Anime Is For Jerks

Discussed: this show sucks, midgar (i cut a tangent about barrett calling midgar a rotten pizza in the japanese version of ffvii, if you want that content go watch Let's Mosey: A Slow Translation of Final Fantasy VII by Tim Rogers) , the finger on the monkey's paw, bobs big boy burbank, mf said skonk, a graph theory themed fertility tattoo, extreme looney tunes shit, xkcd 483: Fiction Rule of Thumb, the second matrix sequel, the cursed horny, fucking yourself to death via inflation, fucking yourself to death being a crime, big titty goth gf memory smuggler, azumanga daioh, releasing your  brain eggs into the hypersphere, a smoking baby in a tall robot, Just A Baby by Neil Cicierega, how penises work, hundreds of tiny robot dogs, t-posing to assert dominance, who in this show invests in crypto, bioshock infinite, "me: i am fundementally opposed to the monarchy and the church as ruling powers. history is a record of their atrocities" by @headfallsoff

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 0/5

Fellowship: 0/5

Deliciousness: 0/5

Transcendence: 0/5

Goofing: 0/5

Amelioration: 0/5

Coitus: 0/5

Enthrallment: 0/5

Fuck You: 0/5

Eat Shit: 0/5

Alex's Book Recommendation:  Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Cass's Book Recommendation: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Discussed: friend of the show takeshi koike, the sensuality of monkey punch, the dizzy dizzy drug, the giant buddha statue made out of drugs in the basement, the cat pronoun, that picture of john lennon, goemon baths, unmotivated camera movement, getting a real girlfriend, bees, magnum dong, crossdressing: it's free and the cops can't stop you, fiadel kestrel, antiques roadshow, @dril "THERAPIST: your problem is, that youre perfect, and everyone is jealous of your good posts, and that makes you rightfully upset. ME: I agree", lupin's interiority, doing a terrorist attack to get dick, one half of a split fucking second, withered wojack, three years of this podcast

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 4/5

Fellowship: 2/5

Deliciousness: 1/5

Transcendence: 3/5

Goofing: 3/5

Amelioration: 4/5

Coitus: 3/5

Enthrallment: 3/5

Owls: 5/5

Boobs: 5/5

Alex's Book Recommendation:  Pity the Beast by Robin McLean

Cass's Book Recommendation: The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould

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Discussed: the netflix live action cowboy bebop, @TomatoGrandpa: "Reading the Bebop reviews and yea,  this is exactly what I expected.", "Why Does Everyone In Netflix's Cowboy Bebop Talk Like That?" by Gita Jackson, @NotBrunoAgain: "This is bait but whatever: the truly stupid thing about this attitude is that there is a CEASELESS TORRENT OF GREAT ART you could be enjoying instead, more than you could ever possibly get to", relentless american cultural hegemony,  "The Genius Design of Cowboy Bebop's Titles" by Linus Boman, "Martin Scorsese - The Art of Silence" by Every Frame A Painting, the knife's edge of being stupid, Dirt on the Camera Lens by Mike Rugnetta, faye's outfit, the conceptual definition of the himbo, the boob situation, the great gatsby, tokyo godfathers, The Gun That Makes You Old, touching computer, a gay alien, 17776 by Jon Bois, leaving things in the fridge, gender, star wars, spike's big coat, jet's cop outfit, what guys looked like in the 70s, beta and vhs, LET'S GO TO HELL!!!, the space shuttle columbia, a perfectly spherical dinner suit, the clown as the very image of christ, the young men's cowboy association, "A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is '100 percent fatal'", Marshall Banana, eating two dozen hard boiled eggs with your bro, the loser bar, Uzumaki, Dragon Quest XI: The Kotaku Review, ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS The Final Fantasy VII Remake

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 5/5

Fellowship: 5/5

Deliciousness: 3/5

Transcendence: 5/5

Goofing: 5/5

Amelioration: 4/5

Coitus: 1/5

Enthrallment: 5/5

Cyberpunkness: 5/5

Cats: 4/5

Alex's Book Recommendation:  She Rises by Kate Worsley

Cass's Book Recommendation: Babel-17/Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany

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FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 5/5

