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  • Episode 133: Saturday Night

    Episode 133: Saturday Night
    2025/08/27
    In this episode we discuss the 2024 film Saturday Night. You can stream it on Netflix, or rent it on Amazon or Apple. Content warnings for strong language, fictionalized stories about still-living people, suspected AI bullshit summary, significant references to 70s-level drug use and purchases, references to early deaths of SNL cast members, Kat and Brendan’s complicated dance of dueling entertainment degrees, librarians being wrong, and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Lorne Michaels impersonations We reference or spoil: New Girl, ludonarrative consonance, Pepe Silvia (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), WPI‘s Interactive Media and Game Design program, Carnegie Mellon University‘s Entertainment Technology Center program, interest curves in game design, Magic and Showmanship by Henning Nelms, Memoirscape, IndieCade, Sam Reich (Dropout/Game Changer), the Not Ready for Prime Time Players, Muppets, Lorne Michaels and his role in current late night, home base (SNL), Saturday Night True Story: Why Was Milton Berle Banned From SNL?, Jim Belushi’s sketch form the 50th anniversary, Andy Kaufman’s Mighty Mouse routine, Ghostbusters, Dan Ackroyd’s vodka, comparison video between original cast auditions and movie cast, Defunctland’s “Disney’s Animatronics: A Living History”, polyamory, queer-platonic relationships, Arrested Development, Jon Baptiste’s soundtrack and audio design, Stranger Things, The Twilight Zone, and Black Mirror Also check out Kat’s The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine and Bren’s Select Start improv shows benefiting Arcade Comedy Theater. Kat also has a new short story out: “How to Win Against the Robots” on Lightspeed! Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and, if you’re so inclined, contribute to our Patreon. The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.The post Episode 133: Saturday Night first appeared on No Story Is Sacred.
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    1 時間 34 分
  • Episode 132: Readercon 33

    Episode 132: Readercon 33
    2024/09/25
    In this episode we hung out in the same room on the Saturday night of Readercon back in July! Content warnings for strong language and clinking glasses We reference or spoil: It Follows, Shirley Jackson Awards, Disclave, monster cereals, Hello From the Magic Tavern, Cocktail, Flaming Moe (The Simpsons), “AI: The Good Parts” (Readercon 33), “DDOS” (Readercon 32), Clarkesworld (blog post about spam submissions), Codecrafters, “First there was SkyKnit. Now there’s HAT3000“, CARP robot, What are AI chatbots actually doing when they ‘hallucinate’? Here’s why experts don’t like the term, Homer fading meme, Grandpa leaving meme, “AI: The Bad Parts” (Readercon 33), Bad Blood, The Circle of Magic, Jurassic Park, “Action Scenes” panel (Readercon 33), “I Don’t Know Why I’m On This Panel” (Readercon 33), “Responses to Omelas” (Readercon 33), “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin, Strange New Worlds episode “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach”, “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim, “Live Narration” (Readercon 33), John Mulaney “horse loose in the hospital“, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (as read by Danielle Cohen), Star Trek Discovery, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Encanto, “They’re Made Out of Corn“, “They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson, “DEMON FIGHTER SUCKS” by Katherine Crighton, “Archaeology in Reality and Speculative Fiction” (Readercon 33), “What to Do With Your 15 Minutes of Fame” (Readercon 33), Viable Paradise, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Mitchell and Webb “Rebecca” sketch, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Odds Bodkin’s The Odyssey, Hades II, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter, Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, The Rake and Reformer by Mary Jo Putney, Thunder and Roses by Mary Jo Putney, “sweet” romances, Brian David Gilbert’s “I wasted 3 weeks of my life finding Castlevania’s hottest monster“, “Battle of the Academy” (Readercon 33) Brendan is performing improv with his group Select Start at the Arcade Comedy Theater! Keep up with Kat on their website! Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and, if you’re so inclined, contribute to our Patreon. The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.The post Episode 132: Readercon 33 first appeared on No Story Is Sacred.
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    1 時間 19 分
  • Episode 131: Catching Up 2024

