Read it and Weep
Read it and Weep used to be a podcast about books. Now we talk about movies and other pop culture with a confidence level unearned by our actual knowledge.
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Fan favorite Colleen Clancy (@JumpingCeliac, Running & Blogging About It) is back with one of her faves, Fisk!
This Aussie workplace comedy bring quirk, warmth, laughs and cultural references you won't exactly get, but will catch on. It's good for what ails you, which great news for Anthony who's battling a cold.
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Man, this is a wild one.
We're talking Eagle-Eye Cherry's album Desireless EXCEPT for Save Tonight. And also NipGuards. Mostly NipGuards.
I don't know who this one's for, but it's the brain-child of Dru Johnston, one of the funniest humans I know.
Oh, also, we're doing a Nepo Baby Fantasy Draft.
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Things are about to get weird! It's X-Files meets Cops meets a person with a bed sheet over their head.
After 2014's What We Do in the Shadows, New Zealand cops Minogue and O'Leary get their documentary crew to lightly investigate near Wellington's most extreme paranormal activity.
'70s orgy ghosts, drunk werewolves, blood bag-stealing vampires, spitting cloning ...
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Do you miss Glee? Are you bummed Warm Bodies wasn't a 4-movie franchise--and a musical? Are you all about West Side Story, minus the stabbies?
Then you're not just craving brains, you're also hungry for the 2018 DCOM ZOMBIES.
We've got sick flips, racism allegories, a song book with a surprising ...
An obscure comic book character finally gets the big screen treatment! For many of us who have never heard of him, Bruce Wayne is a rich orphan whose parents were killed. He's uncriming the city gritty dark block by gritty dark block. But no shooties, only punchies. That's his code. And hey, do you like animals? Oh man, we got rats, cats, bats! Ratas aladas, penguins, falcons–you name it, and it's a major plot point. P...
Alex Falcone is back! And he's brought one of his faves–Only Connect.
Do you love the Great British, but could do without the Bake-Off?
Is your kink being asked questions that make you wonder "am I stupid, or am I just American?" Do you want to spend 30 minutes with a furrowed brow, mumbling wrong answers to yourself?
Then you might just love Only Connect.
This Briti...
Do you wish the crypt keeper was bangable?
Is your CRT desktop overflowing with Riker fan fic?
Do you long for a time when fringe ideas didn't incite national chaos?
Then you might just love "Beyond Belief: Fact, or Fiction."
This '90s anthology lovingly preserved in its native SD, features Jonathan Frakes, dozens of visual metaphors, and acting that makes you say, "Wow. Just wow."
Fan-favorite Caitlyn Gill is here for all the pun...
What do you get when you mix:
🤖A rogue SecUnit who was programmed to kill, but just wants to binge-watch its soaps.
🧑🔬 Team of scientists on an alien planet overcoming their prejudices, surviving, and making bot friends and
👾 An evil survey team here to kill anyone who gets between them and their sweet, sweet alien remnant tech?
It's Martha Wells's hit novella, All Systems Red, #1 of the Murderbot Diaries, now a hit Apple TV...
Why do we slay all day? Why do we serve? Why is it giving? It's all thanks to drag ballroom culture, and drag's permeation of mainstream is in large part thanks to Paris is Burning (1990).
Across the board, we loved this legendary documentary by Jennie Livingston, with its executive realness, vintage 80s b-roll, and giant trophies.
Also:
🌳Tree fan Bri Pruett is back and saw another good tree!
😪Anthony's suffering th...
Feeling like a dive into the ultra-bleak world of politics... in 2003?
Welcome to The Thick of It! Before he saved the universe as The Doctor, Peter Capaldi starred as a foul-mouthed fixer in Armando Iannucci's proto-Veep set in the UK.
Shaky cams! Old cell phones! Resignations! It's got it all!
Also:
The Cat in the Hat is no angel.
OSHA in the Mushroom Kingdom.
So if you like your escapism to be nearly as depressing as realit...
Alex has graciously passed the hosting mic on to Ezra and it's gonna get a little weird.
While Best Thing Ever is on break, we checked in with Anthony about being a new dad including lack of sleep, low expectations, and declawing babies. Parenting is fun and not that hard!
Alex Falcone and Ezra Fox accidentally became mummy romance experts when they wrote their best-selling young adult novel (http://unwrapmyheart.com). For Spooktober they're reviewing three classic pieces of mummy pop culture and analyzing how good the mummies are if they can get it. Today they dive into a young-adult romance that is close to mummies but crucially different: zombies. With Warm Bodies (2016) we find out why zombies bi...
Part two of our mini-series about mummies for spooky month. This time we talked about the most famous mummy romance novel (besides ours): The Mummy or Ramses the Damses by Anne Rice.
Next week we'll wrap things up (sorry) with a slant rhyme on mummies, zombie romance.
Alex and Ezra accidentally became mummy romance experts when they wrote their best-selling young adult novel (http://unwrapmyheart.com). For Spooktober they're reviewing three classic pieces of mummy pop culture and analyzing how good the mummies are if they can get it.
All good things must come to an end and so must all okay things! With that, we're calling this the official end of season 1. We talked about 27 things all of which could have been the best thing ever but today we decide once and for all which one is (you'll be surprised). Plus a mini ranking and a bunch of list stuff sure to annoy almost anybody. Enjoy! Thanks for the support this season and we'll see you again in a bit!
Since 2017 our boy Hunter has been one of the most famous players of the uber-complicated boardgame Twilight Imperium. His show Space Cats Peace Turtles chronicled the game's evolution from 3rd to 4th edition and allegedly helped shape the rules that turned it into an internationally competitive game.
He takes us back through that history and carefully avoids explaining too much of the game. But we think it's about war? And furries...
The bad news is that you're dead. The good news is that you're part of an exceptional cast on a surprisingly high-concept NBC sitcom with a high jokes-per-minute and good moral center.
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