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Latest podcast episodes about Thrax

Rare Candy
Gain of Fiction - The Friends of Eddie Coyle w/ Max Thrax (Preview)

Rare Candy

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2024 31:40


Full Episode is available to paid subscribers of the Rare Candy substack https://rarecandy.substack.com/p/gain-of-fiction-vol-31-the-friends

Hot Eights
C1:E61 Thrax' Scorn

Hot Eights

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2024 60:45


Passionate Hatred team up with Little Hatred, the die-hard fan group, and bring the Red Dragon Thrax a massive fisting. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Poddius Castus – En podd om antiken
67. Soldatkejsarna och krisen på 200-talet. Del 1 – Maximinus Thrax till Aemilianus

Poddius Castus – En podd om antiken

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2024 69:03


År 235 efter vår tideräkning och det romerska riket inleder en period på nära 50 år av kris som vi kallar för krisen på 200-talet. Det är en tid med ett ostabilt styre, kantat med ekonomiska oroligheter och ett konstant hot från främmande folk vid rikets gränser. I denna första del om krisen på 200-talet inleder vi med den första av soldatkejsarna, Maximinus Thrax som tar makten år 235 och tar oss till och med den obetydlige Aemilianus år 253. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ReReading Wolfe
tBotNS 3:2 Upon the Cataract

ReReading Wolfe

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2024 86:59


Listener comments end at: 38: 10 The Sword of the Lictor Chapter 2 "Upon the Cataract" After his fight with Dorcas, Severian takes a walking tour of Thrax.  - Patron-only bonus content can be accessed here. This episode's bonus content: Gene Wolfe's 'The Case of the Vanishing Ghost' - Links: * Facebook - Chapter 2 "Upon the Cataract" - Chapter 1 "Master of the House of Chains" - * Reddit - Chapter 2 "Upon the Cataract" - Chapter 1 "Master of the House of Chains" - This episode is sponsored by Serendipitous Tours! - You can become a patron and hear additional episodes at https://www.patreon.com/rereadingwolfe - You can get episodes on your podcast app or on our Youtube channel. Note: Youtube subscribers in some locales might not be able to access all the episodes. However, you can get every episodes at the website and on your favorite podcast app. If you have problems accessing the podcast on your favorite platform, let us know. - Questions, comments, corrections, additions, alternate theories? Connect with us on on Facebook ...or on Twitter @rereadingwolfe ...or on Instagram: rereadingwolfepodcast ...or on Reddit: rereadingwolfepodcast * Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow  * Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic  * Outro from "Walking the City Streets" by George Jackson * Logo art by SonOfWitz  Outros and alternate outros are cued on the Rereading Wolfe Podcast Spotify playlist IF the songs are available on Spotify.

A Pod Called Blerd
Thrax Dat Azz Up

A Pod Called Blerd

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2023 250:57


What's you theme song ? (:30) Invincible Season Ep. 4 (47:09) CM Punk returns (1:31:45)  Furious: A Mad Max saga trailer (2:14:16)  Fallout teaser trailer (2:21:23) The Boys season 4 teaser  (2:27:20) Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire  (2:47:53) Monarch: Legacy of Monsters episodes 1 - 4 (3:03:21) Imaginary movie talk (3:10:ish) Godzilla circle back (3:14:55) Godzilla Minus One (3:29:52) What's in your long box? Marcell:  -Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong (4:07:32) Chris:  -Luke Cage gang war (4:07:42)

Wererat Studios
S2.54 - The Chicago Table - Wolf's Prey

Wererat Studios

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2023 140:49


Skid and Thrax attempt to usurp the current leader of the Wolf Tribe. Join us on Patreon and Discord to support the show! Everything helps! Thanks to all of those who already help keep the show going! www.patreon.com/wereratstudios discord.gg/w3F2bZC67F

Wererat Studios
S2.52 - The Chicago Table - Fight or Flight

Wererat Studios

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2023 92:43


Skid and Thrax chase after their false leader as the rest of the party relaxes and decides which path to take. Join us on Patreon and Discord to support the show! Everything helps! Thanks to all of those who already help keep the show going! www.patreon.com/wereratstudios discord.gg/w3F2bZC67F

Tales From The Mall
AFTER HOURS #2: THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE WITH MAX THRAX & HOWLING MUTANT

Tales From The Mall

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 126:11


The greatest living crime writer, Max Thrax, and the funniest man alive, Howling Mutant, join me for a vast exploration of the great novel by James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and its two Hollywood adaptations from 1946 & 1981. We also get into a conversation about the 1935 John Ford classic The Informer, Irishness, Thomas777, and more! You won't wanna miss! XOXO, Brendan Max Thrax on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThraxMaximilian Pre-order Max's book, God Is A Killer Alpha Edition: https://bit.ly/47ynOB5 Howling Mutant on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Howlingmutant0

History Untapped
Maximus Thrax The Barbarian Emperor

History Untapped

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2023 19:45


On this episode the boys are talking about Maximus Thrax, the barbarian who would be emperor of Rome without ever stepping foot in Rome. music on our show is produced and performed by All Good Folks, we also have a merch store where you can get some cool shirts, stickers, posters, glasses and mugs. just head on over to historyuntappedstore.org to show everyone how much you love us. Thanks for listening    music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):  https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/mr-mischief  License code: PVXODSSOPXYEUV4Z 

Ambient Discourses // conversations with musicians and composers
Daryl Groetsch of Pulse Emitter // conversations about digital composing, the commodification of music, ego vs art, sci-fi inspiration, and communal listening [episode 010, August 6, 2023]

Ambient Discourses // conversations with musicians and composers

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2023 104:27


Episode 010 / August 6, 2023 In this episode of Ambient Discourses, I have an amazing conversation at notable depths with Oregon-based electronic artist Daryl Groetsch who also operates under the name Pulse Emitter. The topic of our conversation steered through many highly interesting topics of conversation, including finding the balance in using tools and AI in music creation, finding the balance between ego and art, finding community in an isolated musical space, and other fascinating talking points. You can hear more from Daryl Groetsch on the STOLACE | RELAY STATION, episode 3.40, which aired on August 6, 2023. Find more at https://stolace.com/relay-station/episodes/03/40/ [0:01:26] The origin story [0:07:21] Compositional tools and process [0:12:52] “In Blackness” by Daryl Groetsch from “Frozen Waste” [0:21:59] Using apps and AI to aid in music composition [0:35:14] “Suncatcher” by Daryl Groetsch from “Gardens in Glass” [0:45:21] Approaching music creation in a world of commodification [0:50:08] Ego vs. Art [0:59:48] “The Road to Thrax” by Pulse Emitter from “Dusk” [1:05:11] Planting gardens in glass and building worlds [1:11:07] Get your nerd membership card out, we're talking sci-fi [1:15:37] Inspiration to help us get out of our creative ruts [1:20:30] “Gardens in Glass” by Daryl Groetsch from “Gardens in Glass” [1:30:109] Communal listening // ABOUT AMBIENT DISCOURSES // Ambient Discourses is the podcast companion to The STOLACE | RELAY STATION, a weekly 59-minute music program that showcases ambient, neoclassical, new age, and other instrumental music from around the world. Discover new signed and independent artists from nearly every corner of the globe, unwind with the Relay Station at work or at home, and hear from the artists themselves what inspires them, how their latest releases evolved, and other deep topics of conversation. You can find every episode of The STOLACE | RELAY STATION at ⁠https://stolace.com/relay-station/⁠ The STOLACE | RELAY STATION is available on YouTube and the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) platform. // CONNECT WITH STOLACE // ⁠https://stolace.com⁠ ⁠https://youtube.com/stolace⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/stolacemusic⁠ ⁠https://instagram.com/stolacemusic⁠ ⁠https://facebook.com/stolace⁠

Drunk On Movies
The Departed/Max Thrax

Drunk On Movies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2023 121:52


Author and managing editor at Apocalypse Confidential, Max Thrax, came on the show to talk about the history of Boston crime, Whitey Bulger and the movie The Departed. We also go into Max's favorite crime novels, favorite non-fiction Boston crime books, Sam Adams (the beer and the man)and much more. Thanks for listening!

Mutual Aberration Society
42 - GOD IS A KILLER (ft. Max Thrax)

Mutual Aberration Society

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2023 99:53


On today's MAS, I have on crime writer Max Thrax to dicuss his debut novel GOD IS A KILLER. We also talk about the differences between noir and hard-boiled, being a stylist, reading books multiple times, George V. Higgins, Georges Simenon, Jim Thompson, Donald Goines, Walter Hill's haiku style, clout chasing, being tired of autofiction, the enduring appeal of J.G. Ballard, Apocalypse Confidential, James Ellroy, short books, modern movies being too long, writers who were recognized after dying, and making art for the right reasons.

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New Write
Episode 49: God Is A Killer w/ Max Thrax

New Write

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2023 75:23


Recorded 1/21/23Matt and Dan sit down with Max Thrax, the managing editor of Apocalypse Confidential, to discuss his novel GOD IS A KILLER, pulp fiction, neo-noir and the dark heart of New England. Max Thrax Twitter Matt Pegas Twitter Dan Baltic Twitter

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ReReading Wolfe
tBotNS 2:27 Toward Thrax - Gene Wolfe‘s The Claw of the Conciliator, The Book of the New Sun

ReReading Wolfe

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2022 82:59


Listener comments end at: 14:35 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 27 "Toward Thrax" Severian, Dorcas and Jolenta camp out Severian dreams of Mama. Then he gets a call.  For Patrons, check out the special super-duper version with secret high-quality bonus content starting at 1:22:44.. Where we talk about Wolfe's uncollected werwolf story "Innocent."   Links: * Facebook - Chapter 27 "Toward Thrax" - Chapter 26 "The Parting" -   * Reddit - Chapter 27 "Toward Thrax" - Of Dreams and Dream Weapons by Mike Farar - Chapter 26 "The Parting" - This episode is sponsored by Serpentes Infrastructure! - You can become a patron and hear additional episodes at https://www.patreon.com/rereadingwolfe - You can get episodes on your podcast app or on our Youtube channel. Note: Youtube subscribers in some locales might not be able to access all the episodes. However, you can get every episodes at the website and on your favorite podcast app.  If you have problems accessing the podcast on your favorite platform, let us know. - Questions, comments, corrections, additions, alternate theories? Connect with us on on Facebook ...or on Twitter @rereadingwolfe ...or on Instagram: rereadingwolfepodcast ...or on Reddit: rereadingwolfepodcast  * Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow * Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic * Outro from "Uroboros" by Alan Parsons, featuring Tommy Shaw of Styx * Logo art by SonOfWitz  Outros and alternate outros are cued on the Rereading Wolfe Podcast Spotify playlist IF the songs are available on Spotify.

Look Ma, No Script!
The Sword of the Lictor

Look Ma, No Script!

