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UFO 26: The Long Sleep ft. Steven Shinder from 2022-10-12T15:57:06
Speaking of long sleeps, it’s time for the podcast to rest. I need a long sleep right now to be honest. I caught a cold a day after recording this and my brain is in so much pain right now it...
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UFO 25: The Responsibility Seat from 2022-10-05T15:57:45
You could argue that I (Dylan) have the responsibility seat, since I edit these shows every week. I actually recently adjusted my chair and have massively improved my seating arrangement. My arms c...
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UFO 24: Reflections in the Water from 2022-09-28T15:57:41
The past few days I’ve spent a lot of time contemplating life, staring at my reflection. I used to have a fish pond at my parents house. It was filled with Koi. They used to stay pretty small...
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UFO 23: Sound of Silence from 2022-09-21T15:57:48
The real sound of silence is how crappy Kiyan’s audio is this week. Something something I could make a song reference here but it just seems too easy so why would I do that? Instead I’m...
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UFO 22: Confetti Check A-OK from 2022-09-14T15:57:38
The More Things Change, The More They Come in Clutch. When I have parties at the airport they always make me do a confetti check when I leave. It’s required! I have to go through the metal de...
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UFO 21: Computer-Affair from 2022-09-07T15:57:04
I had an affair with a computer once. (Editor’s note: Her (2013)) It was a long time ago. Back when computers were curvy and that was attractive. She was a big hulking room sized machine. A C...
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UFO 20: Court Martial from 2022-08-31T15:57:39
I’m an expert on Court Martials. Look I was just kidding with that by-line. I don’t know anything about court martials actually, all I know is that they’re basically just military...
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UFO 19: Ordeal from 2022-08-24T15:57:13
Recording this episode was an Ordeal. I’ve survived loads of ordeals though. This one was pretty trivial compared to some of the ordeals I’ve been through in my life. There was that tim...
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UFO 18: Timelash ft. Steven Shinder from 2022-08-17T15:57:03
Is there a spacelash? Timelash, spacelash, temporallash, they’re all the same thing. It’s just a time corridor that links you to the future. Or the past. And you have to jump into it an...
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UFO 17: The Dalotek Affair from 2022-08-10T15:57:21
I had an affair with a Dalek once. No, I swear, I did! He was very loving. He treated me nicely and would always hunt down anybody who ever hurt me. If somebody said something mean to me he would e...
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UFO 16: The Man Who Came Back from 2022-08-03T15:57:39
butnowimback-pinkmartini.wav Guess who’s back? Back again? Inevitable. Inevitable is back and you might say that it was all Inevitable because god dammit that’s exactly why we named our...
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UFO 15–Flight Path from 2022-07-27T15:57:16
The FAA did not approve this episode. I had a flight path filed once, for the local airport. It was a pretty steep path, came in right over these houses. And we saw a guy just standing in the road ...
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UFO 14–Mindbender from 2022-07-20T15:57:51
When it comes to benders, you’ve got a couple types to choose from. First. there’s bender from Futurama, Then, there’s bendy straws. And that’s it. Usually, those are your o...
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UFO 13–Survival from 2022-07-13T15:57:54
Guess what? Inevitable survived our hiatus and we’re officially back in action. So this week I was walking down the road when I was bitten by a cheetah person. Oh shoot, wrong show. Uh, shoot...
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UFO 12–The Psychobombs from 2022-04-20T15:57:59
Topic of the week: hiatuses. I’m kind of confused about this episode actually. The explanation for the super strength is the fact that people’s nervous systems were super charged, but d...
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UFO 11–Close Up from 2022-04-13T15:57:30
This week on Space Inevitable: A Space Sci-Fi Space Podcast. I’m ready for my close up, are you? Cuz this week the aliens are coming in full force to take some snaps of us while we podcast. ...
