In this episode we hung out in the same room on the Saturday night of Readercon back in July!

Content warnings for strong language and clinking glasses

We reference or spoil: It Follows, Shirley Jackson Awards, Disclave, monster cereals, Hello From the Magic Tavern, Cocktail, Flaming Moe (The Simpsons), “AI: The Good Parts” (Readercon 33), “DDOS” (Readercon 32), Clarkesworld (blog post about spam submissions), Codecrafters, “First there was SkyKnit. Now there’s HAT3000“, CARP robot, What are AI chatbots actually doing when they ‘hallucinate’? Here’s why experts don’t like the term, Homer fading meme, Grandpa leaving meme, “AI: The Bad Parts” (Readercon 33), Bad Blood, The Circle of Magic, Jurassic Park, “Action Scenes” panel (Readercon 33), “I Don’t Know Why I’m On This Panel” (Readercon 33), “Responses to Omelas” (Readercon 33), “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin, Strange New Worlds episode “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach”, “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim, “Live Narration” (Readercon 33), John Mulaney “horse loose in the hospital“, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (as read by Danielle Cohen), Star Trek Discovery, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Encanto, “They’re Made Out of Corn“, “They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson, “DEMON FIGHTER SUCKS” by Katherine Crighton, “Archaeology in Reality and Speculative Fiction” (Readercon 33), “What to Do With Your 15 Minutes of Fame” (Readercon 33), Viable Paradise, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Mitchell and Webb “Rebecca” sketch, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Odds Bodkin’s The Odyssey, Hades II, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter, Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, The Rake and Reformer by Mary Jo Putney, Thunder and Roses by Mary Jo Putney, “sweet” romances, Brian David Gilbert’s “I wasted 3 weeks of my life finding Castlevania’s hottest monster“, “Battle of the Academy” (Readercon 33)

Brendan is performing improv with his group Select Start at the Arcade Comedy Theater! Keep up with Kat on their website!

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