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720 – Baffled!

1/25/2025
This week, Ben and Eugene look at the 1972 British-American pilot movie Baffled!, a supernatural thriller starring Leonard Nimoy.

Duration:01:03:07

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719 – Real Humans – Make Haste

1/18/2025
This week, Simon and Eugene tackle Episode 8 of Real Humans: Make Haste. They discuss Hubots in Love, Hubot Humor, and Hubot Voltage Standards.

Duration:01:18:36

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718 – Space Above and Beyond – And If they Lay Us Down to Rest… & …Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best

1/11/2025
Our coverage of Space: Above and Beyond concludes as Kenneth and Eugene discuss the final two-part season finale (and, as history records, also the series finale) episodes, “And If They Lay Us Down to Rest…” and “…Tell Ours Moms We Done Our Best.” They discuss this week’s court-martial-able offenses, things that might have been if ... Read more

Duration:01:39:28

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717 – Star Maidens – The Trial & Test for Love

1/4/2025
This week, John and Eugene look at two more episodes of Star Maidens, The Trial, and Test for Love. They marvel at everyone’s utter in these episodes.

Duration:00:40:10

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716 – Doctor Who – Joy to the World

12/28/2024
This week, Simon and Eugene look at the 2024 Doctor Who Christmas special, Joy to the World, where they discuss whether Christmas episodes can break all the show’s usual rules, whether the TARDIS jukebox will be replaced by a chair, and how Doctor Who should treat the politics of the COVID lockdown rules.

Duration:01:17:15

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715 – Real Humans – Blind Love

12/21/2024
Simon and Eugene look at the Real Humans episode, Blind Love. They discuss legal statutes in alternative universe Sweden, constructive dismissal by Hubot, and whether the video site glimpsed in this episode is an alternate Swedish version of YouTube because they didn’t dare to google whether Bigtubes is a real site.

Duration:00:58:52

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714 – Space Above and Beyond – Sugar Dirt

12/14/2024
This week, Kenneth and Eugene look at Season 1, Episode 21 of Space Above and Beyond, entitled Sugar Dirk. They look at bad historical analogies, check in on this week’s contestant on Wheel of Court Martial and ask the question, “What has the 58th been eating for three months?”

Duration:00:44:46

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713 – Star Maidens – The Proton Storm & Kidnap

12/7/2024
Want to know what a proton storm is, or how big it is? You won’t find out by watching the Star Maidens episode The Proton Storm, but you might by listening to John and Eugene discuss the episode. For the double the fun, they then turn their eye towards the episode Kidnap.

Duration:00:40:33

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712 – The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension

11/30/2024
John (suspicious name) and Eugene discuss that most 80’s of 1980’s cult films: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.

Duration:00:43:50

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711 – Real Humans – Sly Leo

11/23/2024
This week, Simon and Eugene look at Season one, Episode six of Real Humans: Sly Leo. They discuss the current draw of parallel universe USB-A, the paradox of tolerance applied to free will for Hubots, translating smutty Hubot magazines, and downloading sex drives. …and, of course, sex with robots.

Duration:01:26:09

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710 – Space Above and Beyond – Stardust

11/16/2024
This week, Kenneth and Eugene look at the Space: Above and Beyond episode “Stardust” in which they consider the deeply offensive use of Native Americans in television and this episode in particular, consider, once again, the absolutely illogical incompetence of the Earth Forces’ military strategies, and talk about the episode’s pretentious yet somehow still inadequate ... Read more

Duration:00:38:46

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709 – Star Maidens – Nemesis & The Nightmare Cannon

11/9/2024
This week John and Eugene look at two episode of the Star Maidens. They discuss the episodes Nemesis and the Nightmare Cannon, and contemplate if the Medusans are supposed to be so smart, how come they cannot read a room? And they marvel at lightning done on a really small budget.

Duration:00:43:08

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708 – Real Humans – Power at Heart

11/2/2024
On this week’s episode, Simon and Eugene examine season one, episode five of Real Humans, Power at Heart. They discuss coincidences in the number of Hubot sex clubs in this Swedish city, computers programming computers, robots watching soap operas, and actually, finally, seeing some sex with robots.

Duration:01:12:54

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707 – Space Above and Beyond – R&R

10/26/2024
This week, Kenneth and Eugene look at Episode 19 of Space Above and Beyond, R&R, where they ask, “Will people know Clint Eastwood in the year 2064?” “Do they save sex-ed class for the end of invitro school?” and “What power does W.C. Fields have over Colonel McQueen?” Also, this week, exclusively for our patrons ... Read more

Duration:00:42:30

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706 – Star Maidens – Escape to Paradise

10/19/2024
This week, John and Eugene begin looking at a new series: Star Maidens, a 1976 TV series co-produced by the United Kingdom and West Germany. It’s a contemporary (for 1976) look at female equality through the lens of a planet run by women.

Duration:00:32:52

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705 – Real Humans – Semi-Human Rights

10/12/2024
This week, Simon and Eugene look at season one, episode four of Real Humans: Semi-human rights. They discuss non-human rights within the Swedish legal system, whether the uncanny valley is legally mandated, and whether HuBots are capable of actually lying or just crafty deception. Oh, and maybe they also mention sex with robots.

Duration:01:28:38

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704 – Shin Kamen Rider

10/5/2024
John and Eugene look at the third “Shin” reimaging movie of classic Japanese science fiction/fantasy properties. This week, it’s 2023’s Shin Kamen Rider. How well does a movie about human-grasshopper cyborg translate to the big screen?

Duration:00:41:01

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703 – Space Above and Beyond – Pearly

9/28/2024
This week, Fusion Patrol examines the 18th episode of Space Above and Beyond, entitled “Pearly,” where Kenneth and Eugene finally find out why Wang wasn’t court-martialed at the end of Episode 9, why the space jarheads are too stupid to realize that the Chigs talk, and when discretion is the better part of valor when ... Read more

Duration:00:42:14

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702 – Quark – All the Emperor’s Quasi-Norms 1 & 2

9/21/2024
This week, Fusion Patrol looks at the two-part Quark episode “All the Emperor’s Quasi-Norms.” John and Eugene ask if American television in the 1970s was ready for full-frontal pollination, why Jean didn’t get equal time with Gene, and if Ficus is the most alien character ever committed to the small screen.

Duration:00:43:48

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701 – Real Humans – The Lord Shall Be Our Companion

9/14/2024
This week, Simon and Eugene examine season 1, episode 3 of Real Humans, “The Lord Shall Be Our Companion.” When they discuss Swedish search warrants, whether and who Bea is bluffing, double bluffing or triple bluffing, the parallels between the politics of immigration and being anti-Hubot, and, yes, of course, sex with robots.

Duration:01:30:44