Episode 17: Alice Isn’t Dead Part 1
This podcast is sometimes just a podcast but sometimes it isn’t just a podcast. That was utter nonsense, don’t mind me. This podcast is always at least a podcast. But is Alice isn’t dead just a podcast? If you are slightly confused then maybe you will empathize with us during our conversation about the first season of the podcast Alice Isn’t Dead. Continue reading Episode 17: Alice Isn’t Dead Part 1
Episode 16: The Grand Budapest Hotel
When you check into the Grand Budapest hotel you can never leave… I think I got my references mixed up there, but you may never want to leave anyways based on how much we enjoyed our time with The Grand Budapest Hotel. Continue reading Episode 16: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Episode 15: Kentucky Route Zero
This podcast is about the friends we made along the way, and also how capitalism tried to tear us apart. Okay that’s not exactly true but also not exactly false. Kentucky Route Zero contains multitudes and so does our podcast about it. At least I hope it does. Continue reading Episode 15: Kentucky Route Zero
Episode 14: Howl’s Moving Castle
We have finally come to the end our Studio Ghibli series of Podcasts. We get into what turned about to be a surprising, funny and decidedly anti-war movie. This is maybe our broadest discussion around one of these movies but these movies, but the speaks to all the different ideas and themes that woven into this movie, all there for you to pay attention to or not. Continue reading Episode 14: Howl’s Moving Castle
Episode 13: The Vision (2015-16) & WandaVision
Hello, we are back after a week off, with maybe the most topical episode that we done yet. We are talking about a TV showing that is still coming out! We still have a throwback spin though. We are talking The Vision comic book series from about five years ago in conjunction with the the newly released WandaVision TV show. Continue reading Episode 13: The Vision (2015-16) & WandaVision
Episode 12: 2020 In Review
We are here at the end of the year and we think that is worth noticing and celebrating. We spend sone time on this episode reflecting on what brought us joy, what distracted us, what we struggled with and how we changed over the course of a year that continuously felt unprecedented. Continue reading Episode 12: 2020 In Review
Episode 11: Spirited Away
We are back after the holiday break with another episode in our Studio Ghibli series. This time it’s Spirited Away, the only Studio Ghibli movie to win an Oscar. This is widely considered their best movie for reasons that we try to figure out during our conversation. Continue reading Episode 11: Spirited Away
Episode 10: BTS & Sufjan Stevens Holiday Music
It’s a musical mashup episode in which we mash up two genres that have basically nothing to do with each other. For the first half of the episode We talk about the pop music sensation BTS and their new-ish album Be. We follow that up in the second half of the episode with a a thorough, or at least as thorough as we could be, discussion of the Christmas and holiday music of Sufjan Stevens. Continue reading Episode 10: BTS & Sufjan Stevens Holiday Music
Bonus Episode: Kiki’s Delivery Service
We are back with another Studio Ghibli movie! This time we watched Kiki’s Delivery Service and then we tried to talk about it. This is an extremely funny and pleasant movie but in way that’s different from a movie like My Neighbor Totoro and we tried to get at exactly why that is. Continue reading Bonus Episode: Kiki’s Delivery Service
Episode 9: Slaughterhouse Five (GN)
Episode nine is here and this one is definitely not bad! No, it’s actually really good and we are proud of it. Angela and I discuss the recently released graphic novel adaptation of the Slaughterhouse Five. We were both a little nervous that we were going to struggle to find something to latch onto in here and really analyze. It ended up that we both dug into this question of how do you adapt a novel into a similar but still crucially different medium. What gets brought along and what is left behind. Continue reading Episode 9: Slaughterhouse Five (GN)
Episode 8: Princess Mononoke
We are back for episode eight with our second Studio Ghibli movie. This week we watched the 1997 movie Princess Mononoke. I think we both expected something a little bit different based on the last Ghibli movie we watched but we both very much enjoyed the complexity we found here. Continue reading Episode 8: Princess Mononoke
Episode 7: Boys State
Ohhh it’s a bit of spicy one. Episode number seven and we are already talking politics. This is our best episode yet though I think. We talk about the Recent Apple TV+ movie Boys State, where a bunch of teenage boys don’t learn how politics actually work, or maybe they do, we’ll get into into. Hope you enjoy. Continue reading Episode 7: Boys State
Episode 6: Mystery Show Podcast
It’s time for us to get very meta, by doing a podcast about another much more popular podcast. No but really this is a good one. Mystery Show occupies an important space for both of us but also kind of in what podcasts have become. It’s an interesting time capsule of that moment in podcasting but it definitely has many enduring qualities. Continue reading Episode 6: Mystery Show Podcast
Episode 5: My Neighbor Totoro
Episode five, half way to ten! This week we talk about the Studio Ghibli movie My Neighbor Totoro. This is the first of a series of Ghibli movies that we will be watching over the next few months. This is very much an introduction to the works of Studio Ghibli for both of us and a process of learning how to talk about these movies. Continue reading Episode 5: My Neighbor Totoro
Episode 4: The King of Staten Island
We did it, or Angela finally made me do it. We watched The new(ish) Judd Apatow movie made with comedian Pete Davidson and released earlier this year on the internet. This one gets a little heavy as we try to figure out exactly what this movie is trying to do and does it succeed. Continue reading Episode 4: The King of Staten Island
Episode 3: A Tale For The Time Being
Episode Three is here. I know it’s too early to have a long lost episode but this is our lost first episode. We weren’t sure if we wanted to re-record the episode but we thought it was worth it, we hope you do too. Continue reading Episode 3: A Tale For The Time Being
Episode 2: Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension
Episode 2 of the podcast is here! We get into the new album from Sufjan Stevens, The Ascension. You’re going to hear us struggle with these first impression and react to Sufjan’s opinions about his past work and how this album critiques that work. e first impression and react to Sufjan’s opinions about his past work and how this album critiques that work. I hope we did his work justice because he really is one of our favorite artists and his work has meant a lot to us over the years. Continue reading Episode 2: Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension
Episode 01: Oxenfree
Our first episode, and it’s international podcast day no less! We get into the narrative/interactive game Oxenfree and try to figure our what it’s all about. Continue reading Episode 01: Oxenfree
Where’s The Pod: 8/28/20
Podcast recommendations are back, thIS week is heavily focused on games and food. An odd pairing but i think it works. Continue reading Where’s The Pod: 8/28/20
Runaways #13
Alex Wilder is back! How do the Runaways deal with him and the giant three-headed dinosaur he brought with? Continue reading Runaways #13
Paper Girls #25
The final issue of this arc of Paper Girls, can they re-write their future and do they want to? Continue reading Paper Girls #25
X-23 #4
Laura has found Gabby, but she’s too late. What will become of Gabby and what is the Cuckoo’s plan? Continue reading X-23 #4
Play Nice: A Games Journal
A few final thoughts about Marvel’s Spider-Man. How is this game asking us to think about it, and does it deserve that consideration. Continue reading Play Nice: A Games Journal
Paper Girls #24
Still stuck in the future the girls search for a cure, a way home, and a reason to keep on. Continue reading Paper Girls #24
Runaways #12
Nico and Karolina, and Gert and Victor. Will they finally or is it all just too complicated? Continue reading Runaways #12
