• Alex & Ezra's Quest for All* Knowledge: Twist Ties and Noses
    Jun 12 2026

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    Alex and Ezra are long-time friends who are both a mile wide and an inch. After careful research, we've determined there are exactly 1,206 things to know about the world, so we're setting out on a quest to learn one fact about everything that's ever happened BUT NOT TWO.

    This episode? We learn just one thing about Twist Ties and Noses.

    YouTube: Watch our faces and say nice things in the comments!

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    28 mins
  • RIAW: Heated Rivalry (2025) with Sarah Hatheway & Amanda Leinbaugh
    May 31 2026

    Season 8 is starting soon! Shape it by giving us feedback on the Patreon!

    Hot Frosty 2: Hot Ice. Cool Canadian hockey phenom Shane Hollander and Brusque Russian hockey hot-shot Illya Rosanov are rivals on the skates but, surprise, lovers between the sheets. They're hot and cold as public and private lives cross-check each other, but in an uplifting, very needed example of queer joy, it's all actually okay!

    They profess their love, come out to Shane's parents, and get all the happy endings that they deserve. However many hockey sticks you like in your fantasy, you're sure to get melted by Heated Rivalry.

    The RIAW-gorithm also recommends:

    Fleabag Season 2
    Schitt's Creek
    Chala Hunter, all-star intimacy coordinator
    Pillion (but not if you want anything like Heated Rivalry
    Ben's Bakery and the Hanukkah Miracle

    Next up: Season 8 and Eurovision!

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    57 mins
  • RIAW: Star Trek: The Next Generation - Time Travel! w/ Stephen Carter & Caitlin Gill
    Apr 30 2026

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    Space, the final frontier. But also time, some would say, a more final frontier.
    These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.
    To go cheat at dom jot and get stabbed in the back.
    To get robbed by a time traveler while saving a planet.
    To prevent 22 years of war by killing off Tasha Yar again.
    And to boldly meet Kelsey Grammars like no one has met Kelsey Grammars before.

    We voted on our Patreon and picked these ST:TNG Time Travel episodes:

    3.15 Yesterday's Enterprise

    5.9 A Matter of Time

    5.18 Cause & Effect

    6.15 Tapestry


    The RIAW-lgorithm also recommends:
    Dark
    Also Dark
    The Husbands
     The Gone World
     Resident Alien
    More Star Trek (DS9, Lower Decks,

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • RIAW: Seconds Away (2025) with director Ben Kegan, NCAA Indoor Champion Colby Alexander, and NipGuard Enthusiast Dru Johnston
    Mar 31 2026

    Vote on our next running movie!

    This is a special one. Not only are we talking running, we're doing it with my friends Dru Johnston (NipGuards episode) and Ben Kegan. Ben made a whole incredible documentary about running. We even have NCAA indoor champion Colby Alexander joining us to talk about his experience in the movie. Check it out:

    "SECONDS AWAY follows Belgian-American runner Peter Callahan and his longtime coach, Patrick McHugh, as they chase a qualifying time fast enough to make the Olympic Games. When Patrick is diagnosed with cancer, their pursuit becomes an unflinching look inside the sacrifices, devotion, and rare bond that define life at the edge of elite running."

    If you liked this, the RIAW-lgorithm also recommends:

    • Seeing Seconds Away. You can even host a screening!
    • Dru's running substack
    • Running with your arms out like in Weapons
    • Across the Tracks (with Brad Pitt)
    • Run Lola Run
    • Without Limits
    • Chariots of Fire
    • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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    59 mins
  • RIAW: Murder She Wrote (1984) with Caitlin Gill & Amanda Leinbaugh
    Feb 26 2026

    Quick: vote on what we're watching for our Time Travel Star Trek Episode.

    No longer a tea pot, Angela Lansbury is mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, living in Cabot Cove, Maine, a lovely community except for all the MURDER!