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UFO 10–The Square Triangle from 2022-04-06T15:57:54
Our audio tracks somehow got slightly misaligned in this episode, so the conversation is a little off. Sorry. I never realized triangles could be squares you know? In the future, I think we should ...
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UFO 9–Destruction from 2022-03-30T15:57:01
This week we learned not to plant seeds in Straker’s head. Sometimes I wonder if maybe the biggest threat to SHADO is Straker himself. So many of the things he does seem to be the detriment t...
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UFO 8–Sub-Smash from 2022-03-23T15:57:48
Something something title of this episode something something Freeman Apologist. Look if I had a sub as a kid, I would smash it too. Actually, I have this Lego set of the Beatles Yellow Submarine, ...
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UFO 7–Kill Straker! from 2022-03-16T15:57:06
Something something, we didn’t even make an Eldrad Must Die reference somehow. Honestly, with a name like Straker, it’s not too hard to comprehend why people would want to kill him. I m...
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UFO 6–E.S.P. from 2022-03-09T16:57:08
I used to have ESP, then I took an arrow to the brain. Can’t believe I just unironically referenced Skyrim in the episode description. When was the last time that was even relevant? Would you...
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UFO 5–A Question of Priorities ft. Steven Shinder from 2022-03-02T16:57:25
I have plenty of questions about this episode, to be honest. Look, if I’m being straight with you, I always go into every episode of UFO with a bunch of questions. Dozens of them. Hundreds ev...
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UFO 4–Conflict from 2022-02-23T16:57:45
This week on Inevitable: mild conflict over whether this episode is good or not. Was Conflict good? Was it bad? Don’t worry, it’s all up to you. We just sit here and talk about the epi...
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UFO 3–The Cat With Ten Lives from 2022-02-16T16:57:14
Today’s not-title title: “The Huskies of the Cat World”. I have an aunt who has a Husky, actually. She’s really cute. The dog. Although, to be fair I guess, I’ve never...
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UFO 2–Exposed from 2022-02-09T16:57:27
UFO really gunning for the Prisoner too with these one word titles. Inevitable has a one word title too, actually. In a way. I mean, Inevitable is a single word, but we have a sub title too. A sub ...
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UFO 1–Identified from 2022-02-02T16:57:49
It’s like putting on your old comforting sweater. “I know what a god damn Tesco express is”. These are the fateful words that mark our journey into the depths of 1970’s Brit...
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Childhood’s End 3–The Children from 2022-01-26T16:57:15
If this had a title, it would be “The Illuminati-esque Drawings of a Four Year Old” We have a tendency here at Decorative Vegetable towers to use the suffix “-esque” to desc...
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Childhood’s End 2–The Deceivers from 2022-01-19T16:57:52
Warning: this episode is filled with deceit I don’t know what exactly we’re deceiving you about but I know it’s somewhere in this episode. If you end up figuring out what it is, p...
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Childhood’s End 1–The Overlords from 2022-01-12T16:57:04
I think we should rename ourselves to Podcasting Overlords. Isn’t it weird how the word “lord” is used in a lot of sci-fi? Like Time Lords… Overlords… Lords of Time...
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Childhood’s End 0–Intro from 2022-01-11T16:57:23
Apple still doesn’t like “episode 0.” This season we’re doing Childhood’s End, the classic SyFy tv show. You know, from 2015? The classic! It’s basically already...
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Firefly 15–Serenity (Movie) from 2021-12-22T16:57:31
And in the end…. The people you kill are equal to the people you save. Or something like that. That’s how the song goes right? Because we’re at the end of another show and I reall...
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Firefly 14–Objects in Space from 2021-12-15T16:57:43
Quote of the week: “The whole podcast is a sham held together by dreams.” We’re almost at the end of Season 7 of Inevitable. Inevitable has already outlasted all of the shows we&#...
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Firefly 13–Heart of Gold from 2021-12-08T16:57:46
I don’t have a heart of gold, I have a heart of silver. What is a heart of silver, you ask? Well I’m glad you’re curious because frankly I am too. What the hell does it mean to ha...
