Deep dives into art and media. We did five years dissecting Deep Space Nine with The Rules of Acquisition. Star Trek will break your heart. We went all in on David Lynch and broke some of those podcasts. That was fun. Now? Biding our time to see what else breaks. Hopefully not us.
Episodes
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Season 2!
Wait for the end, where James looks back on his former liberal ways.
Resetting from season one. More Bajor politics! Kira sets out to save a war hero. Because an earring. Is he a real hero or looking for a way out? Liberty Valance. Kira and O'Brien take a trip to Star Trek's favorite rock quarry. Is Li Nalas something to hang this three episode arc on or do they forget about him for most of the next episode! But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Oh, and we get into a big conversations about needing legends and symbols. and more.
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Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
CALAMITY! In this remix Hugh addresses our first "calamity episode," Big 2016 energy, and how the world we inhabited back then was both similar and very unlike the times we find ourselves in now.
That's it! We're at the end... ...of the first season; thank the Prophets. If you believe in that sort of thing. Two pretty good episodes back to back; are they realigning the show to be... good? Is it a miracle? Does that answer depend on your point of view? This episode has two issues it's good to stay away from at dinner parties: Religion and Politics. Wade, in fact, gets a little into his cups and perhaps overzealous. And definitely a bit crude with some information. We have a lot to say about Nurse Ratched herself, Louise Fletcher, who shows up as one of the big villains of the show. Apologies are made!
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
On the patreon you'll find extended discussion about the Corona virus situation's impact on our lives.
The full talk is half an hour on the American failed state, isolation, parenting, men about to have an emotional breakdown, and how things are for James in Covid-19 ground zero California, and Wade in NYC.
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Also, we talk Devs and Alex Garland over here.
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
No time for ridicule, this is A Very Special Episode! Kira duets with a Cardassian, and three white guys from the bible belt get uncomfortable talking about the Holocaust. From post Cold War relations to The Man in the Glass Booth, Adolf Eichmann, and the Banality of Evil; how can art, and specifically science fiction, best approach some of these prickly topics? Lot's to talk about, and we might not fully cover every controversial subject, including AIDS, without being interrupted by the end... Art's tricky man, I dunno.
Wade reflects on then and now and what we think about now with the world the way it is.
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Friday Feb 28, 2020
Friday Feb 28, 2020
How does an Adult Swim show hit the same notes that James wants from Star Trek?
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Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Another space day. Another space possession. Or not. Another space virus; this one turns people into paranoid jerks. We dissect this episode it and try to fix it as best we can. Some may like it more than we do... James has things to say about Ira Behr. Wade can't remember Rudy Ray Moore's name, but this episode is not about that. Sadly.
Looking back, James talks about the podcast as a romantic relationship, and the problems and irritations that arise therein.
Friday Feb 21, 2020
Friday Feb 21, 2020
Don't you hate it when Star Trek gets political? Oh wait, we're not even talking Star Trek here. Don't worry, it'll be over in three minutes. Not even long enough to hit skip on your podcast player. If you want more, there's a lot more of this discussion to hear. Check out the Kickers of Elves Patreon where we have all sorts of additional content covering movies, TV, politics and all the other things Wade, James, and Hugh talk about when they're not talking about Deep Space Nine.
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Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Wade waxes on about romance and looking back on this episode.
In the interest of checking off all the obligatory characters from ST: TNG, Lwaxana Troi shows up in this episode! But wait! It's actually pretty good! She gets more intimate with a gooey Odo than she ever did with Picard. Is she more interesting without her daughter? Bashir is Pete Campbell. Technobabble. Obrien gets a puppy.
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Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Hugh talks Colm Meaney on leprechauns and nerds out on some baseball statistics.
