Thank you to Claire for commissioning this episode!

This is the one where Jane starts to realize that she's got some feelings going on for Raphael that are getting impossible to ignore. Meanwhile, Michael is over here lying more and more to cover up Petra's involvement and it's really beginning to snowball. Jane has decided that she's ready to have sex, but I'm glad that circumstances aligned so that she doesn't go through with it.

Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you to the One Piece Crew for commissioning this episode!

This trio of episodes starts us off on the Enies Lobby arc, and we've got new music too which I forgot to mention in the recording! (I like the new music this time around, I'm a fan of the faster beat because it suits the sort of frantic vibe of the show.) This is when Luffy kicks things off by launching himself over the gates, in complete opposition to their original plan.

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Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode!

There were so many fun happy things going on in this one that I completely let my guard down and then the last scenes happened and knocked me on my ass.

I hate this.

Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode!

This was a fun parents-only episode about the wildest night of their lives back in '77 when they were all in school living through some of the worst of the violence of the Troubles while trying to just have normal lives.

I'm very into this secret, and the way they told the story was super fun to watch. I love this show!

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Thank you very much to the One Piece Crew for commissioning this episode!

This duo of eps felt really strange and disconnected to me, and I think I'm going to let my show-notes at that and you can listen to exactly what I mean.

Thanks, and I will see you again soon!

Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode!

In this one we've got the ghost of Nadja running away inside that little doll, Laszlo and Colin getting lured in by a siren, and Laszlo getting a little carried away at Best Buy.

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Thank you to Claire for commissioning this episode!

In the second delightful installment of this wonderful series, I once again underestimate how hard this show is willing to go. We've got injuries and murders, lies and deceptions, affairs, and a few people in the mix who really are just doing their best.

I love this show!

Thank you to Joanna for commissioning this episode!

I'm so VERY into this book, y'all (As of this posting, I have already read the 4 chapters that come after this and OH MY GOD), and I am starting to see the shape of what Leigh Bardugo is doing in this book. At least, I think I am. Sexual assault being tossed around as a plot point is something that I don't love, but she's clearly zeroing in on the way women are treated in a universe run by rich and powerful men, so this feels like it's really going somewhere.

I'm here for it.

See you soon (but not soon enough!) with a new episode!

Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode!

In this episode of Derry Girls, we get an interesting overlap in the plots where the girls are convinced the house they've been assigned to clean is haunted, while the parents are together trying to contact a spirit of their own. In the end, one of the ghosts is proved to be a regular flesh-and-blood man, but the other seems to be interested in helping Joe find something he's misplaced.

Thanks so much to you all for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you so much to Florian for commissioning this special holiday episode!

For this one I get to watch a couple of delightful drag queens really duke it out over their views on Christmas, with some truly funny songs and fucking FABULOUS holiday outfits. This was a total change of pace and a really great way to spend an hour during the holidays, so if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

Happy Holidays, everyone!