The Getting Lit Podcast

Feb 02 2025 96 ep. 89 mins 12
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Casual yet stimulating talks about books and media.

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Vocoders Are Gay (PAYWALLED)

Feb 02 2025 7 mins  
Send us a text Fresta and Sini talk about what they've been reading, watching, playing lately. Also talk about how some internet "personalities" get on podcasts with voice disguisers because "The Feds" are after them. This episode is paywalled. Go to https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLit to get the full version. Support the show

Back Matter 13: Mind Webs (FREE)

Jan 26 2025 64 mins  
Send us a textOur discussion with the Rare Candy about Michael Hanson's Mind Webs continues. We talk radio, podcasting, audio dramas vs audiobooks vs what Mind Webs is doing.Listen to Mind Webs here: https://archive.org/details/MindWebs_201410Normally, the Back Matter episode is paywalled, but we all feel so passionate about this stuff, we thought I should have it out in the world

Disching It Out feat. Rare Candy

Jan 26 2025 97 mins  
Send us a textGlen and Psi from Rare Candy podcast join us to talk about three stories from the science fiction writer, Thomas M Disch.The stories discussed include Descending, The Number You Have Reached, and The Squirrel Cage.Subscribe to Rare Candy's premium feed (we both do, it's great!): https://rarecandy.substack.com/Follow Glen on X here: https://x.com/Rarecandypod1Psi here:

Wicked feat. Josh Feye

Jan 11 2025 96 mins  
Send us a textJosh from The Dionysian Dream substack talks all things Wicked.The original novel, Wicked (1995) by Gregory Maguire, the stage musical (2003) by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, and the 2024 film version directed by Jon M Chu and starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.Read Josh's great theatre criticism here: https://substack.com/@thedionysiandream/Support the s

Civilization And Its Hitchcock Films

Jan 07 2025 82 mins  
Send us a textThis week, we read Sigmund Freud's 1930 essay Civilization And Its Discontents and paired it with Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 film, Frenzy.Support the show

A Very Terrifier Christmas feat. Jack Mason & Ryan Simón (PREVIEW)

Dec 21 2024 21 mins  
Send us a textFor the full two hour episode, subscribe to the Getting Lit Podcast's Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLitThis week, we're celebrating Christmas with a discussion about the overtly Christian horror movie, Terrifier 3, released this year.We're joined by former guests Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist podcast, and Ryan Simón, Editor in Chief of Americ

Moorcock Jerkin feat. Yeerk.P

Dec 05 2024 102 mins  
Send us a text Yeerk joins the show once again to talk about the first book in Michael Moorcock's Corum series, The Knight of the Swords. We range across topics such as sword and sorcery, formula, the British New Wave science fiction, and much more. And for more talk about Moorcock, politics in fiction and social media, head on over to https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLit Follow Ye

Coetzee? I Don't Even Know Her!

Nov 24 2024 67 mins  
Send us a text We talk about J.M. Coetzee's brilliantly brutal novel of post-Apartheid South Africa, Disgrace. Support the show

Let's F*ckin Grove!

Oct 25 2024 74 mins  
Send us a text This episode we chat about Ryunosuke Akutagawa's 'In A Grove' (1922) and Akira Kurosawa's adaptation, Rashomon (1950). What even is truth, man? Also, catch Fresta on Rare Candy's 'Psi Ops' series talking about Rudolf Steiner: https://rarecandy.substack.com/p/psi-ops-vol-2-how-to-know-higher Support the show

The Place of Dead Roads

Oct 13 2024 60 mins  
Send us a text The New Era begins with new co-host Matt Fresta. Fresta is the editor of Rango Tango Magazine and is now the "second mic." For this first episode, we chat about William S Burroughs, 'The Place of Dead Roads', a psychedelic, gunslinging Western with science fiction elements and Burroughs' trademark deconstructionist schtick. On the Patreon-exclusive show, Back Matter,