This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, Manifest Destiny, the Minnesota Massacre, the lie of Westward expansion and why neither host can spell prairie. --- Support this podcast: https://p

Basically, Just Real Life in Late Stage Capitalism (Fahrenheit 451)

Mar 16th, 2024 1h 35m

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

Episode 110: I Bet on Losing Dogs (Lady Chatterley's Lover)

Feb 17th, 2024 1h 16m

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Lady Chatterley's Lover, sex politics, and what DH Lawrence means by a "crisis."--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

Strong Independent Pilgrim (Little Women)

Jan 20th, 2024 1h 31m

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, and the myth of typical femininity. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

A Bug's Life (Metamorphosis)

Dec 17th, 2023 1h 19m

This month Amanda and Victoria discuss Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, traumatic childhood abuse, and the utterly depressing life of Franz Kafka. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/suppo

This Time, We Want to Join a Cult (or Build a Submarine)

Nov 12th, 2023 2h 22m

Baron Von Cheeseplate returns to discuss 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne with Amanda and Victoria. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

Do You Want to Get Sued? (The Shining)

Oct 7th, 2023 2h 24m

For Spooky Month Amanda and Victoria discuss Stephen King's infamous work The Shining, alcoholism, hotels, and Stanley Kubrick.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

A Whole New World (Brave New World)

Sep 9th, 2023 2h 6m

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, ethnobotany, drugs, and enough weird stuff to fill a 2-hour podcast.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

Episode 104: Paper Folding Peace Signs (Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes)

Aug 19th, 2023 1h 25m

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr, as well as the atomic bomb and the lasting effects on America and how it is viewed internationally. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spo

Look Down (Les Miserables)

Jul 22nd, 2023 1h 22m

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Victor Hugo's massive fan fiction, Les Misérables. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

Is the Movie Better? (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

Jun 10th, 2023 1h 6m

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Happy Pride! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

Animal Harm (Animal Farm)

May 20th, 2023 1h 37m

This month Amanda and Victoria discuss George Orwell's Animal Farm, and the historical events that inspired it.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

F*** You, Mark Twain

Apr 22nd, 2023 1h 31m

By some miracle, we made it to 100 episodes. This week we discuss Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and wonder why we give this book to children. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-

I Dreamed I Went to Mandalay Bay Last Night (Rebecca)

Mar 30th, 2023 1h 10m

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

Death From Above (The War of the Worlds)

Mar 18th, 2023 1h 56m

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss HG Wells as The War of the Worlds. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

The Ultimate KGB C*ck Block (Doctor Zhivago)

Feb 26th, 2023 1h 19m

This is the reuploaded version of our episode on Doctor Zhivago. Some listeners advised the end had been cut off by our editing software. Thank you! This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the drag that is Doctor Zhivago and why it was so scary

The Ultimate KGB C*ck Block (Doctor Zhivago)

Feb 25th, 2023 1h 5m

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the drag that is Doctor Zhivago and why it was so scary to the USSR.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/unfortunately-required/support

A Guide to Why Your Black Friends Are Exhausted (A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas)

Feb 12th, 2023 1h 31m

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

The Return of Two Host One Mic (The Secret Garden)

Jan 21st, 2023 50m 58s

Amanda and Victoria FINALLY get to record together in person for the first time in....almost three years? Welcome back with The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. We discuss ableism, rest cures, and the garden metaphor. --- Support

A Thinly Veiled Cult Metaphor? (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

Jan 7th, 2023 53m 49s

This week Amanda and Victoria read a book that managed to break Victoria, Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

Cottage Core White Girl Fantasies (The Witch of Blackbird Pond)

Dec 18th, 2022 58m 20s

Amanda and Victoria discuss The Witch of Blackbird Pond and why Kit definitely would have been found guilty of witchcraft in Connecticut.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

Being a Mermaid is Just One Giant Metaphor, Isn't It? (Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid)

Dec 11th, 2022 1h 19m

This week Amanda and Victoria discuss the uncomfortable dating history of Hans Christan Andersen...wait, we mean The Little Mermaid. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

Do Androids Dream of Dick? (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)

Nov 19th, 2022 1h 11m

This week Amanda and Victoria read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick, the book that was adapted loosely into Blade Runner.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

So You're Saying I Can Dodge? (Neuromancer)

Nov 6th, 2022 1h 34m

Amanda, Victoria, and special guest Baron Von Cheeseplate discuss William Gibson's Neuromancer.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support

Trauma All the Way Down (The Haunting of Hill House)

Oct 23rd, 2022 1h 10m

This week Amanda and Victoria cover spooky season with Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfortunately-required/support