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Flight School

A podcast where four intrepid adventurers pick Pilot Episodes, and decide whether the show has the skills to take off, or is grounded for the season.
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Dec 15, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 40th Episode, Transparent.

Is there anything more complicated than family? Gender, Sexuality, Religion, all in some compressed microcosm of formative experiences and nostalgia.

And so maybe your Dad comes out as transgender. So maybe your older sister (married-with-kids oldest sister) takes up again with her old lady-flame.

Maybe the middle child has an intimacy issue with women his own age….for reasons. Or the youngest has a fling with some personal trainer dude in the park.

Isn’t that just family?

 

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Become a part of the family on our Contribution Page

 

Dec 9, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome Aboard our 39th Episode, Jessica Jones.

Look kid, I don't know what you heard, but if it's about them Supers I don't know what to tell you. They're everywhere now. Jessica, she's a nobody. A PI, sure, but a super, in that apartment?

I guess I should start at the beginning. Or hell, start in the middle, the beginnings for schmucks. Hard drinking, tough talking gumshoe takes the one case that brings her back to days colder than the streets. This regular femme fatale was the one that got away, but one name keeps bringin her back - Kilgrave. 

 

Get a Clue Facebook
Another round? iTunes
Follow up on a lead on the Contribution Page

 

Dec 1, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome to our 38th Episode, Flesh and Bone.

We're glad you all made the cut, but now you're going to have to work for it. Dance, Now, In the aisles! Grand Plie, Arabesque! Other Ballet things!

Now go seduce someone! Now bottle them! Quick on your feet, FF's, we've got a show to perform! ART!


Now have a really unsettling exchange with several people, and stare wide-eyed like you're trying to gaze in to the void, and dare it to gaze back.

 

And Bow.

 

 

Join the Dance Facebook
Learn the Steps on The Modern Superior
Commission an play on the Contribution Page

 

Nov 24, 2015

Good Morrow Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 37th Episode, Poldark.

As you land, a connecting stagecoach will take you to your next terminal. However, we warn you that said stagecoach might be full of gossiping busybodies discussing your fallen fortune as you return home from a war that you lost.

Don't take it too personally, after all, you were a scandal and a wastrel. Whose ex-girlfriend is engaged to your cousin, and whose farm and mines are in such disrepair that setting it all ablaze would be an improvement.  

I mean, how can you take it personally when your entire life went to hell in a handbasket?

Oh, and you're Cornish, so there's that.

 

Join the Wastrels on Facebook
Mine the Depths on iTunes
Aid your Cousin's failing fortune on the Contribution Page

 

 

Nov 17, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 36th flight, Fargo.

We're sure glad you're here, dontcha know? If you look out the windows on the left side of the plane, you can sure see local disappointment Lester Nygard. Oh jeeze, what's that fella doin now? 

And who's that real intense guy with him, whisperin them dark things in his ear. Oh, looks like this is a case for that Deputy Molly Solverson. Isn't she a peach?

 

Make a Faustian Deal on our Facebook
Get a clue on iTunes
Woodchip in on our  Contribution Page

 

Nov 11, 2015

Hello frequent flyers and welcome about our 35th flight, Dark Matter.

Space may be the final frontier but if you could lend us your ears, we'd love to show you all the various exist aboard this space ship. You won't be able to use any of them because your memory is gone, an android wants to kill you, and honestly what were you doing anyways?

Don't you have space things to do?

 

Launch a discussion  on  Facebook
Listen to the Stars on iTunes
Make us Remember your Name on the  Contribution Page

Nov 3, 2015

 

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, Frequent Flyers, it's our 34th Episode of Flight School!

Your Captain would like to apologise for the slight turbulence caused by the forces of good and evil battling it out on our wing.

We suggest you buckle your seat belts, don your capes, and become the trouble you want to see in the world.

 

Oct 27, 2015

Hello Everyone and Welcome Aboard Episode 33, The Addams Family.


For passengers just joining this astral plane, we ask that you turn your television dial back to 1964. Get to know your neighbours sitting next to you. Their intricacies. Their oddities.

The strange void where their soul should be. Then turn to the strange family to your other side and consider yourself safer, for they have hemlock and beheadings but at least they're upfront about it.

Maybe you'll find yourself nurturing some of their values after all. 

 Get Spooky on  Facebook
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Tell us your deepest fear on the Contribution Page

Oct 20, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 32nd episode, Hemlock Grove. 

We ask any of our passengers to hold their questions till the end of the flight. and after. Just forever. Just always be unsure...and afraid. Like we were during this pilot.

Why is he drinking blood, what's the deal with being so overtly offensive? Who holds an ice cream angrily? Also, why jog, ever?

We can't answer all these questions, but you won't be able to ask them anywhere else either.

Buckle up, it's about to get Netflix Original up in here.

 

Get Spooky on  Facebook
Haunt our iTunes
Tell us your deepest fear on the Contribution Page

Oct 13, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 31st episode, Scream Queens.