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Firefly 12–The Message from 2021-12-01T16:57:39
I’m sending out an SOS. I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle. Yeah I just quoted a Police song in the podcast description. What are you gonna do about it? That’s right, nothi...
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Firefly 11–Trash from 2021-11-24T16:57:10
Something something wish dot com tactical jacket. Look I’ll give it to you straight doc, I don’t know what to write here. I could make a bunch of jokes about trash but Kiyan made most o...
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Firefly 10–War Stories from 2021-11-17T16:57:01
If I could have titled this episode, it would have been titled “The Absolution of Jayne Cobb” (Editor’s note: I like “Toiling Down Memory Lane” better.) Once upon a ti...
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Firefly 9–Ariel from 2021-11-10T16:57:26
Yeah, just to confirm, I still think of the font when I read this title. The font is actually spelled totally differently, you know. It’s spelled like Arial, whereas this episode actually is ...
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Firefly 8–Out of Gas from 2021-11-03T15:57:54
I almost ran out of gas getting to the gas station the other day. So I’m pretty sure I have a 10 gallon tank and somehow the other day I put 10.2 gallons in my car. Either I somehow have a la...
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Firefly 7–Jaynestown from 2021-10-27T15:59:02
Apparently “Jaynestown” is frequently featured on “wtf is this in Firefly” lists. [Editor’s note: I assume that Dylan assumed that I would add more to this intro. Litt...
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Firefly 6–Our Mrs. Reynolds from 2021-10-20T15:57:22
Can you imagine if one of us just showed up to the podcast one day and got married for doing it? Look so once upon a time I’m sitting there and wait a minute I realized I started a descriptio...
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Firefly 5–Safe from 2021-10-13T15:57:37
Kiyan, as soon as we finish: Why the hell was this episode titled “Safe” anyway? One day I’d like to be safe. Safe from all of this nonsense that we have to face in the world. Mos...
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Firefly 4–Shindig from 2021-10-06T15:57:30
The titles of these episodes are wack. Like who the hell says “shindig” anymore? So I went to a party the other week right, and I was having a good time. Then all of a sudden I look ove...
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Firefly 3–Bushwhacked from 2021-09-29T15:57:21
I’ve never been bushwhacked, but I have been whacked. Unfortunately. (Editor’s note: wack.) Now I’m pretty sure being bushwhacked just means you get whacked while you’re in ...
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Firefly 2–The Train Job from 2021-09-22T15:57:03
Did you know Kiyan and I once wrote a whole outline for a story about a guy robbing a train? This week we prove that watching Firefly was not a hoax of… weakly epic proportions. That’d ...
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Firefly 1–Serenity from 2021-09-15T15:57:21
Is Joss Whedon an auteur? Those are the fateful lines that begin our journey into this cult favourite television show. Some might even say beloved. Will we agree with this premise? Only time will t...
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Firefly 0–Intro from 2021-09-12T15:57:27
So. Shall we start? We’ve never really done one of these intro episodes before, but it was about time we actually announced the show we were going to watch… before we actually watch it....
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Lexx 4–Gigashadow from 2021-05-05T15:57:19
I’m giga-over this show at this point. Speaking of over it, I really procrastinated on writing this little summary. Honestly even now I don’t know what I should say. So I’m kind o...
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Lexx 3–Eating Pattern from 2021-04-28T15:57:18
I have an eating pattern, it’s called eat at 9pm and never again. So this morning I edited the podcast while eating cereal. So I guess you could say I had an eating pattern while editing eati...
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Lexx 2–Super Nova from 2021-04-21T15:57:09
This week Kiyan drops millions of Lexx puns and I hate it. While watching this all I could think of was that I would love it if a supernova just swallowed me whole. Like if I could just be absolved...
