Fire the Canon
By Rachel, Jackie, Bekah
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Prefer your books in comedy form, but still want to sound smart at parties? We got you. Discover the hilarity hidden in the classics with new episodes every other Thursday.
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Frankenstein Part 2: The Demon of Bulimia, the Gift of Murder
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Frankenstein Part 1: It's Always Bad to be a Deadbeat Dad
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Corn Daddy (Patreon Bonus)
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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The Life and Times of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Great Pizza, Shady Folks
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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The Cask of Amontillado: You Should've Never Called Me a Fat-Ass Kelly Price
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe (Part 2): A Human Man and His Human Wife
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe (Part 1): The First American Writer to Refuse to Have Another Job
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Finale: Another Clam of Wisdom from the Chowder of Knowledge
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Begins: Flavor-Blasting a Little Pilgrim Boy
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Ranking Every Trope, with Jess Owens (Patreon Bonus)
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Mrs. Dalloway Ends: I Don't Care What Some Brooklynite Says About Love and God and Vomit
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Mrs. Dalloway Begins: Let’s All Crack a Cold One On the Road, Together
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May 23, 2024 |
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The Life and Times of Virginia Woolf: I Love How Women Are Like A Mommy
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May 02, 2024 |
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A Fun Chat About Racism (Patreon Bonus)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Finale: Give Me a Squirrel, Daddy
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Part 1: They're Killing Me, These Buckets!
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Chatting with Ada Palmer about Machiavelli, a Sweetheart Who Did Good Things
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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The Reading Corner 1 (Patreon Bonus)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Machiavelli's The Prince: Or, How to Not Get Invited on Walks Anymore
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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The Life and Times of Roald Dahl: Spy, Children's Book Writer, and EXTREMELY Complicated Dude
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Fakespeare Returns: Thomas North's Revenge
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Moby Dick Finale: Fate's Lieutenant (and Its B*tch)
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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1-Star Reviews: Pride and Prejudice (Patreon Preview)
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Charles Dickens' The Battle of Life: Christmas Out the Wazoo
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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A Christerious Re-Release: Hercule Poirot's Christmas
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Moby Dick 4: Racist or Nautical?
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Stephen's Sleep Talking Part 3 (Patreon Preview)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Moby Dick Part 3: The Town Ho's Story
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Moby Dick Part 2: You Can't Be a Bad Guy if You're a Wife
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Moby Dick Part 1: Be Happy About the Ocean
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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1-Star Reviews: The Fellowship of the Ring (Patreon Preview)
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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The Life and Times of Herman Melville: A Weeb for Polynesia
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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The Poetry of Sappho: Lil' Dicky from Man-Land
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Theo Battles the Booger Monster (Patreon Preview)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Wisdom of Ptah-Hotep: Advice from the Oldest Book in the World (or, 110 Years to Prove the Pharaoh is Awesome)
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Talking to Author Frances Hardinge About Worldbuilding, Spooky Houses, and Mind-Control Perfume
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May 11, 2023 |
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Slaughterhouse-Five Part 2: Poo-Tee-Weet?
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Goosebumps 4: Say Cheese and Die (Patreon Preview)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Slaughterhouse-Five Part 1: Billy Pilgrim Has Come Unstuck in Time.
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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The Life and Times of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: You Gotta Ban the Books!
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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She's the Man: Amanda Bynes' Shakespearean Masterpiece (Patreon preview)
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Monstrilio: A Conversation with Debut Author Gerardo Sámano Córdova
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Finale: The Brotherhood of the Traveling Brain Cell
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Part 1: Lies. All Lies.
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Pinocchio Part 2: Not a Puppet, Not Yet a Boy
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Talkin' Cricket Blues (Patreon Preview)
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Pinocchio Part 1: Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves! (With Some Help From Jacob)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Bye, Thelicia (Sort Of)
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Charles Dickens’ The Cricket on the Hearth Part 2: Here Comes the Killing!