 

 Are you afraid of being stalked by a dude in a devil outfit? Or being horribly murdered by said devil? Do you have flashbacks to your days in Uni, and being made fun of by Sorority girls? Well have we got a show that will have you drinking to forget!

This Glee/American Horror Story mashup hits some sour notes, but should you watch along, or will you leave this show dead and buried. Sorry crew, this is a phantom plane and no one gets off until they watch.

 

Get Spooky on  Facebook
Haunt our iTunes
Tell us your deepest fear on the Contribution Page

Oct 6, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome Aboard our 30th Flight, Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Join us this month of October for some truly spooky pilots. The first of which is that Canadian classic, Are You Afraid of the Dark.

Follow us if you want to get lost in the woods, find a creepy cabin, answer mysterious riddles...and maybe...Sorta DIE (or just take a different cab, I don't know your life.)

How did you even get aboard...after all...this flight has been off the air for fifteen years.

 

Get Spooky on  Facebook
Find other Haunting podcasts on The Modern Superior
Chill out with us on iTunes
Tell us your deepest fear on the Contribution Page

Sep 29, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 29th Episode, Rita.

 

Some of you aboard this flight might recall a beloved teacher, from your way away days of youth. Did they make you memorise poetry? Or teach you how to craft a perfect theorem?

Or were they like Rita, obsessively collecting Troll Dolls, and smoking in the bathrooms. Did your teacher have a bard? Were you ever really taught even?

Well throw your thoughts back to the days of your own schooling and compare notes as we fly along with Rita. 

 

Read up on some other subjects on The Modern Superior
Danish or Donuts Vote on  Facebook
Study up on iTunes
Complete your student survey on the Contribution Page

 

Sep 22, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 28th episode: PicnicFace.

Some of you might recall one of our most popular beverages aboard this flight: PowerThirst!!!

You'll be pleased to hear this Canadian Internet sensation has provided us not with one power thirst, but several, all sprawled out over the course of an entire television episode. 

Have you ever wanted to see how Ad companies decide to sell their products? (Bears karate chopping a helicopter piloted by a cabbage) Or watch people get part time jobs? Now you can! 

Buckle up, this flight may get rowdy.

Sep 16, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 27th Episode, Killjoys.

This is a special message from your favourite airline corporation. We understand you could have flown with anyone else today, but you  - oh, what's that? There's only one shadowy Company ruling the world and you have only yourself and your guns to trust? Oh, carry on then.

You wouldn't happen to be  a bounty hunter wouldja, you know, a Killjoy? No, our flight isn't named Serenity, and there's no Captain Mal Reynolds but we have a lot of things like it so maybe you'll consider staying aboard a wee bit longer. 

Not that you could get off the flight anyways...because we are also now in Space. Did we forget to mention that? And you thought you were headed to Seattle.

 

Find some Space on our  Facebook

Board the Ship on the Modern Superior
Find the hitlist on iTunes
Leave us a red box on our  Contribution Page

Sep 9, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 26th episode, Undeclared.

Folks, we'd like to greet all of our college-aged flyers today, and welcome them back to that month of learning, Learntember.

Are you ready to party? Get chicks? Meet the people who will be your life long compadres, who will totally hi-five you and talk your Dad out of ruining his marriage?

TCH'YA of Course you are. 

SO maybe you don't have everything figured out yet. No one does, so really, you're all in the same boat. Or plane as it were. With severely underqualified pilots.

 

Enjoy your flight!

 

 

Sep 1, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome Aboard our 25th Episode, Galavant.

Our in flight music today has been graciously provided by a down-on-his-luck Knight, a not-so-pure maiden, a Squire, a Princess with a fantastic memory, a King who just wants to get laid, and his loyal guardsman, who is 110% done with this shit.

If you're looking for sword fights, noble deeds, jesters and more....well you came to the wrong place - but hey, if you check it out, Ricky Gervais and Weird Al are in a few episodes!

And damn it if it isn't catchy...And no, you can't turn it off until we reach cruising altitude.


Sing along on our  Facebook.
Visit the Noble Lords and Ladies on The Modern Superior
Slay the dragon that is our backlog on iTunes 
Throw a mark of your favour, that we may wear it on the field of combat via the Contribution Page

Aug 25, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 24th Episode, UnReal.

Time to peek behind that Velvet Curtain Frequent Flyers. Let's break the fourth wall a little bit.

Romance? Manufactured. Chemistry, made up bullshit. Hey, keep an eye on our Villain we gotta starve her out so she acts appropriately terrible. 
HEY - Keep those cameras rolling, we got a show to do people.

Look, you want to know what it's like, having a big fancy reality tv show, or do you want to live in la-la-land where flowers fall from the sky and candles sprout around you like daisies and Unicorns ride around on rainbows? 

Wake up and smell the sponsors, we got shit to do.

LET'S MOVE IT PEOPLE

 

 

Meet Cold Reality on our  Facebook.
Catch up on old episodes on our iTunes page
Sponsor this show with words or more on the Contribution Page

Aug 18, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 23rd Episode, Mr. Robot.

This is your Captain Speaking. Folks, let's get real here.

