EP 6: A HOT MINUTE [rec. July 29, 2022]

We close out the season under the cloud of the SCOTUS decision and well… well, everything. We dive into ways we’ve been nourishing and caring for ourselves, and LISTENER MAIL! We’ll be back in a few months with SEASON TWO, so stay tuned.

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Only Murders in the Building (Arconia)
Hestia
Thich Nhat Hanh
MLK. quote
Ted Lasso
Jean Ritchie
Desiree Stephens
Becky Chambers Wayfarers
Shady Hollow mysteries
Ghost Days
Diane Seuss
Wendell Berry
Rebecca Tamás
Leonora Carrington
#leftistprepper
Stardew Valley
The Kids in the Hall
Freya
Baba Yaga (see our Ep. 4!)
Florence and the Machine
Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Witches of Eastwick (Alexandria Medford)
Bewitched
Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Baker St. Irregulars
Beverly Hills Cop (Axel Foley)
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple
Murder She Wrote (Jessica Fletcher - see our Ep. 3!)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (Kiki and Jiji)
Veronica Mars (Veronica, Wallace, and Mack)
Akata Witch (Sunny Nwazue)
Armand Gamache
Easy Rawlins
American Horror Story (Marie Laveau)
Terry Pratchett's Granny Weatherwax
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Sabrina, Salem)
Rowling's Harry Potter (Crookshanks and Hedwig)
Nancy Drew (Bess, George, Ned)
Harry Dresden (Bob)
Della Street
Bell, Book, and Candle
Quorn pr

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It’s MIYAZAKI TIME! Yubaba & Zeniba as two sides of Baba Yaga, Janus the two-faced God, doors and windows. Chihiro as Detective. Yubaba as Noir Crime boss. Recorded Aug 19, 2021.

Card of the Week: The Lovers

Island Free Library

Little House on the Prairie

Spirited Away (Streaming on HBOMax) Ghibli Spirited Away Fandom

Moulin Rouge

Maltese Falcon

Aristotelian Structure

Kishotenketsu

Ma

Carl Jung Quaternity

Howl’s Moving Castle

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Beauty and the Beast (Disney)

David Ogden Stiers

The Garden of Words

Witch of the Week: adrienne maree brown

adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategies

Octavia Butler

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In which we discuss the great and powerful Slavic folklore crone, Baba Yaga, her house on chicken feet out in the woods, the mercurial ways in which you will learn about yourself if you go up to her house, and why she's life goals on Instagram. We also consider crone detectives, especially Gladys Mitchell's Mrs. Bradley Mysteries, and wee bit of climate panic. Recorded August 11, 2021.

Card of the Week: The Hermit

Witch of the week, Elka Shuman Bread & Puppet theater

Evelyn Archer: askevelynarcher.com @evelynarches on IG & Twitter

Lucy Neptune: @lucyneptunewnd on IG

• Respite Road - Nancy’s indie film she was in and did costumes for
• The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson
• Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman
• Hairpin
• ElectricLit
• Marissa Clifford article in Vice
• Ask Baba Yaga, Taisi Kitiskya
• The Burning Girls & other stories, Veronica Schanoes
• Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente
• Hadestown
• Mother Goose nursery rhymes cover (Marguerite de Angeli)
• Rosalie Sorrels
• Lenormand cards
• NPR childrearing Arctic circle article
• Toxic masculinity ruins the party once again
• Mrs. Bradley Mysteries
  • Show and Books
• Yubaba

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From our Baba Yaga Files: Jessica Fletcher

This week we do our first deep dive into our Lord and Savior Jessica Fletcher. Lucy & Evelyn talk shoulder pads and guest stars, the difference between “prestige” and “workhorse” TV and Jessica Fletcher as an iteration of The Crone. Recorded July 21, 2021.

Witch of the Week: Wally Funk

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Lucy Neptune: @lucyneptunewnd on IG

Stuff we mentioned:

• Kevin James Thornton
• Respite Road independent film
• Fringe (avail to stream on HBOMax w subscription)
• Days & Nights of Molly Dodd (some episodes avail on YouTube, check your library for DVDs)
• Forensic Files
• Murder at the Vicarage
• Murder, She Wrote stream for free on PeacockTV
  • Hooray for Homicide
  • Jessica Behind Bars
  • Crossed Up
  • Sing a Song of Murder
  • The Murder of Sherlock Holmes
  • Menace, Anyone?
  • Magnum PI/ Murder She Wrote 2 part crossover:
    • Magnum, P.I.: Novel Connection
    • Murder, She Wrote: Magnum on Ice
• Sweeney Todd original cast
• Baba Yaga
  • Baba Yaga and Vasalisa the Beautiful (Also known as “Vasalisa the Wise”)
• The Crone
• “Famous” by Naomi Shihab Nye
• Iyashikei manga
• “Sweeps week”
• Schmigadoon! (streaming on AppleTV)
• Prom
• Bowen Yang’s “Iceberg that Sank the Titanic”
• Las Culturistas
• Madlyn Rhue
• Ambigram

