Hyperfixations

Elementary, my dear Hyperfixations!

Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions and discussions of drug addiction, racism, classism, homophobia, death of an animal

In this week's episode, podcaster, writer, musician and all around wunderkind J. R. Steele joins Ally and Nigel to discuss the man, the myth, the idea, Sherlock Holmes: we discuss different portrayals of Holmes, the problem with Moriarty, adaptations doing Watson dirty, the accessibility of Sherlock Holmes, and we try our best not to talk about BBC Sherlock..

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

Our guest J. R. can be found on Twitter @pen_of_steele, on Instagram @jaysdraws13

Jaymes' website can be found penofsteele.carrd.co

And J.R upcoming collaborations can be found on Twitter @SteeleandSpice and @AmongStacks

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339

You can't press every penny, sometimes you have to let some some pennies go

In this week's episode, Catherine Prasifka, author of None Of This Is Serious joins Ally and Nigel to talk pressed pennies (or elongated coins): we discuss how pennies can be pressed poorly, the power of small joys, the market for pressed pennies, why commemorative coins are bullshit, and we break new comedic ground.

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

Catherine's debut novel, None Of This Is Serious can be bought wherever good books are sold

Our guest Catherine can be found on Twitter, Tiktok, and Instagram @prasifcat

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339

All hail the God King (who may be Jesus... or Henry Cavill)

In this week's episode, Aaron sits down with Ally and Nigel to discuss wargame Warhammer 40K: we discuss the lore of Warhammer, the joy of painting miniatures, popular acceptance of niche interests, and we make some truly awful puns.

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

Our guest Aaron can be found on Twitter and Instagram @aarongrantdj

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339

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Podcaster and founder of Strong Branch Productions, Alex Kingsley - who has likely killed many celebrities (for legal reasons this is a joke) - joins Ally and Nigel to discuss the life and work of Douglas Adams: we discuss life, the universe and, everything, work outside Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams-like games, and what it must be like to clim Kilimanjaro dressed as a rhinoceros.

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

Our guest Alex can be found

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339

Background Music: Commercial Bliss by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/commercial-bliss/345

This is not for you

Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions and discussions of alcohol and drug addiction, mass deaths, war, existentialism, the 9/11 terror attacks, transphobia, genocide, paedophilia

BokToker and weird books enthusiast Jen Insight joins Ally and Nigel to discuss the truly bizarre landscape of weird books: we discuss how to get into reading weird books, BookTok, what makes a book weird, and why the Bible is truly a weird book.

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

Our guest Jen can be found on Tiktok and YouTube @jeninsight, and on Instagram and Twitter @jen_insight

Jen also recommends the following BookTokers if you're looking for more book recommendations!

@schizophrenicreads

@thegr8estangell

@baker.reads

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339

Background Music: Commercial Bliss by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/commercial-bliss/345

Something is rotten in the state of California

Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions of abuse, domestic abuse, child sexual abuse

Nepotism is alive and well in the studio as Ally's brother Jamie sits down with Ally and Nigel to discuss the weird and wonderful world of David Lynch: we discuss dreams, Lynch and horror, returning to old projects, and what it's like to be the baby in Eraserhead. 

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

Our guest Jamie can be found on Twitter, but we wish to encourage you to (respectfully) tag @Kyle_Maclachlan and ask him if he'd come on the show

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339

Background Music: Commercial Bliss by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/commercial-bliss/345

Spite is one of the best reasons to write a poem

Trigger warning: this episode contains frank discussions of mental health and mentions of abusive relationships, suicide, anorexia

Poet Adam Cooper sits down with Ally and Nigel to discuss poetry and what it means to them: we discuss learning from previous pieces of writing, differently interpreting poems, poem as a form of catharsis, publishing a collection of poetry, and we read some of our poems

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

Our guest Adam can be found on Instagram: @acpoetryy for updates on his upcoming poetry collection 'Small Times at 9'

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339

Background Music: Commercial Bliss by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/commercial-bliss/345

Repertoire: Recognise, Represent, Reset, Recap.

Boil the jug and sit down for episode 50 of Hyperfixations (!!), special guest host Moll joins Ally to interview Nigel about James Acaster's Netflix special Repertoire, and his book Perfect Sound Whatever: we discuss Pat Springleaf's story, callbacks, Repertoire as a trauma response, only listening to music from 2016, and we cry over wooden ducks.

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

Our guest Nigel can be found on Twitter @spicynigel, and you can listen to her shows Archive Admirers, Nanny Ogg's Book Club, and Les-bi-honest online wherever you get your podcasts

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Moll - Instagram @not___molly and her stores here: https://peachandfern.bigcartel.com/, https://www.redbubble.com/people/Peach-Fern/shop

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339

Background Music: Commercial Bliss by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/commercial-bliss/345

Man, fuck Sigmund Freud

Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions and discussions of Freudianism, clinical malpractice, stigmatisation of mental health, and infantilisation

Iain joins Ally and Nigel to discuss lthe two revolutionary French philosophers, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: we discuss Capitalism and Schizophrenia, anti-Freudianism, understandings of desire, how poor translations affect philosophical growth, and accelerationism.

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

Our guest Iain can be found on Twitter: @IainClo

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339

Background Music: Commercial Bliss by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/commercial-bliss/345

It's like a giant meat butterfly lives in my throat

Tamar joins Ally and Nigel to discuss the ins and outs: we discuss vocal feminisation, our favourite voice performances, vocal weight, regional and made-up accents, and we see who's been puppetting Nigel all along

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

Our guest Tamar can be found on Twitter @Universal_Illum, Instagram @Notthemindprobe, and Tiktok @tamarnoafeiner

The doc of vocal training resources we mention in the episode can be found here:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d_fVzgA93pLOw767n6Zi3eJW0FpDn7MR31RT0bnIt8w/edit

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Passing Through (Can't The Future Just Wait) by Kaden MacKay, used with permission from the artist, find it here - https://open.spotify.com/track/2lXqwlG8za1sWKgHRwEiEC?si=0d5f1ce75d4d4b8d

Background Music: Commercial Bliss by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/commercial-bliss/345