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Episode 116: No Matter the Culture — Parents, Listen to Your Kids! Spirited Away (2001) with Ethan Harrod
Join Alex and Dr. Ethan Harrod as they navigate the spirit world in Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece Spirited Away (2001)! The English language dubbed version features the voice acting of Daveigh Chase (RIP :'( ), Suzanne Pleshette, Jason Marsden, and Susan Egan. Chihiro is a little girl whose family is moving, when they happen upon a strangely deserted resort town. Her parents turn into pigs after eating some food, they are subsumed within a spirit world, and Chihiro, now named Sen, must navigate working for an evil witch named Yubaba so she can find her parents, turn them back into people and get out of the spirit world.…
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Episode 006: Belief in Santa—Placebo Effect? Elf (2003) with Wind Goodfriend
Join Alex and Dr. Wind Goodfriend on discussion of the psychological concepts in Jon Favreau’s holiday classic Elf (2003), where we being the meme game in and discuss how the belief in Santa could just be a placebo effect of in holiday cheer.
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