Found the audio on an old backup drive! So this one, and tomorrow’s episode, which translates this episode into Arabic, are out of order.
Blurb from the original website
Here's our very first podcast. I'll be premiering it at the North Carolina Academy of Science meeting this Friday. Check back next week for a new episode with our first movie review.
REFERENCES from the first show
Wikipedia’s list of gospels
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Mash
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/QuincyME
Updates from 2021
Epigenetics
This recent archived session from the Science & Entertainment Exchange has an epigenetics expert, a promise I never managed to fulfill in the entire 60+ episode run of this show. Only took ten years! The benefit being that the science has advanced a lot during those ten years.
Life Isn’t Fair
This is the Princess Bride quote from that first episode:
I can’t imagine how this passage got “most passive page” by any metric.
‘Life isn’t fair, Bill. We tell our children that it is, but it’s a terrible thing to do. It’s not only a lie, it’s a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it’s never going to be.’
Would you believe that for me right then it was like one of those comic books where the light bulb goes on over Mandrake the Magician’s head?
‘It isn’t!’ I said, so loud I really startled her. ‘You’re right. It’s not fair.’ I was so happy if I’d known how to dance, I’d have started dancing.
I read that book at about the same time that I read the Book of Job, in AP English, an experience I described in this newsletter a couple of weeks ago. The two have been forever linked in my mind.
VSI Episode 1