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Podside Picnic

Pete and Connor

Karlo, Kurt, Chris and Pete explore the literature of the fantastic, movies and everything between. Join us! Check us out on Patreon.com/PodsidePicnic for premium content.

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00:05:42

Shogun Pt 2 (Eps 6 - 10) Preview

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2024/05/23

Get ready to study the blade with us as we talk Shogun (2024)

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01:01:32

Crap Books: A Crapestry Of Magics

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2024/05/21

THE RETURN OF CRAP BOOKS! We are back with another Crap Books episode - this time it's Brian Daley's A Tapestry of Magics. Imagine Zelazny's Amber, but written for a Rifts adventure and you'll not be disappointed

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00:06:30

Princess Mononoke Preview

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2024/05/16

It's standing room only here at Podside as we talk about Studio Ghibli's 1997 hit, Princess Mononoke

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00:58:38

Episode 268: Salvador

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2024/05/14

Pete returns for another Lucius Shepard short, Salvador

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01:03:38

Episode 267: Silent Running

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2024/05/07

Today we talk about Douglas Trumbull's other film, Silent Running (1972). All about a guy named Lowell and his robot friends in their National Park in . . . SPACE

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00:05:15

Shogun 1 - 5 Preview

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2024/05/02

Get ready to study the blade with us as we talk Shogun (2024)

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00:59:18

Episode 266: Havana Few Beers

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2024/05/01

Pete comes back for a bit of a rambling discussion. Salud!

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00:04:21

Infocom Challenge: Zork I Preview

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2024/04/25

Ever wanted to know what it was like to play a text adventure back in the day? Join us as we poke around the edges of the Great Underground Empire and promptly get lost, stumped, and even die a few times.

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01:08:33

Episode 265: Small Soldiers

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2024/04/23

Ten-HUT! Listen up, maggots: That pinko Joe Dante FINALLY made a movie about the REAL American heroes - Small Soldiers! You WILL listen to the new Podside episode, and you WILL like it! That's an ORDER

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00:06:33

Hollow Man Preview

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2024/04/18

Get ready to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon as we discuss the movie that ended Paul Verhoeven's streak of US-made movies, Hollow Man (2000)

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00:58:43

Episode 264: The Marching Morons

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2024/04/16

Eugenics - am I right? We talk today about C.M. Kornbluth's The Marching Morons, a right doozy of a tale, where you do NOT have to hand it to Hitler

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00:07:28

Get Lamp Preview

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2024/04/11

We talk about Get Lamp (2010), along with its bonus materials, a documentary about the history of "IF" or Interactive Fiction which has its charms, but is ultimately a little unfocusedVisit the Get Lamp site: http://www.getlamp.com/ Also, the full documentary (and bonus/additional material) is on YouTube. Main Documentary: https://youtu.be/TmBSYho5Gbk?si=8jhdN91bGqA6PKLN Cut Scenes: https://youtu.be/zEJXZ2wnO3w?si=DfVJVmTTyiofBveN Infocom Documentary:

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00:56:30

Episode 263: The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule

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2024/04/10

Today, we talk about The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard, and follow the life of artist, and possible con-man, Meric Cattanay, in his quest to have his name as remembered as the dragon he's proposed to slay

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00:07:09

GATTACA (Ft. Aaron Thorpe) Preview

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2024/04/04

Aaron Thorpe returns to talk about GATTACA (1997) with us, a film that asks: what would society look like if it believed in genetic determinism?

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01:29:58

Watership Down Pt 1

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2024/04/03

Spring has indeed sprung. What better time to talk about bunnies? Who are on an epic quest to find a new home?

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00:06:05

Dead Heat Preview

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2024/03/28

You can't keep a good cop dead, they say. Not even if your name is Roger Mortis, and you have mere hours to solve the mystery of your own murder

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00:59:01

Episode 261: The Dauphine's Metaphysics

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2024/03/26

Today we discuss Eric Schwitzgebel's The Dauphin's Metaphysics, first printed in Unlikely Story's The Journal of Unlikely Academia, a story about a limited and quite disturbing form of immortality Read the story:http://www.unlikely-story.com/stories/the-dauphins-metaphysics-by-eric-schwitzgebel/ Art by Diane Dellicarpini

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00:56:24

Bonus Episode: Mozart In Mirrorshades

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2024/03/21

This time, we talk about Bruce Sterling's Mozart in Mirrorshades (collected in the much-hyped cyberpunk anthology, Mirrorshades) - a story about corporate extraction with extra steps (mainly, time travel)Oh, Galactus wished he had it this good

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00:56:48

Episode 260: Exists

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2024/03/19

This time around, we end up in the hinterlands of southeast Texas, where the local sasquatch is making the most of Stand Your Ground laws

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00:06:48

Brainstorm Preview

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2024/03/14

Today, we talk about the proto-cyberpunk film, Brainstorm. Directed by a SFF cinema luminary, Douglas Trumbull, and with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood in lead roles, this is a movie that asks what if Online was your feelings made fact?

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