International Detective Dragons From Outer Space

As the load gets heavier and the road gets steeper, IDDFOS is in search of a good map to a new land.

Lowest pit of fail. No episode 78 and never will be. Look for episode 79 on Saturday Nov 28th round about noon.

For this episode's summary, Aprime put it best: "Those points in my past when I have felt shame, pain, abuse, and disrespect have shaped me into who I am now. Going back to change those times means changing what now makes me special and unique. A future full of possibilities means more to me than an effortless past."

The only thing we always have is this moment. The more we value NOW, the less dead we are. Easy to comprehend? Sure. Easy to live up to? . . . um . . . . . . nope.

Music is the noise made by the emotional friction between humans and the universe - or - Music is the vibrational anchor that connects us to time, place, memory and emotion. Maybe both definitions are true. This episode has plenty of quality feedback on what music is, and why humans create and listen to it.

How is the market for Souls these days?

What do killer asteroids, postcards, the tree of Liberty, little white lies, the soul, war heroes and pencils have in common? Episode 73 of course.

The conclusion is reached. The consensus is formed. Portrayals are not lies. Entertainment is not deception. Show business is hard, exciting, grueling, fun and cruel as hell. Flying like Superman is a blast, magicians are tough to get out of your head and not all libraries are the same!

The Beta Epsilon asteroid fields are a hive of activity as an entirely unknown substance comes to light. Two rival mining corporations oversee the bulk of its retrieval, but when a press conference is called over the nature of "The Rubble" things begin to go . . . odd. On the surface of it all things appear normal but none of the facts add up! Tank Rondar, Ivan Archangel and Montab Comet find themselves blasting off into a new adventure where the stakes are unknown, the clues are all skewed and 2 + 2 = Danger !

Add thin air, four Gutter Skypes, and a few hours together. You Get Three Super "Starblazer Adventure" Space Heroes!

Universal Symbols dipped in stone - New Seekers of hard questions - Hopeful new beginnings and frightening transitions - Actors Lying and Liars of Mercy - A fascinating, but unpredictable episode!

Four geeks get together over Skype and occasionally complete game preparation for Starblazer Adventures! Mostly though, they go off on wild tangents and the breeze is thoroughly shot! Listen in as The Gutter Skypes fill in some skills, build a ship and create a galactic map of Science Fiction adventure!

Doing what you're best at and enjoy most as a way to make a living is a challenge, a rare blessing and a very tough path to follow. True or False - It is everyone's dream to get out of bed in the morning because they WANT to, not because they HAVE to.

The Second Half of "Spirit of the Season" - Who could have guessed that travel by tesseract train track could tantalize and twist into terror! Stan, Reggie and Hank are dumped at a destination dipped in Danger! The private little country at the North Pole so famous for exporting Christmas suffers in a fiendish grip until the Century Club Heroes peel away the hairy fingers! Watch the IDDFOS rss feed for the next new Gutter Skype Play sessions. Coming up: Starblazer Adventures! - An all new cast of player-characters!

Feeling a touch of the "post-holiday" blues? Well energize your voice, pinch your nose and read what follows into an empty coffee can! "Spirit of the Season !" A Brand new, two-part SOTC adventure covered in snow and Game Mastered by Blindgeek! Once again we hear Andros as Reggie Forthright, anim5 as Hank Bugle, And in this story, Mark Kinney brings about the return of Stan Rocket! The boys from the Century Club are getting a real taste of winter weirdness in Washington. Christmas Eve warps into Christmas Evil when a simple shopping trip in the nation's capitol turns to terror in a toy store! As our heroes are plunged into a Holly Jolly Jigsaw Puzzle of Peril, there are few things they know for sure, but one of them is - Christmas is in Danger! Be sure to hear the conclusion of this story in "Spirit of the Season Part 2 ".

The final chapter in this adventure! Can Nick, Reggie and Hank defeat the plans of The Shocking Shaman? Will the crackling, cackling Shaman Shackle Europe with captured German Ships? Find out for yourself and listen!

Captured by the Shocking Shaman of Shanghai last week, the Centennial Three behaved VERY rudely at dinner and managed to get loose aboard the evil man's massive airship. But what kind of damage can they do before they escape? Can they escape? Powerful allies of the Shaman are determined to make things HOT for our heroes!

Having defeated the mysterious mechanized minions that attacked the airbase, Nick, Reggie and Hank set off to locate the source of the radio signal that motivated the mysterious, massive, malevolent, metal monster. Taking to the air and heading West - they meet up with a shocking surprise!

Happy Holidays to All.

The Three Century Club members find themselves on an airbase in England among an international assembly of high ranking military dignitaries. What begins as an informal evaluation of air-power turns to mayhem as the base comes under full high-tech assault ! Next week, the story continues, but keep an eye on your podcatcher during the week for a short, special holiday message from The Gutter Skypes.

The first ever GUTTER SKYPE recording before we even had a name for the group. Many Thanks and Laurels to Mark Kinney of "All Games Considered" for becoming our first game master and creating a fantastic SOTC adventure! Those familiar with "Spirit of the Century" will know that the character creation process holds as much creative energy and fun as the gameplay itself. In this session you'll discover just how enjoyable it is to build three adventuring heroes from the age of pulp fiction and serial adventure cinema. Please listen along as Andros, Blindgeek and anim5 create their adventure group from the ground up and have a blast doing it !

