Hedge Clippings episodes:

• July 17, 2020Phantom Fan Series: Gerard Butler (2004)

  The third in a series comparing various interpretations

  of The Phantom of the Opera. Travis is not shy about expressing his

  opinion on this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad movie. Some would

  say this review demonstrates that he has become “unhinged”, but we leave

  that for you to decide.

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• July 04, 2020Miss Americana & My Complicated Relationship with Taylor Swift

  The documentary Miss Americana claims to show Taylor Swift

  in a new and unfiltered light. Does it? Travis ponders the riddle of

  Taylor Swift and addresses why he made two movies about her even though

  he’s unsure whether or not to call himself a fan.

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• June 20, 2020Book Review: How Bad Do You Want It?

  Travis reviews the first non-fiction sports book he has

  ever read. It has been said that running is a mental sport and this book

  claims to demonstrate how the brain can overcome some perceived

  limitations of the body. Travis shares his experience reading this book in

  preparation for running his first marathon and encourages anyone with an

  interest in the human brain to give it read.

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• June 13, 2020Questions About Rainbow Brite

  Journalist and writer Allison Chopin joins Travis for a

  more-serious-than-it-needs-to-be discussion of 80s cartoon Rainbow Brite.

  Does Rainbow lead a socialist utopia or is she the figurehead of a

  diabolical color cult? Other topics of discussion include the rebooting of

  cartoons and the creepiness of 80s classics.

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• May 30, 2020Review: His Dark Materials - Season 1

  Travis defends the 2007 film Golden Compass, manages to

  compliment an actor he hates, and makes a recommendation of who should

  watch.

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• May 20, 2020Interesting Humans: Pastor Nance

  Growing up, Nance Hixon knew he wanted to do one of two

  things: open a comic book shop or be a pastor. Having chose the latter,

  Travis asks him to provide proof of God’s existence, why bad things happen

  to good people, did Jesus die to save aliens too, and how does he live

  with cracks in his faith.

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• May 13, 2020Review - Locke and Key: Season 1

  Travis resists the urge to make too many key puns, outs an

  author’s secret identity, and locks down what target demographics he

  should be in.

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• May 04, 2020Ranking the Star Wars

  Episode 18: Nerd’s Nerd Phil Sevin joins the show for the

  inconceivable task of ranking the Star Wars films. Phil shares fashion

  tips from his youth, gets candid about his fiancee’s first time with the

  original threesome of films, and muses with Travis about what could have

  fixed the movies that went wrong. Trigger warnings for: extreme geekery,

  Last Jedi discussion, midichlorians, and space teets.

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• April 29, 2020Phantom Fan Series: Lon Chaney (1925)

  The second in a series comparing various interpretations

  of The Phantom of the Opera. This one comes with a heavy dose of cinema

  history as Travis discusses on set feuds, painful makeup, the multiple

  versions of the film, and which scenes make this version the one that

  remains most faithful to the original novel.

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• April 22, 2020A Dramatic Reading of "The Masque of the Red Death"

  Travis uses his time in quarantine to provide you with a

  reading of Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Masque of the Red Death,

  which includes tips on interior design, the importance of booking a band

  during a plague, and commentary on social distancing.

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