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SciFi Happy Hour

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Ep.027 Movie: Mars Attacks, Netflix and Comcast...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/11/17

Episode 027. Preamble. (01:17) Movie: Mars Attacks. (20:34) Netflix and Comcast Interested in Buying Warner Bros Discovery, (27:30) Control: The Illusion of Choice. (41:04) Kwinn’s Fan Made Star Wars Movie Begins Filming.

57:01

Ep.026 Recommended Sci-Fi Movies for Halloween, 2025...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/11/16

Episode 026. Kwinn’s Preparation for the fan-made Star Wars film. (06:12) Recommended Sci-Fi Movies for Halloween, (28:23) 2025-PN7 Earth’s quasi-satellite. (35:22) Star-studded movies are losing money and the shrinking attention span of audiences.

58:38

Ep.025 Guest Bradley Walker, Demon Slayer, Berserk,...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/11/06

Episode 025. Ted Describes a Family Wedding He Recently Attended and Introduces Bradley Walker. (03:09) Demon Slayer, (21:27) Berserk, (41:01) Attack on Titan (52:47) and Sci-Fi Happy Hour Playhouse: The Challenge of Master Ted’s Dojo.

51:41

Ep.024 Ted Talks Government Shutdown, Kwinn Shares...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/10/28

Episode 024. Ted talks a tad about the ongoing government shutdown and Kwinn shares a little about the Star Wars fan film he’s making. (09:27) Next, we discuss our impression of Tron: Ares, (18:33) the character of Ares, the disconnect with audience expectations, and Depeche Mode. (28:32) The story lacked something and why was Kevin Flynn so old? (40:38) We move onto the Predator: Badlands trailer, and the release date will be preceded by Predator: Prey, and the PG-13 rating. (49:26) Benjamin

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Ep.023 Guest Author Chris Tannhauser, Weird Fiction,...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/10/20

Episode 023. An introduction to author Chris Tannhauser, he describes his work and shares how he grew into writing. (07:44) Next, we read an excerpt from Chris’ piece titled ENDNOTES FROM THE NEW PHRENOLOGY, an entertaining and vivid story about wizards, and Ted analyzes MOSTLY SKIN, Chris’ alternate history of the Weinermobile. Chris explains how he sees the short story format as an experience. (26:40) Chris’ favorite movies. (32:43) Chris discusses his use of music for writing and how cooperation

51:58

Ep.022 Movie trailer: Tron: Ares, AI Generated...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/10/13

Episode 022. Looming government shutdown. (08:28) Movie trailer: Tron: Ares. (14:28) AI generated actress Tilly Norwood. (34:29) AI cultural icons; role models. (44:40) Robots taking jobs of human workers.

57:50

Ep.021 Alien: Earth with Guest Ruben Davila, Part 6....

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/10/04

Episode 021. We’re talking Episode 8 of Alien Earth, focusing on the opening scenes of Arthur’s corpse on the beach and Dame’s visit to Marcy Hermit's grave. We debate the title "The Real Monsters," questioning whether it referred to Boy Kavalier and his cohorts, the Lost Boys, the alien specimens, or all the characters acting as monsters. We analyze the scene where Dame leaves a flower at the grave. Inconsistencies with how firearms affect xenomorphs, with some bouncing off while others penetrate

59:38

Ep.020 Alien: Earth with Guest Ruben Davila, Part 5...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/10/03

Episode 020. What’s with the oversized vent ducting from the lab? We analyzed the plot, character development, and inconsistencies in the story. Ted and Ruben agree Curly's character did not have a significant impact on the narrative. Ruben suggests Curly's character might be saved for a potential showdown in the next season. We also debate Wendy's motivations for releasing the xenomorph and discussed the alien's behavior in previous episodes. Xenomorph takes Joe from the eggs and webs him in the

58:41

Ep.019 A Continuation of Episode 018 with Guest...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/09/20

Episode 019. Tootles’ Deadly Blunder in the Specimen Hold, What’s with the Incubation Period? And does Boy Kavalier fit the Peter Pan Archetype? (14:28) How a Youngster in a Hybrid Body Would Behave, Could the Broken Door Panel be a Set Up by Kirsh? Our Supposition of a Second Season, and Hermit meets with Arthur about Dangers on the Island (29:10) How Long Have Xenomorphs been on Earth? Alien: Mahna Mahna, Wolf “T.Ocellus” in Sheep’s Clothing, You Are No Longer Food. (47:34) Ice Age, Peter Pan,

59:11

Ep.018 Guest Ruben is Back Again. US Drone Shoots...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/09/20

Episode 018. Ted swiftly reviews his trip to the 50th Anniversary of Space:1999 conference at Burbank, CA. (02:52) Guest Ruben on deck again mentions the movie Weapons. (05:46) The leaked video showing a Hellfire missile fired from a US drone seemingly bouncing off a UAP near Yemen. (24:27) 3I/ATLAS Interstellar traveler on its way towards Earth. (36:18) Part 3 of ongoing discussion about Alien: Earth.

