Saturday, September 30, marks “International Podcast Day.” It’s a great day to start listening to a new podcast, endeavor to create your own or spread the love. Podcasts are a fast growing media platform that reach over 42 million Americans every week- that’s 15% of the total U.S. population. With media you can take on …
Episode 018: Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049
For a movie that’s widely considered one of the best science fiction movies of all time, we’re pretty unimpressed with Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Somehow it was less thrilling and more sloppy than we remembered (but, you know, when would we ever judge someone for being boring and sloppy?). This is a big episode for us …
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Paperbacks, Mockingbirds and the Rise of Accessibility
The year was 1939: average wages in the U.S. were $1,730.00 annually, gas averaged 10 cents a gallon, movie tickets cost 20 cents, and the average hardback book was around $2.75- an astronomical cost by comparison. John Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath was the bestselling novel of the year (selling 439,000 copies), though book purchases were on …
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Yetis and Monsters, and Books…Oh My!
There’s something about the great unknown that intrigues humanity, and inspires our sense of adventure. This is what drives Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mystery, and so the rest of literature as a whole. Our examination of things that might have been, and what could be lurking out there, has given us goosebumps and a question to ponder …
Podcast Episode 017: Emmy’s Predictions
MORGAN. You’re so pretty. Morgan. We all love you. In this episode Mic is nice to Morgan because she deserves it. But mostly we discuss our predictions for the upcoming Emmy awards (9/17) and take a deep dive into heavy hitters like Westworld, Saturday Night Live, Mr. Robot, Stranger Things, Master of None, and The Handmaid’s Tale. We have opinions…and …