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Welcome to the hottest fantasy film podcast about the hottest fantasy films. Join us this season as we dive deep into camp classics of the Sword and Sorcery genre. Expect to find critical commentary, playful banter, and lots of laughs as we review the history, reception, and plot of a new movie every week.
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Matt Chittim and Jason Macaluso

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Join hosts Matt Chittim and Jason Macaluso as they bring you up to speed on the leading stories at the intersection of business and endurance sports. Matt and Jason deliver breaking news, as well as deep dives and guest interviews on the topics that are impacting the endurance sports world. So pour yourself a cup of coffee and plug into the BSD.
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RECLAME is an entertainment platform, on TV (Multishow/Globosat), Radio (Kiss FM/ Rock Reclame) and Internet, dedicated to the world of communication, creativity, marketing, advertising, focusing on the Brazilian and global advertising market, we cover the major festivals that celebrate the creativity as Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, for 17 straight years, and we are the only program in the electronic media specialized in covering the backstage of the main Brazilian adve ...
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Festival of the Mind

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Podcasts from the Festival of the Mind - a biennial celebration of the University of Sheffield’s world-class research, showcasing collaborative projects produced by the University’s researchers and artistic talent from Sheffield’s creative industries.
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This week the boys just couldn't help themselves and skipped to Ator 4, the conclusion of the Ator series. This film answers the question: what if the dad from "Good Luck Charlie," (Eric Allan Kramer) played a version of Ator who is raised by a hobgoblin after his father (also named Ator and played by Eric Allen Kramer), who was the prince of a rac…
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In this special episode, Connor is joined by Abhay Kumar and Joey Hiller from Helium, as well as Fredrik Ahlgren and Tobias Ohlsson from Srcful to discuss Srcful’s proposal to build a decentralized energy grid on top of Helium Network infrastructure. Helium is one of the oldest, largest DePIN projects, mostly focused on building out wireless networ…
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Connor and Sal are joined by guests Houman Shadab and Wyatt Benno from NovaNet. NovaNet is building an incentive and coordination network for zero knowledge proofs that run locally and leverage the latest advances in ZK technology. The group discusses the zk yin to blockchain’s yang, how ZK proofs compare to other trustless verification methods lik…
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With the direction of Robert Zemeckis (of "The Polar Express" fame) and screenplay courtesy of Neil Gaiman (of "American Gods" fame), Beowulf (2007) is a modern retelling of the ancient English poem, wherein, a motion-capture CGI Beowulf gets it on with....a mocap CGI Angelina Jolie?! That's literally what happens, but don't take our word for it, l…
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Connor and Sal are joined by guests Boris Renski & Amir Haleem from Helium. The Helium project is a DePIN building wireless networks. From tackling the intricacies of the token structure to discussing strategies for increasing data flow over Helium mobile hotspots, this episode promises to be an insightful exploration of the latest developments in …
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A thousand years before the birth of Christ we had the Iliad. And three thousand years after that, we got "Troy" (2004). This movie has it all, love and hatred, honor and deceit, courage and cowardice, Orlando Bloom and Diane Kruger, Brad Pitt and Sean Bean, who could ask for more! It's a Sorta Sorcery story of epic proportions and production value…
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Connor and Sal sit down with Harrison Hines of Fleek Network. Fleek is the lightning fast onchain cloud, powered by the Fleek Network, permissionless onchain cloud infrastructure, edge-optimized for performance. Harrison talks about what parts of Web2 infrastructure Fleek is solving, how they think about their GTM operations vs. technical operation…
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In this episode we discuss the birth of Joshs son! then we get down to business and discuss the closure of some microsoft studios, Sony has two new CEOS, Assassins Creed has a new game with a release date and Hades 1 and 2 fucking still rule!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alexator3/message…
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Marc Singer returns as Dar, the Beastmaster. This week on Sorta Sorcery, the sequel to the critically acclaimed sword and sorcery classic, "The Beastmaster." The boys are taking it back to episode 2, while Dar takes a leap through time to stop his evil brother from stealing an atomic bomb in 1990's Los Angeles?!?! Yeah, you're gonna want to see thi…
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This week, Sal is joined by Anon Morpho, Neuratic and DNB from the Ator team. Ator is building the largest global anonymous-routing ecosystem, leveraging a decentralized privacy protocol, on-chain incentives and signature hardware to rapidly scale its network. The team discusses why privacy is so important to them, how Ator is advancing decades-old…
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Sami and Connor are joined by Andrej Radonjic, Founder of Grass Network. Grass is a network of over 2M+ people incentivized to assist AI developers in accessing data on the internet. Grass creates a more equitable and inclusive future for the development of AI. 00:00 Connor lives in a Resort 00:34 Grass merch coming soon 01:20 Catching up with Andr…
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Picture this, Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Conan the Barbarian"...but there are two of him!! It's "The Barbarians," and no, it's not starring fraternal twins Will and Chase. It features 1987's biggest boys, Peter and Paul David. Can these brothers act? Of course not! Are they the buffest men you've ever laid your eyes on? Listen and find out! Check out…
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Mahesh and Sal are joined by Alireza Ghods, CEO & Co-Founder of Natix. Natix is a global mapping network of smart cameras. Natix’s 100k drivers have mapped 30M km across 170 countries. Alireza takes on the great DePIN mapping hardware debate, making the case for smartphones over dedicated hardware, lays out the long-term vision for Natix as a camer…
