It’s Our First Podcastiversary!!

 Hi everyone! Thanks for listening! In honor of our first anniversary, below are links to each episode of our show plus some easy subscription links. See our early attempts! The topics are always super fun and mega-geeky, and we try to keep them as evergreen as possible, so you can start listening at any time.

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Pilot Episode - Women Who Stare at Tropes - Featuring Lee Pace’s eyebrows

Fanfiction Short - Fanfic!

Episode 2 - Why not Sting? - Featuring Dune and Tom Hiddleston’s butt

Episode 3 - Tom Sawyer-Mison & Cradley Booper - Featuring last Fall’s TV and TV to fold laundry to 

Thanksgiving Special - Featuring Thanksgiving TV Classics

Episode 4 - Great Adaptations - Featuring modern adaptations of Shakespeare and Austen

Episode 5 - Kids Stuff, not Just for Kids - Featuring awesome kids culture we loved as kids and today!

Christmas Spectacular! (Donald Duck is Not Your Friend) - Featuring our favorite Christmas culture (and also Star Wars because why not?)

Episode 6 - Just Kidding, Felicia! (Video Games) - Featuring our favorite video games and why we love them

Episode 7 - On Beyond Monopoly! (Tabletop games) - Featuring our favorite table top games and recommendations for different people/situations

Episode 8 - Being Wes Anderson - Featuring our favorite writer/directors and their amazing movies

Episode 9 - Sorry Dad! (A Very Sexy Podcast) - Featuring Marry/Sex/Kill and adult graphic novels

Episode 10 - Forest Spirits and Sky Pirates (aka Miyazaki movies!) - Featuring nerd conventions and amazing Miyazaki fare!

Episode 11 - Call Yourself a Writer: Because, why not? - On writing and tips from the greats!

Episode 12 - Superhero fatigue? - In which we are not particularly superhero fatigued

Episode 13 - Never Star Peace, Always Star Wars! - ALL THINGS STAR WARS!!!!!!!

Episode 14 - Smut Shaming: For Love of Fanfic and Romance Novels - Don’t be embarrassed, we aren’t!

Episode 15 - The Law of Diminishing Bennet Returns - BOYS! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! THERE ARE MEN ON THE PODCAST! 

Episode 16 - I Can Show You the Wooooooorld! - THEY ARE STILL HERE! THE BOYS WON’T LEAVE (and our very first BLOOPERS!)

Episode 17 - You are the Sidekick Now! - Our favorite sidekicks including ones you can’t understand and those who deserve a better label (HERMIONE!)

Episode 18 - San Diego Comic Con Rundown - Our comic con recap - it’s almost nothing like being there, but you can get a taste of what it’s like!

Episode 19 - Remember When? Our Take on Nostalgia Culture - Featuring reboots, remakes, and callbacks

Episode 20 - Pandas are Dumb (aka Sorting in Fiction) - Featuring sorting and stupid, stupid pandas

Episode 21 - Your Show’s so Dated, Paris Hilton has a Cameo - We assign each other pop culture homework and report back! Plus: Fall TV!

Episode 22 - Welcome to the World of Tomorrow! - Retrofuturism: robots, flying cars, space travel, and cold war paranoia!

Thanks for listening!

Indoorswomen - Episode 22 - Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!

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Hi everyone! Today we have some new excitingness for you! We introduce a segment called “Strength of Character” where we discuss our favorite characters from any medium or genre and explain why we love them. Our definition of “strength” is not “most kickass” nor even “most likeable”. Instead, we want to identify those characters that keep us coming back to the same shows, films, and books over and over and what makes them so intriguing.  First nominees: Capt. John Yossarian and Lorelai Gilmore. How’s that for variety?

Next up, we discuss retrofuturism! Flying cars, floating homes, robot butlers, and nuclear powered everything. Why were these tropes so popular? What are our favorite pop culture representations? We wrestle with the complicated concepts of viewing the future from the past, viewing the past from the future, and viewing both simultaneously from the present. We also discover we both experience nostalgia for a future that never came to pass with our discussion of Tomorrowland. Plus, discussions of classic and modern science fiction and visits to the World’s Fair and colonies on Mars.