More like "If Wishes Were Horses#!t." Yes, after last week's praise, we're back into the gutter! Obrien meets WHATISCERTAINLYNOTALEPRECHAUN. Nope, it's just another Alien of the Week. As Peter Dinklage said in Living in Oblivion: "Want to make it weird? Oh, put a dwarf in it." So we get "the Man from Another Place" himself, Michael J Anderson as a guest star. We talk about that, some other things, the Julian Problem, and the one good thing to stick around from this episode: Sisko's baseball.
Not mentioned, but for new Star Trek commentary, check out Can't Picardly Wait
Monday Jan 27, 2020
Monday Jan 27, 2020
Check out the first episode of the newest pod from Kickers of Elves. Except with Replacements for James and Hugh.
Is Star Trek Picard a good show? Hack trope garbage built to mine IP? Some sort of quantum form existing in both states at once?
Check out new episodes as Picard airs in its own feed alongside A Discovery Home Companion.
http://discoveryhomecompanion.libsyn.com
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cant-picardly-wait-a-star-trek-picard-podcast/id1275425963
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/bogmad-media-2/a-discovery-home-companion-a-star-trek-discovery-podcast
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Just as we've progressed on Kira throughout the podcast, James has progressed his ideas on "Progress"
Listen, and be amazed as we praise Kira's performance.
Niners, be confounded by how little we actually talk about self sealing stembolts! Bajoran politics: Kira has to evict an old man from the Shire. Jake and Nog do a red paperclip story; the Ferengi hate land? We go on a tangent about what Marina Sirtis has had to put up with in her career (more than she should have had to). We disagree a bit, but agree this is a pretty good episode of Deep Space Nine, if not your standard Star Trek.
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Thursday Jan 09, 2020
Thursday Jan 09, 2020
One episode. Two stories. That. Don't. Interact. At. All.
One podcast, two versions. Recorded. Years. Apart. Wade feels rusty. Is he?
Nobody likes Julian, even O'brien, but things get set up for later. They yell at a smoke monster. Missourians know river politics. Wade is maybe puerile in what he notices in the set dressing. Jake and Nog hit on a girl. James talks libertarians. Hugh introduces a new segment, where we perhaps insult any listeners who are responsible for the IMDB episode ratings. Hope you're not offended. We love you... Speaking of... Rate us!
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Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Miss us? The ROA Remix episodes will keep coming, but regular listeners might like to hear new discussion from the three of us? And we're not even arguing in this one.
Before watching the new Witcher show on Netflix that everyone else is talking about we talk about the book series by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski.
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Dropped this week are two other conversations, about Rick and Morty and TV, plus video games. Is Death Stranding gaming's Gravity's Rainbow?
Friday Dec 20, 2019
Friday Dec 20, 2019
Stick around to the end when Hugh goes all in on Opaka, IMDB scores, and more.
Jonathan Banks! Plays a pissed off alien. Which he can pull off pretty well as you might imagine. Kai Alpaca, the Space Pope from the premiere comes back and sets things into motion... But mostly we're excited to see Jonathan Banks. That's Mike from Breaking Bad if you don't know who that is. Why don't you know who Jonathan Banks is?
Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Hugh guides you through the vortex, and reflects on NYPD Blue, Nana Visitor's career, and his cohosts beer consumption.
This week a couple of Gene Simmons steal a faberge egg, are double crossed by a space junkie, who turns out to actually be a space Mormon -who wears Odo's cousin around his neck- and everyone takes a trip to the least turbulent "vortex" in the galaxy. Does that make sense? No? Listen and figure out just what the heck I'm going on about. Plus: "Candy Man Caveman" and Wade's self loathing.
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Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Uh oh. Hope you like the Ferengi. Our dang podcast title and artwork feature them so we can't throw stones. Wallace Shawn guest stars as a wrinkly talking "coin purse." Ferengi Juggalos!? Wade gets off topic and weird about Andrea Martin. Manservant Punk Rock Ronald Reagan. Education and racism are discussed, among other things.
OH, and hope you like My Dinner with Andre, cuz Wade finally watched it for the remix, and he's insufferable.
