Podcasts about Sam Beckett

Happened In the 90's hosted by Steve and Matt picks a day, any day, and then goes back in time to that magical decade we all know and love the 90's, to revisit episodes of tv, movies that premiered, or cultural events that occurred on that day in the 90's. This week Steve & Matt discuss the greatest black/white duo of the 90s, the piano skills of Sam Beckett, and when cats & dogs go camping!SEGMENT 1Show: Quantum LeapEpisode: "Piano Man” (Season 3 | Episode: 15)Premiere Date: 3/27/1991Story: Sam is a piano player who is on the run from a killer with an ex-girlfriend.SEGMENT 2Show: Ren & StimpyEpisode: "The Great Outdoors” (Season 2 | Episode: 9)Premiere Date: 3/27/1993Story: Camping at a lakeside wood, Ren and Stimpy go about making a pleasant camping trip. Faced with dehydrated food, mosquito squadrons and eccentric skinny dippers, the great outdoors shows that it has it's share of challenges for the pair.

What's up, dudes? Nicholas Pepin of Pop Culture Roulette and Jeremy Phelps the Alamo City Santa  to talk about the 2nd Christmas episode of Quantum Leap “Promised Land!” Do we talk physics? Not really, but we discuss Scott Bakula for sure!“Promised Land” was the 11th episode in Season 5 of Quantum Leap, and the 86th overall series episode. Written by Gillian Horvath and Tommy Thompson, the episode, which was directed by Scott Bakula, first aired on NBC-TV on December 15, 1992. Sam leaps into Elk Ridge, Indiana on December 22, 1971 as "Willie" Walters, Jr., one of three brothers who are robbing the town bank. The bank loaned them an exorbitant amount of money, but with failing crop yields, they resort to robbery in order to pay it off. Meanwhile, Sam struggles with his emotions of returning to his hometown and his relationship with his own father. Eventually, he manages to escape the bank and uncover the reason the bank lent money to these farmers who could not possibly pay it back. Sam confronts the swindler and  prevents the brothers from being killed when they try to escape. Joy to the world! Oh, and he runs into his dad and gets to say what he always wishes he had said.Confusion and disorientation? Yep. Investigation? Got that too. Death prevention? As only Dr. Sam Beckett can! So put on your white body suit and time travel into this episode on Quantum Leap “Promised Land!”Pop Culture RouletteFB: @PopCultureRouletteTwitter: @popcultrouletteIG: @popcultrouletteAlamo City SantaIG: @alamocitysanta  Give us a buzz! Send a text, dudes!Check us out on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Totally Rad Christmas Mall & Arcade, Teepublic.com, or TotallyRadChristmas.com! Later, dudes!

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Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 19th July 2024, including:Rome, 79 A.D.: The population—bored, restless, and increasingly violent—is kept in line by two things: free food and spectacular entertainment. As the taste in entertainment becomes more jaded and bloodthirsty, a stadium designed for gladiatorial combat is needed - the Colosseum. Underground, thousands of people work and live—among them thousands who will die for the games. Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins stars in Prime Video series Those About to Die.Mr Bigstuff is a six-part comedy on Sky Max and Now TV starring Danny Dyer and Ryan Sampson, exploring broken families, fragile masculinity and... carpet sales.Set 30 years after Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished, the reboot follows a new team (led by Raymond Lee) that must restart the project hoping to understand the mysteries behind the machine and its creator. Quantum Leap is on Paramount+ now.Beneath the tranquillity of her home town, a detective uncovers dark secrets that threaten everything she thought she knew about consent – and her own life. Starring Jenna Coleman, The Jetty is on BBC iPlayer.Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more.Remember to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser and Goodpods AND you can now show your support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!If you're a brand interested in sponsorship or collabs, email hello@podcastsbyliam.com and chat to us now!

WARNING: Do not listen to this episode unless you have seen the NBC Revival Series “Quantum Leap” or do not mind hearing key plot points. Quantum Leap is a continuation of the 1980s series that starred Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. The revival series stars Raymond Lee as the new lead character Dr. Ben Song, along with Caitlin Bassett, Mason Alexander Park, Nanrisa Lee, and Ernie Hudson. In this storyline, Thirty years have passed since Dr. Sam Beckett vanished into the Quantum Leap accelerator. The Quantum Leap project has been restarted with a new team trying to piece together the mysteries behind Beckett and his machine. Ben Song steps into that accelerator. The revival series just completed its second season. Sweeny Murti of MLB.COM, a noted fan of the original series, came on Episode 303 to discuss the original series. He rejoined the podcast to discuss Season 2. He discussed the storylines of the series, and how they reflect the themes of the original show. Seth and Sweeny pontificate on possible storylines for a third season, which at the time of this podcast's release, has not been confirmed.

A globally renowned actor known for his iconic roles in shows like "Quantum Leap", “Star Trek: Enterprise” and "NCIS: New Orleans," Scott Bakula looks back on his fruitful and diverse career, including his time as Dr. Sam Beckett (Becket?), and some interesting behind-the-scenes details including whether or not that final end screen of the series actually has a typo! With so many changes that occurred post-pandemic, he shares his thoughts on doing self-tapes for auditions, why he thinks it's become an empty experience, and why it can be limiting and isolating. He talks about his current role in the new Jason Robert Brown musical “The Connector”, his view on journalism after doing the show, and the reason behind their incredibly designed double-raked stage. With his family and the joy of connecting with people as his driving forces, Scott advocates theater as a foundational learning ground for aspiring actors. Scott Bakula is an actor who commanded the leading role of Dr. Sam Beckett in “Quantum Leap” from 1989 to 1993 and has earned him a Golden Globe Award and multiple Emmy Nominations. His other TV and film credits include “Star Trek: Enterprise” where played Captain Jonathan Archer, “American Beauty”, “Necessary Roughness”, “Murphy Brown”, and Ray Romano's “Men of a Certain Age”. Aside from lending his voice to animated series such as “American Dad”, “The Simpsons”, and “Archer”, he also has a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the 1988 Broadway production of “Romance/Romance”. His additional stage credits include “Is There Life After High School” in 1982, “Marilyn” in 1983, and “Three Guys Naked from the Waste Down” in 1985 for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination. Apart from acting, he's now showing off his dancing and singing skills eight times a week as Conrad O'Brien in “The Connector”, extended through March 17th at MCC Theater in New York. Connect with Scott: Instagram: @scottbakula Connect with The Theatre Podcast: Support the podcast on Patreon: Patreon.com/TheTheatrePodcast YouTube: YouTube.com/TheTheatrePodcast Threads, Twitter & Instagram: @theatre_podcast TikTok: @thetheatrepodcast Facebook.com/OfficialTheatrePodcast TheTheatrePodcast.com My personal Instagram: @alanseales Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sam Beckett is unstuck in time and oh boy is he solving a lot of problems! He’s quantum leaping here, quantum leaping there, leaping everywhere and all he wants to do is go home and cause problems. He’s not even leaving the problem solved in a respectable state! When he quantum leaps out, the person… Read more S8:E4 – Quantum Leap – Season 1 Intro

Take a leap with us back to 1989, as we join Sam Beckett try to get home with the help of his hologram best friend, Al Calavicci. Quantum Leap, created by Donald P. Bellisario, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegenxfiles/support

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we theorize that one could time travel within our own lifetime step into the Quantum Leap Magic Interview Machine and vanish… To WonderCon 2023! Show hosts Marke, Johnny Heck and Jimmy “The Gent” all grew up loving and watching the original Quantum Leap but when they attended WonderCon 2023 as press for Saturday Morning Cereal and Retro Cool Nerd, Jimmy was the only one invited to the Quantum Leap Reboot/Sequel "Resequel" Pressroom. Striving to put right what once went wrong, Marke. and Johnny Heck “leap” to WonderCon March 25, 2023 Quantum Leap Pressroom with Jimmy for 3 roundtable interviews with series stars “Dr. Ben Song” Raymond Lee, “Addison Augustine” Caitlin Bassett w/Executive Producer DeanGeorgaris and “Herbert ‘Magic' Williams” ErnieHudson w/Producer DeborahPratt and "Ian Wright" Mason Alexander Park w/"Jenn Chu" Nanrisa Lee. Join Grim Shea, Marke., Johnny Heck and Jimmy “The Gent” Leszczyński to talk Quantum Leap and the power of the unknown force to change history for the better. NBC's Quantum Leap Wednesdays 8/7c Peacock It's been 30 years since Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now a new team has been assembled to restart the project in the hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it.

