This week we welcome (and summarily terrify) special guest and friend of the show, Nanci Schwartz! Nanci is the author of the forthcoming Robber Barrons Trilogy from Aethon Books, which will hit our hot little hands September 13th. Be sure to pre-order it if you can!

With Nanci in the cockpit, our thoughts turn to outer space. We take a fantastic voyage to the moon to discover what’s hiding in the perfect dark. Digressions include: what KL doesn’t know about physics could fill a moon, night science, when we learn we’re afraid of the dark, whether or not Nanci will ever sleep again, and elongated men.

Today’s Prompt System:

Rory’s Story Cubes distributed by Zygomatic studios

What’s Been Inspiring Us Lately:

• Loki Soundtrack (TVA Theme especially)
• Fringe (trailer)
• Stranger Music by Leonard Cohen

External Links:

• Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Bluey (video)
• Mandela Effect
• Le voyage dans la lune by Georges Méliès (video)
• Moon's First Friends: One Giant Leap for Friendship written by Susanna Leonard Hill & illustrated by Elisa Paganelli
• Moon’s haunted (meme)
• For All Mankind (trailer)
• Stargate: SG-1 (trailer)
• Contact “They should have sent a poet.” (video)
• The Season of Passage by Christopher Pike
• RayBan ad from the late 90s with the vampires (video)
• Slender Man
• The Expanse (trailer)
• The X-Files “Tombs” (video)

Music: Cherryblossom by Raptorface is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives.

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