Ben De Bono and Matt Anderson sent me down a rabbit hole.
During the waning months of my time in the Middle East, I was stuck in a back office with about fourteen or fifteen hours of time to kill each day. I've been a fan of podcasts since I was first able to listen to them in mid-2007, and I decided to use that time to find a few new podcasts. Highlights included The History Chicks, The Faroe Islands Podcast, and The Sci-Fi Christian. I sort of keep up on all of these as I'm able. Last night, when I was checking my RSS feeds for new podcasts, I saw that The Sci-Fi Christian - which I probably hadn't listened to in over a year - had done an episode on one of my old favorites, Dune. I need to give it another listen, but it was really interesting to see some of the comparisons with Star Wars, and also with Lawrence of Arabia.
That got me to thinking: are there any other podcasts about Dune? What about one of my other favorites, Starship Troopers? So, I did some looking, and I found a bunch of stuff. Take Me To Your Reader had De-Bounced (Starship Troopers). The Sci Phi Show, which discusses science fiction and philosophy, has two episodes: Starship Troopers: When is it ok to go to war? Part 1, and Starship Troopers: How to fight a war? Part 2. I decided to listen to TMTYR's episode on Contact, and one of the guys mentioned the Sci-Fi Movie Podcast, so I checked their website, and they have a podcast about Starship Troopers and, finally, a podcast about Dune.
So... As if I didn't have enough to listen to already, I now have more!