Quantum Leap: "Blood Moon"   Gavin Mevius leaps from The Mixed Reviews and into a gothic horror homage from Quantum Leap's weird final season, where Dr. Sam Beckett seems to possibly leap into a classic vampire, maybe, definitely. And while dovetailing the sci-fi series with the supernatural is a fun idea, the tonal mishmash, deus ex butler/lightning, and odd references to a gender-swapped Countess Elizabeth Bathory make this a strangely boring misstep. Oh boy! CONTENT WARNING: There is a discussion about animal violence in this episode between 01:07:00 and 01:09:00. Find more from Gavin: The Mixed Reviews Podcast: ⁠linktr.ee/TheMixedReviews⁠ | Mixed Reviews on Twitter: ⁠@TheMixedReviews⁠ and Instagram: @the_mixed_reviews | Gavin on Twitter: ⁠@FriendlessMean Contact Gimmicks: Email: gimmickspodcast@gmail.com | Twitter: ⁠⁠@gimmickspod⁠⁠ | Instagram: ⁠⁠@gimmickspod⁠⁠ | Derek on Twitter: ⁠⁠@DerekBGayle⁠⁠ Theme song: ⁠⁠⁠⁠"Disco Tears" by Raven⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Creative Commons Attribution 3.0⁠⁠⁠

Eric on Air compares the original Quantum Leap to the reboot. How do they size up. We also examine Dr. Sam Beckett's intentions, was he trying to put right what once went wrong, step out on his wife, or both? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eric-on-air/support

Q&A on the NBC series Quantum Leap with actor Raymond Lee. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. Set 30 years after Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished, follows a new team that must restart the project hoping to understand the mysteries behind the machine and its creator.

Pool Sceners. We have another Swim Shorts for you, and this time it's about Jim. We have all heard some of the mishaps and misfortunes but this story has NEVER BEEN TOLD BEFORE!  In the words of Sam Beckett... "Oh boy."   SPREAD THE WORD POOL SCENERS! JOIN THE POOL SCENERS GROUP ON FACEBOOK FOR EXCLUSIVE AND INCLUSIVE CONTENT! LIKE. COMMENT. SUBSCRIBE. RATE AND FOLLOW... APPLE. SPOTIFY. PODBEAN. LEAVE A 5 STAR REVIEW. WE READ IT ON THE AIR. YOU WIN A PRIZE!!! HAVE AN IDEA FOR AN EPISODE OR A POOL CHECK...SEND US AN EMAIL OR MESSAGE US AT ONE OF THE LINKS BELOW. CONTRIBUTE TO THE SHOW ON LINKTREE!! WE GREATLY APPRECIATE IT!! Linktree: https://www.linktr.ee/poolscenepodcast Email: PoolScenePodcast@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PoolScenePodacst Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PoolScenePodcast Twitch: https://twitch.tv/poolscenepodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/PoolScenePodcast

Catching up with pro skater Paul-Luc Ronchetti, covering: how Paul-Luc got into skating, the story of ending up in California, meeting Tony Hawk for the first time, skating with Sam Beckett amongst a whole plethora of other topics!

Tread Perilously's new annual tradition -- looking at a new NBC series with Special Review Unit Captain Charlie Wright -- continues with the new Quantum Leap's first episode, "July 13th, 1985." Decades after Dr. Sam Beckett disappeared in the Quantum Leap accelerator, Dr. Ben Song repeats the experiment for reasons he withholds from his team and his fiancée. Waking up to a mirror image that is not his own, Ben finds himself in the body of a getaway driver in the mid 80s. Soon, his fiancée, Addison Augustine, appears to him in the form of a hologram only he can see or hear. Together, they try to put right what once when wrong in the hopes it will allow Ben to leap home. The filmography of director Thor Freudenthal gets examined as it contains some Full Peril surprises. Justin attempts to pull the premises of both Quantum Leap shows together. Erik's Uncle Junior leads to a running gag. Geography Corner centers on he LA locations failing to play Philadelphia. The name "Addison Augustine" proves a difficult addition to Quantum Leap lore. Erik calls out the new show for not using the old theme song. Charlie investigates the actor playing Addison Augustine. Other missing elements are addressed and Erik declares there are too many characters.

It's David Flora Week here on Hysteria 51. This week we are looking back at some of our favorite of David's guest appearances on the show before he took over co-hosting duties. And what better way to kick off a week of of looking back in time than with a time travel episode... Yup, John Titor!!! Original DescriptionIf time travel is possible and future humans are coming back to our era...what would they want? To kill a future despot? To make a change to the environment that saves future generations? To take back a computer from 1975 to make their time machine work properly? If you're anything like the subject of this week's show, John Titor, you went with door #3. According to his posts on the internet, John Titor traveled back to the 70s to get a special computer to save time travel. He also made a pit stop along the way in the early 00's to live with his family (and 2 year old self) and presumably post snotty messages on inane internet forums (not stand-up forums like Hysteria Nation). Sound crazy? That's the most normal part of this story. This week we do our best Sam Beckett and try to fix what went wrong with the OG Chrononaut - John Titor. Plus, John and Brent ponder the existential perils of time travel (not really - just looking for ways to make money on it). Conspiracy bot ponders the existential perils of time travel (not really - just looking for other ways to kill John and Brent). And David Flora of Blurry Photos is back in the lower 4th (he just wants to time travel to a time before he met Conspiracy Bot). All of that and more on the podcast that doesn't have time travel capabilities, but if we did, we'd do things to improve humanity…and make an insane amount of money – Hysteria 51.Time Travel / John Titor songs referenced in the show:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z6ppzwikfchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz_uGrpgPBQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxaTHTisUvghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmvBi2NOO3Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHl4GnwFv20 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to a show that starts with a Bon Jovi misheard lyric and ends with a Wham! misdirection. In between we ask if Jeffrey Dahmer's stepmom is prettier in pink, will Sam Beckett's appearance in the Quantum Leap reboot be a tax write-off and is Estelle Getty the most cancellable person of the 80s? Plus find out which movie Paulo thought was a Garbage Pail Kids sequel. Everything we discuss in this show can be found on @That80sShowSA on Facebook. WE'RE NOW ON INSTAGRAM @That_80sshow This podcast originally plays as a radio show with music - here are the songs we spoke about and played: You give love a bad name - Bon Jovi Our lips are sealed - The Go-Go's

This episode focuses both on the original Quantum Leap series that aired on NBC from 1989-1993 and the 2022 revival series airing on NBC and Peacock. In the original series, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and began leaping through time. In the current series, Dr. Ben Song stepped into the accelerator and well, you can see where that was headed. There are unique plot twists in the new show that feed directly from the original. At the time of this podcast, only two episodes of the new show have aired. Two extraordinary fans of the original series joined the podcast to discuss all things Quantum Leap. Sweeny Murti is a broadcaster for WFAN Radio and the host of the New York Yankees Post-Game show as well as a broadcaster for SNY. Gary Miereanu is a publicist who primarily works with Warner Bros. Animation and has been instrumental behind the scenes in putting together many episodes of this show. Follow Sweeny and Gary on social media @YankeesWFAN and @SuperPRguy.

