Podcasts about all possible worlds

It's MrBeast week on The Worst of All Possible Worlds. To kick it off we're unlocking a premium episode we released in March 2023 where THE LADS WATCH 8 MRBEAST VIDEOS AND THEN TALK ABOUT THEM (Not Clickbait). Topics include MrBeast's humble origins, the monetization of altruism, and the internet's canonization of St. Jimmy Donaldson. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium and bonus episodes by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Media Referenced in this Episode: The Beast Playlist “Is MrBeast for Real? Inside the Outrageous World of YouTube's Cash-Happy Stunt King” by EJ Dickson, Rolling Stone April 9th, 2022. “Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World” by Taylor Lorenz, NYTimes, May 4th, 2021. The CouRage and Nadeshot Show, Episode 38: "MrBeast Shares His BIGGEST YouTube Secrets!" The Joe Rogan Experience, Episode #1788: MrBeast. TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com

This is the first episode of Ill Conceived, a new podcast from Josh Boerman from The Worst of All Possible Worlds and June Sternbach from Western Kabuki. Get new episodes every Friday in your favorite podcast client: RSS Feed Apple Podcasts Spotify Pocket Casts YouTube Josh and June take a look at Promise Keepers, the organization that massed 700,000 men on the National Mall in Washington, DC for a 1997 rally that promised to bring spiritual renewal to its attendees and a new order to the social health of the country. While they didn't quite pull off the fundamental transformation they were hoping for, Promise Keepers left a significant impact on the evangelical Christian psyche. And somehow, they're still around today, desperately trying to convince the world of their definition of fatherhood and family. SOURCES: The First Promise Keepers Event: Witnessing the Power of God" by David Roadcup Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes du Mez Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper by Bill McCartney et al. "Promise Keepers pledge to move from stadium rallies to the marketplace" by Adelle Banks, Religion News Service "New Promise Keepers CEO ready to see a revival among men" by Maina Mwaura, The Christian Index "Promise Keepers Pour Into The Nation's Capital" (CNN, 1997) "The Promise Keepers Opens Its Doors To Women" (NPR, 2009)   AUDIO CLIPS: 6:18 – Bill McCartney in a profile by WXYZ-TV Detroit (September 24, 1994) 32:46 – Norm MacDonald on Saturday Night Live Weekend Update (October 4, 1997) 33:23 – Joseph Garlington, Promise Keepers worship leader, at the 1997 Stand in the Gap rally 34:55 – Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women, on Charlie Rose (October 3, 1997) 36:31 – Huron Claus, Native American Christian evangelist, at the 1997 Stand in the Gap rally 38:00 – Bill McCartney, Promise Keepers founder, on Larry King Live (October 7, 1997) 47:49 – Shane Winnings, current Promise Keepers CEO, on Morning Joe (April 3, 2025) 50:50 – Web trailer for Wake-Up Call, the 2025 Promise Keepers in-person summit in Yakima   FOLLOW THE SHOW: Website: com Bluesky: ‪@ill-conceived-pod.bsky.social Tumblr: @illconceivedpod   FOLLOW JOSH: Website: https://joshboerman.com/ Bluesky: @bosh.worstpossible.world Other podcast: The Worst of All Possible Worlds Stream: Traditional Scrench FOLLOW JUNE: Bluesky: @junlper.beer Other podcast: Western Kabuki Writing: June's Substack

This is the first episode of Ill Conceived, a new podcast from Josh Boerman of The Worst of All Possible Worlds and June Sternbach of Western Kabuki. Get new episodes every Friday in your favorite podcast client: RSS Feed Apple Podcasts Spotify Pocket Casts YouTube   Josh and June take a look at Promise Keepers, the organization that massed 700,000 men on the National Mall in Washington, DC for a 1997 rally that promised to bring spiritual renewal to its attendees and a new order to the social health of the country. While they didn't quite pull off the fundamental transformation they were hoping for, Promise Keepers left a significant impact on the evangelical Christian psyche. And somehow, they're still around today, desperately trying to convince the world of their definition of fatherhood and family. SOURCES: The First Promise Keepers Event: Witnessing the Power of God" by David Roadcup Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes du Mez Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper by Bill McCartney et al. "Promise Keepers pledge to move from stadium rallies to the marketplace" by Adelle Banks, Religion News Service "New Promise Keepers CEO ready to see a revival among men" by Maina Mwaura, The Christian Index "Promise Keepers Pour Into The Nation's Capital" (CNN, 1997) "The Promise Keepers Opens Its Doors To Women" (NPR, 2009)   AUDIO CLIPS: 6:18 – Bill McCartney in a profile by WXYZ-TV Detroit (September 24, 1994) 32:46 – Norm MacDonald on Saturday Night Live Weekend Update (October 4, 1997) 33:23 – Joseph Garlington, Promise Keepers worship leader, at the 1997 Stand in the Gap rally 34:55 – Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women, on Charlie Rose (October 3, 1997) 36:31 – Huron Claus, Native American Christian evangelist, at the 1997 Stand in the Gap rally 38:00 – Bill McCartney, Promise Keepers founder, on Larry King Live (October 7, 1997) 47:49 – Shane Winnings, current Promise Keepers CEO, on Morning Joe (April 3, 2025) 50:50 – Web trailer for Wake-Up Call, the 2025 Promise Keepers in-person summit in Yakima   FOLLOW THE SHOW: Website: illconceivedpodcast.com Bluesky: @ill-conceived-pod.bsky.social Tumblr: @illconceivedpod   FOLLOW JOSH: Website: joshboerman.com Bluesky: @bosh.worstpossible.world Other podcast: The Worst of All Possible Worlds Stream: Traditional Scrench FOLLOW JUNE: Bluesky: @junlper.beer Other podcast: Western Kabuki Writing: June's Substack

We've brought on serious friend of the show Josh Boerman to discuss the use of AI material made by and for evangelical Christians in the United States, and this leads to the discovery of Pray dot com, Gloo dot AI, and so much more. Check out the Worst of All Possible Worlds here! And check out Ill Conceived here!   Get the whole episode on Patreon here! *T-SHIRT ALERT!* We now have ‘Say Goodbye to His Uncle' shirts available for preorder, as well as a reissue of the TF ‘What If Your Phone Was the Cops' shirts from 2018! https://trashfuture.co.uk/collections/all *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo's tour dates here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows *TF LIVE ALERT* We'll be performing at the Big Fat Festival hosted by Big Belly Comedy on Saturday, 21st June! You can get tickets for that here! You can also get tickets for our show at the Edinburgh Fringe festival here! Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

In space no one can hear you scream, but they can hear you podcast! We're joined by Josh Boerman from Worst of All Possible Worlds to chat about a classic horror movie and finally get to the bottom of what that blue laser actually means... Listen to Worst of All Possible Worlds: https://www.worstpossible.world Keep up with Josh at: https://www.joshboerman.com on Bluesky @bosh.worstpossible.world Discuss your favorite mechanical keyboards with Horror Vanguard at: bsky.app/profile/horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.horrorvanguard.com (I built the website using an old MU-TH-UR 6000, bear with me) You can support the show for less than the cost of 20 million tons of unprocessed space ore at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard Précis music: "Moon Base LOOP 16bit" by Aleksis Tristan Shaw (itch.io/profile/aleksis-tristan-shaw). Available for use under the CC BY 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), at https://aleksis-tristan-shaw.itch.io/atmospheric-sci-fi-music

Alex and Jeremy of the Quorators podcast join the lads for their triumphant return to Odyssey as they throw themselves headlong into adventures of magic bats, deceitful chickens, and Edwin Blackgaard staging The Merchant of Venice. Topics include the Twilife Zone, the ethics of Watto the Toydarian, and what it means to live your life in the service of a chicken whose real name is drugs. Alex Ptak - Bluesky // Twitter // Instagram Theater of Delights featuring Gran Nidorino! Jeremy Kaplowitz - Bluesky // Twitter // Instagram Quarators - Every Monday, comedians Jeremy Kaplowitz and Alex Ptak head to Quora dot com to find the stupidest questions they can and make fun of them. Youtube // Patreon // Apple Podcasts // Spotify Quorst of All Possible Worlds w/ Josh Boerman // Quorators Full Episode Q+087: Bull Psychology w/ Josh Boerman Media Referenced in this Episode: Adventures in Odyssey #358: “The Secret Weapon” #288: “The Twilife Zone” #359: “The Merchant of Odyssey” TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com Interstitial: “Case #1189195: Audit of The Patmos Corporation As Performed by Timmy ‘Taxman' Thompson” // Written by A.J. Ditty // Feat. Josh Boerman as “Timmy ‘Taxman' Thompson”

This is a preview of a bonus episode. Check it out on our Patreon! -------- Friend of the show Josh Boerman returns to the show to talk about “CARELESS PEOPLE: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism” by former Meta staffer Sarah Wynn-Williams. We talk about the controversy surrounding the memoir, the pretense that nobody at Facebook knew what they had created, and how the platform's ambitions to become the entire internet was undermined by the its inability to create any other product, or understand what people wanted. We also talk about Zuckerberg's innate weirdness, which culminates in an awkward attempt to get President Xi to name his child, for some reason.  Check out The Worst of All Possible Worlds here! ------ PALESTINE  AID LINKS You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below. Please also donate to the gofundmes of people trying to survive, or purchase ESIMs. These links are for if you need a well-respected name attached to a fund to feel comfortable sending money. https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict -------- PHOEBE ALERT Phoebe! Okay, now that we have your attention; check out her Substack Here! Check out Masters of our Domain with Milo and Patrick, here! -------- Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).  

Caleb joined our friends at The Worst of All Possible Worlds for an episode on Richard "Beebo" Russell. This is the first part, the second is available on their Patreon at http://patreon.com/worstofall.  Content warning: this episode heavily discusses suicidal ideation and is at times emotional

Josh from The Worst Of All Possible Worlds joins Nova, Riley, and HK to discuss the newest, hottest document in Effective Altruism /AI Safetyism, “AI 2027,” which posits a world in which Chinese and American AI's team up to turn all of humanity into a paste to lubricate a dyson sphere. Also, the Supreme Court Judgment (in brief - more on that next week's free episode), and Ocean Builders is back… in pod form! Check out The Worst of All Possible Worlds here! Get the whole episode on Patreon here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo's tour dates here: https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows *TF LIVE ALERT* We'll be performing at the Big Fat Festival hosted by Big Belly Comedy on Saturday, 21st June! You can get tickets for that here! Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

This week, Josh Boerman from The Worst of All Possible Worlds returns to the pod to catch us up on everything happening in America, as it decides to self immolate for no other reason but to own the libs. We talk about how Everything Is Computer, and what that actually means in practice, Elon Musk stealing tricks from Mr Beast to (try) and do political corruption, and we briefly touch on the leaked Signal chat that once again proves our thesis: that everything that happens in the world is a direct cause of posting.  Emma Garland's HUCK essay: https://www.huckmag.com/article/donald-trump-everything-is-computer-is-he-right ------ PALESTINE  AID LINKS You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below. Please also donate to the gofundmes of people trying to survive, or purchase ESIMs. These links are for if you need a well-respected name attached to a fund to feel comfortable sending money. https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict -------- PHOEBE ALERT Phoebe! Okay, now that we have your attention; check out her Substack Here! Check out Masters of our Domain with Milo and Patrick, here! -------- Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).  