Fellowship: 4/5

Deliciousness: 1/5

Transcendence: 0/5

Goofing: 4/5

Amelioration: 2/5

Coitus: 0/5

Enthrallment: 0/5

Winter Vibes: 4/5

ACAB: 1/5

Alex's Book Recommendation: Tiny Pieces of Skull by Roz Kaveney

Cass's Book Recommendation: The Anime Machine by Thomas Lamarre

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Discussed: pure vibes performance, being pressured to watch something for a podcast, a newgrounds meet 'n' fuck game, @mcclure111: "There are certain kinds of visual-- mostly things involving small dots, dithering, complex patterns-- that the video codecs we've adopted everywhere are just plain bad at representing. Without any conversation, we've culturally decided those types of art will simply not exist", "Why Snow and Confetti Ruin YouTube Video Quality" by Tom Scott, the mononoke wikipedia article, impossible geometry, being trapped in a room with a bunch of spirits who have strong feelings about abortion, giving birth to who knows how many ghosts, turning into dust, being cleansed of your sins by an evil cat, a weird fish with a shamisen, paul rudd's computer, boat ufos, who hasn't been dead the whole time, the interpretive equivalent of that bit from wallance and gromit where gromit is laying the train tracks down in front of him, a 30 episode shonen sports anime about the world of competitive incense smelling, the three japanese arts of refinement, genjiko, taikyoku shogi, swooping owl, cat sword, evil wolf, blind dog, flying horse, poisonous snake, wrestler, pig general, reverse chariot, mountain witch, gliding swallow, vertical horse, left dog, right dog, a piece of wood that grants you power, braktheman, the oldest elementary schooler in history of the world, more being worse when it comes to coitus, revisiting utena's (and our) problems with race, "Disturbing, Traversing, Borderless, Shaking Sexuality: The Place where Revolutionary Girl Utena was Born"

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 2/5

Fellowship: 1/5

Deliciousness: 0/5

Transcendence: 5/5

Goofing: 2/5

Amelioration: 5/5

Coitus: 1/5

Enthrallment: 5/5

Alex's Book Recommendation: The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore

Cass's Book Recommendation: Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

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Discussed: why we are watching this instead of tokyo godfathers, nausea of the soul, a movie about how you should stop watching anime, a glossy jpeg of paris tinted red, Michael Bay - What is Bayhem by Every Frame a Painting, おっぱいメガネ, chapter 5 of kentucky route zero, why there are brands after the apocalypse, i have nipples greg can you milk me, trying mindfulness, the hedgehog's dilemma, shinji's iconic walkman, a dad is a cop with laser eyes, demi adejuyigbe's ready player one theme song, dudes named ryoji, exposition, gyarus after the apocalypse, nice face for a clown, getting a haircut in a squash court, the chamber of guf, the thirteenth man-made ultimate multipurpose humanoid decisive weapon, using the key of nebuchadnezzar and abandoning your humanity, Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Had A Great One-Liner, sunny-place, an eva that is both imaginary and fictional, Têtes à claques, man pain, being a wife guy to such a degree you have to destroy the world, being fine, destroying evangelion, touching grass

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 0/5

Fellowship: 0/5

Deliciousness: 0/5

Transcendence: 0/5

Goofing: 0/5

Amelioration: 0/5

Coitus: 0/5

Enthrallment: 0/5

Alex's Book Recommendation: Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

Cass's Book Recommendation: The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa

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Discussed: job john, bathing is counterrevolutionary, chads on both sides, sitting in a dive bar drinking whiskey in a white linen suit for several months, donkey kong forward aerial, "witness the fate of a soldier!" i throw one leg out and fall on my ass. it's not clear what kind of move i was trying to do, naked snake, venom snake, someone finally bought a copy of your book, sir!, seaplane fishermen(?), flanagan boone and his mad angler squadron, the world being this awful forever, capybaras, my "they told me i'm physically healthy and mentally sound" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt, delicious juice, anomalously pointy teeth, shower with the lads simulator 2016: do you still shower with the lads, rick doms, fuckdads.com, getting zodiac'd, the aviator, show me all the gundams, char aznable steely dan amv, fancy baroque ladies, a big football with legs, A Planet For Texans, jerking off a weird crystal bong, adolf hitler, buttsham, tricorn hat, brain moment, the light of hatred, hitler and proud of it, gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss, the mask stays on during sex, the nine delights, estonian military rations

