318 - The X-Men Files: A Star Wars Story

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🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Asher Elbein (@asher_elbein) is still back but this time he and Ryan get really nerdy (if you believe that’s even possible after the last episode). The first half of super nerd talk begins with a brief remembrance of Tom Spurgeon, who passed away last year. But it is mostly about the new status quo regarding the X-Men, which kicked off with Johnathan Hickman’s House of X and Powers of X. Ryan has also discussed this topic over on iFanboy.

00:30:28 - Time is a flat circle so Ryan is still having the Thai spice teas from Running Byrd Tea Co. Tweet about your first tea with hashtag #firsttimeteatime, for some reason.

00:31:47 - In the second half of their chat (or really, the fourth quarter if you think about it), Asher and Ryan dig deep on some Star Wars (this was recorded just prior to the release of Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker). It gets real, feelings are felt.

01:04:03 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like wars in the stars, they can sometimes end in disappointment. But no disappointment today because we have a lovely 5-star iTunes review from Crue Taylor. Thanks, Crue!

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Music credit: Not The Droid - Podington Bear

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Obviously we recorded this before everything went crazy. Um, so there's no talk of Corona in this episode, but hopefully everyone out there is doing okay. And, um, yeah, we will just figure this out as we go. I'm teleworking for a little while. So hopefully episodes will come out with a little bit more frequency. And if you have anything you want us to know about or any stories you think we should cover,
0:24.6	please don't hesitate to send them in paleopalos at scienceword.com.
0:28.3	All right.
0:28.7	Enjoy the episode.
0:29.7	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of. You're listening to Episode 318, where our theme is the X-Men F files, a Star Wars story, which will make sense
0:55.9	in a moment. I'm your host, Ryan, and join me to talk about things that are science, things that
0:59.0	are sort of science, and things that wish they were science, is again, returning, returning
1:02.3	guests, Asher Albine. We spent a little bit more time after talking about some of the science
1:07.3	reporting he's done, just kind of nerd-n out, just being geeks, just dorking
1:10.9	around. I don't know. That just went to a weird space. Listen, we talked about X-Men and Star Wars
1:18.5	and other nerd stuff, and here's the first part.
1:21.4	All right. Well, I'm going to go ahead and push right past literally half the topics we had talked about discussing, and we will just have to have you back on again, which I'm not upset about at all. And instead, I'm just going to go right into, let's talk about comic books. Sure, yeah. I'm talking about sequential words and pictures, the Scott Mollongue definition. Boy, love those comic books.
1:45.2	Comics are good, actually.
1:46.7	They tell a story.
1:47.7	You got to look at the gutt.
1:48.8	What's happening in the gutters?
1:51.0	Well, and this is where I have to, I have to at least shout out the passing of Tom
1:56.9	Spurgeon, who is like really the great sort of like comics writer of our time.
2:03.1	This is going to sound sarcastic, but I mean it 100% sincerely.
2:06.9	Hats off to a real one.
2:08.2	Like he was very good and he will be very, very deeply missed.
2:12.1	Especially considering there was a time where I was being paid every week to write about comics
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