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Dec 4, 2024

Hey, you know what? This wasn't so bad!

There's about 20 extra minutes of chitchat at the end, mostly about Endurance (the Shackleton Expedition). Feel free to ignore it!

DM: Haley

CW/TW: we discuss animal death in Endurance during the post-episode chitchat

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Nov 4, 2024

It's a(nother) stressful week, so you can have little an early episode, as a treat. Hang in there. 

This month we read and discussed Naomi Kritzer's Hugo-winning short story, Better Living Through Algorithms. You can read it for free or listen to it thanks to Clarkesworld!

This is a wide-ranging discussion where we used...


Oct 30, 2024

It's showtime! Happy Halloween, listeners!


Oct 2, 2024

This month we read The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. We were joined by special guest and delightful person and ambitopia expert, author Redfern Jon Barrett! We had so much fun chatting with Redfern that this is a bit of a maxisode. Digressions abound. 

DM: Haley

CW/TW: brief discussion of SA

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Sep 8, 2024

It was fun! It was windy! Lori and Kevin tell all.

Boring warning: at about 17:45, you're gonna hear like 5 minutes of voice notes about dogs. Feel free to turn off the podcast. 

Eating noise warning: if you make it this far, at 22:05-22:25, Lori will loudly eat a tea cake, so skip that if you can't stand mouth...