Jack's Silly Little Friendly Neighborhood Star Trek Discovery Podcast

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It’s the Season Finale, and most of the gang is here to yakety yak yak about it, Season 2 in general, and the future of Star Trek: Discovery, as well as a billion other things!  It’s an all-star affair, as Jack is joined by Ferengi expert Kregg Castillo, Geoff Clarke (The ApeCast), Sam Stovold (Marvel Star Wars Explorers), Kevin Young (Reopening the Wormhole), and Richard Dunham (Ghibli Minute), while Barm and Brian Rudloff remain with us in spirit.  The Red Bursts have led you inexorably to here, and you’ll soon find parting with Season 2 of Jack’s Silly Little Friendly Neighborhood Star Trek Discovery Podcast is the sweetest sorrow!

This week, on JSLFNSTDP: WHEN STOVOLDS COLLIDE! For the first time ever, two Disco watching brothers record a podcast all by themselves, and Such Sweet Sorrow it is, for they are here to talk about the endless succession of heartfelt speeches and tearful goodbyes that is Season 2’s penultimate episode.  But they are also here to figure out just what exactly Starfleet’s OTHER general orders are, reminisce on 90’s Venom and Carnage video games, go HAM on their season 3 theories, share each other’s impressions of the revamped Enterprise, discover their Po problems, and fantasize about sexy mirror universe sex.  Make sure YOUR computer has enough RAM to process all this brotherly love!

It’s time for another rip-roaring episode of Jack’s Silly weeks after the fact, which means everyone’s still moaning about Control being the Borg!  To assist in said moaning, Jack has enlisted the help of two CLASSIC GUESTS, both known for having falling asleep during podcast recordings!  Try to guess which one does that on this episode!  Aside from that, we’re talking DISCO, i.e. Discovery’s character problems, how Pike still manages to be cool in the midst of fairy tale magic Klingon time crystal land, the long-awaited return of TIG and LINUS(!),  and beautiful temples.  We’re also talking auto-antonyms and how crazy English is, the Fockers franchise, remembering John Steuer, praising the non-Snyder corners of the DCEU, and #nostalgiabaiting (#nostalgiabating?) about the Discovery-themed Shady Records compilation album.  Grab your time crystal and spore jump into FUN!  End theme by  Klinginem. (http://www.klenginem.de/e/home.html)

They call us Jack’s Silly Little Friendly Neighborhood Star Trek Discovery Podcast, we’re back, we’re back.  They call us Jack’s Silly Little Friendly Neighborhood Star Trek Discovery Podcast, we’re back, we’re back.  We murder a ‘cast, one episode at a time, you’ve never HEARD of a ‘cast as perverted as mine.  And why is that?  Because we have a FIRST TIME GUEST in Brian Rudloff (Marvel Star Wars Explorers) and good ol’ reliable Barm back to talk about Michael BURNHAM’S MOMMY!  We’ll talk about what we like (the feels!) and what we don’t (the story!), and other fun stuff like Jordan Peele, the Twilight Zone, the Picard show and the Section 31 show, and what the 1000th season of Discovery will be like.  Plus all of our predictions for the end of the season which you all know to be laughably wrong!  Hi, Mom…

omg guys the red angel

Airiam Airiam Airiam Airiam Airiam Airiam Airiam!  Classic JSLFNSTDP guests Barm and Kregg are joined once again by Sam to talk about Airiam!  The Freezer-like girl finally gets her own episode and we finally get to know something about her.  Airiam, we hardly knew ye.  But you know us, and you know this means a big ol’ bundle of podcast fun is about to hack YOUR system.  You’ll have so many fun memories from this ep you won’t be able to decide WHICH ones to upload to your cloud.  Sit back, plug in, and enjoy this robot ride.  It’s gonna slice you like CHEESE.

