Eating the Mascot

Eating the Mascot

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Eating the Mascot episodes

  • Episode 4: This Is Us & The Power

    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.

    1 hr 14 min
  • Episode 3: God of War & Pan's Labyrinth

    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!

    1 hr 6 min
  • Episode 2: Never Let Me Go & Riverdale

    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!

    1 hr 12 min
  • Episode 1: Red Rising & Kingdom Hearts
    In the premiere of Eating the Mascot, Adam and Ross talk about Red Rising by Pierce Brown and the Square Enix game Kingdom Hearts. Discussing such topics as fridging, female characterization, zany voice acting, and the power of friendship, Ross and Adam bring their particular perspectives on some of each other's favourite stories. How are Red Rising and Kingdom Hearts thematically or tonally connected? Give us a listen and find out!
    57 min

About Eating the Mascot

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Welcome to Eating the Mascot, a culture podcast with double the culture. For every episode hosts Ross and Adam share books, movies, TV shows, or video games that one of them likes and the other has no…