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Is there a board game theme we can all agree on? We're discussing games with largely inoffensive epicurean themes. Kenan takes us on a pleasant stroll through the rapidly changing landscape of board game subject matter while Alba cooks up a spicy quiz show. Kenan reports back on the many strange sights and inhabitants of Dice Tower West in Las Vegas. Then it's time to chomp on some appetizing food-based games. Discussed: Wingspan, Dro Polter, Downfall of Pompeii, SETI, Ostia, Trajan, Bohnanza, Babylonia, The Quest for El Dorado, Cacao, Sushi Go!, Viticulture, Fromage, Tzolk'in, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Coffee Rush, Nusfjord, Clank!, Everdell, On Mars, Vinhos, Evolution/Oceans, interface design, themes that lighten the load, themes that catfish you, games that are invitations, and how to talk to your Zoomer intern. Bon Appétit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In Episode 250 we discuss the top 5 board game publishers that are represented on our game shelves.Timestamps:00:00 Introduction02:52 Top 5 Publishers On Our Game Shelves06:44 Dire Wolf (Clank! Legacy, Clank! In Space, Dune: Imperium - Uprising)08:54 Wehrlegig Games (Pax Pamir 2nd Edition, John Company 2nd Edition)10:47 CMON Games (Blood Rage, Cthulhu: Death May Die, Rising Sun)12:57 AEG (Cascadia, Calico, Let's Go To Japan)17:17 Eagle-Gryphon Games and (Baseball Highlight 2045, Xenon Profiteer, On Mars, Clockwork Wars) - Buffalo Games (Planted, Oh No! Volcano)18:51 Garphill Games (Architects of the West Kingdom, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Legacy of Yu)22:30 Wise Wizards Games (Star Realms, Star Realm: Rise of Empire, Hero Realms, Robot Quest Arena)25:13 Cosmodrome Games (Smartphone, Inc., Frozen Frontier, Aquatica)25:52 GMT Games (Dominant Species, SpaceCorp: 2025-2300AD, A Gest of Robin Hood) 30:35 REPOS Production (7 Wonders, 7 Wonders Duel, Just One, Fun Facts, Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth)32:07 Awaken Realms (Nemesis, This War of Mine, Lords of Ragnarok, Tainted Grail, Great Wall, Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition)37:04 Roxley Games (Brass: Birmingham, Radlands, Dice Throne, Skyrise)38:51 Stonemaier Games (Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest, Scythe, Viticulture, Tapestry, Apiary, Red Rising, Wingspan, My Little Scythe, Pendulum, Expeditions)44:12 Fantasy Flight Games (Battle for Rokugan, Star Wars Rebellion, Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game, Android Netrunner, Arkham Horror: CCG)48:26 CGE (T'zolkin: The Mayan Calendar, Lost Ruins of Arnak, Codenames, Pulsar 2849, Under Falling Skies)50:28 Final ThoughtsIf you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us at https://www.patreon.com/boardgamehottakesFollow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/boardgamehottakes.bsky.socialJoin our Board Game Arena Community: https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=11417205Join our Discord server at: https://discord.gg/vMtAYQWURd
Hey now and welcome, Cabalists! Today, Steve gives an awesome movie recommendation based on the popular social deduction game Werewolves of Miller's Hollow! Then we cruise right into some of the great games we've been playing, including Finspan, Guards of Atlantis II, On Mars, Teotihuacan, Bloodstones, and a feature review of Brass Birmingham from the great Martin Wallace. Then, after Tony T's world-famous news segment, the gang talks about what makes an enduring classic. Finspan: 00:05:36, Guards of Atlantis II: 00:14:44, On Mars: 00:24:02, Teotihuacan: 00:36:36, Bloodstones: 00:43:23, Brass Birmingham: 00:53:36, News with Tony T: 01:28:53, Enduring Classics: 02:14:51, Check out our sponsors Restoration Games at https://restorationgames.com/. Game Toppers at https://www.gametoppersllc.com/. And CGE at https://czechgames.com/.
Salve galera! Neste episódio o nosso trio de hosts (Bruno, Cris e Fernando) recebe ninguém menos que o designer de jogos mais comentado neste podcast, o senhor Vital Lacerda. O português mais gente boa, responsável por jogos como Lisboa, Kaban, The Galerist, Escape Plan, On Mars, Inventions dentre outros. Tema Principal (14m50s)Instagram: @tipowarE-mail: etipowar@gmail.comYoutube: "É tipo War Show"Soundtrack: Funky Chunk by Kevin Macleod
Um episódio de reencontro! Depois de um breve período paternal, Didi Braguinha e André Rumjanek (finalmente) se reencontram (virtualmente) para falar do que mais gostam: tabuleiros! Se propondo a falar de jogos pouco falados, mas rapidamente desfocando e tentando a responder a grande pergunta do hobby: "Devo ou não devo comprar expansões?". Jogos mencionados neste episódio (mesmo que brevemente): Dragon Cantina, OZOB, High Frontier 4 All, Lisboa, On Mars, ISS Vanguard, Root, Spirit Island, Marvel Champions, Zombicide, Zombicide: Green Horde, Zombicide: Black Plague, Gloomhaven: Presas do Leão, Marvel United, Rallyman: GT, Heat: Pedal To The Metal, Formula D, Arquitetos do Reino Ocidental, Oath, Kick-Ass, Nemesis, Gloomhaven, Arkham Horror: The Card Game, Mansions of Madness, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective e Chronicles of Crime. Para saber mais sobre este episódio e os jogos mencionados: "Jogos Escusos" ou "Quando devo comprar uma expansão?" | Fabuloso Podcast Se você ainda não conhece ou faz parte, fale conosco no nosso Fabuloso Discord E para as redes sociais: Fabuloso Podcast no Instagram
During her military service with the USAF from 1979 to 1983 as a radar specialist, Niara Isley witnessed a UFO at Tonopah Test Range. She was subsequently taken to Area 51, where she was subjected to sexual and other forms of abuse to suppress her memories. Isley was next taken on frequent trips to the Moon over the next three months, where she was exploited as slave labor and a sex worker. The abuses only ended after an extraterrestrial recognized that she was a Lyran starseed, and everything happening to her was being recorded by her star family. Isley wrote about her experiences and how she overcame the traumatic memories in her 2013 book, Facing the Shadow, Embracing the Light. In this Exopolitics Today interview, Niara Isley describes newly restored memories of when she was also taken to Mars during her USAF service in a 20-and-back program. On Mars, she describes her dual duties to study archeological artifacts in the Cydonia region while also being exploited as a sex worker. Facing the Shadow, Embracing the Light: A Journey of Spirit Retrieval and Awakening is available on Amazon --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/exopoliticstoday/support
So we've done a lot of these drafts before, but I don't think we've done one quite like this. This time we're each trying to draft a set of five games that we think you might agree are incredibly overrated. What does that mean exactly? Well that's up for debate too. What isn't up for debate is that you could win $100 just by voting! Before we widen our delta, we talk about Undaunted 2200: Callisto, Nature, and Barcelona. 03:37 - Undaunted 2200: Callisto 13:10 - Nature 23:00 - Barcelona 31:22 - Overrated Games Draft 37:07 - Nemesis 39:10 - Frosthaven 41:15 - Star Wars: Rebellion 45:19 - Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition 47:37 - Earth 48:45 - Wingspan 51:19 - 7 Wonders Duel 52:24 - Mechs vs. Minions 53:17 - Everdell 55:43 - Crokinole 58:52 - Caverna: The Cave Farmers 59:55 - Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon 01:01:24 - On Mars 01:02:45 - Lost Ruins of Arnak 01:04:13 - Catan Vote for who you think won the draft for a chance at a $100 gift certificate at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/vote Get added to the BGB community map at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/map Send us topic ideas at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/topics Check out our wiki at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/wiki Join the discussion at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/discord Join our Facebook group at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/facebook Get a Board Game Barrage T-shirt at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/store
We're talking Kim Stanley Robinson today! And that means we're talking about a lot of the things Kim Stanley Robinson talks about. Joining us are some KSR experts, Matt Hauske and Hilary Strang, the hosts of Marooned! On Mars. We get into some fan love of his writing, ingredients to make a utopia, and forcefully separating billionaires from their money! Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired Marooned! on Mars: https://x.com/podcastonmars https://pod.link/1372460930 Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social Support us on Patreon and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month. patreon.com/wetwired
In this episode of Discover Daily by Perplexity, we explore three major stories that dominated the tech and science landscape. Mistral AI and NVIDIA unveiled Mistral NeMo, a groundbreaking 12 billion parameter language model with a massive 128,000 token context window, setting new benchmarks in AI performance. This AI breakthrough could revolutionize natural language processing across industries.A global cyber outage on July 19, 2024, caused widespread chaos, affecting various sectors worldwide. The incident was traced to a defect in CrowdStrike's "Falcon Sensor" software, highlighting vulnerabilities in our interconnected digital infrastructure. On Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover made an unexpected discovery in the Gediz Vallis Channel, revealing pure elemental sulfur crystals for the first time on the Red Planet. This finding challenges scientists' understanding of Martian geology and opens up new questions about the planet's past. For more information on these stories and other topics, check out these links:Mistral's new NeMo model: https://www.perplexity.ai/page/mistral-s-new-nemo-model-ZNIFHca.RqSrgh9prF2_RQOpenAI's chip development plans: https://www.perplexity.ai/page/openai-wants-its-own-chips-6VcJApluQna6mjIs1AxJ2QGlobal cyber outage: https://www.perplexity.ai/page/global-cyber-outage-Bxmb9z9sRsKq4DTE2YeE.QCuriosity's Martian rock surprise: https://www.perplexity.ai/page/curiositys-martian-rock-surpri-dLs92dvxSIOfzcTxyKML4APerplexity is the fastest and most powerful way to search the web. Perplexity crawls the web and curates the most relevant and up-to-date sources (from academic papers to Reddit threads) to create the perfect response to any question or topic you're interested in. Take the world's knowledge with you anywhere. Available on iOS and Android Join our growing Discord community for the latest updates and exclusive content. Follow us on: Instagram Threads X (Twitter) YouTube Linkedin
On Mars in Gemini, revisiting retrogrades, and blue moons This week we see Mars make its shift into Gemini, near immediately connecting it to Pluto in Aquarius, we reach our second full Moon in Capricorn, and the Sun crosses the final degrees of Cancer. You can book a full-length reading or a full Moon in Capricorn check in with me through my booking page here: https://thewitchatthecrossroads.as.me/schedule.php You can find me on instagram, substack, and more here: https://linktr.ee/corianneder And you can check out my beautiful new website here: www.corianneastro.com
Welcome to Midsommer! And also to Episode 88 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, we'll enjoy near-synchronicity with current news, starting from the news during the Standee Catch-up! After it, Alexis gives us a synchronous look to a STILL BACKABLE RPG kickstarter project, The Hollows. After that, it's time to check the NOT-YET-RUNNER-UP for Spiel des Jahres - Captain Flip, with Alessio. Finally, it's Audrey's turn to give us a glimpse into the future with M.A.R.I. On Mars, an action programming game (that STILL WAITS to be translated to English)! Yeah, well, don't get too used to it, but it's fun to live the present!
