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I"ll Be Pod for Castmas

Juliet & Katherine

Every July and December, Juliet L"mous and their co-host playwright Katherine Varga take a piece of holiday pop culture and discuss it through the lens of a piece of topical classic literature — like the Christmas classic "Frosty the Snowman" through the lens of Mary Shelley"s "Frankenstein". Find it four times a year on the Moonshot Podcast Network!

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00:59:58

This Is How You Lose the Time War

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2025/07/30

Episode NotesJuliet 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 Garden of Forking Paths. Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network.

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00:55:38

The Knight Before Christmas

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2025/07/16

Episode NotesJuliet 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. Which gender would you prefer — a himbo knight, or a christmas crone? Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network.

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01:11:05

Folgers Commercial (Frozen, Left Hand of Darkness)

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2024/12/24

Episode NotesThe 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 (2013) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)? Quite a lot, actually! Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network.

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01:06:23

Frozen (The Left Hand of Darkness)

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2024/12/18

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). 4:40 - What Makes a Man a Traitor 30:00 - The Game 43:00 - The True Meaning of Shifgrethor 55:00 - Journeys through the Snow Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast

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00:59:29

Princess Switch 3 (Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro)

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2024/07/29

Episode NotesJeff 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? Just how weird can the future of the franchise get from here? Along the way, we cover Fast Five, commedia dell'arte lazzi, the Now You See Me franchise, The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, the Vanessa Hudgens Cinematic Universe, Ocean's Twelve, and the

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01:01:04

Princess Switch 3 (Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar)

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2024/07/15

Episode NotesThis Christmas in July, Juliet and Katherine celebrate the heist genre with the genre-defying Vanessa Hudgens vehicle Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star alongside the genre-defining Maurice Leblanc short story compilation, Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar. Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network.

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00:52:59

Les Misérables (The Shape of the Sword)

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2023/12/23

Episode NotesJuliet and Katherine dive deeper into the sadness, joy, and realism of the characters of Gavroche, Eponine, and Javert through the lens of Jorge Luis Borges' "The Shape of the Sword" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "It's Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries". Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Readings from the text are provided by Max Newland. Transcript of this episode is available here.

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00:15:38

Jorge Luis Borges' "The Shape of the Sword"

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2023/12/16

Episode Notes Today you get to hear Max Newland read the Borges short story which is known variably by both the title "The Shape of the Sword" and "The Form of the Sword"! Next week: Juliet and Katherine tackle It's Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries, Les Misérables, and The Form of the Sword altogether! Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen.

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00:53:58

Les Misérables (It's Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries)

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2023/12/09

Episode Notes Juliet and Katherine tackle the Carly Rae Jepsen tragicomic holiday single Its Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries alongside Victor Hugo's dramatic portrait of the structure of suffering and the human character, Les Misérables—discussing in turn both the popular musical and the overlong book. Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Readings from the text are provided by Max Newland. Transcript of this episode is available here. Next week, you'll hear Max Newland read the

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00:30:15

Persuasion (Switched Again) Mailbag

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2023/12/02

Episode Notes The thrilling conclusion of the Christmas in July podcast break-up, alongside a mailbag of letters about the Netflix sequel "The Princess Switch: Switched Again" through the lens of Jane Austen's final novel, Persuasion. We recommend the Karen Savage version of the Persuasion audiobook, available on youtube, spotify, and: https://librivox.org/persuasion-by-jane-austen-4/ Find I'll Be Pod for Castmas four times a year on the Moonshot Podcast Network https://moonshotpods.com

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00:43:31

Bath & Butler Works #1 - Politically Neutral Surfaces

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2023/07/30

Episode Notes Solidarity forever! Instead of discussing christmas specials this week, we get a discussion between Juliet and Riley Hopkins on the topic of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, and the following passage: "Although the unproblematic unity of “women” is often invoked to construct a solidarity of identity, a split is introduced in the feminist subject by the distinction between sex and gender. Originally intended to dispute the biology-is-destiny formulation, the distinction between

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00:33:09

Persuasion (The Princess Switch – Switched Again)

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2023/07/23

Episode Notes This Christmas in July, Juliet and Katherine write plot-important letters to each other and discuss the Netflix sequel "The Princess Switch: Switched Again" alongside Jane Austen's final novel, Persuasion. We recommend the Karen Savage version of the Persuasion audiobook, available on youtube, spotify, and: https://librivox.org/persuasion-by-jane-austen-4/ A transcript for these letters can be found here:

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00:51:27

Frosty Returns (Frankenstein)

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2022/12/21

Episode Notes Juliet and Katherine discuss Frosty Returns (1992) using the lens of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Content warnings in this episode for frank discussions of Christianity and Climate Change. A transcript of this episode is available at: https://otter.ai/u/bvlhQaK1lmBDAc9dQj2C_76RWjE . Find I'll Be Pod for Castmas four times a year on the Moonshot Podcast Network https://moonshotpods.com and https://cohost.org/christmas . See you next July for Christmas in July!

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00:35:06

Frankenstein (Frosty the Snowman)

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2022/12/07

Episode Notes Juliet and Katherine break down the classic novel Frankenstein through the lens of the christmas song Frosty the Snowman. Next episode, we'll tackle Frosty Returns (1992) using the lens of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein! A transcript of this episode is available at: https://otter.ai/u/ogqbOVGK-Ii_7GQQaiCOq648h9w . You probably know the song Frosty the Snowman, and can find Mary Shelley's Frankenstein wherever books are sold but also in a variety of ebook forms at

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00:59:21

The Princess Switch (Lady Audley's Secret)

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2022/07/20

Episode Notes You can find The Princess Switch streaming on Netflix, and Lady Audley's Secret wherever books are sold but also in a variety of ebook forms at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8954. Find I'll Be Pod for Castmas four times a year on the Moonshot Podcast Network https://twitter.com/MoonshotPods and https://cohost.org/christmas

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00:20:27

I'll Pre-Pod for Castmas: Princess Switch (Lady...

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2022/07/13

Episode Notes You can find The Princess Switch streaming on Netflix, and Lady Audley's Secret wherever books are sold but also in a variety of ebook forms at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8954. Find I'll Be Pod for Castmas four times a year on the Moonshot Podcast Network https://twitter.com/MoonshotPods and https://cohost.org/christmas "And yet, and yet . . . To deny temporal succession, to deny the self, to deny the astronomical universe, appear to be acts of desperation and are secret

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00:34:48

Last Christmas (Kafka and His Precursors)

I"ll Be Pod for Castmas ·

2021/12/22

Episode Notes I'll Be Pod for Castmas is on the Moonshot Podcast Network! https://linktr.ee/moonshotnetwork If I am not mistaken, the heterogenous pieces I have listed resemble Kafka; if I am not mistaken, not all of them resemble each other. This last fact is what is most significant: Kafka's idiosyncracy is present in each of these writings, to a greater or lesser degree, but if Kafka had not written, we would not perceive it; that is to say, it would not exist. The poem "Fears and

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