We return to our ongoing project to rank all game mechanics, but when it comes to the immersive sim and fighting game genres, we don't have the expertise required to make those decisions. So we had Josh Boerman from the Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast join us to help us with the imsim mechanics and our buddy Dylan (aka Jordi from Sicko Shock 2) do the fighting game ones. What's better than this: homies chilling and yapping about video games baby Check out Josh's podcast here: worstpossible.world

In the late 80s, the Soviet Union attempted to dominate the commercial launch market. Their principal success was launching the most miserable salaryman into orbit. Today, we're joined by Josh from The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast to talk about Glavkosmos, the Soviet private space program. Find Josh and Worst Of All Possible Worlds here Support FTL on Patreon and unlock bonus content! Source: - Soyuz TM-11, Spacefacts.de - Soviet Efforts To Enter the Launch-Services Market, CIA - Akiyama Toyohiro: The Japanese Astronaut Who Hated Space, Unseen Japan Theme song provided by DJ Danarchy.

Support the show on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out The Worst of All Possible Worlds: https://www.worstpossible.world Joe is joined by the cast of The Worst of All Possible Worlds to talk about the time the US attempted to open Korea with gunboat diplomacy in 1871. Sources: Thomas Duvernay. Sinmiyangyo: The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea Eric Niderost. Military Heritage Magazine. August 2002. Vol 4, no. 1 http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20100407175236/http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/marine_amphib_korea.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20041011181532/http://www.kimsoft.com/2000/sherman.htm https://hsp.org/blogs/hidden-histories/the-other-korean-war-a-little-known-conflict-in-american-history

Thursday in Livingston Montana with Quenby Iandiorio including a song from her new self-titled album Quenby, called Best of All Possible Worlds

As has become tradition, we fielded a bunch of calls from you about what The Worst of All Possible Worlds meant to you in 2024 and stitched them together with highlights from the show. Merry Christmas and thanks for being part of our year. We also put out an extra-special Whit's Endless Summer bobus to the premium feed; check it out over on Patreon.com/worstofall! This episode includes clips from the following episodes, in order of appearance: 120 - 2 Left 2 Behind 2 Tribulation 2 Force 121 - Donkey Kong Country 122 - Far Cry 5 feat. November Kelly 124 - Alan Wake II 125 - Airplane feat. Bernie Wagenblast 128 - Supermarket Sweep 129 - Blackgaard Begins feat. Devon 130 - Heaven is for Real feat. Radio Free Tote Bag 134 - The Dutch Knight feat. Trevor Strunk 135 - The Boss Baby feat. Patrick Willems 142 - Gerbert feat. Traditional Scrench 145 - Dragon Ball Z feat. Alex Ptak 146 - Shrimp Jesus and the Death of Facebook 147 - Chrono Trigger feat. Anime Sickos 150 - The Worst of All Possible Parties (WAPP): The 150th Episode Spectacular LIVE from Colorado Springs! 151 - Moneyball 155 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit? feat. Mattie Lubchansky 156 - The Magic School Bus 157 - Blasphemous II feat. Tom O'Mahony 161 - Silent Hill 2 feat. Aysha U. Farah 162 - Skibidi Toilet 163 - Blair Witch 164 - God's Not Dead 2 168 - The Nostalgia Critic 169 - Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life

Milo, Patrick and Phoebe are joined by returning champion Josh Boerman from The Worst of All Possible Worlds to talk about Ridley Scott's Dudes Rock classic, which miraculously neither Josh nor Phoebe had seen. Get this full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/118305381/ Check out TWOAPW here: https://worstpossible.world

We've brought on friend of the show Josh Boerman from The Worst of All Possible Worlds to discuss recent drone/UFO “sightings” in the US, the AI filmmaking industry (which sucks), the AI games industry (even worse), and recent revelations that a certain Royal has been getting in trouble yet again—but not for the reasons you'd think! Check out the Worst of All Possible Worlds here!   Get access to more Trashfuture episodes each week on our Patreon!   *POPES/LAGOON SHIRTS STILL AVAILABLE!* We've got some extras of our recent shirts that can be purchased online and will ship immediately! Get them here: https://trashfuture.co.uk/collections/all *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo's UK Tour here: https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall   Hellloooooo, we're The Worst of All Possible Worlds, we remember it so you don't have to! We all remember Doug Walker, you know, that guy with the glasses, the tie, and the plain white background because they clearly couldn't afford a better set? Well, wouldn't you know it, he created a character called the Nostalgia Critic, a loud, obnoxious, Looney Tunes-adjacent blowhard who got famous for being very mad about Batman having a credit card. But does he have anything to say about our current critical landscape or do his over-the-top antics make him look like a groundhog on meth? Let's take a look at: The Nostalgia Critic.   Media Referenced in this Episode: Nostalgia Critic Transformers Batman and Robin Quest for Camelot The Review Must Go On - Demo Reel Finale Nostalgia Critic's The Wall Channel Awesome Indigogo Campaign “I Don't Known James Rolfe” by Dan Olson “Recession breeds accidental Entrepreneur” by Chicago Tribune. Chicago Tribune July 21st, 2009. “The Nostalgia Critic and the Wall” by Dan Olson   TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com   Interstitial: “Foobies.com” // Written by A.J. Ditty // Featuring Brian Alford as “Sexy Brian” and Josh Boerman as “Phineas Foob” // Music: “Careful Shouting” by Highway Superstar

This is a preview of a bonus episode. check out the whole thing on our patreon! Pals and returning champions Josh and Brian from the Worst of All Possible Worlds came on to chat about the US election. In Part 2, we talk about Kamala and Trump, and make our predictions for who will win the US Election. This episode was recorded several weeks before the election happened, and we're releasing it several weeks after, in our own bid to recreate 2020's Tenet. Check out The Worst of all Possible Worlds here! Check out part 1 of this episode here! ------ PALESTINE AND LEBANON AID LINKS As the Genocide continues to unfold in Gaza, and as Israel begins it's war on Lebanon, we encourage anyone who can to donate. You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below. Please also donate to the gofundmes of people trying to survive, or purchase ESIMs. These links are for if you need a well-respected name attached to a fund to feel comfortable sending money. https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict https://www.globalgiving.org/learn/how-to-help-lebanon -------- PHOEBE ALERT Phoebe is back! Check out her Substack Here! Check out the newly relaunched Masters of our Domain with Milo, here! Check out the new season of Romecast with Milo and Patrick Wyman, here! -------- This show is supported by Patreon. Sign up for as little as $5 a month to gain access to a new bonus episode every other week, and our entire backlog of bonus episodes! Thats https://www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast -------- Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

Pals and returning champions Josh and Brian from the Worst of All Possible Worlds came on to chat about the US election. In Part 1, we discuss the lay of the land and do our absolute best to track the course of this election cycle, from the Trump assassination attempts to Biden's refusal to drop out until the absolute last minute. This episode was recorded several weeks before the election happened, and we're releasing it several weeks after, in our own bid to recreate 2020's Tenet. Part 2 is out next week for patrons. Check out The Worst of all Possible Worlds here! ------ PALESTINE AND LEBANON AID LINKS As the Genocide continues to unfold in Gaza, and as Israel begins it's war on Lebanon, we encourage anyone who can to donate. You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below. Please also donate to the gofundmes of people trying to survive, or purchase ESIMs. These links are for if you need a well-respected name attached to a fund to feel comfortable sending money. https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict https://www.globalgiving.org/learn/how-to-help-lebanon -------- PHOEBE ALERT Phoebe is back! Check out her Substack Here! Check out the newly relaunched Masters of our Domain with Milo, here! Check out the new season of Romecast with Milo and Patrick Wyman, here! -------- This show is supported by Patreon. Sign up for as little as $5 a month to gain access to a new bonus episode every other week, and our entire backlog of bonus episodes! Thats https://www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast -------- Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

Fortunate Son – Creedence Clearwater Revival Out Among the Stars – Johnny Cash Honky Tonk Hall Of Fame (feat. Chris Stapleton) – George Strait Best of All Possible Worlds – Kris Kristofferson This Ole Boy – Craig Morgan Tear It Up – Tyler Toliver The Dollar – Jamey Johnson Mine Again – Zach Bryan Western Gold – Gethen Jenkins Unbroken (feat. Dan Couch) – CreatiVets

Episode Notes Holy lord, we made it. Election Day. Anyway, against our better judgement Greg and Jordan did an episode with Josh from The Worst of All Possible Worlds Podcast to look into the last few weeks of the Trump Campaign and make predictions that will either make us seem like prophets or the dumbest people on earth. Time will tell! You can find Josh on Twitter @boshj, or Bluesky at @bosh, and you can find The Worst of All Possible Worlds on their Website or any podcast source.

