Season 2, Episode 02: Religion & Monster Fuckers

In this episode, we discuss topics ranging from Religion and Vampires to Transformers and Star Trek.

Hosted By:
Justin (xe/xem) - https://www.justingrays.org/
Nat MN (they/them)
Sarah (she/her)

Content Warning - Mentions of:

• Dysmorphia

• Religion

• Sex

• Vampires

• Werecreatures

Books/Comics/Series Referenced:

• Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series (by Laurell K. Hamilton)

• Starfleet: Year One (by Michael Jan Friedman)

• SPY x FAMILY (by Tatsuya Endo)

• Questionable Content (by Jeph Jacques)

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Shavuot 101 - My Jewish Learning
Ekphrastic Writing - Ekphrastic poetry has come to be defined as poems written about works of art (Wiki).
Why Christian Seder Meals are appropriative:

• Christian, Messianic Groups Appropriate Passover Seders - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

• "Christian Passover seders" are appropriative, antisemitic, and wrong - r/DebateAChristian

• A reminder that Christian seders are appropriationisitc, problematic, and also not historically accurate. - Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

After doing some looking, Justin thinks the last book that xe read was Danse Macabre (book 14).

The end scene from Transformers (2007) had Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox making out on top of Bumblebee while Ratchet and Ironhide watch and Optimus Prime monologues.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine remains the best Trek in all of Trekdom. The episode that we are talking about is “The Visitor” (DS9 4x03). It’s sometimes referred to as the second episode of the season because the season premiere (“The Way of the Warrior”) was a double-length episode. “The Visitor” is hands-down one of the best episodes of Star Trek.

Justin hasn’t seen Love & Basketball; xe had just finished watching Love and Basketball... and the Black Gender Wars by F.D Signifier and the reference was still in xyr head.

Bingewatching Is Kinda Bad For TV - Sarah Z

Daedalus-class starships are the ships with the spherical primary hull. The episode of Lower Decks that we do see them in is “An Embarrassment Of Dooplers” (LD 2x05) - they are docked at Starbase 25. The Daedalus-class model was based on early Enterprise designs by Matt Jefferies.

A spaceship has the capability to travel through space, while a starship has the ability to travel between star systems. That’s a little more straightforward than What Differentiates Ships From Boats.
For more on atomic submarines under Arctic ice, watch the Smarter Every Day series “Nuclear Submarine Deep Dive”.

Yor Forger (née Briar) is from SPY x FAMILY:

Justin’s phone didn’t even show Maryland when xe looked at Google Earth.

COVER ART BY MICHELLE CHMURA | THEME MUSIC BY CALEB KELSON | EDITED BY RACHEL HANSON

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