Victims and Villains

After Animind's last episode on Grave of the Fireflies and its live episode on Attack on Titan, the Animind crew needed some medicine for the mind. And where better to find it then a little anime gem called My Neighbor Totoro. Dani, Graham and Matthew talk the flagship film for Studio Ghibli as they pour over the inherent sweetness it offers up. The highest ideals of community, nature, and love are on display in this whimsical world created by the renowned Hayao Miyazaki. Whether you've been diving into the deep end of anime for years or are just dipping your toes into the water join us for this uplifting conversation of heart. If you want to contribute to the discussion or recommend an anime for us to cover you can email the hosts at [email protected]. Music for this episode comes courtesy of Purple Planet (https://bit.ly/ppcoms) and Warrior by yoitrax | https://soundcloud.com/yoitrax Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

If you or someone you know is reading this right now and struggling with suicide, depression, addiction, or self-harm - please reach out. Comment, message, or tweet at us. Go to victimsandvillains.net/hope for more resources. Call the suicide lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Text "HELP" to 741-741. There is hope & you DO have so much value and worth!

Animind: An Anime Podcast is a production of Victims and Villains and is written by Matthew Basile, Graham Pugh and Dani Arii. You can now support us on Patreon. Help us get mental health resources into schools and get exclusive content at the same time. Click here (http://bit.ly/vavpatreon) to support us today!

The filmmakers behind Just Like You: Anxiety and Depression (https://bit.ly/424film) join us to discuss the stories that inspired the film. Not to mention how their own struggles with anxiety and depression have affected their family lives, careers and social lives. Thanks to the film’s writer-director Jen Greenstreet, Hilaire Philips from The Pierson Project (https://bit.ly/424hil) & news anchor Abby Eden for being vulnerable and sharing their stories. You can check out the film, Just Like You: Anxiety and Depression, now wherever you rent your digital movies from!

If you or someone you know is reading this right now and struggling with suicide, depression, addiction, or self-harm - please reach out. Comment, message, or tweet at us. Go to victimsandvillains.net/hope for more resources. Call the suicide lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Text "HELP" to 741-741. There is hope & you DO have so much value and worth!

This episode of Victims and Villains is written and produced by Joshua “Captain Nostalgia” Burkey . Music by Mallory Jameson (https://bit.ly/expandmal) and Purple Planet (https://bit.ly/ppcoms). Help us get mental health resources into schools and get exclusive content at the same time. Click here (http://bit.ly/vavpatreon) to support us today!

We’re staring into the abyss of 2001’s Thir13en Ghosts to see what will gaze back. The multitalented team behind Apparitions joins us to get spooky. Writers Paul Anthony Nelson and Perri Cummings discuss their film with us. Along with chronicling each of the ghosts behind this 2001 cult classic, the 1960s classic and much more. Catch Apparitions, making its USA premiere, at this year’s Horrific Hope Film Fest. Grab your tickets now: https://bit.ly/hh22tix.

If you or someone you know is reading this right now and struggling with suicide, depression, addiction, or self-harm - please reach out. Comment, message, or tweet at us. Go to victimsandvillains.net/hope for more resources. Call the suicide lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Text "HELP" to 741-741. There is hope & you DO have so much value and worth!

Abyss Gazing is a production of Victims and Villains and is written by Josh “Captain Nostalgia” Burkey (& produced by) and Mark Moore. Music by Kevin MacLeod and Purple Planet (https://bit.ly/ppcoms). You can now support us on Patreon. Help us get mental health resources into schools and get exclusive content at the same time. Click here (http://bit.ly/vavpatreon) to support us today!

