Our Midroll Life

In this Episode we discuss the Movie brat 2(2000)! the sequel to the seminal post soviet Russian film brat(1997). This time the budget is bigger and the story is all over the place! check it out its on YouTube. 

Shownotes: In which Yves and Cameron get very technical about what a state is, what does it mean to be a stateless person, and the problems associated with this phenomenon. I promise it's more interesting than it sound, please validate my International Relations degree.  3:38 - *what a nation is composed of… 14:30 - Upon editing this, I realize that I wasn’t quite clear w

In which Yves and Cameron talk about generational warfare. Just kidding, we’re talking about how generational definitions like Boomer, Millennial, etc. are used in academic and marketing contexts. Way more exciting, I know. Also generational warfare is...

In which we talk about how we approach day-to-day life.Shownotes:This episode isn’t about Russia, so I don’t have nearly as much to say in the shownotes. I took the audio from Alan Watts’ speech from a video by After Skool. 10:17 - I believe Yves was...

In which we talk about our relationship (ha ha) with dating. Shownotes:05:24 - I believe Yves meant to say “contrast”20:55 - Important things like Dialectical Materialism20:55 - We could dive deep into moral philosophy or psychology to understand what...

In which Yves and I talk about Брат, a classic Russian crime drama based in St. Petersburg. Shownotes:3:12 - I accidentally conflated Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais in this sentence, and only meant to refer to the former. Gaidar was the first Prime...

Love her accessible and relatable poetry or hate her unpretentious (read: simple) prose, Rupi Kaur is the most successful (financially, at least) modern poet. Yves and Cameron read Milk and Honey and use their...questionable knowledge about poetry (we...