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Texas Steampunk Connection
by Thax, Jack, and Bluestocking
Jack, Thax and Bluestocking talk about Steampunk happenings in the great state of Texas. News and reviews of novels, comics, movies and anything steampunk. In-depth interviews with strange and marvelous persons. New episodes every two weeks.We can be found on ITunes, Sticher, Player FM, and many other Podcast Outlets.
Episodes
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Tx Steampunk Xtion Build the Future S10Ep20
recorded September 30, 2026 This week we're looking at some 1800's newspaper ads just for fun. Imagine what they might look like, or what a steampunk world would want to sell you. Maybe we'll make a few ads ourselves. Also the usual jovial chaos!
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Tx Steampunk Xtion Build the Future S10Ep19
recorded September 16, 2026 Talk like a pirate day is this Saturday, and the Galveston Pirate Festival is going on all week. The airship pirate feels like a stock character for steampunk stories, but they are not so common. Let's get into it! Air Pirates according to Wikipedia Reading list:...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion Build the Future S10Ep18
recorded September 2, 2026 Summer is ending. Still hot and too strapped for vacation, we can dream of visiting some real steampunk art. Local murals, Industrial sculptures, who knows? What are the special SP spaces in your town we should visit? Austin Downtown Cruiser by Young Min Kang Foucault's...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion Build the Future S10Ep17
recorded August 19, 2026 Get ready to take some notes tonight. We've been looking for the current up and coming luminaries and influencers in the steampunk world outside of our little corner of Texas. We're looking for actively posting, attending events, and making content, who we see as...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion Build the Future S10Ep16
recorded August 5, 2026 This week: the Victorian technological marvels found in the... in the The WC? The little boys' and girls' rooms? The euphemism. Thax blames the Queen for the Big Stink of 1858. Jack discusses the strange history of the bathroom tissue. Stinky facts about he Great Stink
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Tx Steampunk Xtion Build the Future S10Ep15
recorded July 22, 2026 We're at loose ends when Dr. BS has to step back with a migraine. Jack and Thax talk beers and whiskey, revisit the robotics from last episode since we didn't get to let him present, and Thax reviews and underappreciated nerf, the Zombie Strike Crossfire. Is it dumb or your...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: Build the Future S10Ep14
recorded July 8, 2026 In a steampunk world where modern computers and cutting edge AI don't exist, how do robots work ? Is it magic? Or techno-gibberish involving cogs and springs? We'll try to break it down! from Thax's notes: The Sandman — a story of mistaken identity resulting from the love...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: Build the Future S10Ep13
recorded June 24, 2026 The heat of summer is on and we have to take our hobbies indoors. Dr. BS explores a few Victorian hobbies, while Thax claims the west was full of wild west fanboys. Jack tracks how the ceiling fan became a fixture in the new electrified century!
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: Build the Future S10Ep12
recorded June 10, 2026 We've returned from the steampunk event of the season, and are catching our breath. Trinkets were traded, and teapots were raced. Now that it's over, Con-drop must not stop our inspiration for new plans! Jack has been exploring the concept of time and how industrialization,...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: Build the Future S10Ep11
recorded May 27, 2026 We always get a little anxious this close to a big event, so we're playing by ear tonight. Thax just learned about 'trinket trading' that occurs at renfaires, and even at steampunk events, but undercover. Have you interacted this way? Good or no? Also from refaire, Rat...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: Build the Future S10Ep10
recorded May 13, 2026 This year we've lost Wild Wild West Con, and Steampunk November is cancelled at least for 2026. Galveston Steampunk Festival is left as the only big SP event in Texas this year! Johnny Steverson finally talks about how just this spring smoking and vapes almost ended him and...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: Build the Future S10Ep9
recorded April 29, 2026 Tonight we are venturing into the Victorian Kitchen... or so we thought. Thax discovers in Victorian London there are no kitchens, only starvation or bad bread. Bluestocking reports the pre-electricity "ice box" for the well off, and Jack discusses the value of the cast…
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: Build the Future S10Ep8
recorded April 15, 2026 Tax day and only a weeks until Goggles, Gears, and Springs, Steampunk Festival; a FREE Steampunk event!! Tonight we welcome Danny Watson and Kelly Bombino who started this event in beautiful Eureka Springs, AR. This is the second year of the Steampunk festival with a full...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: Build the Future S10Ep7
recorded April 1, 2026 Tonight we sit down with M.L. Eaden, a new writer and indie-publisher of queer urban-fantasy and monster romance. She only began building her series of books as Covid locked us down. Now she's on her sixth book as well as a novella and short stories. mleaden.com ML Eaden on...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: Build the Future S10Ep6
recorded March 18, 2026 Between St. Patrick's Day yesterday, Spring Break this week, and SXSW in Austin, it's been a fine weekend. we barely have a topic, but things are happening! Wild Wild West Steampunk Festival ends it's 14th year and it's last. Big River Festival is given the side-eye by the...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: Build the Future S10Ep5
recorded March 4, 2026 This week we explore steampunk inventing and some favorite inventions. Could be real, but probably imagined. Dr. Bluestocking discovers Professor BJ Sears, a prominent film editor who was compelled to create a collection of steampunk-inspired sculptures. Jack shares...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: Build the Future S10Ep4
recorded February 18, 2026 Last show we planned to talk about some fun patents, but we had such a good time we didn't get to it. So we're going to try again! Dr. BS is back with us, and we've found patents for things we use every day, and others that I doubt anyone ever used! Let's go! Google...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: Build the Future S10Ep3
recorded February 4, 2026 This week we bring you Johnny Steverson, the one-man event maker who produces the Galveston Steampunk, Pirate, and Ghost Coast Festivals. He's got big news to bring us that will really set off the summer! Also we planned to discuss Victorian patents, but never really get...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: Build the Future S10Ep2
recorded January 21, 2026 This week we delve back into history to look at the Pinkertons. Were they detectives, or paid thugs for supervillains? I was surprised by the answers. Pinkerton's own presentation of history another (better) podcast on the Pinkertons
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: Build the Future S10Ep1
recorded January 7, 2026 It's a new year! Time to make new plans, and build excitement for the next build, next adventure! We're going to make some resolutions, and have the best darn 2026 whether we like it or not!
