Hi, everyone. I just wanted you to know that I’m shutting the doors on SciFi Smackdown for good. I wanted to thank Christiana and Tony for their great work on this show, our special guests, and Mike, Brian, and Summer over at Farpoint Media. I wish it was otherwise, but Real Life isn’t allowing for the show at the time. See you on the other side of the gate. Stay shiny.
Sep
8
Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen
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May
25
SciFi Smackdown Episode#6 - The Smack is Back!
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Trampas is back! But where’s Christiana and Tony? Did he hide the bodies?
Excuses, excuses.
Promo: Scapecast
Discussion: Death Star vs. Borg vs. Shadows
Promo: Tony’s Losing It
Discussion: The D&D 4th Edition Gnome: I’m a monster. Rawr!
Tell Trampas why he’s wrong! E-mail scifismackdown@gmail.com or call 206-666-5574.
Aug
14
Scifi Smackdown: The Hiatus
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So… um, yeah.
Haven’t done a show in a while… Busy and stuff, hard to schedule things with three busy hosts in three timezones blah, blah, blah.
We hope to be back soon.
Jul
6
SFSD Episode 5 - Voice Mail: X-Wings vs. Starfuries [1:00:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2217)Christiana, Tony, and Jarsto answer your feedback from Episode 5.
Trampas makes a guest appearance.
Jun
29
SFSD Episode SE01: Interview with JC Hutchins and a bit more
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SFSD Episode SE01: JC Hutchins and a bit more [1:05:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1562)Coverage of Raleigh charity screening of Can’t Stop the Serenity.
Christiana interviews the winners of the costume contest.
Christiana interviewed the organizers of the event.
Website for the Raleigh Shindig
Website for the Raleighwood Cinema Grille
Christiana and Trampas interview J.C. no, not THAT J.C. They interview J.C. Hutchins, author of the 7th Son Trilogy.
Out of context quotes.
“You are not Tee Morris.” - Trampas
“We call them philistines.” - Christiana
“I didn’t get cookies, either.” - J.C.
“I’ll go for a walk… on the water” - J.C.
Jun
21
SFSD Episode 5: X-Wings vs. Star Furies
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Christiana, Trampas and Tony welcome special guest Jarsto to the show.
We’ve had some technical difficulties in getting the file properly uploaded and presented to you. We believe that those problems have been solved, but they took longer than we expected. Because of this, the show notes are being postponed until I have the time to devote to them. We felt that it was more important to get the show into your hands as soon as possible than to wait until the show notes were completed.
Thanks for your patience,
Tony Mast - Keeper of the Show Notes and Master Excuse-Maker.
Jun
6
SFSD Episode 4 - Voice Mail 2: Even more Voice mail [1:04:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2111)Big Ass Special Edition - Trampas providing said ass.
Excuses -
One of Christiana’s fetishes comes to light.
Trampas is a Wookie.
Tony had a “procedure”.
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May
4
SFSD Episode 4 - Voice Mail: The New Kids on the Block vs. The Filthy Muties [1:16:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3460)Christiana Picks 4
Voice Mail from Super Scotty: An apologies, a low blow, Doodle of the Fates, Youtube.com video battles.
Duel of the Fates on Podiobooks.com
Tony gloats about his parody of Duel of the Fates from the first Wingin’ It Fan Show.
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Apr
25
Here we go kids. The death-threats can be rescinded, we’re back and we’re here to present rounds 4 through 10 of the battle.
If you haven’t listened to Episode 3, please do so now, you don’t want to miss a minute of this.
Promo: The 9th - A Heroes Podcast
J.C. Hutchins presents : The Smackdown so far.
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Apr
17
SFSD Episode 3 - Voice Mail: Nope… it’s not part two yet…
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SFSD Episode 3 - Voice Mail: Nope... it's not part two yet... [37:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2266)We’ll be bringing you part 2 of Heroes Vs. X-Men next week.
