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October 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM

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@zyllable.bsky.social has been our guest a few times and they've just come out with a great new video.
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Episode 4.20/21 We're So Screwed parts 2&3 - Muppets, Sex, and Trauma

October 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM

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This #Farscape Friday Crichton & crew crash a peace summit, incite a riot, ride a wonkavator, and do some rather intensive gardening.
@renthebarbarian.bsky.social & @mainelymandy.bsky.social join @saraezzat.bsky.social & Josh for Season 4's big climax.

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The Scarrens and Peacekeepers are meeting to negotiate peace in our time, but there are some unexpected guests: Crichton and crew. John says he's ready to sell all his secrets, but he might just have ...

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October 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM

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This #Farscape Friday the crew have to improvise a plan to rescue Aeryn from a Scarren freighter. Vera Wylde from @councilofgeeks.bsky.social joins @saraezzat.bsky.social and Josh to talk about reproductive horror, flavours of fascism, and Scorpi's new dom.
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Episode 4.19 Fetal Attraction

September 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM

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It's #Farscape Friday and we catch up with a captured Aeryn and desperate John for one of the darkest episodes yet. @aranock.bsky.social joins @saraezzat.bsky.social and Josh to discuss this episode and the complexities of depicting violence against women. youtu.be/wWHV3gLLo58

Episode 4.18 Prayer

Episode 4.17 A Constellation of Doubt

September 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM

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This #Farscape Friday, and we're commenting on Moya's crew watching people's commentary on their commentary about humanity. It's all very meta and opens up conversations about humanity, morality, exceptionalism, and hope
youtu.be/3jBV8eoP6rE

Episode 4.16 Bringing Home the Beacon

August 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM

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This #Farscape Friday the women of Moya are visiting a trading post when they run into Graiza on her own girly weekend with Braca and a new frienemy. @renthebarbarian.bsky.social joins Josh and @saraezzat.bsky.social for a discussion of the episode and of Season 4

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0C2...

Episode 4.15 Mental as Anything (part 1)

August 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM

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This #Farscape Friday the boy's trip turns into an emotional journey for Dargo. @oddnon.bsky.social joins hosts @saraezzat.bsky.social and Josh as we dive deep into ideas of memory, identity, and trauma. So much so that we're splitting this into two parts.

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July 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM

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This #Farscape Friday the crew pick up a new friend, or so they think, until everyone starts acting stranger than usual. It looks like they've got another critter. Josh and @saraezzat.bsky.social are joined by new guest Ron of Just a Lil Guy Podcast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkpW...

Episode 4.14 Twice Shy

A Midsummer Night's Dream Livestream Fundraiser

June 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM

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Josh and Sara are going live this Friday, along with our friends to run away with the fairies and try to raise money for Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.
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June 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM

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This #Farscape Friday John has, at long last, really made it home to Earth, but is Earth home anymore? @renthebarbarian.bsky.social joins Josh and @saraezzat.bsky.social to discuss one of the absolute best episodes of Farscape
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Episode 4.13 Terra Firma

June 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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May 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM

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It's #Farscape Friday, and this episode, Farscape does Back to the Future. It's both zany and touching. @mainelymandy.bsky.social joins Josh and @saraezzat.bsky.social to go back to 1986.
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Episode 4.12 Kansas

May 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM

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This #Farscape Friday John gets a remedial lesson in wormhole theory from a godlike alien. Josh and @saraezzat.bsky.social are joined by new guest @aranock.bsky.social for a discussion of this episode and a look at Farscape's portrayal of mental illness in general.

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Episode 4.10 Coup by Clam (part 1)

May 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM

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It's been a hectic week so the next episode will be out next week instead of this

May 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM

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#Farscape attempts to explore gender, and hoo boy, does it ever make a mess of it. However, this is a culturally interesting mess; so much so that we had to split it into two episodes. @zyllable.bsky.social joins Josh and @saraezzat.bsky.social for all of it.
youtu.be/bf8VueuvSqs

Episode 4.9 A Prefect Murder

April 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM

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In a stunning turn of events, Moya's crew have been pulled into local political intrigue, this time with telepathic murder bugs. Also Sikozu has a new crush. @oddnon.bsky.social joins Josh and @saraezzat.bsky.social for this one.

youtu.be/ZzfWMEu8Hg0

Episode 4.8 I Shrink Therefore I Am

March 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM

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Come out to the Uncharted Territories; we'll have a few laughs, team up with the enemy and rescue our tiny friends. Yes folks, it's Die Hard with a Shrink Ray as John takes on a group of bounty hunters, one of whom may be more than he seems.
youtu.be/hzOvixQASOY

March 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM

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John Quixote reaction is now up for Patreon supporters
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February 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM

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It's #Farscape Friday and do you want to play a game? John doesn't, but chance and Chiana have other ideas. Ren joins Josh and Sara down the rabbit hole and into the woods to seek a princess.

youtu.be/Q3qq_hiSWKo

Episode 4.7 John Quixote

Episode 4.6 Natural Election

February 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM

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Friends this has been an eventful couple of weeks in multiple ways and unfortunatly the result is we're running behind on recordings. We will be recording our discussion of John Quixote this weekend and have it ready for next Friday. Hope you're all keeping as well as possible these days.

February 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM

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This #Farscape Friday Moya becomes a Little Ship of Horrors as the crew fight a space-dwelling trying to eat their ship

This is not what is meant by a plant-based diet.

@mainelymandy.bsky.social joins Josh and @saraezzat.bsky.social for this one.

youtu.be/xqPf0v20tz4