Indoorswomen Episodes
Two geeky ladies discuss geek culture, creativity, and the nature of fandom.
Friendship. Laughter. Deep pop cultural dives.
The one with the boys in it. Part II. Also known as “Indoorspeople”
We play our favorite game: Marry, Sex, Kill! Disney princes, anime characters, superhero girlfriends and… vehicles?
Stay tuned after that for our random recs and some outtakes from this and the previous episode! Listen to us mess up the intro again and again!
The one with boys on it.
In this
episode the ladies play some of our favorite games with some special
guests (Jen’s brother and husband). These games include:
Scenarios - Meg leads Jen and the boys on a superhero’s journey
Name that Flick - A special game for Meg (revenge for scenarios)
Fictional 5 - What 5 fictional historical/period figures are on your list? #AlexanderHamilton was popular
Gender
Swap - Taking our favorite franchises and flipping the genders - Dune,
Firefly, Silicon Valley, and The Fellowship of the Ring
Corrections: An autocorrect error led Jen to say Melissa McCarthy’s name incorrectly. We love you, Melissa! #Donttrustyournotes (also, we know Wonder Woman can fly in some iterations, even without the plane)
Tune in two weeks from now for Part II - Marry Sex Kill, Random Recs, and some funny outtakes!
In
this episode, you get the real “old days of radio” experience listening
to Jen pick up her glass and drink from it and set it back down
repeatedly. Ice clinking! It’s like we are on Mad Men! Metal Desk +
Podcast = Clink Amplification
Correction: in Outlander, Claire is a nurse in WW2 - it has been a few years since I read it! - Jen
We
start out playing a new game we dub “Scenarios” - Essentially we each
make up a series of geeky/pop cultural scenarios for the other to
navigate. It involves Harry Potter and Star Trek! (also this: https://www.pinterest.com/NerdifiedJen/wesley-crusher-sweaters-dont-worry-about-it/)
For the main event, we have
Smut Shaming or de-stigmatizing guilty pleasures. We have discussed
before that we are adamantly against the concept of “guilty pleasures” -
just like what you like and you should not be ashamed of it or made to
feel shame because of it. In this segment, we express our love of fanfic
and romance novels, defend them from shamers, and explain why they
appeal. And, as promised, here are all the books we recommended during
the show as well as some extras!
Fanfic book: Textual Poachers by Henry Jenkins
Jen’s Romance Recs:
YA sports themed romance: Miranda Kenneally & Simone Elkeles
Urban Fantasy, no explicit sex (fade to black) - Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
Urban Fantasy with sex - Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews, Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris (LOTS OF SEX - Laurel K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series)
Urban Fantasy with some sex and lots of jokes - Undead and Unwed by Mary Janice Davidson
Steampunk Werewolf romance - Soulless by Gail Carriger
Contemporary amusing romance with a relatable heroine - Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
Contemporary romance with my kind of guy - Vision in White by Nora Roberts
Historical romance, light - Desperate Duchesses by Eloisa James, Nine rules to break when romancing a rake by Sarah Maclean
Historical romance, epic - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon,
Epic Fantasy Romance - Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
M/M romance - Him by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy
YA romance, fairy tales - Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
YA romance, angels and demons - The Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
YA romance, contemporary - Stephanie Perkins trilogy - Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the boy next door, Isla and the Happily Ever After
Romance, contemporary, but with interesting structure - anything by Rainbow Rowell
YA comic book, historical elements - The Dreamer
As always, our amazing Intro/Outro music is “We Are Highscore” by Krackatoa
It is officially Star Wars day and we are celebrating with a tribute
to The Force Awakens in particular and Star Wars in general.
Warning:
this podcast contains spoilers for The Force Awakens (Episode 7 of Star
Wars). If you have not seen it yet, what are you waiting for?
Join our lighthearted discussion of all things Star Wars including:
- What color would your lightsaber be?
- Favorite moments
- Favorite characters
- Special effects
- The Nostalgia factor
- Fan theories
- Looking forward to Rogue One?
- Strong Female Characters/Mary Sue/The Hero’s Journey
We start out with a brand new game called “Fictional Five” that makes us feel weird about crushes on animated foxes. Remember, no such thing as a guilty pleasure!
Our main segment is about Superhero fatigue, in which we discuss both comic book movie/tv universes, but mostly Marvel! Superheroes - passe or here to stay? Superheroes have made the jump from comic book pages to screens big and small. Is the culture saturated? Who are our favorites? Who are we tired of? Also: if we had superpowers, what would they be?
Plus, tangents!
Spoiler: Meg and Jen are not particularly “Superhero Fatigued”.
As always, our delightful intro/outro music is “We are Highscore” by Krackatoa
For more details, find us on twitter @indoorswomen and read about the #indoorswomencivilwar
Jen: Team Cap
Meg: Team Iron Man
Some geeky news, some silliness, and our creative process. We both write for fun and profit, and have picked up some tips and tricks along the way. Are you mildly curious about writing? Are you an established writer looking for tips to improve your craft?
Our conversation is full of advice from professionals and friends, and peppered with our usual geeky references.
As usual, our head-nodding intro/outro music is “We are Highscore” by Krackatoa.
I deliberately avoided the trailer and everything else for The Force Awakens, because after the shitshow that was the prequels, I was *done* with Star Wars.
But then all of my friends except one loved TFA, so Anne and I went to see it. And it made me fall in love with Star Wars again.
This teaser trailer for Rogue One made me so excited for this movie. I haven’t been this excited to see a new Star Wars movie since I waited in line for 12 hours to see Phantom Menace.
