Episode 203 - Back from the Future

[Mike]

Gaming Table: Mike talks about the board game Santorini as well as Paizo's use of the OGL. Science Corner: Sign language apes, the linguistic role of 'dude', and cool solar system stuff, including dwarf planets, ice planets, and planemos. Something Completely Different: avoiding useless details in storytelling. Nerd Culture Report: Mike finally gets all of his time travel movie talk out of his system. And then it's the Pod-O-Matic with over a half dozen all-new, listener submitted questions rolled up fresh for your entertainment, including Lenny Bruce, Carol Danvers for President, Angie Tribeca and The Tick, and many more.There so much nerdy awesomeness in here that you might want to take it in small doses.

Enjoy!

[Kyle]

When Jacob was asking about the significance of the initials L.B.- he was referring to this part of the song: "Leonard Bernstein! Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom."

[Mike]

Nice. Thank you. I was running through lyrics in my head, starting from Lenny Bruce is not afraid. I never would have gotten far enough into the song to figure out what he meant.