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Every July and December, Juliet L'mous and their co-host playwright Katherine Varga take a piece of holiday pop culture and discuss it through the lens of a piece of topical classic literature — like the seminal hit "Last Christmas" through Jorge Luis Borges' famous essays…
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S11E3 - The Three Wise Men (opens the original)
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Episode Notes Guest religious studies expert Wheels joins Juliet and Katherine for a synopsis on the synoptic in the mythic and historical tradition of the Three Wise Men, and their related religious ephemera. Check out the new Moonshot audio drama The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne at https://www.lydiadisappears.com/ and the show Total Depravity at: https://www.patreon.com/collection/2166431 I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network. The theme for I'll Be Pod
S11E2 - A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (opens the original)
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Episode Notes Juliet and Katherine propose a familiar (but not too familiar) categorization method for differentiating Jonases as they watch and discuss A Very Jonas Christmas Movie. Together they compare the life and performance of the Jonas Brothers to Borges' sense of alienation in public identity in Borges and I and the alienating absence-of-encounter in Zadie Smith's essay Meet Justin Bieber. Is this a christmas movie "for boys"? Can you be miscast when cast as yourself? And can you ever go
S11E1 - Borges y Yo (Borges and I) (opens the original)
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Episode Notes In this episode, you can hear the Moonshot Network's own Riley Hopkins reading a Juliet L'mous translation of Jorge Luis Borges' short creative nonfiction, " Borges and I ." The next two weeks, IBPFC will cover A Very Jonas Christmas Movie and the history of the "Three Wise Men". Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Our theme is by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network. -- When things happen, it is to the other
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