Matthew Basile(co-host of the V&V spin-off podcast Animind) guest hosts this episode of Victims & Villains. Matthew talks about the YA novel Goode Oliver Dooley and The Palace of Keepers Book 1 with the author Gerrad R. Bohl. Gerrad's book is a fantasy story for children and adults young at heart in the vein of such classics as Harry Potter, Bridge to Terabithia, and A Series of Unfortunate Events. During the episode, Matthew and Gerrad discuss such varied topics as writing, carnivorous plants, mental health and the beauty of failure. If you wish to have your own conversation with either of them you can reach out to Gerrad on his website at https://www.gerradrbohl.com and you can reach out to Matthew by emailing the Animind crew at [email protected].

If you or someone you know is reading this right now and struggling with suicide, depression, addiction, or self-harm - please reach out. Comment, message, or tweet at us. Go to victimsandvillains.net/hope for more resources. Call the suicide lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Text "HELP" to 741-741. There is hope & you DO have so much value and worth!

This episode of Victims and Villains is written and produced by Matthew Basile. Music by Mallory Jameson (https://bit.ly/expandmal) and Purple Planet (https://bit.ly/ppcoms). The picture for this episode is provided by Lucxama Sylvain (https://bit.ly/421picture). Help us get mental health resources into schools and get exclusive content at the same time. Click here (http://bit.ly/vavpatreon) to support us today!

We’re staring into the abyss of 1981’s The Burning to see what will gaze back. MJ Dixon director of PandaMonium, one of the feature’s for this year’s Horrific Hope Film Festival (https://bit.ly/vhhffest), joins to discuss this influential slasher. Hear what MJ had to say about his time making movies, the influence of The Burning, the troublesome nature of the film in a modern setting and much more. Get your tickets to Horrific Hope now: https://bit.ly/hh22tix.

If you or someone you know is reading this right now and struggling with suicide, depression, addiction, or self-harm - please reach out. Comment, message, or tweet at us. Go to victimsandvillains.net/hope for more resources. Call the suicide lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Text "HELP" to 741-741. There is hope & you DO have so much value and worth!

Abyss Gazing is a production of Victims and Villains and is written by Josh “Captain Nostalgia” Burkey (& produced by) and Mark Moore. Music by Kevin MacLeod and Purple Planet (https://bit.ly/ppcoms). You can now support us on Patreon. Help us get mental health resources into schools and get exclusive content at the same time. Click here (http://bit.ly/vavpatreon) to support us today!

If the Animind group took a stroll on the light side in the last episode they now trek through some of the darkest corners of humanity in this episode. Anime remains on the mind as Graham, Dani and Matthew talk Grave of the Fireflies, a movie Roger Ebert hailed as one of the greatest war films of all time. We want to warn our listeners that we will be discussing traumatic and heavy topics. So if you are triggered by anything related to warfare or are currently under mental distress we advise you to steer clear of this episode and rejoin us for Episode 11. If you want to contribute to the discussion you can email the hosts at [email protected]. Music for this episode comes courtesy of Purple Planet (https://bit.ly/ppcoms) and Warrior by yoitrax | https://soundcloud.com/yoitrax Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

If you or someone you know is reading this right now and struggling with suicide, depression, addiction, or self-harm - please reach out. Comment, message, or tweet at us. Go to victimsandvillains.net/hope for more resources. Call the suicide lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Text "HELP" to 741-741. There is hope & you DO have so much value and worth!

Animind: An Anime Podcast is a production of Victims and Villains and is written by Matthew Basile, Graham Pugh and Dani Arii. You can now support us on Patreon. Help us get mental health resources into schools and get exclusive content at the same time. Click here (http://bit.ly/vavpatreon) to support us today!

Welcome back to Hourglass Cinema - a variety show from Victims and Villains. In this episode, we sit down with Rich Ragsdale. He is the director behind the folk horror movie, The Long Night. Rich talks to us about his latest movie, his animation career and much more. You can pick up your copy of The Long Night, beginning April 5th, 2022 from Well Go Entertainment. Check out our review here: https://bit.ly/longblu.

If you or someone you know is reading this right now and struggling with suicide, depression, addiction, or self-harm - please reach out. Comment, message, or tweet at us. Go to victimsandvillains.net/hope for more resources. Call the suicide lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Text "HELP" to 741-741. There is hope & you DO have so much value and worth!

