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Choice Media Pod, 70 episodes.

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Absolute Poison Ivy: A Horror Story Based on Obsession and Transformation

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The Hobbit (1977): The Rankin/Bass Classic That Introduced Me to Tolkien

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Transformers: That Time Paul Dini Unleashed Cybertron's Balrog

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Bad Seeds Week 10: A Finale Centered on Power, Passion and Poison Ivy

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Bad Seeds Week 9: Family, Frost, and the Fight for Gotham

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Raiders of the Lost Ark: Why Marion Ravenwood was an Essential Co-Star

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Ares: The Bringer of War — George O’Connor’s Epic Retelling of the Iliad

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Bad Seeds Week 8: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Crisis

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The Olympians Aphrodite: The Eternal Struggle Between Love, Wisdom, and Power

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The Night Sting Played Vermont: Remembering the 1991 UVM Concert

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Bad Seeds Week 7: Resilience and Choices that Define Us

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Poison Ivy: House & Garden and the Making of a More Human Antagonist

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Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death — An Ambitious First Pass at Her Own Series

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Bad Seeds Week 6 Recap: Ivy Faces Some Hard Truths

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Five Classic Haunted House Stories for Spooky Season

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The Glory of Hades: A Rogues-Like Action Game Rooted in Greek Myths

17

Two Peak Spider Man Cartoons (One is Peak Storytelling, the other is Peak Cheese)

18

Bad Seeds Week 5: And Then There Was Harley

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Like a Ship Over Troubled Waters: Where Romance and Fandom Collide

20

The Olympians: Artemis is a Wild Good Time with the Goddess of the Hunt

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Bad Seeds Week 4 Recap: All Hell Breaks Loose

22

The Greatness of New 52 Ivy; Recaps on Everybody Loves Ivy, Heroes in Crisis and Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy

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Bad Seeds Week 3: Officer Gordon Gets Into the Action

24

Classic Relationship Fumbles in Fiction

25

The Olympians Graphic Novels; A Divine Introduction to Greek Myths

26

Bad Seeds Week 2 Recap + unpacking the response to Week 1

27

Bad Seeds Recap: Week 1- Prelude and Sunset

28

Introduction to Genius; My Warren Zevon playlist

29

Five Star Film; The Big Sleep Brings the Heat with Smart Writing and Star Power

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The Bad Seeds Predictions and Probabilities

31

The Canada Episode: 12 Great Things from Canada

32

The Leadup for Bad Seeds: What you need to know about DC's next big crossover

33

Boston Fan Expo 2026 Recap; Even the Greats Grapple with Perfectionism

34

Pushing Through My Top 5 Video Game Enduro Challenges

35

Two Extremes of Batman; Both Classics

36

Literary Context on the Biggest Batman Bomb of All

37

The Leadup to DC's Bad Seeds Crossover Event

38

Weird Al and Puddles Were Amazing in Concert

39

The Odyssey Discourse and How I Got Over Being an Insufferable Purist

40

Absolute Wonder Woman is why I love DC Comics

41

Getting to Know the Queen of May: Five Lessons Learned on my Odyssey of Poison Ivy

42

End of a Golden Age: Trails of Cold Steel 3 Doesn't Match its Predecessors

43

Leaning Into What you Love; Why I'm Launching The Choice Media Podcast

44

BONUS TIME: The Hammer of Thor has Entered the Chat

45

From Femme Fatale to Misunderstood Anti Hero; The Many Iterations of the Peerless Poison Ivy

46

The Difference Between Good Enough and Just Right

47

Transformers the Movie, 40 years later

48

4,000 Hours with That Game Where Hockey Takes the World by Storm

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Why Trails of Cold Steel 2 was an all-timer RPG

50

The Boxing Day I Lost it All (and was fine!)

51

Top Family Gaming Experiences of 2025

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Going Meta with Metaphor

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Talking Zelda hits and misses

54

FF7 Rebirth Reflections and Wishlists for the Re-Finale

55

Epics and Epic Fails: Which is FF7 Rebirth?

56

What is the media critic's role? / Love for OSTs that make the game

57

My Family Gaming Greatest Hits—and Some Inexplicable Misses

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Tokyo Mirage Sessions is good; Oldsona remake would be peak

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Writing about Music and Games; My Son the Mario Master Builder

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Why Persona 4 Remake is a Big Old 'Meh' for Me

61

Nathan's Pitch for a Silmarillion adaptation

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The Five People You Meet in the Final Fantasy Discourse

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When Kirby is Perfect/ Caring for the Caregiver

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When Dungeons & Dragons is your first RPG; getting wiped out in Moria a dozen times; Necromancer and Paladin in the party- what could go wrong?

65

The Joy of Fandom: Transformers, the Boston Comics Scene, and Managing Fandom with a Busy Life

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Final Fantasy 7: catching up on the lore; misunderstandings, and mixed media surrounding this beloved game.

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The Joy of Talking Games; Loving Persona, exploring the Kingdom Hearts to Persona pipeline (which may extend to Trails someday).

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Persona 3 is Focused on Mortality, but Completely Life Affirming; How Writing from the Heart led to an Impactful Connection

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Theories on why Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth > Remake, Identifying with Persona 4

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Going next level on the convention scene, family bonding through Octopath Traveler 2, and Trails from Zero