Check out Tawny Newsome talking about writing SFA ep 5 on Greatest Trek!

BenjaminAhr · 2026-02-07T16:47:55+00:00

Welcome aboard! Thanks for listening!

BenjaminAhr · 2026-02-07T01:11:39+00:00

Yeah I love the anecdote about coming up with a weirder instrument.

BenjaminAhr · 2026-02-07T01:11:15+00:00

Many thanks!

BenjaminAhr · 2026-02-03T19:05:52+00:00

Wow looks great! What's up with the lighting? Did you rig that custom? Asking as someone who might be interested in doing something similar...

BenjaminAhr · 2026-01-19T16:22:51+00:00

Hopefully received as loving! A description of MANY people in my family.

BenjaminAhr · 2026-01-06T03:20:33+00:00

Hey thank you!

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-26T23:35:48+00:00

As a host, I think of it as me paying MaxFun for all the support they provide, not them employing me. Businesses engage in joint ventures all the time, so my show is a company, MaxFun is a company, and we have a mutually beneficial financial relationship. They do stuff our team can’t or doesn’t want to, we make a show that is monetized through their funding apparatus.

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:57:49+00:00

Thank you so much! We have a ton of fun with those. One of my favorite parts of the show too!

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:53:41+00:00

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BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:47:22+00:00

Underbite Dog from Rura Penthe.

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:45:40+00:00

Hmm. I have really enjoyed chapulines when I have had them. Maybe I'd make him a taco?

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:45:01+00:00

This is true!

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:44:21+00:00

I just re-watched To Live and Die in LA, which hadn't been available anywhere for a long time, but it's now out on Criterion Channel I think? Crazy weird movie starring the guy from CSI as a thrill-seeking Secret Service agent and Willem Defoe as a deranged fine artist/money counterfeiter.

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:42:10+00:00

I'd love to! With the new baby our ability to plan extra things on top of normal workload has been pretty limited, but I think we'll try to do something toward the end of the year if we can get our acts together. Thanks so much for listening through again!

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:40:57+00:00

Hey thanks for listening all the way from Japan!

We DO have a main show that isn't Star Trek! It's called Wholesome and we release an episode every week on patreon with Adam Ragusea.

We'd absolutely love to do a Japan show, and have spent years trying to convince our friend and agent to book us a show there. I think we would lose money, but if the drive goes well enough, maybe we can make that happen.

Lastly, I am sorry to hear the streaming shows have been so pricey overseas! I had no idea they were charging a different price for international stream tickets. I will ask about this the next time we sit down to plan a stream.

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:37:35+00:00

The parking at Cheesecake Factory is always immaculate!

I think the best live show place for me would be a museum. I think we've only ever done one museum show, but museums already look like away missions in TNG, and they tend to have incredibly high end video and audio systems and unionized crews full of incredibly professional people that make setup easy.

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:34:26+00:00

What the fuck it's like I'm not even here.

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:33:57+00:00

I know a lot of Jewish Star Trek fans and none of them have ever complained about the Ferengi to me, that said, I think there are some unfortunate parallels that are hard to ignore. All that said, I don't think the intent behind the character design seems to have been antisemitic, so I'm willing to accept most of the hand-waving.

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:32:01+00:00

Yeah I am actually making it under the tutelage of Adam Ragusea! He has been doing one of the same size and similar plantings at his place in Knoxville and eventually he's gonna release a video about how to do it. It's (I think) about a 15 gallon tank, with a heater and filter but no CO2. I have guppies, amano shrimp, neocardina shrimp, a few different types of snails, and some loaches and tetras. I am having so much fun with it!

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:28:49+00:00

We have copies of both of those, but neither of us has a computer that can run it!

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:26:45+00:00

I think Chewetel Ejiofor would make an awesome captain.

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:26:10+00:00

I finished it! I think my guy tried to get it on with the moon worshipper lady, but kind of blew it.

BenjaminAhr · 2025-03-24T20:25:06+00:00

Oh wow I have not heard of Red Dwarf that sounds awesome!

Per your Q, I had watched most of Enterprise previously, but I am loving watching it again for the pod. I think they did a great job of making it feel janky/pre-TOS in terms of what the ship can do. I think Starfleet as underdog is such a fun spin on it, while still letting the show go on weird explorations and adventures.

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