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In this episode: the Wash. Post detective bracket, who’s better - Nancy Drew or Sherlock Holmes, the fractal nature of Sherlock, why we have so many Holmeses and not as many Nancy Drews, a look at Barbara Neely's Blanche on the Lam, and lots and lots of book recs. Recorded Jul 14, 2021.

Tarot card: Wheel of Fortune

Evelyn Archer: askevelynarcher.com @evelynarches on IG & Twitter Modesty Brown books on Amazon

Lucy Neptune: @lucyneptunewnd on IG

Everything (we think) mentioned this episode:
Washington Post bracket

From Conan Doyle Sherlock canon:
Scandal in Bohemia, Five Orange Pips, Adventure of the Yellow Face

Michael Chabon Books:
Yiddish Policeman's Union
The Final Solution

Sherlock Holmes Versions on screen:
Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey Jr & Jude Law, Elementary with Jonny Lee Miller & Lucy Liu, Sherlock (BBC) with Benedict Cumberbatch & Martin Freeman, House MD, Mr. Holmes (We *say* it’s based on Chabon’s Final Solution, but it’s not. It’s based on A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullen)

Frogwares Sherlock Holmes games
A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman
Shadows Over Baker Street (Lovecraft/Holmes anthology by John Pelan & Michael Reaves)

Nancy Drew on screen:
Bonita Granville in Nancy Drew, Girl Reporter (1939), Emma Roberts Nancy Drew (2007), Hidden Staircase (2019), Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977-79), CW Nancy Drew (2019- )
HerInteractive games including Curse of Blackmoor Manor
Retcon: short for “retroactive continuity”
Veronica Mars TV show & movie
Kelly Link’s "The Girl Detective" in “Stranger Things Happen”

Other Detectives from the Bracket:

Armand Gamache by Louise Penny

PD James Adam Dalgleish novels. Also on Acorn TV

Coffin Ed Johnson & Grave Digger Jones from Chester Himes’ Harlem Detective series

Inspector Alan Grant Mysteries, Josephine Tey

Barbara Neely, Blanche White novels

Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett

No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

Vera Stanhope novels by Ann Cleeves (CW: fatphobia)

Philip Marlowe by Raymond Chandler

Attica Locke and Darren Matthews, Texas Ranger novels

Isaiah Quintabe (IQ Novels) by Joe Ide

Henry Rios novels by Michael Nava

Agent Nina Guerrera novels by Isabella Maldonado

Tana French

Umbrella Academy TV show

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In the first full episode Evelyn and Lucy talk about the places where Witches (real, fictional, mythic & iconic) and Dicks (Private Eyes, Murder Mysteries, Detectives) overlap-- The Venn Diagram of where the Small “m” mystery of Hercule Poirot intersects with the Big “M” mystery of Witches & the supernatural. Recorded Jun 30 '21

Evelyn Archer: books and tarot readings: askevelynarcher.com @evelynarches on IG & Twitter
Lucy Neptune IG: @lucyneptunewnd
Card of the week: The Fool Card

Stuff we talked about:

STRANGE CREATURES by Phoebe North

CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA (graphic novel) by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA (novels), by Sarah Rees Brennan

Fringe TV show

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans and And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie

CHINATOWN, (directed by rapist Roman Polanski) on Hulu Premium

BLANCHE ON THE LAM, by Barbara Neely

Theseus & the Minotaur

Clew

The Maltese Falcon on HBO Max

Wicked Witch of the West played by Margaret Hamilton, Wizard of Oz on HBO Max

The Big Sleep, on many platforms

Three Pines/Insp Gamache by Louise Penny

Nick & Nora Charles, Hart to Hart, Agatha Christie Pair is Tommy and Tuppence

Hercule Poirot: the first cases (by Microids, on Steam)

Nancy Drew Games by Her Interactive

WITCH OF THE WEEK: SIMONE BILES and RAVEN SAUNDERS (She won Silver, here is her statement on her X Gesture

Bindlestiff Family Circus

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Evelyn Archer and Lucy Neptune here, getting ready to talk all things witchy and all things private detective-y. Take a listen and join us for the mysteries ahead!

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