You knows who cares who the Red Angel is?  NOT ME, all I care about is sharing a dream with you, the Discoverino.  And that dream is the ultimate Talosian experience.  Barm and Kregg are back along with Richard Dunham (Ghibli Minute) to delve into Vena, the Talosians, the Cage/Menagerie, manipulative nostalgia, and some juicy Michael Burnham/Spock DRAMA.  Along the way, we’ll dish about Section 31 being a cancerous tumor (not a tumor!) that needs to be excised from Disco, the awesomeness of Culber and Pike, Saru’s fight club (don’t talk about it), how Discovery is ALREADY Tarantino Star Trek, Ethan Peck’s Spock, Red Angel BULLSHIT and so much more!  Jeez.

Spock!  Spock, Spock Spock Spock Spock Spock Spock.  Kevin Young (Reopening the Wormhole) Spock Spock Spock, Spock Spock Spock.  Spock Spock Spock?  Spock Spock Spock, Spock Spock Spock!  Spock Spock Spock Spock Spock Spock Spock.  Spock Spock Sarek Sybok Spock.  Spock Spock Spock Spock Spock.  #prayforlorca #prayforsybok

Saru discovers his past is a LIE, and sets out to find the truth about his family, and his ability to transform into the powerful post-Va’harai Kelpien.  Ferengi expert Kregg Castillo makes his Season 2 debut on Jack’s Silly Little Friendly Neighborhood Star Trek Discovery Podcast, and discovers that along with Barm and Jack, they are about to become Kelpien/Ba’ul experts as well.   It’s an exciting time as we talk Ray Bradbury, Armus (of course), Saru’s wacky backstory shenanigans, the fun Ash Tyler/Captain Pike dynamic, the ridiculous and delightful over-the-top Ba’ul, Va’harai, making huge society changing decisions on a whim with no information and the tattered remains of the prime directive, and boldly going forward from here!  Of course, it wouldn’t be a Disco season 2 ‘cast without those nutty Red Angel theories.  THE PODCASTERS SPEAK.

Jack’s ApeCast cohost and Trek noob Geoff Clarke is back on the cast to endure Jack’s bellyaching about Section 31 and perhaps give him some much needed perspective.  Of course, he’s not too wild about some other aspects of this episode, particularly those involving a certain doctor in a certain network you may have heard about.  Their feelings on the episode, however, are not gonna stop these two goofballs from talking about Dr. Zaius and dinosaurs, characters like Linus and Jett Reno who do not appear in the episode, Tarantino movies and their lack of Schwarzenegger, Star Wars, and whatever other dumb stuff they feel like talking about!  Be like Georgiou, and enter into our snake pit!

Kevin decided to stick around for another week to hang out with Barm and Jack and find out just what the heck an obol is and what this Charon character needs with one anyway.  Along the way, they revisit the classic soft/hard G debate like the hard Gs that they are, talk Toto’s Africa too much, delight in the joys of Spanish-speaking Saru, speculate on the future of everyone’s favorite Saurian, Linus and what a future without fear chubs will be like, see how many languages Google can say “mushroom” in it, gush over their love of Jett Reno, and ruminate on the difficulties of podcasting on things that are neither great nor terrible.  This podcast is one tasty mushroom you’ll want to leave on your pizza for sure.

The latest and greatest episode of Jack’s Stilly Little Star Trek Discovery Podcast is here, and guess what?  It’s a full blown Reopening the Wormhole (re?)union!  That’s right, Sam Stovold (also of Marvel Star Wars Explorers) and Kevin Young (for about half the episode) join Jack to dish on Point of Light, the first episode of season 3 to really give them pause.  Since it’s basically an RTW episode, that means it going to get out of hand very quickly as the gang does their classic shtick talking The Fugitive and ’94 Oscars, how bad Section 31 is sitting with them, Emperor Georgiou and her wacky antics, Klingon hair, severed infant heads, and an epic mailbag leads Jack and Sam to spiral into a sprawling discussion on what they want from Star Wars!  It’s got everything, baby!  #prayforlorca

If you’re looking for some religious inspiration in your life, you’ve found the one, true faith:  Jack’s Silly Little Friendly Neighborhood Star Trek Discovery Podcast!  Jack is the Lord, and along with his apostles Barm and Geoff Clarke of the ApeCast, will guide you to podcast heaven as they take a look at the surprising second episode of Disco’s second season.  It is written that they shall decree their thoughts on Captain Pike, Tilly’s spooky new pal, angels, religious undertones, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Apes and Star Trek, Saru’s C-3POness, Canada’s #1 drink the Caesar, mushrooms, that ol’ Trek feel, and all those other classic Trek topics that you spiritually hunger for.  How does it all fit into your life.  To understand the context, you’ll just have to hit play.  Context Is For Kings.

Better late than never!  You didn’t think Jack’s Silly Little Friendly Neighborhood Star Trek Discovery Podcast would falter in its quest to bring you the ultimate podcast experience for every single episode of the explosive CBS All Access smash hit Star Trek: Discovery, did you?  Nope, all the thrills you’ve come to expect are here with NEW Season 2 attitude.  Expect the unexpected, as Jack throws  everyone a curveball by bringing a very sleepy Barm on the show to start things off with a bang as they discuss how they like a lot of aspects of Season 2 of Discovery but that it also has some FLAWS…. I guess some things never change.  Featuring an all new original song by Kevin Young!    

I know, I know, when are they getting to the Season 2 factoryyyyyyy!?  We’re almost there, but Barm and I had to take ONE more pit stop along the way, and it turned out to be a goshdarned fun new book about Discovery’s breakout star Tilly and her wacky teeeeeen years.  You ever wished for a little more Judy Blume in your Star Trek?  Neither did we, until we got it.  The Tilly Book proves you can write a Star Trek book without a starship battle at the end (or at all) or a single phaser shot and still come out on top!  All it takes is a little heart, courage and spunk.  And mushroom talk.   A LOT of mushroom talk. 

Cudgel.  Harcourt.  Fenton.  MUDD.  Cudgel.  Barm.  Cudgel.  Short Treks.  Cudgel.  Geoff Clarke (The Apecast).  Cudgel.  Sam Stovold (Reopening the Wormhole, Marvel Star Wars Explorers).  Cudgel.  Kevin Young (Reopening the Wormhole).  Cudgel.  Tellarite.  Cudgel.  Burritos.  Cudgel.  Star Trek.  Cudgel.  Androids.  Cudgel.  Jippers!  KUDGEL. 

Magic happened and Jack managed to get three guests to buy and read the definitive highlight of the entire Star Trek franchise, the T’Kuvma comic.  But this time it’s back to regular old Disco novel/comic business, and that means it’s just Barm and Jack talking about the second and third HOTTEST comic EVENTS of 2018.  Succession, and the Star Trek Discovery Annual #1!  That’s right, Disco is FAR from done running the Mirror Universe into the ground, and me and Barm discover that maybe we LIKE it that way!  Also, witness the triumphant return of Fungibabble in Stamets Begins, aka Star Trek: Discovery Annual #1.  The fungi never stops on Jack’s Silly Little Friendly Neighborhood Star Trek Discovery Podcast.

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The thrilling conclusion is here!  Jack has been up all night and his facing the harsh of light of morning and some hard truths about his life.  Kregg has been sitting in his bathroom for six hours now.  They’re drunk and they’ve just spent three hours watching Ewok movies.  It’s the PERFECT TIME for them to bring a close to the DRUNK STAR WARS SAGA (at least until new Star Wars movies come out), by watching the one Star Wars movie that neither of them have ever seen.  The undisputed classic crown jewel of the Star Wars franchise, 2008’s “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”.  What will they think?  Will this become their favorite Star War?  Find out by firing up your copy and joining them on this adventure!  It’s the perfect way to spend the last hours of 2018.