Fools & Fiction: Recent Episodes
Podcasting Network at W&M
Two college kids and their occasional friends have various talks about their """good""" opinions on good fiction.
(ultimately we’re creating a podcastopolis / and no one can stop us)
We're joined by guest Chris Lee to talk about stories with child soldiers in them – how they can be problematic, and how they can be appealing.
Spoilers for quite a few things, but I've got two senior project deadlines coming up so I'm not going to list them, sorry!
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
We're back and talking about RWBY again!
Spoilers for RWBY through Vol. 8.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
We're settled in for the semester and want to talk about a good show!
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Not quite Sharkboy and Lavagirl 2, but a hell of a lot of fun. This episode's also got some podcast talk in the latter half.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Why are Christmas movies so wack / winemom-y / wanton destruction-y / warm feelings-y?
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
As a GM, how do you balance giving your players what they want against making them work for it? With Chris Lee and Cody Hammack!
Spoilers for Galactic Gazette: Tales from the Venture Guild (listen here!: bit.ly/galacticgazette).
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
In this episode we return to the past (HA) to talk about a show we watched as kids.
Spoilers for Code Lyoko through Season 1, and minor spoilers through Season 2.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Joe's got a framework!
Spoilers for ---
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
We watched this movie again the other day, and have some scattered thoughts.
Spoilers for Les Mis.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
A chat about collaborative worldbuilding in TTRPGs, with guest Chris Lee.
Galactic Gazette: Tales from the Venture Guild: http://bit.ly/galacticgazette
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Galactic Gazette: Tales from the Venture Guild: http://bit.ly/galacticgazette
And this podcast isn't going anywhere! New episode in two weeks!
One of our favorite youtubers made a feature-length video about how much he disliked one of our favorite shows – and it's part one of three. We have some thoughts!
Minor spoilers for RWBY.
HBomberguy's video: youtu.be/81fdKWOHrdE
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Oh no! I'm stuck! ............... in T I M E ~~~~~~
Spoilers for Time Trap.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Finn wants to talk for an hour about games where you climb a mountain. If that sounds deprecating, know that I am Finn.
Spoilers for Celeste, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, The Witness, Hatch, and A Short Hike.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
The most chill talk about the most angsty movie!
Spoilers for Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Me and White Supremacy: https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/
George Floyd Memorial Fund: https://t.co/RalesnF5gt?amp=1
NC Community Bail Fund: https://t.co/3hSxjXRdwR?amp=1
National Bail Fund Network: https://t.co/cT5nrgTiP5?amp=1
Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality: https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality
A Carrd with more links: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
Spoilers for Vento Aureo and previous parts of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Finn has finally caught up! Let's talk about what this season had to say about heroism and villainy.
Spoilers for My Hero Academia through Season 4.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Some actually smart talk about how stories that embrace a format that is both serialized and episodic give hopeful messages about loss! Then Finn says his theoretical framework made SethBling hate Super Mario Maker 2.
Spoilers for Tales From the Loop and Doctor Who: S7E5: The Angels Take Manhattan.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
What do these words even mean? Can Finn control the chaos? Find out in this fortnight's episode!
Minor spoilers for Batman: The Killing Joke.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
An informal episode to catch up you all up. Let us know what you want to see from the show or if you want to be a guest!
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Mushi-shi Season 1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4F1CE257A87FF5D1
Mushi-shi Season 2: https://www.crunchyroll.com/mushi-shi
Grandmother’s Gold: https://youtu.be/vHRRL2t9LKk
Hank Green streaming Stardew Valley with his son: https://www.twitch.tv/gameswithhank
Bob Ross non-stop marathon: https://www.twitch.tv/bobross
Griffin McElroy streaming Animal Crossing: https://www.twitch.tv/griffinmcelroy
Other McElroy streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/mbmbam
Me streaming Baba Is You/my homework/video editing: https://www.twitch.tv/cosmossurfer
Skiffy Mondays at 9: Ask me for the Discord and Kast links
Fiction podcast recommendations: https://anchor.fm/foolsandfiction/episodes/bonus---fiction-podcasts-e52fjt
We talk about the types of characters that generate conspiracy.
