If you've been watching the news lately you might have noticed that things have been... kind of gloomy. Trump is running for president again. Twitter is imploding. The pandemic is still here. BUT... it's Thanksgiving! At least it is here in America. Thanksgiving's origins tell of friendship and togetherness between natives and colonizers. OK, it's probably a myth. But, a lot of the modern holiday appears to be ... being trapped with your family and dealing with THAT drunken uncle who has questionable politics. But we talk about that sort of thing all the time. Instead, this Thanksgiving, we decided that maybe we'd celebrate it by having a distinctly positive episode about the holiday. So, on this episode Mav, Katya, Hannah and Monica talk about what they enjoy about the...
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e242. A Specifically Very Positive Thanksgiving Ep
If you’ve been watching the news lately you might have noticed that things have been… kind of gloomy. Trump is running for president again. Twitter is imploding. The pandemic is still here. BUT… it’s Thanksgiving! At least it is here in America. Thanksgiving’s origins tell of friendship and togetherness between natives and colonizers. OK, it’s…
e241. Wakanda Forever & MCU Diversity
Wakanda Forever, the sequel to Black Panther, is finally here. Obviously we have to talk about it. Due to the unfortunate passing of Chadwick Boseman, this movie sort of had built in cultural appeal from the very start. We knew that going in. However, it also somehow managed to be a lot more than that.…
Call For Comments: Wakanda Forever and Replacing Deceased Actors
From Mav: So, I saw Black Panther: Wakanda Forever last week and without spoilers, it was basically everything I thought it would be. I enjoyed it a lot. Pretty much from the moment they announced they were still going to make the film, without recasting Chadwick Boseman, it was pretty clear that they were going…
e240. Reality Twitter? (and Politics)
Running a pop culture podcast isn’t easy. One of the biggest problems is that popular culture is a moving target. There’s just… always stuff happening! We can’t really get to it all. Every once in a while rather than pick a stable topic, we like to get together and just do a sort of free…
e239. Why Doctor Who?
This is another one of those shows where we wonder how have we done this many episodes of a pop culture podcast without devoting one to this fandom. Doctor Who has been a staple of science fiction for almost 60 years! The franchise has crossed over from television into comics, novels, radios plays, pin ball…
e238. Dragons and Rings and Other Fantasy TV
There’s been a lot of Fantasy TV on the air lately. House of the Dragon and Rings of Power have both been airing as prequels to their respective fantasy genres (Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings) and have given fans of Fantasy TV no shortage of things to watch for the last couple…
e237. So, We Need to Talk About Kanye…
Three weeks ago, Kanye West decided to premiere a line of White Lives Matter t-shirts at Paris Fashion Week… and somehow with that at the starting point pretty much every day since he has somehow managed to become MORE racist and problematic. And so, in the last few weeks, Kanye has continued a persistent stream…
Call For Comments: Doctor Who – It’s Bigger on the Inside!
“Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.”– Dimitri Marianoff, Einstein: An Intimate Study of a Great Man From Wayne: I came to Doctor Who fandom fairly late, which, considering my hobbies and interests, is strange. Even so, I feel like I have always been aware of…
e236. Is The Rocky Horror Picture Show a Bad Movie?
If you’ve been following the show the last several weeks then you know we’ve started a series where we have been looking at some of our favorite controversial movies and trying to convince you of the value of them as great films. It’s also October, so we wanted to get some Halloween content in for…
Call For Comments: Do We Need To Talk About Kanye?
From Mav: A few days ago, friend of the show (and host of the Handsome Genius Club Radio Show) Kingdom James texted me asking if I wanted to do a crossover episode where we talk about Kanye West’s recent nonsense. So I sat down to write it, but wasn’t feeling quite inspired, so I figured…