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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 22/09/2026

Steely Dan Podcasting Continues! Countdown to Ecstasy and Pretzel Logic with myself, @slatron.bsky.social and John Szymanski. John has produced live stage shows and does music for pinball and other video game machines. mikeslater.com/ygcto-32.html

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My Steely Dan obsession has reached the phase where I think Godwhacker might be their best track. Can someone with sanity talk me down please and thank you?

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The new "You Gotta Check This Out!" podcast season on Steely Dan drops today. Listen at mikeslater.com or wherever you get podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Stared reading Walt Simonson's Thor run with Andy tonight. They're so into Greek and Norse mythology that I'm getting footnotes after every other page. I hope they last the entire run cuz this is a blast

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Dre and I release the final minisode on Babylon 5 this Sunday. It's been a fun year, but we're ready to move on to more topics beyond Babylon 5. Next up, a season on my favorite Image comic: The Power Fantasy You Gotta Check This Out is Available on mikeslater.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

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This is the home of the “You Gotta Check This Out! with Mike & Dre” Podcast.

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Jeff May @heytherejeffro.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hey @nerdnumbers.com and I are joined by @slatron.bsky.social to talk about one of the most poorly disguised toy commercials in history, 1985's He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword, a patchwork abomination of tv episodes slogged together for a theatrical release! Free at Patreon.com/jeffmay

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We played a great show in perfect weather last Saturday. Thanks Liam for getting the whole show for us. It turned out great. Never thought I'd get to sing and play bass on a Who song. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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ROCKLAB - Chopin Park Summerfest 2026 - YouTube

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 22/06/2026

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m... Does Babylon 5 season 5 drive one mad enough where their friend can just make stuff up and they don’t notice? @slatron.bsky.social and @carinslater.bsky.social test this and I think the answer is … yes?

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Minisode - Rats Off To Ya

Podcast Episode · You Gotta Check This Out! · June 21 · 14m

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

New episode of "You Gotta Check This Out!" is up on mikeslater.com. This week we get my pick for best episode of Babylon 5 Season Five with special guest Pete Johnston. RATS OFF TO YA!

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John Reimann @johnnyrimes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Just got this really dope card of my favorite Brave ever from @slatron.bsky.social. Crime Dog was my favorite player when I was a kid and would have made it in to the HoF way before he actually did had it not been for all the juiced up competition in the 90s.

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

AI is training us to accept mediocrity. Do not use.

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

My latest batch of alters are in the hands of @heytherejeffro.bsky.social. It feels odd to work so hard on something just to send it away... but worth it to get these pieces out there. Plus I'm in a good spot to keep making more. mikeslater.com/alters.html

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Gotta shout back at my favorite podcast tag team @thelogantrent.bsky.social and @johnnyrimes.bsky.social after the laters episode. Their Wrestlemovia podcast is a delight celebrating the swolest theatre kids of all time: professional wrestlers! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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Wrestlemoviea - Santa With Muscles

Podcast Episode · Gamefully Unemployed · January 6 · 1h 33m

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 21/02/2026

"How to use a podcast to get a quick creativity coaching session" - Alternate title for most recent Babylon 5 episode @slatron.bsky.social and I did with the amazing @hanamichels.bsky.social, who had some great comments on creativity and coaching. mikeslater.com/ygcto-15b.html

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YGCTO Episode 15b - Chasing the Muse

Creative Consultations

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

We have two of my former band mates on the podcast this week. Naturally, we talk about the first two episodes of Babylon 5, season 4. mikeslater.com/ygcto-14.html

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YGCTO Episode 14 - Hour of the Wolf

Band Reunion

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

First stained glass alter in six years. I'll have some process images out on my next article at mikeslater.com

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 27/12/2025

Early episode of YGTCO with @slatron.bsky.social and myself just dropped on the @heytherejeffro.bsky.social Patreon! @moviehooligan.bsky.social indulged me in watching THE WORST episode of Babylon 5. And he still showed up to podcast when we were done. patreon.com/posts/you-go...

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You Gotta Check this Out Episode 12: "Grey 17 is Missing" Babylon 5 S3E19 and S3E17 with Special Guest David Bell! | Jeff May

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Less AI... More UBI. Please.

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Gotta get the Miniature painting out again sometime. Making these bad dudes pop was a great time

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Thirteen episodes in before we managed an "oops... all bits" drop. Today's minisode of "You Gotta Check This Out" features all the non-Babylon 5 tangents from last week. Our guest Taylor Anthony did not let us down. open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Peacemaker 2 finale just taught me five new ways to cry. Thanks, James.

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 06/10/2025

This episode has Mike running afoul with the fashion police for, spoiler alert, not the first time. And Richard Moll aka Bull from Night Court and Two-Face from BTAS is dressed up as Blade … on a space station.

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Latest episode of You Gotta Check This Out! Is on the feed. Our guest is Taylor Anthony as we discuss Babylon 5 Season 2 episode 10, "Hunter, Prey" open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

There's a new article at mikeslater.com on Babylon 5 Captain Sheridan's Sharner/Picard index. It's a companion piece for tomorrow's podcast episode of 'You Gotta Check This Out!" with Jaina Mistry. slatron.github.io/ygcto-5b.html

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The Shatner-Picard Index

music by mike slater, multi-instrumentalist and teacher

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Time out of mind is a true beast to play and sing on piano. Everything is syncopated and constantly shifting roles between left hand, right hand and voice. Looking forward to getting this one down for the Steely Dan series.

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Just released my favorite episode of the podcast to date with Evynne Stitely. We discuss performing improv and how it relates to writing. You Gotta Check This Out! open.spotify.com/episode/3lFP...

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Episode 4b- Music Motifs and Plot Trap Doors with Evynne Stitely

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Two days, two shows. So overjoyed to be using the fretless tonight at Double Clutch Evanston

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

m.soundcloud.com/madbread/set... I just put some highlights from this and the Montrose show up on SoundCloud. We had a blast both nights.

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Mad Bread Live @ Celtic Knot 8/22/25

Listen to Mad Bread Live @ Celtic Knot 8/22/25, a playlist curated by MadBread on desktop and mobile.

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

First episode of the Babylon 5 podcast with a featured guest is out now. This week, Dre and I welcome Carin Slater from the "Geek Out! with Megan and Carin" podcast to the show. This week, we discuss Signs & Portents from Season 1 of Babylon 5. open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...

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You Gotta Check This Out!

Podcast · Mike Slater and Dre Alvarez · This is “You Gotta Check This Out” With Mike Slater and Dre Alvarez. Each season, we take a deep dive into one of our nerdy obsessions - giving each show, book...

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/08/2025

This meme expresses the hopelessness that government workers feel. We are enemies of the people, according to our own bosses. Violence against us is tacitly (or explicitly) sanctioned. Black-majority places, and public health workers, in particular.

RFK Jr. on television inspecting a broken window at the CDC. A chyron reads "Breaking news at 11: HHS directory inspects his handiwork"

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Andy was curious, so we watched "Captain America 4: The Rulkening : The incredible Hulk 2". Figuring out if it gets last place on MCU power rankings or Quantamania holds the title.

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Bass serendipity. I brought a fretless to a first rehearsal, no songlist. Singer called out "Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes".

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I'm always a bit surprised that r/frontend and r/backend are honestly forums for developers

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

F4 makes the superhero hat trick real this summer. I thoroughly enjoyed and can honestly recommend Thunderbolts, Superman and F4.

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Kosh really starts feeling himself in Babylon 5 season 2

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Just had my first haircut in two decades that wasn't a bald shave. Wanted to show off my Reed Richards hue on the temples.

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The new podcast feed is up. First episode drops Sunday. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

New Superman movie is best Superman movie.

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Andy's first concert: weird al. A slater tradition

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

@nerdnumbers.com the handle is slatron. I got in early enough to not turn up to 11 here. Looks like a future nerdnumbers is going to have to issue a retraction for something he will say on a future podcast 🤓

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We desperately need this button everywhere.

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“james adomian” @jadomian.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The whole thing looks a bit like: what if the confederates stole the 1860 election, then implemented a comprehensive illegal overhaul they had been planning for 20 years, and the northern states just complied and stood down with no effective means of resistance

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Let the Babylon 5 content begin at mikeslater.com

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“james adomian” @jadomian.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

~SUSPENDING THE CONSTITUTIONAL RULE OF LAW IS A FAR GREATER CRIME THAN LIGHTING A DRIVERLESS ROBOT CAR ON FIRE~ (If you disagree with that statement, your brain is bad, you don’t think correctly, and you are very likely a well trained newscaster.)

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Hat trick week. Played one show on lead guitar, one on bass and started regular podcast recordings on voice.

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

In no way was 90s Bonnie Raitt actually thinking bout this guy every day, every day 🎵

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Purple macho man socks really do increase my whimsy quotient by 20 points!

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Finished the JMS autobiography. Went way darker than expected for the Murder she Wrote / Babylon 5 guy. Avoids self-aggrandizing and makes multiple other people main subjects.

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Jeff perfectly captured my essense in this image for the Youngblood show

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