Last Refuge of the Incompetent

The Incompetent Crew is joined by special guest Josh Olson to talk about famed SF author Harlan Ellison's collection of television criticism, The Glass Teat .Special Guest: Josh OlsonWorks CitedHarlan EllisonEllison YouTube The Glass TeatRadio PlaylistThey Might Be Giants - Purple ToupeeTom Paxton - What Did You Learn In School TodayEarle Hagen - The Mod SquadRichard Thompson - Harlan's BounceLizzy Mercier Descloux - Mission ImpossibleThree Dog Night - Dreaming Isn't Good For YouLaura Nyro - Save The Country (Single Version) (Mono)Elyse - Simpleminded HarlequinDiana Ross & The Supremes - The Young FolksThe Richard Davis Trio feat. Joe Beck & Jack DeJohnette - AgnewisticCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young - OhioFrank Comstock - Adam-12Beach Boys - Student Demonstration TimeJohn Denver - The Ballad of Spiro AgnewRangda - Spiro AgnewPete Atkin - Driving Through Mythical AmericaThe Jazz Butcher - HarlanFoodman - The end of TV

The Incompetent Crew are joined by guest L.M. Bogad to get weird on China Miéville's Bas-Lag triology.Special Guest: L.M. BogadWorks CitedChina MiévilleChina Miéville WebsiteBas-LagPerdido Street StationThe ScarIron CouncilRadio PlaylistFlat Earth Society - Perdido Street BluesThe Death Of Anna Karina - Every Revolution Is A Throw Of DiceAnti-Nowhere League - Streets Of LondonPlank - KhepriOcean Colour Scene - Policemen & Piratespatten - TorqueThe Ruffled Feathers - Blueprints For Our Failed RevolutionBenoît Pioulard - As Would A WeaverSound Voyage - Golden GarudaGlok - Weaver (Edit)Get Back Guinozzi - Police And ThievesPaul Roland - BuccaneersQuasi - sea shantyThe Almanac Singers - Union TrainNeutral Milk Hotel - Up And Over We GoThe Red Krayola - People Get Ready (The Train's Not Coming)Chris Bowden - New Crobuzon

The Incompetent Crew shill for big community radio. Works CitedAmericathonZap ComixTransmetropolitanTranshumanismAlan MooreFrom HellFrom Hell Letter100 Great Short Stories The World Treasury of Science Fiction The New Prehistory Blindsight Orphan BlackThe Glass Bead GameRadio PlaylistDeerhoof - Come See the DuckThe Mothers of Invention - Who Needs The Peace CorpsPatti Smith - Redondo BeachRalph Steadman, Hunter S. Thompson, Mo Dean - Weird and Twisted NightsShelor Family - Big Bend GalSandy Bull - Triple BalladeScreaming Lord Sutch And The Savages - Jack The RipperLink Wray - Jack The RipperSyd Barrett - OctopusJimmie Noone Apex Club Orchestra - King JoeThe Olivia Tremor Control - Green Typewriters Harvey Korman - GoldGuided by Voices - Kicker of ElvesSifl & Olly - Laser EyesPixies - Bird Dream of the Olympus MonsDirty Projectors - Temecula SunriseCrispin Hellion Glover - Clowny Clown ClownSugar Candy Mountain - EchopraxiaGreg Vandike - CloneJames Blackshaw - FixThey Might Be Giants - Fingertips: Everything Is Catching on FireThey Might Be Giants - Fingertips: I Found a New Friend

I guess this is all a big joke to you?!?!Special Guest: S.K. MeyerWorks CitedList of Science Fiction Comedy FilmsLargely Forgotten UK Sci-Fi SitcomsScience Fiction ComedyRadio PlaylistLazy Magnet - Masters Of Science FictionThe Focus Group - The Moon LadderDouglas Adams - Fit The Second - The Encyclopaedia GalacticaBrian Hodgson - "The Savages" (Serial AA): Energy EscapesDouglas Adams - Fit The Nineth - The Following FactsSuzanne Ciani - Almay Eclipse (TV Spot)Douglas Adams - Fit The Seventh - Modern Elevators Are Strange And Complex EntitiesFrançois de Raboix - Partout L'ElectricitéEagles - Journey Of The SorcererThe Manhattan Transfer - Trail of the Screaming ForeheadAbner Newton & Brain in Slow - ten4gvRaymond Scott - Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.Carl Stalling - Variation on Lucky Day (1957, from “Fox Terror”)The Woolen Men - Alien CityBuke and Gass - Horse Head NebulaJanelle Monáe - Suite IV Electric OvertureMouse on Mars - Parliament Of Aliens Part IIIFlaming Lips - The Distance Between Mars And The Earth (Part Two)People Like Us - Music Of Your OwnEnnio Morricone - Ripresa L'indagineOval - ChronographMCI Players and Singers - Packard Bell TVFountains Of Wayne - I Want An Alien For ChristmasMiaow Miaow! - Kid's TV!Saturday's Children - Wisconsin Electric Co.Mowbird - The Quiet Despair Of The Starship EnterpriseHenry Solomon - Spaceship to the DarksideAtomTM & Masaki Sakamoto - Alien's Delight (second movement)Tom Dissevelt - Quiz Tune for VARA Television (Tunes)DJ Q-Bert - Grandpa Wears Fat Laces, Turntable TV [Blueprint]Arrowheads - Lifeforce EnergyInfinity Frequencies - TV PeopleThe Advisory Circle - Erosion of TimeTod Dockstader - Signal PowerdownThe Focus Group - Geometree HouFrank Bretschneider - FunkalogicToiToiToi - TalkollerKarel Vlach Orchestra - Ridiculous CuniculusRoland Barker - InterludeDak - electric speed (in)Botany - Schoolday Morning TVPepe Deluxé - Child Of EnergyBlack Moth Super Rainbow - The Children's Television WorkshopJean-Claude Roché - Turdoides hartlaubii - Hartlaub’s BabblerChloé - SolarhysNick Carswell & The Elective Orchestra - Plus! A TV Theme Tune For The New Chief!Bibio - Over The Far And Hills AwayThe Advisory Circle - Callsign 'A' - The TV Trap

