Jettison Pod

This week on Jettison Pod, Vandy Beth Glenn and Charles Kelso discuss the sixth episode of Season 3 of Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Hear All, Trust Nothing." This is the land mark episode in which the Cerritos visits Deep Space Nine. Nana Visitor and Armin Shimerman reprise their iconic roles as Colonel Kira and Quark, respectively.

Show Notes:

What's making Charles laugh this week? The fifth, final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

What's making Vandy Beth laugh this week? The short-lived but hilarious 2008 TV series The Middleman

Plugs:

Charles and his wife Veronica are puppeteers; their website is feltnerdy.com. In June they'll be appearing at FrankenCon.

They're part of the crew at the podcast Earth Station Trek.

And also the Monkeeing Around podcast.

Jettison Pod's Twitter feed: @Jettison_Pod.

Co-hosting with Vandy Beth Glenn this time out is "Niceguy" Eddie, host of the currently inactive "In My Humble Opinion" podcast on Rainbow Radio.

Eddie and Vandy Beth interview Sean Reiley of the website seanbaby.com, about his page that stockpiles all the one-page narrative ads for Hostess Twinkies, fruit pies, and cupcakes that appeared in Marvel and DC comics in the 1970s and 1980s. A lively and fun discussion was had by all.

Show Notes:

What's making Sean laugh this week is the Twitter account for the 2014 Johnny Depp film, Mortdecai.

Vandy Beth is laughing at Vulture's oral history of the "Planet of the Apes musical" episode of The Simpsons from the late 1990s.

And Eddie is laughing over the post-Bud Light boycott of Maybelline products by the sort of people who would never use Maybelline products in the first place.

This week's plugs:

Visit Sean and Robert Brockway at "The Last Comedy Website," 1-900 HOTDOG!

Eddie wants us all to know about the band, Roxanne McDaniel and The Big Bad Buzz.

This week on Jettison Pod, Vandy Beth Glenn and Alan Siler discuss She-Hulk Attorney At Law Episode 5: Mean, Green, and Straight Poured Into These Jeans.

Show Notes:

The closing music to this week's episode is the lovely "Say My Name" by Swedish singer Tove Styrke

What's Making Us Laugh This Week

Alan is laughing at both the American and the original British versions of the TV sitcom, The Office.

For Vandy Beth, it's Shoresy, the Letterkenny spinoff, which Americans can watch on Hulu.

Plugs:

Alan has a great podcast of his own, called Modern Musicology:

Modern Musicology

Me:

Our Twitter feed: @Jettison_Pod

Jettison Pod Facebook group

And if you'd like to support us monetarily, please make a pledge at Patreon:

Jettison Pod Patreon Page

or at Vandy Beth Glenn's Substack

This week Vandy Beth Glenn and Celestia Ward talk about Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3, Episode 5: "Reflections."

Show notes:

Teenager who butt-dialed 911 and told dispatch he "killed two people"

Stevie Martin, a British comedian who cohosts "Nobody Panic," a lifehacking podcast, and is also very funny on Twitter and YouTube.

Nobody Panic

Stevie Martin on Twitter

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQYdc-FxeYg&t=216s

Celestia's podcast is Squaring The Strange

This week on Jettison Pod, Vandy Beth Glenn and Foam Armory co-founder Stephanie Chan discuss the humor that can be found in cosplay!

Show Notes:

The original "Lex Luthor took 40 cakes" image. The cosplay tribute to Lex Luthor's pastry crime.

Dr. Stranger Things

Dragon Con's "BBQ Becky" photo shoot with Black cosplayers

Stephanie as the IKEA monkey:

Star Trek end credits cosplay

Stephanie as the "Stranger Things wall":

My friends Ashlee and Jim in their Twilight Zone "Eye of the Beholder" costumes

Sexy Clippy

RUN BTS on YouTube

and at Weverse

Reservation Dogs on FX at Hulu

Book: The Cosplayer's Ultimate Guide to EVA Foam by Beverly Downen

Stephanie's cosplay supplies business, Foam Armory

This week Vandy Beth Glenn and her guest Ilan Muskat talk about Episode 4 of Season 1 of She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, "Is This Not Real Magic?"

Show notes:

Carl Ballantine's Bad Magic

Poker Face

Saturday Night Live this season

Shelved, a sitcom about the Canadian library system

Come see Vandy Beth Glenn perform standup comedy at the Decatur Arts Festival on May 6th!

Joining Vandy Beth Glenn this week to discuss "Room For Growth," the fourth episode of Season 3 of Star Trek: Lower Decks, is the author of The First Adventure on Earth with Adam & Steve, stand-up comedian, and host of the "Computer Resume Podcast," Greenville, South Carolina's own Mr. Todd A. Davis!

Show Notes:

Amazon Prime series Legend of Vox Machina

The treasure trove of old Marvel and DC Comics' Hostess snacks ads from the 1970s and 1980s

Plugs:

Do you have anything to plug?

Todd's own show is the Computer Resume Podcast, and you can find him among the usual social media suspects as @MrToddADavis.

Vandy Beth was recently a guest on the Tyrants In Training podcast, and had great fun imagining the island where she ruled with an iron hand.

She's also performing at the P3 Comedy Festival in Pensacola over Memorial Day weekend. I may have mentioned that before, but by the time this episode drops it will be closer to happening.

Tacked onto the end of the episode is a promotion for:

Todd will be there!

This week on Jettison Pod, Veronica Dashiell of the Earth Station Trek podcast joins Vandy Beth Glenn to step through the puddle and name the Five Funniest Stargate episodes. Join us, won't you?

Show Notes:

All four regular panelists from the Earth Station Trek podcast have now been guests on Jettison Pod. Suck it, Terry Gross!

The Season 3 premiere of Star Trek: Lower Decks (we recorded this episode a loooong time ago because reasons).

Season 6 of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Veronica is half of feltnerdy.com.

Vandy Beth Glenn will be performing standup comedy in the Decatur Arts Festival at 3:30 p.m. on May 6, 2023 in the LOL Tent next to the DeKalb Historic Courthouse. Please come see her if you can!

This week on Jettison Pod, Vandy Beth Glenn is joined by award-winning journalist, college professor and single mom Dawn Ennis as they discuss the third episode of Season 1 of She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, "The People Vs. Emil Blonsky."

Show Notes:

Family Guy S07E11: "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven"

Arrested Development Season 5

Update: Not leaving Netflix after all: https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/arrested-development-no-longer-leaving-netflix-march-2023/

Dawn's Substack

This week on Jettison Pod, the podcast about comedy in science fiction, Vandy Beth Glenn is joined by Keith Johnson of the Earth Station Trek podcast. Together they examine the third episode of the third season of Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Mining The Mind's Mines."

Show Notes:

Tyler Perry's Bruh and Tyler Perry's House of Payne, both on BET

Dead To Me on Netflix