"Earth economists, when they measure how bad the potential for exploitation is, they look at things like, how is labour mobility? How much possibility do labourers have otherwise to go somewhere else? Well, if you are on the one company town on Mars, your labour mobility is zero, which has never existed on Earth. Even in your stereotypical West Virginian company town run by immigrant labour, there's still, by definition, a train out. On Mars, you might not even be in the launch window. And even if there are five other company towns or five other settlements, they're not necessarily rated to take more humans. They have their own oxygen budget, right? "And so economists use numbers like these, like labour mobility, as a way to put an equation and estimate the ability of a company to set noncompetitive wages or to set noncompetitive work conditions. And essentially, on Mars you're setting it to infinity." — Zach WeinersmithIn today's episode, host Luisa Rodriguez speaks to Zach Weinersmith — the cartoonist behind Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal — about the latest book he wrote with his wife Kelly: A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?Links to learn more, highlights, and full transcript.They cover:Why space travel is suddenly getting a lot cheaper and re-igniting enthusiasm around space settlement.What Zach thinks are the best and worst arguments for settling space.Zach's journey from optimistic about space settlement to a self-proclaimed “space bastard” (pessimist).How little we know about how microgravity and radiation affects even adults, much less the children potentially born in a space settlement.A rundown of where we could settle in the solar system, and the major drawbacks of even the most promising candidates.Why digging bunkers or underwater cities on Earth would beat fleeing to Mars in a catastrophe.How new space settlements could look a lot like old company towns — and whether or not that's a bad thing.The current state of space law and how it might set us up for international conflict.How space cannibalism legal loopholes might work on the International Space Station.And much more.Chapters:Space optimism and space bastards (00:03:04)Bad arguments for why we should settle space (00:14:01)Superficially plausible arguments for why we should settle space (00:28:54)Is settling space even biologically feasible? (00:32:43)Sex, pregnancy, and child development in space (00:41:41)Where's the best space place to settle? (00:55:02)Creating self-sustaining habitats (01:15:32)What about AI advances? (01:26:23)A roadmap for settling space (01:33:45)Space law (01:37:22)Space signalling and propaganda (01:51:28) Space war (02:00:40)Mining asteroids (02:06:29)Company towns and communes in space (02:10:55)Sending digital minds into space (02:26:37)The most promising space governance models (02:29:07)The tragedy of the commons (02:35:02)The tampon bandolier and other bodily functions in space (02:40:14)Is space cannibalism legal? (02:47:09)The pregnadrome and other bizarre proposals (02:50:02)Space sexism (02:58:38)What excites Zach about the future (03:02:57)Producer and editor: Keiran HarrisAudio engineering lead: Ben CordellTechnical editing: Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic ArmstrongAdditional content editing: Katy Moore and Luisa RodriguezTranscriptions: Katy Moore
Join Michael and Jesse as they take about the games they played this year at TantrumCon! Games discussed in this episode: Lacrimosa, First in Flight, Carnegie, Beer and Bread, A Feast for Odin, Garden Guests, Chinatown, Art Society, Sandbag, Tesseract, Green Team Wins, On Mars, Dead Reckoning Join our Discord Server at THIS LINK Follow us on Instagram with THIS LINK Music by Joystock
In this episode Jacob and I go over our thoughts on the games we played this year, including ones from the BGG top 100. YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTL_pP6m2xgrA2MQ4Xw2KgA BGG blog: https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/11733/board-gaming-doctor 00:00 Intro 04:38 Games we loved from the top 100: Mombasa, Lisboa, Le Havre 17:43 Games we liked from the top 100: The Gallerist, On Mars, Earth, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, Clank! Legacy 28:24 Games that were ok from the top 100: Anachrony, Underwater Cities, Heat: Pedal to the Metal, The Search for Planet X, Nemesis 38:00 Games we are excited to play next: Raiders of the North Sea, Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth, Sleeping Gods, Power Grid 43:00 Favorite games from 2023: Oranienburger Kanal, Earth, Forest Shuffle, Waypoints, Trailblazers: The John Muir Trail, Voyagers, Aquamarine 50:42 Favorite games new to us in 2023: Trekking through History, Meadow, Age of Civilization 59:37 Games we are excited for their release next year: Amazonian Trail (not official title, sequel to Trailblazer), Rolling Realms Redux, Nusfjord expansions
I talk with designers T.K. King, Dennis Northcott, Koltin Thompson about their upcoming game Galactic Cruise and how they decided to design this game. We talk about the game mechanics and why they still enjoy the game. We also talk about what it was like to add Dennis as a third designer after they had been designing their game for a while. Games mentioned in this episode: Galactic Cruise, Settlers of Catan, Cascadia, On Mars, Horseless Carriage, Full Sun, World the Game, and Fiction.Support the showWe talk about board games and tabletop games!Follow us to stay in touch: Youtube.com/boardagaingamesFacebook.com/boardagaingaming
Listen to this episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts Recently Tom Huszti interviewed me for his YouTube channel, the Unitarian Anabaptist. We talked about the importance of geography, archeology, and Greco-Roman history for interpreting the bible, especially the New Testament. Next we delved into early church history, starting with the earliest forms of Jewish Christianity in the first and second centuries. We talked about the Jerusalem church, the Nazarenes, and the Ebionites. Next we considered the persecution many Christians faced at the hands of the Romans for their unwillingness to give their ultimate allegiance to Caesar. The conversation was wide ranging, but what came through over and over is the importance of studying the bible and history in order to restore authentic Christianity and live it out today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KefOimH6ZU —— Links —— For the trip to Greece and Turkey with Jerry Wierwille, see the itinerary here and the map here. Follow Huszti's YouTube Channel, the Unitarian Anabaptist Check out episode 478 Unitarian Anabaptist (Tom Huszti) Get the free class on Early Church History here. Support Restitutio by donating here Join our Restitutio Facebook Group and follow Sean Finnegan on Twitter @RestitutioSF Leave a voice message via SpeakPipe with questions or comments and we may play them out on the air Intro music: Good Vibes by MBB Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) Free Download / Stream: Music promoted by Audio Library. Who is Sean Finnegan? Read his bio here —— Transcript —— This transcript was auto-generated and only approximates the contents of this episode. Sean Finnegan:Hey there, I'm Sean Finnegan. And you are listening to restart studio podcast that seeks to recover authentic Christianity and live it out today. Tom Huszti: Sean Finnegan, welcome to Unitarian Anabaptist. Sean Finnegan: Thanks for having me. Tom Huszti: So this has been a long time in the waiting. I was interviewed by you about 8 months ago and now you're being interviewed by the Unitarian Anabaptist. What a privilege there is. A lot that you have to say today in the limited time that we're going to do this, you just came back from a trip of Italy and Greece. You finished a 500 year history of the early church. There's just so much interrelated and what I would like to do, as we discussed earlier is to relate these things back to the 1st century faith of our early Christian brethren. So to begin, could you give us a summary of the important highlights that you saw on your trip related to church history? Sean Finnegan: Yeah, we ended up going to a number of touristy spots in Greece like Santorini and Mykonos, but we also hit Athens and we came into the port of Piraeus and then got to the city of Athens and and the first thing that I will note. And anyone who's been to the Mediterranean in August will. We'll know what I'm about to say is. That it's hot. It's a very.SpeakerHot part of the. Sean Finnegan: World. So is the Middle East, so it's it's. It's interesting that, you know, like times I've been to Israel, times have been to Greece or Turkey. It is a very different climate than what I'm used to here in New York or you in Ohio there. Tom Huszti: Sure. Yes, yes, absolutely. Uh. Sean Finnegan: And you know that that. Brings to mind the importance of water. Hmm. And something that really stuck out to me in Israel I. Would have never. Gotten that from reading books, but going to Israel you go to these ancient sites and. These cisterns dug into the ground these huge caverns to store water because it doesn't rain that much water is is still a big deal in the 1st century in Rome in.SpeakerYes. Yeah. Sean Finnegan: Other cities Pompeii also got to visit Pompeii. Tom Huszti: A lot. Sean Finnegan: And they brought. The water in through aqueducts and this is. All part of. Their system of city structure, but the question. Who pays for the aqueducts? Who pays for the bath houses? You know, I got to see some bath houses in Pompeii where you had the the frigidarium, the tepidarium and the calidore. Yum, you know, and this is the really cold water, the tepid water and the hot water. And this is just what people did. These are these are public facilities. This actually ended up having a great deal of prestige. As wealthy people step forward and this happened in the 1st century, but also in the the 2nd century, was really the heyday of this period, where wealthy people would come forward and they would donate money to build these public works and they would build other great structures like theaters. And whatnot. And these would then be the ones who controlled the cities and won political office. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: And so it's a very different kind of world, you know, just like I don't think about water, I don't think. About wealthy people building bath houses or pools, right? It's just we, you know, we pay taxes and then, you know, we argue about the police. It's just a very different world. And that was really driven home to me on the trip, you know, in Athens, you're on the Acropolis and you're seeing the Parthenon and some of the other structures that still remain. Tom Huszti: Yes, yes. Sean Finnegan: It's just like this is an utterly different world, and it's just so helpful to remember that Tom because. We don't do that when we read the Bible, what we do is we just. We have what we. Understand the world to be, and then we encounter the scripture. We read the text and then we think to ourselves. How can I incorporate this new information? I'm reading about the book of acts or one of the church epistles. For example, how do I incorporate that into what? I know about the world. This is an automatic process and the problem is if you don't force yourself to stop and say wait, they lived in a different world where they had different. Different language, different politics, different weather, different everything. Then you can easily misunderstand so much of the New Testament I. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: Think that's a? Lot of what we as pastors do is we're trying to help people understand the scriptures. So the trip was really enlightening in that sense. Also, I'll make another quick point about it is that we did manage to go to the very edge of Mount Vesuvius. Now Mount Vesuvius blew in 79 AD 79, and that's what killed all the people in Pompeii and Herculaneum. And so they say it's still an active volcano. But you can take a.SpeakerOK. Sean Finnegan: Bus all the way up to the top and then you hike until. Tom Huszti: What's the way? Sean Finnegan: You get to the very crater. You can look down into the crater and it's just incredible. It's just dirt and some like grass and stuff. There's no like lava. Or anything cool but. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: It's just a weird experience to like, stand on the edge of an active volcano and think, wow. This thing blew. And you could kind of see why ancient people were like, ohh, the gods are angry, right? Because. Like who would it? Tom Huszti: Uh-huh. Well, yeah. Sean Finnegan: There's no one in living memory of seeing this thing blow the last time, and it's just such a otherworldly power, sure. Tom Huszti: How far is Pompeii from Rome? Sean Finnegan: I think about two hours. If I had to guess something like that, so we approached. Tom Huszti: Ohh that far OK. Sean Finnegan: Pompeii, from Naples, Naples, is on the. Coast came at it from the West to get to Pompeii in the east, and then you get to Vesuvius and. At the top. Of the Zeus, you can see everything you can see just miles and miles in different cities and. It's really incredible. Tom Huszti: My, my. So how far did the lava have to travel to make it to Pompeii from? Sean Finnegan: Well, wasn't it? They didn't get buried in lava, actually. Yeah, you, you. You would, I guess you would expect that, but it was, it was a I think it was a toxic gas. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: That swept through it well. Initially it was uh. Was launching projectiles and ash and rock straight up, and then that fell because of the wind onto the city and so that, you know, imagine like a hail storm, but with stones and bigger ones and smaller ones. But then a gas came from the mountain and. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: I believe that's what happened and it killed the people, but then it continued to rain. Ash, I think they said like 20 feet of ash, something crazy. Tom Huszti: Oh wow. OK.Speaker 5And it just. Sean Finnegan: Settled on the city and people just didn't have a reason to go there for anything or I'm. I'm not really sure why, but it just laid there. Century after century, and I'm not sure exactly when. Maybe in the 1700s eighteen, 100 something something around there, they're just like, hey, I think we found. A city over here, you know? Archaeology. Just finally gets started. And what happened, Tom, is they would come against these air pockets. So they're digging through. And they hit like a pocket of air and they're. Like this is so weird. What is this? And someone got the bright idea of. Of squeezing into it some plaster, yeah. Tom Huszti: plaster plaster. OK OK. Sean Finnegan: Yeah, if you have you seen these images? Tom Huszti: Yeah, I have. Yeah. That's what I was wondering. OK. Sean Finnegan: Yeah. Yeah. And so then they let it dry and harden, and then they chip around it and then they see the exact shape of a human being. Sometimes even with fine detail. Of like facial expressions and stuff. That's kind of become their customers when they hit an air cavity. They just do that and there there are lots of these casts of human beings in various positions. And what's crazy about them is it's. Just like a. Plaster, but inside the plaster are that person. 