Episode 131: Catching Up 2024

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this episode we chat up and talk about what we’ve been reading and watching recently. Content warnings for strong language. We reference or spoil: Worcester Polytechnical Institute‘s IMGD program, The Art of Game Design: A Book of…

Episode 130: Blow the Man Down

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this episode we discuss the fake show Blow the Man Down. Content warnings for strong language, unreality (episode focuses on creation/discussion of media in an alternate reality), and references to child death (historical pirate John King). We…

Episode 129: Dead Man’s Hand

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAfter a long hiatus that we totally planned and wasn’t us failing to successfully arrange the schedules of four adults with lives, we return with an episode discussing an original story idea by Alex! Another in his series…

Episode 128: George of the Jungle (1997)

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this episode we discuss the 1997 film George of the Jungle. You can stream it on Disney+, or rent it on Amazon or YouTube. Content warnings for strong language, discussion of abusive relationships, unhealthy eating, toxic masculinity,…

Episode 127: Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this episode we discuss the 2001 film Ocean’s Eleven. You can rent it from Amazon, YouTube, or iTunes. Content warnings for strong language, casual crime, discussions of the patriarchy, being mean to Kat right off the bat,…

Episode 126: Oracle @ SciFi – Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this episode we discuss the upcoming video game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Content warnings for strong language, mentions of borderline beastiality (between a human and a humanoid fish), time travel, and theorizing with…

Episode 125: Wheel of Tropes 7

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this episode we once again play a game of our own devising called “Wheel of Tropes.” We use random TV Tropes, entries from Diana Wynne Jones‘s The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, a tarot card deck, and crayon…

Episode 124: Wonder Woman 1984

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this episode we discuss the 2020 film Wonder Woman 1984. You can stream it on HBO Max or rent it from Amazon or YouTube. Content warnings for strong language, Lack of consent, bodyswap, bodily autonomy, discussion of…

Episode 123: Iteration

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this episode we talk about an original story idea by Alex. It involves robots and AI!  Content warnings for strong language, robots, the problem of machine learning and algorithms, catholicism, Kat really having no idea how video…

Episode 122: Dog

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this episode we discuss the 2022 film Dog. You can stream it on Amazon Prime or rent it from Google Play or Apple TV. Content warnings for strong language, PTSD, war, American military industrial complex, military propaganda…