Content warning: There's two pejorative terms/slurs for a promiscuous person (and a sex worker) mentioned in the episode.
This episode tried its hardest to foil us: between meowing cats, barking dogs, ambient rain, and Amanda's recording mysteriously stopping at four minutes and forcing her to rely on a shoddy recording of the Skype call, it's a miracle we made it to the end.
Our $10 Patron, Silas, prompted us to talk about media that has fed our creativity, and boy howdy did we have a lot to discuss. Somewhere along the way, we end up talking about why you shouldn't share a microphone, ever, various reactions to Alien: Covenant, and the pronunciation of "gaol."
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Episode notes (basically what we mentioned, the good, the bad, and the off topic alike):
Austin's list:
Jurassic Park by Michael Chriton (as well as The Lost World)
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Diana Wynne Jones
Ray Bradbury
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Jane Austin
Isaac Asimov
Oscar Wilde
The Captive Prince trilogy by CS Pacat
The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by KJ Charles
Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
Overwatch (game)
Road Not Taken (game)
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
Amanda's list:
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell (Amanda recs her audiobooks in particular)
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Raymond Chandler
The Simple Art of Murder - Raymond Chandler
The West Wing
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Art of Screenwriting by Robert McKee (not actually mentioned, but she meant to)
Repetition ("callback") in standup comedy
Jackdaw by KJ Charles
Ancillary Justice by by Anne Leckie
The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Alien: Covenant (this is not necessarily an endorsement)
Eyewitness (please heed the warnings Amanda mentioned, which include murder, statutory rape, rape, drugs, violence, internalized homophobia, trauma, and probably more Amanda can't remember)
The Black Rose by Christina Skye
Amanda Quick
Sandra Brown
Julie Garwood
Danielle Steel
Carnivale
Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
(The Raymond Chandler quote Amanda attempted to reproduce was: "Yet some very dull books have been written about God, and some very fine ones about how to make a living and stay fairly honest. It is always a matter of who writes the stuff, and what he has in him to write it with.")