Excuses, excuses.

Promo: Scapecast

Discussion: Death Star vs. Borg vs. Shadows

Promo: Tony’s Losing It

Discussion: The D&D 4^th Edition Gnome: I’m a monster.  Rawr!

Tell Trampas why he’s wrong! E-mail scifismackdown@gmail.com or call 206-666-5574.

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.

Trampas makes a guest appearance.

Photos 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.

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.

Excuses -
One of Christiana’s fetishes comes to light.
Trampas is a Wookie.
Tony had a “procedure”.

Feedback -
VM from Christie from MI - Christiana’s a precog.
Tony’s wife thinks he’s insane.
Christiana might have woke up her neighbors with her noises.

Email from Jay in Nashville - Brain Scramble
Tony questions the use of powers versus storytelling in ‘Heroes’

VM from ?? - Questioning how we interpret the powers… Interpreting powers based on Civil War?… Batman vs. Cap again… And whomever this is has a thing for Tasslehoff… BSG vs. Galactica…. “Is this girl that hot?”
Question: Is she that hot?
Answer: Yes, but it doesn’t matter. Christiana pays us to let her “get away with murder”. The currency she uses is pain.

Oh wait… Trampas is talking.
Tony forgot to turn his mic back on…
We pick apart this voicemail the same way he picks apart our shows. Out of love though… seriously.

Promo: Brave Men Run by Matthew Wayne Selznick (Awesome book!!!)

Email from Dan Woods: Flyers vs. Storm, Hero vs. Wormboy, Storm zapping Matt, Christiana vs. Dan
Peter and Nathan… Wondertwin powers, Activate!
The hidden connection between Heroes and Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Keanu’s purpose in life? Playing Ted “Theodore” Logan. Hmm Ted… Logan… the connections abound.
Christiana sounds a bit defensive, doesn’t she?
It’s all Tony’s fault… As it usually is.

VM from Richard from Melbourne: Claire didn’t die, so the Heroes aren’t out yet. It was long.
Right, Claire didn’t die, but she would have been incapacitated. Heroes lose.
Yes, it was VERY long.

VM from Paul from Des Moines: Christiana got ROBBED!
Paul will be getting a check.
Near nova doesn’t equal NOVA.

Email from Paul… From Des Moines? - Star Wars physics vs. Babylon 5 physics.
Blah, blah, blah.
They fly how they fly.

Promo: The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd (Season Six)

Email from Richard Green: Smack-off (Should we add the explicit tag for that?) Evil abounds.
Richard, this is a BRILLIANT idea.
Who wants to do it?
Check the Farpoint Forums.

Blah, blah, blah… excuses, excuses.

Tony started a new podcast… and has released 7 episodes between the last SFSD and this one. Check out www.tonyslosingit.com for more info.

Next Episode (in about two weeks): X-Wings (Trampas) vs. Starfuries (Special Guest Host)

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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.

Email from Lowell Lutman: Colossus: The Forbin Project
It is being remade. Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas will be discussing the original in their next episode.

Voice Mail from Chris from Indy: Waiting for Heroes vs. X-Men through the Undercard, Cyclops’ visor a mistake?
Trampas explains about Cyclop’s uncanny ability to blink, or at least close his eyes.
Tony clarifies Cyclops’ abilities - heat vs. force.
Christiana makes excuses about why the under card went so long.
The End is coming… Seriously.

Voice Mail from Eric in New York: Undercard suggestion: Darkwing Duck vs. Duck Dodgers
Tony gives a BIG HINT about how your suggestions can be turned into a Smackdown.
WTD?!?

Email from Rick Jones: Pimps the Ninth, Killing too fast?, Too much standing around?, Use an RPG?, Peter overload?, Hiro’s control?, Nightcrawler brings the swash and the buckle?, Fight Conditions?, Hiro recognizes the X-Men?, Days of Future Past?, Logan’s Real Name?, Tony’s Drunk?, Hiro to the Rescue?, Pillowcases where?
Answers: No, Kinda but necessary, Time grows on trees?, What fun with that be?, creative license, Yes, yes he would., Possibly, Oh Hells yeah!!!, Logan already knew his name, but not his origin, No, it was only a double shot… seriously, possibly, Nice.
Somewhere in there Trampas endorses Mutants and Masterminds.

Voice Mail from Bronze Thumb from Australia: Galactica should have won, Batman should have won, and Heroes should win… interesting opinions, but… Anyway, Bronze Thumb also suggests another Smackdown: Daleks vs. Cylons. The pepperpots vs. the toasters.
A discussion of Claire’s usefulness.

Voice Mail from Christina from Michigan: Christina calls out Christiana’s l33t tabletop gaming skillz. Opposites attract, and make for better combatants. Matt and Professor X = group gossips.
Some examples are better than others.
Some people don’t quite remember to play nice with the moderator.

Promo: Paul S. Jenkin’s “The Plitone Revisionist”

The Conclusion: The Lightening Round!
Heroes and Mutants come back into play, and after this one, the big winner? Death!
Take a listen to see how this battle for the ages comes to a conclusion. Twenty enter, two leave!

Much back-patting all around.

Criticial analysis of the primary combatants.

Promo: Things are Looking Up’s 30th Anniversary Star Wars Extravaganza

No, it’s not Tee Morris drinking or otherwise, despite what Tony says.

And the next smackdown? X-Wings(Star Wars) vs. Starfuries(Babylon 5) - Which would the budget conscious space tyrant be more likely to purchase to protect their interests?

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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.

