Mandy admits upfront that she booked this guest purely so she’d have an excuse to watch the movie. What she got was ten years of Hollywood Video war stories, a grandmother with a grudge, and a live phone call to Bend, Oregon.
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Mandy Kaplan has thoughts about 42 Japanese ninth-graders being forced to murder each other on a deserted island, and honestly, who among us doesn’t?
Sailor Moon was made for five-year-old Japanese girls and somehow became a queer awakening for an entire generation. Jonny Lee Jr. is back to explain why, and Mandy has feelings about Tuxedo Mask that she cannot control.
Mandy finally meets the world where improv, fantasy, and a Goliath with a ginormous hidden heart collide — and it turns out The Legend of Vox Machina was designed exactly for people who need a good fart joke before they’ll commit to an eight-hour campaign. Hem Brewster, lead producer at Blighthouse Studio and D&D lifer, joins from Iceland to explain how a group of voice actors playing in someone’s basement became one of the most successful Kickstarters in history — and why none of that required knowing a single rule.
Plan 9 from Outer Space was declared the worst movie ever made — by people who hadn’t even watched it. Mandy finally does, and walks away utterly charmed.