The Incompetent Crew wonders what a world where Ronnie Rocket was made would look like. Works CitedJodorowsky’s DuneThe IncalLost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau William Gibson Alien III Audio DramaWilliam Gibson Alien III Script Ronnie Rocket ScriptDavid Lynch, Ronnie RocketRadio PlaylistBrian Eno - Tutti ForgettiDavid Bowie - ShadowmanMagma - SckxyssZao - AtartAlejandro Jodorowsky - Psychedelic WeaponsDün - Arrakis (version alternative)Richard Pinhas - Variations VII Sur Le Thème Des Bene GesseritKurt Stenzel - Parallel WorldZed - AdabBlack Randy & The Metrosquad - Marlon BrandoMonty Python - Talking ScienceRuss Le Roq - I Just Want To Be Like Marlon BrandoPrince & The Revolution - Movie StarEskaton - IfDeath - You're A PrisonerSpace - Supersonic JetplaneThe Beach Boys - Psycodelic Sounds: Brian Falls into a PianoBrian Wilson - Do You Have Any Regrets (I Do)Neil Young - White LineDusty Springfield - AngelsPaul McCartney - PS Love Me DoFrank Zappa - Down in de Dew

The Incompetent Crew are joined by guest Prof. N. Hubble to talk about the intertwined histories of speculative fiction and socialism.Special Guest: Professor Nick HubbleWorks CitedHow Sci-Fi Shaped Socialism, Nick HubbleUnearthing the Music 50 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Every Socialist Should Read, China MiévillePolitical Futurists and Radical and Utopian SF Authors News From Nowhere The Ministry for the FutureThe City and the City, BookThe City and the City, Miniseries Radio PlaylistDoktor Kosmos - Eurovision Socialist Contest 2001Neon Neon - Hoops With FidelThe Ethiopians - Socialism TrainChumbawamba - The World Turned Upside DownNicolette - No GovernmentHard Left - Future PerfectFuture Of The Left - Suddenly it's a Folk SongSydney Carter - Socialism In Our TimeBob Hill (Fred Hellerman) - Pity The Downtrodden LandlordLeyla McCalla - The Capitalist BluesL-Space - Unit of ProductionPuff Pieces - Object AccumulationArt Bears - The Song of Investment Capital OverseasStereolab - Ping PongRobert Wyatt - Red FlagBarbara Dane - I Hate The Capitalist SystemGang Of Four - We Live As We Dream, AloneTim Heidecker - PropertyLaurie Anderson - Dark Time in the Revolution

The Incompetent Crew surrender to the ray. Special Guest: Jennifer Juniper StrafordWorks CitedTelefantasy StudiosShredder Orpheus SoudtrackCathode TVHyperallergic, Cathode TVRemote ControlShredder OrpheusI Was a Teenage TV TerroristRollerbladeThe Icicle ThiefLiquid DreamsSplitDr. M/Club Extinction Radio PlaylistFrank Zappa & The Mothers - I'm The SlimeNegativland - Why Is This Commercial?The Art Of Noise - Paranoimia (7" Mix)David Bowie - TVC15Bruce Springsteen - 57 Channels (And Nothin' On)Bow Wow Wow - (I'm A) T.V. SavagePublic Enemy - She Watch Channel Zero?!WhoMadeWho - TV FriendRoland Barker - Worm SongBlack Flag - TV PartyThe Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Television The Drug Of The Nationa‐ha - The Sun Always Shines on T.V.The Music Tapes - The Television Tells UsDavid Byrne & St. Vincent - I Should Watch TVLabelle - Medley: Somethin' In The Air / The Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedAutomatic Tasty - television

The Incompetent Crew commit bug-genocide in the name of freedom.Special Guest: S.K. MeyerWorks CitedSpace MarinesRobert A HeinleinStarship Troopers (novel)Starship Troopers (film)Partial Nuclear Test Ban TreatyPaul VerhoevenPowered Exoskeletons Armor, John SteakleyArmor 2, excerpt Aliens (film)Screamers (film)Second Variety Edge of TomorrowRadio PlaylistBilly Bragg - Like Soldiers DoChumbawamba - Walking Into Battle With The LordJosh White - Johnny Has Gone For A SoldierSarah Brightman & Hot Gossip - I Lost My Heart To A Starship TrooperHarpers Bizarre - Battle of New Orleans SSgt. Bob Lay (USMC) - Marine's BalladBlondie - The Attack Of The Giant AntsOrchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Bunker SoldiersThe Tee-Vees - War MachineSpizzenergi - Soldier SoldierPeggy Gou - TroopTom Lehrer - It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A SoldierThin Lizzy - Soldier Of FortuneThe Walkmen - Old Forgotten SoldierParquet Courts - Careers in CombatMinutemen - Just Another SoldierThe Decemberists - The Legionnaire’s Lament The Dog That Bit People - Tin SoldierHarp And A Monkey - The Reluctant SoldierSleater-Kinney - Combat RockLewski - Military Simulations

The Incompetent Crew ride horses through outer-space. Yeehaw! Boy, Howdy! Special Guest: S.K. MeyerWorks CitedJizz LegendsSpace Westerns OutlandWestWorld (film) Mad Max: Fury Road Totem Transfer NarrativesThe Expanse The MandalorianWestWorld (tv series)Cowboys and AliensWild Wild WestRadio PlaylistZun Zun Egui - CowboyWoody Guthrie - My Daddy (Flies A Ship In The Sky)Billy Bragg & Wilco - My Flying SaucerHolly Herndon - FrontierAvalon Emerson - The Frontier (High Desert Synthapella)William Shatner feat. Brad Paisley & Steve Miller - Space CowboyKenny Rogers - Planet TexasThe Flatlanders - Stars in My LifeThe Legendary Stardust Cowboy - I Took A Trip (On A Space Shuttle)Atomic Rooster - Space CowboyThe Byrds - Mr. SpacemanSly & The Family Stone - Spaced CowboyThe Highwaymen - HighwaymanSturgill Simpson - Turtles All the Way DownJohn Prine - Linda goes to MarsJohn Prine - Space Monkey (Live)Miriodor - Space CowboyJamiroquai - Space CowboyUnits - Cowboy

