I bet you thought this podcast was dead. I bet the celebs thought they were safe from our scathing critiques. WRONG! To close out the year, we resurface like the dragons in "Reign of Fire" with guest Stephanie Yue Duhem to discuss: sweaty psychics, online lit journals, end rhymes, mulled wine, and the viral poem "For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper" by Joseph Fasano. Then we dissect the wisdom poetry of Matthew McConaughey's hybrid-memoir "Greenlights."

Songs:

"NFFC Theme"

"Stay Away (demo)" - Plum Wooer

"buchla jam 2"

"My Song 2" - EVIL MTN

Follow Stephanie: https://x.com/moonandmouth

Buy August's book: https://apocalypse-confidential.myshopify.com/products/visitors-from-the-red-star-by-august-smith

Eleanor's Substack: https://substack.com/@fanghoneyy

Marcus's band: https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/

Our first guest episode! We welcome dear friend and poet-colleague Bob Sykora to the podcast, where we talk about his upcoming book, Ivanka Trump's quatrain, grade school poems, the relevance of journals, and 90s folk-pop artist Jewel's book of poetry, "A Night Without Armor," published in 1998 by It Books. Jewel discussion starts at ~33:00 and boy did we have lots to say.

Songs:

"NFFC Theme"

"Ste. Helene (demo)" - Still Submarine

"Sun Goes Down (benjamin remix)" - Plum Wooer

"Intuition" - Jewel

"WITFIN" - EVIL MTN

"Rainbow Signs" - mewithoutYou

Preorder Bob's book: https://www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/utopians-in-love

Eleanor's latest: https://issuu.com/bryantuniversity/docs/blr2024-layout-final/44

August's new songs: https://plumwooer.bandcamp.com/album/sun-goes-down-ithryn-luin

Marcus's band insta: https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/

It's normie time. We talk about: ranking art forms (truncated convo), "coworker music," 2 viral poems about Gaza ("The Jesus Fridge" and "There's Laundry to Do and a Genocide to Stop"), and "Wild Hope" by bestselling/viral Scottish poet Donna Ashworth.

Songs:

"NFFC Theme"

"Maples Ablaze (demo)" - Plum Wooer

"The crudest thing Scarlett's ever said" - Hans Geiger

"Window" - Donna M Ashworth

August's poem: https://metatron.press/digipub/shopping-complex/

Eleanor's newsletter: https://fanghoneyy.substack.com/

Marcus's band: https://stillsubmarine.bandcamp.com/