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep26
recorded December 24, 2025 It's the night before Christmas, and we're streaming our end of year wrap-up! We want to hug all our supporters and start plans for next year. Jack and the fam are back to celebrate and we look forward to a new year.
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep25
recorded December 10, 2025 Did you ever wonder about that line about “scary ghost stories” in the Christmas carol “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”? Well, we’re gonna tell y’all all about that glorious Victorian Christmas tradition! Besides Dickens' Christmas Carol, what other stories…
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep24
recorded November 26, 2025 Before Steampunk November, organizers were approached by Big Media asking about the "Steampunk Lifestyle." What does that mean, to Big Media or to us? How does steampunk play a part in your life on a regular or daily basis?
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep23
recorded November 12, 2025 Steampunk November is the longest running steampunk event in Texas. And it's in three days!! Sheriff Natalie McTavish joins us for a pre-fest hang out. What changes will there be this year? What are you looking forward to? How will we tea duel? Frankenstein The Thief…
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep22
recorded October 29, 2025 It's the last show before Halloween! Let's finish off a season of cults and strange societies with Madame Blavatsky and her occult/religious movement, Theosophy. We discuss the questionable origin story, and how Theosophy has influenced modern culture. Theosophical…
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep21
recorded October 15, 2025 This Mid-October we welcome researcher Bekah June back to talk about about esoteric secret societies and strange luminaries of the time. Thax reveals the secrets of the Freemason (not real super secrets, tho.) Jack picks it up as three Masons create the Hermetic Order of...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep20
recorded October 1, 2025 Tonight we celebrate the coming of October, our favorite month! Also the rapture that didn't happen on Tuesday a week past. Yeah, for real. I guess. What is the rapture, anyway? Also, since we're sliding that way, horrific religious cults of the 1800's! A warning. Some…
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep19
recorded September 17, 2025 No topic this week. Instead lets hang out and have a good old school show and tell! We haven't done one of these in months, so we're all over the place. Nautilus is still the greatest SP show we've seen in a long time. Wednesday the new season has its problems, but we...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep18
recorded September 3, 2025 This week we celebrate the American laborer that keeps the wheels of industry turning. But what was it like at a time when labor drove the actual industrial revolution? TLDR, it was a horror show of course! We go from the Poor Law of 1834 to workhouses, to manufacturing...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep17
recorded August 20, 2025 Tonight we begin an exploration of the tawdry underbelly of repressed Victorian society, venturing into what is not discussed in polite society. We approach Victorian drug use, medical and recreational, of opium, cocaine, and cannabis. The Steampunk Doctor: Practicing...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep16
recorded August 6, 2025 This week we are joined by Bekah June, host of cosmic horror series "Voicemails of the Unexplained." She is also a veteran steampunk, and into weird paranormal conspiracies so this should be a fun chat. Bekah's web page, Default Theory Productions Voicemails of the...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep15
recorded July 23, 2025 Musician and steampunk presenter, Addisyn Madd joins us this week as we discuss the passing of an idol and the steampunk track at Delta H Con this last weekend. Delta H Con is a diverse fandom convention catering to Anime fans and cosplayers, tabletop and online gamers, and...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep14
recorded July 9, 2025 Ready to add beautiful accessories to glow up your kit? Steampunk options in jewelry are vast, but some draw the eye for being so over the top ridiculous it turns you into a steampunk influencer! Let's talk about jewelry and steampunks and stuff! I could not find the etsy...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep13
recorded June 25, 2025 What do you think of when you hear steampunk and animals? Is it animals in cute costumes? What about autonomous robotic creatures? Mad experiments in genetic science? We've got a lot of fun ground to cover tonight! 8 Animals That Think They're Steampunk (Plus Tips for...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep12
recorded June 11, 2025 What's the latest happenings around Steampunk as the temperatures keep climbing? Join us and Kitty of Faire Treasures as she tells us about the last days of Joann Fabrics, and adventure with the Ghost Airship Allegory, exploring the British Emporium and recovering at...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep11
recorded May 28, 2025 Laura Meyer joins us with the release of her latest book, The Halloween Collection. It's a great book to prep for a new crafting hobby, or ten. Get half-rats and chew the fat with us! a link to the book warning: site is adult oriented
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep10
recorded May 14, 2025 The Met Gala just happened and it's theme was "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style." This has started a conversation about dandyism and black history. We discuss the roots of black dandyism, how it has differed from general dandyism, how it differs across cultures, and see what...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep09
recorded April 30, 2025 Thax is missing and the inmates are running the asylum! Jack and Dr. B hit on the color of the season, Apocalype Red! All the steampunks are going with red highlights for 2025. Weird new film directed by Jamin Winans, "Myth of Man" looks visually amazing! And there's a new...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep08
recorded April 16, 2025 Galveston Steampunk Festival was last weekend and we have lots to talk about after event! A hell-ride across the state! Best restaurant in town! A new venue at the Moody Gardens, the Galveston pyramids. Improvements from last year, adjustments and growing pains. Grab a…
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep07
recorded April 2, 2025 On Saturday afternoon April 29, just over a week ago, Wild Wild West Con, a long running steampunk convention in Arizona, was summarily shut down by the hotel under questionable circumstances. We discuss the available facts and try to understand why WWWC was taken down....
