Thank you to Gabriela for commissioning AND guesting on this episode! This pair of episodes was a total game-changer in terms of how I feel about Robin, and Gabriela and I debate the pros and cons of putting this information earlier in the arc so that I cared about about the team rescuing Robin more. I guess that either way it wound up working out that Franky was captured along with her because that kept me invested, but I'm delighted with the major reveals that happen here which have me rooting...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 29 min
Thank you to Dan for commissioning this episode! It's already the end of the first book, and we get quite a twist! I have mixed feelings about it, but overall feel it was successful despite the potential for some more fleshed-out foreshadowing, and I'm very interested in seeing what will come of Hugh's strange new affinities. Thank you all so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Thank you to the One Piece Crew for commissioning this episode! This is the one where we finally get to see some of Robin's past and where she grew up, how she was raised, and how she learned so much about archaeology and the ponoglyphs. We also meet a new giant! Thank you all so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr
Thank you very much to Dan for commissioning this episode! These chapters are the ones where our friends head INTO THE LABYRINTH, if you can believe it! I should have seen this coming, but I was not keeping track of how much book there was to go so I didn't realize we were coming on the dealine! I am genuinely worried for Hugh here, and I really thought Godric might be dead. I was freaking out a little, y'all! Thanks for listening, and I will see you next week!...
Jan 17, 2023•59 min
Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! I can't believe this book is already over, but I hope that I managed to do it some kind of justice. I like where things are going with the Blossom Gang, but I'm a little worried about Savo/Kinri now that he's out there in the world by himself. Where is he going to go? What's he going to do? And what the fuck is happening with Jia's drug drop? Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with the start of Speaking Bones....
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Thank you to the One Piece crew for commissioning this episode! In this installment of the attack on Enies Lobby, the gang's all here! (No really, someone literally says that in the dialogue!) But Robin is still determined to not be rescued, and Franky is losing his patience with her. Meanwhile, Sanji is just a mess, and Zorro still has no sense of direction. Thanks so much for listening, and I will see you all again soon with a new episode!
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Thank you very much to Danny for commissioning this episode! In these chapters, there's a bit of a Moment with Talia when she follows Hugh back to his hidey-hole and gets nailed by his wards. They make up, though, and we get to see a lovely birthday celebration and adventure as our friends descend into the restricted section of the library. Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Thank you so much to Joanna for commissioning this episode! These chapters are the ones where we finally find out both what happened in that room with Darlington, and what happened at Ground Zero. And I am HERE FOR ALL OF IIIIIITTTTTTTT Thank you for listening, and I will see you next week with a new episode!
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr
Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! In these chapters we get a kind of baffling third challenge in the Restaurant Wars, and a real Moment between Kinri and Dandelion. Meanwhile, Mota is up to something with his plan to infiltrate Last Bite, but I can't figure out what that could be. And Thera is grieving while her children fight to live in the City Of Ghosts. Thank for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!
Jan 10, 2023•59 min
Thank you ever so much to the One Piece Crew for commissioning this episode! This is the section where it looks like everyone is about to level-up in terms of their powers, whether it be by sheer force of will or through consuming a Devil Fruit. I'm very curious to see what the powers will be that the CP9 agents have just acquired, and of course I desperately wanna know how Luffy's hot water bottle power works! Thanks so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!...
Jan 10, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Thank you to Dan for commissioning this episode! In these chapters, we find out what the story is not only with Talia and Sabae, but with our main character Hugh, whom we actually know very little about. Turns out they are each in oddly disadvantaged positions for various reasons that manifest in their relationship with magic, but now that they're working together...maybe things will turn around! Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!
Jan 10, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! I have to say, while I'm super sad that this show is over, I feel that this finale was a perfect stopping place, in terms of the overall arc for the show's growth as well as tonally being a little melancholy but mostly hopeful. I think it's a good indicator that a TV series ended when it should if you're feeling both sad but satisfied. Thank you all so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!...
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Thank you very much to the One Piece Crew for commissioning this episode! This is the one where the Rocketman finally manages to catch up with everyone else at Enies Lobby and sails right up over the walls and gates to land smack in the outer courtyard. Meanwhile, we've got a villain monologuing and getting his head almost bitten off, Zorro smug AF that he's more recognizable than Sanji, and Nami finally using her Climate Batons again! Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon soon!...
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Thank you very much to Dan for commissioning this episode! It's time to start a whole new journey, and we've got magical school with a more cohesive magical system than Hogwarts but with the same drawbacks as an American public school; namely a rigid, uniform approach to learning that offers no flexibility to students with special needs of their own. Thank you so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Thank you to Claire for commissioning this episode! This is the one where Jane starts to realize that she's got some feelings going on for Raphael that are getting impossible to ignore. Meanwhile, Michael is over here lying more and more to cover up Petra's involvement and it's really beginning to snowball. Jane has decided that she's ready to have sex, but I'm glad that circumstances aligned so that she doesn't go through with it. Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode...
