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Bardic Community College
by Bardic Community College
Two buddies and occasional guests that bring you a low-key, relaxed presentation of music, movies, animation, literature and video games that have shaped our lives. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bardiccommunitycollege/support
Episodes
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BCC Film Class Episode 116: My Cousin Vinny
On this week's episode, we took a look at 1992 Joe Pesci vehicle, My Cousin Vinny (dir. Jonathan Lynn). Featuring the struggles of visiting the Deep South, does this 90s courtroom comedy still hold up? Do good grits take more than 5 minutes to cook? Content Warning: Strong Language, Suggestive...
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BCC Music Class Episode 110: Eric Johnson
We're back with another monster length music episode on guitarist Eric Johnson. Famed for his dreamy guitar tones, exquisitely crafted instrumentals and general guitar wizardry, we take a look at his 80s and 90s output (Tones, Ah Via Musicom, and Venus Isle) plus one of his more recent albums, Up...
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BCC Video Game Class Episode 112: Yoshi's Island
We take a trip back to the SNES for Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, the premier babysitting platformer where you play as a green dinosaur. Remembered for its coloring book aesthetic, banging soundtrack, early 3D graphics, and bizarre place in the Mario canon, Yoshi's Island is a wonderfully...
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BCC Literature Class 108: Kitchen Confidential
We're back with a look at Anthony's Bourdain's memoir Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Taking a break from science fiction and fantasy, we take a "warts and all" look into Bourdain's life, career, and the bizarre world of restaurants. Content Warning: Strong Language,...
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BCC Music Class 110: The Bouncing Souls
Taking a detour over to Jersey, today's episode is on the punk band The Bouncing Souls. With all the classic punk joys of 45 second songs, bouncy guitar riffs, and sophomoric lyrics, The Bouncing Souls did carve out a respectable niche in the 90s. Is it enough for punk-averse Derek to get on…
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BCC Film Class Episode 115: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Live from Jordan's house, and just in time for Christmas, we cover Shane Black's directorial debut, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. It's a weird little meta detective movie, wherein Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer team up to to solve a murder in the mean streets of Los Angeles. Content Warning: Strong...
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BCC Film Class 114: Demolition Man
We take a journey to the future of 2032, where Taco Bell has crushed all other fast food restaurants, for Marco Brambilla's 1993 sci-fi action comedy Demolition Man. Starring Sylvester Stallone as a cowboy cop and Wesley Snipes as a criminal mastermind, both characters are transported to the...
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BCC Video Game Class Episode 111: Slay the Spire
This week we're taking a look at Megacrit's indie roguelike deckbuilding game, Slay the Spire. In it, you climb a randomly generated tower and build a randomly generated deck to fight hordes of random generated monsters (sorta) with your choice of fire, poison, lightning or anger. Content…
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BCC Video Game Class 110: Silent Hill 2
Taking another step into horror video games, today we tackle the psychological horror masterpiece, Silent Hill 2. Remembered for its foreboding atmosphere, terrifying imagery, and strong storyline, not to mention iconic and terrifying enemies, Silent Hill 2 has remained a classic in the genre....
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Bardic Community College Music Class 109: The Police
We're back with everybody's favorite reggae-infused punk band, The Police. Featuring future Spyro music composer Stewart Copeland on drums, former session musician Andy Summers, and some guy called Sting, The Police only put out five albums but had a huge impact on the 80s sound, in addition to...
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BCC Film Class 113: Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Continuing our streak of bizarre high-concept 80s films, for this week's episode we took a chance on Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985, dir. Tim Burton). In the first screen depiction of Paul Reuben's kitschy manchild, Pee-wee Herman, we follow his surreal antics in recovering a missing bicycle…
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BCC Literature Class 107: Uzumaki
Just in time for Halloween, we took a look at Junji ito's surreal horror manga series, Uzumaki. Known for body horror and a preoccupation with all things "spiral," this manga ain't for the faint of heart. Content Warning: Strong Language, Horror Imagery Created by Derek Delago and Jordan Hester...
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BCC Film Class 112: Akira (1988)
In today's lesson we talk about the 2020 Olympics, the disintegrating political system, and of course, psychic children. Of course, we're talking about the groundbreaking 1988 animated film, Akira. In addition to covering the complex characters, complicated story, and rife amounts of body horror,...
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BBC Video Game Class 109: Resident Evil 7:Biohazard
For today's show, we take a trip to the Baker mansion in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. The most recent mainline Resident Evil game took the series back to basics by having you fight against "evil residents" and innovated by adopting a first person perspective, in a series famed for it's…
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BCC Film Class 111: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Join us for the low down on the Soggy Bottom Boys...er the Coen Brother's comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou? Painting a loving (if occasionally) critical picture of the American South pre-World War II, O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a gold mine of quips and references to mythology, if lacking some…
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BCC Video Game 108: The Binding of Isaac
For our episode today, we take a visit to the grotesquely cute roguelike indie game, The Binding of Isaac. Liberally mixing biblical horror, classic dungeon delving, and a whole lot of black comedy, The Binding of Isaac proved to be the breakthrough hit of indie game maker Edmund McMillen, later...
