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When Bonanza ended after 14 seasons, NBC television turned to its biggest star, Michael Landon, to create a new series. Landon adapted Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved “Little House” books into “Little House on the Prairie,” a family drama about perseverance, faith, and community on the American frontier.

Premiering in the aftermath of Watergate, the series became a cultural phenomenon, offering an optimistic vision of neighbors coming together to overcome hardship. More than 50 years later, Little House remains one of television's most beloved franchises.

Netflix is now rebooting the series with promises of a more historically accurate adaptation. The project has already sparked heated debate, with some conservatives dismissing it as "woke."

Today we're joined by writer Lee Ingalls, a cousin of Laura Ingalls Wilder and a leading voice in preserving the Ingalls family legacy. Along with his husband Brett Cullum, he helps organize the Society for the Ingalls Family, a fan group for Little House events and fan gatherings.

Lee has written a deeply personal memoir, The Prairie Has a Rainbow, about growing up as a gay boy in the rural Midwest during the 1950s and 60s.

Plus--
• Did Heated Rivalry inspire the Netflix producers to create a bromance between Pa Ingalls and Mr Edwards? 

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As fascism and other systems of oppression slither their way into the mainstream, resistance doesn't always come from politicians, it’s coming from people with guitars, amps, and fierce music.

From Pussy Riot crashing churches in Russia to Welsh grannies cranking up distortion in Brooklyn, punk is still one of the loudest ways to say, “Hell to the no!”

Today Marc Felion is on special assignment in Brooklyn, New York talking to The Nanaz, a punk rock group from South Wales made up of women in their 50s and beyond. The group started as total strangers in a community sponsored music workshop, and now they’re tearing up festival stages, and bringing their beautiful chaos to New York City for the Loud Women Music festival.

Listen as we chat about how punk is giving them a second adolescence, their anthems like “Everyone’s an Idiot” and “Care Home Robbery” call out ageism, the nightmare of elder care, recycling, and why older women with guitars might be some of the most dangerous people in the room.

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Society is collapsing, the moon is full, and Madonna, Cher, and Nadya Ginsburg have all escaped from their cages. 

Comedian, writer, and woman of a thousand voices, Nadya Ginsburg, is back with her new musical comedy cabaret Feral Fatale, featuring stand-up, songs, AI critiques, shapeshifting into pop icons, and a dramatic reading of Cher's most legendary tweets.

Today Nadya joins us to sink our teeth into Madonna's brand new album, Confessions II, which just like World War II uses Roman numerals to determine the version number.  Is it her best album in decades or is it a reboot? Has the Queen of Pop finally stopped chasing trends and started reflecting on her legacy with vaginal green space lasers? 

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Plus:
• Madonna teams up with daughter Lourdes on a new dance track.
• Why the New York Times misses the mark on rejecting the word "queer."
• Jackie Beat's Final Destination moment.
• Little House on the Prairie gets a Netflix reboot.

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By now you’ve probably sick of hearing about the weird video made by McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempciznski, where he nervously takes a tiny bite of their new burger, referring to it as a “product.” 

Since then, a myriad of executives have tried to one-up each other with their own burger “eating” videos, creating a full-fledged social media spectacle with the hopes of raising sales and building brand loyalty.

But one question still stands: why won't these burger CEOs show themselves swallowing their own “meat?”

Today Chicago comedian and burger aficionado Dan Cass joins us to look at the incredibly weird new burger wars, which instead of making people want to buy one, is making everyone question their life choices. 

Plus--

• Did Timothée Chalamet’s off putting comments on opera and ballet cost him the Oscar?

• BuzzFeed reports they may be going out of business. Here’s 10 reasons and why #4 will shock you. 

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People love sports for the thrill of the challenge, to push their bodies to boldly go where they’ve never gone before. But in Star Trek, how would people compete in a universe where physical augmentation makes almost anything possible? 

What happens to bodybuilding a thousand years from now?

Today’s episode is a dual drop from Feast of Fun and Let’s Grow Big Together, think of it as a transporter mishap where two podcasts are fused as one, but not as awkward as Tuvix.

In this series, we take a look at the passion for muscle, adventures in bodybuilding, muscle gods, muscle worship and practical advice to put on the gains.

The new series Starfleet Academy centers the Star Trek universe around the school for new recruits with a fresh focus on youth culture and hot bodies.

Today Starfleet Academy’s production designer Matthew Davies joins us to look at his work imagining schools, starships, gyms and nightclubs of the future.

Davies is also an accomplished bodybuilder, so we’re having a little fun imagining what bodybuilding might look like in that world. How will technology shape bodybuilding? What will giant, glorious bodies mean centuries from now? 

Plus--
• Lesbians in Space! Creating same sex, interspecies relationships.

• Why Matthew has no regrets turning down Heated Rivalry.

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