Jeremy demonstrates that turnabout is fair play. A double- or triple-length episode, which should tide you over next week when Necessary & Sufficient goes dark.

In which Rich Robot coins the phrase “Monkey Fresh.”

(The) Vieve joins me for an investigation of two different kinds of baddish things, from Durham, NC, land of the lawnmowing goats.

This one comes at the intersection of Sense & Sensibility and art history. I’ve been interested in the idea of the sublime–almost a “so bad it’s good” kind of thing, but not in the way you’d expect–for a while now. Courtney does a great job here of exploring it with me.

Both this week’s and next week’s pairings were inspired by a viewing of the Ang Lee/Emma Thompson movie this past Super Bowl Sunday. I wonder what would have happened if I had watched the game.

Of the six (six!) college and grad school professors who I approached for Necessary & Sufficient, Rachel was the only one who wrote me back. Good thing too, as I could not have asked for a better…what’s the best term here? Interviewee? Conversationalist? Foil?

I feel like I’ve been having this kind of conversation with Lukas forever, and I’m so happy that I finally got one on tape. As anybody who knows us can probably guess, I edited this down to a tidy 23 minutes from a much, much longer discussion.

Another pair of words with a strong “which would you rather be?” factor. I suppose we’re all weird and strange, in our own ways. How about you?

Raquel, as one might expect, threatens to undermine the conceit of the exercise and turn our nice, neat duality into a sort of Ham & Cheese & Schmaltz Mexican standoff slash Kubrickian triangular conflict. We recover.