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BCC Literature Class 106: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Taking a detour to harder sci-fi, we take a look at Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. A fitting title, considering all the craziness that happens when a fight for independence occurs on 2075's premier penal colony: the moon. Content Warning: Suggestive Content, Strong Language,...
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BCC Video Game Class 107: Disco Elysium
For today's show, we're taking a look at Disco Elysium, a bizarre narrative RPG developed by ZA/UM. After surviving the bender to end all benders, you play an amnesiac detective investigating a murder. How (if?) you solve that murder is up to you as your emotions and thoughts tailor your strange...
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BCC Film Class 110: House (1977)
For today's show, we take a look at Nobuhiko Obayashi's House, a bizarre horror classic. Created with input from Obayashi's young daughter, the film juggles bizarre and horrific imagery with extremely goofy setups and asides, creating a dreamlike atmosphere that manages to be both uncanny and...
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BCC Music Class 108: Mayer Hawthorne
For this iteration of Music Class, we're covering the retro-inspired soul artist, Mayer Hawthorne. Known for his geeky aesthetic in a sensual genre, Hawthorne has evolved from a one-man band to an Indie darling, combining retro mo-town with modern tricks. Content Warning: Strong Language…
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BCC Literature Class 105: Redwall (1986)
After a sudden hiatus, we're back with an episode on the 1986 fantasy classic, Redwall by Brian Jacques. With a series stretching over 25 years, the Redwall books have certainly secured themselves a place in libraries all over the world, but Jordan knows not a thing about an abbey of peace-loving...
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BCC Music Class 107: "Weird Al" Yankovic
This week is all about the world's most successful musical parodist, Alfred "Weird Al" Yankovic. Straight out of Lynwood, California, Weird Al is arguably the only artist from the 80s still as relevant now as they were then., creating a huge catalog of song parodies and original comedic works....
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BCC Video Game Class 106: Team Fortress 2
This week, we take a rocket jump into Valve's class based first-person shooter (or hat simulator), Team Fortress 2. Known for breaking the mold in multiplayer FPS design, jump-starting the trend of micro-transactions in multiplayer games, and for having some of the craziest lore, Team Fortress 2...
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BCC Film Class 109-Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Dare! Dare to believe that today we're covering the 1986 nostalgia fest, Transformers: The Movie. Jordan's a huge transformers buff, whereas Derek only knows about the franchise from the live action films, internet memes, and incredibly hazy memories of Toonami. Will Derek walk away from an 84...
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BCC Literature Class 104: The Name of the Wind
We return to book reviews with Patrick Rothfuss's fantasy novel The Name of the Wind. Styled as a fantasy novel told from the perspective of its own hero, we follow the youth of one Kvothe as he gets embroiled in ancient conspiracies, magical universities and other DnD shenanigans. While we here…
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BCC Music Class 106: Sturgill Simpson
Jordan's choice for a musical act ended up being modern country artist Sturgill Simpson. Known for a shocking win at the 59th Grammy awards and idiosyncratic lyrics, we take a look at pretty much his entire discography. Content Warning: Strong Language, Suggestive Lyrics Note: As of now this is…
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BCC Film Class 108: The Void
We're taking another dive into cosmic horror with the 2016 independent horror film, The Void. Written and directed by Canadian filmmakers Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie, The Void had a successful crowdfunding campaign to be able to feature some impressive practical effects, but does the…
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BCC Video Games Lesson 105: Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami
Turning to the next most famous Sega franchise after Sonic, today we talk Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami, the prequel to the series and the remake of the original respectively. Known for dense crime stories, violent brawling, bizarre sidequests and a lotta heart, the Yakuza series has steadily risen…
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BCC Film Class 107: The Thing (1982)
On today's episode we take a look at John Carpenter's horrifying film, The Thing. Opening to mixed reviews in '82, this science fiction horror film raised the bar on disgusting special effects. The two of us consider this to be one of the best movies ever made, and we're not afraid to share why!...
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BCC Film Class 106: Stalker (1979)
This week we're looking at Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker. Probably the artsiest movie we've watched for the show so far, it's a science fiction film where three men journey into "The Zone" a strange place warped by an extraterrestrial event. This is the first foreign film we've picked for the…
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BCC Video Game Class 104: Chrono Trigger
This week, we're back talking about another video game from the Super Nintendo Era: the square soft classic, Chrono Trigger. Generally considered among the best RPGs ever made, one of the best SNES games ever, and far more dearly, it's one of Jordan's favorite games. But is this time travel...
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BCC Music Class 105: Budgie
We're going back to the early seventies to look at the highly influential but criminally overlooked rock group Budgie. In a reversal of Brand New, we're looking at a group that Derek absolutely loves while Jordan is but a stranger. Content Warning: Strong Language Created by Derek Delago and…
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BCC Video Games Class 103: Super Metroid
We return to video games with a look at the Nintendo classic: Super Metroid! Derek's barely played any of this Metroid stuff, but there's a lot beneath the surface to this mid 90s platformer. Content Warning: Strong Language Note: There is a brief segment where another video clip played in the...
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BCC Film Class 105: Rope (1948)
Featuring our special guest Dani, this week's episode covers Alfred Hitchcocks's thriller Rope (1948). Analyzed and remembered for the homosexual undertones between the two killers and the film's game attempt to appear as one continuous "take," Rope is relatively obscure outside of film circles…
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BCC Music Class 104: Brand New
For this week's episode, we're back with Jordan's choice for a music group: Brand New. An emo/alternative rock group is outside Derek's usual wheelhouse but will he walk away more or less indifferent than when he started? Content Warning: Strong language, Suggestive Content Created by Derek…
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BCC Literature Class 103: The Golden Compass
Continuing our delves through science fiction and fantasy, we turn our sights to Phillip Pullman's The Golden Compass. While considered a YA classic, Derek and Jordan are a little more skeptical. Content Warning: Strong Language Note: Experimenting with how we do spoiler tagging. This episode...
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BCC Video Game Class 102: Sonic Mania
We've got the mania! We take a look at the blue blur's 2017 retro retraux Sonic Mania, along with share our stories about where we stand with the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Content Warning: Strong Language Created by Derek Delago and Jordan Hester Music by Jack Ellis Note: The ending theme for...
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BCC Film Class 104: Legend (1985)
We're back after a lengthy holiday-induced coma to bring the first episode of 2020: a look at Ridley Scott's Legend. Recorded at Jordan's house (making us sound the most consistent yet), we re-watched the 80s fairy tale and found it to be better and worse than we remembered. Content Warning…
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BCC Film Class 103: Knives Out
A new movie review out while it's still in theaters! We take a look at the Rian Johnson mystery comedy film, Knives Out, and manage to dig ourselves into a hole we could never escape: Star Wars tangents. Content Warning: Strong Language, Left-leaning politics, Star Wars Created by Derek Delago…
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BCC Music Class 103: Yes
On this music episode, we take a listen to the legendary progressive rock group, Yes. Tackling The Yes Album, Fragile, 90125, and Union for this episode, Derek gushes and Jordan willingly tolerates the group's highest highs and probably their lowest low. Unless you really don't like Tales From...
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BCC Literature Class 102: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
We're back to the books with Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Doulas Adams. Dirk Gently is a bizarre science fiction comedy about ghosts, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and finding the time to watch television. Content Warning: Strong Language Created by Derek Delago and Jordan Hester Music…
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BCC Music Class 2: MF Doom
In this episode Jordan introduces Derek to MF Doom, an alt rapper with exquisite taste in samples. While far out of his element, Derek gives it the old BCC try. Content Warning: Strong Language Created by Derek Delago and Jordan Hester Music by Jack Ellis
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Summer Reading: Over the Garden Wall
For this bonus episode, BCC discusses the merits of cult cartoon miniseries, Over the Garden Wall. Featuring special guest Connor Love. Content Warning: Strong Language Created by Derek Delago and Jordan Hester Music by Jack Ellis
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BCC Video Game Class 1: Prey (2017)
For the first talk on video games, Derek and Jordan tackle Prey (2017). Frequent references to System Shock abound! In video game talks, we'll discuss the experience of playing the games and what makes them stack up against their peers. Content warning: Strong Language Created by Derek Delago and...
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BCC Film Class 2: Highlander
Jumping back to 1986, Jordan and Derek discuss a formative film for both: Highlander. Lots of gushing, but also a look at the aspects that haven't entirely held up. Content Warning: Strong language, Discussion of sexual violence Created by Derek Delago and Jordan Hester Music by Jack Ellis
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BCC Literature Class 1: The Graveyard Book
Derek and Jordan are joined by guest lecturer Adam to talk about Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book. In the literature series, we'll discuss individual novels and provide inane analysis on science fiction and fantasy works. Content Warning: Strong language Created by Derek Delago and Jordan Hester...
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BCC Music Class 1: Metallica
Starting our series on music, Derek and Jordan discuss Metallica. A formative band for both hosts, get a low-down on the history of the group and an album-by-album analysis of one of the biggest metal bands ever. Content Warning: Strong language Created by Derek Delago and Jordan Hester Music by...
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BCC Film Class 1: Us (2019)
The first in our film discussions, Jordan and Derek talk about Us (2019) fresh after seeing the movie. Content Warning: Strong language Created by Derek Delago and Jordan Hester Music by Jack Ellis
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BCC Summer Reading: Spamalot
The first episode of BCC is a special look at Spamalot, the comedic play based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Made before we decided on our format, we dissect our experience of watching the play and compare the changes from screen to stage. Content Warning: Strong language Created by Derek...
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BCC Syllabus
Welcome to BCC! We're the sub-par humanities education you didn't know you wanted. Hosted by Jordan and Derek, every week Bardic Community College will talk about a piece of popular culture; we cycle between film, literature, music, and games, with occasional forays into other mediums. Content...
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