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The Spectacle
by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
A podcast for people who like movies and hate cops. Every...I dont know, month or so you can get captured by the spectacle and listen to some some anti-authoritarian freaks get together to jib jab about video games, shows, comics, and anything under the umbrella of nerd shit using that as a springboard to get silly in ways that will sound bad in court proceedings later (all things said on the podcast are parody and in minecraft, nice try FBI)Formerly The Anarcho-Geek Power Hour.A production of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
Episodes
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Camp Miasma
MCKENZIE, REALLY, IO, AND ROSIE MARX GET REALLY EXCITED ABOUT A LOT OF TOPICS THAT VAUGELY ORBIT JANE SCHOENBRUN’S NEW FLICK “SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA” SORRY FOR YELLING This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter...
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THE ODYSSEY
Tuck and McKenzie rejoin the pod to talk about a summer blockbuster 3000 years in the making. Chris Nolans The Odyssey! Only one of us liked it even a little bit, who could it be? Surf the wine dark podcast seas with us and hear about movie magic, “realism”, “the west” and why men are obsessed…
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We Love Boosters
Beau Patrick joins McKenzie and io to talk about I love Boosters. The new surrealist veneration of the noble shoplifter from Boots Riley that has a dialectical materialism gun. Beau talks about directing music videos for The Coup and the gang talk weird cinema, making class war chic, and the...
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How Disney fucked everything
McKenzie and Io talk with friend of the pod and genuine movie pervert Vicky Osterweil about the history of cinema, copyright, and how that fucking mouse wound up owning everything. BUY THE BOOK!! https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2525-the-extended-universe Vicky can also be found on bluesky...
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Resistance is Fertile: an Anarcho-Trekkie Crossover
Episode Summary This time on The Spectacle, we have the final frontier we've all been waiting for, a crossover episode with Resistance is Fertile, the anarcho-trekkie podcast, to talk about Star Trek and anarchism. Host Info Io can be found on Twitter @Bum_lung or on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you…
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Requiem for a weeb: the Chainsaw Man episode
Resident anime scholar Eren K Wilson teaches us about the history of anime and we talk a lot about a horny child hobo turned dog-fused, tit crazed, blood chugging living weapon we all call Chainsaw Man. Check out Eren’s everything at erenkwilson.com Io can be found on instagram at @bum.lung,...
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Revolution the musical: Wicked for okay
the entire world was devastated to hear that Wicked 2: the Wickening did not receive a single Oscar nomination. But it received something much more important. A very belated review by your favorite anarchist musical theater nerds. Inmn, Rosza and Miriam return to discuss whether Wicked is any…
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The state of da movies address
New year new pod. McKenzie and Io are rooting around in the media pile 2025 left us to bring you just right AND too hot takes about Eddington, One Battle After Another, Bugonia, Sinners, Marty Supreme, The Long Walk, Toxic Avenger, Weapons, 28 Years Later, Final Destination, Naked Gun, Bring Her...
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FRANKENSTEIN
Shuli Branson joins Io to discuss Frankenstein! We talk about Mary Shelley’s cool life and legacy and Guillermo Del Toro’s (secret egg) take on her story. We also talk monstrosity, transness, parenthood and abolishing the family, prison, id and ego, what “life” is. You know, Frankenstein stuff....
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ANDOR II
Margaret Killjoy, Hazel Acacia and Io Asunder talk about everyone’s favorite allegory for Vietnam (Star Wars) Specifically the only good Star Wars, Andor. We talk about revolutionary fiction, what we would do if given free reign over a piece of the Star Wars extended universe, fascists in love…
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It's a . . . Decameronomenon!
Episode Summary A deadly disease strikes, and everyone is ill-equipped to handle it; a group of young people is stuck inside trying to escape, and they feel (and act) weird about it. This is the plot of Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th century story collection, set against the backdrop of the Black…
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The Spectacle Goes Catholic
Episode Summary McKenzie and Io chin wag about Conclave, the two popes and Catholicism and make a case for why Conclave should be ushered in gay film canon (a buncha messy flamboyant divas in iconic outfits backstab each other and treat women weirdly to see which of their boys gets to be the…
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Dark Housewife-ification
In the first of a series of over-analyzing underappreciated streaming series, Ellery, Robin and Miriam discuss Kevin Can Fuck Himself, a sitcom about patriarchy, abuse, and Massachusetts This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or…
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A New Book by Margaret Killjoy
Episode Summary This isn't a real episode. It's an advertisement, but it's an advertisement for a really cool thing, a new new book by Margaret Killjoy that we're Kickstarting. You can get so many deals and cool rewards and stretch goals that have already been unlocked, as long as you're…
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PORN: the podcast
Carta Monir is here talking about her work making and archiving DIY queer porn from throughout the ages. TW for lots of stuff the stuff that comes up with smut history. Like pedophilia, we talk about that for awhile. Find all of Carta ‘s links at allmylinks.com/XXXcartaXXX Find io on insta...
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Revolution: The Musical 2
Continuing our ongoing series of podcasts run by theater dorks Miriam, Inmn and Rosza are gabbing about Wicked. Some sort of prequel to the wizard of Oz venerating the noble witch. Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery Miriam: Making funnies at Strangers Rosza: a…
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NOSFERADUDES
Nosferatu is a movie about poly drama and how doing real estate is evil Rosie Knight and returning champ Mckenzie talk with Io on the new vision of horror from director Robbie Eggo and decide once and for all who was the horniest Dracula. For my money I think it’s this uncut Romanian trade with…
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Cops are such silly little guys haha
We talk about Hot Fuzz and Io tries to watch another copmedy for this episode but honestly got so bored so it’s just a lot of hot fuzz talk
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More like Bored of the Rings amirite?
