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Sex worker and activist Arabelle Raphael joins merritt to talk The Queen, queening, and coffee teens.

Arabelle is @ArabelleRaphael on Twitter. You can find more of her work at arabelleraphael.com.

Get Rec'd:

• Arabelle Rec's: taking a bath with something nice like epsom salts, eucalyptus, chamomile etc.
• merritt Rec's: getting an ergonomic keyboard and generally not letting your work destroy your body

Works Cited:

• Chris fleming teens who drink coffee
• Freud
• Jung
• Roxanne Gay Bad Feminist
• this fucking Julie Burchill quote
• fred armisen is a bad person
• the ~ spirit molecule ~
• How to Change Your Mind
• JohnS Hopkins Psychedelic Research Unit
• ABH
• Sleep paralysis vs night terrors vs sleep apnea

Developer and illustrator Manning Krull joins merritt to talk horror, Paris and vegetarian options. Also, the return of Bev Check!

Manning is @manningkrull on Twitter. You can find more of his work at manningkrull.com. He also curates coolstuffinparis.com.

Get Rec'd:

• Manning rec's A Dark Song
• merritt rec's The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo

Works Cited:

• peanut butter is good for you
• I need to tell you about my night last night. (Sometimes, things that are expensive, are worse.)
• Caleb Gallo
• netflix fake wine doc
• kids' taste buds
• supertasters are a myth
• licorice = poison?
• tripe
• spiders george
• chocolate covered ants
• Oryx and Crake
• Woodland Secrets episode 90 with Tim Rogers
• Woodland Secrets episode 145b with Tim Rogers
• dutch boy
• the v spot
• I can't aladdin vegan and kosher restaurant on the internet
• choice paralysis
• the tube
• Paris is a city in France
• The Crisis of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age
• Jason Greene)

Sex workers rights activist and podcaster Conner Habib joins merritt to talk psychoanalysis, dinosaurs, and online spats.

Conner is @connerhabib on Twitter. You can support his podcast "Against Everyone with Conner Habib" on Patreon.

Works Cited:

• Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
• DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME
• California Time
• Encino Man
• Dinosaurs (the 90s obsession)
• Denver, the Last Dinosaur
• C.L.Y.D.E.
• Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
• Dennis Miller
• The dinosaur exhibit at Epcot Center
• We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
• Amblimation
• Steven Spielberg
• The out of control voice acting roster of "We're Back"
• tiptoes with matt mcconaughey
• gary oldman was in bram strokers dracula (which was a coppola joint so people took it seriously)
• Crip-drag
• Dinsaurs (the 90s sitcom)
• Copious thinkpieces on the sad ending of the 90s sticom Dinosaurs
• Chlorofluorocarbons
• Carnosaur (movie)
• The 2017 Twin Peaks revival
• Friends vs Frasier
• Goodnight, Seattle, a Frasier minicomic by Julia Gfrörer
• Against Everyone with Conner Habib
• something about cartoons and freud
• The Interpretation of Dreams
• the concept of child abuse
• lacanian analysis
• Slavoj Žižek
• Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Malcolm Gladwell is just kinda a dumb guy
• The 1971 Chomsky-Foucault debate
• David Mitchell
• Peep Show
• Ask Jeeves
• AltaVista
• Dogpile
• Mean Girls (2004)
• Pornography
• Sarah Schulman
• Conflict Is Not Abuse
• dead prez
• Post-Structuralism

Anime Professional Cayla Coats joins merritt to talk mental health, silent alarms, and the Marx-Engels Reader.

Cayla is @ceicocat on Twitter. You can find more of her work at her channel ceicocat on YouTube.

Get Rec'd:

• Cayla rec's "Suic!de and Ment@l He@lth" on YouTube (CW'd)
• merritt rec's websites as a trend generally and one website specifically, Stanford's online exhibit of Warhol negatives, not that she really cares about Andy Warhol

Works Cited:

• Drive (2011)
• Cyclothymia
• Hypomania
• Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
• Daylight Savings Time
• Crunchyroll and VRV which are subsidiaries of Ellation which is a part of Otter Media which is owned by Warner Media (formerly AOL Time Warner) which is owned by AT&T (Formerly SBC Communications, previously The Southwestern Bell Corporation, formerly AT&T, formerly Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, a subsidiary of the Bell Telephone Company, founded by Alexander Graham Bell in 1880.)
• Philz Coffee
• Chao Slices
• Chao Slices
• Tamagotchi
• Zubat
• Juniji Ito's Cat Diary again
• The Blimp Story
• The Marx-Engels Reader
• Praxis
• ContraPoints
• Bunsen Burner
• Mankisser
• Valerie Solanas (who was not German)
• Ekphrasis

Writer and social media manager Lauren Naturale joins merritt to talk Science, Literature, and History.

Lauren is @lnaturale on Twitter.

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Get Rec'd:

• Lauren rec's the Ms. Yeah YouTube channel
• merritt rec's getting a fainting couch (or 'chaise lounge' or 'nutting couch') on craigslist for less than $100

Works Cited:

• Salmonellosis
• Georgi Markov who was killed by the Bulgarian Secret Service with a Bulgarian umbrella, with assistance from the KGB?????
• Mendel
• Theory of Acquired Traits
• UCLA
• UCB
• Harvard
• Chicago
• Seattle doesn't have any problems
• Here is New York by E. B. White
• merritt's tweet about New York
• it's impossible to find the youtube magazine on google
• MEL the Dollar Shave Club editorial division which merritt wrote for
• Woolly the Casper editorial division
• JK Rowling is such a turd
• harry potter pictures
• Wolf Hall
• Hillary Mantel
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
• Jeanette Winterson
• Evelyn Waugh
• Sword of Honour
• The Price of Salt
• felt in the jaw by Kristen Arnett
• Frankenstein (フランケンシュタイン), Volume 16 in The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection
• Junji Ito's Cat Diary
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
• The Tenement Museum
• Lies My Teacher Told Me
• A People's History of the United States
• M-W's cowardly definition of fascism
• Naturale, or nat.