The New Scooby Doo Movies was the place to be for 70's Hollywood stars! This week Jovial Jay and Shua celebrate this fun Scooby series and how much fun they were on Enjoy Stuff!   Hollywood guest stars galore on 1972's The New Scooby Doo Movies! Join us as we look back on one of the most unique of the Scooby series.    News David Harbour will star in a movie version of the 90's racing video game Gran Turismo If you like Stranger Things, you can now stay in a very authentically themed room in a Graduate hotel  Check out the new LEGO minifig-sized handheld video game from PocketStar Why are our favorite retro cartoons responsible for the climate crisis? Listen in to find out who the morons are that are making this claim Modern day Scooby Doo movies are coming to Netflix October 1 What we're Enjoying Jay lept right into the new reboot of the Quantum Leap series, with Raymond Lee as the newest leaper. The premise follows a team that has been looking for Dr. Sam Beckett somewhere in time, but for reasons we aren't yet aware of, Lee's character Dr. Ben Song gets trapped for the same reason as the original. There's a lot of potential here and we can't wait to see where it goes. Shua got a bit more medieval by jumping into Amazon Prime's Tolkien series Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power. It's an origin story of the rings that takes place in a whole different age as the Peter Jackson movies. He is loving it!    Sci-Fi Saturdays/MCU Location Scout 31 Days of Horror is coming on October 1! In the meantime, Sci-Fi Saturdays will be on a little break. But you can check out some cool new filming locations with his MCU Location Scout. There are new entries from She-Hulk and Thor: Love and Thunder.  And don't forget his articles on MCULocationScout.com for some great, interactive maps of filming locations.    Enjoy Cartoons! In 1972 Hanna-Barbera debuted the second chapter of the still popular Scooby Doo series called “The New Scooby Doo Movies”. This popular series ran 24 hour-long episodes, the only Scooby Doo series to be that long. But what really made it stand out was the “real-life”-ish guest stars in each episode. These guest stars joined the Scooby gang to track down the truth of a mystery. A lot of the guests were voiced by their true life counterparts, or at least the voice actors that portrayed the animated characters on other Hanna-Barbera cartoons.    Some of our favorite guest stars were Don Knotts, the Harlem Globetrotters, Sandy Duncan, Davy Jones, Jonathan Winters, and Batman and Robin, and Don Adams. They got the opportunity to have fun with the Scooby gang and make us wonder who was going to be on next week.  Did you watch The New Scooby Doo Movies? Who were your favorite guests? First person that emails me with the subject line, “Enroy Ruff” will get a special mention on the show.  Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to EnjoyStuff@RetroZap.com

Knowing that Sam Beckett once successfully time-traveled within his own lifetime, Dr. Ben Song stepped into the Quantum Leap Accelerator...and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing a mirror image that was not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Addison, an observer from his own time who appears in the form of a hologram that only Ben can see and hear. And so John, Shawn, Rick, and Phillip find themselves watching Ben strive to put right what once went wrong...criticizing and praising the ups and downs of the pilot episode of Quantum Leap...and hoping each time that Ben's next Leap will be better than the last. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/that-super-fantalk-pod/message

On this episode, we take a look at the new revival of the TV series Quantum Leap starring Raymond Lee as Ben Seong, the successor to Scott Bakula's Sam Beckett. How did the only prime-time network series starring an Asian American lead do? We discuss our feelings about the pilot and our expectations for the show when we revisit the series later on!What's Popping? - Business Proposal, Great British Bake Off, Target ProblemsFollow our hosts:Marvin Yueh - @marvinyuehJess Ju - @jessjutweetsHanh Nguyen - @hanhonymousFollow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclubPart of the Potluck Podcast CollectiveProduced by HappyEcstatic Media

It's FRIENDS AND RIVALS EPISODE 82 and we start SEASON 3 of our incredible podcast with a brand new monarch and updates on all of the summer cliffhangers. Who shot JR? Will Ross and Rachel get back together? Are Sam and Diane on again or off again? Is Dylan McKay too much of a bad boy for Brenda Walsh? Will Dr. Sam Beckett ever leap home? Did Bill Cosby....er...nevermind. You got questions, WE GOT ANSWERS! On Episode 82 of FRIENDS AND RIVALS! 

Leapers, we're back with a new episode this week and we cover a lot of ground. - The new teaser trailers and hints they give about the reboot/6th season - Our live watch party for the premiere on Sept. 19th! - The idea of informed consent and Sam's romantic relationships and how they'll address that in the new show - Listener feedback on our essentials list - One former listener's belief that all the QL podcasts are just shilling for NBC - And finally, again, the inevitability that Sam Beckett will make an appearance Listener Mail: Have a comment or a question? Send us a message or mp3 at fateswidewheelpodcast@gmail.com. Fate’s Wide Wheel on the Web: Website Facebook Twitter Tiktok Instagram YouTube Become a Patron on Patreon: Fate’s Wide Wheel Patreon Thank you to our Patrons! - Dana Bius - Audrey Atchley - Jill Wilson - Christopher Redmon - Rich Bourque - Karyn Saxon - Amy Holtcamp - Larry Trujillo - Jason Geis - Welcome our newest supporter, Barry Donovan! Send us a one-time donation: If you'd rather not commit to a monthly payment, we gladly accept one-time donations through PayPal: Co-host Dennis' PayPal We have Swag: Check us out on TeePublic, and keep checking back in as we add more items. Fate's Wide Wheel Apparel Storefront We Frequently Use These Resources: Beyond the Mirror Image: The Observer’s Guide to Quantum Leap, by Matt Dale Quantum Leap Info, by Matt Dale (a collection of all-new info about the pilot Matt can gather) Al's Place by Brian Greene The Quantum Leap Podcast

AT LEAST I DID TELL YOU BEORE HAND ABOUT MY SPECIAL PODCAST COMING WITHIN TWO WEEKS. AND SORRY, SCOTT BAKULA, "SAM BECKETT," OF QUANTUM LEAP WILL NOT BE MY GUEST STAR. HIS CAREER MEANT MORE THAN ME. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenneth-avery/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kenneth-avery/support

"Oh Boy!" This week, we revisit the cult favorite, Quantum Leap.   Quantum Leap ran for 5 seasons and 97 episodes from 1989 to 1993.  Created by Don Bellisario, the show starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a time traveling scientist, who leaps into people from 1953 to 1987 to help them and correct something that went wrong in the original timeline. Dean Stockwell, who co-stars as Admiral Al Calavicci, Sam's best friend, who appears as a hologram that only Sam can see and hear.  They are aided by Gushi, the project's lead programmer, and Ziggy, a supercomputer. Despite successfully correcting the past in each episode, Sam continues to leap randomly to another place and time, "putting right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home" And for our snack this week, Steve reviews Pop Tarts, and Megan tries a candy necklace. We talk about the cereal wars of the 1960s and the thievery that resulted in what we now know as the Pop Tart.  Did we love the science fiction, mystery, romance, comedy, drama show? Did the Pop Tarts taste like cardboard? Listen to find out! Watch with us and find links to listen on our website: www.stopruiningmychildhood.com  #quantumleap #quantumleaps #quantumphysics #startrek #scifi #scifitv #80sTV #90sTV #scottbakula #PopTarts #timetravel #SF #deanstockwell #Kelloggs #Breakfast #travel #fantasy #ThrowbackThursday #tbt #tbthursday #Remake #RewatchPodcast #podcast #stopruiningmychildhood #Reboot #sequel 

Would you watch a version of Quantum Leap featuring the Pope instead of Dr. Sam Beckett?  I sure as heck would! Topics include: celebrities with problems; the world is going to hell; Lauren Boebert; retro TV; congressional UFO hearings; viral video shows Pope Francis "disappearing" Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/StoryTimeTom1 Mike's Twitter:  https://twitter.com/StoryTimeMike1 Cartoon avatars of Tom & Mike created by Gary Bacon: https://twitter.com/pixelbud ***************************************************** VISIT OUR OFFICIAL SITE! https://www.tomandmike.com SUPPORT US ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/tomandmike ***************************************************** Check out our let's play channel, Gaming with Tom & Mike: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtUknU97r8MFTuAKMoW89YQ

Jessie and Richard are at it again! This time at a small Ohio college, Sam Beckett is a literature professor who must discourage the amorous advances of a student (Jamie Lee) and finds the woman who left him at the altar (Donna). Sam hopes that resolving her conflicts with her father will prevent her from deserting him. We hope he doesn't break the timeline!!! --- 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/rich-temple/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rich-temple/support

The UK economy shrank in April for the second month running. GDP declined by 0.3%, adding to the 0.1% drop in March - with services, production, and construction all shrinking in April. The biggest fall was seen in production (0.6%), driven by a fall in manufacturing of 1% on the month, as businesses continue to report the impact of price increases and supply chain shortages. The pound also fell against the dollar and UK stock markets tumbled this week after these gloomy April figures have shown the UK is edging closer to a recession. Regular pay is falling at the fastest rate in more than a decade when taking into account rising prices, the Office for National Statistics has said. Between February and April, pay excluding bonuses was down 2.2% from a year earlier when adjusted for inflation. Sam Beckett, head of economic statistics at the ONS, said a "high level of bonuses" was continuing to "cushion the effects of rising prices on total earnings for some workers". "But if you exclude bonuses, pay in real terms is falling at its fastest rate in over a decade..."

