Squid Game is back, and so is Player 456. In the gripping Season 2 premiere, Player 456 returns with a vengeance, leading a covert manhunt for the Recruiter. Hosts Phil Yu and Kiera Please dive into Gi-hun’s transformation from victim to vigilante, the Recruiter’s twisted philosophy on fairness, and the dark experiments that continue to haunt the Squid Game. Plus, we touch on the new characters, the enduring trauma of old ones, and Phil and Kiera go head-to-head in a game of Ddakjji. Finally, our resident mortician, Lauren Bowser is back to drop more truth bombs on all things death. SPOILER ALERT! Make sure you watch Squid Game Season 2 Episode 1 before listening on. Let the new games begin! IG - @SquidGameNetflix X (f.k.a. Twitter) - @SquidGame Check out more from Phil Yu @angryasianman , Kiera Please @kieraplease and Lauren Bowser @thebitchinmortician on IG Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts . Squid Game: The Official Podcast is produced by Netflix and The Mash-Up Americans.…
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Year in Reading: 2024
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Joel and Bill go through most of the books they read in 2024!Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Twenty-Five: The Chronicles of Amber: The Corwin Cycle (October 2024)
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Bill and Joel take a bunch of LSD and go to the Ren Faire. Or they read the first cycle in Roger Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber. Same difference, really.Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Guest Read Episode Four - Cahokia Jazz (July 2024)
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Bill and Joel are joined once again by the great Phil Christman for a guest podcast, this one about Cahokia Jazz, the alternate-history noir written by the incomparable Francis Spufford!Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Twenty-Four: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (April 2024)
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Joel and Bill wade through Laurence Sterne's wild and digressive masterpiece, and do their best not to get distracted throughout.Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Year in Reading: 2023
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Joel and Bill discuss the books they read in 2023 and some plans for 2024!Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Twenty-Three: Religio Medici & Urne-Buriall (November 2023)
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Bill and Joel read a small but dense text: two essays by 17th-century doctor, philosopher, writer, and weirdo Sir Thomas Browne!Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Twenty-Two - A Fire Upon the Deep (August 2023)
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Joel and Bill read Vernor Vinge's 1992 Hugo-award winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep. It's the best book about group-mind dog packs either of them have ever read.Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Twenty-One - Life After Life (May 2023)
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Joel and Bill return from their hiatus with a discussion of Kate Atkinson's novel Life After Life, which basically Groundhog Day but over the space of an entire life and in the first half of the 20th century.Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Year in Reading: 2022
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Bill and Joel go through some of the books they read in 2022!Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Twenty - The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (December 2022)
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Bill and Joel read The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, which covers his early life and his career in the Civil War, with extensive and excellent annotations by Elizabeth D. Samet, Bill only deploys a *few* Sherman memes.Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Nineteen - The Long Ships (October 2022)
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Joel and Bill read Frans G. Bengtsson's "The Long Ships," an excellent romp throughout 10th and 11th-century Scandinavia, Britain, and Spain. Join us as we go a-Viking, friends!Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Guest Read Episode Three - The This (August 2022)
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Bill and Joel are joined by one of the best essayists in America, Phil Christman, to talk about Adam Roberts's barnstorming novel The This, which is about hive minds, social media, Coleridge and, most importantly, GWF Hegel.Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Eighteen - The Wizard Knight (June 2022)
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Bill and Joel read Gene Wolfe's The Wizard Knight, a sublime tale of a young man in an adult's body who has a series of adventures throughout a seven-tiered world of knights, dragons, and wizards.Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Seventeen - Always Coming Home (April 2022)
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Is it a novel? Is it an anthropology textbook? Is it, possibly, both? Joel and Bill read Ursula K. Le Guin's 1985 text Always Coming Home, about a possible future people living in what is now the Napa Valley.Also here's the bandcamp: https://ursulakleguintoddbarton.bandcamp.com/album/music-and-poetry-of-the-kesh…
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Year in Reading: 2021
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Bill and Joel read a lot of books in 2021! Bill, specifically, read 104 of them, a fact he's certainly not going to be repeating ad nauseum throughout this podcast!Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Sixteen - Kristin Lavransdatter (December 2021)
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Joel and Bill read Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter, a three-volume novel about life in 14th century Norway. It's a profound tale of love, lust, stabbings, and, at one point, licking a child's eyes.Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Fifteen - Working (November 2021)
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Bill and Joel read Studs Terkel's oral history "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do" which is about just that. Also a few tangents about other things.Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Guest Read Episode Two - The Thing Itself (July 2021)
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Joel, Bill, and special guest star Martyn Wendell Jones dig through Adam Roberts's The Thing Itself: a nearly indescribable novel about Immanuel Kant, AI, time travel, James Joyce, literary experimentation, and many more things.Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Fourteen - Doomsday Book (June 2021)
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Bill, Joel, and Special Guest Christy go through Connie Willis's masterful and award-winning novel Doomsday Book!Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Thirteen - Americanah (March 2021)
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Joel and Bill read Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie!Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Year in Reading: 2020
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Joel and Bill read a bunch of books in 2020! They talk about what it's like to be reading in a pandemic, and how the many events of 2020 shaped their reading this year. Also, how good is Susanna Clarke's Piranesi, you guys? So good.Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Twelve - Freedom (December 2020)
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Bill and Joel read Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, and lay to rest forever the question of whether or not Franzen is a good novelist! What's their answer? Well, you'll just have to listen to find out!Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Eleven - A Secular Age (October 2020)
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Joel and Bill dig through Charles Taylor's monumental tome "A Secular Age," an exhaustive survey of the differences between our age's relationship with religion in the 2000s and that of societies in the 1500s. It's a dynamite book, but it's about, well, *everything.*Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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Episode Ten - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (July 2020)
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Joel and Bill read Michael Chabon's Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay! But first, given that it would have felt disingenuous not to, we talk a little bit about our Current Political Situation and both our hopes and fears about our growing reckoning with our system of policing, so the first 15 minutes or so of …
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Small Read Episode Four - Midwest Futures (May 2020)
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Bill and Joel read Phil Christman's new book Midwest Futures, which is about the history, self-conception, and future of the American Midwest, all in about 130 pages!Door Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
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