Less AI... More UBI. Please.
October 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Less AI... More UBI. Please.
Gotta get the Miniature painting out again sometime. Making these bad dudes pop was a great time
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Gotta get the Miniature painting out again sometime. Making these bad dudes pop was a great time
Thirteen episodes in before we managed an "oops... all bits" drop. Today's minisode of "You Gotta Check This Out" features all the non-Babylon 5 tangents from last week. Our guest Taylor Anthony did not let us down.
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open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...
Spotify – Web Player
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October 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Thirteen episodes in before we managed an "oops... all bits" drop. Today's minisode of "You Gotta Check This Out" features all the non-Babylon 5 tangents from last week. Our guest Taylor Anthony did not let us down.
open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...
open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...
Peacemaker 2 finale just taught me five new ways to cry. Thanks, James.
October 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Peacemaker 2 finale just taught me five new ways to cry. Thanks, James.
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This episode has Mike running afoul with the fashion police for, spoiler alert, not the first time. And Richard Moll aka Bull from Night Court and Two-Face from BTAS is dressed up as Blade … on a space station.
Latest episode of You Gotta Check This Out! Is on the feed. Our guest is Taylor Anthony as we discuss Babylon 5 Season 2 episode 10, "Hunter, Prey"
open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...
open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...
Spotify – Web Player
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October 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This episode has Mike running afoul with the fashion police for, spoiler alert, not the first time. And Richard Moll aka Bull from Night Court and Two-Face from BTAS is dressed up as Blade … on a space station.
Latest episode of You Gotta Check This Out! Is on the feed. Our guest is Taylor Anthony as we discuss Babylon 5 Season 2 episode 10, "Hunter, Prey"
open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...
open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...
Spotify – Web Player
open.spotify.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Latest episode of You Gotta Check This Out! Is on the feed. Our guest is Taylor Anthony as we discuss Babylon 5 Season 2 episode 10, "Hunter, Prey"
open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...
open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...
There's a new article at mikeslater.com on Babylon 5 Captain Sheridan's Sharner/Picard index. It's a companion piece for tomorrow's podcast episode of 'You Gotta Check This Out!" with Jaina Mistry.
slatron.github.io/ygcto-5b.html
slatron.github.io/ygcto-5b.html
The Shatner-Picard Index
music by mike slater, multi-instrumentalist and teacher
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September 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
There's a new article at mikeslater.com on Babylon 5 Captain Sheridan's Sharner/Picard index. It's a companion piece for tomorrow's podcast episode of 'You Gotta Check This Out!" with Jaina Mistry.
slatron.github.io/ygcto-5b.html
slatron.github.io/ygcto-5b.html
Time out of mind is a true beast to play and sing on piano. Everything is syncopated and constantly shifting roles between left hand, right hand and voice. Looking forward to getting this one down for the Steely Dan series.
September 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Time out of mind is a true beast to play and sing on piano. Everything is syncopated and constantly shifting roles between left hand, right hand and voice. Looking forward to getting this one down for the Steely Dan series.
Just released my favorite episode of the podcast to date with Evynne Stitely. We discuss performing improv and how it relates to writing. You Gotta Check This Out!
open.spotify.com/episode/3lFP...
open.spotify.com/episode/3lFP...
Episode 4b- Music Motifs and Plot Trap Doors with Evynne Stitely
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September 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Just released my favorite episode of the podcast to date with Evynne Stitely. We discuss performing improv and how it relates to writing. You Gotta Check This Out!
open.spotify.com/episode/3lFP...
open.spotify.com/episode/3lFP...
Two days, two shows. So overjoyed to be using the fretless tonight at Double Clutch Evanston
September 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Two days, two shows. So overjoyed to be using the fretless tonight at Double Clutch Evanston
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I just put some highlights from this and the Montrose show up on SoundCloud. We had a blast both nights.
