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Episode 64 - The Art Of The Possible from 2016-11-23T06:15:22

Randy wanted non-cynical works of art about politics (I know, right?) Joseph picked David McCullough's non-fiction book 1776, about that year in the American Revolution. Amy picked the HBO film ...

Episode 63 - Swapping Bodies from 2016-10-18T02:06:36

Amy asked for body swap stories and boy did we deliver! Joseph came up with the 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella Shadow Out Of Time while Randy had us watch the 1984 Steve Martin & Lily Tomlin come...

Episode 62- Hippie on a Rocket from 2016-09-29T12:48:39

Joe was a little sick of dystopian science fiction (and this was even before the last Divergent movie) and asked the crew for optimistic science fiction. Randy choose Star Trek: First Contact for ...

Episode 61 - Second Chances from 2016-08-24T02:45:27

Randy wanted us to talk about art that involves Second Chances, where people get the chance to fix things our screw them up even more. Amy selected the novel Almost Like Being In Love while Josep...

Episode 60 - Pretty Pictures from 2016-07-08T19:36:23

For the rather broad theme of "Art and/or Artists" Joe selected the 2014 documentary film FINDING VIVIAN MAIER while Randy picked Deborah Davis's 2004 non-fiction work STRAPLESS about the John Sing...

Quiz Extra - Two Hit Wonders from 2016-05-20T20:34:26

You may be surprised which artists had more than ONE Top 40 hit and you may also...

Episode 59 - Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen from 2016-05-11T17:47:26

Joe asked Randy and Amy to pick from the year they each turned 16. So Rand...

Episode 58 - Louisa, Uma, and Evan Rachel from 2016-04-19T20:31:52

The theme of"underappreciated"led to discussion of Louisa May Alcott's EIGHT COUSINS and Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood in THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES. Show notes: http://tryandlikeit.blogspot.com...

Episode 57 - Supes Up! from 2016-03-25T19:44:14

To coincide with the release of"Batman v Superman"we discuss three filmed iterations of ...

Episode 56 - Haven't You Always Wanted a Monkey? from 2016-03-22T19:07:09

On the theme of"unusual pets,"we read Y: THE LAST MAN: UNMANNED by Brian K. Vaughan and ...

Episode 55 - Secrets Lovers from 2016-02-12T00:24:46

We love secrets. So we read a book full of them: Big Little Lies by Liane ...

Episode 54 - 2015 Books from 2016-01-28T17:30:03

We discuss THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins, DISPLACEMENT: A TRAVELOGUE by Lucy Kn...

Randy's Year In Review Quiz! from 2016-01-21T05:37:20

Randy came up with a devilish quiz for reviewing the best of 2015 for us! Wrack your br...

Episode 53 - My Uncle Was a Sheep for the Last Five Years from 2016-01-14T00:41:44

Some, we thought, underrated films from 2015: THE LAST FIVE YEARS, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L....

Quiz Extra - Shown, Shown, Shown on Christmas Day from 2016-01-04T03:37:09

A movies quiz, about movies released on Christmas Day, 2000-2014.

Episode 52 - The Street Value of a Mountain from 2015-12-30T02:32:12

On the theme of"snow"- Randy selected Peter Hoeg's SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW and Joe chose ...

Episode 51 - A Broad Definition of Abroad from 2015-12-11T21:42:13

Under discussion: Alex Garland's THE BEACH and the film THE WINGS OF THE DOVE starring H...

Episode 50 - The Return of Randy from 2015-11-30T17:59:59

Regular co-host Randy is back and there is much rejoicing. We discussed BILLY LYNN'S LO...

Episode 49 - Space Vikings from 2015-11-12T02:31:17

For the theme"Better Than I Thought It Would Be"Joe selected the film ZATHURA and guest ...

Episode 48 - Halloween from 2015-10-20T19:06:43

We discuss Peter Jackson's"The Frighteners"and Elna Baker's memoir The New York Mormon S...

Episode 47 - Conspicuous Consumption from 2015-10-06T19:03:39

Under discussion: QUEEN OF VERSAILLES and SCRUPLES. With guest host Diane Trap.

Episode 46 - Marching To Our Own Drum from 2015-09-21T10:00

We're back! This week, with special guest Becca Gross, we talked about Co...

Quiz Time - Are We There Yet? from 2015-06-15T02:24:23

Joe befuddles Amy and Randy with questions about fictional towns and cities in movies, books and TV.

Episode 45 - Never Give Up, Never Surrender from 2015-06-09T15:39:08

Episode 44 - Some Legal Eagles Soar, Some Go Splat from 2015-05-29T19:57:28

This week's show is"courtroom"dramas so we're watching THE LINCOLN LAWYER and reading Dominick Dunne's ANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN.

