Episode 1: Take My MacGuffin

In this episode:

Gray experiences The Invasion for the first time. It turns out it wasn’t an invasion of lizards.

We discuss the crazy aliens, the grossness of morphing, slash goggles, the concept of default identity in literature, the trope of the five-man band, and the way this book does not pull its punches.

Outside references:

• Salad shooter commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvL-I3Dfeqc

• New Jim Crow - http://newjimcrow.com/

• Dogs and Smurfs - https://maxbarry.com/2011/07/08/news.html (which Jenny conflated with another article around the same time about someone changing the gender of characters when reading to their kids, which may or may not have been this one: https://boingboing.net/2013/12/30/genderswitched-bilbo-makes-the.html)