This week we try to be the very best, like no one ever was! We discuss all that is the world of Pokemon with a special guest, Tom Gillard the bee man, partner of Tara and PhD candidate from the University of Sydney.

Warped Zone is a podcast on scifi, philosophy, religion, politics, gaming and anything else taboo. Run by Benn Banasik and Tara BM Smith, two PhD studies of religion candidates with a shared love of good coffee and cats.

Warped Zone can be found on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warpedzonepodcast

Our Discord chat: https://discord.gg/jyXyBzk

Benn Banasik can be contacted on twitter: www.twitter.com/bennbanasik

Tara BM Smith can be contact on twitter: www.twitter.com/tarabluemoon

This week we catch up after our long break and talk about Benn's business new upgrade! We also speak about Tara's trip to India and the recent floods that affected both of us.

Warped Zone is a podcast on scifi, philosophy, religion, politics, gaming and anything else taboo. Run by Benn Banasik and Tara BM Smith, two PhD studies of religion candidates with a shared love of good coffee and cats.

Warped Zone can be found on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warpedzonepodcast

Our Discord chat: https://discord.gg/jyXyBzk

Benn Banasik can be contacted on twitter: www.twitter.com/bennbanasik

Tara BM Smith can be contact on twitter: www.twitter.com/tarabluemoon

Gametraders Macarthur Square: www.thegamecenter.store

This week we review Another World, the theme to our podcast!

Warped Zone is a podcast on scifi, philosophy, religion, politics, gaming and anything else taboo. Run by Benn Banasik and Tara BM Smith, two PhD studies of religion candidates with a shared love of good coffee and cats.

Warped Zone can be found on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warpedzonepodcast

Our Discord chat: https://discord.gg/jyXyBzk

Benn Banasik can be contacted on twitter: www.twitter.com/bennbanasik

Tara BM Smith can be contact on twitter: www.twitter.com/tarabluemoon

This week we return to Tara's Honours topic, Frank Herbert's Dune while Benn speaks about the creation of Real Time Strategy games.

Warped Zone is a podcast on scifi, philosophy, religion, politics, gaming and anything else taboo. Run by Benn Banasik and Tara BM Smith, two PhD studies of religion candidates with a shared love of good coffee and cats.

Warped Zone can be found on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warpedzonepodcast

Our Discord chat: https://discord.gg/jyXyBzk

Benn Banasik can be contacted on twitter: www.twitter.com/bennbanasik

Tara BM Smith can be contact on twitter: www.twitter.com/tarabluemoon

This week we review the 2019 year, speak about the Australian Fires and our presentation at the recent Australian Association for the Study of Religion conference in November.

Warped Zone is a podcast on scifi, philosophy, religion, politics, gaming and anything else taboo. Run by Benn Banasik and Tara BM Smith, two PhD studies of religion candidates with a shared love of good coffee and cats.

Warped Zone can be found on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warpedzonepodcast

Our Discord chat: https://discord.gg/jyXyBzk

Benn Banasik can be contacted on twitter: www.twitter.com/bennbanasik

Tara BM Smith can be contact on twitter: www.twitter.com/tarabluemoon

This week we're joined by fellow PhD Candidate of the University of Sydney Raymond Radford. We speak to Ray about his Honours and PhD topics, featuring the alt-right, incels, fascists and the dark web.

Warped Zone is a podcast on scifi, philosophy, religion, politics, gaming and anything else taboo. Run by Benn Banasik and Tara BM Smith, two PhD studies of religion candidates with a shared love of good coffee and cats.

Warped Zone can be found on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warpedzonepodcast

Our Discord chat: https://discord.gg/jyXyBzk

Benn Banasik can be contacted on twitter: www.twitter.com/bennbanasik

Tara BM Smith can be contact on twitter: www.twitter.com/tarabluemoon

Religious Studies Project: http://religiousstudiesproject.com

This week we speak with Geraldine Smith our fellow PhD Candidate and now student of the University of Tasmania. We speak about her current studies in the interfaith movement and her previous work on the Jesus Christians, a controversial group that has a home here in Australia. We also share all our first ever memories!

Warped Zone is a podcast on scifi, philosophy, religion, politics, gaming and anything else taboo. Run by Benn Banasik and Tara BM Smith, two PhD studies of religion candidates with a shared love of good coffee and cats.

Warped Zone can be found on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warpedzonepodcast

Our Discord chat: https://discord.gg/jyXyBzk

Benn Banasik can be contacted on twitter: www.twitter.com/bennbanasik

Tara BM Smith can be contact on twitter: www.twitter.com/tarabluemoon

This week we continue our horror feature by reading the short story Monkey’s Paw by W.W Jacobs, we even have a hand at having a horror-able reading of the story!

Warped Zone is a podcast on scifi, philosophy, religion, politics, gaming and anything else taboo. Run by Benn Banasik and Tara BM Smith, two PhD studies of religion candidates with a shared love of good coffee and cats.

Warped Zone can be found on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warpedzonepodcast

Our Discord chat: https://discord.gg/jyXyBzk

Benn Banasik can be contacted on twitter: www.twitter.com/bennbanasik

Tara BM Smith can be contact on twitter: www.twitter.com/tarabluemoon

Horror - The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs - http://www.lonestar.edu/departments/english/Jacob_Monkey.pdf

This week we start our two week horror special kicking off with Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection. Benn and Tara talk about their greatest fears and how Kristeva took the concept of the Ego and Id from Sigmund Freud, mixed it with the mirror experience of Jacques Lecan and provided insight of the shocking experiences we may have in regard to the mundane objects of the world.

Warped Zone is a podcast on scifi, philosophy, religion, politics, gaming and anything else taboo. Run by Benn Banasik and Tara BM Smith, two PhD studies of religion candidates with a shared love of good coffee and cats.

Warped Zone can be found on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warpedzonepodcast

Our Discord chat: https://discord.gg/jyXyBzk

Benn Banasik can be contacted on twitter: www.twitter.com/bennbanasik

Tara BM Smith can be contact on twitter: www.twitter.com/tarabluemoon

This week is a special episode on Brexit! Benn and Tara discuss the history of the British independence movement and the impact the outcome of this election will have on Scotland and Northern Ireland. Covering the battles being waged for the ballots by the Conservatives led by Boris Johnson, the search for a position by Jeremy Corbyn the leader of the Labour Party, Nicola Sturgeon's Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) reaction to Brexit after the failed bid for Scottish Independence, Northern Ireland's pro-British party the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the new voice of remain Jo Swinson of the Liberal Democrats and of course the strongest voice for a hard Brexit leader of UKIP Nigel Farage.

Warped Zone is a podcast on scifi, philosophy, religion, politics, gaming and anything else taboo. Run by Benn Banasik and Tara BM Smith, two PhD studies of religion candidates with a shared love of good coffee and cats.

Warped Zone can be found on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warpedzonepodcast

Our Discord chat: https://discord.gg/jyXyBzk

Benn Banasik can be contacted on twitter: www.twitter.com/bennbanasik

Tara BM Smith can be contact on twitter: www.twitter.com/tarabluemoon