This episode of Victims and Villains is written by Josh Burkey. It is produced by Josh “ Captain Nostalgia” Burkey.  Help us get mental health resources into schools and get exclusive content at the same time. Click here (http://bit.ly/vavpatreon) to support us today!

It took two years to get here. Some of us believed it was a myth but Jared Leto’s Morbius has finally arrived and we take a bite out of it. Allen and Josh dissect if the wait for the latest Sony-Marvel movie was worth it. Join our Marvel guys as they navigate this strange early 2000s vampire flick, our initial thoughts on the Moon Knight pilot, the strange nature of Sony’s future plans and much more. Grab your tickets now for Horrific Hope 2022 Film Festival: https://bit.ly/hh22tix.

If you or someone you know is reading this right now and struggling with suicide, depression, addiction, or self-harm - please reach out. Comment, message, or tweet at us. Go to victimsandvillains.net/hope for more resources. Call the suicide lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Text "HELP" to 741-741. There is hope & you DO have so much value and worth!

This episode of Victims and Villains is written by Allen Cramm and Joshua Howell. It is produced by Josh “ Captain Nostalgia” Burkey. Music by Mallory Jameson (https://bit.ly/expandmal) and Purple Planet (https://bit.ly/ppcoms). Help us get mental health resources into schools and get exclusive content at the same time. Click here (http://bit.ly/vavpatreon) to support us today!

In this episode, we discuss a form of depression that doesn’t get dressed nearly enough in postpartum. Captain Nostalgia sits down with Kate Webster to discuss her own past with postpartum, defining what it is, the warning sides and more. If you or someone you know currently experiencing postpartum depression, consider these resources: Support Groups like La Leche League. The Dovetail Project (https://thedovetailproject.org/), OBGYN and our mental health resource library. Information from this episode comes from these resources: Postpartum Depression in Men (https://bit.ly/ppdmen421), Postpartum Depression in Women (https://bit.ly/womenppd421), and general information (https://bit.ly/genppd421).

If you or someone you know is reading this right now and struggling with suicide, depression, addiction, or self-harm - please reach out. Comment, message, or tweet at us. Go to victimsandvillains.net/hope for more resources. Call the suicide lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Text "HELP" to 741-741. There is hope & you DO have so much value and worth!

This episode of Victims and Villains is written by Josh “Capt. Nostalgia” Burkey. It is produced by Josh “ Captain Nostalgia” Burkey. Music by Mallory Jameson (https://bit.ly/expandmal) and Purple Planet (https://bit.ly/ppcoms). The picture for this episode is provided by Lucxama Sylvain (https://bit.ly/421picture). Help us get mental health resources into schools and get exclusive content at the same time. Click here (http://bit.ly/vavpatreon) to support us today!

We've come to find out if 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is worthy of high praise. This episode was recorded live at Galaxy Con Richmond 2022. As we navigate throughout the Spider-Verse, we find the intersection of Spider-Men and mental health, trivia, and much more. Thanks to all those who interacted with us during the making of this episode and all those in attendance. This was one of the best live experiences we’ve ever had. Thank you, Richmond!

If you or someone you know is reading this right now and struggling with suicide, depression, addiction, or self-harm - please reach out. Comment, message, or tweet at us. Go to victimsandvillains.net/hope for more resources. Call the suicide lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Text "HELP" to 741-741. There is hope & you DO have so much value and worth!

That's High Praise: A Nicolas Cage Podcast is a production of Victims and Villains is written by Josh “Captain Nostalgia” Burkey (& produced by) and Micah "V.H.Zest" Kimber. Music by Mallory Jameson (https://bit.ly/expandmal) and Purple Planet (https://bit.ly/ppcoms).

You can now support us on Patreon. Help us get mental health resources into schools and get exclusive content at the same time. Click here (http://bit.ly/vavpatreon) to support us today!