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Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

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Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.
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The Serial Killer Podcast

Thomas Rosseland Wiborg-Thune

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TSK is the podcast dedicated to exploring the serial killer phenomenon. Who the killers were, what they did and how. The show makes a significant effort into exploring the serial killers' background, especially their childhood and youth. It goes into detail in the killers' development, and describes the murders in graphic detail to give the listener a truthful understanding of who these killers really were and the extent of their criminal behavior. The show is produced and hosted by Thomas W ...
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Alternative Interests

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Join Crystal and Kat as they take turns each week diving into all things weird, dark, and spooky. From True Crime to Cults and Conspiracies and all things Supernatural, this show is sure to capture all of your alternative interests.
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Hyperspace Theories

Hyperspace Theories

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On Hyperspace Theories the team from FANgirl Blog discuss elements that impact Star Wars storytelling. Each month hosts Tricia Barr, BJ Priester and Kay Serna take a deep dive into creative individuals who impact the franchise, from George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy to William Shakespeare and Hayao Miyazaki, then break down storytelling from worldbuilding to character development. Tricia Barr is co-author of Ultimate Star Wars, the definitive guide to Star Wars from DK Publishing, featured w ...
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Thistle & Seed

Chani Petro

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Are you a fan of Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung? Do you like digging deeper into the psyche and learning more about yourself? Thistle and Seed explores Archetypes through short, original folktales written by Chani Petro. Many involve tales of transformation, fantasy, and magical realism. If you're a fan of Hayao Miyazaki, Neil Gaimen, or Christian Anderson, you'll be delighted as you delve into these tales of symbolism and inner knowledge.
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Join hosts ASHLEY E. MILLER (showrunner; Netflix's DOTA: Dragon's Blood) and STEVEN MELCHING (writer; The Clone Wars, Rebels, X-Men: The Animated Series, DOTA: Dragon's Blood) as they sit down at the cartoon barroom for a drink and conversation with industry luminaries about animation and cartoons from film and television. From Disney to Hanna-Barbera, Filmation to Pixar, Ruby-Spears to Haya Miyazaki and more, pull up a stool and have a seat at the Cartoon Barroom where everyone wants to kno ...
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Film School

Ira Heinichen, Joshua McClenney

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A filmmaker and a writer tackle the AFI's Top 100 Films and beyond to educate themselves about movies and storytelling. Welcome to Film School!
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Your Anime is Trash

Beta-Testers Who Play Unfairly

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Are you sick and tired of all the creepy and disgusting anime polluting the minds of impressionable children? Are you heartbroken after seeing Miyazaki cry because pantsu is now just a normal and excepted thing that people seem to be totally chill with? Well we've had enough of the madness. We've taken to the internet to complain about garbage anime. Send your salt to: [email protected]. Special thanks to https://soundcloud.com/ethanvoon and soundcloud.com/wearetheteachers for the i ...
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Normies Like Us

Normies Like Us

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Each week our hosts do a deep dive on everything pop culture from niche to normie! We examine everything from movies, comics and video games as we try to figure out how it entered into the cultural zeitgeist!
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BETA

Wisconsin Public Radio

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"BETA" comes from producer/host Doug Gordon. BETA is a polyphonic mosh pit where high culture and low culture collide, taking an immersive, innovative, playful and provocative approach to exploring arts, culture and technology.
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Long Live Play

Adam & Hurst

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The #1 Australian PlayStation podcast hosted by Govinda Whitehurst and Khayl Adam. A weekly rhetorical assault on the PlayStation ecosystem and the gaming industry as a whole, replete with luke-warm takes and friendly banter.
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Your textbooks didn’t tell you the full story. This is the history podcast that gets into the weird, wonderful world of Philippine history! Go beyond the dates and discover a fresh perspective on Filipino heritage. Hosted by historian and stand-up comedian Sab Schnabel & history nerd Ceej Tantengco. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ghibliotheque - A Podcast About Animation and Studio Ghibli

Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham & Steph Watts

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Welcome to the Ghibliotheque, the podcast that leafs through libraries of films from the world’s greatest animation studios. In 2018, Michael Leader, an avowed Studio Ghibli fanatic, sat down with Jake Cunningham, who had never seen any of the Studio’s work before. Together they looked at the history behind Ghibli's films (including Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro and Princess Mononoke), and got a critical perspective from Jake as a first-time viewer. They covered all of Studio Ghibli's f ...
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Art City

Mary Louise Schumacher

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Art City is the name of Mary Louise Schumacher's column and online journal about visual art, the urban landscape and design for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It is also a community of writers, artists, curators, designers and architects, as well as a platform for dialogue. You can expect to hear from some of them on the show.
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WAIT! DON'T KILL ME

WAIT! DON'T KILL ME

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Don’t all lifelong friendships start with a love of True Crime? Join best friends and true crime fanatics, Tara and Sarah, every Tuesday as they discuss the nail-biting, heartbreaking and sometimes funny True Crime Stories that kept them up all week
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10 Podcast Lane

Justin Byrne

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10 Podcast lane is a #Horror / #Myth / #Truecrime Podcast written, produced, researched and recorded by myself, Justin, from the cave, in Kildare, Ireland. From gore to gaeilic, Aliens to Islands, theres something for every kind of listner. My goal was to cut out the fat, and provide short episodes, that are all killer no filler, in easy to digest episodes. So why not come visit 10 Podcast Lane© , and remember, Aim for the Bushes!
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Paths of Glory Podcast