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Lexx 1–I Worship His Shadow from 2021-04-14T15:57:57
It’s I Worship His Shadow, written by Pual Donovon, Jeffery Hirschfield and Lex Gigeroff and released on April 18, 1997. Show-notes: 1:51: Check out our other podcasts, Trust Your Doctor: A D...
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The Prisoner (2009) 6–Checkmate from 2021-04-07T15:57:42
Checkwait a minute, I almost made the same joke as the last time we did a Checkmate. We’ve come to the end of another show and rather unceremoniously bid it farewell for another. Sorry The Pr...
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The Prisoner (2009) 5–Schizoid from 2021-03-31T15:57:45
Schizoid is such a funny word. Schizoid is a really fun word too actually. You know it would be fun if I had a schizoid, they could edit the podcast and do all the podcast stuff and I could just sl...
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The Prisoner (2009) 4–Darling from 2021-03-24T15:57:12
Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling… … Number 6. Number 6 was lost forever, oh my darling number 6. That’s how it goes right? That’s the version I remember being tau...
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The Prisoner (2009) 3–Anvil from 2021-03-17T15:57:20
Anvils are great but without hammers what would you even use them for? You ever realize how close “Anvil” is to “Arrival”? I only noticed now because I almost misspelled Anv...
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The Prisoner (2009) 2–Harmony from 2021-03-10T16:57:37
I often seek inner peace, or to put it another way, harmony. These one word titles are giving me wild “Alfred Hitchcock” vibes. If you didn’t know, he was quite fond of naming his...
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The Prisoner (2009) 1–Arrival from 2021-03-03T16:57:11
The Prisoner Returns! This is probably the most divisive show that we’ve done for Inevitable. Our fans have given us various opinions, from bad to great to love to dishonor on the Prisoner...
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The Prisoner 18–In My Mind from 2020-10-28T15:57:37
I have no mind left after this show. So we’ve finally actually finished yet another show. No more Prisoner. I swear. Absolutely none. We will do no more Prisoner ever. The next season of Ine...
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The Prisoner 17–Fall Out from 2020-10-21T15:57:24
Help, I’ve fallen out and I can’t get up! And so we come to the end of yet another show on Inevitable. We’re really just motoring through them now, and honestly with the quarantin...
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The Prisoner 16–Once Upon aTime from 2020-10-14T15:57:50
Once Upon a Time in the Village… … there lived a young boy named Patrick. Now Patrick was an adventurous young lad, who got into loads of trouble. It was pretty soon he started to grow ...
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The Prisoner 15–The Girl Who Was Death from 2020-10-07T15:57:24
Lots of titles in The Prisoner seem to refer to death… You ever heard that song about how God is a girl? Well maybe this is kind of like that, and The Prisoner is saying that Death is actuall...
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The Prisoner 14–Living In Harmony from 2020-09-30T15:57:16
I prefer living in disharmony. The old west is actually a pretty weird place to live if you think about it. Moreso than a lot of times in human history, you could just die at any time. Slice your f...
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The Prisoner 13–Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling from 2020-09-23T15:57:50
I wonder what this song this episode is named after really sounds like. Today in long as heck names that are a little bit meaningless: a name we didn’t actually come up with. I mean, let̵...
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The Prisoner 12–A Change of Mind from 2020-09-16T15:57:08
As the title says, this week we have a Change of Mind in how good The Prisoner is. I kind of wish we gave titles to these episodes because this one would have definitely been “Misogynist Mome...
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The Prisoner 11–It’s Your Funeral from 2020-09-09T15:57:10
It’s like that movie I never watched, Death at a Funeral. I was reading the last sentence of this description and I’m pretty sure my brain shorted out. Mainly because it features the sa...
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The Prisoner 10–Hammer into Avil from 2020-09-02T15:57:53
This week on the Prisoner: Number 6 tries his hand at Blacksmithing. My dad once actually had a penchant to want to get into blacksmithing. He had been watching lots of tv shows about it and though...