Introductions: Christiana Ellis AKA ‘She of many podcasts’, Tony Mast AKA Tony Smackdown AKA ‘Whatshisname’, Trampas Whiteman AKA ‘The excited one’
Explanation of why we are doing Voice Mail this week.
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Apr
13
SFSD Episode 3: Heroes vs The X-Men
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We start with a rundown of each of the teams and how we went about choosing these teams.
For the record we have
The Heroes:
Claire
Nathan
Peter
Hiro
Matt
Ted
The Haitian
Niki/Jessica
Claude
DL
The X-men:
Professor X
Banshee
Colossus
Cyclops
Nightcrawler
Storm
Sunfire
Thunderbird
Wolverine
Promo: Podiobook Chat
The setup: Mojo orchestrates a ratings blockbuster for the multiverse’s consumption.
Special Thanks to Tee Morris (Sylar), Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit (Wolverine), and Chris “TWiG” Jelen (Peter Petrelli)
And on to the Undercard:
Tasslehoff Burrfoot vs. David Hasslehoff and the winner is? All of the ladies!
Bumper: Indiana Jim AKA Drunken Tee Morris
Promo: The Cinema Freaks
For the main event we are trying a new experimental format.
Round 1: Heroes: 1+1(Temporarily) X-Men: 2 Situation: Claire is missing
Round 2: Heroes: 1+2(Temp) X-Men: 2+1(Temp) Situation: Claire is still missing
Round 3: Heroes: 2+1(Temp) X-Men: 3 Situation: DL goes looking for Claire
Promo: TD0013’s MS Walk
Part 2 continues this epic battle!
Apr
1
SFSD Episode 2 - Voice Mail: The Sentinal of Liberty vs. The Dark Knight
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SFSD Episode 2 - Voice Mail: The Sentinal of Liberty vs. The Dark Knight [1:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2292)We are releasing this week’s episode early. We recorded our episode late on March 31st. We received news today, April 1st, 2007 that Joe Murphy, our friend, fellow podcaster and ‘brother’ in the FarPoint Media family, has fought his battle with leiomyosarcoma carcinoma to its finish. After this episode we are going to be joining many members of our extended family and honoring Joe’s memory with a week of silence. Don’t worry, buddy, it’s a week without show notes.
We kick everything off, Jim, with a voicemail, Jim, from Indiana Jim who apparently, Jim, thinks he’s funny, Jim…
Leftovers from Episode 1:
Email from PostNuclear10: Whopper(War Games) vs Colossus(Colossus: The Forbin Project)
We expand on Supercomputer Smackdowns and if you are good at math we give out our ages too.
Voicemail #1 from Super Scotty from Canada: K.I.T.T. vs Viper
Tony proves that he can use wikipedia to look up stuff. Scotty might incur the wrath of Miss ‘The Merciless’ if he’s not careful.
Voicemail #2 from Super Scotty from Canada: Uhura’s fandance vs Slave Girl Leia
Trampas invokes ‘Naked Time’.
Mudwrestling in a Desert Landscape = good for your skin.
Voicemail from Chris Taylor: We were wrong, but with the same outcome. Also read Chris’ analysis of ‘Light lag‘ over at the FarPoint forums.
Christiana and Tony geek-out on physics while Trampas daydreams of fan-dancing Uhura.
Voicemail from Kevin Bachelder of The Scapecast, The Signal, and Firefly Talk Podcasts: Invites us to Dragon*Con!
Trampas has his excuse, Christiana invades Japan that weekend and Tony is non-commital. We invite Kevin to the show to make him pick a side.
On to Episode 2:
Email #1 from Rick Jones: No, he’s not the comic book sidekick, but he is one of the “sidekicks” over at The Ninth, a Heroes Podcast. Rick has some Captain America vs. Batman analysis.
Tony gets geeky in defending Batman against Bane.
Email #2 from Rick Jones: Transformers - Size doesn’t matter. Cap from the 70’s DID have super-powers. DC is to Marvel as Batman is to Moon Knight.