Last, we have our random recommendations, wherein Meg chats about her long-term love of Project Runway and Jen discusses her newly minted passion for Bob’s Burgers.

As always, our intro/outro music is “We are Highscore” by Krackatoa.

Thanks for listening!

Audio note: Jen is going to try and find a less clicky mouse!

Indoorswomen - Episode 21 - Your Show’s so Dated, Paris Hilton has a Cameo

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Today we report on our pop culture homework! How did Meg respond to Veronica Mars? What did Jen think of Dark Matter? Then, we move on to Fall television of the current year: The Good Place, The Exorcist, Frequency, and Riverdale: what are our predictions? What will we be watching this year?

And, as always, our lovely intro/outro music is “We are Highscore” by Krackatoa.

Thanks for listening!

Pandas are Dumb (aka Sorting in Fiction)

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Today we explore sorting and choosing factions in pop culture. When does it work? When is it problematic? Primarily, we talk about the sorting processes in Harry Potter and the Divergent series. Note: if you have not read the 3rd Divergent book, Allegiant, there are some spoilers, but we warn you ahead of time.

After that, we assign each other pop culture homework! Meg and Jen each choose a TV show for the other to watch for the first time. Watch along with us, if you like! We will be discussing these in the next episode.

As always, our intro/outro music is “We are Highscore” by Krackatoa.

Thanks for listening!

Remember When? Our Take on Nostalgia Culture

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Today we are talking about nostalgia. Reboots, remakes, and callbacks to other eras dominate our movies and prestige television. We are here to talk about the phenomenon, our favorites, and what makes us feel nostalgic.

As usual, our intro/outro music is “We are Highscore” by Krackatoa

Indoorswomen - Episode 18 - San Diego Comic Con Rundown

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We are back from Comic Con and other adventures, here to give our thoughts on our favorite SDCC moments, panels, moderators, exclusive content, and swag! Additionally, Meg highlights her European adventures and Jen gushes about the new greatest thing ever, the netflix original series “Stranger Things”.

As always, our wonderful intro/outro music is “We are Highscore” by Krackatoa.

Episode 17 - You are the Sidekick Now

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Hello, we are back with original content! In this episode, Meg and Jen discuss tropes in a new game we like to call “TV tropes roulette”! For our main module, we talk about our favorite pop culture sidekicks, from Samwise Gamgee to John Watson to Harry Potter’s pals Hermione and Ron, plus a quick shout-out to Star Wars sidekicks the audience can’t understand (Chewie, R2D2, BB8, etc). We wrap everything up with a discussion of the Pokemon Go phenomenon!

Next week we head off to San Diego Comic Con and hope to be dropping you a line from the convention! Until then, thanks for listening

As usual, our excellent intro/outro music is “We Are Highscore” by Krackatoa.

Rerun: Episode 4 - Great Adaptations (apologies to Dickens)

Enjoy our encore of Episode 4:

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!

There is also a little bit of singing. Very little. Don’t worry about it.

As usual, our lovely intro/outro music is “We Are Highscore” by Krackatoa.

Indoorswomen will be back with all-new episodes in July, so stay tuned!

Episode 16 - I Can Show You the Wooooooorld!

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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!

Episode 15 - The Law of Diminishing Bennet Returns

The one with boys on it.

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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!

Indoorswomen Episode 14 - Smut Shaming: For Love of Fanfic and Romance Novels

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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

Indoorswomen Episode 13 - Never Star Peace, Always Star Wars!

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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

Indoorswomen Episode 12 - Superhero fatigue?

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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

Indoorswomen Episode 11 - Call Yourself a Writer: Because, why not?

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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.

wilwheaton:

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.

Episode 10 - Forest Spirits and Sky Pirates (aka Miyazaki movies!)

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*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!

Episode 9 - Sorry Dad! (A Very Sexy Podcast)

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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.

Episode 8 - Being Wes Anderson - Our favorite writers/directors

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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

On Beyond Monopoly! Our Tabletop Games Episode

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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

Episode 6 - Just Kidding, Felicia! (aka Video Games)

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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