GWC Podcast #79

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#1

This we we re-visit the iPod of torture in Measure of Salvation, but we also make time to welcome the Rev. Sean back to the studio and take a ton of listener calls. Highlights: we question the second time ’round look at Cylon genocide, kid about Lee’s over-the-top kill-’em-all attitude in this ep, hear how Audra does NOT hate Lee, agree again that Helo’s thinking was right (”You’re not wrong, Helo…”) but his execution wasn’t, imagine all the infected Cylons waking up at once to do the Thriller dance, learn that Sean can moonwalk and breakdance (but that casually moonwalking around doesn’t impress chicks), explain the difference between between hoopla and hoo-haa, discover that there really is an excuse for Starship Troopers (the movie), get sucked heavily into Mass Effect (which is a good thing), and announce an official GWC Firefly re-watch. What a week!

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#2

FIREFLY!!!
i caint wait for american gladiator to end so i can listen to the cast

#3

American Gladiator DTA?

Anyone?

Bueller?

#4

American Gladiator is good… not great but enjoyable. And espically if you mute it when hulk and ali talk it makes it even better but I liked it and even back in the day I thought it was good. Its just a fun game show.

#5

I am listening to the podcast and had a thought. None of the four newly discovered Cylons were present around the infected Cylons. So using that, can we assume that they would too be suseptible to the infection? If so, doesnt that take Lee, Bill, Roslin, Gunny, Hot Dog, Racetrack, Helo, Gaeta, Baltar and Codle out of the list since they all had direct exposure to the infection? I think those were really the only named characters that were around them. The arguement could be made that Hera’s blood could have protected Roslin too.

#6

It would depend on if a person that could not contract it could carry it. or if it was air borne also. Because you gotta figure Tigh would of at one point been down in the brig while the cylons were there. But I haven’t watched the episode again.

#7

Cadell does say it was mostly carried by rodents. Lymphatic encephalitis is Yellow Fever, at least in our world and it is carried by mosquitos. Which brings us back to…how did it infect the Cylons on the basestars if they just brought a beacon on board. It could have infected a couple if they were cut hauling it in but it was somehow a communicable disease to them.

#8

Hi all…just listening to the podcast and I wanted to put this out there.

I am at the part where you are talking about President (Dictator) Roslin and the late President Nixon, and I wanted to point something out. Now unless I am mistaken, what actually brought Nixon down was not so much the Watergate incident but the fact that he tried to cover it up. Had Richard Nixon from the start when it started to come out, tossed them (I don’t remember the names of the men who actually went to jail over Watergate) “under the bus” and not tried to cover it up then he wouldn’t have been forced to resign the presidency.

Please if there is anyone out there who can shed more light on this, point out any mistakes that I might have made. Thanks.

#9

I don’t have these season three episodes so I might be wrong…but I thought when I watched it that (Dictator) Roslin called Helo “Captain.”

#10

Heck yes to a Firefly 'cast!!!

On another note, I think that I remember other weird times that people stupidly didn’t wear helmets in raptors. Like when the peeps crashed on Kobol, even Crashdown as ECO wasn’t wearing a helmet.

Cheers!

#11

OMG! You guys have kept me laughing all morning. I will listen to whatever you put on the feed!

Ba-doom, doom, doom, doom, doom! Cause this is Thillaaa! Thilla, yeah!

All I can see are dancing Cylons in rags! Audra- thank you for crystallizing it so thoroughly in my head! You paint pictures with words.

Vincent Price rocks! When I became a member of Audible, the very first thing I downloaded was “The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection (unabridged)”. Both Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone narrate. Incredible. I love to listen to it over hot tea at night. Creepy. Wonderfully creepy.

Chuck, I am so jealous you got to meet him. Total cool points, dude.

And Rev. Sean, I dabbled in the break dance, though later it had roller skater flair. I offer you a moonwalk salute with crazy legs!

mucho monkey love, guys! me! b!

#12

To second Helo’s Rank, in “The Woman King” which I think he hasn’t changed rank prior to, he says to the arriving folks “My name is Captain Karl Agathon…”

As for people piloting a raptor with vs. without a helmet, I think it has to do with Cabin Pressure. Consider that if the pilot goes, everyone else in the raptor is screwed. So the Pilot is always supposed to wear a helmet and be atmospherically separate from the rest of the raptor so in case everyone else blacks out, the raptor at the very least can be returned to it’s support ship, and potentially the rest of the people as well.

#13

Oh! and if you’re going to do a Firefly rewatch, my wife and I have not ever seen it. We watched Serenity and we’re up for it. We… might be able to slow ourselves down to one a week.

#14

One quick point about he Borg virus. If I remember correctly the Enterprise crew did come up with a computer virus that they thought would destroy the Borg collective, but they decided not to use it once they realized it was possible for Borg individuals to recover their humanity once they were separated from the collective. It was returning Hugh (the individualized Borg) to the collective that sent them in disarray in later episodes.

Audra and Sean did it to me again… I spit coffee all over my computer with the thought of Sean watching “uncut and extended” any Angelina Jolie movie. Now that’s another image I desperately want out of my head. Thanks guys…

#15

BTW, was The Great White Noise saying we can listen to unaired calls? If so where do I find them?

#16

I will never be able to watch the sick Cylons without hearing “Thriller.” Thanks for cracking me up on the drive to work this morning!

In response to Audra’s question about how an infectious agent could survive in space for so long, my answer would be some kind of spore. Bacteria can produce spores that are meant to survive some pretty harsh conditions. Anthrax is a good example. Although, I don’t believe scientists have ever found anything that could last for that long in vacuum. I guess that’s the fiction in the science fiction!

#17

Actually, simple organisms do amazingly well in harsh conditions. That was the least problematic part of that script.

#18

Microbes have hitched rides to Mars on our probes and explorers so they could survive in the beacon left in the nebula. We have many microoganisms that survive here on Earth in extreme temperatures including ice cores drilled in Antartica that are still viable.

#19

Ok Audra - “mosquito in amber”. I have to know. Was this meant to be a play on the “Dragonfly in Amber” title of the Diana Gabaldon book? :slight_smile:

#20

Sean mentioned Mass effect spoilers, and i just wanted to bring up that there is indeed a Spoiler thread all ready.

http://forum.galacticwatercooler.com/showthread.php?t=558