The Incompetent Crew have visions of energy crisis (and utopia). Special Guest: A.B. Bertagnini IVWorks CitedTraditional Appalachian Coal Mining MusicThis insane genre of music curated for men working on oil rigs… worth a perusal…Ecotopia Ecotopia Emerging Ernest CallenbachThe Cool War Frederik Pohl The Gods Themselves Energized Edward M Lerner Renewable Energy Primer:Disruptive Technologies Peak OilRenewable Energy and CovidSocio-Economic Impacts Distributed Energy ResourcesEquitable Renewable Energy AccessRadio PlaylistOrchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - ElectricityOrville Jenks - Sprinkle Coal Dust on My GraveJerry Reed - The Crude Oil BluesAges And Ages - Cascadia Waving BackSolar Bears - SolarizationJoni Mitchell - ElectricityVanishing Twin - The Conservation of EnergyMorgan Delt - Sun PowersBeans On Toast - OilRuss Walker - Solar EnergyBoards Of Canada - Energy WarningBloc Party - Price Of GasolineOi Polloi - Nuclear WasteGatto Fritto - Solar Flares Burn for YouBritish Sea Power - Childhood MemoriesThomas Dolby - WindpowerCléa Vincent - ElectricitéStornoway - Here Comes the Blackout...!XL Middleton - Sunshine & Power LinesAndrew Judah - The Ghost of Electricity

The Incompetent Crew play some games. Special Guests: DM Liz Neu & Jamie TaoWorks CitedVideo Game Music List #1Video Game Music List #2 Video Game Music List #3 Video Game Music List #4 Cyberpunk 2077eXistenZRollerballThe 10th VictimTron War GamesThe Player of GamesReady Player OneBread and CircusesRadio PlaylistUltrademon - Incoming GameUnfolding - Play Your GamePiero Piccioni - The ChaseSymmetry - Blood SportConstrobuz - Video Games Are A Waste Of TimeThe Mountain Goats - Clemency for the Wizard KingToby Fox - Temmie VillageDisasterpeace - Beaconleon - enoki villageLaetitia Sadier - The Rule of the GameLinear Movement - The GameEero Johannes - Real VirtualitySuzanne Ciani - Atari Video Games LogoWendy Carlos - TRON ScherzoFatima Al Qadiri - War GamesPink Military - War GamesRAJA - GamesAnn Steel - Sport et divertissementAndré Previn - Executive Party DanceOs Mutantes - Panis et circensesDas Pop - The GameSparks - SportsThe Radio Dept. - We Got GameLena Raine - Starjump

The Incompetent Crew release a Greatest Hits record. Works CitedFlatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Videodrome Long Live the New FleshHouse of Leaves InterviewAnn Leckie Interview Radio PlaylistDani - La machine The Joggers - Back To The FutureLITE - Time MachineJérôme Minière - Petit CosmonauteL'Impératrice - Erreur 404The Advisory Circle - Everyday HazardsPye Corner Audio - Electric EyeHorrid Red - The Horror & The CrueltyDj Swaqqy Dolphin - Horror ClubMagnetic Man - Box of GhostsPollens - New LazarusDeradoorian - Monk's RobesSteve Hauschildt - Tragedy & GeometryDibson Hoffweiler - She's So One-Dimensional (acutey)Magma - Soleil D'OrkMatmos - Very Large Green Triangles (Edit)Scientist & Prince Jammy - Flash Gordon Meets Luke SkywalkerRonnie Von - De Como Meu Herói Flash Gordon Irá Levar-me de Volta A Alfa do Centauro, Meu Verdadeiro LarEkoclef - imperialFour Tet - Jupiters

The Incompetent Crew engage in some political intrigue and praise Eddie Redmayne’s performance as a baddie. Works CitedSpace OperaList of Space Opera Media55 Essential Space OperasVorkosigan Saga Reading OrderLois McMaster Bujold WebsiteLois McMaster BujoldThe VorkosiverseAncillary JusticeAncillary SwordAncillary MercyAnn LeckieJupiter Ascending Three Articles About How Jupiter Ascending is Actually a Good MovieHuff PostDeciderVanity FairRadio PlaylistSay Hi - Your Brains vs. My TractorbeamDie Doraus und Die Marinas - Fred vom JupiterCupp Cave - JupiterEx-Terrestrial - Dreams of JupiterSun Ra - On JupiterEarth, Wind & Fire - JupiterSufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, & James McAlister - JupiterAlessandro Parisi - Nagarian Hyperspace CruiserBlack Moth Super Rainbow & The Octopus Project - Helium TeaSubway - JupiterScience Fiction Dance Party - Man Out Of A Test TubeRatatat - ImperialsBad Plus - The Empire Strikes BackwardsMick Gill's Imperial Jazz Band - Imperial BluesChapelier Fou - Tea Tea TeaCaboladies - Specular TeaApplescal - Jupiter Pong

The Incompetent Crew spend an obnoxious amount of time trying to define “camp.” Featuring Cinema Consultant: B.P. Lucas Works CitedSusan Sontag, Notes on CampBruce LaBruce, Anti-CampAnn Pellegrini, Future Notes on CampSins of the FleshapoidsBarbarella Flash GordonSky Captain and the World of TomorrowRadio PlaylistPatrick Cowley - Teen PlanetQueen - Vultan's Theme (Attack Of The Hawk Men)Queen - Football FightMae West - How Miss West Won World PeaceFred Everything - BarbarellaPearls Before Swine - Rocket ManFrank Zappa - Cheepnis Kate Bush - Rocket's TailTom Glazer & Dottie Evans - Why Go Up ThereThe Bob Crewe Generation Orchestra - An Angel Is LoveJorge Ben - BarbarellaMatmos - Mental RadioThe Bob Crewe Generation Orchestra - Hello Pretty PrettyHave You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS? - Teenage Is Cool, Man!Fläsket Brinner - Barbarella Edith Massey - Big Girls Don't CryEdward Shearmur - Flying LizardMungolian Jetset - Moon Jocks n Prog Rocks

