Anya and Alan talk about their plans for the new season of American Gods and focus on the scandal around Orlando Jones leaving the show.

An account of the production problems behind American Gods, including Ricky Whittle’s (Shadow Moon) account of the events around Orlando Jones: “How American Gods Finds Stability (And More Neil Gaiman) in Season 3” by Ron Hogan for Den of Geek.

The Blerd Gurl interviewed Orlando Jones the day he announced his situation. Listen to the podcast interview for yourself.

Fremantle Media is a thing.

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We have a new podcast! Come listen to us talk about “His Dark Materials” with our friend Caitlin. For all the details visit the Measures of Truth homepage, then subscribe to the podcast in your favorite player!

Alan reviews the physical media releases of American Gods Season 2 and Season 1. Alan rounds up all the extras and complains about the features that aren’t available. There isn’t very much here for collector’s, but its always nice to have the discs on hand if you can’t stream.

Check out Measures of Truth: A His Dark Materials Podcast and read the book with us before the show drops.

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Sarah pulled a stool up at The Gem to talk Deadwood with Alan. HBO released a movie to wrap-up Deadwood, and that gave us an excuse to fan-out about the whole show. We talk about Sarah’s ships, Alan’s politics, and the vulgar poetry that is Deadwood’s dialogue.

Justified is the spiritual successor to Deadwood.

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Alan and Sarah talked about Kings which was not made by David Green (whoever that is) but Michael Green.

Check out the History Spoilers for Deadwood.

Why shouldn’t racist language be changed in Huck Finn?

The Dark Tower franchise is one of Alan’s favorite stories- and can be found in movies, comics, and- of course- novels.

Anarchism as a political framework.

According to W. Earl Brown (aka Dan the bartender) there are deleted scenes and hopefully we get to see them on a Blu-Ray release.

We spotted Garret Dillahunt, but did you catch any of the other returning actors with dead characters?

Titus Welliver couldn’t join the movie because he is the star of Amazon’s Bosch.

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Anya and Alan talk about Fake News, Metronomes, Retcons, and the meaning of snails. Can you use boot-contaminated blood in a potion? Anya lays out why this finale is just like a Buffy finale. We wrap up Season 2, thank all of you for listening, and speculate about what comes next.

Buffering the Vampire Slayer just wrapped up Season 4 of the classic 90’s TV show.

The War of the Worlds started as a novel by HG Wells and has been adapted many times in different media.

Even Fox News had to drop their slogan of “Fair and Balanced” as they slid into propaganda.

The Sinclair Broadcasting Scandal was a “forced read” of a script that many “local” news anchors read live on the air to bolster the Trump administration.

The problem with women anchors on Fox News.

What is a Ret-con??

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Faith is the last Slayer called in Buffy the Vampire Slayer- and she’s the best.

Angel was a spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Gnosticism was a heresy of early Christianity.

Elon Musk made a submarine that was never needed.

Hello World is a thing.

Quantum Computing might be cool- but we don’t know much about it.

Schrodinger’s Cat is a thought experiment that helps non-scientists imagine quantum reality.

Diegetic Sounds link the fictional world and the real world for an audience.

Snails have many magical meanings.

Iktomi is played by Julian Richings and Gnaskinyan is played by Stephen R. Hart neither of whom are Native- which is very disappointing.

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Deus Ex Machina is a trope that trips up Fantasy stories sometimes.

Brandon Sanderson’s Laws of Magic in Fantasy.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO RATED AND REVIEWED THE SHOW ALL AROUND THE WORLD!!

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Anya and Alan run down Season 2 of American Gods by going through all the feedback that has come in. We talk about what we got right, what we got wrong, and how impossible Gaelic is for Alan.

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The story of Cu Chulainn involves the theft of a magic cow. Here is the YouTube video that I ripped off.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore wrote “American Gods has a Lynching Problem” of io9.com

The lynching in “The Ways of the Dead” was based on the actual lynching of William “Froggie” James in Cairo in 1909 (not 1902 Alan)

Anya is referring to the fulfillment of justice for James Byrd Jr. in Texas

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Anya and Alan talk Three Beats that are Five Beats, Adaptation, and Chekhov’s shotgun. “The Treasure of the Sun” is a rich multi-layered episode that we dive into. Learn about Banshees, the origin of The Eye of Sauron, and how things went down in the book.

