Today's episode has been a long time coming, but that didn't make it any easier to produce once the time finally came. So in this belated holiday special, M revisits the ultimate "gift" or the best gift she had ever (unintentional) received and a thank you she never properly gave.
Topic of Today's Episode:
On Revolution (1963) by Hannah Arendt
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Episode 32: Pokemon - Gotta Get By with the Ones You Have?
Today, M talks about a phenomenon that defined her childhood and another staple of her life back then: Artemis, the original podcat (by some standards...). Some relationships went better than others. But Artemis still holds a special place in her heart, which he shares with Pikachu...
M can explain.
Topic of Today's Episode:
Pokemon
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Episode 31: Nailed It! Or We Can Hope....
Today, M is going to defy expectations by talking about something that maybe she has no business talking about. Who knows! Life isa weird adventure packed through a mediocrity, even if we want to deny, but if we love what we do, should any of the rest matter?
Topic of Today's Episode:
Nailed It!
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Episode 30: A Monster Calls - The Stories We Carry With Us
Today, M's going to make a review she never thought she'd make. Because it touches a deeply personal moment of her life, one that she thought she needed to be ashamed of. But stories can offer us a new perspective. Or a new connection. So maybe she should pay it forward...
Topic of Today's Episode:
A Monster Calls (2011) written by Patrick Ness from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd
And a tiny bit of the movie A Monster Calls (2016) dir by J. A. Bayona
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Episode 29: Spirited Away - How to Navigate a Storm
You've probably heard of Spirited Away. It's a modern classic with a transparent message that gets discussed over and over and over (and over) again. But M has a bit more to say. Or so she thinks.
Topic of Today's Episode:
Spirited Away (2001) dir by Hayao Miyazaki
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Episode 28: Alice Isn't Dead (And neither is Keisha or M. Not yet anyway...)
Sorry for the delay! There's two new furry members of the Miscellany Media Studios family, and they're slowly getting settled into this lifelong journey.
Today, in what may be a long awaited episode, M talks about Alice Isn't Dead. Not the novel but the podcast because life happened. But that's part of the theme of the show. Life happens, so what are you going to do about it? Drive across America in a giant truck. That's an option if you choice to do it. And it's the choice that matters.
Topic of Today's Episode:
Alice isn't Dead
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Episode 27: Les Miserables (The Musical) –Love, Simple as that
We're back! Thanks for understanding that we couldn't post last week. Life happened, but M's back on track now.
Today, M wants to talk about a tattoo she will someday get (fingers crossed). It's a line that stayed with her for years. But because this is the time of year when we're already inclined to be sentiment
Topic of Today's Episode:
Les Miserables (The Musical by Alain Boubil and Claude-Michel Schönberg) [ or a line from it...]
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Episode 26 - Podcast Medley #3
It's a Spooky/Spoopy Month here on MM Reviews!!!
So here's our special podcast medley! A medley devoted to podcasts that truly terrified M. Let's talk about the things we don't know, the things we do, and the things we try to deny. Maybe the human condition is the scariest thing around.
Transcript available at our website.
Topic of Today's Episode:
The Mabel Podcast
Station Blue
Alice Isn't Dead
[Find them wherever you are listening to this podcast]
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Episode 25: Are You Afraid of the Dark? [Obviously But That's Not the Point...]
Yes, M gets scared easily, but there was a time when she tried to be brave. And it was for the sake of The Midnight Society and the right to tell stories.
Transcript available at our website.
Topic of Today's Episode:
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
[And kind of...] The Politics of Storytelling by Michael Jackson [No, not that one...]
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Episode 24: Coraline - The Other Side of Our Doors
It's a Spooky/Spoopy Month here on MM Reviews!!!
M gets scared easily. So much so that when she first read Coraline, a dark fantasy children's novella about a girl falling into another world, she freaked out and hid the book under her textbooks for protection. The textbooks for her graduate program... There's a reason for that....
Transcript available at our website.
Topic of Today's Episode:
Coraline (2002) by Neil Gaiman
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Episode 23: The Nightmare Before Christmas […is still technically a holiday.]
It's a Spooky/Spoopy Month here on MM Reviews. So let's start off with the Halloween classic. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). Or is it a Christmas classic. Maybe M can settle the debate. Maybe she'll just insert herself some place where she doesn't belong like she did in high school. It's complicated
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Topic of Today's Episode:
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) dir by Henry Selick
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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing – Or so we try to be…
Wait what?!? An episode about a somewhat recently released book. Yeah, I know it's weird. But M had a lot of thoughts about An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. Many of which she had while she was stress eating tortillas....
As a result, M wants to talk about the things other people think of us, especially people we've never met. Mostly people we've never met. IDK, digital life is weird. She'll also talk about gluten free pad thai, attorneys, and nihilism. We're getting around in this episode.
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Topic of Today's Episode:
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (2018) by Hank Green
Also...
The CGP Grey Video I promised to link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9OHn5ZF4Uo
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Courage the Cowardly Dog [And the cowardly kid…]
Because she's free to talk about whatever obscure topic she wants, M dives into one of her favorite cartoons as a kid, the kind of show that has lingered with her in a way that some would say suggests trauma. But they just didn't understand that sometimes, life can be just as or more so upsetting.
Something a certain little purple dog knows all too well.
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Topic of Today's Episode:
Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999-2002) created by John R. Dilworth
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Fangirl - Our Secret Anchors
In this episode, M discuss a book she feels a great deal of resentment towards. And the worst moment of her college years. And fandoms. Basically, she covers a lot of ground.
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Topic of Today's Episode:
Fangirl (2013) by Rainbow Rowell
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Podcast Medley #2
Today's another podcast medley day!!! Okay, maybe that's not exciting for you, but M loves talking about her favorite audio dramas. So she's exciting. In this medley, she'll talk about ghosts, Scottish men, and Within the Wires (again). Okay, this episode is really about our relationship with the past, present, and future (yes, she definitely planned that out and didn't just realize that when typing up the summary for this episode. *wink*)
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Topics of Today's Episode:
Palimpsest
A Scottish Podcast
Within the Wires
[Find them wherever you're listening to this podcast]
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Anomalisa - Broken Visions
Today, M wants to talk about a movie that most people don't care about. Really, she gets it. It was one of the rare movies she wanted to gush about when she first saw it and found that no one was interested. But it's ideas have lingered with her. Namely, how do you relate to people/things/yourself when you can't seem to accurately see.
Even when an internet commenter suggested that was stupid.
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Topic of Today's Episode:
Anomalisa (2015) dir by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before [And all the books I was told not to love...]
Today, M wants to talk about something you've probably heard a lot about recently: To All the Boys I've Loved Before. Wait, no not the Netflix movie. The book that inspired the Netflix movie because this is a podcast about good things that mean a lot to us, and young adult literature is important. Wait! Here me out!!!
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Topic of Today's Episode:
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2014) by Jenny Han
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Unanswered Prayers - Nothing Can Last Forever
Today, M surprises herself and manages to make an entire episode about a single song, but she's got a long history with it. It's a song that's followed her throughout her life and that raised a difficult question.
Sometimes, things don't go the way we want, like when a parent dies...
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Topic of Today's Episode:
The Song "Unanswered Prayers" By Garth Brooks
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Socrates in Love - Beautiful Disturbances
An episode in which M talks about a book you've probably never heard of because foreign literature seldom makes it into the US market and even when a book is... Good like finding it. But Socrates in love is one of M's favorite books, so she wants to talk about it.
And also about love. That's an appealing topic, right?
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Topic of Today's Episode:
Socrates in Love by Koichi Katayama
Recommend reading (like I promised in the podcast)
For the basics on Socrates
[Yay for public domain]
The Republic, The Trial and Death of Socrates, and Symposium
all by Plato and possibly all available for free.
Socrates: A Very Short Introduction
by C. C. W. Taylor
[Not for free by the series of very short introductions is relatively inexpensive.]
Additional readings
[yay for supporting academics...? But seriously get these from a library because academic press books can genuinely be really expensive but these are the ones I try to force onto my friends. And yes, I am a hit at parties.]
Socrates and Aristophanes
by Leo Strauss
Socratic Citizenship
by Dana Villa
Virtue is Knowledge
by Lorraine Smith Pangle
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