Media For the Intellectually Impoverished

Media For the Intellectually Impoverished

Join Trey ”Tayler” Smith and Miranda ”Randi” Zaebst as they dive deep into different forms and styles of media with the intention of enriching your media-ocre lives.

Episodes

February 17, 2023 50 mins

We love Pedro Pascal, you love Pedro Pascal. We love cool stuff, you love cool stuff. We have a podcast, you listen to podcasts. Anyway, enjoy the episode.

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We had no plans for this session so we came up with a dumb movie idea and laughed at it. ENJOY IT OR YOU HATE HER

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February 3, 2023 52 mins

We're back and..... also back. After a breif and warranted sabbatical, we return by analyzing something that makes us feel warm and fuzzy on the inside. 


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January 27, 2023 55 mins

What makes animation so vivid? How did it start? How do they make it so cool? Why does it sometimes look uncanny? All this and more in our first full episode back!


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Follow us on Social media @mftiipodcast, subscribe to our Youtube, and email us at mftiipodcast@gmail.com. Enjoy the show!

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We figured you guys would enjoy this one too.


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January 13, 2023 29 mins

We got sleepy


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October 14, 2022 49 mins

How do characters develop? What are some examples of that? Who wrote the script for this episode? All this and probably more in your favorite podcast ever, us. It's us right? We're your favorite? Please, tell us we're your favorite. We need validation


Follow us on social media @mftiipodcast, see our faces on Spotify Video Podcasts, or email us at mftiipodcast@gmail.com. Enjoy the show!

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October 7, 2022 45 mins

Media is strange in the way it constantly follows new and different trends. Tayler is strange in the way he consumes it. Randi isn't strange. 


Music by White Bat Audio


Follow us on socials @mftiipodcast, see our faces on Spotify Video Podcasts and YouTube, and email us at mftiipodcast@gmail.com. Enjoy the show!

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September 30, 2022 49 mins

The content we watched SUCKED, but this episode doesn't. :D


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Follow us on socials @mftiipodcast, see our faces on YouTube and Spotify Video Podcasts, and email us at mftiipodcast@gmail.com. Enjoy the show!

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September 23, 2022 50 mins

Religion is a touchy topic. It's hard to make media that does it right, but OH BOY does Midnight Mass get it right. Now God's Not Dead, on the other hand. Awful. Terrible. Don't Watch it. If you do, Randi will know. And she'll get angry. You wouldn't like her when she's angry. Because it's bad. And she get's angry. Just trust me, you wouldn't like it.  


Music by White Bat Audio.  


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September 16, 2022 52 mins

Do you stream your television? Do you binge it? Well Tayler has some things to say about that. Ask him, I dare you. No really, if you see him ever in person, ask him. Listen to the episode. But also ask him in person. He'd love it. He needs more social interaction. His therapist told him he struggles with talking to strangers, but he has to work on that. So actually go up to him in person and ask him about binge culture. Put it on ...

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September 5, 2022 49 mins

Shoot the bad guys, drink the beers, warble and wobble, rinse and repeat until cool movie.

Music by White Bat Audio

Follow us on Social media @mftiipodcast, see our faces on Spotify  Video Podcasts or YouTube, and email us at mftiipodcast@gmail.com. Enjoy  the Show

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The brain boggling, mind melting, Tayler traumatizing, thought inducing puzzling that Randi brought to the table is sure to make your dumb, small brains just die. Like just shut down. Does Tayler overcome his overwhelming stupidity and pull a win out from under Randi's cheeks? Only time will tell. Time and this podcast.


Music by White Bat Audio and Emmit Fenn

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August 22, 2022 24 mins

Sometimes you watch things and you really like them. And sometimes you watch them in the summer. That happened to us, so we decided to tell you about it. That's it. That's the description... (write that down)


Music by White Bat Audio


Follow us on social media @mftiipodcast, see our faces on Spotify Video Podcasts or YouTube, or email us at mftiipodcast@gmail.com, and enjoy the show.

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You plan to talk about something, but then Randi gets angry. Do you A: give her the opportunity to continue? Or B: continue talking about the thing to make her more mad? Music by White Bat audio
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August 8, 2022 44 mins

"Screw those dorks and their single stories, I'm gonna tell a story that's actually TWO stories. Or THREE. But dang it! I don't know how to do that!"

Hi, we're Media for the Intellectually Impoverished. Has this ever been you? Trying to tell two stories or three, but you just can't get it through your stupid small brain just how to do that? Well we're here to help, with Split Storytelling. 


Split storytelling is a tool fo...

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August 1, 2022 47 mins

Putting a character by themselves can create interesting problems for storytelling. How do you keep your audience from getting bored? How do you tell a narrative without much dialogue? How do you characterize you protagonist without people to interact with? Limitations put on yourself like this can level up your story, but how do you do it right?

Music by White Bat Audio


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July 28, 2022 2 mins

Media for the Intellectually Impoverished is a comedy driven podcast with the goal of teaching YOU, yes you, how to create positive stories and impactful media from exactly where you are at! Join us as we try to navigate content creation of our own in an environment where it's not wrong to try and fail. We want you to be able to walk out, feeling like you can do what we're doing. And know that most importantly, you should have fun ...

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Representation of LGBTQ+ communities in media is few and far between when compared to the vast expanse of all media. Luckily, nowadays, the stigmas surrounding stories of the LGBTQ+ are fading. But 23 years ago, the film But I'm a Cheerleader was released to the public. And then 23 years later, we invited Sophia to talk about it. And then we did. 


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July 18, 2022 42 mins

Sometimes a piece of media ISN'T a banger. But it's important to look at someone else's media and see what not to replicate. Understand the things you can do better. And also find out how that milk got in that thermos. It's GOTTA be time travel.


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Follow us on socials @mftiipodcast, see our faces on YouTube and Spotify Video Podcasts, and contact us at mftiipodcast@gmail.com. Enjoy the show!

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