Podcasts by The Style Guide
Dave Morris and Steven Ray Orr of Paper Street Theatre discuss style, genre storytelling and more.
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The Suitcase [One Offs #11] from 2017-12-18T18:00:08
Dave and Steve are joined by a very special guest to discuss yet another HBO hit series that they didn’t watch when it was popular. That seems to be a trend with these guys. Steve claims to h...
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Hush [One Offs #10] from 2017-12-04T18:00:47
Hush little Dave and Steve, don’t say a word, because this One Off takes you back to a time before Joss Whedon was writing and directing blockbuster superhero movies. Sharpen your stakes and ...
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Pine Barrens [One Offs #9] from 2017-11-20T18:00:50
Apparently The Sopranos is one of the greatest shows of all time. Dave and Steve didn’t know this when they sat down to watch it and they’re not sure they’d agree with the sentime...
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The Chopper [One Offs #8] from 2017-11-06T18:00:50
Dave and Steve put on their detective badges for Brooklyn 99 Season 2, Episode 22, ‘The Chopper’. Oddly enough, they spend no time at all talking about how confusing it is that “c...
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The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry [One Offs #7] from 2017-10-23T17:00:44
Your intrepid hosts just can’t help themselves this week as they dive into Star Trek: Discovery with Season 1, Episode 4, ‘The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry&#...
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In A Lonely Place [One Offs #6] from 2017-10-09T17:00:56
Just in time for the new season of Riverdale that starts on Wednesday, this week’s One Off goes back to Season 1, Episode 7, ‘In A Lonely Place’. Listen along as Steve and Dave sh...
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Paula Scher: Graphic Design [One Offs #5] from 2017-09-25T17:00:40
This week’s One Off is all about showing you how the sausage gets made, where the sausage is Dave and Steve’s creative processes. To get there, they watched Abstract: The Art of Design ...
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The Entire History of You [One Offs #4] from 2017-09-11T17:00:06
While it isn’t the future, you’ll be able to replay this One Off again and again until it makes you want to rip your earbuds out of your head. That’s right, this week Dave and Ste...
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Noël [One Offs #3] from 2017-08-28T17:00:26
As is befitting of the end of summer, this week’s One Off has Dave and Steve watching a Christmas episode of The West Wing: Season 2, Episode 10. They talk about songs that make them nostalgi...
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Ep. 67: The Moneyball of War Movies from 2017-08-21T17:00:06
Episode 67, ‘The Moneyball of war movies’, on War movies While The Style Guide is still technically on hiatus, it returns for yet another week. This time, Dave and Steve talk about what...
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Almost Got ‘Im [One Offs #2] from 2017-08-14T17:00:40
In this One Off, Dave and Steve delve into DC’s darkest detective, with Season 2, Episode 18 of Batman: The Animated Series. Come to hear them talk about the value of framed narratives and wh...
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Ep. 66: He’s Not A Hero from 2017-08-07T17:00:43
Episode 66, ‘He’s not a hero’, on Logan Is The Style Guide back or did Dave and Steve just really want to talk about Logan? Probably the latter, given that One Offs has launched a...
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The One Where No One’s Ready [One Offs #1] from 2017-07-31T17:00:29
Hold onto your headphones everyone. Four months after teasing the series, we’re finally launching the podcast. In this week’s One Off, Dave and Steve return to the hottest show of the 9...
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Our Man Bashir [One Offs Pilot] from 2017-03-20T14:00:15
This week’s pilot for One Offs takes Dave and Steve into familiar territory with Season 4, Episode 10 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Listen as they boldly go where millions of people have gon...
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Ep. 65: We Know How Television Works from 2017-03-13T10:00:32
Episode 65, ‘We know how television works’, on cliffhangers This week, Dave and Steve return with an episode dedicated to cliffhangers throughout cinema, television, and literature. In ...
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Ep. 64: Furious Kane from 2017-03-06T10:00:28
Episode 64, ‘Furious Kane’, on Citizen Kane vs. Furious 7 This week, Dave and Steve invite special guest Dominik Buconjic to join them for a discussion about the alpha and the omega of ...