Writer Kara Dennison joins merritt to talk Canadian-made licensed anime IP RPGs, Canadian-made licensed American IP roller coasters, deadly themepark thrills, creepypasta, horror, and tea.

Kara is @RubyCosmos on Twitter. You can find more of her work at karadennison.com.

Get Rec'd:

• Kara rec's Zombie Land Saga
• merritt rec's Argan oil choosing UK candy and chocolates over US versions

Works Cited:

• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
• Napster and LimeWire
• Real Player
• AB Groupe and the 'Big Green' dub
• Tenchi Muyo!
• Guardians of Order
• Associates of Sherlock Holmes: Brand New Tales of the Great Detective
• Godzilla creepypasta on The Creepypasta Wiki
• The Greatest Haunted Game Story of All Time Isn’t About Pokémon or Zelda on The VRV Blog
• Doki Doki Literature Club!
• Kane’s Son: Sexual Violence and Symbolism in Alien and Aliens on The VRV Blog
• Animaniacs for the SNES#SNES_version)
• Defunctland on YouTube
• Captain EO
• Action Park
• Drachen Fire at Busch Gardens, Williamsburg Virginia
• Paramount Canada's Wonderland
• Wooden Roller Coasters
• The Mighty Canadian Minebuster and The Ghoster Coaster
• The Ghostbusters Spooktacular special effects show
• The History of Ghostbusters Spooktacular on Defunctland
• Zombie Land Saga

Writer Gretchen Felker-Martin joins merritt to talk freshman philosophy, Frasier, and the holy spirit.

Gretchen is @scumbelievable on Twitter. You can find her column In the Flesh on the VRV Blog.

Get Rec'd:

• Gretchen rec's Palm Ash by Julia Gfrörer
• merritt rec's getting and wearing a sleep mask and Goodnight Seattle by Julia Gfrörer

Works Cited:

• Misery
• VRV blog on youtube kids
• On Writing
• How to write a sentance
• Gentrification of the Mind
• Entropy
• Apeirophobia: The Fear of Eternity in The Atlantic
• Kierkegaard on Angst
• Nausea by Sartre
• Cartesian Dualism
• Sapir-Worf aka Linguistic relativity
• The Passion of the Christ
• Greg Erskine
• The Holy Spirit
• I'm googling 'Girl Slimer'
• The Shape of Water (2017)
• Star Trek (2009)
• Annihilation
• Venom (2018)
• Émile Durkheim
• Ibn Khaldun
• Le Petit Prince
• La Petit Mort
• The Gadsen flag
• Batman (1989) Novelization
• Back to the Future novelization
• Ryan North's b to the f
• This Bud's For You
• Anglerfish

Podcaster Ali West joins merritt to talk bird terror, TV for cats, and catching up on anime.

Ali is @ali_west on Twitter. You can find more of her work at Friends at the Table and the One Song Only podcast.

Also, the return of Crackin' Packs and introducing "What Do You Want To Smell Like?" in the role of Get Rec'd.

Get Rec'd:

• merritt rec's Luckyscent Sample Packs no wait

What Do You Want To Smell Like?

• Ali wants to smell like not a perfume
• merritt wants to smell like a wood fungus or a molecule

Works Cited:

• Dinosaur Comics "we were not meant to be"
• toronto raccoon green bin journalism
• Insta-ready Hedgies
• TierZoo
• Calming TV for Cats
• Geralt ASMR
• My Hero Academia
• Dragalia Lost
• Granblue Fantasy
• Types of Elephants
• Ambrox
• Twisted Lily

Cartoonist Flynn Nicholls joins merritt to talk bone hurting juice, organizing, and the birth of podcasting.

Flynn is @ICELEVEL on Twitter. You can find more of his work at icelvl.com.

Get Rec'd:

• Flynn rec's Shadowrun Returns
• merritt rec's spending time and/or money on boring things you use everyday

Works Cited:

• ReBoot
• Last Man Standing (the Bruce Willis movie)
• Mascots
• The NYC Punks Who Built a Support Network for Sexual Assault Survivors When the Justice System Failed Them

Video producer Jenna Stoeber joins merritt to talk teen blood, weird baths, and good dogs.

Jenna is @thejenna on Twitter. You can find more of her work at jennastoeber.com.

Also, What's In Your Bath and the return of What's In Your Bag.

Get Rec'd:

• Jenna Rec's: The work of Ana Lily Amirpour
• merritt Rec's: Ginger pills for motion sickness because if you buy the candy you're just gonna eat it all!

Works Cited:

• Undeclared
• Kelsey Grammar Dick Tattoo
• Teen blood aging cure
• Oobleck
• List of Nickelodeon slimes
• Earthbound scratch and sniff
• The good Animal Crossing dog is in the Nintendo fighting game
• The Horrifying Andalite Truth

Artist Kris Mukai joins merritt to talk scrambled eggs, rapping chickens, and sick orbs.

Kris is @krismukai on Twitter. You can find more of her work at hikrismukai.com.

Get Rec'd:

• Kris Rec's: Kairosoft games
• merritt Rec's: Fiasco

Works Cited:

• Animaniacs
• Samurai Pizza Cats
• How Samurai Pizza Cats Was Made Up By an American Studio on VRV Blog
• Frozen Peas
• Dragon Quest XI
• Parappa the Rapper
• Um Jammer Lammy
• Pokémon Gold
• Anime girl drinking gas