Slow Readers

Everything you've heard about Film School Professionals is true. Clover is actually the voice of the Millenium Falcon. Professors Malu and Katie welcome an exceptionally boring and very obnoxious guest who won't stop farting: their producer Gabe Mara of the Slow Readers podcast! Gabe swags in like he owns the place, demanding your two intrepid instructors break down two film about con artists, fast talkers, ill-gained dollars, and the family we choose versus the family we have. That's right, Katie and Malu discuss the most obvious double feature in history: Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon (1973) [but we really know it's Polly Platt's film] and Ron Howard's Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) [though it was also sort of Lord and Miller's]. Katie shatters the ice with some heavy heavy Emilia Clarke talk and Gabe brings the heat with some Gatekeeper action. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, nerfherders! Don't you have any scruples? Professor Katie's Short Films: Same Time Tomorrow Bloom Listen to Slow Readers wherever podcasts are found! Gabe's Instagram: @tldrswinton Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Daniel guests on the latest episode of FILM SCHOOL PROFESSIONALS with your favorite Slow Readers guests: Katie "Chaos" Kametz and "Black Metal" Malu Mirones!! So check it out, and then subscribe and listen to all the Film School Professionals episodes RIGHT MEOW!! *** Buckle up, class, we're talkin' sex, spies, and style in two of the horniest films about espionage ever made! Professors Katie and Malu welcome writer and audio producer Daniel Gonzalez (@slowreaders) of the Slow Readers podcast to get itchy with Ritchie and all red, son, with Alfredson! Daniel brings Guy Ritchie's The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) and Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) to the table. Tangents galore, codenames, and general thirst ensues. It was the war, students. Please rate, review, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, you dirty moles! Professor Katie's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpJ5A0JSrY Instagram: @filmschoolprofessionals Professor Malu's Art Instagram: @malusdoodles Professor Katie's Instagram: @_katiee_kat

Our end of year special (before a short hiatus)! The late great spy writer John le Carré! David Cornwell! Plus a rogue's gallery of guests pop in! Jon Lunger! Kristy Brannon! Katie Kametz and Malu Mirones! Matt Struck! And Dr Phil La Porta and Sean Hayes!! Plus: a spy game! 10:32 Jon Lunger 32:12 Kristy Brannon 50:54 GATEKEEPER 59:30 Katie Kametz and Malu Mirones 1:02:29 Final Thoughts 1:14:41 Matt Struck 1:24:43 Dr Phil La Porta and Sean Hayes TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

The AP Film by Film School Professionals girls join forces for an action-packed, messy as heck episode!! Internet issues, dark subject matters, Snow White, and Neil Gaiman! (PS, we totally missed that there's an award winning graphic novel adaptation that came out recently...) 33:35 A Literary Game 57:06 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

Doc "octopodes" Phil R La Porta (The Whiparound Podcast) returns as the boyos confront their old friend (and potential murderer) Dan Clark, aka NITRO FROM AMERICAN GLADIATORS!! We chat about the good times, total knee replacement surgery, cadaver implants, and (humorous) threats! Plus: a game... that's lost to time! 42:59 A Literary Game(?) 44:51 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

The boyos decide to share their favorite 5 books they read during this bizarre year. Also: a cyberpunk game! 37:06 A Literary Game 51:50 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

Kristy Brannon (It’s All Downhill) returns as one of Daniel’s favorite authors is discussed! Kristy has to listen to these idiots get too drunk! Also: a short game is played! 40:35 A Literary Game 55:52 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

The boyos talk crazy long about Earthsea and Sharkansas! Then they need to look up something! Plus: a wizard game! 37:42 A Literary Game 52:42 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

It’s Gabe’s birfday! Gabe picks funny person book by Steve Martin! Funny person Matt Struck (Really Late Night with Matt Struck) joins us in funny talk! Also: funny game! 35:46 A Literary Game 53:40 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

Nic Pizzolatto says this guy Laird is all right, so that’s all right with Slow Readers. First neo noir/yakuza/weird horror story on this show? Also: our longest game ever! 33:00 A Literary Game 59:10 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

The boyos start at the top of the alphabet as they solve a mystery! What’s the mystery? How to start a podcast episode! Also: a game of Gatekeeper! 33:16 A Literary Game 48:34 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

