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S11E2 - A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Episode Notes
Juliet and Katherine propose a familiar (but not too familiar) categorization method for differentiating Jonases as they watch and discuss A Very Jonas Christmas Movie. Together they compare the life and performance of the Jonas Brothers to Borges' sense of alienation
S11E1 - Borges y Yo (Borges and I)
Episode Notes
In this episode, you can hear the Moonshot Network's own Riley Hopkins reading a Juliet L'mous translation of Jorge Luis Borges' short creative nonfiction, "Borges and I." The next two weeks, IBPFC will cover A Very Jonas Christmas Movie and the history of the "Three
S10E3 - Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
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
S10E2 - You've Got Mail
Pride & Prejudice & New York City
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!
S10E1 - Pride & Prejudice
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.
This Is How You Lose the Time War
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
The Knight Before Christmas
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.
Folgers Commercial (Frozen, Left Hand of Darkness)
The Social is Predicated on Its Exclusions
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
Frozen (The Left Hand of Darkness)
What Makes a Man a Traitor
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).
Princess Switch 3 (Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro)
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?