Shall We Digress...?

Join in with Nicole, dear friend and fellow podcaster as we delve into the passion that dove her to create this fantastic true crime podcast. Dedicated to the Ozark Highlands, take the journey with the host and uncover these forgotten people and their stories.

"Hell in the Highlands is a true crime podcast covering missing persons, unsolved and solved cases in the isolated communities of Northwest Arkansas - the Highlands of the Ozark mountains. In this podcast, we are going to discuss cases with only local notoriety or no notoriety at all."

We will be discussing grief and loss

All about lightsabers!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightsaber

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Lightsaber?so=search

https://youtu.be/ey_EjSzKFWQ

https://youtu.be/xC6J4T_hUKg

Leslie and I go way back, and he's been a mentor and friend since day one. I wish I could fit it all in this note, but check out Leslie's website to learn so much more. Enjoy the show!

Erin Macdonald (PhD, Astrophysics) is a tattooed one-woman STEM career panel, with recognition as a researcher, speaker, engineer, and consultant before her current career. She lives in Los Angeles working as a writer and producer and is currently the science consultant for the entire Star Trek franchise.

Dan Moren is the author of the Galactic Cold War series of sci-fi espionage capers, including The Nova Incident—coming in July 2022—The Aleph Extraction, and The Bayern Agenda from Angry Robot Books, as well as The Caledonian Gambitfrom Talos Press. He’s represented by Joshua Bilmes of JABberwocky Literary Agency.

The Rocketeer (released internationally as The Adventures of the Rocketeer) is a 1991 American period superhero film from Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures, produced by Charles Gordon, Lawrence Gordon, and Lloyd Levin, directed by Joe Johnston, that stars Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino, and Tiny Ron Taylor. It is based on the character of the same name created by comic book artist and writer Dave Stevens.

In 1938 Los Angeles, gangsters from Eddie Valentine's gang steal a rocket pack from Howard Hughes. During their escape from the authorities, the getaway driver hides the rocket pack at an airfield, and stunt pilot Cliff Secord's Gee Bee racer is wrecked in the chase, crippling his career. Movie star Neville Sinclair had hired Valentine's gang to steal the rocket pack, and he sends his monstrous henchman Lothar to question the injured getaway driver about its location before killing him. Meanwhile, Cliff and airplane mechanic Peevy find the pack and begin testing it.

https://dmoren.com/

Digress on Film: a Commentary on 1997's Sci-Fi Horror Classic Event Horizon

Event Horizon is a 1997 science fiction horror film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and written by Philip Eisner. It stars Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan and Joely Richardson. Set in 2047, it follows a crew of astronauts sent on a rescue mission after a missing spaceship, the Event Horizon, spontaneously appears in orbit around Neptune. Searching the ship for signs of life, they learn that the Event Horizon was a test bed for an experimental engine that created a rift in the space–time continuum and left our universe entirely, allowing a malevolent force to possess it.

In 2047, a distress signal is received from the Event Horizon, a starship that disappeared during its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri seven years earlier, and has mysteriously reappeared in a decaying orbit around Neptune. The rescue vessel Lewis and Clark is dispatched. Its crew—Capt. Miller, second-in-command Lt. Starck, pilot Smith, medical technician Peters, engineer Ensign Justin, doctor D.J., and rescue technician Cooper—is joined by Dr. William Weir, the Event Horizon's designer. He briefs them on the ship's experimental gravity drive with a simple visualization of how it folds space-time. The distress signal seems to consist of a series of screams and howls but D.J. believes he can discern the Latin phrase "Liberate me"("Save me").

Men in Black (stylized as MIB: Men in Black) is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and written by Ed Solomon. Loosely based on the Men in Black comic book series created by Lowell Cunningham and Sandy Carruthers, the film stars  Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as two agents of a secret organization called the Men in Black, who supervise extraterrestrial lifeforms who live on Earth and hide their existence from ordinary humans. The film featured the creature effects and makeup of Rick Baker and visual effects by Industrial Light & Magic.  

At the Mexico–United States border, two men in black suits, Agent K and Agent D, interrupt a border patrol sting. They take one of the men attempting to cross the border, who is actually an extraterrestrial in disguise. K is forced to shoot it when it tries to attack a presumptuous border patrol agent. As D believes to be rather weakened by the years he decides it's time to retire...

Starring:

Starship Troopers is a 1997 American military science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier, based on Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel of the same name. The story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry, a futuristic military unit. Rico's military career progresses from recruit, to non-commissioned officer, and finally to officer, against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an insectoid species known as Arachnids.