Headcanon Fodder
Have you ever watched a movie or show, gotten sucked into a mystery and come up with your own idea of what is going to be revealed – only...
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Episodes
Latest firstPolitics of the Funnies Part 2
Once upon a time, the funnies or the comics pages dominated newspapers – back when newspapers were the main source of information for most...
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Politics of the Funnies Part 1
Once upon a time, the funnies or the comics pages dominated newspapers – back when newspapers were the main source of information for most...
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Multiverse Remix
Marvel and DC are jumping into the multiverse with multiple movies and shows crossing over into parallels worlds with different versions of...
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Have Yourself a Scary Little Krampus
The imagery of Christmas in most Western countries is of pure wholesomeness with Santa Claus or St. Nicholas, presents, candy, lights, etc....
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Art of the Brick
Nathan Sawaya is one of the best-known LEGO Master Builders – people who can recreate just about anything out of LEGO. While he's worked...
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Re-Rolling Role Playing Games
The world of tabletop role-playing games is much broader than Dungeons & Dragons, and there’s been a boom of DIY tabletop RPGs in the last...
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Stage Fright
Many elements of modern horror movies and TV shows came from an unlikely source, a theater in Paris called The Grand Guignol. Beginning in...
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The Ecology of Dune
Frank Herbert’s Dune has been hailed as a pioneer of environmental science fiction, where the Fremen on the planet of Arakkis, have had to...
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Office Space
Kasra Farahani has done concept art on a lot of big sci-fi fantasy films, and this year he took on his biggest job yet as the production...
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Playing Blind
Video games are an inherently visual medium that traditionally haven’t been very accessible to blind people. But there are plenty of blind...
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Cartoonish Gender
Queer representation in children’s cartoons has never been better, but the road to get here has been fraught. I talk with podcaster Dawn H...
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The Legend of Musashi
An entire subgenre of samurai films, shows, manga, anime and games can be traced back to one person – a real life samurai named Miyamoto...
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Giving Imaginary Advice
If you’ve ever searched for my podcast, you probably came across a show with a similar title: Imaginary Advice. I quickly became a fan of...
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Harley Quinn (Special Edition)
Every year, I like to play a full-length version of an interview from a previous episode where a lot of great material ended up on the...
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Reporting on Capes, Cowls, Threats and Menaces
In superhero stories, the public is usually there to be saved by the heroes or killed by the villains. But as a journalist, I always wonder...
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Living in a Simulation
Is it possible that we are living in an imaginary world? That is the premise of many science fiction stories, but some scientists have...
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Guilty Pleasures
Sci-fi and fantasy genres have come a long way from their pulp fiction and Saturday matinee origins to become respectable genres. But...
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Disco Elysium
Disco Elysium has been called one of the best role-playing video games of all time. It's won a slew of awards and it’s a worldwide...
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Weir Science
When Andy Weir wrote “The Martian,” he self-published the chapters to his website -- never expecting the story to become a best-selling...
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