Time to turn on the radio and cruise down the highway with Marn and Emma as they get into Stephen King’s Christine and its 1983 John Carpenter adaptation. They get into how much interiority can really be kept when making a killer car movie for a paycheck, where that old man’s ghost went, and what is so compelling about Pittsburgh’s suburbs. Content warnings for _Christine _include: sexism, 50’s views of the world, graphic car violence, suicide, asphyxiation, death of a child, death of a parent, death of a loved one, growing apart from your childhood best friend, Stephen King standard grossness and weirdness, and a truly unfortunate slang term for a car part that is now considered a slur against trans people.

The articles Emma references in this episode can be found here: https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2016/10/killer-car-movie-bill-phillips-making-christine http://blog.thehorrorshow.tv/exclusive-interview-with-christine-firestarter-screenwriter-bill-phillips/ https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/lw2230.htm https://lofficier.com/christine.htm https://www.gamesradar.com/john-carpenter-keith-gordon-christine-exclusive-interview/ https://www.petersen.org/vehicle-spotlights/1958-plymouth-fury-christine You can find Emma on bluesky @crabmoney.bsky.social and the show on twitter @UnselectPod. Marn can be found on most social media @corpserevivers. The web serial she writes with her wife can be found at https://prairiesongserial.com/ and her show Batman: Bump in the Night is part of the Moonshot Patreon feed. Unnatural Selection is a part of the Moonshot Podcast Network. If you like what you’ve heard from either Emma, Marn, or the myriad shows they make together, you can become a patron at patreon.com/moonshotnetwork The music for this show was commissioned from and composed by Jake Loranger. You can check out more of his work at https://amaranthine.bandcamp.com/

Travel back to Medieval times with Emma and Juliet this month and see if you can pull the sword from the stone (well, anvil, actually) and assume your place as the true king of England! They dive into T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone from The Once and Future King, usually regarded as the correct version of the novel to read, without realizing until it’s too late that the 1963 film is NOT based on the 1958 novel, but rather the original 1938 version! Which is more different than you might think! World War II changes a man, after all. Content warnings for The Sword in the Stone include general Medieval vulgarity, lots of droppings and scat just everywhere, a weird praising of Feudalism that comes off as uncomfortably sympathetic to slavery as an institution, 1960s questionable views and anachronisms, and a completely unexpected use of a racial slur. The articles and interviews Emma references in this episode can be found here: https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/live-like-a-king-the-60th-anniversary-of-the-sword-in-the-stone/ https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/in-his-own-words-floyd-norman-on-disneys-the-sword-in-the-stone/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zySgUZHDNM https://www.hoganmag.com/blog/seldom-re-peeted-the-bill-peet-interview https://thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/t-h-white-the-sword-in-the-stone/ https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/mad-madam-mim/ Emma can be found on twitter at @ematsca and on bluesky @crabmoney.bsky.social. The show can be found on twitter @UnselectPod. Juliet can be found on social media @follypersist on most platforms. Unnatural Selection and Juliet’s show I’ll Be Pod For Castmas are a part of the Moonshot Podcast Network. If you like what you’ve heard and want to support them, you can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/moonshotnetwork The music for this show was composed by Jake Loranger. You can find more of his work at https://amaranthine.bandcamp.co

It’s June so you know what that means! Kat and Emma return to the woods for their annual trek through the Twilight series. Listen along as Emma has an existential crisis realizing that Eclipse might actually be good, Kat gets into the lore of it all, and we realize that everyone, even Stephanie Meyer, might agree that polyamory could be the answer to this love triangle. Content warnings for Eclipse include: references to domestic violence, controlling behavior, vague confederate sympathies, self-harm, weird racism towards werewolves, an unfortunate introduction to the concept of imprinting, and insensitive depictions of the Quileute people.

The article Emma promised to find and video essay Kat referenced can be found here: https://www.slashfilm.com/1700668/why-bryce-dallas-howard-replaced-rachelle-lefevre-twilight-victoria/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT5unKXnSUk For more information on the Quileute people, visit https://www.burkemuseum.org/static/truth_vs_twilight/

You can find Emma on twitter @ematsca, Kat @StrawberrySiren, and the show @UnselectPod. Emma is also on bluesky at crabmoney.bsky.social. Kat can be found on Instagram @swordsandsirens and her dog Walter is @WalterWednesdays. Unnatural Selection is a part of the Moonshot Podcast Network. If you like what you’ve heard and want to support them, you can become a patron at patreon.com/moonshotnetwork

The music for this show was commissioned from and composed by Jake Loranger. You can check out more of his work at https://amaranthine.bandcamp.com/