Summary
Everyone’s always saying “whatever happened to community”… yet no one passes along our chain mail. Chain mail is everyone’s least favourite thing to find in their inbox - an email thread threatening such real life events as being haunted by Michael Jackson, or your crush falling in love with you, unless you pass the email along to 50 other people. But newsflash. The industrial revolution killed culture and chain mail is here to save it. In this episode, Hannah and Maia discuss the folkloric origins of chain as pieces of information passed along by people within shared networks, and question whether it still has a place in these humourless times. After all, there’s always room for c0cktober in our hearts. Tangents include: Gossip Girl’s elliptical soap opera storytelling, and a truly baffling rendition of “Miss Mary Had a Steamboat” performed by the hosts.
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| 0:00.0 | I've been re-watching Gossip Girl because I've been sick. If you can't tell by the sound of my |
| 0:05.0 | voice, I think in an earlier episode this season, I was complaining about how I had allergies. |
| 0:10.8 | Turns out, um, those weren't allergies. It was just like a really vicious cold. And it |
| 0:15.7 | literally hasn't gone away. I've been sick for like three weeks. And it sucks. But since I've been sick, I've been watching lots |
| 0:23.0 | of gossip girl. And I just have so much to say. I already have a video about it. Hannah was also on |
| 0:29.2 | the video. We made it like years ago. I'd be kind of embarrassed to go look at it now. That video took |
| 0:33.7 | so much out of me. Like so much work. It was insane. I think I dubbed myself in like the |
| 0:38.8 | on-screen clips. We both dubbed ourselves because we didn't really have the technological |
| 0:43.9 | abilities to properly record ourselves. So we did have to actually sit down and dub ourselves |
| 0:51.6 | like we were making a foreign movie. I feel like I'm like an expert in it though now. |
| 0:56.4 | Like it was really hard. |
| 0:57.8 | It was. |
| 0:59.2 | It was like in the pandemic, we went and filmed in downtown Toronto in our little |
| 1:03.8 | gossip girl outfits. |
| 1:05.0 | In the middle of January, like we were freezing to death. |
| 1:07.6 | Like my mom had to drive us downtown, I think. |
| 1:10.6 | Yeah, like we weren't taking the subway. |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah, it was just, it was a mess. But anyways, the whole thesis of that video is that like the show is |
| 1:18.1 | set up against the poor characters. So that it's kind of like relies on this like in group |
| 1:24.4 | structure where like you as the audience want to feel part of the in groupgroup, and so you end up also hating the poor people, like, whatever, quote-unquote poor, but, like, proxomily poor people in the show, even though they do much less bad things than the rich people. Like, we have them on a much shorter leash. And then in this new round of watching, I'm just, like, fascinated by the fact that, like, it is just a straight-up |
| 1:47.3 | soap opera from the beginning. Like, it gets a little bit more islandish, but, like, truly from |
| 1:51.0 | the first episode, it is a soap opera. And it's made me think so much about how soap operas are so |
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