Our Midroll Life

Our Midroll Life

A podcast where two friends who don't know much about anything (but are determined to find out) banter until they get there. Each week, one of us proposes a topic (sprung forth from our mind as suddenly as Athena) and we try to learn enough to teach the other about it. You bet it gets weird. Check out the shownotes for corrections, links, and citations.

Episodes

November 16, 2020 52 mins

In this Episode we discuss the Movie brat 2(2000)! the sequel to the seminal post soviet Russian film brat(1997). This time the budget is bigger and the story is all over the place! check it out its on YouTube. 

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In which Yves and Cameron get very technical about what a state is, what does it mean to be a stateless person, and the problems associated with this phenomenon. I promise it's more interesting than it sound, please validate my International Relations degree. 


3:38 - *what a nation is composed of…

14:30 - Upon editing this, I realize that I wasn’t quite clear with my explainer: the factors I mentioned are not i...

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October 5, 2020 51 mins
In which Yves and Cameron talk about generational warfare. Just kidding, we’re talking about how generational definitions like Boomer, Millennial, etc. are used in academic and marketing contexts. Way more exciting, I know. Also generational warfare is...
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September 30, 2020 61 mins
In which we talk about our relationship (ha ha) with dating. Shownotes:05:24 - I believe Yves meant to say “contrast”20:55 - Important things like Dialectical Materialism20:55 - We could dive deep into moral philosophy or psychology to understand what...
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September 30, 2020 63 mins
In which we talk about how we approach day-to-day life.Shownotes:This episode isn’t about Russia, so I don’t have nearly as much to say in the shownotes. I took the audio from Alan Watts’ speech from a video by After Skool. 10:17 - I believe Yves was...
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September 30, 2020 61 mins
In which Yves and I talk about Брат, a classic Russian crime drama based in St. Petersburg. Shownotes:3:12  - I accidentally conflated Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais in this sentence, and only meant to refer to the former. Gaidar was the first Prime...
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September 30, 2020 48 mins
Love her accessible and relatable poetry or hate her unpretentious (read: simple) prose, Rupi Kaur is the most successful (financially, at least) modern poet. Yves and Cameron read Milk and Honey and use their...questionable knowledge about poetry (we...
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