Way Too Broad
266 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsA place for friends to talk about stuff that they're really really ridiculously excited about! Listen to three friends talk and laugh about whatever it is that the rest of their friends are sick of hearing about this week!
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16: Gaslighted By My Library- Way Too Broad
December 17, 2017 03:55 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBThe Gang spends the first half hour mostly reading things from the internet (thanks to @MobyDickhead and Botnik)! Ben talks about the astounding amount of time he's spent playing Pokemon games in his life so far! Hannah has been too busy for an obsession but then it turns out that she has one anyway. Erin has thoroughly conquered her library fears and now she spends basically all of time on it. Yes, "ON it". HOMEWORK: - Play Pokemon! A good place to start is Pokemon Fire Red or Leaf Gree...
15: Those Are Just Words You're Saying, and I Can't Hear Them- Way Too Broad
December 09, 2017 21:55 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBThe gang discusses Manhattan clam chowder and some Christmas traditions. Erin has been embracing the library with a beautiful lesbian romance novel. Ben has been putting off work with a fascinating book about Basque history. Hannah has been learning a bunch about Quakers for some reason. HOMEWORK: - Watch the film Carol then read The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith - Read The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky, or any of his other books - Check out this podcast or...
14: That's a Nicely Proved Bun- Way Too Broad
December 03, 2017 16:04 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBThe gang recaps some stories and adventures from Thanksgiving. Hannah has been binging Attack on Titan season 2. Erin is having Dominion withdrawals. Ben is FINALLY on the Bake-Off train with the rest of us! HOMEWORK: - Don't visit CT rest stops - See Coco - Watch Attack on Titan on Hulu, Netflix, or vrv.co - Play Dominion! Also, get it for all of us for Christmas! - Watch The Great British Baking Show... again - Follow @Hanthropology, @ErnBrn, @NEDiscoGreg, and @TooBroadPod on...
13: Family Time Thanksgiving Shorty- Way Too Broad
November 26, 2017 03:48 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBHappy Thanksgiving! Your co-hosts have been busy hanging with their family, but they did manage to capture some of that hang in audio form for your listening pleasure! Please enjoy (and please forgive our back-porch audio quality with random knocking and slamming noises!)
12: The Great Stranger British Things Theme Tracks- Way Too Broad
November 19, 2017 14:54 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBSPOILER WARNING: STRANGER THINGS DISCUSSION BETWEEN 25min33s-45min CONTENT WARNING: Lots of discussion about sexual harassers in entertainment/politics between 45min and 1h11min This week, we really live up to our name! Get ready for a spoilerful Stranger Things discussion, then a serious feminist rant session on sexual harrassment in American culture! Then, to clear your pallet and/or confuse you further, how about some discussion about cats and Hannah's favorite show about them, My Cat...
11: Two Eternal Toddlers- Way Too Broad
November 12, 2017 14:59 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBHannah has been cheating on her wife in Stardew Valley. Erin has been filling a Bake-Off shaped hole in her life with the Family Cooking Showdown. Ben has been reading so much that it puts us all to shame. HOMEWORK: - Download Stardew Valley on Steam or Switch, you're gonna love it - Watch The Big Family Cooking Showdown on Netflix (And Ben- Watch The Great British Bake-Off) - Read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World AND THEN read Aldous Huxley's Island - Follow @Hanthropology, @ErnBrn...
10: All My Wild Yeasts, a Bread Redemption Story- Way Too Broad
November 05, 2017 15:48 - 1 hour - 67 MBBen loves Super Mario Odyssey so much that he's literally beaten it since we recorded this ep. Hannah couldn't talk about Stranger Things because her co-hosts are slow-watchers, so she talked about her first ever experience with VR using Google Cardboard! Erin has learned a lot from her loaf (and the internet) about sourdough starters this week! HOMEWORK: - Get a Switch and then get Super Mario Odyssey (and Zelda: Breath of the Wild) - Get Google Cardboard and put your little smartphon...
9: WAY TOO SCARED- The Great Ghosts vs. Zombies Debate Special of 2017
October 29, 2017 19:49 - 2 hours - 122 MBSPOILERS AHOY! (See below for details) Wherein 9 (YES NINE) friends come together to discuss the most important question on the internet: Which are scarier? Ghosts or Zombies? Will the friends find common ground on this issue? Will they destroy their friendships by belittling each other's deepest fears (probably not)? Will somebody get wigged out and keep looking behind them DURING the recording? Will they need that safe word they came up with? All that and more on this special 2-hour ...