Bullies. They're small potatoes to some, an overpowering and invasive nightmare to others. Bullying is not just a sticky parenting topic. It's for everybody. It's for the kid you used to be and the adult you are now. It's worth a listen.

No Single Answer For Dealing With Bullies - What is the best form of human government? - Reindeer Line Call-in from 12 Volt Theater - True Life Stories of a Role Model - Achieving Enlightenment Under Fluorescent Lights - WOW Hackers and Eternal Bullies - All this under the influence of Fructose and Glucose!

Don't buy your truth at the authority supermarket. Make it yourself. Belief in things that aren't true help them to become real. Sadly, that goes for good AND bad things. What kinds of things do YOU believe?

Open Ended Series Number 1 - Simon, of The Curio and anim5 of IDDFOS tackle the first of several shows on the topic of UFOs. They only scratch the surface, but plenty of ground is covered. Snippets from the 1950 CBS radio documentary THE CASE FOR THE FLYING SAUCER with Edward R. Morrow - are peppered throughout, indicating just how long this frustrating and fascinating subject has been debated. How much of what they have to say do you agree or disagree with? Please write in!

Billboards - Dolphins - Lizards - Timewarps - UFOs - Triangles of Travel and the Origin of the Universe! - In other words . . . A SCIENCE show !

Infrasonic waves, Mystery Music from the fifties - Another thumb out with mine to hitch a ride on a Skype game - and an anim5 ramble about - UFOs as a taboo subject. It will stay that way forever until SOMEBODY comes up with a craft. Produce the hardware. It's making me tired already.

The Secret of Success ! The Secret of the Kennedy Assassination ! The Secret of UFOs ! NONE of these are revealed in this episode !

The Wandering Geek is a year old and an ENnie award Nominee! Emails, Forum Posts, Shoutouts! An old friend becomes a new listener, stories are told, songs are sung and the original producers of Casper the Friendly Ghost were big fat liars!

Superhero Factory - Hip Haikus - Norwegian News - Audio Evil Lordings Over - Too Much Pole Prattle - and 50 tons of Vinyl ! It Can't be played on a stage, so you'll have to hear it here !

In honor of philosophy: Houses, Billboards and Telephone Poles are all connected by anim5 confusion. No expense spared!

A roundup and a recap of all transmissions beyond episode 40. Plus some very cool pictures and SCA info from Andros, and an email from Ben of The Absolute Peach! A summong up and up to date episode well worth a listen!

Does the educational infrastructure of the world need an overhaul for the 21st century?

Medical - Technical - Digital - Immortality. If Given the choice would you take it? And what do we do about all the people arriving, staying and never leaving? The question may be a real one before very long.

Money - Part 2. The Shape-shifting tool that is only as safe as the humans using it.

Logic Puzzle: You live on a planet where rope is currency and you lose it when you use it. You are stuck in a spiked pit about to fill with acid. You have just enough rope to get out. Do you use the rope to climb out or stay in the pit and die because rope is too expensive?

Wild Variety, The Rights of Citizens, Hopeful Geek Anecdotes, Orange Rock Men, Tattoos, Dinner with the Famous. Writing a blurb for this episode is like catching water in a net. I Love it that way!

It is Fascinating, Fun and Fast. From Stan Freberg to James Burke - Amazing Meetings to Digital Music . . . and more. A Skype chat licensed to kill, with George Hrab of The Geologic Podcast.

Personal Identification Through External Works of Art. They don't last forever, but they last long enough.

Paintings - Songs - Photos - They can only capture pieces of who we are. Our identities change too often for art to fit permanently.

Liminal states, Transitions, Journeys . . . Please move on with us through the beginning of this episode to the end. It's the transformation and the travel from before to after that matters.

When enough fissionable material comes together it reaches a critical mass and explodes. Enough anti-podcast circumstances have melted down this show for the end of January. Please accept my apologies and look for episode 52 next Sunday.

What is Important? It may depend on who you ask, what time it is, where you are or when you are. It seems to be generally agreed though that the friends encircling you rank pretty high on the list.

IDDFOS ushers in the future with tales of the past. This New Year's Eve show is saved by the listeners and looks forward to a frightening and exciting 2008. Thanks for staying with me this long and I hope you'll hang around for all that's on the way. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

An episode rich in thought provoking ideas and wealthy with insights and questions from YOU. An excellent Holiday Feast for the end of 2007! Dine at the table or bring your plate into the den. Just don't get hit by the Wii players.

Delayed by chest colds, weather, cardboard, chandeliers and the great god Procrasto - Episode 48 is at long last here. The content is every bit as excellent as IDDFOS listeners have always made it! Hell, even better!

It has Juggling! It has Tribbles! It has small crowds of men screaming at each other! It has Large crowds of men beating each other up! Shoplifting! Raging storms and warehousey type noises! It's not nearly as exciting as this description! Anim5 talks non-stop for two-and-a-half hours while making kiddie show scenery in order to keep his sanity at the expense of yours.

An unexpected journey into the city marks the one year anniversary of the Tick-Tock-Diner meet-up. It also provides audio documentation of the Trashing-In-Transit of a dozen chandeliers. See pictures from the trip on the IDDFOS home page.

Strange gripes with little mystery. Anim5 takes a series of noisy van rides on a Saturday in "Joisey". Self-Checkout Scanners. Shrinking candy Bars - Service Plans that service an elite few. ST Voyager Good / Kate Mulgrew Bad. - What exactly makes yearbook pictures look more and more stupid as the years tick by?

Shakespeare Part 2 - Because this much drama needs two acts.