Offical snack food and idealized position for "podception"

In order to maximize your receptive joy, ABDWTV have teamed up with several "joy" sponsors. First of all, the deluxe stirrups are available from most reputable medical supply houses....Speaking of finger lickin' good, what better way to seal the deal than a vacuum sealed tub of UTZ cheeze balls. "...If they ain't UTZ, they just ain't....."

Podding: all fun and games until someone.....

Lesson to all: never cast while using a nailgun. Bill, the inveterate tinkerer, couldn't keep from using his hands while his micromask was strapped on. He still can't explain why a 1967 Sunbeam Alpine needs a nailgun taken to its undercarriage from time to time (or how this ricocheted back into his gullet), but he is feeling much better now. A little hoarse, but fine. More pudding, Bill?

Mating and the modern podder

Titillating thread title. Hard to say what it all means but think of it as a non-devotional MST 3000 with odd and useless facts. Next up: Corbomite Maneuver and Episode 2 of the 1981 BBC Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Yah, we know.

Sorry to have taken such a long time off. One of us was busy turning 40, and the rest of us were letting him make us enjoy it with him. And enjoy it we did. Outrageous musical performances. Donuts. BBQ. Engine grease. Blue Sun. Friends. Stuff like that. We'll be doing our episode really soon now. Like any second...

AB&D

The Man Trap - aka: She's not that hot.

And so we come to another show, and another Star Trek - The Original Series episode at that. The Man Trap was the first Star Trek episode ever aired. None of us saw that original airing. In fact, 33% of us weren't even born at the time. Didn't stop us from making up for lost time later on.

The recording should be a little bit better this time around than our first failed attempt at this (that we never posted for all the standard reasons, and that, as has been mentioned before, was due to an entirely avoidable set of circumstances that has yet to be fully understood), in that more than one of us was actually recorded. To be perfectly honest however, there is no guarantee that this is, in fact, an improvement.

And we have to apologize for all the long pauses. It has been a long time since we have seen this episode, decades for some, and it may in fact be that none of us have ever seen the unedited version. So we may be a little too busy watching the show and geeking out all over the place to actually get around to speaking. Cuz it's just that good a show. We think. Hope you agree.



Again, you can subscribe to our podcast at the iTunes Music Store, or you can download the commentary directly here:

The Man Trap (MP3)

If you can't find a copy of this episode at your local video store or library, you can pick up the individual episode along with The Naked Time at Amazon.com here:

Star Trek - The Original Series Vol. 3: The Man Trap/The Naked Time

or you can purchase the entire first season here:

Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete First Season

Looking forward to hearing your comments.

AB&D

Oh, we forgot the most important thing, like, ever. If you are to come away from this with anything at all, we hope it will be a fuller appreciation of the vastly underestimated fact that sometimes, a sexy negligee just isn't enough.

Next up: The Corbomite Maneuver. Probably. (And yes, don't worry, we are still gonna do some Guide work. Really soon now. Yeah.)

The Naked Time - Our first Star Trek Commentary!

So we have decided to work in a little Star Trek The Original Series. This is probably what started it all for us. Or was it this Antiques Roadshow Find? (Albuquerque, 2002: $1,500-$2,000, including original box) This may be the most pathetic merchandising (until the recent Shatner Stone episode). The signed Bruce Hyde (Riley) did not make air during the Minneapolis 2004 roadshow ($2-$4).

If you haven't already done so, you can download the show by subscribing to our podcast at the iTunes Music Store. Alternatively, you can download this week's episode directly from this URL:



The Naked Time (MP3)



The original idea was to do all the episodes in the order in which they aired, but it was not to be. Our recording of that first episode, The Man Trap, was lost for all time, due to a random quantum fluctuation affecting the spacetime continuum localized around the computer doing the recording.

Yes, that was it. Eddies in the spacetime continuum. (Is he, is he.....?)

Okay, what really happened was that the dork responsible for recording the commentary did not know what he was doing, though he was operating under an entirely opposite and incorrect assumption. (And just for the record, it was not the dork with headphones tied to his face, nor the dork who came up with the idea for this whole endeavor in the first place, but an entirely different dork that was responsible for this poor state of affairs.)

But now, all is well and we have tried to do another episode entirely. We are starting with The Naked Time. Not to be confused with the seekers of the fully functional, as in the TNG "Naked Now". We like it a lot. We hope you will too. You can very likely find this episode at your local video store or even public library, and if not, you can pick it up from amazon.com as one of 2 episodes (the second episode being, by a wildly spectacular and yet completely coincidental coincidence, The Man Trap) here:

Star Trek - The Original Series Vol. 3: The Man Trap/The Naked Time

or you can pick up the entire first season (which we will eventually be covering anyway) here:

Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete First Season

And don't worry. We haven't forgotten about the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. We will most definitely be commenting the rest of the episodes. But in the meantime, if you haven't read the book(s), you should. You just.....should. Totally worth your time. And rather than spoiling you for anything, reading the books will only make watching the show that much more fun. Again, you'll just have to trust us.

Keep Flying! (Yah, that's a hint.)

AB&D


Next up: We revisit The Man Trap. Probably.

Episode One is up for grabs!

So it would seem that our first commentary is up and available for download: Episode one of the BBC Television production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

You can get it by subscribing to our Podcast at iTunes Music Store, or you can download it directly at:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC TV) Episode 1 (MP3)

Enjoy, and let us know what you think.

AB&D

Next up will be: Star Trek The Original Series - The Naked Time

Welcome to our living room!

So what is this all about? A little experiment among friends. We love science fiction. But not all science fiction. Just some science fiction. Most, though not all, is older science fiction (okay, lazy typer that I am, please allow me the use of SF in future use of the term), particularly movie and television stuff. We like to watch, have been doing just that for going on more than 3 but less than 5 decades (well over a century between the 3 of us), and we are really good at it. And we would like to share some of our insights with the general public. Sorry everyone.

We are rarely bored, but often boring. Sadly, we are often at our least bored when we are at our most boring. But maybe we can share a bit of knowledge or an opinion that will enhance your viewing experience of some show or movie, and it will all not have been for naught.

So here's how it is: We watch a movie or an episode of a show. We record a commentary to run along with your viewing of said movie or show. You download it. You listen along whilst watching the show. Sort of like a DVD commentary. Fox does this with the new Battlestar Galactica. So we won't (yet). But we will do others. This blog will serve as the show notes for the episodes.

You can subscribe to our show at the iTunes Music store or you can paste the following URL into your favorite Podcatching software:

http://www.dcohanim.virtualave.net/podcast/albillanddavid.rss

We'll start off with something obscure, and move on to other things. Your DVD collection will end up growing, or at least put to fuller use, and hopefully you will be a better geek for it.

We'd love to entertain suggestions for shows of interest. Oh, sorry, that was a lie (though not a big one). We already have enough trouble coming to decisions about what we are going to do, and we feel we would be doing folks a disservice by talking about stuff we know nothing about. Lots of blank spots on the recording would ensue, and you don't need us for that, you can do it on your own. But we would appreciate some feedback. Especially the unpleasantly critical stuff, because we are masochists at heart.

First piece up for discussion is Episode 1 (of 6) of the Original Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, the television production put out by the BBC in 1981. We grew up loving this stuff; this, and even more so the books and radio series, really changed our perspectives on a lot of things and definitely colored our vocabularies. Trust us, that's a good thing.

You can find it at Amazon.com here:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC TV - 1982)

None of us had trouble finding a copy at our local video rental store, especially after the recent release of the (travesty of a (but just in certain members' opinions)) movie. So rent it, pop in disk one, go to the episode selection menu, and we'll see what you think.

By the way, this is our first attempt at a podcast, so please forgive us as it is really quite awful. But we'll get better, We promise.

Next up: Episode 2, or perhaps it might be time to dust off your copy of Star Trek: The Original Series...