Beer and Ray Guns

We crack our brews and stab our wine boxes and wonder what cool tech from sci-fi do we wish we had today. And, as one may imagine, that subject quickly evolves into what sci-fi tech to we really have today that was just a vision in the distant pages of novels and screenplays. Ultimately, we partially answer the question about flying cars and wonder if Brent will ever be able to pronounce "dystopia...

How does one get from Carl Sagan to aliens arriving in a Partridge Family bus? Well, just listen as Paul and Brent crack a Hank and a Scottish Ale and begin a disconnected journey of science-fiction authors that have inspired or made impression on them in their youth.

Join us as we have some cold brew and ramble on about starship designs in sci-fi. What's our favorite, what's not. We'll probably take a few detours, but they're important to the rambling.

We talk about what has inspired us from sci-fi. Was it the concepts and beliefs of the great Gene Roddenberry, the bizarre tales of Rod Sterling, or just wanting to have a friggin' phaser. Crack a cold one and get inspired or... just crack a cold one and listen.

Ah. Yes. If you long for a sweet orange flavor with subtle hints of aluminum, then you remember Tang. The drink of astronauts. It might be better than Gagh - at least it's not moving, but how does it compare to a Roumulan Ale, or Apollo ice cream. Well, crack a cold one and give this a listen as we ramble on about sci-fi food - all compliments of Gerber baby food in a squeeze tube.

In the darkness of space, a lonely hunk of metal drifts silently as the light from distant stars reflecting upon its worn surface and radiating outward, mix with the twinkling glow of hundreds of windows, causing it to shine as a beacon, a place of refuge, to all those lost in the cold abyss. Ehhh, or it's just another piece of space junk. We're talking sci-fi space stations. The great ones, the r...

We're were digging around in the vault (Amazon Prime) and found some sci-fi TV of our past. They weren't great, but damn - they were cool. Join us as we crack a cold brew and dig into the the ancient shows of UFO and Space 1999.

In this episode we talk old-school sci-fi and how important sci-fi is to our technological advancement, and dive into an essay written by Isaac Asimov that appeared in the April, 1957 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. We also talk a little beer, a little culture, a little sci-fi and probably some rambling that will be completely entertaining. The complete list of the Magazine o...

There's no plan for this episode, as usual. Except the beer. However, we start with another essay by Issac Asimov that refers to an article in Harpers Magazine in September of 1939 by Bernard Devoto, a literary critic, called "Doom Beyond Jupiter". Mr. Asimov did not seem to take well to Mr. Devoto's opinion of science fiction. Join us as we begin our journey in to the realm of sci-fi at a point i...