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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · 5d

Spooky season is here! So for our latest episode we're talking about the scary books we love right now. 😱📚🥰

Plus contributing host @beebrookshire.bsky.social talks about Hellbenders — who aren't actually that scary. But extinction campaigns are!

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The audiobook cover of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, read by Shane Ghostkeeper, Owen Teale & Marin Ireland, with acnowledgments read by the author. Cover depicts a fucked up looking buffalo with a broken horn.

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · 19d

Bruce Lee is a legend. He changed movies forever — and helped shape Asian American culture. We talk to Jeff Chang, author of a new Bruce Lee biography.

Plus contributing host @jamsternazzy.bsky.social tells us what science has learned about fungi — and why science fiction needs to up its game.

Episode 183: Three Ways of Looking at Bruce Lee (with Jeff Chang) — our opinions are correct

Bruce Lee changed American pop culture forever, and his incredible legacy is more relevant than ever. But how did he go from child actor in Hong Kong to one of the most important action-movie stars of...

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Aug 7

Annalee and Charlie Jane both have new books this month. In our latest episode, we're talking about them!

Find out why Annalee wrote a cozy tale of robots making noodles.

And why Charlie Jane was drawn to write about queer families reconnecting.

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Jul 24

Our latest episode:

Why we love the Murderbot TV show so much, and how Sanctuary Moon in particular works so well

How certain stories comfort us during a dark time — and sometimes dark horror is more comforting than sweet comedy

Plus ice cream!

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Jul 24

We kinda skipped the summer reads episode this time around... it's helpful to know that you missed it. Thanks for sharing! <3

Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thank you for joining our Patreon!

Come for the ice cream, stay for the noodly Patreon discussions of noodles....

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Jul 10

What is the supply chain? How does it shape our lives?

We talk to @alexismadrigal.bsky.social about his book The Pacific Circuit, and how trade shaped Oakland.

THEN we delve into all of the galactic wars that started as trade disputes. Pew pew pew.

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Jun 30

Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy is one of our fav TV shows, so we're stoked to interview creator Cirocco Dunlap in our new episode!

Plus @maggietokudahall.bsky.social and @heykellyjensen.bsky.social talk about the state of book bans in the USA.

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE OUT NOW! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · Jun 14

I LOVE being on podcasts and I LOVE @charliejane.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social and @ouropinions.bsky.social and was so happy to talk about public health and SFF!!

Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Jun 12

Public health is life-saving! But where did it start and what can we learn about it from SFF? Guest host @jamsternazzy.bsky.social explains all.

Plus we talk to @natashaobrown.bsky.social about everything we've learned about the Blood-Brain Barrier!

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Jun 12

Public health is life-saving! But where did it start and what can we learn about it from SFF? Guest host @jamsternazzy.bsky.social explains all.

Plus we talk to @natashaobrown.bsky.social about everything we've learned about the Blood-Brain Barrier!

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · May 30

What does it mean to "politicize" science? How is this different from acknowledging the political issues that science affects?

Plus @maddiestone.bsky.social tells the story of Sim Earth and how this game fueled her love of science.

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · May 16

Let's take to the streets! Our new episode is about protests in science fiction & fantasy — and why protests are so vital in battling authoritarianism.

Plus we talk to @andrecarrington.bsky.social about his incredible new book, The Black Fantastic.

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · May 8

This might be the best time ever for TV science fiction.

There's Andor, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Severance, Black Mirror, Alien: Earth, Foundation, The Last of Us, Ironheart, Murderbot, Blade Runner 2099...

So we're celebrating in our latest Patreon bonus episode:

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · May 4

Yay thanks so much for listening!!! <3

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · May 1

In our latest episode:

+ why Doctor Who is better than ever, and our hopes and fears for the show's future

+ we talk to @anildash.com about the "digital public square" and what went wrong with the internet

Listen here:

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Apr 24

Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil has shaped how countless creators portray dystopia. Why is this movie still so influential? And how did it become a visual shorthand for the retro-fascist aesthetic?

In a mini episode for our Patreon supporters, we investigate: www.patreon.com/posts/mini-e...

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Apr 22

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Apr 17

Taxation is weirder than you think!

In our latest episode, we talk about why Everything Everywhere All at Once is the quintessential tax movie.

Plus guest host Alan Henry talks about how marginalized people can survive workplace surveillance.

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Apr 17

Whatt?? One of us had watched the whole season. I don't get why that's an issue!

Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Apr 6

Our latest episode is about the second season of Severance -- is this show holding up? Plus we talk about a host of new TV shows about corporate dystopias.

Meanwhile, we talk to science journalist Carl Zimmer about our new age of airborne diseases.

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Our Opinions Are Correct: Severance and the New Hellscape (w/ Carl Zimmer)

Welcome to the new dystopian era. The series Severance, which just finished its second season, is perhaps the best-known of a fresh crop of dark, absurdist stories that tackle the horrors of high-tech...

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Mar 20

The incredible hip hop group @clppng.bsky.social just released a cyberpunk-inspired album, Dead Channel Sky. We ask them all about hip hop and cyberpunk.

Plus guest contributor @beebrookshire.bsky.social explains how 3000 hats stopped a war.

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Frank Nieto @fdnieto.bsky.social · Mar 20

Check out new @clppng.bsky.social interview with @ouropinions.bsky.social podcast! (cc: @subpop.bsky.social).

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Hip Hop x Cyberpunk (with clipping.) — our opinions are correct

Hip hop group clipping. has  just released a brilliant new cyberpunk-inspired album, Dead Channel Sky, and we're talking to the members about how hip hop and cyberpunk have inspired each other fr...

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Our Opinions Are Correct @ouropinions.bsky.social · Mar 6

Charles Yu's award-winning novel Interior Chinatown rocked our world. Now he's adapted it into a wonderfully weird TV show, and he tells us how.

Plus the amazing @ninamazing.bsky.social explains how children's books can teach real space science.

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Ben @gegnome.bsky.social · Feb 28

@ouropinions.bsky.social continue to dominate the podcast game. Love the insight this episode gives on how simulation theory relates to our current dumpster fire

No, We Don't Live in a F---ing Simulation!

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Krešimir Končić @kreshomir.bsky.social · Mar 5

It's kind of refreshing to hear that #Zagreb will become the Paris of the 24th century 🫡 Btw, @ouropinions.bsky.social is a podcast gem; right next to "If Books Could Kill" > pca.st/v9evdow7?t=2...

Peering into the deep future of humanity - Our Opinions Are Correct

A lot of science fiction takes place in the near future, somewhere in the next century or so. But what about the far future in 10,000 years, or a million? How do writers and creators imagine deep time...

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