Podcasts about Professor Farnsworth

The latest installment of the This is My Voice! podcast stars the iconic Billy West, undoubtedly one of the most well known stars in the voice industry today. Best known for his work on Futurama, West voices Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, President Nixon, Zapp Brannigan and the loveable yet disturbing Dr. Zoidberg. The list of characters Billy has brought to life also includes Bugs Bunny, Ren and Stimpy and even the Red M&M.In this episode, hosts Eddie Bye and Rachel Sallis ask him about the inspirations behindbeloved characters, living with neurodivergence, and solving the decades long “rabbit season, duck season debate”.Sallis stated “Billy was really generous with us, and gave us so much insight into the industry and his characters. I tried to throw him a couple of curveballs and got some interesting results.”“Billy West is one of those rare talents that floods the room with energy. It’s impossible not to get caught up in his infectious storytelling, that’s what makes him such a special talent“ Sallis added. This limited series will be available from the Auscast Network every second Friday at5:00pm ACST. Futurama is available to watch now on Disney Plus.Follow us @thisismyvoice_pod on Instagram.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aaron and Josh Sarnecky are here to talk about Futurama for its 25th anniversary. Futurama is an animated sci-fi comedy series created by Matt Groening. Groening, best known for creating The Simpsons, developed the show with David X. Cohen. It originally premiered on March 28, 1999 on FOX. Though FOX canceled the show in 2003, success in reruns led to four direct-to-DVD films and a revival on Comedy Central. The show ended in 2013 but returned for a second revival on Hulu in 2023. The show has currently aired 150 episodes. The series follows the adventures of Philip J. Fry (Billy West), a New York City man from 1999 who is cryogenically frozen for a thousand years. In the future, Fry becomes a delivery boy for his descendant Professor Farnsworth (also West). Other members of the Planet Express crew include the foul-mouthed robot Bender (John DiMaggio), one-eyed mutant Leela (Katey Sagal), accountant Hermes (Phil LaMarr), intern Amy (Lauren Tom), and crustaceous physician Dr. Zoidberg (also West). The Pop Break interviewed one of the show's stars, Maurice LaMarche, in 2013. Futurama has garnered acclaim from both viewers and critics, winning the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in 2002 and 2011. Footage of the show appeared in An Inconvenient Truth starring Former Vice President Al Gore. Gore has voiced himself on the show several times. For another adult cartoon, you can listen to Josh and Aaron's Family Guy retrospective. Futurama is streaming on Hulu --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/popbreaktv/message

Vid here This is the #Futurama panel from #RI #ComicCon this year, filmed on November 4th, 2023. It features John DiMaggio, Billy West, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr, and Maurice LaMarche - the voices of Bender, Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Amy Wong, Hermes Conrad, Morbo, Kif, Hedonismbot and much more! Funbearable host Brad Rohrer moderates the #panel, and we follow it with a jump into a mini-Funbearable episode! We talk: the everlasting power of Futurama and its fandom, the difference between Smurfs and Snorks, and our very own version of the theory of evolution. Video edit by Craig Depina @funbearablepod / funbearablepod.com #fox #simpsons #mattgroening #bender

Kevin and Mykie are in awe as we sit and chat with the one and only BILLY WEST! Mr. West has over 100 notable voice acting roles spread across radio, TV and film. You've heard him as Bugs Bunny, Philip J Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, Doug, Ren & Stimpy and so many more beloved characters. Join us as we have a wonderful chat about early childhood nerdiness, operating on creative wavelengths, and what Roger Klotz is up to these days. Get to listening![Content Warning: This episode features Explicit Language]Thank you to Anime Houston for having us and helping us with this chat, for more info and future events keep an eye on AnimeTX.comSupport the podcast and buy us a cup of joe!Visit www.buymeacoffee.com/assumingpod for the perks and thanks for being awesome Positrons.

It's a good thing they didn't keep face swapping everyone in this film, otherwise we'd have some issues that only Professor Farnsworth and the Harlem Globetrotters could solve (see random Futurama episode). Also, Castor Troy was ahead of his times with them peaches... or would it be John Woo? Let us know your thoughts on this episode and favorite John Woo film is on Instagram or Twitter. Don't forget to recommend movies like this for us at any time, just visit our website!

The finale Once again, Acomi and Turk182 dip their feet in the ever flow waters of Reddit for some podcast fun. This time, they decide to take a fateful journey into r/relationship advice. Do they have to be this difficult? What should have been a simple podcast with them answering a couple posts turned into a multi-part podcast, with them answering a couple of posts. The two quickly realized that they couldn't just answer the questions. They first had to unpack that safari vacation load of baggage that came with them. Get ready for answers that are more painful than the questions, and doses of reality that are bigger than Professor Farnsworth's underwater pills. #OMTWF #Acomi #Turk182 #KorovaEntertainment #Reddit #relationships #relationshipadvice #singlelife Follow Acomi on Twitter at @AcomiDraws and on Instagram at AcomiDraws. Follow Turk182 on Twitter at @Turk182_KE and on Instagram at Turk182_KE.

Part 3 of 4 Once again, Acomi and Turk182 dip their feet in the ever flow waters of Reddit for some podcast fun. This time, they decide to take a fateful journey into r/relationship advice. It's a wonder that everybody isn't single. What should have been a simple podcast with them answering a couple posts turned into a multi-part podcast, with them answering a couple of posts. The two quickly realized that they couldn't just answer the questions. They first had to unpack that safari vacation load of baggage that came with them. Get ready for answers that are more painful than the questions, and doses of reality that are bigger than Professor Farnsworth's underwater pills. Look for part of this topic next Wednesday, with a different podcast episode on Fridays. #OMTWF #Acomi #Turk182 #KorovaEntertainment #Reddit #relationships #relationshipadvice #singlelife Follow Acomi on Twitter at @AcomiDraws and on Instagram at AcomiDraws. Follow Turk182 on Twitter at @Turk182_KE and on Instagram at Turk182_KE.

Part 2 of 4 Once again, Acomi and Turk182 dip their feet in the ever flow waters of Reddit for some podcast fun. This time, they decide to take a fateful journey into r/relationship advice. Let's say, never again. What should have been a simple podcast with them answering a couple posts turned into a multi-part podcast, with them answering a couple of posts. The two quickly realized that they couldn't just answer the questions. They first had to unpack that safari vacation load of baggage that came with them. Get ready for answers that are more painful than the questions, and doses of reality that are bigger than Professor Farnsworth's underwater pills. Look for parts 3 and 4 of this topic each Wednesday, with a different podcast episode on Fridays. #OMTWF #Acomi #Turk182 #KorovaEntertainment #Reddit #relationships #relationshipadvice #singlelife Follow Acomi on Twitter at @AcomiDraws and on Instagram at AcomiDraws. Follow Turk182 on Twitter at @Turk182_KE and on Instagram at Turk182_KE.

Part 1 of 4 Once again, Acomi and Turk182 dip their feet in the ever flow waters of Reddit for some podcast fun. This time, they decide to take a fateful journey into r/relationship advice. Hoo-boy, what a doozy. What should have been a simple podcast with them answering a couple posts turned into a multi-part podcast, with them answering a couple of posts. The two quickly realized that they couldn't just answer the questions. They first had to unpack that safari vacation load of baggage that came with them. Get ready for answers that are more painful than the questions, and doses of reality that are bigger than Professor Farnsworth's underwater pills. Look for the remaining parts of this topic each Wednesday, with a different podcast episode on Fridays. #OMTWF #Acomi #Turk182 #KorovaEntertainment #Reddit #relationships #relationshipadvice #singlelife Follow Acomi on Twitter at @AcomiDraws and on Instagram at AcomiDraws. Follow Turk182 on Twitter at @Turk182_KE and on Instagram at Turk182_KE.

J Scotty hops on for quick solo episode celebrating the return of Futurama - highlighting the show's storied production history, giving his top 5 episodes and finally his quick impression of the revival's debut episode!