FINAL SCORES:

Walking Around: 4/5

Fellowship: 5/5

Deliciousness: 0/5

Transcendence: 3/5

Goofing: 2/5

Amelioration: 1/5

Coitus: 0/5

Enthrallment: 3/5

*WILDCARD* Cool Robot: 3/5

*WILDCARD* Gay Shit: 2/5

Alex's Book Recommendation: Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré

Cass's Book Recommendation: City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis

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Discussed:  getting in the gundam, why anime is like this, seinfeld, the history of giant robot shows, super robot, real robot, malthusian overpopulation, the population bomb, o'neill cylinder, fraw bow, Turn A Gundam, sweatson stero, merrybell gadget, agrippa maintainer, cancer kafka, meme midgard, bobson dugnutt, the great gundam project, minovsky physics, tiny little angels, the tommy westphall universe, minkowski sausage, a harrowing window, grape ape, wow cool robot, sunshine ages, sayla sus, g-forces, g-trousers, the type of guy who wears a suit to school,  Gundam's Yoshiyuki Tomino Reminds Us All That Char Definitely Has Sex, dick extended universe, new yark, being calm, dave lang, lavish french rococo ballrooms, r/malelivingspace, going back in time to play ruff ryders anthem for teddy roosevelt, antebellum lawyer char, fortunate son, your only crime was violating us law, doing sidequests, tom bombadil, mobile suit martial arts, the scent of battle, seeing a bra for the first time in your entire life, your responsibility as an adult being to pilot a giant robot, the kind of face mask that screams "i have an onlyfans", witness the fate of a soldier! i jump out of the white base and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement, good quality and competitive price

Alex's Book Recommendation: Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Cass's Book Recommendation: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion  by Yukio Mishima

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Discussed:  the least interesting thing we have ever seen masaaki yuasa be involved in, yo-kai watch the movie, masaaki yuasa heard you talkin shit like he wouldn't find out, the fancy milk they sell at the laundromat, that meme with the guy talking to the lady at the baseball game here demonstrated by twitter user northernlion, our orders are to keep you from joining the anime club, a healthy marriage, the leon the professional extended universe, producing garbage and making people miserable, the word 映像研, knowing enough japanese to be dangerous, the honorific "氏", The Anime Club by KC Green, a moment of silence for our comrade the 30000 yen, two bottles of milk, seven croquettes, one red bean bun with smooth paste, big smoke's order, david mamet again, shirobako, the carbohydrates revolution group, the only way in which this show is like carole and tuesday, ira glass, dying in front of your television, 30 minutes of wow cool robot, using the word "simp" for the second episode in a row, robot crime, crabtle, the oatmeal dot com, greatest strongest robot song, akihabara culture and fermented foods advocacy club, drone photography club, messenger pigeon club, man faced fish investigation lab, hundred eye demon, the least erotic bathhouse scene in the history of anime, the HVAC club, sepak takraw, witnessing the death of a liquor store, fretting your weird head off, having a vision of a sauna floating in outer space, education, marathons, future, e-mail, cryptocurrency, abusive workplaces, trash, don't rock the boat thinking, ransom, PTA, camraderie, cancel culture, overachievers, cyber education, monster parents, mom friends, gender, poaching (cooking), poaching (killing), Otaku: Japan's Database Animals, The Anime Machine

Alex's Book Recommendation: The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

Cass's Book Recommendation: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

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Discussed: maximum hangoutitude, air piracy, the mama mia auto gang, the Rubacava section of Grim Fandango, Casablanca, in love with the pig, awooga, air pirate wrestling promo, pure professional wrestling, everybody wants to fuck the pig, a pig's gotta fly, Piccolo Day, Eagleland, a sexist pig, you need sleep to do good work, better a pig than a fascist, desertion, treason, pornography, being a lazy pig, laws don't apply to pigs, an insult to life itself, Goro Miyazaki, The Earthsea Cycle, chekhov's ass, Redline, David Mamet, why they call it money, the frenchest looking man of all time, simping, "I'm Waiting For The Pig" by the Velvet Underground, Hayao Miyazaki invented Twitch chat in 1992, The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, no moral, Beauty and the Beast, Zootopia, dogecoin

