Jim and John are joined by John's ol' pal John Thornberry to discuss the recently-wrapped Picard series from soup to nuts, or rather from th...
Monday, April 17, 2023Science episode! AI and gray goo nanobots with Piper Welch and Kam Bielawski!
Jim and John nerd out on artificial Intelligence and microbiological robots with PhDs-in-progess Piper Welch and Kam Bielawski, who keep them from sp...
Monday, April 3, 2023Mark Russell talks Jesus (and other stuff)
Mark Russell (Second Coming Trinity, Red Sonja, God is Disappointed in You, Fantastic Four, etc) talks with Jim and John about the latest issue of Sec...
Monday, March 13, 2023Another from the vault! United Paizo Workers' Jenny Jarzabski and freelancer Joe Blomquist on organizing geekdom
Yet another from the vault (sorry!). In light of the recent announcement from Comic Book Workers United of a successful contract at Image Comics, it s...
Monday, February 27, 2023From the vault: film critic Margot Harrison on the evolution of the Hollywood "strong female character"
Rerun time! In one of our very first episodes, my then co-host Liane Allen and I pick the brain of film critic Margot Harrison on the history and the ...
Monday, February 13, 2023Grant Patterson of the WNFC esports Dojo on competitive gaming and game culture
Grant Patterson of Champlain College's Wednesday Night Fight Club and the WNFC esports Dojo talks to Jim and John (well, mainly Jim because John ...
Monday, January 30, 2023Star Trek Science Advisor and Professor of Biology Dr. Mohamed Noor
Jim and John are joined by Duke University Dean of Natural Sciences Dr. Mohamed Noor. We talk about his experience as a science advisor on the Star Tr...
Monday, January 16, 2023Steve Morris of Shelfdust on the top 50 comics events of all time
Steven Morris of Shelfdust.com polled comics creators and critiques to compile the ultimate list of the Top 50 comics events of all time, and Jim and ...
Sunday, January 1, 20232022 in TV! What's good and what's better
John and Jim finish their look back at 2022, looking at the TV that was, genr. and otherwise
Monday, December 19, 2022The 2022 review part 1! Comics and Movies and Games, Oh my!
With no guests to defer to, Jim and John tell the world what was (and is) what in 2022 without a filter. Listen to it now so you can sound like the sm...
Monday, December 5, 2022Namor? Rorschach? Hannibal Lecter? Who is and isn't an anti-hero with author Philip Baruth
Anti-heroes are all the rage, but does everyone who uses that term mean the same thing? John talks with novelist, biographer and University of Vermont...
Monday, November 21, 2022Rerun time! Author and Rachel Maddow show producer Steve Benen talks politics, Deep Space Nine, and Firefly
From the vault - and with very poor sound quality - Jim and I are taking a break and reposting the conversation former host Liane Allen and I had with...