Cervical cancer rates are lower but participation in HVP screening needs a boost. This week on The Tea Room Professor Annabelle Farnsworth spills the tea on how the new national cervical screening program is going, five years on. Professor Farnsworth said that the new program is seeing cancer rates starting to drop but that there are challenges getting more people to participate. “One of the major issues that the whole new programme faces, is recruiting women, and people with cervices, into the programme. General practice has always been a very central part of cervical screening because the general practitioner can individualise conversations with each person,” she said. Professor Farnsworth said that in the old programme, general practices often had reminder systems that they ran themselves to encourage patients to come back for their regular check-ups. “Women's health check-ups were part of that landscape as well. In the new programme, some of those things may have fallen by the wayside,” she said. Professor Farnsworth also said varying rates of cervical cancer amongst different populations was a “big problem”. She said that First Nations people are dying from cervical cancer at higher rates than other Australians, as are people in rural areas who don't have equal access to further investigation and treatment services. This episode also looks at eligibility and MBS exceptions, self-test advantages and the overwhelming number of coloscopy referrals. Professor Farnsworth also nudges GPs to check out the online participant portal that GPs and practice managers can access to check their patient's status. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back with “the modern day Mel Blanc” – Billy West. Billy has an amazing list of credits to his name, as he is known as the original voice actor for Nickelodeon's Doug as well as Stimpy Cat and Ren Hoek in The Ren & Stimpy Show. In addition to these roles, Billy is also best known for being the voice of several Futurama characters which include Philip Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, and Zapp Braniggan. It is also worth noting that Billy plays King Rulo in the Netflix animated series Disenchantment.In this continuation, Billy shares a whole array of stories that offer wonder and inspiration. We start off by talking about how he landed his roles in Futurama, where he reveals that he actually didn't audition for Fry! Then, Billy moves on to talk about the people that inspired Dr. Zoidberg and King Rulo's distinct and iconic voices. He also goes on to take us on a trip down memory lane, where he shares what it was like to meet Mel Blanc as well as Michael Jordan! Then, on a more serious note, Billy talks about the obstacles he had to conquer to get to where he is now.Timestamps:[0:32] How Billy landed his Futurama roles[6:42] How Billy became a part of Disenchantment[7:49] The actor that inspired King Rulo's voice[14:35] The battles Billy struggled with and won[20:07] Meeting Mel Blanc[26:03] Meeting Michael Jordan Sign up for exclusive updates to the show! https://mailchi.mp/ca034f33e0b3/alicynswonderland Follow Alicyn:Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/alicyn/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@alicynpackardTwitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/alicynLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicynpackardFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/alicynpackardartistWebsite: https://www.alicynpackard.com/ Follow Billy West:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/billywestpodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/thebillywestWebsite: https://www.billywest.com/Podcast: https://billywestpodcast.com/

For this week's episode, we are joined by the man dubbed as “The Modern Day Mel Blanc” – Billy West! Arguably one of the most familiar voices in the industry, Billy's voice can be heard in a number of classic cartoons. Among Billy's most notable characters include Philip Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, and Zapp Brannigan from Futurama, and Bugs Bunny in the 1996 film Space Jam. Billy has also provided his voice talent to a slew of other established characters such as Elmer Fudd, Popeye, Shaggy Rogers, Skeets, Tom, Muttley, and Woody Woodpecker!Join us as we talk about everything, starting from his childhood days in Roslindale plus his youthful shenanigans while playing for the band, The Rogues. Then, Billy shares how getting to meet the “old timers” has influenced the way he treats the new wave of voice actors. Furthermore, Billy also talks about Futurama and why he thinks the show is too good to not be in production! Plus, Billy also reveals the fantastic people who inspired the much beloved mushmouth voice he does for Zoidberg! Timestamps:[8:23] How meeting the old timers has influenced how Billy treats the newcomers[9:36] Billy talks about the similarities of the performing arts movement scene yesterday and today[11:18] Billy does a “Doug” bit[12:40] Billy talks about Futurama[15:23] The people that inspired Zoidberg's voiceSign up for exclusive updates to the show! https://mailchi.mp/ca034f33e0b3/alicynswonderlandFollow Alicyn:Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/alicyn/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@alicynpackardTwitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/alicynLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicynpackardFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/alicynpackardartistWebsite: https://www.alicynpackard.com/Follow Billy West:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/billywestpodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/thebillywestWebsite: https://www.billywest.com/Podcast: https://billywestpodcast.com/

Guest host Arlene Bynon is joined by Professor Stephen Farnsworth, a professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia & Author of seven books, including "Presidential Communication and Character: White House News Management from Clinton to Cable and Twitter to Trump". Arlene and Professor Farnsworth examine the progress and key points in the January 6th Inquiry into the attack on Capital Hill in the U.S. Let's get talking See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest Host Angela Kokott is joined by Professor Stephen J. Farnsworth, a professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington. Professor Farnsworth and Angela breakdown the monumental leak from the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Roe V. Wade decision, which would greatly affect the freedoms and availability of abortions for women in America. Let's get talking See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join us for a special episode of The Futurama Fam where we talk about Futurama S06E07 "The Late Philip J. Fry." If time is a loop would the next version of our universe be the same? Would there be any slight differences? Hop in the One-Way Time Machine with us and find out!Follow us on Twitter: @SimpsonsSibsMusic provided by NCS: https://ncs.io/adventureGet one free month on the Barkbox SuperChewer subscription service for dogs: http://www.superchewer.com/simpsons/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/simpsonssibs)

In this episode, we talk to the cast of Futurama: Billy West - Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, & Dr. Zoidberg, Phil LaMarr - Hermes Conrad, and Lauren Tom - Amy Wong and Inez Wong about favorite voiceover roles, favorite Futurama memes, and those very special episodes. 17:55 - what is everybody's favorite voiceover role in their entire career? 26:38 - If any of you could do a spinoff show based on your character what would it be called and why? 31:01 - does anybody have a favorite episode you like to share? 36:12 - There's been many memes of the show, do you have a favorite meme? 38:49 - what is your favorite topic that you addressed within the plot of the show? This discussion was moderated by Patty Hawkins and originally aired live on galaxycon.com on December 11th. Head over to check out more FREE livestream Q&As!

He's the voice of Ren and Stimpy, Doug Funnie, Phillip Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, the Red M&M, and SO MUCH MORE. This week, Jeramy talks with legendary voice actor, Billy West, about his career as a professional musician, touring with Brian Wilson, how he began his radio career, his experience meeting Mel Blanc, his technique while recording his iconic voices, and more. Don't miss this one! BillyWest.com Twitter: @TheBillyWest Instagram: @BillyWestPodcast CannedAirPodcast.com @CannedAirPod @Canned_Air If you'd like to show your support, you can either visit our Patreon page at Patreon.com/CannedAirPod or you can leave us a review on iTunes! Thanks for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Billy "The voice of your childhood" West is our guest today! From Doug Funnie in Disney's Doug, to Phillip J Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Professor Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan in Futurama and Ren and Stimpy. Billy is voice acting royalty, but you didn't hear that from him! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nmyheadpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nmyheadpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/nmyheadpod Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatsInMyHeadPodcast/featuredDon't forget to subscribe and follow us across all social media platforms.

3 Stimmy check budget and some creative ideas. The bald headed ass man from 3036 gives us shocking revelation about the future....which most of us will be dead before 3000 unless we Quantum Leap with Sam and Al to see. So we won't see Lela, Fry, Bender and Professor Farnsworth and rich ass Amy and hearing about their delivery company adventures. This bald headed ass man needs to go back because he's zzzzzzzzzzzzz ol lying balded ass bastard...Booooooooo u suck! How you gonna get a full head of hair and eyebrows but yo azz talkin smack?? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kc-lacy/message

Professor Farnsworth creates a mysterious box which leads to all kinds of parallel dimension shenanigans when Andy and Scott review Futurama season 5, episode 10, "The Farnsworth Parabox". Find more Why Not Futurama? through the official RF4RM social media channels: Web | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram   Rate, review, & subscribe to Why Not Futurama? on: Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Stitcher   Your feedback is appreciated. Send emails to podcast@rf4rm.com

The ballad of Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Bender & Zoidberg...& Leela. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Nick hops on a phone call with voice acting legend Billy West! They chat about Billy's journey from being a road musician, to his days on the radio with Howard Stern, to voicing some of the most iconic cartoon characters (Ren and Stimpy, Phillip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Doug Funnie, Bugs Bunny, etc.). Billy drops some serious knowledge on Nick regarding old Hollywood movies and radio. And, of course, they chat heavy life stuff. This episode has something for everyone. Enjoy!

