Unfortunately Required Reading
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A Bug's Life (Metamorphosis)
Published: Dec. 17, 2023, 12:42 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 57 seconds
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This Time, We Want to Join a Cult (or Build a Submarine)
Published: Nov. 12, 2023, 12:42 a.m.Duration: 2 hours 22 minutes 44 seconds
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Do You Want to Get Sued? (The Shining)
Published: Oct. 7, 2023, 8:48 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 24 minutes 36 seconds
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A Whole New World (Brave New World)
Published: Sept. 9, 2023, 8:26 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 6 minutes 55 seconds
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Episode 104: Paper Folding Peace Signs (Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes)
Published: Aug. 19, 2023, 7:15 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 12 seconds
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Look Down (Les Miserables)
Published: July 22, 2023, 11:50 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 59 seconds
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Is the Movie Better? (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Published: June 10, 2023, 8:15 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 56 seconds
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Animal Harm (Animal Farm)
Published: May 20, 2023, 11:48 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 2 seconds
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F*** You, Mark Twain
Published: April 22, 2023, 8:29 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 46 seconds
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I Dreamed I Went to Mandalay Bay Last Night (Rebecca)
Published: March 30, 2023, 1:57 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 1 second
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Death From Above (The War of the Worlds)
Published: March 18, 2023, 9:02 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes
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The Ultimate KGB C*ck Block (Doctor Zhivago)
Published: Feb. 26, 2023, 7:52 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 29 seconds
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A Guide to Why Your Black Friends Are Exhausted (A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas)
Published: Feb. 12, 2023, 12:08 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 38 seconds
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The Return of Two Host One Mic (The Secret Garden)
Published: Jan. 21, 2023, 7:01 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 58 seconds
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A Thinly Veiled Cult Metaphor? (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)
Published: Jan. 7, 2023, 8:11 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 49 seconds
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Cottage Core White Girl Fantasies (The Witch of Blackbird Pond)
Published: Dec. 18, 2022, 10:37 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 20 seconds
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Being a Mermaid is Just One Giant Metaphor, Isn't It? (Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid)
Published: Dec. 11, 2022, 1:27 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 43 seconds
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Do Androids Dream of Dick? (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)
Published: Nov. 19, 2022, 5:22 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 43 seconds
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So You're Saying I Can Dodge? (Neuromancer)
Published: Nov. 6, 2022, 12:40 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 2 seconds
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Trauma All the Way Down (The Haunting of Hill House)
Published: Oct. 23, 2022, 8:03 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 9 seconds
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Episode 88: It Was a Monkey? (Murders in the Rue Morgue)
Published: Oct. 8, 2022, 8:42 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 8 seconds
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These are the MF Jokes (Oedipus Rex)
Published: Sept. 24, 2022, 7:08 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 35 seconds
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Sexting in the Time of Cholera (Love in the Time of Cholera)
Published: Sept. 10, 2022, 9:38 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 44 seconds
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Encanto with Incest (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
Published: Aug. 13, 2022, 8:32 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 1 second
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Sartre Diem (No Exit)
Published: July 31, 2022, 4:58 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 2 seconds
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A Night with Uncle Tennessee (The Lady of Larkspur Lotion)
Published: July 23, 2022, 9:19 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 14 seconds
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Mimosas are Not the Only Brunch Beverage (Oranges are Not the Only Fruit)
Published: July 1, 2022, 2:31 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 58 seconds
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Getting Dragged by Gods (the Iliad)
Published: June 18, 2022, 10:27 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 53 seconds
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nolite te bastardes carborundorum (The Handmaid's Tale)
Published: May 28, 2022, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 7 seconds
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Another Robbie Burns Inspired Book (Of Mice and Men)
Published: May 14, 2022, 6:33 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 32 seconds
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Like Ducks on a Frozen Pond (Catcher in the Rye)
Published: April 23, 2022, 6:41 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 25 seconds
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Being an Adult at 13 Sucks (Dicey's Song)
Published: April 9, 2022, 1:10 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 23 seconds
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Irish Catholic Childhoods are Hard (Angela's Ashes)
Published: March 26, 2022, 7:54 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 16 seconds
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Unfortunately Apt War Allegory is a War Allegory
Published: March 12, 2022, 8:27 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 55 seconds
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And Nothing Has Changed Since 1974
Published: Feb. 19, 2022, 7:44 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 6 seconds
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A thinly veiled excuse to talk about Cruel Intentions (Dangerous Liaisons)
Published: Feb. 5, 2022, 2:47 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 31 seconds
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Button-Induced Trauma (Coraline)
Published: Jan. 22, 2022, 8:16 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 15 seconds
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Bet You're Pronouncing It Wrong (Eugene Onegin)
Published: Jan. 8, 2022, 7:11 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 34 seconds
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A Different Goddess in Every Port or Group Projects are a Nightmare (The Odyssey)
