Wow, another episode! It's not quite seven years in the making but we actually recorded this on 2025-05-16 (this is the best and most sensible date format, btw). Meant to post it immediately but life, cats, and travel got in the way. All I remember is that we talked about the beautiful inferno that consumed the mansion on the Nottoway Plantation, the largest of its kind and a place where people would book their weddings even though countless enslaved people were tortured and murdered there. Fuck that place and fuck everyone who ever loved it.

In any case, we also talked about the current emerging trend of blandness in fashion (shoutout to Nikita Dumptruck aka Nikita Redkar who was the first person I heard calling attention to it; she's wildly smart and worth following on every platform — https://linktr.ee/nikitadumptruck) and blandness on Instagram (via stuff like the plain girl aesthetic). That's all really a reaction to fascism becoming more overt in society, calling for a kind of uniformity that people can conform too both in obedience and for safety.

Basically, though, people need to get weirder, bolder, and more queer to combat the blandness and the fascism and signal to others that us other weirdos are out here being ourselves. The more of us that stand up unapologetically as who we are, resisting the urge to be smaller and conform, shows the fascists that there are more of us than they can handle. Maybe paradoxically, it helps make us safer in a lot of ways.

As usual, we're all over the place and there's a bunch of those pop culture references that you love, too.

-jose

This is a special Revenge of the Sith of May edition of our dormant podcast where we talk about the 20th anniversary limited edition re-release of Star Wars Episode III — Revenge of the Sith. It's a wide ranging conversation that eventually touches on every thought any human being has ever had. It's way longer than we thought it would be. I'll add a list of some topics talked about when I get a chance. -jose

Nina & Jose are in bed discussed & analyzed the line "an old man turned 98 — he won the lottery and died the next day" from the song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette in Episode V. We mentioned the catchiness of a song that Nina made up for our cat Kirkos and that she's been singing to him for years. It's seriously catchy! Nina recently was able to use SoundHound to figure out from where she borrowed that melody. Find out in Episode VI!

Nina & Jose are in bed discussing & analyzing the line "an old man turned 98 — he won the lottery and died the next day" from the song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette. We talk about a lot of stuff including Nina hitting good notes, Jose not being a good singer but a great thief, Scrooge McDuck, the 1%, the new Ducktales, Vanity Fair articles, conservatives, anarchists, Arby's, foreign loan words and their pronunciation, and Jose being a jerk.

Nina & Jose are in bed discussing & analyzing the line "It's a no smoking sign on your cigarette break" from the song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette. We talk about a lot of stuff including smoking breaks, quitting smoking, being judgmental, working at malls on 9/11, working as a mascot on the day Michael Jackson, IUDs, DUIs, chatty OB/GYNs, being an entertainer, 90s spelling rap, the Notorious B.I.G., DMX, K-Solo, and a whole lot more.

Nina & Jose are in bed discussing & analyzing the line "It's like a traffic jam when you're already late" from the song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette. This is a bonus episode where we talk about a lot of stuff including the origins of the melody of "Kirkos Is The One (The Kirkos Song)," Luciano Pavarotti, people lying about puns being intended, Scrooge McDuck, the first GIF, Mary Tyler Moore inventing LOLcats, and much more.

Nina & Jose are in bed discussing & analyzing the line "It's a traffic jam when you're already late" from the song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette. We talk about a lot of stuff including punctuality, time blindness, the inevitability of death, our wonderful cat Kirkos, keeping it real, the various flavor of Safeways, murderous thoughts, and casually boycotting Walmart.

Nina & Jose are in bed discussing & analyzing the line "Who would've thought it figures?" (or "Who would've thought? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It figures!") from the song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette. We reference Liquid U, danceclubs, ASU, and multitasking.

Edit: Jose just found Will Smith's version of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UKGZs3inQU

Nina & Jose were in bed discussing & analyzing the line "it's a free ride when you've already paid" from the song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette. Jose made a reference to a song created for a Mountain Dew commercial. Minutes after recording Episode I, Jose remembered the lyrics and that is this bonus episode.

Nina & Jose are in bed discussing & analyzing the line "it's a free ride when you've already paid" from the song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette. Yes, we realize that's not the first line of the song.