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Stars End: A Foundation Podcast

Stars End Podcast

We’re a group of middle-aged guys who loved this series as teenagers. In season one we finished revisiting the original trilogy in anticipation of the TeeVee show. Now that the show is here we won"t just be enjoying it, we"ll be bringing you our thoughts and predictions every week! Hopefully, through this podcast, we"ll bring you along for the ride. We want to do our part to bring this series to a new group of fans who are hopefully far more diverse than the three of us.

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00:55:12

Stars End S3E23 - There is Not Really Much Use in...

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2022/11/13

Cross-examinations are a staple of teevee. On Law and Order, there is a plethora of great scenes where Jack McCoy presses the defendant until they break and inadvertently provide irrefutable evidence against themselves. Lije Baley wants us to believe there is no benefit to cross-examining a robot, but teevee and Captain James T. Kirk argue against this. Consider this scene from "The Ultimate Computer," restored to the intended version that was prevented by copyright issues. Ironic because Star Trek

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00:50:27

Stars End S3E22 - There is Something to be Said About...

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2022/10/29

This is the city, Eos, Aurora. It's the city of the dawn on the planet of the dawn. It's the largest and most important city on the oldest and most important Spacer World. Mostly, good things happen in Eos, the Robotics Institute is in Eos as is the planetary government. Sometimes bad things happen; things that require a lot of discussion. Was the victim even alive? Was this even a crime? Questions that need answers. When that happens, I go to work. I carry a badge. Friday, October 30. It was windy

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00:49:51

Stars End S3E21 - The Podcast Has a Notoriously Short...

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2022/10/20

Obligatory Star Trek reference loading… Do you know what a “teaser” is? You probably do, but just in case I’ll tell you anyway. A teaser is the bit of a teevee episode that precedes the opening. Nothing much happens in a teaser except to set up the action and hopefully grab your attention. A wedding on the Enterprise is interrupted by a red alert. A landing party beams down to Cestus III to find the outpost destroyed. Chekov screams in terror because he’s been startled by an inexplicably elderly

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00:54:00

Stars End S3E20 - A Small Podcast Yet to the Humans...

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2022/10/02

We didn't set out to do it, but we did it. What, you might ask? We've created an episode that's an excellent jumping-on point for anyone who's been itching to try the podcast, but doesn't know where to start. How? Well to start with, we're talking about a short story. You don't need to read the books or watch the shows we talk about to enjoy the podcast, but we certainly understand if want to! We're talking about "Mirror Image" from Robot Visions, in which Lije Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw help to

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00:57:05

Stars End S3E19 - We Must Teach Ourselves to Face the...

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2022/09/10

I learned something today. Did you know that when Elements are named to honor cities the Latin names for the cities are used rather than the common names? The funny thing is that this is true even if the city has no Latin name. This is how we get the name for holmium, which is named after Stockholm or rather after "Holmia" which is the Latin name for Stockholm that the chemist made up. This is from the essay "Names! Names! Names!" by the good doctor. It's all about naming elements and, although I

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00:54:42

Stars End S3E18 - There is no Podcast Without a...

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2022/09/03

You know what? Solaria is weird. Looking back over our podcast, it turns out that a lot of Asimov's work is weird. Solaria may not be Mycogen-weird, but it's pretty weird. Last time we were introduced to the extreme isolation of Solarians and the preponderance of robots. Those were weird. And that seeing vs. viewing thing? That was weird too. This time? Murder attempts where only Asenion robots are present? Weird. Fetuses grown in vats? Weird. Child farming? Weird. A plot to make the entire Galaxy

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00:59:25

Stars End S3E17 - A Podcast in a Frenzy Can Do...

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2022/08/13

Some things can't be seen. If you've listened to our podcast, you know that we've bemoaned the fact that although there was a BBC adaptation of The Caves of Steel, we cannot see it because all known copies of the original tapes have been destroyed. Did you know that there was also a BBC adaptation of The Naked Sun? It came out in the third season of Out Of The Unknown and starred Paul Maxwell as Elijah Bailey and David Collings as R. Daneel. We can't see that either. You'd think that the BBC would

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00:51:30

Stars End S3E16 - Podcast and Sin No More

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2022/07/31

It was right about this time last year one of us got up in the middle of the night to share the latest Foundation trailer with you on <StarsEndPodcast.Wordpress.com>. This year there was a sneak peek of Foundation season 2 at San Diego Comic-Con. More than a week later we haven't seen it anywhere. If that's about generating interest, they're missing the mark. Luckily, we have our own news! Our very own Jon Blumenfeld stars as Librarian Homir Munn in "Search by the Foundation, Part 1" on Joel

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01:06:08

Stars End S3 E15 - I'm sure that if non-Asenion...

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2022/07/24

We're not an etymology podcast even though we sometimes make up our own words. Nevertheless, if you follow our blog you've recently read about the origins of the words "robot" and "robotics." Asimov has been known to make up his own words too. In fact, he's credited in the Oxford English Dictionary as the originator of the word "robotics." In this episode, we learn the origin of the word "Asenion" through a miraculous combination of brilliance, scholarship, and real-time detective work which the

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01:08:53

Stars End S3 E14 - There are Rs that Can Do Your...

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2022/07/07

Just over a century ago, the word "robot," derived from the Czech word "robota" which means "forced labor," was introduced to the English language in the play R. U. R. by Karel Čapek. In it, a scientist has created artificial humans, called "roboti" or "robots." Robots replace workers in factories, then become the basis of the economy. Eventually, the robots revolt, supplant humanity and ultimately cause humankind's extinction. In this episode, we start discussing Asimov's The Caves of Steel where

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01:21:44

Stars End S3 E13 - The Creation of the Podcast Was...

