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OK. So. Last week Regie was pretty grumpy about Billionaires and pound shop Bond Villains Jeff Besos and Elon Musk's activities in space. So grumpy in fact he forgot to post the show notes.
So. We're posting them now. To listen to Episode Nine, "Cynical about Billionaires in Space" click on the image of Besos's weirdly phallic space craft below to go to the download page, or just search "Geeking with Destination Venus" wherever fine pods are casted. For the show notes for Episode Ten "Boba Fett's Spaceship and Flying Cars" just scroll on down.
Regie considered the sub-orbital thrill ride that the Besos brothers will be taking on July 20th with a third person who has paid $27 Million for the privilege. For an eleven minute flight. We really really want to go to Space but $27 Million?!
Anyway, you can read more about that HERE.
Regie went on to consider N.A.S.A's decision to award the contract to produce a new lunar lander exclusively to Elon Musk's Space X company. More on that HERE.
Regie noted that other interested parties, including Besos's Blue Origin company had objected. Breaking news, those objections have bourne fruit. Read more HERE.
Much as he has issues with Besos, Musk and Space X, Regie does still love the engineering achievements of both Blue Origin and Space X. He promised you videos. Here you go:
There are all sorts of reasons why landing on Earth using retro rockets is foolish. But it's still really really cool. These are Space X Falcon Heavy rocket boosters from launch to landing. It's impressive.
So is this - the Space X Starship rocket that will be the basis of their lunar lander:
And since we're doing videos, we might as well show you Blue Origin's rocket too. And we still can't believe that nobody said anything about the way it looks...
Also a correction. While he was suggesting that sub-orbital flight wasn't really that impressive, Regie mistakenly said that the first American in Space, riding a Mercury Redstone combination on a sub-orbital hop in 1961 was John Glenn. This is not true. John Glenn, as Regie stated later was the first American to orbit the Earth, having ridden a Mercury Atlas combination into low Earth orbit.
The man who flew the first Mercury Redstone sub-orbital hop to become the first American in space was of course the great Alan Shepard. We should have fixed that in the edit - we apologise that we didn't.
OK. Onwards to Episode 10! Click on the image below to go to the download page, or again, simply subscribe to Geeking with Destination Venus wherever you go to find your podcasts - or listen on Harrogate Community Radio!
So. There was some consideration of the apparent changing of the name of Boba Fett's spaceship. Is it still called "Slave 1"? Read about that HERE.
We're still unclear exactly what the situation regarding the name of this made up and utterly fictional craft is. But there is a Change.org petition to get Disney to change it back. If they have in fact changed it at all. Whatever - you can find the petition HERE.
Regie went on to consider a second season of Good Omens. He was generally in favour, and referred to Neil Gaiman's journal entry on the subject, which you can read HERE.
Next up was Grant Morrison parting ways with DC. More on that HERE.
Then we got into flying cars. Not a new concept - you can read about the Taylor Aero Car from the forties and fifties HERE.
And of course, we always like a bit of a video...
The latest entrant into the world of flying cars is the "Air Car" - more on that HERE.
Then we got into comics of the week, which were as follows:
CROSSOVER #7
NEW STORY ARC 'Wait. No. Hold on, what is this? Why is CHIP writing my book? Sorry, I know this is unprofessional to do in public, but no one at Image is answering my emails. Someone please call me!! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!'
GODZILLA RIVALS: HEDORAH
It's the 1970s, and the world's most terrifying Kaiju smash their way through New York City! As Godzilla and Hedorah do battle above, down below Todd Hopkins is racing across Manhattan, in a desperate bid to save the only scientist who can stop the chaos and drive the monsters back into the sea.
But before the day is over, secrets will be revealed, and terrible choices made, to save the city from utter destruction!
Writer Paul Allor (TMNT, G.I. Joe) and artist E.J. Su (Transformers, Godzilla: Legends) join forces to bring the premiere Godzilla Versus quarterly one-shot series in explosively shocking fashion!
And each stand-alone issue features special wrestling poster-themed retailer incentive variants by fan-favorite artist Jeffrey Veregge (Transformers, Judge Dredd).
USAGI YOJIMBO: THE DRAGON BELLOW CONSPIRACY #1
Presenting the start of perhaps Usagi's greatest story ever! A sinister plot to overthrow the Shogun percolates and one of Usagi's friends is captured! The ensuing machinations will draw in not only Usagi, but bounty hunter Gen, and the blind swordspig Zato-Ino!
All new colour makes this a must-have for any long-time fan, as well as a great place to start for any new readers looking to start their own Usagi Yojimbo journey!
PARASOMNIA #1
From Cullen Bunn (Harrow County) and Andrea Mutti (Prometheus, Starship Down), comes a new dark fantasy tale of two worlds split between dreams and reality.
After his son disappears, a broken-down man braves a nightmarish dreamscape in order to find him-and battle the ruthless cult that seeks to rule the land of dreams as the barrier between realities starts to collapse. o For fans of The Sixth Gun, Harrow County, and Locke & Key.
And then, finally, there was Loki, and the fact that he is the first queer lead character in the MCU. More on that HERE.
And of course, here's the moment he mentions having had a "little bit of both". Note the lighting, which reflects the colours of the Bi-Pride flag.
And finally, the article from the Metro about Sophia Di Martino's costume being designed to facilitate breast feeding can be read HERE.
And that's it for this week. See you next week for more geeky goodness. Until then, be kind to yourselves, be kind to everybody else, stay safe, and above all else STAY GEEKY!