Meaning What

In his special segment Play Up, Meaning What producer and co-host Christopher Scott McNeill explores unique and innovative storytelling in video games. This month, Chris has a message about his recent experience video games and the future of the segment.

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Play Up is a product of it's no sam studios

Created, written, and hosted by Christopher Scott McNeill

Produced Christopher S. McNeill, with help from Mason Hershenow and Sean Ang

Edited by Christopher S. McNeill

Mixed by Mason Hershenow

Theme music: "CopyLoop" by Mason Hershenow

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Last month we were removed from Apple Podcasts without warning or meaningful explanation. What followed was a short-lived tour through some of the reasons why turning everything into a subscription platform and expecting Big Tech to solve all our problems are two of the stupidest ideas man kind has ever had.

We have a Patreon! Help us in our mission to break the capitalist cycle gripping our education and our souls through the only effective tool you have access to: money. Patreon.com/meaningwhatpod

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Meaning What is a product of it's no sam studios

Created by Mason Hershenow

Produced by Sean Ang and Christopher Scott McNeill

Edited by Christopher Scott McNeill

Mixed by Mason Hershenow

Original music by Mason Hershenow

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For the Pride Month edition of the Meaning What Movie Club, we watched Shane Black's 2005 dark comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. It's not a perfect film, but it does feature arguably the first favorable depiction of a gay man in an American action movie: Val Kilmer's delightfully blunt LA private eye "Gay" Perry.

Look, this movie is a mess but its fun and it'll make you miss Robert Downey Jr. before Kevin Feige built a media empire on top of him.

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Meaning What is a product of it's no sam studios

Created by Mason Hershenow

Produced by Sean Ang and Christopher Scott McNeill

Edited by Christopher Scott McNeill

Mixed by Mason Hershenow

Original music by Mason Hershenow

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This episode contains mature content.

Last week saw us briefly booted from Apple Podcasts (more on that later), so here is the episode we were going to put out on 6/17 but didn't get to for various reason.

On today's episode, join the crew of the ISS Optimism as they embark on their most dangerous mission yet. With their captain incapacitated and their shuttle down behind enemy lines, will these four intrepid individuals finally uncover the dark secrets of the Crystal Void?

If you'd like to read the rules of Lasers & Feelings (or play a game yourself), you can download the rules for free here.

If you like what we do and want more please consider supporting our podcast.

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Meaning What presents: Pirates of the Crystal Void

Written and directed by Mason Hershenow, based on Lasers & Feelings by John Harper

Starring

Kim McMasters as Martia Roundhouse

David Cox as CLOUD E.O.

Christopher Scott McNeill as Tex Bramble

Sean Ang as Crystal Beth

And Mason Hershenow as everyone else

Produced by Sean Ang and Chris McNeill

Edited by Chris McNeill

Mix, Sound Design, and additional editing by Mason Hershenow

Meaning What is a product of it's no sam studios

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This episode contains explicit content that is meant for neither work nor children.

It's Pride Month, round two! This week, Mason and Sean are discussing the history of censorship of LGBTQ+ art from Robert Mapplethorpe (NSFW link) to now, and what that history can tell us about the evolution of American fine art and culture as a whole. We all discuss moral panic, religion in legislation, and deceased Republican Senator Jesse Helms. Mason rants about capitalism, Sean tries to advance the Gay Agenda, and we make an honest attempt at organically pitching our Patreon. There's something here for everyone.

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Meaning What is a product of it's no sam studios

Created by Mason Hershenow

Produced by Sean Ang and Christopher Scott McNeill

Edited and mixed by Mason Hershenow

Original music by Mason Hershenow

Welcome to Listen Now!, a monthly mini-podcast from it's no sam studios hosted by Meaning What producer and cohost Sean Ang.

This week, Sean provides a crash course in K-pop and the ways it reimagines and subverts Western popular music, often creating something entirely new in the process.

Join our Patreon and help us continue making this podcast. https://patreon.com/meaningwhatpod

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Listen Now! is a product of it's no sam studios

Created and hosted by Sean Ang.

Produced by Mason Hershenow, Sean Ang, and Chris McNeill.

Edited and mixed by Mason Hershenow.

Theme music by Mason Hershenow.

June is LGBTQ Pride Month! This week, Mason and Sean are introducing our month-long discussion of LGBTQIA+ issues in the arts with a conversation about the annual Pride Parades: their history, their contemporary climate, and what it all can illuminate about the process of cultural minority groups moving into (and/or being coopted by) the mainstream.

In other news, we have a Patreon! Head over to https://patreon.com/meaningwhatpod for the impending onslaught of bonus content every month. You'll be glad you did, and so will we.

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Meaning What is a product of it's no sam studios

Created by Mason Hershenow

Produced by Sean Ang and Christopher Scott McNeill

Edited and mixed by Mason Hershenow

Original music by Mason Hershenow

It's the Meaning What Movie Club! As AAPI Heritage Month draws to a close, Mason and Sean are visited by our good friend Hicham Benhallam (in his first solo appearance) to discuss the award-winning 2020 Korean-American film Minari.

Go buy a bucket of Cherry Coke and watch this film like a gosh dang American.

We have a subscription program and Patreon in the works! Lots of bonus material headed your way in the coming months, so follow us on Instagram and Twitter for the latest updates.

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Meaning What is a product of it's no sam studios

Created by Mason Hershenow

Produced by Sean Ang and Christopher Scott McNeill

Edited and mixed by Mason Hershenow

Original music by Mason Hershenow

This week, Mason and Sean are joined by abstract painter Kathleen Larsen to discuss how personal experiences and the events of the past year or so brought about a new direction for her art practice. We also discuss the shifting landscape of art Instagram, peace and conflict studies, and navigating abstract art in mediums you're not particularly familiar with.

Follow Kathleen on Instagram! And this is the untitled piece we reference!

We have a subscription program and Patreon in the works! Lots of bonus material headed your way in the coming months, so follow us on Instagram and Twitter for the latest updates.

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Meaning What is a product of it's no sam studios

Created by Mason Hershenow

Produced by Sean Ang and Christopher Scott McNeill

Edited by David Cox and Mason Hershenow

Mixed by Mason Hershenow

Original music by Mason Hershenow, with a special contribution this week from David Cox

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Mason and Sean return for part two of AAPI Heritage Month with an episode examining the outsized influence of Japanese art and Asian culture in general on modern and contemporary Western fine art. We discuss Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows, Urban Outfitters, and whatever this ignorant garbage is. We only ever so briefly touch on the cancer that was and is Pablo Picasso, but focus is important and there's always more time later.

We have a subscription program and Patreon in the works! Lots of bonus material headed your way in the coming months, so follow us on Instagram and Twitter for the latest updates.

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Meaning What is a product of it's no sam studios

Created by Mason Hershenow

Produced by Sean Ang and Christopher Scott McNeill

Edited by David Cox and Mason Hershenow

Mixed by Mason Hershenow

Our theme music is "January: Brief" by Mason Hershenow

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