Some of you may be aware that I have done a long-running (with many breaks/hiatuses) podcast mostly about Star Trek. You can listen to/subscribe to it here (we WILL resume new episodes soon!).
Now, I have a newer one with my old friend Phil: Time To Lean...And Here's A Song!
This podcast is a catch-all discussion show where we have a couple of beverages and there's a song at the end of the show. The songs are often new ones, written and performed by Phil and me. We sometimes reuse old originals that we want to share. So please check it out, here.
Showing posts with label Podcast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Podcast. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Monday, April 2, 2018
Tuskout Podcast Episode 79: Star Trek Discovery Episodes 1 and 2
Today we review the first two episodes of Star Trek: Discovery, "The Vulcan Hello" and "Battle At The Binary Stars".
Check out the feed for the podcast here.
Check out the feed for the podcast here.
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Podcast Update
Yes, I am still updating this musty old blog!
Hello, and welcome!
If you're reading this, you may be one of the few proud people who listen to our podcasts such as TOS Rewind. I've found a new host for the old episodes and this change allows them to be accessed in a real podcast platform, not just as file downloads (primitive!). I am posting the Star Trek review episodes in broadcast order and not in the order we recorded them in so while there may be some weird continuity, I think it works well.
Eric, Rob, and I will be shortly resuming our recordings with reviews of Star Trek: Discovery so watch for them.
You can subscribe to the Podcast in Apple Podcasts/iTunes at this link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ceremonial-tuskout/id1354495611
The direct address for the podcast feed is: https://anchor.fm/ceremonial-tuskout
Hello, and welcome!
If you're reading this, you may be one of the few proud people who listen to our podcasts such as TOS Rewind. I've found a new host for the old episodes and this change allows them to be accessed in a real podcast platform, not just as file downloads (primitive!). I am posting the Star Trek review episodes in broadcast order and not in the order we recorded them in so while there may be some weird continuity, I think it works well.
Eric, Rob, and I will be shortly resuming our recordings with reviews of Star Trek: Discovery so watch for them.
You can subscribe to the Podcast in Apple Podcasts/iTunes at this link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ceremonial-tuskout/id1354495611
The direct address for the podcast feed is: https://anchor.fm/ceremonial-tuskout
Saturday, December 24, 2016
Tuskout Podcast 02: "Walkabout" (1971)
We're back at it with another film review, the 1971 Australian film, Walkabout.
Listen to or download the podcast here:
And here's the RSS feed: https://anchor.fm/s/2a0b3b8/podcast/rss
If you're reading this, you may have noticed that the old podcast links no longer work. Google shut down the way of hosting the files I was using so I will need to find another hosting provider. I'll get the old pages updated as soon as possible.
Listen to or download the podcast here:
And here's the RSS feed: https://anchor.fm/s/2a0b3b8/podcast/rss
Monday, August 15, 2016
Tuskout Podcast 01: "The Train"
Today, we begin a new chapter.
Our long-running podcast, TOS Rewind, is now called Tuskout Podcast. Now that we're done with our survey of every original Star Trek TOS episode, we wanted to continue our discussions and explore other things we're interested in. We're all pretty serious media fans and self-styled critics so we'll probably be sticking to a movie/TV show review format but don't be surprised if we veer off into other areas. At this point nothing is off the table. And yes, we will be doing more Star Trek down the road. It's a hard habit to break.
For our first podcast, we all watched the 1964 Burt Lancaster film, The Train.
Our long-running podcast, TOS Rewind, is now called Tuskout Podcast. Now that we're done with our survey of every original Star Trek TOS episode, we wanted to continue our discussions and explore other things we're interested in. We're all pretty serious media fans and self-styled critics so we'll probably be sticking to a movie/TV show review format but don't be surprised if we veer off into other areas. At this point nothing is off the table. And yes, we will be doing more Star Trek down the road. It's a hard habit to break.
For our first podcast, we all watched the 1964 Burt Lancaster film, The Train.
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
TOS Rewind Podcast: "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"
As part of our most recent podcast, Rob, Eric, and I shared our exalted views on the latest Star Wars installment. Check it out:
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
TOS Rewind #12: "The Conscience of the King"
We've added our latest podcast, "The Briefing Room" to this entry. It's a long one, but we had Eric participating as well.
Download it here
After "The Menagerie," we make a decidedly different turn to The Conscience of the King (Original air date: 12-8-66). First off, I hadn't seen this one in a while, but remembered enough of it to be wary of revisiting. When I was growing up, this was a bit of a snoozefest for me primarily, as Eric has pointed out that it really isn't science fiction at all. I think I actually appreciated it more now than before. There are some ideas expressed in this episode that are important, such as the revelation that Kirk was present on a colony where there was a mass slaughter and the placing of the often-told Nazi hunter character onto Kirk.