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Professor and author Matt McManus returns to the show to discuss his newest book, "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism". Together they explore the major themes of the book, hash out the disagreements they have between revolutionary Marxism and democratic socialism, explore critical thinkers like Karl Marx, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, and John Rawls, wrestle with the questions of revolution and communism as the ultimate goal of socialism, and much more. "Providing a comprehensive critical genealogy of liberal socialism from a sympathetic but critical standpoint, McManus traces its core to the Revolutionary period that catalyzed major divisions in liberal political theory to the French Revolution that saw the emergence of writers like Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine who argued that liberal principles could only be inadequately instantiated in a society with high levels of material and social inequality to John Stuart Mill, the first major thinker who declared himself a liberal and a socialist and who made major contributions to both traditions through his efforts to synthesize and conciliate them." Check out our other episodes with Matt HERE Outro Song: "Best of All Possible Worlds" by Ajj feat: Kool Keith & Kimya Dawson Support Rev Left HERE Follow us on IG HERE

Did you enjoy that break from Dobson? Thinking about how we can make the world a better place for everyone? That was nice, huh. Anyway, that's not what this episode is. Today Jake and Brooke are talking about perhaps THE Dobson book, "The Strong-Willed Child" and talking about what the hell Dobson means by "strong-willed". Check out "The Worst of All Possible Worlds": https://www.worstpossible.world/References:"Before you donate to Autism Speaks, Consider the Facts" from AutisticAdvocacy.org"Personality" from APA.org"The Autistic Horror of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (season 1)" by Patricia Taxxon on Youtube"The Controversy Around ABA" from ChildMind.org"What are the Big 5 Personality Traits" from VeryWellMind.com"Why The Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless" from Vox.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

THIS IS A PREVIEW. IF YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE, CHECK OUT FRUITLESS ON PATREON HERE: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=11922141EPISODE ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109460562I'm in Colorado Spring, Colorado with Leo Dickenson to see The Worst of All Possible Worlds live. We recorded this little conversation about Adventures in Odyssey and growing up evangelical in an EconoLodge. Originally it was going to be a quick little bonus episode but we talked long enough to make it a proper Patreon episode, so here you go. Enjoy. Music by SHADE08

Unbelieveable! The Sickos discuss an actual anime: the 2022 Apple TV+ live action thriller Severance starring Adam Scott. This shit is so good. We basically just go nutty over how much we love this show. Some spoilers but we leave the finale and the big twists unrevealed. Also we got a fun sketch with the Worst of All Possible Worlds boys. It's a banger

In this unlocked bonus episode, Josh from The Worst of All Possible Worlds swung by the studio and so we forced him to podcast. In this episode, Hussein explains the Bromley Chicken Yaoi reddit post, and the phenomena of London chicken shops with American names. We also talk about some of our favourite recent posts, weird Christian TikToks and why exorcisms always make for good content, and Josh tells us about the time Putin opened the oldest tomb. Check out Josh's podcast here! Support them on Patreon here! -------- PALESTINE AID LINKS As the humanitarian crisis continues to unfold in Gaza, we encourage anyone who can to donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians. You can donate using the links below. Please also donate to the gofundmes of people trying to escape Rafah, or purchase ESIMs. These links are for if you need a well-respected name attached to a fund to feel comfortable sending money. https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict -------- PHOEBE ALERT Can't get enough Phoebe? Check out her Substack Here! -------- This show is supported by Patreon. Sign up for as little as $5 a month to gain access to a new bonus episode every week, and our entire backlog of bonus episodes! Thats https://www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast -------- Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

A.J. Ditty from the Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast goes guesto mode! We learn how to act, why seeing your parents shot in the face would make you get all A's in acting school, visual novels, Elden Ring, and the joy of writing lore-heavy serialized interstitial skits to stick in the middle of your chat podcast. You can listen to Volume One of the Odyssey Commercials here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxLT-j2Oh9g

The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei brings readers from the libraries of Princeton to alien planets for a heist story like no other and is a great read for lovers of alien tech, found family and saving the world. Kitasei joins us to talk about her inspirations for her novels, themes of identity and memory, why we should all read more sci-fi and more with co-host, Jenna Seery. We end this episode with TBR Top Off book recommendations from Mary and Jamie.   This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang.                      New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.             Featured Books (Episode):  The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei  The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei  Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino  Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro   Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell   The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel   Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro  The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord  Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo   Featured Books (TBR Top Off):  Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett  The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 

This is a preview of a patreon bonus episode! Check out the full episode here! Josh from The Worst of All Possible Worlds swung by the studio and so we forced him to podcast. In this episode, Hussein explains the Bromley Chicken Yaoi reddit post, and the phenomena of London chicken shops with American names. We also talk about some of our favourite recent posts, weird Christian TikToks and why exorcisms always make for good content, and Josh tells us about the time Putin opened the oldest tomb. Check out Josh's podcast here! Support them on Patreon here! -------- PALESTINE AID LINKS As the humanitarian crisis continues to unfold in Gaza, we encourage anyone who can to donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians. You can donate using the links below. Please also donate to the gofundmes of people trying to escape Rafah, or purchase ESIMs. These links are for if you need a well-respected name attached to a fund to feel comfortable sending money. https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict -------- PHOEBE ALERT Can't get enough Phoebe? Check out her Substack Here! -------- This show is supported by Patreon. Sign up for as little as $5 a month to gain access to a new bonus episode every week, and our entire backlog of bonus episodes! Thats https://www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast -------- Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, Karen's latest novel picks up in her series about aliens 150 years from now as they make first contact. Her Cygnus Beta series has earned praise from The Guardian, Martha Wells, LitHub, The Big Issue & BookRiot. Get your copy here, or at your local seller. [More on Karen from her about the author online:] Barbadian writer Dr. Karen Lord is the author of Redemption in Indigo, which won the William L. Crawford Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Her other works include the science fiction novels The Best of All Possible Worlds, The Galaxy Game, and The Blue, Beautiful World, and the crime-fantasy novel Unraveling. Lord also edited the anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean. She was a judge for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the 2018 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean YA Literature. She has taught at the 2018 Clarion West Writers Workshop and the 2019 Clarion Workshop, and she co-facilitated the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Workshop in Barbados. She has been a featured author at literary festivals from Adelaide to Edinburgh to Berlin, and often appears at the Bocas Lit Fest in Trinidad & Tobago.

Josh (@Boshj) from The Worst of All Possible Worlds joins the gang to discuss the Humane AI Pin's latest new feature (gets really hot), Lars Windhorst's latest personal update ("I am not on the run"), and the return of Nigel Farage to frontline politics. Then, for our main discussion - a hot new company that intends to be the Netflix of AI, but that so far is only able to make different iterations of South Park. Check out The Worst of All Possible Worlds here! https://worstpossible.world If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture   *EDINBURGH LIVE SHOW ALERT* We're going to be live at Monkey Barrel comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe on August 14, and you can get tickets here:  https://www.wegottickets.com/event/621432   *MILO ALERT* Buy Milo's special ‘Voicemail' here! https://pensight.com/x/miloedwards/digital-item-5a616491-a89c-4ed2-a257-0adc30eedd6d *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

We brought on Josh from The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast to talk about an apocalyptic conspiracy theory that is gaining traction in evangelical online spaces: the red heifer sacrifices. But we also had to also bring back Marcos to examine this information through the vaguely schizophrenic lens of his new worldview: the chiral vectors. We recommend smoking weed out of a can to get aluminum poisoning for this episode. Also possibly ingesting some ayahuasca. Find Josh at twitter.com/boshj  Find Marcos at twitter.com/aintershow

THIS IS A PREVIEW. IF YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE, CHECK OUT FRUITLESS ON PATREON HERE: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=11922141EPISODE ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103466040Josh Boerman (@boshj, The Worst of All Possible Worlds) joins me on a last minute "emergency" episode about the Palestinian solidarity protests at Columbia, CUNY, UCLA, and elsewhere. We recorded this on the evening of May 1. Some things may have changed since events on campuses are moving fast.Music by SHADE08

Tim wisely stays far away while Jen hosts the lovable Worst of All Possible Worlds boys to chat about the worst of all possible musicals, Aladdin from 1990. Yes, it's not the animated version, but it does involve Disney. Listen if you don't believe us! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We welcome Josh Boerman from the Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast. We discuss immersive sims, the value of good criticism, trying to make a living off creative work, and whether or not they still make Spree (the candy from Halloween). You can find The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast at https://www.worstpossible.world/

Josiah is joined by AJ Ditty (@thefuzzymask, The Worst of All Possible Worlds) to discuss The Puffy Chair (2005) and how Mumblecore can actually be pretty good sometimes. Follow today's guest on Twitter.Check out The Worst of All Possible WorldsBecome a Fruitless Patron here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=11922141Check out Fruitless on YouTubeFind more of Josiah's work hereFollow Josiah on Twitter @josiahwsuttonReferencesThe Puffy Chair (2005), directed by Jay Duplass"'The Puffy Chair' Tells the Story of a Trip to Atlanta (and to Adulthood)," A.O. Scott in New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/04/movies/04puff.html.Jay and Mark Duplass at the Academy, 2015, Oscars YouTube Channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el_O0rFDCkM.Jay Duplass breaks down his career, Vanity Fair, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeWiogEnMic."What Makes This Film Great: The Puffy Chair," Aaron Hunter, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgBYD7j-yME. I (Josiah) forgot to say I pulled the point about Josh ripping off the motel but being indignant when he gets ripped off later from this lovely little video essay about the film.Matthew Christman reviewing the film on Letterboxd, https://letterboxd.com/worsethan/film/the-puffy-chair.Music & audio creditsYesterday – bloom.At the Bottom of Everything - Bright EyesPrevious TWOAPW episode where I insulted Mumblecore (Episode 84)

Josh Boerman and AJ Ditty from The Worst of All Possible Worlds join Milo and Phoebe for another round of riffs... You can check out their show at: https://www.worstpossible.world/ Full episode on Patreon for $10+ subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98775970?pr=true Follow us on twitter @mastersofpod!

THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall My name is Alan Wake. I'm a writer. Two years ago, three “critics” from The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast decided to slander my good name and drag my first game through the mud. Now, they've Returned from their previous Departure and have fully Initiated themselves into my torment anew. Will they dub me the Champion of Light? Or cast me off as the Herald of Darkness? Only one thing's for sure: Stephen King once wrote “Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger.” He said this before snorting three lines of cocaine and trying to fight a bus. He would later go on to marry that bus in a private ceremony in Maine. This marriage was quickly annulled when everyone involved realized you cannot marry a bus. I married Alice, a human woman. I know this because I know the difference between a woman and a bus. That's why I famously wrote the line: “It's not a woman, it's a bus.” Want more TWOAPW? Get access to the rest of this episode, our full back catalogue of premium and bonus episodes, and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Media Referenced in this Episode: Alan Wake II. Remedy Entertainment. 2023. 13 Minutes of Alan Wake 2 GAMEPLAY (Unreleased). Polygon. 2016. Alan Wake 2 Announcement: World Premiere Trailer and Interview. The Game Awards, 2021. “Sam Lake and the Remedy Team shine a light on what it takes to make games like Alan Wake 2”. BAFTA, 2024. “Sisu: A Word that Explains Finland” by Hudson Strode Professor of English, University of Alabamapenguin (sic), Bonney-Elisofon, Solbelman and Black Star. NYTimes. Jan. 14th, 1940. TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com Commercial: “The Hydraulic Press Channel”

Alright, thats quite enough vaguely muddling through the depths of Eurospy. Going forward, it's Bangers Only- and kicking that off is That Man in Istanbul, or as it will come to be known, the Ballad of Tony Mercedes. But we simply couldn't do it alone. Joining us on this episode is A.J. from The Worst of All Possible Worlds!  ------ FREE PALESTINE palestineaction.org/donate https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate ----- Consider supporting us on our reasonably-priced patreon! https://www.patreon.com/killjamesbond ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT*  Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/   Kill James Bond is hosted by Alice Caldwell-Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com

Josiah is joined by Brian Alford (@SpocksBrian) from The Worst of All Possible Worlds to discuss HGTV's Home Town, the Napier family, and Laurel, Mississippi, alongside Showtime's new series, The Curse. Follow today's guest on Twitter.Check out The Worst of All Possible WorldsBecome a Fruitless Patron here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=11922141Check out Fruitless on YouTubeFind more of Josiah's work hereFollow Josiah on Twitter @josiahwsuttonReferencesThe Curse, Showtime. Season 1, Episodes 1 - 5 are out at time of recording.Reddit thread about Home Town's race problem, https://www.reddit.com/r/HGTV/comments/il7bet/home_town_seems_like_white_town."Behind the Scenes on ‘Home Town': A Season 4 Participant Spills the Details," Claudine Zap in Realtor, https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/behind-the-scenes-home-town."The dark side of Home Town," Jim Cegielski in The Laurel Leader Call, https://www.leader-call.com/opinion/columnists/the-dark-side-of-home-town/article_48770330-a7c6-11e8-bbf4-333e68883245.html. In the episode, Josiah flounders a bit because he's dumb and didn't re-read the article before the episode, but the gist is that Greg Burroughs, a man with a repeated history of abuse, had allegedly murdered his girlfriend, Katherine Sinclair. He called the local judge (who he was friends with) before he called 911 and multiple other strings were pulled to get him out of trouble. The author of the opinion piece, Jim Cegielski, claims he had local advertisers pull out because he chose to cover the story. His point is that there is a very clear monied class in Laurel that everyone is pretending doesn't exist. After this article was published, Greg Burroughs was acquitted."Southern Newlywed: At Home with Erin and Ben Napier," Southern Weddings, https://southernweddings.com/2014/06/06/southern-newlywed-home-lucky-luxe. This is the interview that got the attention of an HGTV producer and led to the show."‘Home Town' Reflects an Incomplete Picture of Laurel's History of Disenfranchisement," Jonathan Odell in Mississippi Free Press, https://www.mississippifreepress.org/35581/home-town-reflects-an-incomplete-picture-of-laurels-history-of-disenfranchisement."Here's Why 'Home Town' Star Erin Napier Has Been Silent About Black Lives Matter on Social Media," Kelly Wynne in Newsweek, https://www.newsweek.com/heres-why-home-town-star-erin-napier-has-been-silent-about-black-lives-matter-social-media-1508776."'Home Town' Star Erin Napier Gets Flooded With Comments After Sharing Parenting Rule," Katie Bowlby in Country Living, https://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/a42321936/home-town-erin-napier-parenting-rule-fan-reactions.Napiers' nonprofit to get kids off social media, OSPREY, https://ospreykids.com/about."'Home Town' Star Erin Napier Shares "Terrifying" Instagram Post that Has Fans Flooding Her with Support," Katie Bowlby in Country Living, https://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/a39903660/erin-napier-terrifying-instagram-post-fan-reactions.Episodes of Home Town watchedS1E1 Big Renovations in a Small TownS2E1 Home Town Holiday SpecialS3E10 Small Budget, Big StyleS4E3 The Church HouseS5E10 Retreat YourselfS6E5 Grand Millennial S7E2 The Family Tree (only Brian got around to this one)Music & audio creditsYesterday – bloom.In My Dreams – bloom."Home Town" CBS Segment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYscsBliWZ8

Josh Boerman from the Worst of All Possible Worlds joins the gang in studio to discuss the ongoing weird-ification of the Anglo American right, seen through the lens of a number of state-level elections in the US and the doubling down on anti-Palestinian solidarity in the UK. Additionally, we discuss a strange superyacht based charity and finish on a sternly worded letter to the National Department Store on its insufficiently bouyant Christmas advert. If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture Medical Aid for Palestinians: www.map.org.uk *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo's upcoming live shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

Barbadian writer Karen Lord is an award-winning author of Redemption in Indigo, The Best of All Possible Worlds, and The Galaxy Game. Her latest book, The Blue, Beautiful World, was published in August 2023. We hear from her the lessons from the COVID pandemic, short-termism, and the power of literature to reach through time.

Josiah is joined by Josh Boerman (@boshj) from The Worst of All Possible Worlds to discuss growing up Reformed and evangelical, discovering "secular media," the general loneliness of American life that makes church attractive, and the way Trump broke the brains of so many evangelicals.Follow today's guest on Twitter.Check out The Worst of All Possible WorldsBecome a Fruitless Patron here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=11922141Check out Fruitless on YouTubeFind more of Josiah's work hereFollow Josiah on Twitter @josiahwsuttonMusic & audio creditsYesterday – bloom.In My Dreams – bloom.CRNCA Synod 2022, Wednesday and Thursday

In science fiction, aliens who come to Earth are usually scary and menacing, aspiring to destroy, conquer, or even eat mankind. But the aliens in Karen Lord's The Blue, Beautiful World (Del Rey, 2023) aren't interested in conquering or destroying; they're interested in inviting Earthlings to join a Galactic Council. It turns out, however, that humans need a little time and training before they're ready to assume the responsibilities of galactic citizenship. And complicating matters is the fact that humans might not be the only Earth dwellers to receive the aliens' invitation. It's not surprising that water and oceans figure prominently in Lord's novel. As a Barbadian writer, she has a lifelong respect—and fear—of the water. “I'm kind of terrified of the ocean,” Lord said. “To give you context, there is literally a part of the island that you can drive to and look around and see three coastlines. But you can't see any other land from any of the coasts. It's an oddly isolating feeling, like you're standing tiptoe on a small rock—and you could tip over and crash into the ocean anytime. “I love living here, but when something bad goes down, it's like, boom, all of a sudden you realize the ocean is not your natural habitat. It's not making things easy for you. We are very much living on the skin part of land. We don't know the ocean. We don't know the surface of the ocean. We don't know the depths of the ocean. There is a huge level of respect and mystery that the ocean commands.” The Blue, Beautiful World is Lord's fifth novel. Her previous books are Redemption in Indigo, which received the William L. Crawford and Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. That was followed later by a sequel, Unraveling. While The Blue, Beautiful World is considered a standalone story, it is set in the Cygnus Beta universe, which is where two of her previous books, The Best of All Possible Worlds and The Galaxy Game, are also set. Rob Wolf is a writer and host of New Books in Science Fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In science fiction, aliens who come to Earth are usually scary and menacing, aspiring to destroy, conquer, or even eat mankind. But the aliens in Karen Lord's The Blue, Beautiful World (Del Rey, 2023) aren't interested in conquering or destroying; they're interested in inviting Earthlings to join a Galactic Council. It turns out, however, that humans need a little time and training before they're ready to assume the responsibilities of galactic citizenship. And complicating matters is the fact that humans might not be the only Earth dwellers to receive the aliens' invitation. It's not surprising that water and oceans figure prominently in Lord's novel. As a Barbadian writer, she has a lifelong respect—and fear—of the water. “I'm kind of terrified of the ocean,” Lord said. “To give you context, there is literally a part of the island that you can drive to and look around and see three coastlines. But you can't see any other land from any of the coasts. It's an oddly isolating feeling, like you're standing tiptoe on a small rock—and you could tip over and crash into the ocean anytime. “I love living here, but when something bad goes down, it's like, boom, all of a sudden you realize the ocean is not your natural habitat. It's not making things easy for you. We are very much living on the skin part of land. We don't know the ocean. We don't know the surface of the ocean. We don't know the depths of the ocean. There is a huge level of respect and mystery that the ocean commands.” The Blue, Beautiful World is Lord's fifth novel. Her previous books are Redemption in Indigo, which received the William L. Crawford and Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. That was followed later by a sequel, Unraveling. While The Blue, Beautiful World is considered a standalone story, it is set in the Cygnus Beta universe, which is where two of her previous books, The Best of All Possible Worlds and The Galaxy Game, are also set. Rob Wolf is a writer and host of New Books in Science Fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-fiction

In science fiction, aliens who come to Earth are usually scary and menacing, aspiring to destroy, conquer, or even eat mankind. But the aliens in Karen Lord's The Blue, Beautiful World (Del Rey, 2023) aren't interested in conquering or destroying; they're interested in inviting Earthlings to join a Galactic Council. It turns out, however, that humans need a little time and training before they're ready to assume the responsibilities of galactic citizenship. And complicating matters is the fact that humans might not be the only Earth dwellers to receive the aliens' invitation. It's not surprising that water and oceans figure prominently in Lord's novel. As a Barbadian writer, she has a lifelong respect—and fear—of the water. “I'm kind of terrified of the ocean,” Lord said. “To give you context, there is literally a part of the island that you can drive to and look around and see three coastlines. But you can't see any other land from any of the coasts. It's an oddly isolating feeling, like you're standing tiptoe on a small rock—and you could tip over and crash into the ocean anytime. “I love living here, but when something bad goes down, it's like, boom, all of a sudden you realize the ocean is not your natural habitat. It's not making things easy for you. We are very much living on the skin part of land. We don't know the ocean. We don't know the surface of the ocean. We don't know the depths of the ocean. There is a huge level of respect and mystery that the ocean commands.” The Blue, Beautiful World is Lord's fifth novel. Her previous books are Redemption in Indigo, which received the William L. Crawford and Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. That was followed later by a sequel, Unraveling. While The Blue, Beautiful World is considered a standalone story, it is set in the Cygnus Beta universe, which is where two of her previous books, The Best of All Possible Worlds and The Galaxy Game, are also set. Rob Wolf is a writer and host of New Books in Science Fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

On the verge of adulthood, Rafi attends the Lyceum, a school for the psionically gifted. Rafi possesses mental abilities that might benefit people . . . or control them. Some wish to help Rafi wield his powers responsibly; others see him as a threat to be contained. Rafi's only freedom at the Lyceum is Wallrunning: a game of speed and agility played on vast vertical surfaces riddled with variable gravity fields.Serendipity and Ntenman are also students at the Lyceum, but unlike Rafi, they come from communities where such abilities are valued. Serendipity finds the Lyceum as much a prison as a school, and she yearns for a meaningful life beyond its gates. Ntenman, with his quick tongue, quicker mind, and a willingness to bend if not break the rules, has no problem fitting in. But he too has his reasons for wanting to escape.Now the three friends are about to experience a moment of violent change as seething tensions between rival star-faring civilizations come to a head. For Serendipity, this change will challenge her ideas of community and self. For Ntenman, it will open new opportunities and new dangers. And for Rafi, given a chance to train with some of the best Wallrunners in the galaxy, it will lead to the discovery that there is more to Wallrunning than he ever suspected . . . and more to himself than he ever dreamed.Barbadian writer Karen Lord is the award-winning author of Redemption in Indigo, The Best of All Possible Worlds, and The Galaxy Game, and the editor of the anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean. Her latest book, The Blue, Beautiful World, will be published in August 2023.