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep06
recorded March 19, 2025 Steampunk is fiction informed by history, so it's good to know a thing or two about actually happened, especially when it makes such wild stories. This week we welcome hobby historian and author, Krystal Stargazer, to talk about her favorite character, her historical…
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep05
recorded March 5, 2025 Texas Steampunk Connection is joined by Kitty of Faire Treasures to talk about the trends we have seen at conventions. What's changed in the 35 years of attending cons? Is bigger better, or do we miss small college con vibe? Do we like it or how do we want it to change?…
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep04
recorded February 19, 2025 Festival Season is a great time for Steampunk! Joining us is event host Johnny Steverson of Galveston Steampunk Festival fame! We chat with him about upcoming events, Mardi Gras Galveston style, a little men's facial grooming, and how to be ready for a good time!...
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep03
recorded Febuary 5, 2025 Love or hate, the big V day is coming! Join the Steampunks to chat about Victorian Valentine's tradition of love letters, modern romance, and probably smut. 5 Minute History: Valentine's Day in the Vcitorian Era 5 romantic Victorian Valentine's Day traditions
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep02
recorded January 22, 2025 Costumer, game designer, teacher, author, Laura Meyer returns to the show after more than a year! She's been working on her upcoming book, The Halloween Collection: Costume and Cosplay Techniques, due out any day here, and Cogs Aplenty! A Steampunk Murder Mystery Game…
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Tx Steampunk Xtion: on the Road S9Ep01
recorded January 8, 2025 This year we want more adventures, and that means making some sort of plan, so I'm told. We're looking for cool Texas events, trips, and things to look forward to. Planners don't post events so early in the year, so I like to keep a list of known organizers, and themes I...
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Tx Sp Xtion: Deep in the Gearbox of TX S8Ep26
recorded December 26, 2024 That special time, a mysterious time between Christmas and New Years where Santa is not looking. We call this time "the Binge." Tonight we review the year and make resolutions for 2025! More guests! More comic and book reviews! More travel! Teapot racing! Radio drama!...
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Tx Sp Xtion: Deep in the Gearbox of TX S8Ep25
recorded December 11, 2024 Robert Heinlein wrote "A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." This week we talk to KL Forslund, winner of the Steampunk November poetry slam. He'll introduce us to some new bad habits and update us on the Texas Teapot Racing League. What fun!
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Tx Sp Xtion: Deep in the Gearbox of TX S8Ep24
recorded Novemeber 27, 2024 Happy Thanksgiving! Last chance to run to the store before they close for a WHOLE DAY! Tonight our producer, Lex, joins us to celebrate the season of thanks. She's got topics to talk about, including the underdeveloped topic of dance in steampunk, and the mechanical...
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Tx Sp Xtion: Deep in the Gearbox of TX S8Ep23
recorded Novemeber 13, 2024 We've just come back from the biggest, oldest steampunk event in Texas, Steampunk November. It gets just a bit bigger and more interesting every year and we had a great time. It was emotionally hard to leave our growing friends and family in steampunk at the end. Join…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Jack, Thax and Bluestocking talk about Steampunk happenings in the great state of Texas. News and reviews of novels, comics, movies and anything steampunk. In-depth interviews with strange and marvelous persons. New episodes every two weeks.We can be found on ITunes, Sticher, Player FM, and many other Podcast Outlets.
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Thax, Jack, and Bluestocking
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Jack, Thax and Bluestocking talk about Steampunk happenings in the great state of Texas. News and reviews of novels, comics, movies and anything steampunk. In-depth interviews with strange and marvelous persons. New episodes every two weeks.We can be found on ITunes, Sticher, Player FM, and many...
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