Phil and the panel discussed the Texas story of two escaped inmates with retired US Marshall Darren Hoyt. Hoyt had a similar case tracking two inmates that had escaped jail by distracting a guard with a magic trick. Hoyt recaptured them by sawing a lady in half in front of where the men were holed up. When one came out to inspect the box the woman was in he and his accomplice were recaptured.
Dr. Jim Sadler talked about the psychology behind homophobia. He was a last minute replacement for Dr. Ron Tarner who is in Denver at the 5th annual Astronomers and Astrophysicists Joke Competition. Dr. Tarner is anxious to avenge his defeat last year at the "hands" of Dr. Stephen Hawking.
The panel also talked about the Star Trek episode in which actor Jeffrey Hunter played a starship captain reduced to life as merely "a head sitting on top of a boom box with wheels." (The Menagerie)
