You Gotta Check This Out!
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, band, game, sport, hobby… whatever as much time as we see fit to get each other and you up to speed with something we love. For our first topic, we’re exploring the epic 90’s Sci-Fi series, Babylon 5. We’ll guide you through all five seasons of the show - featuring key episodes and using them as discussion points across the series. If you're curious about getting into Babylon 5, this is a good place to start. To follow along with us, you can watch these episodes of Babylon 5, available now for free on Tubi. Season One. • Episode 4: "Infection" • Episode 9: "Deathwalker" • Episode 13: "Signs & Portents" • Episode 22: "Chrysalis" New episodes release every other Sunday. Articles on each episode available at https://mikeslater.com/ Mike & Dre Socials https://bsky.app/profile/slatron.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/nerdnumbers.com https://www.instagram.com/slatron11/ https://www.instagram.com/nerdnumbers/ All music by Mike Slater Show Website: www.mikeslater.com
Episodes
Mike & Dre discuss Season 1 Episode 22 of Babylon 5: "Chrysalis with special guest Evynne Stitely.
In This Episode… Stifler gets shot, JMS unmasked, the truth behind magnetiles, serialized TV through the years, a deal with the devil, and an evolution of the B5 sucka punch.
Evynne creates video essays on YouTube. Check out her EvynneXEvynne YouTube channel.
You can watch "Chrysalis" for free on Tubi, or check out Baby...
Mike & Dre describe the alien races of Babylon 5 to special guest Carin Slater.
In This Episode… Holes…in his mind!, …some look like birds and some look like people and some look like lizards and some look like turtles and some look like squids and some look like fish…
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For our next full episode, we will be covering Season 1 Episode 22 of Babylon 5: "Ch...
Mike & Dre discuss Season 1 Episode 13 of Babylon 5: "Signs & Portents" with special guest Carin Slater.
In This Episode… Babsterpiece Theatre with Mike & Carin, lack of command redundancy in sci-fi, elevator hijinx, Roald Dahl's space witches, gyroscope bling, a shadow sucka. punch, and the question of the hour… “What do you Want?”.
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You can watch "Signs...
Mike & Dre discuss J. Michael Straczynski (JMS), the creator of Babylon 5 and the inspirations behind the series.
In This Episode… spinning off the spinoffs, needing recap podcast to watch shows, 90’s DVD menu oddities, smugglers in small locations, PTEN fight for the fifth network, ST:DSN roots, boys watching She-Ra, Captain Power toys and all things JMS.
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Mike & Dre discuss Season 1 Episode 9 of Babylon 5: "Deathwalker".
In this episode... our boys explain the premise… again, previously on begins, sucka punchin' across season 1, a bipedal cat takes a full lunge attack in the face and almost Gilbert Gottfried shows brain. Mike & Dre go it alone one last time before guests show up.
You can watch "Deathwalker" for free on Tubi, or check out Babylon 5 on physical media f...
Mike goes solo for the first Minisode and talks about writing and recording podcast music.
In this episode... Dre flies off on a mythic beast...Mike brings up old podcast themes and gets to talk music for a few minutes.
(Hey listener... speaking of Dre, please keep this one one just between you and me. He doesn't know I'm doing this whole minisode thing yet. We'll see how long we can keep this up.)
Mike & Dre discuss Season 1 Episode 4 of Babylon 5: "Infection".
In this episode... J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 origins, monster of the week period, Hulk memories and the origin of the Babylon 5 Sucka Punch! A muppet gets on the command bridge, and we answer the question "Where is Mike From?".
You can watch "Infection" for free on Tubi, or check out the Babylon 5 Series 1 from your local library.
For our next e...
Welcome to “You Gotta Check This Out!” With Mike Slater and Dre Alvarez. New episodes release every other Sunday starting July 27, 2025.
As we get ready for launch, we're dropping this short episode of clips where we discuss the 90's sci-fi TV series "Babylon 5".
Instead of covering every episode of the series, we're covering key episodes from each season. For Season One, we cover "Infection", "Deathwalker", "Signs & Po...
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