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Friday Night X Minus One
X Minus One: Hello Tomorrow - 2/29/1956 Hello Tomorrow - 2/29/1956 In the future after the atomic wars, people live under ground and mate scientifically. The script is by George Lefferts. The cast includes John Larkin and Jan Minor. Writer: George Lefferts X Minus One was a science fiction radio series on NBC that aired April 1955 [...]
Thurs. Show Prep – An Inconvenient Edition
Some nutjob walked into the Discovery Channel building in Maryland with a handgun and what appeared to be an explosive device. He was demanding that Discovery have more programming telling people to stop having kids to save the planet. He was apparently inspired by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and some book about a telepathic Ape. Does [...]
Wed. Show Prep – Armed And Nerdy Edition
An attorney is suing Lee County, FL for its ordinance banning guns at parks, beaches, and museums. He says that the state’s concealed-carry law allows those with permits to carry guns pretty much wherever they want. Do you really need to take a gun to a museum? Just because you can carry a gun with you, it doesn’t mean you should. For [...]
Tues. Show Prep – Scholastic Bribery Edition
An organization in St. Louis is offering parents $300 per child to enroll in one of the local schools. The school had been losing students to area private and charter schools. Would you sell your kids off to a lesser school for a few hundred semolians? While President Obama was on one of his copious vacations workers were giving the Oval [...]
Geeky Space Picture of The Day: Two-Headed Hurricane
NASA’s Terra Earth-observing satellite snapped this image of two major hurricanes in the western Atlantic ocean. The northern storm is Danielle, and the southern one is Earl. You can also read NASA’s Terra page about this image to learn more.
Mon. Show Prep – Neighborhood Crusader Edition
A Schaumburg man getting kicked out of his house has decided to take to living in tent in his front yard. He’s asked the city to settle the matter with a jury trial. The city says he’s a health threat, and the bank says that he’s a deadbeat… in his defense says that if he throws anything away, the aliens running the government will [...]
Friday Night X Minus One
X Minus One: Junkyard - 02/22/1956 Junkyard - 02/22/1956 A galactic survey ship finds a lot of discarded alien machine parts on a low grade planet. When they get ready to leave the crew has forgotten how to power the ship. George Lefferts wrote the script. The cast members were Jack Orrison, and John Larkin, Bob Hastings, Mercer McLeod and [...]
