Season 5, Episode 30 (#144):
“The Utica Train Station”
Severance Theory with Julia Tenney
Topics: Severance, Signal, Stargate, GenX memes
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

We start by talking about Ketamine, Signal, and the protest in Somerville over the seizing of the Tufts student: Rumeysa Ozturk. At the time of this recording, it had just happened. Lionel breaks political talk silence by relating a personal story to the Signal fiasco. Julia says she was using Signal and Signal type apps when communicating with people at orbs.spheres. Julia the schools Lionel and Jim on the Discordian religion as the aftermath of the Church of the SubGenius.
Finally, we start to talk about the popular tv series Severance, which Lionel did not enjoy.
I would write more about this part of the episode, but I can’t remember anything about it.
I can tell you that we talk about Gen X meme classics like Real Genius (Val Kilmer) and Buckaroo Bonsai.
We finish up with a smattering of sci-fi television, including Babylon 5, Stargate, SGU, Lexx, and Farscape.
Once more, thank you to Jooolia for the references.