Episode 43: Mothers and Daughters from 2015-05-12T03:18:12

It's stories of mothers and daughters this week as we watched"The Joy Luck Club"(1993) and read"Where'd You Go, Bernadette?"(2012). Also discussed:"The Royal We,"Alabama Shakes"Sound&Color,""Sprin...

Episode 42 - Denise Fleming Is a Tampon from 2015-04-28T01:35:50

If only they'd had a cell phone... From the horrors of ROOM by Emma Donoghue to the sill...

Episode 41 -"Who Has That Kind Of Stamina?!?" from 2015-04-13T02:09:34

It's True Crime Week as we talk the Susan Orlean book"The Orchid Thief"and the 1988 movie"The Thin Blue Line."We also talk Mad Men, The Americans and superhero TV.

Birthday Quiz Time from 2015-04-06T18:50:06

It's a grab bag of trivia relating, in one way or another, to Amy's birthda...

Episode 40 - Happ Birthda from 2015-03-31T02:01:33

(That's not a typo. The plastic thing my grandmother always put on top of our cakes had ...

Quiz Time - Bein' Green from 2015-03-17T01:03:40

It's Joe's turn to do the quiz this time, so in honor of St. Patrick's Day he came up with a quiz on all things green in books, movies and TV.

Episode 39 - Urban Ireland from 2015-03-16T02:48:47

Joe asked for works of urban Ireland in honor of St. Patrick's Day! Amy chose Colin Bat...

Episode 38 - Controversy! from 2015-03-03T20:09:19

Smutty aristocracy! Cops gone wild! It's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Dirty Harry this we...

Episode 37: The Cat Came Back from 2015-02-15T20:23:21

It's all cats, all the time this week as we talk the Timothy FIndley novel"Not Wanted On...

Quiz - First Initials from 2015-02-06T17:28:25

In which Amy quizzes Joe and Randy about the names behind the initials of s...

Episode 36 - First Efforts from 2015-02-03T02:43:48

Under discussion - Gillian Flynn's debut novel"Sharp Objects"and Nicole Holofcener's first directorial effort"Walking and Talking."Also discussed:"The Boy Next Door,""Galavant,"and"Predestination."

Episode 35 - Critical Darlings from 2015-01-23T16:17:54

Randy wanted a book and a movie that have been under discussion as being i...

Episode 34 - Runners Up from 2015-01-05T20:07:28

Amy wanted second place winners, so Joe picked MOCKINGBIRD by Walter Tevis and Randy cho...

Christmas Song Quiz from 2014-12-24T20:50:22

Can Randy and Joe guess the Christmas song based on lyrics from the THIRD verse?

Episode 33 - Lady Detectives from 2014-12-09T16:18:50

Joe asked for some chicks who are dicks and we gave him Veronica Mars (from her eponymou...

Quiz Time - Characters Welcome from 2014-12-02T01:27:32

Joseph delivers a devilish quiz where he gives Randy and Amy the names of two characters...

Episode 31 - One Order of Scandal, Hold the Olivia Pope. from 2014-11-11T02:40:07

Episode 31 and we have a guest host! Amy's off galivanting in Europe so we brought in previous guest host Becca Gross. She chose the theme of Hollywood Scandals, giving us a chance to revel in the...

Episode 30 - Cocktails from 2014-10-29T16:48:36

We're discussing the movie"The Blue Gardenia"and the book,"Later, at the Bar"

Quiz Time - Titles, Nested and Scrambled from 2014-10-23T19:11:23

It's a wordy challenge this time, with movie titles all mixed up. (And with some new movie plots that Hollywood should seriously consider.)

Episode 29 - Nonlinear Narratives from 2014-10-15T02:52:06

Randy challenged Joe and Amy to find works with nonlinear narratives (think Pulp Fiction...

Episode 28: Heart Ripping from 2014-09-21T21:50:51

Finally, a new episode! Randy's on vacation, so we have the most excellent guest host in this week to chat with us about Shirley's Jackson's"We Have Always Lived In The Castle"and the 1995 movie o...

Episode 27 - Alternate History from 2014-09-11T14:28:13

This week we look at alternate histories; Amy chose The Arcanum for the novel and Randy chose Inglorious Basterds for the movie. Also discussed: 6 Feet Under, Bomb Girls, Manhattan, Mad Men, Gods ...

Quiz Time #3 from 2014-09-07T15:36:10

It's Randy's turn to bedevil us as he breaks our brains with a quiz involving chapter titles.

Episode 26 - The One Where We Catch The Killer from 2014-08-18T15:09:50

It's Mystery Week! We plumb into the shadowy figures and devilish plots behind the 1998 ...

Boys of Summer from 2014-08-07T22:33:12

For Amy's chosen theme of"The Summer that Everything Changed,"Randy and Joe went dude-centric with their choices, entirely by accident. Randy chose Stephen King's novella"The Body,"the basis of the...

Extra: Quiz Time 2 (First Lines) from 2014-08-05T04:44:11

It was the best of quizzes, it was the worst of quizzes. Since it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single podcast in possession of pop culture junkies, must be in want of a good quiz, h...

