This week we're talking about Volume 2 of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World! Scott finally makes the right choice, outsmarts Chris Evans on a skateboard, and has a breakdown about his ex.
Apr 26, 2024•27 min•Ep. 93
This week we're talking about Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Volume 1 of the series)! We chat about the various adaptations of the series and Scott's single brain cell.
Apr 12, 2024•37 min•Ep. 92
This week we have Glen and Gertie Nuzzles to talk about A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens! We chat about ghost stories, Christmas in the Victorian era, old timey entertainment, and Muppet oppression. Find Glen and Gertie's podcast, Gestating the Curious Mind, under the Nuzzle House umbrella @HouseNuzzle.
Mar 29, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 91
This week we're talking about the 1941 sci fi short story By His Bootstraps by Robert A. Heinlein! Buckle up in the time gate to chat about paradoxes, capitalist propaganda, and Doctor Who.
Mar 15, 2024•59 min•Ep. 90
This week we're playing a new game courtesy Amy and ChatGPT! Chantelle is guessing books based on riddles. Will she live up to her English degree or will those book spines crack under the pressure?
Mar 01, 2024•36 min•Ep. 89
This week we're rounding out Chinua Achebe's African Trilogy with Arrow of God! This episode memorializes Professor Pius Adesanmi, who made Amy love the book. https://newsroom.carleton.ca/story/carleton-mourns-loss-of-professor-pius-adesanmi/ https://youtu.be/fsxGJj6YsB8?si=ctSOFkLpW6N1_ZKP
Feb 16, 2024•39 min•Ep. 88
This week we're talking about Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, toxic masculinity, the insidiousness of colonialism, and yams.
Feb 02, 2024•50 min•Ep. 87
This week we're taking a trip down memory lane to the city where it all began! Our chat on Consolation by Michael Redhill delves into memory, stories, history, and a whole lotta red tape. Content warning: suicide.
Jan 19, 2024•46 min•Ep. 86
This week we're talking about Arthur Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia featuring your boy Sherlock Holmes! We chat feminism with Irene Adler (who is not like other girls) and how heart eyes can make you an unreliable narrator.
Jan 05, 2024•27 min•Ep. 85
This week we talk about Marvel comic What If... Magik Became the Sorcerer Supreme? Illyana Rasputin kicks butt, becomes an apprentice to Dr. Strange, and takes a nice little beach vacation.
Dec 22, 2023•29 min•Ep. 84
We're back with original poems from reddit's r/OCPoetry and our beloved community! Thank you to Beesarecool, Marvellous_Loki, James Russell, Mayura/cenaplec, Peyton, James Teller of the If You Want the Gravy blog, Gertie from Nuzzle House, and Jamie from Timeline Scavengers for letting us share your poems!
Dec 08, 2023•50 min•Ep. 83
This week, we take a serious moment to talk about the genocide in Gaza. For more information, follow these creators: @ahmedhijazee (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok) @mahmoudzuaiter (TikTok) or @mahmoudabuzaiter (Instagram) @motaz_azaiza (Instagram) @alijadallah66 (Twitter, Instagram) @byplestia (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok) @aborjelaa (Instagram, TikTok) @joegaza93 (Twitter, Instagram) @mohammedelkurd (Instagram) @mariam_abdallahhh (Instagram) or @mariamabdallah47 (TikTok)...
Nov 24, 2023•20 min•Ep. 82
This week we welcome Az (@Cals_Calzones) to talk about Harvey by Mary Chase, a play that explores the love between a man and his invisible 6 foot talking rabbit. We chat mental health, imaginary friends, and ghosts!
Nov 10, 2023•57 min•Ep. 81
This week, Ben and Nate from Words About Books join us to talk about Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. We also discuss werewolves, anxiety, and Shakira. Follow wordsaboutbookspodcast on Instagram and Threads!
Oct 27, 2023•43 min•Ep. 80
This week we're talking about Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House with special guest Ethan! We talk spooky ghosts, femme friendships, and "roommates".
Oct 13, 2023•48 min•Ep. 79
This week we talk about Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, a nice normal essay. Also, unrelated, Hozier's Eat Your Young.
Sep 29, 2023•31 min•Ep. 78
Amy is getting married! We're celebrating by reading love poems including Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Mountain Song by Tophouse, and a surprise sonnet.
Sep 15, 2023•16 min•Ep. 77
In this very last episode of Shakespeare's histories, Amy brings us Henry VIII, which has less murder than you would expect and might be a eulogy!
Sep 01, 2023•33 min•Ep. 76
Today we're wrapping up (the main part of) Shakespeare's Henriad with our collective favourite history play, Richard III! We talk villain motivations, royal propaganda, and woman power in Medieval England.
Aug 18, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 75
We are finally finished with Shakespeare's Henry VI! Margaret goes nuclear, everyone dies, and our boy Richard III makes an appearance.
Aug 04, 2023•42 min•Ep. 74
We're back with the second installment of the Henry VI trilogy, AKA Seventeen-Year-Old Gets Messy! Featuring prophecies, witches, murder, and no it's not Macbeth.
Jul 21, 2023•46 min•Ep. 73
We are back with a healthy dose of Shakespearean history! This week we venture back into France, where things are going awry and the women (gasp) are doing WAR THINGS (GASP)! Featuring a special appearance by Joan of Arc.
Jul 07, 2023•41 min•Ep. 72
This week we take a break from Shakespeare's sparkling wit and charm to enjoy Amy's as she gives us a history background on the War of the Roses.
Jun 23, 2023•20 min•Ep. 71
We are about halfway through Shakespeare's Henriad with Henry V! We mosey on over to France for a fourteen year war that could have been avoided with foresight and a Zoom call.
Jun 09, 2023•58 min•Ep. 70
We're back with the ending of Henry IV's story! Is this play good? Or could it have been an email? (Nice.)
May 26, 2023•45 min•Ep. 69
We're still talking about rebellions, royals, and wars in Shakespeare's Henriad! This week, we talk about Henry IV Part 1, where everyone is named Henry and we meet the most aggro character of the Shakespeare canon.
May 12, 2023•36 min•Ep. 68
Years in the making, we're finally covering Shakespeare's Henriad in a new series! We begin with Richard II, who was indeed a Dick 2 everyone.
Apr 28, 2023•47 min•Ep. 67
In this episode recorded on April Fools Day (ish), we return to our dear old friend, Reddit OC Poetry... with a twist.
Apr 14, 2023•34 min•Ep. 66
This week we're talking about Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray! In which everyone is in love with the same person and nobody wins. Content warning for suicide.
Mar 31, 2023•43 min•Ep. 65
This week we talk about Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with a bad guy narrator.
Mar 17, 2023•26 min•Ep. 64