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The Geeks Guide to the Galaxy

And here's your host David Barr Curtley.

Hello, and welcome to episode 498 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing the movies close encounters of the third kind,

Explorers, Starman, Tron and Dark Star.

And this one involves spoilers for all of those movies, so just be aware of that.

And this is a follow up to our panels on awesome 80s science fiction movies back in episodes

490 and 494, so definitely check those out if you missed them.

And I'm joined by three guests who are all making their 24th appearance on the show.

So first up we've got Andrea Kale.

She's a graduate of the Odyssey Redder's Workshop,

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