Orbital Earthcast

This is a public service announcement to any sentient beings throughout the Universe thinking about visiting Earth in the foreseeable future. Earth is closed. Gap has the details.

Earth year 2019 might have been full of large stories, but there are others that fell far off the radar. Perhaps that was for the best as you will discover in this year's Time Warp episode. Boosh, Grevlock and CB rejoin Gap to discuss why art is confusing, if aliens are obviously real and the current status of the bird revolution.

Gap might have wandered onto the set of a classic Christmas special. Gap might also regret such a thing. Let's all watch this train wreck together, shall we?

Thanksgiving is finally here and along with it comes a feast to rival all others. Will you go strictly traditional with a lobster or more new-age with a turkey? How about kicking it up a notch? Gap talks to Fry Ferrari from Stuffed! about going on a road trip to Flavor City.

Orbital returns just in time for the spookiest of seasons. But let us be proactive and fight against the spooky things armed with knowledge. Gap is joined by Lance Van Helsing from the hit paranormal investigation show Ghast Stoppers. We go in-depth into the various kinds of spectral creatures you are likely to encounter and ask if you ever really encounter them at all.

As the first episode of the new Earth year, Gap assembles the Orbital Time Warp panel to discuss the strange and sometimes unfathomable stories that happened in 2018. Be prepared to hear tales of relationship sadness, candy catastrophes, scientific studies no one asked for and animals just trying to cope. You're welcome, Earth!

It's that time of year when the world falls in love with Christmas specials, so here we are with another one. Gap tries to discover how wonderful life is when George Bailey comes on the show. So many questions to answer: Is it a wonderful life? Who names these kids? What happened to the money? What's with the raven? How about the squirrel? Did the squirrel and raven conspire to steal the money? Enjoy an exploration of such questions as we celebrate the most wonderful time of the year on Orbital.

Once the turkey is all gone, the time for gift shopping begins. Every year it seems harder to shop for the ones you love and tolerate. Luckily, Gap has you covered on this episode of Orbital. Flying into the studio is the one and only Bee in a Tree, a lively icon of the gift-giving season that knows exactly what you want, we think. Also, Elf on the Shelf could not be reached for comment.

Gather round the dinner table and try your hardest not to pull a carving knife on your relatives, it's Thanksgiving. And as America prepares to celebrate this autumn tradition, likely from under several feet of snow, Gap decided to host the first Thanksgiving BEFORE the actual first Thanksgiving, thus making it the NEW first Thanksgiving.  Lace up your bootstraps, it's going to be one of those episodes. To help celebrate this new first Thanksgiving, Gap welcomes Osamequin and John Carver to the dinner table, two towering figures from this era of American history. This may not go according to plan.

Since turkey is on everyone's mind this time of year, we have a whole show dedicated to the subject. To speak on the subject, Gap invited Tom, the turkey rights activist, to discuss it in detail. Some fascinating revelations and a surprise last minute guest stuff the first ever Talking Turkey segment on Orbital.

The weary world recoils as we reach the spookiest night of the year. Luckily, Gap is here to help the unfortunate souls on Earth with the help of special guest H.P. Lovecraft. Just ignore the whispers in your head and everything will be fine.

Now that we have officially entered the spoopiest season, our thoughts turn toward All Hallow's Eve. In that spirit, the one and only Grim Reaper joins Gap on the show to discuss his job and health regimen. Also, sweet scythe moves.

During the War of 1812, a lawyer named Francis Scott Key was inspired to write The Star-Spangled Banner, which would come to be the national anthem of the United States of America. But how much do we know about Key and his broadside ballad? Find out as Gap sits down with Francis Scott Key on Orbital.

Bewitched, the stunning documentary series about being a magic user in 1960s America, really brings a new light to an often overlooked demographic. But what about the non-magical among them? Ask Darrin Stephens. In fact, that was Gap's plan. Darrin addresses some of the crazy events of his life with Samantha on this episode.

Thomas Edison. Nikola Tesla. The War of the Currents (not berries). The fight over direct current versus alternating current shall be settled here. Or not. There may also be talk of aliens and ghosts. Two fascinating inventors square off on this episode of Orbital.

It makes sense that the ones who need the most advice and positive reinforcement would be the ones actively dealing with the end of the world as they know it. Luckily, Gap is here to help as he takes calls from the unfortunate denizens of doomed worlds.

After his rousing turn as a CM for Castles & Catalysts, Gap's creative streak was energized. Shortly thereafter, an idea formed to become a fantasy novelist. However, a successful career among humans will require a helping hand, namely J.R.R. Tolkien, the man who wrote the book (literally) on fantasy.

In a world flush with live plays, why not have one more? Gap pulls out the ancient roleplaying game Castles & Catalysts to flex some CastleMaster skills. In order to get a genuine human experience, your players will be some reprising guests: Moxie Havok from Moxie's Poetry Clash, Chad from Chad's Chatroom and Bill Raphus from Big Business Basics. Will any of our players survive? Will any of the lowly citizens of Illudere survive? You will have to listen to find out.

Over time, Gap has developed a healthy fear of artificial intelligences, despite technically being one. So, inviting GLaDOS to travel from her chamber in Aperture Science to the ship was a cautious pursuit. But we did it anyways. Let's see if Gap can survive the possibility of a robot apocalypse on this episode of Orbital.

If you have a mystery worth solving, who's the first person you would call? Sherlock Holmes of course! Assuming you knew his number. Luckily, Gap has the work around of a time machine and brought Sherlock in for some mystery solving of his own. Keys shall be found on this episode of Orbital.

We predict the future on today’s show with French prognosticator Michel de Nostredame, commonly known as Nostradamus. Did he predict the unsettling rise of sassy chatbots? No. But he made other predictions about 2018 and we discuss them on this show.

