Stars End S3 E33 - Use the Podcast But Not to Justify Needless Harm to Individuals

We interrupt our regular program! Dateline: Capitol District, Trantor This just in: AppleTV+ has announced the premiere date for Foundation, Season 2: 14 July 2023. That means that we, at Stars End will be wrapping up Season 3 of the podcast and strapping in for Season 4! Release Date! Trailer (which you can find here)! New Episodes! We'll talk about it! You'll listen! It's a psychohistorical necessity! Meanwhile still in season 3, we reach the climax of not merely Robots and Empire but The Great and Glorius Az's Robot novels collectively! Do we finally get a satisfying ending? You'll have to listen to find out! And just how philosophical do we get this time? We're not saying! So tune in and join us already! We promise that no co-host melted down in the recording of this podcast! Probably. And speaking of meltdowns, the ultimate confrontation between Daneel and Giskard on the one hand Amadiro and Mandamus on the other play out against the backdrop of Three Mile Island. In Asimov's future, this sounds like a vast deserted wilderness and maybe it is 3000 years hence. Not so today. Three Mile Island itself is pretty small, barely big enough for a nuclear power plant or two. Fun fact: TMA-2, the reactor that suffered a partial meltdown and was shut down in 1979 is currently in a state called "Post defueling monitored storage." It will be officially decommissioned in 2052. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program. If this has been an actual emergency you would have been instructed where to tune in your area for Foundation and official Asimovalia.