Season 6 Episode 13: Sight Unseen Okay, so, the gang find a big bug zapper on a planet. They come back, Jonas starts seeing CGI bugs everywhere (not everywhere, like TWO of them). The rest of the gang gaslight his ass, forgetting about the three episodes before where this same thing happened. Long story short, Colorado Springs gets put on a half-as…

Brandon and the Totally Troublesome Time Machine is a funny book that’s smarter than it looks, but also teaches a lesson through an absurd lens.

The Ultimate Book of Would You Rather Questions is the silly, fun, left-field, impossible queries that builds friendships and families.

Season 6 Episode 12: Unnatural Selection Guys, We don't know how or why Hilo from BSG is ALSO a (basically) Cylon in the Stargate Universe, but we're not going to question our good fortune. We are going to question a couple other things, however. Like why the Replicators ALL just chillin here? What is the weakness these new Cylon Bots are trying to…

Season 6 Episode 11: Prometheus P1 Hey, listeners. We are SOOOOO SORRRYYYY about the delay in uploads. Computers were being repaired, families being attended to, authoritarian regimes to be readied for, you know how it goes. Thanks for coming back. Anyway, this is a pretty sweet episode about some Rogue Rogue NID, Simmons, and a Gou'ld putting one …

Black Lives: Great Minds of Science is a non-fiction graphic novel that profiles nine STEM scientists for ages 9-13. #Black LiveGreatMindsofScience, #greatminds, #BlackLives, #TonyaBolden, #DavidWilkerson, #AbramsFanfare, @abramsbooks , # STEMgraphicnovels, #graphicnovel, #science,

Chicka Chicka Ho Ho Ho follows a similar format as its classic namesake, but wrinkles in some Christmas mojo for a timeless illustrated picture book.

Jonas Hanway’s Umbrella is a stranger than (non) fiction tale about a man that made the umbrella cool in London.

Butt or Face? Revenge of the Butts combines the curious and the gross in an age-appropriate nature book that makes them laugh and learn.

Courtesy of Cupid, an effortless to read mglit about a teen girl who’s the daughter of the God of Love and has inherited some of his abilities.

Season 6 Episode 9: Cure So the gang go and visit a civilization that are DEF not Nazis! Weird as hell, tho. They got a super drink that cures diseases, and all they want in return is our rolodex of Goul'd Planets. The gang is cautious. Then Jonas and Teal'c break into a warehouse, and Here There Be Gou'lds, all swimmin in the pools. The Slurm is f…

Amazing Abe, an illustrated book about a Jewish immigrant newspaper magnate is much more than you think it is. Amazing Abe: How Abraham Cahan’s Newspaper Gave a Voice to Jewish Immigrants, Amazing Abe, Norman H. Finkelstein, Vesper Stamper, Holiday House Publishing, illustrated books, non-fiction illustrated books,…

Season 6 Episode 9: Allegiance Folks, we got 3 factions (Tokra, Jaffa, Tau'ri) who all hate each other, in an unsafe and volatile environment, and being led by O'neill of all people. What. Could. Go. Wrong! The Predator. That's what! Pretty fun episode. ----more---- 00:00 - Intro 6:54 - 24 Seconds 7:49 - Episode Debrief 1:05:36 - Were We Comforted …

Season 6 Episode 8: The Other Guys This is the Red Shirts Episode! Where a couple of nerds and SG-1 Fanboys decide they need to rescue the Gang from the clutches of a Gou'ld. Things somehow go their way as they clamour through air ducts, and find the prison cell. O'neill's PISSED though, as this was all part of a secret plan (which they failed to t…

Season 6 Episode 7: Shadow Play The gang roll back to the Planet Colonic where the continent Jonas Quinn is from wants to trade some of their Naquadria for some of our sweet ass guns and planes. Apparently a big war is brewing between the three continents and poor Colonic is the odd one out. That's all the backstory we get though, cause we're too b…

Season 5 Episode 6: The Abyss When O'neil is kidnapped by Balls and is horrifically tortured and killed and brought back to life in a neverending loop, Daniel Jackson rolls in, now an ethereal angel, and does the only thing that a Best Friend does when their Friend is going through such trials and tribulations: Asks him to join his Cult! Meanwhile …

Season 5 Episode 6: Nightwalkers Samantha Scully, Jonas Mulder, and Teal'X visit a normal Oregon town, and get all weirded out when everyone's a little stand off-ish and wearing just flannel. Hello!? This is 2002 PNW. Nothing to see here. Well, there is a bit. A shady biotech company, missing persons, and sleepwalking Gou'ld babies. Oh wait, still …

Season 6 Episode 4: Frozen Kids, do you like the movie The Thing? How about Prometheus? Is The Fifth Element your favorite movie? If yes to any and all, you will like this episode. It's got isolated bases in Antarctica. It's got defrosting alien life forms. It's got philosophical queries into the origins of the human species. And most importantly, …

Season 6 Episode 3: The Descent So the gang find themselves in the Anubis Ship where Thor was interrogated, and ultimately, digitized. See, it ended up around Earth, and while that poses some serious plot holes, we don't think about it. What we do focus on is the random Jaffa who code the ship to crash into the Ocean, the sweet water scenes where e…

Season 6 Episode 1: Redemption (Part 2) Mean Girl Dr. McKay gets so humbled and allows Carter to finally really see Jonas Quinn, the Daniel Jackson who was right under the Gate Gang’s noses all along! He gets a major glow up and kind of saves the day, total Prom Queen vibes. Since Teal’c was plot deviced off world, he’s able to get to Anubis and de…