Our topic this time, and it's a big one, is the economy. The science of measuring rapid change in a complex, globalised and now increasingly turbulent economic situation. In this episode Miles is joined by second permanent secretary Sam Beckett, and head of inflation, Mike Hardie, to look at how the ONS is keeping on top of rising prices, and how two of the biggest economic shocks in recent history have helped shape the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) current approach to collecting its key economic data.    TRANSCRIPT:   Miles Fletcher Sam, one angle I'd like to explore with you is the extent to which everything has changed recently, and the way that the ONS measures the UK economy, the extent to which that was informed by the experience of what happened 14 years ago now and the financial crisis. Could you talk us through what happened there in terms of the ability of the statistical system to actually spot what was going on? And what lessons were learned during that period?    Sam Beckett  Yes, certainly. That is going back quite a while now, isn't it? But I think one of the key things that you can really compare and contrast with where we are now compared to then, is about the timeliness of GDP. Back at the time of the global financial crisis the Office for National Statistics was very slow to spot the turning point. We were dealing with crucial data for the economy's output. And it was probably about six months before we were able to sort of scale the downturn in the economy and see the economy going into recession.    MF  Meanwhile, during that period, of course, people were being hit quite badly by that economic downturn. But the official statistics that were available had nothing to say about what was happening.    SB  No, that's right. So we would have been waiting to find out the extent of the downturn as people were seeing it hit their livelihoods, for something like six months back in 2008. If you fast forward then to the experience that we've had over the pandemic. You know, our monthly GDP statistics are out about six weeks after the period they refer to so you're getting a very timely indicator on what is happening to the real economy now. So you can really compare a sort of six months gap to a six weeks gap now. And if you think about the way the pandemic played out with, you know, the economy being closed down to try and limit transmission and then opened up again successively, and in the waves, if we'd been waiting three months or six months to find out what was happening, it really would have been a hopeless situation. But we got those very timely official statistics on GDP, but not only those but even more timely statistics from business surveys, and opinions and lifestyle surveys that we've done, where we can actually get a two week turnaround on what is happening to the economy and how people are responding.   MF  So it was really a question of learning from that experience and putting in place the kind of mechanisms that can help us as a country to actually find out what was going on closer to the point it was actually happening out there in the real world. Has the rest of the world learned that lesson as well, or is the UK among countries that have been quicker onto this do you think?    SB  We're certainly one of only a handful of countries that publish a monthly GDP figure. So I think in that big kind of headline and official statistic, we're still in a relatively select group that publish as frequently as monthly and as close to the time. We're also looking at financial card transactions data; we are looking a lot at admin data on the labour force, and trying to bring together a host of statistics that shine a light on what is going on, on the ground during the economy. And I think we count ourselves amongst a relatively small group of national statistical institutes that are cutting edge in their use of innovative data sources.    MF  So by the time the pandemic then comes along, two years ago now, the ONS is in a better state to actually find out what's happening, but nevertheless, was there a certain extent to which the organisation had prepared for another downturn like 2008, rather than what actually happened which nobody had foreseen, a widespread pandemic including a serious risk to life?    SB  Indeed, I mean, who would have thought that you know, we would have been hit by a pandemic of such a global scale and impact? I think one of the things that is a huge advantage for the government and the UK economy has been to have this objective handle on the level of infection out in the community. And that is something that the Office for National Statistics signed up to deliver really early on in the pandemic. So, our COVID infection survey, which has now swabbed millions of people on their doorstep, gave us a great handle on just how many people have had COVID, not just relying on the data of people who were turning up at doctors and hospitals, who had symptoms already. So you know, the COVID infection survey was a more random sample of the community and gave us that objective handle on how many people had COVID and indeed, some of them asymptomatic, you know, no symptoms of COVID but tested positive on the doorstep and that gave us a great insight over the pandemic and helped advise the government on what should be done to try and limit transmission.    MF  So meanwhile, as well as setting up that very important survey, there were a lot of other very quick changes that were put in place as well to measure the economic impact, the impact on individuals, on businesses as well. Can you talk us through some of the work that was done there to give that very quick turnaround, the fast indicators, that quick view of how items in the shops are being affected; how people in the workforce were being affected; and how the country and the effects of lockdown - to what extent they were actually hitting the economy in real time?    SB  I mean, starting with those quick turnaround surveys, there's two really that are really good companions to each other. The first is the business insights and conditions survey - and that surveys about 40,000 businesses and asks them questions around, you know, what is happening to their customer base, what is happening to their workforce. And there's about a two-week turnaround on that information. So, we could ask questions of businesses about how many of their staff, for example, they were intending to put on furlough and get that information just two weeks later to give us a handle on what a big uptake there would be on that scheme. The companion one is the opinions and lifestyle survey and through that we were able to ask people things like were they wearing a mask when they went to the shops? You know, were they staying at home as per the guidance and what were they leaving the home to do? And you know, were they washing their hands more and all those non pharmaceutical interventions that were so important in controlling the early stages of the pandemic. And again, between that sort of survey of households and individuals and businesses, you could track those two sides of how the pandemic and the government's measures to control it were impacting on people's lives and livelihoods.    MF  So in the old world of statistics, where paper forms would have been sent off, we'd have been able to produce an estimate in, ooh I don't know, a couple of months. But actually with the onset of the pandemic, this information was being fed into government, directly into government within a matter of a few days and informing that response, the actual action that was being taken on the ground.    SB  Absolutely. And I think also looking at some of our more traditional statistics, there had to be huge effort to keep the show on the road. Labour market statistics, I mean, incredibly important, over a period of economic turbulence, we had to go from what had been a face to face survey to a telephone based survey. And we reinforced that picture by getting information from payrolls from HMRC's PAYE database, to understand what was happening to the labour market and keep that total picture, even though our standard survey had to move rapidly to a telephone based one. But I should add, you know, when people think about that admin data, I would like to emphasise that we're incredibly careful that none of that would identify anything about individuals. And we're extremely careful to ensure that we don't collect data that we don't need and that everything is de-identified.    MF  And that's a very important point now, because it's not just a question of people taking part in surveys is it? It's about the ONS having relationships with the credit card companies, for example, with mobile phone providers as well. And while these huge datasets give a fantastic up to the minute picture of of what's going on - money being spent and how movement is being affected as well - people are going to be understandably concerned about government having access to that sort of data. So how do we ensure that that is working in the public interest, only producing information that's genuinely needed for the public good?     SB  Our reputation rides on treating people's data incredibly carefully, and by abiding by all the regulations that are appropriate to personal data and business data. So we're incredibly scrupulous and careful in this regard. We don't gather data that can identify people if it is not needed, and we have got very reliable methods to de-identify data before we use it for analysis or indeed publish it. So you know, that's incredibly important to maintaining public trust in our statistics.    MF  So what have we been doing to try and measure the individual impacts that some of the price rises we've seen recently have had on households with different incomes?    SB  We are facing a period of some time to come where I think this is going to be incredibly high profile in the public debate about the challenges of the economy and what people are facing and indeed of measurement for us as an office of statistics. What we've been doing is trying to think about ways in which you can dig under that very average national figure of inflation. Now that is going up and most forecasters, such as the Bank of England will expect it to go up further, but it does, as you say, fail to show how different people can be impacted. You know, if they drive a lot and the cost of fuel has gone up a lot, relatively poor households spend a high proportion of their money on energy bills and on food and we know that both of those categories have been affected. So we have published some statistics that seek to look at inflation cut by different income brackets of households.    MF  Given that there is now so much data from supermarket scanners, from credit cards, from an incredible range of digital sources. What are the limits of all this do you think?    SB  Data is a by-product of the productive economy these days, isn't it? You know, data is being produced in all the other activities that we undertake online in our lives. So along with that, computing power has got so much cheaper and you put those two things together, and you just have this enormous capacity to measure activity in so many different ways, and so much more up to date, I mean, compared to anything we could have done, instead of 10 years ago, or 20 years ago, and the cost of them has come down massively. And with that, the sort of potential to get insight from them has expanded.    MF  Now we've mentioned GDP several times of course – that's Gross Domestic Product - the traditional very long-established way of measuring activity in the economy. And it's held by many still to be the single most important national economic statistic. But at the same time, there's a debate going on at the moment about the continuing usefulness and relevance of GDP, particularly as it takes no account of the environmental dimension as well. And of course, in this country and internationally, that environmental dimension and climate change has become evermore important. So what are we doing as an organisation to factor the environment into the economic picture?    SB  GDP is an important measure of the productive economy. I think it's here to stay. But even in terms of it measuring the productive economy we're continually trying to improve its quality and make it more timely as we've talked about, but also more granular, you know, get more of a sense of what is happening down at a more granular level of geography. What we're trying to do is develop further, all aspects of our kind of economic welfare measures and bring things into the kind of spotlight that GDP has that are really important to all our futures. And I think, you know, climate and net zero, and those environmental statistics are one area where we're working really hard to try and give them a due prominence. I mean, we are relatively far ahead of international averages in terms of our level of development here. We've been publishing natural capital accounts for some 10 years. So we're starting from a good base, but there's so much more we can do. So, we've got two strands of work here. First, we've got an approach which tries to extend that concept of GDP, the production and asset boundaries that it measures to natural capital in the environment, as you've mentioned, but also human capital, as well. You know, the extent to which the skills of the UK workforce are being enhanced, and other aspects of economic activity, which currently fall outside of GDP, like household production, like unpaid for household work, which also really ought to be in your concept of how productive you are as an economy. So, we're developing this suite of measures that sort of extends the national accounts into these harder to measure areas that we also know are really important to our sense of economic progress and prosperity as a nation. And so that's that sort of integrated set of extending the concept of GDP to these broader concepts. But also, alongside that, we are doing some things that are a little bit more tactical and fleet of foot. They have a framework to them, like our Climate Statistics Portal, but that brings together all kinds of climate statistics from across government into a kind of one stop shop for users to explore things like climate and weather and emissions by different area, impacts and mitigations and provide insights from that. Now, not in a way that you can really aggregate with the GDP number, but in a way that would give you sort of broad insight as to progress towards net zero and what is happening to our climate and weather. So, this is a huge agenda. We call it the ‘Beyond GDP' agenda, something where we are a relatively leading internationally but so much more work that we can do. We've got some really interesting stuff coming out later this month that will look at some of these issues and you can obviously catch up with that on our website.    MF  So much more change still to come. Finally, Sam Beckett, a very wise economist once said  - slightly tongue in cheek – that the chief function of economic forecasting is to make astrology seem respectable. Do you think the point will come at ONS when the data becomes so good and so rapid, that actually the ONS could get into the whole business of forecasting the economy with a great deal of accuracy?    SB  Well, I think we are increasingly getting up to the moment, if I can put it like that in terms of our economic statistics. Yes, there's still some time lag between the observation and the publication of the data in in most cases, but we're getting closer and closer. And we are using techniques where even where some data might be missing, we can use sophisticated economic modelling techniques to bring it up to date. So, a good example there would be if we didn't have a full local breakdown of GDP data for last month, we could make up for that using what we know about the other areas, and how they changed in GDP, and also the past performance of the missing areas. So, we can put together this picture that brings things really up to date using some of those modern techniques. I think the world of measurement is different from the world of forecasting, quite fundamentally. And, you know, we leave that to colleagues at the Office for Budget Responsibility and the Bank of England, who do kind of look ahead and try and paint that future picture. But the two are interconnected. And I think you can only produce good forecasts, if you've got really reliable readings on what is happening now and what past trends have been. So, they are hand in glove and I wouldn't want to say those were two distinct but we do have our own particular objective, which is about you know, economic and societal measurement. We're not yet in that forecasting game. But we are bringing it as up to the minute as possible.    MF  So, while not actually trying to predict the future, at least we can measure the very, very recent past. Sam, thank you very much for speaking to me.    Now, after decades of relatively low inflation, rising prices are back in the news. Tracking the impact of that on households is of course, vitally important work and at the ONS, that's the responsibility of the head of inflation, Mike Hardie.     Well, Mike, anyone who follows the news and particularly recently with concern about the rising cost of living will understand the importance of inflation. But there are lots of different measures of it. Can you talk us through the different ways in which ONS measures inflation, and why each of them is significant?    Mike Hardie  So we have a range of inflation measures. The first family of statistics are consumer price statistics. And so we have the consumer prices index which most people will be familiar with and the consumer prices index including owner occupied housing costs, and they are our macro economic measures of inflation that are based on economic principles. We also have a second group of statistics which are called the household cost indices, and they are specifically designed to measure the changing costs and prices faced by different household groups. And that completes our family a consumer price statistics. And then beyond those, we produce business prices. So those measure what we describe as output or ‘factory gate' prices. So those are the prices of goods leaving the factory gate and we also produce input prices as well. So all of the component parts that are used in the production process to produce a final product, how the price of those has changed over time, too. And that completes our business statistics. And then beyond that, we also produce house prices as well, which is very topical at the moment given the buoyant housing market in the UK.    MF  And underlying all those different measures of inflation is a very large data gathering operation. Now, there's a lot of change going on in that area at the moment, but first of all, describe for us how this traditionally has been done.    MH  Traditionally, in order to produce our consumer price statistics, we have sent price collectors out across the UK. We have over 300 price collectors, they go to over 140 different locations in the UK, with mini clipboards, and they go into stores and they price a range of different items. So at the start of the year, we construct a large shopping basket, a virtual shopping basket, which is based on what UK consumers spend their money on. And there's a list of approximately 700 different items. And we send the price collectors out to collect information on those items. And we also have some collection within the ONS as well. So we have a couple of teams that go online and collect a wide range of prices too. We also have some admin data as well. So for example, we get admin data on how the price of insurance has changed. And then we aggregate all of that data together to construct our consumer price statistics.    MF  Rail fares of course are always a big driver of inflation as well. Where does that come from at the moment?    MH  So that comes directly from the uplift that consumers face every year. So, when rail fares are increased on an annual basis, we capture that increase in our inflation measures. But one of the developments that we're actually undertaking at the moment is to move to using data from the rail delivery group. So that's essentially a census of all rail journeys in the UK. So, it gives us a much more detailed picture of how rail prices are changing across the country.    MF  So, we have groups of people out with clipboards, moving up and down the aisles in the supermarket; people looking at the web; some companies like rail companies, obviously providing information about their fares. But was that sufficient to provide a really good accurate measure of inflation or was it felt that there was much more that can be done    MH  So, it was sufficient to provide a high -level accurate measure of inflation. These are economy wide averages that we publish on a monthly basis. We're moving away from the manual collection that I described, where we send price collectors out into stores, where we are working with a number of leading retailers to get access to their electronic point of sale data. So, whenever you go to a supermarket for example, and spend money on your weekly shop, that information is captured by the retailer. We have a number of partnerships in place. Co-Op are one of the retailers that are happy to be named, where we get information directly from their supermarket tills directly to our systems at ONS, and we can use that data then instead of sending people into stores to compile our inflation estimates. And that data is extremely detailed. So, when we send people into store obviously there's cost implication to that. And they collect prices of narrowly defined items. So, they may for example, go in to collect the price of a loaf of bread off the shelf - we try to price the most commonly available item. What the electronic point of sale data will give us is a census of all of the prices within that store, and more importantly, not just the prices, but how much of each product have been purchased by consumers. So that fixed basket approach that I mentioned, where we set the basket at the start of the year, that will change likely for areas of the basket where we're using these new data sources, because it'll essentially be a dynamic basket that updates every month because we will have a summary of what consumers are spending their money on in real time which is really exciting.    MF  That's a real step change in approach then. How does the UK compare - are other countries doing this, moving away from the traditional approach into this much more dynamic and data driven way of setting inflation?    MH  It's the general direction of travel. So other National Statistics Institute such as the Netherlands and Australia have been doing this. It's really difficult to do, because utilising those new data sources such as scanner data requires the development of new methods, and also new systems as well. So just to give you an idea of the size of some of these data sources. We currently use around 200,000 price quotes to compile our consumer price statistics every month at the moment. And it's likely we'll be moving to several hundreds of millions of prices every month. So, we need to change our systems in order to manage the sheer size of the data essentially.    MF  This really is big data in action.   MH  It is really exciting and gives you additional insights into changing consumer spending patterns and how prices are evolving across the UK economy.    MF  Does that mean the annual updating of the basket of goods - which is always quite a popular occasion as we look to see what's in and what's out - is that going to go then?    MH  Not in the short term. So, there are specific areas of the basket that we're targeting with these new data sources.  I've mentioned groceries, we've also touched on rail fares already and also used cars. But for the remainder of the basket, we will use traditionally collected data, so sending people out into stores and data that we've received directly and collect at ONS. So, we will still need to update that basket to reflect wider consumer spending patterns. Also, if you think about groceries, we have these new data sources for larger retailers. But in order to ensure that our statistics remain representative of price changes in the economy, we also need to capture prices from smaller retailers as well.  Some of them won't have the facilities to provide us with data - so there will still be an element of manual collection.    MF  Now all this change - and very exciting change too - comes at a time of heightened concern about the rising cost of living and also the frequently expressed opinion that what appears to be the headline rate of inflation doesn't actually reflect people's own experience of rising prices that they face, particularly recently in the supermarket. How has the ONS been responding to that?    MH  So, the inflation measures that most people are familiar with such as the consumer price index is an average and when you dig into that average there will be some variation. So, everyone has their own personal rate of inflation depending on what you spend your money on. So, in terms of how we responded as an organisation, you can go on to the ONS website, and use our personal inflation calculator and outline what you were spending your money on every month. And based on that spending pattern we can work out your personal rate of inflation and how that compares to the headline. We're also undertaking some work on a set of measures called the household cost indices. And these are designed to measure the changing costs and prices faced by different household groups. So, you can break down those statistics into income decile you can break them down to expenditure decile, households with or without pensioners, and with or without children. So, you can see how changing prices and costs are affecting different household groups. And another piece of work that we're doing at the moment that's particularly interesting is we are aiming to publish over the next month a low cost index. So, this has been widely covered in the media, where some consumers who purchase value brands in supermarkets are being forced to move to more expensive brands because those value brands are no longer available. So, what we are looking at is for the price of those lower priced products when people are forced to move to higher priced products, what that means for price changes and the implications for the household budget on a weekly basis. So that's another piece of work that we're doing to provide further insights into the recent rise in the cost of living and how that's impacting different groups of people.    MF  And that could shed important light on people's actual experience of shopping when they find out that the cheap packet of pasta they used to buy simply isn't there anymore.    MH  Yeah, so one of the fundamental principles of a price index is that we control for quantity and quality changes over time, because we want to isolate that price change. So, what you've just described there wouldn't necessarily be captured by a price index, but it obviously has implications for people in terms of the household budget. So, we're looking at producing, you know, a range of supplementary statistics to complement our headline measures of inflation, to provide insights into these types of changes, which are having an impact on people's household budget.    MF  Now one of the big debates, one of the big issues surrounding the measurement of inflation in recent years, has of course been the retail prices index. Tell us a little bit about that - the criticisms of the RPI as a statistic, as a measure of inflation, and how ONS has responded to that.    MH  So we currently produce the retail prices index as a legacy measure of inflation. Our position on this statistic has been clear for some time. We think it is a poor measure of inflation, that tends to over or underestimate inflation. And we don't think it has the potential to become a good measure either. And if you were to address all of the shortcomings of the retail prices index, you move close to our headline measure of inflation, which is the CPIH, which is the consumer prices index including owner occupiers housing costs. So, we made a proposal to bring the data sources and methods from the CPIH into the RPI and that is due to take place in 2030. But we only produce it currently as a legacy measure as we acknowledge as an organisation that it is used for a wide variety of purposes across the economy.    MF  So, we've had the CPI measure of inflation for quite some time. It's very important of course, it's used by the Bank of England to target the reduction of inflation. It's also used very widely around Europe. But it doesn't include that measure of housing costs. Why is it so important to include housing costs as an element? What are the challenges of measuring that given that some people live in their own houses and other people rent them? That's the problem isn't it - trying to measure how those costs are changing for different people.    MH  It's a large part of people's expenditure every month. So, it's essential that it is reflected in our inflation measures. It's conceptually quite challenging to measure. So, we use an approach called rental equivalence and we use rental prices as a proxy for owning and maintaining and living in your own home. And we have very detailed information for the valuation office agency, which we use to compile our measure of owner occupiers housing costs.    MF  And that comes up essentially within a notional figure of what it would cost you to rent your own home.    MH  Essentially, and this is the direction of travel internationally as well. So other NSIs are moving towards using a measure including owner occupiers housing costs. At the moment, the consumer prices index is the Bank of England's inflation target and is widely covered in the media every month, but our aim in the medium term is to move our stakeholders towards using the CPI.    MF  Looking into the future then, a lot of exciting changes going on. And we continue to report inflation on a monthly basis. Can you see the time when perhaps there might be a more frequent reporting of inflation, perhaps even coming down to weekly or even daily?    MH  That is possible with the new data sources - we could produce more timely estimates. Producing our inflation statistics on a monthly basis is really challenging. It's quite a tight timetable, you know, to send price collectors out to bring in all admin data sources, and in future, the scanner data that we've discussed, as well. So, there's quite a tight turnaround. So, it's very likely that CPI and CPIH will continue to be produced on a monthly basis, but it is possible that we could produce supplementary statistics that are maybe more timely, but our focus at the moment is improving our headline measures of inflation.    MF  Inflation in the news, as it hasn't been for many years at the moment - you must be very conscious of the impact that your numbers have when they come out. Describe for us the importance of the work that you're doing.    MH  Well inflation statistics impact pretty much every aspect of UK society. They're used to uprate pensions, government guilts, student loans, various benefits, taxes. So, we have a very low risk appetite in terms of transforming our statistics because it is absolutely essential that we get them right because the implications are enormous if we do not. And that's been one of the challenges in bringing in these new data sources and developing new methods and systems. We've had to move carefully. We're very ambitious, but it needs to be measured ambition, because we need to ensure that while transforming our consumer price statistics we get them right, and produce robust statistics that are used across the UK economy.     MF  Because once reported, there's no going back - there are no revisions to inflation are there?    MH  No, so RPI is an un-revisable index, so we do not revise. And for CPIH and CPI, there is some scope to revise the indices, but it would have to be extreme circumstances for us to do that. And thankfully, to date, we haven't had any errors in CPIH or CPI so we haven't had to cross that bridge just yet.    MF  Thank you for listening to Statistically Speaking and please join us for our next episode, which is quite literally a matter of life and death. To ask a question or suggest ideas for future podcasts, please do so via our Twitter feed @ONSfocus. I'm Myles Fletcher and our producers at the ONS are Steve Milne and Julia Short.    ENDS   

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We're back this week to discuss more of what we know about the new Quantum Leap pilot, including the recent announcement that Helen Shaver will serve as both the pilot director and Executive Producer. We also have some more inside details thanks to our source - who we are lovingly calling 'The Observer' - at NBC: Details on Ziggy and the Handlink How they're going to address Al's absence in light of Dean Stockwell's passing More hints on how the producers hope to incorporate Sam Beckett and other original characters into the new mythology Then, of course, Sam & Dennis make with some serious "fan-wank" with some speculation with the tidbits we do have. Along the way, we talk about the Handlink as the original smart phone, the 80s/90s TV trope of sassy AI computers, and a lamentation of how it only took four years after its cancellation for Knight Rider to get a reboot attempt. Some Other Resources and Articles We Discuss: Beyond the Mirror Image, by Matt Dale Quantum Leap Info, by Matt Dale (a collection of everything confirmed so far about the new pilot) The Quantum Leap Podcast What We Know About the Quantum Leap Reboot

We're back! And so is Quantum Leap! An official announcement dropped January 13, 2022. NBC brings back our beloved series with a continuation set 20+ years after Dr. Sam Beckett's final televised leap. We might be a little exctied. On top of that, we've been hard at work mining all our resources and reaching out to some of our contacts to bring you any and all the news that's currently available. In addition to all the official information, we talk about our hopes for the series, how we think they might tell this new story, cast expectations, and a rundown of the creative team's past work. This is a new era for the show, and we are thrilled to be back at the project and stepping into the accelerator for more thrilling adventures on Fate's Wide Wheel. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and leave us a review. Come find us on Twitter or Instragram @FatesWideWheel Or join our Facebook Group for to join the conversation and keep up with all the latest.

Welcome to Episode 409 where the Leftovers are joined by Stephanie Chapman. In this episode we go over our winners for the New York Homicide beanies and scarves but we still need more entries for The Commando. Send your entries to contest@popcultureleftovers.com. For MOVIES in Good Pop Bad Pop we talk about the new SCREAM (2022) film that dropped in theaters. Does it hold a candle to the first film? George Clooney directed a new movie that hit Amazon Prime, THE TENDER BAR, starring Tye Sheridan, Ben Affleck, Lily Rabe and Christopher Lloyd. We've got another DC Animated movie to talk about with INJUSTICE. On an alternate Earth, the Joker tricks Superman into killing Lois Lane, which sends the hero on a path of destruction. Superman decides to take control of Earth and Batman and his allies must try to stop him. Showtime has a new A24 film that's adapted from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Award-winning play, THE HUMANS. Netflix dropped a stop motion animated movie THE HOUSE. We talk about THE SUPER BOB EINSTEIN MOVIE on HBO Max that chronicles the amazing life of Bob Einstein known to many of his fans as Super Dave. And after a short run at the theater THE RESCUE is now on Disney+. A chronicle of the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. In TV for Good Pop Bad Pop we talk about Episode 2 and 3 of THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT. And of course we talk about the first 3 episode of James Gunn's PEACEMAKER that dropped on HBO Max. A new horror series is on Netflix with ARCHIVE 81. And Peacock debuted a mini-series starring Isla Fisher and Josh Gad, WOLF LIKE ME. In NEWS we talk about the Michael Bay American remake news of THE RAID coming to Netflix. Also, QUANTUM LEAP is getting a pilot order for a new series. What does that mean? Will Scott Bakula be back as Sam Beckett? And we talk about the news of a Tim Allen THE SANTA CLAUS series on Disney+. And in Marvel News it looks like MOON KNIGHT might drop on March 30th 2022 and we're getting our first trailer on 1/17 during Monday Night Football. Murphy's Multiverse is adding a couple of other possible movies/shows where we could see Charlie Cox reappear as DAREDEVIL. Also, we talk DOCTOR STRANGE: IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS rumors as well as a ton of other MCU rumors.

Some time in the near future of the 1990s, Dr. Sam Beckett prematurely entered the Quantum Leap accelerator himself to prove that his theory of a finite but expanding universe allowing one to time travel within their own lifetime. His theories were correct, but with the side-effect that he trades places with someone from the past, with everyone believing he's the person he has "leapt" into. He also no longer has a full recall of the details of his own life. Fortunately, the project is able to maintain contact with Sam through time by tuning into his brain waves, allowing his friend and mentor Al to appear to Sam as a hologram wherever and whenever he finds himself. Through Al, Sam can use the resources of the project, and their diva of a computer Ziggy, to help fix the lives of those who suffered in the past, and grant Sam the ability to "leap" into another life, and hopefully, one day, back home. Vinnk and Sean review the pilot, memories of the first season, how the show shaped them as impressionable young men, and go off into tangents about later seasons before reigning it back in, although (WARNING!) the end of the podcast contains spoilers about the series finale, which we have marked appropriately. Starring: * Scott Bakula - Dr. Samuel (Sam) Beckett * Dean Stockwell - Admiral Albert (Al) Calavicci * Bruce McGill - Weird Ernie * Teri Hatcher - Donna Eleese * Mark Margolis - Adriano * Jason Priestley - Pencil * Claudia Christian - Allison Grimsley Available on NBC.com and the NBC streaming app. Logo by by Louis Lloyd-Judson: https://louistrations.co.uk. This podcast is brought to you by the Nerd & Tie Podcast Network. Listen to other great shows at http://nerdandtie.com.

Some time in the near future of the 1990s, Dr. Sam Beckett prematurely entered the Quantum Leap accelerator himself to

Terminator Genisys is a hodgepodge of ideas from more beloved Terminator films. It gives us the gruff and tough Sarah Connor, as well as the sleek and dangerous T-1000; and it even features an Arnold versus Arnold face-off in 1984 amid the familiar backdrop of the original T-800's arrival. There's only one issue: None of it particularly works. Terminator Genisys feels more like half-baked fan fiction than it does a coherent narrative. Thus, despite how much we all love those elements and moments from the prior movies, they come across as shameless pandering here. Pair that with a convoluted script that hops through time more often than Dr. Sam Beckett, and it's a recipe for reboot disaster. Now, it's not all bad. There are some good ideas in Terminator Genisys. Establishing connective technology as sort of a Trojan horse for Skynet is not without its merits. But, there is just so much happening that is uninteresting. With two leads (Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor and Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese) who lack even a semblance of chemistry, those flaws become even more apparent. Hence why this movie bombed with critics and domestic audiences. It sits at 27% on Rotten Tomatoes with 274 reviews; and it grossed just $89.7 million in North America. Its global cume helped it save face ($440.6 million), but it was still not enough to keep it out of the red. Listen, you could watch this, but these versions of the characters won't be back. So come with us if you want to drink some future-infused Spaten Optimator, while hunting down those goddamn time traveling robots! I, the Thunderous Wizard (@WriterTLK), Capt. Cash, and Chumpzilla are tumbling through time in our birthday suits! This Week's Segments: Introduction/Plot Breakdown – Woof ... where to begin? Never has a movie failed so hard to grasp what made the fans love the characters of its series. (00:00) Lingering Questions – The Double Turn Podcast heads to 1997 to prevent the Montreal Screwjob, and then we discuss what could've fixed this travesty. (53:23) The "Judgement Day" Trivia Challenge – We hear from our brothers in beer at Hop Nation USA, and then I challenge the field to trivia about the movie. (1:19:11) Recommendations – We offer our picks for the week and next up: We kick off "Hops and Jingle Bell Flops" with a movie that will make you root for the burglars, Home Sweet Home Alone! (1:32:23) And, as always, hit us up on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram to check out all the interesting factoids—the aborted sequels and more—from this week's episode! You can find this episode of Hops and Box Office Flops on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Podbean, Spotify, Acast, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, and Amazon Music!