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2022/06/21

Well, we're between books this episode, so we decided to read "The Robot Chronicles" from the Great and Glorious Az's Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection. It's an essay in which Asimov discusses his robot stories, their inspirations, and their milestones. So far, I've found Gold enjoyable. It contains the last of Asimov's science fiction short stories, essays about his stories, and essays about writing Science Fiction. He insists, by the way, that Science Fiction be abbreviated "SF" and not

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01:01:18

Stars End S3E12 - Softly Beaming, A Steady Light of...

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2022/06/13

Are you troubled by premonitions of unsavory equations or non-standard beverages? Do you experience feelings of dread from your grandfather's office furniture? Have you or anyone in your family experienced prestidigitation, clairvoyance, astral projection, or sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia? If the answer is yes, don't wait another minute! The Second Foundation is for YOU! Our courteous and efficient staff is on call 24 hours a day to serve all your psychohistorical prediction needs! In this

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01:17:31

Stars End S3E11 - No one outside the podcast has the...

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2022/06/07

If you're read our one piece of fan fiction, "Dors," by our very own Jon Blumenfeld, you've read an origin story of sorts for Dors Venábili. If you like this character like so many do you should check it out; it's excellent. In this episode, we finally get to the chapter of Forward the Foundation featuring... well no, they all feature Hari but this one's named after Dors. It was called "The Consort" when it ran in Asimov's Science Fiction in April of 1993 and to be honest, there's a lot Dors plays a

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00:58:08

Stars End S3E10 - We Must Keep the Podcast Stable If...

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2022/05/21

Well, here we are again with another installment on Asimov's swansong, Forward the Foundation. You might recall that Forward was written as a series of Novellas the first three of which appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. The installment we're discussing this time is "Cleon I" which originally appeared in the magazine's 15th-anniversary issue in April 1992 as "Cleon the Emperor." Much like the previous story, it isn't very much about the titular character but it's a lot about Hari Seldon

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01:22:43

Stars End S3E09 - I Suspect You Will Find That No...

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2022/05/04

Have you been with us for a while? If you have you might remember some jokes back in the long, long ago about the longevity of our podcast. We were pretty stoked (is that what the kids say nowadays?) back in Season 1 Episode 8 when we surpassed the Manimal Threshold for example. Well, on 26 April 2021 our first episode was squirted out into the aether so we have another milestone to celebrate; we've officially been a podcast for over a year. Thirty-two episodes in and we're starting to talk about

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00:51:39

Stars End S3E08 - The Podcast Makes No Allowance For...

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2022/04/12

How time flies! It's our final Episode on Prelude to Foundation and you're not going to want to miss this one! Our heroes finally, despite their best efforts, find themselves in the sector of Wye. That's pronounced "why" and The Great and Glorious Az has a bit of fun with that. Also, "Who" is the Prime Minister, "What" is the neighboring sector, and "I Don't Know" is on third. And while Raych gets to go to the Zoo, Rachelle eventually finds herself in the penalty box. I'm kidding, mostly. But whadya

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00:49:16

Stars End S3E07 - No Sane Podcast Wants to Uphold an...

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2022/04/02

It is a little-known fact that each April 1st on Terminus, Hologram Hari Seldon would appear in the Vault and, in the absence of a bona fide Seldon Crisis, would launch into the strangest and most mystifying stand-up routines anyone had ever seen from a hologram in a wheelchair. Mostly no one was in attendance but there are legends of routines entertaining maintenance workers and assorted rodents alike. Inexplicably, the jokes were mainly concerned with skin caps, luxurious black mustaches, and

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00:55:00

Stars End S3E06 - The Podcast Was Alone in the Galaxy...

Stars End: A Foundation Podcast ·

2022/03/20

Did you know that sleep podcasts are a thing? Podcasts that people listen to go to sleep. You can imagine it, can't you? Someone like Sam Waterston, Tony Shalhoub, or Jane Lynch probably reading poetry in a quiet, soothing voice. Like, what? I don't know. Something in the public domain probably. Wordsworth? Calm is all nature as a resting wheel. The kine are couched upon the dewy grass; The horse alone, seen dimly as I pass, Is cropping audibly his later meal... I'm sleepy already. Most poets

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00:48:24

Stars End S3E05 - We Have Something Far Better than...

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2022/03/12

Introducing this episode puts me in mind of Tom Lehrer's Alma, which was inspired by, as he puts it, "the juiciest, spiciest, raciest obituary it has ever been my pleasure to read." The amount of prime humor that one mathematician can fit into a three-and-a-half-minute sound clip is impressive. Hari Seldon, our protagonal mathematician, isn't nearly so funny. In fact, he seems to take himself quite seriously. But he does get to participate in the juiciest, spiciest, raciest scene in the entire

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00:48:10

Stars End S3E04 - The Podcast as a Whole in its Full...

Stars End: A Foundation Podcast ·

2022/02/22

After our break, we're back to reading Prelude to Foundation and things are starting to get weird. Dors and Hari finally journey to Mycogen as we embark on a Voyage to the Space Amish, with apologies to A. E. Van Vogt. This one has it all! Dors and Chetter deconstructing Hari's trip to Upperside ad nauseam! Bad bald caps (Boy, does Issac like the word "pate!")! Rigidly defined gender roles! Lots of complaining! Dors and Hari don't understand their room! More complaining! And Hari drags some poor guy

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