Livin' la Viva Voce

This week, Meg, Adam, and Aubrey explore human cloning! Aubrey discusses the new age of pregnancy. Meg shares deets on a pro-LGBTQ+/pro-immortality cult. Adam, as per usual, plugs The Guardian.

This week, Meg, Adam, and Aubrey attempt to answer: "What came first, the chicken or the egg?" Adam and Aubrey get clinical - Meg goes in a gastronomic direction.

What with the holidays and COVID, Adam and Meg have been busy relaxing and healing. Anyhoo - enjoy this special recording of Adam, Meg, and Aubrey reacting to Netflix's "The Princess Switch 2" in German with Spanish subtitles! Tschüss!

It's the return of Aubrey as our guest supervisor, and our last episode with the lovely Becca! This week, we answer, "what is the deal with human sacrifice?" Adam - as usual - offers some disturbing stats. (Boo!) Meg and Becca get DEEP about motherhood and COVID. (Yay!)

Adam, Meg and their guest Becca research and present on whether we should own non-domesticated animals as pets. Meg and Becca play fox and hen. Adam claims that CATS aren't domesticated??? Meg and Becca lose their shit. All in a day's work.

This week, Meg, Adam, and their new guest researcher, Becca attempt to answer the question, "How does technology affect children growing up?" Hilarity ensues!

TOOT TOOT! IT’S ICE AGE WEEK, BABY!!! This week’s brief: “should we bring back mammoths with genetic modification?”

Episode two, baby!!! Join Meg, Adam, and Bee this week as they attempt to answer: “Is burying bodies the right way to intern the deceased?” Spooky spooky!

We are back, back, back, back, back again! Joining us are guest supervisor, Aubrey, and guest researcher, Bee. The prompt this episode: "Why are cats assholes?"

This is the last episode of the first season! Congrats, you made it! Adam's talk, "The Longest Stuff" is not about Billy Joel. It's about zip-lines, and other heartwarming things.

We imbibed! So this week's talk is half about Yonkers (or rather, a weird piece of architecture about 10 miles north) and half about kettle chips. SPECIFICALLY the betrayal we experienced consuming Kettle brand's jalapeño potato chips.

What is Xanadu? Glad you asked. Adam's talk this week attempts to answer. Strangely enough, his research is mostly a film studies lecture about Olivia Newton-John and roller-skating...

Okay. So. We don't get drunk these last four episodes. Instead, we rely upon a certain green substance that is permissible in a state like New York. (Or a country like Canada!)

Let's be straightforward here. Adam's talk this week, "Can an Underwater Society Use Electricity?" is a doozy of a floozy. Alessandro Volta, Atlantis, Adventures! Enjoy :)

Wanna know how to BOOST your happiness? OPTIMIZE YOUR JOY?! Thomas More, England's garden cities, and the good ol' UN are here to help! Synthesized rather nicely in Meg’s talk, of course.

The Gameboy? Shifty IP laws? AND the Cold War?! How do these ideas stack up?

What do Uriah Heep, Dr. Jeffrey Steadman, and Waylon Smithers have in common? They're all sycophants!

Adam's talk this week, "Absolutely Rabid: Vaccinating Against Disease" is an outcry for pro-vaccine action! Give it a listen!

What do the Olsen twins, the Dionne quintuplets, and Gosselin sextuplets have in common? They've been pretty mistreated by folks who want to earn a crap ton of money! Meg's talk delves into the exploitation of multiple-birth children this week. It's an eye-opener!

It's Adam's turn this week. Pneu-matics?! Pneu-way!!

Three words. Open. Source. Cola.

Or should we say, Nick a Rag, Wah? (This podcast is dissipating into the ether... we're so sorry.)

It's the mid-season special!

Cards, cards, cards! Come get yer cards! Does it really make sense for Meg to talk for 30 mins about credit and debit? No thanks. As usual, her lateral thinking triumphs.

This week our alcohol-fuelled show is about alcohol! Adam talks (and drinks) LIMONCELLO! Hilarity (and plagiarism) ensues...

This week, Meg and Adam talk canonicity in Star Wars. (Disney, please don't come for us!)

It's Adam's turn to present! We are, if you'll pardon the pun, clowning around this week...

Our first episode recording TOGETHER! (Reunited and it feels so good<3) After a week of illness and travel (not COVID, fret not), Meg's talk, "The Lady of Imola: Caterina Sforza" marks the triumphant return of Viva Voce!

I guess you could call this episode, Livin' la ~VINYL~ Voce! (I hate myself.)

Now I know what you're thinking: "Meg's an eighteenth-century British literature scholar. SURELY - PLEASE GOD - she's gonna talk about Georgian era texts right?" WRONG. It's gonna be about MONKEYS!

FIBRE! Animal, vegetable, mineral? Turns out...CARS!

This week, Meg's talk, "Line of Doody: Sh*t Your Gut Says" takes Adam on an exploration of his insides! From bougie probiotic regimens to fecal transplants, this one gets a little stinky. (And yeah...we promise we won't stoop to poop ever again!)

Remember that short-lived television series, Dinosaurs? No? Perfect. This week, Adam’s talk “Are you Listening yet? Dinosaurs, The Simpsons, Family Sitcoms and framing Progressive Politics in relatable sentiments,” takes us on an emotional roller coaster in 90s TV storytelling. Buckle up! Meg gets really really drunk in this one.

Meg's talk this week, "The Highly Irrational: Computing Conspiracies in the Modern Age" is all about COMPUTER CONSPIRACIES (duh duh duh!!). It's mostly wacky (did someone say wingdings?), but we get pretty deep at the end. Go on - give it a listen.

Are you OBSESSED with Pantone’s shade of burgundy, 19-1617TCX, and how companies disrespect its precision? Drunk Adam is! Drunk Meg...not so much.

Meg presents her first viva on the high and low points of the Antiques Roadshow, the highly successful BBC and PBS daytime series. Four glasses of wine/gin in, and hilarity ensues.