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The Rizzuto Show is preparing for the Glory Hole Challenge, which is already a sentence nobody involved should be particularly proud of.Before Riz sticks his face anywhere questionable, the crew tackles another important milestone of getting older: figuring out which hobbies are officially too dangerous to start now. Skateboarding? Probably. Skiing? Maybe. Water skiing? Enjoy your new meniscus. Playing guitar? Absolutely. Learning the tuba? Sure, assuming everyone else in your house has wronged you somehow.Rafe remembers the time he tried dropping into a half-pipe for a commercial despite having absolutely no business doing so, while Moon offers to teach everyone how to ski before somebody reaches “child death velocity” on the bunny slope. It's the kind of responsible recreational advice you can only get from a funny podcast where one member once got mocked by a child on a scooter.Then the show launches into a full investigation of “normal” behavior. Eating pizza crust first? Jail. Ice cubes in milk? Disturbing. Rewatching the same TV show for the 45th time? Completely acceptable. Eating cereal dry? Depends how comfortable you are looking like a raccoon that found an open pantry. Setting approximately 20 alarms every morning? Rafe would like a word. Looking up a movie's ending while you're still watching it? Lern has her reasons, especially if there's an animal involved.We also learn that some people sit in their cars after arriving home just to enjoy a few precious minutes of solitude, Scott would apparently like to eventually become Amish rather than answer his phone, and grocery shopping without a list is basically allowing the spirits of Schnucks to determine your dinner.And then comes the cheese.Is it acceptable to unwrap a block of cheese and bite directly into it? Lern says yes. Rafe admits he'll sneak a bite but then cut away the evidence like a dairy-based criminal mastermind. Moon understands the temptation. Riz is understandably concerned about everybody. What begins as a simple question somehow turns into an argument about cheese cubes, rectangles, parallelograms, Rubik's Cubes and Michelangelo — until Rafe declares himself a “cheese sculptor” whose teeth are merely the tools of his art.Throw in concert harmonica etiquette, peanut butter burgers, phone habits, restaurant-menu preparation, celebrity chatter and the approaching Glory Hole Challenge, and you have another funny podcast proving that no topic is too insignificant to become a completely unnecessary 20-minute argument.It's The Rizzuto Show: where growing older may bring wisdom, but apparently none of it is being used here.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lunar scientists Juliane Gross and Aaron Regberg share never-before-heard recordings from the Artemis II crew as they observed the far side of the Moon. Episode 439

It's Thursday, which means we're almost at Friday — except Riz has suddenly remembered that Friday means sticking his face into the Glory Hole Challenge with no sight, no sound, and absolutely no guarantee that whatever touches his face belongs anywhere near a human mouth. So naturally, everyone is extremely supportive by immediately making the situation worse.Welcome to another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show, where Rafe is still celebrating his birthday and discovers that Edible Arrangements has apparently undergone a full rebrand since the days when somebody would send you twelve pounds of cantaloupe on sticks. Ella Langley sent Rafe an upgraded birthday arrangement loaded with mini cheesecakes, chocolate-covered fruit, brownies and enough deceptive desserts to make him forget the word “edible” does not necessarily mean “eat literally everything.”Which is how Rafe ate part of a birthday candle.In his defense, there were edible decorations everywhere. In everyone else's defense, it was very clearly still a candle.The conversation then moves into October's most important annual class war: trick-or-treating etiquette. Is it acceptable to take your kids into another neighborhood for Halloween? What if your neighborhood barely participates? What if the other neighborhood is loaded with rich people handing out king-size candy bars? And if you live behind the gates of a fancy community, do you have a moral obligation to open those gates and let the candy-starved masses inside?Apparently some homeowners think Halloween candy is a finite natural resource that must be protected from outsiders. We respectfully disagree. Open the gates. Release the Reese's.Then we tackle another modern etiquette nightmare: people who buy one coffee, open a laptop and quietly annex a Starbucks table for the next seven hours. How long does one latte actually entitle you to free Wi-Fi and office space? Ninety minutes? Three hours? Until somebody physically removes your charger? The crew debates coffee shop squatters, Zoom calls in public and why basic self-awareness could solve approximately 94% of society's problems.Speaking of phones, restaurants are experimenting with phone-free dining, leading to the obvious question: if a host asked you “phones or no phones?” like it was the old smoking section, which side are you choosing? Lern is willing to go phone-free. Moon mostly wants everybody to stop telling him how to eat dinner. Rafe would apparently prefer to eat alone over a sink in the kitchen while making prolonged eye contact with strangers.Perfectly normal funny podcast behavior.Meanwhile, the TSA has finally identified the problem plaguing American air travel: chairs. Agents checking IDs are being asked to stand, which naturally inspires the crew to wonder whether Riz should also lose his chair in the name of looking more alert and professional. Somehow this detours into Hawk Tuah Girl updates, because this show has never met a conversational exit ramp it couldn't miss.We also preview some October entertainment, including the gloriously ridiculous-looking Street Fighter movie, where Jason Momoa, Cody Rhodes, Eric André and a pile of wrestlers, rappers and actors appear ready to punch the remaining dignity out of cinema. Moon is completely sold, mostly because it appears designed specifically for the 13-year-old portion of his brain that refuses to die.So yes: Glory Hole anxiety, birthday candle consumption, Halloween candy economics, coffee shop squatters, phone-free restaurants, standing TSA agents, Hawk Tuah updates and Street Fighter.Just another funny podcast where we started with Friday plans and somehow ended up reorganizing society.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Gordon Ramsay is bringing Kitchen Nightmares to Missouri, which immediately has Riz reminiscing about the horrifying realization that he once ate at a restaurant featured on the show. Nothing improves a cherished dining memory quite like watching Gordon Ramsay walk through the kitchen afterward and scream about what was living in the refrigerator.Welcome to another funny show from The Rizzuto Show, where we discuss whether Gordon's legendary rage is mostly an act, why “Gordo” is an underrated nickname and then move directly into the intellectual gauntlet known as the Riz Quiz.The rules are simple: 45 seconds of basic trivia, no skips and one wrong answer ends your run. Sounds easy until someone asks you the capital of France and suddenly Paris becomes forbidden knowledge.The callers battle through questions about guacamole, spiders, Pinocchio, sports, traffic lights and geography for concert tickets. We get some legitimately impressive runs — and then poor Bill steps up looking for redemption and immediately says a dried plum is a raisin.Bill, buddy. We love you. It's a prune.Then the crew decides to play along with a tiebreaker question: How tall is the Space Needle?King Scott guesses 465 feet. Moon guesses 615. Rafe goes with 820.And Lern?12,549 feet.For perspective, the actual answer given on the show is 605 feet. Lern has apparently constructed a Space Needle so massive that visitors need oxygen and possibly clearance from air traffic control. She admits she's “measurement blind,” which quickly becomes one of the great understatements in funny show history.That leads us into a completely reasonable discussion about whether anyone on the show could accurately estimate the height of the studio window, followed by the more concerning question of how everyone would escape if they couldn't use the door. Chairs are considered. The soundproof glass is analyzed. Rafe volunteers to Kool-Aid Man himself through the window because apparently being the show hero now includes testing your body against commercial-grade glass.And somehow that brings us to the incredible story of a University of Georgia student who survived an eight-story fall from an apartment window after dancing on a couch. She reportedly landed on a cushioned metal bench and survived with serious injuries, which has the crew marveling at an unbelievably lucky landing — and wondering who decided furniture belonged directly next to floor-to-ceiling windows in the first place.So we've got Gordon Ramsay, Kitchen Nightmares, trivia meltdowns, Paris confusion, raisins pretending to be prunes, a skyscraper-sized Space Needle and Rafe preparing to launch himself through the studio glass.Just another educational funny show from The Rizzuto Show.We're all learning together. Unfortunately.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

ARTIFICIAL SUPREME SUPERINTELLIGENCE - 09.30.2026 - #978 BestPodcastintheMetaverse.com Canary Cry News Talk #978 - 09.30.2026 - Recorded Live to 1s and 0s Deconstructing World Events from a Biblical Worldview Declaring Jesus as Lord amidst the Fifth Generation War! CageRattlerCoffee.com SD/TC email Ike for discount https://CanaryCry.Support   Send address and shirt size updates to canarycrysupplydrop@gmail.com Join the Canary Cry Roundtable This Episode was Produced By:   Executive Producers Sir LX Protocol***    Producers of TREASURE (CanaryCry.Support) Julie S, Stacy D, Rebecca T, Monica, Dame TinFoilHatMan, Sir Casey the Shield Knight    Producers of TIME Timestampers: Jade Bouncerson, Morgan E Clankoniphius Links: JAM     TECHNOCRACY/BEAST SYSTEM 11:15 Executive Order SI (wh.gov) SI Constitution  CLIP: Trump: Morally Binding "Constitution" (X)  → Typo on SI White House Document CLIP: Elons Si Utopia    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 1:09:07 Now we're all starting to talk like Ai Chatbots (MSN/WSJ)   EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS 1:33:00 READ TEXT MESSAGES 1:40:52   GATES OF THE GODS/BIBLE STUDY 2:06:27 The Moon might soon host the craziest experiment in human history (BBC) → John 1:51…Jesus to Nathanael, "you will see heaven opened…" → Genesis 28:10-22…Jacobs ladder, verse 17 has "gate of heaven" → 2 Kings 2:11…Elijah goes to heaven in whirlwind → Obadiah 1:3-4…soar like eagle   END 2:14:06

What happens when readers get REALLY into a book? Sometimes… everyone starts reading it.  In this episode of Book Lounge by Libby, host Joe Skelley is joined by authors whose books found huge audiences through book clubs, BookTok, Bookstagram and online reading communities. We're talking about the very real power of readers to turn a great book into a full-blown phenomenon and what it's like for an author to watch that happen.  How does a book become the one everyone is recommending? Why do some stories take off in book clubs? And what makes readers want to pass a book along to everyone they know?  Plus, we're getting into the joy, chaos and occasionally unhinged energy of being part of a reading community.  Whether you're a lifelong book club member, a solo reader who lives in the group chat or someone who has ever said “I HAVE to make you read this,” this one is for you.  If you're part of a book club, tell us about it! How big is your group? How often do you meet? What's the best book you've ever read together? And, perhaps most importantly, what's the book that nearly started a civil war?  Listen or watch now, and join the conversation with Book Lounge by Libby.  Looking for the video version of our show? Check out the Libby App YouTube channel!  Who's in this episode:   Joe – Instagram  Heather Morris – Website, Instagram  Morgan Elizabeth – Website, Instagram  Patti C. Henry – Website, Instagram  Guest Books:  Some of Heather Morris' books:  The Tattooist of Auschwitz  Cilka's Journey  Three Sisters  Sisters Under the Rising Sun  The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse  Morgan Elizabeth's traditionally published book:  Meet Cute Magic  Some of Patti C. Henry's books:  Losing the Moon  The Story She Left Behind  The Secret Book of Flora Lea  Becoming Mrs. Lewis  Once Upon a Wardrobe  Time stamps: 00:00:00 Title 00:00:19 Welcome and Intro 00:01:24 When did you realize your book had become a book club hit?  00:11:56 Did a book club change the trajectory of your book? 00:26:35 What are some of the events that stick out to you? 00:36:18 What impact does reader response have on your writing? 00:46:00 The parasocial lines between author and reader 00:57:09 Thank you, comment question and outro  Enjoying the show? Follow Book Lounge by Libby, leave a rating or review, and watch every episode on the Libby App YouTube channel. Find us on Libbylife.com/booklounge  Got a book recommendation, dream guest or just want to say hi? We'd love to hear from you at bookloungebylibby@overdrive.com.  Looking for Book Lounge merch? Visit Plot Threads.   Library friends: Add episodes of Book Lounge by Libby to your digital collection for free in OverDrive Marketplace and Kanopy. You can also purchase the titles featured in today's episode in OverDrive Marketplace.  Browse our cumulative reading list for the season: https://marketplace.overdrive.com/Marketplace/OneCopyOneUserAndMeteredAccess/SuggestedList/41378  Today's featured books: https://marketplace.overdrive.com/Marketplace/OneCopyOneUserAndMeteredAccess/SuggestedList/41711   Happy Reading!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan who enjoy teaching astronomy classes and showing the public views through their telescopes. actualastronomy@gmail.com (Times in Eastern) - Oct 1: Moon at perigee; Beta Cephei colorful double star - Oct 2: Venus stationary; 41 Aquarii colorful double star; R Fornacis carbon star - Oct 3: Last Quarter Moon (9:25); Gegenschein high in S at midnight; 3 Cephei colorful double star - Oct 4: Saturn at opposition; Lunar Curtis X; Sirius unaided in daylight; Jupiter double shadow transit (12:49 AM); M30 well placed - Oct 5: Mars occulted by Moon (NW Canada); Mercury 5° N of Venus; Jupiter double shadow transit (7:03 PM); Europa & Callisto shadow double feature (3:24 AM); M2 & NGC 7009 well placed - Oct 6: Jupiter occulted by Moon (4:33 AM);  Pallas at opposition; 161P/Hartley-IRAS well placed - Oct 7: NGC 7293 (Helix Nebula) well placed - Oct 8: Zodiacal Light in E; M15 well placed - Oct 9: NGC 7331 well placed - Oct 10: New Moon (11:50); S Taurid meteors peak; Stephan's Quintet well placed;  - Oct 11: Spot Vega unaided? Jupiter double shadow transit (2:42 AM); NGC 7023 well placed - Oct 12: Mercury greatest eastern elongation; Mercury near Moon; Jupiter double shadow transit (9:11 PM); NGC 40 well placed - Oct 13: Vesta at opposition; Spot Vesta unaided; M42 well placed - Oct 14: Antares near Moon - Oct 16: Moon at apogee - Oct 17: Hipparchus Ray (7:45 PM) - Oct 18: First Quarter Moon (12:13); Lunar X near Werner; Jupiter double shadow transits (4:42 AM & 7:07 AM); Maginus sunrise ray (7:00 PM) - Oct 19: Lunar Straight Wall - Oct 20: Jupiter double shadow transit (12:24 AM); 94 Aquarii colorful double star - Oct 21: Orionid meteors peak (ZHR=20); Jupiter double shadow transit (5:59 PM); WZ Cas colorful double star; R Leo max - Oct 23: Venus in inferior conjunction; Crater Baily (9:00 PM) - Oct 24: Mercury stationary; Crater Baily (9:00 PM); Tycho Brahe died (1601) - Oct 25: Full Moon; Jupiter double shadow transit (7:18 AM) - Oct 26: Mare Orientale (9:00 PM) - Oct 28: Moon at perigee; Jupiter double shadow transit (8:35 PM) - Oct 31: Halloween; X Cnc carbon star in pre-dawn; Z Psc carbon star in evening   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.  Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!  Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations.  Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