Jan 01, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Thank you to the One Piece Crew for commissioning this episode! This trio of episodes starts us off on the Enies Lobby arc, and we've got new music too which I forgot to mention in the recording! (I like the new music this time around, I'm a fan of the faster beat because it suits the sort of frantic vibe of the show.) This is when Luffy kicks things off by launching himself over the gates, in complete opposition to their original plan. Thank you all for listening, and I will see you soon with a...
Jan 01, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! There were so many fun happy things going on in this one that I completely let my guard down and then the last scenes happened and knocked me on my ass. I hate this.
Jan 01, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! This was a fun parents-only episode about the wildest night of their lives back in '77 when they were all in school living through some of the worst of the violence of the Troubles while trying to just have normal lives. I'm very into this secret, and the way they told the story was super fun to watch. I love this show! Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!
Dec 31, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Thank you very much to the One Piece Crew for commissioning this episode! This duo of eps felt really strange and disconnected to me, and I think I'm going to let my show-notes at that and you can listen to exactly what I mean. Thanks, and I will see you again soon!
Dec 31, 2022•1 hr
Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode! In this one we've got the ghost of Nadja running away inside that little doll, Laszlo and Colin getting lured in by a siren, and Laszlo getting a little carried away at Best Buy. Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!
Dec 31, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Thank you to Claire for commissioning this episode! In the second delightful installment of this wonderful series, I once again underestimate how hard this show is willing to go. We've got injuries and murders, lies and deceptions, affairs, and a few people in the mix who really are just doing their best. I love this show!
Dec 24, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Thank you to Joanna for commissioning this episode! I'm so VERY into this book, y'all (As of this posting, I have already read the 4 chapters that come after this and OH MY GOD), and I am starting to see the shape of what Leigh Bardugo is doing in this book. At least, I think I am. Sexual assault being tossed around as a plot point is something that I don't love, but she's clearly zeroing in on the way women are treated in a universe run by rich and powerful men, so this feels like it's really g...
Dec 24, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! In this episode of Derry Girls, we get an interesting overlap in the plots where the girls are convinced the house they've been assigned to clean is haunted, while the parents are together trying to contact a spirit of their own. In the end, one of the ghosts is proved to be a regular flesh-and-blood man, but the other seems to be interested in helping Joe find something he's misplaced. Thanks so much to you all for listening, and I will see ...
Dec 24, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Thank you so much to Florian for commissioning this special holiday episode! For this one I get to watch a couple of delightful drag queens really duke it out over their views on Christmas, with some truly funny songs and fucking FABULOUS holiday outfits. This was a total change of pace and a really great way to spend an hour during the holidays, so if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. Happy Holidays, everyone!
Dec 24, 2022•1 hr 34 min
Thank you ever so much to the One Piece crew for commissioning this episode! These are the ones in which we get even more fighting against the crazy cook, Frankie going up against Nero, and Usopp desperately trying to convince Robin to let herself be rescued. Thank you all so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!
Dec 24, 2022•59 min
Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! This is yet another installment in the Restaurant Wars, which don't get me wrong I *am* enjoying but I'm also a little puzzled? This gonna be the whole rest of the book? Apparently not everyone loved it, and while I can definitely understand why I have to admit that I'm really kind of here for it. Anytime we have a focus on a bad restaurant manager and how a team that actually LIKES each other can work together, I love it. Thank you all so much f...
Dec 24, 2022•59 min
Thank you to the One Piece Crew for commissioning this episode! These are the ones in which we meet Sogeking, Usopp's alter ego, which is designed to shield him from the shame he feels after everything that has happened between him and the Strawhats while allowing him to participate in Robin's rescue. It's a great idea and I love it. Thanks so much to you all for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!
Dec 16, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Thank you to Gabriela for commissioning this episode! I'm very excited about the way this series has started out, because it has managed to make me care about characters almost immediately which is not an easy thing to pull off. The narrator is a really fun choice, and the absurdity of the series of events is well lampshaded and made to feel truly possible. I'm very much looking forward to more of this. Thank you so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Thank you to the One Piece crew for commissioning this episode! These are the episodes where Luffy and Zorro finally manage to escape the places they got trapped after their fights with Lucci, and they decide that they're going to risk it all to save Robin from the dire fate that awaits her on Enies Lobby. Kokoro has a trick up her sleeve named Rocketman, and a lot of people besides the Strawhats get on board to pursue the Sea Train. Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episo...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr
Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! This is the one where the whole crew is heading down Portrush for a seaside holiday, and there's a lot of excitement on the train ride down. Poor Claire is left behind to take a separate train by herself, and James inadvertently switches bags with a criminal who is carrying a gun and cash and...a bag of crisps. Thank you all so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 6 min