The Incompetent Crew crew put on lace-fronts and try and ignore their meaty tucks: the rest is drag. Special Guests: Xelda (with and x)Works CitedQueer Sci-FiDoris FishThe Making of Vegas in SpaceVegas in SpaceDorian Gray and the Mirror of the Yellow PressUlrike Ottinger“Sci-Fi” Drag Race Episodes:Queens in Space, s3e3Rupocalypse Now, s4e1Scream Queens, s6e3Wizards of Drag, s8e6BreastWorld, s10e9The Last Ball on Earth, s10e4Monster Ball, s11e5Dragula, s2e4, Sci-Fi BabesRadio PlaylistGina X Performance - Be a BoyMadeaux - Look At Me (feat. Viktoria Modesta & Cakes Da Killa)Tronco Traxx - Walk 4 Me (Peter Rauhofer Star 69 Mix)Dorian Electra - GuylinerDivine - You Think You're A ManTimmy Spence & Katie Guthorn - Love Theme from Vegas in SpaceLaurie Anderson - Beautiful Red DressAlain Kan - Le premier bébé de Lady Star LuneMFSB - Love Is the Message (Feat. The Three Degrees)Klaus Nomi - Total EclipseMary Ocher - In DragLotic - HeteroceteraDavid Bowie - FashionPaul Gardiner & Gary Numan - Stormtrooper In DragJanelle Monae - Violet Stars Happy Hunting!!! (feat. The Skunks)Christine and the Queens - 5 dollarsDonna Summer - Journey To The Center Of Your HeartVjuan Allure - Wherkk (Feat. Purple Crush)Grace Jones - Pull Up To The BumperSylvester - Stars

The Incompetent Crew make terrible math puns. Special Guests: E.M. BuffingtonWorks CitedThumbs Up FractalBurning Ship FractalMath SongsFlatland: A Romance in Many DimensionsFlatland, short filmRudy Rucker, authorRudy Rucker, complete storiesThe Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower MathematicsThe Dot and the Line, short filmAsimov, The Feeling of PowerThe Feeling of PowerIf MagazineTed Chiang Division by ZeroThe Aleph, BorgesThe Aleph, full storyMathematical Fiction The Fourth Dimension in LiteratureThe Tesseract in Pop CultureGreg EganInside Out, The Shortcut SceneRadio PlaylistRoads To Space Travel - New MathematicsAlt-J - TessellateLloyd SB - HypercubePolyphonic Size - Logique PolygonaleNovember Group - FlatlandSerph - FlatlandDanny Kaye - Square of the HypotenuseFenella - Triangular JourneyLinda Perhacs - ParallelogramsModest Mouse - Never Ending Math EquationSonnenstadt - Fractal ForestColleen - Geometría del UniversoCuticle - Geometric NarrativeErik Hove Chamber Ensemble - PolygonThrowing Snow - Cantor's Dust (Part 2)Tortoise - TesseractDatassette - Can You Smell Maths?Boards Of Canada - Music Is Math

The Incompetent Crew find God. Works CitedA Canticle for Leibowitz The SparrowMary Doria RussellPiThe Abominable Dr. PhibesRadio PlaylistEzra Furman - And Maybe God Is a TrainBessie Jones with the Georgia Sea Island Singers -Moses Don't Get LostSuper Furry Animals - God! Show Me MagicJerry Paper - My GodSwan's Silvertone Singers - Jesus Is God's Atomic BombBruce Haack - Stand Up LazarusThe Coup - The Gods of ScienceData - FalloutDavid Byrne & St. Vincent - LazarusThe Daredevil Christopher Wright - Acceptable LossHalf-Handed Cloud - Disaster Will Come Upon You & You Will Not Know How To Conjure It AwaySaheb Sarbib & Jorge Lima Barreto - A Canticle for LeibowitzKinky - My God is So QuietLower Dens - Hand of GodStepannos Sunetzi - Sa e bann Astuats (It is God Himself)Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch - He is Hanging by His Shiny Arms, His Heart an Open Wound with LoveDixie Hummingbirds - God's Got Your NumberMarcus Alan Ward - God Does Not Play Dice With The UniverseSleater-Kinney - God Is a NumberClint Mansell - 2*π*rBasil Kirchin - Over The RainbowTy Citerman - Talmudic BreakbeatLaurine Frost - When God Devided By Zero

The Incompetent Crew celebrate the season of spooks. Special Guests: S.W. RaakaWorks CitedHaunted PoeHalloween Playlist #1Halloween Playlist #2A Thank You Would Be NiceThe Worst Witch Tetsuo The Iron ManShinya Tsukamoto Long Live the New FleshVideodrome Scanners MindwarpHouse of Leaves Radio PlaylistRestiform Bodies - Interactive Halloween BearChu Ishikawa - MausoleumNicolas Jaar - Specters Of The FutureTim Curry - Anything Can Happen On Halloween North American Hallowe'en Prevention Initiative - Do They Know It's Hallowen?Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Halloween SpooksThe New Mayfair Dance Orchestra - The Haunted House POLYSICS - 人生の灰Arts The Beatdoctor - Ghost In The MachineAdrian Sandstrom & Henry Rodrick - VideodromeTropical Trash - New FleshBelbury Poly - A WarningConnections - ScannersRhythmic Theory - When Scanners CollideBachelorette - MindwarpLouis Armstrong - Spooks!Cab Calloway & His Orchestra - The NightmareSalvia Plath - House Of LeavesNotta Comet - House of Leaves, Mark Z. DanielewskiPoe - 5&½ Minute HallwayTropics - House Of LeavesBessie Smith - Them's Graveyard WordsRay Oddis - Happy Ghoul TideJeff Richmond & Tracy Morgan - Werewolf Bar Mitzvah

