Eating the Mascot

We've arrived at the season and series finale for Eating the Mascot. In this month's episode, hosts Ross and Adam discuss the television show Fleabag from Phoebe Waller-Bridge and the Japanese anime Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Topics of discussion include craft, talking to someone during sex, sexual subjectivity, favourite characters from massive casts, weird differences between versions, and war. Thanks for coming along for the ride! We love you, stay frosty!

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood discussion starts at 37:14. 

A podcast is never late, nor is it early. It arrives precisely when it means to! So here we are, precisely when we meant to! In the latest episode of Eating the Mascot hosts Ross and Adam discuss twin movies: Dope and Da 5 Bloods. And this episode features our first ever guest appearance in the form of Atiya Police to help discuss Dope. Topics include complexity, hi-jinks, Blackness, stunning performances, land mine anxiety, and film techniques. There is also a very important message about the future of Eating the Mascot at the end of this episode so be sure to listen through to the end!

Welcome to July where the heat keeps coming and the Eating the Mascot co-hosts have plenty to talk about! Hosts Ross and Adam discuss the novel The City & the City by China Mieville and Square Enix's Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Topics of conversation include doubling, a lugubrious tutting bugger, police states, the charming recreation of characters, lips, and whether something is a verb or a noun. Don't you dare tell us you're not interested cause we know the truth! Please, enjoy!

Another month has arrived with a new episode of Eating the Mascot for you to enjoy. This month, hosts Adam and Ross discuss the anime Made in Abyss and the narrative adventure game Afterparty. Topics of conversation include world-building, unsatisfying mystery boxes, creepy characterization, linear story-telling, drinking culture, and some of the many forms of dependency. As Pride Month begins, COVID-19 continues, and protests continue throughout North America, we hope everyone is safe and doing what they can to help.

Beam us up! Eating the Mascot this month pits hosts Adam and Ross against the TV shows Star Trek: Picard and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Topics of discussion include the risk of putting our trust in flawed institutions, weird space tentacles, the cynicism of new Star Trek, the deconstruction of genre, unbelievable fight sequences, and how anime will often write around a unifying concept.

We start with Star Trek: Picard and start discussing Puella Magi Madoka Magica at 37:18.

Hey everybody. It's a very different world than it was the last time that hosts Adam and Ross got together and discussed their picks for each other. But we want you to know we are doing fine, we're still making this podcast, and we hope it can give you even just a small amount of distraction or pleasure during this crazy time. Stay well.

In this month's episode Ross and Adam discuss the movie Scott Pilgrim vs the World and the dark fantasy novel Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Topics of discussion include love and pain, manic pixie dream girls, oozing style, whiteness and Blackness in fantasy, a poetics of violence, and truth. These pairings could not be more stark but that doesn't mean we aren't going to wrangle together some kind of connection before the end. What is it? Guess you'll have to listen to find out!

We start with Scott Pilgrim vs the World and start discussing Black Leopard, Red Wolf at 32:55.

Hope you've been staying frosty since we last saw you because Eating the Mascot is back and we don't have a moment to lose. Hosts Ross and Adam have a lot to say about the picks this month: HBO's Westworld (Season 1) and Paul Krueger's Steel Crow Saga. Topics include wish-fulfillment, how good characters can be deplorable humans, fake memories but real emotions, decolonizing literature, precious boys who need to be protected, and dunking on straight authors. Well, what are you still doing reading this description? Hit that play button!

Crack your knuckles and tighten your buckles because Eating the Mascot is here to break the February blues. In this episode, hosts Adam and Ross discuss the X-Men comic event House of X/Powers of X along with the homage to everyone's (or at least Ross') favourite wall-crawler in Spider-Man: Life Story. Topics include inevitable story arcs, people being able to walk, human-centric perspectives, clones, getting tucked in, and how endings are rarely ever endings. There's a smell in the air and its that fresh Eating the Mascot scent you've all been waiting for. Punch it!

Kicking off 2020 with our first retro pick, Episode 16 has hosts Ross & Adam discussing BioShock Infinite from Irrational Games and Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater. Topics include revisiting the past, Inception Syndrome, historical trajectories, modern fantasy world-building, slow-burn writing, and emotional character development. Don't miss out on the first new episode of both the year and decade from your friends at Eating the Mascot!

The last episode of 2019 has arrived and with it hosts Adam & Ross discuss the novel Every Little Piece of Me by Amy Jones and the indie game Katana Zero from Askiisoft. Topics include the melodramatic mode, an abundance of lighthouses, the melodramatic mode, neo-cyber-punk aesthetics, time-y wime-y stuff, and the confrontation of violence in video games. 2019 may be saying good-bye but Eating the Mascot isn't! Check out the latest episode now!