Episode 103: Ghostbusters

No Story Is Sacred

In this episode we discuss the 1984 film Ghostbusters. You can rent it from Youtube, Apple TV, or Amazon Prime.

Content warnings for strong language, references to sex toys, bad Boston accents, a lot of theorizing in the absence of data with regard to the academic history of the parapsychology lab of Columbia University, middle-aged adults being distracted from their podcast by the dream of rent-controlled apartments, completely specious arguments regarding the legal process behind the receipt and enforcement of warrants, potential heresies, queer monster theory, Kat stepping on Alex’s lines multiple times, so much ghost/demon/monster sex, and what is probably the full script of Ghostbusters but quoted entirely out of order.

We reference or spoil: the Ghostbusters media universe, The Mummy, How I Met Your Mother, The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth & Fantasy Studies, IRB, Stanford Prison Experiment, Zener cards, St. Jerome’s hagiography, Harry Potter universe, No Story Is Sacred’s “No Ethical Ghosts Under Capitalism”, EPA, Troy Baker, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Lil Nas X‘s “Montero” music video, BuzzFeed Unsolved, Puppet History, The Try Guys, Mythbusters, Jackass, Tom Stoppard‘s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Other Guys, and Wordle

Also check out Kat’s The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine and Bren’s Select Start improv shows benefiting Arcade Comedy Theater.

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The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.