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The gang discusses Manhattan clam chowder and some Christmas traditions. Erin has been embracing the library with a beautiful lesbian romance novel. Ben has been putting off work with a fascinating book about Basque history. Hannah has been learning a bunch about Quakers for some reason.   HOMEWORK:  - Watch the film Carol then read The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith - Read The Basque History...

The gang recaps some stories and adventures from Thanksgiving. Hannah has been binging Attack on Titan season 2. Erin is having Dominion withdrawals. Ben is FINALLY on the Bake-Off train with the rest of us! HOMEWORK: - Don't visit CT rest stops - See Coco - Watch Attack on Titan on Hulu, Netflix, or vrv.co - Play Dominion! Also, get it for all of us for Christmas! - Watch The Great British Baking...

Happy Thanksgiving! Your co-hosts have been busy hanging with their family, but they did manage to capture some of that hang in audio form for your listening pleasure! Please enjoy (and please forgive our back-porch audio quality with random knocking and slamming noises!)

SPOILER WARNING : STRANGER THINGS DISCUSSION BETWEEN 25min33s-45min CONTENT WARNING : Lots of discussion about sexual harassers in entertainment/politics between 45min and 1h11min This week, we really live up to our name! Get ready for a spoilerful Stranger Things discussion, then a serious feminist rant session on sexual harrassment in American culture! Then, to clear your pallet and/or confuse y...

Hannah has been cheating on her wife in Stardew Valley. Erin has been filling a Bake-Off shaped hole in her life with the Family Cooking Showdown. Ben has been reading so much that it puts us all to shame. HOMEWORK: - Download Stardew Valley on Steam or Switch, you're gonna love it - Watch The Big Family Cooking Showdown on Netflix (And Ben- Watch The Great British Bake-Off) - Read Aldous Huxley's...

Ben loves Super Mario Odyssey so much that he's literally beaten it since we recorded this ep. Hannah couldn't talk about Stranger Things because her co-hosts are slow-watchers, so she talked about her first ever experience with VR using Google Cardboard! Erin has learned a lot from her loaf (and the internet) about sourdough starters this week! HOMEWORK: - Get a Switch and then get Super Mario Od...

SPOILERS AHOY! (See below for details) Wherein 9 (YES NINE) friends come together to discuss the most important question on the internet: Which are scarier? Ghosts or Zombies? Will the friends find common ground on this issue? Will they destroy their friendships by belittling each other's deepest fears (probably not)? Will somebody get wigged out and keep looking behind them DURING the recording?...

The Gang catches up on homework. Erin talks about the 2010 musical Venice. Ben recommends another thought-provoking book. Hannah brings the vibe way down by talking about how much she cried at Patton Oswalt's new special Annihilation. HOMEWORK: - Listen to the first 2 songs of Venice on Spotify (or at least song #2- Last Man) -  The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Read The Martian - Watch Black...

Hannah watched Over the Garden Wall for the first time this week! Erin watched Westworld for the first time this week! Ben is learning to organize computers!   HOMEWORK: - Watch Over the Garden Wall- 1st ep available on Youtube and the entire series is available on Hulu - Read Simone de Rochefort's Article  BEFORE you watch and Aliterator's Article AFTER you watch! - Watch Westworld on HBO Go/Now...

Ben has been enjoying Big Mouth, a Netflix animated show about puberty. Hannah loves puzzle games like Picross Mon because she hates paying attention to what she's watching on TV. Erin loves to be Spooked by Snap Judgment, even though she CAN'T believe in ghosts for her own sanity. HOMEWORK: - Watch Big Mouth on Netflix - Buy Almost Like Praying: Lin-Manuel Miranda's benefit song for Puerto Rico -...

Erin saw Rufus Wainwright live in concert this week! Ben weaned himself off of Hamilton by listening to In the Heights instead, and now he likes it better than Hamilton! Everybody gushes over Lin-Manuel Miranda's twitter and his work and his well-deserved success. Hannah describes a Japanese reality show which is so great that she had to push off recording by an hour to watch more of it.   HOMEWOR...

Hannah talks about personality tests and learns all about her co-hosts and their pets' personality types (they really talk about personality tests for quite a long time), Erin talks about her favorite author, and Ben nerds out big time over his senior project.    Other topics on the table: PUBG's fog mode, family inside jokes, self-administered haircuts, One Mississippi again, Hannah completely lo...

Ben and Hannah catch Erin up on their weekend, corrections from last week occur, TerminologIan, Ben tells about a favorite author, Hannah discusses her dreams for herself and other around podcasting (ear snacking,) Erin shares her appreciation for the work/life of Tig Notaro and for the state of lesbian art in general. HOMEWORK: - Read A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami - Start calling "podcast...

Erin shares her love for and frustration with lesbian movies, and what she did about it. Ben tells the tale of Four Horsemen in PUBG. Hannah relives some obscure TV music/feelings from the early 2000s.   HOMEWORK: - Follow @LesbianMovieReviews on Instagram - Watch "The Firefly" on Netflix - Visit Steam or twitch.tv to learn more about Playerunknown's Battlegrounds - Find music from Instant Star by...

Hannah talks about the McElroy Brothers and then never shuts up about podcasts ever again. Erin talks about stand-up comedy. Ben talks about a tabletop game called Resistance. Also on the table: weddings, sibling relationships, youtube, the now-defunct streaming platform Seeso. Ed. Note: This show was recorded before the demise of Seeso. The My Brother My Brother and Me TV show can now be found st...