I just put some highlights from this and the Montrose show up on SoundCloud. We had a blast both nights.
Mad Bread Live @ Celtic Knot 8/22/25
Listen to Mad Bread Live @ Celtic Knot 8/22/25, a playlist curated by MadBread on desktop and mobile.
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August 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I just put some highlights from this and the Montrose show up on SoundCloud. We had a blast both nights.
I just put some highlights from this and the Montrose show up on SoundCloud. We had a blast both nights.
First episode of the Babylon 5 podcast with a featured guest is out now. This week, Dre and I welcome Carin Slater from the "Geek Out! with Megan and Carin" podcast to the show.
This week, we discuss Signs & Portents from Season 1 of Babylon 5.
open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...
This week, we discuss Signs & Portents from Season 1 of Babylon 5.
open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...
You Gotta Check This Out!
Podcast · Mike Slater and Dre Alvarez · This is “You Gotta Check This Out” With Mike Slater and Dre Alvarez. Each season, we take a deep dive into one of our nerdy obsessions - giving each show, book...
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August 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
First episode of the Babylon 5 podcast with a featured guest is out now. This week, Dre and I welcome Carin Slater from the "Geek Out! with Megan and Carin" podcast to the show.
This week, we discuss Signs & Portents from Season 1 of Babylon 5.
open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...
This week, we discuss Signs & Portents from Season 1 of Babylon 5.
open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...
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This meme expresses the hopelessness that government workers feel. We are enemies of the people, according to our own bosses. Violence against us is tacitly (or explicitly) sanctioned.
Black-majority places, and public health workers, in particular.
Black-majority places, and public health workers, in particular.
August 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This meme expresses the hopelessness that government workers feel. We are enemies of the people, according to our own bosses. Violence against us is tacitly (or explicitly) sanctioned.
Black-majority places, and public health workers, in particular.
Black-majority places, and public health workers, in particular.
Andy was curious, so we watched "Captain America 4: The Rulkening : The incredible Hulk 2". Figuring out if it gets last place on MCU power rankings or Quantamania holds the title.
August 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Andy was curious, so we watched "Captain America 4: The Rulkening : The incredible Hulk 2". Figuring out if it gets last place on MCU power rankings or Quantamania holds the title.
Bass serendipity. I brought a fretless to a first rehearsal, no songlist. Singer called out "Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes".
July 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Bass serendipity. I brought a fretless to a first rehearsal, no songlist. Singer called out "Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes".
I'm always a bit surprised that r/frontend and r/backend are honestly forums for developers
July 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I'm always a bit surprised that r/frontend and r/backend are honestly forums for developers
F4 makes the superhero hat trick real this summer. I thoroughly enjoyed and can honestly recommend Thunderbolts, Superman and F4.
July 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
F4 makes the superhero hat trick real this summer. I thoroughly enjoyed and can honestly recommend Thunderbolts, Superman and F4.
Kosh really starts feeling himself in Babylon 5 season 2
July 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Kosh really starts feeling himself in Babylon 5 season 2
Just had my first haircut in two decades that wasn't a bald shave. Wanted to show off my Reed Richards hue on the temples.
July 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Just had my first haircut in two decades that wasn't a bald shave. Wanted to show off my Reed Richards hue on the temples.
July 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
New Superman movie is best Superman movie.
July 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
New Superman movie is best Superman movie.
Andy's first concert: weird al. A slater tradition
July 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Andy's first concert: weird al. A slater tradition
@nerdnumbers.com the handle is slatron. I got in early enough to not turn up to 11 here. Looks like a future nerdnumbers is going to have to issue a retraction for something he will say on a future podcast 🤓
July 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
@nerdnumbers.com the handle is slatron. I got in early enough to not turn up to 11 here. Looks like a future nerdnumbers is going to have to issue a retraction for something he will say on a future podcast 🤓
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We desperately need this button everywhere.
June 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
We desperately need this button everywhere.