On this week’s Night Vale episode, we highly approve of Cecil devoting an entire broadcast to Lost and Found submissions, because writer Brie Williams is very good with lists of random weirdness, unexpected sweetness, and things with TEETH.
From there we jump into three more Oscar nominated films we finally watched, namely Oppenheimer (brilliant but a bit too long, with “the most unnecessary nude scene ever”), Elemental, and Nimona. While we think Pixar usually has the better shot at winning the Animated Feature award, we’re really pulling for Nimona.
Along the way we wander off into tangents like the Hot Ones show, Florence Pugh, Redbox, nerd underwear, and the REALLY STUPID ADS in Amazon Prime.
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This week’s outro is a clip from Keepsake by Beat Mekanik.
Clarification: Redbox is 2.25, but that’s just for one night, once you double it it’s about the same as most of the 2-night rentals from Prime.
Correction: Elemental did have a theatrical release, but according to the New York Times it had “the worst opening in Pixar history.” It’s since become a lot more successful.
Correction #2 – Annapurna Pictures is the production company that took over from Blue Sky Studios when Disney axed Nimona.
Kathryn got her Soot Sprite undies from All Teh Smol Things.
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Mar 7
32 min
Happy 400th episode! Time flies, right? About ten years ago we started recording our Night Vale discussions because we’re giant nerds and nerds gotta podcast. But here’s the thing: we started with the Night Vale episode that’d just been released, “Renovations,” number 48 in the series. We’ve discussed every episode since then, but not once have we gone back to the beginning.
The same goes for Saga, Transformers, and (our current favorite thing) Lore Olympus, we started talking about them way after they’d started. That just won’t do. TO THE TIME MACHINE!
In addition to a deep dive into issue/episode #1 of several of our favorites, we also discussed the first episode of THIS VERY PODCAST. As well as #266 and #267 of Lore Olympus, since we can’t wait even a week to discuss the latest two episodes because we’re obsessed. Stick around until the end of the episode to hear more than a minute of name flubs and cats deciding to cat.
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This week’s outro is a clip from Voyageur by Monkey Warhol.
You can find Kathryn’s review of the first few months of IDW’s Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye here.
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Feb 29
51 min
On the latest episode of Night Vale the Librarians broke out of their cages but some heroes saved the day andnoweverythingisfineTheEnd SO! HOW ABOUT THOSE OSCAR ANIMATED SHORTS?
(Kidding, it was a fun episode of Night Vale, we’re just really excited to talk about cartoons.)
Anyway, massive spoiler warnings as we discuss our favorite Oscar-nominated animated shorts, which were as surprising as they were upsetting, just how we like them. (This episode of VagueCast is brought to you by the 2024 Oscar Animated Shorts Collection: yiiiiikes.)
And before we wrap up, we also have to go over the latest Hugo-Award-Clusterf*ck news, which was outdated even before we finished recording because it KEEPS GETTING WORSE.
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This week’s outro is a clip from Illusion by Darkfluxx.
Correction: we said passenger pigeon several times, when we meant carrier pigeon. Homing pigeon would’ve been even better.
Correction 2: War Is Over isn’t a Beatles song, John Lennon released it outside of the band. Elizabeth apologizes to all the John Lennon fans out there. For that and for saying the cartoon would’ve been better if the song wasn’t in it.
In case you’re curious, here’s the list of all the Oscar Winning Animated Shorts. Turns out yes, some years the winner wasn’t particularly family-friendly (2021’s “The Windshield Wiper” has a lot of sexy content) but 2015’s “Bear Story” beat “World of Tomorrow”, and 2016’s “Piper” beat “Pear Cider and Cigarettes” and that’s when Elizabeth decided family-friendly beats edgy-and-cool most years.
As of today the Oscar-nominated animated feature Nimona is still up for free on YouTube!