Episode 24 - This One Is Stacked! from 2014-07-21T04:36:57

This week, Libraries and Librarians! We talk ordering systems, the philosophy of trying to keep everything, how libraries can disappear and of course, how to look fabulous when becoming a libraria...

Extra: Quiz time from 2014-07-14T18:20:55

Amy tests Randy and Joe on their knowledge of cosmetics. And"adult"literature.

Episode 23 - Hello, Sailor! from 2014-07-06T20:15:36

It's an attempt to stay positive as we discuss contrarionism in trying to review and talk about things (especially on the Internet) and in that context we went back to things that we have disliked ...

Episode 22 -"I like my Muffin toasted." from 2014-06-24T01:28:29

Weddings! We read the 1932 novel"Cheerful Weather For The Wedding"and watched Rbert Altm...

Episode 21 - Life After Death from 2014-06-09T15:44:25

This week we talked life after death! We watched"A Matter of Life and Death"and read"A D...

Episode 20 - My Plastic Surgeon Doesn't Want Me Doing Any Activity Where Balls Fly At My Nose from 2014-05-27T01:00:31

While Joe takes a well deserved week off, Becca Gross is in for our"Fashion"e...

Episode 18 - Healing the Head, Healing the Heart from 2014-04-28T02:50:45

This week, we welcome our special guest Russ Hanser! He chose the theme of ...

Episode 17 - Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting In A Dystopian Hellscape from 2014-04-14T01:18:03

It's fun and games this week as we explore dystopian game show/reality shows from before ...

Bonus Episode! Randy And Joe Make A Slap Bet from 2014-04-02T02:53:19

Last night was the How I Met Your Mother finale, so Randy and I threw together a short di...

Episode 16 - Here, Have Some Ale While I Sing You The History of My People from 2014-03-31T04:22:56

We all discuss works based on Shakespeare, but not just adaptations. For the movie we wa...

Episode 15 - Revisiting the Wilderness of Childhood from 2014-03-17T02:34:01

This week, we revisited things that we enjoyed in our teenage years. I chose Robin Ho...

Episode 14: Time Keeps On Slipping from 2014-03-02T22:09:47

We discuss Agatha Christie's The Clocks and the 2009 movie Timer, along wit...

Episode 13 - Tennesse from 2014-02-17T04:56:27

This week, our theme is Tennessee. We talk the movie A Face In The Crowd (1957) and the novel Orchard Keeper (1965). Southern accents abound and we debate how to pronounce names.

Episode 12 - Comedy Tonight! from 2014-02-03T01:50:48

Join us we talk comedy. We discuss Jerome K. Jerome's novel 3 Men In A Boat and the 2001 ...

Episode 11 - What The Hell Was That? from 2014-01-20T22:08:55

Wherein we debate William Goldman's Color of Light, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, discu...

Episode 10 - We're Really Back! from 2014-01-13T07:26:15

We're back! This week we're talking AIDS, in the context of the documentary"We Were Here...

Episode 9.5 - Where the Hell Have We Been? from 2013-12-31T23:51:10

We're back! Kind of!

Episode 8 - The One Where We Insult The Listeners from 2013-12-09T04:37:10

This week, our theme was Paren...

Episode 7, Part 2 - May/December, The Movie from 2013-11-25T05:16:04

A split episode this week as we discuss May December relationships in the novel"The Price...

Episode 7, Part 1 - May/December, The Book from 2013-11-25T05:15:05

A split episode this week as we discuss May December relationships in the novel"The Price...

Episode 6 - The One Where We Talk Fluids from 2013-11-11T06:10:37

This week, we talk clones! We watched Darren Aronofsky's"The Fountain"and read Cat Patri...

Episode 5 - Myths, Mythsteps and Mythadventures from 2013-10-27T23:23:43

Joseph, Randy and Amy discuss the book"The Arrow's Flight"and the movie"Weird Science."We talk Greek myths, bad 80's movies and just how the hell you do pronounce Pyrrhus and Philoctetes.

Episode 4- Swinging In Toronto from 2013-10-14T05:11:33

We discuss the 2011 movie"Take This Waltz"and the 2002 book"Spider-Man: Blue...

Episode 3: Debts, Résist*ance and Beaver Songs from 2013-09-30T04:59:20

Join Joseph, Randy and Amy as they discuss the 2011 film"The Debt"and the 20...

Episode 2: We're Not Using The Bryan Adams Song from 2013-09-16T00:00:20

This episode's theme is Seasons and in that vein we discuss the 1978 movie"The La...

Episode 1 - No More Snow Angels from 2013-09-05T05:18:25

Joseph, Amy and Randy discuss the 2012 film"The Perks of Being A Wallflower."

Episode 0.5 from 2013-08-29T01:16:48

In this episode, Joe rambles on while he tests recording and hosting.