'S actual bones. Tom Huszti: Yeah. I was gonna ask. OK. I was gonna ask, you know, something that you mentioned to me back. Louisville, KY, was the length of time that bones. Yeah. And we were talking about resurrection and literal resurrection. And you mentioned that bones last a long time. That's something I really was impressed by something that Rabbi Tovia singer was speaking out against being cremated because. Because the bones are supposed to be the material that used for in part anyhow to reconstitute us as human beings in the resurrection. So that view is very Jewish in origin, as you well know. Sean Finnegan: Yeah, I tend to agree with Rabbi Tovia singer on that. I'm not a fan of cremation. I'm not going to say it's going to defeat God's ability to resurrect somebody, feel like that's a pretty extreme position to take. But I have learned a lot and I know you've been to Israel and you've stood on the Mount of olives and you see. Well, the the tombs there that are, I don't know why they're buried above ground, but they're all these stone rectangles and or stone boxes, really rectangular shaped boxes and inside are the bones. And it's like, well, what's the deal with this? Why are they so worried about bones or not worried but concerned about bones and focused and. Tom Huszti: Yes, yes. Sean Finnegan: About caring for the bones and you know they have these ossuaries where you know they they found Caiaphas ossuary. Tom Huszti: I know I saw it when I was in Israel. Sean Finnegan: Incredible ornate. Tom Huszti: In the Israel, yeah. In the Israel hit Natural History Museum of all places, back in 2004, I was shocked. Sean Finnegan: Isn't it beautiful? Tom Huszti: Well, well, it's a beautiful ossuary, but what was most shocking was the was the plaque beside it. The plaque, the plaque beside it, said this was the high priest in the days of Jesus that was responsible for his crucifixion. And I thought to see that advertised in the Israel. Sean Finnegan: Oh, what did it say? Tom Huszti: Natural History Museum was just shocking because it's a recognition that this thing happened and this is the man responsible to it. I was, yeah, that was the last thing I saw in the museum on my way out because we were we had a very short time frame and it was at the entrance of the. Museum so we saw it as we exited. Very cool. Fascinating, yes. Sean Finnegan: Very cool. And you see that stuff? You just say to yourself. These are real. These are true stories. This is history, you know. You see. The the litho what is that Lithos Stratos? You know that that street that is beneath Jerusalem, that was discovered where this is where Jesus was beaten or. He was. It's the layer that goes back to the 1st century. It's kind of underneath the city of Jerusalem. You see these things you say to yourself like I like. I've stood there, Tom. Like, I know for sure. Now. Vesuvius is a real volcano. I looked into the. Tom Huszti: Yes, yes. Crater. Yes, yes. Yeah, right, right.SpeakerIt's like not that. Sean Finnegan: I ever really doubted it, but like when you do it and you stand there and you see and you, you know, you see the cast and the horror on the faces of the. Tom Huszti: Right. Sean Finnegan: People in Pompeii, you're like. OK, this is not a story, this is history. Tom Huszti: Yeah, no. Sean Finnegan: And it's very powerful. But back to your point about resurrection and bones. What really started me on this, this is going to be a really random source, is a Freakonomics podcast episode. They're talking about cremating animals. The guy was saying, when it comes to cremating animals, they it was, they were trying to do an investigation. The big question they had was. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: Do they actually give you the ashes for your animal? This is like a pet crematorium. Or are they just like scooping random ashes? And you know what? What's really going on here? Right. And they were talking it. So they got into the subject of cremation and bones. And they're like, well, you know, what really happens to the crematorium is they burn, you know, the human or the animal or whatever. And then the bones are there. Tom Huszti: Right. Sean Finnegan: Their bones are not burnable, they just, they're just there. Tom Huszti: Right, right, right. Sean Finnegan: So what they do is they grind them. Tom Huszti: That's what Tovia said, too. Sean Finnegan: And after they grind them down, that's the ashes that you get. They're actually ground bones. Tom Huszti: Ohh, is that right? Sean Finnegan: That they return to you. At least, that's what this podcast episode was saying. It was talking about animals, but like, it also talked about humans, whatever. And it and it made me think to myself, like, wait a second. I always just assumed the bones desiccated. I assumed that they disintegrated over. Tom Huszti: OK. Ohh you did. OK. Sean Finnegan: Time and then it it it kind of informed my thinking about, you know, the James Ossuary and the Caiaphas archery and some of these other ossuary findings, like some of the more sensationalized ones said we think we found Jesus and all this, which has been pretty much not accepted by scholarship but anyhow.Speaker 5The idea of. Sean Finnegan: Bones lasting for centuries and centuries was just like common sense to ancient people because they didn't have this separation. Like we have from our dead. Like we don't, we don't. Know but like they would go. Sean Finnegan:A year later. Sean Finnegan: Back to the tomb and they would pick up the bones and put them in a. Little bone box. Space is limited and you want to fit as many ancestors, descendants, relatives in the same cave or tomb as possible. But you're not looking to, like, mix all the bones together. So yeah, it just kind of made sense to get a box the width of the skull and the length of a femur, and to use that to, you know, organize people and just scratch on the side, the person's name. And so I think this all goes back to whether we're talking about the amount of olives. Tom Huszti: Yeah, yeah. Tom Huszti: Oh, OK. Sean Finnegan: To this day in Jerusalem, or we're talking about the austrias in the 1st century this or or Tovia Singer's preferences. This all goes back to the same thing which is this. Really strong belief in resurrection and so burying your dead in a way that preserves the bones or cares for the bones is is in a sense, I think a an act of faith that the Jewish people have always had. Again, I'm not saying that cremation is a sin or that it's going to damn somebody to, you know, eternal judgment or, you know, that's not where I'm going here, but I think. Tom Huszti: Yes. No. Sean Finnegan: We should ask the question, is this really this is really fit as Christians like I know it's less expensive. OK, but like is it? Is that always the right course of action? Just cause something's less expensive. So I I think burial. Traditional burial it can be an act of faith because you're saying I'm going to Mark Toome. I'm going to rise. Out of this to. Him so. Tom Huszti: Let's get back to your your trip details. I'm trying to picture this, the framework of well picture this setting that the acts of the apostles was written in. Is Athens set on a hill? Sean Finnegan: Well, the Acropolis certainly is. Tom Huszti: The acropolises OK. Sean Finnegan: Yeah. So, yeah, there there are definitely hills there. The propolis is a very high point in the center of Athens and it is kind of steep. I don't know what you call like a plateau that just. Rises out of nowhere. In the old days, that would be the spot where you would retreat to if Athens were invaded, because it can be held much longer. Tom Huszti: Apostle Paul preached in that place. Sean Finnegan: Well, I think he preached. On Mars. So which is right next to it. So it's yeah, it's right. Right nearby. Tom Huszti: Can you imagine the possible Paul in that setting? Sean Finnegan: Yeah. Well, I mean, the interesting thing about the apostle Paul at the Areopagus or Mars Hill is that he is looking at all these statues. And I when I was in Athens, I got to go to the museum. Tom Huszti: Can you picture him there? Carry out this OK? Sean Finnegan: The Acropolis Museum, which is. Walk. We got there and we went inside and you see all these statues? These are all these statues that they found? Of course. The Acropolis had actual temples to gods on it and that wouldn't have been unusual. There would be temples and statues of gods all throughout the city. And that's not weird for Athens. All Greco-roman cities had statues to gods, shrines, little other ways of worshipping their gods, you know, depending on what gods we're talking about, they're all a little different. You know, there's Paul. He's not really from the West, you know, for and for his perspective as as somebody from. Horses and cilicia. Athens is the. West, we say Athens is east, but for him that's. Tom Huszti: OK, he's from us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sean Finnegan: West and you know, so for Paul, he would have seen plenty of this throughout his travels and stuff. But for whatever reason, his heart was just so troubled in Athens, he saw that people just in the city just given to this in Act 17, he finds this altar to the unknown God and he's like. All right, well, here's. Here's someplace where I can hook on a gospel presentation. Really good speaking. But it's interesting too, going back to our former conversation about burial and resurrection, when it comes to the part where Paul says that God has furnished proof by raising that Jesus is the Messiah by raising him from the dead. The Athenians had no trouble hearing that Jesus would be the Messiah. I don't think that was like a really understood category to them. They wouldn't have a hang up about that as him being a king or whatever. But when he says. He has given proof by raising him from the dead. Suddenly they're just like this is ridiculous. Everybody knows you don't want your body back again. This is stupid. I'm out of here. And like the Greeks, the Greeks, they're standard approach to the afterlife. Tom Huszti: Ohh yeah yeah. Sean Finnegan:That's right. Sean Finnegan: Was to get rid of the body. It was not to keep the body or to get the body back. Restored and renewed. And so this. This was always a big issue between Jews and Christians. Agree on. Over against the the Greco-roman, whether the philosophers or just like the folk religion of like going down to Hades and you know all the stuff they, you know, they had stories about all that. Tom Huszti: Have you been to Cesarea Philippi in Israel? Sean Finnegan: Yeah, it's like they call it banya or. Tom Huszti: Something banyas. Yes, banyas. And actually, I guess you know why it's called banyas. Sean Finnegan: Well, there was a. Shrine to the God pan there. Tom Huszti: Right pan, right. So the original name was panyas. But the Arabs have a hard time pronouncing the sound, so they change it to bond. Yes, believe it or not. But yes, yes, yes. So now. Sean Finnegan: Well, that makes sense. Thank you. Tom Huszti: You learn something. From me for a change, right? OK. Sean Finnegan: There it is. There it is. Yeah. I have been there. It's a beautiful spot. And you know, again, talking about the heat and the the arid climate of Israel to have a place with a beautiful water supply. Tom Huszti: Oh my. Sean Finnegan: Like sensory flip by where you say, OK, this is it. This is going to be a big spot. This is going to be a place where people are going to want to go and build things and live because there's plenty of water. Tom Huszti: Yes. Yeah. Tom Huszti: Yeah, it's beautiful there, isn't it? Maybe the most beautiful place in Israel. In my my view, as far as the physicality of it, that's arguable, but. Sean Finnegan: I don't know. I loved Dengeki. I thought it was. Tom Huszti: And Betty was beautiful too. Yes. Also water the the shrine. So do you remember what the shrine of Pan looked like? And and with the details about what was happening there. Sean Finnegan: Yeah, yeah. No, no, remind me. Tom Huszti: OK, there's a a graven image of pan on the the wall of the the side of Mount Hermon, the base of Mount Hermon there. And there is a cave right next to it. And there would would have been an altar for a member, correct? There would have been an altar in front of The Cave, and they were doing sacrifices to the God pan, and they were throwing the sacrificed beast into The Cave and the Jordan River begins flowing from that area. So. There was some kind of a relationship to throwing the sacrifice into The Cave and and whether or not the blood came out at the Jordan River that cave. On the side of the mountain, Mount Hermon was supposed to be the gateway to the underworld. Sean Finnegan: It is certainly the case that the Greeks and the Jews looked very differently at the dead. The Jewish mindset was at the dead are resting and they had the term show all for that. The sort of realm of the dead where all the dead are they're they're awaiting, they're asleep, they use that language. Lot, even in the the Christian New Testament. Tons of references, a lot of our translations, just like get rid of it and they say died or. Something like that. But that it actually says fall asleep or fell asleep. Ohh which you know the a Greek person wouldn't say that they would say no, they're in a different realm. And they're in the underworld of Hades, and Hades is not just a realm. It's also the name of a God who's in charge of all of those shades or departed souls. And you know, so, like, these are very different views. You know what I mean? And it's sad to say, but Christianity has more often than not. Agree with the pagans over against the early Christian. Of view, which is a shame, right? Tom Huszti: Unfortunate indeed. Yes, it is in the the first conversation I had with Tovia Singer, we hit upon so many touch points that we agree upon resurrection life in the age to come. The term Messiah is something that we can talk freely about. There's so many things from my Christian view that actually are terms that you can talk to Jewish people in this present day about, especially those who are inclined to study the Old Testament. And that's a conversation that most nominal Orthodox kind of Christians cannot have with Jewish people. The the rule seems to be that Jews have to leave Judaism in order to come over to Christianity. But strangely enough, we received Christianity from the Jews. And so the context that you're you're seeing here is something that is is very interesting. In restoring Christianity to its 1st century foundations, which is your your big desire so. Sean Finnegan: Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's what, that's what I'm all about, is trying to clear away the accretions of the Middle Ages and the post Christian. Developments and getting back to that original earlier version of Apostolic Christianity, you know what? What would the church have thought about this in the 1st century rather than in the 2nd and following centuries? The the subsequent centuries? And, you know, I'm not against technology. Renovation. But I am against changing our beliefs from what the New Testament says and that has happened a lot and it happens very slowly. And I've had a a a desire to understand that development. For a long. Time and did my masters on the subject and was really surprised to see that, you know, people are just not asking this question. Like I'm I'm a member. Of the even to this day of the the Boston area patristic society. OK. And so I get emails and, you know, invitations to attend their meetings, which I attended when I lived out there. And, you know, they're held either at Harvard or at Brown University or sometimes at Providence College as well as three schools have good patristic good, early church history programs. And you know so. They they issue these papers a couple. Of times a year. I don't know like 3 or. Four to five times a year and you know you have lint chocolates and a little wine and a little cheese. And you know, you sit around and, you know, just kind of listen in with these, you know, somebody presents on some aspects some facet of. Early church history. Three, I've been a member of this for I don't know a decade they have never done. A doctrine not once. Not once. There's no interest at all in doctrinal development or this mindset that says, hey, let's get back to living out our faith the way they lived out there is, as far as how we treat people or how we think about the government or whatever practical area. There's zero interest in that. In the the more liberal side of the fence and then on the conservative side of the fence, you have the Catholics that really dominate. And not that there aren't liberal Catholics. I'm sure there's plenty of them too. But I'm talking about the more conservative minded ones and they're always just trying to show that what the church teaches now is really what Christians have always believed. So it's apologetic. It's not OK, let's see what happened. It's more like, alright, well, this person like, for example Ignatius of Antioch, there's going to be an amazing presentation on this. Tom Huszti: Come on. Sean Finnegan: At the Unitarian Christian Alliance Conference next month, Nathan Massey has done some cutting edge research on Ignatius of Antioch. But anyhow, people, Catholic scholars in particular love Ignatius, and they'll go to Ignatius and they say, well, see, Ignatius calls Jesus God. Therefore, the Trinity is true as we, you know, 20 centuries later. Teach it it. It's it's all true because Ignatius said Jesus is God, and there's just more problems with that than you can shake a stick at, which you know I won't get into unless you're interested. But like my my point is. There's very few scholars who are honestly going