Alex's Book Recommendation: Cassandra by Christa Wolf

Cass's Book Recommendation: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

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Discussed: the last film we both hated, this movie is the fast and the furious, the absurdly long plot synopsis of this movie on wikipedia, funky boy, a chocolate cake with a steak inside it, an extremely pedantic complaint about internal combustion engines, Wipeout 2097, F-Zero, wishing this movie was a video game, yanki paul walker, "roboworld", febreeze, getting eaten out by dr zoidberg, getting damseled, riverdale, topless for no reason, bimbos in fur coats, basically jackin off, @thomas_violence:  "the year is 3403 AD, crime is legal and cop's are illegal, only one man is willing to break the law to make the law legal again: Crimecop", funky boy's gone rogue, funky boy is illegal, funky kong, divorced energy, we can't let funky boy destroy roboworld, the platinum nitro charge, the most coked out motherfuckers you've ever seen, the weird donald trump rat man from akira, no rules just right redline, edward scissorhands film analysis, jon hendren on HLN, attack emails off the shoulder of orion

Alex's Book Recommendation: Corregidora by Gayl Jones

Cass's Book Recommendation: Mort by Terry Pratchett

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Discussed: this show is secretly a sports anime, ass-first introduction, divorcee horny, The Male Gaze, blasting cum onto your ceiling, FLCL, boobs in the thumbnail, ecstacy, stabbin motherfuckers, watching porn in the auditorium, gay little weirdos, buckminster fuller, involuntary rapping, dying to slam a demon, blasting porn at the track meet, drug lady, an extended rap about the circumstances,  locke and demosthenes, the departed, 気持ち悪い, murakami for lesbians, The Shape of Infinity by Jacob Geller

Alex's Book Recommendation: Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

Cass's Book Recommendation: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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Discussed: 24 episodes of boring, Whiplash (as reviewed by a jazz musician) by Adam Neely, this is a sports anime, mars republican convention, thundercat, charlie puth, 21 savage, lil uzi vert, denzel curry, mars ICE, fka twigs, a softer world 478, mononymous pop stars, BoJack Horseman, tfw your ai manager runs off with your cryptocurrency, nord electric pianos, Making a NEVER-ENDING Neural Net Bass Solo  by Adam Neely, Instagram, Wikipedia, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, South by Southwest, The Mars Grammys, FOXDIE, martian holidays, "weather plant", the welcome to city 17 m&m in times square, the Mountain Goats, it's not funny Denzel Currys only write bars this bad when they're VERY DISTRESSED, FDT by YG, Alright by Kendrick Lamar, Thank You For Using GTL by Drakeo the Ruler, making up a new type of guy, the pentagon papers, stay salty gamers, mars Joe Rogan, Live Aid, We Are The World

Alex's Book Recommendation:  Possession by A.S. Byatt

Cass's Book Recommendation: What Terrorists Want by Louise Richardson

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Discussed: cass and alex both liked a show for once, oh he gaming, game boy advance, neo geo pocket color (which are not black, cass was thinking of the neo geo pocket and the regular neo geo), milk gives you diabetes?, bread makes you fat?, being a connoisseur of trash, the true heady pleasure of the 100-yen bar, pips-in rubber on both sides, pips out,the defensive backspin counterpart to the offensive loop drive, what table tennis and english vocabulary have in common, let's fuckin, northernlion, buff northernlion, the virgin northernlion vs the chad northernlion, no game no life,high school DxD, code geass, a league of their own, extreme ping-pong paddle closeups, @ja2ke: "I have no memory of writing this, but there it is, in the game data.", depressing christmas montage, Spelunky 2, hundun, wonton, the undifferentiated soup of primordial chaos, 17776 by Jon Bois, it's dangerous to swim with your clothes on, that man's name? albert einstein, a 16-year-old capricorn with type-O blood, big brain hours, me absolutely twisted coming home with four ping pong robots,me waking up the next day with a room full of ping pong robots, don quijote, big steppy, table tennis is a freaking blast, english loanwords, complaining about everything being the same, 428 Shibuya Scramble, Pathologic 2, Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass, Deadly Premonition, Ode To A Moon, just hit the ball 4head, a miserable city lesbian

