Episode 104: Women in Scifi

[Gilberto]

Sean and Greg talk women in scifi for a minute with new guest host Jessica, but mostly we talk about the state of the future, the end of the world, the dangers of summoning Cthulhu and whether or not video game violence has gone too far.

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[lynn]

Nice rant music Gilbert, but really, pockets? I would have voted for tampons, but I can see why you wouldn't think about that. Also, sorry to inform you but they did have pants a thousand years ago. Actually that was one of the things that distinguished a barbarian from a Roman, Romans didn't wear pants. That's well over a thousand years ago.
Also, I don't think you got my mushrooms comment. Your ideal future may be rocket packs and gadgets and stuff, but my ideal future has everyone growing their own vegetables in their back yard. I helped my sister move into a new flat down in Sydney on the weekend, and it's crazy how all stuffed together they all are down there. I don't think they ever walk on grass. Grass is important to our ecosystem. Mushrooms epitomises my perfect future, ready food for everyone and enough space to grow your own. Fresh food that tastes like food. That's part of my ideal future. Nothing tastes like real food anymore because they pick it green and don't let it sugar up, then we cook the crap out of it and wonder why kids won't eat vegetables. If we let the computers start making our food like on Star Trek it'll taste like McDonalds food, and that's not even food, it's just additives. It's terrible.

[drivebyluna]

Lynn, I think you'll like this article:

weburbanist.com/2008/11/23/future-green-design-technology/

[lynn]

These are awesome! I love the stackable cars and the treehouses! Organic self-growing house? That's what I'm talking about.
I'd like to live like a hobbit, in a hole in the ground (so energy efficient) and also high all the time. and tiny.

But, uh, that weird hot tub trailer thing at the beginning was just weird.

[Gilberto]

I stand corrected, Lynn. Sounds like you've got a perfectly nice future in mind. Mushrooms it is. Also, they're great on pizza.

And those green people seem to have the right idea too. Maybe there's hope yet.

I stand behind pockets; great idea. I love that wearing pants made you a barbarian back in the day. I will allow that men should be just as appreciative of tampons as women. We just don't like to talk about them.

But pockets and flashlights, man. That's the stuff. Tell your friends, world.

[lynn]

If there's no pizza there's not much of a future.

[Gilberto]

Add pizza to the list.

[lynn]

well we've already got pizza so there's no need to add anything to fix it, to fix the future.
By the way, why do you Americans call pizza pie?

[drivebyluna]

Only certain areas call it a pie.

[lynn]

only the ones in tv land? Every time I see it on the tv they call it pie and I think that's weird because pie is something else.

[Gilberto]

Yeah, we don't call it pie down in the South, but it's a thing in New York. I guess because it's round like a pie.

[lynn]

you know, a lot of things are round like pie, we don't call them pie. Perhaps New Yorkers are a trifle simple?

[drivebyluna]

Hey, hey hey. Well I've only heard my bus driver call it pie when I was in middle school. Everyone else calls it pizza.

[lynn]

Maybe it's one of those mostly tv things then. I'm willing to accept that you're not all stupid. If you'll accept that I don't ride in a kangaroo.

[Gilberto]

Why would you dispel a notion that you ride kangaroos? I'd encourage that image if someone thought it of me.