Late-night radio host Walter Sterling leads an unpredictable, high-energy hour of The Other Side of Midnight. The broadcast shifts into high gear with breaking archaeological discoveries—including radar scans revealing hidden subterranean chambers beneath Giza's middle pyramid and 3D scans of a man-made structure believed to be Noah's Ark in Turkey. Rounding out the hour, retired NYPD detective Vic Ferrari recounts wild precinct stories involving flying diapers and neighborhood disputes.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-other-side-of-midnight-with-walter-sterling--7177415/support.

Join Bridget, Caitlin, and Hilda to discuss the first 49% of "The Knave and the Moon," the book 2 follow up to Rachel Gillig's "The Knight and the Moth." Narrator's voices aside, book 2 is (so far) as good as book 1, so you're going to want to make sure you read it. Join our Patreon for exclusive behind-the-scenes content and let's be friends!Instagram > @Booktokmademe_podTikTok > @BooktokMadeMe

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Villain-Venice-Steampunk-Adventure-Expanded/dp/B0GYVW1ZM3?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE notes from wiki This article is about the novel. For the 1997 film, see Starship Troopers (film). For other uses, see Starship Troopers (disambiguation). Starship Troopers First edition hardcover Author Robert A. Heinlein Cover artist Jerry Robinson Language English Genre Military science fiction Philosophical fiction[1][2][3] Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons Publication date November 5, 1959[4] Publication place United States Media type Print (hardcover and paperback) Pages 263 (paperback edition) Award Hugo Award for Best Novel (1960) ISBN 978-0450044496 Online Computer Library Center number"}]]}"> OCLC 2797649 Library of Congress Classification"}]]}"> LC Class PZ7.H368 Su Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Written in a few weeks in reaction to the US suspending nuclear tests,[5] the story was first published as a two-part serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction as Starship Soldier, and published as a book by G. P. Putnam's Sons on November 5, 1959.[4] The story is set in a future society ruled by a human interstellar government called the Terran Federation, dominated by a military elite. Under the Terran Federation, only veterans of a primarily military Federal Service enjoy full citizenship, including the right to vote.[6] The first-person narrative follows Juan "Johnny" Rico, a young man of Filipino descent, through his military service in the Mobile Infantry. He progresses from recruit to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between humans and an alien species known as "Arachnids" or "Bugs". Interspersed with the primary plot are classroom scenes in which Rico and others discuss philosophical and moral issues, including aspects of suffrage, civic virtue, juvenile delinquency, and war; these discussions have been described as expounding Heinlein's own political views.[7] Identified with a tradition of militarism in US science fiction,[8] the novel draws parallels between the conflict between humans and the Bugs, and the Cold War.[9] It is also a coming-of-age novel, which criticizes the US society of the 1950s, arguing that a lack of discipline had led to a moral decline, and advocating corporal and capital punishment.[7][10] Starship Troopers brought to an end Heinlein's series of juvenile novels. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960,[3] and was praised by reviewers for its scenes of training and combat and its visualization of a future military.[11][12] It also became enormously controversial because of the political views it seemed to support. Reviewers were strongly critical of the book's intentional glorification of the military,[13][14] an aspect described as propaganda and likened to recruitment.[15] The novel's militarism, and the fact that government service – most often military service – was a prerequisite to the right to vote, led to it being frequently described as fascist.[14][16][17] Others disagree, arguing that Heinlein was only exploring the idea of limiting the right to vote to a certain group of people.[18] Heinlein's depiction of gender has also been questioned, while reviewers have said that the terms used to describe the aliens were akin to racial epithets.[19] Starship Troopers had wide influence both within and outside science fiction. Ken MacLeod stated that "the political strand in [science fiction] can be described as a dialogue with Heinlein".[2] Science fiction critic Darko Suvin wrote that it is the "ancestral text of US science fiction militarism" and that it shaped the debate about the role of the military in society for many years.[20] The novel is credited with popularizing the idea of powered armor, which became a recurring feature in science fiction books and films, as well as an object of scientific research.[21] Heinlein's depiction of a futuristic military was also influential.[22] Later science fiction books, such as Joe Haldeman's 1974 anti-war novel The Forever War, have been described as reactions to Starship Troopers.[23] The story was adapted several times, including in a 1997 film version directed by Paul Verhoeven that satirized what the director saw as the fascist aspects of the novel.[24] Writing and publication The cover of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (November 1959), illustrating Starship Soldier Robert Heinlein was among the best-selling science fiction authors of the 1940s and 1950s, along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke; they were known as the "big three" that dominated US science fiction. In contrast to the others, Heinlein firmly endorsed the anti-communist sentiment of the Cold War era in his writing.[25] Heinlein served in the US Navy for five years after graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1929. His experience in the military profoundly influenced his fiction.[26] At some point between 1958 and 1959, Heinlein put aside the novel that would become Stranger in a Strange Land and wrote Starship Troopers. His motivation arose partially from his anger at US President Dwight Eisenhower's decision to suspend US nuclear tests, and the Soviet tests that occurred soon afterward.[5] Writing in his 1980 volume Expanded Universe, Heinlein would say that the publication of a newspaper advertisement placed by the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy on April 5, 1958, calling for a unilateral suspension of nuclear weapons testing by the United States sparked his desire to write Starship Troopers.[27] Heinlein and his wife Virginia created the "Patrick Henry League" in an attempt to create support for the US nuclear testing program. Heinlein stated that he used the novel to clarify his military and political views.[28] Like many of Heinlein's books, Starship Troopers was completed in a few weeks. It was originally written as a juvenile novel for New York publishing house Scribner; Heinlein had previously had success with this format, having written several such novels published by that publisher. The manuscript was rejected, prompting Heinlein to end his association with that publisher completely, and to resume writing books with adult themes.[5][19][29] Scholars have suggested that Scribner's rejection was based on ideological objections to the content of the novel, particularly in its treatment of military conflict.[19][30] The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction first published Starship Troopers in October and November 1959 as a two-part serial titled Starship Soldier.[29] A senior editor at Putnam's, Peter Israel, purchased the manuscript and approved revisions that made it more marketable to adults. Asked whether it was aimed at children or adults, he said at a sales conference "Let's let the readers decide who likes it."[31] The novel was eventually published by G. P. Putnam's Sons.[29] Setting Set approximately 700 years in the future,[19] the book depicts an Earth ruled by a world government run by military veterans.[6] The society is depicted as affluent, and futuristic technology shown as coexisting with educational methods from the 20th century.[19] The rights of a full citizen, to vote and hold public office, are not universally guaranteed, and rather must be earned through Federal Service.[18] Those who do not perform this service (of which only military service has been described) retain the rights of free speech and assembly, but can neither vote nor hold public office. People of either sex above the age of 18 are permitted to enlist; only those who complete their service receive the right to vote.[19][32] Important government jobs are reserved for federal service veterans.[6] This structure arose ad hoc after the collapse of the "20th century Western democracies", driven in part by an inability to control crime and juvenile delinquency, particularly in North America, and a war between an alliance of the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia, against the "Chinese Hegemony".[33] Two extraterrestrial civilizations are depicted, respectively, as the "Pseudo-Arachnids" (or "Bugs"), and the "Skinnies". The "Bugs" are described as communal beings originating from the planet of Klendathu, and consist of multiple castes; workers, warriors, brains, and queens, similar to those of ants and termites on Earth. The warriors are the only ones who fight, and are unable to surrender in battle.[34] It also is implied that the Bugs are technologically advanced, possessing such technologies as spaceships.[35] The "Skinnies" are depicted as less communal than the Arachnids, yet more so than humans.[36] The events of the novel take place during an interstellar war between the Terran Federation and the Arachnids.[37] At the opening of the story, Earth is not at war, yet such a declaration has come when Rico has completed his training.[5] The "Skinnies" are initially allies of the Pseudo-Arachnids, but switch to alliance with humans, midway through the novel.[36] Faster-than-light travel exists in this future: spacecraft use the "Cherenkov drive", and can travel "Sol to Capella, forty-six lightyears, in under six weeks".[38] Starship Troopers is narrated by the main protagonist Juan "Johnny" Rico, a member of the "Mobile Infantry". It is one of the few Heinlein novels which intersperses his typical linear narrative structure with a series of flashbacks.[5][37] These flashbacks are frequently to Rico's "History and Moral Philosophy" course in school, in which the teacher discusses the history of the structure of their society.[5][18] Rico is depicted as a man of Filipino ancestry. He is from a wealthy family, whose members had never served in the military.[5][19][32] Rico's ancestry is depicted as inconsequential, society having finally abandoned racial and gender-based prejudice.[19] Plot The novel opens with Rico aboard the corvette transport Rodger Young (named after real life Medal of Honor recipient Rodger Young),[39] serving with the platoon known as "Rasczak's Roughnecks". The platoon carries out a raid against a planetary colony held by Skinnies.[19] The raid is relatively brief: the platoon lands on the planet, destroys its targets, and retreats, suffering two casualties in the process. One of them, Dizzy Flores, is rescued by Rico but dies while returning to orbit.[40] The narrative then flashes back to Rico's graduation from high school. Rico and his best friend Carl are considering joining the Federal Service after graduation; Rico is hesitant, partly due to his father's attitude towards the military.[5] Rico makes his decision after discovering that his classmate Carmen Ibañez also intends to enlist.[41] Rico's choice is taken poorly by his parents, and he leaves with a sense of estrangement. He is assigned to the Mobile Infantry, and moves to Camp Arthur Currie (named for Sir Arthur Currie who rose through the ranks to command the Canadian Corps in World War I) on the Canadian prairie for his training under Sergeant Charles Zim.[42] The training is extremely demanding.[43] Rico receives combat training of all types, including simulated fights in armored suits.[44][45] A fellow recruit is court-martialed, flogged, and dismissed for striking a drill instructor who was also his company commander. Rico himself is given five lashes for firing a rocket during a drill with armored suits and simulated nuclear weapons without ensuring that no friendlies were within the blast zone, which in combat would have resulted in the death of a fellow soldier.[46] Another recruit, who murdered a baby girl after deserting the army, is hanged by his battalion after his arrest by civilian police.[46] Disheartened, Rico thinks of resigning when he receives a letter from Jean Dubois, who taught Rico History and Moral Philosophy.[47] Dubois reveals that he was once a lieutenant colonel in the Mobile Infantry, which gives Rico the motivation not to resign.[48] After further training at another camp near Vancouver, Rico graduates with 187 others, of the 2,009 who had begun training in that regiment.[49] The "Bug War" has changed from minor incidents to a full-scale war during Rico's training. An Arachnid attack that annihilates the city of Buenos Aires alerts civilians to the situation; Rico's mother is killed in the attack.[50] Rico participates in the Battle of Klendathu, an attack on the Arachnid's home world, which turns into a disastrous defeat for the Terran Federation.[51] Rico's ship, the Valley Forge, is destroyed, and his unit is decimated; he is reassigned to the Roughnecks on board the Rodger Young, led by Lieutenant Rasczak and Sergeant Jelal.[52] The unit carries out several raids, and Rico is promoted to corporal by Jelal after Rasczak dies in combat.[53] One of his comrades in the Roughnecks suggests that Rico go to officer training school and try to become an officer. Rico ends up going to see Jelal, and finds that Jelal already had the paperwork ready. Rico enters Officer Candidate School for a second course of training, including further courses in "History and Moral Philosophy".[54][55] En route from the Roughnecks to the school Rico encounters his father who has also enlisted and is now a corporal, and the two reconcile. He is also visited in school by Carmen, now an ensign and ship's pilot officer in the Navy, and the two discuss their friend Carl, who had been killed earlier in the war.[56] Rico is commissioned a temporary third lieutenant for his final test: a posting to a combat unit. Under the tutelage of his company commander, Captain Blackstone, and with the aid of his platoon sergeant, his boot camp drill instructor Fleet Sergeant Zim, Rico commands a platoon during "Operation Royalty", a raid to capture members of the Arachnid brain caste and queens.[57] Rico then returns to the officer school to graduate. The novel ends with him holding the rank of second lieutenant, in command of his old platoon in the Rodger Young, with his father as his platoon sergeant. The platoon has been renamed "Rico's Roughnecks", and is about to participate in an attack on Klendathu.[58] Themes Robert Heinlein in 1976 Commentators have written that Starship Troopers is not driven by its plot, though it contains scenes of military combat. Instead, much of the novel is given over to a discussion of ideas.[59] In particular, the discussion of political views is a recurring feature of what scholar Jeffrey Cass described as an "ideologically intense" book.[16] A 1997 review in Salon categorized it as a "philosophical novel".[1] Critics have debated to what extent the novel promotes Heinlein's own political views. Some contend that the novel maintains a sense of irony that allows readers to draw their own conclusions; others argue that Heinlein is sermonizing throughout the book, and that its purpose is to expound Heinlein's militaristic philosophy.[16][18] Militarism Starship Troopers has been identified as being a part of a tradition in American science fiction that assumes that violent conflict and the militarization of society are inevitable and necessary.[8] Although the Mobile Infantry, the force to which Rico is assigned, is seen as a lowly post by the characters in the story, the novel itself suggests that it is the heart of the army and the most honorable unit in it.[43] In a commentary written in 1980, Heinlein agreed that Starship Troopers "glorifies the military ... Specifically the P.B.I., the Poor Bloody Infantry, the mudfoot who places his frail body between his loved home and the war's desolation – but is rarely appreciated ... he has the toughest job of all and should be honored."[13] The story is based on the social Darwinist idea of society as a struggle for survival based on military strength. It suggests that some conflicts must be resolved by force: one of the lessons Rico is repeatedly taught is that violence can be an effective method of settling conflict.[19] These suggestions derive in part from Heinlein's view that in the 1950s the US government was being too conciliatory in its dealings with communist China and the Soviet Union.[17][59][60][61] Heinlein draws an analogy between the human society in the novel, which is well-to-do but needs to be vigilant against the imperialist threat of the Arachnids, and US society of the 1950s. Reviewers have suggested that the Arachnids are Heinlein's analogue for communists. Traits used to support this include the communal nature of the Arachnids, which makes them capable of a much higher degree of coordination than the humans. Bug society is once explicitly described as communist, and is moreover depicted as communist by nature; this has been read as implying that those with a different political ideology are analogous to alien beings.[9][19][62] The related motifs of alien invasion, patriotism, and personal sacrifice during war, are present, as are other aspects of US popular culture of the 1950s.[17] Commentators have argued that Heinlein's portrayal of aliens, as well as being a reference to 1950s communist countries, aims to "reinscribe the ideologies of America's mythic frontier history". The concept of the frontier includes a social-Darwinist argument of constantly fighting for survival, even at the expense of indigenous people or, in the case of Starship Troopers, of aliens. Heinlein suggests that without territorial expansion involving violent conquest of other races, humans would be destroyed.[63] Scholar Jamie King has stated that Heinlein does not address the question of what the military government and Federal Service would do in peacetime, and argues that Heinlein has set up a society designed to be continuously at war, and to keep expanding its territory.[64] Coming of age Starship Troopers has been referred to as a bildungsroman or "coming-of-age" story for Rico, as he matures through his tenure in the infantry. His training, both at boot camp and at officer candidate school, involves learning the value of militarism, thus inviting the reader to learn it as well.[43] This is especially true of the parts of his training that involve indoctrination, such as the claim by one of his instructors that rule by military veterans is the ideal form of government, because only they understand how to put collective well-being above the individual.[43] The story traces Rico's transformation from a boy into a soldier, while exploring issues of identity and motivation,[18] and traces his overall moral and social development, in a manner identified by commentators as similar to many stories about German soldiers in World War I.[65] Rico's transformation has been likened to the common narrative within stories with military themes by scholar H. Bruce Franklin. This typical narrative is that of a sloppy and unfit civilian being knocked into shape by tough officers, whose training is "calculated sadism" but is depicted as fundamentally being on the right side.[32] The letter Rico receives from Dubois, partly responsible for Rico "crossing the hump" with his training, is shown as a turning point in his development.[19] The classroom scenes embedded in the story serve to explain Rico's adventures, and highlight his reactions to events around. A notable example is the execution Rico is forced to witness after a deserter from his unit murders a young girl; Rico is uncertain of his own reaction until he remembers a lecture by Dubois in which the latter argues that "moral sense" derives entirely from the will to survive.[19][66] The concept of the American frontier is also related to the coming-of-age theme. Young protagonists across Heinlein's novels attain manhood by confronting a hostile "wilderness" in space; coming-of-age in a military, alien context is a common theme in Heinlein's earlier works as well.[67] Rico's coming-of-age has also been described as being related to his relationship with his father; the journey "outward" through the novel also contains a search for Rico's childhood and a reunion with his estranged parent.[68] Moral decline Starship Troopers also critiques US society of the 1950s, suggesting that it led young people to be spoiled and undisciplined. These beliefs are expressed through the classroom lectures of Dubois, Rico's teacher for History and Moral Philosophy. Dubois praises flogging and other types of corporal punishment as a means of addressing juvenile crimes. It has been suggested that Heinlein endorsed this view, although the fact that Dubois also compares raising children to training a puppy has been used to argue that Heinlein was making use of irony.[10] The story is strongly in favor of corporal punishment and capital punishment, as a means of correcting juvenile delinquents, part of a trend in science fiction which examines technology and outer space in an innovative manner, but is reactionary with respect to human relationships.[7][23] As with other books by Heinlein, traditional schools are denigrated, while learning "on the spot" is extolled: Rico is able to master the things required of him in military training without undue difficulty.[19] Dubois also ridicules the idea of inalienable rights, such as "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness", arguing that people have only the rights that they are willing to fight and die for to protect.[33][66][69] The novel appeals to scientific authority to justify this position; Dubois repeatedly states that his argument is mathematically demonstrable, statements which have led scholars to label the novel "hard science fiction", despite its social and political themes.[70] The "moral decline" caused by this situation is depicted as having caused a global war between an alliance of the US, Britain, and Russia against the "Chinese Hegemony" in the year 1987. Despite the alliance between the US and Russia, this war has been described as demonstrating Heinlein's anti-communist beliefs, which saw "swarming hordes" of Chinese as a bigger threat. The novel draws some comparisons between the Chinese and the Arachnids, and suggests that the lessons of one war could be applied to the other.[69] Reception To Heinlein's surprise,[71] Starship Troopers won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960.[72] It has been acknowledged as one of the best-known and most influential works of science fiction.[2][21] The novel is considered a landmark for the genre, having been described by a 1960 review as one of the ten best genre books of 1959,[73] in a 2009 review as a key science fiction novel of the 1950s,[14] and as the best-known example of military science fiction.[74] The novel has been described as marking Heinlein's transition from writing juvenile fiction to a "more mature phase" as an author.[3] Reviewing the book with others written for children, Floyd C. Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction wrote in 1960 that "Heinlein has penned a juvenile that really is not. This is a new and bitter and disillusioned Heinlein". Rating it 2.5 stars out of five for children, 4.5 stars for adults, and "?" for civilians, he believed that the novel would be "of exceptional interest to veterans with battle experience ... but youngsters will find it melancholy and verbose".[75] Conversely, Michael Moorcock described it as Heinlein's last "straight" science fiction, before he turned to more serious writing such as Stranger in a Strange Land.[76] By 1980, twenty years after its release, Starship Troopers had been translated into eleven languages and was still selling strongly. Heinlein nevertheless complained that, despite this success, almost all the mail he received about it was negative and he only heard about it "when someone wants to chew me out".[71] The novel is highly contentious.[3] Controversy surrounded its praise of the military and approval of violence, to the extent that it has frequently been described as fascist, and its implication that militarism is superior to traditional democracy.[3][77] Heinlein's peers were among those who argued over the book; a comparison between a quote in Starship Troopers that "the noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and war's desolation"[78] and the anti-war poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen began a two-year discussion in the Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies from 1959 to 1961, with James Blish, Poul Anderson, Philip José Farmer, Anthony Boucher, John Brunner, Brian Aldiss, among those debating Starship Troopers's quality of writing, philosophy, and morality.[79] The writing in Starship Troopers has received varied responses, with the scenes of military training and combat receiving praise. In a 2009 retrospective, science-fiction writer Jo Walton wrote that Starship Troopers was "military SF done extremely well".[18] She went on to argue that "Heinlein was absolutely at his peak when he wrote this in 1959. He had so much technical stylistic mastery of the craft of writing science fiction that he could [tell the story] 'backwards and in high heels' and get away with it."[18] Others referred to it as very readable, and found the military scenes compelling.[3][11][12] Heinlein's descriptions of training and boot camp in the novel, based on his own experiences in the military, have been described as being rendered with remarkable skill.[17] A 1960 review in the New York Herald Tribune praised the "brilliantly written" passages describing infantry combat, and also called attention to the discussion of weapons and armor,[80] which, according to other reviewers, demonstrated Heinlein's "undiminished talent for invention".[19] Scholar George Slusser described the book in 1986 as the "ultimately convincing space-war epic", praising in particular the "precisely imagined" weapons and tactics,[68] while a 1979 science fiction encyclopedia referred to it as the "slickest" of Heinlein's juvenile books.[19] Criticism of the style of the book has centered on its political aspects. Heinlein's discussions of his political beliefs were criticized as "didactic",[11][80][81] and the novel was derided for "exposition [that was] inserted in large indigestible chunks".[80] Author Ken MacLeod's 2003 analysis of the political nature of Starship Troopers stated that it was "a book where civics infodumps and accounts of brutal boot-camp training far outweigh the thin and tensionless combat scenes".[12] Scientist and author Brunner compared it to a "Victorian children's book",[82] while the Science Fiction Handbook published in 2009 said that the novel provided "compelling images of a futuristic military" and that it raised important questions, even for those who disagree with its political ideology. However, it stated that the story was weak as a tale of an alien encounter, as it did not explore alien society in any detail, but presented the Arachnids as nameless and faceless creatures that wished to destroy humanity.[22] Boucher, founder of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, remarked in 1960 that Heinlein had "forgotten to insert a story".[80] A 1979 summary said that though Heinlein's vision might verge on fascism, his tightly controlled narrative made his ideology seem "vibrantly appealing".[19] Criticism of militarism Starship Troopers is generally considered to promote militarism, the glorification of war and of the military.[14] Scholar Bruce Franklin referred to it in 1980 as a "bugle-blowing, drum-beating glorification" of military service, and wrote that militarism and imperialism were the explicit message of the book.[15][83] Science fiction writer Dean McLaughlin called it "a book-length recruiting poster".[84] In 1968 science fiction critic Alexei Panshin called Starship Troopers a militaristic polemic and compared it to a recruiting film, stating that it "purports to show the life of a typical soldier, with a soundtrack commentary by earnest sincere Private Jones who interprets what we see for us." Panshin stated that there was no "sustained human conflict" in the book: instead, "All the soldiers we see are tough, smart, competent, cleancut, clean-shaven, and noble."[85] Panshin, a veteran of the peacetime military, argued that Heinlein glossed over the reality of military life, and that the Terran Federation-Arachnid conflict existed simply because, "Starship troopers are not half so glorious sitting on their butts polishing their weapons for the tenth time for lack of anything else to do."[85] Literature scholar George Slusser, in describing the novel as "wrong-headed and retrogressive", argued that calling its ideology militarism or imperialism was inadequate, as these descriptions suggested an economic motive. Slusser instead says that Heinlein advocates for a complete "technological subjugation of nature", of which the Arachnids are a symbol, and that this subjugation itself is depicted as a sign of human advancement.[83] A 1997 review of the film in Salon stated that the novel could almost be described as propaganda, and was terrifying as a result, particularly in its belief that the boot camp had to be an ingredient of any civilization. This was described as a highly unusual utopian vision.[1] Moorcock stated that the lessons Rico learns in boot camp: "wars are inevitable, [and] that the army is always right".[76] In discussing the book's utility in classroom discussions of the form of government, Alan Myers stated that its depiction of the military was of an "unashamedly Earth-chauvinist nature".[11] In the words of science fiction scholar Darko Suvin, Starship Troopers was an "unsubtle but powerful black-and-white paean to combat life", and an example of agitprop in favor of military values.[81] Other writers defended Heinlein. George Price argued that "[Heinlein] implies, first, that war is something endured, not enjoyed, and second, that war is so unpleasant, so desolate, that it must at all costs be kept away from one's home."[86] Poul Anderson also defended some of the novel's positions, arguing "Heinlein has recognized the problem of selective versus nonselective franchise, and his proposed solution does merit discussion."[87] Complaints were made against Heinlein for the lack of conscription in Starship Troopers. When he wrote the novel, the military draft was still in effect in the US.[88] Allegations of fascism The society within the book has frequently been described as fascist.[14][16][17] According to the 2009 Science Fiction Handbook, it had the effect of giving Heinlein a reputation as a "fanatical warmongering fascist".[6] Scholar Jeffrey Cass has referred to the setting of the book as "unremittingly grim fascism". He has stated that the novel made an analogy between its military conflict and those of the US after World War II, and that it justified American imperialism in the name of fighting another form of imperialism.[89] Jasper Goss has referred to it as "crypto-fascist".[17] Suvin compares Heinlein's suggestion that "all wars arise from population pressure" to the Nazi concept of Lebensraum or "living space" for a superior society that was used to justify territorial expansion.[90] Some reviewers have suggested that Heinlein was simply discussing the merits of a selective versus a nonselective franchise.[18] Heinlein made a similar claim, over two decades after Starship Troopers's publication, in his Expanded Universe and further claimed that 95 percent of "veterans" were not military personnel but members of the civil service.[91] Heinlein's own description has been disputed, even among the book's defenders. Heinlein scholar James Gifford has argued that a number of quotes within the novel suggest that the characters within the book assume that the Federal Service is largely military. For instance, when Rico tells his father that he is interested in Federal Service, his father immediately explains his belief that Federal Service is a bad idea because there is no war in progress, indicating that he sees Federal Service as military in nature. Gifford states that although Heinlein's intentions may have been that Federal Service be 95 percent non-military, in relation to the actual contents of the book, Heinlein "is wrong on this point. Flatly so."[5] Dennis Showalter, writing in 1975, defended Starship Troopers, stating that the society depicted in it did not contain many elements of fascism. He argues that the novel does not include outright opposition to Bolshevism and liberalism that would be expected in a fascist society.[89] Others have responded by saying Showalter's argument is based on a literal reading of the novel, and that the story glorifies militarism to a large extent.[89] Ken Macleod argues that the book does not actually advocate fascism because anybody capable of understanding the oath of Federal Service is able to enlist and thereby obtain political power.[12] Macleod states that Heinlein's books are consistently liberal, but cover a spectrum from democratic to elitist forms of liberalism, Starship Troopers being on the latter end of the spectrum.[2] It has been argued that Heinlein's militarism is more libertarian than fascist, and that this trend is also present in Heinlein's other popular books of the period, such as Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966). This period of Heinlein's writing has received more critical attention than any other, although he continued to write into the 1980s.[14] Apparent utopianism The setting of the book is presented by Heinlein as utopian; its leaders are shown as good and wise, and the population as free and prosperous.[6][19] Slusser wrote in 1987 that Starship Troopers depicts a world that is "hell for human beings", but nonetheless celebrates the ideology of its fictional society.[83] The rulers are claimed to be the best in history, because they understand that human nature is to fight for power through the use of force.[43] The suggestion of utopia is not explored in depth, as the lives of those outside the military are not shown in any detail.[19][22] The novel suggests that the militarist philosophy espoused by many of the characters has a mathematical backing, though reviewers have commented that Heinlein does not present any basis for this.[18][43] Writers such as Farmer, Robert A. W. Lowndes, and Michael Moorcock have criticized the novel for being a hypothetical utopia, in the sense that while Heinlein's ideas sound plausible, they have never been put to the test. Moorcock wrote an essay entitled "Starship Stormtroopers" in which he attacked Heinlein and other writers over similar "Utopian fiction".[76] Lowndes accused Heinlein of using straw man arguments, "countering ingenuous half-truths with brilliant half-truths".[92] Lowndes further argued that the Terran Federation could never be as idealistic as Heinlein portrays it to be because he never properly addressed "whether or not [non-citizens] have at least as full a measure of civil redress against official injustice as we have today".[92] Farmer agreed, arguing that a "world ruled by veterans would be as mismanaged, graft-ridden, and insane as one ruled by men who had never gotten near the odor of blood and guts".[93] Race and gender Authors and commentators have stated that the manner in which the extraterrestrial beings are portrayed in Starship Troopers has racist aspects, arguing that the nicknames "Bugs" and "Skinnies" carry racial overtones. John Brunner compared them to calling Koreans "gooks".[82] Slusser argued that the term "Bugs" was an "abusive and biologically inaccurate" word that justified the violence against alien beings, a tendency which, according to Slusser, the book shared with other commercially successful science fiction.[62] Some of Heinlein's other works have also been described as racist, though Franklin argues that this was not unique to Heinlein, and that he was less racist than the US government of the time.[94] Heinlein's early novel Sixth Column was called a "racist paean" to a white resistance movement against an Asian horde derived from the Yellow Peril.[95] In 1978, Moorcock wrote that Starship Troopers "set the pattern for Heinlein's more ambitious paternalistic, xenophobic" stories.[76] Robert Lowndes argues that the war between the Terrans and the Arachnids is not about a quest for racial purity, but rather an extension of Heinlein's belief that man is a wild animal. According to this theory, if man lacks a moral compass beyond the will to survive, and he was confronted by another species with a similar lack of morality, then the only possible moral result would be warfare.[92] The fact that all pilots in the novel are women (in contrast to the infantry, which is entirely male) has been cited as evidence of progressive gender politics within the story, although the idea expressed by Rico that women are the motivation for men to fight in the military is a counter-example to this.[18][22] A 1996 science fiction encyclopedia said that like much of Heinlein's fiction, Starship Troopers exemplified "macho male culture".[96] The prosthetically enhanced soldiers in the novel, all of whom are men, have been described as an example of the "hyper-masculinity" brought on by the proximity of these men to technology.[97] The story portrays the Arachnids as so alien that the only response to them can be war. Feminist scholars have described this reaction as a "conventionally masculinist" one.[98] Steffen Hantke has described the mechanized suits in the novel, which make the wearer resemble a "steel gorilla," as defining masculinity as "something intensely physical, based on animal power, instinct, and aggression". He calls this form of masculinity "all body, so to speak, and no brain".[99] Thus, in Hantke's reading, Starship Troopers expresses fears of how masculinity may be preserved in an environment of high technology.[100] This fear is exacerbated by the motifs of pregnancy and birth that Heinlein uses when describing how the soldiers in suits are dropped from spaceships piloted by women.[101] Though Rico says he finds women "marvelous", he shows no desire for sexual activity; the war seems to have subsumed sex in this respect.[19] A 1979 summary argued that despite the gestures towards women's equality, women in the story were still objects, to be protected, and to fight wars over.[19] Influence A real-life concept of powered armor, an idea popularized by Starship Troopers[102] Heinlein's books, and Starship Troopers in particular, had an enormous impact on political science fiction, to the extent that author Ken MacLeod has stated that "the political strand in [science fiction] can be described as a dialogue with Heinlein," although many participants in this dialogue disagree with Heinlein.[2] Science fiction critic Darko Suvin states that Starship Troopers is the "ancestral text of US science fiction militarism" and that it shaped the debate about the role of the military in society for many years.[20] In addition to his political views, Heinlein's ideas about a futuristic military as depicted in the novel were deeply influential among films, books, and television shows in later years.[22] Roger Beaumont has suggested that Starship Troopers may some day be considered a manual for extraterrestrial warfare.[103] Suvin refers to Juan Rico as the "archetypal Space Soldier".[104] Starship Troopers included concepts in military engineering which have since been widely used in other fiction, and which have occasionally been paralleled by scientific research. The novel has been cited as the source of the idea of powered armor exoskeletons, which Heinlein describes in great detail.[83][105][106][107] Such suits became a staple of military science fiction. Franchises that have employed this technology include Iron Man, Exo Squad, Halo, District 9, Elysium, and Edge of Tomorrow.[21] During the shooting of the science fiction film Aliens, director James Cameron required the actors playing space marines to read Starship Troopers to understand their parts, and also cited it as an influence for the space drop, terms like "bug hunt", and the cargo-loader exoskeleton.[108] Starship Troopers had a direct influence on many later science fiction stories. John Steakley's 1984 novel Armor was, according to the author, born out of frustration with the small amount of actual combat in Starship Troopers and because he wanted this aspect developed further.[109] The "Mobile Suits" from the 1979 Nippon Sunrise anime series Mobile Suit Gundam were inspired by the powered armor from Starship Troopers.[110] The 1988 Gainax OVA series Gunbuster has plot elements similar to Starship Troopers, depicting humanity arrayed against an alien military.[107] Scholars have identified elements of Heinlein's influence in Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, as well. Hantke, in particular, compares the battle room in Ender's Game to Heinlein's prosthetic suits, stating that they both regulate but also enhance human agency.[111] Suvin suggests parallels between the plots of the two novels, with human society in both stories at war against insect-like aliens, but states that the story of Ender Wiggin takes a very different direction, as Ender regrets his genocidal actions and dedicates his efforts to protecting his erstwhile targets.[104] Conversely, Joe Haldeman's 1974 anti-war, Hugo- and Nebula-winning science fiction novel The Forever War is popularly thought to be a direct reply to Starship Troopers, and though Haldeman has stated that it is actually a result of his personal experiences in the Vietnam War, he has admitted to being influenced by Starship Troopers.[112][113][114] Haldeman said that he disagreed with Starship Troopers because it "glorifies war", but added that "it's a very well-crafted novel, and I believe Heinlein was honest with it".[112] The Forever War contains several parallels to Starship Troopers, including its setting. Commentators have described it as a reaction to Heinlein's novel, a suggestion Haldeman denies; the two novels are very different in terms of their attitude towards the military. The Forever War does not depict war as a noble pursuit, with the sides clearly defined as good and evil; instead, the novel explores the dehumanizing effect of war, influenced by the real world context of the Vietnam War.[23] Haldeman received a letter from Heinlein, congratulating him on his Nebula Award, which "meant more than the award itself".[115] According to author Spider Robinson, Heinlein approached Haldeman at the awards banquet and said the book "may be the best future war story I've ever read!"[116] Harry Harrison's 1965 novel Bill, the Galactic Hero has also been described as a reaction to Starship Troopers,[6] while Gordon R. Dickson's 1961 novel Naked to the Stars has been called "an obvious rejoinder" to Starship Troopers.[117] Ring of Swords, written by Eleanor Arnason in 1993, also depicts a war between two highly aggressive species, of which humans are one. The story deliberately inverts several aspects of Starship Troopers: the story is told from the point of view of diplomats seeking to prevent war, rather than soldiers fighting it, and the conflict is the result of the two species being extremely similar, rather than different.[118] Adaptations 1997 film Main article: Starship Troopers (film) Further information: Starship Troopers (franchise) The film rights to the novel were licensed in the 1990s, several years after Heinlein's death. The project was originally entitled Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine, and had been in production before the producers bought the rights to Starship Troopers.[119][120][121] The film was directed by Paul Verhoeven (who found the book too boring to finish), and released in 1997.[122] The screenplay, by Ed Neumeier, shared character names and some plot details with the novel.[123] The film contained several elements that differed from the book, including a military that is completely integrated with respect to sex. It had the stated intention of treating its material in an ironic or sarcastic manner, to undermine the political ideology of the novel.[17][124] The mechanized suits that featured prominently in the novel were absent from the film, due to budget constraints.[99] The film used fascist imagery throughout, including portraying the Terran Federation's personnel wearing uniforms strongly reminiscent of those worn by the SS, the Nazi paramilitary.[125] Verhoeven stated in 1997 that the first scene of the film – an advertisement for the Mobile Infantry – was adapted shot-for-shot from a scene in Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will (1935), specifically an outdoor rally for the Reichsarbeitsdienst. Other references to Nazism include the Albert Speer-style architecture and the propagandistic dialogue ("Violence is the supreme authority!").[126] According to Verhoeven, the references to Nazism reflected his own experience in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II.[24][127] The film reignited the debate over the nature of the Terran society in Heinlein's world, and several critics accused Verhoeven of creating a fascist universe. Others, and Verhoeven himself, have stated that the film was intended to be ironic, and to critique fascism.[77][128] The film has also been described as criticizing the jingoism of US foreign policy, the military industrial complex, and the society in the film, which elevates violence over sensitivity.[129] It received several negative critical reviews, reviewers suggesting that it was unsophisticated and targeted a juvenile audience, although some scholars and critics have also supported its description as satirical.[21][24][124][129] The absence of the powered armor technology drew criticism from fans.[21][99] The success of the film's endeavor to critique the ideology of the novel has been disputed.[24] Four sequels, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004),[130] Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008),[131] Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)[132] and Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars (2017) were released as straight-to-DVD films. In December 2011, Neal H. Moritz, producer of films such as the Fast & Furious series and I Am Legend, announced plans for a remake of the film that he claims will be more faithful to the source material.[133] In 2016 Mark Swift and Damian Shannon were reported to be writing the film.[134][needs update] Animated series Main article: Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles An animated TV series was also released based both on the novel and 1997 film called Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, it follows the exploits of the Mobile Infantry squad, "Razak's Roughnecks", during the SICON–Bugs War between a newly united humanity and an extraterrestrial race, known as the "Bugs," also sometimes referred to as Arachnids. The show focuses mainly on the Roughnecks' missions, rather than addressing the larger war. Paul Verhoeven served as an executive producer.[135] The show ran for one season from August 1999 to April 2000. Other media From October to December 1988, Sunrise and Bandai Visual produced a six-episode Japanese original video animation locally titled Uchū no Senshi with mobile infantry power armor designs by Kazutaka Miyatake, based on Starship Troopers.[136] Dark Horse Comics, Mongoose Publishing and Markosia hold the license to produce comic books based on Starship Troopers, written by authors including Warren Ellis, Gordon Rennie and Tony Lee.[137][138] Avalon Hill published Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers in 1976, a map-and-counter board wargame featuring a number of scenarios as written in the novel.[139] In 1998, Mythic Entertainment released Starship Troopers: Battlespace. The web-based interactive game, in which players battled each other in overhead space combat, allowed players to assume either Klendathu or Federation roles, was developed alongside the film adaptation.[24][140] Starship Troopers: The Miniatures Game was released by Mongoose Publishing in 2005, a miniature wargame which used material from the novel, film, and animated TV series.[141] Spectre Media released Starship Troopers: Invasion Mobile Infantry, a game for PCs, in 2012.[142] Offworld Industries developed and published the 2023 game Starship Troopers: Extermination, a cooperative multiplayer first-person shooter available for PC.[143]

Had to break out the old zoom machine for this one! We had my boy James Cummins on to chat ahead of his weekend at The Moon!James is doing Trish's Asylum on Friday, a special presentation headline show on Saturday, he's then guest hosting the Sunday Smokeshow and headlining the Moon Monday show at the Comic Strip on Monday!James is one of the best comics in canada and your going to kick yourself if you don't catch at least one of these shows while he's here!

Flat Earthers believe that the Earth is not spherical, but rather a flat disc and the Sun and the Moon are also flat discs that circle above the Earth. According to them the edges of the world are surrounded by a wall of ice, which is what we know as Antarctica. And as for the pictures of the Earth from space - they are all fake, part of a huge conspiracy to hide the truth. The earliest cultures that believed in a flat Earth were the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, and Greeks. They had different models that depicted the Earth as a flat surface, often supported by pillars or resting on a giant animal. But not all ancient Greeks shared this belief. Why have people started believing in this again? And why do some people still believe in the flat Earth theory despite all the evidence that contradicts it? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to the last episodes, you can click here: ⁠⁠What's the best way to choose my toothpaste?⁠⁠ ⁠⁠What are the dangers of hustle culture?⁠⁠ ⁠⁠What is the Mandela Effect?⁠⁠ A podcast written and realised by Amber Minogue. First Broadcast: 7/12/2023 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on Art of the Cut, we speak with Oscar-nominated editor Christopher Tellefsen, ACE, about his work on The Whisper Man.Chris has been on Art of the Cut before for The Menu, The Many Saints of Newark, A Quiet Place, and Assassin's Creed. He has an Oscar nomination for Money Ball. He has ACE Eddie nominations for The Menu, Joy, Money Ball, Analyze This, and Man on the Moon. Chris was an assistant editor to legendary editor, Thelma Schoonmaker.A discussion of how The Whisper Man was radically re-shaped to speed the story and establish its thriller tone, plus developing a rhythm of the story beats to strengthen emotional revelations, and much more.If you want to, you can reac along with this interview and see the trailer and images from the film on BorisFX's blog site:borisfx.com/blog/aotc.

In 2024, scientists using instruments on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft spotted a new large impact crater on the surface of the moon. Tyler Powell joins host Flora Lichtman to describe what they found, and what scientists are learning about the lunar surface from studying it. After, Sofia Sheikh describes different approaches to hunting for intelligent alien life through ‘technosignatures'. These are technological traces that could only be produced by intelligent life, like radio transmissions, industrial pollution, or city lights at night. Researchers from the SETI Institute have proposed sifting through lunar dust to look for tiny traces of a long-gone super advanced galactic civilization.Guests:Dr Tyler Powell is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Dr. Sofia Sheikh is a Technosignature Research Scientist at the SETI Institute.Transcripts for each episode are available within 1-3 days at sciencefriday.com. Subscribe to this podcast. Follow our show on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Bluesky @scifri and sign up for our newsletters. Got a science question that's keeping you up at night? Call us: 877-472-4374 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Nothing says “credible music journalism” quite like blindly ranking ten legendary rock bands without knowing which one is coming next. Welcome to another comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show, where Queen gets the throne, Metallica becomes the baseline for civilization, and somehow The Beatles end up staring directly at KISS's backside.We kick things off with a blind ranking of some of the biggest rock bands ever: Metallica, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, Pink Floyd, Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and KISS. The rules are simple: once you place a band, you're stuck with it. Naturally, this creates an absolutely flawless list that no music fan could possibly have an issue with.Just kidding. It's a disaster.Metallica lands at number five and becomes the dividing line for the entire exercise. The Rolling Stones climb toward the top, AC/DC gets placed too low and immediately causes regret, Queen claims number one, and then The Beatles arrive after almost all the good spots have disappeared. The result? The Beatles finish DEAD LAST behind KISS.Music historians, please direct your complaints somewhere else. We have enough going on.That leads to a bigger Beatles debate as Rafe argues that the band deserves enormous credit for what they changed, but that doesn't mean everybody has to automatically put them at number one. Moon attempts to defend civilization. Lern reveals she does not suffer from “Beatle boner mania.” Somehow Michael McDonald becomes the secret fifth Beatle. This is why nobody lets us curate the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.Speaking of legendary musicians, the crew gets into the backlash surrounding a George Michael tribute featuring performers including Teddy Swims and Sombr. Some viewers were furious with the choices, while the show tries to determine what exactly would have made everybody happy. Adam Lambert gets some love, Andrew Ridgeley's name is miraculously remembered, and Riz discovers his biggest problem with Sombr may simply be that somebody stole the “E” from his name.Then Rafe's birthday completely takes over the studio.The crew surprises him with a brand-new grill for his new house, which immediately raises the question of whether they can fire it up inside the studio. For legal reasons and continued access to oxygen, the answer appears to be no.But the grill is only the beginning. Rafe gets a personal birthday message from Rick of Rick's Ace Hardware — whom Rafe immediately embraces as his new father — along with an Ace bucket loaded with homeowner supplies. It turns out Rafe's previous love for the store traveled up the Ace Hardware corporate ladder and was even shared at a company convention. That's right: Rafe somehow became an Ace Hardware influencer without even trying. Take that, every 22-year-old making sponsored TikToks.There are also homemade deviled eggs, handmade coasters featuring Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and even Rafe's own dog, plus the discovery that Rafe shares a birthday with Monica Bellucci. At this point the man has a grill, deviled eggs, a bucket and Monica Bellucci spiritually connected to him through a calendar. There's nowhere left to go.And because this comedy podcast refuses to stay in one lane, Crap on Celebrities brings even more chaos: Slipknot and Marilyn Manson tour backlash, a Linkin Park documentary, Taylor Swift's former Beverly Hills home hitting the market, Diddy prison reports, Raven-Symoné revealing an extremely specific period routine, a Rick Wakeman concert for rescued bears, a heavy Matthew Perry documentary, and wildly divided reactions to a new Tom Cruise movie.There's rock history, birthday surprises, celebrity news, angry music fans and enough hardware-store enthusiasm to make a suburban dad shed a single tear into his freshly cut lawn.Happy birthday, Rafe. Here's a grill.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

When a routine investigation turns into a fight for survival, the crew realizes they are not alone. This story follows their descent into a nightmare as they uncover a massive, impossible structure lurking in the lunar shadows. Perfect for listeners who enjoy moon horror stories that blend scientific discovery with absolute dread, this narration examines what happens when humanity goes too far into the unknown. Still drinking stale, store-bought coffee? Head to⁠ ⁠⁠⁠NoSleepCoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ and pick up a bag of fresh roasted-to-order coffee delivered straight to your door! Use promo code NOSLEEP20 at checkout for 20% off your first order! NoSleep Coffee – The freshest coffee money can buy. Guaranteed. Huge thanks to our sponsors: BetterHelp: Sign up now and get 10% off at ⁠betterhelp.com/dns⁠. Shopify: You don't need anyone's approval to make a living. Build your own business with a free trial at shopify.com/dns Author:  Matt Doggett * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and depictions of violence intended for adults. Parental guidance is strongly advised for children under the age of 18. Listener discretion is advised.  #scarystories #horrorstories #drnosleep #doctornosleep #creepypasta #horror Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everything we've been hoping for is ruined by c&ck-blocking Bill Compton and we're BIG MAD about it!! He arrests Eric and sets plans in motion to remove him from the chessboard altogether. Arlene's ghost shows herself-- and we think that she's gorgeous and probably offended by the fact that Arlene is racistAF! Jason expects the worst out of the full moon, but Jess offers him comfort. Tara gets a visitor. Andy gets a date, and Tommy AND Lala flex some new abilities. Meanwhile, in the Bon temp Initiative, Eric isn't moved by Pam's aggressive pep talk, even though WE are.. Marnie begs for possession and gets it. And we get the full story of Antonia's execution, and frankly, we're rooting for her!Rewatch, Listen & Laugh as Alaina reaches the end of the rope with amnesia Eric, Ash has some notes for the writers about writing about lesbian relationships, and Mikie gets his dark romantasy moment! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Some of the most exciting science in our Solar System is hidden in places we've never been able to reach. In this episode, Sarah Al-Ahmed shares three conversations from the 2026 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)Symposium at Wichita State University, all about the bold, early-stage concepts being developed to explore them. First, Peter Cabauy, CEO and co-founder of City Labs Incorporated, and Mason Peck, former NASA Chief Technologist and collaborator on the project, discuss their Phase II concept, Autonomous Tritium Micropowered Sensors, tiny nuclear-powered probes designed to survive and operate in the permanently shadowed craters of the Moon and beyond. Then, Daniel Drew, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, introduces SPARK, a Phase I concept for silent, solid-state flying robots that could explore caves on Saturn's moon Titan. Finally, Gilly Elor, physics lead at Stone Aerospace, and Bill Stone, founder of Stone Aerospace, walk us through LUX, the Lunar Underground Explorer, a Phase I concept for a laser-powered, fiber-tethered drone that could be the first mission to enter a cave on another world. Plus, Bruce Betts, chief scientist of The Planetary Society, joins Sarah for What's Up, where they preview Saturn at opposition and the start of World Space Week on October 4th. Discover more at: https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/2026-niac-symposium-part-1 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The fellas discuss Georgia quietly being the obvious best team in the country, Dan Lanning putting USC in a body bag, Dante Moores future, potential fines in the college football landscape, Texas Techs defensive stops, your Las Vegas Raiders going to the Super Bowl (maybe) , the vibes of being 1-2 versus 0-3, Frank picking a hockey team, Cops and Robbers in the UFC, Deebo Samuel having 80 yards receiving with zero catches, and insane celebrations.

This is your daily horoscope for Thursday, October 1, and the most important aspects of the day:Moon in Gemini trine Sun in Libra (12am PT)Moon in Gemini sextile Saturn in Aries (6am PT) Moon in Gemini sextile Jupiter in Leo (7:30pm PT)Unlock More MagicBook a Reading with StephanieAccess Personalized Horoscopes + Join Stephanie's PatreonMake a DifferenceRevoke Stacy Turner's Medical License (Corrupt Coroner in Mississippi)

For the first time in more than half a century, NASA is preparing to send humans around the Moon, laying the foundation for a sustained lunar presence and the eventual journey to Mars.Just months after the successful completion of Artemis II, Sharon Cobb, Associate Program Manager for NASA's Space Launch System, returns to The TechEd Podcast with a behind-the-scenes look at the engineering, manufacturing, testing, data and emotions that went into the successful Artemis II mission.Sharon shares firsthand stories, like facing a critical hydrogen leak discovered during testing, how NASA solved the problem without rolling the rocket back from the launch pad, and why the mission ultimately achieved an astonishing 99.94% orbital insertion accuracy. She also explains how breakthroughs in additive manufacturing, digital modeling, and systems engineering are transforming the way rockets are designed, built, and tested.Looking ahead, Sharon outlines NASA's vision for NASA's Moon Base the infrastructure needed for a sustained human presence on the lunar surface, and the technologies that will make future missions to Mars possible. Along the way, she offers her perspective on the "Artemis Generation," why systems thinking matters more than ever, and how students can prepare today for careers that may not even exist yet.In this episode, you'll hear:3 skills students need if they want to work at NASAHow 3,800 suppliers across all 50 states help power ArtemisWhy NASA can now simulate missions that once required live testingThe manufacturing breakthrough changing how rocket engines are builtWhat it'll take to achievema sustained presence on the moon (and eventually Mars)3 Big Takeaways from this Episode:1. Artemis II was the product of thousands of engineering decisions made between launches.Between Artemis I and Artemis II, NASA teams stacked and integrated the vehicle, completed multiple rounds of testing, investigated and resolved a hydrogen leak discovered during a wet dress rehearsal, and modified hardware to improve performance. The mission ultimately achieved 99.94% orbital insertion accuracy, validating years of analysis, simulation, testing, and problem-solving across the program.2. NASA's success depends on a nationwide manufacturing ecosystem. The Artemis program relies on 3,800 suppliers across all 50 states to provide the components, materials, and systems required to build and launch its missions. Sharon emphasized that behind every launch are manufacturers, technicians, welders, quality professionals, and skilled tradespeople whose work must meet exceptionally demanding standards because many of these components have only one opportunity to perform.3. The Artemis Generation will build Moon Base and carry humanity farther into deep space. As NASA shifts its focus toward Moon Base, future missions will require the engineers, technicians, program managers, systems thinkers, and manufacturing professionals capable of building lunar infrastructure and eventually enabling missions to Mars. Sharon highlighted multiple pathways into those careers, including internships, two-year technical degrees, certifications, apprenticeships, and traditional engineering programs, emphasizing that there is no single route into a place like NASA.Resources in this Episode:Catch up on the story by starting with episode 1 with Sharon Cobb: From the Moon to Mars: NASA's Artemis Program and the Future of Space ExplorationArtemis ProgramSpace Launch System (SLS)Get access to NASA Career & Internship resources and more on the show notes page: https://techedpodcast.com/cobb2/We want to hear from you! Send us a text.Instagram - Facebook - YouTube - TikTok - Twitter - LinkedIn

In this episode, AFPC Senior Fellow in Defense Studies, Dr. Peter Garretson discusses President Trump's August 28, 2026 "Starfleet & Settlement" speech given at Johnson space center with space policy luminaries Charles Miller and Jim Muncy. In this speech, the President used the word "settlement" and "frontier" in the context of space and the Moon. The guests argue that these are not merely rhetorical flourishes but signal a fundamental transformation in how the U.S. approaches space—shifting from a government-run exploration program to a citizen-led, commercially driven settlement agenda analogous to America's westward expansion. Miller draws historical parallels to Jamestown and Plymouth, emphasizing that successful settlements require both living off the land (ISRU) and a viable export market, and that the same principles must apply to a Lunar settlement. Muncy highlights that the word "settlement" has been fiercely contested for decades within the aerospace establishment, making the president's explicit use of it historically significant. The discussion covers practical next steps, including establishing a Lunar Authority modeled on commercial real estate frameworks, accelerating fully reusable launch systems, and redirecting NASA to design its Lunar base with eventual handoff to private settlers in mind. Both guests also connect the frontier thesis to the preservation of American liberty and character, invoking Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the closing of the frontier and arguing that reopening it in space is essential to preventing national decline. They discuss the implications for NASA and the U.S. military (Space Force and USSPACECOM). The episode concludes with optimism that the Trump administration, given its track record of bold space actions, may follow the speech with executive orders or legislation formalizing a space settlement agenda. 

An Arizona State University professor is coming to Boise State to talk about the search for water on the moon and mars, and the tiny spacecraft helping scientists look for it.

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button   You can find Jennifer Mandula at jennifermandula.com/ or on IG @jennifermandula.   This week we chat with Jennifer Mandula about her book The Geomagician, a historical fantasy novel that explores the life of pioneering paleontologist Mary Anning and a dinosaur that comes to life, all within an alternate magical England.  This book explores issues of female empowerment and the tension between science and religion as well as offering up a little romance.    For our book rec segment of the show, we're discussing AI books. It  feels like we're at somewhat of a critical moment in terms of artificial intelligence, with communities protesting data centers and AI heads talking about how it could end humanity in a decade. So we've found 6 books about AI that we recommend you check out.  Some of these might even make you laugh.   Books Mentioned In This Episode: 1- The Geomagician by Jennifer Mandula  2- Culpability by Bruce Holsinger  3- Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson 4- The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson  5- Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson  6- The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth  7- The Everlasting by Alix Harrow  8- Life on the Moon by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr  9- This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews 10- Motherhood Discounted: Care Work in America Before and After Roe by Carolyn McConnell  11- Rental House by Weike Wang  12- A Five Star Read by Fellow Book Lover Molly @mollypg - The Great Wherever by Shannon Sanders  13- The Verifiers by Jane Pek  14- Afterword by Nina Schuyler  15- The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon  16- The People's Library by Veronica G. Henry  17- Daemon by Daniel Suarez  18- You Look Like a Thing and I Love you: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane    Media Mentioned in this Episode: 1- High Dive Podcast - https://highdivepod.com/ 2- Zelda Williams and the use of her father's voice - https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/robin-williams-deepfake-video-9.7353857 3- US Military AI mistake close call - https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship 4- Anthropic using old books - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/05/anthropic-ai-destroying-books 5- Janelle Shane blog - https://www.aiweirdness.com/ 6- Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr on The Perks of Being a Book Lover - https://www.perksofbeingabooklover.com/episodes/blpks3ktgywx9fx-x9wxe-p3aft-j9j3f-pk2fn-wbdd3-dbsfp-hhfrc-ep6yz-alk6z-hl34a-dhhaz-l9x4z-88zrd-rh699-xd584-r9src-wkdf3-aegrx-hhnhf-zsc5j-tcmh4-h9adg-9wmnz-c6fgx-57jfn-24pym-jzy8d-j85nx      

Send us Fan MailOur friend Tori of Spirit of the Ridge is back to take us into another season with our herbal allies. But first, we're getting into our October Tarot forecast. How can we create harmony and get through transformations? We'll help guide you.Then Tori is sharing some of her favorite herbs for Autumn. She guides us to helpful plants that are ready to harvest and shares some remedies you can easily create at home. Whether you're fighting off the cold or keeping the darkness at bay, she's got herbs to help with that.Then, Renee is sharing some witchy highlights from her vacation, Louise is learning to balance reality and trusting in the Universe, and Tori is ready to manifest exciting new opportunities in her business. Follow Tori on InstagramFor complete show notes and links, go to awesomeon20.com/episode277Follow Renee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Renee_awesomeon20/Follow Louise on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Louise_awesomeon20Support the showIf you're able, give this podcast your support by joining the International Coven of Awesomeness on Patreon so we can keep sharing witchy content for that's free for all.Get your free ebook How to Work with the Moon to Get Things Done.Check out the latest workshop offerings from the STC Witchcraft Academy for both online workshops and in-person circles in the Glasgow, Scotland area.Find all your favorite recipes and witch tips at Awesome on 20 Kitchen Magick.Book a tarot reading with Renee at Sagittarian Tarot & Coaching. Join the Moon Magic Membership coven to receiving ongoing support in your witchcraft journey. Join our Coven of Awesomeness Facebook group open to everyone.

Episode 176: The Astrology of William Randolph Hearst & Marion Davies — Hollywood's Most Unconventional Power Couple In episode 176, astrologers Kristina Martin and Tara Redfield explore one of Hollywood's most unconventional power couples: media mogul William Randolph Hearst and actress Marion Davies. We start with Hearst, a Taurus Rising with Sun, Pluto, and Mercury in Taurus — a man built for accumulation and control. His Uranus in Gemini fueled his empire as a communication titan, while Pluto conjunct his Sun hints at the manipulation and extremes that defined his life, from incomprehensible wealth to a staggering $126 million debt. In Davies' chart, a rare Pluto-Mars conjunction in Gemini (both retrograde) reveals the explosive intensity beneath her public charm, while her Capricorn placements transformed her into a shrewd businesswoman despite early career obstacles linked to a persistent stutter. Together, they share a grand earth trine between both their Suns and Moons — creating an almost unshakeable material partnership. They've got the coveted Venus/Mars conjunctions in plucky, fun Gemini (their relationship must have come alive at parties). And his Jupiter trine her Venus cast her as his muse and bankrolled her lavish lifestyle. But her Pluto-Mars square his Moon gave her the emotional upper hand, making the power dynamic seemingly lopsided. And Jupiter squares from either side created space for overindulgence and God-like confidence. Is this a story of true love, or simply a business arrangement? Listen in to hear what Venus Score we assign to this enigmatic Hollywood dynasty. Book Readings With us Kristina Martin astrologyklm@gmail.com www.klmastrology.com Tara Redfield anotherdaygreener@gmail.com www.anotherdaygreener.com Social Media Links Kristina on instagram @klmastrology Tara on instagram @anotherdaygreener Tara on YouTube 

The humans have landed on Mars. And they killed tons of Martians with chicken pox. One human wants to save the remaining Martians, but humans being humans, they can't get enough of killing. Written by Ray Bradbury First aired: September 29, 1950

What do an iPhone, the end of the world, a brush with a trauma vampire, and a rat have in common? Well…this book!  This week, Magda and Lindsay discuss “If It Bleeds” by the GOAT of horror, Stephen King himself. Listen in as they piece together the fear, the heartache, and the existential dread that tie these four stories together.  Welcome to spooky season!    Books mentioned in the episode: “If It Bleeds“ by Stephen King “The Everlasting“ by Alix E. Harrow “Starling House“ by Alix E. Harrow “Mal de Amores“ by Ángeles Mastretta “The Reformatory “ by Tananarive Due “12/22/63“ by Stephen King “As Bad Luck Would Have It“ by Rachel Gillig “The Knave and the Moon“ by Rachel Gillig   Email us!  Literally Books Website Literally Books Instagram Magda's Instagram Lindsay's Instagram Literally Books YouTube   Intro & Outro Song: "Would it Kill You," courtesy of The Soldier Thread

On this Make a Difference Minute, Dr. Gennifer Horton Moon joins me at the inaugural Alabama Nurse Honor Guard State Conference in Cullman to talk about preserving the stories and traditions of nurses for future generations. For families who still have a loved one's nursing cap, pin, lamp or other piece of their nursing history, Dr. Moon has a message: “Write it down.” She explains that preserving the item is important, but preserving the story behind it matters just as much. Record the story. Write down what you know. Pass it along to someone who will value it and understand why it mattered. Dr. Moon also shares how one family entrusted her Nurse Honor Guard chapter with a nurse's original cape, allowing another piece of nursing history to continue telling its story. This Make a Difference Minute is brought to you by The Butcher's Smoke and Flames Barbeque Cookoff & The Butcher - Meat Co., proudly supporting stories and the people who make our communities strong. Real stories. Real people. Real impact. News That Unites!™️

Tonight, I'm sharing more conversations from the inaugural Alabama Nurse Honor Guards State Conference in Cullman, with Dr. Gennifer Horton Moon and Dr. Constance Hendricks joining me on The Mark White Show. Dr. Moon shares why her grandmother initially questioned her decision to become a nurse and how she eventually followed the family tradition of teaching, too. We discuss the difference simply listening can make, the meaning behind nursing's caps, pins, and lamps, and why the stories connected to those keepsakes deserve to be preserved. Dr. Hendricks explains how a classroom assignment grew into Alabama Notable Nurses, a book documenting the contributions of nurses across our state. She also shares how she helped bring Nurse Honor Guard services to Alabama's Black Belt and why she wants future nurses to understand the work and sacrifices of those who came before them. Both conversations offer a reminder that preserving a nurse's legacy starts with listening to their story and making sure it is recorded for the next generation. Share this episode with a nurse, nursing student, or family with a story worth preserving. Real stories. Real people. Real impact. News That Unites!™

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Adam is back and it is time for another moon movie! This time we've got Sam Rockwell losing his mind on the real moon while a Spacey robot follows him around. Scary. But is there something sinister waiting on the dark side of the moon? Well... turns out to be pretty existentially horrifying, so, yes!

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Just when you think humanity might be turning things around, somebody takes their pants off on an airplane and an Amazon delivery driver allegedly pees on a customer's shoes. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show.We kick things off with some old-school nostalgia as Otis Nixon baseball cards and Garbage Pail Kids emerge from the junk drawer, which naturally turns into prank ideas, teenage house parties and stories about the first time the crew encountered the cops. Then we head to the friendly skies, where another passenger is accused of getting extremely inappropriate during a flight. At this point, maybe Spirit isn't the problem. Maybe it's all of us.Things somehow get worse on the ground when an Amazon driver is caught on camera allegedly using a New York apartment hallway as his personal restroom — including furniture and a resident's shoes. Amazon reportedly offers a $50 gift card, and the crew debates the appropriate compensation for having your footwear turned into a urinal. Spoiler: fifty bucks ain't cutting it.We also dive into a viral GoFundMe that raised roughly $745,000 for an 81-year-old man working to help cover expenses while his wife battled cancer. Beautiful story… until the “concerned neighbor” who created the fundraiser turned out to actually be the couple's daughter using a fake identity. The money gets refunded, and we debate whether lying about who you are ruins a cause when the underlying hardship is reportedly real.Then Moon attempts to destroy Back to the Future Part II by pointing out a time-travel paradox involving old Biff and the sports almanac. Riz counters with the airtight scientific explanation of “wormholes,” so consider that case closed. Plus, the forgotten Back to the Future cartoon, Pat Smear smoking at the VMAs, celebrity chaos and the realization that apparently even rock stars smoking cigarettes can become an internet controversy.And finally, we test one of humanity's most important skills with Gay Bar or Steakhouse? Callers must decide what kind of establishment they're dealing with based entirely on names like Wildfire, Bourbon and Bones, Tuckaway Tavern and the Iron Bear. Moon becomes a lifeline using geography, vibes and an alarming amount of confidence.Pants-off flights, GoFundMe drama, time-travel arguments, pee-soaked shoes, teenage cop stories and businesses nobody can properly identify — just another completely normal episode of The Rizzuto Show.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.4-Story Aerial Adventure Park Quietly Closes After 4 Seasons as Founder Admits ‘We're Not the Most Adventurous Town'Female Flyer Probed For Mile-High RubHuffPost Life's reporters sift through the health misinformation that's running rampant in the current administration. We bring you the facts that matter most to your life, so you can stop worrying about the rest.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Amazon Prime promises fast delivery, convenient shopping and apparently, under very specific circumstances, complimentary urination.Today's funny podcast starts with a New York City Amazon delivery nightmare caught on camera. A driver enters an apartment building, delivers the package and then allegedly decides the hallway is his personal restroom — peeing on furniture, the floor and, most importantly, a resident's shoes.That immediately raises several questions. Why would anyone do this when cameras are basically everywhere? Should you be leaving your shoes outside your apartment in the first place? And exactly how much compensation should you receive when somebody turns your New Balances into a bathroom?Amazon reportedly offered the resident a $50 gift card. He declined. The crew thinks we may need to add another zero.The conversation naturally turns into Moon defending the idea that shoes left in a hallway are basically asking for trouble, Riz defending humanity's ancient tradition of leaving shoes outside, and everybody wondering what amount of money would actually make this situation right. There's also discussion of delivery drivers in New York, the absolute chaos of driving through the city and why everybody cutting everybody else off somehow makes perfect sense.We also revisit Moon's ongoing problem with Reacher: he cannot stop watching the way Alan Ritchson walks. Once you see it, apparently there is no going back.Then this funny podcast becomes a game show with one simple question: Gay Bar or Steakhouse?Lern gives callers names of real establishments from around the country, and they have to decide whether they're looking at a place serving steaks or cocktails. Wildfire. The Albany Beehive. The Corner Pocket. Bourbon and Bones. Tuckaway Tavern. The Iron Bear. The Avenue.Easy, right?Absolutely not.Moon becomes the unofficial expert, using geography, questionable stereotypes, vibes and whatever other evidence he can manufacture to guide callers toward victory. Sometimes his logic is disturbingly effective. Other times, somebody is going home because apparently “Wildfire” does not mean what you think it means.Throw in WWE tickets, A Perfect Circle, Rise Against and Turnstile giveaways, arguments about New York, random Pittsburgh hostility and enough wildly overconfident reasoning to qualify us for several jobs we absolutely should not have, and you've got another completely normal morning with The Rizzuto Show.Amazon deliveries, contaminated shoes and trying to determine what exactly goes on inside a place called the Iron Bear — this funny podcast continues to provide the public service journalism nobody requested.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nothing ruins a beautiful internet story quite like finding out the “concerned neighbor” telling it was actually the guy's daughter wearing a fake identity like a cheap pair of Groucho glasses.Today's comedy podcast kicks off with the wild story of an 81-year-old Texas luggage driver who was reportedly working grueling hours while his wife battled cancer. The internet rallied around him, a GoFundMe exploded to roughly $745,000…and then the whole thing got shut down and refunded after GoFundMe discovered the woman claiming to be a caring local neighbor was actually the couple's daughter.Cool. Cool cool cool.The underlying family hardship was reportedly real, but the fake identity wasn't — which launches Riz, Lern and Moon into the bigger question: does one giant internet lie destroy an otherwise legitimate cause? We also get into the sketchier side of online fundraising, how scammers can target vulnerable people, why the show tries to vet fundraisers before sharing them, and the very important distinction between “I genuinely need help” and “Hey guys, can the entire city buy me some tires?”From there, we do what any responsible morning show would do and immediately start arguing about Back to the Future.The trilogy has somehow survived decades without Hollywood rebooting it into seventeen streaming series, three prequels and a gritty Doc Brown origin story. But Moon has a problem with Back to the Future Part II: old Biff, the sports almanac and an alternate-timeline paradox that he believes breaks the movie's own rules.Riz responds with the scientific precision of a Nobel laureate: wormholes.Case closed.We also discover — or rediscover — the largely forgotten Back to the Future animated series, where Marty McFly gets shoved aside so Doc Brown's kids Jules and Verne can carry a Saturday morning cartoon. Because apparently somebody looked at one of the most beloved movie trilogies ever made and said, “Yeah, but what if we focused on the kids?”Then Pat Smear commits the shocking act of…smoking a cigarette.At a rock awards show.The horror.After Pat lights up onstage during the Nirvana Video Vanguard Award segment at the VMAs, people online apparently have feelings about it. The crew has feelings about people having feelings about it. Along the way we learn Pat Smear's real name, admire his ability to still look cool at 67 and conclude that a guy who played in the Germs, Nirvana and Foo Fighters probably isn't sitting backstage wondering whether Twitter approves of his decisions.This comedy podcast also takes a trip back through September 29th in history, including the debut of MacGyver, the Breaking Bad finale and one absolutely ridiculous day in 1992 when Alice in Chains released Dirt and Stone Temple Pilots released Core. Kids, there used to be a thing called “albums,” and apparently we were spoiled rotten.Then Lern brings the Crap on Celebrities.Rod Stewart announces a final rock tour, Oasis heads to streaming with a reunion documentary, John Mayer prepares a multi-format Sphere residency, Miley Cyrus lands back atop the charts, and we briefly discover how aggravating band names become when nobody knows how the hell they're supposed to be pronounced.Nick Cannon is also bringing cameras into the circus that is raising 12 children with six different women, which naturally leaves everyone wondering when this man sleeps considering he also appears to have approximately 46 jobs.Plus, Tom Cruise randomly makes one worker's day, we remember Saved by the Bell's Mr. Belding, debate some supposedly overrated movies, celebrate celebrity birthdays and once again prove that nostalgia is basically the gasoline keeping this entire show running.It's scams, movies, rock stars, celebrities, questionable logic and grown adults arguing about fictional time-travel mechanics.In other words, another perfectly normal comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Another crisp Tuesday morning with The Rizzuto Show begins exactly where all respectable entertainment should: Otis Nixon baseball cards and the mysterious ecosystem living inside the average American junk drawer.Riz remembers opening pack after pack of baseball cards only to discover another Otis Nixon staring back at him, while cleaning out the house uncovers Garbage Pail Kids, mystery keys, dead pens and a remote control belonging to a television nobody can identify. Naturally, this becomes a discussion about stealing your friend's dad's remote as a prank, because this funny podcast remains deeply committed to helping society.Then we head directly into teenage trouble.After a kid's first big party in Columbus gets busted before he can even properly arrive, the crew starts swapping stories about their own first encounters with the cops. We've got bonfires, house parties, teenagers scattering into the woods, ATV escapes, cops waiting at the bottom of cliffs and the timeless adolescent strategy of running first and figuring out where the hell you are later.Back in St. Louis, Rise Adventure Park has officially closed after only a few seasons, and one of its founders suggests St. Louis might simply not be adventurous enough to keep something like a massive four-story obstacle course alive. Lern takes slight offense. Moon investigates. Riz immediately sees an opportunity for a data center. Somewhere, the spirit of local tourism quietly packs its bags.But then we get on an airplane, and everything gets considerably worse.For the second time in roughly a week, the show has to discuss a passenger allegedly engaging in some extremely inappropriate solo activities during a flight — except this time, it's a woman accused of removing her pants during a Baltimore-to-Miami trip. That launches a much bigger debate about public behavior, double standards, accountability, why anyone else on an airplane should ever have to deal with this nonsense, and whether maybe we should just ground all the planes until humanity can prove it deserves them again.Yes, this funny podcast occasionally asks the important questions.And just when everybody gets sufficiently irritated, Riz discovers something called “irritable male syndrome,” which may finally provide middle-aged men everywhere with the medical-sounding excuse they've been waiting for. It's not an official diagnosis, but that certainly isn't going to stop anybody around here from using it immediately.From Otis Nixon and Garbage Pail Kids to teenage cop stories, St. Louis adventures, airborne insanity and getting grumpier with age, this episode is another reminder that The Rizzuto Show can begin with a kitchen drawer and somehow end up involving the FBI.That's not poor planning. That's a funny podcast.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, Liberty and Emily discuss From Beijing, With Love, The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, Newbourne Park, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Celebrate Book Riot's 15th anniversary with us! Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Keep track of new releases with Book Riot's New Release Index, now included with an All Access membership. Click here to get started today! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: From Beijing, With Love by Bei Lin Newbourne Park by Jennifer Thorne Set the Record Straight by Hannah Bonam-Young The Ship of Death by Kyle Winkler The Siren by Tomi Adeyemi The House of Gardenias by Isabel Cañas The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia by Robert Kolker The Unhaunting by Micaiah Johnson Dodge City by Patrick deWitt The Radiance by Ayad Akhtar Mestra: A Short Story by Madeline Miller Ply by Hernan Diaz Galinda: A Charmed Childhood by Gregory Maguire May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry What We're Reading: If We Never End by Laura Taylor Namey Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison Jenny Will Eat You Now: A Meat Cute by Gillian Daniels Know It All: The Quiz Champion's Essential Guidebook to Learning Anything by Victoria Groce Paperbacks: The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy Buckeye by Patrick Ryan We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor What a Time to Be Alive by Jade Chang Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei The Irish Goodbye by Heather Aimee O'Neill Bestsellers: The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig Taipei Story by R. F. Kuang Burn of the Everflame by Penn Cole The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo The Disappearers by Marlon James The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan Links: The Booker Prize shortlist. Lili Reinhart wants to adapt novella about lesbian vampires. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us Fan MailThis is your cosmic energy report for the week of September 28, 2026.

