We discuss the nature of celebrity and our way of dealing with celebrity deaths as well as party politics.

Listen to the episode at this link: http://www.archive.org/download/EastMeetsWest163/eastmeetswest163.mp3

It turns out, Counsellor Troi is an ideological agent of the Federation’s dictatorship. Who knew? We also discuss the green avatar support for Iran on Twitter.

Listen in at this link: http://www.archive.org/download/EastMeetsWest162/eastmeetswest162.mp3

We’re working on a fix for why the full podcast listings don’t show up with our old theme (previously, you could only see the last ten or so podcast entries). We’re also migrating our feedburner stuff, so if you see anything wonky, let us know in the comments!

Tom and Roger discuss the Iranian election, how hot 1980s Star Trek people were, get Roger’s opinion on Up and more.

Listen to the show at this link: http://ia301543.us.archive.org/0/items/EastMeetsWest161/eastmeetswest161.mp3

Tom and Roger check in on Ed Asner’s career, explore the underbelly of E3, and solve the National Health Care crisis.

Listen to this episode here: http://www.archive.org/download/EastMeetsWest160/eastmeetswest160.mp3

I do a few SuBBrilliant News headlines in every episode of the Mozomedia Music podcast. So check it out, enjoy the tunes, and fast forward through that annoying news guy if you need to.

Tom and Roger discuss the new Terminator movie Terminator: Salvation as well as a bit about Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, what makes a comedy romantic, and the good and bad elements of arguing.

Listen to the episode at this link: http://www.archive.org/download/EastMeetsWest159/eastmeetswest159.mp3

We’re very pleased this week to have Rick Klau, product manager at Blogger, as a guest to talk about the book Daemon. Rick is friends with author Daniel Suarez and gives some insight into the books creation and the long road to publishing.

We also give our impressions of the book. Which we probably didn’t make clear enough, that we absolutely LOVED it. There are some good threads discussing Daemon in our Ning group. If you want to jump in try the “How would you have ended it differently?” thread or the thread discussing the encrypted text at the end of the book.

Congrats to Mark who may have accidentally won our copy of Dune. Although it looks like he actually meant to enter after I’m looking at the thread post-show.

Next book will be by George R. R. martin. But which one? You can weigh in on our pick the Martin book thread.

Roger and Tom talk about the economy, California government and Star Trek.

Listen to the episode at this link: http://ia301535.us.archive.org/1/items/EastMeetsWest158/eastmeetswest158.mp3

Aaron Harvey from our Ning forums created this amazing “book cover” for Sword and Laser! I think it marries the science fiction and fantasy genres perfectly! I also feel pretty honored that Aaron took the time to create something so cool for the community.