No Story Is Sacred

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 W

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 A

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 (t

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)

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

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 Jackm