Light Treason

Ep 103: Meredith (@MeredithLClark) recs Zola Jesus, Haxan, Thick Of It, and looks forward to Widows, while Allison recs The Good Place, Great British Baking Show, answers a Patreon question about Twitter and the First Amendment, and talks about how only Elon Musk could make smoking pot look uncool Allison interviews Twanna Hines (@funkybrownchick) who recs: Eloquent Rage, classical music, meditati...

Ep 104: Meredith (@MeredithLClark) recs Dr. Death and Viva and Allison discusses Serena Williams and sexism in tennis and the misogyny behind blaming Ariana Grande for Mac Miller's death In bad news: Trump administration wants ability to hold migrant kids indefinitely, IBM used NYPD surveillance footage to develop technology that lets police search by skin color, Les Moonves to leave CBS after six...

Parker (@parkermolloy) looks forward to Riot Fest and her Wisconsin getaway while Allison unpacks the sperm apocalypse In bad news: Bob Woodward's new book reveals a "nervous breakdown" of Trump's presidency, Monica Lewinsky is continuously expected to field questions about Bill Clinton when he is almost never asked questions about her, and Trump renews threat over NBC's "license" In good news: Ay...

Ep 101: Parker (@parkermolloy) recs Kids Baking Championship and Magic for Humans, while Allison recs the Mean Girls musical and discusses the trailer for the new season of Bojack Horseman In bad news: Hours before Kavanaugh nomination hearing, Bush lawyer releases 42,000 pages of documents to Judiciary Committee, 22 protesters arrested so far during hearing (Americans remain split on Kavanaugh's...

Ep 100: Faith (@bohemianfaith) joins the show again to discuss Neko Case and traveling via train across country, while Allison explains why George W. Bush nostalgia is bullshit and talks about looking forward to The Purge TV series. Also, Childish Gambino's great summer vid Feels Like Summer unfairly places burden on women of color and Al Sharpton criticizes Trump at Aretha Franklin's funeral In b...

Ep 99: Faith (@bohemianfaith) recs X-Ray Spex, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, The Deuce, Saved!, farm shares, and talks about finishing her book, while Allison recs Succession and the Harry Potter audio books In bad news: Bank of America is freezing accounts over citizenship questions, NBC tried to kill the Harvey Weinstein story and threatened Ronan Farrow, Luciano Garagnani wore a "Weins...

Ep 98: Happy Labor Day! Meredith (@meredithlclark) joins the show again to rec: The Purge TV series, Karyn Kusama's Destroyer, and Mitski Allison interviews Sarah Mirk (@sarahmirk) about sex-ed for teens and her recs: Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, Amateur by Thomas Page McBee, Ru Paul's Drag Race, the Making Gay History podcast, and radiooooo.com In bad news: Kansans drank contaminated water f...

Ep 97: Meredith (@meredithlclark) joins the show to discuss street harassment and to rec: Riz Ahmed's interview in the New York Times Magazine, House of Devil, and The Good Place, and to chat about her hobbies of cross-stitching, knitting, and adult coloring books In bad news: Trump administration is trying to strip citizenship from many Americans born near Mexico border, Betsy Devos wants to prot...

Ep 96: Charles (@charlesrockhill) and Chris (@chrisopotamia) rec Kath and Kim, John Duff's Girly, going on a writing retreat, and Buzzfeed's article: We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph's Catholic Orphanage In bad news: Nation's top student loan official resigns, Louis C.K. makes surprise return to comedy in first gig since admitting to sexual misconduct, and Jamel Myles, 9, died b...

Ep 95: Charles (@charlesrockhill) and Chris (@chrisopotamia) rec the Dead By Daylight board game, True Blood (kind of), acupuncture, the joys of unsubscribing, and respond to Patreon recs for The Den and Life Is Strange, and Allison talks about the Sharp Objects finale (no spoilers) and the trailer for True Detective s3 Allison and Chloe meet a young hall monitor (@realslimchada) In bad news: Jack...

Ep 94: Rachel (@realslimchada) and Chloe (@itsthechew) join the show again and Chloe and Allison share a ~*~food mystery~*~ while Rachel and Chloe anti-rec Slenderman and rec: Allie X, Lana Del Ray, Body Count, Orange is the New Black (SPOILERS), and Riverdale. Also, Allison talks about Sharp Object's problem with the trope of the unethical female journalist In bad news: Scott Lloyd's law school e...

Ep 93: Rachel (@realslimchada) and Chloe (@itsthechew) share tales from L.A., help answer Patreon questions about some of their hobbies and race representation in Crazy Rich Asians, and rec Happy Time Murders Allison interviews journalist and professor Will Potter (@will_potter) about his recs: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Never Tire of Protesting by George Seldes, The Handmaid's Tale, Frank Turner, Bi...