A new series dedicated to the soundtracks that make for a great workshop day. COUNTRY AFTERNOON PART 2 njoy the sounds U.V please support good music and the record lables that put it out in the world // Buy Records // Concert tickets // merchandise // Support music I make no monetary amount from this podcast. All music rights belong to their rightful owners. I make these mixes for pure enjoyment and to eradicate shit music from world & spread the good sounds from around the globe. If your music is here and you would like it taken down please contact and we will do so immediatly. Unholyvaults If Your Heart Ain't Busy Tonight by Tanya Tucker Ragged Old Truck by Johnny Paycheck Tight Fittin' Jeans by Conway Twitty The Best of All Possible Worlds by Kris Kristofferson Saddle In the Rain by John Prine Ramblin' Fever by Merle Haggard Black Rose by Waylon Jennings Bear Creek Blues by John Prine They Caught the Devil and Put Him In Jail In Eudora, Arkansas by Tony Joe White Mississippi Delta by Bobbie Gentry Tulsa Turnaround by Kenny Rogers House Fire by Tyler Childers

This is a preview of a bonus episode. Listen to the whole episode at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. -------- In the second part of our two parter on how evangelicals use the internet, Josh Boerman from the Worst of All Possible Worlds returns to talk to us about- among other things- evangelical tiktok! -------- PHOEBE ALERT Can't get enough Phoebe? Want some Milo in the mix too? Check out their new limited series about Rome Here! And while you're clicking links, check out Phoebe's Substack Here! -------- This show is supported by Patreon. Sign up for as little as $5 a month to gain access to a new bonus episode every week, and our entire backlog of bonus episodes! Thats https://www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast -------- Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

Josh Boerman (@boshj_returns) from The Worst of All Possible Worlds joins Milo (@milo_edwards) and Phoebe (@prhroy) to talk all about East London's karaoke offerings and Kramer's black market shower heads... Full episode on Patreon for $3+ subscribers here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/82852836 Follow us on twitter @mastersofpod!  

Without the guidance of their fearless leader Riley, the gang - joined by Josh Boerman of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast (http://worstpossible.world/) - are swept up in a monarchist fervour. Get the full episode on Patreon! If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture   *LIVE SHOW ALERT* We're touring the Midlands, the North, and (one city in) Scotland in May! We'll be in Birmingham on May 14, Leeds on May 15, Manchester on May 16, and Glasgow on May 21. Tickets are available here: https://www.trashfuture.co.uk/events   *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo's upcoming live shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows and check out a recording of Milo's special PINDOS available on YouTube here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRI7uwTPJtg *ROME ALERT* Milo and Phoebe have teamed up with friend of the show Patrick Wyman to finally put their classical education to good use and discuss every episode of season 1 of Rome. You can download the 12 episode series from Bandcamp here (1st episode is free): https://romepodcast.bandcamp.com/album/rome-season-1 Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Giant (In)scrutable Matrices: (Maybe) the Best of All Possible Worlds, published by 1a3orn on April 4, 2023 on LessWrong. It has become common on LW to refer to "giant inscrutable matrices" as a problem with modern deep-learning systems. To clarify: deep learning models are trained by creating giant blocks of random numbers -- blocks with dimensions like 4096 x 512 x 1024 -- and incrementally adjusting the values of these numbers with stochastic gradient descent (or some variant thereof). In raw form, these giant blocks of numbers are of course completely unintelligible. Many hold that the use of such giant SGD-trained blocks is why it is hard to understand or to control deep learning models, and therefore we should seek to make ML systems from other components. There are several places where Yudkowsky or others state or strongly imply that because SGD-trained models with huge matrices are unintelligible, we should seek some more easily-interpretable paradigm. I'm going to argue against that. I think that a better alternative is probably not possible; that the apparent inscrutability of these models actually has little-to-nothing to do with deep learning; and finally that this language -- particularly to the non-rationalist -- suggests unwarranted mystery. 0: It Is Probable That Generally Intelligent Systems Must be Connectionist Imagine a universe in which it is impossible to build a generally intelligent system that is not massively connectionist. That is, imagine a world where the only way to get intelligence from atoms is to have a massive number of simple, uniform units connected to each other -- or something that is a functional equivalent of the same. In such a world, all smart animals would have become smart by scaling up the number of such units that they have. The dominant evolutionary species might become intelligent by scaling up its head size, despite paying the evolutionary cost of making childbirth dangerous and painful by doing so. Flying species that could not afford this extra weight of scaling up skull volume might take another approach, shrinking their neurons to pack more of them into a given volume. Even animals far distant from the dominant species along the phylogenetic tree and in which the evolution of high levels of intelligence occurred entirely separately, would do so by scaling up their brains. The dominant species, once it could make information-processing equipment, might try for many years to make some generally intelligent system without massive connectionism. They might scorn connectionism as brute force, or as lacking insight; thousands of PhDs and software engineers would spend time devising specialized systems of image classification, voice transcription, language translation, video analysis, natural language processing, and so on. But once they coded up connectionist software -- then in a handful of years, the prior systems built through hundreds of thousands of hours of effort would fall to simple systems that an undergrad could put together in his spare time. And connectionist systems would quickly vault out from the realm of such prior systems, to build things completely unprecedented to non-connectionist systems. Of course, such a world would be indistinguishable from our world. Is this proof that intelligence must be connectionist? Of course not. We still await a Newton who might build a detailed causal model of intelligence, which confirms or refutes the above. But if the universal failure of nature and man to find non-connectionist forms of general intelligence does not move you, despite searching for millions of years and millions of man-hours -- well, you could be right, but I'd really like to see any predictions an alternate hypothesis makes. 1.a: Among Connectionist Systems That We Know To Be Possible, Synchronous Mat...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Giant (In)scrutable Matrices: (Maybe) the Best of All Possible Worlds, published by 1a3orn on April 4, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. It has become common on LW to refer to "giant inscrutable matrices" as a problem with modern deep-learning systems. To clarify: deep learning models are trained by creating giant blocks of random numbers -- blocks with dimensions like 4096 x 512 x 1024 -- and incrementally adjusting the values of these numbers with stochastic gradient descent (or some variant thereof). In raw form, these giant blocks of numbers are of course completely unintelligible. Many hold that the use of such giant SGD-trained blocks is why it is hard to understand or to control deep learning models, and therefore we should seek to make ML systems from other components. There are several places where Yudkowsky or others state or strongly imply that because SGD-trained models with huge matrices are unintelligible, we should seek some more easily-interpretable paradigm. I'm going to argue against that. I think that a better alternative is probably not possible; that the apparent inscrutability of these models actually has little-to-nothing to do with deep learning; and finally that this language -- particularly to the non-rationalist -- suggests unwarranted mystery. 0: It Is Probable That Generally Intelligent Systems Must be Connectionist Imagine a universe in which it is impossible to build a generally intelligent system that is not massively connectionist. That is, imagine a world where the only way to get intelligence from atoms is to have a massive number of simple, uniform units connected to each other -- or something that is a functional equivalent of the same. In such a world, all smart animals would have become smart by scaling up the number of such units that they have. The dominant evolutionary species might become intelligent by scaling up its head size, despite paying the evolutionary cost of making childbirth dangerous and painful by doing so. Flying species that could not afford this extra weight of scaling up skull volume might take another approach, shrinking their neurons to pack more of them into a given volume. Even animals far distant from the dominant species along the phylogenetic tree and in which the evolution of high levels of intelligence occurred entirely separately, would do so by scaling up their brains. The dominant species, once it could make information-processing equipment, might try for many years to make some generally intelligent system without massive connectionism. They might scorn connectionism as brute force, or as lacking insight; thousands of PhDs and software engineers would spend time devising specialized systems of image classification, voice transcription, language translation, video analysis, natural language processing, and so on. But once they coded up connectionist software -- then in a handful of years, the prior systems built through hundreds of thousands of hours of effort would fall to simple systems that an undergrad could put together in his spare time. And connectionist systems would quickly vault out from the realm of such prior systems, to build things completely unprecedented to non-connectionist systems. Of course, such a world would be indistinguishable from our world. Is this proof that intelligence must be connectionist? Of course not. We still await a Newton who might build a detailed causal model of intelligence, which confirms or refutes the above. But if the universal failure of nature and man to find non-connectionist forms of general intelligence does not move you, despite searching for millions of years and millions of man-hours -- well, you could be right, but I'd really like to see any predictions an alternate hypothesis makes. 1.a: Among Connectionist Systems That We Know To Be Possible, Sy...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Giant (In)scrutable Matrices: (Maybe) the Best of All Possible Worlds, published by 1a3orn on April 4, 2023 on LessWrong. It has become common on LW to refer to "giant inscrutable matrices" as a problem with modern deep-learning systems. To clarify: deep learning models are trained by creating giant blocks of random numbers -- blocks with dimensions like 4096 x 512 x 1024 -- and incrementally adjusting the values of these numbers with stochastic gradient descent (or some variant thereof). In raw form, these giant blocks of numbers are of course completely unintelligible. Many hold that the use of such giant SGD-trained blocks is why it is hard to understand or to control deep learning models, and therefore we should seek to make ML systems from other components. There are several places where Yudkowsky or others state or strongly imply that because SGD-trained models with huge matrices are unintelligible, we should seek some more easily-interpretable paradigm. I'm going to argue against that. I think that a better alternative is probably not possible; that the apparent inscrutability of these models actually has little-to-nothing to do with deep learning; and finally that this language -- particularly to the non-rationalist -- suggests unwarranted mystery. 0: It Is Probable That Generally Intelligent Systems Must be Connectionist Imagine a universe in which it is impossible to build a generally intelligent system that is not massively connectionist. That is, imagine a world where the only way to get intelligence from atoms is to have a massive number of simple, uniform units connected to each other -- or something that is a functional equivalent of the same. In such a world, all smart animals would have become smart by scaling up the number of such units that they have. The dominant evolutionary species might become intelligent by scaling up its head size, despite paying the evolutionary cost of making childbirth dangerous and painful by doing so. Flying species that could not afford this extra weight of scaling up skull volume might take another approach, shrinking their neurons to pack more of them into a given volume. Even animals far distant from the dominant species along the phylogenetic tree and in which the evolution of high levels of intelligence occurred entirely separately, would do so by scaling up their brains. The dominant species, once it could make information-processing equipment, might try for many years to make some generally intelligent system without massive connectionism. They might scorn connectionism as brute force, or as lacking insight; thousands of PhDs and software engineers would spend time devising specialized systems of image classification, voice transcription, language translation, video analysis, natural language processing, and so on. But once they coded up connectionist software -- then in a handful of years, the prior systems built through hundreds of thousands of hours of effort would fall to simple systems that an undergrad could put together in his spare time. And connectionist systems would quickly vault out from the realm of such prior systems, to build things completely unprecedented to non-connectionist systems. Of course, such a world would be indistinguishable from our world. Is this proof that intelligence must be connectionist? Of course not. We still await a Newton who might build a detailed causal model of intelligence, which confirms or refutes the above. But if the universal failure of nature and man to find non-connectionist forms of general intelligence does not move you, despite searching for millions of years and millions of man-hours -- well, you could be right, but I'd really like to see any predictions an alternate hypothesis makes. 1.a: Among Connectionist Systems That We Know To Be Possible, Synchronous Mat...

