"They launched Frankenstein's Monster, but inside of Frankenstein's Monster is a really good tool that can summarize lots of PDFs."

Special Guest: Paul Ford.

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• Trailer for Alien: Earth | Season 1, Episode 6 Trailer - The Fly | FX — Tensions rise as powerful enemies confront each other, a dangerous plan unfolds, and curiosity leads to deadly consequences. FX’s Alien: Earth, Tuesdays on FX. Stream on Hulu.

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• YouTube trailer for ALIEN: EARTH, Episode 5: In Space...

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• YouTube trailer for ALIEN: EARTH, Episode 4: OBSERVATION

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Editor and writer Maria Bustillos, Diana Moskovitz, Investigations Editor/co-owner/resident cat lady & BTS fan at Defector, and today's guest of Flaming Hydra: cartoonist, zinester, teacher, sculptor, and illustrator Carmen Johns immerse us in the KPop Demon Hunters movie. And soundtrack! LOADED WITH SPOILERS: K-Pop power defeats shame and self-doubt! Pod producer: Joe MacLeod.

Special Guests: Carmen Johns and Diana Moskovitz.

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• LIGHTSTICKS by Diana Moskovitz — I fell into BTS fandom during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when all the news was bad and I had plenty of time on my hands to learn what exactly was going on with this Korean boy band that people kept talking about. So I really did want to see the recent solo tour by BTS member j-hope; once again all the news is bad and, though I have less time on my hands these days, I still am desperate for a rush of joy wherever I can get it.

A distinguished panel who will be yelling at each other most entertainingly for the next 35 minutes or so about the new ALIEN EARTH series. Editor and writer Maria Bustillos, Leila Brillson, a writer and strategist who used to work in media and then sold out for entertainment and then became CMO of The Onion, and Josephine Reisman, the New York Times bestselling author of Ringmaster and True Believer. Pod producer: Joe MacLeod.

Special Guests: Josephine Riesman and Leila Brillson.

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• Birthing the Alien, by Leila Brillson — In Alien 3, perhaps the series’ entry that leans the most into the body horror, Ripley finally finds herself—after all of her friends have fallen—infected by the Xenomorph. She stands in front of the audience of men sent by Weyland-Yutani and jumps, presumably terminating both her and the chestburster inside of her. I think about her a lot. Not the decision to commit suicide instead of becoming a host, but the decision to do it on her own terms, refusing to be co-opted, or to let the company decide her destiny, beating her own body into submission. Sure, she gets Alien’d, but she insists on staying the same, stubborn Ripley.

A distinguished panel who will be yelling at each other most entertainingly for the next 40 minutes or so. Josephine Reisman, the New York Times bestselling author of Ringmaster and True Believer, S.I. Rosenbaum, a journalist and artist, Zach Rabiroff, a writer on books, comics, and culture, living in Brooklyn, Sam Thielman, a reporter, critic, essayist, and editor and graphic novel columnist for the New York Times, and pod producer Joe MacLeod.

Special Guests: Josephine Riesman, S.I. Rosenbaum, Sam Thielman, and Zach Rabiroff.

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Joe MacLeod and Sam Thielman discuss Sam's Flaming Hydra piece "My Ten Favorite Superman Stories," and Sam goes way past ten.

Special Guest: Sam Thielman.

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• My Ten Favorite Superman Stories — I love Superman. He was originally conceived as a vagrant corrupted by ultimate power in a short story by Jerry Siegel called “The Reign of the Superman.” Siegel was scared of girls and introverted with other boys, too. He didn’t do well in school. His buddy Joe Shuster illustrated it; the boys couldn’t give the thing away. Eventually they ran it in the third issue of their own fanzine, Science Fiction: The Advance Guard of Future Civilization.

Nathan Munn, Canadian, and Zach Rabiroff, New Yorker, discuss the recent and somewhat surprising results of the big election in Canada. Joe MacLeod pressed the RECORD button.

Here's "Poilievre Ran on Anger. Fanjoy Knocked on 15,000 Doors," a good interview with Bruce Fanjoy, the Liberal MP who beat the Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in his own riding: https://thewalrus.ca/poilievre-ran-on-anger-fanjoy-knocked-on-15000-doors/

Here's the link to Charlie Angus's THE RESISTANCE. https://substack.com/@charlieangus

Special Guests: Nathan Munn and Zach Rabiroff.

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• THE WALRUS interview with Bruce Fanjoy, Liberal MP — Here's "Poilievre Ran on Anger. Fanjoy Knocked on 15,000 Doors," a good interview with Bruce Fanjoy, the Liberal MP who beat the Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in his own riding.