Men In Gorilla Suits

[We apologize in advance for all the links to songs and videos. (But not really)] * * * "We're on a space race, baby..." Space...it's been called the final frontier... "Open the pod bay doors, HAL..." It's kind of hard to believe we've gone 132 episodes without dedicating an episode to space. Oh, sure, we talked about space in our first episode (and so many episodes since that time), but have yet to do a show completely about space. * * * We begin this episode talking about the first time we were aware that the earth was nothing more than just another planet in space. In this part of the show, you get to hear Christopher sign some of this. His voice will not go high. It is a terrible moment. He apologizes for the auditory agony inflicted on you. (Come on, that song is like being subjected to the music from the Hobbit cartoon over and over and over. It's not a pretty thing...) Next, we talk about when we first became interested in space...and when Americans, as a whole, seemed to stop caring about space. Sp