In Episode 38 of our 1813-part series ranking every film on Disney Plus, Shawn, Bob, and Rob discuss Robin Williams' "Mrs. Doubtfire." Alas, we do not live in a world where we got to see Tim Allen's "Mrs. Doubtfire," also known as "The Best of All Possible Worlds." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode, your tour guides are joined by Josh Boerman (@boshj) of The Worst of All Possible Worlds to learn a little bit about Focus on the Family, James Dobson, and how they need to dare to discipline.Follow us on Twitter @MammonburgpodFollow Josh and The Worst of All Possible Worlds on TwitterFollow the hosts on Twitter: Jackal, Finch, Josiah, and Phil.BibliographyShadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right - Anne NelsonJesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation - Kristin Kobes Du MezThe Importance of RespectDobson LibraryAudio CreditsNoah - The JubalairesNomad - Liadiii90s Lofi type beat - LiadiiiFar Away (Prod. Riddiman)Chill Day - Lakey InspiredJohn Piper - Would Jesus spank a child?Essentials of Discipline: Dr. Oblivious and James DobsonAdventures in Odyssey - Whit's IntroDr. James Dobson's Bringing Up Boys Seminar, DVD Jordan PetersonSimpsons "Why you little"Ted Bundy interviewMore Ted Bundy interviewThe Young Turks: Dobson Gets Kicked Out Of Focus On The FamilyMore Adventures in Odyssey

It's time to talk about the year that was: 2022. We lived it. We loved it. And the boys enlisted the help of Brian and Josh from The Worst of All Possible Worlds to talk through all the big moments from the year gone by. And at the end, we give out the coveted, honorary awards to the year's biggest freaks. 2023 -- onward and upward. (Sorry if the audio gets a lil weird toward the end. I had to edit in our backup audio lol) Join the patreon: patreon.com/brighamyoungmoney

Homework: Listen to “Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers” by Kendrick Lamar (Apple Music | Spotify) Buy (or stream) “The Best of All Possible Worlds” by Elway (Bandcamp | Apple Music | Spotify) Miscellaneous things! Dismiss_the_rest_of_all_possible_worlds This is the best_of_all_possible_worlds Toxic_Optimism So Long,_Mom Ca_Ira! Future_Thoughts Outro: “Forver_West” by Sam Russo (1/2 of the English Wishbone) Our things: Contact: upnextspam@gmail.com Follow: Instagram - upnext.pod Listen: Our Playlists (Apple Music | Spotify) View: Official historical record Click: anchor.fm/upnextmusic Andy's things: www.andrewbaldwinpercussion.com Twitter @andrew_on_drums Instagram @andrew_on_drums We Die First podcast Excuse Me, I Have a Masters podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/upnextmusic/message

Stanley read the episode notes for the podcast called “The Worst of All Possible Worlds #57: The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe.” He marveled at their ability to convey both the tone of the episode and the appropriate words necessary to take advantage of the SEO. Words like “Whizbang!“, “Gadzooks!“, and “The Truth About Vaccines!” None of these things were in the episode proper, of course, but Stanley could feel their power extending out to the furthest reaches of the world wide web. He gave thanks that these words would feed the Great Beast Algorith'm, whom Stanley knew all should fear and give praise. In fact, just thinking about the Great Beast Algorith'm made Stanley convulse with fright and involuntarily scream, but this terror was immediately satiated as Stanley grabbed hold of his Reassurance Bucket. “MMMM,” Stanley thought, “That's GOOOOOOOOOOD Bucket.” TWOAPW Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll Theme by Brendan Dalton www.brendan-dalton.com https://brendandalton.bandcamp.com Media Referenced in this Episode: Davey Wreden & William Pugh: Life After The Stanley Parable by John Walker https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/davey-wreden-william-pugh-the-stanley-parable-interview

Today we are joined by Brian from the fantastic podcast The Worst of All Possible Worlds! The boys talk about Greg leaving the Democratic party alongside his favorite surfing TERF, the country moving towards Brandonizing weed, Alex Jones owing the monetary equivalent of trillions of poison brain pills in damages, Burgess Owens hiding from a debate because of a cartoonist, and more. And finally, we get Dignified using a new online political lifesaver that's stopping violence and saving democracy by analyzing one tweet at a time. Buckle up, baby. Oh! And join the patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/brighamyoungmoney We just launched a discord for our patrons. Should be cool.

A.J. is a comedian and co-host of the wonderful The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast and here for a bad show that has one or two moments of music theatre heaven. Topics include: slime tutorials, 2x4 with googly eyes, “broken clock” moments, the living embodiment of “well, actually,” Les Contes d'Hoffmann, and lyrics with a good mouth-feel. ”Inside High Fidelity” background and analysis by Scott Miller A.J. Ditty Dot Com The Worst of All Possible Worlds Featured recordings: High Fidelity - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2007) • American Idiot - The Original Broadway Cast Recording (2010) ORIGINAL CAST MERCH! Visit our Patreon for access to our monthly live stream The Original Cast at the Movies where this year we're talking musical sequels and musical biopics! Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Let's slap a big ol' content warning at the top here cause wow, this episode is nuts! It's the one where Randall Park circumcises himself and that's only the fifth craziest thing to happen. Writer, comedian, and co-host of "The Worst of All Possible Worlds" podcast AJ Ditty joins us to unpack a simply wild episode that would be illegal to make today? An 8-year-old girl has can cancer. She is very brave which House assumes must be a symptom. Things pretty much go downhill for her from there. We've got experimental treatments, wildly inappropriate relationships, and goofs galore plus an extra big helping of an extra silly wiki page. Stick it in your ears! You'll be glad you did!

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Part 6: The Passage of the Marshes   Manu (@ManuclearBomb) and Emily (@JRRTweetien) enlist the help of AJ Ditty (@TheFuzzyMask) of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast to help them find their way through the Dead Marshes! AJ shares his history with The Lord of the Rings and his incredible relationship with Gollum as a character before discussing the dead things in the water and wraiths in the air. Don't follow the lights! --- Support this podcast by subscribing to Patreon.com/ManuclearBomb!   AJ's Twitter The Worst of All Possible Worlds Twitter   My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast Reference Guide My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast on Twitter My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast on Instagram Manu's Twitter Emily's Twitter

Homework: Listen to “The Best of All Possible Worlds” by Elway (Apple Music | Spotify) Buy (or stream) “Blink-182” by Blink-182 (Apple Music | Spotify) Our things: Contact: upnextspam@gmail.com Follow: Instagram - upnext.pod Listen: Our Playlists (Apple Music | Spotify) View: Official historical record Click: anchor.fm/upnextmusic Andy's things: www.andrewbaldwinpercussion.com Twitter @andrew_on_drums Instagram @andrew_on_drums We Die First podcast Excuse Me, I Have a Masters podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/upnextmusic/message

Jen and Tim welcome back Josh of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast to discuss the Oliver Stone version of the Eric Bogosian play, Talk Radio from 1988.Subscribe to HYST on Patreon and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Jen got the date of the crash of Air Florida flight 90 wrong— it happened in January of 1982.“The comment that brought Howard Stern his most notoriety during his time on Washington, DC radio in the early ‘80s was the infamous Fourteenth Street Bridge Incident. As morning man at ‘DC101' WWDC, Stern was reacting to the Air Florida flight that crashed into the bridge in February 1982. ‘What's the price of a one-way ticket from National to the Fourteenth Street Bridge?' he asked. ‘Is that going to be a regular stop?'”Via insideradio.comAlso Stern did not call the actual Air Florida ticket counter, because as most of us know, talk radio prank calls are faked. Just ask Bryan of Street Fight Radio! In fact, you can hear a deep dive into shock jocks for a pledge as low as $1 over at the Street Fight Patreon!Shortly after his murder by white supremacists, a memorial piece about shock jock Alan Berg appeared in Rolling Stone. The author of the piece, Stephen Singular, later expanded this piece into the book Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg. You can read the original Rolling Stone article here.And don't miss our freewheeling episode with the TWOAPW guys about a sad little fake Hammer film, IT! starring Roddy McDowall! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Josh Boerman from The Worst of All Possible Worlds joins the entire gang to discuss the Christian Dominionist designs on American society through the lens of the "school choice" campaign led by, among others, West Michigan's very own Betsy DeVos. We look at parallels between similar movements here, and how they link to other demands made by the same people.   The Worst of All Possible Worlds (@TWOAPW) is a weekly podcast of case studies in the pop culture of a dying empire. Co-hosts Josh (@boshj) and Brian (@spocks_brian) grew up evangelical in Michigan and New Mexico, while A.J. (@thefuzzymask) grew up Catholic in California. Together, we deconstruct how narrative and artistic choices in popular media reflect or subvert the ongoing reactionary project in contemporary America and the world at large. TWOAPW official website: https://www.worstpossible.world TWOAPW on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll Link to the article Josh wrote about Betsy DeVos for an an alumni literary journal: https://thepostcalvin.com/betsy-devos-wants-students-to-compete-for-academic-opportunity-and-thats-a-problem-heres-why/

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Today we have Josh Boerman on the show to talk about the new play "Thoughts Of A Colored Man". Josh Boerman (@boshj) is a theatrical writer/producer/director. He's also co-host of The Worst of All Possible Worlds, the first and only pop culture and media criticism podcast on the planet. Each episode deconstructs how the narrative and artistic choices of a given piece of pop culture reflect or subvert the broader decay of contemporary America. This is Part 1 of a two-part episode. Part 2 is free to all paid subscribers over at www.patreon.com/posts/60434337. Become a paid subscriber for $5/month over at patreon.com/champagnesharks and get access to the entire archive of subscriber-only episodes, the Discord voice and chat server for patrons, detailed show notes for certain episodes, and our newsletter. Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (www.piercedearsrec.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

On this episode of Ya Gotta Try This!, we are joined by A. J. Ditty (Puffs, The Worst of All Possible Worlds)! He asked us to try...the video game "Gone Home." We talk about what it was like immersing ourselves in this game, and getting all the way through it! Who got scared? Who got the most trophies? Who cried a little at the end? Ok more than a little. Find out the answers to these questions and so much more! About Gone Home A. J.'s website: www.ajditty.com A. J.'s podcast: The Worst of All Possible Worlds YouTube Twitter Credits: @julieannearls and @nickcarrillo77 for the trying and the hosting of the show @thefuzzymaskedman for the "this" in Ya Gotta Try This! @jman7890 for the audio editing @madeleinebundy for the artwork @_schmorgle for the music --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ya-gotta-try-this/support

