An exploration of the comic book art form via weekly insights, news, and creator interviews. Covering it all from Marvel Comics and DC Comics to indies publishers and creators too.
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The Ozone Nightmare covers a wide range of subjects, from gaming to politics, comics to culture. We speak our minds, for better or worse, but we also try to keep the conversation approachable for everyone.
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‘Graphic Wieners - A comic book podcast’ is a monthly comic book and graphic novel book club. We discuss some of the best - or worst, depending on the Wiener’s opinion - comic book and graphic novels throughout the art form. Expect deep feelings, candid opinions and sketchy knowledge (with the odd health update thrown in). Each issue will focus on one book but the conversation will spin off in many directions, including some of the latest news within the industry and movies. We ask you all t ...
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On My Box is a podcast where a regular dude (Joe Greene) gets on his "soapbox" to give his review on various Nerd related topics that are near and dear to his heart. Sometimes joined by his friends Brandon and Jordann, along with other special guests from time to time, expect to hear candid conversations about Movies, TV shows, Comic Books, and any "Nerd" related topic.
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Meanwhile, in the Secret Under-ground Studio
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The World's Greatest Comic Book Podcast...So Far! CAS has been bringing you comic news for over ten years! Created by Tim in 2010, and after several incarnations, has evolved the brand into an entertainment hub for all your nerd needs. We also include the popular Tapes And Scowls movie review podcast that features Tim and Max! Other topics may include, comic reviews, wrestling, opinion pieces, interviews, book reviews, and more. When you need an escape come hang out with our charming staff! ...
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Explore the meaning of science fiction, and how it's relevant to real-life science and society. Your hosts are Annalee Newitz, a science journalist who writes science fiction, and Charlie Jane Anders, a science fiction writer who is obsessed with science. Every two weeks, we take deep dives into science fiction books, movies, television, and comics that will expand your mind -- and maybe change your life
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We discuss Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Star Trek, and anything else we feel like. We talk mostly Movies and Television but some Comic Books as well.
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Welcome to a show where two guys discuss comics movies and video games. And share our “professional” opinion of things.
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Interviews with Authors about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
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The thoughts and opinions of the Raving Lucidity crew.
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What to know and where to go in Metro Detroit! We have conversations that push Detroit forward and share local stories about restaurants, business, development, local government, policy, technology, things to do, transit and more. All in about 22 minutes a day.
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My take on politics, culture, and comics. Hopefully, I can provide you some information and insight on many of the topics I will be covering, and you, in turn, can go look into them yourself to formulate a more informed opinion.
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Have you ever re-watched a movie you loved and wondered what it would be like to watch it for the first time again? Join Alex and Jay as they try to find the answer to this very question. Alex is a fan of all the classic Sci-Fi. Jay is something of a comic book movie connoisseur. Together they watch movies that one is an "expert" in and the other unfamiliar with. Will the opinion of the normie hold up against the expertise of the fanboy? Find out in Noob Mentality!
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Honorverse Today is a fan podcast providing review, commentary, and opinion for the Honor Harrington and Honorverse book series written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. The Honor Harrington series is one of the largest and most successful science fiction series in history. Yet it has never had a podcast. Until now. The series chronicles the life and world of Honor Harrington from her humble beginnings through the changing of the galactic order. The series includes 14 main series b ...
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It was published in 1893–1894 by Century Magazine in seven installments, and is a detective story with some racial themes. The plot of this novel is a detective story, in which a series of identities — the judge’s murderer, Tom, Chambers — must be sorted out. This structure highlights the problem of identity and one’s ability to determine one’s own identity. Broader issues of identity are the central ideas of this novel. One of Twain’s major goals in this book was to exploit the true nature ...
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The Best Worst Idea is a weekly podcast about how our worst ideas often give way to our best ideas. The show will include interviews, perspectives and opinion.
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You know that one movie, TV series, book, comic, or video game you're obsessed with? Us too. That's why each episode we explore a different fandom and discuss why it's so beloved, significant, or worth your time. Join hosts Eli, Jaren, and Jayson as they dive into what makes being a fan so fantastic.
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The Wartooth Sessions is for all superfans. If you love the MCU, movies, comic books, nerd news, and Star Wars, then welcome home. This podcast reveals our opinion of stuff we've seen, read, or heard rumors of. From movie breakdowns to arguments about who's the better villain, we can be overly passionate about things we love. And brutal about things we hate. If you're easily offended or sensitive about cursing, this is not the podcast you are looking for. For those of you sticking around, gr ...
