106: Fitter Happier Healthier Eastercon

John used to be an undergraduate, Alison has been keeping a list, and can Liz be a stunt Liz?

A transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk and tag @OctothorpeCast (on X or on Mastodon or on Bluesky) when you post about the show on social media.

Content warnings this episode: Death (Deb Geisler, chapter 3) and gambling (Hugo Awards, chapter 7; Alison’s pick, chapter 8).

• Letters of comment
  • Chris Garcia
  • Mike Glyer
    • Transcripts
  • Bob Morrell
  • Colin Murtagh
  • We also heard from Jonny Baddeley, Alex Holden, Farah Mendlesohn, and Ang Rosin
• Deb Geisler
  • File 770
• Eastercon
  • Programme
    • Octothorpe Live is at 13:00 on Monday!
  • Games
  • Newsletter
    • Please come help, post in the Discord if you’d like to volunteer!
  • GUFF
    • Vote here!
  • Doc Weir
  • BSFA Awards
• Awards
  • Nebula Award finalists
    • Android Press Games
    • The Bread Must Rise
  • Hugo Award betting markets
    • Liz has decided not to put her referral link here because the people who run the website might be a bit too Silicon Valley-y
  • Hugo, Girl! un-recuse
• Picks
  • John: Airecon
    • Overs: The Cricket Card Game
  • Alison: The 2023 Eastercon souvenir book
    • Balatro
  • Liz: “No CGI is really just INVISIBLE CGI” on YouTube
    • Todd Vaziri on X, BlueSky, Mastodon
• Credits
  • Cover art: “Podcasting Is Magic” by Alison Scott
    • Alt text: Three ponies in the style of My Little Pony adorn the cover. The left-hand one is orange, and has a six-sided die as a cutie mark. The central one is teal, and has a rainbow Apple logo for a cutie mark. The right-hand one is blue, and has a Hugo Award for a cutie mark. They look like they are having a nice time. The words “My Little Octothorpe 106” appear at the top, and the words “Podcasting Is Magic” appear at the bottom.
  • Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)