After a too-long break the Safe Space Podcast returns for even more sanity-saving fun and informational frivolity! And just in time, too, as the world (and your brain) could use a heaping dose of distractions and diversions from the utter madness of daytime television and never-ending stream of political bullplop.

It’s the Safe Spaces Podcast! Back from a well-deserved summer break, ready to dive right into what’s shaking up the culture in all the worst possible ways. Let's get started!

It’s the Safe Spaces Podcast – now serving Episode 72! For those keeping track, that’s one higher than Arnold Schwarzenegger (aged 71) and one less than Sylvester Stallone (aged 73). We’re like the world’s ugliest Goldilocks…not too young, not too old, but just right where we need to be. For now.

It’s the Safe Spaces Podcast! Episode 71! Tornado Edition! That’s right: as a good portion of the country is beset by dangerous twisters and swirling death, your brave little hosts are here to take a closer look at what’s been making the rest of the nation spin. Speaking of spin: never let a potential killer twister get in the way of that all-important finale of The Bachelorette.

First an update on Disney/Marvel’s Captain Marvel, the studios’ first female-led superhero blockbuster that turned out to be…a real blockbuster! One month after debuting in theaters everywhere, the Brie Larson-led Avengers prequel has grossed over a billion (!) dollars worldwide, eclipsing the last female-powered superhero epic, DC’s Wonder Woman. Everywhere but the United States, it seems, which is a big surprise to our co-hosts.

The Safe Spaces Podcast has finally reached that most magical of magical numbers – Episode 69. Had we been anything less than consummate professionals or mature adults such a milestone might elicit many chuckles and guffaws. That’s not us. Nope. We’re better than that. You’re better than that. Together, we can overcome our base instincts.

It’s the Safe Spaces Podcast! Switching servers and saving lives, we’re back to help sort the rabble from the rousing. Speaking of rabble rousing, Representative Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House and second in succession line for Presidency, would like to wish each of you a very Happy Thanksgiving! In February! Who said miracles can’t happen?

It’s the first Safe Spaces Podcast episode of 2019 – we’re only a month late! After taking a necessary break to refuel the fires, we’re back with a focused look at what’s shaking the current culture in ways that are 1.) highly informative and 2.) highly entertaining. That so many just happen to be both is like Christmas in February (but not an actual Christmas, because then the movies would be better).

It’s Christmastime once again, boys and girls (of whom we’ll let decide who is what for themselves), which can only mean it’s our yearly Christmas Movie Special Spectacular! Comfortably nestled in Santa’ sleigh are jolly elves Nate Evans and Herman Exum, who tally their favorites – both Naughty and Nice – to bring you the most complete list of the best, worst and ‘other’ Christmas movies and holiday specials for your holiday bucket list. Until next year, anyway!

Have you seen Welcome to Marwen, the new film by acclaimed director Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump), or have plans to see it? If early box-office reporting has anything to say about this…probably not. While the film’s trailer gathered early attention for its use of photorealistic CG animation alongside actors as distinguished as Steve Carrell and Leslie Mann, transforming them into living dolls in order to cinematically bring to life the tragic real-life story of Mark Hogancamp’s savage beating by five men for expressing a love of women’s shoes, and his subsequent creation of a fictional town populated by dolls where he produced astonishingly beautiful photographs to help deal with his trauma.