    Episode 131: Catching Up 2024
    2024/03/13
    In this episode we chat up and talk about what we’ve been reading and watching recently. Content warnings for strong language. We reference or spoil: Worcester Polytechnical Institute‘s IMGD program, The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell, No Story is Sacred episode “Writ of Attachment”, Taylor Swift, Swifties, Select Start instagram and Eras tour ad pics, Neil Gaiman‘s bluesky verification how-to, Travis Kelce, Jason Kelce, New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce, Reacher (tv), Rob Liefield’s Captain America, Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald Mageworlds series, Bullet Train (movie), Desperado, Shrek Bad Bunny SNL sketch, Mr and Mrs Smith (tv), Star Trek television universe (particularly Strange New Worlds, Discovery, The Original Series episode “Conscience of the King“, and Voyager episodes “Tuvix“, “The Thaw“, “Bride of Chaotica“, “Learning Curve“, “Macrocosm“, “Fair Haven“, and “Threshold“), Marvel Cinematic Universe (particularly Loki and WandaVision), Once Upon a Time, Lucifer (tv), Folger’s home for the holidays commercial, AO3 (Archive of Our Own), George Santos baby news, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Hhbomberguy’s “Plagiarism and You(tube)”, Hbomberguy’s “Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response”, Brian Deer’s The Doctor Who Fooled the World, 1600s household manuals, Libertarian Walks into a Bear, BBC production Going Postal, No Story is Sacred space ace detective episodes (“A Body in the Void”, “The Orphaned Light”, “A Night in the Orbital Museum”, and “Dead Man’s Hand”) Brendan is performing improv with his group Select Start at the Arcade Comedy Theater. Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and, if you’re so inclined, contribute to our Patreon. The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.The post Episode 131: Catching Up 2024 first appeared on No Story Is Sacred.
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    1 時間 21 分
  • Episode 130: Blow the Man Down

    Episode 130: Blow the Man Down
    2023/09/27
    In this episode we discuss the fake show Blow the Man Down. Content warnings for strong language, unreality (episode focuses on creation/discussion of media in an alternate reality), and references to child death (historical pirate John King). We reference or spoil: Our Flag Means Death seasons 1 and 2, No Story Is Sacred episode “Our Flag Means Death”, Blow the Man Down (television show referenced as part of alternate reality game of the same name; link goes to an “official” season 2 trailer), Javid Denkins (tumblr account), Stede Bonnet, Edward Teach, Olivier Lavasseur, Sam Bellamy, the golden age of piracy, Snapewives, What We Do In the Shadows (tv show), NSIS: “Wheel of Tropes”, Rule of Three, one of the BTMD rat memes, alternate reality game (ARG), a photograph of the TV Guide from the alternate reality where BTMD exists, “Blow the Man Down” (alternate universe Our Flag Means Death fanfic), tumblr user turq8‘s spreadsheet of collected BTMD information, “blow the man down / btmd” fanfiction collection on Archive of Our Own, NSIS: “Oracle@Sci-Fi”, Zheng Yi Sao, Goody Hallet (Witch of Wellfleet), “Witch of the Westmoreland” by Stan Rogers, The Haunting of Bly Manor, What We Do In the Shadows (movie), the Whydah Gally pirate wreck, Save the Cat, Kick the Dog, Leslie Fish‘s “Banned from Argo“, Doctor Who, X/1999, Wreck-It Ralph, pirate plot generator, crossing the line ceremonies, Javid Denkins interview, man-vs-man / man-vs-self / man-vs-nature arguments, rat kings, Charles Dickens‘s Oliver Twist, Anachronistic Orphanage, TV Tropes, Tough Guide to Fantasyland, bishie sparkle, sex pollen, William Shakespeare‘s Hamlet, WandaVision, Ship of Theseus, A Fish Called Wanda, The Prestige, NSIS: “A Body in the Void”, NSIS: “My Best Frenemy”, NSIS: “Prestibitchitation” Kat’s teaching writing again this fall; find out more on their website. They’ll also be presenting at Fan Studies North America in October. Brendan is performing improv with his group Select Start at the Arcade Comedy Theater. Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and, if you’re so inclined, contribute to our Patreon. The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.The post Episode 130: Blow the Man Down first appeared on No Story Is Sacred.
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    1 時間 26 分
  • Episode 129: Dead Man’s Hand

    Episode 129: Dead Man’s Hand
    2023/08/16
    After a long hiatus that we totally planned and wasn’t us failing to successfully arrange the schedules of four adults with lives, we return with an episode discussing an original story idea by Alex! Another in his series of Space Ace Detective stories. Content warnings for strong language, bad casino puns, a passing reference to grief, bad New England accents, and us loudly talking about how we’re in season two now and that’s why we were on such a long hiatus. We reference or spoil: No Story is Sacred episode “George of the Jungle”, Tarzan, general heist tropes, “Shots!” by LMAFO, “Banned from Argo” by Leslie Fish, No Story is Sacred episode “A Body in the Void”, Prosopagnosia, No Story is Sacred episode “Presibitchitation”, 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Superfight, No Story is Sacred episode “The Orphaned Light”, Mystic Seaport, No Story is Sacred episode “Night at the Orbital Museum”, Max Headroom, “Sometime Around Midnight” by The Airborne Toxic Event, The Emu War, Kathy Bates, Kathryn Hahn, Saw, 2001: A Space Odyssey, ChatGPT, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Parks and Rec, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Sailor Moon, The three-body problem (math), The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin, two body problem, Good Will Hunting, Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty, play fair mystery, Ocean’s Eleven, Steven Soderbergh, Cowboy Bebop, Penn and Teller, electromagnetic pulse, The Magic Castle, hand of glory, Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes, and Readercon. Kat’s teaching writing again this fall; find out more on their website. Brendan is performing improv with his group Select Start at the Arcade Comedy Theater. Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and, if you’re so inclined, contribute to our Patreon. The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.The post Episode 129: Dead Man’s Hand first appeared on No Story Is Sacred.
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    1 時間 11 分
  • Episode 128: George of the Jungle (1997)

