I'll Be Pod for Castmas

Episode Notes Katherine and Juliet unpack Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley , the 2017 play by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon. This light and festive romance centered on Mary Bennet, the differences between her and her sisters, and the possibility of the life of the mind, takes place two years after Pride & Prejudice and was one of the most produced plays in America in 2018. Topics inclu...

Episode Notes Juliet and Katherine think deeply about You've Got Mail (1998), its consideration of class and relations, and the many things it is an adaptation of – including Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice! Topics include: neverending talk about Frank Navasky, property management, The End of History , the circumstances under which a couple should break up, the Downfall of Western Civilization...

Episode Notes Juliet and Katherine lay the groundwork of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice (1813), its consideration of class and relations, and the promise of its many adaptations. Along the way they ask how to laugh instead of cry at Mr. Collins, what you would give up for the love of one man, and which of those men might just be Santa Claus. Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jen...

Episode Notes Juliet and Katherine break down their problems with the time travel romance spy novella This Is How You Lose the Time War (2020), with the help of the time travel romance christmas movie The Knight Before Christmas (2019) and Borges' time-themed spy short story The Garden of Forking Paths . Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod...

Episode Notes Juliet and Katherine perform a very festive ritual breaking down the Ohio of imagination and the Ohio of history in The Knight Before Christmas (2019), the time-travel Netflix original romantic comedy. Which gender would you prefer — a himbo knight, or a christmas crone? Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is broug...

Episode Notes The Social is Predicated on its Exclusions - taboo, true love, teleology: the problem of other minds What does the infamous Folgers coffee christmas commercial (2009) have to do with Frozen (2013) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)? Quite a lot, actually! Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by t...

Episode Notes What Makes a Man a Traitor - statehood, sovereigns, shadows: journeys across the ice On this episode of I'll Be Pod for Castmas , Juliet and Katherine break down Frozen (2013) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969). 4:40 - What Makes a Man a Traitor 30:00 - The Game 43:00 - The True Meaning of Shifgrethor 55:00 - Journeys through the Snow Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan...

Episode Notes Jeff Stormer joins Juliet and Katherine to talk Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro alongside its modern christmas mirror, Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star. What makes a christmas movie Good? What makes a Lupin story a Lupin story? Just how weird can the future of the franchise get from here? Along the way, we cover Fast Five, commedia dell'arte lazzi, the Now You See Me franchi...

Episode Notes This Christmas in July, Juliet and Katherine celebrate the heist genre with the genre-defying Vanessa Hudgens vehicle Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star alongside the genre-defining Maurice Leblanc short story compilation, Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar . Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for...

Episode Notes Juliet and Katherine dive deeper into the sadness, joy, and realism of the characters of Gavroche, Eponine, and Javert through the lens of Jorge Luis Borges' "The Shape of the Sword" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "It's Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries". Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Readings from the text are provided by Max Newland. Transcript...

Episode Notes Today you get to hear Max Newland read the Borges short story which is known variably by both the title "The Shape of the Sword" and "The Form of the Sword"! Next week: Juliet and Katherine tackle It's Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries, Les Misérables, and The Form of the Sword altogether! Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen.

Episode Notes Juliet and Katherine tackle the Carly Rae Jepsen tragicomic holiday single Its Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries alongside Victor Hugo's dramatic portrait of the structure of suffering and the human character, Les Misérables —discussing in turn both the popular musical and the overlong book. Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Readings from the text are provided by...

Episode Notes The thrilling conclusion of the Christmas in July podcast break-up, alongside a mailbag of letters about the Netflix sequel " The Princess Switch: Switched Again " through the lens of Jane Austen's final novel, Persuasion . We recommend the Karen Savage version of the Persuasion audiobook, available on youtube, spotify, and: https://librivox.org/persuasion-by-jane-austen-4/...

Episode Notes Solidarity forever! Instead of discussing christmas specials this week, we get a discussion between Juliet and Riley Hopkins on the topic of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, and the following passage: "Although the unproblematic unity of “women” is often invoked to construct a solidarity of identity, a split is introduced in the feminist subject by the distinction between sex and...

Episode Notes This Christmas in July, Juliet and Katherine write plot-important letters to each other and discuss the Netflix sequel "The Princess Switch: Switched Again" alongside Jane Austen's final novel, Persuasion. We recommend the Karen Savage version of the Persuasion audiobook, available on youtube, spotify, and: https://librivox.org/persuasion-by-jane-austen-4/ A transcript for...

Episode Notes Juliet and Katherine discuss Frosty Returns (1992) using the lens of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Content warnings in this episode for frank discussions of Christianity and Climate Change. A transcript of this episode is available at: https://otter.ai/u/bvlhQaK1lmBDAc9dQj2C_76RWjE . Find I'll Be Pod for Castmas four times a year on the Moonshot Podcast Network https://moonshotpods.co...

Episode Notes Juliet and Katherine break down the classic novel Frankenstein through the lens of the christmas song Frosty the Snowman. Next episode, we'll tackle Frosty Returns (1992) using the lens of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein! A transcript of this episode is available at: https://otter.ai/u/ogqbOVGK-Ii_7GQQaiCOq648h9w . You probably know the song Frosty the Snowman, and can find Mary Shelley'...

Episode Notes You can find The Princess Switch streaming on Netflix, and Lady Audley's Secret wherever books are sold but also in a variety of ebook forms at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8954 . Find I'll Be Pod for Castmas four times a year on the Moonshot Podcast Network https://twitter.com/MoonshotPods and https://cohost.org/christmas

Episode Notes You can find The Princess Switch streaming on Netflix, and Lady Audley's Secret wherever books are sold but also in a variety of ebook forms at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8954 . Find I'll Be Pod for Castmas four times a year on the Moonshot Podcast Network https://twitter.com/MoonshotPods and https://cohost.org/christmas "And yet, and yet . . . To deny temporal succession,...

Episode Notes I'll Be Pod for Castmas is on the Moonshot Podcast Network! https://linktr.ee/moonshotnetwork If I am not mistaken, the heterogenous pieces I have listed resemble Kafka; if I am not mistaken, not all of them resemble each other. This last fact is what is most significant: Kafka's idiosyncracy is present in each of these writings, to a greater or lesser degree, but if Kafka had not wr...