The Incompetent Crew do some terrible French accents.Works CitedThe Doors End of the NightLa Voyage dans la lune by AirFantastic Planet’s Film ScoreA Voyage to the Moon on YouTubeVoyage to the Moon (1902)Alphaville (1965)Lem, Memoirs Found in a BathtubFantastic PlanetLa Jetée (1962)Radio PlaylistDAT Politics - My Toshiba Is AliveHermans Rocket - Space WomanCecil Leuter - Pop Electronique No. 7Alphaville - El Modelo de PickmanKarl Heinz Schäfer - Utopia (voc. Arabian)Working For a Nuclear Free City - AlphavilleThe High Dials - Leaving AlphavilleAlain Goraguer - La Longue Marche-Valse Des StatuesVanishing Twin - Planète SauvageMonade - EtoileAnge - Fils De LumièreJean-Jacques Perrey & Pat Prilly - Les Mysteres Du CosmosFrançoise Hardy - Le martienMoodoïd - La LuneIam - Planète MarsArnaud Le Gouëfflec - StarouarzL'Impératrice - Balade fantômeAir - Cosmic TripZombie Zombie - Rocket #9Chapelier fou - Insane RealmsCha Cha Guitri - Rue Jacques Tati

The Incompetent Crew get stuck in a time loop!Works CitedHG Wells The Time MachineGeorge Pal The Time Machine (film)Time After TimeCharles Yu How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional UniverseBill and Ted Face the MusicTime TravelThe Real History of Science Fiction, Time TravelLibet’s ExperimentRadio PlaylistHere We Go Magic - Backwards TimeQueen - ’39Math The Band - Dinosaurs Were Made up by the CIA to Discourage Time TravelH.P. Lovecraft - The Time MachineUriah Heep - Traveller in TimeDJ Spooky - Dance of the MorlocksFlying Lotus - Clock CatcherMyka 9 - Famous Future Time TravelArchie Pelago - ChronomancerWax Machine - Time MachinePaddy Kingsland - Fourth Dimension (Radio 4)Built to Spill - Time TrapThe Timelords - Doctorin' The TardisBrian Hodgson - "The Invasion" (Serial VV): Cyberman Brought to LifeBlouse - Time TravelWitch Prophet, Lido Pimienta - Time Traveler (feat. Lido Pimienta)The Dø - Miracles (Back In Time)Velella Velella - Time Machine's A Bad IdeaThe Cleaners From Venus - Life In A Time MachineJohn Vanderslice - Time Travel Is LonelyPerseus Noble - Time MachineVogue Dots - Temporal SuspensionYasunori Mitsuda - Corridor of Time

The Incompetent Crew release a best of album.Works CitedDescartes Meditations on First PhilosophyKim Stanley Robinson talking about AuroraHow to Survive a Robot Uprising with Daniel H WilsonHaruki Murakami InterviewKurt Vonnegut’s UncleKurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating LampreysSue Burke readingRadio PlaylistCom Truise - Futureworld (3:09)A Tribe Called Red - The Virus (3:50)Plaid - eye robot (3:08)Jookabox - Zombie Tear Drops (4:27)Sunset - Zombies (5:21)yMusic - The Human Plague (4:15)Spirit Fest - Mirage (5:05)Jason Lytle - Dept. of Disappearance (4:32)Alessandro Adriani - Things About To Disappear (2:16)Backworld - Sirens of Titan (4:04)Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dresden (3:37)Karass - Galapagos (7:35)The Echo Bombs - Soviet Sci-fi (3:13)Grupul Stereo - Coloana Infinită (3:54)Ulver - Solaris (2:12)Rick Moranis et al. - Grow For Me (2:24)Lightships - Photosynthesis (4:28)Feathers - Silverleavers in the Air of Starseedlings (5:54)Shannon Hayden - Photosynthetic (6:45)Dick Robinson - The Boppin Martian (1:59)Groucho Marx - Civil Defense Spot: Excellent Chances (0:59)David Cain - Radio Sheffield (0:41)

It came from the Incompetent Crew! Flying Saucers, communist jello monsters, and apologies over sandwiches. The Incompetent Crew does 1950s Sci-Fi films.Works CitedBeware of the BlobThe Thing From Another WorldThe FlyThe BreastThe BlobThe MetamorphosisRadio PlaylistDinah Washington - Destination MoonOtto Luening - Fantasy in SpaceThe Dickies - Killer Klowns (From Outer Space)Bernard Herrmann - KlaatuLittle Walter - Flying SaucerBilly Riley & His Little Green Men - Flyin' Saucers Rock 'N' RollThe Ran-Dells - Martian HopThe Five Blobs - The BlobHerschel Burke Gilbert - Magellan On MoonRaymond Scott - Bendix: "The Tomorrow People"Pierre Henry - Investigations: 12. Dispersion (Vide de la vérité suprême)Chubby Checker - The FlyNathan Van Cleave - The Brain's Descent Pt. 1/The Brain's Descent Pt. 2Josephine Premice - Leave de Atom AlonePaul Sawtell, Bert Shefter - The ClawJohn Cage - Imaginary Landscape No. 5Heinz Roemheld - Mollusk Mood MusicHenry Mancini - Amorous Mutant (2:43)Herman Stein - Visitors From Space (1:44)Tom Dissevelt - Syncopation (3:02)Dimitri Tiomkin - Plasma Plants #1 (2:29)Irving Gertz - Main Title Theme From "The Alligator People"The Invasion - The Invasion Is ComingDaniele Amfitheatrof - Main Title From "Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers"Kid Baltan - Song of the Second MoonHenk Badings - The Woman of Andros: IV. Milieu PamphilusThe Ventures - War Of The SatellitesLeonard Rosenman - Fantastic Voyage Main Title Sound Effects SuiteOskar Sala - Komposition für Trautonium solo 3. VisionLouis Barron and Bebe Barron - Flurry of Dust - A Robot ApproachesAkira Ifukube - Godzilla Comes to Tokyo BayFerde Grofé - We See MarsLynn Murray - SatelliteDr. Samuel J. Hoffman - Moon MoodsJean-Jacques Perrey - Mars Reflector