Here’s a good write-up of the Hugo Awards debacle. (Short version: the board self-censored anything they thought MIGHT upset the Chinese government, and were as stupid about it as you can possibly imagine.) (And the post doesn’t mention the fact that the board did business with a Chinese company that’s been sanctioned by the US Government, but we’re still waiting to hear how all that turns out.)
Feb 22
38 min
In the latest Lore Olympus episodes we’ve read, Demeter revealed a little more about Persephone’s history as a Fertility Goddess (namely, that she definitely is one, and that someone else in Demeter’s generation used to be, not sure who). That was episode 264, and the theme of 265 can be summed up even more briefly: asking for consent is SEXY.
In our ongoing attempt to at least see some of the Oscar nominees, Elizabeth watched Poor Things this week and she was highly impressed. It’s gorgeous, surreal, rather dark and very, very sexy. (If you go, prepare for much nudity.) Kathryn also finished reading R.F. Kuang’s Babel this week (you can find the review here), but couldn’t see why it was singled out by the Chinese government to be disqualified from getting a Hugo Award nomination. If that is, in fact, what happened. Still not much information about the whole Hugo debacle, but we’ll of course spill all the tea if we hear anything.
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This week’s outro is a clip from Synthwave C by TeknoAXE.
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In our discussion about possible Chinese government censorship, Elizabeth referenced a BlueSky comment that was talking about this article: The Anaconda in the Chandelier.
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Feb 15
28 min
When we last heard from Night Vale in December, Cecil was being held hostage by a strange boy with a large knife, and this week’s episode picks up right where we left off. It’s another Brie Williams story so you know there’s going to be delightful lists of really weird things. Knives! Trapper Keepers! Field Trip Carnage! Blood Drive cleanup! Door Dash delivery delayed on account of tar and feathers! AND MORE KNIVES DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE KNIVES.
After the recap Kathryn gives the thumbs up to Oppenheimer, which doesn’t need an IMAX viewing because it’s a great movie that’s going to win a bunch of awards, but aside from the bit with the bomb (…spoilers?..) it is mostly Very Dramatic Scenes of People Talking, so regular screens are fine.
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This week’s outro is a clip from Wayside by Hotham.
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The podcast Elizabeth mentioned is the 90-Minute Film Fest, celebrating movies under an hour and a half long.
Regarding the little outtake clip at the end, Elizabeth was referring to a couple of Supernatural-related podcast episodes she found: we were never huge fans of Supernatural, so we thought the finale was more silly than anything else. But Elizabeth stumbled on an episode of The Fangirl Business: A Supernatural Podcast, and it really sheds light on how traumatized some of the long-time fans were by the finale. (And for some lighter listening, one of their more recent episodes is about how much they enjoyed the season 1 finale of The Winchesters, which seems to have taken some of the sting out of the Supernatural finale.)
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Feb 8
19 min
Episodes 262 and 263 feature a Persephone who’s dealing with the uncomfortable reality that the Mortal Realm is dying and it may possibly be all her fault. But for the Binary System Podcast team, that calamity pales in comparison to the fact that Apollo is being a gigantic jerk and it’s stressing us out. The artwork is gorgeous as usual, and there are several ‘lol’ moments (Persephone talkin’ dirty to Hades, you go girl!) But still, Apollo, man.
Elizabeth also watched the final installment of Guardians of the Galaxy, which she really liked! However, it took her a while to get through it, so that led to a discussion of Marvel Fatigue, the latest on the Hugo Awards debacle, and all the Oscar nominated movies we should be watching, but c’mon Hollywood. Meet us halfway: give us some convenient showtimes, a nearby theater that’s not too far to drive, and maybe throw in an intermission in the middle of these three-hour-plus films, if it’s not too much trouble? Kthxbye.
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This week’s outro is a clip from Encounter of Every Possible Kind by Midnight Commando.
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It turns out it wasn’t Oppenheimer that had some unauthorized intermissions added into the three-hour runtime before the movie producers slapped the theaters down. It was Killers of the Flower Moon, which is even longer.
