Episodes

In this episode we discuss the Dungeons and Dragons adventure module The Curse of Strahd. You can purchase the module from your local bookstore, your local game store, or Roll 20. Content warnings for strong language, discussions of racism, blood, kidnapping, cannibalism, consent issues, death, gothic horror, and debating how specific rules should have worked. We reference or spoil: Dungeons & Dragons in general, The Curse of Strahd/Ravenloft, The Game Grumps, Chris Perkins, Waterdeep: Dragon ...

We heard that a new Twilight novel, Midnight Sun, is coming out. With that being the case, here’s our opinion on Twilight, the movie.You can buy a copy of the book on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or a bookseller of your choice. You can rent the movie online from Amazon, iTunes, or YouTube. Content warnings for strong language, discussion of violence, and references to stalking, gaslighting, and abusive behavior. We also reference or spoil the rest of the Twilight series, the book Dracula, the novel...

In this episode we discuss the 1995 film Mortal Kombat. You can watch it online on YouTube, Amazon. or Netflix. Content warnings for strong language, discussions of racism, loud obnoxious noises, vague references to self-isolation, unending martial arts violence, and the general existence of Mortal Kombat II. We reference or spoil: Planet Builders series by Robyn Tallis, Circle of Magic series by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald, Mortal Kombat: The Movie: The Novelization, Mortal Kombat for ...

It’s a fifth Wednesday minisode! In this shorter episode Pippin and Brendan talk about Animal Crossing: New Horizons! Mostly because they’re the only one’s who’ve played it. New Horizons is available on the Nintendo Switch. Content warnings for strong language, references to home ownership, discussion of spiders. We reference or spoil: Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Gravity Falls, Hot Fuzz, Griffin McElroy’s Animal Crossing...

In this episode we discuss the 2012 film The Cabin in the Woods. You can watch it online on YouTube, Amazon or Hulu. Content warnings for strong language, gore, violence, misogyny, college age kids dying by the droves, sexual content, depictions of rural Americans as creepy, discrete mathematics, and the siblings being jerks to Pippin about her legitimate and understandable dislike of horror. We reference or spoil: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Mummy, “Tom Sevigny is a thief“, Transformers, Sh...

In this episode we discuss the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro. You can watch it online on YouTube, Amazon or Netflix. Content warnings for strong language, discussions of violence, and references to child slavery. We reference or spoil: Patrick Explains The Mask of Zorro (And Why It’s Great), Zorro universe, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Batman universe, Robin Hood universe, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, Star Wars universe, Santy Anna sea shanty, Schitt’s Creek, Wordplayer website, Desperado, 1933 ...

In this episode we play an artificial intelligence driven text adventure. You can find it at https://play.aidungeon.io/ Content warnings for strong language, violence, mass casualty incidents, character death, Brendan going blue to a delightful degree, and inappropriate Bugs Bunny jokes. While we reference slightly the current state of world affairs, it is not mentioned outright and is not dwelled on for any length of time. We reference or spoil: Dungeons & Dragons, The Witcher, Space Jam, Myst...

In this episode we discuss the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. You can watch it online on YouTube, Amazon or Netflix. Content warnings for strong language, discussion of dead bodies, discussion of “daddy” and infantalism kinks, references to colonialism, and too much information about antique cars no one cares about except Kat. We reference or spoil: Ford v. Ferrari, The Court Jester, Ian Fleming‘s James Bond series, Mary Poppins, The Benny Hill Show, Petrushka, The Nutcracker, Star Trek, O...

In this episode we discuss the 2000 video game Final Fantasy IX. You can buy it online on Steam, Amazon or Nintendo Switch. Content warnings for strong language and conversations surrounding death. We reference or spoil: Final Fantasy I, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, and the works of William Shakespeare. The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com. Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and, if you’re so inclined, contribute to our Patreon. The post Episode ...

In this episode we discuss the 2003 film The Core. You can watch it online on YouTube, Amazon or iTunes. Content warnings for strong language, inappropriate levels of Boston pride, Benji’s dog collar, and even worse sex jokes than usual. We reference or spoil: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, John Mulaney‘s Kid Gorgeous, John Mulaney’s New in Town, Star Trek (2009), Star Trek: The Original Series, Avatar, Leverage, Arthur C. Clarke‘s 2001: A Space Odyssey, #OverlyHonestMethods, LOL My Thesis,...

It’s a fifth Wednesday minisode! In this shorter episode we talk about time travel! Content warnings for strong language, time travel, and a wild idea of what can reasonably be defined as a “mini” episode. We reference or spoil: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, The Zybourne Clock, “A Hazy Shade of Winter” by The Bangles, The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, “It’s My Party” by Lesley Gore,Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: End Game, the MCU in general, Groundhog Day, Timeline by Michael Crichton, “M...

In this episode we discuss the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code. You can watch it online on YouTube, Amazon or iTunes. Content warnings for strong language, discussions of self-harm, referenced parent death, and deep Catholic wonkery. We reference or spoil: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, the Catholic Apocrypha, the First Council of Nicaea, La Femme Nikita, Mission: Impossible, the Knights Templar’s heresy, Sophie’s Choice, the Second Vatican Council, the Arian heresy, the Creedo card game, the que...

