Category: Podcast
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Episode 27: Itaewon Class (9-16)
It’s finally here! Our discussion of the second half of Itaewon Class. Previously we talked about episodes 1-8 on the podcast, we are going to be finishing that discussion by going over episodes 9-16 and also discussing the series as a whole.
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Episode 26: Inside (Bo Burnham)
Thanks for joining us for another episode, I think you going to like this one. Today we are talking about Bo Burnham’s newest ‘comedy’ special on Netflix, Inside.
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Episode 25: Almond (A Novel)
We’re back with another episode, and this one is about a book. Yes We both actually found the time to read a book and I (we) can’t recommend it highly enough. The book is Almond (A Novel) by Sohn Won-pyung.
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Episode 24: Rushmore
We are back with the fourth and final movie in our short stroll through (some of) the films of Wes Anderson.
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Episode 23: Itaewon Class (Ep 1-8)
Hi all, sorry for the (checks notes) five-month break. No real excuse except for everything and nothing at all. Working through an editing backlog so hopefully will get a number of episodes out over the next few weeks as we start recording new episodes. This one here though is a good listen. We get into one of Angela’s favorite K-drama’s and I fall pretty hard for it too.
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Episode 22: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata. This Manga has a strong personal connection for each of us because of when we both read it for the first time about five years ago. Angela was in high school and I was in college and neither of us were where or who we wanted to be.
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Episode 21: Fantastic Mr Fox
It is finally here. All episode thus far have been leading up to this moment. No not really but we have been looking forward to this episode quite a bit in our Wes Anderson series. This is the Wes Anderson film we are most familiar with and something that we have been talking about in our episodes is the re-watchability of these movies, so movie was a good test of that for us.
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Episode 20: WandaVision Wrap-up
This episode is being posted a little bit later than expected but here are our final thoughts on the full season of WandaVision. This is the episode where Angela makes lots of really great points that I struggle to respond to cause I get really in my feelings about this show. Or I would be really in my feelings if I was a little bit clearer about what my feelings are?
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Episode 19: Inside
We take a look at Inside this week and try to see what’s in this horror-puzzle-2D-platformer from 2016. Turns out there is quite a bit in there for us to get into. It wouldn’t be a video game episode if Angela and I didn’t have at least slightly disagreeing viewpoint or opinions.
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Episode 18: Isle of Dogs
We are back with another episode in our ongoing Wes Anderson Series. This time is it 2018’s animated movie, Isle of Dogs. We get into all the issues that the internet settled a couple of years ago and try to figure out our feelings on the orientalism and the way it aestheticizes Japan without seemingly having any point of view. We also wonder if it has the enduring charm and attraction that we found in The Grand Budapest Hotel.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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