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A weekly hangout to talk about what the f**k we all just watched on TLC's #90dayfiance. Listen to our banters for some comic-relief and thought-provoking, diverse opinion of our favorite trash TV. This podcast is intended for mature listeners and contains strong language. Listener's discretion is advised. The opinions expressed on this podcast are solely our own and do not reflect the views or stance of our respective employers, TLC, Sharp Entertainment or any entity affiliated with the 90 d ...
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This week we're talking about Umphrey’s McGee, CLUB BIOS '23, Desperate Teenage Lovedolls, and Angel's Egg. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show! Get up to 2 months free podcasting service with our Libsyn code OZONEBy Joe Esposito & Orlando Bru
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Stuart Ward, "Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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1:15:16How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Professor Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced, disputed and ultimately discarded across the globe since the end of the Secon…
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Rasheedah Phillips, "Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time" (AK Press, 2025)
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58:11Why do some processes—like aging, birth, and car crashes—occur in only one direction in time, when by the fundamental symmetry of the universe, we should experience time both forward and backward? Our dominant perception of time owes more to Western history and social order than to a fact of nature, argues writer Rasheedah Phillips, delving into Bl…
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Michael A. Meyer, "Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler" (CCAR Press, 2025)
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44:53Reform Judaism looks different today than it did a century ago. There are a lot of factors that lead to that change, but among these is Rabbi Alexander Schindler (1925-2000). Doing most of his work in the middle of the 20th century, Schindler was either part of or directly responsible for the changes in Reform (and even American) Judaism that we se…
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Nicole C. Nelson, "Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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28:44Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today--but it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us understand human problems like alcoholism or anxiety. How do scientists convince funders, fellow scientists, the general public, and even themselves that animal experiments are a good way of producin…
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Rosa Castellano, "All Is the Telling" (Diode, 2025)
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51:19In this NBN Poetry podcast, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Rosa Castellano about her gorgeous debut collection, All is the Telling (Diode, 2025). All is the Telling is a compelling, transformative collection bridging the personal and political with an emotional intensity that lingers long after the final page. With an intimate and expansive voice,…
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Carrie Helms Tippen, "Unpalatable: Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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1:17:09The cookbook genre is highly conventional with an orientation toward celebration and success. From glossy photographs to heartwarming stories and adjective-rich ingredient lists, the cookbook tradition primes readers for pleasure. Yet the overarching narrative of the region is often one of pain, loss, privation, exploitation, poverty, and suffering…
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Sara E. Wolf, "Teaching Copyright: Practical Lesson Ideas and Instructional Resources" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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38:39The teaching of copyright and related concepts can easily be overwhelming to instructors who are experts in their field but may have little to no detailed understanding of copyright law. They require reliable, accessible information to coach students on copyright-related matters. In Teaching Copyright: Practical Lesson Ideas and Instructional Resou…
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The Price of Free Speech: Politics and Power on Campus
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33:34Hosts Nina Dos Santos and Owen Bennett Jones explore the mounting political and financial pressures confronting higher education on both sides of the Atlantic. In the U.S., it unpacks the unprecedented clash between the Trump administration and Harvard, raising broader questions about academic freedom, ideological conformity, and the role of govern…
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Detroit is growing: More people, more coffee, and more affordable housing
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26:29Hey Detroit! We are back in our TechTown studio for your Daily Detroit, and on this Thursday, May 15th, 2025, the city is absolutely buzzing with news – from delicious new spots, to political shifts, to the city growing population for a second year in a row. On today’s show: Corktown Coffee & Bagel in Core City First up, Devon brought in a treat fr…
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Today on the 5: As part of an upcoming episode of Len Kabasinski's Forgotten Movie Den series, I watched a film from 1988 titled Nightmare At Noon . Apart from an ending that fumbles the energy of the movie just slightly, this one is an absolute blast of a good time!By Joe Esposito
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Steve McCauley on Barbara Pym: The Comic Novel Explored and Adored (JP)
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30:31Back in 2019, John spoke with the celebrated comic novelist Stephen McCauley. Nobody knows more about the comic novel than Steve--his latest is You Only Call When You're in Trouble, but John still holds a candle for his 1987 debut, Object of My Affection, made into a charming Jennifer Aniston Paul Rudd movie. And there is no comic novelist Steve lo…
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Academic Librarians: A Discussion with Karen McCoy
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55:53The library is an important partner in academic success for students and professors. So why do so many people overlook this key resource? Karen McCoy takes us inside her job on two college campuses, unpacking what librarians do, and why she’s so happy to help everyone find exactly what they need. Our guest is: Karen B. McCoy, who is a librarian cur…
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Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025)