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2022 18:08


Episode 131 is based on the popular tale, 'The Sword of the Lictor' where Severian and Dorcas face many trials as they scale the dangerous peaks of the treacherous mountain range near Thrax. Please have a listen! Have you see Little Severian? Follow us on frickin' instagram: https://www.instagram.com/l00kmanoscript/ Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/look-ma-no-script/support

Tales From The Mall
#80 Max Thrax

Tales From The Mall

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2022 132:38


This marks the second appearance of the great Max Thrax. Max is a New England-based author - he wrote the amazing book "God Is A Killer" which you all should buy. He is also the co-fiction editor of Apocalypse Confidential. On this episode we talk about his book, New Hampshire, the writing process, Noirvember, eating, exercise and so much more. Please enjoy. Max on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThraxMaximilian Max's website: https://www.maxthrax.com/ Max's book, God Is A Killer: https://www.amazon.com/God-Killer-Max-Thrax-ebook/dp/B09YLQVHDW Apocalypse Confidential: https://apocalypse-confidential.com/

Movies - A Podcast About the Act of Cinema
E219: The Adapted Works of George V. Higgins [Guest: Max Thrax]

Movies - A Podcast About the Act of Cinema

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2022 68:29


Max Thrax is the author of God is a Killer, published in 2022 by Close to the Bone Publishing.  Video Episodes & Bonus Episodes: https://patreon.com/lowres  LowRes Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/lowreswunderbred  Hans on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/hwordname  SPONSOR: https://surfshark.deals/lowres  [Get 83% off Surf Shark VPN and help out the podcast]

Best Seat on the Couch
Episode 86: "Osmosis Jones"

Best Seat on the Couch

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2022 61:55


Osmosis Jones is the first movie that the gang - even Marcus, who brought this film for discussion - unanimously dislikes. Split between live-action sequences of Bill Murray's truly abhorrent mid-life crisis lifestyle and an animated TV series buddy cop back-and-forth, we can begin by completely disregarding the live-action half of this movie as irredeemable. Ozzy and Drix's camaraderie, Fishburne's performance and construction of Thrax as a character and villain, and the clever medical jokes and references about the human body are the highlights of this film, and Michael and Iris even have a couple of brain blasts of how to redesign this movie to be...actually good. New Best Seat segment when? Content warning: Medical horror, strong language.

Tales From The Mall
#37 Max Thrax

Tales From The Mall

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2022 153:50


Max Thrax is my friend, my colleague at Apocalypse Confidential (where he is Fiction Editor) and an author. His novella God Is A Killer comes out in May on Close To The Bone. In this amazing episode Max & I get into it regarding the mob, New England, writing, music… the whole meal deal. Enjoy it! Max on Twitter:
 https://twitter.com/ThraxMaximilian Apocalypse Confidential: https://apocalypse-confidential.com/

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Look Ma, No Script!
The Claw of the Conciliator

Look Ma, No Script!

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2021 16:22


Episode 74 is based on the popular tale, 'The Claw of the Conciliator' where the exiled torturer Severian claims the claw for himself as he journeys back to Thrax. Please have a listen! Your sword can talk? We'd love to know what you think about the show! Hate it? Love it? Let us know in the comments! Follow us on frickin' instagram: https://www.instagram.com/l00kmanoscript/ Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/look-ma-no-script/support

On The Radar
SSGKobe Interview: "Caddy", Possible SoFaygo Joint Album, Working W/ Brockhampton, Comethazine

On The Radar

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2021 39:04


Follow Gabe on IG: https://bit.ly/3cpvsEM​​Follow On The Radar On IG: https://bit.ly/3n3tP1Q​​Follow On The Radar On Twitter: https://bit.ly/2VYj8lm​​Follow On The Radar on Facebook: https://bit.ly/2VWjJnB​​Follow On The Radar on Tik Tok: https://bit.ly/2JNPcWI​​Follow On The Radar On iHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/39UZUW1​​Follow On The Radar On Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/370ITYD​​

Raw Room
Thrax

Raw Room

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2021 84:49


It's another Raw Room Wednesday as Daren and Alex take a deep dive into all the college and NFL football action from the weekend as the guys talk Auburn coming up short to Penn State in Happy Valley, Memphis' upset win over rival Mississippi State, the Titans epic comeback in Seattle over the Seahawks, DB and Alex debate who would win a national high school football playoff, Daren provides his unmatched and brutally honest analysis on some of the biggest plays of the week and shares some on-field stories, a tough Pay, Tag, Cut "pick", and much more!

Modus Operandi: Flash Fiction
Ep 2 - Burks x Thrax x Lang x Soldan

Modus Operandi: Flash Fiction

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2021 24:27


Stories in this episode: Refinance by Brendan Burks - (If Bukowski wrote a heist story) Refinance by Brennan Burks – Punk Noir Magazine Those Who Can't be Told by Max Thrax - FLASH: Those Who Can't Be Told by Max Thrax » Bristol Noir Spray by Preston Lang - Spray by Preston Lang – Shotgun Honey End of the Road by William R. Soldan - FLASH: End Of The Road by William R. Soldan » Bristol Noir

Histórias infantis de pai para filha com Pablo Uchoa
A Nuvenzinha Azul (part. esp. Helena di Ciero)

Histórias infantis de pai para filha com Pablo Uchoa

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2021 8:39


A nuvenzinha azul adora passear de mãos dadas com os pais, mas tem medo de soltar as mãos deles. Mas certo dia de céu cinzento, eles se separam e a nuvenzinha azul precisa encarar as temidas nuvens negras. Uma história sobre coragem, escrita com carinho por um pai e lido nesse podcast pela filha dele. De: Paschoal di Ciero Filho Música: Marin Marais, Peças para viola, livro I Execução: Thrax (transposição para violino e piano - Burmester). www.musopen.org CC BY 3.0 ____ O Histórias de Pai Para Filha traz histórias produzidas, escritas ou adaptadas por mim, um pai coruja que quer ensinar à sua filha o gosto pelas histórias e pela língua portuguesa. Os episódios saem a cada três semanas. Acompanhe o podcast no Youtube, onde eu conto algumas histórias por trás das histórias que você escuta aqui! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/depaiparafilha/message

Chapter Twenty-Something
CHP 37- .Thrax: Recording Artist and Founder of Encryption Records

Chapter Twenty-Something

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2021 38:10


.Thrax is a recording artist and founder of Encryption Records. His new album, Silicon Creek, drops this Friday, April 23rd! He discusses with Kylie how he has been carving his path in the music industry, without having prior knowledge of what it would entail; the lessons he's learned from growing up on a Native American reservation; the importance of vulnerability when it comes to creating art; why he chose to start his own record label; and what to expect from Silicon Creek! Follow the podcast on Instagram: @chaptertwentysomethingpod… Rate, Review, Subscribe, and Share! :) .Thrax Instagram: @thraxofficial Twitter: @thraxofficial TikTok: @.thrax Kylie: Instagram: @officialkyliemcdonald TikTok: @officialkyliemcdonald Twitter: @kyliemcdonald Music: Pod Intro: Adam Vicent (Instagram: @adamdoesntsleep) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kylie-mcdonald/support

Ten Cent Takes
Issue 04: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women/Wonder Woman (animated)

Ten Cent Takes

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2021 83:09


"March" Movie Madness part 3 (of 3)! For our final Justice League movie discussion, we go outside the DCEU and discuss two movies dealing with Wonder Woman's origins in very different ways.  Professor Marston and the Wonder Women tells the story of Wonder Woman's creation and also looks at the unconventional lives of her creators. Meanwhile, the 2009 animated film provides a more modern take with an all-star vocal cast.  Join us as we go down the rabbit hole that is Wonder Woman's history and discuss kink, polyamory, and BDSM. And -per usual- we swear a lot, too. Have questions/comments/concerns? Hit us up: tencenttakes@gmail.com ----more----   Jessika: I hope you realize what extremely heavy California accents we have. I hope you understand when the feedback comes in, that will be part of it! Hello and welcome to Ten Cent Takes, the podcast where we correct your comic misconceptions. One issue at a time. My name is Jessika Frazier and I am joined by my cohost, the royal robot, Mike Thompson. Mike: That's right. All my circuits are platinum or I don't know. Gold, gold plated, something. Jessika: Oh, gold plated. You've got like diamond and crusted things. They also serve a purpose being one of the sharpest items or Mike: Yeah I it. Thank you for that intro. Jessika: Of course. Well, the purpose of this podcast is to study comic books in ways that are both fun and informative. We want to look at their coolest, weirdest and silliest moments, as well as examine how they're woven into the larger fabric of pop culture and history. Now, today we're discussing the final installment of our "March" movie madness. Now I'm throwing heavy quotes around March movie madness because it is actually April. Mike: It's almost tax day at this point. Jessika: It's almost tax day. So we bled out a little bit, but we're trying to do these bi-weekly we got a little ahead of ourselves because we got so excited just to be talking about these things that we did a few more than we really anticipated in March, I would say to our listeners benefit. Mike: Yeah, sure. I concur. Jessika: So we are doing a deep dive into Wonder Woman's origins today. Now I'm not just talking about the origins of the character, but also of their creator and the reasons and motivations that drove this comic into existence. I'm excited about this. Mike: I am too. These movies were really pleasant surprises for different reasons. Jessika: I will agree with that wholeheartedly. Now, before we get into that, though. We love to do that whole one cool thing you've read or watched lately. And Mike, let's go ahead and start with you. Mike: Yeah. So I've been consuming a lot of Star Trek lately. I really enjoy the franchise in general, but I have this deep abiding passion for Deep Space Nine because my great uncle who was essentially my grandfather when I was growing up , we used to watch the show together every Sunday when we would go over to their house for dinner. So like, that was just this wonderful bonding activity with this guy who used to be a dive bomber in World War II and his very nerdy little 11-year-old nephew. I have these very treasured memories and I have the entire series on DVD of Deep Space Nine, which I will be buried with by the way. But both the entire series and the recent documentary about the show is on Amazon Prime. So I've been rewatching all of that, and I've been actually rereading some of the comics and then last week Star Trek Legends came out on a Apple Arcade and... it's fine. It's nothing special, but it's a fun distraction if you're a Trekkie who wants to just mash it up all the various characters from the different series together. So I currently have a away team with characters from the Next Generation and then Discovery and then the original series all together. And it's dumb, but it's fun. But this has led me down this rabbit hole, and I think that we should probably wind up doing an episode on Star Trek history in comics and how it actually helped shape the MCU as we know it. Jessika: I would love that. That sounds like so much fun. And I love Star Trek as well. I used to watch Star Trek with my dad. We were a Next Gen family. So I, you know, next gen and Riker jumping over chairs is like near and dear to my heart. Mike: I'm really bummed that that is not an animation and Star Trek Legends. It really makes me so grumpy. Jessika: What a miss. Such a missed opportunity Mike: What about you? What have you been reading or watching lately? Jessika: So I've been casually reading through a reprint of Giant-Size X-Men from 1975, and I say casually just kind of every once in a while I'll pick it up and I'll read through a few pages and be like, "Oh that was fun." And kind of put it back down again between whatever I'm doing. So of course you know they're they're retro comics and you know things are going to... it's me: Things are going to rub me the wrong way about some of the retro comics. Mike: A comic that's almost 40 years old possibly having some problematic elements to it? Go on. Jessika: Yeah no I try to set aside a lot of that but it is quite difficult with my very outspoken mind of mine. But one scene that really bothered me was from Storm's introduction. Professor X seeks out Storm in her native Kenya where she's legitimately saving the countryside by using her weather powers to get rid of drought. Mike: Right Jessika: But Professor X has the audacity to show up and say, "nah listen: Like I know you're helping quote unquote helping people here but I also need your help. And I'm much more important, let's be real. It's just a whole bag of yikes. Mike: Yeah I mean what year did giant size X-Men come out? Was that 75? Jessika: It was 75. Mhm. Mike: Yeah... That was the same year that we got Lois Lane turning black for a literal white savior piece of journalism. Racial sensitivity was not really a thing back then Jessika: Yeah, absolutely. And I and I do try to put myself into that mindset It's just so cringey though in this day and age to see things like that Mike: Yeah. Jessika: What I do like about it that everybody is so salty to one another. Like so salty. They're so sassy to one another. Every other page has just a roast battle between the members of the X-Men where they're like "yeah, One Eye" like Mike: I think I read a reprint of that when I was like 12 or 13 but I haven't re-read it at all recently. So I'll have to go back and check that out Jessika: I'll throw it your way. You can borrow it. It's fun. Well let's get into the meat of our episode and this was definitely a meaty topic. And I know I told you a little bit earlier I love me a good rabbit hole. Love jumping just right into them right off the top I read –more like I listened to but I mean it was a lot of time spent– three different audio books on the topic. Mike: Yeah no that's awesome I'm so excited to hear about all of Jessika: this. And the hard part then was whittling down what information I really wanted to give you. I highly recommend all of these resources and I really want to just throw them out at the top We will also throw them into the show notes. But I highly recommend -if you're interested in this topic- go read more about this because I'm not even touching the surface of these books. They are amazing. So the first one that I read was it was actually an article from smithsonian.com titled "the surprising origin story of Wonder Woman" by Jill LePore which led me to Jill LePore's larger book or I would say more extended book called The Secret History of Wonder Woman. It was also read by the author, so if you're a book on tape person, highly recommend listening to it. She's one of those people who really keeps your attention and she doesn't have that kind of drowsy lilt that some people do while they're reading, So I definitely I was able to stay really focused on it. And the last one was Wonder Woman Psychology by Trina Robbins and that had a couple of different narrators but that one was also very interesting and talked about all of the different aspects of the time and the different parts of psychology and gets more into because you know spoiler alert the author was a psychologist It does get deeper into that whole aspect of the reasons behind the comic in that way. Mike: That's a really cool and I'm really excited to hear everything that you learned because this is a topic that I had a vague awareness of but I have tried to stay as in the dark as possible for this episode because I'm really excited to learn from you about this Jessika: Let's all go on a learning journey together, Folks. What do you say. Mike: Yeah. Hop on the magic school bus kids. Jessika: Here we go. Mike: We're going to hang out with Goth Miss Frizzle. Jessika: Oh my gosh I know I'm wearing all black today and I have high bun. Very McGonigal right now. Mr Porter Um so Diana Prince is the secret identity of Wonder Woman but did you know that the creator of Wonder Woman had a secret identity himself? Well, today we're going to be discussing the creator of Wonder Woman, Charles Milton... or should I say William Moulton Marston. Marston's name, like his stories, were an amalgamation of fact and fiction his middle name mixed with that If max gains one of the co-founders of All-Star Comics and later DC, which stands for Detective Comics -fun fact: I didn't know that- where Wonder Woman made her debut. But Marston was hiding more than just a name. He had an entire life that he kept hidden from the world. William Moulton Marston was born in Massachusetts in May of 1893 to Frederick William Marston and Annie Marston. They bestowed upon him his mother's maiden name molten as a middle name, and as I've mentioned the last name he later uses as his nom du plume. By all accounts he seemed to have a easy childhood though I did hear reports that he was in the military for a stint I should say acting as a psychologist... I believe that was after his Harvard education, though He was accepted to Harvard for his advanced education and he eventually graduated and became a professor of psychology. While attending Harvard, Marston had many interests. One of them being the intelligent and motivated Elizabeth Holloway, whom he would later marry and who had been taking courses in one of the lesser quote unquote lesser universities that you know allowed women at that time. Mike: That was pretty standard at the time, right? Higher education for women was a new thing that was very looked down upon? Jessika: Oh it was incredibly new. This was the early 1900s. We're talking before 1910. That area. Women didn't have the right to vote yet which we definitely will get into. Didn't have the right to vote until 1920. That was a good few years before that point So the schools had the male schools would have a sister school basically or a lesser school . And for Harvard that was Radcliffe, which is where Holloway went And this was considered again the sister school But of course didn't have the same name and you didn't get the same degree .You still graduated from Radcliffe and women really didn't have the option to go down that actual Harvard route, which of course didn't give them an edge at all No edge Thanks a lot. Mike: Yeah what did you use a degree for back then? Jessika: I mean, nothing. What are you going to do with this degree in your home, in the kitchen? The oven doesn't need you to have a degree. It's just so gross. Mike: It's not a masters in baking roasts, Linda Jessika: And how they wished it were. You would think. Harvard acted like that. It was rough. She did however finish her education and become an lawyer with her degree being issued from Radcliffe despite petitioning multiple times to get a Harvard degree, since she was taking the same classes, they were the same classes. Mike: With the same professors, too, right? Jessika: Oh, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. The class just had women in it instead of men That was the only difference. During college she and Marston were inseparable. One of the biographies I read stated that there was this rule that a woman could not walk or ride unaccompanied with a man However Holloway thought that was a completely stupid rule and just didn't follow it, which I love. She's like, "fuck that." Mike: That's so good. Jessika: And everything else I read about her said "fuck the rules, I do what I want." Which is so amazing for a woman in the early 1900s. I mean it's kind of an interesting concept right now let alone the 1900s. Mike: Yeah... we still have all of these societal norms that women are not supposed to go against. Jessika: Yeah. So Marston varied interests also included a search for "the truth." Quote unquote the truth. This was partially inspire Now part of what he invented I should say was inspired by an observation by Holloway that when she got mad or excited her blood pressure seemed to climb. And from that Marston created the earliest version of what we now know as the lie detector test or polygraph. The test is we know it now measures more than just blood pressure which was really the only thing he was checking on. Blood pressure in and of itself isn't going to tell you everything that you quote unquote need to know for a lie detector to be effective. That being said it's also mostly an admissible as we know it now in the US court of laws depending on the place and both parties have to agree to have it be accepted into the court case which I found I didn't know that. Yeah! Mike: I knew that growing up lie detector tests were considered to be kind of this infallible thing. And then it was like well you know you can sort of get around it by all these old wives tales of like you know you put a tack in your shoe and you press your toe against it and the pain messes up the results. And then later on I found out that they're not really great, they're not really admissible anymore but I didn't know that because I know that a lot of law enforcement still loves to rely on it. Jessika: Yeah and I think about the if you think about when you're nervous you can have a lot of different reasons for being nervous. Not because you're lying, necessarily. You could be a bad test taker and then you suddenly look like a guilty party It could be as that. Mike: I'm just thinking about all the times that I had to give public speeches. Either class presentations or later on when I was a journalist and I was moderating panels. Every time my pulse would be through the roof. Jessika: Same. Now can you imagine being somebody who is of an oppressed or a minority population who's being put into a situation where they have people of power who have them in a room and they have control and that is a really scary thing. Mike: Yeah, that sounds like a nightmare scenario. Jessika: I can imagine my heart rate going up in that situation, so having that be the measure doesn't seem like the best of ideas In my opinion. That being said, it does seem to be admissible in the court of Steve Wilkos and other daytime television shows. Mike, tell me the truth: Do you or have you ever watched those daytime shows like Maury or Jerry Springer or Steve Wilkos? Mike: Yeah, so... Not only did I watch Maury during the daytime when I was just working on stuff at school and I wanted something on in the background, but I was a staff photographer for a newspaper during a celebrity golf tournament and Maury Povich was one of the celebrity golfers. He was really nice I wound up chatting with him for a minute while he was waiting for his turn at golf. I really feel like I missed an opportunity to have him record saying that I was not the father because that was the big thing that he was doing back then was all those paternity tests. Jessika: You say that like he's not still doing that. Mike: I don't know, does he still have show? I don't have TV anymore Jessika: I think so. You know, I really just catch clips. What I'll do is if I'm working and I have to be paying attention to my work -or if I if it's not something mindless like entering data or something- I like to listen to podcasts if I can actually pay attention but if I can't I'll just put on -and I don't watch it but I'll just- put on rotating clips through Facebook or something just go through Facebook watch and just whatever comes up next comes up. And every once in a while we'll get one of those Steve Wilkos and I hear "STEEEEVE" and I'm like, "Oh here we go." And it's always it's always a lie detector test, still to this day. Mike: Was Steve the guy who got his own show sprung off of like spun off of Jerry Springer? Jessika: "sprung off Springer." Correct. Yes. Mike: My roommate and I in college loved to watch Jerry Springer at night because it was the trashiest shit and we not stop. It was like a train wreck, you couldn't look away. Which I think was generally the appeal of Jerry Springer. But it's hard to resolve that because every interview I've seen with the guy he seems like a really pleasant down to earth human being. And then I'm like but you put the trashiest shit on television and it is demonstrable the effect that you had on daytime talk shows for a long time and still to this day in certain ways but for a while everybody was aping that. Anyway, this was a tangent. Jessika: That's okay It was exactly the tangent I wanted. Mike: Maury seemed like a lovely person for all two minutes that I interacted with him, and I hope that Jerry Springer is the person that he seems to be during interviews. Jessika: Same. Well, speaking of life drama, Marston had plenty. Mike: Oh, do tell. Jessika: Yeah. He was already married to his wife the aforementioned Elizabeth -who for consistency I'm going to continue calling Holloway though she did take his name when they got married. Marston, working as a professor at Tufts which is another university, fell in love with one of his students, Olive Byrne, in 1925 and advised his wife that Byrne could either move in or Marston was leaving. Mike: Oh. Jessika: Yeah. That was what the history said So we'll talk through the movie later Mike: Yeah, 'cuz my only familiarity with this so far is what I saw in the movie. *uggggh* Jessika: That was my reaction I now I did my research prior to watching the movie for this exact reason. So I watched the movie last night. It's super fresh. Mike: Yeah I watched it yesterday afternoon and then I watched the other one which we'll get into so it was the origins of Wonder Woman and then Wonder Woman a little bit more modern incarnation. Jessika: Perfect. Yeah. Byrne interestingly enough was the niece of Margaret Sanger. Have you heard that name before Mike: Yeah. She was like one of the early women's rights crusaders. Jessika: Yeah Yup Yup She was a renowned women's rights and birth control activist along with her sister Ethel Byrne opened the first birth control clinic in the United States which is so cool Mike: Yeah, that's awesome. Jessika: Both however were arrested for the illegal distribution of contraception and Ethel Byrne almost died during a hunger strike while she was in jail. Mike: I remember reading about that like in one of my one of my history classes. I mean, that checks out. Jessika: It was bad news bears. So I didn't write this down but I'm just remembering but I did read or listened to sources that said that multiple women were arrested and went on hunger strike and they were forced feeding them It was just it was bad news. The whole thing was just bad. So this obviously was during a time when women were still fighting for the right to vote as I'd mentioned earlier. And the idea of feminism was just a twinkle of a notion. So Byrne Holloway and Marston all three lived together for years as a throuple. Super interestingly they made up a backstory for all of as a widowed relative and both Holloway and Byrne were raising Marston's children. Byrne's Children were always told that their father had passed away and did not find out about the truth of their father's identity until after his death. Mike: Wow. So he fathered children with both women, correct? Jessika: He did. Yeah He fathered I believe two with Byrne and three with Holloway. They all live together in a house and again they managed to keep it secret enough that even their children didn't know. In the same house It's so wild to me Like how you and Mike: Insane to me. Jessika: You fathered children with this woman and they didn't know. No one knew. I can't fathom that honestly. Especially in a time when everybody was up at everybody else's business. Mike: Oh yeah. It's not like we had Netflix. You needed to do invent your own drama. Jessika: You look out Mike: the window. Before Marston died because he died fairly young as I remember it. So that was the whole thing in the movie is that they got out as being in a throuple to their neighbors. Nothing? Jessika: Never happened. They didn't get in trouble at the school. They didn't get in trouble with the neighbors. None of that. It was seamless. Mike: That actually makes me really happy. Jessika: Me too Mike: I love the idea of it sounds like a relatively healthy family. Jessika: I Mike: don't know. Maybe? Jessika: Y'know from what I was hearing because we're still in 1910 we're still in the 1920s I guess at this point it's still is like Marston is Papa Marston he's still man of the house. So I don't know especially when you're looking at this whole -how it was phrased and this is just a couple of sources- but just as far as how it's phrased in this I don't know that Holloway really had a choice other than "well I could be stuck here with" I don't know if she had children at that point "I could maybe be stuck as a single mother in the 1920s or I could allow this other woman to come into my house" but what's great about that is Byrne was able to just stay home and raise the kids. So Holloway was still able to go out and have a career. Yeah She still went out and had a career And so that's where it's I have a hard time saying definitively black and white Marston was a feminist as we would call him now. Probably not. But he definitely had the leanings of that. And he definitely was far advanced for his time Mike: sure I can only imagine. Was he still teaching during this time or was he doing something else? Jessika: He did so many things. He did so many things and I'll actually get into that a little bit further. But it was such a it did seem like a good situation for everyone. Marston had multiple professional interests And Marston believed not only in equality for women, but even further he believed that society should be matriarchal... which is where he goes a little bit more like a Ooh he just kind of swings off you know Cause he's like, "no no no no we should go in the exact 180. There's no middle ground here Women should rule society." Sure right now we live with men. Let's flip it over on its head and see how it goes I guess? But would settle for equality. Mike: Speaking as a mediocre white dude I'm totally fine with this plan. Jessika: Great Let's put it into effect. Who could I call? Papa Joe? I'll bring Mike: it up at the next meeting at the next mediocre white dude club meeting Jessika: I knew you guys had meetings. The gays definitely have meetings Well yeah You know you know you know I'm like well like I'm excluding you from the LGBT community That's rude of me and my Mike: apologies. The rest of them already do already. It's fine. Jessika: To Touché. We did have that conversation earlier. Biphobia. It's a real problem Mike: Yeah It's fun. Jessika: Yeah we were talking about Marston and his wild matriarchal ideas. And his idea was that women were more thoughtful empathetic and level headed when making decisions and would be better suited to positions of leadership. And Marston is quoted as saying -and if you want us to read this quote for me: Mike: okay! " Frankly Wonder Woman is a psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who, I believe, should rule the world." Jessika: So you can kind of see where he was going with that. Obviously she's powerful, she's more powerful than most of the men that she comes across. And he really was trying to flip that on its head with this character. Mike: Yeah. There was nothing like her before that Jessika: No. Absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. However Marston's entry into the entertainment business didn't start with feminine power of Wonder Woman but instead with the film industry and again this is early film we're talking. He was in the silent film era and then moved talkies. Mike: Golden Age. Jessika: The Golden Age. And there he wrote screenplays and later acted as the consulting psychologist for universal pictures which I didn't even know That was a thing Having a consulting psychologist makes a lot of sense Mike: Yeah it does I just had no idea that was even a role that existed back then. Jessika: Yeah I know. And back then even I know. And at this point he'd already been published, having written dozens of magazine articles and a novel about his opinions Let's just call them or his findings about psychology at the time. And it is called a novel So just keep that in mind. It's called "Emotions of People" I believe. And they do mention it briefly in the film I didn't read it. I'm sure I could jump around and do I just didn't want to get into 1920s garbage which to He was then asked in 1941 to be the consulting psychologist for DC by Maxwell Charles Gaines who was more or less the creator of comics as we know them. At the time Gaines was under fire for content that folks deemed at the time to be risque. So he hired Marston to take off some of the heat by approving the content that was going out. With Marston on the team the largest complaints that they received was the aggressive masculinity that seemed to be the theme of all of the comic books. Yeah I know. You would think that we live in this society that values men so much you would think that we'd be able to just carry on with that you one form. Mike: Yeah Especially during that era which was right when we were getting into World War II and we were going hard for those traditional masculine values Jessika: Yup we want strong men who can go out there and die, I mean fight, for us. Yes. Marston suggested that the best way to counter that idea with the critics was to create a female superhero. Now Gaines accepted the idea but told Marston he had to write the strip himself. So he did. And with the help of illustrator Harry G Peter, Wonder Woman was in essence born. She was fierce, she was strong, she had a lasso that was that made others obey. It wasn't a truth thing that we now know it as the lasso of truth It was an obedient situation. Everybody who was lassoed had to obey her. So it was more of a dominance situation, which we will absolutely get to. And it makes a little bit more sense. Although there again with his lie detector the truth also makes sense. Either way, it tracks but it was obedience. Mike: Yeah you don't say. Jessika: One of her most important qualities was that she didn't kill. That was her empathy. That was that piece of her that was more feminine than some of those other comic book characters, those typical comic book characters Mike: Yeah. Even in the early days I know Batman killed people originally. He was like a goon and I think Superman did too in his early run. I think, can't remember for sure. Jessika: I believe so And then they when they got the comics code? When it was stricter with the comics code that's when they kind of moved into less actual killing from what I was reading I believe. Mike: You know I don't know for certain but it may have been before that because they were just they're such popular characters for kids. But I'm not entirely certain but I know that the early appearances are pretty brutal. I remember Batman hanging a dude from his plane. Jessika: Well I mean Superman came out in 1939 so yeah it's early. I'm going to send you a picture Mike: Okay. Jessika: And so this is the first introduction to Wonder Woman which was seen on the cover of sensation comics Will you please describe the cover? Mike: Yeah .So it is Sensation Comics Number One, the best of the DC magazines. You see Wonder Woman I'm not sure if the sun is really enlarged or if she is just jumping in front of something that's yellow to kind of add a little color to it but she is being shot at by a bunch of what appear to be mobsters somewhere in Washington DC because the capital is there and... is that is that the Lincoln Memorial? I can't tell what other building is that has the flag. Jessika: Apparently they're right across the street from each other. Not real life. This is scale. Mike: It looks like a vaguely government building I can't tell. Jessika: Yeah supposed to be something like that Mike: But it says "featuring the sensational new adventure strip character Wonder Woman!" You got to get that exclamation point in. She's kind of jacked like even back then which I kind of love. She is wearing a truly unflattering pair of boots that are only going up to mid calf as opposed to what we know now where they're just above the knee and armored and bad-ass. But it's the outfit that actually she's still sort of rocking the day where she's got the kind of red bustier with the gold eagle on it and then she's got the bulletproof bracelets and then she's got what I can only describe it as the bottom part of a sun dress kind of skirt where it's like very flowy? As opposed to that that gladiatorial skirt that she has now. But it's very identifiably Wonder Woman. Jessika: Yeah. And it goes back and forth between this was her first debut but it wasn't her first issue. first issue she was wearing more of what people were calling underpants of this same pattern. And that's what more used to. Yeah We're used to those like little booty shorts that she's rocking. So, right off the bat: Mike if you were a critic, in 1942 what would your main complaint about this be? Just based on the cover? Mike: I don't know. They were really concerned about the violence that was being marketed towards kids so probably the gunfire. Probably the fact that she was showing too much skin. Jessika: it. She wasn't clothed enough .Oh, they didn't care about the gunfire. That was not what was that was not the problem. Gasp. The drama was that Wonder Woman was wearing far too few clothes for Puritan America. Mike: Jesus Christ. And that's actually super tame Jessika: It's really tame. When you think about other superheroes that we have nowadays especially: You've got these massive boobs that are up to her neck and this little waist and like wearing a thong. But this is so covered Mike: Yeah. A lot of modern comics have these very almost suggestive poses. Do you remember when the Avengers came out and and all of the dudes had very action-oriented poses and then Black Widow was turned so that we could see her butt? She had Jessika: her like her arm up so that you could see her boob line. Mike: Yeah. And it's a really action oriented pose and it's very matter of fact there is nothing sexualized about that, kinda love. Jessika: Marston made it a point for her to be doing action and for her to be doing sports and for her to be doing things that were very active because women weren't given that as a role. So he really wanted to present that as another facet of, "Hey, this can also be feminine. Yeah I thought so, too. And while a slight costume adjustment seemed easy enough to deal with some critics also had qualms with other aspects of the comic. Namely, the depiction of women especially our heroine being tied or chained up or left in other positions of containment. Now, Marston's intention behind this seemed to be twofold in my opinion. Part one feminism and part two I also think he was just in kinky motherfucker. Which is great. Like, that's fine no kink shame. But we're going to briefly discuss both. So part one feminism. Marston was a supporter of women's rights, as we said. He was a supporter of the right to vote and the ability to have access to contraceptives. He'd been a supporter of these movements in his own right and was particularly struck by the female suffragettes who would chain themselves to a location in protest. Chains seem to him to be the very image brought to life of how society chains down and stifles women from succeeding. Either chaining them to their family before they're wed, chaining them to their new husband, or chaining them to pregnancies that they either cannot afford or don't want. In each of these portrayals of Wonder Woman being tied down there is always the moment that she's able to break free from her restraints in triumph which is just a perfect