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The Prisoner 9–Checkmate from 2020-08-26T15:57:17
Queen to King negative 6, check-bait. I actually had a dream about chess last night. And by last night, I mean last night before I edited this, not last night before I recorded this. And that’...
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The Prisoner 8–Dance of the Dead from 2020-08-19T15:57:23
Doot doot Mr. Skeltal. So the intro for this week is something about wading knee deep, clothed, into the water. It’s something that’s bothered us for ages, but what’s funny is tha...
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The Prisoner 7–Many Happy Returns ft. Sgt. Draino from 2020-08-12T15:57:31
I don’t have very many happy returns right now. So while I was recording this I was dogsitting, and about halfway through the episode the dog came into the room to stare at me. And it just ki...
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The Prisoner 6–The General from 2020-08-05T15:57:20
Not to be confused with The Colonel. Look I’m not one to go around willy nilly joining the military. But if a guy in my village was named The General, and everyone was taking orders from him,...
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The Prisoner 5–The Schizoid Man from 2020-07-29T15:57:21
This week on Inevitable Dylan is replaced by a copy. Have I already made the replaced by a copy joke? I feel like I have because we’ve put out over 375 episodes of stuff and surely in one of ...
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The Prisoner 4–Free For All from 2020-07-22T15:57:23
I’m running for president of this podcast. Look I’m not saying democracy is a sham. Paddy Fitz, whoever that is, is saying that, and we just happened to watch his magnum opus trying to ...
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The Prisoner 3–A. B. and C. ft. Keith from 2020-07-15T15:57:01
It’s as easy as Do Re Mi. The first real episode of the Prisoner where we get into the nitty gritty and realize that not all is as it seems in the village. This will probably be Number 6̵...
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The Prisoner 2–The Chimes of Big Ben from 2020-07-08T15:57:25
I’m pretty sure Kiyan has actually heard the chimes of Big Ben… Is Big Ben the only famous clock tower in the world? This is a strange thought I just had, while sitting here, trying to ...
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The Prisoner 1–Arrival from 2020-07-01T15:57:57
Who is number 1? We are number 1! *music cue* Can you believe that we’ve made it to season 4? Speaking of which, like I said last week, Kiyan and I have been trapped in a personal podcasting ...
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Sapphire and Steel 6–Assignment 6 from 2020-06-24T15:57:05
In terms of “where are they now?” retrospectives, at least the S&S one will be really easy. Kiyan and I have been trapped in a recording studio for all eternity as of the end of thi...
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Sapphire and Steel 5–Assignment 5 from 2020-06-17T15:57:58
I forgot my name again too. I can’t remember if I was Kiyan or Dylan. We’ve trapped ourselves in an old-timey estate house in order to experience this episode to its fullest. We’r...
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Sapphire and Steel 4–Assignment 4 ft. 50dw50 from 2020-06-10T15:57:38
Alternate title: Sapphire and Stalin Kiyan and Dylan are like kind of really lame versions of the elementals. Which I bring up because that would explain why all of our guests are way cooler than u...
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Sapphire and Steel 3–Assignment 3 ft. Making Blake’s 7 from 2020-06-03T15:57:56
Tune in this week to find out how to pronounce Russell Wooten. Tune in this week to also find out how much of Russell Wooten is too much Russell Wooten. Turns out all three of us have a really diff...
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Sapphire and Steel 2–Assignment 2 from 2020-05-27T15:57:16
Look I’m not saying this could have been 2 serials but I’m not not saying that either. Honestly I’m kind of glad we started with the 8 parter right off the bat. In general 8 parts...
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Sapphire and Steel 1–Assignment 1 from 2020-05-20T15:57:45
“It’s pretty clear” – Kiyan, about halfway through this episode. It’s the start of the third season of Inevitable, which is massively increasing our season count alrea...
