Hi everyone, hope 2025 was good! Sorry for the hiatus. I was busy. In this episode, we chat with friend of the pod Steven Michael Holmes about VHS archival work and our shared lore before we jump into a discussion of 2025's most viral TikTok poem, "I Met My Younger Self for Coffee" by Jennae Cecelia. At ~27:00, we begin our discussion of David Duchovny's new book of poetry, About Time, published by Akashic. Does Mulder's poetry have the X-factor? Or should we file it away? And are there any alien poems? (Nope.)

Songs:

"NFFC Theme"

"drone strike" - Frozen Water

"X-Files Theme"

"Wrong Ones" - Plum Wooer

Steve's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Tube.Time.T.V

August's new tunes: https://plumwooer.bandcamp.com/

Eleanor's Substack: https://substack.com/@fanghoneyy

Marcus's band: https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/

It's the new year! It's also inauguration day (boooo)! We're serving up something different for 2025's beefy first episode. First, we take a look at the year ahead with some literary predictions from writers across the lit space: Steff Yue Duhem, Tao Lin, Jill McDonough, Rachelle Toarmino, catch breath, Lloyd Schwartz, Kit Rosewater, Chelsey Minnis, and more contribute their forecasts. Then we analyze and rank every past inaugural poet before musing on whom Trump's should be.

Songs:

"NFFC Theme"

"Bait the Hook (demo)" - Plum Wooer

"Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping" - Grouper

"Watching Star Wars (demo)" - Plum Wooer

Follow along and make your own inaugural poet tier list here: https://tiermaker.com/create/us-inaugural-poets-17814399

Buy August's book: https://apocalypse-confidential.myshopify.com/products/visitors-from-the-red-star-by-august-smith

Eleanor's Substack: https://substack.com/@fanghoneyy

Marcus's band: https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/

I bet you thought this podcast was dead. I bet the celebs thought they were safe from our scathing critiques. WRONG! To close out the year, we resurface like the dragons in "Reign of Fire" with guest Stephanie Yue Duhem to discuss: sweaty psychics, online lit journals, end rhymes, mulled wine, and the viral poem "For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper" by Joseph Fasano. Then we dissect the wisdom poetry of Matthew McConaughey's hybrid-memoir "Greenlights."

Songs:

"NFFC Theme"

"Stay Away (demo)" - Plum Wooer

"buchla jam 2"

"My Song 2" - EVIL MTN

Follow Stephanie: https://x.com/moonandmouth

Buy August's book: https://apocalypse-confidential.myshopify.com/products/visitors-from-the-red-star-by-august-smith

Eleanor's Substack: https://substack.com/@fanghoneyy

Marcus's band: https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/