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#279 – Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White (with Sydney of @sydsbooked) (opens the original)
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Tune in as Sydney ( @sydsbooked ) partners up with the podcast for a plunge into Compound Fracture, the 2024 queer YA thriller/horror novel by Andrew Joseph White about a trans teenage boy who’s trying to figure himself out and pursue his socialist politics while fighting back against the violent and cop-enforced bigotry of his West Virginian home. The socially awkward obstacles that come with neurodivergence, mutual aid being a crucial aspect of socialism and anarchism, the oh-so-radical idea t
Interview with Author Lila Riesen (Rainsong) (opens the original)
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Jumping onto the show today is Lila Riesen, who’s written her YA debut novel Free Radicals and then her YA coastal noir book Rainsong . Tolkien and Narnia fanfiction, Free Radicals being a personal representation of Lila’s Afghan ancestry, squeezing in time to write while being a full-time mom, the genre-bending and the lovable sisterhood that Rainsong offers up, and Jenny Han’s work stand out as some of the chatter for this episode. Spoilers for Rainsong start at 22:35 Create your podcast today
#278 – Apple TV+'s The Gorge | Directed by Scott Derrickson (with Paul) (opens the original)
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Tune in as Paul ( @trygraptor ) hops onboard the program to discuss The Gorge, the 2025 sci-fi action thriller horror romance movie about the partnership that grows between two top-notch snipers who’ve been assigned the task of guarding a mysterious gorge. The eerie creature design, ziplining across an entire gorge and other cutesy moments in this genre-bending ride, the surprisingly varied questions that viewers could ask about the worldbuilding of this story, and arching an eyebrow at how this
#277 – The Fly | Directed by David Cronenberg (with Rolo Tony of These Guys Got Juice and Unsourced Wall Radio) (opens the original)
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Tune in as Rolo Tony ( @PoorOldRoloTony , These Guys Got Juice , and Unsourced Wall Radio ) re-collaborates with the podcast for a breakdown of The Fly, the 1986 sci-fi body horror movie about a scientist whose brilliant intellect pushes him down a gruesome road while inventing a teleportation machine. The surprising amount of time that this film spends being a tragic love story, shining a spotlight on a baboon named Typhoon, those multiple epilogues and other scenes that got excised from the fi
#276 – Bring Her Back | Directed by Danny and Michael Philippou (with Andy of Fat Dude Digs Flicks Movie Podcasts) (opens the original)
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Tune in as Andy ( Fat Dude Digs Flicks Movie Podcasts ) jumps back into his guest chair to unpack Bring Her Back, the 2025 horror film about two orphaned step-siblings who tumble down a spiral of terror after falling under the care of a foster mother who seems cheerfully eager to look after them. The subtle abuse that gaslighting inflicts against its victims, authentic disability representation, Sally Hawkins’s performance being so top-notch that it could have earned her an Oscar nomination, and
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