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Children of the Stones 7–Full Circle ft. Jim (The Krynoid Podcast) from 2020-01-29T16:57:18
How many times can I reference Doctor Who this week? This is the second season finale for Inevitable, and this time we’ve actually gone all out and gotten a guest. That’s quite a step u...
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Children of the Stones 6–Squaring the Circle from 2020-01-22T16:57:38
Personally I find circles to be a much more pleasing shape than squares. Oh god I can’t believe how late I was in uploading this episode. Or was I? In reality this podcast exists within a tem...
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Children of the Stones 5–Charmed Circle from 2020-01-15T16:57:28
Honestly when was the last time you even heard the word charmed? Honestly this episode seems to have already flown my memory. It’s been like a week and a half or so since I watched it and my ...
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Children of the Stones 4–Narrowing Circle from 2020-01-08T16:57:06
Wait how do you have a narrow circle? I’m starting to wonder if this series could be even more trippy if I dropped some acid or smoked some weed right before watching it every week. I think t...
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Children of the Stones 3–Serpent in the Circle from 2020-01-01T21:28:21
Now with 75% more recap! The title of this episode makes me think heavily of the ouroboros, which is that snake arranged in a circle that’s eating its own tail. Although really a snake isn...
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Children of the Stones 2–Circle of Fear from 2019-12-25T16:57:15
Why do I have this weird feeling that there’s an episode of Doctor Who with this name? This might be one of the shortest “actual” episodes we’ve ever released. Obviously our...
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Children of the Stones 1–Into the Circle from 2019-12-18T16:57:02
Personally I find triangles much more pleasing to the eye. It’s time for us to journey beyond our perception of euclidian space time. It’s time we shut the door on the simple shows of t...
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Star Cops 9–Little Green Men and Other Martians from 2019-12-13T02:17:45
And so we have reached our second series finale. The title of this episode remind me of that Star Trek episode that one time when Quark went back in time and it turned out he was the alien that cra...
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Star Cops 8–Other People’s Secrets from 2019-12-04T16:57:27
Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. I have never seen a psychiatrist, but I have seen a psychologist. And I’m starting to really wonder how that distinction could be so massi...
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Star Cops 7–A Double Life from 2019-11-27T16:57:31
Alternate title: Online Guess Who Champion Anna Shoun I just realized how much easier this show would be to do if we both also had clones. Can you imagine if there was a clone Dylan whose entire jo...
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Star Cops 6–In Warm Blood from 2019-11-20T16:57:50
My lizard body doesn’t know this “warm blood” of which you speak. Did you know that you can use blood as a substitute for eggs in most recipes? Turns out that the protein content ...
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Star Cops 5–This Case to Be Opened in a Million Years from 2019-11-13T16:57:31
When I first read the title of this episode I genuinely thought it would be a briefcase. It’s actually kind of surprising the speed at which we’re burning through these episodes. Consid...
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Star Cops 4–Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits from 2019-11-06T16:57:43
Star Cops is anything BUT trivial. I used to play Trivial Pursuit actually, my family owns the movie trivia one. Which was really hard to play back in the day when I was a wee lad who didn’t ...
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Star Cops 3–Intelligent Listening for Beginners from 2019-10-30T15:57:36
Personally I never intelligently listen. My computer pretty much never listens to me. Although I know my personal FBI man is sitting somewhere, staring at me typing this feeling rather insulted. Th...
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Star Cops 2–Conversations With the Dead from 2019-10-23T15:57:43
You might say we’re mediums then. This new podcast is really taking off, mainly just in my mind though. It’s like how Nathan kept taking Lee to that same shitty Chinese place she hated....
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Star Cops 1–An Instinct for Murder from 2019-10-16T15:57:15
Welcome, we hope you enjoy your stay. This is the very first episode of a brand new podcast, only the fourth time that we’ve done this! We should be experts at this by now, and yet somehow I ...
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