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Charles Dickens’ The Cricket on the Hearth Part 1: I Guess You Learned a Lesson
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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The Moomins: Muumibuumi!!!
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Bump Patrol: Monster Blood (Patreon Preview)
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula Part 3: Inside the Brain of a Child Vampire
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula Part 2: Draculala Land
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula Part 1: Fling with a Skeeze
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Talking to M. Grant Kellermeyer About "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Rip Van Winkle (Patreon Preview)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Poppin’ a Wheelie on a Horse
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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The Life and Times of Washington Irving: One Hundred Years of Crayon
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Talking Transformative Works with Author Nghi Vo: Call Me Fish Mail
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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The Great Gatsby Finale: Enter the Multiverse; Any Timeline Works - Anyone Could Be His Child
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Fakespeare (Patreon Preview)
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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The Great Gatsby, Part 1: Restaurant Workers Can’t Be Aliens
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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The Life and Times of F. Scott Fitzgerald (The F is for Finisher)
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Finale: Yumeow Yumeow Yumeow
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Theo Quizzes the Hosts (Patreon Preview)
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Part 1: The Hulk of Messing Things Up (a.k.a. The Transformation or Die Verwandlung)
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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The Life and Times of Franz Kafka: Fighting God
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Talking to Author Sarah Gailey About Horror, Compulsory Girl Bossing, and Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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How to Scam the French Lottery for Fun and Profit, by Voltaire (Patreon Preview)
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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A (Near) Father’s Day Fiasco!
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias: Talking Poetry with Professor Ross White
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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The Life and Times of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Life’s a Bysshe and Then You Die in a Mysterious Boating Accident
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Voltaire’s Candide, or Optimism Finale: Impossible Feets
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Theo's Birthday Episode (Patreon Preview)
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May 26, 2022 |
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Premee Mohamed on Writing Sci-Fi Like a Scientist
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May 19, 2022 |
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Mother’s Day Mayhem!
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May 12, 2022 |
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The Poetry of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Feminist, Lesbian, Spitfire, 17th-Century Mexican Nun
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May 05, 2022 |
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Goosebumps 2: Stay Out of the Basement (Patreon Preview)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Voltaire’s Candide, or Optimism Part 1: A Young Teenage Boy-Man-ish
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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The Life and Times of Voltaire: The Pete Davidson of the Enlightenment
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Yoon Ha Lee on Space Operas and Surviving as a Writer
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Dubliners Finale: The Michael-Killer
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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James Joyce’s Dubliners, Part 1: Two O’Goofuses
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Optimism vs. Hope: How to Build a Better Future, with Historian Ada Palmer
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Winnie-the-Pooh Finale: A Pig of No Simple Fortune
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Winnie-the-Pooh Begins: Screwing Up Every Day
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Romeo & Juliet & Everything Else: A Conversation with Historian Ada Palmer
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Valentine’s Day Special: Browning Battle! DTM - Down to Marry
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Romeo and Juliet, But Make it Funny
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Cyrano de Bergerac Finale: A Down South Baptizin’
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Cyrano de Bergerac Part 1: The Monkey of Brioche
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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1984 Finale: The McDoubleThink is Back
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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1984 Part 2: 10 Years of Punching Experience
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Hot Take #1 - Michael and the Horrifying Ordeal of Being Perceived
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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1984 Part 1: The Stupidest Thing Everyone Has Ever Tweeted
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Dickens’ The Chimes: Gob Bless Us, Every One
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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A Christery Chat with John Allison
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Hercule Poirot’s Christmas: If You See Something, Slit Something
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Cicero’s How to Be a Friend: Brainless Geniuses
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: They’re All Pippin
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Lysistrata: A Newer, More Glamorous, Supremely Seductive Me
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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The Little Prince Finale: Mr. Pig Expert
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Dune (2021) vs. Dune (1984) with Jess Owens: A Cat with a Rat Taped to It
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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The Little Prince Part 1: We Like Sheep!
