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Listener Marc ponders the “VR headset market” and wants to know what makes a market a market.

John Siracusa and Jason Snell

We bring Stanwyck Summer (but not the LTS season) to a close with a draft-ish episode. Each panelist has brought us a Barbara Stanwyck film - one we haven’t talked about before on the show. Somehow, there are a number of cats.

Stanwyck Summer Draft

Shelly Brisbin with Micheline Maynard, Nathan Alderman and Randy Dotinga

The Stanwyck Draft

The First Feline Reference

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If you’re suffering from Quiet Desparation, why not listen to the not-so-quiet voices of Dan Daughhetee and me discussing Henrey David Thoreau’s Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854)?

John McCoy with Daniel Daughetee

My blog post with further Thoreau musings.

We remain submerged for a very long time to watch a very long film, 1981’s “Das Boot.” This certifiable classic is certainly long and German, encompassing almost everything you might expect in the genre. There’s action, suspense, a lot of character moments, and long periods of tedium spent listening for bad sounds, punctuated by moments of terror as the boat goes to eleven (and beyond).

"Das Boot" (1981)

Jason Snell with Erika Ensign, Brian Warren, Casey Liss, Dan Moren and Philip Michaels

And now, the conclusion! “Strange New Worlds” returns with the resolution of the season 2-ending storyline involving the Gorn, including Chris Pike’s very bad day. We dive into the action after a discussion of the precarious position Paramount and Star Trek are in right now.

Scott McNulty and Jason Snell

This earliest non-pilot episode of Magnum features weird music, dogs, shots from the opening credits, an unfortunate Chinese food joke, fast dialogue, and a kung-fu assassin with one fatal flaw: blinking.

Jason Snell, Philip Michaels and David J. Loehr

In our second of two Uncanny Magazine Kickstarter Backer editions, we visit the world of places, learn about baseball, and do not learn about the U.S. Constitution.

Random Pursuit XLIV

Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Fred Paffhausen, Jason Snell, Laura Majerus, Peter Jones and Seb Pollard

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Peter Jones -

Seb Pollard -

Revelle spends a lot of time thinking about toilets. J’osh has a (very) bright idea. K’ronng is both a small and a large creature. Jasper doesn’t want to go in there. Tony decides Gnomish beer tastes like Mountain Dew.

Keys from the Golden Vault - Tockworth’s Clockwork, Part 3

Tony Sindelar with Aleen Simms, Chip Sudderth, Jason Snell and Monty Ashley

Edited by Erika Ensign.

How much of a fortress can you really hide? Your Star Wars pals Dan, Kat, and Tony return to discuss Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 epic, The Hidden Fortress, a film which had a significant influence on George Lucas’s work. We discuss rich people buying the horse out from under you, the unquestionably most successful Fire Festival, and who exactly the three villains are.

The Hidden Fortress

Dan Moren, Tony Sindelar and Kat Benesh

Meet us down at the crossroads but put yourself in a circle of salt first because we’re coving the last three episodes of Ironheart. An intriguing show that you’d thnik whould puts magic up against technology but, instead, goes full Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups with it. It even adds a bit of spice in the charming form of Sacha Baron Cohen.

Dan Moren, John Moltz and Guy English