It’s a new year, which calls for a new story! In this episode we discuss ghost stories, because Kat asked us to. Content warnings for strong language, ghosts, ghost romance, ghost nipples, death, and faster than light travel We reference or spoil: Ghostbusters franchise, all art is political, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, “The Dreadful Ghost” folksong, Richard Siken “what is a ghost” poem”, “The Duck” by Ogden Nash, “The Tiger” by Niall age 6, The Spirit of Christmas, Iron Man 3, Die Hard, B...

In this episode we discuss the 2013 film Snowpiercer. You can watch it online on YouTube, Amazon or Netflix. Content warnings for strong language, cacannibalism, trains, drug abuse, capitalism, industrialist metaphors, social class metaphors, revolution!!, institutional child abuse, bugs, and bad train puns. We reference or spoil: That Chris Evans worth the UTI post, Avengers: Infinity War, The Matrix, Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette, the Christmas Truce of 1914, Dared...

Stuff happened and we weren’t able to record an episode for this week. Unwilling to leave you without this week, we’re rereleasing our episode about the 2016 movie Passengers. You can rent the movie online from Amazon, iTunes, or YouTube. Content warnings for abusive relationships, suicide, strong language, and violence. We also reference or spoil: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sleeping Beauty, The Shining, Psycho, Bluebeard, The Rime of Ancient Mariner, Red Dwarf, Star Trek, Hitchhiker’s Guide to ...

In this episode we discuss the 2005 film Constantine. You can watch it online on YouTube, Amazon or Hulu. Content warnings for strong language, suicide, body horror, literal spiders, a lot of sex jokes, and being super Catholic on main. We reference or spoil: Jacking Gehenna by Mirabella, Hellblazer comics, Star Trek: Voyager‘s “The Chute“, The Good Place, Friends’ episode “The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS”, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Hercules mythology, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Supe...

In this episode we discuss the 2002 anime Princess Tutu. You can watch it online on Amazon or Hulu. Content warnings for strong language, abuse and abusive relationships, dance fights, and continually saying “Swan Lake” when we actually mean “The Nutcracker” We reference or spoil: Edgar Allen Poe‘s “The Raven“, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Night on Bald Mountain, John Mulaney‘s The Comeback Kid, grimdark, solar punk, sandal punk, hopepunk, Princess Tutu AMV “Håll Om Mig”, Gravity Falls fanvid “C...

It is another 5th Wednesday! This time, while we are all off Trick-or-Treating, we have for you an audiobook of “The Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton (listen to our episode about the short story) that was recorded and edited by Kat for our patreon! So take a load off, and ponder the existence of barbaric kings, barbaric princesses, tigers just trying to make it in this tough world, and Schrödinger’s protagonist caught between them all. The post From the Patreon Vault 01: The Lady or th...

In this episode we discuss the 1955 movie The Court Jester. You can watch it online on iTunes, Amazon, or Youtube. Content warnings for strong language, discussions of rape, rape culture, and gaslighting. We reference or spoil: The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, Robin Hood, lower deck stories, “there was only one bed” trope, Hamlet, NSIS: The Producers, Joker (2019) and associated discourse, Tig Notaro pushing a stool, Back to the Future, The Kids in the Hall, Saturday Night Live, Sween...

In this episode we discuss an original tabletop campaign idea by Brendan, “Escape from Flavor Town.” Content warnings for strong language, slight reference to the sexual assault allegations against Mario Batali, and terrible puns. We reference or spoil: Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives; Dungeons & Dragons; Six-String Samurai; Curse of Strahd D&D campaign; Shakespeare‘s Hamlet; Honey Heist; The Cabin in the Woods; Hot Ones youtube show; Great British Bake Off; Baba Yaga; James George Frazer‘s “The ...

In this episode we discuss the 2016 television show The Good Place. You can watch it online on iTunes, Amazon, or Netflix. Content warnings for strong language, philosophy, and mentions of clam chowder. We reference or spoil: “Hell is other people.” –Jean-Paul Sartre, “Hell Is the Absence of God” by Ted Chiang, The Twilight Zone episode “Five Characters in Search of an Exit“, Hell is Other People television series, “Cast of The Good Place react to season 1 finale,” Guys and Dolls, Parks and Re...

In this episode we discuss the 1988 movie A Fish Called Wanda. You can watch it online on iTunes, Amazon, or Youtube. Content warnings for strong language, discussions of violence, animal abuse and death, sexism, homophobia, implied incest, and enthusiastic fangirling of Kevin Kline We reference or spoil: Reservoir Dogs, Leverage, The Shape of Water, John Wick, Much Ado About Nothing, Monty Python, Kevin Kline’s general existence, The 1989 Academy Awards, Fierce Creatures, Marvel comics’ Black...

In this episode instead of four siblings talking about A Fish Called Wanda, three siblings discuss the video game franchise The Legend of Zelda. Various games are available at all major retailers. Content warnings for strong language, references to giant spiders, being Catholic on main, and discussions of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey time travel shenanigans, violence, death, and a brief foray into beastaility. We reference or spoil: The Legend of Zelda franchise, Mortal Kombat, Super Mario 64, Av...

In this episode we discuss the 2015 movie 50 Shades of Grey. You can watch it online on iTunes, Amazon, or Youtube. Content warnings for strong language and discussions of sexual content, unsafe sexual practices, relationship abuse, stalking, violations of social and expressed boundaries, physical and sexual child abuse, and rape. We reference or spoil: Master of the Universe, Pride and Prejudice (1995), Twilight books and movie, 50 Shades of Black, Percy Bysshe Shelley‘s “Ozymandias“, Thomas ...