Matt told me and Steph that we HAD to watch Please Like Me, and thankfully he did. This show is important and it made us think about a lot of things. We of course then decided we needed to podcast about it. Warning, this episode has swears, and talks about adult themes, mental health issues, suicide, and other things that are not safe for small ears. This is the first episode of Nutty Bites ever that is marked as explicit. It also goes over 2 hours, so it’s pretty long.
Tropes can be helpful or hurtful. Nutty, Tek, Encaf1, Jason, Jen, and Melissa discuss when to stick by the tropes and when to abandon them and start new. There is a knee jerk desire to say always start with something new, but sometimes you need to respect your fans. We get off topic more than once, and this is a crossover episode with Talk Nerdy 2 Me, so things get fun. I ended up cutting a lot out of this episode and if people want the bloopers maybe I can release them but you have to ask for it.
Intimate Friendships are often overlooked in both society and fiction. Nutty, Tek, Jason, and Melissa got together to discuss some of their favorite examples.
These friendships are essential and necessary and can sometimes be more important than romantic pairings. Close friendships of this level can be the cure for loneliness. I remember a speech given by Mister Rogers about how intimacy and learning to express one’s feelings, to feel your feelings, is important for all of our mental health. Too many good fiction can be ruined by skipping intimacy and diving straight into romance or sex.
A few disclaimers, the day after we recorded this, one of the writers behind Bert and Ernie came out as saying that he modeled their friendship off of his with his husband. A few days after that Sesame Street again made a statement saying the characters aren’t a couple but just kids and best friends. I don’t think that this statement derails from our discussion in this episode, more proves the intimacy between the two characters.
Disclaimer two, we recorded this two weeks ago but life has been so crazy I just couldn’t do the simplest editing a processing to get it posted. I’m sorry, but this still counts as a September episode and there will still be two episodes for October. It is sad it took me so long to get to it because it needed almost no editing, just needed the bumpers and promos added.
You can now support Nutty Bites by donating to the Patreon campaign, through paypal or venmo () or through any other method. Patrons get the private RSS feed where you get shows before the main feed and you get special episodes like Nutty Bites after Dark and special bonus content; a thank you read on the podcast; and your promo or the promo of your choice played on the show.
Cartoons then vs Now is when Nutty, Tek, Jen, Jason, & brand new podcaster Cee Jaye get into the nitty gritty of cartoons. We talked about older cartoons, 80/90s cartoons, and what we can watch today. What worked, what didn’t work, and what we’d like to see more of. Also, we delved into the remake of older cartoons and where they succeeded, shows such as MLP & Voltron.
You can now support Nutty Bites by donating to the Patreon campaign, through paypal or venmo () or through any other method. Patrons get the private RSS feed where you get shows before the main feed and you get special episodes like Nutty Bites after Dark and special bonus content; a thank you read on the podcast; and your promo or the promo of your choice played on the show.
Promo: Chris Moody’s Merlin & The Pendragons (I hear the is a character named after me in this one.
Welcome to Dog Days Of Podcasting 2018, MPAT studios presents Mad Movie Mayhem! For this years dog days the boys in the booth over at MPAT studios are playing Mad Movie Mayhem. To be a participant in this game all you, the listener, need do is post on the Master Piece Audio Theatre’s face book page, on the Dog Days of Podcasting Peeps group on facebook, or in a private message to Jay Langejans, to get the most points, be the first to comment naming that movie.
Leader Board:
The Bathtub Mermaid- 257 Points The Winner!!!
Steve Pritchard- 238 Points
Joe Fiore- 229 Points
Nutty Nuchtchas- 199 Points
Mark The Encaffinated one- 188 Points
Mike Wills- 87 Points
Jason G. Banks- 68 Points
Ken Kennedy- 62 Points
Sonja Kolstad- 42 points
Kelly Van Vugt- 17 points
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