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Hello everyone!

It is finally time for us to talk about a Paradox game, and Crusader Kings, no less! We dive into the intricacies of Medieval History, its (mis)representations and the difficult effort of creating a historical game, with the added challenge of it being a grand strategy game like this one.

All in all, a fun and very intricate episode on how we look at history, how do we create things based on it, and the specific elements of the Medieval Period. And, of course, the roleplay chaos and brilliance that is Crusader Kings!

Have fun!

As we mentioned, do check out Dr. Eleanor Janega's Podcast "We're Not So Different"

https://www.patreon.com/wnsdpod

https://twitter.com/wnsdpod

And her new book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-once-and-future-sex-going-medieval-on-women-s-roles-in-society-eleanor-janega/18507010?ean=9780393867817

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Intro Music: The Planets, op. 32: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, Gustav Holt, 1916

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Hello everyone!!

Welcome to a special bonus HBM episode for February! And an excellent collab at that, with Kayte, of the Fangs for the Memories Podcast!!

She joins Leon to chat about the latest David Cronenberg film "Crimes of the Future"! It is a deep dive into body horror, climate catastrophe, and even some psychoanalysis in this strange and excellent movie where one can find utopian hope even in the most gruesome and visceral capitalist nightmare!

Have fun!

Do check out Kayte and their work!

https://twitter.com/kayteterry

http://www.kayteterry.com

https://linktr.ee/fangspodcast

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Intro Music: The Planets, op. 32: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, Gustav Holt, 1916

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Hello everyone!!!

Welcome to the 4 year anniversary episode of The Left Page!!! Can you believe we've been running this for that long?!

To celebrate our wonderful show we tackle this great and big book, Babel by R. F. Kuang! A novel of colonialism, violence, imperialism, and even the resistances to it! A very special and fun episode, as we talk about all things Empire once more, diving into a new one and absolutely special topic of ours, languages and translations!!

We hope you enjoy this special show, and here's to 4 more years of doing good podcasting!!!

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Hello everyone!!

Welcome back to Here Be Media!! This month's HBM episode is on the excellent God of War: Ragnarök! So we dive into the things we love about it, the annoyances we have, and our questions on politics, mythology and the omnipresent psychological element in the game!

Overall a pretty awesome episode to kick off our games chat this year! Have fun!

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Intro Music: The Planets, op. 32: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, Gustav Holt, 1916

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Hello everyone!! Welcome to the first episode of The Left Page for 2023!!

To start the year well, we chat about the excellent novel (novella?) by P. Djèlí Clark "The Haunting of Tram Car 015"! A great alternate history story that considers a much more magical Cairo, and world, in the 1910s, allowing for many opportunities of fighting back against colonization and other radical experiences! And, frankly, decolonization really is one of the best possible ways for alt-history to go, as we conclude!

Have fun!

Do check out the author's short story The Angle of Khan el-Khalili!

https://www.tor.com/2021/04/28/the-angel-of-khan-el-khalili-p-djeli-clark/

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Hello everyone!! Welcome to another episode of Here Be Media! The first proper one for 2023! In this one we finally dive into quite popular Star Wars show, Andor! Considering questions of "leftist media", the care of investigating culture and what we think about the show itself! It's an excellent start to the year and we hope you like it as well!

Have fun!

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Intro Music: The Planets, op. 32: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, Gustav Holt, 1916

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Hello everyone!! Welcome back to the podcasts in 2023! As a fitting start, Frank and Leon do a special year-in-review! Thinking about some of the significant, both good and bad, things of 2022, and considering some of what we look forward to in 2023!

We hope you enjoy this bonus content and what is coming this year!

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Intro Music: The Planets, op. 32: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, Gustav Holt, 1916

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Hello everyone! Welcome to our last episode of 2022! In this Leon and I talk about the excellent novel by Arkady Martine "A Memory Called Empire"! A story and book that allows us to dive into matters of Imperialism, survival, and especially culture within a devouring and wide-spanning empire as is Teixcalaan. A wonderful show to top off another magnificent year for the Left Page and Here Be Media! Thank you all for listening, for following the show, and for continuing to be here across the years! And here's to much more in 2023 and beyond! Love and Solidarity, happy holidays and a great great new year to all! Frank & Leon

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Hello everyone! For this last month of the year we're having a bonus HBM episode!! (Feel free to thank Leon for the effort of setting this up!)

CONTENT WARNINGS: Homophobia, queerphobia, misogyny, drug abuse, conversion therapy

It's our first proper movie episode! Of Todd Haynes' 1998 film "Velvet Goldmine", a wonderfully queer movie about 1970s glam rock, queerness, identity, relationships and music. As such, that's what we talk about! Diving deep into these connections, the power and potential of queerness, along with the need of its resistance against all who would coopt it.

All in all an episode and movie deeply contemporary, and that we couldn't help but talk at length about it, have fun!

Please do follow and support Jay's work! His new solo Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wildeatheart And do give Library Punk a listen: https://www.librarypunk.gay

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Hello everyone! It's another month, which means another HBM! And with a guest! The truly magnificent Labor Kyle, friend, comrade, all around good guy and excellent researcher! We got him!

And for this episode we chat about something OTHER than videogames! It's the Netflix anthology tv series "Love, Death, Robots"! Where we manage to dive deep into questions of media, telling stories, ideas of community and some of the great things this show led us to talk about! Have fun! Also! Go follow and support Kyle as much as you can! Twitter: https://twitter.com/laborkyle Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/laborkyle/videos AGAB Pod: https://soundcloud.com/agabpod Profane Illuminations: https://mobile.twitter.com/profaneshow

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