    We watched:

    S4 E7- If it's Thursday, it must be Beverly
    S7 E10 - Murder in F Sharp
    S10 E5 - A Virtual Murder

    Some bonus recs:

    S2 E14 - Keep the Home Fries Burning
    S2 E20 - Menace, Anyone?
    S12 E16 - Murder Among Friends

    Thanks to Caitlin Gill for bringing this one too us and for Amanda Leinbaugh for being our main Maine expert!

    The RIAWlgorithm also recommends:
    Magnum PI
    The Stars!
    Caitlin's show in LA!
     Sue Grafton books
    Knives Out movies
    Murder, She Baked!
    Diane Mott Davidson books
    Living a full life past your 60s.

    Next up, Star Trek: The Next Generation Time Travel episodes with Stephen & Caitlin!

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • RIAW: Red Dwarf (1989) with Stephen Carter
    Jan 29 2026

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    Space. On a crappy mining ship in the future, everyone dies except for Dave Lister, a lowly technician, who survives for 3 million years in stasis.

    Joining him are the suave descendant of his cat, the hologram of his dead pompous bunkmate, a low-polygon max headroom-looking android, and the ship's computer who, depending on the episode, is a man, a woman, an idiot, a genius. If you ever saw Star Trek and Doctor Who and thought–I want the opposite of this, you might just want to take a trip with Red Dwarf.

    The RIAWlgorithm also recommends:

    Avatars, but not complaining about it
    A ball pit (but not that one)
     Life on Mars
    Dark
    Bon Appetit, Your Majesty
    The Lazarus project
    11/22/63 
    Palm Springs
    Kelsey Grammar Time-Travel
     X-Men: Days of Future Past
    Star Trek: TNG "Cause and Effect"
    Encino Man
    Captain America: The First Avenger
    Blast from the Past
    Blackadder
    Dr. Who

    Next up, Murder, She Wrote with Caitlin and Amanda!

    Want to steer this show in some direction? Email us at podcasts@read-weep.com!

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • RIAW: Tokyo Godfathers (2003) with Todd McClintock
    Dec 25 2025

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    Three unhoused people try to return a baby on Christmas in Tokyo.

    No notes. This Satoshi Kon film is just perfect. Strong recommend you watch it however/wherever you can (Tubi, Hoopla, however you can track it down).

    The RIAWlgorithm also recommends:

    Todd's shows Amphibia & Wylde Pak

    Porco Rosso

    Cruel Intentions/Dangerous Liaisons

    Next up, Red Dwarf with Stephen Carter!

    Want to steer this show in some direction? Email us at podcasts@read-weep.com!

    See you in the new year!

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    53 mins
  • RIAW: Columbo (1971) with Amanda Leinbaugh & Caitin Gill
    Dec 3 2025

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    Aw jeez, I'm real sorry to take up your time. Y'see I'm Lt. Columbo, and I just need to ask you a few questions.

    It's the early '70s and I'm a detective in Los Angeles. Every week some famous '70s star who you might not recognize, but they look kind of familiar, see, they kill someone, takes 'em about 20 minutes, then for an hour or so they try and get away with it.

    Great stars, you get Dick van Dyke, Donald Pleasence, Johnny Cash, aw, you're gonna love it. And they always underestimate me, the Grandpa from Princess Bride.

    But there's a good twist and bam, sooner or later, I crack the case. Maybe it's my rumpled, disarming affect. I'm sorry for wasting your time.

    And one more thing... if you liked this, you might just take up the case of Columbo."

    If you liked this, the RIAWgorithm recommends:

    🔥Caitlin's Space show in LA, next on 12/3/25 !🔥

    Alex's Newsletter where I wrote about Mr. Rogers & Zombies

    Giving Anthony things to plug (podcasts@read-weep.com)

    New Matlock!

    Murder She Wrote (will be episode 7.15)

    Poker Face

    Brick

    Only Murders in the Building

    Midsummer Murders

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    59 mins