NASA and Boeing laid out Starliner's return-to-flight plan as SpaceX prepares to leave Dragon behind. I talk through the weak demand signal for crewed flight in LEO, how NASA's commitment to the ISS and commercial stations boxed themselves into this decision, and what to do between here and the Moon.This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by 33 executive producers—Theo and Violet, Miles O'Brien, Joakim, Steve, Warren, Joel, Frank, Joonas, Natasha Tsakos, Will and Lars from Agile, David, Matt, Jan, Matt from Built, Lee, Josh from Impulse, Russell, Heiko, Kris, Tim Dodd (the Everyday Astronaut!), Ryan, The Astrogators at SEE, Donald, Fred, Pat, Stealth Julian, and four anonymous—and hundreds of supporters.TopicsBoeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation - Ars TechnicaAfter being sidelined, Boeing's Starliner to get starring role in NASA's spaceflight plans - Ars TechnicaCongress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations - Ars TechnicaNASA chief concerned China may deny access to parts of Moon's south pole - Ars TechnicaSpaceX's Starship goes orbital, deploying first next-gen Starlinks - Ars TechnicaVast Establishes Lunar Programs Division, Applying Haven Flight Heritage to Power, Communications, and Habitats on the Moon — an update by VASTThe ShowLike the show? Support the show on Patreon or Substack!Email your thoughts, comments, and questions to anthony@mainenginecutoff.comFollow @WeHaveMECOFollow @meco@spacey.space on MastodonListen to MECO HeadlinesListen to Off-NominalJoin the Off-Nominal DiscordSubscribe on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn or elsewhereSubscribe to the Main Engine Cut Off NewsletterArtwork photo by Zhou QuanWork with me and my design and development agency: Pine Works

This week on The Loftus Party podcast Michael Loftus looks ahead to the 2026 midterms after attending Republican events in California and Ohio. With polling pointing to a difficult race, he argues that GOP candidates need a clearer message: show voters what has improved, make the case for finishing the job, and focus on cost of living, crime, immigration, and property taxes. He also urges listeners to get involved instead of assuming turnout will take care of itself.A provocative question from Asmongold leads to a discussion about the people who keep complex systems running and how the justice system handles repeat violent offenders. Michael then turns to SpaceX's Starship, the promise of reusable rockets, and the possibility of building on the Moon and eventually traveling to Mars.There's music, a celebration of a striking live performance, a couple of questionable life hacks, and a preview of Wednesday's livestream.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Continuing our journey into TGIF's most cursed attempts at success, we move on to 1997's Teen Angel. Teen Angel is a bizarre oddity from a pair of Simpsons writers about a dead teenager who comes back to help his best friend through high school, which apparently means teaching him to date.Plus, Marty is the defender of space.Like this? Join our Patreon, reach us on Bluesky, or send us an email: breakingmayberry@gmail.com

The rocket gets the glamor shot, but a launch is only one leg of a much larger network. Before anything leaves Earth, hardware has already moved through factories and specialized facilities. After launch, somebody still has to manage fuel, communications, maintenance, replacement parts, materials, and the trip back.In this solo episode, I follow five pieces of the emerging space supply chain: Rocket Lab's deployable GHOST launch concept, the recurring resupply needs behind SpaceX's Moon-base ambitions, Dawn Aerospace's Loop refueling interface, Cascade Space's deep-space communications capacity, and Anatar's advanced textiles and material traceability. These efforts are at different stages. The logistics question is how to make each handoff dependable enough for the next mission.In this episode:Why a launch site that can move changes capacity planningThe deliveries, repairs, and reverse flows a Moon base would needHow a common docking and fuel-transfer connection could enable orbital refuelingWhy a lost signal is a serious exception in deep spaceThe manufacturing and traceability questions behind spacesuits and other soft goodsLinks and resources:Rocket Lab GHOST: https://rocketlabcorp.com/updates/rocket-lab-unveils-ghost-deployable-launch-system-to-enable-responsive-space-missions-worldwide/Dawn Aerospace Loop: https://www.dawnaerospace.com/latest-news/in-orbit-refueling-loop-networkCascade Space: https://www.cascadespace.com/Anatar: https://www.anatarindustries.com/newsroom/anatar-approved-to-join-the-arm-instituteKaia Rhodes on X: https://x.com/kaiarhodes/status/2049959076197511561Related episodes:NASA Series: Deep Space Logistics: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-everything-is-logistics-73784837/episode/nasa-series-deep-space-logistics-202946654/Building Warehouses in Space with Inversion: https://everythingislogistics.com/building-warehouses-in-space-with-inversion/-----------------------------------------THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!SPI Logistics has been a Day 1 supporter of this podcast which is why we're proud to promote them in every episode. During that time, we've gotten to know the team and their agents to confidently say they are the best home for freight agents in North America for 40 years and counting. Listen to past episodes to hear why.CargoRex is the search engine for the logistics industry—connecting LSPs with the right tools, services, events, and creators to explore, discover, and evolve.Digital Dispatch maximizes and manages your #1 sales tool with a website that establishes trust and builds rock-solid relationships with your leads and customers. 

To give you an idea of the asteroid traffic in our neighborhood, on a mostly cloudy night, through holes in the clouds, in a space of less than 2 hours, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski posted 7 new close approaching asteroid discoveries on the Minor Planet Center's Near Earth Object Confirmation Page

We're starting the week optimistic… which lasts approximately long enough for Moon to explain how an illness tore through his house, knocked him out of the show and may have eventually reached the dog. Nothing says funny podcast quite like debating DayQuil while discussing a sick Chiweenie.Then Riz gets the ego boost of a lifetime when cops shut down a massive high school house party in his neighborhood and he becomes convinced an officer mistook him for one of the teenagers. We also discover that kids are STILL TPing houses, which leads the dads into giving entirely too much tactical advice about proper toilet-paper throwing. Apparently juvenile pranks are a proud American tradition.Elsewhere, a St. Louis-area substitute teacher loses her job after her OnlyFans account is discovered, kicking off a debate about teachers, side hustles and whether certain professions should be held to different standards. Then things get significantly creepier with stories involving hidden cameras in public bathrooms and a custodian allegedly spying on college athletes from inside a drop ceiling. Humanity continues its undefeated streak of making everything weird.And because this funny podcast tackles the issues that truly matter, we eventually arrive at an argument over burgers. What exactly does “plain cheeseburger” mean? Meat and cheese? Meat and bread? Does “regular” mean toppings? Should you just go to McDonald's if that's what you wanted? Somehow ordering lunch now requires contract negotiations.Add in dead neighborhood fish, 90s music, teenage rock stars, parenting adventures and the usual collection of completely unnecessary side quests, and you've got another perfectly normal funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Taylor Swift has new songs, the internet has opinions, and Todd Rundgren apparently woke up ready for violence. He calls Taylor the “pinnacle of mediocrity,” questions her singing, songwriting and dancing, and praises Lady Gaga instead — so naturally our comedy podcast has to determine whether the 78-year-old music legend has a point or is simply yelling at a very successful cloud.Moon has another theory: maybe Taylor is just too happy. We get into why heartbreak, struggle and those giant emotional “mountains” can fuel great songwriting — and what happens when an artist finally gets everything they wanted and has to write songs about being happy instead. Apparently the secret to great art might be having your personal life go horribly wrong. Fantastic.Then it's into the VMAs, where Taylor wins again, Madonna teams up with Sabrina Carpenter, Nirvana gets honored and Riz discovers there are several current pop stars he absolutely cannot identify. We also get Pearl Jam drummer talk, music history and a quick detour into Todd Rundgren's catalog because if you're going to roast Taylor Swift, we're checking your homework too.Finally, this comedy podcast dives into a ranking of the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century. Breaking Bad takes #1, The Wire lands at #2, Game of Thrones is #6 and somehow Better Call Saul sits at #27. Moon also discovers that he can't fully enjoy Reacher because he's too distracted by the way Alan Ritchson walks.Taylor Swift debates, music industry arguments, celebrity news and unnecessary observations about television characters — another perfectly reasonable comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Taylor Swift has new music, and Todd Rundgren has apparently chosen violence. The crew digs into his brutal assessment of Taylor, whether her new songs are actually mediocre, and Moon's theory that maybe she's simply too happy to write the same kind of emotionally charged music. Apparently misery really does love a catchy chorus.Meanwhile, Moon returns after an illness tore through his house and possibly made the jump to the family dog, while Riz gets an unexpected ego boost when cops breaking up a massive teenage house party seemingly mistake him for one of the kids. Sure, buddy. We'll give you this one.Then relationships come under investigation. Should you warn your spouse before completely changing your hair? What happens when Lern's hairy husband suddenly decides to go full mole rat? And why do so many people keep dating partners who look suspiciously like previous partners? We dive into “doppelgänger dating” and discover some of us apparently have a type so specific we're just recasting the same role.We also tackle the horrifying cost of modern weddings, including the national average topping $34,000 and stories of luxury weddings with celebrity chefs, all-night parties and obscene amounts of money spent on flowers. Suddenly the courthouse is looking pretty sexy.Plus, teenage party chaos, parenting stories, celebrity news and an argument over what should be the easiest food order imaginable: a plain cheeseburger. What exactly does “plain” mean? Meat and cheese? Meat and bun? Apparently we need the Supreme Court involved.Taylor Swift debates, household plagues, hairy men, expensive weddings, teenage ragers and grown adults nearly coming to blows over burger toppings — just another perfectly normal episode of The Rizzuto Show.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.Substitute teacher loses job for having an OnlyFans account to pay the bills: ‘Sex sells'‘It's disgusting': Hidden cameras discovered inside restaurant restrooms, employee arrestedOhio Custodian Arrested After Allegedly Hiding In Women's Soccer Team's Locker Room Ceiling And Taking PhotosFive Guys Employee Says a Customer Ordered a “Plain” Cheeseburger — Then Got Angry Because “There's Nothing on It”Instagram's new feature is being called 'humiliating' as users fear it could lead to breakupsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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In July 1969, six frightened people told Fort Worth police they'd been attacked near Greer Island on Lake Worth by something half-man and half-goat, covered in fur and scales, and within days hundreds of armed hunters were combing the woods for a creature nobody has been able to put a name to in the more than fifty years since.==========HOUR ONE: “Jerry Meets A Sasquatch” *** Greer Island, a small patch of land close to where the West Fork of the Trinity River flows into Lake Worth, is heavily shaded by tall oaks, cedar elms and cottonwoods. One of the quietest spots in Fort Worth, the island is home to egrets and owls, perhaps an alligator or two. And maybe, just maybe, the Lake Worth Monster. (The Lake Worth Monster) *** In 2017, Washington State Senator Karen Keiser was quoted as saying, “The incidents continue, they continue, and we have to consider that there is potential cosmic life over the island… it's a very special place, with a cosmic presence.” What exactly happened on Maurey Island in 1947? (The Maurey Island Incident) *** Whether you're a true believer or one of those skeptics, stories of spirits haunting the living from the confines of a Ouija board can chill you to the bone, and make you think twice before communicating with entities from another dimension. (True And Disturbing Ouija Board Stories)==========HOUR TWO: Did she drown? Did she commit suicide? Despite her death in 1889, we still don't know how Maggie Hourigan died. (The Mystery of Maggie Hourigan) *** In 1958 Gavin Gibbons wrote a children's science-fiction novel By Space Ship to the Moon, which featured a UFO landing on Moel Sych in the Berwyn Mountains of North Wales. Sixteen years later, in a surreal case of life imitating art, those very same mountains would again be the focus for a story involving a downed UFO. But this time, some said, the story was for real. (The UFO Case That Refuses to Die) *** What if creatures like gnomes and imps aren't just real – but also evil? (Nasty Gnomes, Evil Imps and Terrifying Tommyknockers)==========SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT'S SHOW:BOOK: “UFO Down?” by Andy Roberts: https://amzn.to/2WYffOYBOOK: “By Spaceship To The Moon” by Jack Coggins: https://amzn.to/2UTayDpBOOK: “The Lake Worth Monster of Greer Island” by Sallie Ann Clarke: https://amzn.to/2JuWICgPHOTO: “Lake Worth Monster” photo by Allen Plaster: https://tinyurl.com/v9xsgwa“The Mystery of Maggie Hourigan” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder by Gaslight: https://tinyurl.com/y4rkkm66“The UFO Case That Refuses to Die” by Nick Redfern for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/tsxhnvu“Nasty Gnomes, Evil Imps and Terrifying Tommyknockers” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/Something Small, Something Evil | Demonic Gnomes That Terrorize and Torment the Living: https://tinyurl.com/wk36c2j“The Lake Worth Monster” by Chris Vaughn for NBC 5 in Dallas/Ft. Worth: https://tinyurl.com/vh6ym6b“The Maury Island Incident” by Erik Rowton for Paranormal Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/yx2vvpv5“True And Disturbing Ouija Board Stories” by Jacob Shelton for “Graveyard Shift”: https://tinyurl.com/yx48q3e6“Jerry Meets A Sasquatch” from Paranormality Magazine“My Boyfriend's Doppelganger” from Paranormality Magazine==========(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for material I use whenever possible. If I have overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it immediately. Some links may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)=========="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46==========WeirdDarkness®, WeirdDarkness© 2026