Podside Picnic

Kurt returns to talk about the alleged "worst story ever written", The Eye of Argon. We read some of it and discuss the history as it's known of the story and its author. Read The Eye of Argon: https://ansible.uk/misc/eyeargon.html Watch Korgoth of Barbaria (playlist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJi9zZqbJoY&list=PL_l6nUy0fLNaXn00Q8Gxf0TJceULBfO1a

Aaron and Carlee of Hit Factory podcast return to talk about Street Fighter (1994). What's up with the World Warriors? Why is it so important to have a food court that will bring all the best franchises? How is M. Bison's HR Team so damn good at hiring such a diverse collection of minions, lackeys and henchmen? Listen to Hit Factory: Patreon.com/hitfactorypod

Kurt and Chris return to discuss the short fiction story, Cup and Table by Tim Pratt. Read the story first, since we spoil it! Read Cup and Table: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/cup-and-table/ Check out Parents Just Don't Understand: https://soundcloud.com/parentspodcast Read Blood Knife: https://bloodknife.com/

Welcome to Podside Radio. You spoke, and we listened! Kurt and Chris from Parents Just Don't Understand podcast return to talk about some of the Science Fiction and Fantasy concept albums suggested to us. Enjoy! Listen to Podside Radio's Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4sTYzc8S6IRlpab6gay7As

Narration of "How Juan Bobo Got to los Nueba Yores", part of the Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology from Ohio State University Press. Order Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814257982.html

Pete drops in to talk about cult classic, Highlander (1986). We talk about The Quickening, and how it works is mainly the Rule of Cool, and how Sean Connery prepared for his Spanish accent.

Tiffany Meuret returns to discuss one of the most awards-nominated stories of 2012, The Cartographer Wasps and Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu. We chat about how this rather short story manages to have a lot to say about colonization and imperialism, and whether wasps who sing sea shanties are sci-fi or not. Read the story: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/yu_04_11/ Check out Tiffany's work: https://tiffanymeuret.com/

Kurt and Chris of Parents Just Don't Understand podcast return to talk about the 1985 fantasy film, Ladyhawke. We chat a bit about the romance elements in the film, how Phillipe the Mouse's struggles with his faith make the film, and agree that the Bishop is a bad, bad man. Check out PJDU podcast: https://soundcloud.com/parentspodcast Read Blood Knife: https://bloodknife.com/

Karlo and The Podhand's Mattie Lewis discuss two of Angela Carter's retellings of Beauty and the Beast, "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" and the much darker and sexier, "The Tiger's Bride" Check Out Mattie's writing: https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/2019/04/wolfskin-by-matilda-lewis.html#.YSRKXIhKjZQ Check Out The Podhand: https://thepodhand.podbean.com/e/01-the-prototype/

Abby and Emma return to talk about Satoshi Kon's 1997 thriller Perfect Blue. Come for the anime, stay for the parasocial relationship gone horribly wrong! Check out Emma's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hyenasandgin

Karlo chats with Lincoln Michel about his upcoming novel, The Body Scout. We talk a bit about cyberpunk and punk-punk as an influence on this future noir as well as the challenges of writing a science fiction novel. Pre-order The Body Scout (if not at your local indie bookstore): https://bookshop.org/books/the-body-scout/9780316628723

Pete and Karlo revisit Book 2 in the Imperial Radch series, Ancillary Sword. Why the second book and not the first? Hint: it rhymes with "shrimperialism"

Pete chats with Ben H. Winters about his newest novel, The Quiet Boy in a wide-ranging discussion.

JT Greathouse returns to chat with Karlo about the quest of ye olde King Arthur's fail-nephew, Garwin. Spoiler alert: plot is overrated; only vibes are allowed Check out Jeremy's book: https://www.amazon.com/Hand-Sun-King-Book-Pattern-ebook/dp/B08KSX6T1P Jeremy's website: https://jtgreathouse.wordpress.com/

What's best in life? Can we squeeze "listening to Pete, Karlo and Emma Bowers talk Conan" between "Crush your enemies" and "hear the lamentations of their women?" Watch Emma's great video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFn7yKbylNY

Karlo and Pete try to talk about Le Guin's book about dreaming reality into being, but learn the hard way that the Dao that can be told isn't the true Dao, and instead end up talking about ten thousand (other) things.

