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August 08, 2022 e226. So… uh… what is a Dissertation? (and why would you do one?)
When we started our little psuedo-academic pop-culture analysis podcast with drinking and swearing, we had a few requirements. One of those was that the show would be smart and would…
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1 hr 11 min
August 01, 2022 e225. Can We Talk About Climate Change?
If you line in the United States and follow political news you might have noticed something crazy last week. The Democrats kind of… did something! In fact, they did something…
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55 min
July 25, 2022 e224. A Filler Episode on Filler Episodes
One of the most important things about academia is being in conversation with other academics. That is to say that the way knowledge happens is one scholar says something and…
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57 min
July 18, 2022 e223. The Cultural Impact of Ms. Marvel on Disney+
This Wednesday saw the season finale of Ms. Marvel on Disney+, a show that we have been thoroughly enjoying. However, there’s been a weird bit of reaction to Ms. Marvel…
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1 hr 8 min
July 11, 2022 e222. So, The World’s On Fire… Everything is Fine…
It’s been a while since we spent the show just talking about the state of the world. Mostly because… well, the state of the world kinda sucks right now… and…
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1 hr 31 min
July 04, 2022 e221. Exploring the World of Stranger Things
It’s always odd when we hit on one of those episode ideas where we feel like “obviously we’ve done like half a dozen shows on this topic over the years”…
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1 hr 38 min
June 27, 2022 e220. Obi-Wan Kenobi & the Star Wars Legacy
This week saw the end of the Disney+ Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi, a show devoted to… actually it’s really hard to talk about. Arguably, one of the biggest problems…
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1 hr 17 min
June 20, 2022 e219. Why We Still Love the Jurassic Park Franchise
Somehow, in 2022, there’s a Jurassic Park movie at the top of the box office. Some twenty-nine years after the first film and 32 years after the release of the…
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1 hr 13 min
June 13, 2022 e218. Does the Bechdel Test Fail the Bechdel Test?
A funny thing happened last week. The internet got into a minor scuffle about whether Fire Island, a film about gay men, was sexist because it failed the Bechdel Test,…
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1 hr 17 min
June 06, 2022 e217. Online Shopping, Thrifting, and The Death of Mall Culture
When’s the last time you hung out at the mall? We don’t mean when is the last time you went to a mall, ran in, got something and left. When…
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1 hr 10 min

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