine dinosaur-extinction time-travel epic, detour into full-blown horror with a derelict ghost ship, throw the crew a wild bender on a pleasure planet, go full noir behind Klingon lines, turn half the bridge crew into literal puppets, nearly lose the ship to a slipstream malfunction during an off-duty shift, and close out with an omnipotent being trapping everyone in a soap opera to force them to deal with their feelings. Below, we break down each episode's plot beat by beat and get into what's working, what's weird, and where Season 4 seems to be headed. Spoilers ahead for episodes 1 through 7.

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Who's watching whom — and what happens when the watchers get it wrong, or go rogue? In Episode 284, "Criminal Intent," Chris and Matt discuss a federal case testing whether wiping your own phone at the border can be a felony, the mounting scandal around Flock's nationwide license-plate camera network being turned into a personal stalking tool by the very officers meant to police it, and the corporate surveillance creeping into your trash pickup, your Instagram feed, and even your face — courtesy of Meta's smart glasses. It's not paranoia if the cameras are actually watching. Tune in.

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