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Hey! Before you listen to this episode, if you haven't seen Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa, you can watch alongside us. We've got a commentary track available to everyone over on our Patreon. The movie is, blessedly, free to watch on Youtube. Our dear friend and cover artist Jalla (@nyalliest) joins us for our final episode of 2021 to talk about a treasured piece of once lost media, Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa. It's probably our most chaotic episode ever.

This week we're joined by London, who's sharing stories from their upbringing, as well as breaking down how modern Native Horror can fumble or succeed in its explorations of indigenous heritage, folklore, and storytelling. We discuss Bone Tomahawk, Anoka, The Only Good Indians, and more!

This week, Cas and Teese are kicking back with a fun game. Teese is subjected to a gauntlet of guessing what wild names are actual FFXIV quest names. Let us know your score and maybe Cas will buy you a chocolate treat and take you to see the sail ships.

We brought back Nica to talk about their love of MKs (that's mechanical keyboards (and also membrane keyboards, but we mean mechanical here (yes, it's confusing. we know. we're sorry.)))! If you've got someone in your life diving into the hobby, Nica is here to share a wealth of knowledge to get you started in understanding all the intricate little info about these clickity clackity boys.

Pyramid Head has long been an icon of the horror genre, especially for video games, but his appearance has shifted to something more and more sexual over time. This week, Cas uses Pyramid Head as an introductory case study to talk about our sexual desire for monsters, why we're fascinated with them, and why we keep making them more and more romantic. It's an episode all about Monster F*****g (TM).

In a sweep of autumnal spookiness, Cas brings Teese through a brief history of The Slender Man, the internet's favorite bogeyman.

This episode's got a tasty dash of half & half - This first end is a coffeehouse chitchat styled episode, where Cas and Teese discuss both Lamb (2021) and The Last Duel (2021) and in the latter half, Teese and Cas dive into the origins of Hanahaki and Alexandria's Genesis, two enduring fictional illnesses. Why do writers invent disease and what can they communicate in the narrative?

If you caught our one note preview from last episode, you'll know this week we're talking about Toby Fox's Megalovania. Most of us know the song from indie-hit Undertale, but the song started long before. Teese is here to take us through the evolution of the song, from ROM hack origins to symphonic presentation.

In the past weeks, there's been an unprecedented hemorrhaging of World of Warcraft players, and an equally unprecedented surge of FFXIV players. Cas is telling Teese all about the potential causes for this, the way it's affected the Final Fantasy online community, and they even talk about how to be a good newbie player. You know, a sprout!

In this bonus episode made possible by our patrons, Teese examines all the little places in Neopets where religion has made it through and permeated the lore of the site. Cas talks about the importance of worldbuilding. They both have too much fun saying BONUS!

After watching Monster Hunter (2020), Cas and Teese are sitting down to talk about Hollywood's relationship with the United States Department of Defense, and how the military uses media in its soft wars and enlistment strategies.

We're back from Summer Vacation! Now with chilly cold opens. This week, we're talking about the calamity that was the ending of the Mass Effect trilogy, and figuring out what such a seemingly small moment in history has meant for us as viewers and enjoyers of all kinds of media since then. It's a frustrating, complicated topic, but hey! You can kiss the aliens!