Welcome back to the Satire Fire Stocking Stuffer Series, where each week we are bringing you a fun and casual holiday episode to help with that seasonal stress! This week we are playing a holiday movie game where Sydney and Samuel take turns guessing the plots of movies they haven't actually seen! Are we true media knowers, or just pretenders to the throne? What kind of comprehension skills do you need to host a book podcast? Do either of these movies even need to be seen? The only way to find out is by listening, and the only way to listen is by playing so go ahead and jump right in!

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It's the most Holiday time of the year, and The Satire Fire is here with a short holiday supplemental episode! Wait what's that? Sydney and Samuel got too caught up talking about their favorite books and accidentally recorded a full length supplemental? Well, 'tis the season of giving and here we are giving you a full hour of your favorite book podcast! For this first Stocking Stuffer we are talking about our personal 5 favorite books and who in your life they might be a good gift for. With books ranging from nonfiction memoirs to western epics, we have every reader on your list covered. Then join us again for next week's supplemental where we will be playing a holiday movie game!

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We are one last time venturing into the tunnels under your floorboards to figure out exactly what that guy living there is up to. This is the final episode of our series on Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and it is the one we have all been waiting for! In Part One we discussed the plot, in Part Two we examined the context, and here in Part Three we are finally analyzing! We discuss what the whole point of the book is, look at why Dostoevsky may have written it and what he was hoping to say with it, and also give our thoughts on it. Is the book any good? Is it making useful commentary? Does that dang Underground Man actually have a point? Find out all that and more in this week's episode!

Other stuff discussed this episode:

A People's History of the Unites States by Howard Zinn

Sydney's sick new lunch recipe

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