Galactic Watercooler
Weekly talk-radio-style show celebrating and exploring the whole galaxy of science fiction (sci-fi), fantasy, and comic culture. Each week GWC's geek hosts jump into new material, becoming fans and passing on the experience with the help of what's widely recognized as the friendliest community in ...
Weekly talk-radio-style show celebrating and exploring the whole galaxy of science fiction (sci-fi), fantasy, and comic culture. Each week GWC's geek hosts jump into new material, becoming fans and passing on the experience with the help of what's widely recognized as the friendliest community in science fiction and fantasy.
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#333: Comic-Con Wrap-Up
We review our favorite parts of this year's San Diego ...
We review our favorite parts of this year's San Diego Comic-Con, including bronies, ubiquitous butt cheeks, Sean's awesome art acquisition, and hanging out with the small press peeps; and we feature a segment recorded live with a band of GWCers at the ...
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#332: Toys, Part 3 (Table-Top Gaming)
We give love to the table-top games we grew up ...
We give love to the table-top games we grew up with and appreciate their role in a world before widespread video games. Audra talks about early digging on Trivial Pursuit, her meticulous Mouse Trap setup, and getting stuck being the thimble in Monopoly.
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#331: Toys, Part 2
We reminisce on our favorite childhood toys and delve into ...
We reminisce on our favorite childhood toys and delve into memories of specific character-building moments. Audra recalls the excitement of older cousins' 1980 Hot Wheels City Play Set and Castle Grayskull fortress,
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#330: Toys, Part 1
We revel in remembering some of the best (and worst) ...
We revel in remembering some of the best (and worst) toys of our childhoods, give props to homemade toys, and realize how much toys shape the kind of people we become. We recall what it was like to polish your own rocks,
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#329: Prometheus
We dive into a great discussion of Prometheus and the ...
We dive into a great discussion of Prometheus and the questions it raises about human creation and corruption; the colonization of ancient earth; alien warning frescoes; self-sacrifice vs. selfishness; why the Engineer may have been justified in wantin...
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#328: Space Geeking
We talk specifically about how the US space program affected ...
We talk specifically about how the US space program affected us during our formative years, and we speculate on how it might play into the development of today's young geeks. And we run down the week in geek,
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#327: Growing Up Geek Wrap-Up
We wrap up our growing up geek arc this week ...
We wrap up our growing up geek arc this week with some mixed discussion of how our various media selections fit together to make us who we are today. Also, we run down the week in geek, including Ray Bradbury's death (and how Fahrenheit 451's message s...
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#326: Growing Up Geek/The Hero and The Crown
We continue our growing up geek arc with the novel ...
We continue our growing up geek arc with the novel The Hero and The Crown, which provided Sean entry into the worlds of reading and fantasy. We discuss how his experience (and others like his) lead to lifetime learning,
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#325: Growing Up Geek/War Games
This week we check out a media object significant to ...
This week we check out a media object significant to Chuck's early development as a geek: War Games. We talk about the differences between getting "into" computers in the 80s vs. now, and each of us share some experiences with interacting with tech ove...
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#324: Growing Up Geek/Flight of the Navigator
We kick off a new arc in which each of ...
We kick off a new arc in which each of us choose one media object that had a significant effect on our development as a young geek. Up this week is Audra, who takes us on a tour of Flight of the Navigator. And we run down the week in geek,
