The Spectacle

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 deconstruct the second season of the best god damn show ever made and have a couple laughs along the way. 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 and their bewildering sexual habits, hope, nihilism, the catechism of the revolutionary, ego, manufacturing consent, ends/means, and what separates the people who do revolution an the people who inherit it. Also Margaret get annoying with a Star Wars soundboard. Margaret can be found @margaretkilljoy io can be found @bum.lung doint try and find Hazel This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

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 Death. For SOME REASON, this felt relevant to adapt in the early 2020s. Robin, Miriam, and returning guest Ellery discuss Netflix's Decameron mini-series, along with the actual Decameron, the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we depict, and discuss disease, and what feels like the end of the world. Publisher This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin. Transcript

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 man?) What's better than this? Guys being dudes. 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 Publisher This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

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 on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

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 listening to this before March 21st at 9am est. If you're listening after that, then you can probably just go preorder or regular order the book! Kickstarter Link

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 @bum.lung This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

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 great guest Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

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 the big mustache like handlebars for riding that dirty nose. Shout your choice into your phone or whatever device you listening to this on. We’ll hear it. Find Rosie on the X-ray vision podcast and go buy Godzilla: Monster Island. find Mckenzie’s letterbox at LETTERBOXD.COM/KENZIEBCKENZIE/ find io on insta @bum.lung This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

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

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 us more Middle Earth lore than you can handle. Kallie can be found on insta at @itsametaphorefordeath Inmn can be found hosting the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness podcast and on insta at @shadowtail.artificery Io can be found on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you can find shirts, prints, and stickers that they make at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BumLung This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

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, the reptile brain, demons, sexual and gender anxiety in scary media, how porn and horror movies relate as mediums that bring you into your body, does a movie have to be scary to be a good horror movie, what “hell” means and probably other stuff We discuss a lot of movies on this one and have spoilers for the following Hellraiser, Exorcist 3, Alien, Possession, Lake Mungo, Jacob’s ladder, and Shudder to name the most obvious. Io forgot to do plugs on this one but to be fair they never promised they were a professional. Mckenzee and Tabitha want to plug the general concept of Hormone Replacement Therapy and also the Open Sanctuary Project which is some extreme sick animal liberation work getting done you should support. https://opensanctuary.org Io can be found on Twitter @Bum_lung or on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you can find prints, shirts and stickers that they make on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BumLung This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

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 which are getting thrown up against the wall? They cover Assassins, Little Shop of Horror, Hamilton, Newsies, Les Mis, and more! Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery Miriam: Making funnies at Strangers Rosza: a great guest This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

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 @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

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 else to describe this episode bud. Trans cis or otherwise you should go see this flick If you enjoy feelings and having them. Io can be found on Twitter @Bum_lung or on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you can find stuff that they make on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BumLung This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

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 happened to make Burning Man go from something anarchistic to its current form, and how to find each other flesh-world style in arguably the most alienated age in human history. Dan can be found on twitter and insta at @ProfessorPlague and you can check his band Bobby joe Ebola and the children McNuggets patreon https://www.patreon.com/BobbyJoeEbola/about Io can be found on Twitter @Bum_lung or on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you can find prints, shirts and stickers that they make on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BumLung This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

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 become space hitler, and we also delve into what renowned sci-fi pervert and soulful white boy Frank Herbert’s fuckin’ deal was. Io can be found on Twitter @Bum_lung or on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you can find prints, shirts and stickers that they make on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BumLung you can find Kallie on instagram (@itsametaphorfordeath) you can get their good hats and shirts at itsametaphorfordeath.com Listen to their leftist conspiracy podcast Secret Antenna where podcasts are slung This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

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! Only one will be spared the wall! Is the noir detective a cop? How does copaganda work? Can a cop and its mortal enemy, rock n roll be allies? Idk bud, but we talk about at length. Apologies for the light cop apologism in this one, it’s all fictional. ACAB We also discuss what defines a “cop”, how cops get such a putrid mentality, Airheads, Knives out, Deadwood, Fallout, wife guys, crisis masculinity, the best boot based economic analogies, dwarven trans allegories, rural vs sub/urban cops, Q anon, Odo, true crime podcasts and KoRn for some reason Io can be found on Twitter @Bum_lung or on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you can find their comics, prints and shirts on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BumLung Vicky’s new book “The Extended Universe” will be out later this year and In defense of Looting can be found for free here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/vicky-osterweil-in-defense-of-looting This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

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 our hand at some ASMR. Io can be found on Twitter @Bum_lung or on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you can find comics, zines, prints and shirts that they make on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BumLung Bea cna be found on insta at @crimebrulee_ Robin can be found on insta at @missrobinsavage Guest Info Publisher This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin. Transcript

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, Barry Keoghan, honor as a title to win not an ideal to embody, stupid guys and more. Special appearance by Santa Clause. 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 Wren's new book "Nourishing Resistance" out on PM press https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1321 Wren also just published a feature on the strangers site "St. Lucy: An Anti-Hagiography" its good https://www.tangledwilderness.org/features/st-lucy-an-anti-hagiography Inmn can be found on insta @shadow.artificery and hosting most of the other podcasts from Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness Publisher This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin. Transcript

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 whole deal in a way that critics are calling "a nonstop thrill ride". Buy the very good book or get the .pdf of 2 Trans 2 Furious at https://2trans2furious.bigcartel.com/ Io can be found on Twitter @Bum_lung or on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you can find prints and shirts that they make on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BumLung Tuck Woodstock is America's #1 gender detective and host of the god-tier podcast Gender Reveal. He can found on IG @tuckwoodstockjr and on Twitter @tuckwoodstock and Gender Reveal can be found wherever fine podcasts are slung. This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a friendly mountain goblin.