Podcast Premieres, Award Season, The Babadook, Inside Out 2, and more!

Check out what’s happening on the Glitterjaw pods in our Monthly Round-Up!

The Mixed Reviews highlighted the illustrious career of Jodie Foster! Winner of the May Madness Pride Bracket, Foster’s been a Hollywood mainstay for decades, appearing in Coppertone commercials as a child actor, winning the Academy Award for Silence of the Lambs, and taking on behind the camera roles as a director and producer. Gavin and Louie go deep into Foster’s long, complex, and storied career—and talk her place as a Queer icon.

We’re also so thrilled The Mixed Reviews is being recognized as an eligible nominee for The 19th Annual People’s Choice Podcast Awards! Check out our recent article detailing the award, then head to podcastawards.com to nominate The Mixed Reviews!

Fear Coded: A Queer Horror Podcast, the newest addition to the Glitterjaw family, has officially launched! David, Merrilee and Tyler gave listeners a double feature for their premiere! “Fainting Couches” gives listeners an introduction to the pod and the casters, while the three get “Baba-SHOOK” in their episode covering 2014’s The Babadook. Up next, the trio tackle Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho!

Walloping Websnappers! heard the sound of wedding bells as they kicked-off their coverage of the fifth and final season of Spider-Man: The Animated Series with “The Wedding” After that, Derek and Doug follow Spidey to Moscow as the five-episode arc “Six Forgotten Warriors” begins.

Novel Gaming! invites you to join them in attacking your backlog! Like many gamers, Katie and Doug’s list of unfinished, unplayed, and untouched games continues to grow, and to combat that, they’ve introduced The Backlog Challenge! Listen to them discuss the challenge and hear the list of games they each plan to finish between now and January.

And if you’re looking to join for their next book club episode, you don’t have to wait long. The Novel Gaming! crew talks The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass on July 18!

Falling With Style returned after a year-long hiatus to discuss Pixar’s latest release—Inside Out 2! With the introduction of four brand-new emotions, how does Riley Anderson navigate her first year as a teenager? And more importantly, what new emotions did Derek and Doug feel watching this latest release? Hear their thoughts on the latest episode, available now!

Lee Carvallo’s Podding Challenge clowned around with fellow Glitterjaw podcaster David Arnold as they gave a brief history of television clowns, Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky aka Krusty the Clown, and, of course, the 1992 puzzle-platformer Krusty’s Fun House.

Skreeonk! continued to bring the heat for HOT GHIDORAH SUMMER! with….a space opera?! Derek and Doug talk about the first American-Japanese co-production with Toho – Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)! There’s a lot of interesting details in this episode, including an unfortunate Hollywood connection. Come for the space lady clones, stay for Godzilla’s famous little dance.

Gimmicks continued revisiting the PDE (pre-David era) of the podcast by recontextualizing classic episodes. The two reaired their episode covering Batman: The Animated Series: "P.O.V.”, which features fellow Glitterjawer Gavin! Then, in July, they revisited Lost’s “Expose”, an episode featuring Tyler and Nate from Animorphing Time, The Bruce Campbell Podcast, and Hate Speech.

Distant Echoes: A Star Wars Podcast crossed the halfway point in their journey through Disney+’s The Acolyte, releasing episodes covering all the mystery, intrigue, darkness, and Manny Jacinto of episodes three through six. They also announced the series they’ll cover next – 1985’s animated spinoff Star Wars: Droids!