Guest KT Hawbaker, writer and host of A Fairy Home Companion, introduces one of her favorite movies, Muriel's Wedding, to Tom and returning champion Chris Rife. This movie has a massive number of Abba songs, gloriously garish 80s fashion, delightful Australian accents, hilarious jokes, brutal diagnoses, life-destroying lies, emotional abuse, and suicide. To say the least, it is a unique and fascinating movie. Will Tom and Chris see it the same way KT did growing up in Iowa? Check it out and see, buds!

Ep 39: Muriel's Wedding (feat. KT Hawbaker)

The Skewer owns. Was there ever doubt? Kevin Johnson's fake news quiz and host Tom Harrison open the show. Behnam Riahi explores what makes a terrorist in response to Nicholas Cruz. Adam Homer Lawson shares an actual teacher's take on the epidemic of school violence. Ines Bellina breaks down what people are missing about the Latinx-focused message of The Shape of Water. And Alisa Rosenthal brings joy to our blighted lives via the Netflix reboot of Queer Eye. Finally, Ray Goldberg and Noah Heinrich engage in vicious verbal combat to decide the next Winter Olympic event: Threatening to Move or Cancelling Plans. Guys, this show owns! We got top to bottom winners here. Enjoy!

Fake News Quiz with Kevin Johnson (round 1) - 0:33
Tom Harrison - 6:28
Voicemail Op-Ed from erica dreisbach - 20:34
Behnam Riahi - 24:24
Adam Homer Lawson - 38:30 
Fake News Quiz with Kevin Johnson (round 2) - 51:34
Ines Bellina - 57:00
Alisa Rosenthal -1:08:49
Fake News Quiz with Kevin Johnson (round 3) - 1:19:23
THE SKEWER DEBATE: Ray Goldberg vs. Noah Heinrich - 1:25:16

The Skewer 27: March 2018

Hiatus be damned! It's episode 40! Tom is joined by YDU co-founder Eric Ruelle and YDU all-star Erika Price as he finally gets them to play one of his all-time favorite video games, Hatoful Boyfriend. Hatoful Boyfriend is a Japanese dating sim where you play a human high school girl and attempt to romance your sexy teen classmates, all of whom are, of course, birds. It is also so, so, so much more than that, with characters, worldbuilding, pacing, and writing so good it beggars belief. Anybirdie with a taste for the unique and unusual will find a treasure in Hatoful Boyfriend, but what did Eric and Erika think? Listen and find out, friends!

Ep 40: Hatoful Boyfriend

Another triumph from your Skewer friends. erica dreisbach opens the show by proxy. Sandy Lee shares a personal take on the news of the Korean peninsula. Tom Harrison talks about newspaper comics. Nora Regis takes us on a sightseeing tour of Facebook's heinous history. Lily Be calls out the hypocrisy and laziness in white America's response to endemic racism and the particular racism of this month's Starbucks arrests. And Allie Reid and Roxane West face off to decide how best to react to the pee tape's certain release: Huge viewing party, or somber trudge into the sea? Guys the Skewer owns, why deny it? Check it out!

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