I'll Be Pod for Castmas

About I'll Be Pod for Castmas

Every July and December, Juliet L'mous and their co-host playwright Katherine Varga take a piece of holiday pop culture and discuss it through the lens of a piece of topical classic literature — like the Christmas classic "Frosty the Snowman" through the lens of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". Find it four times a year on the Moonshot Podcast Network!

Publisher

Juliet & Katherine

Category

arts · comedy · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Dec 2021

Latest episode

29 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Jul 2026

   S11E3 - The Three Wise Men

   Episode Notes Guest religious studies expert Wheels joins Juliet and Katherine for a synopsis on the synoptic in the mythic and historical tradition of the Three Wise Men, and their related religious ephemera. Check out the new Moonshot audio drama The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne at https://www.lydiadisappears.com/ (https://www.lydiadisappears.com/) and the show Total Depravity at: https://www.patreon.com/collection/2166431 (https://www.patreon.com/collection/2166431) I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network. The theme for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is by Joey Rose Rysen, and art by Ryan Jensen.

2. 

   22 Jul 2026

   S11E2 - A Very Jonas Christmas Movie

   Episode Notes Juliet and Katherine propose a familiar (but not too familiar) categorization method for differentiating Jonases as they watch and discuss A Very Jonas Christmas Movie. Together they compare the life and performance of the Jonas Brothers to Borges' sense of alienation in public identity in Borges and I and the alienating absence-of-encounter in Zadie Smith's essay Meet Justin Bieber. Is this a christmas movie "for boys"? Can you be miscast when cast as yourself? And can you ever go home alone again? Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Theme by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network.

3. 

   15 Jul 2026

   S11E1 - Borges y Yo (Borges and I)

   Episode Notes In this episode, you can hear the Moonshot Network's own Riley Hopkins reading a Juliet L'mous translation of Jorge Luis Borges' short creative nonfiction, "Borges and I." The next two weeks, IBPFC will cover A Very Jonas Christmas Movie and the history of the "Three Wise Men". Art for I'll Be Pod for Castmas is done by Ryan Jensen. Our theme is by Joey Rose Rysen. I'll Be Pod for Castmas is brought to you by the Moonshot Podcast Network. -- When things happen, it is to the other Borges. Halfway through my journey of Buenos Aires, I stop and idle to witness the keystone of an arch, the door at the end of a hallway; and in the mail the news of Borges comes, in the list of professors, in the encyclopedia of movers and shakers, I see his name again. My consideration for the hourglass, the atlas, 17th-century typography, etymologies, that taste of coffee or the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson, all abide; the other likes these things, but with a proffered vanity that makes them the props of an actor. It would go too far to say our relationship is hostile! I live, I continue the journey of living so that Borges may go on plotting his literature, literature that justifies me. Not for nothing he has made some pages worth their laud. But those pages that agree with me cannot save me, perhaps because what is good in there and beyond no longer belongs to anyone. Not the other, not to me, but to the art, the skill, the language, the tradition. Apart from that, nothing of me will remain, as nothing will belong, definitively. Even in those better pages of the other, little by little I have handed my life to Borges, and do so knowing his perverse habit of magnifying, consolidating, obscuring, and inventing. Spinoza understood the constancy of persevering desire in all things; a stone would want to be a stone forever, as a tiger does a tiger. I must remain within Borges, not within myself (if I am a self at all), but I cannot find myself in his books. If I do so, it is in the song of others' pages, and in the plotting strum of a guitar. Years ago I tried to break free and escaped provincial and mundane mythologies for cosmic games of infinities and time, but those are the game of Borges now and I must find further ground untread. To this pursuit my life is set, to find and lose everything, everything belonging to oblivion and the other. Which one of us has now written this page?

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