A Three Beat is a popular narrative structuring technique. A five beat is not a real thing, but you get the idea.

Chekhov’s Gun comes from Russian writer Anton Chekhov. We aren’t sure if Anton owned a shotgun.

Balor was the king of the mythic Fomorians, grandfather of Lugh, and enemy of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

The “Song of Songs” is traditionally about the Queen of Sheba, which Bilquis is an adaptation of.

Christianity in the British Isles produced the distinctive Celtic Cross.

Kali worship is extremely diverse, but includes the idea of destroying egotistical preconceptions of the self that block us from being authentic.

Pagani was a Latin word for people who lived in the countryside, and is the root word for Pagan.

Women were central to the early Christian church, although their contributions have largely been erased or forgotten- because Patriarchy.

Emperor Constantine converted the entire Roman Empire to Christianity and fundamentally altered the spirit of the religion.

Paul’s direction for the dress and behavior of women during church worship in 1 Cor 11:2-16 feels out of step with his assertion in Gal 3:27-29 that Christians do not distinguish between nationalities or sex. Anya is probably referring to 1 Cor 14:33-36 where Paul forbids married women from speaking in church. Paul most likely wrote these letters in the AD 50’s. Here is a biased, but comprehensive, article about Paul’s writing on the subject of women in Christianity: The Role of Women in the Church- The Pauline Perspective

The ancient Celtic religion in Ireland focused on knowledge and Nature under the guidance of shamanistic Druids.

Check out our other podcast Hallowed Ground StoryCast and the episode we did about modern Christianity, its relationship with modern American politics, and the autobiography “Crazy for God”

Banshees are mythological spirits in the modern Irish tradition that might have their origins in the ancient goddess Morrigan and traditional Keeners.

Problematic Tropes in this episode: Magical Negro and Gay Best Friend.

Our coverage of the 8th episode of Season 2 will most likely be delayed by the leak of screeners to pirating websites because STARZ decided to pull all screeners for reviews. Read about it.

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Anya and Alan talk about “Donar the Great” and how it is more than it seems. Anya loves how Mr. Wednesday’s backstory is a commentary on the inefficiencies of Capitalism, Alan loves how this episode adapts the book, and no one quite understands Lou Reed. But we all worship him.

Notes to come soon- Alan didn’t finish his homework!

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Anya and Alan talk about Racism, Voodoo, and how Tolkien ripped off Thor in this week’s episode “The Ways of the Dead”. We take a deep dive on Alan’s opinions on Religious Theory, and Anya’s take on how this episode successfully marries historical violence to modern day problems. And the sex was weird!

Gargoyles was a Disney cartoon in the mid 1990s.

Kara Brown wrote “I’m so Damn Tired of Slave Movies” for Jezebel

A 1966 Gallup Pole asserted that 2/3 of American did not like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the time. Find out more in this Newsweek article by Beatrice Dupuy.

Hurricane Katrina pushed many people from New Orleans to Houston.

Black Liberation Theology helped to start heal slavery and the colonialism of Western Christianity.

The Book of Thoth is an important artifact in occultism.

More information about Voodoo as a religion.

Baron Samedi is married to Maman Brigitte and they rule over the Gede Loa.

Brigid was an Irish goddess.

The Shadow Man is the villain of The Princess and the Frog.

Alviss wanted to be Thor’s son-in-law but ended up getting stoned.

Memento Mori were works of art that remind the audience of their own mortality so that they remember to live with intention, gratitude, and vivacity.

Gender Reveal Ep 45 Features Jack Malstrom who discusses the concept of “Two Spirit” with Molly Woodstock.

But Why Tho interviewed The Jinn and Salim at South-By-Southwest and Kate Sanchez also hosts Oh My Wednesday an American Gods podcast.

Dr. Paul Moffett is offering classes about monsters! Check out his free analysis of the 1931 film adaptation of Frankenstein.