Another Lousy Millennium: A Futurama Fan Podcast Not now, Leela! I'm trying to meet old people! Listen in as Luke and Gabe discuss Futurama Season 9, Episode 10: Near-Death Wish. Follow us on Twitter @ALMPod or on Facebook at facebook.com/almpod/. Check out our website at almpod.com. Gabe’s NEW comic kickstarter, LOVE AT FIRST BITE, is going on right now and ends Wednesday August 26th! Back the campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gabechengcomics/love-at-first-bite-romantic-comedy-one-shot-with-vampires Episode Synopsis: After Fry had a quarrel with Dr Farnsworth about family issues, Fry decides to look up Dr Farnsworths' parents to enjoy the family he never had. On this show: Luke explains the potentially apocryphal original plot of the Matrix. Gabe discusses alternatives for the ending that would have developed the relationship more between Fry and Professor Farnsworth. We see the triumphant return of the barrier bot … with his new arm! Gabe does an amazing impression of Bender not caring about anything the meat bags are doing throughout the episode. Luke and Gabe propose competing alternative endings that capitalize more on the “big reveal” of the episode

Professor Farnsworth invents the Fing-longer (and we see three crazy stories starring the Planet Express crew) when Andy and Scott review Futurama season 2, episode 20, "Anthology of Interest 1". Find more Why Not Futurama? through the official RF4RM social media channels: Web | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram   Rate, review, & subscribe to Why Not Futurama? on: Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Stitcher   Your feedback is appreciated. Send emails to podcast@rf4rm.com

Bender joins the robot revolution while Professor Farnsworth rekindles an old flame with Mom when Andy and Scott review Futurama season 2, episode 19, "Mother's Day". Find more Why Not Futurama? through the official RF4RM social media channels: Web | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram   Rate, review, & subscribe to Why Not Futurama? on: Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Stitcher   Your feedback is appreciated. Send emails to podcast@rf4rm.com

Professor Farnsworth clones himself a successor when Andy and Scott review Futurama season 2, episode 15, "A Clone of My Own". Find more Why Not Futurama? through the official RF4RM social media channels: Web | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram   Rate, review, & subscribe to Why Not Futurama? on: Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Stitcher   Your feedback is appreciated. Send emails to podcast@rf4rm.com

Bran, Matt, and Jon are joined by returning guests Jeff Mack and Emily to decide which character is the best in Futurama! It's a race to the bottom between Fry, Leela, Bender, Professor Farnsworth, and...Zapp Brannigan, but they still manage to mention dozens of insane characters ranging from The Robot Devil to Barbados Slim. Expect to get lost in a chaotic storm of random Futurama anecdotes, to learn about Jeff and Jon's interesting encounters with bad dog owners, and to catch a case of the feels in this episode of Your Favorite Character Sucks. And, listen up for another actually real advertisement for Third Planet Science Fiction Super Store!  

Robots do everything faster. Including evolving and believing how quickly things spring up!  Listen in as Luke and Gabe discuss Futurama Season 7 Episode 9: A Clockwork Origin Follow us on Twitter @ALMPod or on Facebook at facebook.com/almpod/. Check out our website at almpod.com. On this show: Luke sympathizes for Zoidberg babysitting Cubert Gabe and Luke hypothesize why Professor Farnsworth would need 4 grand pianos Luke and Gabe split hairs on the heat ratios of genetic algorithm evolved plants on m-class planets Gabe explains what 4 point perspective is and why it’s so hard to teach Luke complains about pineapple pizza.  Gabe tacitly agrees but think it’s a New York joke.  Luke just doesn’t like bad pizza.