Inmn, Kallie and Io talk about The Rings of Power and what a piece of shit it is. Also Peter Jacksons trilogy, not respecting your audience, Tolkien’s anarchism (and Catholicism and monarchism), word salad visual language, homosociality, and armouring. Plus our resident Tolkien scholar Inmn gives...
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The SpOoOoktacle!
creeking doors do you hear that? rattling chains oh no! you know what that means the sound of a mummies curse its hallowtide again and we got our resident horror movie girlies Mckenzeee and Tabitha to school Io, our resident fraidy cat on the true meaning of terror. We talk about gnostic horror,...
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Revolution! The Musical
Episode Summary On this episode of the Spectacle, you no longer have to wait one day more--otherwise known as tomorrow--to know which musicals are revolutionary and which are trash. Join Miriam, Rosza, and Inmn on their exploration of different radical-seeming musicals. Which are our comrades and...
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brat
It was hot brat summer until suddenly it wasn’t. Can we still love charli xcx and be cool? Bea can be found on twitter at @beaflowers This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram...
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I SAW THE TV GLOW
Live from the after-after-after party of the Constellation Anarchy-fest in beautiful Montreal Bea, Rob and Io convene an emergency pod after not being able to stop talking about I saw the TV glow. A surreal and beautiful movie for those looking to walk around in a daze for awhile. I dont know how...
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Secret third places
We talk with old pal Dan Abbot of Bobby joe Ebola about Geekfest. The freaky music festival organized by literal children in the bay area in the 90s borne out of an increasingly insular punk subculture in the wake of Green Day blowing up the spot. We also discuss Temporary Autonomous Zones, what...
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D U N E
Is Dune anti-colonial? Can the white savior myth be satirized? Is Gurney Halleck my friend? Kallie (@itsametaphorfordeath), Producer Aaron, and Io (@bum.lung) do a big ass DUNE episode and jaw about all this plus libertarians hand in “counter-culture”, if you can get so high of worm-dirt you…
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The only good (fictional) cop
Vicky Osterweil (In defense of Looting), Miriam, and Io chose their champions and play a game making the case for the best fictional cop and how guilty we feel as anarchists for loving them. Rust Chole, Sam Vimes and Agent Dale Cooper duke it out for the title of the only good cop! 3 pigss enter!...
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Cozy Games/Night in the Woods
Bea, Robin and Io put on their feetie jim-jams and gather round the duraflame to talk about their favorite winter time cozy games. Io goes on at length about Night in the Woods as the perfect image of small town youth culture anarchy. We also talk about Eastward, Katamari Damacy, Oxenfree andtry...
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The Green Knight - The Anti-civ Xmas classic
Inmn, Wren and Io wring in the holidays by talking about the greatest Christmas movies about a dumb guy who sucks picking a fight with an earth elemental, The Green Knight. They talk Arthurian myth and the shadow it casts upon modern fantasy, Paganism vs. Christianity, folk magic/folk tales…
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2 TRANS 2 FURIOUS
VVRRROOOOMMM!!! Host of Gender Reveal Tuck Woodstock guests to talk about the Fast and Furious franchise and the book "2 TRANS 2 FURIOUS: an anthology of transgender street racing studies"! Io and Tuck go over every Fast movie and chin wag about gender, transition, action, crime, and Vin Diesel's...
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BARBENHEINTURE BROS.
This episode is so gender. Just chock a block of gender in this one. Gare Davis and Molly B'Damn are ready to do...gender. Host Info Io can be found on Twitter @Bum_lung or on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you can find shirts and patches that they make on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BumLung Guest...
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Video Game Zines
Bea and I0 talk about getting into video games, tiny games, games you can run on a shitty laptop, and the alternative gaming narrative that games like that can offer people. Host Info Io can be found on Twitter @Bum_lung or on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you can find shirts and patches that they make…
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Radio 66.6 Takeover: Sex Work in Media
Episode Summary Molly, Annie, and Lizxnn talk about a lot of movies. They talk about representation of sex workers across many different medias and experiences, drawing on their own experiences, showcasing their favorite depictions and depictions they think are weird. Host Info Molly B'Damn...
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Last of Us
Episode Summary Host Info Io can be found on Twitter @Bum_lung or on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you can find shirts and patches that they make on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BumLung Guest Info Jonas Goonface can be found IG @jonasgoonface and Twitter @jonasgoonface (also people over 18 should...
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Apocalypse....Soon?
The first recorded episode of AGPH from earlier in the year! 3 of the Strangers gang chin wag about their favorite apocalypse media, what fictional universe they would do best/worst in were civilization to go dicks up, and what apocalypse media says about how people view human nature. Topics...
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Andor + Rogue One
Io and Margaret go through the Star Wars narratives, Andor, and Rogue One, and talk about where they overlap historically with real resistance movements, what the narratives are commentating on about current resistance movements, where the representation falls short and generally why the Mon...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast for people who like movies and hate cops. Every...I dont know, month or so you can get captured by the spectacle and listen to some some anti-authoritarian freaks get together to jib jab about video games, shows, comics, and anything under the umbrella of nerd shit using that as a springboard to get silly in ways that will sound bad in court proceedings later (all things said on the podcast are parody and in minecraft, nice try FBI)Formerly The Anarcho-Geek Power Hour.A production of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
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A podcast for people who like movies and hate cops. Every...I dont know, month or so you can get captured by the spectacle and listen to some some anti-authoritarian freaks get together to jib jab about video games, shows, comics, and anything under the umbrella of nerd shit using that as a...
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