51:48

Ep.017 A Continuation of Episode 016 with Guest Ruben...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/09/12

Episode 017. (A Continuation of Episode 016 with Guest Ruben Davila) Only a Crew Like This Would Crash the Maginot, Noah Hawley’s Direction, Aliens on Earth, Peter Pan References, USCSS Maginot. (13:32) Boy Kavalier and the Synthetics, Aliens and the Terraforming Colony on LV-426, Maternal Stakes, Alien III, Cinematic Deaths of Aliens, Evolution of Synthetics. (40:20) Favorite Synthetics. Lack of Alphas in Alien: Earth, Fede Álvarez’s Direction of Alien: Romulus, Hellfire Missile Bouncing Off

59:11

Ep.016 Guest Ruben Davila, Discussing the Alien...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/09/12

Episode 016. Ted announces his plan to attend the Los Angeles: 1999 A 50th Anniversary Celebration of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s Space: 1999. This Historic Event Runs September 12th to 14th, 2025. (2:04) Guest Ruben Davila returns. (03:06) We discuss the Alien franchise, from its original offering in 1979 to the current show: Alien: Earth. (15:54) The Alien timeline, Ted Doubts David Wiped Out the Engineers, (29:07) The Consistency of Killing Characters, Mythological and Biblical Overtones, The

56:45

Ep.015 Kwinn talks about his recent scene work in Los...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/09/06

Episode 015. Kwinn talks about his recent scene work in Los Angeles. (7:38) Myths & Conspiracies: Sounds and signs from space and (10:17) crop circles. (27:18) A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick, government tracking, and the root problem of Substance D. (34:18) Movie: Ghost in the Shell 2.0 – discussions on technoparanoia, hacking into a person, influences on cinema, and (52:23) quoting Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi and Greek philosopher Heraclitus.

59:16

Ep.014 USCG Buoy Tenders, The “Buy” Button Is a Lie,...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/08/30

Episode 014. U.S. Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender ships at Juneau, Alaska. (4:44) Next, the “Buy” button is a lie, consumer ownership rights and the class action lawsuit against deceptive selling of digital goods. (23:01) World-building – Ted and Kwinn share some ideas. (28:50) Inventing a religion in your sci-fi story. (33:33) It is so easy to build a cult-like following, the Branch Davidians, Heaven’s Gate, taking a different approach to cult theme story-telling with a reference to (48:18) Monty

52:41

Ep.013 Movie Premiere, Dr. Who, Sci-Fi News Bites,...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/08/21

Episode 013. Announcing the premiere of the movie Red Light Teachers where Kwinn, Ted, and Ted’s brother appeared as background actors. (3:06) We chat about Dr. Who, (17:52) Sci-Fi News Bites, and (29:13) then we listen to Ted’s Top Ten: Sci-Fi Uniforms.

55:22

Ep.012 Interview with Sci-Fi aficionado Ruben Davila,...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/08/17

A brief introduction to Sci-Fi aficionado Ruben Davila, our (07:26) interview covers Ruben’s Jurassic World: Rebirth viewing and discussion about Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall (1990) with a comparison to Len Wiseman’s Total Recall (2012), then onto Flat Earth vs Round Earth and frequencies in space. Near the show’s end (50:04) listen to 99.9 KWIN and the episode of the Backbacknapper.

55:01

Ep.011 Trailer Dune 3: Messiah (2026), the first...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/08/07

Episode 011. An intro about movie editing then we (7:47) talk about the trailer Dune 3: Messiah (2026), (23:20) the first Sci-Fi story ever told, (43:43) and the world of popular sci-fi modeling.

59:06

Ep.010 Earthquake in Russia causes a tsunami, El...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/08/07

Episode 010. Our intro covers a recent 8.8 earthquake in Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, (06:29) we discuss the mythical El Chupacabras, (28:36) back and forth about multiverse theory.

56:57

Ep.009 Kwinn & Ted banter, Superman, what we would...

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/07/20

Episode 009. Light banter about Kwinn's recent romance comedy project that is currently in post-production and Ted's family interests in firearms, (08:25) a talk about the new James Gunn's Superman movie starring David Corenswet, (23:00) What we would like to see (in cinema productions) as movie-goers.

36:27

Ep.008 Voltron vs Optimus Prime, Sci-Fi News Bits

Sci-Fi Happy Hour ·

2025/07/20

Episode 008. Writing the Scene: Voltron vs Optimus Prime, Sci-Fi News Bits with Kwinn Mitchell and Ted Walker.

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