Well hello once again, once again those Nerds have given us another episode full of fun and laughter, so strap in and hang on tight as we enjoy the rid. Please remember to keep arms inside the ride at all times to avoid injury. To start this mad cap episode we have the cast list of the new Dr. Dolittle with Robert Downey Jr. This cast has almost as many stars as the US flag. Will this be just another remake of a great movie, or will it be great? Who knows, at present all we know for sure is the cast is pretty impressive. Next up we take a moment to discuss the presence of water on the moon. That’s right water on the moon, is it H2O or OH, is there enough for a pool to soak away the long dreary hours after working all day as a janitor. Oops, that was the story for Space Quest, sorry. But the presence of water is important to plans to build a moon base for further space exploration. Last topic is about Crazy Taxi and not horrifying us with gruesome violence like the horror movie right there on our TV, called the 6 o’clock news. Sorry, distracted again, but hey, it is an amazing line up to entertain you and is followed by the usual shout outs, remembrances, birthdays and events of interest. As always we would love to hear from you, and please remember to take care of each other and stay hydrated.EPISODE NOTES:Dr Dolittle Movie starring Robert Downey Jr - http://collider.com/robert-downey-jr-doctor-dolittle-movie-reshoots/Moon Water - https://phys.org/news/2019-04-meteoroid-eject-precious-moon.html- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2199618-there-is-water-just-under-the-surface-of-the-moon-that-we-could-use/Crazy Taxi patent expiration - https://patents.google.com/patent/US6200138B1/enGames currently playingProfessor– Age of Empire 2 HD - https://store.steampowered.com/app/221380/Age_of_Empires_II_HD/Buck– Car Simulator 2016 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/car-mechanic-simulator-2016/9nblggh4t4c4DJ– Apex Legends - https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legendsOther topics discussedThe Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (2020 movie)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyage_of_Doctor_DolittleKnut the Polar Bear- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_(polar_bear)Inuka the Polar Bear- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InukaSelena Gomez bio- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena_GomezThe Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922 novel)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyages_of_Doctor_DolittleThe Futurist (Robert Downey Jr. album)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Futurist_(Robert_Downey_Jr._album)Craig Robinson (actor)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Robinson_(actor)Pineapple Express (2008 movie)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_Express_(film)Puss in Boots- https://shrek.fandom.com/wiki/Puss_in_BootsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014 film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_(2014_film)LADEE - Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LADEELCROSS - Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCROSSNASA's strike on moon worked- http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/10/09/probe.moon.crash/index.htmlWater on Titan?- https://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/a-water-ocean-on-titan/Moon (2009 film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_(film)Aniara (1956 poem)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AniaraSpace: 1999 (1975 TV Series)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_1999Bottle Waters of the World- http://www.finewaters.com/bottled-waters-of-the-world/japanDriver : San Franciso- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver:_San_FranciscoKylie Minogue Darling Perfume- https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Kylie-Minogue/Darling-842.htmlLoading screen mini games- https://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/11/the-patent-on-loading-screen-mini-games-is-about-to-expire/Patent - https://patents.google.com/patent/US5718632Midtown Madness (1999 game)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midtown_MadnessMidnight Club (racing series)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_ClubMidnight Club 3: Dub Edition- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Club_3:_Dub_EditionAssassin’s Creed Unity free giveaway- https://www.gamesradar.com/au/ubisoft-is-giving-away-assassins-creed-unity-for-free-as-a-nod-to-the-notre-dame-cathedral/My Summer Car (game)- https://store.steampowered.com/app/516750/My_Summer_Car/Days Gone motorcycle upgrade- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5OjNq_CfsEVA-8 Auto (Apex Legends Gun)- https://apexlegends.gamepedia.com/EVA-8_AutoAl-Aqsa Mosque on fire same time as Notre Dame- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/small-fire-broke-out-jerusalems-al-aqsa-mosque-flames-ravaged-notre-dame-180971983/Monty Python's Life of Brian- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian3D Printed heart using patient cells- https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019/04/15/USAT/903d849a-04cb-4171-b786-4cd7e60fcf8a-AFP_AFP_1FN7BD.JPG?crop=5471,3077,x0,y566&width=3200&height=1680&fit=boundsLive Animal in keychains- http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/14/china.animal.keyring/index.htmlMel Blanc (voice actor)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_BlancPeppermint (2018 movie)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppermint_(2018_film)Ronin (1998 film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin_(film)Operation Desert Shield also known as The Gulf War- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_WarElvis Lives! (That’s Not Canon Podcast)- https://thatsnotcanon.com/elvislivesShoutouts15 Apr 2019 - Notre-Dame de Paris fire - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/notre-dame-fire-what-was-damaged-n99537116 Apr 1850 - Marie Tussaud, French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London. She died of pneumonia at 88 in London, England - https://www.onthisday.com/articles/madame-tussauds-bloody-background16 Apr 1977 - David Soul, of Starsky & Hutch, has the #1 song on the U.S. pop charts - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/david-soul-of-starsky-hutch-has-the-1-song-on-the-u-s-pop-charts16 Apr 2019 – Monty Python’s Life of Brian turns 40 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-16/life-of-brian-by-monty-python-is-40/1100439416 Apr 2019 – First 3D printed heart from human patient cells - https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/health/3d-printed-heart-study/index.htmlRemembrances14 Apr 2019 – Gene Wolfe, American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short-story writer and novelist and won many science fiction and fantasy literary awards. Wolfe is best known for his Book of the New Sun series (four volumes, 1980–83), the first part of his "Solar Cycle". He died of cardiovascular disease at 87 in Peoria, Illinois - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe15 Apr 2019 - Winston L. Shelton, American inventor, electrical engineer and entrepreneur who was awarded 76 US patents as an individual or as part of a team, as well as many corresponding patents. Shelton's patents have had an impact relating to home washing machines and the preparation of food in both the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) industry and fine dining. Technologies Shelton developed while an engineer at General Electric are still in use after more than fifty years. His patent for the modern "Washing Machine" (US 3257830 A), licensed in 1965 to General Electric has been referenced in over 40 subsequent patents. Shelton also invented new ways to cook and hold food, including the Collectramatic, the first pressurized fryer that did not require interrupting production to frequently filter shortening while cooking. Shelton also invented Controlled Vapor Technology, a patented cooking method that uses water vapor to prepare and safely hold food. He died at 96- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_L._SheltonPatents - https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=3257830&idkey=NONE&homeurl=http%3A%252F%252Fpatft.uspto.gov%252Fnetahtml%252FPTO%252Fpatimg.htm16 Apr 1958 - Rosalind Elsie Franklin, English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. Franklin is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA, particularly Photo 51, while at King's College London, which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix for which James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962. Watson suggested that Franklin would have ideally been awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Wilkins, but, although there was not yet a rule against posthumous awards, the Nobel Committee generally does not make posthumous nominations. She died of bronchopneumonia, secondary carcinomatosis, and ovarian cancer at 37 in Chelsea, London - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin17 Apr 1790 – Benjamin Franklin, American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humourist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod,bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He founded many civic organizations, including the Library Company, Philadelphia's first fire department and the University of Pennsylvania. His colourful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and his status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honoured more than two centuries after his death on coinage and the $100 bill, warships, and the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, and corporations, as well as countless cultural references. He died of pleurisy at 84 in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin17 Apr 2016 – Doris Roberts, American actress, author, and philanthropist whose career spanned six decades of television and film. She received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award during her acting career, which began in 1951. She had several prominent roles in movies, including playing opposite Shirley Stoler in The Honeymoon Killers (1970), Elliott Gould in Little Murders (1971), Steven Keats in Hester Street (1975), Billy Crystal in Rabbit Test (1978), Robert Carradine in Number One with a Bullet (1987), and Cady McClain in Simple Justice (1989), among many others. She achieved continuing success in television, becoming known for her role as Mildred Krebs in Remington Steele from 1983 to 1987 and her co-starring role as Raymond Barone's mother, Marie Barone, on the long-running CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005). Towards the end of her acting career, she also had a prominent role opposite Tyler Perry in Madea's Witness Protection (2012). She died of a stroke at 90 in Los Angeles, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Roberts17 Apr 2019 - Kazuhiko Katō known by the pen name Monkey Punch, Japanese manga artist, best known for his series Lupin III. In April 2005 he became the professor of Manga Animation at Otemae University, in their Faculty of Media and Arts, and was a visiting professor at Tokyo University of Technology in May 2010. He died of pneumonia at 81 in Sakura, Chiba on April 11, 2019. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_PunchFamous Birthdays16 Apr 1952 – Billy West, American voice actor, singer, musician, songwriter and former radio personality. He is known for his voice-over work in a number of television series, films, video games, and commercials. He has done hundreds of voice-overs in his career such as Ren (season 3 to season 5) and Stimpy on The Ren & Stimpy Show; Doug Funnie and Roger Klotz on Doug; and Philip J. Fry,Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg,Zapp Brannigan and a number of others on Futurama. He does voices for commercials and is the current voice of the red M&M and was also the voice of Buzz, the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee until 2004. Born in Detroit, Michigan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_West17 Apr 1972 - Jennifer Garner, American actress. Following a supporting role in Pearl Harbor (2001), Garner gained recognition for her performance as CIA officer Sydney Bristow in the ABC spy-action thriller Alias, which aired from 2001 to 2006. For her work on the series, she won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award and received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. While working on Alias, Garner made a cameo appearance in Catch Me If You Can (2002), followed by giving a praised leading performance in the romantic comedy film 13 Going on 30 (2004). Garner has appeared in supporting as well as lead film roles, including the superhero films Daredevil (2003) and Elektra (2005), the comedy-drama Juno (2007), and the fantasy-comedy The Invention of Lying (2009). In the 2010s, she appeared in the romantic-comedy Valentine's Day (2010), the fantasy comedy-drama The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012), the biographic drama Dallas Buyers Club (2013), the comedy film Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014), the drama film Miracles from Heaven (2016), and the romantic comedy-drama film Love, Simon (2018). Born in Houston, Texas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Garner17 Apr 1959 – Sean Bean, English actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Bean made his professional debut in a theatre production of Romeo and Juliet in 1983. Retaining his Yorkshire accent, he first found mainstream success for his portrayal of Richard Sharpe in the ITV series Sharpe. Bean subsequently gained further recognition for his performance as Ned Stark in the HBO epic fantasy series Game of Thrones, and won both a BAFTA and an International Emmy, both for Best Actor. He has also been nominated for a Saturn Award. One of his most prominent film roles was Boromir in The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003). Other roles include Alec Trevelyan in the James Bond film GoldenEye (1995) and Odysseus in Troy (2004), as well as roles in Patriot Games (1992), Ronin (1998), Equilibrium (2002), National Treasure (2004), North Country (2005), The Island (2005), Silent Hill (2006), Black Death (2010), Jupiter Ascending (2015) and The Martian (2015). Other TV roles include the BBC anthology series Accused and the ITV historical drama series Henry VIII. As a voice actor, Bean has been featured in the video games The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Sid Meier's Civilization VI, and the drama The Canterbury Tales, among several others. Born in Handsworth, Sheffield - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Bean18 Apr 1927 – Samuel P Huntington, American political scientist, adviser and academic. He spent more than half a century at Harvard University, where he was director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs and the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor. During the presidency of Jimmy Carter, Huntington was the White House Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council. He is best known for his 1993 theory, the "Clash of Civilizations", of a post–Cold War new world order. He argued that future wars would be fought not between countries, but between cultures, and that Islamic extremism would become the biggest threat to world peace. Huntington is credited with helping to shape U.S. views on civilian–military relations, political development, and comparative government. Born in New York City, New York - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._HuntingtonEvents of Interest16 Apr 1705 - Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton16 Apr 1943 – Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later April 19. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann18 Apr 1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization_of_Joan_of_Arc18 Apr 1983 - Alice Walker becomes the first woman of colour to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her book “The Colour Purple” - http://www.famousdaily.com/history/pulitzer-prize-the-color-purple.htmlA Special Shoutout goes to My Favourite Murder Podcast- Bio - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Favorite_Murder- Official website(s) - https://www.myfavoritemurder.com/- https://www.exactlyrightmedia.com/myfavoritemurder- Where you can find themItunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-favorite-murder-karen-kilgariff-georgia-hardstark/id1074507850PlayerFM - https://player.fm/series/my-favorite-murder-with-karen-kilgariff-and-georgia-hardstark-2084036Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/exactly-right/my-favorite-murderSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0U9S5J2ltMaKdxIfLuEjzEIntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comTwitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rss

When you go back in time to beat up your ancestor, you have to do it carefully unless you want to end up using the metric system! [spooky music plays]. That's just what Professor Farnsworth does in order to save his family name. Other talking points are... shark jumping and also a lot of time travel philosophy. You might also accidentally learn something about history in this episode! It's edutainment! Ben becomes a philosophy professor. Mike becomes Dilbert. Music at the end of the episode is "Super Sunday" and used with permission. "Super Sunday" is provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk.