The Incompetent Crew escape being eaten by giant tripodal plants and wonder what it means to be intelligent.Special Guests: M.T. WilsonWorks CitedMusic for plants to listen toThe Day of the TriffidsThe Lonesome Death of Jordy VerrillSemiosis DuologyLittle JoeThe Intelligent PlantKiller Plant FilmsRadio PlaylistThe Hot Toddies - Photosynthesis (2:16)Yom & Wang Li - Vegetal Love (3:36)Za! - Planta carnívora (2:01)Felix Kubin - Do Electric Sheep Dream Of Carnivorous Plants (1:00)Midfield General - Seed Distribution (5:00)Konami Kukeiha Club - A Planet Of Plants (1:21)Boards of Canada - New Seeds (5:39)33emybw - Seeds of the Future (2:40)Roger Roger - Effluves II (3:33)Stevie Wonder - Venus Flytrap and The Bug (2:25)Resavoir - Plantasy (4:20)Mia Doi Todd - Segredos Vegetais (4:59)David Edren - Leaves of the Telegraph Plant (3:16)Shuta Hasunuma - OK Bamboo (3:16)Gum Country - Talking to My Plants (3:39)Mort Garson - Symphony for a Spider Plant (2:41)You're Me - Walled Garden (2:15)

The Incompetent Crew become comrades.Special Guests: B.P. LucasWorks CitedStanislaw LemBelousov-Zhabotinsky ReactionTrurl’s Machine’s PoetryStanislaw Lem: In Translation by Joseph LiroSolarisStalkerO-bi O-ba: The End of CivilizationRadio PlaylistKombi - Cyfrowa graEdward Artemiev - Solaris - StationKapitan Nemo - Elektroniczna cywilizacjaJózef Skrzek - DeltaSBB - JanekMikhail Chekalin - Origin Of SpeciesZodiac - A Mysterious GalaxyUrszula - Wołam znów przez senБиоконструктор - ТелетуризмTeisutis Makacinas - Gėlės VeidrodyjeSven Grunberg - LaviinAnu Anton Õunpuu - Kosmos MaaUno Naissoo - Marss-EkspromptP. Ovsyannikov - К Звёздам / Towards The StarsVolodymyr Bystriakov - Title Theme IIIJacek Kaczmarski - Dzień gniewu (Czarnobyl)

The Incompetent Crew achieve maximum Vonnegut.Works CitedKurt Vonnegut on the Future of the United StatesKurt Vonnegut on the Shape of StoriesKurt Vonnegut How to Write a Short StoryWelcome to the Monkey HouseBBC Interview 1972Playboy Interview 1973A Brief Biography-Kurt Vonnegut LibraryHarrison Bergeron filmKilgore TroutThorium Based Nuclear Power TangentRadio PlaylistBorn Ruffians - Kurt VonnegutLibrary Voices - Things We Stole From Vonnegut's GraveKevin Coyne - Children's CrusadeGrass Mirror - TralfalmadoreSnapped Ankles - Letter from Hampi MountainSweet Billy Pilgrim - No Jesus in HereSieben - VonnegutLukid - Ice NineKurt Vonnegut & Dave Soldier - FollyThe Phantom Band - GalapagosBoogarins - San LorenzoMatthew Dear - Good to Be Alive

The Incompetent Crew does some David Lynch Impressions, imagines what it would be like if Haruki Murakami and David Byrne were friends, and delves into some Japanese Sci-Fi.Special Guests: T.R. SteadWorks CitedThe Evolution of Japanese Sci-FiSF Encyclopedia, JapanThe New Face of Japanese Sci-FiMemory Police, New YorkerHaruki Murakami, New YorkerLibrary WarEmpire of CorpsesRadio Playlistmoscow club - Fahrenheit 451Kyahh→ - Nothin'Buffalo Daughter - Calling Out From The World Of Echoestoe - All I Understand Is That I Don't UnderstandJoe Hisaishi - IslanderEiko Ishibashi (石橋英子) - Memory and DustHumbert Humbert (ハンバート ハンバート) - gonemei ehara - Hands of MemoryShugo Tokumaru - TypewriterTaiko Super Kicks - 別れ (Farewell)Kenji Omura (大村憲司) - The DefectorAi Aso - GoneShonen Knife - Daydream BelieverBill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Banned AnnouncementPerfect Piano Lesson - Death At The LibraryKazumi Nikaido - Curtain CallLuis Nanook - A Illusory Station

The Incompetent Crew talks viral plagues and Moses gets eaten by zombies.Works CitedBlack Death Music PartiesMike Davis, The Coronavirus Crisis is a Monster Fueled by CapitalismPandemic Fear and Literature: Observation’s From Jack London’s The Scarlet PlagueHistory of ZombiesMax BrooksContagionThe Andromeda StrainThe Omega ManVirus, Day of ResurrectionNight of the Living DeadThe Dead Don’t DieThe Girl With All The GiftsRadio PlaylistA 3 dans les WC - ContagionEnsemble Gilles Binchois & Dominique Vellard - Nes que on porroit les estoilles nombrer (Ballade)Stian Westerhus - Infectious DecayAlgiers - Plague YearsMGMT - Mystery DiseaseArve Henriksen - Patient ZeroUltrademon - March 29 - Viral HostYapoos - ヴィールス (Virusu)Boys Age - Plague CirculationGil Mellé - Wildfire (2:46)Myelin Sheaths - Everything Is Contagious (2:48)Sufjan Stevens - They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh! (5:09)Pintandwefall - Zombie (2:20)Vincent Martin & His Bahamians - Zombie Jamboree (3:15)Baloji - Glossine (Zombie) (3:46)Roky Erickson and The Aliens - I Walked With A Zombie (2:49)Radiation City - Zombies (3:42)Fela Kuti - Zombie (12:26)

