Hello there everyone and welcome back! We've missed you, but we're back now with a whole new season! Join us as we make the jump to hyperspace and set course for a galaxy far far away to discuss Star Wars!

If you're new to the show, this is a great place to start. Come get (re)introduced to the scruffy-looking nerf herders hosting this thing and hear about our plans for the season. We're very excited to dive in and hope that you'll join us in this wretched hive of scum and villainy. This is the podcast you're looking for!

Season 3 Intro- I Have A Very Good Feeling About This, Actually

Finishing out our coverage of the Murderbot Media current available, we discuss worker's rights, music, special effects, sexual tension, and as a special bonus, Ryn has a Biologist Moment!

Also stay tuned at the end for our announcement about whats happening for Season 3!! We're going to be taking a short break but will be back in a few weeks with brand new episodes on some media Ryn grew up with and Sam didn't!

Thanks for listening to Season 2, and we hope to see you in Season 3!


Covers Season 1 Episodes 7-10 of the AppleTV+ show Murderbot (2025)

Ep 2.14- Murderbot, End Message

There's a place beyond the wormholes... we haven't found it yet but come search with us! We have reached the Murderbot TV show! We talk visual decisions, casting, story adaptation, throuples, tentacles, and our love of practical effects! BIG ANNOUNCEMENT COMING NEXT EPISODE! Stay tuned!

Covers episodes 1-6 of the AppleTV+ show "Murderbot" (2025)

Ep 2.13-Boldness is All!

The last Murderbot book episode and we struggled a bit here keeping up with the action, but we still love it! Murderbot is having, as per usual, a bad time, and Ryn and Sam are having an excellent one, and would love for you to join us!

Topics of discussion include: the paradox of free will, putting on your own oxygen mask before helping others, and how none of us are immune to propaganda!

Covers chapters 6-end of The Murderbot Diaries: System Collapse (2023) by Martha Wells

Ep 2.12- Get Booped, Motherfucker

We're back! Took an unexpected break, but we're back with a new episode, which is great for us, and Murderbot is back on the planet, which is terrible for it! Ryn and Sam discuss the first half (minus 4%) of System Collapse, delving into such important topics as whales, petty data analysis, how bananas relate to far-right death squads, PTSD, and the paradox of free will!

Covers chapters 1-5 of The Murderbot Diaries: System Collapse (2023) by Martha Wells

Ep 2.11- Round Hatches Are Scarier

Ryn and Sam finish out Network Effect and boy howdy is Murderbot having a Bad Time! And so are the other SecUnits. Wait, other SecUnits? We have commentary on such topics as naming conventions, queer generations, suspension bondage, ART's total and complete lack of chill, and the ethics of murdering your digital baby. Is it murder if the digital baby was essentially a bomb in the first place?

Covers chapters 14-end of The Murderbot Diaries: Network Effect by Martha Wells (2020)

Ep 2.10- There Is No Protocol For This

ART is alive and Murderbot gets to stop running through the stages of grief! Problem is it stopped on Anger, which it has every right to tbh. Ryn and Sam talk ART and Murderbot's relationship (and relationships in general), trusting kids to handle difficult topics, modern "AI" vs sci-fi AI, and statistics!  

Covers chapters 8-13 of The Murderbot Diaries: Networt Effect by Martha Wells (2020)

Ep 2.9- Home Is Where The ART Is

Step inside (your best friend's corpse), it's a fucked up ride (through the wormhole)! Amena wishes this was a normal field trip, but with SecUnit? No way! Take your second right past Mars and join us while we talk about knees, gravity, faster than light travel, anxiety, and potential future cinematic choices for the show!

Covers Chapters 4-7 of The Murderbot Diaries: Network Effect by Martha Wells (2020)

Ep 2.8- Climb on the DarkMagic School Bus

Not all is well with Murderbot, but when is it ever? Ryn and Sam follow our favorite rogue SecUnit through the first three chapters of Network Effect, the first novel in the Murderbot Diaries! Topics include the gender politics of aunts, cis discomfort with trans presentation, intense feelings in platonic relationships, puppy eyes as a weapon of war, and Murderbot murdering on a murderboat. 

Covers Chapters 1-3 of The Murderbot Diaries: Network Effect (2020) by Martha Wells, winner of the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the  2020 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 2021 Locus Award for Best  Science Fiction Novel



Ep 2.7- Panic! at the Arts Festival/Conference/Religious Observance

here's been a murder! And despite what you might expect, it wasn't Murderbot's fault. It promises. And we promise topics including sleeper agents, queer assimilation, translation, and things that go blorp in the night.  

Covers The Murderbot Diaries: Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (2021)

Ep 2.6- Cyberpunk Sherlock, Solarpunk Lestrade

Even the biggest nerds haven't seen it all- join Ryn and Sam on a guided journey through classic media that shaped our childhoods. A nostalgic romp for lifelong fans, and a perfect companion for anyone starting a fandom journey of their own.  New episodes every other Tuesday!

Season 3: Make the jump to hyperspace and join us in a galaxy far far away as we explore Star Wars! Sifting through the expansive universe of material, Ryn has constructed a machete order for Sam's first trip through the galaxy designed to cause maximum emotional damage. Along the way, we'll dive deeper into historical contexts, influences, visual and audio choices, and the world that Star Wars has grown into over the last 50 years!

Season 2: We leave Middle Earth and head for the Corporation Rim with The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells! We follow everyone's favorite heartless killing machine that just wants to watch Space Netflix through a queernormative world where capitalism is always the bad guy, sarcasm and snark abound, and the starships have Opinions!

Season 1: a queer reading of the Lord of the Rings novels! We dive deep into this famously dense series with Ryn as our guide, examining Tolkien's historical and mythological influences, concocting our own theories on Hobbit masculinity, and speculating about what exactly Aragorn has going on under his tunic.  

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