Episode #36 - Sad Little Rich Boy
Not About The Weather Podcast
Never Have I Ever... left an unaired podcast episode in drafts for over a year due to a global pandemic! What we have here is a throwback episode** that includes a long discussion of the excellent first season of Never Have I Ever, inspired by the topic of well-executed love triangles. With the second season coming out in a matter of days, catch up with us to find out if we are Team Ben or Team Paxton as we reflect on all the things that make this show fantastic. Since Ariana picked love triangles as both her hype AND her gripe, we also learned about all the things wrong with the love...
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Episode #35 - In This 'Til I Die
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It's the Supernatural Special Series that absolutely no one asked for! During 2021, Natalie is forcing forever-newbie Brittany to watch Supernatural in its entirety - an episode a day, taking us all the way to the end of the year to cover 15 seasons and 327 episodes. Although this rewatch is merely a social event taking place within a group chat "book club" of about ten good friends, we couldn't help share some of our thoughts in podcast form, so you're getting one episode per season, and we'll be joined each season by another member of our Winchester Gospels Book Club. This time it's Maria...
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Episode #34 - Goodbye Horses
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Season 2 of Not About The Weather is here! There's a new Presidential Administration and we feel like it's finally safe to come out of our holes. We explain the reason for our longer hiatus and attempt to get back into the swing of things. On the agenda today: it's trashy romance novel time for Brittany in both her hype and her gripe, Natalie takes issue with the lack of brand-new stories finding their place on television but hypocritically has plenty of praise for a new show that's tied very heavily to some hugely prominent intellectual property, and Karen simply has too many books, as well...
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Episode #33 - Aragorn's Tax Policy
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A SPECIAL OF ICE AND FIRE: As winter approaches and Game of Thrones will soon provide answers regarding the conclusion of George R.R. Martin's as yet unfinished Song of Ice and Fire novels, we wanted to talk about that entire situation and how the TV show outstripping the books may affect the story of the series in general. Ariana and Natalie - both book readers and show watchers - are joined by ASOIAF superfan (and wordsmith for another of the great genre television epics of our time) Meredith Glynn to traverse the Seven Kingdoms and consider some of the book-to-screen moments that we loved...
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Episode #32 - Cute Slash Sad Slash Accurate
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Rent: Live may have proved that the 21st century iteration of the live TV musical is a failed experiment, and we try to figure out where it all went wrong. Consumers in the global community need to be more conscious about their access to content, but what part does privilege play? And the horrific R. Kelly documentary leaves us feeling helpless about the lack of accountability in the public eye and wondering if this will ever change. But on a lighter note, Natalie wants to introduce you to the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House, Brittany wants you to love your local library, and once Ariana is...
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Episode #31 - Imagine A Tree
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PODCASTING ABOUT PODCASTING SPECIAL: Natalie and Brittany are joined by Meghan Fitzmartin, host of and creator of to hype and gripe about our experiences as podcast producers and listeners, with a particular focus on the resurging world of scripted audio drama. Meghan shares her history as a writer as she tells us how radio plays were her gateway drug into script classes, and explains exactly why audio drama is such an important and evocative way of storytelling for her. Audio content in general is one of the most accessible mediums available to both creators and consumers, which...
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Episode #30 - Thank You, Next
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We're saying thank you, next to 2018 with our End of Year Special - a bumper episode covering our biggest hypes and gripes of the entire year that's past. Over the course of 2018, Brittany discovered a hatred of the streaming binge model and wants to get back to week-to-week episodic watch experience, and also is on a personal mission to revamp every awards show ever (excepting the Tonys, of course.) Mitch and Natalie share issues about moving and upheaval, and a horror of feeling apathetic and stuck in your physical space - albeit with very different roots - and Natalie also draws back the...
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Episode #29 - But The Handcraftedness
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Feeling walked all over by The Walking Dead, Mitch needs his traumatic TV deaths to be real and permanent - he definitely should not attempt to watch Supernatural any time soon. Speaking of SPN, Natalie is feeling some frustration with storytelling in general - or rather, the growing lack of trust that audiences seem to have in the structure of serialized work - you’ve gotta be willing to wait for it! Especially, it seems, when one Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays and integral role. And we’re back on Broadway once again, bemoaning the limitations of live theater and the pros and cons of the...
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Episode #28 - Flicking A Farthing
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The exhaustion of a Hollywood assistant, the commitment to volunteering for a charity and the shaming of a working actor all lead to a long reflection on what we owe to each other, whether it comes to the service industry, the sad state of the world or the entitlement of human nature. Thankfully, The Good Place is here to save us all, and they have the podcast to prove it. Meanwhile, Mitch is disgusted by the development of video-game add-ons that prey on FOMO, but needs to use a metaphor about pizza to allow his companions to commiserate, and just in time for Hanukkah, Natalie is...
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Episode #27 - Canon Enough
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We're shipping it with author and TV writer Britta Lundin - this episode features a deep dive into Britta's incredible novel 'Ship It' and a very special chat with the author herself. In our interview segment, Britta discusses her own fandom history and her unique perspective behind the scenes on pretty much all sides of the fandom/creator divide - as a voracious shipper with plenty of queer readings of assumed straight characters, and as a TV writer who works on a CW show and is privy to many of the practicalities, restrictions and realities of television production. Then, in our panel...
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The Greatest Showman goes up against the real greatest showman - the one and only Harry Styles. All of Brittany's Spongebob-iest dreams have come true; Caitlin indoctrinates us into the cult of Beebo, the God of War; and Mitch has been sitting on his Anne with an E explosion for many moons. Surprise, surprise: J.K. Rowling continues to exemplify the ancient proverb about dying a hero or living long enough to see yourself become a villain. And hey, remember when Roy Moore LOST the Alabama election? Well, this was recorded in the wee small hours before that momentous occasion, so we do a lot of screaming about the travesty that was his campaign.
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This episode’s hosts are: Brittany Lovely, Mitchel Clow, Caitlin Kelly and Natalie Fisher.
Resources/Recommendations:
J.K. Rowling breaks silence on Johnny Depp / Grindelwald casting controversy - Hypable
I feel like The Greatest Showman is taking some creative liberties - EW
Bryan Fuller and Michael Green exit American Gods at Starz - Hypable
Brittany and Natalie's American Gods recaps - Hypable
Caitlin's Arrowverse Mid-Season Finale recap - Hypable
Constantine revived as animated series on CW Seed - Hypable
Anne with an E Netflix trailer
Harry Styles self-titled on Spotify
Natalie's Sign of the Times single review - Hypable
Harry Styles: Boy of the Year of the Girl - Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone
Brittany's interview with ‘SpongeBob SquarePants on Broadway’ writer Kyle Jarrow - Hypable
SpongeBob SquarePants: Original Cast Recording on Spotify
Musical Medly from SpongeBob SquarePants - official video footage