a friendly seasonal podcast of frivolous stories and the joy of literature.
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it's december, which means I'll Be Pod for Castmas is back again for a new season! This December, we're tackling Les Misérables, both the famous musical and victor hugo's novel as the case may be, alongside Carly Rae Jepsen's 2022 classic It's Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries! The first episode of the season comes out... tomorrow!
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did you know that 119 years ago today, the first ever Arsène Lupin story was published?
This Christmas-in-July, on I'll Be Pod for Castmas we're celebrating the switcharoo heist, with the genre-defying Vanessa Hudgens vehicle Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star alongside the genre-defining Maurice Leblanc short story compilation, Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar. also—did you know that the third Princess Switch movie is really the Fast Five of the franchise? because that's a delightful surprise
Our final episode of the 2023 Les Mis season is here! Juliet and Katherine dive deeper into the sadness, joy, and fantastic realism of the characters of Gavroche, Eponine, and Javert through the lens of Jorge Luis Borges' "The Shape of the Sword" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "It's Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries".
If you can't get enough Les Mis content, you can also check out our Winter 2023 bonus episode over on the Moonshot Network's patreon, where we dig deeper into the zany action comedy of things in the les mis book that don't make it into the award-winning musical.
Happy holidays everyone, and we'll see you all next year!
if you ever wanted to read the Jorge Luis Borges short story commonly called "The Shape of the Sword" or "The Form of the Sword", without needing to read, you're in luck! Here's the charming voice of Max Newland to read it aloud for us. It's great to listen to ahead of Saturday's discussion episode, or as a standalone snack!