Orbital Earthcast

Paul Revere rides in and discusses lanterns, riding and likely some other things that Gap was too preoccupied with history to care about.

Many of our listeners have started wondering where Gap came from and the mysterious past he holds... or they would if we had listeners. So, let's explain how Gap became a thing on this special GEIA.

Writer of the Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling gets beamed in so Gap can ask him about the crippling epidemic of singing animals.

Joseph Campbell finally comes on the show so Gap can learn about all the stages of the hero's journey and if he should really care.

To celebrate the recent advancements in human civilization, we look back at your Standard Earth Year 2014 with a panel discussion. True, the panel is composed of guests I do not particularly like, but this is all very new to me. Of course, I can travel through time, so reflection on a single year seems trivial, but it's a pursuit.

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Gap sits down with the jolliest icon of the holiday season, Santa Claus, in this unnecessarily long and egregiously festive special. Everyone does it, why shouldn't we? Also, a hostile elf invades the studio to tell us how the cookies are made.

I learn how much humans understand about evolution and natural selection when Charles Darwin sneezes his way into the studio.

Silkscreening has never been so exciting as Gap talks to (potential alien) Andy Warhol, master of pop art and self-actualized celebrity.

A man of myth and appetite, Paul Bunyan recounts some semi-plausible tales from his lumberjack days on the American frontier.

Monkey Island enthusiast Guybrush Threepwood explains his unlikely matching with Elaine, his long-time battle with LeChuck and why you should all be afraid of porcelain.