The entirety of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast joins to talk about Final Fantasy XV, a game where you cannot actually Play as Prompto.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Clive Gillinson became Executive and Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall in July 2005, having been appointed the previous season. He is responsible for developing the artistic concepts for Carnegie Hall presentations in its three halls—the celebrated Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage (cap. 2804), innovative Zankel Hall (cap. 600), and intimate Weill Recital Hall (cap. 268)— representing up to 170 performances each season, ranging from orchestral concerts, chamber music, solo recitals, to jazz, world, and popular music. He oversees the management of all aspects of the world-renowned venue, including strategic and artistic planning, resource development, education, finance, and administration and operations for the Weill Music Institute, which taps the resources of Carnegie Hall to bring music education and social impact programs to more than 800,000 people in the New York City metropolitan region, across the United States, and around the world each year. Since his arrival in New York, Mr. Gillinson has worked to build upon the quality, creativity, diversity, and extraordinary history for which Carnegie Hall is known worldwide. Under his leadership, Carnegie Hall has embarked upon many bold new directions in its concert and education programming, including augmenting and integrating current offerings to create large-scale multi-cultural citywide festivals. Partnering with many of the greatest cultural institutions in the City, the festivals use the full range of Hall's artistic and educational resources to take audiences on journeys of discovery that extend beyond single performances and concert series to encompass theater, literature, dance, the visual arts, talks, and film. Carnegie Hall's first major international festival, Berlin in Lights, was presented in November 2007, exploring the vibrant city that is Berlin today. It was followed by two city-wide festivals examining the dynamic culture and distinctive history of American culture—Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds in fall 2008 and Honor! A Celebration of the African American Cultural Legacy in spring 2009. Ancient Paths, Modern Voices, exploring Chinese music and culture took place in fall 2009. These were followed by JapanNYC, an ambitious two-part festival in December 2010 and spring 2011; Voices from Latin America in November/December 2012; Vienna: City of Dreams featuring the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Vienna State Opera in February/March 2014; Ubuntu: Music and Arts of South Africa in October/November 2014; La Serenissima: Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic in February 2017; The 60's: The Years that Changed America in January-March 2018; and Migrations: The Making of America in March-April 2019. Voices of Hope, Carnegie Hall's first-ever digital festival, will take place in April 2021. Mr. Gillinson served as Chairman of the Association of British Orchestras; was one of the founding Trustees of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts; and was founding Chairman of the Management Committee of the Clore Leadership Programme. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in the 1999 New Year Honours List and received the 2004 Making Music Sir Charles Grove Prize for his outstanding contribution to British music. Mr. Gillinson was appointed Knight Bachelor in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2005, the only orchestra manager ever to be honored with a Knighthood. Brought to you by the British Consulate General, New York. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

Let's talk science fiction! Continuing with my “Where to Start” series, this episode is on where to start reading sci-fi. I'm joined by YouTubers Angela from the Literature Science Alliance and Tori Morrow. For exclusive bonus content and early access to episodes, consider joining the Chapter 3 Podcast Patreon   Looking for a book mentioned in the episode? Check here! *Note that all links are affiliate links from which we earn a commission to support the podcast Books from On My Radar segment: A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Holowell: https://amzn.to/3nmf0ur It All Comes Back to You by Farah Naz Rishi: https://amzn.to/38ZaLfO White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson: https://amzn.to/3k0Q8Xa Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune: https://amzn.to/3E8dQZm City of Thieves by Alex London: https://amzn.to/2X8mdUm First Light by Casey Berger: https://amzn.to/2Xcqo1j No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull: https://amzn.to/3C1mK9q Destroyer of Light by Jennifer Marie Brisset: https://amzn.to/3l6cFkA Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky: https://amzn.to/3hleIQJ Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson: https://amzn.to/3txf77w Other Books/Authors Mentioned His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman: https://amzn.to/2XbwYVG Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor: https://amzn.to/2X8b2KO The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins: https://amzn.to/38Xr0dC The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld: https://amzn.to/3ntSCz8 The Giver by Lois Lowry: https://amzn.to/3niUDyg Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card: https://amzn.to/3E4jJ9X The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov: https://amzn.to/3BUWI7w The Replicas series by Marilyn Kaye: https://amzn.to/3E64Ns8 Myst series: https://amzn.to/3tzUbNk Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang: https://amzn.to/3BWY01Z Do You Dream of Terra-Two by Temi Oh: https://amzn.to/3tvTJiU Exhalation by Ted Chiang: https://amzn.to/3hmax7d Kindred by Octavia Butler: https://amzn.to/2YMHp2A Expanse series by James S.A. Corey: https://amzn.to/3yYS4Dx The Martian by Andy Weir: https://amzn.to/3niPg29 World War Z by Max Brooks: https://amzn.to/3twoKTP Jurassic Park by Michael Crighton: https://amzn.to/2XiaJgO Dune by Frank Herbert: https://amzn.to/3yYsA9r The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells: https://amzn.to/2X5erdm Binti by Nnedi Okorafor: https://amzn.to/2YMRCvV The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers: https://amzn.to/3jWd4GR A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers: https://amzn.to/3A3UeDd We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker: https://amzn.to/3lgJfQC Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel: https://amzn.to/3z3jJ6i An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green: https://amzn.to/2VvTub4 Hyperion by Dan Simmons: https://amzn.to/3hl5zrt Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee: https://amzn.to/38Xua0Y To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers: https://amzn.to/3nnFZWC The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin: https://amzn.to/3EgHxrs Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden: https://amzn.to/3Aefu9m The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden: https://amzn.to/3E0s1jj A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine: https://amzn.to/2XggWtR Catfishing on Catnet by Naomi Kritzer: https://amzn.to/3E78rSf This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada: https://amzn.to/3hmoYbf The Stand by Stephen King: https://amzn.to/3k0k45x Nyxia by Scott Reintgen: https://amzn.to/3k2ds6Y The Fold by Peter Clines: https://amzn.to/38UDXEO The Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson: https://amzn.to/3k2y0fe Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson: https://amzn.to/390Agxv Scythe by Neal Schusterman: https://amzn.to/3C2e2re The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord: https://amzn.to/3hlCufq Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon: https://amzn.to/3z26jb1 Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell: https://amzn.to/3E9HRrG Exit West by Mohsin Hamid: https://amzn.to/3nlnVw9 Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett: https://amzn.to/3tuouVm This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone: https://amzn.to/2YBEGsA Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart: https://amzn.to/3z2WLfR   Follow us on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok @Chapter3Podcast and you can also find Bethany talking about books on YouTube @BeautifullyBookishBethany. You can now find episodes on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy6yRiktWbWRAFpByrVk-kg Interested in early access to episodes, private Discord channels and other perks? Consider joining the Chapter 3 Patreon! Or join our public Discord. A new episode will be available to download in two weeks!  This episode was recorded using a Blue Yeti USB condenser microphone kit: https://amzn.to/342dnqx

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss their second rewatch of S2 E13, the imago stylings of Jung, Lacan, and Klein, and airport arguments. Nice links: Dupont D fountain pen Norman Palace in Palermo Primer on Jacques Lacan Primer on Melanie Klein The Best of All Possible Worlds (1974 Cast of Candide) Pen fetishist Web site Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx Under the Skin Thief Intentions and Intersections of Classical Music in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal (NBC) by Teresa Piñeiro-Otero Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria - song by Johann Sebastian Bach, Glenn Gould

Today we have Josh Boerman on the show to talk about the new play "Thoughts Of A Colored Man". Josh Boerman (@boshj) is a theatrical writer/producer/director. He's also co-host of The Worst of All Possible Worlds, the first and only pop culture and media criticism podcast on the planet. Each episode deconstructs how the narrative and artistic choices of a given piece of pop culture reflect or subvert the broader decay of contemporary America. This is Part 1 of a two-part episode. Part 2 is free to all paid subscribers over at www.patreon.com/posts/60434337. Become a paid subscriber for $5/month over at patreon.com/champagnesharks and get access to the entire archive of subscriber-only episodes, the Discord voice and chat server for patrons, detailed show notes for certain episodes, and our newsletter. Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (www.piercedearsrec.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

Daniel and Jorge talk about the science of the novel "The Best of All Possible Worlds" by Dr. Karen Lords. https://karenlord.wordpress.com/the-best-of-all-possible-worlds/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

It's a new week! Comic-Con has concluded and Becca and Gary are back to regular shenanigans. Tune in to hear about this week's new events, and some of the new books that just came out!   Events This Week: Tuesday, July 28th: Victoria Ying, with Lily Williams  Wednesday, July 29th: Kit Rocha, with Jacqueline Carey  Thurday, July 31st: Young Adult Book Club  Monday, August 3rd: Paul Doiron, with Archer Mayor    New This Week: City of Secrets by Victoria Ying  I Kissed Alice by Anna Birch with illustrations by Victoria Ying  Deal With the Devil by Kit Rocha  The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi (Translated by Cathy Hirano)  Relentless by R. A. Salvatore  The Worst of All Possible Worlds by Alex White  A Wicked Magic by Sasha Laurens  Unspeakable Acts by Sarah Weinman  The Time of Green Magic by Hilary McKay  The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (Translated by Stephen Snyder)  The Two Mrs. Carlyles by Suzanne Rindell  Smoke and Mirrors by K. D. Halbrook    What We're Reading: Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan  Starter by Kathryn Brewster  Shadow Fall by Alexander Freed    You can now find us on YouTube! Enjoy some of our recent virtual events here! Special thanks to Austin Farmer for letting us use the track "Kill the Farm Boy", from his album Bookshelf Symphony Orchestra!  Send us your questions to podcast@mystgalaxy.com Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook!  And support the store by ordering books at mystgalaxy.com! 