Well, what are you supposed to do when the whole universe is about to end?  Listen in as Luke and Gabe discuss Futurama Season 6 Episode 5: The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 1. Follow us on Twitter @ALMPod. Check out our website at almpod.com. *NEW* We've started a youtube channel and posted our first video! Check it out here:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0bIBUEd2EVw0YAWR_T38AA On this show: Luke and Gabe discuss the potential consequences of Leela knowing where Bender’s ‘off’ switch is. Luke comments on which bucket has Zoidberg’s saltwater vs freshwater stomach, Gabe hypothesizes where the animals are coming from. Luke and Gabe discuss on Fry’s capriciousness and how that may contribute to his relationship decisions. Luke comments on how the Deathball match between Professor Farnsworth and Professor Wernstrom is a huge allegory for academia. Gabe rants about how Colleen’s building construction in NYc is impractical.  Luke responds for talking for 5 minutes about the absurd NYC renting market.

One of my favorite cartoons on TV is Futurama. It’s the brainchild of Matt Groening, the creator of the Simpsons. The premise of the show is that a guy wakes up in the distant future and has to integrate with a world that is mostly a parody of almost all the sci-fi tropes we’ve come to know over the years. One of my favorite characters is Professor Farnsworth, the sort of leader of the band of misfit characters. There is an ongoing gag where he bursts into the room to announce a mission by saying “Good news everyone!”, and when he goes on to explain it, it is actually very BAD news. For example: “Good news, everyone! Today you’ll be delivering a crate of subpoenas to Sicily 8, the Mob Planet.”Sometimes I feel like our modern Evangelical church is like Professor Farnsworth. We tell the world “Good news everyone!” when declaring the gospel, but follow it up with “God is very angry with you and if you won’t believe in him he’s going to burn you forever!”I think this is largely because we’ve relegated the Gospel to something that only effects our future (going to heaven when you die). We end up fixating on the eschatological implications of the Gospel and almost ignoring the present ramifications of the Good News about Jesus. Yet the New Testament adamantly declares that the Gospel is effects our past and present, as well as our future!In our study of Romans, Paul has been reminding the Roman churches about the nature of the Gospel and how it should have a unifying effect on them. In ch 5-8 he’s been reminding them of what our lives look like now that we have a new covenant with God through Jesus. He’s compared that new life to our old life enslaved to sin and in fear of condemnation by the Law of Moses.In the section we’ll be reading this Sunday, chapter 8:1-17, Paul will get to the very heart of what the gospel is, and what it means to US! He reveals to us why the good news is really good!In v1-4 he launches off with the stunning declaration of our deliverance from condemnation for sin. How easy or hard is it for you to believe that you have been declared “not guilty” by God because of Jesus’ work on the cross? How easy or hard is it for you to believe that God no longer associates you with any sin of your past, present or future? How would you describe this as good news?In what ways to you see your life energized by the resurrection power of God (v11)? Obviously, this has future implications of our bodily resurrection at the end of the age, but in what ways can you see that effecting your life today? How would you see this as good news for a life in this world?What do you see as the importance of having our identity built on being a child of God (v15)? How does being God’s beloved child affect your status, relationship and purpose in this life? In what way is being brought into God’s family good news?I love chapter 8 of Romans – this is such an encouraging section to read! Hope you enjoy this study!