*Note: we apologize for a few small audio issues - Jen was having microphone/audio troubles, but it is totally listenable (better quality than our old google hangout casts!)*
Today we talk conventions (San Diego Comic Con, Denver Comic Con, Fanime, Silicon Valley Comic Con), geek news (Simon Pegg in the Ready Player One movie?).
We also talk a little bit about attending Felicia Day’s book signing! Embrace your weird!
The main event for this podcast is our love of Hayao Miyazaki movies. We discuss our favorites: Princess Mononoke and Laputa: Castle in the Sky, particularly their themes and the contrasts between them (and why we recommend them wholeheartedly!).
As usual, our awesome intro/outro music is “We are Highscore” by Krackatoa!
Completely unintentionally, we ended up putting together a podcast almost entirely about adult topics. After a rousing game of Marry/Sex/Kill wherein we challenged one another to marry, have sex with, or kill famous and/or fictional men, we move on to our “graphic novels: definitely not just for kids!” section.
Topics include:
Which Star Trek captain would you kill? Marry? Have sex with?
Which failed superhero would you choose?
Bonus: we revisit Meg’s crushes through the ages! (It’s totally embarrassing!)
Also, we talk about some of our favorite graphic novels: Saga and Sex Criminals! These aren’t your kids’ comics, my friend!
As usual, our intro/outro music is “We Are Highscore” by Krackatoa.
In this episode, we discuss our favorite screenwriters (and usually directors) including Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman and the Brothers Coen (Joel & Ethan).
We explore themes and favorite movies as well as the latest in geek news and updates on our geek goals!
As usual, our wonderful intro/outro music is “We are Highscore” by Krackatoa
Today Meg and Jen discuss their favorite tabletop games and unique ways to experience them. No matter what your interest - portable mini games, cooperative gaming, family style games, dice, board, whatever, we have you covered with a primer of our favorites.
As usual, our wonderful intro/outro music is “We Are Highscore” by Krackatoa
In this episode, we reminisce about our favorite games of all time, new and old, and unique ways to enjoy them!
As usual, our amazing intro/outro music is “We are Highscore” by Krackatoa
Enjoy our favorite Christmas pop culture! From different
interpretations of Dickens to classic Christmas specials to Iron Man 3
to Die Hard, we love it all. Plus, we gush about how much we loved Star
Wars. (Still no Star Wars spoilers so no worries)
Two
gaffes (both made by Jen): Return of the Jedi came out in May not March
(still 7 days before her birth), and Andrew Lincoln and “the guy from
Walking Dead” are, in fact, the same guy.
As always, our wonderful Intro/Outro music is “We Are Highscore” by Krackatoa.
Happy Holidays!
<3 Meg & Jen
Today’s podcast has nothing to do with Star Wars. Look for your spoilers elsewhere.
It is about pop culture we enjoyed as kids and “kid stuff” we enjoy as adults. They include My Little Pony, Ducktales, Harry Potter, and our favorite Disney flicks.
As usual, our amazing intro/outro theme is “We are Highscore” by Krackatoa.
Find us on twitter @indoorswomen
Editor’s note from Jen: Sorry for the phantom clicking. I got a new microphone and it picks up weird noises that my chair makes.
In which there is singing. A little bit. Not too much. You’ve been warned.
In this episode we explore modernized adaptations of great literature - both Shakespeare and Jane Austen - and alternative forms of communication and narrative. It’s way goofier than it sounds. Also, we paraphrase our segment title “Great Adaptations” from Dickens and then never mention him. Sorry, Dickens!
As usual, our lovely intro/outro music is “We Are Highscore” by Krackatoa.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! In this episode, Jen and Meg discuss our favorite episodes of Thanksgiving television and other pop culture traditions!
These favorites include episodes of the following:
Friends
Gilmore Girls
Gossip Girl
MST3K
Bonus: We get a little loopy at the end and fail at doing New Zealand accents.
As always, our amazing Intro/Outro music is “We are Highscore” by Krackatoa
Welcome to our third episode! We hope you are enjoying this as much as we are (or even a fraction of that amount is pretty good!)!
This week, the geeky ladies of Indoorswomen discuss television!
Our segments are “TV to fold laundry to” - our favorite police procedurals, reality game shows, and other rewatchables - and “New Fall TV” - we try out Scream Queens, Minority Report, Limitless, The Muppets, and Con Man and give you the scoop on what we liked (and … didn’t).
Thanks for listening!
Intro/Outro music: “We are Highscore” by Krackatoa
In which we get better at podcasting.
We are back in our second official episode: Why not Sting?
Meg & Jen chat about their high school nerdery, 2015 movies they are looking forward to, makeups for movies they missed in their past pop culture education, and books about books (so meta). Also, Tom Hiddleston’s butt. Because reasons.
Our intro/outro music is “We are Highscore” by Krackatoa
Thanks for listening!
Hi everyone! Welcome to our fanfiction short! You can listen here, download the episode, or listen on itunes or your favorite streaming service.
We originally recorded this as a segment on “books about books/writing” and it turned into a discussion of fanfiction and Rainbow Rowell’s work. Since her latest book “Carry On” came out this week, we figured it was an appropriate time to release! We hope you enjoy and thanks for listening
Welcome to our pilot podcast! If any of these things appeal to you, this might be the podcast for you:
Lee Pace’s eyebrow game
Glen Wheldon as your pop culture guru
British TV and bad Scottish accent impressions
Tech TV and our terrifying future
Crushes on serial killers
Shipping and the fanfiction it inspires
Detective shows of all makes and models
Escape room adventures
Online coding education
Unfortunately named salons
