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The Home Town Curse (feat. Brian Alford)
Josiah is joined by Brian Alford (@SpocksBrian) from The Worst of All Possible Worlds to discuss HGTV's Home Town, the Napier family, and Laurel, Mississippi, alongsid...
[Preview] Leanin' in Rapid (feat. Evan Sand)
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Indian Country in Present Tense (feat. Amelia Schafer)
Amelia Schafer (Indian Country Today, Rapid City Journal) joins Josiah to discuss her reporting on indigenous affairs in South Dakota, and the issues facing Indian Cou...
[Preview] Content With Alien
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Israel-Palestine (feat. Keanu Heydari)
Keanu Heydari joins Josiah to discuss the history of Palestine, Zionism, and the state of Israel in light of the war in Gaza. As always, he is incredibly insightful.Fo...
[Preview] Iowa Democrats vs. Palestinian Solidarity (feat. Justin Comer & Gavin Aronsen)
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[Video Essay] A Brief History of Zombie Films
This is the audio for the first ever Fruitless video essay on YouTube. If you choose to listen here, you will only get half the experience. For the full experience, ch...
[Preview] The Fruitless Halloween Special
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Slit-Mouthed Worms from the Lost Decade
CW: some discussion of suicide and abortionJackal joins Josiah to discuss J-Horror. Specifically Noroi: The Curse (2005) and Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01 - Op...
[Preview] The Last Exorcism
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Late Victorian Holocausts (Bookclub #2)
This is the second installment of the Fruitless Bookclub (Chris didn't like it being called the Barker Bookclub), a show-within-a-show where we read all those nonficti...
WNUF Halloween Special (feat. Spike Stonehand)
Spike Stonehand (aka Stephen) joins Josiah to talk about WNUF Halloween Special (2013) and what makes a found footage movie good. They also compare and contrast found ...
[Preview] Homeschooled Evangelical (feat. Leo Dickenson)
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[VLVC Repost] Making Up a Guy (feat. Leo Dickenson)
Hello! This is a reposted episode from a previous podcast I used to do called Very Legal, Very Cool. I'm reposting this episode as a way of introducing Leo Dickenson t...
[Preview] Hardcore Evangelical (feat. Josh Christianson)
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Climate Apocalypticism and Evangelicalism (feat. Tad Delay)
Josiah and Josh Christianson are joined by philosopher and psychoanalyst, Tad Delay, to discuss his book Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want? and his upcomin...
"Secular Media" and American Loneliness (feat. Josh Boerman)
Josiah is joined by Josh Boerman (@boshj) from The Worst of All Possible Worlds to discuss growing up Reformed and evangelical, discovering "secular media," the genera...
The Basque History of the World (Bookclub #1)
Today's episode is the first installation of the Barker Bookclub (Maybe. Name pending.), a show-within-a-show where Chris Barker and Josiah read nonfiction books they'...