Sci-Fi Happy Hour

Ep.019 Alien: Earth with Guest Ruben Davila, Part 4 of 6. Alien Earth Series Plot Analysis

Episode 019. Tootles’ Deadly Blunder in the Specimen Hold, What’s with the Incubation Period? And does Boy Kavalier fit the Peter Pan Archetype? (14:28) How a Youngster in a Hybrid Body Would Behave, Could the Broken Door Panel be a Set Up by Kirsh? Our Supposition of a Second Season, and Hermit meets with Arthur about Dangers on the Island (29:10) How Long Have Xenomorphs been on Earth? Alien: Mahna Mahna, Wolf “T.Ocellus” in Sheep’s Clothing, You Are No Longer Food. (47:34) Ice Age, Peter Pan, 1977 World Series Game 6, and Which Character in Alien: Earth Would Best Survive/Lose a Xenomorph Attack?

Ep.018 Guest Ruben is Back Again. US Drone Shoots Down a UFO Over Yemen, 3I/ATLAS Interstellar Traveler on its Way Towards Earth, and Discussion Alien: Earth Part 3 of 6

Episode 018. Ted swiftly reviews his trip to the 50th Anniversary of Space:1999 conference at Burbank, CA. (02:52) Guest Ruben on deck again mentions the movie Weapons. (05:46) The leaked video showing a Hellfire missile fired from a US drone seemingly bouncing off a UAP near Yemen. (24:27) 3I/ATLAS Interstellar traveler on its way towards Earth. (36:18) Part 3 of ongoing discussion about Alien: Earth.

Ep.017 Alien: Earth with Guest Ruben Davila, Part 2 of 6. Alien Earth Series Plot Analysis

Episode 017. (A Continuation of Episode 016 with Guest Ruben Davila) Only a Crew Like This Would Crash the Maginot, Noah Hawley’s Direction, Aliens on Earth, Peter Pan References, USCSS Maginot. (13:32) Boy Kavalier and the Synthetics, Aliens and the Terraforming Colony on LV-426, Maternal Stakes, Alien III, Cinematic Deaths of Aliens, Evolution of Synthetics. (40:20) Favorite Synthetics. Lack of Alphas in Alien: Earth, Fede Álvarez’s Direction of Alien: Romulus, Hellfire Missile Bouncing Off UFO.

Ep.016 Alien: Earth with Guest Ruben Davila, Part 1 of 6. Alien Earth Series Plot Analysis

Episode 016. Ted announces his plan to attend the Los Angeles: 1999 A 50th Anniversary Celebration of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s Space: 1999. This Historic Event Runs September 12th to 14th, 2025. (2:04) Guest Ruben Davila returns. (03:06) We discuss the Alien franchise, from its original offering in 1979 to the current show: Alien: Earth. (15:54) The Alien timeline, Ted Doubts David Wiped Out the Engineers, (29:07) The Consistency of Killing Characters, Mythological and Biblical Overtones, The Nostromo, divergent motivators compared in Prometheus and Covenant, and (46:24) Alien: Earth is Discussed with a Mention of the Five Corporations and the importance of the Maginot crash, the Five Specimens and the Search for Immortality, and the Reality of the Characters in the Scenes.

Ep.015 Kwinn talks about his recent scene work in Los Angeles. Myths & Conspiracies: Sounds and signs from space, crop circles. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick. Movie: Ghost in the Shell 2.0

Episode 015. Kwinn talks about his recent scene work in Los Angeles. (7:38) Myths & Conspiracies: Sounds and signs from space and (10:17) crop circles. (27:18) A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick, government tracking, and the root problem of Substance D. (34:18) Movie: Ghost in the Shell 2.0 – discussions on technoparanoia, hacking into a person, influences on cinema, and (52:23) quoting Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi and Greek philosopher Heraclitus.

Ep.014 USCG Buoy Tenders, The “Buy” Button Is a Lie, World building, Inventing a Religion in Your Sci-Fi Story, Build a Cult-Like Following, and a Discussion about Werewolf – the Card Game

Episode 014. U.S. Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender ships at Juneau, Alaska. (4:44) Next, the “Buy” button is a lie, consumer ownership rights and the class action lawsuit against deceptive selling of digital goods. (23:01) World-building – Ted and Kwinn share some ideas. (28:50) Inventing a religion in your sci-fi story. (33:33) It is so easy to build a cult-like following, the Branch Davidians, Heaven’s Gate, taking a different approach to cult theme story-telling with a reference to (48:18) Monty Python’s The Life of Brian, and (51:54) Werewolf the card game, a study on the effect of an informed minority and an uninformed majority.

Ep.013 Movie Premiere, Dr. Who, Sci-Fi News Bites, and Ted’s Top Ten: Sci-Fi Uniforms

Episode 013. Announcing the premiere of the movie Red Light Teachers where Kwinn, Ted, and Ted’s brother appeared as background actors. (3:06) We chat about Dr. Who, (17:52) Sci-Fi News Bites, and (29:13) then we listen to Ted’s Top Ten: Sci-Fi Uniforms.

Ep.012 Interview with Sci-Fi aficionado Ruben Davila, 99.9 KWIN: The Backpacknapper.

A brief introduction to Sci-Fi aficionado Ruben Davila, our (07:26) interview covers Ruben’s Jurassic World: Rebirth viewing and discussion about Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall (1990) with a comparison to Len Wiseman’s Total Recall (2012), then onto Flat Earth vs Round Earth and frequencies in space. Near the show’s end (50:04) listen to 99.9 KWIN and the episode of the Backbacknapper.

Ep.011 Trailer Dune 3: Messiah (2026), the first Sci-Fi story ever told, popular sci-fi models

Episode 011. An intro about movie editing then we (7:47) talk about the trailer Dune 3: Messiah (2026), (23:20) the first Sci-Fi story ever told, (43:43) and the world of popular sci-fi modeling.

Ep.010 Earthquake in Russia causes a tsunami, El Chupacabras, and discussion on Multiverse Theory

Episode 010. Our intro covers a recent 8.8 earthquake in Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, (06:29) we discuss the mythical El Chupacabras, (28:36) back and forth about multiverse theory.