The Incompetent Crew talks machine learning, discusses some robot laws, and reaches the singularity.Special Guests: C.C. DewarWorks CitedIsaac Asimov’s Three Laws of RoboticsAsimov’s Laws, Scientific AmericanDo We Need Asimov’s Laws, MIT Technology ReviewAurora, Kim Stanley RobinsonRobopocalypse, Daniel H WilsonHow Frightened Should we be of Artificial Intelligence, New YorkerDeep Learning’s Carbon Emission Problem, ForbesAI’s Carbon Footprint Problem, StanfordTraining AI, MIT Technology ReviewBest American Sci-Fi and Fantasy 2018, Edited by N.K. JemisinTomorrow’s Eve, Auguste Villiers de I’lsle-AdamThe Sandman, E.T.A. HoffmannThe Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares17th Century Theories of ConsciousnessThe Turing TestRadio PlaylistThe Futureheads - RobotHolly Herndon & Spawn - GodmotherSpoozys - コンピューターは心をもつか (Can Computers Have a Mind)Mica Levi - Lonely VoidMalajube - Le Robot SexyAstro Sounds from the Year 2000 - A Disappointing Love Affair with a Densensitized RobotVocoder - Amor De RobotBen Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - I Am Become DeathSeñor Coconut Y Su Conjunto - The Robots (Cha-Cha-Cha)Oneohtrix Point Never - Computer VisionAntònia Font - Jo, robotUnits - Digital StimulationSCNTST - Computers Do Have SoulsJean Jacques Perrey and Daniel Longuein - RobotonicThey Might Be Giants - Robot ParadeLooper - My RobotSteve Poindexter - Computer MadnessThe Juan Maclean - The Robot'Lectric Workers - Robot Is Systematic

The Incompetent Crew plays some music, dives into some move clips, makes some recommendations, muses on the past seven weeks, and does a compilation episode.Some YouTube Clips…Ian M Banks reading from Player of GamesUrsula K LeGuin talking about her writingIt’s pronounced, Boh-daiGraham Chapman reviews Britannia HospitalI need a computer!An enjoyable clip from The AppleThe Three Body Problem, ExplainedRadio PlaylistPylon - Read a BookSay Hi - Let's Talk About SpaceshipsHelium - Aging AstronautsBlur - Strange News From Another StarBilly Thorpe - 21st Century ManQuasi - The Star You Left BehindBuspin Jieber - Science And TechnologyThe Flaming Lips - They Punctured My YolkAries - Space CakeVice Versa - Science FactKraftwerk - SpacelabGrandaddy - Nonphenomenal LineageDiscovery Zone - Remote ControlZelda - RobotomeiaTestpattern - Techno AgeWORLD BRAIN - Hypertext4 Hero - Power To Move The Stars© Linda Fox - The Oxidation StateLaurie Anderson - Big ScienceThe Plodes - Science FrictionYo La Tengo - Ultra-Powerful Short Wave Radio Picks Up Music From VenusLemon Jelly - Space Walk

The Incompetent Crew does Zardoz.Special Guests: B.P. LucasWorks CitedZardozJohn BoormanLogan’s RunBritannia HospitalThe Final ProgrammeThe Golden RecordDavid MunrowBeethoven’s Symphony Number 7Radio PlaylistMarnie Stern - ImmortalsThe Heliocentrics - Into the VortexThe Beach Boys - Transcendental MeditationFrank Zappa & Mothers of Invention - Who Are the Brain Police?DyE - Immortals OnlyThe Crystals - He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)Bridget St John - LazarusEarly Music Consort of London/David Munrow - The Fairie Round (Anthony Holborne)Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic - Symphony No.7 in A major, op.92 - II. AllegrettoJerry Goldsmith - Fatal GamesPye Corner Audio - VorticismZzebra - Zardoz (Beethoven Opus 92)

The Incompetent crew makes space for some special guests to talk representations of marginalized communities in Science Fiction.Special Guests: B.T. Givens and S. MarksWorks CitedDUSTDark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African DiasporaThe Lost Races of Science Fiction, Octavia ButlerFive Indigenous Speculative Fiction Authors You Should Be Reading, Rebecca RoanhorseDisabled Writers and Science Fiction/Fantasy, Reclamation Press15 Of The Best LGBT Science Fiction Books, Andy WinderStar Trek, Black Lives Matter StatementGattacaStar WarsMartin Luther King Was Trekker, Michelle NicholsIndigenous Speculative Fiction Short FilmsThe 6th WorldAnamata Future NewsBiidaaban (The Dawn Comes)DepartureFile under MiscellaneousFour Faces of the MoonFuture WarriorGonawinduaWakeningRadio PlaylistMeco - Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band (7" radio edit) (3:32)William Shatner - Mr. Tambourine Man (2:51)Leonard Nimoy - Highly Illogical (2:23)Admiral Radley - G N D N (6:06)The Presidents of the United States of America - Death Star (3:22)Shura - Princess Leia (3:43)Jeesh - Han and Leia (2:32)Meco - The Odds Against Christmas (3:04)Nichelle Nichols - Uhura's Song (2:13)Boris Midney - The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) (5:19)Supergenius - One Smooth Character (1:51)Stanley Clarke - Vulcan Princess (4:00)Todd Rundgren & Utopia - Star Trek (4:07)Information Society - What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (4:35)The Drab Doo Riffs - I Wanna Be Spock (2:20)Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk ? (2:17)Bill Murray - Star Wars (1:01)The Electric Moog Orchestra - The Throne Room And End Title (4:31)

