I'll Be Pod for Castmas

By: Juliet & Katherine
  • Summary

  • Every July and December, Juliet L'mous and their co-host playwright Katherine Varga take a piece of holiday pop culture and discuss it through the lens of a piece of topical classic literature — like the seminal hit "Last Christmas" through Jorge Luis Borges' famous essays "Kafka and His Precursors" and "A New Refutation of Time". Find it four times a year on the Moonshot Podcast network, and every month at cohost.org/christmas!
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Episodes
  • Princess Switch 3 (Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro)
    Jul 29 2024
    Episode Notes

    Jeff Stormer joins Juliet and Katherine to talk Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro alongside its modern christmas mirror, Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star. What makes a christmas movie Good? What makes a Lupin story a Lupin story? Just how weird can the future of the franchise get from here?

    Along the way, we cover Fast Five, commedia dell'arte lazzi, the Now You See Me franchise, The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, the Vanessa Hudgens Cinematic Universe, Ocean's Twelve, and the Assassin's Creed series.

    Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network.

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    59 mins
  • Princess Switch 3 (Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar)
    Jul 15 2024
    Episode Notes

    This Christmas in July, Juliet and Katherine celebrate the heist genre with the genre-defying Vanessa Hudgens vehicle Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star alongside the genre-defining Maurice Leblanc short story compilation, Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar.

    Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Les Misérables (The Shape of the Sword)
    Dec 23 2023
    Episode Notes

    Juliet and Katherine dive deeper into the sadness, joy, and realism of the characters of Gavroche, Eponine, and Javert through the lens of Jorge Luis Borges' "The Shape of the Sword" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "It's Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries".

    Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Readings from the text are provided by Max Newland.

    Transcript of this episode is available here.

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    53 mins

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