DAC Episode 55: Our Lives Are Content

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Good morning/afternoon/evening! We here at Destroy All Culture would like to wish you and yours a happy time span. May the coming temporal units bring you vague feelings of contentment and pleasure, based on whatever material security you have combined with your determination to ignore the frightful state of the world.

Now relax and joy 52 minutes of conversation between Aidan and Adam as they chew over the following topics: 1) a refreshing Gilmore Girls fan theory; 2) Adam's absolute favourite thing (so far) from the first eight episodes of The Legend of Korra; 3) the many bits and pieces of their lives that they happily chew up and regurgitate as content. Enjoy!

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DAC Episode 53: Rogue Me Once

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Welcome to the annual Yuletime episode of Destroy All Culture, in which Adam and Aidan look back over the year and take stock of all the blessings of 2016. Nah, we just rant about Rogue One for forty minutes. We covered as much as we could until we ran out of Rogue One steam but there's still so much to talk about. For example, why would you build a power console in the middle of a beach? What is wrong with the Empire?

Forget not that listen to us on iTunes you can if here you click, as Yoda would say if he were real.

DAC Episode 52: Cognitively restrained

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Ever tried to co-host a podcast with a hangover that utterly defeats attempts at coherent thoughts and complete sentences? I wouldn't call it fun, but it's a rewarding challenge, and the reward is not dying of alcohol poisoning. Anyway, enjoy episode 52 of Destroy All Culture, in which a discussion of Westworld and Timeless leads into a discussion of time travel from H.G. Wells onward and the encroaching money-fueled stratification of movie theatres. Honestly this one is a showcase for Adam's thoughts, because Aidan was unable to supply any thoughts at all. Enjoy!

As always, download directly from this site or find us on iTunes - that good old hegemonic aggregator of all things contentual - here.

DAC Episode 51: Four Episodes, Four Words

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Ah, hopes. You were raised on waves of Gilmore girls episodes and dashed on the cruel rocks of those last four words, which did not turn out to be "I will marry you, Kirk". But the actual content of those last four words did bring up some interesting questions, such as "Uh, what?" and "Really?"

In this installment of Destroy All Culture, Adam and Aidan talk about the Gilmore girls: A Year in the Life Netflix special. What went right? What went wrong? Are Lorelei and Rory still terrible people? Is Kirk still the greatest? We also spend some time picking over CW/DC's Invasion crossover event. Enjoy!

As per the new normal, you can also find us on iTunes.

DAC Episode 50: That Podcast Is Poison

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Hey sojourners. If you like things that take 60 minutes and 10 seconds long, then I can heartily recommend our podcast, which comes loaded with Adam's audio effects (possible alternate explanation: Bell Biv Devoe is our house band). On this week's podcast: talk about the latest CW/DC material, an initial exploration of the Gilmore girls revival, some talk of Ghost in the Shell, and a reminder never, ever, ever to read the comments. Enjoy!

Don't forget that we're now on iTunes! Download it from this portion of hypertext! 

DAC Episode 49: Applause Boo Thunderclap

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A major upgrade to Destroy All Culture! With our move to non-beta Zencaster and the banishment of Skype to the land of wind and ghosts, we can now deliver an upgraded podcast expeirence, with better sound quality and a wide range of sound effects. Okay, three sound effects. But they're so useful! Unfortunately your hosts remain the same. On this week's quality episode: the state of the DC/CW universe, Westworld, and an annoying light bulb.

DAC Episode 48: Tamsen Time

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Never let it be said that Destroy All Culture doesn't deliver. We deliver pop culture insights, rants about the postal service, and sometimes we deliver pizza. But this time we have producer and actor Tamsen McDonough, who plays the voice of Lucy on Killjoys. Tamsen was generous and funny, and she had anecdotes aplenty about meeting meeting Aaron Ashmore, delivering awkward hugs and the time she impersonated Nicole Kidman.

Technical issues affected the audio on this week's podcast, but Tamsen's voice comes through loud and clear (by contrast, Adam and I sound like we're locked in the trunk of a car (which we are not) (at least I'm not))). Enjoy!

DAC Episode 47: Blast from the very recent past

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Do you remember a time of innocence, before the unholy union of a tangerine and a hay bale became possessed with the spirit of Satan's half-witted cousin Donald and went on to run the United States? Let us take you back to last Sunday, when it seemed like everything was going to be okay, and we could talk freely about The Good Place, Doctor Strange and more. 

DAC Episode 46: Agents of D.A.C.

