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Everyone has something they love, but wouldn't feel comfortable recommending to the general public. This is a weekly series of fascinating chats about problematic faves, great trash, and our complicated relationships with art and culture.

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Episode 61 - Jay Brandstetter and Winslow Dumaine (90's and 00's "Edge") from 2023-06-30T21:00

Over the last couple of episodes I've ended up circling back to "it was the 90's" as an explanation for weird or offensive elements in TTRPGs. I felt like this was a thread worth pulling on, so I c...

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Reserved Recommendations 25-02-2022 - Episode 42 from 2022-02-25T21:00

In the UK in the 60s and 70s there was an explosion of musical creativity that started with roots in folk, and expanded to encompass rock, pop, folk, jazz, psychedelia, and World Music. At the core...

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Reserved Recommendations 18-02-2022 - Episode 41 from 2022-02-18T21:00

In the 30ish years since they hit New Zealand, anime and manga have become a big part of many people's pop culture diets. (It's me, I'm many people). This episode I talk to Kyle from 1/200 Media (...

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Reserved Recommendations 21-01-2022 - Episode 40 from 2022-01-21T21:00

In the first episode of Season 3, I talk to Sammy G (Pipebombs and Headlocks) about the weird, bad, and sometimes wonderful video game movie adaptations of the 1990s. Find PB and H at www.mpr.nz/sh...

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Reserved Recommendations 26-11-2021 - Episode 39 from 2021-11-26T21:00

The Goon Show was a long-running, deeply weird, and highly influential British radio comedy series written primarily by Spike Milligan and performed by him and his friends Peter Sellers and Harry S...

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Reserved Recommendations 24-09-2021 - Episode 38 from 2021-09-24T21:00

Jacques Tati was a French filmmaker and actor whose career (as a director at least) ran from 1935-1978. He's most famous for the comic character character Monsieur Hulot (a primary inspiration for ...

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