Evangelical Rev. Mark Schaefer Foundry United Methodist Church May 6, 2018 2 Samuel 4:5–12; Matthew 11:2–6   2 Samuel 4:5–12 NRSV • Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ishbaal, while he was taking his noonday rest. They came inside the house as though to take wheat, and they struck him in the stomach; then Rechab and his brother Baanah escaped. Now they had come into the house while he was lying on his couch in his bedchamber; they attacked him, killed him, and beheaded him. Then they took his head and traveled by way of the Arabah all night long. They brought the head of Ishbaal to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ishbaal, son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; the LORD has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.” David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity, when the one who told me, ‘See, Saul is dead,’ thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag—this was the reward I gave him for his news. How much more then, when wicked men have killed a righteous man on his bed in his own house! And now shall I not require his blood at your hand, and destroy you from the earth?” So David commanded the young men, and they killed them; they cut off their hands and feet, and hung their bodies beside the pool at Hebron. But the head of Ishbaal they took and buried in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.   Matthew 11:2–6 NRSV • When John heard in prison what the Messiah was doing, he sent word by his disciples and said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?” Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them. And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.”    I.        BEGINNING Friends, I am here to talk to you about Jesus.  The only Son of God, our Lord!  He came to us from heaven, lived among us and died for our sins on the cross!  Can I get a hallelujah?  But the story did not end there, friends, no, it didn’t.  Because he ROSE again.  He came back from the dead so that ALL would know that God has given us a gift of life from the dead, of eternal life through the blood of his precious son, Jesus Christ!  Can I get an amen? I don’t know how long I can keep that up. That gets kind of exhausting for a Methodist from Upstate New York. But I am willing to bet that something close to that kind of religiosity is what many of you think when you hear the word “evangelical.” Something about loud, emotional preaching. Charismatic religious leaders with huge congregations or tent revival meetings and altar calls, people weeping in the aisles. Lots of jumping up and shouting “Hallelujah!” Or maybe your mind goes less to the worship style and more to the implicit theology: exclusivist claims to salvation, an emphasis on individual—often sexual—sin rather than systemic sins like poverty and racism, a preoccupation with whether you’re in or you’re out. A lot of asking, “When were you saved?” (My favorite answer to that question is: “2,000 years ago on a hill outside Jerusalem.” Feel free to borrow that one.) Or maybe it’s the particular set of political beliefs that tend to come with the Evangelical theology: social conservatism, lack of inclusion toward the LGBTQ community, a strong support for law-and-order justice, a strong military, and other traditionally conservative political positions. However it’s understood, for many Christians who do not so identify, the word evangelical has left something of a bad taste in people’s mouths for a while. In fact, fifty years ago, when the Methodist Church merged with the Evangelical United Brethren to form our current denomination, they didn’t choose to be called the sensible combination of their names—the Evangelical Methodist Church or the Methodist Evangelical Church—they instead dropped the word evangelical and opted to carry over united, instead. (As an aside, this is why it’s preferred to refer to us as United Methodists—so that we honor the EUB churches who joined with the Methodists five decades ago.) But all of this is to say, that there is a lot of discomfort around the word evangelical. But what does it mean for us, really? Is there a sense of the word that those of us on the other side of the theological aisle can embrace? Despite all of the connotations that we perceive when we hear it, what does the word actually mean? II.     EVANGELICAL On a basic level, Evangelical means “Gospel based.” It comes from the Greek word euangelion meaning “good news” or gospel. Now, at first, this word was meant to be in contrast to those Christians who based their doctrine on things other than the scriptures, specifically, the Catholic Church which derived much of its doctrine from its accumulated theological tradition rather than directly from the scriptures themselves. Thus, Evangelical was a term that meant something like “according to the gospel” as opposed to “according to the church.” In Germany, for example, the word Evangelisch simply means “Protestant.” (By the way, when I typed that word into the Google translation software to double-check, I still had my translation set to Latin and the site rendered Evangelisch as haereticus “heretic”—so, it appears that the Vatican may still have some lingering feelings about the Reformation, or at least those writing in Latin, anyway.) To this day, the Lutheran Church in German is simply the Evangelische Kirche and its sister church in the US is the ELCA—The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Now, in America, from the 18th century onward, the term evangelical referred to those who affirmed the importance of a personal experience of salvation, known in the heart. This experience of salvation was seen as a central and essential element of Christian faith. And during the heyday of what was known as the “Evangelical consensus,” there was an agreement that this affirmation of the experience of God was accompanied by a commitment to outward expression of faith, frequently in acts of “piety” and “mercy”—which we would call “worship, devotion, service, and justice.” This was particularly the case among those Christians whose traditions emphasized the assurance of salvation, the new birth in the believer as a result of one’s justification and pardon of sin, and the gradual sanctification of the believer under the power of God’s grace. And especially those traditions whose founder himself had come to this theological understanding after years of tutelage by pietist Moravians who emphasized the religion of the heart and who himself had had the experience of his heart being “strangely warmed.” So, yeah, I don’t know how to break this to you all. But Methodists are … Evangelical. Wesley was absolutely convinced of the power of God’s justifying grace to work a change in us that regenerated us or that gave us a new birth. This, in turn, precipitated an assurance of salvation that he believed was every Christian’s birthright. It was these experiences of salvation that was what drove the early Methodists to work for prison reform, seek justice for the poor, establish schools and universities, fight for abolition, and so on. We did these things because we were evangelical, not despite being so. The Social Gospel was an outgrowth of Evangelical Christianity. Now, in the early 20th Century, the Evangelical consensus began to collapse. The progressive social gospel was viewed with suspicion by more conservative elements and there arose a divide between those Christians who saw sin as a primarily personal issue and those who saw it as a societal problem. After the Scopes Monkey Trial about teaching evolution in the public schools took place in the 1920’s the term Evangelical arose as an alternative label for a conservative Christian who wasn’t quite a fundamentalist. And the more progressive, Social Gospel Christians were content to let them have the label. Reeling from the embarrassment of the Scopes Monkey Trial, most evangelicals withdrew from active engagement with public life and opted out of organized participation in politics. This retreat was so great that the language of Evangelical Christianity, disappeared from the collective awareness. Whereas an old Evangelical concept like being “born again”—or as John Wesley would have called it “regeneration” or “new birth”—once made it into Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address as “this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom,” now journalists no less respected than Walter Cronkite had to explain to his viewers that they’d looked into it when Jimmy Carter had claimed to be a “born-again Christian” and discovered that this was fairly common. The mainline traditions that had come out of the evangelical tradition, had not just abandoned the label of evangelical, we’d abandoned the language of evangelical Christianity, such that our sense of being “evangelical” in any way was lost. Evangelical now meant what the conservative Christians had claimed it as: a conservative Christian who wasn’t quite a fundamentalist. But that is a depleted sense of the word. The term evangelical is not just a subset of a subset—it’s meant to encompass us, too. III.   GOOD NEWs What does it mean, then, for us to claim to be evangelical? At its most basic level, to be evangelical is to be rooted in the gospel—in the good news. To share the good news. But what’s the good news? In the TV show Futurama, there’s a running gag wherein Professor Farnsworth, owner of the Planet Express delivery service, will come into the meeting room and make an announcement that always begins with “Good news, everyone!” But the announcements tend to be things like: “Great news, everyone! You’ll be delivering a package to Chapek 9, a world where Humans are killed on sight.” “Good news, everyone. Tomorrow you’ll be making a delivery to Ebola 9, the virus planet.” “Good news, everyone! Today you’ll be delivering a crate of subpoenas to Sicily 8, the Mob Planet!” With Professor Farnsworth there is a disconnect between his assertion that he’s bringing good news and the nature of the news he’s actually bringing. We see something of that in the passage from 2 Samuel that we read earlier. In that passage we read of the aftermath of the dynastic struggle that follows in the wake of David succeeding Saul as king of Israel. Rimmon and Rechab found Ishbaal the son of Saul and slay him while he was taking his noontime rest. They behead him and ride all night to deliver the head of Ishbaal to David, clearly expecting to be rewarded for this. David’s reaction is quite different: “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity, when the one who told me, ‘See, Saul is dead,’ thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag—this was the reward I gave him for his news. How much more then, when wicked men have killed a righteous man on his bed in his own house! And now shall I not require his blood at your hand, and destroy you from the earth?” The men who did this and who reported it thought that they were bringing good news to David, just as the one who brought the news of Saul’s death did. But in neither case was this actually good news. David has enough sense to know that the death of these men—a political rival and his innocent son—might have been seen as politically expedient but can hardly be characterized as “good.” It’s important to understand that news that might be advantageous to you is not necessarily synonymous with good news. I think this is the case with so much of what is held out as “good news” in contemporary Christianity, and part of many people’s responses to the word evangelical is because the Gospel that is frequently encountered doesn’t seem to be good news. Somehow, the proclamation of Christ’s victory over death and sin gets translated into an almost Professor Farnsworth version of the Gospel: “Good news, everyone! The overwhelming majority of the human race is condemned to eternal hellfire and damnation!” “Good news, everyone! The key to salvation is intellectual assent to a very specific set of extraordinary propositions that must be believed without any trace of doubt!” “Good news, everyone! It doesn’t matter how loving your Hindu and Muslim neighbors are, because they have not accepted Christ as we do, they can expect an eternity of psychic torment when they die!” Does any of that sound like good news to you? Sure, it’s good news for the people who happen to fit the narrow definition of the faithful, but it’s hardly the kind of thing that would be understood as good news to anyone else. This sounds closer to the “good news” that brought word of the deaths of Saul and Ishbaal. Now, if you’re one who is worried about your own eternal fate and someone were to tell you that you have nothing to fear because you are one of those for whom Christ died, then, yes, that would be good news. But it’s hard to see that proclamation being understood broadly in the same way to people who didn’t have that angst. If I’m an atheist who doesn’t believe in God or life after death, telling me that I’m going to hell unless I adopt a particular creed wouldn’t sound like good news in the slightest. IV.   GO AND TeLL JOHN So, then,  what is good news? How do we know what counts as good news such that we should proclaim it? As in so many things, it is instructive to look to Jesus. After all, Jesus began his ministry in Mark’s gospel by saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.” (Mark 1:15 NRSV) Further, we read in our Gospel lesson earlier that John the Baptist’s disciples came to Jesus to relay a message from John asking him if he was the one they were waiting for or should they wait for someone else. Jesus’ response is: Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them. There are two things to note about this passage. The first is Jesus’ answer to how it is they can know whether Jesus is the long-awaited messiah: because, among other things, the poor have good news brought to them. “Bringing good news” is connected to the poor. If we’re looking for a test to determine what is “good news,” let me suggest that the good news isn’t news the poor would receive as such, then perhaps it isn’t really good news. Or at least, the kind of Good News that the Christian is to be bringing. Second, all of the verbs are in the present tense: The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them. This means that the good news is not about something that happened centuries ago, but something that is happening even now in our midst. If we are to be good-news based, if we are to be sharing the gospel, if we are to be evangelical then let this be our evangelion. Let our Gospel be that God is active in our midst. Let our Gospel be that we are the agents of God’s grace and mercy. Let our Gospel be one that speaks powerfully to the needs of the disadvantaged and the marginalized, to the widow and the orphan, to the immigrant and the poor. Let our actions be an illustration that we truly are bearers of the “Good News.” Let our Evangelicalism be about sharing a message of liberty to the captive, justice to the oppressed, binding up of the brokenhearted. If we claim that as our Good News, there should be no reason to shy away from being evangelical. Nor would we have any reason to shy away from insisting that everyone should have a powerful experience of that kind of salvation, and should know the love and grace of God deeply within their hearts. V.      END For a long time, I have argued that the Evangelical Christians have a lot of fervor but don’t always know what to do with it. And mainline Christians are really busy but we don’t always know why. That needs to end. And, mercifully, it’s starting to. I have worked the last eighteen years on a college campus and have worked alongside a number of different Christian campus ministry communities, including Catholic, mainline Protestant, Evangelical, and Pentecostal. And if there’s one thing that’s been consistent over the years is the growing interest in the Evangelical and Pentecostal communities to engage on matters of justice. Many young Evangelicals are deeply committed to environmental justice, racial justice, anti-colonialism, and economic justice for the poor. One of my chaplains representing InterVarsity was in my office talking about the racial justice work he was doing with his students and was wearing a T-shirt that said, “Love your Muslim Neighbor” in English and Arabic. InterVarsity, folks. InterVarsity. It’s clear that there is a hunger in Evangelical Christianity for the Social Gospel. And at the same time, there is a hunger in mainline Protestantism to connect our concern for justice to some deeper experience of God and of salvation. If you have any doubt about that, look around you: at this very moment you are surrounded by hundreds of people who come here regularly to hear your pastor preach the Good News of Jesus Christ, and then translate that into meaningful social action and sacred resistance to evil, injustice, and oppression. You all know how much Pastor Ginger talks about Jesus—and that only makes your commitment to justice and inclusion here at Foundry stronger. The two sides of contemporary Christian faith need each other. The Evangelicals are reclaiming the outward expression of faith in social justice. And it’s time that those of us on the progressive side, especially us Methodists, reclaim the title Evangelical. For we serve a God no less powerful, we are no less convicted of our need for grace, we have experiences of God’s love no less meaningful, no less personal than that of those more comfortable with the label. It wouldn’t hurt for us to get in the habit of telling people why we were doing the work we were doing, of sharing the good news of God’s liberating power, of being evangelical. Indeed, it is because of that deeply powerful experience of God, it is because we have come to understand the grace of God’s Son Jesus Christ, it is because we believe in the transformation of the self that is possible through love, the “new birth” of a person who has come to know the depths of God’s love, it is because of all these things that we go out to share a word of power, a word of justice, and a word of hope with a broken and hurting world. Can I get an amen?