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Ep. 63: Wesley Snipes is No Al Pacino from 2017-02-27T10:00:05
Episode 63, ‘Wesley Snipes is no Al Pacino’, on Wesley Snipes You’re telling me that this week Dave and Steve did an actor profile on Wesley Snipes? Like, the dude from the Blade ...
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Ep. 62: They’re Not Acting, They’re Talking from 2017-02-20T10:00:04
Episode 62, ‘They’re not acting, they’re talking’, on Aaron Sorkin This week, Dave and Steve depart from what has become their standard fare of making people angry by having...
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Ep. 61: Treat You Like Pixar from 2017-02-13T10:00:20
Episode 61, ‘Treat you like Pixar’, Part III on Walt Disney Animation Studios This week, Dave and Steve finish cataloguing their thoughts on Walt Disney Animation Studios, chatting abou...
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Ep. 60: Renaissance Kids from 2017-02-06T10:00:28
Episode 60, ‘Renaissance kids’, Part II on Walt Disney Animation Studios This week, Dave and Steve continue their journey through the feature films of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Wit...
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Ep. 59: Books Are Great. Moving Books Are Even Better. from 2017-01-30T10:00:34
Episode 59, ‘Books are great. Moving books are even better.’, Part I on Walt Disney Animation Studios After last week’s debacle with what is most certainly their least listened to...
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Ep. 58: The Sounds of Matt Damon from 2017-01-23T10:00:14
Episode 58, ‘The sounds of Matt Damon’, on The Martian This week, Dave and Steve take on the latest “it’s time to rescue Matt Damon” movie (unless you count Jason Bour...
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Ep. 57: Three Twists In A Row from 2017-01-16T10:00:26
Episode 57, ‘Three twists in a row’, on The Prestige Vs. The Illusionist This week, after a brief holiday, Dave and Steve do yet another installment of their popular “Versus”...
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Ep. 56: Children of the Prequels from 2017-01-02T10:00:04
Episode 56, ‘Children of the Prequels’, on Rogue One Let’s just admit it. The Style Guide exists solely as an excuse for Dave and Steve to talk about Star Wars, and all the episod...
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Ep. 55: Nice Move, Tim Burton from 2016-12-26T10:00:44
Episode 55, ‘Nice move, Tim Burton’, on Christmas stories In a move that will ensure that nobody can listen to this episode at an appropriate time, Dave and Steve release their Christma...
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Ep. 54: Point Break Time from 2016-12-19T10:00:01
Episode 54, ‘Point Break Time’, on Keanu Reeves This week, Dave and Steve take the time to celebrate the genius of Canadian superstar Keanu Reeves. That’s right, the actor that ha...
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Ep. 53: About A Robot from 2016-12-12T10:00:23
Episode 53, ‘About A Robot’, Part III of Robots, Cyborgs, and Artificial Intelligence This week, Dave and Steve conclude their conversation about thinking machines by looking at robotic...
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Ep. 52: We’re People Too from 2016-12-05T10:00:41
Episode 52, ‘We’re people too’, Part II of Robots, Cyborgs, and Artificial Intelligence This week, Dave and Steve continue their exploration of machines in fiction by delving into...
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Ep. 51: What’s Wrong With A Robotic Nose? from 2016-11-28T10:00:22
Episode 51, ‘What’s wrong with a robotic nose?’, Part I of Robots, Cyborgs, and Artificial Intelligence This week, Dave and Steve shake things up with their first multi-part episo...
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Ep. 50: This Meta Episode from 2016-11-21T10:00:49
Episode 50, ‘This Meta Episode’, on The Style Guide This week, Dave and Steve decide that they need to go deeper and do an entire episode on themselves. That’s right folks, episod...
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Ep. 49: RoboCop is a Great Film from 2016-11-14T10:00:44
Episode 49, ‘RoboCop is a great film’, on Starship Troopers This week, following both the American election and Remembrance Day, Dave and Steve stumble into a topic that is oddly fittin...
