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Like the show? Join us on Patreon! Free poll for everyone: what's your favorite piece of stuck media?

For anyone who hasn't seen the 2012 Disney Revival-era masterpiece, Wreck-It Ralph is a Donkey Kong-type 8-bit bad guy in an arcade game, where people crap on him relentlessly for doing his job really well for 30 years with no health care or pension. When he gets cake-shamed at his own party, he decides stolen valor is the key, unleashes cybugs in candy land, then reluctantly teams up with glitched-out wannabe kart racer Vanellope von Schweetz to topple an Alan Tudyk-voiced maniacal monarch.

If you want to get emotionally wrecked in all the right ways, Ralph's your guy.

Other picks: Cube Source Code Widow's Bay Also, video editing is a lot of work so we might not do that anymore. Sorry. Imagine faces in the theater of the mind! Up next: It's Tanya Day, and we're doing a reunion show thanks to Eoin the Void! We're gonna be Singin' in the Rain with Alex, Chris, Tanya, and myself. I LOVED recording this even though it goes immediately off the rails.

Like the show, hang out on the Patreon! Or see our faces on YouTube Picture a town. But a creepy one. A town with one road that somehow loops around, trapping its inhabitants forever. Plus there's a smattering of night monsters who will knock on the doors and windows, interrupting your dinner, and if you let them in, they rip you apart and kill you. There's also a hippie commune, but the hippies might let you die outside, tie you up, talk to you about art, eat peaches at you, or traumatize you with a story about murder. 2/5 stars.

If you wanted Lost vibes, but wish there were more eviserations and fewer islands, and if you can somehow Google it, you might just shriek with delight at From.

Other recs: Widow's Bay Twin Peaks Sinners The Burroughs Obsession Next week: Wreck-it-Ralph!

Alex and Ezra are back with a sports fact showdown! One sports fact will be remembered for eternity. The other? Immediately forgotten. Also, if you want faces with your sports facts, they're here on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZn1pCjh-4w And if you like the show, come to the Patreon! We're talking favorite sport facts here--for free!

It's a new season! Welcome to Read it and Weep Season 8: Embrace the Weep! This season is all about the media that moves us and our friends. So obviously, OBVIOUSLY, it had to be Eurovision. For this, I've roped in my friend Cathy to tell me about the highs and lows of Eurovision. Plus, Anthony's prepared some slides! Also, we're on YouTube (at least until I get annoyed with video editing) We recommend: Local Flutes Touching Grass Democracy Lordi Daði Freyr

Join the Patreon party! Answer free polls or give us money, all at patreon.com/ReadWeepPod

Like the show? Support the show! Alex and Ezra are long-time friends who are both a mile wide and an inch. After careful research, we've determined there are exactly 1,206 things to know about the world, so we're setting out on a quest to learn one fact about everything that's ever happened BUT NOT TWO.

This episode? We learn just one thing about Twist Ties and Noses. YouTube: Watch our faces and say nice things in the comments!

Season 8 is starting soon! Shape it by giving us feedback on the Patreon! Hot Frosty 2: Hot Ice. Cool Canadian hockey phenom Shane Hollander and Brusque Russian hockey hot-shot Illya Rosanov are rivals on the skates but, surprise, lovers between the sheets. They're hot and cold as public and private lives cross-check each other, but in an uplifting, very needed example of queer joy, it's all actually okay!

They profess their love, come out to Shane's parents, and get all the happy endings that they deserve. However many hockey sticks you like in your fantasy, you're sure to get melted by Heated Rivalry. The RIAW-gorithm also recommends: Fleabag Season 2 Schitt's Creek Chala Hunter, all-star intimacy coordinator Pillion (but not if you want anything like Heated Rivalry Ben's Bakery and the Hanukkah Miracle

Next up: Season 8 and Eurovision!

Like the show? Support the show! Space, the final frontier. But also time, some would say, a more final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. To go cheat at dom jot and get stabbed in the back. To get robbed by a time traveler while saving a planet. To prevent 22 years of war by killing off Tasha Yar again. And to boldly meet Kelsey Grammars like no one has met Kelsey Grammars before. We voted on our Patreon and picked these ST:TNG Time Travel episodes:

3.15 Yesterday's Enterprise

5.9 A Matter of Time

5.18 Cause & Effect

6.15 Tapestry

The RIAW-lgorithm also recommends: Dark Also Dark The Husbands The Gone World Resident Alien More Star Trek (DS9, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds)

Vote on our next running movie! This is a special one. Not only are we talking running, we're doing it with my friends Dru Johnston (NipGuards episode) and Ben Kegan. Ben made a whole incredible documentary about running. We even have NCAA indoor champion Colby Alexander joining us to talk about his experience in the movie. Check it out: "SECONDS AWAY follows Belgian-American runner Peter Callahan and his longtime coach, Patrick McHugh, as they chase a qualifying time fast enough to make the Olympic Games. When Patrick is diagnosed with cancer, their pursuit becomes an unflinching look inside the sacrifices, devotion, and rare bond that define life at the edge of elite running." If you liked this, the RIAW-lgorithm also recommends: • Seeing Seconds Away. You can even host a screening! • Dru's running substack • Running with your arms out like in Weapons • Across the Tracks (with Brad Pitt) • Run Lola Run • Without Limits • Chariots of Fire • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Quick: vote on what we're watching for our Time Travel Star Trek Episode. No longer a tea pot, Angela Lansbury is mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, living in Cabot Cove, Maine, a lovely community except for all the MURDER! We watched: S4 E7- If it's Thursday, it must be Beverly S7 E10 - Murder in F Sharp S10 E5 - A Virtual Murder Some bonus recs: S2 E14 - Keep the Home Fries Burning S2 E20 - Menace, Anyone? S12 E16 - Murder Among Friends Thanks to Caitlin Gill for bringing this one too us and for Amanda Leinbaugh for being our main Maine expert!

The RIAWlgorithm also recommends: Magnum PI The Stars! Caitlin's show in LA! Sue Grafton books Knives Out movies Murder, She Baked! Diane Mott Davidson books Living a full life past your 60s.

Next up, Star Trek: The Next Generation Time Travel episodes with Stephen & Caitlin!