Episodes

  • S2 Ep1: 2021 Year In Review

    S2 Ep1: 2021 Year In Review
    Jan 11 2022
    Looking at 2021, we discuss a few things that caught our attention. Sci-Fi Economics. Divine Fashion. A real battle over Democracy. 
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    46 mins
  • S1 Ep9: Body

    S1 Ep9: Body
    Nov 9 2021
    Positivity, Dysmorphia, and Horror! How does the individual relate to their physical form and how much can media shape that view?
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    53 mins
  • S1 Ep8: The Individual

    S1 Ep8: The Individual
    Oct 5 2021
    Billions of individuals on Earth; with billions of billions before; trillions of billions in humanity’s collection of fiction. Are we really that different from each other? 
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    21 mins
  • S1 Ep7: Food

    S1 Ep7: Food
    Sep 7 2021
    Hope your ears brought an appetite! Sherlann tells us about how food is used in two magical realism stories, With the Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo and Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel.
    Arthur talks about how people are combating their food desert communities through food sovereignty.

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    Music by Good Shade: goodshade.bandcamp.com/ and on Spotify!
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    46 mins
  • S1 Ep6: Consumables

    S1 Ep6: Consumables
    Aug 31 2021
    What do people put in their bodies? Snacks? Potions? Other people?! Our first look at tangible culture is consumables. ⁠
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    19 mins
  • S1 Ep5: Heritage

    S1 Ep5: Heritage
    Jul 27 2021
    Which parts of culture can you touch and what ideas feel permanent? Arthur and Sherlann draw a very squiggly line down the middle of the tangible and intangible aspects of heritage.

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    27 mins
  • S1 Ep4: Monarchy Part 2

    S1 Ep4: Monarchy Part 2
    Jul 27 2021
    In the second half of the Monarchy episode, Sherlann and Arthur focus on the reality of Monarchs over time and wonder how religion influences them and their subjects. Then there’s some fun brainstorming about ways we’d like to see new royal leaders in fiction.

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    30 mins
  • S1 Ep3: Monarchy Part 1

    S1 Ep3: Monarchy Part 1
    Jul 27 2021
    In this first half of the Monarchy episode, Sherlann and Arthur discuss the movie Tale of Tales and the 17th-century fairy tales that inspired it. Join them as they discuss the power of different desires and tropes that are continued and broken.

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    53 mins