Senior Features Reporter Stu Stalter matches up Mr. Burns and Professor Farnsworth inside the Octagon. Who will turn back the clock far enough to win?"

He's the voice of Ren & Stimpy, Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan and now Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Shaggy Rogers, Popeye, and Woody Woodpecker. Jason tries to stay composed while interviewing the amazing Billy West.

Good News Everyone!The Baby Bearders celebrate Mother's Day by watching Futurama's Mother's Day, on the day after Mother's Day! In 'Mother's Day', the crew and some unlikely allies band together to stop Mom's plan for world domination. As everyone knows, the only way to foil a global robot revolt, is through Professor Farnsworth and his heroic love-making!Plus, the boys remember when VHS had competition. Got anything you want to say to us? Email babybeardmedia@gmail.comEven if it's to say you'll always be Team Betamax.Check us out on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram. 'Baby Beard Media' for all!---------------------------------------------------Also, listen to our new podcast adventure, 'Imaginauts'. Where all good podcasts are sold! (except we won't charge you, it's pretty much iTunes or Spreaker, and we're 80% sure it's good).

Good News Everyone!The Baby Bearders celebrate Mother's Day by watching Futurama's Mother's Day, on the day after Mother's Day! In 'Mother's Day', the crew and some unlikely allies band together to stop Mom's plan for world domination. As everyone knows, the only way to foil a global robot revolt, is through Professor Farnsworth and his heroic love-making!Plus, the boys remember when VHS had competition. Got anything you want to say to us? Email babybeardmedia@gmail.comEven if it's to say you'll always be Team Betamax.Check us out on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram. 'Baby Beard Media' for all!---------------------------------------------------Also, listen to our new podcast adventure, 'Imaginauts'. Where all good podcasts are sold! (except we won't charge you, it's pretty much iTunes or Spreaker, and we're 80% sure it's good).

BARF! This week we're talking about River City Ransom: Underground by Conatus Creative, the new follow-up to the 1989 NES cult-classic River City Ransom. Of course you remember that Blake joined us to talk about the original River City Ransom way back in 2015 (Episode 184 for those keeping score at home). Here at TADPOG we strongly believe in tradition as long as it's cheap and convenient. So...good news, everyone (spoken in the best Professor Farnsworth impression we can muster)! We asked Oathbreaker Blake Woods to join us on this episode. Rhythm Master Paul Corn enters the fray as a new challenger who tells a poop story. Continue reading → The post Ep. 394 – River City Ransom: Underground appeared first on TADPOG: Tyler and Dave Play Old Games.

A seat has opened up in the Great Board of S.C.I.E.N.T.I.S.T., composed of the most brilliant scientific minds in all dimensions, and fictional braniacs everywhere want in...but none more so than the ancient, doomsday device-collecting head of Planet Express, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, and the whiskey-burping sociopath known throughout the multiverse as Rick Sanchez. With only 30 days to prove why they deserve the seat, Farnsworth gathers his crew with a hearty "Good news, everyone" and Rick drags a groaning Morty away from another school assignment, and the contest is on! For science! Will Farnsworth's senility win out over Rick's alcoholism? Does the Portal Gun trump the Fing-Longer? Will Dan Harmon's evil time traveling scheme finally be revealed? And has Colin officially mastered the art of character impressions during lengthy scenario set-ups? Featuring special guest host Jason Ahlquist of MarsDust.net and AboutTomorrowFilm.com.

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The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview Celebrities  Donovan Leitch and Billy West. HOST Donovan Leitch - @donovan_leitch Donovan Leitch has spent his entire life in the entertainment industry. His father and namesake, the psychedelic rock pioneer Donovan, is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Growing up in the heart of Hollywood, Leitch started his acting career as a teenager. He then moved to New York to pursue a career as a musician, where he also worked for 10 years in the fashion industry. Setting his sights on becoming a producer, he has made six feature documentary films. Leitch has had development deals at MTV Networks, Electus, and Maker Studios, and has created and produced web content for Microsoft, YouTube, Vogue.com, and MySpace. He is also the co-founder of Hollywood's first co-work/incubator space, io/LA. In 2002, Donovan co-founded the All-Star rock ‘n' roll cover band Camp Freddy (now called Royal Machines), serving as the super-group's lead singer. Royal Machines has played over 200 shows over the last 12 years, and has featured many of today's leading rock stars including Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol, Scott Weiland, Dave Navarro, and Tommy Lee. He is currently producing a musical called Head Over Heels, with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, based on the music of The Go-Go's; and is a development executive at Insurgent Media, as well as host of AXS TV's BREAKING BAND.   You know Billy as Stimpy on the original Ren & Stimpy (and later Ren as well), ..a host of characters on Futurama (Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Professor Farnsworth, and Zapp Brannigan - to name a few), the voice of Elmer Fudd on “The Looney Tunes Show”  

In this regretfully late episode, Luke Annand and Jordan Ferguson have an in depth discussion about the series finale of Mad Men as well as the show's final episodes. Along the way, they compare David Chase to Professor Farnsworth, declare Connor on Angel the whiniest bitch in all of sci-fi/fantasy and still find a way to bring up Parenthood.