The spookiest season continues as Jon Lunger (The Improvised Wikipedia Podcast, Escape! The Podcast) brings a ghost story about film nerds! Also: a hardcore game! 34:26 A Literary Game 58:35 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

Oates-tober comes to an end! Malu Mirones (AP FILM by Film School Professionals) brings the shortest story ever to wrap up our month of Joyce Carol Oats! Also: the most intense game of Gatekeeper ever! Also: the show gains a celebrity nemesis! 30:08 A Literary Game 1:07:58 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

Kristy Brannon (It’s All Downhill) returns for her third visit to Topgallant closet… and all the juicy corn! Then: a game is played! 33:19 A Literary Game 56:32 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

Spooky season continues with our hauntingly late episode! Comedian and filmmaker Caitlin Alyn joins us as we read about how scummy Robert Frost truly was! 33:38 A Literary Game 53:53 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

Katies “KAK” Kametz (AP Film by Film School Professionals) is back! So that means CHAOS REIGNS!!! See her grapple with her second JCO story ever! See her contest over a game of film trivia (you’d think she’d be better)! And hear what people across the pond think of this dumb show! 41:39 A Literary Game 1:16:18 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

In our house, Halloween starts in September! That also goes for OATES-TOBER! The boyos pick this disturbing yet human story from the book The Female of the Species. We’re going all Oates until they make us stop! 34:17 A Literary Game 54:09 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

They’ve done it! They’re finally did it! They overdose on too much warrior mice, evil seafaring pirate rats, and fated quests! Yup, we done with Redwall! 22:48 A Literary Game 47:22 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

Puberty, crabs, virginity, exhibitionism, male baldness, and MORE hit HARD in these stories by the doofus who created Bored To Death and You Were Never Really Here(?). 21:02 A Literary Game 30:56 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

A wild cat gets his face ripped off! An annoying full cast audiobook is too much to handle! And a game of Gatekeeper turns the tables! This and more as the boyos keep talking about the Redwall books! 18:48 A Literary Game 35:24 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

The boyos pick up their old buddy Chiang again to experience all the hate God has for us! Plus: a game! 28:39 A Literary Game 38:32 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

The boyos jump back in time to their mouse-warrior-with-a-sword days as they delve into THE fantasy book series of their childhoods! 27:13 A Literary Game 36:14 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

Doc “Octopodes” Phil La Porta (The Whiparound podcast) brings the high-octane hurt to the cowering nerd boyos with this memoir by Nitro from American Gladiators! Plus: another game fizzles! 35:44 A Literary Game 55:57 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

The boyos check out the new confusingly titled audio drama adaptation of the classic comics series! It’s a long ep cuz it a lotta Sandman! Plus: TWO games of Gatekeeper go horrible wrong! 42:03 A Literary Game 54:09 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

The boyos say, “eff it, let’s do Cthulhu!” They gab about the history of Cthulhu and its author, then have a chill time talking about how they think Lovecraft is dull! Good times! 31:24 A Literary Game 41:19 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

The boyos reach the end of the first arc (first four novellas) to the dang ole Murderbot books! The episode is kinda long because they go into their thoughts on the series thus far. Sorry not sorry? 28:27 A Literary Game 44:05 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

The boyos murder their way through Murderbot part3! The book’s gotta whiney Woody Allen robot or whatever! Good god! 22:32 A Literary Game 32:55 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

The boyos continue into the void with the Murderbot books! They apply their artificial conditioner and play the most intense literary game yet! 27:52 A Literary Game 50:30 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

Awesome horse girl Kristy Brannon (It’s All Downhill podcast) returns as the nerd team picks up a new, highly acclaimed series! Also: A game is played! Kristy Bannon: @kristybannon @alldownhillpod 29:29 A Literary Game 45:20 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

The boyos are joined in studio with old school friend of the show Ethan “E-Brake” Parkinson! They gab about food and how food makes us happy! 32:00 A Literary Game 47:12 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

The boyos boat away to the Summer Country after finishing the Chronicles of Prydain! How do they feel? Will they make connections to Lord of the Rings? Find out! 31:36 A Literary Game 44:30 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

