Year: 2018

Games & Gaming Culture: Roguelikes/Roguelites

Delve into an ever-changing dungeon with us, as we breakdown and discuss the various facets of the roguelike and roguelite genres.

Film & TV: Four Lions

TLS follows along with a group of inept would-be “martyrs” in absurd British satire flick, Four Lions.
[Aggregate score: 8.3]

Literature: By His Bootstraps by Robert A. Heinlein

TLS plays all the parts– past, present, and future– in a review of trope-making Robert A. Heinlein classic, By His Bootstraps
[Aggregate score: 9.25]

Film & TV: BlacKkKlansman

The Lost Signals discusses the black and white and all the shades of gray in Spike Lee’s latest joint, “BlacKkKlansman.” [Aggregate score: 10]

 

 

Games & Gaming Culture: Parental Protagonists

TLS looks into the practice of having parents and/or parental figures featured prominently as central characters/themes in videogames.

Philosophy & Narrative: Micromegas by Voltaire

In the second of an improvised trilogy on the clash between narrative and academic works, The Lost Signals discusses Voltaire’s Micromegas.

 

Literature: Tierra y Libertad by Madeline Ashby

They were built to serve man, but all they did was serve.. as a nuanced look at the development of AI and as a metaphor for the exploitation of workers. What lazy, good-for-nothing robots.

Tierra y Libertad

Aggregate Score: 8

AFI Top 100 #075: In the Heat of the Night

TLS heads to a small southern town riddled with racial tension to solve a murder (and enjoy some creampies) in this classic police procedural drama.

[Aggregate score: 10]

Podcast Movement 2018 Individual Recaps

The Lost Signals individually reflect on Podcast Movement 2018.

See below the video for some links for a few of the folks we saw in sessions at the conference.

Thanks to everyone who made our week awesome.

We ran into our friends at Podcast Masters again. If you need someone to run your cast, let them know: http://podcastmasters.net/

Amanda Bocchi (lead vocals for the live band at the Reading Terminal show) https://amandabocchi.com

The Meg Robinson Show, host Meg Robinson’s interview podcast on society and culture.
https://themegrobinsonshow.podbean.com/

Chris & Krissie Holifield are hosts of I Am Salt Lake, a podcast focusing on local people and events in Salt Lake City Utah.
http://www.iamsaltlake.com/

The Future is Fiction Panel:
Christy Gressman Partner at Nightvale Presents http://www.nightvalepresents.com
John Dryden Director of Content at Panoply https://panoply.fm
Mac Rodgers of Gideon Media https://www.gideon-media.com
Jonathan Mitchell Creator of The Truth Podcast http://www.thetruthpodcast.com

No Spoilers Panel:
Leon Neyfakh of Slow Burn http://www.slate.com/articles/slate_plus/watergate.html
Ann Heppermann of Heaven’s Gate podcast http://www.heavensgate.show
Chenjerai Kumanyika of Uncivil podcast http://www.gimletmedia.com/uncivil

Podcast Marketing Session:
Angus Nelson President of Influencer Marketing Agency http://angusnelson.com

Podcast Editing Panel (if you’re looking for audio editors!):
Steve Stuart http://stevestewart.me
Emily Prokop https://www.epodcastproductions.com
Joel Sharpton https://propodcastingservices.com

Automation for Podcasting Session:
Yann ilunga podcast marketing consultant, speaker and podcaster https://www.yannilunga.com/blog

Philosophy & Narrative: Eureka by Edgar Allen Poe

As the great Epic Rap Battles of History once famously stated: Poe’s poems pwn posers. The posers this time are the so-called “scientists” with their so-called “science.”