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Welcome to Media Made, the show in which we, year by year, explore the movies, music, and TV that most invaded our lives! Hosts Rod and Jess discuss the media that made them in this elaborate couple's exercise turned podcast. Help them decide who has better taste and who won each year overall!
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May 1, 2025
May 1, 2025
3 hr 12 min
Media Made is going back to 90s, and we're bringing some friends along!
Welcome to Earth, 1996. It was a big year in pop culture. Blockbuster movies were everywhere, classic cartoon characters were entering their renaissance, and a little game console called the Nintendo 64 was hitting store shelves.
Rod & Jess are joined this month by Gooey and McKenna, hosts of the Flashback 64 podcast, to look back at the two 1996 movies that most invaded THEIR lives. We kick off the festivities with conversation about Roland Emmerich's disaster movie classic, Independence Day. Then, we slam and jam with the 90s' craziest crossover film, Space Jam.
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Content Warning: Sexual Content, Discussions of Substance Abuse
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Apr 1, 2025
Apr 1, 2025
3 hr 29 min
It's time for our annual April Fools' Day show!
Rod & Jess are going back to the 90s to spotlight the TV Movies that most invaded their lives! First, they enter the radical world of aggressive inline skating through the classic Disney Channel Original Movie Brink!. Then, thing get magical as they examine the beloved 1997 version Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella starring Whitney Houston and Brandy!
Content Warning: Discussions of Substance Abuse, Discussions of Racism/Racial Insensitivity
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Mar 6, 2025
Mar 6, 2025
2 hr 19 min
After a string of massively long shows, Media Made is back with something short and sweet.
In this 2008 TV episode, Rod & Jess take a look back at two widely different shows. First, they check back in on web-based production house Rooster Teeth and discuss their promotional machinima series Supreme Surrender. Then, they sing the praises of the TNT's action crime dramedy Leverage. Big wigs and fat cats beware!
Content Warning: Sexual Content, Discussions of Substance Abuse, Discussions of Racial Insensitivity
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Feb 6, 2025
Feb 6, 2025
3 hr 59 min
Media Made is back with a super-sized episode!
In this 2008 Music show, Rod & Jess talk in-depth about the most expensive rock album ever made: Chinese Democracy by Guns N' Roses... And 3 Doors Down are here too. Tales of heartache, existential angst, and rock & roll lifestyles await in this nearly FOUR-HOUR rock block. We hope you're ready!
Content Warning: Sexual Content, Discussions of Suicide/Suicidal Ideation, Discussions of Substance Abuse, Discussions of Domestic/Spousal Abuse, Discussions of Sexism/Misogyny, Discussions of Racial Insensitivity
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Jan 2, 2025
Jan 2, 2025
3 hr 43 min
Media Made kicks off the New Year with our 2008 Movies show!
Continuing the trend of chick flick - dude movie double features, Rod & Jess look back at two very different features. First, they talk wedding horror stories and romantic woes as they relate to the Katherine Heigl rom com 27 Dresses. Then, they examine perhaps the greatest superhero film of all time, The Dark Knight, with a conversation that rivals the actual movie in length. Are you ready?!
Content Warning: Sexual Content, Discussions of Substance Abuse, Discussions of Vigilante Violence, Discussions of Sexism/Misogyny, Discussions of Racial Insensitivity
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Dec 5, 2024
Dec 5, 2024
3 hr 20 min
What's this?! A sort-of holiday episode of Media Made?
In this 2007 Bonus podcast, hosts Rod & Jess are joined by their good friend Eileen (AKA Cousin) to discuss the movie and album from that year that most invaded her life. First, we partake in the (uncomfortable) family comedy film Dan in Real Life. Then, we look back at Linkin Park's era-defining record Minutes to Midnight.
We hope you enjoy this holiday gift from your pals at Media Made. We'll be back to our normal schedule of shows in the New Year!
Content Warning: Cringe, Sexual Content, Discussions of Suicide/Suicidal Ideation, Discussions of Racism/Bigotry
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Nov 7, 2024
Nov 7, 2024
3 hr 33 min
Need a little something to take your mind off the world? Media Made is back with a brand-new episode!
In this 2007 TV show, Rod & Jess travel back to mid-2000s South Korea to discuss the gender-bending romance drama Coffee Prince. Then, they go back even further to explore the 1960s-set prestige AMC drama Mad Men. There's a lot of mature themes and serious subjects discussed in this one, but we promise it'll be a lot of fun too.
"Killer" by Baby VOX closes segment one.
Content Warning: Sexual Content, Discussions of Substance Abuse, Discussions of Racism / Racial Insensitivity, Discussions of Misogyny / Sexism, Discussions of Antisemitism, Discussions of Homophobia
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Oct 3, 2024
Oct 3, 2024
3 hr 44 min
Rod brings the heavy and Jess brings the slow in this 2007 Music episode of Media Made!
First up, our hosts take on the sinister seventh album of progressive metal band Dream Theater, Systematic Chaos. Then, they look back at the divisive -- and ultra-personal -- third album by "our queen" Kelly Clarkson, My December. Just in time for Spooky Season, this episode's got vampires, demon slaying, and severe emotional stress! What more could you ask for?!
Content Warning: Sexual Content, Discussions of Substance Abuse, Discussions of Suicide/Suicidal Ideation
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Media Made
Welcome to Media Made, the show in which we, year by year, explore the movies, music, and TV that most invaded our lives!
Hosts Rod and Jess discuss the media that made them in this elaborate couple's exercise turned podcast. Help them decide who has better taste and who won each year overall!
