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Is It Camp?! A Podcast
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A podcast all about the queer subgenre of camp! Hosted by @slamcampbell.bsky.social and @sourcitruslady.bsky.social, edited by @freyburg.bsky.social. Don't know what camp is? New episodes drop every Saturday.
Watch out for snakes, and stay camp!
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Finally, a movie with a hero we can all love unconditionally: a breakfast sandwich.

Episode 224: Is It the Crossbow Killer?

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Harley Quinn
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Total Eclipse of the Heart. It’s All Coming Back to Me Now. Paradise by the Dashboard Light. I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That). All songs written by the same man: Jim Steinman. But are they camp?

Episode 223: Is It Hair so Big, It's Filled With Lyrics?

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Songwriter Jim Steinman.
November 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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YOU WOULON'T HOST A POUCAST
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Episode 222: Is It Ahhhhhhhhh The French?

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The poster for The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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This week.
A still from the end credits of Buckaroo Banzai.
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Episode 221: Is It Mr Policeman We Gave You All The Clues?

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The poster for The Wicker Man (1973).
November 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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This week, Claude Rains pouts at naughty glassware.
Claude Rains in The Invisible Man.
October 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Don’t call yourself an ally unless you’re willing to get stabbed by goth Jessica Chastain in a crumbling mansion.

Episode 219: Is It Gothica Chastain?

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Jessica Chastain in Crimson Peak
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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This week.
Guillermo del Toro next to a candelabra.
October 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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“Wacky!” - Daily Variety

Episode 218: Is It Miak?

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The DVD cover art for Ernest Scared Stupid. Ernest is popping out of a Jack o lantern with a scared look on his face. The pull quote reads, "Wacky!" - Daily Variety.
October 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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This week.
Actor Jim Varney demonstrating 16 different emotions with his face.
October 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Our very own Sam is part of a Knorr campaign, and you can see him wrestle for FREE in Toronto!

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Two beefy wrestlers giving each other the stink eye. The one on the left, a large ginger man with enormous muscles, is wearing a sleeveless green chef’s jacket and holding a tortilla wrap. The Knorrior himself! A very muscular ginger man yelling in delight and power at the viewer. He wears a green chef’s outfit with no sleeves. Over his shoulder is a large wrestling championship belt reading “FLAVOUR MANIA - TAG IN TAG OUT - KNORR - 2025” Knorrior Origin Story The Flavour Enforcer. The King of zing. He's never met a vegetable he couldn't kick up a notch. Never seen a noodle or a grain of rice he couldn't spice. With him in your corner, boring isn't an option, and flavourlessness gets the full nelson. He's forever fighting for flavour, slamming seasoning up and down the squared circle.
October 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Enchanted (2007). Is it a witty subversion of the Walt Disney Company’s history, or a deeply conservative reinforcement of gender and societal norms? Also, Susan Sarandon queens the fuck out.

Episode 217: Is It How Do You Know What A Vacuum Is?

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Susan Sarandon in Enchanted. She looks like a drag queen. This is a compliment.
October 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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This week.
A still from Enchanted (2007). A woman in an enormous white dress is knocking at an obviously fake castle on a billboard.
October 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Here’s Catherine Deneuve’s hair from the end of Umbrellas we discussed (flying buttresses and scaffolding presumably unseen)
Catherine Deneuve in Umbrellas of Cherbourg. She is a very beautiful blond woman with an enormous round pout of a hairdo. A screencap from Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Catherine Deneuve is looking at Nino Castelnuovo and saying, “She’s so much like you.” Behind them is a car parked at a gas pump. It is snowing and dark. She has an enormous pouf of an updo, one that makes you wonder how her head can hold it up.
September 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Episode 216: Is It Edible Umbrellas?

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Letterboxd screencap: Patrick Willems The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 ****½ Watched 29 Mar 2023 Jacques Demy: With all the pretty colors and singing you'll think it is nice and happy but the twist is... [sips glass of wine]...c'est triste
September 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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This week.
Catherine Deneuve holds a bouquet of flowers in a still from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. The colours are very rich and vibrant.
September 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Finally, a Coen bros. movie the whole family (Sam and Sarah) can enjoy! We discussed The Hudsucker Proxy, premium throwback Capracorn released in … 1994? That can’t be right.

Episode 215: Is It Cow Tools?

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A boardroom of old white men. One at the front of the frame is making a quizzical expression and has very large eyebrows like a great horned owl.
September 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Important reference for our Running Man episode.
Alex Blechman @AlexBlechman Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus 22:49 • 08 Nov 21 • Twitter Web App
September 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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In 1987, Arnold starred in The Running Man, a dystopian take on reality tv and yeah yeah it’s shockingly prescient and all but also he dresses like a minion

Episode 214: Is It Minion-Bounding?

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Arnold Schwarzenegger in high waisted black pants with yellow suspenders, a blue sweatshirt, and a yellow cap.
September 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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This week.
A wikihow illustration showing how to do the Running Man.
September 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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In 1989, Universal released The Wizard, best known for containing the first Super Mario Brothers 3 footage in North America. But we’re here to ask… maybe it’s actually a pretty good movie about grief?

Episode 213: Is It Rain Boy?

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The poster for the 1989 film The Wizard.
September 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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This week.
Lucas from the 1989 movie The Wizard. He’s a child bully holding up his Power Glove’d hand. In the background, a smaller child is setting up a Super Nintendo game for him.
September 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Everyone in for Sam’s Pick! Our birthday boy chose Exorcist 3, but the spooooookiest thing about this movie is how good Brad Dourif is in it.

Episode 212: Is It the Carp?

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Brad Dourif in Exorcist 3. He is looking at the viewer. He is in a padded cell and has a large bandage on his nose.
August 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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私たちのゲイ向けポッドキャストを聞いてください！ウォシャウスキー姉妹の2008年の傑作映画「スピード・レーサー」について話しました。

Episode 210: Is It Sweaty Bangs?

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A still from the movie Speed Racer. Speed Racer is walking away from his car as fireworks go off behind him.
August 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM