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Species Unite

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Edita Birnkrant and Tracy Winston: The Horse Who Collapsed in the Street 37:03

منذ 9 أيام37:03

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“I could be walking in Central Park and come up on one of these horse and buggies. I don't think twice about it because I see it as part of the New York attraction. You know, you have the Statue of Liberty, you have Times Square, and you have these romantic horse and buggy things where people get married in the park and they ride these carriages. And tourists, they take these rides in Central Park. It's romantic, it's something beautiful to see. But I never thought for one second that these horses are abused.” – Tracy Winston, juror from Ryder’s trial New York City has a big, visible animal cruelty issue: horses forced to pull carriages, carrying heavy loads for long hours in all types of weather in the middle of chaotic traffic. Three years ago, a carriage horse named Ryder was a victim of this cruelty. He collapsed on a Manhattan street after being worked for hours in the summer heat. Two months later, he was euthanized. His story sparked global outrage. Ryder’s driver, Ian McKeever, was charged with animal cruelty The trial took place a few weeks ago, but McKeever was ultimately acquitted. This conversation is with Edita Birnkrant, the Executive Director of NYCLASS and Tracy Winston, one of the jurors from Ryder's trial. New York’s weak and outdated animal protection laws have not changed since Ryder died— and because of this, another avoidable death that occurred just a week after we recorded this interview. On August 5th, a horse named Lady died while pulling a carriage in Manhattan. This conversation is about accountability, about corruption and about what happens when justice fails the most vulnerable. It's too late for Ryder and Lady. But it is not too late to act. If you live in New York, please call your City Council members and tell them it’s time to bring Ryder’s Law, Intro 967, up for a vote and pass this vital bill to protect carriage horses from suffering and death on the city’s streets. To find your council member, go to: https://www.speciesunite.com/ny-horse-carriage-petition NYCLASS: https://nyclass.org/…

Book Retorts

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A show about explaining your weird media finds to your friends

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Book Retorts

updated منذ 3 أيام

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A show about explaining your weird media finds to your friends

206 حلقات

#Comedy #Book Retorts Media #Book Retorts #Books #Arts #Dan Simmons

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Book Retorts

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Magic Island 1:20:54

منذ 3 أيام1:20:54

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Sam once again digs into his childhood psyche and recaps one of his core memories: the 1995 direct-to-video movie Magic Island. When angsty teen Jack (Zachery Ty Bryan of 90s fame) wants to stick it to his negligent mother, he decides to run away from home. Thankfully, the only loving adult in his life, nanny/housekeeper Lucretia, distracts him with a mysterious book that sucks him in. Literally. Now thrown together with a ragtag team of buccaneers (join us for The Things We Learn on Book Retorts (TM), where we guess wildly at what a buccaneer actually is) in search of a cursed treasure. Luckily, Jack packed a Super Soaker (also TM) in his go-bag, so he’s all set to…help? Joining forces with a mermaid who gets her kicks making out with unsuspecting humans, he traverses the wilds of Magic Island as they’re hunted by pirates (different than Buccaneers?) and almost tempted into the jaws of sand sharks by a pizza tree. Yes, you read that sentence right. As he makes new friends and avoids wildly unnecessary booby traps, will he learn a valuable lesson about the importance of putting up with his absent mother to keep a roof over his head? Or will he choose the mean streets of whatever suburban direct-to-video neighborhood he grew up in? Only Magic Island can give him the clarity he needs. Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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AfrAId 1:34:08

منذ 17 يومًا1:34:08

1:34:08

Danielle pays homage to Sam’s one and only DCOM, Smart House, by bringing the adult horror version to the table with the 2024 movie AfrAId. John Cho and Katherine Waterston (delightfully) star as John Cho and Meredith, parents to three children who are being raised in our technological dystopia. When John Cho’s boss requires him to install a very fancy Alexa in his house named AIA who watches their every move, what could possibly go wrong? Nothing, obviously. Definitely nobody dying. And definitely not demons. One of those is probably true. While things are going perfectly fine, John Cho begins to question whether he maybe should have done more research on the company he sold all his privacy to, and how maybe he should have quit his job years ago before his boss sold him out, and also maybe how he should have taught his children to have a little more stranger danger. Meredith, initially the voice of reason, is taken in hook, line and sinker when AIA manages to figure out auto-pay before she does. As AIA ingratiates herself into the family, they soon realize the problem is bigger than even John Cho can imagine. Mostly, Sam’s pretty sure, because the AI trained on the Necronomicon; so you could see where that might cause some problems. Is AfrAId better than Smart House or just more fun to say? You be the judge. Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice 1:38:12

منذ 4 weeks1:38:12

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Sam is thrilled to talk about something unrelated to Hyperion (or is it?) with one of his favorite franchises: Noah Wyle! Sorry, that’s Danielle’s favorite franchise. It’s the 2008 final installment of The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice (yes, that Judas). It’s about vampires! And bible retcons! And opera! When Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle!) banishes yet another woman he’s dating into the ether because of his job, he realizes he has to take a vacay or his mission to be the World’s Worst Librarian will never be fulfilled. After a dream leads him on a jet-setting vacation to New Orleans during stock-footage season, he meets the mysterious jazz club singer… Simone? Sabrina? Lilian? Doesn’t matter, she’ll just end up in the ether anyway. They quickly (she quicker than him) realize that they’re being tailed by astoundingly terrible henches in search of an artifact that manages to bring back vampires from the dead. You guessed it! The Judas Chalice. Apparently, Judas was cursed to be a vampire? Apparently, his death is like a parallel to vampire lore? Apparently, Judas was a superstar? We don’t know! But it’s great! When the evil henches and co. find the long-dead body of Dracula and want to resurrect him (for the usual reasons: army of undead?), Simone (probably) and Flynn find themselves on a race to find the chalice before the world is destroyed. Per usual, Flynn creates more problems than he solves. If you like your theology brought to you by Book Retorts (and who doesn’t if you got through Hyperion) and Noah Wyle Venus flynn-trapping women into the ether (and who doesn’t, because helloooooo Noah), then this one’s for you! Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Part 2 2:04:12

منذ 6 weeks2:04:12

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Back from our summer break, Danielle finally graces everyone with the finale to the 2020 book The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. When we last left Coriolanus, he was being called in to rescue Sejanus from the big bad Hunger Games where he was determined to kill himself to make a statement; Coriolanus won’t let him, which in retrospect was perhaps a stupid decision. Anyway, things go awry and pretty soon everyone in the Hunger Games has died except, shockingly, Lucy Gray, thanks to some minor, very valid, totally explainable cheating on Coriolanus’s part. Unfortunately, Dr Gaul, Sam’s favorite punching bag, doesn’t see it that way. Given that Dr Gaul is crowd-sourcing ideas on why they even have the Hunger Games, it shocks Sam that she sends her brightest student off to live in obscurity as a Peace Keeper in retribution. But alas, plot. This is about where Danielle gave up writing Coriolanus in her notes and started calling him Corio. So, Corio cruises over to District 12 where he meets up with the true hero of the novel, Lucy Gray, where they promptly pick up where they left off but with kissing. Unfortunately, finally being able to compare Corio to regular humans, you realize he’s incredibly stupid and not getting any smarter. Then Lucy sings too many songs, Corio kills too many people, and pretty soon they’re running away to escape being framed for murder. Murder Corio committed, to be clear, but it was really minor, very valid, and totally explainable so it hardly counts. Then the bad guys win because Hunger Games. The end. Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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Slugs (Rerun) 2:05:29

منذ 8 weeks2:05:29

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Danielle and Sam are on still on summer break this month, so please enjoy another rerun for some more Spook Retorts in June. We’ll see you in next with brand new nonsense! Spook Retorts is back, and this week Sam shares the 1988 cult horror movie Slugs! When people start dying in mysterious ways in a small town, it’s up to county health inspector Mike Brady to uncover the mystery. Why is it up to the health inspector to do this? That is among the many, many questions this movie steadfastly refuses to answer or even acknowledge. Anyway, Mike Brady first encounters the slugs’ work when he is called to help evict an old drunk. Why he was called to assist in an eviction is yet another mystery. The man, they find, has been reduced to a bloody skeleton, and it’s not long before more bodies show up. Mike eventually enlists the help of generic movie scientist John in his burgeoning murder slug theory, since John is an expert on slugs, and also everything else. It’s about halfway into the movie when Danielle and special guest Filip start to wonder how a slug invasion could be remotely threatening. Unfortunately, neither Sam nor the movie is able to demonstrate any way in which slugs could be threatening. Nevertheless, the slugs’ body count continues to rise, mostly by catching people who aren’t paying attention during sex, or by causing people to blow up their greenhouses/meth labs. So join us for this Spook Retorts romp into B-move fun as we see if an ordinary town can survive the slugs! Spoiler: the ultimate solution to the slug threat does way more death and destruction than the slugs ever would have. Keep an ear out for a soon-to-be released Mind Duck Books episode where Filip, Danielle, and Sam all discuss the book Slugs on which this movie was based. You can find Mind Duck Books on Twitter and Instagram , and listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts . Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Rerun) 1:47:36

منذ 10 weeks1:47:36

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Danielle and Sam are on a much needed summer break this month, so please enjoy a rerun of one of our favorites for some Spook Retorts in June. We’ll see you in July with fresh nonsense! In the finale of this year’s Spook Retorts, Danielle shares the 1998 movie I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. If you remember anything about the first I Know What You Did Last Summer, it’s about a hook-wielding fisherman seeking bloody revenge against a group of teens that hit him with a car and left him for dead. For this sequel, just forget all that, it’s doesn’t matter. Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is now at college and trying to put the trauma of the previous summer behind her, despite her boyfriend Ray’s (Freddie Prinze Jr.) best efforts. However, when she wins a radio contest for a free tropical vacation in the middle of hurricane season, she brings her friends along to a deserted island hotel. People start predictably being murdered and Julie catches sight of the hook-wielding man who is now, for some reason, killing random people who didn’t hit him with a car. A hurricane rolls in trapping everyone on the island, and while the hotel knew this was coming, it is inexplicably still open. The murderer also demonstrates some hitherto unknown hacking powers on a karaoke machine for the sole purpose of spooking the teens, because apparently revenge is the last thing on his mind just behind pranks. Predictably, the bodies pile up as Julie and her friends try to survive and as Ray somehow magics himself onto the island to help. There is a particularly dumb twist at he end, but Sam is really more interested in the story that isn’t being told: An average day in the life of the hook-wielding murderer. Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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Hyperion: The Final Exam 1:27:33

منذ 12 weeks1:27:33

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This week we look back (fondly?) on our epic time with the Dan Simmons series Hyperion. It’s the end of the semester and Professor Sam has prepared a surprise final exam for his students Danielle and Filip. Let’s see how much they can remember as they fill in the blanks and answer questions about the entire series. Maybe Professor Sam gets some answers wrong too, it’s that challenging of an exam! Then we have the oral presentation portion of the test as our students present their favorite, and least favorite, things from the books. Lastly, we have some final thoughts on the series as a whole to finally put an end to this journey. So join us as we try to pass the test and earn our degrees. If you want to take the exam yourself, you can find it here on our website, just send it in for a grade and if you pass, you can proudly proclaim you have a degree in Hyperionology from Book Retorts University! Special thanks to friend of the pod and honorary co-host Filip from Mind Duck Books for joining us on this thrilling journey! You can find Mind Duck Books on Twitter and Instagram , and listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts . Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Part 1 1:50:27

منذ 14 weeks1:50:27

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Danielle goes dystopic with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. This 2020 prequel to The Hunger Games follows the charming romantic misadventures of Cornelius Snow; the charismatic ne’er-do-well who brought us such classics as failing to kill Katniss Everdeen, destroying his own despotic regime, and not understanding the plight of the common man. Flashback to teenage Cornelius who has been tapped for the prestigious role as mentor in the tenth annual Hunger Games. Once wealthy, his family has fallen on hard times and thanks to the promise of a monetary prize to the mentor of the best-in-show tribute, he is in it to win it. Unfortunately, he gets assigned the suckiest tribute: the girl from district 12. Bummer. Just kidding. She sings! And wears colors! And has a weird affinity for snakes! Cornelius can work with that. Unfortunately, though ten years into the Games, they are shockingly ill-run and Sam and Danielle have THOUGHTS. The Gamemaker is more concerned with creating mutated animals that will not help them keep their dystopia in check, they did not invest in an event planner, and nobody has thought to feed the tributes. Oh no, what’s a boy who needs to win the Hunger Games to do? Join Danielle and Sam as they try to make kid-to-kid combat funny, discuss their ideal dystopian regimes (spoiler: they’d be excellent at organizing The Hunger Games), and deep-dive into the mind of the innovative young man who is just trying to help his country be as successful as it can be. Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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The Rise of Endymion - Part 6 2:12:18