Paths of Glory Podcast

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Paths of Glory; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Shlock is a weekly podcast hosted by Zack Long and Andrea “Danger” Gigeroff. Each episode, they talk about about two films that are related, however tentative that relation may be. Andrea Gigeroff is a science student and movie enthusiast from Halifax, NS. She likes sci-fi novels, horror movies, snakes, and long romantic walks to the liqour store. In addition to Paths of Glory, she sporadically writes horror and science fiction f ...
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Whatcha 370: Look, we’ve got more episodes than days in a year now, and we’re still coming up with good stuff to talk about! Tune in to a special 370 Whatcha as your hosts dive in on what they’ve been getting down with in the Normie Pop Culture world only on Normies Like Us. Insta @Normies_Like_Us https://www.instagram.com/normies_like_us/ @jacob h…
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David and Tamler return to one of their favorites, Frans Kafka, this time on his beautiful and distressing short story "The Hunger Artist," a story that brims with metaphorical possibilities but also implores us to accept it on its own mysterious terms. Plus gooning. The Goon Squad by Daniel Kolitz [harpers.org] "Gooning" definition [urbandictionar…
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In this episode of the It's the Pictures podcast, Max Covill is joined by guest Amelia Emberwing to delve into the collaborations between director Yorgos Lanthimos and actress Emma Stone. Before that they discuss The Mummy 4 news, Chloe Zhao and Manga adaptations, and a new Miss Piggy movie. They explore the films, including 'The Favourite' and 'Po…
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It’s time for the grand finale — Pokémon Smash or Pass: Gen 9 Edition! 🎉 From fiery crocodiles and edgy swordsmen to literal tumbleweeds and sentient engines, Paldea might just be the wildest region yet. Naturally, we’re here to rate them all by thirst, chaos, and questionable taste. 👉 Let us know YOUR smashes and passes in the comments! Check out …
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Burton tried to speak, to beg for mercy, but his throat had clamped shut, parched and brittle as ancient parchment left too long in the sun. His voice only clawed its way back in a ragged, desperate croak the instant Boone pressed the knife down against the flesh of his right leg, just above the knee, and the first thin, crimson line of blood welle…
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Peacemaker - Episode 369: We’re back with the show that bleeds red, white, and blue balls: Peacemaker! Season 2! The man who fights for Peace at any cost is feeling a little depressed, so he’s set his sights on a different world entirely? Is this new Dimension as fucked up as ours? Hard to nazi where this is going... but tune in anyways to Normies …
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Stone Ocean isn’t just another JoJo part — it’s the end of an era. We talk about legacy, fate, and freedom as Jolyne Cujoh carries her family’s will into the strangest chapter of the Joestar saga. From Jolyne’s growth and Foo Fighters’ sacrifice to Pucci’s time-accelerating chaos, we’re covering it all with plenty of hot takes, laughs, and memes! 👇…
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I avsnitt 196 har vi tagit pulsen på Embarks nya spel ARC Raiders och fortsatt utforska slagfältet i Battlefield 6. I Halloween-tider som detta så testas det också skräckspel som Little Nightmares III och Bye Sweet Carole. Vi går också i mål med flera Spooktober-projekt, som skräckserierna Phantasm och Final Destination. Avslutningsvis blir det en …
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David and Tamler transfer their libidinal energy to Freud's 1917 article "Mourning and Melancholia," in which he tries to understand what's going on with depression, attempts to distinguish it from normal grief, and arrives at some ideas that laid the groundwork for his later theory of normal human development. Plus, another blind ranking segment--…
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Spooktacular 2025 : Episode 368 - Spooktacular 8 aka HELL ON EARTH EDITION. As the world falls apart it’s once again that time of year where ghosts, ghouls, and goblins abound. The only remedy? The Normies Like Us Spooktacular! Try not to PSYCH(o) yourself out, get your trick ‘r treating done by DAWN, and if all else fails - do anyTHING you can to …
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On this Halloween week we dive into Paranoia Agent, Satoshi Kon’s only TV series and one of the most haunting, prophetic anime ever made. We look at how Paranoia Agent uses urban legend, media hysteria, and collective delusion to show society’s need for escapism — and why the series feels even more relevant today in the era of viral fear, online pa…
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Max and Evan are joined by Journalist and BOFCA member, Andrew Crump. First, they discuss Jane Schoenbrun's new adaptation of Black Hole and Stranger Things. Then, Keanu Reeves movies, minus John Wick and The Matrix. Stay tuned after the credits for What You've Been Watching, as the guys discuss HIM, John Woo movies, and Little Amelie. Chapters 00:…
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A few of the abandoned men, their wills broken, staggered blindly after Boone and Burton once they finally realized the terrible deception. But in tragically little time, they were completely snow-blind and hopelessly lost, staggering aimlessly away from the faint path and each other as the relentless, creeping tendrils of hypothermia finally took …
