Ep 32: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is about four teenage friends who go their separate ways for the summer, each experiencing their own trials and triumphs, and remaining connected by a pair of potentially-magic jeans. Jenna finds some linguistic issues to get upset about. Megan feels called out by how passive-aggressive one character is. Neither of us can remember exactly what species of rodent played a pivotal role in the novel.

Content Warning: This story includes topics such as terminal illness, depression and suicide, and sex between a 19-year-old and an underage teenager.

Music:

Happy Rock by BENSOUND
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Up In My Jam (All Of A Sudden) by Kubbi
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Ep 31: Shutter Island

For our Halloween episode, we discuss Shutter Island, a psychological thriller about an investigation at a psychiatric facility where something is not quite right. We cover subjects like the power of love, cycles of violence, and interpretations of reality. Ultimately, trauma might have been the true villain all along.

Content warning: It's a horror story with a lot of of heavy topics, such as - a lot of death, including the death of children; mentions of World War II and concentration camps; suicidal tendencies; mental illness and the dehumanization of the mentally ill.

Jenna's recall of historical events she knows almost nothing about is less than perfect - here's the Wikipedia page for the Dachau liberation reprisals for more comprehensive, accurate info.



Music:

Happy Rock by BENSOUND
http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Up In My Jam (All Of A Sudden) by Kubbi
https://soundcloud.com/kubbi
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/tDexBj46oNI