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No, we do not spend much time talking about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in this episode, mostly because we insist on pronouncing all the periods in the name and discussions about the show get pretty cumbersome. This podcast, we marvel at the marvels of The Good Place and discuss the points of intersection between Person of Interest and Westworld. Also: our usual obsessive talk about dealing with shipping and the post office.

DAC Episode 45: At Long Last Podcast

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Sometimes a podcast faces many challenges on the way from being a couple of voices in separate room to becoming a beautiful audio butterfly. For example, an issue with a sound card can turn an entire hour of up-to-the-minute talk about today's greatest entertainment into a pile of sonic mush. Is that what happened to us? Why yes. Yes indeed. On today's podcast we sort of recap the previous, junked podcast, then move into talk of the CW's superhero slate and Westworld and all the other things we love so much.

Also: what happened to episode 44? We'll never tell.

DAC Episode 42: Goodbye to Summer

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That's right, it's the episode of DAC where Adam and Aidan finally relinquish their copies of 500 Days of Summer, tearfully bidding them farewell as they consign their pile of Steelbook Blu-rays with interactive menus and special features to the flames. Time to become men and find a movie with autumn in the title.

Ah okay you got us. We don't own a single copy of the flick that earned Marc Webb a shot at a Spider-man movie. We're basically mopping up the dregs of the season here, with diversions into Rose City Comic Con and Adam's thoughts on season three of Person of Interest. Let the mellow flag of fall fly.

DAC Episode 41: Killjoys' End

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Welcome to this sentence. It's the sentence that comes before this one. Do you feel welcome yet? That sentence gets farther away with every word you read. Wave goodbye to it in the same way that Adam and Aidan wave goodbye to season two of Killjoys, which we deem the rootingest, tootingest piece of televised pulp sci-fi since the late lamented days of Farscape and Firefly.  But never fear, it's coming back for another season. We also discuss Stranger Things, retro aesthetics and Vangelis. Enjoy.

DAC Episode 40: A Nice Round Number

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On this week's episode of Destroy All (not just some) Culture, Aidan and Adam visit the strange phenomenon of Vagenda of Manocide (aka. the worst Game of Thrones name ever), noodle a bit over Person of Interest season two, and go all in on the penultimate episode of Killjoys. Killjoys: it's what's for penultamation.*

Penultamation (n.) - The moment just after you've finished cleaning everything in the house but just before you decide to put off looking behind the fridge for another six months.

DAC Episode 39: Should I Get a New Console?

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On this week's episode, Adam and Aidan do not talk about gaming consoles. They don't focus on the increasing paucity of new games for the Playstation 3 and how Aidan doesn't want to spend a ton of money on a PS4, so what about the Xbox One? But the newest version of that is coming out any day, if it's not already here, and should our lives be spent chasing new forms of entertainment that will provide, at best, a few days of enjoyment before frustration sets in and the multiple anxieties of the world percolate once more in your brain? And wow, new graphics cards for a PC are expensive as hell, aren't they? Why not just buy a new computer? Whatever. We talk about Killjoys (fun!), I Love Dick (arty!), The Tragically Hip (Canadian!) and Ben Edlund's new television pilot for The Tick (spoon!).

DAC Episode 38: The Unstructured Jacket

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Anyone who knows me (Aidan) knows one immutable fact about me: I like sports jackets (Adam likes fezzes, which is more interesting). Over the years I've owned many a sports jacket, from a professorial corduroy to a snazzy light wool number with a subtle pinstripe. Over the last couple of years, my sports jacket guy (yes, I have one of those) has been trying to get me into unstructured jackets, touting their lightness and stylish look, but I always feel as if I'm trying on a lightly tailored tarp. Give me a lining, at least.

This is all to say that this week's episode of Destroy All Culture is also stylishly unstructured, with Adam and I ranging all over our personal pop culture map. I'm pretty sure we talked about Killjoys as well.

DAC Episode 37: Squad Goals

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Hey hey it's the 'Cide Squad
People say they're 'ciding around
But they're too busy wearing hot pants
To make a coherent film

Yes, it's the Suicide Squad episode of Destroy All Culture! join Adam and Aidan as they come up with alternate titles for the film (the best one is probably "Butts: The Movie"). We take David Ayer's celluloid gangbang apart and try to figure out what the hell everyone was thinking. Also, Killjoys was good.

DAC Episode 36(B): The Episode After The Lost Episode

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In what will certainly become a legend, the episode you are about to listen to is a replacement for a lost episode - surely the most important one we've ever recorded. We talked about movie trailers, mostly. Something happened to the file, though, so here you are with episode 36b. Adam leads a spoiler-free discussion of the new Star Trek movie, plus there's talk of Killjoys, Legend of Korra and more.