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Richard was a man that friends and family remembers as someone who was devoted to his family and his faith and was a beloved husband, son, and friend. The events of August 10, 2018 were a shock to everyone who knew him, and the tragic end to his young life lives on in infamy every time the audio of his final flight make their rounds on social media…
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The Thing: Episode 367 - The scares become bone chilling on the 3rd week of Spooktober as we head to the Antartica and encounter a strange alien lifeform while we talk the 1982 John Carpenter paranoia masterclass "The Thing" on Normies Like Us! Trust no one... Not even yourself... Mother, what have you done!? Podcasts. Podcasts everywhere!. Insta: …
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Grab your Gigantamax passes because we’re heading to Galar for another unhinged Pokémon Smash or Pass! 🏴 Gen 8 is packed with elegant witches, buff gorillas, smug foxes, and dragons that double as fighter jets — so naturally, we’re here to make very bad decisions in public again. 🧙‍♀️ Is Hatterene secretly toxic and smashable? 🐒 Is Rillaboom too mu…
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I avsnitt 195 blir det tunga recensioner av succén Battlefield 6 och det skräckfyllda Silent Hill f. Sen fortsätter vi beta av Spooktober-projekt, med allt från Stephen King till Nightmare on Elm Street-filmerna. Dessutom: vi går igenom programmet till SFF och våra “bästa” festivalminnen. 0:26:00 Spelsegmentet 1:35:00 Serie- och filmsegmentet Spel:…
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Max and Evan discuss the filmography of John Candy in honor of the new documentary, I Like Me, now airing on Amazon Prime Video. First, they discuss the late Diane Keaton and the mark she left on cinema. Then, they talk about new movies in the Ocean's 11 franchise, a Sigourney Weaver Alien return, and a national rollout of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloo…
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David and Tamler share some brief thoughts about Paul Thomas Anderson's latest masterpiece One Battle After Another before going deep on his most underrated movie Inherent Vice. We explore the many connections between the two movies - Pynchon adaptations, shadowy forces, snitches who abandon their families, the blend of comedy and political fatalis…
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Dawn of the Dead: Episode 366 - We’re picking up Spooktober where we left off with the FATHER of the modern zombie when we cover George Romero's 1978 consumerist satire-horror classic "Dawn of the Dead" on Normies Like Us! Mother, what have you done!? Podcasts. Podcasts everywhere!. Insta: @Normies_Like_Us https://www.instagram.com/normies_like_us/…
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Step back into the digital dreamscape with our full Animatrix Spoilercast! In this deep dive, we break down every short film in The Animatrix, exploring how it expanded the world of The Matrix with stunning animation, philosophical storytelling, and haunting cyberpunk imagery. 👇 Join ACAD everywhere to keep up with all we do: 📺 YouTube → https://ww…
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When the sun finally rose, he methodically availed himself of the dead's belongings, precisely as he always did, but for the first time, he could not bring himself to look directly at the body. Usually, he felt absolutely no sting of remorse or burning shame—he had successfully convinced himself that he was entirely immune to such weak human frailt…
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It's a shameless plug! Our new book, The Animation Atlas, is out today! So, to celebrate, here's a little chat with Michael and Jake talking about what the book is all about and why (hopefully) you should be excited about it. A cartography of cartoons, The Animation Atlas takes in everything from titans of animation such as Disney, Pixar, Aardman a…
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Warren Barnes was a beloved member of the community of Grand Junction, Colorado. A man who loved reading as much as he could and would take time to feed the birds while he ate lunch, he was also the type that you could set your watch by. When Brian Cohee Jr. went looking for his idea of someone who wouldn't be missed so he could experience the thri…
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I avsnitt 194 går vi på bio och golvas av Paul Thomas Andersons monumentala One Battle After Another. Mästaren är tillbaka! I spelsegmentet blir det snack om det ockulta pusselspelet Strange Antiquities och den hyllade JRPG-remaken Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter. Vi har också åsikter om Sonys senaste State of Play och Microsofts Game Pass-prishöjnin…
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What is the psychology of shame? Is the experience of shame a human universal? How can we investigate the nature of shame across cultures? David and Tamler dive into Richard Shweder's "Towards a Deep Cultural Psychology of Shame." We talk about the methodological challenges of studying shame in other contexts and languages, the virtues of ethnograp…
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Alien Earth - Season 1: Episode 364 - In space no one can hear you scream but on earth no one can see Prodigy scheme,,, We crashland onto earth with strange alien species and deal with a bit of science and corporate espionage when we talk about season 1 of Alien Earth on Normies Like Us! Are you a fan of Peter Pan? Insta: @Normies_Like_Us https://w…
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The Fall 2025 anime season is here, and it’s packed with massive sequels and exciting new premieres—from the final season of My Hero Academia, the continuation of Star Wars: Visions with Volume 3, and the long-awaited One Punch Man Season 3 to fresh adaptations like Fujimoto Tatsuki 17-26, Shuumatsu Touring, and Disney Twisted-Wonderland. We’ll tal…