to the sources of ancient Christians. Whatever books have survived right, and saying what were they saying? And and just taking them on their own words, their own terms, giving them the credit that they knew what they. Were talking about even. If it disagrees with what the? First later said was the right way to think, right? So let me let me just give. You one example. So for example. Justin Martyr, Justin Martyr doesn't fit with anybody, right? I mean, he's just idiosyncratic. He has his own way of thinking and talking. About things, he will even call Jesus, the second God sometimes. And you know he doesn't. Think at all that. Jesus, even in his preincarnate state, was equal. With God the. Father ever, you know, at the same time he's he's sort of like very much like in mesh with the Jews and and like very much talking to the Jews and at. The same time, incredibly rude. And it, you know, by what I would say, it's totally inappropriate. You know, some of the ways he he talks to in in one of his books, the book against Trifle. So yeah. So anyhow, Justin Moorer, you know, a church historian will come along and say, Justin, Monta was just. Tom Huszti: Ohh trifle.Speaker 5You know, he was reaching in the dark for the doctrine of the Trinity. He just didn't quite have the language yet to express it, and it's like. Sean Finnegan: No, he wasn't. He had a he had a mature developed view of who he thought Jesus was. And it's just different than yours, man. Just just. Allow him to be him. Tom Huszti: He might have squeeze everybody into the. Sean Finnegan:You know. Tom Huszti: Same mold, huh?SpeakerHe's not. Sean Finnegan: Hinting at anything he thinks he knows what he's talking about. You're not. Tom Huszti: Right. Tom Huszti: He wore the philosopher's robe, didn't he? Sean Finnegan: He did, and he had a he had a a little meeting spot in Rome above a, you know, above a shop, you know, he had a little apartment or whatever, and he'd he'd meet with people and he'd teach him what he thought was the definitive understanding of the Christian religion, just because nobody else later on agrees with him doesn't mean he was just like. Undeveloped or something, you know, he he believes what he believed, and it's just different and that's OK. And what I see when I look at Justin or Irenaeus or, you know, a lot of these guys is I see development. And when I see development, I think to myself, let's rollback the tape and see the trajectory overtime. Yeah. What is the vector? Where is this heading? So if I see you know a couple of points on a line that go in One Direction, I could say OK, I make a measurement here, make a measurement here, connect those dots and trace it backwards. What's there in the? 1st century and that's that's what I love to do. That's what I want to know. That's my my research, my investigation to find. What's the earliest beliefs and practices and that I'm crazy enough to think we can live that out today? Tom Huszti: Yeah, you are a strange bird, but I agree with you I. Guess I am too so. Sean Finnegan: Well, and The thing is we both came to this from very different milieus, different backgrounds, denominations and so forth. But we both recognize that it makes logical sense that if the church has gotten off track. Then you know the best way to do it is to reform back to the, you know, whatever we can recover of the original version of Christian. Tom Huszti: Right. Sean Finnegan: And you know, that's. Yeah, it makes sense to me. A lot of people don't. They don't believe in Restorationism. They they say, oh, that's you can't go back there. It's impossible and it's like. Tom Huszti: That's so true. Sean Finnegan: Well, well, why let? Tom Huszti: Me. Share you with you my thought on this. So the the 1st century church was waiting for the return of Jesus and it didn't happen in their age, but. We who claim to desire the return of Jesus need to be postured as they were. Like I'm I'm just. Wondering you know. Like if Christianity gets far enough away from their origins, it's an awful lot to ask Jesus to return when we've strayed so far from. What our forefathers believed so that the church that I was put out from is called the Apostolic Christian Church Nazarene. And the term Nazarene is a a term that is very, very honorable, I would say. But when you think in terms of the early church, the term Nazarene meant Jewish believers in Messiah. And I still call myself a Nazarene, even though my community has, for the by and large, has disfellowship. Hit me. I'd like to to trace my origins back to the the Nazarenes my my Jewish Brethren, believers in Jesus, and this is something that you touched upon in your. Your church history. You think you could fill us in a little bit about the views of different Jewish Christians, Abbey Knights and Nazarenes and. Any others that would kind of fit that category maybe give us a little summary. Sean Finnegan: Yeah, to do work on the Ebionites or the Nazarenes is to read late reports. By their enemies. I don't know of a single document that survives other. Than I would. Argue that, dedicate, I would say that dedicat is a Nazarene document. Tom Huszti: Oh wow. Sean Finnegan: It reads that way to me. It has a low Christology. It's very Jewish, you know, it's very Christian, you know. And it it just seems to kind of fit that that mindset. So I would argue that the dedicate would be a Nazarene document. Now these these terms, Nazarene, it's actually in the New Testament. The sect of the Nazarenes. Where was that? They said. Tom Huszti: Right, Paul Paul, was it? Yes, they did. That's correct. Yeah. Yes. Sean Finnegan: That about Paul, right? Yeah. So that's old school. Right. But what we can kind of gather is from these late reports and when I say late, I'm talking like from the year 375, we get this heresy hunter named Epiphanius of Salamis and he writes a book called The Panarion. You know, so this is this is riding 300 years after all the action and the excitement has already happened, right? Where's where's the action? Where's the parting of the ways? As James Dunn's famous book called it? Well, it's really in that post 70AD pre. Justin. So like between like 70 AD when the temple. Tom Huszti: Yeah, yeah. Sean Finnegan: Got destroyed and the Romans conquered Jerusalem to the time of Justin Mortar where, like he begins in, you know, maybe like 135 was the 2nd revolution. Right. So you have the the bar Copa revolt. Tom Huszti: Right. Sean Finnegan: Actually, some people might call it a third revolution because there was another one in between the two, but whatever. It wasn't in. Jerusalem. But you know, in that period there, what is that like? Probably like 60-70 years something happened and there was a a splitting away and Gentile. Tom Huszti: Ohh there was OK Ohh. Sean Finnegan: Christians and Jewish Christians. Stops influencing each other. And it's a really murky period of time. Scholars have all kinds of theories from there was never a parting of the ways. What are you? Talking about to it. Tom Huszti: Uh-huh. Well. Sean Finnegan: It happened because of this or because of that. But let's just put it this way, the the the official Christian line on it has always been since. The time of Eusebius. That the followers of Jesus when they. Saw the Roman legions coming. Abandoned the city of Jerusalem. And if that's true and they, he says they went to power, they went to this other area. If that's true, then the native Jewish people who stayed and fought and died. And then many of them also survived. Would not very much like the Jewish Christians because. They didn't stay, they didn't like. Tom Huszti: So you're talking for 70, you're talking about from 70 AD that the Christians would have left. Sean Finnegan: Yeah. Yeah. So, like, after the city is conquered by the Romans, things kind of settle down politically. I mean, I guess the last holdouts are at Masada up until what, like 7370? Tom Huszti: Right. Sean Finnegan: 4 but like. Then that OK, this period ends, the Romans have reasserted their dominance. But you know a lot of Jewish people survive and and. And they're not looking at the Jewish Christians positively, they're looking at them negatively. And we have this Birkat hominem. Yes. Are you familiar with that? It says for the apostates, let there be no hope and uproot the Kingdom of arrogance speedily. And in our days, may the Nazarenes and the sectarians perish, as in a moment let them be blotted out of the book of life. Tom Huszti: I am. Sean Finnegan: And and so forth. So it's like OK by the time of Justin, he makes mention of this and he says you. Know why? Why? You guys cursing us in your synagogues, right? So like Justin knows about it, so. It's got to be before 160 and it's. Probably after the month. Tom Huszti: So let me ask you this, would that curse? Be specific to Jewish believers in Messiah Jesus. She will. Or would it? That was specifically for them because they were thought they were thought to be created. Sean Finnegan: Well, they they would be the ones to go to the synagogue. So this is something. That would be spoken. Publicly in the synagogue, along with the other blessings and. Tom Huszti: OK. Ah. So that would discourage them from attending synagogue. Sean Finnegan: It would expose them as well because they wouldn't be able to recite that. Tom Huszti: Oh, they wouldn't be able to recite it, OK. Sean Finnegan: You can't curse yourself, you know. It's just awkward. Tom Huszti: Yes, so so so.SpeakerYou know, right. Tom Huszti: During the time of the Barkha revolt, the Jewish believers in Yeshua Miss Jesus would not have taken up arms against the Romans and this would have been a further offense against the. Against the revolution, revolutionaries against the Jews. Sean Finnegan: Well, you know. We we see we see rumblings even before in the I don't know if it's the Jewish war or the antiquity of the of the. Jews with Josephus. He talks about how there was a power vacuum just for a moment in Jerusalem and during that power vacuum when the old governor had, I don't know if he died or just had left or whatever happened to him. But the new governor, I think, was Albinus, was on his way then the non Christian. Jewish people were able to gang up on James, and when James was fairly old brother of Jesus and that they were able to more or less lynch him, you know, they just got a mob together and they they were able to to kill. Tom Huszti: A friend. Sean Finnegan: Him. So there was already animosity before the war. War starts in 66, you know it. It did blow up from time to time. We see it in the book of Acts. Right. There's a lot of animosity between the Jewish Christians, the non Christian Jews. OK, so this this continues. But after the war.SpeakerOK. Tom Huszti: Right. Sean Finnegan: It it's it seems like there's not even much real space left for Jewish Christians to even go to a synagogue with this curse that's put there specifically against them. Again, the war is such a massive historical event. The Jewish War of Rome, 66 to 74, where I mean, how many kinds of Judaism. Do we know? About from the 1st century, you have your Sadducees, you have your Essenes, you have the rebellious types. They call the 4th philosophy and Josephus. You have your Pharisees, and then you have the Christian Jews. Tom Huszti: They would be the zealot. Would there be the zealots or the sikari? Sean Finnegan: Yeah, yeah, that would be the 4th philosophy. The Zealots, the sicari, all the revolutionary types. Right. So you have like, five types of Judaism. And so the Christian Jews. Tom Huszti: OK. OK. Sean Finnegan: Five and the Pharisaic Jews survive, but the Sadducees, the Essenes, and the revolutionaries. They're all gone, or completely disempowered. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: After the war, so now you have pharisaic Judaism, which eventually kind of develops into rabbinic Judaism, and you have the Jesus Jews. And they gave birth to the Christian movement, which is kind of like, it's almost like in a sense gone public like a like a corporation offers an IPO. And then, like, the, the company has kind of a life of its own, independent of what the founder, really. Tom Huszti: Yeah. OK.SpeakerHis vision was. Sean Finnegan: And maybe that's a good analogy for it, cause like Christianity goes pretty much Gentile and there it's Jew and Gentile together in the 1st century for sure. But like as we get into the 2nd century. The kinds of literature that survive from Christian pens. It's just like either ignorant of Jewish practices and interpretations of the Old Testament or outright antagonistic, where you get like documents from like the middle of the 2nd century. Like I'm thinking of the Epistle of Barnabas, and some of the other documents in the Apostolic Fathers, where like they're just like you, Jews are crazy because you kept the law. And it's like, how could you ever say that if you're if you're a little more aware of what the, you know, that that was the law that God gave to the Jewish people to keep, why would they be crazy to keep it? Right? So it seems like there's just a parting of the ways. And that's the term James Dunn used for it. And, you know, we just wish so much that we had. We have more information about it. We just kind of get these little bits and pieces. We don't know exactly how it happened. We just know that it happened.SpeakerOh yeah. Tom Huszti: Some hostile witnesses, of all places. Sean Finnegan: So now you've got. These Jewish Christians, Tom and they're kind of isolated in the east, they're not well loved by the Gentile Christians or they don't have access or I don't know, for whatever reason, there's just not a lot of interaction, which is tragic in my opinion. Tom Huszti: Yeah. Yes.SpeakerBut they're also. Sean Finnegan: Alienated from their own Jewish brothers and sisters because they're not allowed in the synagogue and you know, if you're in a little village and there's only one place putting shoes on horses. Or doing some other craft or trade. And they don't want to sell to you. Guess what? You're in trouble, you know, because you're one of the Nazarenes or. One of the Ebionites. Tom Huszti: Sure, sure. Sean Finnegan: So you know these people had a really tough go of it and you know, we hear about them later on and they may have survived pretty well. Outside the Roman Empire, in the east, in the Persian Empire. But we don't know much about that either, so it's really hard to do scholarship on them. There are more questions than answers, but my best guess, OK. And that's really what it is, is it's a guess is that the community of James, the brother of Jesus, they didn't really get on board. With what Paul? And Gentile Christianity was doing they got on board to a certain degree and and this we see this conflict in the book of. Acts 15 and then later. Tom Huszti: Yeah, 15. Sean Finnegan: On in .2 what happens is.SpeakerThey say all. Sean Finnegan: Right. Well, you you can have. Gentiles and they don't need to keep the law. Fine, but we Jews are going to keep the law. Still, I don't think Paul got on board with that. Paul would say Jews don't need to keep the law either. Obviously they can. Anybody can keep the law. Who wants to? But Jewish Christians, I should say I should be clear. I'm not talking about just Jews in general. I'm saying Jews who believe in Jesus because of a covenantal understanding expressed later. Tom Huszti: Yes, yes. Sean Finnegan: In the Book of Hebrews, whoever wrote Hebrews that it is clear that Jewish Christians don't need to keep the law. James and his group of Jewish Christians disagree with. That viewpoint, they say no. This is the covenant. We're Jewish Christians. We're going to continue to keep the law. So I think this James Community is what left during the war and survived north and east of Jerusalem. And that then this community had a doctrinal division where some of them. Accepted the Gospel of Matthew, which possibly was in Hebrew or Aramaic. You know some language that the people could readily read. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: There are lots of hints of that in the patristic literature. People talk about it quite a bit. They don't talk about any other writing. From the new. Testament, all the other books in the New Testament. They never mentioned as being in Hebrew, just Matthew. Tom Huszti: Wow, just Matthew cross. Sean Finnegan: It's the only one. Yeah. So why would you? Put it in Hebrew, whether it was written in Hebrew originally or translated into Hebrew. Why would why? Because you have Jewish people. Reading it. You read the Gospel of Matthew. What does it begin with? A genealogy? Who loves genealogies? The Greeks? No, they don't care about genealogies. The Jews love genealogies. So Matthew begins by making a convincing argument that this Jesus of Nazareth has a claim. And. Could possibly be the Messiah because of his ancestry. That's how it starts. So you've got this community and in. The Gospel of Matthew as well as. Luke, you have. The virgin birth. You have the virgin conception and you know this idea that in in some way Jesus is the son of God.Speaker 5Some of the. Sean Finnegan: Jewish Christians in this community don't believe that. And others do, and that is, and again, this is a reconstruction based on hostile sources like Epiphanius, and you siberius, and there are plenty of later ones too. Like Jerome mentions this stuff and it, and and it's even possible that these Jewish Christians survive. Arrived and they there was some interaction with them. It wasn't just all hearsay. OK, but it's possible for us to know today how reliable these reports are. But so you have the James, Jewish Christians. They go away from Jerusalem and they settle in north and east of of Jerusalem. And they have this difference. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: Among them the ones who? Believe in the virgin birth. Are Nazarenes the ones that do not? Are Ebionites both of them believe that Jesus is a human being? Tom Huszti: Right. Sean Finnegan: Whom God anointed as a Messiah. They both believe in crucifixion. Both believe in resurrection. Both believe in Ascension. Both believe in the coming Kingdom. So the question is, you know whether he is biologically. Whatever that means, you know, like, if there was this miracle to get him started or if he was the son of Joseph. OK, so that's that seems to be the disagreement there between the Nazarenes and the Ebionites. And here's here's just one more thing to complicate it, make it worse is some Christians will call both groups of unites. Tom Huszti: Yeah, that's a mistake. Sean Finnegan: And they're saying, well, some of you guys believe this and some even nice believe. That it's like. Tom Huszti: Yes, right. Well, it seems to me the very, very important doctrines they agreed upon. And I know I noticed in the Apostle Paul's writing, he never mentions the virgin birth, he does emphasize. The authority that Jesus received through the resurrection, most notably in Romans chapter one, that's where. Sean Finnegan: Yeah. I mean, I think the closest pull comes is Galatians 4 four, where it says when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son born of a woman born under the law. Sort of like the closest. To it you. Can interpret that a number of different ways. Tom Huszti: So it's fascinating to understand that we've actually lost connection to a large extent to the original source of our our gospel message. And I suppose that makes that makes your challenge of restoring 1st century Christianity even a bit. Your task you're trying to recreate these things based on what you know and based on hostile witness accounts. Sean Finnegan: Here's the good news. We still have the Bible. We have the New Testament. You know, we can read it, we can see. And it's not like the New Testament is hiding or covering over any controversy like the The Paul. James, things is is is plain as day in Galatians like pull, yes, pull lays it out, you know, and I and. I'm going with Paul on. This I'm going to. I'm going to disagree with James. I think he was a great. And but I think he just didn't have the full understanding of how Jesus, through his actions, how he affected our relationship with God and and this whole understanding of covenant. So I'm going to go with Paul on that. What happened among Pauline Christianity is. A development that slowly moved away from the New Testament read from a Jewish perspective because I think Pauline Christianity basically got swamped by Gentiles. Tom Huszti: Yeah, I think so. Tom Huszti: Too and I. Sean Finnegan: Think the leaders. Of Pauline Christian. Probably not in his day, but maybe within a generation or two. Became highly educated intellectual gentiles who were financially well off enough to get an education because education costs them money. Otherwise you got a farm or you got to do a craft or a trade, right? So is that is that sort of movement occurred away from? Apostles and their appointed success. More towards these intellectuals. We get Christian doctrine shifting away from what's in the New Testament into these more Greek and Roman ways of thinking. And that's kind of an area where I've been doing a lot of work recently. Trying to understand. Especially on Christology, how would a a Greek or a Roman person? How would they hear the story of Jesus? What would that sound like to them? And so I've done a lot of work on that and I'm going to be presenting that in a month as well at the UCLA conference. Yeah. But that will be out later on YouTube as well. If you don't make. Tom Huszti: Ohh at the OK. But that should be very interesting. Sean Finnegan: It to the conference, you know. Tom Huszti: I bought my ticket already. Ohh, good. Yes. Yes. I'll look forward to that. I guess we probably shouldn't talk too much about it in advance because we have to. We don't want to. Take the the. Thunder out of your presentation. Sean Finnegan: Well, I I just mentioned, I'll just mention one thing, OK. So let's imagine you're a non believer, you're a Pagan. You've worshiped the gods all your life. You've heard stories about Apollo getting banished down to Earth and having to work as a servant. You've heard stories about Zeus coming down impregnating women. You've heard stories about. Tom Huszti: Hercules. Dad. Huh, Hercules. Dad. Sean Finnegan: You've heard stories about Hercules as well, and Asclepius was originally a human who got deified, and he got deified to such a level that he became essentially an Olympian God, that that level of. Elevation and exultation was possible. So you hear all these stories about these gods who come down to become men, or appear as men being made in appearance as a man, right? Like this is this. Is their vocabulary. That's their world. And then you hear lots of stories. Tom Huszti: Yes, yes, right. Sean Finnegan: Humans, who had a beginning normal humans, but were so exceptional that they got to skip Hades and instead go to Olympia or instead go to some heavenly realm like. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: You this is just your.Speaker 5World these are all your stories. Tom Huszti: OK. Uh-huh. Sean Finnegan: Now you're going to hear a story about a miracle worker, Jewish miracle worker. Who was executed came back to life. And now lives in heaven. And is immortalized. You have a category for that. Kind of a being. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: It's called a God. Tom Huszti: Yeah. Yes. Sean Finnegan: Like in our in our language. Today we would say a lower case G God, right? They didn't fuss with capital. A lowercase. You know, like everything's capital pretty much and all the inscriptions we have in the manuscripts from this period, right. So they would just say, oh, that yeah, we. I know, I know. Plenty of other beings that are like that too. Yeah, they're they're called. Gods. And so you're you're trying to say that Jesus is a man and now he's become. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: God. So like you could just imagine a like an evangelism encounter going like that. And if you don't have that Jewish sensibility to say, well, hold on a second.SpeakerThere's only. Sean Finnegan: One God, and that's the supreme God who created everything. You can just see like Christian saying well. Yeah, I guess so. Like in that way of thinking. Yeah, he's a God. So now people. Start calling Jesus God. And now the question becomes well, in what sense has he got? Does he have a beginning before he was a human, you know, and you're just operating in a totally foreign. World View, mindscape than the Jewish mode, which is the Jewish mode, sees Jesus doing miracles and they say how great it is that God has given such authority to men. Tom Huszti: Right. Sean Finnegan: What do they say when they see a miracle in the book of acts, when Paul and Barnabas? Tom Huszti: Right. Sean Finnegan: You know, get that guy filled. Tom Huszti: The gods are come down to us, the gods. Sean Finnegan: Of course, that's what they. Said that's what they believe could happen, right? We really have two different thought worlds that are combining in in weird and innovative ways. And that's just like one step along the path that leads to the doctrine of the Trinity, which doesn't really get fully developed until the late 4th century. Tom Huszti: Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. Tom Huszti: So Paul is trying to emphasize that Jesus is a human being, a second Adam. So that has a different flavor to it, like you have to. Paula is using the first Adam story to introduce the second Adam. And this is a glorified human being who is residing in heaven until God sends him back. That's a different. Category isn't it? For the Greco Roman mine? Sean Finnegan: Yeah, they don't. They don't. That doesn't. That doesn't make sense to them. You know, it's just that's just weird. That's like resurrection. Like, why do you want your body back? And what did Christianity do with that one? We get rid of it. You go to any funeral like unless it's somebody from my own group of churches, network of churches, or maybe like one or one or two other denominations. Right. Like you go to a funeral. What 99% of the? Funerals you go to they. Say this person is now in heaven and their soul. Whatever you know, they make up all this stuff. You know, it sounds just like the Greco Roman stuff from the ancient times. It doesn't sound. Like the Bible. Tom Huszti: Right, yes. Can you imagine sitting in the audience when Paul was preaching from the Acropolis? Sean Finnegan: Not to me. Tom Huszti: Can you put yourself in the in the shoes of a a Greek sitting in the audience hearing this message for the first time? And you know the setting. What would have impressed you or what you already mentioned this earlier but like if you as an individual were doing this? What would be going through your mind? Given your background and context. Sean Finnegan: Well, I think. There's a lot of misunderstanding going on. And and that's just normal. We shouldn't be upset about that. We should expect that. I think we see the same thing today. In the 21st century, where you try to explain something and somebody just doesn't get it, who's not a Christian, and I think that's what was happening here. And what happened is Paul is is evangelizing people. He's talking to people in the marketplace, his Jewish sensibilities, I think, are offended by seeing a city full of idols. It's just as somebody who was raised with the 10 Commandments, it's offensive. I mean, it's offensive to most Christians. Well, I don't say most, but many Christians today are offended. By seeing idols and statues and seeing people actually worshiping them, Paul is very disturbed by this. He's trying to to help. He's reasoning in the synagogue. And also in the marketplace every day. You've got the Epicureans, you've got the Stoics there, and then they say this is act 1718, he says. He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities. Because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection and see the word resurrection, there is Anastasia. Tom Huszti: OK. It's a Greek. Sean Finnegan: Word it means resurrection. You know, stand up again, but it seems like. And I I think some translations might do it this way, that they're thinking that. Jesus is 1 divinity. And they think that Paul saying that Jesus is divine being, which is interesting, right in light of what I said just a minute ago. And then the other thing they think resurrection is is another divinity. Right. So there's just. Misunderstandings all over the place. They're. Like you know, it seems like he's bringing in some new gods. Let's go here. What these new gods have to say, he's kind of like you. Remember. Back in the old days, kids would collect baseball cards. Or like when my kids were little, it was Pokémon cards. And you know, you trade with each other. This one, it's like gods to the, to the Athenians. You know, they're like, oh, you've got that. Tell me about that. God, I let me tell you. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: The story about this. One you know, so they're. Tom Huszti: Yes, yes. Sean Finnegan: Interested. And they put them up there and they say, OK, what is this new teaching? Tell us what this is all. About and so we know. There's going to be misunderstanding. We know there's going to be confusion, but that's no reason not to get started. And so he does. He starts in a very friendly and flattering way. Tom Huszti: He used their own poets. Their own poetry. Yeah, yeah. Sean Finnegan: He's building the bridge as much as he can to their thought world, but at the same time. He's so disturbed. Buy the idolatry that like he just. He just wants to hit that, you know, like it's just and it's not. It's not out of sense of superiority. I don't think. I think it's a sense of empathy and compassion. And so it just starts in with, like, explaining who God is. And he's like there's a God above everything else that made everything else. And he doesn't need you. He doesn't need you to. To offer animals. And he believed in animal sacrifice. I don't know if he still believed in animal sacrifice or not, but he believed in it. At least most of his life. And still, he's just like, look, he doesn't need. He doesn't need anything. God is radically. What do they say? Ah, say he's not contingent or dependent on us for anything, and that's not. How they thought about their Greek gods. They thought their Greek gods needed to be cared for. They believed that the Greek gods created humans to do the work for them, so they didn't have to do the work all the time, including feeding them these sacrifices that nourish them.SpeakerRight. Tom Huszti: Right, right. Tom Huszti: A hutch. Sean Finnegan: You know it's a. Tom Huszti: Very the gods. They were very dependent. They're their gods, were very dependent. Sean Finnegan: They needed a bunch of slaves to do all the hard work of cultivating the lands, raising the animals, planting the vegetables, do all the things so that they could be properly cared for and fed. And if you didn't do that, then they messed with you. They stopped the rain, or they brought war or whatever, you know. So that's the kind of thing he's coming against here. And he says, look there the the God who made the world and everything in it, Lord of heaven and Earth, does not need temples. This is a radical message. I mean, it's just like. You're in a. City, now that I've been there, like I've literally seen the temples.SpeakerWith my or. Tom Huszti: Not they're still there. They're still there. Tom remnants. Amazing. Sean Finnegan: Wow, there's actually, when I was there was scaffolding all around it. You know, they're always restoring these things because of the weather erosion and what, you know, but. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: You know, massive, massive. Structures unquestionable. You don't go to a Greek ancient Greek city and say God doesn't need tempo. Tom Huszti: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sean Finnegan: You know that they. Would really get their attention, it's. Like, wow, what is this guy saying? Tom Huszti: Yeah, I can imagine. What would it like these temples were full of pillars and the structure would have been probably unprecedented structures. Sean Finnegan: Yeah, yeah. I mean, we're looking at structures that are so impressive that if you didn't live in a city. If you live somewhere out in the country, you can't in the city. It would just take your breath away and then going into the temple itself, seeing most cities, temples they have what's called an apps, which is kind of like the back curved area where they had the statue itself and to see, you know, this huge statue. The artistry was magnificent. And you know, I've seen this where I think I saw this in a museum in Ephesus, on site, they have a little Ephesus museum there. And they had the head of Domitian. Which is a Roman. And it looked like a baby head. The proportions were all wrong. You know, just you know how, like, baby heads look. Weird, I don't know really how to describe it like there. May be a little spot. Tom Huszti: Oh yeah, yeah. Compared to the rest. Of the body you mean? Sean Finnegan: No, no, it was just the head. It was just the head and it and it. It looked like a baby head. And I asked my team. I was a part of a class at Boston University. I asked my teacher. I'm like, what's the deal with this? Why does it look like a baby head? And he just kind of laughed a little bit. And he said. Tom Huszti: Or it was just a hat? A hat. OK, OK. Sean Finnegan: Get low. Imagine this being 20 feet up in the air. Change your perspective and look at it again and it was exactly right. If you got. Low and looked at that same head. Of the mission. From that angle that you would see it. From the ground. All the proportions were perfect. Tom Huszti: So it was designed to be looked up to right? Sean Finnegan: So we're looking at people that have the. Artistry of the skill. Well, to to you know to like factor in perspective and angle. You know what I mean? Like that's something I would never think of you.SpeakerOh yeah. Sean Finnegan: Know. Of course I'm. Not a sculptor, but you know. I mean, you come in and you and you're.Speaker 5Confronted by this? Sean Finnegan: Stone object that is beautifully done. You just takes your breath away. For anyone to question it. It would just be like. What are you talking about, man? Everybody believes in this. And then there's a parade where they bring the portable idols through the city, and then they end up out front of the temple and you get a big barbecue and everybody's rejoicing and you know, the Jews and the Christians are just like, we're not going, we're going to stay home free. Tom Huszti: Oh yeah. Tom Huszti: Neat, right? And they're they're. Sean Finnegan: Well, free meat. Tom Huszti: For the pagans, right? Yeah. For the pagans. Right. Right. Yeah. Do you happen to know this story about the Roman general? Was it Pompeii that when he came into Jerusalem? And he was going to go into the holiest of holies, and the priests were. Standing in the way. And he ordered several, several of them killed with a sword. He wanted to see what the God of Israel looked like, and and he entered in the Holy, Holy Holiest of Holies. After these priests gave their life and he found nothing. What a surprise, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, so the Paul is preaching the same unseen God, but he's preaching the Jewish Messiah, who was seen, who was raised from the dead. Exalted into heaven, and whom God made judge over the earth. So this is the Athenians are being told that this Jesus God gave authority to for judgment, and that the world will be judged by him. Sean Finnegan: Yeah, even before that, you know, just talking about how you mentioned that Paul quoted a couple of their poets. You know that in him we move and have our being, we live and move and have our being and the other statement for we indeed are his offspring. You know, there's a lot of depends on how deep you want to go in this town. But like, there's a lot going on. The schools of the philosophers. Tom Huszti: You know, delve into it? Sure. Sure. Please. Sean Finnegan: OK, so so you have the Epicureans. Founded by Epicurus, and then you have the Stoics founded by Zeno, and they are just. Like total opposites? Right. So the the goal of the Epicurean is to to seek pleasure. Tom Huszti: OK. Sean Finnegan: But not in a primitive like spring break frat party way. You know where, like you just go crazy, and then you you're in pain and suffering the next morning. That's amateur hour. For that, you'd be curious. Or maximizing pleasure over the course of your entire life. Tom Huszti: OK. OK. Sean Finnegan: What would maximize my pleasure, and the Epicureans tended to say that either the gods don't exist, or they exist, but they don't care about us. So you don't need to worry about the gods. There's a lot of precursors to modern atheism and agnosticism there, but the Stoics are saying, ohh pleasure is bad and you got to serve the gods. You have civil duty. The Stoics tended to be the ones in charge of the cities, and the Stoics are absolutely convinced pleasure is. Inherently sinful, like any kind of any kind of pursuit of bodily pleasure, is well, I would say, at least, question. Bowl, but probably like if you could really live without food that tastes really good, or beds that are nice and soft, or a woman's touch or a man's touch if you're. A woman, you. Know like that you would be happier, you would live the good life. So the philosophers are all all about Greek philosophers in particular, or all about how do you lead the good life? Then
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In September of 2021, the Perseverance rover was working quietly on the surface of Mars when this happened: [AUDIO: dust devil]. It might not sound like much, but on Mars, it's the most exciting thing you're ever likely to see: a dust devil — a spinning column of air that's like a mini-tornado. This one swept over the top of the rover, blowing away some of the dust that had settled on it. Dust devils are common sights on Mars, just as they are in many regions of Earth. They form when the ground is warmed by the Sun, causing the air above it to rise. It forms a spinning vortex that crawls along the landscape. On Mars, dust devils can be more than a mile high and half a mile wide — much larger than on Earth. And as they blow the dust off the Martian rocks, they leave winding trails that look like abstract tattoos. Dust devils may generate small crackles of electricity: lightning. They're too small and faint to see. But giant dust storms may produce more powerful outbursts. Research says even those shouldn't be strong enough to harm either people or their machines. But they might produce a soft glow around a storm — the glow of dust blowing in the Martian winds. Look for Mars well up in the west at nightfall. It looks like a fairly bright orange star. Tonight, it lines up with the twins of Gemini. The stars are to the right of Mars, with brighter Pollux closer to it. Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory
Mars is named for the Roman god of war. That's because the planet's red color reminded Roman skywatchers of blood. But ancient Rome isn't the only culture that named the planet for its vivid color. In ancient Egypt, it was “the Red One.” In China, it was “the fire star.” And in Arabia, it was simply “fire.” Mars looks redder from afar than from up close. Pictures from orbiters and landers show that most of the surface has a more subtle hue: butterscotch. But big patches of it show other colors: gold, brown, tan, and even green. The color varies depending on the minerals at the surface. And even in the red areas — make that butterscotch — the color is only skin deep. The color comes from a layer of powdery dust that coats much of the surface. Across most of the planet, it's only a few millimeters thick. And even at its deepest, it's only a few feet thick. The dust consists of iron oxides — rust. On Earth, rust usually forms in the presence of water. On Mars, though, it may form from reactions with the atmosphere, or even from erosion by the winds. The winds blow the dust around, and suspend a lot of it in the atmosphere — making it look yellow or red as well. Beneath that veneer, the rock tends to be darker — chasing away the “red” in the Red Planet. Look for Mars quite close to the Moon this evening. It looks like a fairly bright star. The glare of the Moon washes out its color — whatever it is. Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory
THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED BEFORE OUR RECENT BEREAVEMENT NEWSDavey's tyrannical reign continues and introduces a light hearted episode of "Would you rather" but centred around our hobby, gaming and all sorts of nonsense. Thanks to lots of people around the community for sending in these tough questions, it was a blast.FIRST PLAYER: DaveyOTHER PLAYERS: Becky, JP & RobOVERVIEWIn this episode you'll learn:- How Rob is now getting deep into Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Pheonixborn- Davey fixes a previous episode mistake by devoting his "Let's Talk About Hex" segment to one of our listeners- How the group are wired up with various "would you rather" questions pitched at them centred around our wonderful hobby- how well the players continue to do with their "Badly Hexplained Games: Just Two" edition- that Davey & JP are getting a sneak preview on Inventions: Evolution of Ideas which is Vital Lacerda's upcoming game...more on this in a future episodeLINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOWN/AEPISODE CHAPTERS0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count0:57 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex1:12 - Rob - Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Pheonixborn6:41 - Becky - Lost Ruins of Arnak10:50 - JP - Star Wars Rebellion15:03 - Davey - Thank you Marcus for lending us Atiwa16:14 - TURN 3 - Would you rather...tabletop edition17:51 - Would you rather play On Mars on planet earth or Earth on the planet Mars?19:01 - Would you rather stand on 4 D4's in bare feet or swallow a meeple whole?21:51 - Would you rather live forever (playing one game) or live for 6 months (play every game)?26:51 - Would you rather play a game your luc warm about with friends or introduce a new game to strangers?28:52 - Would you rather have a phenomenal game with a bad rule book, or an ok game with a perfect rule book?32:29 - Would you rather play Exploding Kittens or explode a kitten?34:55 - Would you rather go first in a game thats new to you or go last in your favourite game?36:44 - Would you rather only play one game for a week with your mates or every day with your spouse / family?40:41 - Would you rather play a character class you hate or teach your favourite character so you can't play it?43:48 - Would you rather have one big box that stores all games or little boxes all unmarked?48:13 - Would you rather play Battlestar Galactica with all the cylons or none of the cylons?49:45 - Would you rather play the same game for the rest of time or play a different game but only once?53:33 - Would you rather play with sticky sleeves or sticky board after a fizzy drink incident?55:10 - Wrapping up56:03 - TURN 4 - Badly Hexplained Games - Just Two Edition56:51 - Just Two - Game 159:04 - Just Two - Game 21:01:32 - TURN 5 - The Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up?1:02:00 - Becky - Unfathomable1:03:12 - Rob - Frosthaven Continues1:05:43 - Inventions: Evolution of Ideas Preview1:06:38 - Davey - The Last of Us1:08:43 - TURN 6 - The Final TurnSupport the showSUPPORTING THE SHOW- Support us on Ko-FiENGAGING WITH THE SHOWWe want your questions so engage with the show through our channels below:- Email Us - BoardGameGeek - Facebook - Instagram- Threads - TikTok
THIS EPISODE IS DEDICATED TO OUR FELLOW PLAYER, BROTHER AND DEAR FRIEND KRIS WHO WAS TAKEN FROM US SO SHOCKINGLY. REST IN PEACE, YOU WILL BE MISSED...WHILST WE'RE NOT IN A CELEBRATORY MOOD AT THE MOMENT WE FELT IN IMPORTANT TO SHARE KRIS' LAST RECORDING WITH THE TEAM.We've got the candles, the cake is prepared and it's time to celebrate that the podcast is one years old...so a few of the players join together to celebrate their favourite moments but more importantly we've decided to create a deathmatch of our favourite boardgames played last year in 2022. Let us welcome you to the very first Boardgame Battleground!!!!THE BIRTHDAY ATTENDEES - JP, Becky, Davey, Ian & KrisOVERVIEWThe Whose Turners come together one year one from since we launched our first episode to celebrate their first birthday in the only fitting way they know how. Invite 35 games in a top trumps deathmatch to see which of their favourite games played last year in 2022 makes it to the top. In this episode you'll learn:- Davey is on commission trying to plug our other episodes on the podcast- The group retell their favourite moments of the podcast so far- That top trumps can be played as a knockout style game (we think!!!!)- about 35 games chosen by the podcast players to enter into the Boardgame Battleground. Which one will make it to the top?OUR 2022 PLAYED CHAMPIONS ENTERING THE BATTLEGROUND (35 GAMES)ISS Vanguard, Trickerion, On Mars, Lisboa, Too Many Bones, Astra, Zuuli, Terraforming Mars, Lords of Waterdeep, Kings Dilemma, Ark Nova, Anachrony, Eclipse Second Dawn, Nemesis, Civilization 2010, Lost Ruins of Arnak, Dune Imperium, The Weather Machine, Skull King, Twilight Imperium 4e, Marvel Champions, Nemesis Lockdown, Just One, Pandemic Legacy Season 1, Castles of Burgundy, Star Wars Outer Rim, Mansions of Madness 2e, Star Wars Imperial Assault,Fort, Lord of the Rings LCG, Carooka, Wingspan, Scythe, Exploding Kittens, UnfathomableEPISODE CHAPTERS0:00 - Tribute to Kris0:46 - TURN 1 - Player Count2:42 - TURN 2 - Celebrating our 1st birthday3:53 - Becky's favourite moments5:53 - Ian's favourite moments7:36 - JP's favourite moments9:37 - Kris' favourite moments12:07 - Davey's favourite moments14:08 - TURN 3 - Boardgame Battleground - 2022 Edition15:00 - What is the Boardgame Battleground?16:36 - The 5 key stats of BB19:16 - The rules teach22:07 - ROUND 1 - Round of 3552:20 - ROUND 2 - Round of 1758:45 - ROUND 3 - Quarter Finals1:02:07 - ROUND 4 - Semi Finals1:03:24 - ROUND 5 - The Grand Final1:05:14 - Post battle analysis1:06:57 - TURN 4 - Final TurnSupport the showSUPPORTING THE SHOW- Support us on Ko-FiENGAGING WITH THE SHOWWe want your questions so engage with the show through our channels below:- Email Us - BoardGameGeek - Facebook - Instagram- Threads - TikTok
*Early Upload!!* …………… ↫Story↬ (Story written by me! For more stories like these, check me out on Wattpad: https://www.wattpad.com/user/Kaila_Falcon) …………… The wind hadn't been this bad in quite some time. Well, not since you and your fellow astronaut had been marooned on this desolate planet, left to fend for yourselves. Which, you would argue, you're both doing quite well in that department. Mark Watney, the botanist you'd somehow managed to get stuck on planet Mars with, had somehow managed to grow potatoes. Yeah - potatoes. On Mars. That's ridiculous. And you? You've been working on a solution to get back in touch with NASA, considering the main communication antenna array had long been smashed to pieces. Pieces that had nearly killed your comrade all those days ago. But tonight, regardless of the raging storm outside, it's rather peaceful. The wind providing a welcome break from the never ending, eerie silence and hum of the Hab's life support systems. “It's time to start thinking long term,” You hear Mark mutter from the desk across the bunk room, the clacking of laptop keys soon following as he continues to work, charting out the course to the Ares 4 landing site and talking to the laptop's camera for the records. You shudder at the mere thought. Who knows if you'll even be alive by the time they get here. And 3,200 kilometers in a rover barely capable of going a full day of use without a recharge? You sigh heavily, shutting the book you'd been reading with a thud, and grabbing your own laptop, before turning your attention to the roaming search light piercing through the blowing Martian dust and rock. You'll solve the problems as they come - one at a time. For now… You allow a shiver to run through you as you glance in the direction of where Mark had been sitting, his gaze resting heavily on you, evidently exhausted. But, as he makes his way to his feet, passing you a small smile, you settle back into your bunk slightly, your own fingers beginning to glide over the keys as you simply listen to the storm outside and the comforting sounds of your Partner no doubt rummaging around the kitchen for something to eat before he ends up falling asleep… Murmuring something incomprehensible beneath your breath, you pull the blanket tighter around your shoulders and get to work. Because your life sorta depends on it. …………… ↫Info↬ Film: The Martian (2015) - Starring Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain and Kristen Wiig IMDb Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk I own no rights to any sounds used in this video! I simply just compiled them into this soundscape! The image is also not mine! This audio is great to play in the background to help sleep, study, or simply relax! All of these songs plus more: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7eXeamZrrNpJkIUyy9n1qE?si=4b82db139f054559
Pick Up & Deliver 503 - Isle of Cats: Explore and Draw, Mosaic: A Story of Civilization, Goonies: Never Say Die, On Mars (revisited) - Brendan shares his first impressions of some games he tried for the first time recently. Join us, won't you?