The John Scalzi comments we were discussing were about Dave McCarty, who has handled the fallout from last year’s Hugo Awards, well, pretty damn badly. He has since apologized. And resigned his position as a director of W.I.P. (the non-profit that runs the Hugo Awards). Still no word on what’s going on with perfectly good works of fiction getting ruled ineligible for no reason, but it’s a start.
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Feb 1
30 min
You’re not going to believe this, but we said we were going to watch the third David Tennant Doctor Who episode this week AND WE DID. Next thing you know we’ll be watching movies the weekend they come out. (Hahahah, kidding, obviously.)
Anyway, our hearts are still intact after the episode, which was for the most part goofy with a few terrifying images thrown in. It also gave new meaning to the words “self care,” which is just delightful.
After that Elizabeth talks about how she’s randomly watching 2008’s Taken (which is still a fun watch even if it does lean into the patriarchy) and Kathryn discusses The Nice House on the Lake and how we DARN WELL BETTER get a third volume soon.
Finally, we go over what we know about the Hugo Awards debacle, which is to say: not much. Several people were disqualified for reasons that can be summed up as “because I said so,” and while there’s a lot of speculation that it was anything from Chinese government censorship to a massive screw up with the math, there’s still no good explanation. If something changes we’ll add a note to this description. I mean, Neil Gaiman’s pissed off so you know it’s not good.
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This week’s outro is a clip from 6026 Zenophanes by Midnight Commando.
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Jan 25
34 min
It’s an extra-long episode this week, although not because of Lore Olympus. The recap for episodes 259 and 260 went pretty quickly, with a little more of Demeter’s backstory revealed and one hell of a lot of personal growth. Seriously, we figured Rachel included the bit with Demeter snapping at Hera because otherwise we wouldn’t even recognize her anymore.
The biggest chunk of this week’s episode is taken up by our recap of the 2022 movie, The Menu, the tasty (see what I did there) horror/satire that skewers (har) everything that’s wrong with restaurant culture and serves up (okay I’ll stop) a fantastic performance by Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes. GIGANTIC spoiler warnings on this, since we jump right to how much we loved the ending first.
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This week’s outro is a clip from Cruising the Skyline by TeknoAXE.
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Jan 18
46 min
“Fenslaw.Coliss.Brate.Gilvane.Stond.”
The latest episode of Night Vale before they went on hiatus (they’re always on hiatus in January and we will never remember that) was delightfully creepy in a way we didn’t see coming at all, what a fantastic surprise. We can’t say more, because spoilers. (This episode of VagueCast is brought to you by Tossed Risotto, Oboe Drinking Straws, and Postage Stamp “Snackables.”)
In other news, it took a while but both of us have finally watched the Doctor Who episode “Wild Blue Yonder” and seriously you guys, it’s so good. Joyful, clever, wonderfully unsettling, and it punches you in the feels the way only Russell T. Davies can do.
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This week’s outro is a clip from Dance 8 by Magenta 6.
Confirmation: Steven Moffat did indeed write “The Girl in the Fireplace.”
The website Elizabeth found with free sci-fi and fantasy short stories (not pirated, they all link back to the sites that published them) is links.freesfonline.net.
You can find Kathryn’s review of Lazarus: Volume One here.
This is the Oboe vs. Clarinet short that Kathryn found.
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Jan 11
31 min
Happy New Year everyone! We hope all our listeners’ holidays were fantastic, and that the return to work wasn’t too much of a shock to the system. To ease you back into the work week, have a quick recap of the latest two episodes of Lore Olympus, which can be briefly summed up as “sexy good-times and proclamations of love in a pool”, and also “Hera finally tells Kronos to piss off.”
We also apparently decided to start off the new year with complaints about first-world problems, so strap in as we talk about how we’d like to kick Amazon Prime to the curb, but we just can’t do without all that tasty free shipping. (And also, how screwed are all of us directionally-challenged folks going to be if Google Maps decides to start charging us?)
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This week’s outro is a clip from Axiom Tomorrow by TeknoAXE.
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Jan 4
23 min
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