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Quizzes, informative topics, trivia game reviews, and laughs. You can find all this and more inside Trivia Rogues Podcast! Join Billy, Don, Jeff, and Shana as we take a journey through the triviasphere to become better players and better people. Trivia and game lovers of all levels can enjoy 2 shows a month while also enjoying a large selection of past episodes to take a break from their lives and laugh and relax with us!
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Walkabout the Galaxy

Josh Colwell, Addie Dove, Jim Cooney

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The accidentally educational astronomy podcast, Walkabout the Galaxy provides an entertaining and easy-to-understand look at the latest fascinating news and discoveries in astronomy and space science, with a dash of trivia and rocket news.
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Join us weekly for deep dives into the films we love, filled with charming backstories on our own fandom, the scenes we freaking love, and the nuggets of trivia that fascinate us. This isn't a podcast for quippy cynics, just love for movies and the people that make them. Enjoy some lighthearted banter and a safe environment to FREAKING LOVE any movie!
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The Nomads of Fantasy

Brandon Wilson Creative

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This podcast is dedicated to exploring the fictional worlds across movies, TV shows, and video games. Join Brandon, Eric, and Dave as they explain the stories, characters, performances, and productions in all genres. From sci-fi thrillers to animes to arthouse films to indie video games, we embrace all universes as our home. Each episode engrosses listeners with sounds and music from the topic and always ends with a clever round of trivia! We are not fanboys. We will give any fictional creat ...
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The clock is ticking on T Coronae Borealis which seems primed to undergo a nova explosion this summer. That will make this otherwise faint star as bright as Polaris thanks to a burst of nuclear fusion reactions on the exposed surface of this white dwarf. Another curious binary system, Cygnus X-3, is beaming x-rays toward us thanks to some nifty pho…
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We take a look at some Beta Pic Disk shots before journeying back to the earliest era of the universe and the possible formation of primordial black holes. Some of these may have been only the size of an atom and would have long since evaporated through Hawking radiation. But they may have left an observable imprint for our powerful telescopes peer…
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"Godzilla Minus One" is a Japanese kaiju film directed by Takashi Yamazaki, marking the first domestic Godzilla movie in seven years. Set in post-World War II Japan, the film explores a nation grappling with the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb, only to face a new terror as Godzilla emerges from the ocean's depths. The story follows Kōichi Sh…
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Hello Nomads and welcome to our monthly catch-up episode for May of 2024! Pull up a lawn chair, grab a beer and gather around the warm glow of your screen and listen to Brandon, Eric and Dave talk about all of the video games, tv shows, movies, books and board games that they have been checking out this month. We hope you enjoy and as always, safe …
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The Astroquarks celebrate their 360th episode with discoveries showing carbon much earlier in the universe than previously thought possible, and an exotic new proposal as an alternative to dark matter. Plus, we have radioactive trivia and a slew of space news with a busy week in rocket and spaceship activity.…
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There is a mountain - or should we say a volcano - of evidence, building that suggests volcanic activity on Venus during the time of the Magellan mission in the 1990s. We’ll dig into that, struggle to get our script right, ponder the Fantastic Voyage, upcoming spaceflight milestones, and much more.By Josh Colwell, Addie Dove, Jim Cooney, Audrey Martin
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New observations of Erigone, the parent body of an asteroid family, indicate its rocks are juicy with water. That makes it both a potential resource for future missions but also shows that asteroids may have played a big role in delivering water to the early Earth. Watery Erigone: it rhymes! You'll have to listen for details. And students discovere…
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Did you know Netflix has video games!? Netflix Games is a feature offered by Netflix that allows subscribers to access and play a variety of games directly through the Netflix app on their mobile devices. This initiative is part of Netflix's strategy to diversify its offerings beyond streaming video content and enter the gaming industry. Here are s…
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Join your fellow Nomads as we venture into the irradiated wasteland that is the Fallout TV series! In this episode (with spoilers!), we'll be cracking open our Nuka-Colas and discussing the recent adaptation of the beloved video game franchise. We'll explore faithfulness to the source material, the show's lore and characters, and the themes of surv…
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Hello Nomads and welcome to our monthly catch-up episode for April of 2024! Pull up a lawn chair, grab a beer and gather around the warm glow of your screen and listen to Brandon, Eric and Dave talk about all of the video games, tv shows, movies, books and board games that they have been checking out this month. We hope you enjoy and as always, saf…
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NASA's Lucy mission discovered a surprising moon of the small asteroid Dinkinesh on its way to the orbit of Jupiter. New studies of that moon, a contact binary, suggest it may have a surprisingly young age. Meanwhile, cosmologists continue to wrestle with various seemingly contradictory measurements. One model suggests a modification to that old Ph…
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A clever test of dark matter and an alternative theory of gravity to explain the motions of stars around galaxies results in another check in the win column for dark matter. Simulations with the modified model of gravity failed to explain the motions in the inner regions of galaxies. Meanwhile the search for a hypothesized large object in the dista…
