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Episodes
Friday Dec 12, 2025
Friday Dec 12, 2025
Catching up on comments, going over what Chloe and Eliana have been consuming lately (and what we're looking forward to), and then the usual gallivanting.
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Intro by Anton Langhage
4 months ago
And if Chloe is reading this: Tell PoorQuentin that from Krajina to Belgrade the Serbian people cry out for the return of Jeff.
4 months ago
”White Sun of the Desert” (the Mosfilm movie with english subs is free on Youtube) would also be cool for a one-off Episode. My Mom had a good laugh at it, I’m sure it’d hit your humor too. Genre-wise it’s what we called an ”Ostern” in communist Germany. It’s like a Western, but set in soviet Turkmenistan.
4 months ago
In case you’re taking media recommendations for future Episodes once you’re through with ASOIAF, here are my shamelessly biased suggestions: ”How the Steel was tempered” by Nikolai Ostrovsky (the translation by the Communist Party of Australia is goated with the vegemite because of how they chose to translate working class slang) would just be cool to see discussed by anyone because it has such a lasting literary influence, mainly in China. Would be interesting to see a normie reading of it.