Game Brain: A Board Game Podcast with Matthew Robinson and his Gaming Group
Trey gets it in gear with Tom and Dmitry and their first impressions of Splotter's Horseless Carriage. 0:00:00 Introduction0:06:45 Traitors Talk0:21:10 Games on the BrainDmitry's 5x5 List: Tichu, Barrage, Indonesia, Panamax, AutobahnMosaicWestern EmpiresThrough the AgesNations Trey's 5x5 List: Mosaic, Autobahn, Imperial Steam, On Mars, Horseless CarriageTrickerion0:45:20 Endurance0:46:45 Tragedy Looper0:47:50 WizWar Kickstarter0:55:10 Heat: Pedal to the Metal0:59:45 First Impressions: Horseless Carriage- Find Etamar at kirbooloni.com- Game Brain Facebook Group- Twitter- Instagram
Episode 7: Aurora Borealis, Galileo coined the term "aurora borealis". aurora borealis comes from greek "aurora" meaning "sunrise," and "boreas" meaning "wind," the Greeks believed Aurora to be the sister of Helios and Selene. Helios was the sun. Selene was the moon. Other names include Northern lights, Southern lights, Rory, Ro, Orie, Dawn. Norther Lights can be seen at Grotta Lighthouse Iceland, Tromso Norway, Churchill Canada, Aurora Sky Station Sweden, Nuuk Greenland, Lapland northern Finland, Fairbanks Alaska. Southern lights can be seen at Eaglehawk Neck Australia, South Georgia Island, Cradle Mountain Australia, Stewart Island New Zealand, Ushuaia Argentina. Auroras occur when charged particles (electrons and protons) collide with gases in Earth's upper or lower atmosphere. Those collisions produce tiny flashes that fill the sky with colourful light. As billions of flashes occur in sequence, the auroras appear to move or " dance " in the sky. When the solar wind reaches Earth it sends a flurry of charged particles into Earth's magnetic field lines, towards the poles. The interaction of these particles with Earth's atmosphere can produce glowing aurora displays above polar regions as all these flashes occur in a sequence the scotts thought that merry dancers were dancing causing the lights. My favorite place to see aurora in fairbanks is creamers field it is quite dark but not as good as chena river. And if you go to fairbanks try and pick the day when the kp index is 4 or more this is so the aurora can be visible to the naked eye. Forecast and Webcam link for Alaska - https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora-forecast . Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, solar wind (charged particles flowing from the Sun) interacts with planetary magnetic fields to create auroras. On Mars and Venus, auroras come from solar wind interacting with the atmosphere. The aurora in the sky have occurred since the dawn of our planet. Dinosaurs walked under them, just as we do today.
Welcome back to the TennisConnected Podcast for 2023. In this week's show, @ParsaSamii and @On_Mars return to preview the 2023 Australian Open from Melbourne. To start off our grand slam coverage, we welcome back nine-time winner Novak Djokovic to his favourite court in the world. The Serb, who will be the favourite to take the title, […] The post PODCAST: Previewing the 2023 Australian Open appeared first on Tennis Connected.
On Mars, visitors from Earth are like loud neighbors who refuse to settle down. On Mars, though, the noise doesn't travel far — it fades out in a hurry. We're learning a lot more about how sound travels on Mars from one of those noisy visitors, the Perseverance rover. It's been crawling across Mars for 21 months. It's looking for evidence that its landing site could have been a comfortable home for life in the distant past. Perseverance has two microphones — the first on the surface of any other world. And most of the time, they hear almost nothing — only an occasional sigh of wind. ... Most of what they have heard has been the rover itself. It's recorded the motions of its robotic arm ... a device that clears off rocks for study ... and the whir of Ingenuity, a small helicopter that hitched a ride with Perseverance. ... It's also recorded the clicks of a laser that zaps the rocks. ... The timing of the zaps has helped scientists learn more about how sound travels on Mars. The Martian atmosphere is thin, cold, and made almost entirely of carbon dioxide. In that environment, the speed of sound is only about two-thirds as fast as it is on Earth. High-frequency sound waves travel faster than low frequencies. But the high-end waves fade out much more quickly — letting the bass line rumble a little farther across the quiet landscape. Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory
On another sleepy episode of Two Wood for a Wheat, we review Verdant, the new entwined drafting game by Flatout. This game was definitely designed by people staring at their houseplants during COVID lockdowns. Then, we're discussing what we've built at the end of a game and what leaves us with a feeling of accomplishment.00:01:32 Autobahn, Brass: Birmingham00:04:15 Artemis Project (actually a really quick game)00:07:41 Weather Machine, Lisboa, On Mars, Kanban00:12:13 It's a Wonderful World, It's a Wonderful Kingdom00:14:56 Just One, Frosthaven00:15:58 Evergreen, Living Forest, Photosynthesis, The King's Dilemma00:17:33 FEATURE REVIEW Verdant00:17:39 Calico, Cascadia, Point Salad00:24:19 Planted, Flourish, Flowar, Herbaceous, Floriferous, Three Sisters00:25:32 Calico, Cascadia00:35:48 Everdell00:39:06 Planted00:39:15 FEATURE DISCUSSION Building Something00:43:02 Through the Desert, Tigris and Euphrates, Acquire00:45:11 Agricola, A Feast for Odin, Hallertau00:48:09 Meadow00:48:30 The Isle of Cats00:49:01 Race to the Raft00:49:46 Evergreen, Photosynthesis00:52:01 Santa Monica00:52:54 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein00:54:59 Cascadia00:55:37 High Rise, Manhattan, Steampunk Rally00:56:27 Museum00:57:24 Bunny Kingdom00:58:03 Reef01:00:19 Autobahn, Frosthaven, Terra Nova, Terra Mystica01:03:38 Korean Zombie Movie and Zombie Book Recommendations01:03:41 Train to Busan, World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide, Kingdom, #AliveAsk us a question at TwoWoodForAWheat@gmail.comLeave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-wood-for-a-wheat/id1447901771Read Tony's blog: https://boardgamegeek.com/user/maxlongstreet/blogs
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Mars is bitterly cold. Temperatures seldom climb above freezing, and can slide far below minus-100 Fahrenheit. Yet the planet can get even colder. There's evidence that Mars goes through periodic ice ages that can last for hundreds of thousands of years. Ice ages can have several causes. On Mars, the most likely is a change in the planet's tilt on its axis. Right now, the tilt is almost identical to Earth's. That means the seasons are similar to Earth's as well. Over many millions of years, though, that angle can change dramatically. Mars can stand almost upright, or it can lie almost on its side. That affects how much sunlight reaches different parts of the planet, and how the Sun's heat is distributed around it. When Mars is on its side, the poles warm up and their ice caps vaporize. That makes the atmosphere warmer and wetter. Some of the extra water in the atmosphere may freeze around the equator, but overall, the planet is warmer than average. Eventually, though, Mars flips upright again. The poles get colder, and the ice caps re-form. That makes Mars colder overall — perhaps triggering ice ages, with ice covering much of the planet. One recent study says this has played out many times in the past few hundred million years, giving Mars many ice ages. Mars climbs into good view in the east-northeast by 10:30 or 11, and looks like a bright orange star. Tonight, it's well to the upper right of the Moon. More about Mars tomorrow. Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory
This week PJ and Gareth focus on the heavier, more complex side of boardgames with a look at three games from game designer Vital Lacerda. We talk about On Mars, Escape Plan and The Gallerist. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/meeple2meeple/message
Game Brain: A Board Game Podcast with Matthew Robinson and his Gaming Group
Tom, Trey, Paul, and Ben discuss the 2019 release "Western Empires" as well as "On Mars," "Ticket to Ride," "Viticulture," and "Food Chain Magnate."
Sarah is back so Def and Conor join her to discuss Texan hospitality, the trickiness of Trickerion, tenderhooks vs tenterhooks, and theorising on Vital Lacerda's research methods for Escape Plan. Meanwhile in Sizzling Games, Sarah has been running out of patients (see what I did there?), Conor has been creating chaos in a collectable card-game, and Def has been taking tribes to task. We recap last week's Question of the Pod: What game from your collection always makes it back to your table? Finally, in Swear An Oath, Sarah and Def put a curse on Ian O'Toole's house for teaching On Mars to Dan before they had a chance, but Conor came through on his oath and relived some family memories by playing the new edition of Key To The Kingdom. New oaths include Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Keeper of the Keys (Conor), playing Marvel Champions solo (Def), and playing burncycle solo (Sarah) Question of the Pod: Are you more likely to love a game if you win the first time you play it? Sizzling Games: Clinic (22:00), Flesh & Blood (35:25), Five Tribes (48:20) Question of the Pod Recap (1:00:00) Swear An Oath: (1:08:50) Check out our Eventbrite page for all of our upcoming Game Days: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/board-game-bbq-32833304483 Has this episode left you with a thirst for more? Here are all of the games that we discussed: Trickerion (2015) Root (2018) Escape Plan (2019) burncycle (2022) Clinic (2014) Flesh & Blood (2019) Five Tribes (2014) Key To The Kingdom (2022) Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Keeper of Keys (2022) Marvel Champions: The Card Game (2019) **SPONSORS** Our podcast is proudly sponsored by Advent Games. Advent Games (http://www.adventgames.com.au/) are an Australian online board game store based in Sydney, NSW. Their core values are integrity, customer satisfaction, and providing a wide range of products including those hard-to-find board games. **PATREON** Yes, that's right. We have a Patreon. By becoming a Patreon member you will receive exclusive content, have access to a members only section of our discord where you can contribute to the content of the show, and much more. Your Patreon support will also allow us to expand the podcast and deliver some exciting upcoming projects that we have planned for 2022. Our team at the Board Game BBQ Podcast love what we do and will continue to deliver the same shenanigans that you have come to expect from us, and we are already incredibly grateful and humbled by all of your support. Being a member of the Patreon is by no means an obligation and please do not support the Patreon if it will it cause you financial hardship in any way. But if you would like to support us from as little as USD$5 a month please click the link and head to the Patreon page. Thanks again for all of your continued support. We work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive community and you are all awesome. See you at the BBQ!! Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/BoardGameBBQ **SOCIALS** Support the podcast and join the community! https://linktr.ee/BoardGameBBQ
Join Dan, Mitch, Adrian and Def as the crew chalks up episode 200. In Sizzling Games: Dan has been desperately digging dangerous dungeons, Adrian has been creating crazy concoctions and conniving contraptions, Def has been appreciating artwork and acting aloof, and finally Mitch has been selecting sets of stuff for slaying. In the Board Game Bracket Battle - it's all come down to this: Quacks of Quedlinburg vs Brass: Birmingham. To make sure your favourite goes through to the Grand Final make sure you vote on our socials. Finally, in Swear An Oath, Dan played On Mars (with the assistance of Ian O'Toole), Mitch beat back the Arkham cultists in Pandemic: Reign of Cthulu, Def is holding back the On Mars Alien Invasion while he waits for Adrian to lend a hand, and Adrian got Star Realms to the table. New oaths include Great Western Trail (Dan), Marvel Dice Throne (Mitch), Undaunted: North Africa (Def), and Hues & Cues (Adrian) Sizzling Games: Delve (16:15), My Father's Work (27:10), The Gallerist (42:25), Here To Slay (53:52) Board Game Bracket: (1:00:05) Swear An Oath: (1:15:20) Check out our Eventbrite page for all of our upcoming Game Days: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/board-game-bbq-32833304483 Has this episode left you with a thirst for more? Here are all of the games that we discussed: Clans of Caledonia (2017) The Transcontinental (2022) Fort (2020) Xia: Legends of a Drift System (2014) Delve (2020) My Father's Work (2022) The Gallerist (2015) Ghost Blitz (2010) Here To Slay (2020) Architects of the West Kingdom (2018) Brass: Birmingham (2018) The Quacks of Quedlinburg (2018) On Mars (2020) Great Western Trail: 2nd Ed (2021) Pandemic: Reign of Cthulu (2016) Marvel Dice Throne (2022) Undaunted: North Africa (2020) Star Realms (2014) Hues & Cues (2020) **SPONSORS** Our podcast is proudly sponsored by Advent Games. Advent Games (http://www.adventgames.com.au/) are an Australian online board game store based in Sydney, NSW. Their core values are integrity, customer satisfaction, and providing a wide range of products including those hard-to-find board games. Our Board Game Bracket 2.0 is proudly sponsored by Game Toppers LLC. They have joined the BBQ, and are even providing us with one of their Game Toppers for our Game Days! Check out their Kickstarter now! These Game Toppers are amazing, and can transform any old table into an A1 quality Game Table! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/burky/game-toppers-30-upgrading-every-game-you-play?ref=discovery&term=game%20toppers **PATREON** Yes, that's right. We have a Patreon. By becoming a Patreon member you will receive exclusive content, have access to a members only section of our discord where you can contribute to the content of the show, and much more. Your Patreon support will also allow us to expand the podcast and deliver some exciting upcoming projects that we have planned for 2022. Our team at the Board Game BBQ Podcast love what we do and will continue to deliver the same shenanigans that you have come to expect from us, and we are already incredibly grateful and humbled by all of your support. Being a member of the Patreon is by no means an obligation and please do not support the Patreon if it will it cause you financial hardship in any way. But if you would like to support us from as little as USD$5 a month please click the link and head to the Patreon page. Thanks again for all of your continued support. We work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive community and you are all awesome. See you at the BBQ!! Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/BoardGameBBQ **SOCIALS** Support the podcast and join the community! https://linktr.ee/BoardGameBBQ
On Mars, it’s drill, baby, drill. On Earth, a scandal and some dirty tricks are threatened, and a betrayal is revealed. Much to Margo’s consternation, Aleida’s still on the case of the leaked nuclear secrets. And Ed is… well, he’s the most Ed that Ed’s ever been. Dan Moren and Jason Snell.
On Mars, it’s drill, baby, drill. On Earth, a scandal and some dirty tricks are threatened, and a betrayal is revealed. Much to Margo’s consternation, Aleida’s still on the case of the leaked nuclear secrets. And Ed is… well, he’s the most Ed that Ed’s ever been. Dan Moren and Jason Snell.
