The Social is Predicated on its Exclusions - taboo, true love, teleology: the problem of other minds

What does the infamous Folgers coffee christmas commercial (2009) have to do with Frozen (2013) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)? Quite a lot, actually!

Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network.

What Makes a Man a Traitor - statehood, sovereigns, shadows: journeys across the ice

On this episode of I'll Be Pod for Castmas, Juliet and Katherine break down Frozen (2013) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969).

4:40 - What Makes a Man a Traitor 30:00 - The Game 43:00 - The True Meaning of Shifgrethor 55:00 - Journeys through the Snow

Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network.

Jeff Stormer joins Juliet and Katherine to talk Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro alongside its modern christmas mirror, Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star. What makes a christmas movie Good? What makes a Lupin story a Lupin story? Just how weird can the future of the franchise get from here?

Along the way, we cover Fast Five, commedia dell'arte lazzi, the Now You See Me franchise, The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, the Vanessa Hudgens Cinematic Universe, Ocean's Twelve, and the Assassin's Creed series.

Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network.

This Christmas in July, Juliet and Katherine celebrate the heist genre with the genre-defying Vanessa Hudgens vehicle Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star alongside the genre-defining Maurice Leblanc short story compilation, Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar.

Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network.

Juliet and Katherine dive deeper into the sadness, joy, and realism of the characters of Gavroche, Eponine, and Javert through the lens of Jorge Luis Borges' "The Shape of the Sword" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "It's Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries".

Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Readings from the text are provided by Max Newland.

Transcript of this episode is available here.

Today you get to hear Max Newland read the Borges short story which is known variably by both the title "The Shape of the Sword" and "The Form of the Sword"!

Next week: Juliet and Katherine tackle It's Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries, Les Misérables, and The Form of the Sword altogether!

Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen.

Juliet and Katherine tackle the Carly Rae Jepsen tragicomic holiday single Its Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries alongside Victor Hugo's dramatic portrait of the structure of suffering and the human character, Les Misérables—discussing in turn both the popular musical and the overlong book.

Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Readings from the text are provided by Max Newland.

Transcript of this episode is available here. Next week, you'll hear Max Newland read the Borges short story The Form of the Sword before we dive into discussing it alongside both of our texts this month.

The thrilling conclusion of the Christmas in July podcast break-up, alongside a mailbag of letters about the Netflix sequel "The Princess Switch: Switched Again" through the lens of Jane Austen's final novel, Persuasion.

We recommend the Karen Savage version of the Persuasion audiobook, available on youtube, spotify, and: https://librivox.org/persuasion-by-jane-austen-4/

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