Trevor and Kurt come back to talk up the charm of Lord of the Rings Online. Leave it to Podside to imitate Tolkien with extra Lord of the Rings material. . .

It's the Return of the Connor as he joins Karlo to discuss the final book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. We hope you enjoy how much dumb jock energy Eomer brings to the book as much as we do!

Karlo's joined by Aaron and Carlee of Hit Factory Podcast to talk about Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. We discuss when the film was released in theaters, and if in reshoots it resorts to the dreary allegory Tolkien himself disliked.

Karlo, Kurt and Connor discuss their re-read of The Two Towers. They concentrate on many of the characters and parts of the story that weren't adapted into the films (hint: it's time for some wizard shit at Isengard!)

Karlo is joined by Aaron from The Hit Factory to talk about the second Lord of the Rings films. We discuss the many moving parts of the film and Peter Jackson's weird fixations regarding orcs, but sadly never figure out which two towers the movie's talking about.

Karlo, Kurt and Connor discuss their re-read of The Fellowship of the Ring. They concentrate on many of the characters and parts of the story that weren't adapted into the films (hint: it's Bombadillo time!)

Pete and Karlo are joined by Aaron and Carlee of The Hit Factory Podcast to talk about Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. We discuss the staying power of the film, but stay tuned for which other directors would be the best (or worst) for these films!

Podside interrupts our previously programmed Lord of the Rings Month to wrap up Seth Dickinson's decidedly NOT Tolkienesque, The Traitor Baru Cormorant.

Kurt and Chris from Parents Just Don't Understand Podcast return to talk about the parts of The Hobbit that didn't make it into the Rankin Bass animated film. Enjoy going there and back again with us!

What's it gots in its pocketses? Pete and Karlo are joined by Kurt and Chris of Parents Just Don't Understand Podcast to try to answer this very question. We risk it all and go down, down, to Goblin Town to get to the bottom of this mystery!

Karlo's joined by M.K. Anderson to talk about the 2014 film Ex Machina. We discuss Turing Tests, the ethics of creating possibly sentient robots, and why casting charismatic and sexy Oscar Isaac as the Bad Guy almost doesn't work.

Podside's first book club! Listen in to our Discord community's discussions of Seth Dickinson's 2015 novel, The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Chapters 21 - 25).

Pete and Karlo are joined by none other than Connor to chat about season 2 of Netflix's anthology show, Love Death + Robots. Go watch it -- it's pretty good!

Pete and Karlo are joined by Trev and Ted from We Need to Talk About Kevin Podcast for John Carpenter's Christine (1983). If you ever fall into unrequited love with a car that was made evil, we have all sorts of advice for you.

It's time for a little anti-Italian discrimination as Rite Gud's own Sid Oozeley and I answer the age-old question: can a sad antifa pig-man fly? Check out Rite Gud: Patreon.com/RiteGud

Podside's first book club! Listen in to our Discord community's discussions of Seth Dickinson's 2015 novel, The Traitor Baru Cormorant. Podside Book Club will take a brief hiatus and return in September to discuss Walter John Williams' Metropolitan. Join us then!

Pete and Karlo are joined by Emma Berquist to talk about the 2020 horror film, The Empty Man. Listen as we talk about tulpas, the self-help tips of the Pontifex Institute and Emma's dog offers her own (grumbling and adorable) opinions.

Pete and Karlo are joined by Kurt Schiller and Chris Woodward of Parents Just Don't Understand Podcast to talk about Excalibur (1981). We discuss how this film feels like a new adaptation of the source material, which may be a dream to some. . . a nightmare to others!

A new month, a brand new beer run where Pete and Karlo talk about Brood X as a potential buffet for dogs of all sizes, the merits of small beer in the medieval ages and how we'll be covering The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in July, nbd

Pete and Karlo are joined by the most dangerous woman in speculative fiction, Raquel S. Benedict to talk about RoboCop. Spoiler alert: we all love this movie, so it's with a heavy heart we must say ACAB includes RoboCop.

