Dispatch Ajax! Podcast
A Geek Culture Podcast - Two life-long Nerds explain, critique and poke fun at the major pillars of Geek Culture for your listening pleasure.
Dispatch Ajax! Podcast
Latest Episodes
Classic: Artificial Intelligence Part 1
While we're deal with some crazy life stuff we thought we'd revisit a rapidly changing topic in Artificial Intelligence. We walk through the foundations that make AI feel inevitable: formal reasoning, the Church Turing thesis, early neural netw...
Pets and Companions
Why do pets and animal companions in fiction feel so immediate, so universally legible, and so devastating when a story takes them away?We pull threads from everywhere, comic book pets like Krypto, the daemon companions of His Dark Mate...
The BC Fourteen Cinematic Universe
Bigfoot in space, Krampus as a demonic Christmas weapon, a clone of Alistair Crowley, reptilian Stalin, Satan pulling strings, and a title card that promises a fight that may never happen. That’s not a mad lib we wrote, it’s the kind of chaos y...
Sci-Why? F.U.! - Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
* Redownload if necessary*Greetings, fellow traveller. For our Sci-Fi Channel series finale we bring you Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, a short-lived but brilliant British parody show that never really got its due. (Sorry we wer...
Sci-Why? FU! - Max Headroom
Max Headroom - a glitchy cyberpunk face that seemed like a novelty in the 1980s - somehow became a pop culture anchor through commercials, parodies, and wall-to-wall brand exposure. If you mostly remember New Coke or a weird talking head you sa...