    Episode 128: George of the Jungle (1997)
    2023/02/15

    In this episode we discuss the 1997 film George of the Jungle. You can stream it on Disney+, or rent it on Amazon or YouTube.

    Content warnings for strong language, discussion of abusive relationships, unhealthy eating, toxic masculinity, randomly insulting the name “Brandon”, and Pippin insisting that George is her babygirl

    We reference or spoil: the Tarzan books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jane Goodall, parody movies such as Epic Movie, capuchin monkey, Into the Woods, Brendan Fraser, Hugh Jackman, how Hugh Jackman is presented on men vs. women’s magazines, Disney’s Tarzan, the idea of Disney priming audiences for upcoming movies before they’re announced, “Dela” by Johnny Clegg, Armani clothes, Clueless, Air Jordans, The Lion King, “My Way” song, Jonah Hill’s advice to Channing Tatum about how to act in a comedy, “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze” song, Eat, Pray, Love, Nicholas Sparks, and the Star Trek episodes “Ship in a Bottle”, “Wolf in the Fold”, and “A Piece of the Action”

    Also check out Kat’s The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine and Bren’s Select Start improv shows benefiting Arcade Comedy Theater. Also, we’ll all be at Boskone 60 this month! Come say hi if you’ll be there!

    Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and, if you’re so inclined, contribute to our Patreon.

    The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.

    The post Episode 128: George of the Jungle (1997) first appeared on No Story Is Sacred.
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    1 時間 15 分
  • Episode 127: Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

    Episode 127: Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
    2023/02/01
    In this episode we discuss the 2001 film Ocean’s Eleven. You can rent it from Amazon, YouTube, or iTunes. Content warnings for strong language, casual crime, discussions of the patriarchy, being mean to Kat right off the bat, and Kat taking that as a challenge We reference or spoil: Ocean’s 11 (1960), Bernie Mac, cockney rhyming slang, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Elvis music (specifically “A Little Less Conversation”), X-Files episode “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space”, Dawson’s Creek, One Tree Hill, Party of Five, That 70’s Show, That 90’s Show, That 80’s Show, Pacific Rim, Friends, The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, Glass Onion, Grand Theft Auto, Persona 5, ADHD, “Sexy Lamp” test, John Mulaney’s Ocean’s Eleven bit, She’s All That, “You construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men”, “The ‘Feminized Society’ Myth”, Our Flag Means Death, Taskmaster New Zealand “best stolen thing”, Leverage, tarot, Dune by Frank Herbert, Critical Role, No Story is Sacred episode “A Space Heist”, NSIS episode “A Body in the Void”, Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, Terry Pratchett’s Making Money and Hogfather, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Ocean’s Eight, and The Muppets Also check out Kat’s The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine and Bren’s Select Start improv shows benefiting Arcade Comedy Theater. Also, we’ll all be at Boskone 60 this month! Come say hi if you’ll be there! Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and, if you’re so inclined, contribute to our Patreon. The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.The post Episode 127: Ocean’s Eleven (2001) first appeared on No Story Is Sacred.
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    1 時間 32 分
  • Episode 126: Oracle @ SciFi – Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

    Episode 126: Oracle @ SciFi – Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
    2023/01/25

    In this episode we discuss the upcoming video game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

    Content warnings for strong language, mentions of borderline beastiality (between a human and a humanoid fish), time travel, and theorizing with absolutely no information.

    We reference or spoil: The Legend of Zelda franchise as a whole, Howl’s Moving Castle, Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke, Angel the Series episode “Dead End”, Steven Universe “Here Comes a Thought”, Mobile Fighter G Gundam, the ouroboros, The Princess Bride, The Shape of Water, Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “Once More with Feeling”, and Ancient Aliens

    Also check out Kat’s The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine and Bren’s Select Start improv shows benefiting Arcade Comedy Theater. Knight’s Wyrd by our parents Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald comes out August 22rd.

    Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and, if you’re so inclined, contribute to our Patreon.

    The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.

    The post Episode 126: Oracle @ SciFi – Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom first appeared on No Story Is Sacred.
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    57 分