metaphor for the modern woman being able to break free from the societal chains that still bind her. And this hope that women will be able to eventually free themselves for good. In everything I've read, you had women suffragettes chaining themselves to places in protest. Same thing with the contraceptive movement. That was a huge metaphor for both of those movements, so it would make sense that if you are portraying a feminist during that era that that might be a theme. And I think people who maybe didn't support or were unfamiliar with the movements might have something to say negatively against the imagery, especially if they didn't understand Mike: We had a lot of people back then who were really pushing for propriety and basically you can't let immoral elements affect the children. They always fucking latch on to like "think of the children. Protect the children." Fuck off. Jessika: We still do that shit. This is just like pizza gate all over again. Mike: Yeah Jessika: Pizza gate before pizza gate. Little did they know. But part two: the kink factor. Marston had a whole dominance theory that I think tells a lot more about him than it does to the human experience In general I'm not going to get deep into the theory because we both have lives but it pertains to dominance and submission at the very minimum. Mike: You don't say. Jessika: Yo I know right. Mike: What. Shock. Jessika: At this point it's pretty well established that individuals have different drives and things that excite them. But I think that Marston was looking at the world from a place of, oh I like this So everybody is like this." Which just isn't the case for everybody. Mike: Right. But that's also like a very stereotypical kind of dude attitude. Jessika: Yeah. This is my worldview and so it must be everybody's. Absolutely. Again, he's some Harvard bro. Mike: Yeah. Yeah. Jessika: You're able to just go to Harvard in 1925 like Mike: NBD. I'm Jessika: gonna Mike: to be living near there soon. Oh God. I'm going to Jessika: be visiting you soon. I've got the people there. You're fine. We'll get you there. We'll get you there. But my impression is that he assumed that everyone else was a little kinky like him. Also it needs to be stated that again in interviewing Marson's children they never saw toys, ropes, anything that he had mentioned in the comics or that were the things that were being taken as this great offense, they didn't see any of those things. So it was this was also a complete surprise to them nothing related to bondage. Mike: Yeah that's wild man. I just I think about the fact that my partner has stories about how when everyone was out of the house she would just snoop around when she was growing up. And I remember doing that too And kids get into shit. Jessika: We also grew up in the age in the era of the latchkey child, though. My parents would just and not for long periods of time it's not like they would go out of town or something. But they'd leave us and say "don't answer the door. You're not home. Don't answer the phone. We'll call and ring twice and then hang up and then call back If we want to talk to you know whatever there was a code. But there again we lived in a different time even this many years I mean it just we sound like old people every time we have this conversation. Mike: You know someone pointed out that if Back To The Future was taking place today Marty McFly would be going back to like 91. Jessika: Don't do this to me. Mike: We're old, Jess. Jessika: We're Mike: practically Jessika: this Okay Mike. This is going to seem like such a non-sequitur But have you ever had to do a DISC personality assessment for any of your offices jobs? Mike: I don't think so. The name isn't familiar but describe this to me. Jessika: Basically it's like any of those other stupid employee personality tests where they try to like "what part of the team are you? How can we use your strengths?" I'm a supervisor so I've had to go through all this crap. And it's cool. It's a cool concept but it's also like mind numbing if it's not your wheelhouse. Mike: No. So I've never taken anything like this no. Jessika: Okay So yeah you basically answered a bunch of questions about what you would do in a situation. And it's kind of one of those no wrong answers kind of tests. And then they put you into one of four different categories. So I have had to do this before and and other ones like it but I honestly can't remember what I scored and I'm not going to get into a long-winded lecture on the topic either but suffice it to say that part of that is dominance That's the D and part of it is compliance which is the C. Mike: So was this something Marston came up with? Jessika: Yeah. Marston came up with and it's we still use version of this today which is so interesting. So far he's got lie detector, check. We still kind of use it today. Steve Wilkos does. And then now he's got the DISC which I definitely have taken. Now, it doesn't look the same. The categories are not the same as when he first created them. So less kink forward I would say. But you still have those two that are vibing you know. And for those of you are you unfamiliar with the kink scene: Power dynamics in play can sometimes come in the form of having one dominant and one submissive partner. But again not everybody functions in that way. Ultimately, wonder Woman was allowed to continue as she was. Delighting readers even to this day though of course the writing has changed hands multiple times meaning that her true meaning was sometimes lost to those who were in charge of telling her story. For example once Wonder Woman entered the Justice League she was immediately made to be the secretary. And there were many times that she was relegated to staying behind because she just had so much to take care of and "oh little old me couldn't get involved in having lifting" bullshit. God damn. She's so fucking strong. She has powers and Batman doesn't. Why the fuck does he get to go on missions? Why the fuck Isn't Batman the secretary? That's my question. Oh he has money my own his Mike: power that he's rich. Jessika: God damn. Yeah. Thanks for that Ben Affleck. We know. Still like him as Batman. Mike: Yeah. I'll die on that hill he was good. Jessika: Yeah Yeah He was good There was also a point where she lost her powers completely though did gain them back, those were times that Wonder Woman didn't necessarily feel like the fierce warrior she truly is. Mike: Yeah, actually, Brian's comics -our local comic shop- the first time I went in there they had the all-new Wonder Woman issue where it's like this iconic cover where it's her tearing up I think the original version of her and it's like get ready for the all new Wonder Woman I think that's when they de-powered her. I think. I'm not certain I'm really bummed that I didn't pick that up when it was there. Jessika: The idea behind that apparently was supposed to be that would make her more human and relatable but that's not you're just taking away the things that make her a stronger character for people that look up to her. Mike: Yeah I'm sorry. Did you were you able to hear my eyes rolling out of their Jessika: I did actually Yeah no that was a really palpable eye-roll. well Marston passed away at the age of 53 of cancer So very young like you were saying. Yeah. Holloway and Byrne continue living together until they both went into the hospital around the same time in 1990. When Byrne passed away, in a different room in the same hospital at the age of 86. Mike: I Jessika: got teary writing this so I'm probably going to get teary reading it. Upon hearing the news of burns passing Holloway sang a poem by Tennyson in her hospital room. So everything I've read alludes to the idea that Holloway and Byrne were also in a relationship with each other not just the man with all of them that they did have there were women who were kind of rotating in the house. It wasn't just these two there were other women who at different periods of time lived in the house undetected by the way can we just give it up for the Marston Family. Mike: Like. How? Jessika: That's what I'm saying. I don't know, money? And the dude had his little hands in everything so he probably just knew a bunch of people I don't know How do you get away with things as a guy I literally can't even imagine. Mike: This is my friend who's coming over to assist with this thing? The question is were they just coming into visit or were they living there for periods of Jessika: time? They were living there for a parts. Yes I know me too. I know. Okay let's run through: You have a widowed relative. You could be bringing in a nanny. You could be bringing in another person who works in the house et cetera et cetera. You could be bringing in a cousin or another type of relative. I'm sure you could excuse up the yin yang. Mike: Yeah I mean you can come up with excuses but if they're like living with you for any amount of time there are those moments of small intimacies that other people will pick up on. I don't know I mean were the kids just dumb? I don't know like how that requires some serious commitment to acting I feel. Jessika: Yeah. Oh yeah. Mike: So much fucking effort. Jessika: I was just going to say that. Can you imagine? I can't. Mike: No. Jessika: The mental strain alone. Mike: Like I have one partner, I have step-kids, and I have pets and that's like that's kind of the extent of my bandwidth. Jessika: Oh okay So I am non-monogamous or Poly, polyamorous. So I do have multiple partners although I they're what I would consider like secondary partners or partners that I don't I don't live with them, I don't necessarily see them on a super regular basis but I still maintain a relationship with them. And I still consider them partners. To whatever you know effect that is. But it is a lot of work and it's so much communication and you can just tell that Marston had to have been really communicative and that whole family had to have been really communicative. Mike: They must have been. Jessika: Or else how. Mike: At the same time like that era men weren't necessarily expected to be super communicative or show a lot of emotion or be the one to provide nurturing experiences with the kids. So maybe they just didn't get a lot of exposure to the kids and were really just exposed to their mothers and the motherly figures. I mean, this is all completely uninformed speculation so don't take anything that I'm saying with even a grain of salt like this. Jessika: Oh no. Absolutely at any rate Holloway passed away in 1993 at the ripe age of 100. Mike: Oh wow. So there was a little bit Jessika: of an age difference. Around Yeah there was there was yeah. Sounds like about a little bit less than 20 years. About 14 years. But if you think about it she was in college. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: He was her teacher and they were already married. He went to I want to say that he started college like prior to 1910. And they met and she moved into the house in 1925. So that's a good 15. Mike: He would have been about he would have been about 17 and 1910 right? Based on it like he was 1893 he said? Jessika: Yes yes. Yeah. And it sounds like Holloway was born the same year. Mike: Yeah and I got to say the love story between Holloway and Byrne sounds like something straight out of a movie. Which we're about to get into. But we all want to have that partner who is with us till the bitter end and then they sing a poem in our memory. Like goddamn. Jessika: It's just so beautiful. Yeah. They had it when they live together in the house, they had adjoining rooms and this is where it's like how did your kids not know because Marston would sleep in both. How did he like literally how did they not know? No it's wild to me. And then when they were older, byrne and Holloway lived in a little two bedroom place in Tampa together. This cute place apparently. So let's talk about our reactions here. We did also watch Professor Marston and the Wonder Women which I think it's worth a watch in my just off the bat. Mike: Yeah. I really liked it a lot and it was a movie that totally flew under the radar for me when it came out. I was vaguely aware of it but I really did not know much about it before we talked about what movies we wanted to do and March being women's month it seemed like a natural conclusion after the DCEU. Jessika: Yeah. Absolutely. That train wreck. I'm sorry. Mike: I was Jessika: of We did. We did enjoy one of the movies and we enjoyed aspects of of them. I trailed off my brain wouldn't let me do it It's like no that sentence Mike: I mean we kind of enjoyed parts of the Snyder cut Jessika: We did We liked it better Mike: than I don't like we're still Jessika: bitching about the Snyder Cut Mike: Look at Jessika: this Mike: back Jessika: Goddammit. We've literally can't get away from it Zach Snyder, hit us up.. No don't. You're not going to like what you hear I'm going to get to eat It adds Zach Snyder is going to be like Mike: I want the Snyder cut of Professor Marston in the Women which will be just scenes of Luke Evans with the Women in the background and don't do anything else. Jessika: And there's no dialogue in this one at all. It's just it's just heavy looks. Mike: It's just all the scenes from that sorority scene just over and just dark, scenes. Jessika: Definitely talk about that. Oh. What did you think about the film overall. Mike: Like I said, I overall really enjoyed it. I had heard about this movie a little bit. I remember my weightlifting partner at the time was telling me about how she and her wife had gone and enjoyed it and she thought that I would really like it. And I was like, "yeah okay cool." And then it just I didn't get around to seeing it while it was out in it's very limited run in theaters. And then I don't think it ever came to any streaming platform when I was aware of it. I was really surprised by actually how much I did enjoy it. I thought it was a shockingly sweet love story and I was expecting something much more judgmental or scandalous I was really expecting a much more judgy story about the Marstons and Byrne raising an entire family as a throuple. Jessika: was too. Mike: I was wondering if the relationship was ever outed and if they ever did break up like they did in the movie because that felt kind of forced and it felt very Hollywood and I was like "all right, whatever. This is dumb." At the end where they're on their knees submitting to Byrne." Jessika: Spot on That was made up There was none of that. Mike: I still think the most offensive thing about that movie was that they tried to make me think that someone who looked like Luke Evans was responsible for Wonder Woman's creation. I love Luke Evans I think he's really a fun actor and I was really glad to see him in a real role as opposed to I saw Dracula untold in theaters. I saw I'm Oh man I I didn't see Beauty and The Beast in theaters but I've since seen it. He's one of those actors where I feel like he just needs to be given good roles. He's like Kiana Reeves where I feel like he's often typecast and just thrust into stuff that aren't really any good but he was really good in this. That said: I've seen that man shirtless so many times and I don't know a single comic creator with abs like that. On the flip side, I went into this trying to keep myself as unaware a lot of the history of Marston but I do know what he looked like in his forties and that was like a dude in his seventies. Jessika: Did you watch all at the end of the film they had all the pictures. Yeah And you're just like, "oh. Oh." Like because Byrne and Holloway also not looking like who they cast. Not even a little bit, not even at all. Mike: Okay this is mean. But I'm like yes you look like the type of people who would be in a throuple. Jessika: No. Okay, fair enough And especially here's you know what it reminded me of it reminded me of those pictures that I used to see from that era where the Women especially with those two they looked like the type who would dress up as men and go to the clubs. Mike: Absolutely Jessika: I get that. It's just a vibe I get and maybe it's just my gaydar Like my pansexual gaydar is Mike: going But I mean that's the ongoing lie that Hollywood loves to tell us is that truly sexy people are in throuples all the time. No they're fucking not. I'm bI And I was dating here in the Bay area and I would occasionally get hit on by people looking for a third and they never looked like that. Jessika: And in my experience and opinion if you go at it with the wrong attitude you're not necessarily going to get what you want out of it. And it's not going to be a genuine feeling relationship. Mike: Which I mean like that's relationships in general. Like Yeah I feel like a huge thing of any successful relationship is communications. Stay tuned listeners for our next podcast about relationships and relationship advice And I don't know I don't know where I was going with that. Jessika: Oh I was like we have a new podcast. We're four episodes into this podcast and Mike's like folks we have a new podcast. You know what I like I like your gusto. I like a motivated you Mike: I did have two quibbles about the movie. Getting back on topic. First we earlier mentioned there was no acknowledgement about the problematic nature of how Marston and Byrne's relationship began. Where he was her professor and she was his student. The movie was very fuzzy with time it was very fluid that way. So it wasn't really explained if she was still his student when the relationship began or if she was his research assistant but there was that power imbalance and their dynamic and that was deeply uncomfortable for me because it wasn't addressed. They just kinda hand waved it away. Fine. Whatever. For the movie, fine. Jessika: same way about that. Yeah It just it's gross and to your point there is a power dynamic that I was thinking about. If you are trying to please somebody who has some sort of control over you, whatever that looks like, if it's somebody who has your grades or your future career or your education or even your job... you know this could be at a job setting. If that person has power over you you're less inclined to say "no" to them. And that automatically puts you at a disadvantage. Mike: It was something that I noticed and I was a little frustrated that it wasn't addressed better. The second was that it didn't feel like we actually got enough time with Wonder Woman. The comics and the character felt more like a framing device but a framing device that we didn't really get a lot of payoff on, considering the title of the movie. I thought the scenes where he was actually in the comic office and there was a bit where they're like "Oh well, they're upset about the bondage. And they're like I feel like there's twice as much. And then he just is like I put in three times as much and he keeps walking. And and Oliver Platt was so great and I wanted more of him. For a movie that has Wonder Woman or Wonder Women in the title I just I wanted a little bit more time and acknowledgement. It felt like much more attention was paid just to their relationship with like the first two thirds of the movie. And then he goes with hat in hand to Oliver Platt's character at... was it all-star Comics? Was Jessika: that it? Mike: Yeah. I mix up all the publishers because they've all merged and come together at various. So yeah he It just it it was And especially cause you were like no he got hired to like do this to get them out of hot water now I'm like that makes much more sense. Jessika: Yeah He Mike: Considering the importance that we're led to believe that Wonder Woman will be to his story, I mean she's there. Like they do a number of things where they keep teasing us with Wonder Woman but we never really get that payoff. What about you like Jessika: I did my research on the topic prior to watching the film. So this will be mostly on what the film did or didn't do correctly kind of history with my own opinion of course sprinkled in as you'd expect from So to your point most of the drama seems to have been fabricated There's no indication that any issues with Radcliffe, like trying to boot him for indecency or with the neighbors regarding their relationship, and again even their children didn't know until after Marston's passing about their relationship. And I didn't read anything about them having split up at any point. And again I think that was just added for a forceful Hollywood dramatics play, since we're on the topic of dominance. And there again Marston was already working for Gaines when he created the idea of Wonder Woman and it was in direct relation to the voice of the critics. So he was answering the critics here. So it didn't necessarily seem like as big of a you did this thing and now we're going to make you pay. It was like well okay Right. The sections with Connie Britton -love her by the way, want more in my life just in general- and their back and forth minus all the people drama was actually pretty accurate as far as capturing the concerns of the day and what was being argued in the lobby against Wonder Woman. And then also pretty accurate in what his counterpoints were in relation to the to the comic itself. Mike: Yeah And I thought that was a smart choice to kind of make her the voice of the critics. Jessika: Yeah. That being said his relationship didn't come up at any point in this again because nobody knew about it until after the fact. So it's not like she would have been like what about those things you were indecent. Well, no that that didn't happen. That was all for dramatics. Overall I really liked it. So, again, me as a pansexual: love a good queer film and also being polyamorous or non-monogamous it was so nice seeing that to your point represented so positively, and without judgment. That was so surprising to me I really thought that there was going to be some sort of aspect from the point of view of the viewer to not want them to succeed. But the whole time you really do you're rooting for them. Mike: If you're a fan of history in comic books I think this is a great movie to go check out. My final thought is that reminded me a lot of Kinsey. Did you ever see that? It had Liam Neeson and Laura Linney in it and it's all about Kinsey, the guy created the Kinsey scale of sexuality. Jessika: Oh okay I'll have to check it out Mike: It's great. This kind of reminded me the same way where it's mostly true. It's not quite all there because they have to tszuj it up for the audiences. Jessika: Yeah, yeah. Well, let's move on to our other film that we watched which was Wonder Woman from 2009. And that was the animated origin story of Wonder Woman Do you want to give an overview of the film for us? Mike: Yeah, sure. This is one of the original DC Universe Animated Original Movies which were at the time this came out in 2009 they were still in their infancy. They'd only done three before. This one is loosely based on George Perez's acclaimed 1980s storyline called "Gods and Monsters" and it's written by Gail Simone and Michael Jelenic. Gail Simone has gotten her own amount of acclaim for writing Wonder Woman as well. The film introduces us to the Amazons who win a war against Ares and then they're granted the Island of Themiscyra and immortality in exchange for acting as Ares' jailer by the gods. Diana is later sculpted from clay and given life by the gods. This is kind of in direct opposition to the current mythos of Zeus being her deadbeat dad and then Diana lives on the Island for thousands of years until pretty much the modern day when two key events happen. Steve Trevor crashes on the Island by happenstance and then Ares stages of jailbreak. And Diana has to take Steve back to the United States and he helps her and request to stop the god of war. Jessika: And actually pretty similar to where they tried to go with the original Wonder Woman. So this was absolutely not a cartoon for children. Mike: Nooooo. Jessika: blood spattered backgrounds, fairly graphic death scenes, and three beheadings three beheadings. We're talking the head flying off and falling dramatically at someone's feet kind of beheading. And that being said I didn't particularly mind the violent nature of the animation as a movie for adults as I feel that it was done in a way that felt true to the battle and the struggle of what was happening in the storyline and it didn't feel overly gross in its depictions or its animations like just enough to give the definite impression that violence was occurring. That makes sense Ares is a super violent guy and he affects everyone around him into violence themself so that it did make sense in that way. So things I liked is that it it seemed to me like a fairly good representation of Wonder Woman's origin story as it was originally told by Marston based on what I was reading. Mike: Yeah it it felt like a very classic take on Wonder Woman's origin. And it was very familiar to someone who grew up nominally aware of her origins and reading her mini comics with her action figure and stuff like that. Jessika: One main difference was that the movie was set in seemingly present day America. Since at one point Wonder Woman ends up fighting in a mall, the fighter planes that Steve and company were flying looked modern for 2009. Marston's Wonder Woman was originally set in World War Two of course whereas the 2018 live action film with Gal Gadot was set in World War One. So we've just jumped around. Again DC is definitely not consistent. Mike: It's comic books. And DC's own in- comics timeline has been drastically reworked several times just in our lifetime. Jessika: Yeah. Yeah. And this time period change it definitely affects the vibe and political climate of American society at that time in the cartoon we're not presented with a particular war or a reason for fighting we're evidently just supposed to understand that the world of men is in constant battle every moment. Whereas in the original comic and Wonder Woman film Both took place during large global wars where it wouldn't be a far leap to present the god of war as the cause of those events. Mike: Yeah, absolutely. Jessika: Now things I didn't like cause apparently I veered into not liking and then we're continuing down that road. For someone that wasn't raised in a patriarchal society, Diana's internalized misogyny is staggering. At one point she says to Steve, "you're starting to sound like a woman" when he's discussing having feelings for her and later says to Ares, "how can you expect to beat Zeus If you can't even beat a girl." The fuck that? Mike: Which kind of goes against everything else that she does in the movie. Jessika: Yeah it directly against it. Yeah, so that was irritating. And then not only that, the president, because apparently they're in Washington DC, the president is told that they were saved by a group of armored supermodels. Which I had to rewind it and write that line down grossed. Out It's such a condescending and reductive statement to make about individuals that just saved your lives while you apparently slept through the whole situation, Mr President. And it drives home the point that even in heroism, women's worth is still viewed only in her attractiveness. Mike: Yeah there was a lot of that. Jessika: Yeah. Yeah. They also have Diana do quite a bit of killing with absolutely no thought whatsoever which is not in the original character at all. That doesn't feel very Diana. Mike: I mean, no. But at the same time I don't particularly have a problem with it but yeah Jessika: Yeah. So that was me. What about you? Were you at with that? Mike: I think I had a slightly more positive take on the movie. I mean it sounds like you still enjoyed it, right? Jessika: Oh, I liked it. I still liked it. Yeah. Mike: Part of it is just I viewed it at the time when it first came out and this was one of the first animated original movies. And it was the first one that I remember enjoying. So I think that it's definitely tinted my perspective a little bit. Jessika: You had a nostalgia factor that I didn't I hadn't seen it prior. Mike: I remember seeing the reviews for it and I was like, "Oh this looks really cool. The others that were released before that they were all, well two of the three were just straight adaptations of other you know quote unquote iconic stories So there is Superman: Doomsday which was the death and life of Superman and I did not give a shit about that movie. It was really I felt flat. Then there was Justice League: The New Frontier which is based on a really acclaimed mini series. And then there was Batman Gotham Knight which was -if I remember right- it was several different animated shorts and different animated styles. And none of them really did it for me. But the DC Animated Universe, which was helmed by Bruce Timm, so that's like the original Batman animated series from the nineties as well as the Superman series and then Justice League and then Batman Beyond or vice versa and then Justice League Unlimited, those were all incredible. And I knew that eventually we would get to the same point with the animated movies and Wonder Woman felt like that home run that I knew they'd eventually hit. So I really enjoyed the film overall and even watching it yesterday afternoon I had a blast, you know, even a decade later. I think its strongest element is that the movie clearly has zero fucks to give. That battle between the Amazons and Ares is incredibly violent and it's obvious from the first 30 seconds in that this is going to be a RIDE. And it doesn't shy away from some really tough narrative elements like where Hippolyta actually in that battle It's revealed that she kills Thrax, the son of Ares. Thrax is her child who is very heavily implied the product of rape by Jessika: Ares. Mike: Also the vocal cast is just incredible. This was 2009 Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Virginia Madsen, Rosario Dawson, Alfred Molina, and then Oliver Platt. They were really well-regarded actors at the time and they're still pretty big and side note Oliver Platt was in both of the movies that we watched for this Jessika: episode. I literally thought of that when you said that. Mike: he fucking steals every scene he's in. He was just this delightful villainous Hades and he's kinda gross but he's also just wonderfully sinister. I really dug that and I also really dug how it felt like a pretty faithful adaptation of the origin while still feeling fresh and fast. Like this movie is not long. That kind of leads into something that I didn't like was that It's a very short movie. It's barely over an hour long. I feel like we needed a director's cut or something because of the lines could have been fleshed out a little bit more like this is something Look Jessika: who wants director's cut now. Mike: Release the Simone cut or something, I don't know. I feel like there were a couple of sub plot lines that were kind of just glossed over. Like I mentioned Thrax is actually Diana's half-brother. I feel like maybe there might've been something more there. Maybe there wasn't, who knows. But it just it felt like something that I would have liked a little more room to breathe. And that's said, it was pretty solid. That said there were some problematic elements. Like Steve was so gross and so cringy Jessika: He kept calling her Angel and I just wanted to punch him in the jaw. Mike: Which, I mean, so that's like a thing from the comics and his other earlier incarnations but this time around it just felt gross. It felt like "babe" and you know blech. Jessika: Yeah. Yeah. He just he rolled in and was like "Oh naked ladies I'm in right place for me." Mike: And the problem is that Nathan Fillion was just too good at making him a sleazebag. Jessika: Which, love Nathan Fillion. Mike: I do too. Like, okay dude, we get it. He's kind of a gross misogynist. We don't need him to hit on Diana for the fifth time in as many minutes. Etta Candy viewing Diana as competition was also dumb. Candy's always been one of her best friends and I still think that her incarnation in the original movie was pitch perfect. And then her being this skinny little supermodel who's trying to flirt with Steve was dumb. You mentioned the other problematic misogynistic elements that I noted. the only other thing, and this wasn't an actual problem, was that I didn't realize how much better Wonder woman's costume is these days rather than the super swimsuit that we had for so long. It's funny because growing up with it, I never thought about it. And then really only in the last five years or so we've gotten a much more a