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Sunday Dec 01, 2019
Sunday Dec 01, 2019
In this very special "remix" episode James provides the long hidden secret behind Move Along Home and its writers.
Then later he shares some of his thoughts on why it works in ways that later "bad" episodes of Deep Space Nine don't.
Friday Nov 22, 2019
Friday Nov 22, 2019
Julian gets possessed by the ghost of Hannibal Lector doing a bad Bela Lugosi impersonation. Maybe?
Hugh tries to do a voice in this episode, and regrets it four years later in the "remix" portion of this episode. Also: Some background on Technobabble
There's gotta be a reason for what happened in the episode we talk about. Just how are we supposed to feel about that character, anyway? And we introduce "Angry Nerd Corner" (Wait, that's this whole show, right?) Go check out Hello Cruel World by the Tall Dwarfs... for no reason.
Friday Nov 15, 2019
Friday Nov 15, 2019
Dax is on trial. Or rather, a deposition or something. Stick around til the end, when Wade reflects back on this early episode and where the pod goes. Plus what other podcasts that might be coming up.
How do you fix a character like Maria?? Well, you make her a good character but don't make her try to impress anybody. But OH WAIT. We're talking Dax here. Not West Side Story. This is actually a good episode. LISTEN! (Was somebody drunk when they posted this description?)
Thursday Nov 07, 2019
Thursday Nov 07, 2019
It's a Q episode! Stick around for the end when James looks back at his feelings on the episode, DS9, and podcasting in 2015.
Everyone's favorite (or least favorite) Trickster Space God boards the station with Picard's ex girlfriend to help remind you this is a spin off of that Star Trek show you really liked. Remember? Nudge nudge. Wink. Come for the TNG characters, stay to hear us talk about Ferengi sex practices, and vent our transporter frustrations. [Editors note: Oh, and yes we were wrong about the 3 life forms issue. It was the egg. We got it.]
Friday Nov 01, 2019
Friday Nov 01, 2019
Run! It's the most dangerous game, and the most dangerous way to re-listen to a pod from four years ago. Wade podcasts stuffed inside a box. Hugh looks back on the episode.
Thursday Oct 24, 2019
Thursday Oct 24, 2019
The crew of DS9 gets infected with an aphasia virus, and we can't quite find the words... Wade finds plenty to talk about after listening to this episode.
TV Pre and Post the time of Difficult Men. Sex positive Dax is back, and Odo is embarrassed, but we don't buy it. How do you fix episode? James has some good ideas.
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Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Garak is actually introduced. Things get turned around. Terrorists and Spock are discussed. Hugh reflects.
Thursday Oct 10, 2019
Thursday Oct 10, 2019
Garak is introduced. Lets revisit the second episode and cringe at what doesn't work and think about what does.
Future-James reflects some on DS9 and what kind of stories we might want for future generations.
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Don't trust linear time! It's all just one eternal moment to the prophets, and here we are back at the beginning. Welcome to the Rules of Acquisition remix. It's the same ROA that you may know, but this time we're giving you some additional commentary on how it feels to travel back in time and listen to versions of ourselves from those before-times, back when our innocence was still intact. In this episode Hugh will fill you in on how this works.
Welcome to The Rules of Acquisition! A podcast where we’ll be reviewing every. single. episode. of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Heres... THE BEGININAGING
Who are we? What are our histories with DS9? And most importantly-Why are we doing this?
All these questions and more will be answered.
Plus: Linear time, and don't trust Picard with your loved ones.
[*NOTE: Tried a little more fixin this version, but the sound here is of three guys just figuring out how to record this podcast thing. But, hey the content is still great! There have been mics that come and go and we sound a bit different as time goes on. Go figure.]
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
A change in format! Hugh talked to listeners about the sexiest of Scottish Ghost Candle Stories, Star Trek: The Next Generations "Sub Rosa"
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