We also get another situation that pits Kirk against Spock. Kirk is going underground in pursuit of Karidian, including taking the Enterprise off course. This scenario will be brought back in the episode, "Obsession."
Highlights: I liked Kirk in this show. He gets to be a slightly more complex character, especially when he seduces Karidian's daughter to get close to him (some of the back and forth flirting is pretty silly though). He is obviously attracted to her, but in the end plans to use her to accomplish his goals. He also expresses a truly thoughtful side when he ponders whether or not Karidian is the man he's after. Kirk really seems to be conflicted when he considers that the man may not be the mass murderer he's looking for instead of just pushing blindly ahead. The actor playing Koridian does a nice job, dramatic, but appropriate. I was also glad to see Kevin Riley return and wish they'd found a way to make more use of him. Finally, there's a short scene where McCoy is drunk in sickbay and tries to get Spock to join in.
Lowpoints: The character of Lenore is really overdone, IMO. The dramatic scenes she's in had the tendency to make me giggle. I blame the acting as well as the writing. And, the superimposing of the Shakespearean elements onto the story are heavy-handed at times.
So, a bit of an oddball episode, but it does have some good qualities.
And now, Eric:
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This will be a short review—I think Doc, Andy, and I had a good discussion of this episode in our podcast. And, more to the point, “The Conscience of the King" isn’t one of my favorite episodes. It’s
not that there’s anything glaringly wrong with it: the story and direction are both good, the production values are decent, and the acting is reasonably good too. The problem is that this episode isn’t science fiction or Star Trek; it’s Star Trek does Shakespeare. The plot, characters, and even the title are all Shakespearean, and as such, they work pretty well. Lenore has interesting elements of both Lady Macbeth and Ophelia, and Anton Karidian is basically an amalgam of Lear and Macbeth. All well and good, but “The Conscience of the King" is a story that could’ve been done by any TV drama. Star Trek is at it’s best when it does stories that can only be told through science fiction, and we’ll see some great examples of this in upcoming episodes.
Next time: “Balance of Terror"
Download it here
After "The Menagerie," we make a decidedly different turn to The Conscience of the King (Original air date: 12-8-66). First off, I hadn't seen this one in a while, but remembered enough of it to be wary of revisiting. When I was growing up, this was a bit of a snoozefest for me primarily, as Eric has pointed out that it really isn't science fiction at all. I think I actually appreciated it more now than before. There are some ideas expressed in this episode that are important, such as the revelation that Kirk was present on a colony where there was a mass slaughter and the placing of the often-told Nazi hunter character onto Kirk.
We also get another situation that pits Kirk against Spock. Kirk is going underground in pursuit of Karidian, including taking the Enterprise off course. This scenario will be brought back in the episode, "Obsession."
Highlights: I liked Kirk in this show. He gets to be a slightly more complex character, especially when he seduces Karidian's daughter to get close to him (some of the back and forth flirting is pretty silly though). He is obviously attracted to her, but in the end plans to use her to accomplish his goals. He also expresses a truly thoughtful side when he ponders whether or not Karidian is the man he's after. Kirk really seems to be conflicted when he considers that the man may not be the mass murderer he's looking for instead of just pushing blindly ahead. The actor playing Koridian does a nice job, dramatic, but appropriate. I was also glad to see Kevin Riley return and wish they'd found a way to make more use of him. Finally, there's a short scene where McCoy is drunk in sickbay and tries to get Spock to join in.
Lowpoints: The character of Lenore is really overdone, IMO. The dramatic scenes she's in had the tendency to make me giggle. I blame the acting as well as the writing. And, the superimposing of the Shakespearean elements onto the story are heavy-handed at times.
So, a bit of an oddball episode, but it does have some good qualities.
And now, Eric:
---
This will be a short review—I think Doc, Andy, and I had a good discussion of this episode in our podcast. And, more to the point, “The Conscience of the King" isn’t one of my favorite episodes. It’s
not that there’s anything glaringly wrong with it: the story and direction are both good, the production values are decent, and the acting is reasonably good too. The problem is that this episode isn’t science fiction or Star Trek; it’s Star Trek does Shakespeare. The plot, characters, and even the title are all Shakespearean, and as such, they work pretty well. Lenore has interesting elements of both Lady Macbeth and Ophelia, and Anton Karidian is basically an amalgam of Lear and Macbeth. All well and good, but “The Conscience of the King" is a story that could’ve been done by any TV drama. Star Trek is at it’s best when it does stories that can only be told through science fiction, and we’ll see some great examples of this in upcoming episodes.
Next time: “Balance of Terror"
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