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Keyboard Blades

Author
Andrew Asplund and Dan Bethel
Published
Fri 06 Jun 2025
Episode Link
https://forall.libsyn.com/keyboard-blades

THE EDGE OF THE BLADE: In the midst of his Fear the Walking Dead watch-through, Andrew rediscovers the wonder and majesty of the actor (and musician and politician) Ruben Blades.

DOCTOR WHO: [WARNING: the discussion contains SPOILERS] Our hosts discuss the second season (series 15) of Doctor Who, showcasing the Fifteenth Doctor (as played by Ncuti Gatwa) struggling to get his displaced companion, Belinda Chandra, back home to Earth. It had a lot of great stories and a lot of surprises and a lot of ties back to the previous season; our hosts discuss all the angles.

NEW REALMS OF NERD: D. Bethel briefly discusses his foray in to mechanical keyboards and is reasonably perplexed by the experience.

TOPICS:

(00:00) Intro - The Rediscovery of Ruben Blades

(06:19) Doctor Who, season 2 is done!

(08:38) What these two seasons did differently

(21:14) Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth (?) Doctor

(26:30) More cameos of old Doctors (and companions), please

(31:43) A genuinely surprising regeneration?!

(42:51) Outro - Dan buys a new keyboard

(46:10) Outtakes

RELEVANT EPISODES:

  • "Nerd Intervention" (28 June 2024): Where our hosts discuss season 1 of Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa's first season on the show.
  • "Turn on the Window" (9 May 2025): Where our hosts discuss the season 2 episode of Doctor Who, "Lucky Day," and all the discomfort its story and characters bring.

RELEVANT LINKS:

  • Keychron Q11 - The mechanical keyboard D. bought to make his digital art process less physically painful.

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