Posted by billsimmon on 08 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: episodes
Mike wasn’t with us this week, so I’m including our old-style show notes below the jump. Housekeeping note: We will be off next week while Bill (and Mike) are at SXSW. We’ll be back on March 21.
Original air date: 3/7/10
Total run time: 1:54:46
File size: 55.1 MB
Posted by billsimmon on 03 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: episodes
We’re back to our plain old PSFR episodes after the exciting 100th episode. Mike’s show notes follow after the jump…
Original air date: 2/28/10
Total run time: 1:56:17
File size: 55.8 MB
Posted by billsimmon on 23 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: episodes
From Steve, Emily and me, thanks to everyone who helped to make the first 100 episodes of Poli-Sci-Fi Radio a success!
Guests who have joined us on the phone include: Gerry Canavan, Ezra Klein, Adam Serwer, Philip Baruth, Danielle Belton, Matt Yglesias, Brian Wood, Casey McKinnon and Rachel Maddow.
Guests who have joined us in the studio include: Gerry Canavan, Negin Farsad, Alex Woolfson, Alex Chaffee and Nick Chaffee.
We’ve been blessed with behind-the-scenes assistance from: Emily Stoneking, Jeff Botas, Eve Benen, Mike McCaffrey, Pete Kellers, Gerry Canavan, Jim Brayton, Lia Venner, Bradley Holt, Jason Pelletier, and of course Jim, Lee and all the folks who volunteer at The Radiator.
We’re grateful to our primary underwriter, VCAM, for all of the great community media assistance.
And we’re particularly grateful to our community of regular live stream listeners and chatters. You lot make us feel like we’re not just talking because we like the sounds of our own voices.
Here’s hoping the next 100 episodes are just as great!
Mike’s show notes follow…
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00:01 Introductions
00:05 The Stimulus Bill: 1 Year Later
00:1? Evan Bayh and debating filibuster reform
00:22 The public is now undead
00:25 Station and show identification
00:26 Thanking Helpful People Doing Helpful Things
00:27 Interview with Brian Wood! (comic book writer and illustrator)
00:42 Rachel Maddow is on Poli-Sci-Fi Radio!
01:04 Lost
01:14 Random sci-fi tidbits
01:15 Matt Yglesias interview!
01:30 Station and show identification
01:31 Casey McKinnon (actress and web video pioneer)
01:46 Interview with Gerry
01:48 Stupid People Saying Stupid Things
* Former Vice President Dan Quayle
* Fox News’ Steve Doocy
* Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.)
* U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio of Florida
* Fox News’ Glenn Beck
01:57 Back-patting on a successful 100th episode
Posted by billsimmon on 19 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: housekeeping
I’m pretty excited about this! Join Steve, Emily and me on Sunday from 4 - 6 P.M. eastern time for the live broadcast & stream of Poli-Sci-Fi Radio’s 100th episode. Special guests joining us during Sunday’s broadcast/stream include…
We’ll also be joined by our regular cast and crew, and as always, we’ll discuss the week’s big items in political and genre-related news.
It’s kind of hard to believe we’ve done 100 episodes. That’s 200 hours or political/sci-fi talk! And we don’t get paid! What are we thinking?!
Tune in live on Sunday at 4:00 P.M. eastern and join our live chat here.
For those of you who miss the live stream, the podcast of the episode will be posted on Tuesday evening.
As the kids say, ZOMG!
Posted by billsimmon on 13 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: housekeeping
Someone kissed the frog I had in my throat during last week’s show and it’s turned into a prince of a cold/flu thing. I’m just now on the mend (seriously, this is first day I’ve felt like could do anything other than lay there and moan) and I’ve decided to cancel tomorrow’s show. I’d be canceling it even if it wasn’t show #100, but because it’s kind of a big show for us, I really do want to do a little bit of prep for it and make it special, and I just haven’t been able to do anything. So the extra week will give me a chance to get my ducks in a row. Plus, I have a hair trigger cough that hits whenever I inhale more than a tiny amount of air so the show would be hard to listen to anyway.
So next week will be our 100th episode of PSFR. We’re trying to line up some special guests and I’m told there will be cake (the cake is a lie). If anyone has any suggestions for what we might do, chime in. We’ll still be discussing a few political stories and LOST (of course), but we’ll make some time for some guests and some looking back at the last 100 episodes. Thoughts?
Posted by billsimmon on 08 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: episodes
Mike’s show notes follow after the jump.
Original air date: 2/7/10
Total run time: 2:00:51
File size: 58 MB
Posted by billsimmon on 02 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: episodes
Mike’s show notes are after the jump…
Original air date: 1/31/10
Total run time: 1:57:39
File size: 56.5 MB
Posted by billsimmon on 24 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: housekeeping
…Steve is asking that we cancel today. He’s not feeling well *and* he’s fighting a work-related deadline. He writes, “There’s obviously a ton of content to talk about — all of it awful and demoralizing….” I don’t know what he means. The Walking Dead pilot was picked up by AMC this week. That’s great news!
Anyway, we’ll be back next week to try and cheer everyone up. Until then, here are some links to items we probably would have discussed today…
You can pretty much glance at any post at Steve’s blog from the past several days (since Scott Brown’s disappointing victory in MA) and find within any of the compelling reasons why the House should, in Steve’s words, “Pass. The. Damn. (healthcare) Bill.”
The SCOTUS Citizens United decision was huge and unambiguously bad for democracy. It’s a stickier wicket than your standard right-left 5-4 SCOTUS decision though, and I was looking forward to bouncing this off Steve for some analysis. But even in light of my own free speech-imbued grey-scale take on the ideology at work in the decision, I don’t think there’s any question that practically speaking, given the nature of our current electoral system, this is really, really bad. I thought Lessig’s response was compelling, natch.
No Dollhouse this week. The series finale is on Friday.
Emily and I will likely be seeing Legion tonight. It’s rocking a full 23% at Rotten Tomatoes, so it should be a good time.
Eve has compiled the following list of other genre topics as well…
See you next week!
Posted by billsimmon on 19 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: episodes
Mike’s show notes follow after the jump…
Original air date: 1/17/10
Total run time: 1:57:35
File size: 56.4 MB
Posted by billsimmon on 12 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: episodes
It’s a new year for PSFR!
Mike’s show notes are below the jump…
Original air date: 1/10/10
Total run time: 1:53:20
File size: 54.4 MB