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Ep. 48: Look At Me. I Exist. from 2016-11-07T10:00:54
Episode 48, ‘Look at me. I exist.’, on Political Advertising This week, Dave and Steve say farewell — and good riddance — to the American presidential election by talking ab...
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Ep. 47: I Watch Saw for the Articles from 2016-10-31T10:00:48
Naturally following upon their pre-Halloween Spooktacular, this week Dave and Steve do an on-Halloween Spooktacular. This time they explore John Carpenter's Halloween franchise and the twists the s...
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Ep. 46: It’s Good When It Works from 2016-10-24T10:00:13
Episode 46, ‘It’s good when it works’, on Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a Monday mellow, as I podcast, young and yellow About an author and his life’s work fine and fair While I...
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Ep. 45: There’s No Iron Man For Jodie Foster from 2016-10-17T10:00:11
Episode 45, ‘There’s no Iron Man for Jodie Foster’, on Jodie Foster This week, follow along with the hard to identify noises of construction happening as if it were just down the ...
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Ep. 44: Technically Canadian from 2016-10-10T10:00:10
Episode 44, ‘Technically Canadian’, on The 90s This week, Dave and Steve take a journey through their awkward pre-teen and teenage years which is known more widely as “the 1990s&#...
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Ep. 43: It’s Dumb To Say, But The Magic Isn’t Here from 2016-10-03T10:00:59
Episode 43, ‘It’s Dumb to Say, But The Magic Isn’t Here’, on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child In this episode, Dave and Steve hate-read the latest offering in the Harry Pot...
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Ep. 42: Tatooine Doesn’t Have Any Beaches from 2016-06-27T10:00:43
Episode 42, ‘Tatooine doesn’t have any beaches’, on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story In this episode, which was recorded and released in late June and anyone who says otherwise a liar...
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Ep. 41: Everyone In France Seems Pretty Terrible from 2016-06-20T10:00:29
Episode 41, ‘Everyone in France seems pretty terrible’, on Perfume: The Story of a Murderer This week, Dave and Steve take on the rough and tumble world of fragrant essential oils, arom...
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Ep. 40: I Will Never Speak To You Again. I Hate You. from 2016-06-13T10:00:42
Episode 40, ‘I will never speak to you again. I hate you.’, on Canons In this week’s episode, Dave and Steve get into what it means for a work to be ‘canonical’ and wh...
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Ep. 39: They’re Not Hecklers Out of Any Greater Good from 2016-06-06T10:00:48
Episode 39, ‘They’re not hecklers out of any greater good’, on Comedy Specials In this week’s episode, Dave and Steve approach whether there is a particular style to be foun...
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Ep. 38: Peak Star Trek from 2016-05-30T10:00:20
Episode 38, ‘Peak Star Trek’, on Star Trek In our nerdiest episode yet (which is surprising, considering how often they talk about nerdy subjects), Dave and Steve invite special guest T...
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Ep. 37: Chess is Where I Learned to Trash talk from 2016-05-23T10:00:11
Episode 38, ‘Chess is where I learned to trash talk’, on board games In this week’s episode, Dave and Steve meander around the topic of board games. Intro Clip: Louis CK – L...
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Ep. 36: The Billy Crystal of Acting from 2016-05-16T10:00:43
Episode 36, ‘The Billy Crystal of Acting’, on Whoopi Goldberg This week Dave and Steve continue their wildly successful series of actor profiles, this time with the legendary Whoopi Gol...
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Ep. 35: The Zombie is the Working Class Vampire from 2016-05-09T10:00:45
Episode 35, ‘The zombie is the working class vampire’, on zombie movies This week Dave and Steve take on the undead hordes with an exploration of zombies and zombie films. Intro Clip: N...
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Ep. 34: What is the Best Colour in the Universe? from 2016-05-02T10:00:06
Episode 34, ‘What is the best colour in the universe?’, on the Academy Awards Dave and Steve return with an episode that was definitely, 100% recorded this week. No doubt. There is cert...
