Podcast #3 Is Live!

It's the moment you've all been waiting for! Podcast #3 is available for download. In this podcast about "Orientation", we address the Dharma Initiative orientation film, speculation about Desmond, some of the literary references, address some listener questions and much more.

Download podcast #3 here

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We have a ton of links related to the show this week... here they are:
Buy The Chemical Brothers "Galvanize"
Buy Dharma gear at cafepress
Hanso foundation site
Wikipedia entry for city of Narvik
Picture comparing scientists and others
Explanation of "Namaste"
Wikipedia entry for "The Third Policeman"
Wikipedia entry for "Turn of the Screw"
TV Squad's LOST chat
Finish this sentence thread on The Fuselage

Remember to post comments to the blog, or drop us a line with your thoughts. Stay LOST.

Comments

[Ingrid]

So someone has most likely pointed this out already but oh well. This is in regards to Hellen. My theory is that Locke and Helen got in a car accident and Locke lost use of his legs and Helen lost her life. The Helen later talks to on the phone on the "sex line" is not really named Helen at all, Lock just pays to call her that because he misses the real Helen so much.
Sorry if this has already been addressed. I love you show a lot, it makes me laugh and is the best Lost Podcast ever. Keep up the good work.

[Josh]

In regards to the logo on desmond's shirt. I do not believe it is a Dharma Corp. logo at all. See here:

http://www.talesofinterest.com/lost/wp-content/uploads/shirtlogo.gif

looks like a pentagon drawn around 2 swans. so, maybe related, but most definitely not similar.

[Josh]

Also, if you guys need webspace to host the files, I'd be more than happy to supply it. I can run stats logging all day long.

[BLinder]

Excellent thought Ingrid. I don't beleive that particular speculation has occured to any of us and if it's on the forums we haven't seen it.

And thanks for the kind remark about the show. Be sure to email us any questions or additional thoughts you might have for us to incorporate into next weeks podcast.

And Josh, why didn't you say so. I'm sure we'll be all over that offer. Thanks BROTHAAA!!!

[Brian]

First off, great show.

I just have one thought, purely speculation:

Could there have been a previous connection between Walt/Susan (his mother) and Hanso and/or the Dharma Initiative. Considering their constant traveling, Susan’s “rare blood disorder,” and Walt’s apparent parapsychological abilities, I have an inkling that their paths have crossed; that they have been monitoring Walt for a while.

One of Susan’s earlier jobs before moving to Australia, I believe, was a nice gig with a law firm in Amsterdam – wouldn’t it be wild if, at one time, that firm represented the Hanso Foundation.

Oh, and I definitely agree with Ingrid's take on the Helen situation.

[Ryan]

Hey guys...

1st off love the show...

I dont have a core group of friends who actually watch the show or share my obsession with its secrets so when I try to bring it up they look at me like Im crazy,

so its good to know there are others out there who puck apart the show like I do...

anyway,
I just wanted to drop my specualtion about how the book, The Third Policeman, might tie into the plot of the show...

I dont believe our survivors are dead either, but when the Hanso Website opened with the 6 prodject listed...I couldnt help but pay close attention to the 1st one on the list...

"The Hanso Life-Extension Project"

maybe the connection is not that our survivors have been dead this whole time, but that they all did die in the initial plane crash, but have been "re-animated" through this leg of the Hanso Project...

(I say some page on oceanicflight815.com that eluded to zombies, and u guys made the comment about how that shot of the others looked like a scene from Night of the Living Dead)

but maybe they in fact have been dead this whole time, but instead of the idea of this being their souls trapped on the island, they are in fact trapped in their own bodies...

this would also make the "purgetory" theory fly because they would be in fact trapped between life and death...

I hope that made sense, Im trying to fire this out before I head off to work, but thats my new theory and I just wondered what you guys thought about it...

looking forward to the next show guys

keep it up
later
Ryan

[Abbey]

first time listener.

I've seen many lost casts appear since basically premiere of season 2. I only listen to one other Lostcast too.

I gotta be able stand peoples voices to actually subscribe to a podcast in general. So I subscribed to this one...and I love hearing Theories and reviewing the episode(s) of Lost.

besides I think I might have missed a few things in episode Orientation. Because my stepbrother didn't have sound loud enough.
Yes I tivoed Lost and watch Veronica Mars.
My Stepbrother really just watched the pilot and hadn't really tuned in since so he was like wtf when we were watching Orientation. he asked me too many questions while I was tryin' watch.

So by end of episode my stepbrother and I were just kind of shouting "Press the damn button already Jack!"

What I wanted know why they brought Hurley down to the hatch? because Hurley thinks those numbers are absolutely cursed...Kate knows or should know that he goes nuts about those numbers or maybe that's why they brought Hurley to the hatch.

[Chris B. Behrens]

1. Jin's English will be in either a vision or a dream.

2. I suspect that the flashbacks are all bogus, i.e., implanted memories. This explains a lot. Not everything of course, but a lot: Hurley's numbers (which in reality are just the coordinates of the island, broadcast on a navigation beacon), Locke's legs, everybody having all of the pre-flight connections...

The memories are implanted to study how people with these specific approaches to things react to various stimuli on the island. The Others have taken Walt because his abilities can screw up the experiment by influencing the results.

3. I think the folks holding Sawyer et al are the other survivors who have had a harder time surviving the Others. Upon capturing them, they think that they've captured two of the Others and need to check them out with Analucia.

[scott]

hey abbey , hurley just follow sayid when kate runs to get sayid

[matt]

I agree with Josh that the Dharma Initiative logo isn't on Desmond's shirt. But if it is some variation of it, maybe a Hanso owned entity was a sponsor of his race. It fits with my theory that everyone who ends up on the island was selected.

I think Desmond might have been chosen to be the replacement without his knowledge. He fit a profile, but you can't just walk up to someone and say "hey you want to be part of a super secret experiment where we lock you in a hole on a deserted island and have you push a button for years on end?" But you can trick him there and present him with no alternative. I think the crash of 815 may be the same thing. They needed new subjects and/or staff for the island so they took a pre-selected group and crashed them on it.

Also I don't think Desmond said he was on a solar race around the world. I think he said he was on a solo race around the world.

Great cast. Love the music selection.

[matt]

I also think all the namaste and Dharma talk is just hippie crap. No larger connection to eastern philosophy and religion should be read into it beyond the fact that some of the tenants could have inspired the Dergroot's (sp?) research.

[Atrueskiay]

I just want to say, that out of all the podcast on lost, you guys are the best. You tend to have the best information, and you are also the most entertaining. I don't really have a theory, I think that theories are really a waste of time and energy on a show like Lost. that having been said, I can't wait to hear your podcast this week since its going to be all about the theories. Keep up the great work.

A true sky

[Randy]

I noticed something during the first season. The logo on desmond's shirt reminds me of it. Anywayz, during Locke's dream right before Boone died (they were trying to open the hatch in the dream)i noticed that Locke was wearing a different shirt than the yellow one he normally wears. It had what looked like some chinese or japanese writing on it. I dont know if this has already been discussed, but did anyone notice this?