HyperLab Omni

Chad and Jason discuss the future and ethics of animal uplift technology and ADA is ready to ride this futuristic wave into a weirder future!

Explore an undersea wonderland as we discuss Lobotomy Shoals, an amazing short story by Juleen Brantingham featured in the February 1979 issue of Omni.

In this episode we dip a bit deeper into the Omni archive, to an interview from November of 1978, which inspires a fun conversation about Alvin Toffler's prescient Future Shock with computer scientist and friend of the HyperLab, Brian Dowtin. (Check out our fun conversation we had with Brian in Episode 4 about Big Traks)

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In this show, Chad and Jason try to navigate their way out of the uncanny valley after gaining a new member of the lab production team, before having a fun discussion about an interstellar mission to Barnard's Star, from an article featured in the January 1979 issue of Omni.

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Greetings from the HyperLab! In today's thrilling episode, we follow the threads of Episode 6's cliffhanger ending and listen as Jason makes a life and death gamble with an AI ghost in the HLO machine. And later, Chad and Jason play with some temporal tautological traps as they explore an Isaac Netwon themed time travel short story by Paul J. Nahin that appeared in Omni magazine in January 1979.

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Join us somewhere beyond the tangential event horizon as we resume our conversation with megatalented comic book creator, Jack Foster. And for those of you who missed it, here's a link to part 1. In this episode we wrap up our talk about artist John Berkey, wander through a desert oasis known as "Dune Minute" and engage in some intense pop culture regression therapy to resolve Jack's Star Wars false memory implant.

Be sure to check out Jack's work at guncomic.com and follow him on Twitter and Instagram Sound design and music is by Nathan Moody. Visit nathanmoody.bandcamp.com to hear more.

Omni magazine is a trademark of Penthouse Global Media. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

Some audio elements in this episode are under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Read the full audio credits and learn how to support this podcast at our Patreon page.

Climb aboard, seal the hatches and sink below the memetic seascape with HLO as we take a deep dive into the Omni art nostalgia trench in the first of a two part interview with the amazing artist/writer/creator, Jack Foster.

Be sure to check out Jack's work at guncomic.com and follow him on Twitter and Instagram Sound design and music is by Nathan Moody. Visit nathanmoody.bandcamp.com to hear more.

Omni magazine is a trademark of Penthouse Global Media. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

Some audio elements in this episode are under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Read the full audio credits and learn how to support this podcast at our Patreon page.

This episode, Jason and Chad tumble into a memetic wormhole when exploring a cryptozoological science fiction piece called "And Whether Pigs Have Wings" by Nancy Kress, and are saved by their virtual assistant. We also feature a short clip of our upcoming interview with Brian Dowtin, who is a computer scientist working on some of the whys and hows of technology. Brian picked an Omni interview between Bob Guccione and futurist Alvin Toffler, who wrote Future Shock. We'll connect a lot of dots between Brian's work and this prescient voice of future past as we take a nostalgic Big Trak journey into the collective hallucination we call childhood. Sound design and music is by Nathan Moody. Visit nathanmoody.bandcamp.com to hear more.

Omni magazine is a trademark of Penthouse Global Media. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

Some audio elements in this episode are under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Read the full audio credits and learn how to support this podcast at our Patreon page.

In this April '79 Omni episode, Jason and Chad sculpt a Devil's Tower shaped mound of wonder as they explore some wild extraterrestrial artwork, sit in on a UN field trip with some high-powered believers, and share a close encounter story of shock and awe. This means something!

Sound design and music is by Nathan Moody. Visit nathanmoody.bandcamp.com to hear more. Omni magazine is a trademark of Penthouse Global Media. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

Some audio elements in this episode are under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Read the full audio credits and learn how to support this podcast at our Patreon page.

In this episode, Jason and Chad talk about a passel of topics that spring from the January 1979 issue of Omni, and Jason tells tales of unidentified mysteries.

Sound design and music is by Nathan Moody. Visit nathanmoody.bandcamp.com to hear more. Omni magazine is a trademark of Penthouse Global Media. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

Some audio elements in this episode are under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Read the full audio credits and learn how to support this podcast at our Patreon page.