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Ep. 33: Everyone Had All This Superman Baggage from 2016-04-25T10:00:09
Episode 33, ‘Everyone had all this Superman baggage’, on Movie Adaptations Hey look, Steven’s back! This week, Dave and Steve cover the vast array of movies based on books —...
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Ep. 32: Oh No. His Potatoes Got Blown Up from 2016-04-11T10:00:24
Once again we are still without Steven Orr, so Dave sits down with Theodore Sherman to discuss Castaway, and all other Castaway films.
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Ep. 31: The Matrix Generation from 2016-04-04T10:00:19
Steven is still away, so Dave sits down with Missie Peters to discuss one of her favourite things: Director's Commentaries.
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Ep. 30: The World Progressed and the Movie Can’t from 2016-03-28T10:00:38
This week, Steven is away working so Dave sits down with special guest Scott Thompson to discuss one of Scott's favourite movies Pacific Rim. The conversation also finds it's way into other bad mov...
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Ep. 29: I Hate How Much you Like Frasier from 2016-02-29T10:00:54
Episode 29, ‘I hate how much you like Frasier’, on comedians playing themselves This week, on the Dave and Steve show, Dave and Steve explore television shows where comedians play versi...
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Ep. 28: Do You Always Go Naked? from 2016-02-22T10:00:57
Episode 28, ‘Do you always go naked?’, on time travel This week, Dave and Steve go back… to Back to the Future. Well, kind of. They take on the broader concept of time travel in m...
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Ep. 27: I Understand Why People Don’t Like Sandra Bullock from 2016-02-15T10:00:49
Episode 27, ‘I understand why people don’t like Sandra Bullock’, on Julia Roberts Dave and Steve move onto their next actor profile. While the episode is ostensibly focused on Jul...
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Ep. 26: Darth Villain from 2016-02-08T10:00:15
Episode 26, ‘Darth Villain’, on The Force Awakens Dave and Steve go back… not to the future, but to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Be warned, while there are of course spoilers for...
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Ep. 25: Her Dystopias Are Bonkers from 2016-02-01T10:00:54
This week Dave and Steve help Paper Street Theatre prepare for their upcoming show on Margaret Atwood by taking a journey through her science fiction novels. In a surprising turn of events, Dave is...
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Ep. 24: Jean Claude Van Damme Is My Spirit Animal from 2016-01-25T10:00:38
Episode 24, ‘Jean Claude Van Damme is my spirit animal’, on Sense8 Dave and Steve try out The Wachowski’s latest project, Sense8. Turns out that it isn’t as bad as the rende...
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Ep. 23: Talkin’ All Cool About Cheeseburgers from 2016-01-18T10:00:09
Episode 23, ‘Talkin’ all cool about cheeseburgers’, on Quentin Tarantino In this week’s episode, Steve and Dave take on another auteur, this time with lots more swearing tha...
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Ep. 22: Harley Quinn, Medicine Woman from 2016-01-11T10:00:14
Episode 22, ‘Harley Quinn, Medicine Woman’, on cartoons In this week’s episode, Dave and Steve start the year off differently than usual in their exploration of the wild and whack...
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Ep. 21: The Spectrum of Brooding from 2015-12-21T08:27:44
In this episode, Dave and Steven discuss the two latest Netflix/Marvel team-ups! It starts out sounding like a hatefest, and then ends sounding like a feminist-fest, but in the end it's just anothe...
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Ep. 20: Most People Could Build a Lightsaber from 2015-12-15T02:33:01
In this episode, Dave and Steve discuss their hopes (and fears) for Disney's first foray into the Star Wars universe.
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Ep. 19: The Good Enough Dinosaur from 2015-12-07T08:17:01
In this Episode Dave and Steven discuss the good and bad of the newest pixar creation: The Good Dinosaur.
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Ep. 18: Renting out Rick Moranis from 2015-11-30T04:37:21
In this episode Dave and Steven perform another actor profile. This time following the short, and sweet career of the world's most beloved nerd: Rick Moranis.
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Ep. 17: Hey Adults in the Audience, Cry about This for a Second from 2015-11-23T07:14:13
In this episode of Dave's favourite podcast, Dave and Steven discuss the good and the bad of Pixar movies...although, let's be honest. They mostly just discuss the good.
