I'll be Pod for Castmas

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

In this episode, we tackle Carly Rae Jepsen's 2020 tragicomic holiday single It's Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries alongside Victor Hugo's dramatic portrait of the structure of suffering & the human character, Les Misérables. Is Jean Valjean actually santa claus? Is Santa a lie? Somewhere beyond the barricade, is there a world you long to see?

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what's that? Oh, it's the new episode of I'll Be Pod for Castmas, with a mailbag episode covering The Princess Switch: Switched Again, Jane Austen's Persuasion, the artistry of eyebrows defining identity, the importance of names (of literature), whether heraclitus applies to love stories, and of course, Sonic the Hedgehog wearing a tuxedo.

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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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