Steve Ormosi

Literature: Bloodchild by Octavia Butler

This episode is a true lost signal recently rediscovered in the raw recording vault.  So lay back with your alien lover and enjoy a narcotic egg while the crew raucously debates Octavia Butler’s short story, Bloodchild. [Aggregate Score: 6.00]

Special Guest: Veronica Hernandez

AFI Top 100 #073: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

This week, the MOTS crew discusses the classic film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It’s a standoff at the mics as we sort out the best (and worst) parts of being old west bank robbers. [Aggregate score: 9.3]

Bon MOTS: Hateful Eight

It’s a new year for The Lost Signals. Sheriff Manczur and Ormosi the Kid have decided to rustle up [Aggregate Score: 9.00]

Literature: We Can Get Them for You Wholesale by Neil Gaiman

MOTS Ado sits down to read and review an early short story from one of the masters of the writing craft: Neil Gaiman.
We always have to be asked to do this, you see. [Aggregate Score: 9.5]

Guest Starring:
Veronica Hernandez

AFI Top 100 #093: The French Connection

MOTS-terpiece Theater returns with the chase scene-filled classic, The French Connection, also featuring drug deals and Gene Hackman. [Aggregate score: 4.6]

Guest Starring: Leah Behar

AFI Top 100 #022: Some Like It Hot

In the unofficial prequel to Big Momma’s House, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis masquerade as a couple of female jazz musicians to escape the mob after witnessing a bloody murder to hilarious effect, according to some. Listen in to find out exactly who the some who like it hot are. [Aggregate score: 5.5]

Special Guest: Leah Behar

Literature: Pluto is the Furthest Planet by Abraham Rothberg

MOTS Ado discusses a “lost” short story, Pluto is the Furthest Planet, by Abraham Rothberg. Cardiac incidents and familial alienation may be involved. [Aggregate Score: 8.75]

Special Guest: 
Veronica Hernandez

Literature: A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Conner

MOTS Ado About Nothing delves into “A Good Man is Hard to Find” — Flannery O’Connor’s iconic Southern Gothic horror story of an American family that meets their fate at the hands of a mysterious drifter. [Aggregate Score: 7.75]

Guest Starring:
Leah Behar

AFI Top 100 #058: The Gold Rush

Tune in to MOTSterpiece Theater and hearken back to a simpler time. A time when people met their fortunes, and their untimely demises, in the Alaskan wilderness. Join us and Charlie Chaplin on a quest for adventure and riches. [Aggregate score: 7.5]

Guest Starring: Leah Behar

Literature: The Stranger by Albert Camus

MOTS Ado About Nothing discusses Albert Camus’ classic tale of an alienated man and the greater relation to his philosophy of absurd existentialism within society. [Aggregate Score: 9.00]

Special guest:
Veronica Hernandez