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Date Fight!
55: 20th March: Maximinus Thrax v Carl Reiner

Date Fight!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2021 12:07


What happens when you double all the soldiers' wages? What was Walter Raleigh's podcast called? What is a treatise? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

I'm Totally Doing OK
Ant-thrax

I'm Totally Doing OK

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2021 54:53


Th most authentic "hello" you can get. Welcome to the show and thank you so much for listening. A special "Thank You" to Blue Foster for allowing us to use their track "Undercut SZA" for our intro.

Peoplz & Dragons
Thrax Homeworld, Thraxxion Warlords & More!

Peoplz & Dragons

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2020 7:11


Let's discuss Thraxxion lore submitted by our first alien player character Atraks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/audiorpg/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/audiorpg/support

Vigilantes Radio Podcast
The .thrax Interview.

Vigilantes Radio Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2020 27:23


Vigilantes Radio Podcast
The .thrax Interview.

Vigilantes Radio Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2020 27:23


On the Phone with David Serero!
Interview with music artist THRAX - On the phone with David Serero (2020)

On the Phone with David Serero!

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2020 14:39


Interview with music artist THRAX - On the phone with David Serero (2020)

The Culture News
Interview with music artist THRAX - On the phone with David Serero - The Culture News

The Culture News

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2020 14:39


Interview with music artist THRAX, owner of Encryption Records - On the phone with David Serero - The Culture News.

Traveling the Vortex
Side Trip 39 – Avast Ye Space Lubbers!

Traveling the Vortex

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2020 0:01


Glenn returns this week with another Doctor Who comics review. Moving on through the First Doctor’s timeline, this time the stories The Therovian Quest and The Hijackers of Thrax from 1965’s TV Comics.       Links mentioned in the show: Doctor Who – The Complete Adventures by Andrew Kearley  

Una Página De Películas
Episodio 61: Osmosis Jones

Una Página De Películas

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2020 6:16


Osmosis Jones es una película de comedia de acción animada de 2001 con escenas animadas dirigidas por Tom Sito y Piet Kroon y escenas de acción real dirigidas por los hermanos Farrelly. La película se centra en Frank DeTorre, un descuidado cuidador del zoológico; Las escenas de acción en vivo se establecen fuera del cuerpo de Frank, mientras que las escenas animadas se establecen dentro de su cuerpo, que se representa como una ciudad habitada por células sanguíneas y microorganismos antropomórficos. El policía de glóbulos blancos Osmosis Jones y la píldora fría Drix deben evitar que el virus mortal Thrax mate a Frank en cuarenta y ocho horas. Te dejamos un vistazo a una pelicula que te deja saber como tu cuerpo te defiende de las enfermedades. ¿Quieres que discutamos algo en el programa? ¡Escríbenos! Email: Unapaginadepeliculas@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PdePeliculas/ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/pdepeliculas_/?hl=es Twitter: https://twitter.com/PDePelicula --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Relic of the Past
Chapter 145 - I Have Thrax

Relic of the Past

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2020 57:04


The party makes it's way to Collesque, but the Elves will not let them pass through their territory while carrying a phylactery.  When the do arrive, what they find is... shocking.    Let us know what you think!  Rate us on Apple Podcasts, email us at RelicofthePastPodcast@gmail.com, follow us @RelicofthePast on Twitter and @RelicofthePastPodcast on Facebook.  Articles and artwork are available at http://poolemedia.podbean.com/

Saturday Mourning Cartoons
Ep. 269: 'Ozzy & Drix' Review

Saturday Mourning Cartoons

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2020 60:40


In these strange times of coronavirus COVID-19, the Saturday Mourning Cartoons team has turned to a pair of animated pathogen-fighting heroes, 'Ozzy & Drix'! But just who are the title characters? Warner Bros.’ animated movie ‘Osmosis Jones’ came out in 2001 from the Farrelly Bros, and featured a live-action Bill Murray, with Chris Rock voicing the title character and David Hyde Pierce voicing Drix; Laurence Fishburne played the big bad in Thrax. Then, in 2002, ‘Ozzy & Drix’ arrived from Warner Bros. Animation on Kids WB (and later Cartoon Network) with Phil LaMarr and Jeff Bennett now voicing the title roles. How does it hold up? Listen along to find out! - Support the Show through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/saturdaymourningcartoons - Want to find our cohosts online? Dave Trumbore collider.com/author/dave-trumbore Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrClawMD Buy the book 'The Science of Breaking Bad' - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/science-breaking-bad Sean Paul Ellis IG and twitter @seanpaulellis Performer at Washington Improv Theater where you can find tickets and times. The Bureau podcast: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Comedy-Podcasts/The-Bureau-p1290704/ If you are digging our show and want to help you out, then you can do so in the following ways: 1. Recommend a cartoon to us: Call us and leave a message at 202-681-4406. If you call then we will 100% review you recommendations if we haven't watched the cartoon yet. 2. Leave a review on iTunes with the following message titled "Shake Your Groove Thing“ with the review, “At the Booger Barn!" 3. Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SaturdayMourningCartoons/ 4. Follow us on twitter @MourningToons 5. Check us out on Instagram @SaturdayMourningCartoons

Collider Weekly
'Ozzy & Drix' Review | Saturday Mourning Cartoons

Collider Weekly

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2020 60:40


In these strange times of coronavirus COVID-19, the Saturday Mourning Cartoons team has turned to a pair of animated pathogen-fighting heroes, 'Ozzy & Drix'! But just who are the title characters? Warner Bros.’ animated movie ‘Osmosis Jones’ came out in 2001 from the Farrelly Bros, and featured a live-action Bill Murray, with Chris Rock voicing the title character and David Hyde Pierce voicing Drix; Laurence Fishburne played the big bad in Thrax. Then, in 2002, ‘Ozzy & Drix’ arrived from Warner Bros. Animation on Kids WB (and later Cartoon Network) with Phil LaMarr and Jeff Bennett now voicing the title roles. How does it hold up? Listen along to find out!

Date Fight!
137: 20th March: Maximinus Thrax v Carl Reiner

Date Fight!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2020 12:07


What happens when you double all the soldiers' wages? What was Walter Raleigh's podcast called? What is a treatise? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

Relic of the Past
Chapter 143 - A Thrax on your Face!

Relic of the Past

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2020 61:26


Halfway to the coast the party must rest, but not much of a rest it will be!  There are lingering effects from the last battle that will haunt them.  And bad puns!  Can Cotter bring the party back from the brink of both of these disasters?   Let us know what you think!  Rate us on Apple Podcasts, email us at RelicofthePastPodcast@gmail.com, follow us @RelicofthePast on Twitter and @RelicofthePastPodcast on Facebook.  Articles and artwork are available at http://poolemedia.podbean.com/

ReReading Wolfe
tBotNS 1:13 The Lictor of Thrax - Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer, The Book of the New Sun

ReReading Wolfe

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2020 79:23


The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 13, "The Lictor of Thrax"Severian is imprisoned for showing mercy. Palaemon offers him an alternative to being executed.Links:Palaemon's timelineYou can also get episodes on your podcast app or on our Youtube channel.If you have problems accessing the podcast on your favorite platform, let us know. Questions, comments, corrections, additions, alternate theories?Connect with us on Facebook...or on Twitter @rereadingwolfe...or on Instagram: rereadingwolfepodcast...or on Reddit: rereadingwolfepodcast  -Intro from "The Alligator", Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff BarrowOutro from "Tower of Song" by Leonard CohenLogo art by SonOfWitzOutros and alternate outros are cued on the Rereading Wolfe Podcast Spotify playlist IF the songs are available on Spotify.

