Kicking off 2019 in style, Ross and Adam discuss the television series This Is Us and the novel The Power by Naomi Alderman. Topics include crying, wholesomeness, honest storytelling, the horrible realities of our world, gender power dynamics, and narrative framing devices. Note: this episode does contain a trigger warning.

Another month, another episode of Eating the Mascot to entice and astound your senses! Get ready for Adam and Ross to gush about the 2018 video game God of War and swoon about the movie Pan's Labyrinth because that's what your in for. Topics of discussion include toxic masculinity, ripping a Valkyrie's wings off, Norse mythology, creepy prosthetic monsters, the cultural value of fantasy, and gut shot wounds. What are you still reading this for? Click play already and enjoy this nerdy goodness!

Ross and Adam are back for another episode of Eating the Mascot! This time around, our hosts discuss the novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and the second season of the CW television show Riverdale. Adam and Ross share their thoughts on teenage angst, secularized science fiction, Papa Poutine, Lacan's mirror stage, and social politics, to name a few. What are you waiting for? Hit play and hold onto your butts for episode two!