Episode 55: Rooting for Evil (With Paul Bloom...

Tamler and David discuss Books 13 & 14 of The Odyssey. Odysseus finally makes it to Ithaca and meets up with Athena, gets a disguise, and has a chat with his most loyal slave Eumaeus. 

Why do baseball players have so many superstitious rituals compared to athletes in other sports? How does this relate to the magic rituals of the Trobriand Islanders of Melanesia? We dive into Bronisław Malinowski's classic 1925 paper "Magic, Science, and Religion" along with Geo ...  Show more

Bad guys are integral to driving the plots of many stories, and animation is no different. But villains are as varied as heroes -- from Jafar in "Aladdin" to the Monarch in "The Venture Brothers," and everything in between. What makes the perfect villain in animation, and why do ...  Show more

Are we...the bad guy? SMNTY holds out for a hero and discusses certain points of view, who tells your story, and changing perspectives in trauma narratives.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Today we're bringing you another episode of Stories Podchats. Amanda, Kelsie and Da... I mean Brock Rackets, will be discussing the most villainous villains ever to grace the big screen.  Draw us a picture of what you think any of the characters in this story look like, and then ...  Show more

Part 1 of Dart Arts October! This is our villain series. Take a listen as we dive down into all (allegedly) of You Know Who's Death Eaters. We talk about Fenrir Greyback, our thoughts on Bellatrix and her love child and marriage, and we even have a heated debate about Draco Malfo ...  Show more