Ep 92: Charles (@charlesrockhill) joins the show to respond to Patreon messages about rollerskating in the south, unpack this great column about Hereditary and society's moral panic surrounding transmasculine people, and to rec Spongebob, the musical and Disenchantment In bad news: right-wing media politicizes the death of Mollie Tibbetts (Mollie's aunt has rejected racist ghouls), Betsy DeVos is...

Ep 91: Charles (@charlesrockhill) joins the show to discuss the VMAs' weird Aretha Franklin tribute and Ariana Grande's new album and Allison recs Tei Shi In bad news: Bomb that killed 40 children in Yemen was supplied by the U.S., Asia Argento paid sexual assault accuser, and America's prisoners are on strike in at least 17 states In good news: Kevin Spacey's first movie since #MeToo earned just...

Ep 90: Katharine (@spkheller) joins the show to rec Carmen Jones, Coldplay, and Neo Futurists while Allison recs Crazy Rich Asians and Sharp Objects In bad news: Trump can't even honor Aretha Franklin, who hated him, properly, Fox News remembers Aretha with a photo of Patti LaBelle, Rudy Giuliani declares "truth isn't truth," ICE detains a man who was driving his pregnant wife to deliver their bab...

Ep 89: Charles (@charlesrockhill) joins the show to anti-rec Slenderman and to rec: Nicki Minaj's Queen, Rihanna's upcoming album, Charles and Allison rank the Chrises, and discuss the legacy of Aretha Franklin In bad news: Trump revokes security clearance for John Brennan and Susan Rice and Twitter's dumb idea to "promote alternative viewpoints" In good news: Democrats feel more positively about...

Ep 88: Meredith (@meredithlclark) joins the show again to share how she's made a little trouble in her own life, the etiquette of what to do when someone is crying on the subway, and recs: Spiderman: Homecoming, Fargo, and Unspooled, and discusses Millennials ruining mayonnaise and closets In bad news: An 11-year-old changed the results of Florida's Presidential vote at a hacker convention, the Wh...

Ep 87: Meredith (@meredithlclark) joins the show to help answer Patreon questions/recs about podcasts and Penny and Desi adjusting to the new apartment and to anti-rec The Daily Erek (@erek_smith) interviews Helena about Helena things In bad news: A couple dozen Neo-Nazis got the red carpet treatment from D.C. law enforcement, Omarosa's secret White House recordings cause Trump to go ballistic on...

Ep 86: Erek (@erek_smith) joins the show again to help answer a Patreon question about causing a little trouble and recs quitting your job, The Comedians, and crocs, while Allison recs Nicki Minaj's Queen and then they discuss the Oscars' dumb new "popular film" category In bad news: Ben Shapiro thinks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez owes him her time for some reason and Space Force is an extremely Trump...

Ep 85: Erek (@erek_smith) joins the show to talk about his upcoming month-long European music tour and Allison talks about an air-conditioning disaster Allison interviews comedian and writer Matt Kirshen (@mattkirshen) about his show Probably Science and his recs: Slow Burn, This Sounds Serious, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Queer Eye, Great British Baking Show, and the art of unplugging In bad news: NPR...

Ep 84: Parker (@parkermolloy) joins the show to discuss the end of Upworthy, Twitter and Alex Jones, and Lollapalooza In bad news: California wildfire is now the largest in the state's history, Puerto Rico concedes Hurricane Maria deaths were more than 1,400, Jared Kushner ordered deletion of Observer articles critical of his friends, and kids were killed at a Texas youth facility—and then the fed...

Ep 83: Charles (@charlesrockhill) and Chris (@chrisopotamia) join the show again to rec Hulu's Younger, Robyn, Superfruit, Making It, and of course Mean Girls In bad news: Trump warns countries against doing business with Iran as sanctions kick back in, Trump's Muslim ban is forcing some Americans to move to war-torn countries to reunite with their families, and Sarah Jeong is the latest victim of...

Ep 82: Charles (@charlesrockhill) and Chris (@chrisopotamia) join the show to rec Strictly Ballroom, Orange Is The New Black, and Slasher, and to discuss how an alt-right troll won The Bachelorette Chloe (@chloepatterson) encounters a baker from Wisconsin In bad news: Even if emission reduction targets are met, Earth is still heading towards "hothouse" state, EPA is now allowing asbestos back into...

Ep 81: Meredith (@meredithlclark) joins the show again to help answer Patreon questions about covering climate change news on LTN and white supremacist rallies in Portland and to rec Jonathan Van Ness' podcast Getting Curious In bad news: Trump administration mulls bypassing Congress for more tax cuts for the rich, Trump thinks you need a photo ID to buy groceries, ICE teams up with Nicaragua even...

Ep 80: Meredith (@meredithlclark) joins the show to rec Adrienne Truscott's One Trick Pony, The Rezort, Raw, and Robyn's new single and to talk about Trump's hatred of Lebron James Allison interviews professor and pop science communicator Raychelle Burks (@DrRubidium) about science in fandom and her recs: Luke Cage, Murder She Wrote, EDM, and The Cooking Gene In bad news: Metro considering separat...