Pete, Karlo and Rite Gud's own Sid Oozeley (@MagusDeluxe) talk Castle in the Sky. Listen in to find out why Miyazaki loves flying in his films, and at least one other less-than-pleasant insight.

Sad Puppies! Rabid Puppies! Join Pete and Karlo for the recent history of the Hugo Awards, and what's going on today.

Did you know Pete has a Doctorate in Barbara Hambly Studies? Well, he does, and he brings all his knowledge to bear in this discussion of the author's 1985 novel, Dragonsbane. Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Dragonsbane-Winterlands-Book-Barbara-Hambly-ebook/dp/B004TC149G/ref=sr_1_1?

Podside's first book club! Listen in to our Discord community's discussions of Seth Dickinson's 2015 novel, The Traitor Baru Cormorant. Join us for our next discussions: Chapters 21-25 for discussion/recording 5/22/21 Chapters 26-30 (+ epilogues) for discussion/recording 6/8/21 We'll be starting discussions on the listed dates at 9 PM EST so read along and join us next time! Get the book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765380739 We'll be starting discussions on the listed dates at 8 PM EST so read along and join us next time! Get the book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765380739

Pete and Karlo are joined by Paul Walker-Emig of Utopian Horizons podcast to talk about 1987's The Running Man. Learn the differences between the book (one of the Bachman Books). Welcome to the 80s, baby and most important -- get ready to run! Back Paul's new book, Object Oriented: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/objectoriented/object-oriented Check out Utopian Horizons: https://www.patreon.com/utopianhorizons

Pete and Karlo are joined by Tiffany Meuret (@TMeuretBooks) to discuss the 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko. Is Donnie a superhero? Why doesn't he fire his therapist? Listen in and find out!

Pete and Karlo are joined by Kurt Schiller and Chris Woodward of Parents Just Don't Understand podcast to talk about the Hugo Award-winning novella, The Little Goddess by Ian McDonald. Spoiler alert: we all loved it despite some of its flaws and had a fruitful discussion about some of its themes, its prose and of course how best to cancel poor Ian today (not really).

We sat down with Michael Lichand of @fmanalists and @that2ep fame to discuss a Sci-Fi classic by Montiero Lobato, a celebrated children's author in Brazil. It's....its safe to say that it did NOT go as expected, but it was a lively and interesting discussion.

Pete and Karlo are joined by Kurt Schiller and Chris Woodward of Parents Just Don't Understand podcast to make the techno noises for the Paul W. S. Anderson's 1995 crapterpiece, Mortal Kombat. Find out who the secret characters are, how this movie is both good and bad, and why Kano's special attack is chewing scenery with his mouth open.

In this preview Struggle Session's anime correspondents, Emma Bowers and Abby Denton return to talk about Satoshi Kon's show, Paranoia Agent. Watch out -- Lil Slugger might get you, too . . .

Struggle Session's anime correspondents, Emma Bowers and Abby Denton return to talk about Satoshi Kon's show, Paranoia Agent. Watch out -- Lil Slugger might get you, too . . .

A preview of Podside's first book club episode! Listen in to our Discord community's discussions of Seth Dickinson's 2015 novel, The Traitor Baru Cormorant. Our next discussion will cover Chapters 6 - 10, on 4/13/21 starting at 9 PM EST so read along

Karlo is joined by Aaron and Carlee of Hit Factory Podcast to discuss the 2014 film, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. We discuss how Ape society is anchored to the past, how Caesar's a lib, and why Koba did nothing wrong.

Karlo's joined by the most dangerous woman in speculative fiction, R.S. Benedict to discuss the 1996 sleeper hit, The Craft. Find out why Fairuza Balk should've been the protagonist, why magic should belong to the masses and why Sarah's a blue-check witch. Check out Rite Gud: https://www.patreon.com/ritegud Read R.S. Benedict's brilliant piece in Blood Knife, Everyone's Beautiful and No One Is Horny: https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/