The Incompetent Crew discuss the utopian feminist novel Herland, Joanna Russ's experimental The Female Man , and the zero-budget political film Born in Flames.Works CitedMary Shelly’s FrankensteinHerland by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Female Man by Joanna RussBorn in Flames by Lizzie BordenSongs of the SuffragettesOlivia RecordsRadio PlaylistFuture Punx - (It's a) Woman's WorldElizabeth Knight - Keep Woman in Her SphereThe Raincoats - No One's Little GirlGwenno - PatriarchaethTennis - My Emotions Are BlindingStella Donnelly - Old ManAu Pairs - MonogamyMatmos - Tract for Valerie Solanas [feat. Barbara Golden and Yalie Kumara]Sue Fink - Leaping LesbiansCris Williamson - JoannaNeko Case - ManTirzah - I'm Not DancingDelta 5 - Make UpThe Red Krayola - Born in FlamesWetdog - Women's Final

The Incompetent Crew wonders how science can save us all, discusses The Three Body Problem, and wonders what life would be like in The Culture.Special Guest: B.J. McBryanWorks Cited:Remembrance of Earth’s Past aka The Three Body ProblemInterview with Liu CixinThe Three Body Problem explainedThe Culture SeriesIain M BanksSomething Real, A Culture Novel Based Fan Film by Hieroglyphic FilmsThe Wandering EarthRadio Playlist:Snapline - Meeting Aliens is Easy (4:05)Li Guang & Wu Yuzhang - Battle on the Plain (2:40)Various Artists - Song On the Origin of the World (Kai Tian Pi Di) (4:17)Jaymanur Ajabek - Aday (1:56)WHITE - 倒下 (3:58)Dou Wei & FM3 - Luo Hua (1:39)Duck Fight Goose - Future is a Cult (4:35)Hedgehog - It's Not Yourself But It's Future (3:07)Howie Lee - Dizi (3:45)Zhang Qianqian - Strange Dance Party (4:47)Kink Gong - Beijing Subway 691 (0:32)Laughing Ears - Gravitation 引 (3:55)Space360 - Acceleration (3:02)Yellow Magic Orchestra - Cosmic Surfin' (4:51)Amon Tobin - Triple Science (4:58)Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Genetic Engineering (3:37)Animal - Mega-Science, Speed-Logic, And You (8:12)

The Incompetent Crew take on climate fiction, melting ice-caps, and a warm earth.Special Guest: M.T. WilsonWorks Cited:The Drowned World, JG BallardThe Fifth Season, NK JemisinGerry Canavan - Après Nous, le Déluge (On climate fiction)Mike Davis - The Coming DesertMike Davis - El Diablo in Wine CountryWaterworldSolarbabiesRadio Playlist:Charles Bradley - The World (Is Going Up In Flames)Cold Mailman - Relax Relax Relax RelaxThe Homeless Gospel Choir - Global WarmingGrauzone - EisbærANOHNI - 4 DegreesTrails and Ways - ChillsLåpsley - Through WaterPeople Under The Stairs - The Effects of Climate Change on Densely Populated AreasTi Manno - DavidFela Kuti - Water No Get EnemyLightnin' Hopkins - Hurricane BetsyThe Beach Boys - Sail On, Sailor

The Incompetent Crew Fan Girls and Boyls all over the works, worlds, and words of Ursula K Le Guin.Works Cited:Ursula K Le GuinWorlds of Ursula K LeGuin: PBS DocumentaryNational Book Award Speech Take Down of the Publishing Industry by LeGuinThe Lathe of Heaven Film on YouTube Lathe of HeavenEarthseaNovels of the Ekumen (re: Left Hand of Darkness)The DispossessedLathe of HeavenAlways Coming Home; Music and Poetry of the KeshTed Chiang’s short story “Seventy-Two Letters”Radio Playlist:Roger Bunn - Fantasy in Fiction (1:35)Fiddlin' John Carson And His Virginia Reelers - Gonna Swing on the Golden Gate (2:57)Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Wished I Was In Heaven (1:57)Eligah Mangitak, Qaunaq Mikkigaq, Qabaroak Qatsiya - Throat Singing (II): Amama (1:00)Aileen Figueroa - Basket Song (1:11)n/a - Bird Song Cycle (1:16)Maria Sabína - Name of Plants (1:32)Maria Heino - No One Speaks on my Behalf (0:33)M. Geddes Gengras - Ishi (6:02)Metaphysics - Ansible (2:37)Ursula Bogner - Illusorische Planeten (2:44)Novos Baianos - Mistério do Planeta (3:37)Chicago Underground Duo - Left Hand Of Darkness (4:26)Hall & Oates - 70's Scenario (4:00)Mary Lomax - The Drowsy Sleeper [Laws M4] (3:01)The Olivia Tremor Control - NYC - 25 (4:37)David Bedford and Ursula Le Guin - Overture, Scene 1 (13:35)Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton - Heron Dance (4:08)

The Incompetent Crew discusses some sci-fi works of the past set in and around our present and listens to some tunes from their eras.Works Cited:Parable of the Sower, by Octavia ButlerButler's essay A Few Rules For Predicting The FutureJeff Menne's essay I Live In This World, Too about the realism of Parable of the SowerDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Futurological Congress by Stanislaw LemBlade RunnerJohnny MnemonicThe AppleMusic by FocusbirdRadio Playlist:Grace Kennedy and Allan Love - BIM (4:01)Awesome Dre & The Hardcore Committee - Dis is Babylon (4:19)Bhundu Boys - Church on Fire (4:04)THEESatisfaction - Earthseed (2:34)Silver Apples - Program (4:01)The National Gallery - Fear of Becoming Double (2:39)Raymond Scott - "Night and Day" (1:45)Haruomi Hosono (細野晴臣) - スポーツマン (4:05)Eiskalte Engel - Mach Mich Nicht An, Mann (3:24)George Clinton - Computer Games (6:45)Beck - Satan Gave Me A Taco (3:46)Telex - Euro-Vision (2:43)Andreas Dorau - So beeinfußbar (4:06)