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57:15In 2022, Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. But she wasn’t the first actress of Asian origin to be nominated. In 1935, Merle Oberon was nominated for Best Actress for the role of Kitty Vane in The Dark Angel, only her second film in the U.S. film industry. But no one knew Oberon was Asian. Her pu…
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Tyler Neill discusses the new platform Pāṇḍitya, an online graph visualization tool illustrating connections between works and authors in the Pandit Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts. It also facilitates exploration of the Sanskrit E-Text Inventory (SETI) as an overlay on the Pandit network. Tyler's blog "Sanskrit and Tech with Tyler" is her…
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Guo Quan Seng, "Strangers in the Family: Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia" (SAPP, 2023)
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55:53In Strangers in the Family: Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia (SAPP, 2023), Guo-Quan Seng provides a gendered history of settler Chinese community formation in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period (1816–1942). At the heart of this story lies the creolization of patrilineal Confucian marital and familial norms to the col…
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Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
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55:21Embodying Normalcy: Women’s Work in Neoliberal Times (Lexington Books, 2024) calls attention to how women in the United States do a type of unpaid work to embody the latest trends for the purpose of achieving success in neoliberal culture. Using TLC reality shows, lifestyle and beauty influencers, Brazilian butt lift TikToks, and celebrities like K…
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Noel Rubinton, "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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46:51John McPhee has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1965 and has written more than thirty acclaimed books that began on the magazine's pages. But few readers know or fully appreciate the true breadth of his writing. Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee (Princeton University Press, 2025) leads readers through…
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Ben Jackson, "Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England" (Manchester UP, 2025)
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58:41Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England (Manchester University Press, 2025) by Dr. Ben Jackson examines the material and consumer practices of over 1000 men from the middling and upper ranks of eighteenth-century society, c.1650-1850. It draws upon evidence from over 35 archives and museum collections to detail how mater…
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Joanna Rubin Dranger, "Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir" (Ten Speed Graphic, 2025)
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33:56Told through a genre-defying blend of illustrations, photography, and found objects, Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir (Ten Speed Graphic, 2023) chronicles Joanna Rubin Dranger’s investigation into her Jewish family’s history, spanning time, space, and three continents in search of her lost relatives. As discolored photos are retrieved from hal…
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Matthew Restall, "On Elton John: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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1:20:03Elton John is not only "still standing," he is a living superlative, the ultimate record-breaking, award-winning survivor of the great era of pop and rock music that he helped to shape during his six decades in the music industry. Yet few of his numerous biographies and song guides take him as a historical subject worthy of scholarly study. In cont…
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The Power of Protest (w/ andré carrington)
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54:12It's time to rise up. That's why we’re talking about the power of protest, in real life but also in fiction. Indeed, the act of writing science fiction can itself be a protest, and sometimes it’s just as powerful as marching in the street. Later in the episode, we're joined by andré carrington, who is the editor of a new anthology of Black speculat…
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3 Detroit Buildings That Need A Spirit Rehab // Inside Automate // Norris Is Going To Movement
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25:21Today's show is in three parts: First, we spent the morning at the Automate conference in Downtown Detroit. Bringing thousands to the city, the conference touches on the best in industrial and machine automation — the present and future of manufacturing in America. Guest expert Adam Cook joins us to translate what we saw and the importance. Plus, N…
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Today on the 5: On top of increasing game prices and moving games towards digital downloads, Nintendo has recently announced they will have the capability to brick consoles violating their EULA policies. Right now those policies seem aimed at preventing piracy, which is at least defensible. The problem is, this also requires you to trust the compan…
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What is environmental authoritarianism and why we should be mindful of its allure
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37:21The argument that authoritarian governments are better at dealing with the climate emergency is gaining ground, fuelled by the idea that undemocratic states face fewer constraints and so can operate more efficiently and effectively. Some are even arguing that this isn’t just a necessary evil but a legitimate policy response to pending environmental…
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Brain Rot: What Our Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (8)
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27:03In Episode 8, Dr. Messina and Dr. Gill, the host and co-host of this podcast, talked about the emotional toll that is associated with lost time---time that cannot be reclaimed. While there are many things in life that can be found or recovered when lost, time is not among them; once it is gone, it is lost forever. They highlighted the impact of tec…
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Michael Buser, "Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context" (Policy Press, 2024)
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36:41Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context (Policy Press, 2024) investigates and analyses places in Europe, North America and Asia that are facing the immense challenges associated with climate change adaptation. Presenting real-world cases in the contexts of coastal change, drinking water and the cryosphere,…
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