Spoilers for Harry Potter, RWBY, The Adventure Zone, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Grease, Deltarune, Shutter Island, Swiss Army Man, The OA, The Orbiting Human Circus (Of The Air), Mr. Nobody, and The Secret Empire. Minor spoilers for My Hero Academia, Doctor Strange, One Punch Man, and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 3: THE RETURN OF THE KING – EPISODE 6
Finn's sick, so we decided to set up monetization. That is logic that makes sense.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 3: THE RETURN OF THE KING – EPISODE 5
It was so fucking good.
Minor spoilers for Sonic the Hedgehog (2020).
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 3: THE RETURN OF THE KING – EPISODE 4
Joined by Will, we use a random word generator to come up with powers inspired by Epithet Erased.
Minor spoilers for Epithet Erased.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 3: THE RETURN OF THE KING – EPISODE 3
Sorry for the late episode! Finn literally just forgot to upload it. This time, we're talking about why we think Scooby-Doo sometimes has its monsters be real, and what that says about the core of the show.
Spoiler list coming soon.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 3: THE RETURN OF THE KING – EPISODE 2
We're back, with the story of how we defeated the Network (for the time being) and reclaimed our status as students at W&M!
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 3: THE RETURN OF THE KING – EPISODE 1
Talking about the time travel stories we enjoy and how they work! Also, some mysterious news from Chris...
Major spoilers for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, spoilers for Primer, Terminator, Terminator 2, Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban, Back to the Future (the whole franchise), Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball Super, and minor spoilers for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Missing series, and Shift.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 2: EXILED – EPISODE 6
Finn tries to convince Joe to watch Frozen 2.
Spoilers for some story beats in Frozen 2.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 2: EXILED – EPISODE 5
Disorganized rambling about stories where someone goes to a fantasy world, learns real-world lessons, and returns. We summed Sean using god powers lent to us by Wendy herself!
Minor spoilers for Peter Pan, Return to Never Land, Labyrinth, Halloweentown, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Umbrella Academy through Season 1, and spoilers for Narnia.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 2: EXILED – EPISODE 4
I think the title speaks for itself. Also, a correction: I meant hypercone, not hypersphere.
Spoilers for The Velocipastor, and minor spoilers for Sorry to Bother You.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 2: EXILED – EPISODE 3
In our travels we encountered a Kevin M., who joined us to talk about the new RWBY volume! I don't think this is the same Kevin from the bonus episode a while back, but idk, I've never seen both of them in the same room.
Spoilers for RWBY through Vol. 7 Ep. 1.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 2: EXILED – EPISODE 2
Join us for a chaotic and ill-informed discussion of communism, Hinduism, the Big Crunch, and Neon Genesis Evangelion. We'll have a more normal episode next week!
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 2: EXILED – EPISODE 1
This week we're joined by Rane and Rachel (Skull) to discuss the enormous number of villains in MHA!
Spoilers for My Hero Academia through Season 3.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 1: THE NETWORK – EPISODE 4
This week we're joined by Finn's cousin Dalton to talk about the annual YouTube show they've been making since 2011! Sorry for the occasional audio quality drops, they're temporary.
Spoilers for The Lake Anna Adventure through Season 2 Episode 2.
The Lake Anna Adventure: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFzLTsl90mSeENZSXNPlrUGsAtglbUBq9
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 1: THE NETWORK – EPISODE 3
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This week we're talking about an obscure YouTube playlist that took the apartment by storm.
Spoilers for The WendCU through episode 15 and The Prestige, and minor spoilers for Inuyashiki and Undertale.
The WendCU: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA260rhIhvuXHifXux9hpfxfS6hNTiOUP
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
ARC 1: THE NETWORK – EPISODE 1
New Celeste! We talk about the chapter's story themes, how the new mechanics inform them, and how the concept of a Celeste DLC shows that self-improvement and mental health can be thought of as vectors or divergent series (We'Re CoLlEgE sTuDeNtS).
Spoilers for Celeste Chapter 9 ("Farewell").
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Guest Shelly Cox tells us her story of getting into the Lord of the Rings fandom back in 2001, and we talk about how the fandom evolved along with the popularization of the internet. No spoilers this episode!
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
A short episode on how we're planning on improving the podcast for the future, with guest Chris Lee. Let us know what you think of these ideas!
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
We're back with an episode that starts off with weebery and evolves into a more nuanced conversation about representation in the shonen genre! With guests Chris Lee and Jonah Barrón.
