Read it and Weep

Happy Halloween! Like the show? Join us at http://patreon.com/readweeppod This one's all thanks to Sarah N.! Excellent pick, and just in time for spooky season! Ginger and Brigette are two death-lovin' teenage sisters living in a boring but cursed Ontario suburb. While dogs are getting casually merc'd they make a pact–to get out by the time they're 16 or kill themselves. But when Ginger hits puberty, she gets bit by a werewolf, becomes a werewolf, eats dogs, bangs sleezebags, and kills bullies until eventually Bridgette with the help of her drug-dealing maybe crush try to cure her. This movie is dripping with blood, guts, and allegory. If you want to howl with glee at some horrific bodily ch-ch-ch-changes, you might just sink your teeth into Ginger Snaps. Some interpretations! https://wearethemutants.com/2020/10/08/sister-lovers-the-curse-of-queerness-in-ginger-snaps/ https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/monstrum/2025-v8-n2-monstrum011024/1127537ar/ https://bloodlettermag.com/ginger-snaps-and-the-possession-of-womanhood/ We might all need to watch/re-watch Jennifer's Body! Next up: Widow's Bay!

It's a Tanya Day Miracle! Thanks to Eoin the Void, we have a reunion episode! Special thanks to Eoin for making this happen and for all of the fans who wrote in with their memories: Magnanimous, Jonathan, Sara, Mallory, Sean, Hannah, Ryan, and Amy! Want more wildness like this? Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/ReadWeepPod (or just hang out and answer questions. That's free! Note: In the intro, everyone was (rightfully) mocking the rain greenscreen background I was attempting in Riverside. See it here! Singin' in the Rain is great. Just see it. Also, friends are great. Tell them you like 'em and hang out, even if it's been a minute. Clips from PBS! Pinball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZshZp-cxKg Fishy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUusX1Js6R0 Diner slang: https://youtu.be/fpevE6zigpo?si=1-VAX2oY9MnLV8Mi&t=1082 (18:02-21:24) And of course, the theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TL5-u3ey-c Wishbone Intro Song: https://youtu.be/0sY-v6dZtz0?si=LrayV8bA-4wvs-JU Mr. Rogers Intro Song:  https://youtu.be/FhAJnx5uwUU?si=M2VNk1TwVZ7kNmqS Arthur is a Knitter: https://youtu.be/5o47kLkqXLU?si=sI5iXsEnwiEO3vKf Mr. Rogers how to make crayons Sesame Street would you like to buy an O? James Taylor and some hollerin' kids: https://youtu.be/Rjo1TVKaFmU?feature=shared Norah Jones Don't Know Y: https://youtu.be/FEzxchU4RUY?is=vzCio9y9GWDGyuPD And I don't know if anyone reads this far down, but from the bottom of my heart, thank you for coming on this weird, hilarious, beautiful journey with us. I've loved almost all of it, and wouldn't trade any of it for the world.

Like the show? Join us on Patreon! Free poll for everyone: what's your favorite piece of stuck media? For anyone who hasn't seen the 2012 Disney Revival-era masterpiece, Wreck-It Ralph is a Donkey Kong-type 8-bit bad guy in an arcade game, where people crap on him relentlessly for doing his job really well for 30 years with no health care or pension. When he gets cake-shamed at his own party, he decides stolen valor is the key, unleashes cybugs in candy land, then reluctantly teams up with glitched-out wannabe kart racer Vanellope von Schweetz to topple an Alan Tudyk-voiced maniacal monarch. If you want to get emotionally wrecked in all the right ways, Ralph's your guy. Other picks: Cube Source Code Widow's Bay Also, video editing is a lot of work so we might not do that anymore. Sorry. Imagine faces in the theater of the mind! Up next: It's Tanya Day, and we're doing a reunion show thanks to Eoin the Void! We're gonna be Singin' in the Rain with Alex, Chris, Tanya, and myself. I LOVED recording this even though it goes immediately off the rails.

Like the show, hang out on the Patreon! Or see our faces on YouTube Picture a town. But a creepy one. A town with one road that somehow loops around, trapping its inhabitants forever. Plus there's a smattering of night monsters who will knock on the doors and windows, interrupting your dinner, and if you let them in, they rip you apart and kill you. There's also a hippie commune, but the hippies might let you die outside, tie you up, talk to you about art, eat peaches at you, or traumatize you with a story about murder. 2/5 stars. If you wanted Lost vibes, but wish there were more eviserations and fewer islands, and if you can somehow Google it, you might just shriek with delight at From. Other recs: Widow's Bay Twin Peaks Sinners The Burroughs Obsession Next up: Wreck-it-Ralph!

Alex and Ezra are back with a sports fact showdown! One sports fact will be remembered for eternity. The other? Immediately forgotten. Also, if you want faces with your sports facts, they're here on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZn1pCjh-4w And if you like the show, come to the Patreon! We're talking favorite sport facts here--for free!

It's a new season! Welcome to Read it and Weep Season 8: Embrace the Weep! This season is all about the media that moves us and our friends. So obviously, OBVIOUSLY, it had to be Eurovision. For this, I've roped in my friend Cathy to tell me about the highs and lows of Eurovision. Anthony's prepared some slides! Also we're on YouTube (at least until I get annoyed with video editing) We recommend: Local Flutes Touching Grass Democracy Lordi Daði Freyr Join the Patreon party! Answer free polls or give us money, all at patreon.com/ReadWeepPod

Hey friends of the Palgorithm! No episode yet, but we'll be dropping Eurovision by mid-July and it'll be edited in Europe for extra worldliness! Meanwhile, thanks so much for the plane-based media recs, no notes, would consume on a plane again. If you have any bus-based media recs, send them my way!

Like the show? Support the show! Alex and Ezra are long-time friends who are both a mile wide and an inch. After careful research, we've determined there are exactly 1,206 things to know about the world, so we're setting out on a quest to learn one fact about everything that's ever happened BUT NOT TWO. This episode? We learn just one thing about Twist Ties and Noses. YouTube: Watch our faces and say nice things in the comments! 

Season 8 is starting soon! Shape it by giving us feedback on the Patreon! Hot Frosty 2: Hot Ice. Cool Canadian hockey phenom Shane Hollander and Brusque Russian hockey hot-shot Illya Rosanov are rivals on the skates but, surprise, lovers between the sheets. They're hot and cold as public and private lives cross-check each other, but in an uplifting, very needed example of queer joy, it's all actually okay! They profess their love, come out to Shane's parents, and get all the happy endings that they deserve. However many hockey sticks you like in your fantasy, you're sure to get melted by Heated Rivalry. The RIAW-gorithm also recommends: Fleabag Season 2 Schitt's Creek Chala Hunter, all-star intimacy coordinator Pillion (but not if you want anything like Heated Rivalry Ben's Bakery and the Hanukkah Miracle Next up: Season 8 and Eurovision!

Like the show? Support the show!  Space, the final frontier. But also time, some would say, a more final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. To go cheat at dom jot and get stabbed in the back. To get robbed by a time traveler while saving a planet. To prevent 22 years of war by killing off Tasha Yar again. And to boldly meet Kelsey Grammars like no one has met Kelsey Grammars before. We voted on our Patreon and picked these ST:TNG Time Travel episodes: 3.15 Yesterday's Enterprise 5.9 A Matter of Time 5.18 Cause & Effect 6.15 Tapestry The RIAW-lgorithm also recommends: Dark Also Dark The Husbands  The Gone World  Resident Alien More Star Trek (DS9, Lower Decks,  Strange New Worlds)