Round 4: Heroes: 2 X-Men: 3 Situation: DL is looking for Claire… Have you SEEN the size of the X-Mansion?
Christiana gets a bit defensive… don’t you think? Really… Arguing with the moderator? What is she thinking?!?
Ok, we didn’t really say Claude was out earlier, but the Moderator changed his mind and… really, come on… the Invisible Man vs. Wolverine?

Round 5: Heroes: 3 X-Men: 3

Round 6: Heroes: 3 X-Men: 3 Situation: Hiro is hangin’ out in a well. No… seriously. Ted and Cyke are locked in… MORTAL KOMBAT!

Round 7: Heroes: 4 X-Men: 4 Situation: Hiro is still just hangin’ around. Slacker.

Stealth Promo: Fanboy Smackdown

Round 8: Heroes: 4 X-Men: 5 Situation: Hiro is out of the well. Storm is knocked out of commission.
Currently Active Heroes: Claire, Nathan, Peter, Hiro, and Ted
Currently Active X-Men: Colossus, Nightcrawler, Sunfire

Round 9: Heroes: 4 X-Men: 5 Situation: Storm is still out of commission.

Status after Round 10:
Dead: Thunderbird, Sylar, Wolverine, Cyclops, Nathan, Matt, Jessica
Disabled - DL
Unconscious - Storm, Claude, Professor X, The Haitian, Banshee
Locked in combat: Colossus and Peter
Ready to rumble - Claire, Hiro, Nightcrawler, Sunfire

How does it end? What are your thoughts on the showdown?

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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.

Tony is right
Trampas gets to fire someone!

Voicemail from Eric from New York: Batman trains with an Escape Artist,
Trampas isn’t insane, at least not because of this.
JLA, Zatanna, Zatanna is not her own father.

Tony rambles…
Tony still rambling…
Zzzzz
Is he done yet?
Oooh Christiana’s talking….
Tony again… talking about violent friends or something.
Ninjas, Monks, Magicians, Magic Users, and Escape Artists….
Batman is all of these and so much more.

Email from Scott Snider: Unicron’s Kryptonite
We are the ‘pinnacle of humanity’s accomplishments’
A discussion of The Autobot Matrix of Leadership
Unicron needs Altoids
Unicron would need help from Mur Lafferty to find Mega Maid’s Button
Megamaid still wins

Voice Mail from Brent Barret ScapeCast: Live Event at Dragon*Con, An Alternate Firefly/FarScape Ship Smackdown
Christiana’s observations of FarScape
Guest hosts
Cons - Do you have a contact? Want a Smackdown at your Con? Let us know.

Tony went there.

Con(victs) - Call the voicemail line. You WILL be on the show.
Next on the Smackdown - Trampas vs. a Stalker (Call in, it could be YOU!)

Voice Mail from Br*c* W**n*(hard to hear) - Illegal activities?!? Wha? Put what in his where?
Christiana realizes that she can’t pick on the moderator.
Trampas AKA Tangent Boy

Voice Mail from Scott Ronaldsan Harrison: Captain America is to whole armies as Batman is to gangs of street folk, Batman = Ninja, Batninja + Dark Alley = Surprise + Whipped Captain America, Wingin’ It, Scifi Smackdown = incendiary

Voice Mail from Nobilis = Christiana picked a Jock over a Geek.
Christiana picked a blond over a brunette.
Christiana picked a normal guy over someone who is less than well adjusted.
Alfred and the Hoff - pickin’ up chicks.
Podcast Wardrobe malfunction
Pickle Tales and the zipper sound…. mmm body bags

Next week - Rounds 4 through 10 of the Heroes vs. X-Men battle

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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!

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

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:
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Promos:
The Sonic Society
Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword

First Voicemail - “You guys aren’t original!”
Responding to the voicemail - “No, we aren’t.”

Email from Rick Jones(THAT Rick Jones?!?) - Lee and Helo vs. Sulu and Chekov, Scifi Swimsuit Smackdown(Tony and Trampas want video!), Mission Objectives, Professional Drinking - Tony poses an interesting resolution, Cylon viruses vs. Enterprise Computers, Speed Buggy, Judo Chops vs. Cylons

Voicemail #2 - “Dinky little jets”
Christiana, Trampas and Tony ponder the effectiveness of Vipers vs. Enterprise

Email from Chase - Rail guns vs. Shields…
… discussed at length

Digg.com is Awesome! Please listen to the show!

Promo: Scapecast

Email from King of the Shadows - “Dude, the Galactica would win all the way!”, misnomer about the scope of the K.I.T.T. vs. Herbie competition, Enterprise gets blown up… regularly.

Voicemail #3 from Maurice- “This is very important…” Ship vs. Ship or Man vs. Man

Email from Fernando Dal Moro- Christiana and Tony didn’t play out specific strategies.

Need a podcast suggestion? We’ve got one here.

Email from Chris Elliott - “The Enterprise is a wimpy, little, research vessel”

Christiana - “United Federation of Planets rule!”

Voicemail from Indiana somebody - Bowing down at the altar of Christiana Ellis

Promo: Dragonlance Canticle

Email from Z, the Human Nerd, Zartor the Nefulous - The effect of millions of bits of metal vs. the shields (More rail guns), discussing the shield shape, Galactica’s jump-drive warmed up before heading into action, Cylons would protect the Galactica for their own reasons, what if the Galactica jumped INTO the Enterprise?

Christiana lays down the well-researched smackdown. (Memory-alpha.org)

Email from William La Rochelle - Starfleet regulations might hamper the Enterprise. What would happen in the aftermath of the destruction of one of the ships, more analysis of Herbie vs. K.I.T.T., questioning of the narrative and suggesting an interesting narrative, another smackdown suggestion.

A winner is declared!

The next smackdown is announced: Captain America (Trampas) vs. Batman (Tony)

One final thought… “Have fun!”

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