We're back! After seeing Superman a few times in theaters, Gail and Nate have a bunch of thoughts.

Here are some timestamps to help you through the episode if you don't want to listen straight through.

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:41:57 - Our feelings on the new Superman movie
• 00:45:10 - Spoilers start here
• 01:18:02 - Deconstruction themes in Superman

Oh, and here's that picture of Nate that Gail wants you all to see.

Merry Christmas, Exvies!

Do you ever feel out of place at your deeply religious family's holiday celebrations? We know the feeling. For this special holiday edition of the podcast, we're joined by our friends Jessica Goforth and Zach Malm to talk about how Christmas has evolved over the course of our shifts away from Christianity and share some of our coping strategies when the religious traditions take over the festivities.

• Jessica's Naughty Holiday Playlist (Spotify)
• Jessica's Naughty Holiday Playlist (Apple)
• Zach's Original Music
• Zach's Holiday Playlist

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The biggest Broadway musical adaptation has hit the big screen, and for some reason Evangelicals have some thoughts on it. Our dear friend Jessica Goforth from the Leaving the Village podcast sat down with us to chat about the new movie, Wicked: Part 1.

We spend a chunk of the episode talking about musical theatre in general, along with some other Wicked-adjacent topics, so if you want to jump straight into our conversation about Wicked itself, skip straight to 37:40.

Nate recently wrote an essay with even more thoughts on some of the political themes in Wicked as well as how some of the characters resonate with the Exvangelical experience. You can give it a read here: natenakao.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/wicked-through-and-through

Also, as mentioned in the episode, here are a few little performances Jessica and Nate did of a couple songs from Wicked:

• Jessica singing "Popular" on Smule: facebook.com/jess.j.goforth/videos/553732644075224
• Nate singing "As Long as You're Mine" recorded with YouTuber Maisie Waller: youtu.be/QPnrF6KI3n0
• Nate performing "As Long as You're Mine" live at a cabaret night in Montclair, NJ, with Allison Gormley: youtu.be/F_PLkHMGDCo

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YouTube chapters:

- 00:00:00 - Intro

- 00:04:47 - Musical theatre talk

- 00:37:40 - Wicked and the Evangelical reaction

- 01:53:22 - Our own reaction to Wicked: Part 1

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