منذ 16 weeks2:12:18

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After three long years, Sam finally wraps up the Hyperion saga with the grand finale of The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons. Aenea has taken her show on the road and is spreading the love with her magic blood. Raul, who finally got a taste of it, is tripping: hearing the voices of the dead, chatting with the cosmos, seeing auras (irrelevant), and apparently he can hear every thought and feeling of everyone ever. Privacy? Who needs it. Doesn’t matter though, because Raul, the worst choice for the future leader of humanity ever, spends the entire finale trying to figure out who else Aenea slept with (spoiler: it’s future him, obviously him). You’d think all that blood power would make that solvable much more quickly. Anyway, for reasons, Raul and Aenea show up at the Vatican where they make out in the back of St. Peter’s Basilica during Holy Thursday (as you do) and then Aenea cuts that short to call the Pope an abomination. They immediately get attacked by the Pope’s minions, and shockingly, Raul’s killer chess moves do not help, and they’re separated, both kidnapped and taken into custody. The church, learning literally nothing from their own history, torture and poison Aenea, dead set on making her martyr Jesus. And Endymion, FINALLY, makes it into the stupid cat box he’s been in for two books. Also, the Tree of Pain goes on a road trip. Toot! Toot! Will our two heroes make it out alive? Will the Tree of Pain fulfill its destiny? Will Raul ever be less exhausting? Haha, no. Join us for the epic conclusion of a story three years in the making as Sam finally gives us answers we never wanted for things we didn’t need to know and Filip, our reluctant guest, finally gets his curse lifted (or does he…) Special thanks to friend of the pod and honorary co-host Filip from Mind Duck Books for joining us on this thrilling journey! You can find Mind Duck Books on Twitter and Instagram , and listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts . Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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Under Wraps 1:21:25

منذ 18 weeks1:21:25

1:21:25

Danielle returns to Disney Channel original movies with the 2021 movie Under Wraps. We’re back on the DCOM train, baby, choo-choo! And not just any DCOM the very first DCOM ever, or rather, the remake of the very first DCOM. Gilbert, Marshall, and Amy are your average 12-year-old kids getting excited for Halloween when they decide to break into their neighbors home because they saw a moving van out in front. Solid kid logic. Inside they find an anthropoid coffin, and when Gilbert uses super kid strength to open it, he accidentally resurrects a mummy. Fortunately, the mummy, dubbed Harold, is a pretty chill dude for a mummy that’s hitherto been dead for thousands of years. Marshall is so stoked to have a mummy friend that he decides to put him in a movie for a class project that is, bafflingly, a fictional movie about a mummy. But starring a real mummy. Kids, man. Anyway, it’s not all fun and games as the neighbor wants to get the mummy, which he stole from a museum, back, and he’s nobody’s mom! He resolves to track down Harold and kids, who learn that Harold only has three days to be placed back to sleep in his anthropoid coffin or he’ll die. Again. Sam is not convinced it really matters. Anyway, Shenanigans ensue, there’s some mummy dancing (yes, really), and our kids get into a whole lot of trouble. However, in the end we all learn the most valuable lesson of all: If your mom seems indifferent to your existence, maybe her new boyfriend will care about you. Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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Book Reshorts: Opinions on Simmons 22:22

منذ 20 weeks22:22

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Join us this week for another of our world-famous shorts “Opinions on Simmons” where—you guessed it—we read opinions on Simmons! Dan Simmons, that is, the indelible author of such works as Hyperion, Hyperion 2: Shrike Boogaloo, Endymion, and More Endymion. Sam, trying his best to avoid the epic conclusion to his three-year Hyperion saga, has asked for more time to get his shrikes in order. In lieu, we scoured the internet for reviews (both classy and sassy) to share. Each book in the Hyperion Cantos gets 3 reviews, but spoiler! One of them is for another sci-fi epic entirely. Can we figure out which reviews are about Hyperion or does all sci-fi sound exactly the same to Danielle? Find out this week with…Opinions on Simmons! Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns 1:53:59

منذ 22 weeks1:53:59

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Danielle goes big for St. Patrick’s Day with the (probably mildly offensive to Irish everywhere) 1999 mini-series, The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns. When American, Randy Quaid, heads to Ireland on a mysterious work trip, he gets more than he bargained for when he realizes he’s sharing a home with a leprechaun (Colm Meaney, obviously). He makes quite the impression on the small town (and Sam), when he immediately peeping-toms his beautiful neighbor, then trespasses on her property, and then somehow talks the town priest into taking his side when she complains; it’s fine though, they’re love interests. That can’t matter less, however, because he quickly gets involved in the easily-prevented war between the faires and leprechauns. These immortal folk, who control all of nature, are forever at odds. When the fighting grows between their kind and Mother Nature starts to suffer, well-known Irish comedian Whoopi Goldberg (????), as their despotic Great Banshee, flies in to make it way worse by giving them the curse of mortality. When Princess Jessica of the fairies and leprechaun Mickey Muldoon, son of Colm Meaney, fall in love at a (possibly racist) masked ball, they soon realize that mortality will be the death of them (duh). Will these two kids make it? Will Whoopi Goldberg ever figure out her Irish accent? Will Randy Quaid end up behind bars where he likely belongs? Or will the war destroy them all and nature itself? The stakes have never been higher (and less necessary) this week on Book Retorts. Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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The Rise of Endymion - Part 5 1:55:53