Do you have a nagging feeling that your life is no longer in your own control? That the path you've chosen to follow seems more like some carefully constructed trap, and you fell for it? Ever wish you could just...fix things somehow? Maybe by...hacking?

Have you ever heard of (whisper) F Society? (/whisper)

Join us and find out who they are...but keep it on the downlow...I think we're being followed.

 

 

Look behind the Anon mask on our Facebook.
Are we real? Are we fake? Find out on our iTunes page
Find a collection of like minded people looking to take no Evil Corp on the Modern Superior
Leave a secret message on our Contribution Page

Aug 11, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and Welcome aboard our 22nd episode: The X-Files.

We would like to invite all of our passengers to turn to their neighbors, and ask them if their deep seated beliefs include life of the extraterrestrial variety. Now if you could ramp the sexual tension up, you provide the smoldering we'll provide the aliens. Look out the window! A saucer! 

Or flood lamps that the baggage crew didn't turn off. Same same.

You may not believe when you step aboard our flight, but by God you'll want to.

 

The Truth is out there on our Facebook.
Check out the alien warehouse on our iTunes page
 Have some cool alien factoids? Send us a message on our Contribution Page 

 

Aug 4, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard our 21st Episode, CSI: Cyber.

Some of you may be aware that a plane is full of delicate instrument, each one perfectly tuned and necessary for the full operation of the aircraft. 

Now imagine if you will, that everything you loved was torn assunder and they filled the cockpit of the aircraft with the remnants of your now, patchwork life. But now the shades of who you were float about the aircraft, saying buzzwords like: The Dark Web, and Hacking, and Babies. 

And then your plane is filled with Spiders.

 

 Hack The Deep Web on our Facebook.

Surf the Interwebs to the Future on the Modern Superior

Pretend our iTunes page is a Netrunner data pack and GET THEM ALL


Want to sympathise with us? You can offer your condolences on our Contribution Page Monetarily or Verbally.

Jul 28, 2015

 

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our 20th Episode, the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

To all of our passengers, born and raised in Philadelphia, we'd like to remind them that chilling out, maxin, relaxin all cool is not prohibited in the first class cabin.  

We would also like to remind all passengers of the rare cab service provided to our rewards members. The cab service comes with a fresh license plate and fuzzy dice for your conveyance enjoyment. 

 

 

Long may his Royal Freshness Reign on our Facebook.
Pull up to our  iTunes page around 7 or 8

Looking at your Kingdom and wishing to share with ours? Visit the Contribution Page where you can tell it to us straight, Philly or Bel Aire style. 

Jul 21, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our Nineteenth flight, Mozart in the Jungle. 

We ask all passengers to remove their headsets before take off, and instead enjoy the musical stylings of an Oboist who knows how to TURN UP. 

Incidentally there will a massive party where there will be a wood-wind-off, and you may find that and our previous pilot has been replaced with a newer hotter pilot who likes giving away flowers.

This flight will not, incidentally, be for our younger flyers.

 

Flaut(!) your knowledge on our Facebook.
Play it again on our  iTunes page?
And conduct yourself accordingly on our Contribution Page where you can tell us what you think with words or scrills.

Or find another podcast that fits your tune over at the Modern Superior

 

Jul 14, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome aboard our eighteenth episode, Gravity Falls. 

You may find as we reach crusing altitude, and you peer out your window, that you may see a monster on the wing of the aircraft. This monster is 100% real and you should have read about it in your handy yet mysterious journal. 

For all siblings aboard the aircraft, we suggest you stick together, because growing up is tough, and sharing an armrest may be even tougher.

Also, avoid the gnomes, maybe?

 

Did you find a mysterious journal in a hollow tree in the woods? Tell us all about it on our Facebook Page

Yeti, Bigfoot, Bighand? Or is it...THE MODERN SUPERIOR

Is it an eyeball bat? A weird sentient triangle...or is it our iTunes page

Spotted some mysteries of your own, drop a line or a dollar at the Contribution Page.

Jul 7, 2015

Hello Frequent Flyers and welcome to our 17th flight, Sense8.

In just a few moment's we will be bringing around the Duty free cart, where you can purchase such things as a horricially named: 'birth', which connects you and 8 strangers through some weird sci-fi means we haven't worked out.

We are also carrying a variety pack, where people of colour exist and get storylines. 

We only accept major credit cards, and of course, your baffled exhiliartion.

 

Jul 6, 2015
Hello Frequent Flyers, and welcome aboard a somewhat different flight. Due to top secret missions being carried out all across the world by your very own Flight Crew, we've decided to turn our gaze to the summer, and let you know what you should be watching (and reading) as those dog days come!
 
Summer Special Episode Four: Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

In the final Segment of our 'What's on our Radar Series', Fearless Flyer wants you to have the wettest hottest, most goddamn Eagle Ca-cawing American Summer ever. And as the queen of the Binge-watch, she what's your to bend your mind...alongisde the four elements with Avatar: The Last Airbender (the show not the movie!) You might find yourself heart-bending.
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