Minor spoilers for RWBY and My Hero Academia.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Finn shares his five favorite fiction podcasts. Regular episodes returning August 31st!
Dreamboy: http://www.nightvalepresents.com/dreamboy/
It Makes a Sound: http://www.nightvalepresents.com/itmakesasound
The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air): https://www.npr.org/podcasts/610483979/the-orbiting-human-circus
The Adventure Zone: https://maximumfun.org/shows/adventure-zone
Within the Wires: http://www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires
With guest Kevin Dolan! This is admittedly a particularly silly episode – if you're not a fan, stay tuned for more normal episodes starting August 31st.
Spoilers for The End of Evangelion and minor spoilers for Future Diary.
We discuss a few creative projects we've been a part of in the past, and how we think about the collaboration that's necessary to pull them off and have fun while doing it.
This is our last full episode for the summer – Finn will be posting three bonus episodes in the coming hiatus, and we'll be returning to our in-person setup for the coming semester. Let us know if you have an episode idea or want to be on the show!
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
What is too much of a good thing? Finn tells his story of playing Undertale and Deltarune and how this experience impacted his friendships.
Emptiness: https://tricycle.org/magazine/what-do-buddhists-mean-when-they-talk-about-emptiness/
“A Lesson in Nonduality” lecture by Rupert Spira: https://youtu.be/dJtVLASoiQE
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Continuing in the style of last episode, we talk about some pieces of media that feel pretentious and why they feel that way. Then we get a little meta and take a look at our own podcast.
Spoilers for The OA Part I and Starfish.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
We explore some ideas about the continuum between and mixture of narrative and gameplay in video games. We're trying a slightly new format here: we come in without knowing what we want to demonstrate, just with examples we want to highlight, and we try to find a path along the way – let us know what you think! We certainly enjoyed the more conversational style.
Spoilers for Metal Gear Solid 3, Undertale, Celeste, Life of Pi, Shutter Island, Ender’s Game, and minor spoilers for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
We continue our discussion of the recently released book Best Game Ever, this time joined by the author himself!
Spoilers for Ex Machina, and minor spoilers for Best Game Ever.
R R Angell's website: https://rrangell.com/
Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Game-Ever-Virtuella-Novel/dp/1949532054/
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
It's our secret project! Over the past several weeks, we've been reading reviewers' copies of R R Angell's queer sci-fi novel Best Game Ever. And now we talk about the book in anticipation for our discussion with the author on July 1st! But you also have an important role to play: send us questions to ask via the links below!
Minor spoilers for Best Game Ever.
R R Angell's website: https://rrangell.com/
Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Game-Ever-Virtuella-Novel/dp/1949532054/
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Talking about some anime music! Featuring both demon!Joe and demon!Finn (sorry for the bad audio, we're in a bad recording setup this episode).
Spoilers for Neon Genesis Evangelion, Mushi-shi, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 4, My Hero Academia through Season 3, and Yuri!!! on Ice.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
A lighter discussion on the endings of movies we like and what makes movie endings distinct from endings in other media.
Spoilers for Swiss Army Man, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Shutter Island, Celeste, Story of Your Life/Arrival, La La Land, and minor spoilers for A Dark Room.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
We're back, with a much better sounding Joe and a mysteriously slurry Finn! We've got a fairly chaotic episode for you this week, featuring such lines as, "My biggest thing to swallow immediately was the skin lady".
Major spoilers for The OA through Part II.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Finn just finished Season 1 of Mob Psycho 100, and we've all got stuff to say. With guests Rachel "Skull" DePalma, Joe's dog Dusty, and Cap'n Horatio Magellan Crunch (jk it's Joe's bad wifi)!
Spoilers for Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 and minor spoilers for Puella Magi Madoka Magica through Episode 3.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Happy summer! Talking about some fan works we like and what we like about them. With a few unexpected guest visits from demon!Joe, excuse us while we figure out our new setup.
Spoilers for Magnus's ---eventual--- death in The Adventure Zone: Balance. Also, a correction – I don't think Griffin himself plays the theme in that scene, I think he just plays Reeder's recording.