#doctorwho #flatline #epub reprinted from wiki   Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an    by the English schoolmaster . Writing pseudonymously as "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of  culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of . Several films have been made from the story, including the feature film (2007). Other efforts have been short or experimental films, including one narrated by  and the short films  (2007) and starring  and .   Contents   []    Plot[]   Illustration of a simple house in Flatland. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a , a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The Square dreams about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) inhabited by "lustrous points", and attempts to convince the realm's monarch of a second dimension; but is unable to do so. He is himself visited by a three-dimensional , which he cannot comprehend until he sees Spaceland (a tridimensional world) for himself. This Sphere visits Flatland at the turn of each millennium to introduce a new apostle to the idea of a third dimension in the hopes of eventually educating the population of Flatland. From the safety of Spaceland, they are able to observe the leaders of Flatland secretly acknowledging the existence of the sphere and prescribing the silencing of anyone found preaching the truth of Spaceland and the third dimension. After this proclamation is made, many witnesses are massacred or imprisoned (according to caste). After the Square's mind is opened to new dimensions, he tries to convince the Sphere of the theoretical possibility of the existence of a fourth (and fifth, and sixth ...) spatial dimension; but the Sphere returns his student to Flatland in disgrace. The Square then has a dream in which the Sphere visits him again, this time to introduce him to Pointland, whereof the point (sole inhabitant, monarch, and universe in one) perceives any communication as a thought originating in his own mind (cf.): 'You see,' said my Teacher, 'how little your words have done. So far as the Monarch understands them at all, he accepts them as his own – for he cannot conceive of any other except himself – and plumes himself upon the variety of Its Thought as an instance of creative Power. Let us leave this God of Pointland to the ignorant fruition of his omnipresence and omniscience: nothing that you or I can do can rescue him from his self-satisfaction.' — the Sphere The Square recognizes the identity of the ignorance of the monarchs of Pointland and Lineland with his own (and the Sphere's) previous ignorance of the existence of higher dimensions. Once returned to Flatland, the Square cannot convince anyone of Spaceland's existence, especially after official decrees are announced that anyone preaching the existence of three dimensions will be imprisoned (or executed, depending on caste). Eventually the Square himself is imprisoned for just this reason. Social elements[] Men are portrayed as  whose social status is determined by their regularity and the number of their sides, with a Circle considered the "perfect" shape. On the other hand, females consist only of lines and are required by law to sound a "peace-cry" as they walk, lest she be mistaken face-to-face for a . The Square evinces accounts of cases where women have accidentally or deliberately stabbed men to death, as evidence of the need for separate doors for women and men in buildings. In the world of Flatland, classes are distinguished by the "Art of Hearing", the "Art of Feeling", and the "Art of Sight Recognition". Classes can be distinguished by the sound of one's voice, but the lower classes have more developed vocal organs, enabling them to feign the voice of a polygon or even a circle. Feeling, practised by the lower classes and women, determines the configuration of a person by feeling one of its angles. The "Art of Sight Recognition", practised by the upper classes, is aided by "Fog", which allows an observer to determine the depth of an object. With this, polygons with sharp angles relative to the observer will fade more rapidly than polygons with more gradual angles. Colour of any kind is banned in Flatland after Isosceles workers painted themselves to impersonate noble Polygons. The Square describes these events, and the ensuing  at length. The population of Flatland can "evolve" through the "Law of Nature", which states: "a male child shall have one more side than his father, so that each generation shall rise (as a rule) one step in the scale of development and nobility. Thus the son of a Square is a Pentagon, the son of a Pentagon, a Hexagon; and so on". This rule is not the case when dealing with  (Soldiers and Workmen) with only two congruent sides. The smallest angle of an isosceles triangle gains thirty arc minutes (half a degree) each generation. Additionally, the rule does not seem to apply to many-sided polygons. For example, the sons of several hundred-sided polygons will often develop fifty or more sides more than their parents. Furthermore, the angle of an isosceles triangle or the number of sides of a (regular) polygon may be altered during life by deeds or surgical adjustments. An equilateral Triangle is a member of the craftsman class. Squares and Pentagons are the "gentlemen" class, as doctors, lawyers, and other professions. Hexagons are the lowest rank of nobility, all the way up to (near) circles, who make up the priest class. The higher-order polygons have much less of a chance of producing sons, preventing Flatland from being overcrowded with noblemen. Regular polygons were considered in isolation until chapter seven of the book when the issue of irregularity, or physical deformity, became considered. In a two dimensional world a regular polygon can be identified by a single  and/or . In order to maintain social cohesion, irregularity is to be abhorred, with moral irregularity and criminality cited, "by some" (in the book), as inevitable additional deformities, a sentiment with which the Square concurs. If the error of deviation is above a stated amount, the irregular polygon faces ; if below, he becomes the lowest rank of civil servant. An irregular polygon is not destroyed at birth, but allowed to develop to see if the irregularity can be “cured” or reduced. If the deformity remains, the irregular is “painlessly and mercifully consumed”. As a social satire[] In Flatland Abbott describes a society rigidly divided into classes. Social ascent is the main aspiration of its inhabitants, apparently granted to everyone but strictly controlled by the top of the hierarchy. Freedom is despised and the laws are cruel. Innovators are imprisoned or suppressed. Members of lower classes who are intellectually valuable, and potential leaders of riots, are either killed, or promoted to the higher classes. Every attempt for change is considered dangerous and harmful. This world, as ours, is not prepared to receive 'Revelations from another world'. The satirical part is mainly concentrated in the first part of the book, 'This World', which describes Flatland. The main points of interest are the Victorian concept on women's roles in the society and in the class-based hierarchy of men. Abbott has been accused of misogyny due to his portrait of women in 'Flatland'. In his Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884, he answers such critics by stating that the Square: was writing as a Historian, he has identified himself (perhaps too closely) with the views generally adopted by Flatland and (as he has been informed) even by Spaceland, Historians; in whose pages (until very recent times) the destinies of Women and of the masses of mankind have seldom been deemed worthy of mention and never of careful consideration. —the Editor Critical reception[] Although Flatland was not ignored when it was published, it did not obtain a great success. In the entry on Edwin Abbott in the Dictionary of National Biography, Flatland is not even mentioned. The book was discovered again after 's  was published, which introduced the concept of a fourth dimension. Flatland was mentioned in a letter entitled "Euclid, Newton and Einstein" published in  on February 12, 1920. In this letter Abbott is depicted, in a sense, as a prophet due to his intuition of the importance of time to explain certain phenomena: Some thirty or more years ago a little  was written by Dr. Edwin Abbott entitled Flatland. At the time of its publication it did not attract as much attention as it deserved... If there is motion of our three-dimensional space relative to the fourth dimension, all the changes we experience and assign to the flow of time will be due simply to this movement, the whole of the future as well as the past always existing in the fourth dimension. —from a "Letter to the Editor" by William Garnett. in Nature on February 12, 1920. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography now contains a reference to Flatland. Editions in print[] Flatland (5th edition, 1963), 1983 reprint with foreword by , HarperCollins,  bound together back-to-back with 's  (1994), HarperCollins,  The Annotated Flatland (2002), coauthor , Perseus Publishing,  Signet Classics edition (2005),  Oxford University Press (2006),  Dover Publications thrift edition (2007),  CreateSpace edition (2008),  Adaptations and parodies[] Numerous imitations or sequels to Flatland have been written, and multiple other works have alluded to it. Examples include: In film[]  (1965), an animated short film based on the novella, was directed by Eric Martin and based on an idea by .  (2007), a 98-minute animated independent feature film version directed by , updates the satire from Victorian England to the modern-day United States.  (2007), by Dano Johnson and Jeffrey Travis, is a 34-minute animated educational film voice acted by, , , and . Its sequel was  (2012), inspired by the novel  by  and starring , , , , , and. In literature[] An Episode on Flatland: Or How a Plain Folk Discovered the Third Dimension by  (1907), by  (1965),  by  (1984),  by  (2001), and  by  (2002). Short stories inspired by Flatland include "" by  (1963), "The Incredible Umbrella" by  (1980), and "Message Found in a Copy of Flatland" by Rudy Rucker (1983) Physicists and science popularizers  and  have both commented on and postulated about the effects of Flatland. Sagan recreates the  as a set-up to discussing the possibilities of higher dimensions of the physical universe in both the  and , whereas Dr. Hawking notes the impossibility of life in two-dimensional space, as any inhabitants would necessarily be unable to digest their own food. In television[] Flatland features prominently in  episode "The Psychic Vortex", when Sheldon Cooper declares it one of his favorite imaginary places to visit. It also features in the  episode "2-D Blacktop", when Professor Farnsworth's adventures in  lead to a foray of drifting in and out of inter-dimensional spaces. See also[]  (1945), novella by George Orwell , Indian parable  (1999-2007 webcomic)  (1963 book)  (1941 short story) Dimension-bending video games:  (2007)  (2012)  (2013)

Good news everyone! We kick off 2013 on The Dennis Daniel Show with none other than special guest, voice actor Billy West. Billy West is best known as several iconic characters including the title characters of "Ren & Stimpy" from the iconic 90's cartoon, Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd from the hit live-animated movie "Space Jam", and Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, and Dr. Zoidberg from the hit series, "Futurama!" Join Dennis as he talks with Billy about his career in voice acting, and his current projects including currently working on Season 7 of the iconic "Futurama" animated series. Need a reason to tune in to the first Dennis Daniel Show of 2013? Why not Zoidberg.

In this edition of the Boston University School of Law podcast, host and media veteran, Dan Rea of WBZ-Radio 1030 welcomes Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor Ward Farnsworth, to discuss his ongoing research into the role of politics and judicial philosophy in legal interpretation at the Supreme Court. Dan and Professor Farnsworth will look at the role of policy preferences and how it affects the current Supreme Court Justices’ decision making and pattern of voting.