SUSPENSE! One of the boyos tries to murder the other with BUTTER! How will they escape this situation?! Also, they discuss the penultimate book in The Chronicles of Prydain or whatever. 43:21 A Literary Game 50:44 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

A nation tearing itself apart? Revolution in the streets? Only in the pages of comics! The boyos pick up Coates’s first entry into comics! 40:11 A Literary Game 52:40 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

The boyos lose their baubles over the third book in theChronicles of Prydain! There’s a kitty cat! Meow! 34:56 A Literary Game 46:49 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors 

The dumb dumbs keep talking about this Prydain thing! Now they talk about the one Disney sorta made into a movie. But mainly they spend a lot of time remembering what happened in the book! Also: a Disney game is played! 36:59 A Literary Game 51:35 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

The boyos take a Welsh journey to ole Prydain land! Will we do all these books? Probably! I dunno! 35:00 A Literary Game 45:50 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

STRANDED continues with a book we selected ourselves! Because leaving the selections to chance is a nightmare! Anyway: this beloved American classic is discussed! Also: A fan favorite segment returns! 41:21 A Friend Returns! 51:21 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

Daniel forces us all to reflect on this awesomely grotesque graphic novel that’s a ‘sort of’ sequel a Rob Liefeld comic! By the eye! Also: a Rob Liefeld game is played! 29:45 A Literary Game 38:35 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

New guest (ghost?) and comedian Kristy Brannon (It’s All Downhill) shares the story-truth with the boyos in this Vietnam book/historical fiction/metafiction classic! Plus: A game is played! Kristy Bannon: @kristybannon @alldownhillpod 42:00 A Literary Game 59:20 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

The boyos finally learn to read and write English with this Orwell essay on language and oppression! Then they play a game about war and Metal Gear Solid or whatever! 40:33 A Literary Game 50:16 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

Stranded returns! The boyos hit up the bonnet-filled classic by Jane Austen! They discuss everything from first impressions to last impressions to everything Colin Firth! Plus: a game is played! 30:27 A Literary Game 43:47 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

Oh no, this episode is so long! Happy three years all you weirdos! The boyos return to WIZARD SCHOOL PARTS ONE THROUGH SEVEN to bring in our fourth year doing this crazy show. A lousy Sorting Hat app thing is played! Batteries run out! Magic happens! Happy Corona-tine everyone! 8:00 Wizard School and Rowling 48:51 A game! 1:02:06 The sorting hat game 1:21:43 Goblet of Fire TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

The boyos drop into the Pulitzer Prize winning The Interpreter of Maladies and dig up this little matter! They tell each other secrets in the dark and confront dark secrets! Also: a game is played! 30:27 A Literary Game 43:47 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

The boyos take a trip down memory lane to when they were nerds before it was cool! They read something called a ‘light novel’ the was adapted into an anime they both loved, like, 100 years ago. Plus they discuss the historical pandemic sweeping the nation… CATS! 40:50 A CATS Game 55:56 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

150 episodes of this madness! The boyos continue the STRANDED subseries by delving into this big ole book of magical realism! Plus: a game the recalls our crazy past! 36:37 A Literary Game 48:24 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

The boyos get all neighborly in this murder ballad by the fellow who wrote Winter’s Bone and Tomato Red! Also: a game is played! 28:07 A Literary Game 41:02 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

The boyos finally figure out who this Alice Munro person is! The revelation is pretty exciting! They read a story from her latest short fiction collection, Dear Life. Also: a game is played! 28:27 A Literary Game 36:49 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

Okay, so the boyos get kinda drunk and go on for a long time about this short story from the dark satire book Nazi Literature in the Americas by the late great Bolaño. Much fun is had! Plus: a Kanye game is played! 36:53 A Literary Game 46:46 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

The gang is doing, like, another Beauty and the Beast tale! They’s also returning to the Angela Carter book of fairy tales! So yeah, many returns! 32:54 A Literary Game 45:04 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

The boyos catch up with Kenzie/Gennaro in the third book of Dennis “the Hatred” Lehane’s detective series (which includes Gone Baby Gone). Also: a slapdash literary game is played! 31:54 A Literary Game 42:59 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

The boyos take a shot in the dark and select this speculative fiction from an award winning author they didn’t really know about! Plus: a game is played! 30:36 A Literary Game 42:16 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors