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Hosted by:🎵 Alissa Roca — soprano, founder, and Executive Artistic Director of Paradox Opera🎭 Gwen Hyland — baritone, librettist, and creator of Don G (Abridged!) and PXO’s upcoming major new commission The Genders of GybberidgeOpera, fandom, and everything in between.Fandom…
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Episode 17: Pokémon cannot have a redemptive relationship with Christ (opens the original)
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In this week's episode, Alissa and Gwen discuss how much better video games were when they were kids, which is totally different from every other generation's nostalgic memories of their youth because we're the main characters of the universe and therefore OBJECTIVELY CORRECT. Remember when there were only 151 Pokémon? Remember when the PS2 was the cutting edge of gaming technology? Remember when you weren't painfully aware of your mortality and how each passing day brings us all closer to the i
Episode 16: The Importance of Being an Earner (opens the original)
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In this week's episode, Alissa and Gwen discuss the socioeconomic difficulties of being a professional artist in modern America: namely, that we live in hell. Along the way, we touch on the concept of inherent human dignity, the ways we've been conditioned by our culture to accept futility & dissatisfaction in our lives, and what artists can do to keep their souls from being completely crushed by the machinery of late-stage capitalism. Hosted by Alissa Roca & Gwen Hyland Edited by Gwen Hyland Ar
Episode 15: Hal... it's about cats. (opens the original)
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In this week's episode, Alissa and Gwen discuss the merits of a much-maligned masterpiece -- Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats ! From the original cast recording to the current revival, Cats: The Jellicle Ball , we talk about what makes it work so well, why so many people are missing out by not giving it a chance, and how the addition of queer black ballroom culture makes the revival such an incredible experience. Hosted by Alissa Roca & Gwen Hyland Edited by Gwen Hyland Art by CHIMI Music by Rachel De
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