Julia: https://soundcloud.com/iamreeder/julia
Voidfish Plural: https://soundcloud.com/rachelrosemitchell/voidfish-plural
Pokémon Uranium: https://pokemon-uranium.fandom.com/wiki/Download
Project M: http://pmunofficial.com/en/download/
20XX (Smash): https://smashboards.com/threads/the-20xx-melee-training-hack-pack-v4-07-7-04-17.351221/
Metroid remakes: https://www.wired.com/story/metroid-ii-remake-fan-vs-nintendo/
Harry Potter fan sequel: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/James_Potter_(series)
Security: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10377231/1/Security
Methods of Rationality: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Methods-of-Rationality
Koethe Koethe's Life is Strange music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzJtNZQKmXCuJkUGbnAE2k_spBJwEE9jS
Mnstrcndy: https://mnstrcndy.tumblr.com/
Atonement: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10771504/1/Atonement
Nine Minutes: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10425580/1/Nine-Minutes
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
An end-of-the-semester group discussion with a few members of Skiffy (the sci-fi/fantasy/movie club at William & Mary) – with Cody Hammack, Ailish Bova, Kate Lucas, Jonah Barrón, Andrew Wells, and John Bednarek!
Spoilers for Tower of Babylon, Jupiter Ascending, and By the Waters of Babylon, and minor spoilers for The Legend of Korra and Adventure Time.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
In this experimental episode™, we talk about what makes good bad movies good and bad bad movies bad.
It's finals season, Finn was exhausted, and we were trying a new recording setup, so apologies for the weird vibe! Also, we didn't properly record Joe's mic, so the quality in this setup will be better for the next episode.
Spoilers for Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Time for our own fiction! We talk with guests Sean DeMieri and Chris Lee about playing Dungeons & Dragons characters whose goals don't align with the rest of the party's.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
A pretty simple episode this week: our favorite movies and why we like them.
Spoilers for My Cousin Vinny and The NeverEnding Story, and minor spoilers for Labyrinth, Swiss Army Man, and TOME.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
This episode we get philosophical to talk about the morals of superheroes with guests Rachel "Skull" DePalma and Chris Lee! We've got a pretty long cold open on this one, so skip to 2:30 if you want to go straight to the main episode.
Spoilers for the Infinity War-adjacent comics, vague major spoilers for the overarching narrative of The Adventure Zone: Balance, and minor spoilers for Mob Psycho 100.
Also, it turns out there are morse code podcasts! Here are some links:
http://www.morseresource.com/podcasts.php
https://player.fm/series/morse-code
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Joe, who's seen and read all the Spider-Man stuff, and a very tired Finn, who's only seen Spider-Verse (but like 4 times), talk about why they think this movie is so goddamn good.
Spoilers for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and minor spoilers for Limbo.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Talking about our favorite horror and how it works with guests Emily Williams and Chris Lee!
Spoilers for the Saw franchise, Doctor Who (The Lonely Child, Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, Blink, The Angels Take Manhattan), The Thing, Cube, Primer, The Manchurian Candidate, Snowpiercer, and minor spoilers for Bioshock.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
This week we talk about one of our favorite games and how mechanics interact with story!
Spoilers for Celeste, Inside, and minor spoilers for Undertale.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
This week was midterms, so we've got a more casual episode for you. Returning to the topic of the pilot, Cody Hammack arrives to challenge our interpretation of Deku's character.
Spoilers for My Hero Academia through S3, and minor spoilers for My Hero Academia: Two Heroes.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
We make our case for watching the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1 anime. With guest Trevon Johnson!
Minor spoilers for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
Shipping talk for Valentine's Day, with guests Evan Squires, Chris Lee, Trevon Johnson, Rane Squires, and Rachel "Skull" DePalma! Note: this episode's a bit more explicit than usual.
Spoilers for Harry Potter, My Hero Academia through S3, Free, Yuri on Ice, Naruto, RWBY through Vol. 6, YuruYuri, Citizen Kane, Twilight, Worm, The X-Files, Overwatch, Doctor Who through Series 4, Voltron, and Undertale.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
We give our thoughts on RWBY Volume 6 – how it improved on Volume 5 and how we hope the show progresses from here.
Spoilers for RWBY through Volume 6.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew
In our pilot episode, we take on an easy subject: why we like Deku so much.
Spoilers for My Hero Academia through S3, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and Cars 3.
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by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew
theme music by Finn Mayhew
cover art by Chris Lee
produced by Finn Mayhew