Wednesday 21st December 2005
Solstice Special 2005
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Show Notes
Hosted by Les Howard and Kari Haley.
Part one produced and edited by Jill Arroway
Part two produced and edited by Jill Arroway
Part three produced by Miranda Thomas and edited by J. D. Ravatt
- Les and Kari introduce the show and talk about the holidays, the show, and the upcoming Chris Buchanan interview
- Geek Acres promo
- Chris Buchanan interview
- How Really to Speak Chinese, written by Jill Arroway and Xiao Ka; read by Xiao Ka: "ni hao " (hello) "zai dian " (good bye) "qing wen? " (please may I ask you a question?) "wo neng qing ni tiao wu? " (may I have the pleasure of this dance?) and "qing wen? " (would you please kiss me?). [Also see our Chinese page]
- Our Mrs. Reynolds and Trash: the Saffron Arc, written by Clay McClure; read by J. D. Ravatt
- Emails read by Kevin Bachelder and Miranda Thomas, and discussed by Les and Kari
- Jenna - conversion story
- Cynthia - Firefly reference in "Bones"
- Kevin - conversion story
- Ray - Ron Glass's computer?
- Joseph - converting even more people to Firefly
- Serenity comic #1 review, written and read by Bubbafett.
- Trivia Question - Tracy Hickman tries to stump you. Introduced by Miranda Thomas
- Les and Kari introduce our special guests from the Dragon Page
- Welcome to My Library: Evo Terro, Summer Brooks and Michael R Meniniga discuss
- Serenity, the novelization, by Keith R. A. DeCandido
- The Serenity Visual Companion, by Joss Whedon
- The Serenity Role Playing Game, by Jamie Chambers
- Musical Evolution: From Firefly to Serenity, written by Jill Arroway; read by J. D. Ravatt
- TSFPN promo
- Serenity comic #2 review, written and read by Bubbafett.
- Deleted Scenes - previously unaired extracts from our interviews with Greg Edmonson, Tracy Hickman, Keith R. A. DeCandido and Nathan Town
- News Retrospective 2005 with Kevin Bachelder and Miranda Thomas
- FireFilk, written by Jill Arroway; read by Clay McClure [see below]
- Music Section: "Big Damn Trilogy " by the Bedlam Bards
- Les and his wife Chris announce the naming of their new kitten
- Les and Kari talk about the Signal's new Frappr map
- The Making of the Signal, by Carolyn Parkinson, Kevin Bacheler, J. D. Ravatt, Les Howard and Miranda Thomas
- Blue Sun Miranda advertisement, written by Miranda Thomas; read by J. D. Ravatt and Miranda Thomas
- Mudders' Milk advertisement, written and performed by Michael R Meniniga, Evo Terro and Summer Brooks
- The Week in Whedon promo
- Serenity comic #3 review, written and read by Bubbafett.
- Emails read by Kevin Bachelder and Miranda Thomas, and discussed by Les and Kari
- Paul - conversion story and guerrilla marketing
- Greg - the Signal
- Marcus - converting people with Chinese
- Mathew - another theory about Book's past
- Cynthia - the Signal
- Mark - converted by the movie
- Mudders' Milk How-to, written and read by Clay McClure, and featuring special guest appearances by Michael R Meniniga, Evo Terro, Summer Brooks and a couple of their friends. The crew from the Dragon Page make, and sample, Clay's recipe for Mudders' Milk ... and sing "The Hero of Canton " [Recipe]
- The Signal Season 1 Gag Reel
- Les and Kari talk about Josscentricality, and voting at Podcast Alley and Yahoo! Podcasts
The songs ‘Future Past’ by 'Mijo', and ‘Sierra’ by Suzanne Teng'
used by permission from www.magnatune.com
We also used Des Abends Fantasiestucke Op. 12 - Leon McCawley
(Thanks to David Richins for providing this list)
- Tangled Up in Brown by Jef Costello (lyrics), Roland Reynolds (performer), and Dylan (music)
- The Ballad of Serenity by PJ Shapiro
- Mal's Song by Michelle Dockery and 'Escape Key'
- Big Damn Trilogy by Bedlam Bards
- The Ballad of Joss by Bedlam Bards (with Scott Boswell)
- I'm gonna see Serenity by Dan Sehane
- The Ballad of Serenity*
- The Hero of Canton performed by Jayne Cobb*
- Praise to Joss Whedon! by Stan Peal
- Jayne's Hat by Stan Peal
- The Ballad of Serenity performed by Henry Kaiser
- Leaf on the Wind by darkseid***
- The Hero of Canton performed by The Brobdingnagian Bards*
- ----- (Mirror)*
- Browncoat by FivebyFive
- Sail the Sky by Bradon (Relight)
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Recipe developed by Clay McClure
1 litre (1 quart) soy milk, plain
360ml (12 oz) stout such as Guinness, or other dark, full bodied beer
64g (1/2 cup) wheat germ
112g (1/2 cup) brewers yeast
180ml (6 oz) grain alcohol
or vodka to taste
Mix the soy milk, stout beer, wheat germ and brewers yeast in a 2 litre/quart pitcher, stirring well. Chill before serving. Now, either add the grain alcohol to the whole batch to achieve the 15% alcohol that Jayne mentions or mix the "milk" with vodka to taste. Serve in rustic pottery mugs and get ready to sing "The Hero of Canton"!
The Signal was made possible by Les Howard, Kari Haley, J. D. Ravatt, Kevin Bachelder, Jill Arroway, Carolyn Parkinson, Miranda Thomas, Clay McClure, Jeremy Neish Brian Wiser and Tracy Hickman.