Mundofonías
Mundofonías 2020 #3 | Favoritos de enero / January favorites + Colombia + rock oriental + folk atlántico

Mundofonías

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2020 59:50


Celebramos los tres discos favoritos de Mundofonías del mes de enero, con las griegas afincadas en Estambul del Sinafi Trio; la 7ª promoción de la Kreiz Breizh Akademi, desde Bretaña, y la nueva entrega de los legendarios Gaiteros de San Jacinto, desde el Caribe colombiano. Y en Colombia seguimos, rindiendo nuestro sentido homenaje a Carlos "Cuco" Rojas, arpista e impulsor del grupo Cimarrón y recientemente fallecido. Continuamos con diversas interacciones eléctricas, rockeras y jazzísticas con las músicas de Anatolia, Afganistán y Tracia, para acabar con sonoridades acústicas con inspiraciones célticas e inglesas. We celebrate the three Mundofonías' favorite albums for January, by the Greek musicians living in Istanbul, Sinafi Trio; the 7th release by the Kreiz Breizh Akademi, from Brittany, and the new release of the Colombian Caribbean legends Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto.We continue in Colombia, paying a heartfelt tribute to Carlos "Cuco" Rojas, harp player and leader of Cimarrón band, recently passed away. We move on with different electric, rock and jazz influenced tunes from Anatolia, Afghanistan and Thrace, to end up with acoustic tunes and Celtic and English inspirations. Favoritos de enero / January favorites · Sinafi Trio - Ümmü k?z - ?ho · Kreiz Breizh Akademi #7 - Teñval eo an noz - Hed · Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto - Herencia de gaiteros - Toño García: El último cacique Homenaje colombiano, rock oriental y folk atlántico / Colombian tribute, Oriental rock and Atlantic folk · Cimarrón - Arpa del horizonte - Orinoco · Yasak Helva - Gardrop fuat - Retefe · Kefaya & Elaha Soroor - Jama narenji - Songs of our mothers · Thrax Punks - Aygerinós - Thrax punks · Seamus Egan - Tournesol - Early bright · Simon Mayor - Mad as a March hare - Winter with mandolins · Hilary James - A song & jig for good measure - English sketches Imagen / Image: Sinafi Trio

Days of Future Cast
Episode 48: Find My Thrax

Days of Future Cast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2018 63:51


This week on Days of Future Cast, Gary and Jeremy plumb the deep, dark depths of Hawkeye's past, and encounter a mystical creature from the future simply called KANG. It's a fun filled week around these parts. You're gonna LOVE it. Gary is on Twitter (https://twitter.com/garybuh), and Jeremy is too (https://twitter.com/jggreer). Duckfeed is on Patreon (https://patreon.com/duckfeedtv), which is a great place to support the show. Keep up with the podcast by checking out our Schedule Page (https://daysoffuturecast.com/schedule).

Charlies Geekcast
Charlie's Geekcast PR Special 22 -- Geeking on Commentary: Once a Ranger

Charlies Geekcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2018 51:01


In our 16th commentary counting down to the 25 years of Power Rangers, we look at "Once a Ranger," a 2 part special that celebrated the 15th Anniversary during Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive. The son of Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa has united all of the Operation Overdrive villians, and with their help, has severed the Rangers' connection to the Morphin Grid. Will even the return of 5 veteran Rangers be enough to save the day? Do I even have to ask?Feedback for this show can be sent to: charliesgeekcast@gmail.comYou can subscribe to Charlie’s Geekcast through iTunes, Google Play, the RSS Feed, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, Spotify, or you can also download the episode directly here. You can also visit the show's Facebook group page. For complete show notes, including more images, please be sure to visit the blog.

Charlies Geekcast
Charlie's Geekcast PR Special 22 -- Geeking on Commentary: Once a Ranger

Charlies Geekcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2018 51:01


In our 16th commentary counting down to the 25 years of Power Rangers, we look at "Once a Ranger," a 2 part special that celebrated the 15th Anniversary during Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive. The son of Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa has united all of the Operation Overdrive villians, and with their help, has severed the Rangers' connection to the Morphin Grid. Will even the return of 5 veteran Rangers be enough to save the day? Do I even have to ask?Feedback for this show can be sent to: charliesgeekcast@gmail.comYou can subscribe to Charlie’s Geekcast through iTunes, Google Play, the RSS Feed, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, Spotify, or you can also download the episode directly here. You can also visit the show's Facebook group page. For complete show notes, including more images, please be sure to visit the blog.

Marco Anthrax Show

Going inside the mind of liberal retarded satanists Antichrist

Star Trek Wars: Reviewing Discovery, The Original Series, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, & Enterprise every Podca

Season 5 Episode 8. Star Trek Wars, brought to you by a brand new commercial from Orville Shagginbacher’s Bombastic Popcorn. This week we review: The Next Generation- “Unification, pt.2” Deep Space Nine- “Things Past” Voyager- “Nothing Human” With your help, … Continue reading →

Star Trek Wars: Reviewing Discovery, The Original Series, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, & Enterprise every Podca

Star Trek Wars, brought to you by a brand new commercial from Orville Shagginbacher's Bombastic Popcorn. This week we review: The Next Generation- "Unification, pt.2" Deep Space Nine- "Things Past" Voyager- "Nothing Human" With your help, we rank them from worst to first Fun Facts and Audio clips for each episode Plus Pros & Khans, the Taken out of context clip of the week, and best listener comments for each episode! We rate all 5 on a scale from 1-10, and rank them from worst to first at the end of the Cast. Send us your feedback! Please leave a 5 Star Review on iTunes to have your review read on air, plus a chance to win sweet STW swag! Talk to us on Twitter @TheStarTrekWars Join us at our Facebook Group Page to rate the episodes and be part of the cast at https://www.facebook.com/groups/startrekwars/ Visit our website at www.gonenerdin.com Email us at Startrekwarspod@gmail.com Buy sweet Star Trek Wars Merchandise! Support Star Trek Wars! Humans may not need money in the future, but we’re not quite there yet! Become a Star Trek Wars Patron on Patreon and help us keep the episodes coming weekly. This is a multi year experiment and every cent counts. Check us out at Patreon for fun videos and content exclusive to the site. https://www.patreon.com/startrekwars

Jasper and Friends
A Well Travelled American (And Other Mythical Creatures) Ep. 1

Jasper and Friends

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2018 26:10


The first episode of my new podcast, wherein I describe some unexpected results of moving to Ireland. If you like hearing my voice, visit my YouTube channel, where I make videoes about travel and history. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG_KW2IBv91eXcyKDaXI1vQ Intro music: Gavotte, performed by Thrax

Bugs In The Basement
Erionota Thrax aka The Banana Skipper

Bugs In The Basement

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2017 35:58


Recorded on October 26th, 2017   Two people making music on the fly... Bugs In The Basement creates improvised musical journeys from an array of vintage and handmade instruments to modern technologies. Recorded live from our basement studio in the Pacific Northwest, each week we experiment in the process of making exploratory music and soundscapes. Unmixed, unedited and unapologetic. www.bugsinthebasement.com

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

The first of the knockout rounds is here! Who will go through to the semi finals? Theodosius, Valerian, Thrax or Caracalla?   Also: Who were the bottom three in Fightius Maximus? And who were the top 5?  

GameOverMan!
Episode 46 - Beat Em Up's!

GameOverMan!

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2017 49:41


This week Thrax, Sky and Showus chat about Beat Em Up's.. Well apart from Sky who seems to think fighting games are beat em ups.. Muppet Enjoy! www.GameOverManAUS.com @GameOverManAUSwww.Facebook.com/GameOverManAus

GameOverMan!
Episode 44 - Educational Games

GameOverMan!

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2017 43:29


This week Showus, Loz and Jason talk about educational games, what they played growing up compared to now days.  Also a big congratulations to Thrax and his wife who have just had a beautiful babygirl!   Enjoy! @GameOverManAUSwww.Facebook.com/GameOverManAus

ExoSquad Goals
S2 EP 11: We Meet Thrax

ExoSquad Goals

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2017 49:01


Thrax Thrax that's the name! Fragging E-frames is his game! Thrax is here and he's going to MAKE YOU LOVE PEACE. Seriously though, this episode is pretty amazing. So good. We also talk about peer pressure, listening to your own podcast, and other stuff! Woo! Music Credits: Intro/Outro:  Eric Calderone Advertiser: Two Five Films:  https://www.twofivefilms.com Two Loopy Ladies: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TwoLoopyLadies

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

The Gordians are dead! Who will stand up to the might of the giant Thrax? Well, not Balbinus, but he'll look after Rome as others go off to stand up to Thrax. Find out how much the citizens of Rome loved his rule... well, those that really, really enjoy an outdoor BBQ anyway.

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Pupienus. He has a silly name, a long beard and a plan to defeat the mighty Thrax. But will that he enough for the harsh eyes of history to rank him as one of the best? Find out in this episode of Totalus Rankium!

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Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium
28 Maximinus Thrax

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2016 82:07


  One day, a lonely boy was born with massive hands. And massive feet. And a massive head. And... well, you get the point. When the emperor passed through this boys village, little did he know that he was about to start the adventure of a lifetime! Rome's first peasent, giant emperor! His enemies would quake and his friends, well, they would quake too. It's time to show Johnny Allimanni a taste of Roman Steel! (as long as we can get through this damn swamp...)

Flamingo Breeze
Flamingo Breeze #158

Flamingo Breeze

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2014


1.Diving for E-Waste d'Eon "Blackout" Music for Keyboards vol IV 20132.Highway Black Deer The Last Tortuga 20133.The Stars in His Head (Dark Light Remix) Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol.2: Judges 20114.Melt Laurel Halo Chance of Rain 20135.Rims Actress Ghettoville 20146.Seu Lugar é o Cemitério seixlacK Seu Lugar é o Cemitério 20147.Slow (UNHUNT Bootleg) Kylie Minogue STYLLS Suicide Pact 12: Bootleg Edition 20148.Rumours (ft. Inga Copeland) DVA Fly Juice EP 20139.Lv303 SFV Acid Circa 2007 EP 201310.Washed Hands Willie Burns Tab of Acid EP 201411.Thrax Laurel Halo Chance of Rain 201312.Lampers Perfume Advert Tulpa 201313.Fuji Club Egyptrixx Bible Eyes 2011luv.yr.cast!