DOOMSPEAK Doctor Doom #4, Marvel Comics, cover-dated March 2020."All Possible Worlds," written by Christopher Cantwell, with art by Salvador Larroca.What happens when Doctor Doom dresses casual for a fight with Taskmaster? What is in the top floor of the AIM Building? What happens when Victorious and Silver Sable get into a tussle? And who is having a mysterious conversation with our Latverian hero?And what is the bonus issue that is covered in this episode? Listen to the episode and find out!Click on the player below to listen to the episode:Right-click to download episode directlyYou may also subscribe to the podcast through iTunes or the RSS Feed.Promo #1: Required ReadingPromo #2: Back to the BinsNext Time: Doctor Doom #5, which is schedule for release February 5. The episode should follow within a few weeks.Send e-mail feedback to relativelygeeky@gmail.com "Like" us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/relativelygeekyYou can follow the network on Twitter @Relatively_Geek and the host @ProfessorAlanSource: World's Greatest Comics

The Red Guitars special with Lou Duffy-Howard in conversation.   The Red Guitars were an English indie rock band active from 1982 to 1986. Based in Hull, the Red Guitars' first single "Good Technology" was a minor hit, selling 60,000 copies. Their singles "Marimba Jive" and "Be With Me" both reached number one on the UK Indie Chart. Jerry Kidd (born Jeremy Kidd, vocals) and Hallam Lewis (guitarist) met in 1979 at a Community Arts programme in Hull. The two formed the short-lived project, Carnage in Poland. After several line-up changes, including the addition of Mark Douglas, the band changed their name to the Czechs, billing themselves as 'eastern European reggae'. After more line-up changes, including the departure of Douglas, the Czechs abandoned their name and reggae sound, becoming the Red Guitars. Playing a mixture of punk, blues, electrified folk and African rhythms, the Red Guitars built a small but loyal national following, playing mostly benefit shows for left-wing causes.[citation needed] In 1982, the band recorded their first single "Good Technology". In keeping with the band's anti-corporate ideology, the Red Guitars released the single on their own record label, Self Drive Records, selling 60,000 copies.[citation needed] The video to "Good Technology" was broadcast on the cult 1980s Channel 4 music TV show The Tube, as part of the show's Hull music special. Constant touring to support follow-up singles "Fact", "Steeltown" (The John Peel Session version of which also featured on the Four Your Ears Only EP – an aural collection which included Luddites, Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry and Party Day) and "Marimba Jive",[3] added to the daily pressures of running a record label resulted in internal pressures in the Red Guitars, culminating in the departure of Kidd in 1984, two months after the release of debut album Slow to Fade. The band continued on without Kidd for a further two years, bringing on Robert Holmes for vocals, but failed to achieve the previous critical or commercial success, although "Be With Me" also reached the top spot on the UK Indie Chart in May 1985. The Red Guitars disbanded in 1986 after their appearance at the Pukkelpop festival near Hasselt, Belgium. Two of the ex-band members, Hallam Lewis and Lou Howard, formed another group, The Planet Wilson. They were joined by Grant Ardis (drums and ancillaries). Howard was still on bass and Lewis on guitar and vocals. In 1988 they released the album In the Best of All Possible Worlds (on Virgin Records) and in 1989 they released the album Not Drowning but Waving (on Records of Achievement). Jerry Kidd released a solo single "Petals and Ashes (a song for Emma Goldman)" in 1985 (on Self Drive Records), after leaving the Red Guitars: it had a mix of "Crocodile Tears" on the b-side. Lewis went on to run a recording studio in Hull. Holmes released a solo album in 1989, entitled Age of Swing, and has released a series of recordings since 2015 on YouTube under the title "Robert Holmes Channel Two"

Alternate Universes and Modal Realism.  The Star Trek franchise is full of alternate universes, from different quantum realities (TNG: "Parallels") and the alternate reality seen in the Kelvin timeline (Star Trek, 2009) to the Mirror Universe seen in the Original Series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Discovery. In Star Trek, these alternate universes are just as real as the actual universe, a philosophical position known as "modal realism." In this episode of Meta Treks, hosts Zachary Fruhling and Mike Morrison debate modal realism, the reality of alternate universes, through the lens of the Star Trek universe and whether we should consider alternate realities or "possible worlds" to be as metaphysically real as our own actual universe.   Chapters Intro (00:01:19) Initial Thought on Modal Realism (00:04:04) What Difference Does It Make? (00:08:45) David Lewis and Counterfactuals (00:12:36) Modal Concepts (00:17:43) The Distinction and Contrast of the Mirror Universe in Star Trek (00:20:46) Quantum Branching (00:29:50) Gottfried Leibniz and "Best of All Possible Worlds" (00:34:28) Is Modal Realism a Scientific Question or a Philosophical Question? (00:39:00) The Space Between the Spaces (00:43:26) Different Types of Possible Universes (00:45:20) Criticisms of Modal Realism (00:57:13) Diverging Universes (01:00:10) Closing (01:05:03)  Hosts Zachary Fruhling and Mike Morrison  Production Mike Morrison (Editor) Zachary Fruhling (Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) Patrick Devlin (Associate Producer) Kay Shaw (Associate Producer) Mark Walker (Associate Producer) Norman C. Lao (Associate Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Brandon-Shea Mutala (Patreon Manager)

The Jennys welcome one of the hosts of the Spectology podcast to chat about books that cross over the boundary between literary and speculative fiction, and review Karen Lord's The Best of All Possible Worlds.

Going out of town for Thanksgiving? Our interview with Robert Herrings would make for great listening on that long car ride. Robert has some fantastic advice about objectives in band, what new teachers should do when they don't know what to do, and programming for every kid in your ensemble.Mr. Herrings has hands down one of the most impressive bands I have heard. The intro and outro music is Robert's band performing Candide Suite: The Best of All Possible Worlds arranged by Clare Grundman and Grainger's Shepherd's Hey, respectively. You can also search Henry Middle School Band on Youtube for more impressive video and recordings from Robert Herrings and the Henry Middle School Band.Special thanks to Chip De Stefano for the connection and for co-hosting this interview.“The biggest shoes you have to fill are your own.”FULL BIORobert Tyrome Herrings, III is entering his fifteenth year of teaching and has been teaching at Henry Middle School in Leander ISD since 2004. Prior to coming to Leander ISD, he was the Director of Bands at Rockdale Junior High in Rockdale, Texas.In 2003, Mr. Herrings received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he studied under Michael Haithcock, Jeff Grogan, Dr. Kevin Sedatole and Barry Hopper. While in college, Mr. Herrings was a member of the Baylor University performing wind bands, as well as a member of the Baylor University Golden Wave Band.At Henry Middle School, Mr. Herrings conducts the Honors Band, assists with the Symphonic Band, Concert Band and beginning trombone class. He also teaches beginning flute and trumpet. Mr. Herrings' bands have consistently received UIL Sweepstakes ratings, as well as unanimous first division ratings, Best In Class, and Overall Outstanding Band honors at festivals around the state. In 2009-2014, the program at Henry earned distinction as a National Wind Band Honors Class AA winner, and in 2008 and 2013, the Henry Middle School Honors Band was selected to perform at the Western International Band Clinic in Seattle, Washington. The program was named the 2010, 2014 and 2018 TMEA Class CCC Honor Band and was also selected to perform at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in 2010, 2012, and 2016. In June 2011, Mr. Herrings and his program were awarded the prestigious John Philip Sousa Foundation Sudler Silver Cup Award, and in July of the same year, Mr. Herrings was named the Phi Beta Mu Outstanding Young Bandmaster of the Year. In 2013, the Texas Chapter of the American School Band Director's Association awarded the Artie Henry Middle School Band the Outstanding Band Program Award. The Percussion Ensemble at Henry Middle School was selected to perform at the 2014 Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. Most recently, the Henry Middle School Band Program was named the Texas Bandmasters Association's Exemplary Middle School Program of the Year for 2018.An active clinician and adjudicator around the state, Mr. Herrings is a member of the Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association and the Texas Music Adjudicators Association. Mr. Herrings also serves as the TMEA Region 32 Middle School Band Chair, as well as the Region 32 TBA representative. He is also a mentor to new-to-profession teachers at Henry Middle School.Mr. Herrings enjoys motivating young musicians to achieve the highest level of performance by sharing his extreme love and passion for music with them on a daily basis. He feels honored, privileged and extremely blessed to have a loving mother and grandmother, many great mentors, band directors and close friends who have influenced his career thus far.Above all, his students have been his greatest inspiration!

In his lecture, The Best of All Possible Worlds, Michael will explore the subject of writing about the environment for children. It is a subject that he has continued to return to through his books and believes that connecting children with the environment is of critical importance if we are to turn the tide of environmental literacy.

This is the Guest of Honor Interview with Karen Lord that took place at Åcon in Mariehamn, Finland in May 2014. The interviewer is Cheryl Morgan. Karen is the author of the award-winning novels, Redemption in Indigo and The Best of All Possible Worlds. Tech services at Åcon are provided by Jonas Wissting to whom we are indebted for this recording.

Eight OA members answer the same four questions (about SF awards, what "metrosexual" means, identity politics and the term QUILTBAG, and recommended media from 2013), so we can see a bit of the wide variety of opinions on each topic. Gabriel Murray is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a first reader for Strange Horizons. Cheryl Morgan is a a noted reviewer, and proprietor of Wizard's Tower Books. H. B. Kurtzwilde is the Lambda nominated author of Chocolatiers of the High Winds. Sunny Moraine is the co-author of Line and Orbit. Sunny also has a story forthcoming in Apex Magazine. Dennis R. Upkins is a critic and writer. His non-fiction appears at Ars Marginal, and his first YA novel is Hollowstone, and his second novel, West of Sunset, is coming out this summer. Sarah Pinsker is a singer-songwriter and a short story writer. She did the music for the Strange Horizons Podcast, and has a story forthcoming in Strange Horizons this summer. Rahul Kanakia's short stories have appeared in all sorts of places including Clarkesworld,  Apex Magazine and Wilde Stories 2013. His novels are represented by the Greenhouse Literary Agency. Jude McLaughlin is the mastermind behind Wonder City Stories. She was our one e-mail correspondent this episode, and her answers are all together at the very end. Stuff We Mentioned Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (sad story, strong female friendship, set in WWII) The Ditmar Award Winners (congratulations, all!) Through Splintered Walls by Kaaron Warren The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaam "Robot" by Helena Bell "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard "Fade to White" by Catherynne M. Valente Stoker (an interestingly disappointing movie, according to Gabe) Batgirl #19 by Gail Simone (Cheryl is excited about the trans character in this comic) Gemsigns by Stephanie Salter (currently only available in the UK) Video Game High School The Binding of Isaac (a flash game) The Starz series Spartacus (which Sunny notes is problematic, but also has some great stuff in it, including a healthy gay couple) The Evil Dead remake (again Sunny notes there are problems with this, it's not for everyone, but it does interesting things with women) Selo & Inya by Ankhesen Mie Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age II (both games have queer characters) G.I. Joe: Retaliation (Denny appreciates that this features people of color) The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord Marbles by Ellen Forney (Out-Bechdels Allison Bechdel, according to Sarah) "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" by Rachel Swirsky "Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton's Law Along the Event Horizon" by Helena Bell "Selkie Stories Are For Losers" by Sofia Samatar (Sarah heard this story many times while working on the very first Strange Horizons podcast episode, and she never got tired of it!) The Good Wife (TV legal drama, which Rahul enjoys for the plots and the abundance of queer characters) Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Rahul says this one made him feel like he was living the story) Puella Magi Madoka Magica Dicebox by Jen Manley Lee Family Man by Dylan Meconis I Do Not Have an Eating Disorder Send feedback to julia@juliarios.com, and if you're coming to WisCon, say hello to me at the Queers Dig Time Lords / OA party on Friday night!