Pandemicasts Zero Science

In the second installment in Danielle's and Christopher's mission to blindly taste test soda carbonated sugar waters (for science!), they sample one of the few beverages capable of making one thirsty: orange soda! Hear them suffer through consuming this sickeningly sweet potable and Christopher's second challenge for Danielle.

A brand new entry in the Pandemicasts limited series, we are proud to bring you the pilot episode for a new future regular series on the Zero Science network: Lilz Martin (Jukebox Zeroes) and her brother Glenn Martin are gamers at heart, who came up during a time when the IBM PC computer was home to some of the most fascinating and entertaining PC games of all time, but were frequently overlooked by the history books in favor of the massive console boom that occurred in tandem.

On Das DOS, the two hope to tell their stories along with many of their friends, shine a light on an often unsung family of video games, and generally nerd out embarrassingly.

On this, the pilot episode, Lilz & Glenn tell the story of one of their first PC gaming loves, the side-scrolling platforming franchise Commander Keen, and subsequently the story of the founding of id Software, one of the most important PC game developers of all time.

Sources for this episode include:

Legacy.3DRealms - "A Look Back At Commander Keen" - https://legacy.3drealms.com/keenhistory/
PC World - "Celebrating Commander Keen's 20th Anniversary" - https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/slideshow/371251/celebrating-commander-keen-20th-anniversary/
Wikipedia - Commander Keen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen

Theme song composed by Sawtooth - https://djsawtooth.bandcamp.com

Songs featured are by Robert Prince from the soundtracks to Commander Keen 4, 5, and 6
Except for "BGM001" by Mark Cooksey from Commander Keen (GBA)

Contains a sample from "Commander Keen - Official E3 Announce Trailer" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtQjGPfkEe8

In this limited until this whole quarantine thing ends podcast, Christopher (Old Men Yell at Cloud, Nickelbackin') and Danielle (World of Commotion) perform taste tests of various sodas. For the first episode, they decided to take the bull by the horns and confront the Pepsi Challenge. Remember when Ray Charles was slinging Pepsi? That was odd.

Welcome to Pandemicasts, a limited series of podcasts from the Zero Science Network featuring single, one-off episodes of shows to prevent ourselves from going stir-crazy while quarantined.

On this, our introductory episode, Lilz Martin (Jukebox Zeroes) and Heather Mack (Make It Stop) join forces to to stare into the face of existential dread and attempt to make sense out of one of the most baffling things to come out of 2019: Tom Hooper's film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's famed musical Cats. Join them on a journey filled with dystopian hellscapes, crotch shots, Rebel Wilson falling down a lot, and cats with human fingers, noses, and lips, with only one explanation for why it exists:

Mankind Has Strayed From The Path Of Light

Extreme metal version of "Memory" by ChasEclipse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zmbUEghvjA