Well, this was going to be an incredibly timely episode, and then a lot of life happened. You might recall that some time back, JD Vance made some remarks misinterpreting St. Augustine’s doctrine of “just war.” As medievalists, we took exception to those remarks…but also, let’s take a little time to look at Augustine, who was an interesting historical figure who just wanted to write a lot and hang out with his bros. Whom amongst us, etc.
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Secret Crab Lab. Secret Crab Lab? Yes. Secret Crab Lab.
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Casual Trek read Chris Claremont’s epic graphic novel Debt of Honor a few years ago, now it’s time to check out the sequel story, set in the era of Star Trek: The Next Generation!
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For some reason we have a bunch of facts about Rush frontman Geddy Lee in this episode.
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It’s time for someone’s big audition!
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Welcome to an episode of Casual Trek which is the equivalent of a teacher wheeling the television into the classroom. We’re finally looking at Disney’s first ever PG movie, the weirdly horrific Black Hole.
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Time to send someone undercover at the strip club.
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Bree NicGarran joins me this episode as we finally get around to talking about the 1998 film adaptation of Practical Magic. For some people the ’90s movie that got them pulled into witchcraft was The Craft, while for others (like Bree) it was this one! We figured with the sequel coming out soon, we really needed to get around to talking about this one.
So we did! For two hours! You could have watched the whole movie on your own in that time!
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So there’s a crab fighting ring under the strip club. That’s normal, right?
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