Episodios

  • Episode 133: Saturday Night

    Episode 133: Saturday Night
    Aug 27 2025
    In this episode we discuss the 2024 film Saturday Night. You can stream it on Netflix, or rent it on Amazon or Apple. Content warnings for strong language, fictionalized stories about still-living people, suspected AI bullshit summary, significant references to 70s-level drug use and purchases, references to early deaths of SNL cast members, Kat and Brendan’s complicated dance of dueling entertainment degrees, librarians being wrong, and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Lorne Michaels impersonations We reference or spoil: New Girl, ludonarrative consonance, Pepe Silvia (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), WPI‘s Interactive Media and Game Design program, Carnegie Mellon University‘s Entertainment Technology Center program, interest curves in game design, Magic and Showmanship by Henning Nelms, Memoirscape, IndieCade, Sam Reich (Dropout/Game Changer), the Not Ready for Prime Time Players, Muppets, Lorne Michaels and his role in current late night, home base (SNL), Saturday Night True Story: Why Was Milton Berle Banned From SNL?, Jim Belushi’s sketch form the 50th anniversary, Andy Kaufman’s Mighty Mouse routine, Ghostbusters, Dan Ackroyd’s vodka, comparison video between original cast auditions and movie cast, Defunctland’s “Disney’s Animatronics: A Living History”, polyamory, queer-platonic relationships, Arrested Development, Jon Baptiste’s soundtrack and audio design, Stranger Things, The Twilight Zone, and Black Mirror Also check out Kat’s The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine and Bren’s Select Start improv shows benefiting Arcade Comedy Theater. Kat also has a new short story out: “How to Win Against the Robots” on Lightspeed! Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and, if you’re so inclined, contribute to our Patreon. The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.The post Episode 133: Saturday Night first appeared on No Story Is Sacred.
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    1 h y 34 m
  • Episode 132: Readercon 33

    Episode 132: Readercon 33
    Sep 25 2024
    In this episode we hung out in the same room on the Saturday night of Readercon back in July! Content warnings for strong language and clinking glasses We reference or spoil: It Follows, Shirley Jackson Awards, Disclave, monster cereals, Hello From the Magic Tavern, Cocktail, Flaming Moe (The Simpsons), “AI: The Good Parts” (Readercon 33), “DDOS” (Readercon 32), Clarkesworld (blog post about spam submissions), Codecrafters, “First there was SkyKnit. Now there’s HAT3000“, CARP robot, What are AI chatbots actually doing when they ‘hallucinate’? Here’s why experts don’t like the term, Homer fading meme, Grandpa leaving meme, “AI: The Bad Parts” (Readercon 33), Bad Blood, The Circle of Magic, Jurassic Park, “Action Scenes” panel (Readercon 33), “I Don’t Know Why I’m On This Panel” (Readercon 33), “Responses to Omelas” (Readercon 33), “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin, Strange New Worlds episode “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach”, “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim, “Live Narration” (Readercon 33), John Mulaney “horse loose in the hospital“, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (as read by Danielle Cohen), Star Trek Discovery, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Encanto, “They’re Made Out of Corn“, “They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson, “DEMON FIGHTER SUCKS” by Katherine Crighton, “Archaeology in Reality and Speculative Fiction” (Readercon 33), “What to Do With Your 15 Minutes of Fame” (Readercon 33), Viable Paradise, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Mitchell and Webb “Rebecca” sketch, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Odds Bodkin’s The Odyssey, Hades II, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter, Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, The Rake and Reformer by Mary Jo Putney, Thunder and Roses by Mary Jo Putney, “sweet” romances, Brian David Gilbert’s “I wasted 3 weeks of my life finding Castlevania’s hottest monster“, “Battle of the Academy” (Readercon 33) Brendan is performing improv with his group Select Start at the Arcade Comedy Theater! Keep up with Kat on their website! Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and, if you’re so inclined, contribute to our Patreon. The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.The post Episode 132: Readercon 33 first appeared on No Story Is Sacred.
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    1 h y 19 m
  • Episode 131: Catching Up 2024

    Episode 131: Catching Up 2024
    Mar 13 2024

    In this episode we chat up and talk about what we’ve been reading and watching recently. Content warnings for strong language. We reference or spoil: Worcester Polytechnical Institute‘s IMGD program, The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell, No Story is Sacred episode “Writ of Attachment”, Taylor Swift, Swifties, Select Start […]

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    1 h y 21 m
  • Episode 130: Blow the Man Down

    Episode 130: Blow the Man Down
    Sep 27 2023

    In this episode we discuss the fake show Blow the Man Down. Content warnings for strong language, unreality (episode focuses on creation/discussion of media in an alternate reality), and references to child death (historical pirate John King). We reference or spoil: Our Flag Means Death seasons 1 and 2, No Story Is Sacred episode “Our […]

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    1 h y 26 m
  • Episode 129: Dead Man’s Hand

    Episode 129: Dead Man’s Hand
    Aug 16 2023

    After a long hiatus that we totally planned and wasn’t us failing to successfully arrange the schedules of four adults with lives, we return with an episode discussing an original story idea by Alex! Another in his series of Space Ace Detective stories. Content warnings for strong language, bad casino puns, a passing reference to […]

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    1 h y 11 m
  • Episode 128: George of the Jungle (1997)

    Episode 128: George of the Jungle (1997)
    Feb 15 2023

    In this episode we discuss the 1997 film George of the Jungle. You can stream it on Disney+, or rent it on Amazon or YouTube.

    Content warnings for strong language, discussion of abusive relationships, unhealthy eating, toxic masculinity, randomly insulting the name “Brandon”, and Pippin insisting that George is her babygirl

    We reference or spoil: the Tarzan books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jane Goodall, parody movies such as Epic Movie, capuchin monkey, Into the Woods, Brendan Fraser, Hugh Jackman, how Hugh Jackman is presented on men vs. women’s magazines, Disney’s Tarzan, the idea of Disney priming audiences for upcoming movies before they’re announced, “Dela” by Johnny Clegg, Armani clothes, Clueless, Air Jordans, The Lion King, “My Way” song, Jonah Hill’s advice to Channing Tatum about how to act in a comedy, “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze” song, Eat, Pray, Love, Nicholas Sparks, and the Star Trek episodes “Ship in a Bottle”, “Wolf in the Fold”, and “A Piece of the Action”

    Also check out Kat’s The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine and Bren’s Select Start improv shows benefiting Arcade Comedy Theater. Also, we’ll all be at Boskone 60 this month! Come say hi if you’ll be there!

    Don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and, if you’re so inclined, contribute to our Patreon.

    The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.

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    1 h y 15 m
  • Episode 127: Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

    Episode 127: Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
    Feb 1 2023

    In this episode we discuss the 2001 film Ocean’s Eleven. You can rent it from Amazon, YouTube, or iTunes. Content warnings for strong language, casual crime, discussions of the patriarchy, being mean to Kat right off the bat, and Kat taking that as a challenge We reference or spoil: Ocean’s 11 (1960), Bernie Mac, cockney […]

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    1 h y 32 m
  • Episode 126: Oracle @ SciFi – Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

    Episode 126: Oracle @ SciFi – Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
    Jan 25 2023

    In this episode we discuss the upcoming video game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Content warnings for strong language, mentions of borderline beastiality (between a human and a humanoid fish), time travel, and theorizing with absolutely no information. We reference or spoil: The Legend of Zelda franchise as a whole, Howl’s Moving […]

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    57 m
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