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Halloween Bonus! Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: 90 Kids in a Trenchcoat
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Frank Herbert’s Dune, ft. Jack Morgan: Little Miss Livermush
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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The 10 Strangest Births in Greek Mythology(?): Zaddy, Zexy, Zeus
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Dune: Our Friends the Worms
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Lovecraft’s The Whisperer in Darkness: A Conversation with Author Ruthanna Emrys
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Dostoevsky’s The Dream of a Ridiculous Man: Electronic Jaculas
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Wuthering Heights Finale: Enough Mush for Two
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Wuthering Heights 2: Minchin’ and Munchin’
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Wuthering Heights 1: A Strange Choice of Favourites
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Frauds, Plagues, and Terrible Art: a (Mostly) Medieval Chat with Dr. Lotte Reinbold
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Goodnight Moon: In the French Style
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Sir Gawain & the Green Knight Finale: Even When You’re Right, It Seems So, So Wrong
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Sir Gawain & the Green Knight Part 2: The Cheeky Numbles
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Sir Gawain & the Green Knight Part 1: Spider Town
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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A Delightful Chat with BookTuber Jess Owens
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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A Confederacy of Dunces Finale: A Live Action Shot-For-Shot Remake of The Prince of Egypt
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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A Confederacy of Dunces Part 2: Back to Hell, Ron Weasley!
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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BONUS: America the Beautiful: July the 4th Be with You
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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A Confederacy of Dunces Part 1: Speaking of Tools
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Bartleby the Scrivener: Love Home Alone 2
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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BONUS: This One’s for the Dads: Talkin’ Songs with Big Yellow Praxis
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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The Wonderful Wizards of Pod Finale: Brother Wizard in the Sky
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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The Wonderful Wizards of Pod Part 2: Dorothy and the Meat Dog
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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The Wonderful Wizards of Pod Part 1: America’s Favorite Color
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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The Crucible Finale: Call Me Father, Because I’m Dad
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May 27, 2021 |
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The Crucible Part 3: The Wurst Witch
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May 20, 2021 |
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The Most Dangerous Game: Death of a Sailsman (with Bekah Best)
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May 13, 2021 |
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The Crucible Part 2: J’accuse!
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May 06, 2021 |
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The Crucible Begins: The Sweet, Sweet Siren Call of Communism
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Story of the Stone with Jeannette Ng: Heavenly Bureaucracy
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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A Puddle-Wonderful Springtime Poetry Extravaganza
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Parable of the Sower Finale: Still Not Pregnant, Lovin’ It
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Igckens Teaser
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Parable of the Sower Part 1: Bebopazaballz
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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A Conversation with Author Lindsey Kelk
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Musical Interlude: (Oh Babe) You Disarm Me
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Pride & Prejudice Finale: Bing Bong’s at It Again
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Pride & Prejudice 4: Sneaky & Silent (& Looming)
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Pride & Prejudice 3: That’s Podcast Humor, Baby
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Pride & Prejudice 2: Shrubberies & Snubberies
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: A Great Poem. Good.
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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Pride & Prejudice 1: Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Darcy
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Catcher in the Rye Finale: Some Kind of Epiphany, Somehow
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Catcher in the Rye Part 1: A Prize for Little G
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Beowulf Bonus: Chatting with Dr. Brad Robinson
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Beowulf Finale: A Good Guy, a Good King
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Beowulf Part 1: For Bros, By Bros, About Bros
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Podyssey Finale: Playtime is Over
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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A Christmas Carol Part 2: That Peculiar Christmas Flavor
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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A Christmas Carol Part 1: Mankind is Our Business
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Musical Interlude: (That'd Be A) Happy Holiday
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Podyssey Part 4: Theo’s Revenge
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Podyssey Part 3: Elpenor 2024
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Podyssey Part 2: Polyphemus and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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Podyssey Part 1: The Telemacheia
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Introducing Fire The Canon
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Dec 09, 2020 |