I do wonder how much of this podcast is affected by the times. I have heard a few of these and they feel very “right now”, which is a time of deep questioning. And if we know anything about revisiting history, it’s that the revision is a product of the current. 

It’s adorable that you think some dude was doing the research & not a team. 

I don’t know what we can really learn from just pointing to single individuals and deeming them good or bad. I think with Holmes it really is a weird dualism between what she did was terrible vs how she gained power by aligning herself with misogynist values points more to a really terrible society. So to me…

I’ve been listening to YWA for a couple years. Sarah is also very humane toward her subjects and tries to understand why people did the things they did at the time. This and her dry humor put this podcast ahead of others for me. 

Her “Yoko broke up The Beatles” episode came out years before the Peter Jackson documentary. That was a good one.

Hey everyone, this guy has an anecdote. No need to worry about Covid anymore!

Amazing that Bob Ross was able to make it.

god damn it’s rare you see io9 and av club united in opinion but boy-o this sounds as awful as everyone thought it was.

That was definitely my takeaway. When he was first cast, i thought, “Great! he certainly looks the part.” But he’s definitely playing this as... the Rock. I will watch and enjoy the Rock in just about anything, but I’m actually quite stunned how ill-suited he seems for this role now.

Forget contracts, movies where the protagonist is an actual bad guy doing bad guy shit throughout don’t actually work and are almost never actually done. 

Generic isn’t exactly the word I’d use to describe it, but it does sort of look like 15 other comic book properties smashed together.

The problem with The Rock is that he’s always The Rock, no matter what role he’s playing.

Unless they are covering up the eventual twist where Black Adam turns heel and aims to become a tyrant, this looks generic and like total ass.

About those GOP senators:

Speak for yourself. My neighborhood and countless other nieghborhoods across America were GLUED to this saga. It was indeed a cultural force. 

In your little world it is. In mine and millions of others, it was huge. Martin, Living Single and New York Undercover were our must see tv on Thursdays. Those three shows were the top 3 shows in black households while on air. It's treated with the same reverence as many other sitcoms people will not stop talking…

I hear a lot people bitching about gatekeeping but I don’t see anyone actually gatekeeping. This is a non-story.

I’m kind of fascinated by the ugliness of opossums. Not so much that they’re ugly—which they obviously are—but why they’re ugly. You can point to the weird snout or beady eyes, but those are features shared by other animals we generally consider cute. It’s something about the lines and proportions that produce such a…

Lol, tell me you’ve been accused of harassment without telling me you’ve been accused of harassment.