Big Things Have Weird Beginnings

Big Things Have Weird Beginnings
Number	63
Broadcast Date	June 20, 2012
Episode Length	1:10:32
Hosts	Andrew Mayne, Brian Brushwood, Justin Robert Young

The three amigos are reunited yet again in this thrilling episode of the podcast. Justin is rightly ridiculed for refusing to lower his expectations for the already far overachieving Voyager probe. Andrew and Brian debate the feasibility of searching for Dyson Spheres. AND FINALLY all three really hash out their feeling on Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Tears are shed. Blood is spilled. Things get weird.

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Prometheus! Ohh nevermind... Voyager!

Before the guys got into a discussion the new movie "Prometheus", they wanted to talk about the Voyager spacecraft that had just left the solar system. The Voyager mission may in fact be the biggest success story in the history of human space exploration. For 35 years it has traveled throughout the solar system giving an immense amount of data about the planets.

During this discussion, Justin begins singing this song to the tune of the Star Trek Voyager theme.

Prometheus! No wait... Dyson Spheres!

A supposedly smart guy said that we should stop looking for radio signals from extra terrestrials and instead start looking for Dyson spheres. His argument is that if a civilization is advanced enough they will create a Dyson sphere. However, Brian, Andrew and Justin think that this is a "silly" idea that assumes way to much about other cultures. Andrew argued that it would be nearly impossible for an entire society to agree on something as drastic as a Dyson sphere and that humans may never create one.

Prometheus! (Really this time!)

Justin, Andrew and Brian had been dying to discuss Prometheus for a while and finally they are all together to get all spoilery. Brian thought it sucked. Andrew thought it was "Contact" with xenomorphs. Justin didn't like it, but he doesn't think that Damon Lindelof deserves a lot of the hate that he received for it.

If you want to hear more of Brian's thoughts on "Prometheus", you can watch the livestream that Brian had shortly after watching the movie.

Book Club

Brian

• Tron Uprising

Justin

• Preacher

Andrew

• Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama

Great Quotes

• "I don't know what the hell Brian just said; that was crazy talk!" -Justin

Fun Facts

• With Brian on the road, Justin set up a JuRY-rigged livestream that involved him pointing his phone at a Google hangout and streaming the phone video to Justin.tv. Unfortunately, the stream died just a few minutes into the show and because of their policy of radio-silence during the recording, none of the hosts knew that the stream had failed.

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Preceded by: "The Moral Molecule"

Big Things Have Weird Beginnings

Followed by: "Ferret Cooties"