We're Back! And with that we start a new mini series about The Sci-Fi Channel (SyFy, if ya nasty) and its wild diaspora.

Something strange happened on old-school satellite TV: a channel appeared out of nowhere, looping wormholes and bright “screensaver” tunnels with no station ID, no ads, and no explanation. Then it teased an invasion and started a countdown clock. That mystery wasn’t pirate radio, it was the marketing fuse that lit the Sci-Fi Channel’s 1992 launch, and we can still feel the ripple effects today.

Rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated! We're still going, just having some hiccups, kinda like the rest of the world.

We open the door to the underexplained corners of Nerd and Geek culture—where a driveway TARDIS keeps you warm at the bus stop, Flash Gordon becomes a friendship hinge, and debates about whether Star Wars is science fiction or fantasy spark better ways to watch everything else.

This is a brief note from Podfest in Orlando earlier this year.

We celebrate our 159th with - among many Geeky things - a fast, funny tour of Star Trek’s dangling threads, from Tasha Yar’s exit to the lost “Conspiracy” arc, plus DS9’s long-game brilliance and Voyager’s resets. We field listener questions on Avengers, The Question, X-Men deep cuts, and stage a Borg Cube vs Death Star face-off. Plus, Data and the Force?

...It's Erich Von Däniken. In the 1960's a Swiss hotelier wrote a book that changed how millions see the past—and how pop culture tells stories about it. We revisit the wild trajectory of Chariots of the Gods, the “ancient aliens” hypothesis it popularized, and the uncomfortable roots that made its rise possible. Then we pull the camera back: how the Space Age, New Age mysticism, and a collapsing trust in old narratives set the stage for infotainment, speculative nonfiction, and a meme that just won’t die.

RIP Gil Gerard. A New York cab, a day job in drama class, and a shot at the 25th century: that’s the unlikely runway that launched Gil Gerard into Buck Rogers, and it still glows with neon charm. We open the vault on Gerard’s early grind through commercials, soaps, and 70s disaster flicks, then follow the thread back to Buck’s pulp origins in newspapers, radio waves, and the 1939 serials that taught America to love ray guns, zeppelins, and cliffhangers. It’s a fast, affectionate tour of the DNA that links John Carter’s planetary romance, Flash Gordon’s space opera, and Lucas-era spectacle, all converging in a TV series that dared to mix swagger with sincere camp.

536 CE: What happens when the sun dims for eighteen months and summer never really arrives? The volcanic winter that blanketed much of the world in a cold, bluish haze, and the chain reaction it set off—failed harvests, famine, migrations, plagues, and the quiet rewiring of global power. Drawing on eyewitness chronicles and modern climate forensics like ice-core sulfate spikes and tree-ring anomalies, we piece together how a cluster of eruptions chilled the planet and turned a bad year into one of the harshest periods to be alive.

Cult Classic status doesn’t happen by accident—it’s engineered by obsession, scarcity, and a helluva lot of Weird. We set out to map that journey and name the films from the last decade that might evolve from overlooked curiosities into midnight fixtures, using clear criteria: underseen on release, minimal awards heat, fervent fan energy, and a distinct voice that invites rewatching and debate.
If you’re searching for the next cult classic to champion, this guide gives you a map, a shortlist, and the logic behind the love. Listen, share your picks with us, and help build the crowd that turns hidden gems into legends. If you enjoyed the conversation, subscribe, rate, and leave a review to keep this series thriving.