Episode 157 – Evangelism and Death
In the first of our flurry of podcasts recorded at CONvergence 2015, we hosted Guest of Honor Jennifer Ouellette! Jennifer is a science author and blogger and we talked to her about being brought up in an evangelistic home. We also talked about how her family processed her brother’s death and the differences between the […]
Episode 156 – Puppet Robot Scientists
This week, our guest is star of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Trace Beaulieu! We get to talk to him about the origins of MST3K and his new series on Yahoo, Other Space. He also talks a bit about Vermin, which is a project he is working on with Tim. Look for Trace and Tim at […]
Episode 154 – CONvergence 2015
This week, we take a look at all the stuff we’ll be doing at CONvergence 2015 and boy, it’s a lot. If you somehow miss us at the convention, it is because you are actively avoiding us. We have a really packed schedule and we spend most of the episode telling you about what we […]
Episode 153 – Offensive Comedy
Trigger Warning: we talk about rape jokes and lot of other taboo topics in this episode! This week we are joined by a colleague from Vilification Tennis – Kirsten Wade! As members of a comedy troupe that specializes in offensive comedy, we talk about what boundaries we feel are difficult to cross but we also […]
Episode 107 – Transgender Issues
Today’s guest won a guest spot on our podcast at our Die Laughing silent auction. It was a hotly contested prize but Miranda Richards was our winner. We sat down to record with her in an echo chamber of a hotel room at CONvergence 2014. Miranda is transgender and we spent our time with her […]
Episode 106 – Game of Thrones
The second episode recorded live at CONvergence 2014. Our guest was Rebecca Watson, who joined us way back in Episode 4. It may have taken us over 100 episodes to get her back but the wait was worth it as we try to cram as much Game of Thrones geekery into 30 minutes as we […]
Episode 105 – Jessica Fletcher is a Serial Killer
Episode 105 - Jessica Fletcher is a Serial Killer [ 31:02 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1463)Today’s episode was recorded live at CONvergence 2014. We even got the audience to sing our theme song. Our guest was Raychelle Burks, better known as Dr. Rubidium! Ray is a chemist so we spent the entire episode talking about Chemistry! Actually that was the plan. We ended up spending quite a bit of time talking […]
Episode 98 – CONvergence 2014
It’s a little early but we are all excited because we have had a look at our schedules for CONvergence and we want to talk about our plans for the convention. While schedules are subject to change, this episode covers what we’re looking forward to at the con this year as well as some costume […]
Episode 89 – A Career in Comics
This week’s guest is Christopher Jones, comic book artist. Chris has worked with both DC and Marvel and most recently finished working on the Young Justice book. He is also a co-founder of CONvergence and the creator of the convention’s mascot, Connie. We talked with Chris about getting his start as an artist, the committed […]
Episode 55 – CONvergence Wrap-Up
We had a great time at CONvergence 2013 and we wanted to take some time to tell some stories from the weekend. If you check the show notes, you will find links to a lot of different panels you may have missed because you were doing other stuff at the convention or you didn’t actually […]