There’s a few ways to get ready for The Bible Code, a giant hit from a bygone era that finally—finally!—solves the ancient puzzle: what if there were a conspiracy theory that was all Easter eggs but also absolutely no fun at all? Set the controls for the late 90s, just before the end of the […]

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For Part One of our Big Podcast Crossover Event, we bring in Kait and Renata from the Worst Bestsellers podcast to help us out with a bestseller that is, in fact, Just The Worst: James Patterson’s The Angel Experiment: Maximum Ride. It’s supposed to be something like The X-Men crossed with Twilight with hints of […]

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Our first episode to be scored entirely by harp, harpsichord, and ocarina, it’s the oft-requested short side story The Slow Regard of Silent Things, a book that would describe itself as “twee as twee” and that features a character who “smiles” twice, “grins” every third paragraph, and once sweeps a staircase…up. It’s a fun read, […]

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