The Incomparable Superfeed

Erika and Steven continue talking about mad scientists, a robot, and an adorable toy tank.

4A (2-3)

Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

Steven and Erika embark on the Tom Baker era, but not without some fond reminiscences of the Jon Pertwee era. What a difference a Doctor makes!

4A (1)

Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

A preview of the recording from our recent live show, recorded at the Ohio Theatre in Madison, Indiana, our new home away from home for live performances.

Coming soon, the full live show, along with video from the performance for Incomparable members. And coming very soon, a surprise from one of our performance sponsors, the Red Roaster Cafe…

Live from the Ohio Theatre

David J. Loehr

Arrakis. Dune. Desert Planet. But maybe not the one you’re thinking of. In our own very peculiar way we honor David Lynch by discussing the feature film he probably liked the least, 1984’s “Dune.” Sting with a knife! Patrick Stewart riding a sandworm! How does it all compare with the modern version? Does it have its own special lower-budget charms? (Don’t mention the voiceovers…) What about the voiceovers? And how much does nostalgia fit into our appreciation of this movie?

"Dune" (1984)

Jason Snell with Steve Lutz, Erika Ensign, Dan Moren and John Siracusa

In our last episode, we couldn’t get enough Star Trek in the Draft. So today’s mission is all about romance in Star Trek. The Agents gave their director some homework and she came prepared. es, this franchise is all about seeking out strange new worlds, but also sexy aliens. Really, a spaceship is just a locked room romance and we are all looking for love in confined spaces. Let’s meet on the holodeck and boldly go where no one has gone before.

Romance in Star Trek

Annette Wierstra with Jean MacDonald and Shelly Brisbin

Some of the specific episodes we discuss and our Director’s homework:

Want more Star Trek? Listen to the Incomparable’s Star Trek Podcasts:

Or go back in time and listen to Shelly Brisbin’s old movie podcast Lions, Towers, and Shields

This film was a passion project for George Cukor and Katharine Hepburn. RKO let them do it, but the studio was sorry, when the movie confused audiences in 1935, and made no money. It has attained a bit of a cult following since. Hepburn and her father, Miracle on 34th Street’s Edmund Gwynn are fleeing trouble, and Sylvia dons a male disguise to help her dad. They meet con man Cary Grant, and hilarity and awkward moments of gender identity ensue.

Sylvia Scarlett

Shelly Brisbin with Nathan Alderman, Randy Dotinga and Micheline Maynard

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The Movie: review/commentary on a single classic film

The Self-Referential LTS

Next time, we’ll watch

Teri Polo appears as Rebecca, and Dan is charmed (and so are we). She appears to be… less so. Everyone staff is worried about Isaac’s job, and no one at Sports Night can keep a secret. That’s a fact we told many, many people.

Lex Friedman and Brian Warren

Welcome back to “Inconceivable!”, the show that tests two teams’ knowledge of the nerdy, the useless, and the obscure.

For our tenth anniversary episode, we’ve invited our most frequent panelists to combat in a series of grueling challenges. They’ll have to identify famous books from their discarded titles, find the fake entries in popular romantasy series, and go undercover with some spy movie mash-ups. Kathy Campbell, Tony Sindelar, and Erika Ensign take on Antony Johnston, Liz Myles, and Steve Lutz in a nail-biter for the ages.

Inconceivable! Episode 36

Dan Moren and Lex Friedman with Kathy Campbell, Tony Sindelar, Erika Ensign, Antony Johnston, Lizbeth Myles and Steve Lutz

When is a mop not a mop? When our adventurers go undercover and arrive at the prison. It’s big! And cold!

Keys from the Golden Vault - Prisoner 13, Part 3

Tony Sindelar with Annette Wierstra, Chip Sudderth, Erika Ensign, Lincoln Hayes and Monty Ashley

Edited by Erika Ensign.

And indeed there will be time to discuss this, the most mid-life white-guy crisis poem of all. Lisa Schmeiser discusses T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915).

John McCoy with Lisa Schmeiser

Complete text on the Poetry Foundation website