In this episode of the 80s and 90s are joined by Jeff & Cory host of the podcast Switch the Envelope to discuss that time travel TV series Quantum Leap. The series ran from 1989 to 1993 and starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett and Dean Stockwell as Admiral Al Calavicci who travel through time to set things right that once went wrong. For More Switch The Envelope Visit https://rifflaff.com/networkshows/stepodcast For More From The 80s and 90s Visit Web: www.the80sand90s.com Twitter: @The80sand90sCom If you enjoy this episode, don't keep it a secret. Please tell a friend and/or share it on social media so others can appreciate it as well. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/80s-and-90s-uncensored/support

It's an hour long tribute to actor Dean Stockwell who passed away at the age of 85 on November 7 2021.While most of us knew him as Al the hologram who helped the time traveling Dr. Sam Beckett on Quantum Leap, he had an amazing career spanning decades that went all the way back to 1945's Anchors Aweigh.This episode features music from Roy Orbison, New Order, Kris Kristofferson and even Stockwell himself!Set lists available at www.mondohollywood.ca

durée : 00:04:23 - L'effet miroir - par : Benoît Lagane - Thomas Pesquet vient de rentrer à la maison. Et dans les séries, quand le héros rentre d'une grande aventure ou une mission compliquée comment ça se passe ? Retour sur quelques retours de celui de Homeland à ceux de For All Mankind en passant par le retour impossible de Sam Beckett dans Code Quantum

durée : 00:04:23 - L'effet miroir - par : Benoît Lagane - Thomas Pesquet vient de rentrer à la maison. Et dans les séries, quand le héros rentre d'une grande aventure ou une mission compliquée comment ça se passe ? Retour sur quelques retours de celui de Homeland à ceux de For All Mankind en passant par le retour impossible de Sam Beckett dans Code Quantum

To recap the end of last week's parsha, Chukat —as B'nei Yisrael makes their way toward actually entering the Land of Israel, they have to pass through some “enemy” territory. They come across the land of the Amorites, east of the Jordan river. (So in modern-day Jordan). B'nei Yisrael sends emissaries to speak to the Amorite kings, asking for permission to simply pass through their lands, not even stopping to drink water from their wells or take produce from their fields. The Amorim refused, and so B'nei Yisrael battles the Amorim and succeed, settling their cities. The nearby country of Moab / Moav hear of this conquest and become nervous. Balak, the king of Moav, enlists a non-Jewish sorcerer / prophet named Bilaam for help. The king wants Bilaam, a powerful prophet, to curse B'nei Yisrael so they don't overtake Moav. Dignitaries of the king of Moav go to Bilaam and convey the message. G-d communicated with Bilaam through dreams, so Bilaam says, “Let me sleep on it and I'll circle back.” G-d comes to him in the dream and says, “No! Don't curse B'nei Yisrael” So Bilaam tells the dignitaries he cannot do it. So even more important dignitaries come, and Bilaam again sleeps on it. G-d answers in a puzzling way this time. G-d says something like, “Look, if people came to get you, go with them. But you're only going to be able to say what I will allow you to say.” So Bilaam arises the next morning and starts toward B'nei Yisrael on his donkey. G-d is still angry that Bilaam insists on going, so G-d sends an angel to stop him. Like Dr. Sam Beckett's true identity in Quantum Leap, the Malach Hashem, the angel of G-d, can only be seen by animals (and I guess kids too?), so Bilaam is blissfully unaware. The donkey sees the angel, who is there to kill / stop Bilaam, so she (yes it's a she-donkey) turns away from the road. Bilaam has no idea what's going on, so he's enraged and strikes the donkey. The donkey keeps on. But the angel is still in the way! So the donkey runs into a fence. Bilaam, again strikes it. The donkey continues. And again, tries to save Bilaam because the angel is now blocking a narrow path so that they cannot get by. Bilaam is striking his relentlessly when G-d suddenly opens the mouth of the donkey who says something like, “Why are you such a jerk!!! Have I not been a loyal mode of transportation for you??” Then G-d opens Bilaam's eyes so that he could see what was actually impeding his way. The angel backs up the donkey saying, “I was in the way and would have killed you if the donkey wouldn't have turned away these three times!!!” Bilaam is chastened (maybe? the commentary says he just said what he needed to to get the angel off his back, but who knows) and the story continues. Bilaam goes to B'nei Yisrael, but as G-d promised, Bilaam is only able to speak blessings upon the people. So, he blesses them 3 times and goes on his way. That's how the story is resolved, but the part that sticks out to me every time we get to this parsha is the genuine cluelessness of Bilaam when he's being kept from his own death. How many times have you missed a flight, a bus, lost a job opportunity, been turned down for a date, been left out of a social outing, or any number of other disappointing things? All the time!!! These kinds of let downs happen ALL. THE. TIME. And maybe it means nothing and the world is just an amalgam of random occurrences… OR these were all merciful redirections. Cont'd… For full text, email me at shirajkaplan@gmail.com or join my email list here. opening theme: reCreation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shira-kaplan/support

Season one of Theatrically Speaking republishes the original 2007 episodes. Let's talk about Samuel Beckett. Or, let's sit quietly and think about him.

“Oh boy” and “Yo Adrian” become synonymous when Sam Beckett finds himself in a boxing scenario. Early on it becomes apparent that the show is willing to reflect popular films in coming up with its plots. Tony and I receive our first taste of this type of Leap in “The Right Hand Of God”, which […]

"Time's a little funny here." Truer words were never spoken. We have come to the end of the televised adventures of Sam Beckett - at least, for now. Cokeburg, PA, August 8, 1953. Sam Beckett walks into a bar, orders a beer, looks into the mirror, and everything changes. Arguably the most momentous episode of our beloved series, we give you an equally momentous - in size, anyway - episode of Fate's Wide Wheel. And we welcome back our very first guest, Jessica Conger, to discuss all the ins and outs of the series finale. Plus, Dennis and Sam give their usual overview after Jessica leaps out. We cannot begin to thank our listeners enough for coming along on our journey as we become the first Quantum Leap podcast to complete the whole series, and maybe, just maybe, we aren't even done yet... In the meantime, enjoy our thoughts on Mirror Image.

This episode seems like it brings everything full circle for our little podcast hosted by Sam & Dennis. Our hero, Sam Beckett, leaps into Dennis Boardman, the chauffeur to Marilyn Monroe. Yes, *that* Marilyn Monroe. Season Five of our favorite show continues its trend of leaping Sam into the lives of celebrities and historical figures. Sam has arrived just days before the icon's suicide, and Ziggy says the odds are high he's there to prevent it. Meanwhile, a new assistant, Barbara, has come into Marilyn's life, and it quickly becomes evident we're in an “All About Eve” situation. We break down the episode as always, and discuss what we think works and what doesn't. We also delve a little bit into the real life Marilyn (i.e. Norma Jean(e)). Settle in and listen to the first of our last final TV leaps!

It was one of my favorite shows of all time. Quantum Leap is a sci fi fanatics dream series. It still pulls in thousands at conventions every year. In fact the latest convention is the 20th anniversary celebration of Sam and Al's time travels. Quantum Leap is still one of the most innovative shows of the 1980's. Donald Bellisario came up with the idea and threw it in front of legendary television executive Brandon Tartikoff in the late 80's. He explained the theory of a scientist who could use quantum physics to bend the laws of time and jump into the body of someone in the past to help them through a rough situation….to which Tartikoff said, “Explain this again as if you are talking to your 80-year-old grandmother!” After going into detail about the idea, Tartikoff loved it, saying that “you can never run out of scenarios”. Thus the story of Dr. Sam Beckett and his time traveling hologram pal Al was born. It is one for the ages…if you think this show doesn't have legs, think again. When we interviewed Co-Executive Producer Deborah Pratt we had the most listeners in our “LIVE CHAT ROOM” during the show's taping than ever before!

Hop in, Leapers. We're going to the Big Apple, 1958, in a Yellow Cab driven by none other than Dr. Sam Beckett. Al's by his side, of course, plus a guardian angel (Whose guardian angel is she anyway?) named Angelita who can dish out the barbs as good as she gets. Sam's there to help a cabbie win a contest - a coveted NYC taxi medallion is the prize - without getting mugged and shot like in the original history. We dig into an episode that is for all intents and purposes the Liz Torres Hour, and there's nothing wrong with that. Plus, we can't talk about this episode without talking its now infamous Kiss with History.

We are back to our regular programming and we are talking about the late 1980s show Quantum Leap. Learn about Sam Beckett played by Scott Bakula on time traveling and his hologram friend Al played by Dean Stockwell and hear about the history of the show, famous people that he meets in history, fun facts, and our top 5 episodes we liked. And before we Leap, hear what our next episode is. Also please like and subscribe to our podcast wherever you listen, and leave us a review! Also find us on our social media pages and lets nerd out! https://www.instagram.com/anerdsworldpodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/ANWPOD https://anchor.fm/anerdsworld

Who else could chime in on the hot-or-not conversation around Scott Bakula than David's husband Jack Perry? Where did it all begin? Quantum Leap, that's where! And what a show for our time! Dr. Sam Beckett taught us a lot, and we are ready to dig into it. Follow us on Twitter! @asppodcast Follow us all on IG: @aspecialpresentationpod @jackjohnperry @thedavidcrabb @jonathanbwelch