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Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

Greek Tragedies, Memory and Sex with Your Boss: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey Part II | Episode 84

Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

The Sci-Fi Sigh Podcast

Tv & Film

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week we discussed the price of vulnerability, Greek tragedies, the matrix of memory, and, of course, sleeping with your boss. We watched the last three episodes of the Apple TV miniseries “The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray,” starring Samuel L. Jackson, and written by Walter Mosley. Join Amber and Ben as they use the medium of near-future science fiction to figure out their lives.

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0:00.0

Hey, listeners and an extra special. Hey, hi, and hello to all you patrons out there in Patreon world aka the country club. That's what I've been calling it.

0:13.0

Oh, come on Chicago. I'm going to ignore those Chicago sirens so I can give a couple of shout outs. I think been literally just chose some names at random. So we're going to name every single patron patron.

0:26.0

Okay, our goal is to get 3000 patrons and we're going to name all of you all 3000. So we're going to start the episode off with these eight first. What's up Jessica Raven Shayla Rebecca M Vanessa Danielle T and Danielle Castro special shout out to those patrons and Ben said we're going to get through all.

0:46.0

All I think right now we have about 1400 patrons. So we're going to keep pushing keep listening. Just extra special reminder. Not only do we give away a fantastical a science fictional book written by an author once a week.

1:02.0

Oh, no, sometimes by someone who's not an author.

1:07.0

I'm tripping. We will be giving away this. This month's book will be giving away is queen of bad dreams by Danny lore, which we will be discussing a few weeks. Ben has been doing a really great job mapping out our content because I have been breastfeeding. It's awesome. If you're watching this on YouTube, my nipples.

1:28.0

Tink, tink, tink, punch that you can punch there right there. Yeah, our extra tough. I look like fembot today because I got these milk catchers in wiggles is grandmother is watching her in the back of the house as we record this.

1:39.0

Shout out to grandma shout out to grandma all around the world shout out to miss Judy. But yeah, patron not only are we going to be just continuing to keep the sci fi love going. You know, this is a family show now. So we're going to also keep updating y'all with extra special exclusive content.

1:56.0

And Ben had this great idea where I should just go back and find every video that ever got me a community. Yeah, I should just post those in the patreon. So slowly but surely I'll start posting those once a week and you can sort of maybe we'll debate in the patreon.

2:10.0

Like what got me kicked off a tiktok this week. But yeah, that's all for the patreon. Be sure to just keep joining again. I saw somebody on the patreon.

2:20.0

I'm going for 78 cents a month. Okay, and guess what that person is helping the wallet family. Okay, so you can join for a dollar $2.5 or you heard it 78 cents a month.

2:35.0

Any contribution is a helpful contribution. Now let's get started with the show. Welcome to the sci fi side under the belief podcast network. It's a podcast about black science fiction and fantasy and staying on the same age as a family.

2:49.0

Could you please sit up back like we do in a show?

2:51.0

Sorry, but put a pillow behind your back today for episode 84. We will be reviewing the second installment of the last days of Toilet Me Gray.

3:02.0

Those stories were originally written by Walter Mosley. The show is star. It's a novel. It was a novel written by him. Not stories.

3:10.0

Okay, well, why don't you finish what I was going to say there? Go ahead. I was just correcting you. Also, they're not like installments. There was just one limited series. We made them invent it.

3:25.0

We invented it. Maybe I like the word installment. Damn. Okay, but it gives the impression that they made the installment. You know what?

3:33.0

I should have I shouldn't so for the ability to sit back again. Also, I wanted to watch the whole show in completion. I hate breaking up shows to discuss them. Once again, you don't have to nurse wiggles every two hours. So it is very hard for me to sit and watch.

3:49.0

I did. I did nurse wiggles the night shift. I do the night shift. Oh, yeah, talk. Talk to people about God. It's the fucking. We're going to keep this short and sweet because I know.

3:59.0

We're parents now. What parents do is talk about their kid. Nonsense. So go ahead. You know, Amber, Amber said she's like, don't drink anything bubbly. I'm like, fuck that. So I just went and got like a huge, you know, double IPA from half acre, which is right near us right down the street.

4:18.0

You can walk to it. So. And I have a little probiotic here. But here's the thing, Ben, because you have a tendency to clear your throat and do all your little right in the mic.

4:26.0

What were you talking about? Exactly. That's why I don't, I told you not to do it. But you know what, you're a grown man. You're going to do what you want to do. You know, it's like that. You didn't, you didn't finish talking about the night shift.

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