Season 1, Episode 17: It All Comes Back To Anime
The Season Finale! In this episode, we discuss topics ranging from theater to anime to World War II.
This episode is not sponsored.
Hosted By:
Justin (xe/xem) - https://www.justingrays.org/
Nat MN (they/them)
Sarah (she/her)
Content Warning - Mentions of:
Chronic Pain (Migraines / Sciatica)
COVID-19
H. P. Lovecraft
Louis C.K.
Holocaust / Nazis
Robert A. Heinlein
Student Debt
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Justin was turning 27 when xe got xyr AA, and had just turned 29 when xe got xyr BA.
Duck Washington needs his show back.
The play The Virginian is based on the novel The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains. The TV series The Virginian is loosely based on the novel as well.
Macbeth (yes, that Macbeth) was a recurring character on Disney’s Gargoyles.
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair” - Macbeth, Act I, Scene I
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.” - Hamlet, Act II, Scene II
Duck Washington’s Reboot
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Greg was indeed Purple Ren, and his spouse was Purple Rey.
Do people still use the term “telecast”? Please let us know in the survey.
The record tapes used in Star Trek: The Original Series are very reminiscent of the tape drives (including the floppy disk and the Zip drive). Beware the click of death - people have recorded the sound.
“FedEx Bandwidth” was the XKCD What If?
The anime that we reference:
Dominion: Tank Police
Cowboy Bebop (specifically, the episode “Mushroom Samba”)
The agent that Justin is trying to describe is from the “Interspecies Exchange Security Squad”
How to Survive a Harem Anime - Public Service Anime
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
Is it wrong? Well, that’s context-dependent.
It occurred to Justin several weeks later that xe has seen five other anime:
If Mobile Suit Gundam was the Pacific Theater, then Exosquad was the European Theater.
The panel that Justin was on with Tamora Pierce was “Avoiding Tokenism in Literature” at CONvergence 2018.
Albert Göring was opposed to Nazism, and he helped Jewish people and others who were persecuted in Nazi Germany. He was shunned in post-war Germany because of his family name - Highlight History has a short documentary about him.
We did indeed talk about marriage for pension as a form of payment in Episode 16.
Thursday, January 27, 2022 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year. Learn more from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Justin meant “I know where Czechoslovakia was.” Justin is fully aware of the Velvet Revolution of 1989 and that in 1993 the nation was dissolved into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. Justin only meant geographically.
See you all in June for Season 2!
Cover Art by Michelle Chmura | Theme Music by Caleb Kelson | Edited by Rachel Hanson
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