Published: Nov. 27, 2021, 8:49 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 10 seconds
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The Amount of Descriptors Tax My Wits
Published: Nov. 6, 2021, 10:04 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 49 seconds
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Really Close Friends, Roommates, Just So Close (Carmilla)
Published: Oct. 30, 2021, 7:26 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 23 seconds
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Spooky Incel Sh*t (Sleepy Hollow)
Published: Oct. 16, 2021, 6:46 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 59 seconds
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The Very Worst Suicide Squad Film (A Separate Peace)
Published: Sept. 18, 2021, 6:17 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 6 seconds
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Only Legal in Washington State (Equus)
Published: Sept. 4, 2021, 6:35 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 12 seconds
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All Loud on the Eastern Back
Published: Aug. 21, 2021, 7:07 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 27 seconds
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I Am Not Feeling Good (Things Fall Apart)
Published: Aug. 7, 2021, 8:04 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 27 seconds
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Behold the Cathedral in Which I Grove My F***Bois (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Published: July 24, 2021, 9:02 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 32 seconds
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Amanda and Victoria's Retirement Plan (Arsenic and Old Lace)
Published: July 10, 2021, 7 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 29 seconds
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Falling Into the Well of Self Loathing
Published: June 21, 2021, 11:33 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 9 seconds
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Dont Call My Name, Orlando
Published: June 5, 2021, 2:01 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 42 seconds
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The Worst Pepsi Challenge
Published: May 22, 2021, 1:58 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 26 seconds
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The House on Drama Street
Published: May 8, 2021, 1:31 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 21 seconds
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Delusions of Grandeur are More Fun with a Friend (Don Quixote)
Published: April 24, 2021, 10:47 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 1 second
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Just Another Victim of Capitalism (Death of a Salesman)
Published: April 11, 2021, 10:24 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 13 seconds
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The Actual Definition of Witch Hunt (The Crucible)
Published: March 27, 2021, 7:51 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 51 seconds
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Let's Record an Autopsy (Julius Caesar)
Published: March 13, 2021, 9:10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 57 seconds
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Records Podcasts
Published: Feb. 27, 2021, 10:49 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 27 seconds
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Spear and Sword in Harlem
Published: Feb. 6, 2021, 8:52 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 6 seconds
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All for One, and Evidently All for DArtagnan, Mother F'er
Published: Jan. 23, 2021, 8:35 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 45 seconds
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Madame Will Do (Madame Bovary)
Published: Jan. 9, 2021, 7:49 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 22 seconds
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Rejected Members of KISS
Published: Dec. 19, 2020, 3:10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 39 seconds
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Thanks, It's The Murder (Phantom of the Opera)
Published: Dec. 5, 2020, 2:34 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 24 seconds
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Why are Children saving the world...again?
Published: Nov. 21, 2020, 7:53 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 31 seconds
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The Hitchhikers Guide to Afrofuturism
Published: Nov. 14, 2020, 10:55 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 40 seconds
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2020 Halloween Spectacular
Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 2 seconds
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Rich White Man Gets Caught (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
Published: Oct. 17, 2020, 8:01 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 43 seconds
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No One Gets Flowers
Published: Sept. 19, 2020, 7:11 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 55 seconds
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I'm a Giver
Published: Sept. 5, 2020, 7:05 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 17 seconds
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Forgery for Fun and Divorce (A Doll's House)
Published: July 25, 2020, 8:17 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 29 seconds
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Who Let the Hound Out
Published: July 11, 2020, 7:55 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 15 seconds
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'Rent' Control
Published: June 28, 2020, 7:57 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 13 seconds
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Lets F*** Off to France and Ignore Our Problems (Giovanni's Room)
Published: June 13, 2020, 7:09 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 5 seconds
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A Spy's Guide to Secret Childhood Trauma
Published: May 30, 2020, 6:58 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 49 seconds
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Frog and Toad are Queer
Published: May 16, 2020, 7:12 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 38 seconds
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A Hobbit is More Badass Than You
Published: April 18, 2020, 6:02 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 32 seconds
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Published: April 4, 2020, 6:11 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 55 seconds
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Our Existential Crisis (The Stranger)
Published: March 28, 2020, 6:42 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 8 seconds
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Accidentally Aptly Timed (The Lord of the Flies)
Published: March 14, 2020, 7:55 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 2 seconds
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Are We Dead or Just Resting? (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead)
Published: Feb. 29, 2020, 9:09 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 50 seconds
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To Read or Not To Read (is that even a question, Hamlet?)