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Max and Evan discuss the filmography of Paul Thomas Anderson. Before they go from Hard Eight to One Battle After Another, they talk about the latest in film and television. Jimmy Kimmel is back on air, a new Spaceballs 2 photo emerges, and The Social Network is getting a sequel. Hard Eight (1996) Boogie Nights (1997) Magnolia (1999) Punch-Drunk Lov…
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She fought him off when she could, her arms straining against his weight, her breath hitching as she prayed for him to collapse into a drunken stupor. On good nights, he’d pass out mid-act, his body slumping onto her like a felled oak, his breath hot and sour against her neck. She would shove him aside, her muscles trembling, and crawl to the edge …
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This week on "BETA,"we’ll chat with the one and only Charlie Berens and find out what so funny about bein’ from Wisconsin.Then we’ll chat with Green Bay’s own Patrick Summerville about his work on the HBO series Station 11.And we'll talk with Eau Claire native Phil Cook about how he and birds make music together on his album Appalachia Borealis.…
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On December 16, 2021, what should have been a day of celebration for Hillcrest Primary School students marking the end of the school year turned to tragedy in an instant. In the wake of an unforeseen accident that is sadly not unique of its' kind, the community and families were left to pick up the pieces and mourn the losses of that fateful day.…
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Porco Rosso: Episode 363 - We decide to fight some sky pirates and bash the fasc as we take to the skies for another Miyazaki review with Porco Rosso! Hop into your plane and get ready to fly on this edition of Normies Like Us! Better to be pig than a fascist... Insta: @Normies_Like_Us https://www.instagram.com/normies_like_us/ @jacob https://www.i…
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Join us as we take a deep dive into JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind, David Production’s stunning anime adaptation of Hirohiko Araki’s classic story arc. In this spoilercast, we cover everything—from Giorno Giovanna’s rise in Passione to Bucciarati’s iconic moments, King Crimson’s wild powers, the unforgettable battles, and the emotiona…
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I avsnitt 193 blir det reaktioner på de nya trailers som visades upp på senaste Nintendo Direct, inklusive Metroid Prime 4: Beyond och Super Mario Galaxy-filmen. Vi recenserar också Hollow Knight: Silksong, där åsikterna går isär om årets kanske mest hajpade spel. På filmfronten blir det Marvel-snack och rynkade pannor efter Spike Lees remake på en…
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Max shares his thoughts on some of the other movies he saw during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF 2025). Before that the news of Robert Redford's passing, raves for Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, Jimmy Kimmel put "on hold," and the TIFF's People's Choice Winner. Stay tuned afterwards for the additional coverage out o…
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David and Tamler go big game hunting and explore their first Hemingway short story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." We dig into his characteristic themes of courage, cowardice, shifting power dynamics in marriages, and what it truly means to live a happy life. Plus, neuroscience may be complex, but can these AI generated neuroscience jok…
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Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 3: Episode 362 - We boldly go where we’ve gone many times before as your hosts return to their favorite subject - Star Trek! The third season of Strange New Worlds has come and gone, so now we have the delightful task of recording our thoughts and sharing them with you, dear listeners (hopefully not through a min…
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It’s time to dive into Kalos and make some bad decisions — yep, we’re back with Pokémon Smash or Pass, this time for Gen 6 Pokémon.From chestnut hedgehogs and sexy fox wizards, to dragons made of goo and literal keychains, we’re here to decide which Gen 6 Pokémon deserve a smash and which ones are an immediate pass.👉 Let us know YOUR smashes and pa…
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He’d deliberately pick fights with men leaving the tavern, a predator stalking his prey. Experience had honed his dangerous edge; he was now a skilled brawler, a calculated bully, and stronger than any man had a right to be. The young women of the town, caught in the romantic fantasy of taming a wild man, were drawn to him. But at home, the attenti…
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We're revisiting conversations with some of our favorite authors. Ottessa Moshfegh will talk with us about her novel "My Year of Rest and Relaxation," and Megan Abbott will discuss writing for HBO's "The Deuce" and her novel, "Give Me Your Hand." Also, Karen Russell joins us to talk about her beautifully written book, The Antidote.…
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Michael speaks with film critic Nicolas Rapold about his new book, The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki, which examines the films of our favourite grumpy Japanese master through a spectrum of influences and inspiration. Find out more about The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki Listen to Nicolas's podcast, The Last Thing I Saw Read about the BFI's upcoming Frederick…
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