Alex's Book Recommendation:  Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw

Cass's Book Recommendation: Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash

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Discussed: the saddest movie of all time, september 21st 1945, mom's dead parkour, lazy slut, if it sucks, hit da bricks, the one good cop, the world's worst funeral practicioner, "there is no such thing as an anti-war film", "The unsung genius of Studio Ghibli’s risk-taking realist, Isao Takahata", ping-pong spreadsheet, frege in space

Alex's Book Recommendation:  Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Cass's Book Recommendation: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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Discussed: dan savage, whether the opening theme to this anime is good, Run Away With Me by Carly Rae Jepsen, nice bird, bird friend, bird fucker, macbeth, the lowest key fish person, kekekekekeke, horny bandits, the reverse persephone, free rat, oshizu did nothing wrong, *looks at kaliedoscope* god i wish that were me, ringu, Iemon, Lemon, Othello, Richard III, Throne of Blood, ghost hands, thinking that you've been killed by bandits, edutainment, the scottish play, mackers, feminist beowulf, seinfeld, medicine seller i am going into battle and i need only your strongest medicines, a drawer full of pornography, death: the final chill, Emily Wilson on the impossibility of translating Homer into English

Alex's Book Recommendation: Alcestis by Katharine Beutner

Cass's Book Recommendation: The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson

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Discussed: The Gang Forms A Polycule, jazz, catholicism, 1960s japan, a spasm of chivalry, the beginning of a beautiful friendship, homoeroticism, how kyūshū girls behave, intense jazz drumming, upright bass, full ragtime, donkey kong getting pogged out of his gourd, a pigeon with a first and a last name, you don't deserve this giant onigiri, winter temperatures in kyūshū, love triangle, love heptagon, love snake, sadly looking at onigiri, making girls cry, my [16M] mom [48F] hooked up with the drummer in my jazz band [16M], making like a tree and getting out of here, clamming, dying on the cross,  the fantasy of a jazz nerd, 1968 and the Japanese Student Movement,  a spiral directly into the toilet, Junichi Katsuragi Scissors Truther Minute, yeet, teey, visiting someone while they're sick, the jazz wars, You Must Believe In Spring by Bill Evans, alex abandons cass in their time of need, Keanu Reeves, blood quanta, Light in August by William Faulkner

Alex's Book Recommendation: Passing by Nella Larsen

Cass's Book Recommendation: Twentieth-Century Harmony by Vincent Persichetti

Cass said they would provide links to their favorite recordings of the jazz standards from the episode titles so:

• Moanin'
• Summertime
• Someday My Prince Will Come
• But Not For Me
• Lullaby of Birdland
• You Don't Know What Love Is
• Now's The Time
• These Foolish Things
• Love Me Or Leave Me
• In A Sentimental Mood
• Left Alone
• All Blues

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Discussed: alex has been hoisted, the exact definition of ghost riding, Empty Movement, expressing that akio is an adult, buying coffins in bulk, the biggest fucking mood of all time, making it naughtier, nine billion fold homoeroticism, taking horny pics with the bros, in bed shirtless with the bros, gondola, cable car, aerial tramway, aerial lift, cass was bumping their desk and they tried so hard to make the sound go away in post with filters and multiband compression but it just didn't work so sorry, this show has a bit of a problem with race, The Egg Episode, The Godfather, egg jail, Most Likely to Bowl Award, tradcath touga, having an egg fry by yourself in the middle of the woods, "eggs are normally something you eat", gay bed, gene, meme, scene, ligma, badminton content, candles, phallic symbol, anime feet dot blogspot dot com, big titty goth milf, spoon bending, horatio, hot boys are assholes, kare kano, something eternal, nihilism, absolutely inexplicable that we did not bring up kirkegaard at any point in this episode,what's up doc, a pincer attack on her feminine sensibilities,  living in a society, the world is a vampire, saionji t-posing to assert dominance, allegory, allegorier, allegoriest, hermaphroditism, tradcath akio, pretending to care about stars to pick up chicks, canned coelecanth, memory as a kind of immortality, Pathologic 2, The Bob Emergency by Jon Bois, Bob Cyclone, Bob Bob, Sophocles, 17776 by Jon Bois, Buddhism, impermanence, Utena as a bodhisattva, THE MILLION SWORDS WHICH SHINE WITH HUMAN HATRED, The Matrix Reloaded, disappearing when you can't pay your debts back, Linda, Christy, Sven, Japanese Student Movement, the difference between romance and romantic, a girl venturing into the world, different ways of conceputalizing revolution, Shit Life Syndrome, utena as a bernie bro, the folly of digital effects in contemporary anime, Every Frame A Painting - What Is Bayhem?, trying too hard to look like a lesbian, jumping out of the window because you can't find your car keys, if it sucks hit da bricks, Initial D, assuming you're the only one who can turn into a car, the power of friendship, bone wizards in the future, the most wonderful novels written by dan brown

Alex's Book Recommendation: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Cass's Book Recommendation: Little Fish by Casey Plett

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Alex's Book Recommendation: All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir

Cass's Book Recommendation: Into The Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade

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Discussed: emphasizing the comedy and not the romance, Japanese test taking culture, Cass doesn't understand the stakes of this show, wearing sweatpants at home as a character flaw, the false self, the true self, embracing your asshole, Brahms, wish fulfillment, tragic backstory, J.D. Salinger, hitting a rock on your skateboard, my name is Inigo Montoya, you stole my boyfriend, prepare to die, weird high school girl council hivemind, giving a thousand paper cranes to your girlfriend's boyfriend, stanning a short king,  oh my god that is the worst possible answer in the universe, twilight, cw for sexual assault discussion from 55:00 to 60:00, "20 Years Of Kare Kano" by Cailtlin Moore from ANN, "My Fave Is Problematic: Kare Kano" by Jacqueline-Elizabeth Cottrell from Anime Feminist, Polyphemus' bed, a play about androids on the moon or whatever, having no talents whatsoever, pokemon shock, thinking you're the only one who can turn into a car

Alex's Book Recommendation: A Place Of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

Cass's Book Recommendation: The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale (get the ebook for free from the publisher!)

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Discussed: facing the firing squad, Alex Did Not Like This Movie, The Book Of Henry, a nerdy fourth grader with a harem, Alex And Cass Actually Yell At Each Other and Get Into A For Real Fight, Alex And Cass Consider Not Doing The Podcast After All, Andre Breton, heterosexual romance, the end of Parasite (no spoilers), The Ghost of Anime Past, defensive pessimism, defensive optimism, "i don't hate children! i don't hate children!" alex continues to insist as she slowly shrinks and transforms into a corn cob, That Fucking Social Link In Persona 3 Where That Teenager Wants To Fuck His Teacher, wish fulfillment, Bridge to Terabithia, metaphysical ambitions, ahoge, earthbound dad, Haruki Murakami, Cass realizes that it's more than an hour into the podcast and they haven't even begun to summarize the plot,the very very old Ashens POP Station video, "Seaside Town" by Baths, The Evangelion Extended Universe, Kiki's Delivery Service, Chrono Cross, kids who wore a suit to school, fedoras, people wearing zoot suits and chain wallets in the 90s, the 90s swing revival, the terrible Baz Luhrmann Great Gatsby, how Penguin Highway compares to other racing anime, Free!, Haikyuu!!, Hanebado!, Ping Pong: The Animation, don't make video games, Bertrand Russell, Paul Feyerabend, epistemological anarchism, Cantor's Diagonal Argument (great explanation by vi hart), What The Tortoise Said To Achilles by Lewis Carroll, David Lewis, Ludwig Wittegenstein, Cass left in the long deliberation about what to watch next month because they just don't care anymore, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Cass's book recommendation: The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood

Alex's book recommendation: The Plague by Albert Camus

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Discussed: an elementary school book report, useless dads, hating these people and their beautiful house, shitty Totoro, being born, a dog with the face of a man, an extremely long very stupid conversation about what we would do if one of our nonexistent children tried to kill another one of our nonexistent children,  celebrating girls, marriage prophecy, the temporal metaphysics of what happens if you don't put away the Girls' Day dolls on time, gremlins,  the mystical forces which govern the gremlins, particle man, dad ass, a spectre haunting japan, the spectre of Evangelion, the Evangelion extended universe,  The Catcher in the Rye, sengouku jidai, bill wurtz history of japan, jello cake that looks like a minimalist Dutch sculpture from the thirties,  rainbow jello vodka cake, stained glass jello cake, anime is for jerks bake-off, skirt-chasing American bimbos, the yellow pants we've been alluding to,  what's more important, your pants or happy memories, Scott Benson ass lost and found man, the Wallace and Gromit short "A Grand Day Out",  The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System, Lonely Land, The Hell Machine For Killing All Human Beings, The Book of Disquiet, imagining your own burial

Cass's book recommendation: The Trouble With Being Born by Emil Cioran

Alex's book recommendation: The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gómez

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Cass's book recommendation: Angels in America by Tony Kushner (Millennium Approaches, Perestroika)

Alex's book recommendation: Unclay by T.F. Powys

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Discussed: Cass watched the matrix for the first time ever, Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard, is the matrix actually a smart movie or a dumb movie, The Matrix Is Not Actually About What If We All Live In A Computer Simulation, TV and the nuclear being of the same nature, Marshall McLuhan, "Minisode - The Medium is the Message" by Dan Olson, Marshall McLuhan's hot and cold media, Cass trying and failing to summarize Baudrillard, "HyperNormalisation" by Adam Curtis, Cass trying to and more successfully summarizing The Matrix, the red pill, blondes, brunettes, redheads, dying in the matrix, dying in real life, ejecting a flash drive, They Live, Fight Club, a clear indictment of everything that Brad Pitt stands for, American History X, the sad filmography of Jim Uhls, The Three Kinds of 90s, Kevin Smith Big Jorts, "Do You Want to Believe?" by PBS Idea Channel, the reason why you're miserable, "Capitalist Realism" by Mark Fisher, Cass Completely Loses Their Train of Thought,  Ben Pack's tweet about The Matrix, Cass completely loses the plot of the podcast and talks about Hypermarket and Hypercommodity for way too long, the Oculus, Hudson Yards, Actually Talking About The Animatrix Fully An Hour And Ten Minutes Into This Podcast, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Code Lyoko, SHOW US MORPHEUS' DICK RIGHT NOW, getting a boner in the construct, Enter The Matrix, The Matrix Online, "Endurance Run: The Matrix Online: Not Like This", canon is an abyss, lore is terrible and must be destroyed, robot israel, The Young Pope, the kessel run, Star Wars prequel defenders, Karl Popper, gross muscles,  jumping off the roof to self-actualize, oh lawd he comin, too old for this shit, teaching robots about humanity using Kanye West and Jay-Z's "Watch the Throne", alexa, pull my consciousness into your hardware, going back in time to smash the utah teapot

Alex's book recommendation: Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler

Cass's book recommendation: Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

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Cass's book recommendation: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Alex's book recommendation: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris

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Cass's book recommendation: Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein

Alex's book recommendation: The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Discussed: the most difficult thing you can do for love, secret mormon underwear, medieval japanese pornography, the FBI (female body inspectors), sophists, the volatile utopian koi farm market, being nude from the waist down, being nude save for a cowboy hat, being nude save for a cowboy hat and socks, Ra Ta Ta Tam by Peter Nickl, Rug Quest 2019, a pizza hut lamp smashed to pieces in a green plastic bag, The God Of The Used Book Market, demanding reparations, ice kotatsu, spicy food, geurilla theatre, The Swift-Footed Kotatsu, Don Underwear Must Not Take The Stage At All Costs, noted crossdressing idol "Wax House, Baby", hot orangie, the ultimate himbo, glomping, the manic pixie dream girl, the lego cowboys in your dick, incels, emotional labor

Cass's book recommendation: If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino

Alex's book recommendation(s): The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck, Life after Life by Kate Atkinson

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Alex's book recommendation: The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell

Cass's book recommendation: Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather

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Discussed: an emotionless husk of a human being, Tetris the Grandmaster 3: Terror-Instinct, inside baseball mahjong jokes, Chekhov's envelope full of ¥1,000,000, the economics of buying a business class ticket from singapore to australia, how you can just go to antarctica, japanese fascism, twee, being terrified of teenagers, the power of fwiendship, #IFollowEveryoneWhoFollowsMe, durian jokes, the government being stupid, seeing an anime opening so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep, "Fledgling" by Octavia E. Butler, a place further than the universe as a stealth prequel to neon genesis evangelion, huffing and puffing on the treadmill, the jurassic park theme, the true meaning of christmas, please explain mahjong to us, Limmy's Show - "Water", cutting your hair as a metaphor, the babe ruth of antarctica, the anime penguin cinematic unvierse, anime openings is the same, the antarctica, lo-fi hip hop beats to study and relax to (cass was wrong about this btw, the gif on the chilledcow stream is not from wolf children)

Alex's book recommendation: The Big Bang Symphony by Lucy Jane Bledsoe.

Cass's book recommendation: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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Discussed: Bad synchronization, Hideaki Anno's vendetta against otaku, being put in a lake, Bakelite, genericized trademarks, making out with a 14-year old and then exploding, having mama with you, hoping the entire world will be destroyed so you don't have to make a decision, late 90s alternate universe nicktoon staring Kensuke and Toji, Chekhov's lance, wallowing over men, sucking his hand clean off, the Michelin man, weird Kabbalah shit I don't understand, being chewed out by every woman you've ever met,  melting into Tang, the Chamber of Guf, virtue signalling, The End of Evangelion and the Audience-Author Membrane by Dan Olson, Futura Free by Frank Ocean, Friends at the Table, SSSS.Gridman, Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo, the live action content we've been craving, The End of The End of Evangelion, why people hate this movie, homeless shinji, 3d animation,  gamer catgirl, Animal Collective, Neutral Milk Hotel, Phil Elverum, being mocked for your small areolas, the wisdom of Kaji, watering your crops in the geo-front, going berzerk, plonking on the ivories with your boyfriend, the #resistance, what if the monolith from 2001 was a gaming computer, taking in lore, No More Birthdays by Sound Team

Alex's book recommendation: Slow River by Nicola Griffith

Cass's book recommendation: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

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• "Neverending Evangelion:  How Hideaki Anno turned obsessions and depression into an anime phenomenon" by Aaron Stewart-Ahn
• "End of Evangelion and the Audience-Author Membrane" by Dan Olson
• "Annihilation and Decoding Metaphor" by Dan Olson
• Alex's Book Recommendation: Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
• Cass's Book Recommendation: Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (also check out Laura Michet, whose name Cass completely forgot how to spell because we had been podcasting for like three hours)

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• Kirika wearing the Wu-Tang Apron
• Cass's Book Recommendation: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
• Alex's Book Recommendation: My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Next month we're going to be watching and discussing Neon Genesis Evangelion. 

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• "Throne of Blood: Noh Shakespeare, No Problems!" by Kyle Kallgren, where Cass learned all about Throne of Blood from
• "Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time" by Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos of Every Frame A Painting
• "Mustang," that movie Alex said made her cry
• Cass's Book Recommendation: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Alex's Book Recommendation: The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante

Next month we're going to be watching and discussing Noir.

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• Cass's Book Recommendation: Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
• Alex's Book Recommendation: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar

Next month we're going to be watching and discussing Millennium Actress. 

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• "The Terrifyingly Prescient 'Serial Experiments Lain,' 20 Years Later
• That very good @headfallsoff tweet about Hideo Kojima

Next month we're going to be watching and discussing Paprika.

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• The Claim of Reason by Stanely Cavell
• 1 Corinthians 13

Next  month we're going to be watching and discussing Serial Experiments Lain. 

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• Those really uncomfortable earbuds 
• Alex's gif of Noriko pulling a single tity out

Next month we're going to be watching & discussing Ghost in the Shell (1995).

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