Published: Feb. 15, 2020, 10:38 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 19 seconds
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Not-So-Quiet Aunt Jane (Pride and Prejudice)
Published: Jan. 26, 2020, 9:25 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 39 seconds
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Withering Interest (Wuthering Heights)
Published: Jan. 11, 2020, 9:04 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 16 seconds
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The 2019 Unfortunate Retrospective
Published: Dec. 31, 2019, 3:51 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 7 seconds
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Ambrose Bierce Crosses The Line (or a Bridge)
Published: Dec. 15, 2019, 7:53 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 13 seconds
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Only Women Get Punished for Sex (The Scarlet Letter)
Published: Nov. 16, 2019, 10:26 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 12 seconds
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Claret Out of Spite (Ethan Frome)
Published: Nov. 2, 2019, 7:55 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 57 seconds
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Episode 22: It's Franken-Steen
Published: Oct. 26, 2019, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 35 seconds
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Drunkula (Dracula)
Published: Oct. 5, 2019, 9:46 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 26 seconds
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This is Not a Guide to Murdering Birds
Published: Sept. 21, 2019, 7:39 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 47 seconds
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Romeo and Juliet is Not a Love Story
Published: Sept. 7, 2019, 8:19 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 5 seconds
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Abandon All Hope Ye Who Listen Here
Published: Aug. 24, 2019, 9:53 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 17 seconds
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The Real Hell is Ye Olde English- Paradise Lost
Published: Aug. 10, 2019, 6 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 37 seconds
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Friends Don't Let Friends Go Bohemian
Published: July 27, 2019, 8:29 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 5 seconds
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Anxiety Makes Terrible Murderers
Published: July 6, 2019, 7:20 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 56 seconds
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Short Story: Rimbaud and Verlaine, Bad Boys of French Poetry
Published: June 22, 2019, 9:27 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 51 seconds
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Much Ado About Sappho
Published: June 15, 2019, 11:01 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 28 seconds
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Short Story: Goodnight Moon and Margaret Wise Brown
Published: June 10, 2019, 11:04 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 35 seconds
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Dorian Gray's Not-So Excellent Homoerotic Adventure (Now With Full Audio)
Published: June 2, 2019, 7:38 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 8 seconds
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The Pride Month Primer
Published: June 1, 2019, 8:04 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 3 seconds
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Better than Lord of the Flies
Published: May 18, 2019, 7:23 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 55 seconds
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Episode 11: Slavery and Spiteful Ghosts
Published: May 5, 2019, 7:55 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 seconds
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Their Eyes Were Watching Halle Berry and the Case of the Missing Audio
Published: April 24, 2019, 2:06 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 5 seconds
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Short Story: The Proletariat Comma
Published: April 7, 2019, 7:04 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds
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Our First Catastrophic Recording Failure
Published: April 7, 2019, 6:25 p.m.Duration: 51 seconds
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A Short Story: Victoria Reads 50 Shades of Grey
Published: March 23, 2019, 8:13 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 46 seconds
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Furry Mr. Nihilism
Published: March 16, 2019, 7:29 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 59 seconds
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A Scandinavian Warrior Walks Into A Mead Hall
Published: March 3, 2019, 2:45 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 30 seconds
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A Really Sh**ty Island Vacation
Published: Feb. 16, 2019, 8:13 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 5 seconds
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Victory Gin and Rats to the Face
Published: Jan. 19, 2019, 8:11 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 44 seconds
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That Time Being Gay Ruined a Perfectly Good Dinner
Published: Jan. 5, 2019, 9:12 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 1 second
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The Toxic Masculinity Also Rises
Published: Dec. 15, 2018, 8:42 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 58 seconds
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The Not-So-Great Gatsby
Published: Nov. 17, 2018, 8:35 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 37 seconds
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Episode One: Watership Man Down
Published: Nov. 3, 2018, 10:05 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 46 seconds
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