Season 6 Episode 1: Redemption P1 Jonas Quinn of planet Colonics slow walks down the stairs and he is beautiful!! Just kidding, he’s still mousy and just the sociopolitical nerd next door. SG-1 is looking for a Prom Queen. All while being spammed electronically by a new Anubis weapon! They even bring back slimey McKay to also not figure out what to…

Season 5 Episode 22: Revelations The most important thing that happens in this episode is seeing a 30,000-year-old Asgard found in stasis on an old ship because remember how they’re degrading from over-cloaning themselves? They HELLA undersold that. Thor gets mind-melded to Anubis’s ship and the Asgard calvary show up and chase away Anubis so, that…

Season 5 Episode 21: Meridian Daniel Jackson has a pity party extreme all because he’s definitely dying a painful death for having saved a planet Colonic from self-destruction ala naquadria experiments. He definitely does die though. Like, the end, that’s it, no more Deeej to kick around. Except that he’s an egg-drop-soup-but-in-air-instead-of-wate…

Season 5 Episode 20: The Sentinel So over on Latona we have your basic planet of these guys: “Yo, our forebears made us a cool shieldy kind of thing and then we all got real, super dumb and have no idea how it works. Well, except that one guy NID murdered.” The result? Of that plus not being Daddy’s favorites? SG-9 is dead and SG-1 has to get some …

The Otherwoods is LGBTQ acceptance in sheep-horror clothing. It’s not scary enough for the later, yet aims the book’s jacket at that audience.

EidTale: An Eid al-Fitr Adventure continues the approachable excellence of the Abrams Trail Tale book series in a non-secular manner.

Season 5 Episode 19: Menace We meet the Proto Borg Robot that MADE the Replicators eons ago. She exclaims that DADDY MADE ME WRONG! Daniel doesn't hear any of that ableist nonsense and tries to help her. That and everyone else's (except Teal'c, bless him) bad decisions end up with Replicators ON THE BASE! This has to be the end, right? Well, no, be…

Fantasy Sports 1: The Court of Souls is a large format graphic novel that ensnares manga, sports, action and humor readers all within its web.

Dia de Disfraces is a charming illustrated book in Spanish about dressing up and being yourself, even when others aren’t with you.

The Museum on the Moon is STEM based poetry that won’t put kids to sleep. It will make their minds think and eyes wonder about the possibilities.

Season 5 Episode 18: The Warrior Well, Teal and Bray Bray go see that the Jaffa Rebellion is alive and well in the hands of a charismatic leader, a man who is SUPER into keeping the rebels fed, SUPER loves help from the SGC, and SUPER DUPER hates the idea and usage of suicide bombers in his outfit. Actually, he LOOOOOVES all that, so O'Neill is lik…

The Real Story is a sublime illustrated book that uses its intelligence and creativity to be funny, really laugh-out-loud funny for ages three and up. Youtube The original post on Daddy Mojo

10 Dogs is a counting book in that it adds to 10 in various ways that will make kids laugh, smile, grin, and notice small details, with dogs.

Tell Me About Space is the smart, STEM board book that you wanted to be read to you when you were two-years old.

The Things We Miss is mglit that brings in just enough science-fiction to the genre before they realize that it’s realistic fiction that they’ll enjoy as much, if not more.

Can You Catch Me? is a sublime example of less-is-more when it comes to making an illustrated book engaging and fun for ages 3-6.

Above the Trenches is a graphic novel with dozens of characters, and country-spanning action, that manages to make people appreciate history.

The Sinister Secrets of Singe is mglit that could’ve benefitted from more action, fewer tropes and a haircut before planning the series.

Alterations is a graphic novel that humorously shows middle school and how its inhabitants view it and the world around them.

Are You Big? is picture book fun and glory all about size and scale that will delight ages three and up with happy art and simple text.

Scientist of Faith profiles 28 thinkers who changed the world for the better and lets you know just a snippet about their faith in various religions.

Season 5 Episode 17: Fail Safe You GUYS! The Gate Gang litrally hyperdrives through planet Earth! I didn’t even know they could do that! And it is soooo much smarter than blowing it up. The Gooolds try to sabotage/destroy Earth without openly violating their Assguard treaty and that’s what happens because between you and me, I don’t think those lit…

This Little Engineer: A Think-and-do-Primer is a board book that makes crawlers through 2nd grade think, but also clears up the vague definition of “what is an engineer?”

Quest Kids and the Dark Prophecy of Doug blends comic-style art and quickly-paced text for a mglit series that spans elementary and middle school.

Our 14-year-old saw Bob Marley: One Love. What does a typical middle-school person think about the film? His thoughts might surprise you.

The Bellwoods Game is mglit that pairs illustrations with a great heel and an urban ghost story that lives in every neighborhood for an age-appropriately scary and spooky time.

Moomin and the Golden Leaf is a new story about sharing, moving on, accepting setbacks, and caring staring the classic character.

Season 5 Episode 16: The Last Stand Yeah, that’s right, Deej continues to come close to murdering some System Lords only to back off at the last minute, ruining the whole situation. Very Frustrating! Small compensation at least that he totally misses out on that nonconsensual body-sharing shit over in the crystal caves when Lantash simply has to ha…

Moomin and the Golden Leaf is a new story about sharing, moving on, accepting setbacks, and caring staring the classic character.

Plague-Busters! Is an entry gate, heavily illustrated, entertaining chapter book with humor and science on the planet’s deadliest diseases.