You all! It’s here! Our most anticipated episode of the year (according to the two of us, and only the two of us). The This Week In Breeders Oscars Spectacular.
Friends, there was so much gender in the movies last year. There were women having mental breakdowns and/or founding religions. There were men (so many men) being sad, playing sad baseball, doing sad art heists, reanimating sad corpses, making sad albums about the death of the American dream, becoming dads, being sad about being dads, realizing they were sad dads and it was time to suddenly become happy dads… truly, so much gender (especially that one gender). Also, there was at least one movie that truly changed Sarah’s life, and also a couple guys we’d definitely let babysit our kids (all our love to you, Benicio Del Toro, and also the sweet projectionist Grandpa in The Secret Agent).
Plus: The greatest surprise gift/musical interlude in podcasting history? Potentially! You need to listen to the end! We’re not just saying that!
Last year’s Mother Of It All Oscar’s Episode (the secret origin story, both for this episode, and this podcast more generally).
Sarah’s feature on If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (The Cut).
Garrett is in Portland, Oregon this next weekend (Feb 20-22). Multiple events at Trinity Episcopal, including a public potluck on Friday night and a workshop on Saturday. Perhaps you’d like to come?
Puppy bowl, baby (Garrett’s household is Team Fluff, by the way).
The therapeutic board games that raised Sarah.
Amanda Montei’s essay about how Frankenstein is much better than watching Frankenstein.
Taffy Broadesser-Acker watches a Broadway show over and over again.
Garrett does not need this very expensive Testament of Ann Lee shirt (and Ann Lee would be disappointed in him if he did buy it), but you can understand why he’s torn, right?
Though we both support Emily Gould buying the shirt
Most importantly of all: The complete lyrics to “Gonna be hostin,” so that you too can sing along when Sarah performs it live on stage at the Oscars.
Garrett would like to offer his apologies for mixing up the Skarsgards, and also for calling Ronald Bronstein “Richard,” but appreciates that Sarah was able to correct him.
BREAKING NEWS: The number of living Shakers (reported by us as two) HAS RISEN TO THREE! LET’S GOOOOOO!
Here is a picture of Brady and Mona. Enjoy!
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