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Ep 22: Streaming, content, and sailing the high seas (Year in review with Nerds Talking The Podcast)
In this special summer edition Year in Review episode, we are joined by our friends Lafayette and Carlos from the Nerds Talking Podcast. We take… -
Ep 21: Women in white – Gothic Halloween special
This year's Halloween special sees us joined by Australian horror author Kyla Ward as we talk all about the women in white: gothic fiction - what is is, and is it still relevant after nearly 300 years. In this epis… -
Ep 20: Adaptations: good, bad and terrible
This episode we are joined by podcaster Andrea Martucci from Shelf Love while we talk all about adaptations. This time, we each nominate a text or texts that have been adapted from one media into another. Some have worked… -
Ep 19: Endings - good, bad and terrible
This episode is all about endings. We contemplate finishing moves - what makes good endings, and why are so many ending so very bad. We discuss our favourite endings, and why they work for us. And then look at the bad - a… -
Ep 18: Fanfic, Trauma, Cancellations, and Asymetry (2022 in review)
In this special Summer Edition episode, we contemplate the past year & what we liked and didn't like.. We look at our current pop culture pet peeves, have a rant or two, and discuss what we are looking forward to i… -
Ep 17: De-fanged - Scary vampires are SO last century
In this year's Halloween episode, we are joined again by our friend Fred as we look look at the perennial horror trope, the vampire. Flip throws out the claim that modern vampires are no longer scary, leading to them being 'de-fanged'. -
Episode 16: Heroines, Witchers, Dragons and Heists - Beyond the Monomyth
In this episode, we finally dive into the massive fantasy genre. We explore the ideas in Gail Carriger's book The Heroine's Journey as an alternative story structure to the more well known hero's journey, and how that works in different fict… -
Ep 15: Nukes, Supernovas, Meteors & Pandemics - Welcome to the Pre-Apocalypse
In this episode, we examine the often-overlooked moments before an impending apocalypse, which have a special drama of their own. And we are here for that drama... do people come together in the face of impending doom, or do they crumble und… -
Ep 14: Scandi Noir, Reality TV, Remakes & Pandemic Brain (Year in Review)
In this special Summer Edition episode, we contemplate what we are calling the ‘long year’ of the pandemic, and assess if we have reached the goals that we set in our first episode. We also look at pet peeves in pop cultur… -
Ep 13: Rockets, Billionaires & Space Cowboys
In this space-inspired episode of Pod Culture [Oz], we joined by special guest Marta Troicka as we discuss Nick's claim that all modern space mov…