Episode 123... Sean finds the Christmas Spirit!

Just kidding, this episode has nothing to do with Christmas.

Sean and Ruud have a nice off the cuff conversation about international pop culture, guns and drugs, robot laws, reality TV, the future of space travel, superheroes, sitcoms, CG and the our newfound ability to see things in three dimensions.

What a way to spend the last episode of the year...

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Episode 122... Lord of the Rings, Part 2!

Sean, Greg and Lynn return to discuss the Lord of the Rings and the forgotten characters like Tom Bombadil who never seemed to make it off the page and onto the screen.

Quick Note: It is mentioned that the Hobbit movie project is in development Hell, but since this episode was recorded that situation has changed and the project is progressing.

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Episode 121... Lord of the Rings!

Sean, Greg and Lynn look at the unsung heroes of Lord of the Rings. From Glorfindel to figwit, they discuss characters who didn't make it out of the book and those who were never in it at all.

Sean also reviews Dolph Lundgren's role in The Expendables (again).

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Venus Sky Trap, Chapter One: Space Mutiny!

TVAMD Presents an Audio Adventure that pays homage to the scifi novels of the 60's and the radio serials of yesteryear.

In this second installment of the Rocky Montana adventure, Rocky is thawed out on the other side of the solar system and 600 years in the future. But that's just the beginning of his troubles...

Written and Read by Sir St. John C. O'Herlihy

Rusty Pass as Rocky Montana

Lynn Stahlhut as Professor Boobelfish

Ben Sutton as Captain Xando Zaan

Will Maslen as Durge Roxon

Featuring "The Doorway to the Gods" by Brooks Robinson

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Venus Sky Trap, PROLOGUE

TVAMD Presents an Audio Adventure that pays homage to the scifi novels of the 60's and the radio serials of yesteryear. Sir St. John C. O'Herlihy reads the exciting adventures of Rocky Montana as he fights to stop the evil Rotwang Institute from dominating the world.

Written and Read by Sir St. John C. O'Herlihy

Starring Rusty Pass as Rocky Montana

and R.M. Dijkerman as Commandant Saugstaub

Music by Brooks Robinson

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Episode 120... ROBOT LAW, Part 2!

After last episode's chilling cliffhanger conclusion, the boys return to discuss the future of robots and the laws humans should follow in order to make it a good one.

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Episode 119: ROBOT LAW!

In response to listener feedback, the boys take another crack at the future of robots. This includes breaking news on Dolph Lundgren and Steve Wiebe, but also the first ever attempt to draft a ROBOT BILL OF RIGHTS!

We also close with a heart-stopping cliffhanger! Who will survive?

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Episode 118... Robots and the Future!

St. John, sex, and the future of robotics! Sean, Greg and Brooks discuss how robots may affect the future, Brooks reviews the Frank Henenlotter junxploitation opus Bad Biology, and Sir St. John reviews the scifi trash novel Xuan and the Girl from the Other Side.

Almost sounds like this one has a structure and a point, doesn't it? You decide...

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Episode 117... Fixing the Future, Part 3!

Sean, Brooks and Greg return to the future to discuss trends in baby names, the Donkey Kong high score, robots, rayguns, & rocketpacks, and the prophetic John Boorman scifi classic, Zardoz.

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Episode 116... Fixing the Future, Part 2

Sean, Brooks and Greg return to the topic of fixing the future by talking about baby names and Facebook. Is our obsession with social networking and cell phones evidence of a deeper need to connect with each other? Or are we just attention-obsessed?

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Episode 115... Fixing the Future!

Brooks returns and joins Andrew, Sean & Greg to talk about the future of mankind and what we need to do to fix it. They also discuss the new Christopher Nolan movie Inception, Cormac McCarthy's apocalypse epic The Road, and the Vanilla Ice classic, Cool As Ice.

Looks like the future is in good hands...

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Episode 114... How We'd Do Highlander!

Everyone loves to poke at the Highlander sequels, and truth be told they make it easy. But with a remake right around the bend, maybe we should direct a little reconstructive criticism towards how the sequels should be handled this time around.

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Episode 113... Language in SciFi Part 2

From the Darmok episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation to Helen Keller, Sean and Greg talk language with Tracy. How would we communicate with aliens? Math or music? And why are there so many types of sign language?

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Episode 112... Language in SciFi!

Sean and Greg join Tracy to talk about language in Scifi but end up discussing why the Karate Kid is about Kung Fu, Avatar vs. District 9, the future of Superman and the Spider-man reboot, Thor, Green Lantern and the new A-Team movie.

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Episode 111... LOST part 2!

Who is the man in black? How did he become a smoke monster? What is Jacob's plan? What is the light at the heart of the island? Why does the big foot only have 4 toes? Is it purgatory or an alternate timeline? What lies in the shadow of the statue? What do the numbers mean? Who was the President in 1975?

Sean, Andrew and Greg continue to explore the many mysteries of LOST and nearly come to blows on the topic of whether or not the last season even really happened.

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Episode 110... LOST!

Sean, Greg and Andrew talk about nothing but LOST. Seriously, there's not a moment to spend on any other topic, and this is just Part 1...

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Episode 109... The Steven Seagal Springtime Scifi Special!

Greg, Sean and Lynn compare new scifi shows and movies to the good old days, discussing how far removed Caprica is from the classic Battlestar Galactica, why Avatar isn't as eco-friendly as it claims to be, the merits of the new Spartacus TV series and the mysteries of the Coral Castle, another monument purporting to be America's Stonehenge.

And somehow we manage to blame Steven Seagal for the decline of modern scifi.

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Episode 108... MacGyver!

Sean and Greg reunite with Gary to talk MacGyver, how director's cut DVD's are keeping movies from ever being finished, and reconstructive criticism for the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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Episode 107... St. Patrick's Day!

Sean and Greg talk about St. Patrick's Day in Savannah, the importance of free speech, Call of Duty and the Crazies. Then it just ends abruptly with no warning.

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Episode 106... How We'd Do Star Wars, Part 2

Sean and Greg return with Andrew to re-imagine the Star Wars prequels with their own special zing. A love triangle between Obi Wan, Anakin and the woman they both want? Yoda as an outcast? Alderaan as the birthplace of the rebellion? These are just a few of the ideas we toy with.

Plus we talk about Red letter media's take on the Star Trek films.

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Episode 105... How We'd Do It: The Star Wars Edition

Sean, Greg and Andrew set out into the taboo territory of the Star Wars Prequels not to complain, but to throw their own notes into the ring as to how they would have handled Episode I, II & III. Plus they discuss the Clash of the Titans remake.

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Episode 104... Women in Scifi!

Sean and Greg talk women in scifi for a minute with new guest host Jessica, but mostly we talk about the state of the future, the end of the world, the dangers of summoning Cthulhu and whether or not video game violence has gone too far.

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Episode 103... Frankenstein!

Sean, Greg and Lynn finally talk Frankenstein in this supersized monster episode!

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Episode 102... Games & the Future!

Sean and Greg return with David to discuss the future, games, the future of games and how games will affect the future in the future.

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Episode 101... The Future of Gaming

Sean and Greg talk about the past and future of video games with their old friend David. From Atari Adventure to Left 4 Dead, video games are slowly graduating into the roleplaying arena and beyond. So what does the future hold for gaming? And will it affect the future of the world in general?

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TVAMD Theater: Playing With Dolls

In this TVAMD animated short, Brooks and Sean talk about the time their college buddy Manlove caught Brooks playing with Star Wars dolls.

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Sean, Brooks & Greg bring in the second half of their centennial celebration with Lynn, Andrew and Tupa. This time the talk turns to absinthe, monster trucks, and trivia.

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Episode 100!

Brooks kicks off our centennial celebration by talking about whose hot in Hollywood and whose not. It started out innocently enough, discussing the questionable attractiveness of Roxxxy the talking sex robot, then it just got out of hand. Greg, Lynn and Andrew are here too, and even Christopher from the Tupacast. We manage to segue into discussing Legion, Pandorum and Avatar, so we do manage to get it on the rails eventually. And this is just part 1 of our centennial celebration.

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Episode 99... Heroes and Villains, Part 2!

Sean and Johnny return to talk about what makes a great villain. Who was the greater villain, Frankenstein or his monster? Is Dexter Morgan a hero or a villain? Why can't we seem to create a Darth Vader or a Freddy Krueger for movies today? Why hasn't Star Trek had a great villain since Khan? Have we just lost the ability to create great heroes and villains?

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Sean and Johnny talk about the state of heroes and villains in movies today, weighing the positive message of Avatar against the disturbing trends in modern thinking that are embracing remakes of Last House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave.

Indiana Jones and John McClane are helping regular guys discover their inner Batman while bad guys like Freddy and Jason give us a taste of pure evil. So what happens when the line gets blurred? Have we lost our knack for myth building? Will the characters of Avatar endure as long as Sherlock Holmes? Or have we lost the ability to create something new that will stand the test of time?

This blurb makes us sound a lot more profound than we really. We're pretty much just talking about movies.

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Episode 97... Epocalypse 2!

Brooks, Sean and Andrew return to discuss cloud computing and the future of humanity: Is Google offering us a renaissance of learning that will usher in the digital democracy or are they building SkyNet? Or both?

It's your future, world. You decide...

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Episode 96... Epocalypse!

Sean and Brooks talk distributed computing with Andrew. Will the Cloud democratize the internet or will it be the real-life SkyNet? There is also a little follow-up discussion of District 9 and Idiocracy.

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