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Ep. 16: Monkeys Project Meaning Onto the Objects Around Them from 2015-11-16T05:50:02
In this episode Dave and Steven discuss Science-Fiction Thrillers. It's not that sciency or that thrilling...but it is fascinating.
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Ep. 15: Two Dogs, Three Dogs, and Different Things Upon Their Face from 2015-11-09T03:00:21
Episode 15, ‘Two dogs, three dogs, and different things upon their face’, on the BBC’s Sherlock Dave and Steve discuss what has likely become the definitive modern take on Sherloc...
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Ep. 14: I’m Shocked That I’ve Been Enjoying Republican Fantasies from 2015-11-02T18:56:39
In this episode Dave and Steven discuss Christmas Action Movies in preparation for Paper Street Theatre's upcoming Christmas Show, Lethal Christmas.
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Ep. 13: They Create the Art That They Want to Hear from 2015-10-26T03:27:17
In this episode, Dave and Steven try something completely different and tackle a musical group. They discuss the music, stories, and style of The Decemberists.
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Ep. 12: It’s a Period Piece for the 1980s from 2015-10-19T05:12:23
Dave and Steven couldn't resist talking about Back to the Future as October 21st draws near. Do yourself a favour and watch the Trilogy, listen to this podcast, and then buy yourself a hoverboard!
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Ep. 11: Did She Know Harry Was a Horcrux the Whole Time? from 2015-10-12T05:19
In this episode, Dave and Steven discuss J.K. Rowling's famous book series. They discuss her storytelling, writing style, and of course, the wonderful characters she created.
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Ep. 10: The Greatest Show Ever Cancelled from 2015-10-05T06:35:37
In this extra nerdy episode, Dave and Steven delve deep into the characters, stories, and mysteries of one of the greatest shows ever cancelled: Joss Whedon's Firefly.
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Ep. 9: Let’s keep comparing Nicolas Cage to Samuel L. Jackson from 2015-09-28T06:38:24
In this episode Dave and Steven go on scattershot journey through the insane career of actor and legend Nicolas Cage.
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Ep. 8: Just Another Instance of Friendship Turning into Foe-ship from 2015-09-21T05:40:34
In this episode Dave and Steven discuss evil-doers, antagonists, arch-enemies, bad guys, foes, and all the other words you can think of for villains.
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Ep. 7.5: The Shadow Episode from 2015-09-17T16:25:45
In this bonus episode, Dave and Steven continue their discussion of the Ender Series... because if you couldn't tell, they really like those books.
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Ep. 7: You’re Explaining a Sci-Fi Book and It Sounds Crazy from 2015-09-14T07:34:01
Dave and Steven discuss The Ender Series in great, great detail... maybe too much detail.
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Ep. 6: I Think You Have a Weird Relationship with Sports Movies from 2015-09-07T18:26:34
Dave and Steven discuss the beauty of Sports Movies, and Pitch Perfect comes up... a lot.
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Ep. 5: The Darjeeling Dip from 2015-08-31T04:21:32
Dave and Steven discuss the whimsy, melancholy and symmetry of Auteur Wes Anderson.
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Ep. 4: It Has Nothing To Do With Guys That Rob an Office from 2015-08-24T06:25:33
Dave and Steven discuss the first style in Paper Street Theatre's upcoming season: David Mamet. How he writes, what he writes about, and how we'd improvise it.
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Ep. 3: Let’s not count the Star Wars prequels from 2015-08-17T20:13:47
Dave and Steven discuss things that come in threes, namely Trilogies.
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Ep. 2: That is a Very Confusing Movie Franchise from 2015-08-10T08:17:30
Episode 2, ‘That is a Very Confusing Movie Franchise’, on sequels Dave and Steven discuss sequels, midquels, and various other “quels”. Show Notes Intro Clip: Scream 2 When ...
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Ep. 1: I’m Looking Forward to the End of the Movie from 2015-08-03T06:18:12
Dave and Steven talk about Origin Stories
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