8: Venice, The Sympathizer, Annihilation- Way Too Broad
October 22, 2017 14:33 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBThe Gang catches up on homework. Erin talks about the 2010 musical Venice. Ben recommends another thought-provoking book. Hannah brings the vibe way down by talking about how much she cried at Patton Oswalt's new special Annihilation. HOMEWORK: - Listen to the first 2 songs of Venice on Spotify (or at least song #2- Last Man) - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Read The Martian - Watch Black Books on Netflix BEFORE NOVEMBER 1ST OR IT'S GONE - Watch Annihilation on Netflix ...
7: Over the Garden Wall, Westworld, Computer Organization- Way Too Broad
October 15, 2017 19:35 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBHannah watched Over the Garden Wall for the first time this week! Erin watched Westworld for the first time this week! Ben is learning to organize computers! HOMEWORK: - Watch Over the Garden Wall- 1st ep available on Youtube and the entire series is available on Hulu - Read Simone de Rochefort's Article BEFORE you watch and Aliterator's Article AFTER you watch! - Watch Westworld on HBO Go/Now - Leave Erin alone so she can watch more Westworld - Learn to program (check out Gi...
6: Big Mouth, Puzzle Games, Spooky Ear Snacks- Way Too Broad
October 08, 2017 15:53 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBBen has been enjoying Big Mouth, a Netflix animated show about puberty. Hannah loves puzzle games like Picross Mon because she hates paying attention to what she's watching on TV. Erin loves to be Spooked by Snap Judgment, even though she CAN'T believe in ghosts for her own sanity. HOMEWORK: - Watch Big Mouth on Netflix - Buy Almost Like Praying: Lin-Manuel Miranda's benefit song for Puerto Rico - Get Picross Mon FREE at an app store near you - Do more puzzles! - GET SPOOKED: Lis...
5: Rufus Wainwright, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Terrace House- Way Too Broad
October 01, 2017 19:43 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBErin saw Rufus Wainwright live in concert this week! Ben weaned himself off of Hamilton by listening to In the Heights instead, and now he likes it better than Hamilton! Everybody gushes over Lin-Manuel Miranda's twitter and his work and his well-deserved success. Hannah describes a Japanese reality show which is so great that she had to push off recording by an hour to watch more of it. HOMEWORK - Listen to Rufus Wainwright’s Vibrato (Best of Album) on Spotify - Watch Carol on Net...
4: Personality Tests, Sarah Waters, Engineering Senior Project- Way Too Broad
September 24, 2017 20:52 - 1 hour - 58 MBHannah talks about personality tests and learns all about her co-hosts and their pets' personality types (they really talk about personality tests for quite a long time), Erin talks about her favorite author, and Ben nerds out big time over his senior project. Other topics on the table: PUBG's fog mode, family inside jokes, self-administered haircuts, One Mississippi again, Hannah completely loses the thread of a story about her college years while sharing her grievances about Psychol...
3: Haruki Murakami, Ear Snacks, and Tig Notaro- Way Too Broad
September 17, 2017 02:14 - 58 minutes - 54.2 MBBen and Hannah catch Erin up on their weekend, corrections from last week occur, TerminologIan, Ben tells about a favorite author, Hannah discusses her dreams for herself and other around podcasting (ear snacking,) Erin shares her appreciation for the work/life of Tig Notaro and for the state of lesbian art in general. HOMEWORK: - Read A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami - Start calling "podcasts" "ear snacks" and then make your own ear snack! - Watch Seasons 1 and 2 of One Mississ...
2: Lesbian Movies, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Instant Star- Way Too Broad
September 10, 2017 15:45 - 51 minutes - 47.7 MBErin shares her love for and frustration with lesbian movies, and what she did about it. Ben tells the tale of Four Horsemen in PUBG. Hannah relives some obscure TV music/feelings from the early 2000s. HOMEWORK: - Follow @LesbianMovieReviews on Instagram - Watch "The Firefly" on Netflix - Visit Steam or twitch.tv to learn more about Playerunknown's Battlegrounds - Find music from Instant Star by Alexz Johnson on Spotify - Follow Ben and Hannah on Twitter: @NEDiscoGreg and @Ha...
1: McElroys, Stand Up Comedy, Resistance- Way Too Broad
September 02, 2017 20:03 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBHannah talks about the McElroy Brothers and then never shuts up about podcasts ever again. Erin talks about stand-up comedy. Ben talks about a tabletop game called Resistance. Also on the table: weddings, sibling relationships, youtube, the now-defunct streaming platform Seeso. Ed. Note: This show was recorded before the demise of Seeso. The My Brother My Brother and Me TV show can now be found streaming for free on vrv.co