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"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" is a captivating addition to the legendary Star Wars saga, offering fans a thrilling and gritty tale set in a galaxy far, far away. The film takes place in the time period just before the events of the original 1977 Star Wars film, "A New Hope." It follows a diverse group of rebels who unite for a daring mission to st…
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"The Fellowship of the Ring" is a fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson, released in 2001. It is the first installment in the "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy, based on the novel of the same name by J.R.R. Tolkien. The film follows the journey of a young hobbit named Frodo Baggins, who is tasked with destroying a powerful ring that c…
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Hello Nomads and welcome to our monthly catch-up episode for March of 2024! Pull up a gaming chair, grab a Dew, gather around the warm glow of your screen and listen to Brandon, Eric and Dave talk about all of the video games, tv shows, movies, books and board games that they have been checking out this month. We hope you enjoy and as always, safe …
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Analysis of the samples returned from the asteroid Bennu have revealed surprising assemblages of minerals that put new constraints on the origin of the solar system. And once Top Quark Jim Cooney stops giggling, he tells us about the discovery of an itsy-bitsy galaxy, if you can call it that, orbiting the Milky way. It has only dozens of stars, plu…
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"Looper" is a science fiction action film directed by Rian Johnson, released in 2012. The movie is set in a dystopian future where time travel exists but is illegal and only available on the black market. In this future, criminal organizations use time travel to send targets they want eliminated back in time to be killed by assassins known as "loop…
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We peer back in time both to the murky history of our own solar system and to the dark ages of the universe. The JWST has confirmed that dwarf galaxies were the first to illuminate the universe, putting an end to the dark ages that followed the cooling after the big bang. In our own corner of the universe, new research highlights how nearby stars c…
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One of only a handful of recurrent novas, white dwarf stars that undergo a periodic explosive brightening as they accrete material from a neighboring star, is showing signs that it may be ready to blow sometime in 2024! Visible in the northern hemisphere, T CrB may become visible to the naked eye for a few days this year, repeating a cycle that occ…
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Hello nomads and let's talk about some obscure characters from the world of Star Wars. We're going deep, but we found some funny, some tragic tales to characters who either say one word in an entire film, or literally have just two seconds of screen time. We sourced a ton of information from our friends over at Wookiepedia.org. "Wookieepedia" is a …
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The presumed metallic asteroid Psyche gets a new look before the spacecraft of the same name gets there in 2029, and it reveals different spectral characteristics than were observed in previous studies. We discuss the mystery of metallic asteroids and what we might see at Psyche. Top quark educates us about the largest binary black hole system, wit…
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Hello Nomads and welcome to our monthly catch-up episode for February of 2024! Pull up a gaming chair, grab a Dew, gather around the warm glow of your screen and listen to Brandon, Eric and Dave talk about all of the video games, tv shows, movies, books and board games that they have been checking out this month. We hope you enjoy and as always, sa…
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Saturn's so-called Death Star moon Mimas may harbor a global subsurface ocean based on analysis of Cassini data of the tiny moon's orbit and rotation. And in the distant universe, what was previously thought to be a run-of-the-mill star in our own galaxy turns out to be a quasar thousands of times brighter than our entire galaxy itself. Join us on …
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"The Green Knight" is a 2021 fantasy film directed by David Lowery, based on the Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The story follows Gawain, the nephew of King Arthur, who accepts a challenge from the mysterious Green Knight. The Green Knight challenges any knight to strike him with his axe, under the condition that the knight mu…
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Water molecules have been observed on the surface of an asteroid for the first time, and new studies help explain some of the odd behavior of planetary ring systems, including why they even exist around small objects in the outer solar system. Join us for a clear and fun explanation, the latest from Mars, upcoming missions, space trivia and more.…
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One more Hidden Game (which means one more season) done and done! Good luck, all! The Season 5 Riddleclue: =================================== The time is nigh? Nay… nigh is HERE! Quote, “Be prepared to quake with fear!” This season’s end brings one more clue. Now that we’re done, here’s what you do: Look closely at each podcast pic, and note the c…
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Oldboy is a South Korean psychological thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook, released in 2003. The story follows Oh Dae-su, a man who is mysteriously imprisoned in a cell for 15 years without knowing the identity of his captor or the reasons for his captivity. During his time in confinement, he is subjected to psychological torture and is left …
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In this special episode recorded live at MegaCon Orlando 2024, we are joined by NPR space reporter Brendan Byrne to take a close look at where we are in the mission to get people to the red planet. We take a look at the next steps in the Artemis program, and the history and future of robotic exploration of Mars. Find out when we will walk on Mars, …
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