Join Adrian, Conor and Def as they celebrate the newly-announced Spiel des Jhares winners, Cascadia and Living Forest. Meanwhile in Sizzling Games: Def has been creating a clever campaign for credibility, and Conor has been battling baddies by bouncing bones. In the Board Game Bracket Battle we send our first semi-finalist into the Grand Final, before we cue up the the second Semi-Final Battle: Architects of the West Kingdom vs Brass: Birmingham. To make sure your favourite goes through to the Grand Final make sure you vote on our socials. Finally, in Swear An Oath Adrian fulfilled his oath by playing some online games, Def is still waiting to play On Mars with Adrian but did play Railways of the World, and Conor played Marvel Champions: Sinister Motives with Nova and Spiderham. New oaths include Star Realms (Adrian), and Company of Heroes (Conor & Def). Sizzling Games: Tallywood Rally (28:35), Too Many Bones (43:19) Board Game Bracket: (1:07:24) Swear An Oath: (1:16:05) Check out our Eventbrite page for all of our upcoming Game Days: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/board-game-bbq-32833304483 Has this episode left you with a thirst for more? Here are all of the games that we discussed: Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile (2021) Isle of Trains: All Aboard (2022) Mini Express (2021) Cascadia (2021) Living Forest (2021) Tallywood Rally (2022) Too Many Bones (2017) The Quacks of Quedlinburg (2018) Raiders of the North Sea (2015) Architects of the West Kingdom (2018) Brass: Birmingham (2018) Star Realms (2014) Marvel Champions Sinister Motives (2022) Company of Heroes (2023) Railways of the World (2005) **SPONSORS** Our podcast is proudly sponsored by Advent Games. Advent Games (http://www.adventgames.com.au/) are an Australian online board game store based in Sydney, NSW. Their core values are integrity, customer satisfaction, and providing a wide range of products including those hard-to-find board games. Our Board Game Bracket 2.0 is proudly sponsored by Game Toppers LLC. They have joined the BBQ, and are even providing us with one of their Game Toppers for our Game Days! Check out their Kickstarter now! These Game Toppers are amazing, and can transform any old table into an A1 quality Game Table! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/burky/game-toppers-30-upgrading-every-game-you-play?ref=discovery&term=game%20toppers **PATREON** Yes, that's right. We have a Patreon. By becoming a Patreon member you will receive exclusive content, have access to a members only section of our discord where you can contribute to the content of the show, and much more. Your Patreon support will also allow us to expand the podcast and deliver some exciting upcoming projects that we have planned for 2022. Our team at the Board Game BBQ Podcast love what we do and will continue to deliver the same shenanigans that you have come to expect from us, and we are already incredibly grateful and humbled by all of your support. Being a member of the Patreon is by no means an obligation and please do not support the Patreon if it will it cause you financial hardship in any way. But if you would like to support us from as little as USD$5 a month please click the link and head to the Patreon page. Thanks again for all of your continued support. We work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive community and you are all awesome. See you at the BBQ!! Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/BoardGameBBQ **SOCIALS** Support the podcast and join the community! https://linktr.ee/BoardGameBBQ
- What are we... ON MARS? - Review and reaction to Candy on Hulu - Review and reaction to Angelyne on Apple+ - Fantasy Cars - Stand up comedy advice - The "That's It" workout - and much more... REMEMBER TO SUBSCRIBE, RATE, AND REVIEW on Apple and YouTube! PATREON - for members only content visit: https://www.patreon.com/thelionsdenpod MERCH - https://thelionsdenpod.com Jason in Glendale, AZ (6/3 - 6/4): https://www.stircrazycomedyclub.com/jason-collings-175 Jason & Will in Rec Room, Huntington Beach (6/11): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jason-collings-special-event-tickets-288207595677?aff=ebdsoporgprofile Brent, Jason, & Will in San Jose, CA (7/29 - 7/31): https://improv.com/sanjose/comic/brent+morin/ CLIP CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfm0aBqyx29ZElCThqH_oVwYouTube SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/39AMOdU Email: podthelionsden@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelionsdenpod/Twitter: https://twitter.com/podthelionsden Facebook: https://facebook.com/podthelionsdenPO Box: 4804 Laurel Canyon Blvd, 223, Valley Village, CA 91607 Brent Morin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brentmorin/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrentMorin Brent Morin Website: http://brentmorin.com/ Jason Collings Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasoncollings/Twitter: https://twitter.com/jasoncollings Jason Collings Website: https://www.jasoncollings.com/ Will Burkart Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willburkart/ Will Burkart Website: https://www.thewillburkart.com/ Will Burkart Stand Up: https://www.youtube.com/c/willburkart
It's Gemini Season! The birds are birding, the bees are buzzing, and the rest of us just want to get together and socialize! Mercury's retrograde during Gemini Season, so be prepared to see old friends and lost acquaintances pop back up in your life in unexpected ways. Plus: the beginning of a new Mars/Neptune cycle – fight for your beliefs! The Sun and Mars unite with Pluto in empowering trine and sextile aspects. The Last Quarter Moon in Pisces is a time of reflection, leading up to next week's ingress of Mars into Aries. Plus: April answers a question from listener Emily about why twins, born with nearly identical birth charts, can seem so different! This episode of The Big Sky Astrology Podcast was kindly supported by listeners during the September podathon. To show your support for April and the show, you can follow or subscribe to The Big Sky Astrology Podcast wherever you get your podcasts, or you can leave a review or recommend the show to a friend. Read a full transcript of this episode. Have a question you'd like answered on the show? Email April or leave it here! Catch April's weekly column at her website! Subscribe to April's mailing list and get a free lunar workbook at each New Moon! Love the show? Donate here! Big Sky Astrology on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube Timestamps [0:36] April welcomes listeners to the podcast and introduces the big news from the week: Gemini season, a Mars-Neptune conjunction, and more. [1:12] On Mars 17th/18th, there's a Mars-Neptune conjunction in Pisces on the Sabian symbol, The purging of the priesthood, spelling a period of fighting on behalf of others and tackling hypocrisy. [4:35] A trine aspect between the Sun and Pluto, highlighting the contrast between the sovereignty of the individual and putting aside your ego for the good of a larger cause. This aspect encourages a balance between these two opposite principles. [7:02] May 19th brings the second of three sextile aspects between Mercury and Jupiter. This is a wonderful week to be creative, write down your ideas, and look for the process that will bring your big, ambitious project to fruition. [9:38] The Sun enters Gemini on May 20th, ushering in a season of socializing, networking, and sharing ideas. As Mercury is still retrograde, this might mean reconnecting with old friends from the past. April tells you how to make the most of Gemini season to prepare yourself for the Cancer solstice [12:12] May 21st brings an inferior conjunction between the Sun and Mercury, which is a time to look inward and review your thoughts. You can expect clarity and accuracy in your insights as the Sun ignites Mercury and illuminates new ideas. [15:25] The Moooooooooooooon Report! This week's major lunar event is the Pisces Last Quarter Moon. (For thoughts about the Scorpio Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse, listen to Episode 122!) April recommends you act on your reflections, based on your past experience. [19:22] This week's Void-of-Course Moon periods. [22:26] Mercury retrogrades into Taurus on May 22nd and has a busy week, with a sextile aspect to Jupiter followed by a trine aspect to Pluto. After turning direct in late Taurus in early June, it will return to Gemini on June 13. [23:44] A Mars-Pluto sextile on May 22nd: a civil, businessman-like handshake between the two planets. It's like Mars' exit interview before entering Aries next week! [24:51] This week's listener question from Emily about the natal charts of twins: If their charts are so similar, why are twins so different? [29:21] How to get in touch with April to ask her your astrology questions! [30:20] April thanks the generous listeners who supported the show during the September podathon, in particular Teina Lichtwardt, Henrietta Winston, and Anna Carlucci!
Episode 118 is live! Come listen to us ramble on in the banter before diving into CO2: Second Chance. We talk about this coop game for a bit before getting into a lengthy topic over practicing games. We finish the episode out by telling you something we have learned from a game! It's a long but we think good episode. Hopefully you enjoy it! Be sure to like, share, and subscribe! Game Talk: 17:50 Top Shelf Topic: 33:30 Pint Sized Question: 58:31 Game Mentions: Kanban, Lisboa, The Gallerist, Vinhos, Escape Plan, On Mars, Patchwork, Twilight Struggle, Twilight Imperium, Thebes, An Infamous Traffic Support: If you would like to help us improve our product, here's where you can do that! www.patreon.com/MalthausGames podpledge.com?p=3D8L1M1V4S7F8... ko-fi.com/malthausgames Sound Attributions: Something Elated by Broke For Free, Downloaded from freemusicarchive.org/music/Bro... Edits: Cut to length and Faded in. Heavy Happy With Drums by Ryan Cullinane, Downloaded from freemusicarchive.org/music/Ryan Cullinane/Heavy Happy With Drums – Beat Driven Productions – Heavy Happy With Drums Edits: Cut to length and faded out. Crowd in a bar (LCR recording) by Leandros.Ntounis, downloaded from freesound.org/people/Leandros... Edits: Cut to length, added vocals and own recorded drink making sounds. Vinyl_record_needle_static_01.wav by joedeshon, downloaded from freesound.org/people/joedesho... Edits: Cut to length, added to music and raised volume level. Hidden Wall Opening by ertfelda, downloaded from freesound.org/people/ertfelda... Edits: Adjust volume and cut to length added jungle sound and voice. Yucatan jungle.mp3 by folkart films, downloaded from freesound.org/people/folkart%... Edits: Adjust volume, cut to length, added door sound and voice. Footsteps, Concretem A.wav by InspectorJ, downloaded from freesound.org/people/Inspecto... Edits: Cut to length, adjusted volume, added jungle sounds and voice. Fantasy Sounds Effects Library, Ambience_Cave_00.wav by LittleRobotSoundFactory, downloaded from freesound.org/people/LittleRo... Edits: Cut to length, faded in, adjusted volume and added footsteps, jungle sounds, stone door, and voice. Game Show Theme Tune by FoolBoyMedia, downloaded from freesound.org/people/FoolBoyM... Edits: Cut to length, added vocals, adjusted volume. Audience, Theatre Applause.wav by makosan, downloaded from freesound.org/people/makosan/... Edits: Added music, added voice, cut to length and adjusted volume.
In this week's episode: we interview Board Game Superstar, Ian O'Toole , who have been responsible for the graphic design and illustrations in such games as On Mars; Kanban EV; The Gallerist; Nemo's War (2nd Edition); Lisboa; and much more. He discusses his journey from working on convention exhibits and Irish Game Fish to now making some of the most gorgeous artwork in board games! We also go over all the new and upcoming games to Tabletop Merchant.If you have any questions, feel free to email us at tabletopmerchant@gmail.com. And check out all the amazing board games, card games, miniatures and more at www.tabletopmerchant.comMusic: Jazzy Frenchy - Bensound.com
Grab your striped tire and head to the loberry for a new episode of LIVE! Nate is a #BookGuy now so we're assembling a book using characters, conflicts, genres, and settings seemingly at random. In Old Timey America, Tim Ramblesong is trying to live a quiet, flag-folding, bed-making life as the head of the neighborhood watch. On Mars, an alien/human hybrid searches for his doughy, sports car-driving father. Somewhere, Waldo hides. Plus, Nate burns through two internets trying to stay in the conversation. Trivia Jeff triggers a hole eating contest. Pat does a cold open. All that and more and it all happens LIVE!
Flower Power: Floating Sensors Inspired By Dandelions Dandelions' white puff balls are irresistible—kids delight in blowing on them until the seeds break free, floating away. But, dandelion seeds' ability to travel through the air is not just aesthetic. Like many other plants, they rely on the wind for seed dispersal. The traveling success of those floating dandelion seeds inspired engineers at the University of Washington to design a new ultra-light sensor. It's solar powered and weighs just 30 milligrams. The goal is to use these sensors to do things like track temperature fluctuations and survey crops. The researchers' findings were recently published in the journal Nature. Ira talks with Vikram Iyer, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, based in Seattle, Washington. The GoFundMe Healthcare Plan Doesn't Work Big celebrity crowdfunding campaigns often raise huge sums of money. Take for example, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, who recently raised $20 million in a week for Ukrainian humanitarian aid. But these types of crowdfunding campaigns are outliers. Increasingly, crowdfunding in the United States is being used as an ad-hoc social safety net. Around a third of campaigns on the most popular crowdfunding site, GoFundMe, are to cover medical costs. And most campaign goals are modest—aiming to raise a few thousand dollars. Yet 30% of campaigns to cover medical costs in 2020 raised zero dollars. Researchers from the University of Washington crunched the data on roughly half a million GoFundMe campaigns for medical expenses to get a better picture of which campaigns are more likely to get funded and which aren't. Ira speaks with Nora Kenworthy, associate professor of nursing and health studies, global health and anthropology at the University of Washington and Mark Igra, sociology graduate student at the University of Washington. The Case Of Mars' Missing Water In the search for life outside Earth, scientists consider having liquid water one of the foremost criteria for determining if a planet could be habitable. On Mars, the evidence for a watery past has been flooding in from rovers and other instruments over the last 30 years. The contents of that water—its temperature and salinity, how fast it moved—are all now written in the planet's minerals and rocks. SciFri producer Christie Taylor talks to planetary scientist Bethany Ehlmann about the hunt for Mar's water, where it all went, and whether liquid water could still, somehow, exist on the Red Planet's surface.
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