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Anya and Alan discuss classical music and spirituality thanks to The Greatest Story Ever Told. What is the best music to write code to? Why does the god of Money live in St Louis? Why does Technical Boy fail to sway his worshiper? We don’t have answers, but we sure do talk about it all.

This episode gets its name from the 1965 film adaptation of the passion story “The Greatest Story Ever Told”

N.K. Jemisin is an award-winning best-selling author of Fantasy stories, and everyone should check out her Broken Earth Trilogy.

Bastet was the protector of Ra, healer of the sick, and patron goddess of house-cats in ancient Egyptian mythology.

Reparations for slavery is hotly debated to this day, and is an issue that goes back to the Civil War.

Xie Comm Headquarters is a clear visual reference to Apple Park in Cupertino, CA.

“A Raisin in the Sun” is a play by Lorainne Hansberry and is a reference from the Langston Hughes poem “Harlem”.

Maya Angelou was an award-winning best-selling writer and poet.

Song Exploder’s episode about the theme-song for Reply All, written by Breakmaster Cylinder.

Rage Against the Machine is a best-selling award-winning 1990’s Alternative Rock Band.

George Gershwin wrote “Rhapsody in Blue” in 1924

Baron Edward Benjamin Britten was the composer of “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” and “Simple Symphony”

Niccolo Paganini wrote Caprice No 24, which is a favorite of Anya’s.

The St Louis Federal Reserve is called the FRED because the American Government loves acronyms.

The debate about Who is the Unknown God in American Gods (novel)

JJ Abrams developed the idea of The Mystery Box as relates to storytelling and drama.

William Sanderson and Ian McShane co-stared in HBO’s Deadwood TV series.

Evan Narcisse wrote “Neil Gaiman and the Cast of American Gods talk about Belief, Happy Endings, and Going to War” for Io9.

Veve Jaffa wrote “Exposed: Film’s Legacy of Racist Technical Development Lives on in the Digital Age” for RevisionPath.com about the subject of systemic racism in cinematography.

The Race Bechdel Test is a modified version of The Bechdel Test, which helps to think about race in storytelling.

Ruby Bridges was the first African-American student to de-segregate a school in Louisiana.

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Anya and Alan dissect “Muninn” but not the raven- just the episode. We are excited about New Media, Sam Black Crow, and Christian Rock. Less excited about tentacle porn and a fake corn palace. Learn about “Two Spirit” and how Iktomi became a trickster, while we ride down to Cairo in our dirty truck.

Kawennahere Devery Jacobs plays Sam Black Crow!

Kahyun Kim plays New Media!

The Lakota believe in the balance of nature in all things.

Iktomi was the Lakota god of Wisdom, but became a trickster when Gnaskinyan corrupted him.

We talked about Soma in our coverage of Season 1 Episode 6 “A Murder of Gods”

Dawn is Buffy’s kid sister- who suddenly appeared in Season 5 of the show.

Fyre Festival was a social media scandal in which wealthy online-influencers were scammed and local Bahamian businesses were cheated.

Tentacle Porn is a thing. (the link is safe for work- or anywhere else. We aren’t linking to actual porn.)

The Native Culture concept of “Two Spirit” and how that has been appropriated by colonizers.

Rob Sabo wrote “Using Blood Quantum to Determine Citizenship is Problematic” for First Nation Focus.

Gender Myths in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is written by Morgan Muller for The Artifice.com

Anya recommends following Dear Non-Natives and Dr. Adrienne Keene and Ruth H Hopkins on Twitter to learn about First Nation issues.

The Corn Palace is a roadside attraction in South Dakota.

Corn Palace art: Picture 1 and Picture 2

Jenny Owen Youngs is not immortal but she is the co-host of Buffering the Vampire Slayer podcast.

Broken Window Theory is an idea that is explored in “The Problem with Broken Window Policing” by Sarah Childress for Frontline

Muninn means Thought and is one of Odin’s ravens in Norse Mythology

The Death is Cheap trope via TV Tropes.

Still Dead Ep. 35 Lani talks about not lampshading poor world-building.

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