Remember when you were a kid, and played make-believe with whatever junk you could find around the house? Now pretend you were the preeminent film director of this generation, and ran with this idea as a solution for an interplanetary phone call. Listen as our I.T. pros give an Oscar-worthy tech fix performance.

Next time you feel the need to express your individuality at work or lose a few friends on social media with your political viewpoints, remember to give a nod of thanks. Because you could always be trapped in a heavy-handed sci-fi metaphor, like the one our heroes must navigate to save a certain track-suited captain.

Before you complain how that movie was all special effects and no story, remember the time that it actually was. Like, completely fever-dream bananas — full of inexplicable neon and vindictive computers with a gladiator fetish. Come follow Chuck and Ravi through this surreal CGI journey with a wild 80’s twist!

Just to be totally clear, you can hurl a ship through hyperspace (with a mumbling carpet as a copilot), but you can’t forward an email attachment? Listen as our I.T. pros devise a workaround for the most famous plot hole in sci-fi history, and help a certain intergalactic family work through their anger issues.

Never mind that most people don’t even agree with their GPS, this guy was cool going 365 million miles into space with a narcissistic cyclops AI… Come follow Chuck and Ravi on a cleanup mission that sidesteps the laws of robotics, and rescues a captain with some serious Stockholm syndrome.

Ever wonder how they hooked up the Matrix human energy pods — considering you’d probably get more juice out of a hearing aid battery? Listen as our heroes defy this cinematic sleight of hand, and help the humans and machines finally play nice. And also put a lot of folks out of work.

Follow our IT pros through space and time as they solve tech crises in classic sci-fi films.

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