منذ 24 weeks1:55:53

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Welcome back to The Rise of Endymion where everything is made up and the plot doesn’t matter. This week, Sam regales Danielle, and Filip of Mind Duck Books, with the penultimate episode of the Hyperion saga by greatest troll of the sci-fi world, Dan Simmons. Filip is still reeling from the last episode where he settled soundly in the anger stage of grief and unfortunately for Sam’s unwilling co-hosts, they realize that acceptance is a long way off. After Professor Filip gives a Programming History 101 lesson, we meet our trusty heroes who have managed to throw off Nemes who is out shaking down eight-year-old Buddhists to find them. Meanwhile, Raul, who unfortunately did not die in his hang-gliding accident, and his trusty sidekick Aenea, make their way to the jade temple, where, wouldn’t you know it, Nemes is doing her shakedown. No worries though, Raul is ready and willing to fight the murder monster and even though the man can’t find his way out of a paper bag, he manages to outmaneuver Nemes with his kick-butt chess skillz. And somehow, against all odds, Simmons’ chapter long side note about rock climbing comes back into play. Raul and Aenea celebrate the win by having zero g sex, as one does, and then nothing else matters because…the Yggdrasil is back! And to quote Sam, “All aboard, baby! Tree of pain. Toot! Toot!” If you like retconning, answers to questions you didn’t know you had, and questions to answers you thought you had, then, huzzah! This is the episode for you! Special thanks to friend of the pod and honorary co-host Filip from Mind Duck Books for joining us on this thrilling journey! You can find Mind Duck Books on Twitter and Instagram , and listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts . Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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Abigail 1:46:38

منذ 26 weeks1:46:38

1:46:38

Danielle pulls a Spook Retorts in February as she recaps the “best horror movie of 2024,” Abigail. Cue a mysterious stranger who has put together what Sam argues is definitely not a heist team to kidnap a ballerina child for a ransom amount that makes no sense. Stolen from her home, Abigail (titular ballerina child) is taken to a gothic mansion in the woods to spend the night. The (not) heist team has one job: to babysit. Spoiler: it does not go well. They quickly realize that Abigail is the daughter of the mythical crime lord, Kristof Lazaar, and he may be out for blood. As the (not) heist team begin dying one by one, in increasingly and absurdly gory ways (hello exploding bodies), they begin to wonder if not everything is as it appears. And Abigail, channeling her inner Kevin McAllister, gets in on the fun. Get ready to pump up the tunes (Swan Lake, specifically), put on your ballet slippers, and join Sam as he guesses every single possible plot option, somehow getting them all correct and all wrong at the exact same time. Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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The Rise of Endymion - Part 4 1:52:47

منذ 28 weeks1:52:47

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We continue the never ending saga of The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons from 1997. We return with…more exposition! And special guest (and trauma buddy) Filip, from the Mind Duck Books podcast, who is in the anger stage of Hyperion Grief. Raul (rhymes with Tall) has arrived on a mountain planet that probably has a name but only one of us knows it (spoiler: it’s Sam). Due to time debt (and shenanigans) Aenea has aged up and that’s good news for Raul because he’s into her. But in a really gross way where he keeps referencing his paternal attitude towards her and how she used to be a child. Please stop, we’re begging you. Back on this mountain planet, they go to a big soirée with the Dalai Lama. Aenea is apparently smarter than him, because she’s smarter than everyone, but oh no! There’s also a lot of bad guys there partying too, and despite her best disguise (a veil) they recognize her and try to start some rumble snaps. Luckily, the Shrike is back in action! And by back in action we mean he shows up, says hi, and leaves. They somehow get out of there and have some more sex (oh, did we not mention that? They’re having sex now). And then mixed in, there’s lots of mountain planet time where we follow Raul around as he doesn’t learn anything Aenea is teaching her disciples, so therefore, we as readers still know nothing. Who needs to know the reasons or plot of a book? Not us. This absolutely infuriates Sam, like to the point that this is the part when Hyperion officially broke him. So join us this week for some much needed group therapy! Special thanks to friend of the pod and honorary co-host Filip from Mind Duck Books for joining us on this thrilling journey! You can find Mind Duck Books on Twitter and Instagram , and listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts . Theme: Earning Happiness by John Bartmann . For more delightful weirdness, follow us on Bluesky or YouTube . If you like our content and want more of it, please consider supporting us on Patreon .…

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يقوم برنامج مشغل أف أم بمسح الويب للحصول على بودكاست عالية الجودة لتستمتع بها الآن. إنه أفضل تطبيق بودكاست ويعمل على أجهزة اندرويد والأيفون والويب. قم بالتسجيل لمزامنة الاشتراكات عبر الأجهزة.