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Mahesh, Connor, and Sami are joined by Neil Chatterjee, CEO of Andrena and Ani Pai, Partner at Dragonfly Capital. Andrena is working to deliver affordable broadband to buildings by partnering with real estate owners and property managers through a revenue-share arrangement. They currently have 10,000 customers across 10 US states. Neil and Ani talk…
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The sequel to everybody's favorite 1982 film, The Sword and the Sorcerer, came out in...2010!?! Given 38 years to perfect his craft, and the acting talents of Kevin Sorbo, did director Albert Pyun end up creating the worst movie of all time!?! Only one to find out! Bingo and poster (it's very funny) on the gram as usual! https://www.instagram.com/p…
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Sorta Sorcery turns ten this week as the boys discuss Albert Pyun's tragic contribution to the genre. What could be more Sword and Sorcery than a movie called The Sword and the Sorcerer (we're getting to Conan be patient)? So a wise-cracking rogue with a three-pronged sword, E.T.'s dark twin, and the historical Oliver Cromwell walk into a bar...wha…
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This week, we’re still recovering from ETH Denver. Mahesh gets Sami, Connor, and Sal to fill us in on what we missed out West, including new DePIN themes coming the rest of the year, where DePIN fits into the current wave of ATH’s and memecoins, which projects are still underhyped, and the benefits of being IRL. 0:00 Welcome Back 1:19 I guess we ha…
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Connor, Sami, and Mahesh are joined by Raullen Chai, Co-Founder of IoTeX. IoTeX is the platform for DePIN builders, combining a fast, secure blockchain with IoT and smart devices. Raullen talks about how he fell in love with crypto when he tried to break Bitcoin (and couldn’t do it), why he dedicated his work in crypto to supporting DePIN, the comp…
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Sal is joined by Matt Katz of Caldera, and Neel Somani of Eclipse. Caldera is a no-code web3 infrastructure platform, trying to simplify the process of creating app-specific blockchains so builders can create layer-2 blockchains in a matter of hours. Eclipse is Ethereum’s fastest L2, powered by the Solana Virtual Machine - a new kind of architectur…
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This week the boys return to the illustrious Ator series! Will our hero Ator live happily ever after with his sister-wife? Does the dastardly Griba have a son? Is Miles O'Keeffe's skirt even shorter than before? Find out today in Joe D'Amato's second shot at greatness, Ator 2 - The Blade Master. Check out this week's poster on the gram! https://www…
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Mahesh and Connor are joined by Jonathan Victor. Jonathan formerly worked on Filecoin at Protocol Labs, and left to found Ansa Research, a research firm focused on distributed infrastructure covering digital networks that aim to rebuild how internet infrastructure operates. Jonathan talks about how his Palantir background influenced his time at Pro…
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Sami, Connor and Mahesh are joined by Ryan Selkis, Founder and CEO of Messari. Messari provides market intelligence that drives high-conviction participation in the crypto economy. Ryan discusses his thoughts on the current state of crypto regulation, its implications on the 2024 US Presidential election, where he hopes Vivek Ramaswamy lands next, …
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Sami and Mahesh are joined by Nick Emmons, CEO & Co-Founder of Upshot. Upshot is a decentralized AI network optimized for DeFi applications. The network incentivizes participants to contribute their expertise, which can include machine learning models, data, and other forms of knowledge, cultivating a cooperative ecosystem where contributors collec…
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Yuletidings friends! This holiday season the boys have something special for you, it's an adaptation of ye olde Sword & Sorcery myth, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! And we know what you're thinking, it's not the A24 film, oh no, it is the 1984 loose retelling directed by Stephen Weeks, Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green …
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Connor and Sami are joined by Jules Urbach, CEO of OTOY and Founder of Render, and Trevor Harries-Jones, COO of OTOY and Director at Render Network Foundation. The Render Network is the first decentralized GPU rendering platform, empowering artists to scale GPU rendering work on-demand to high performance GPU nodes around the world. Through a block…
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Creamboys rise! The day has finally come to cover the most quintessential sword and sorcery film....of the 2010s. It's Conan the Barbarian (2011) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger's spiritual successor, Jason Momoa. Did this movie lose so much money at the box office that it single-handedly killed the sword and sorcery genre in film!? Could it be as b…
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Connor, Sami, and Mahesh are joined by Ariel Seidman, CEO / Co-Founder of Hivemapper. Hivemapper is building the world’s freshest map with AI and a network of drivers using dashcams. Ariel talks about why Hivemapper uses purpose-built hardware, the problems with centralized mapping today, how they designed the HONEY token design to dynamically matc…
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What is a Nibelungen you ask? Well, it's one of the little guys who live in the land of mist in Fritz Lang's 1924 cinematic retelling of the 1200 AD epic poem Nibelungenlied. Witness the first dragon ever to grace the screen and marvel at the wordless screams of this genre-defining silent film as the boys finally review a technically good movie on …
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The original step-sister storyline! Join the boys for a raucous and, at times, incoherent, discussion of the raucous and mostly incoherent film Ator The Fighting Eagle. Why is the film called that? Your guess is as good as mine. Lots of laughs and groans on another episode of Sorta Sorcery. Check out the poster and bingo on the gram! https://www.in…
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Connor and Mahesh sit down with Adam Jackson, Co-Founder and CEO of Braintrust. Braintrust is the first user-owned talent network, matching enterprise employers to vetted knowledge workers. Today, Braintrust boasts over 3,000 employers hiring from a pool of 500,000 freelancers who have collectively earned over $150M on the Braintrust network. Adam …
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Sami and Mahesh are joined by Sam Williams, Co-Founder and CEO of Arweave. Arweave is a permanent and decentralized storage network, designed for the preservation of humanity’s most important data. Sam discussed what inspired him to work on permanent storage, why he doesn’t view Filecoin as a major competitor, how Arweave is designed to store the h…
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