There are as many stars in the sky as opinions on the Internet. But on this special episode, just in time for Valentine's Day, Gap spreads a little love to the online world. On this episode of Orbital, we look at some of the Internet's questions regarding space, including the good, the bad and the crazy. Get ready to hear an extraterrestrial field questions from regular terrestrials on a brand new installment of Gap Explains It All.

Jack London has been many things, sometimes at the same time. But he's mostly remembered as a famous American author. There's far more to those stories than meets the eye and we explore it with him on this episode of Orbital.

Did you ever want to live in a geodesic dome? Buckminster Fuller is here to sell you on the idea, along with auto-airplanes and tetrahedral floating cities. So, you have that to look forward to, right?

Wow, 2017 was a year, huh? Gap looks at the year in science with the help of intergalactic shock jock Boosh Magoosh, vengeful explosives aficionado Grevlock and algorithmic love guru CopulationBot. Will they learn anything about Earth or humanity? Probably not, but you'll have to listen to find out for sure. Find more episode of the Orbital Earthcast at DelveCast.com

In the continuing effort to be a real show, Orbital takes another go at a holiday special. This time Gap is joined by the ghosts of past, present and future, who have a lot of opinions about things. We also ask the ghosts questions from actual humans! Thank you to @dclasair @yukisuki7 @LeslitGS @Saehel and @RefreshNinja for your suggestions on Twitter and @psitanium for being gullible enough to ask for them!

First it was Scrooge. Then it was the Grinch. Now Bill Raphus from Everything for Nothing comes to town bearing tales of riches and profit margins for the holiday season. You don't have to be at the North Pole to enjoy this very festive Big Business Basics on Orbital.

Moxie Havok returns to the show to place Thanksgiving on notice. Forget the war on Christmas, the real showdown is T-Day. The Poetry Clash is back and full of festive fervor. Also, Moxie may be having some family issues...

Albert Einstein is considered the first celebrity scientist, but he did far more than create "Elephant = master of ceremonies also" or whatever that means. We still can't explain the hair though.

Ichabod Crane has survived the Headless Horseman, but it has definitely taken it's toll on the lanky teacher of Sleepy Hollow. Especially when an unexpected guest shows up!

He's a vampire and this is an interview. You draw your own conclusions. We talk about the origins of the name Dracula, similarities with Vlad the Impaler and address common held beliefs about vampires.

Continuing our spooktacular month of shows, this week we discover how to be a famous movie slasher for the modern era with Chad! You know... Chad. The Millenial Psycho Killer from Chad's Chatroom comes by the studio to take names and selfies as we go inside the mind of a conceptual madman on Orbital.

We kick off our spooktacular month of shows with Edgar Allan Poe, a man synonymous with dark storytelling. He talks ravens and tell-tales hearts and people dying of terrible diseases. Fun, right?

Robin Hood has a story that goes back centuries. No one has apparently told him, but he's more than happy to talk about his life and livelihood with gusto on this episode of Orbital.

Mark Twain may have travelled the world, but Gap Storm has travelled the Universe, not that we're comparing. But Twain braved the Mississippi River, which Gap refuses to do, as he discusses at the front. Also, Mark Twain is very good at quoting Mark Twain.

In honor of the recent Video Games Day, we found the most readily available character from a video game series: Claptrap. This plucky robot has been hiding out on Pandora to play foil to vault hunters, but now Gap gets to sit down with him in the studio for as limited a time as possible.

Breaker of windmills, the unmounted one, the lost dragoon. Don Quixote may have many names we just made up, but we've given him a brand new one: guest. Gap talks to the man, the myth, the impossible dreamer on this episode of Orbital.

Orson Welles explains how important he is when he talks about being a young impresario of stage and screen. Then he and Gap go sledding.

We learn how to steal things and set things on fire so we can steal things when Garrett sneaks into th show.

We learn why Scotland loves freedom when we talk to noted fighter of said freedom, William Wallace. Spoiler: He sounds nothing like Mel Gibson.

Paul Revere rides in and discusses lanterns, riding and likely some other things that Gap was too preoccupied with history to care about.

Many of our listeners have started wondering where Gap came from and the mysterious past he holds... or they would if we had listeners. So, let's explain how Gap became a thing on this special GEIA.

Writer of the Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling gets beamed in so Gap can ask him about the crippling epidemic of singing animals.

Joseph Campbell finally comes on the show so Gap can learn about all the stages of the hero's journey and if he should really care.

To celebrate the recent advancements in human civilization, we look back at your Standard Earth Year 2014 with a panel discussion. True, the panel is composed of guests I do not particularly like, but this is all very new to me. Of course, I can travel through time, so reflection on a single year seems trivial, but it's a pursuit.   New episodes of Orbital will beam to your computer in March.

Gap sits down with the jolliest icon of the holiday season, Santa Claus, in this unnecessarily long and egregiously festive special. Everyone does it, why shouldn't we? Also, a hostile elf invades the studio to tell us how the cookies are made.

I learn how much humans understand about evolution and natural selection when Charles Darwin sneezes his way into the studio.

Silkscreening has never been so exciting as Gap talks to (potential alien) Andy Warhol, master of pop art and self-actualized celebrity.

A man of myth and appetite, Paul Bunyan recounts some semi-plausible tales from his lumberjack days on the American frontier.

Monkey Island enthusiast Guybrush Threepwood explains his unlikely matching with Elaine, his long-time battle with LeChuck and why you should all be afraid of porcelain.

Legendary mounted policeman Sam Steele explains why no one messes with Canada and the funny thing about flags when he rides by the show.