Julia and Victoria are joined by Hayley and yet another Victoria (No, this is not confusing at all.) from Gold Plated Girls to chat about creativity and pop culture, choosing your team and fighting imposter syndrome, and--unbelievably--baseball.

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    Mentioned in the episode:

“Julia,” by the Beatles

Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!

Victoria Edel’s piece in the New Yorker

How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy by Lynette Rice

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

The Secret History by Donna Tart

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

“The Most Surprising Side Effect of Regular Exercise” by Hayley Schueneman

Squid Game

Girl Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

Scarlett Johannsen suing Disney

Parasite

Recommendations:

Taskmaster

New Girl

Mystic Pizza

Pray Away documentary

Julia and Victoria make another foray into the gothic genre with Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and spend a fair amount of time talking about mushrooms.

Quick note: In this episode we misspoke when discussing War of the Worlds. It was in fact written by H.G. Wells and not H.P. Lovecraft!

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Mentioned in the episode:

The Shining by Stephen King

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Moreno-Garcia

Moreno-Garcia interview

The Dark (horror magazine)

Innsmouth Free Press

Book Club Jane Eyre episode

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Voyage Into Genre podcast

Recommendations:

Fantastic Fungi documentary

If I Can’t Have Love I Want Power by Halsey on HBO

Friction Vol. 18 Legacy

Velvet Was The Night by Moreno-Garcia

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Currently Obsessed:

Koval whiskey

Podnews.net

Thestorygraph.com

Squid Game

Julia and Victoria have an impromptu therapy session discussing And Then We Grew Up by Rachel Friedman about the complicated relationship creative adults have with the art forms they pursued in their youth.

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Mentioned in the Episode:

   Good Girls Guide to Getting Lost by Rachel Friedman

   Cave Painting article in The Guardian

    Recommendations:

    On Balance by Adam Philips

    Missing Out by Adam Philips

    Still Writing by Dani Shapiro

    Scratch by Manjula Martin

    Having and Being Had by Eula Biss

    EveningCrickets YouTube channel

    Veronique Doisneau from Paris Opera Ballet on Youtube

    Currently Obsessed:

   Wheelchair Sports Camp (musician)

    Kikwetu coffee roaster in Chicago

    Sam Trump (musician)

No philosopher ever needs to ponder the nature of humor or ask the question, “What makes something funny?” ever again because Julia and Victoria have definitely solved it with this episode’s discussion of Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade.

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Mentioned in the episode:

    The West Wing (HBO)

    View From the Top (film)

    The West Wing Weekly (podcast)

    The Graham Norton Show

    The Mighty Boosh

    The Double (film)

    Submarine (film)

    The Crystal Maze (game show)

    The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

    John Oliver

    The Arctic Monkeys

    Radiohead

    The YeahYeahYeahs

    Vampire Weekend

    Kasabian

    The Great British Baking Show

    “Time After Time” by Cyndi Lauper

    Heideger (philosopher)

    Ways of Seeing by John Berger

    Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

    Watching the English by Kate Fox

    Shrill by Lindy West

    Samin Nosrat

    Hrishikesh Hirway

Recommendations:

    The Grip of a Film by Richard Ayoade

    Gold Plated Girls newsletter

    Big Fat Quiz of the Year

    IT Crowd

    How Did This Get Made (podcast)

    Shit, Actually by Lindy West

Currently Obsessed:

    Big Mouth (Netflix)

    The Allusionist (podcast)

   “ Isolation,” by The Parasocial Club

    Dear White People season 4 (Netflix)

    Money Heist season 5 (Netflix)

    Montero by Lil Nas X

    Starcrossed by Kacey Musgraves

    Screen Violence by Chvrches

Julia and Victoria, along with Julia’s mom, chat about their comfort books and the novel Leave It To Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse.

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Mentioned in the Episode:

A Bounty of Blandings by P. G. Wodehouse

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

Twelfth Night by Shakespeare

She’s the Man

King Lear by Shakespeare

Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade

Blade Runner 2049

Recommendations:

Psmith series by Wodehouse

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Funny Girl by Nick Hornby

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Currently Obsessed:

Victoria’s storygraph account

Can’t Believe It’s Not Meat (restaurant)

Sex Education season 3

Dune (film)

If I Can’t Have Love I Want Power album by Halsey

Julia and Victoria read their favorite (and only) social anthropology book, Watching the English by Kate Fox, which helped Julia tap into her innate anthropological powers.

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Mentioned in the Episode:

Topping and Company Booksellers, Ely

Anthropologist Robin Fox

Star Trek

Recommendations:

Quiet by Susan Cain

Ugly Delicious on Netflix

Home Game on Netflix

X by Daniel Sloss

The Culture Map by Erin Meyer

NativLang on Youtube

Lost in the Pond on Youtube

Currently Obsessed:

Exiles by Max Richter

Julia and Victoria try to solve the Who, the How, and the Why of Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu and may or may not reach a verdict. Victoria invents a new grammatical tense.

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Mentioned in this Episode:

- Birdman (film)

- Master of None on Netflix

- Bob’s Burgers on Fox

- Westworld on HBO

- Legion on Hulu

- Sorry For Your Loss on Facebook Watch

- Charles Yu on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

- Law and Order: SVU on Hulu

- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

- Jane Austen’s Use of Free Indirect Discourse

- Virginia Woolf

Recommendations:

- Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade

- Community on Netflix

- The Truman Show (film)

- How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe by Charles Yu

- Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu

Currently Obsessed:

- Duolingo

- Bleachers new album Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night

Julia and Victoria enter a dream state to talk about Beloved by Toni Morrison and its place within both the horror genre and American history.

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Mentioned in the Episode:

- American Horror Story, TV Series

- National Women’s History Museum

- St Anthony

- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

- Sula by Toni Morrison

- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

- True story of Margaret Garner

- Charlotte Brontë

- Get Out film, directed by Jordan Peele

- Rosemary’s Baby film, directed by Roman Polanski

- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

- Outlander, TV series

- Beloved film directed by Jonathan Demme

- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks film, directed by George C. Wolfe

- BROCKHAMPTON, band

Recommendations:

- Atlanta, TV Series

- Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

- Jazz by Toni Morrison

- Paradise by Toni Morrison

- Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

- Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Currently Obsessed:

- American Boyfriend, album by Kevin Abstract

- Atypical season 3

- Olympics story of male high jumpers sharing gold

- Hotel TV, album by Lawrence

- Anna Locke moon circles

Julia reads her essay “What Your Autistic Body Feels Is Real: How I Found Out I Was Gaslighting Myself For Years and What I’m Doing Now.”

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Mentioned in the Episode:

The Cozy Robot Show

Neurotribes, by Steve Silberman (and Book Club episode)

The Reason I Jump, by Naoki Higashida (and Book Club episode)

Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8, by Naoki igashida (and Book Club episode)

The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion (and Book Club episode)

Book Club membership tiers

The original essay on medium