Lana and I take the red pill.

Wait, no, Lana and I take ON the red pill. We talk about the faux-scientific language, forums as texts and productive of texts, who has and who has not been promised a rose garden, and why misogyny is real and oppression of men isn't, SORRY NOT SORRY.

cws for brief and vague but recurring mentions of abusive relationships and consent violations in the context of MRA 'ideals'

Time for some #discourse! Daniel and I talk about Cakes da Killa's debut album, The Eulogy, as queer music, black music, maybe 'niche' music? What does it mean to make work mostly accessible to people who identify with you, is this the artist's choice or the audience's responsibility, and what does this have to do with art? CW: mention of other people mentioning sex, mention of racism in the music industry, mention of student loans, hack jokes about Daniel's skinny jeans.

Bolivar and I talk about what we think the difference is between Zelda and World of Warcraft, digress through a fan made Shrek game, slander Undertale, and try to re-evaluate that one ctrl-alt-del comic. You know the one. CW: mention of loss of pregnancy in fiction, mention of mental illness, mention of Shrek.

In this, our most fourth episode to date, we discuss Anhk Morpork's assimilation of minorities into the metropolis via the police force as equal opportunity employer, how Vimes is LITERALLY in love with the city, and more! Is it ever okay to like a cop? Probably not, but we like detectives.

TW: we talk about cops a lot, also allegorical racism on the Disc. We mention fictional police brutality on the Discworld in passing, and allude to actual police brutality IRL.

If you've ever wanted to hear the Fast and the Furious dissected by two people who take Dom and Brian's romantic history together as 100% canon, this is your moment! Jacob deNobel and I talk genre, the joys of moving bodies in space, and how franchises evolve in the Fast and the Furious and Step Up.

Jeremy Hawkins, a comedian and artist, graces us with thoughts on genius, ethics, sincerity and how to love art according to Only Lovers Left Alive. Plus, Mountain Dew Jokes.

content warning: extended discussion of fictional character considering suicide, suicide as a theme in relation to ‘art’ in this movie.

Arielle Soutar (@HowlingArielle) took some time out from being a comix and coding superstar to talk about remembering Fury Road, the role of remembering in Fury Road, and how it challenges the conventions of masculine toughness in action heroes which the earlier Mad Max films helped define!