Podcasts by Mile Wide Club
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MWC e17 Final Destination with Jacob! from 2017-06-23T17:56:20
What does a horror movie series from the aughts have to say about dealing with the inevitability of death.... and teens? Can death itself shoot you with a gun? What makes a horror movie funny? Jaco...
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MWC e16: Cardcaptor Sakura with Shel! from 2017-05-20T00:18:02
MWC takes another trip to Nostalgia City with the premier card collecting anime of your youth! Shel discusses Clamp tropes, romantic destiny as queer fatalism, the magical girl as a trans experienc...
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MWC e15: Moomins with Grace! from 2017-04-24T23:32:55
From caricature of Kant to their present, well, omnipresence, the Moomins are an exemplar of unsaccharine familial love. This MWC covers all things Moominvalley, including Grace's deft takes on chi...
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MWC e14: Christine and the Queens with Thomas! from 2017-03-10T22:10:24
What do you do with a synthpop album that doesn't get gender quite right? How do you determine if an artist 'communicated' clearly, poorly, or not at all? Thomas articulates a creator-focussed metr...
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MWC e13: The Babadook with Mary! from 2017-02-11T03:29:47
Season 2 of MWC starts with more of a Babadook vibe. Mary Houston, of Masters and Movies, "where social worker meets film critic" (mastersandmovies.com), and I talk about mental illness and parenti...
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MWC e12: Gilmore Girls with Charlie! from 2016-12-29T23:46:20
What's the deal with parenting? What's the deal with Connecticut? What's the deal with infantilizing women as a romantic gesture in media, specifically in media which otherwise sells itself as empo...
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Mile Wide Club e11: Digiventures with Teens! from 2016-12-01T03:56:59
Anemone, Gina, and Aurora joined me to talk about a melancholy, sparsely orchestrated western.... digimon movie? It's true! Hear about how it's kinda like the end of Evangelion (really) and other l...
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MWC e10: 20th Century Boys with Emlyn! from 2016-10-16T00:08:38
It's another manga! This time, we look at memory, mediocrity, misery, and massive robots in Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys. This comic is potentially fascinating as a document about a particular...
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MWC e9: Paradise Kiss with Juliet! from 2016-10-01T09:32:13
Paradise Kiss is a shojou manga about growing up, love, the patriarchy, fashion, disappointments, and, on occasion, disappointing fashion. Love and the patriarchy are always disappointing. This one...
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MWC 8: Queer Safety with Jon, Honestly! from 2016-08-29T05:58:21
Jon and I talk about 'representation in media,' identifying with characters like and unlike ourselves, 'queersploitation', crystal gems controversies, and more. What does it mean for queer people t...
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MWC E7: MRAs with Lana A! from 2016-07-26T09:11:25
Lana and I take the red pill. Wait, no, Lana and I take ON the red pill. We talk about the faux-scientific language, forums as texts and productive of texts, who has and who has not been promised...
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MWC E6: Cakes da Killa with Daniel Martin Austin! from 2016-06-10T08:07:20
Time for some #discourse! Daniel and I talk about Cakes da Killa's debut album, The Eulogy, as queer music, black music, maybe 'niche' music? What does it mean to make work mostly accessible to peo...
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MWC E5: Remembering Games with Bolivar! from 2016-05-11T04:53:50
Bolivar and I talk about what we think the difference is between Zelda and World of Warcraft, digress through a fan made Shrek game, slander Undertale, and try to re-evaluate that one ctrl-alt-del ...
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MWC e4: Guards, Guards! with Silby! from 2016-04-22T10:02:51
In this, our most fourth episode to date, we discuss Anhk Morpork's assimilation of minorities into the metropolis via the police force as equal opportunity employer, how Vimes is LITERALLY in love...
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Mile Wide Club e3: Step Up 2 The Fast&The Furious with Jacob! from 2016-04-01T06:33:57
If you've ever wanted to hear the Fast and the Furious dissected by two people who take Dom and Brian's romantic history together as 100% canon, this is your moment! Jacob deNobel and I talk genre,...
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Mile Wide Club e2: Only Lovers Left Alive with Jeremy! from 2016-03-01T07:34:01
Jeremy Hawkins, a comedian and artist, graces us with thoughts on genius, ethics, sincerity and how to love art according to Only Lovers Left Alive. Plus, Mountain Dew Jokes. content warning: exte...
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Mile Wide Club e1: Fury Road with Arielle! from 2016-01-01T22:06:29
Arielle Soutar (@HowlingArielle) took some time out from being a comix and coding superstar to talk about remembering Fury Road, the role of remembering in Fury Road, and how it challenges the conv...
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