We geek on Marvel’s attempts toward having a Batman of their own.
Then we get off-subject and chat about Iron-man
Voice Mail from The Computer King: Steel your hearts Geek-girls. CK is chatting us up with his thoughts on Captain America vs. Batman.
Is Cap’s shield magnetic? After a bit of discussion, we do answer the question.
Forum Post from Kendermage: The winners are different than any of us expected.
Voice Mail from Valharic: Everyone is a comedian. Super-Strength is a weakness?
Valharic loses his job over at the Dragonlance Canticle.
Tony reads a prophecy from a great poet.
Did Batman train as a magician?
Christiana declares a winner.
Next time on Scifi Smackdown:
The under card features Tasslehoff Burrfoot vs David Hasslehoff.
The Main Event will feature Heroes, lead by Christiana, and The All-New, All-Different X-Men, let by Trampas. (Fortunately, for Trampas’ sake we aren’t looking at ticket sales or ratings to determine the winner of this ’bout)
The Heroes team will consist of:
Claire
Nathan
Peter
Hiro
Matt
Ted
The Haitian
Niki/Jessica
Claude
DL
While the X-men team is:
Professor X
Banshee
Colossus
Cyclops
Nightcrawler
Storm
Sunfire
Thunderbird
Wolverine
Congratulations to Scott Sigler. Ancestor reached #1 on the Science Fiction and Fantasy listing at Amazon and #7 on Amazon’s ranking overall. Add to this that Mr. Chicken-Scissors was both #1 and #2 in Horror with Earthcore riding the massive wave that is Ancestor. This is an incredible achievement, well done, Scott!
Promo: The Joe Murphy Memorial Fund
Tribute Song: Mason Rocket (Spy Extraordinaire) - Beatnik Turtle
We love you and miss you Joe. Say ‘hi’ to Cap for us. You ARE Mason Rocket!
Thanks to Cheyenne Wright for this amazing tribute.
On a personal note, I was continually amazed and impressed with Joe’s thorough show notes for every show he was involved with. When I began to type up show notes, I always used what he did on Wingin’ It as a model for how they should be done. Even something as silly and irreverent as the Wingin’ It Voice mail show received as much time and attention as anything else Joe did. It’s something small, but I know it’s going to be a long time before I write show notes with a dry eye. - Tony Mast
Mar
27
We come again to the battlegrounds of fandom.
This time we pit the Sentinel of Liberty against the The Dark Knight. Trampas Whiteman is waving the flag for Captain America and Tony is lurking in the shadows ready to strike for Batman.
Christiana Ellis is moderating this bout (read: keeping the boys from killing each other).
The undercard this time is Unicron (Transformers: The Movie) vs Megamaid (Spaceballs). Trampas, Christiana and Tony discuss this one to an interesting and unexpected conclusion. This one is NOT to be missed.
We need your feedback! This one is way too close to call, so lets here from you guys:
Visit the forums at: www.farpointforums.com
Email us at : scifismackdown @ gmail.com
Send us a voicemail at : 206-495-1737
Promos:
The Sonic Society
Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword
Mar
20
SFSD Episode 1 - Voice Mail: The Old Warhorse vs. the Flagship of the Federation
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SFSD Episode 1 - Voice Mail: The old Warhorse vs. the Flagship of the Federation [1:09:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3109)We continue on with Battlestar Galactica vs. USS Enterprise discussion. In the end, there can be only one, and we declare a winner… wait for it… wait for it…
First Voicemail - “You guys aren’t original!”
Responding to the voicemail - “No, we aren’t.”
Mar
15
SciFi Smackdowns Forums now open!
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Everyone, feel free to continue any and all deeper discussion over at our forums!
SciFi Smackdown has it’s own forum and the BSG vs E battle already has it’s own thread in the Starship Smackdown subforum.
FarPoint Forums is home to the forums for many FarPoint Media productions, so join in the fun!



