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Trigger Warnings, Movies That Make Us Cry, Our Favorite Books, Swimming | Constellation, Episode 24

It's time yet again for another episode of Last Stand Media's conversational podcast, Constellation. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by associate editor Ben Smith and coordinator Micah Watson. Dagan's topic explores the media -- primarily the films and TV shows -- that quite literally bring a tear to our eye. What sets off our waterworks? Micah thinks trigger and content warnings have gotten out of control, to the detriment of both the content that's being endlessly targeted and the people who are apparently being protected. On the back of Cormac McCarthy's unfortunate passing, Ben wonders which authors and books speak most to us, and what our reading habits have even become as adults. Does reading play a role in our lives? Finally, Colin brings something easy and breezy to the table, a seasonal inquiry: Are we going swimming this summer or what? 0:00:00 - Introduction 0:20:21 - Trigger Warnings 1:01:52 - Our Favorite Books and Authors 1:52:51 - Swimming 2:28:58 - The Movies That Make Us Cry

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Luke Silletta

Trigger warnings on TV shows annoy me. The suicide one specifically. I was watching Snowpiercer and had a big warning that a suicide will happen in this episode. Now all I'm doing while watching it is wondering who is going to commit suicide. "this guy?" "maybe this girl is going to be the one?". its really just a spoiler.

Jordan Moyer

Duuuude Micah is turning into an absolute animal lol. She's becoming a god amongst us.

Pyo

always the perfect time when coming on here

Luis N.

Thank you for adding chapter times!

Cameron

Micah needs the Stone Cold Steve Austin shirt that has a viper head on the front and on the back it says “don’t trust anybody”

Surge!

The all time contender for warning audience members has got to be Disney+, with disclaimers about movies from the 1940's and 50's, and how morally wrong some of their stories can be interpreted as when seen through modern lens, 70 some odd years later. Truly a parody at this point.

Joshua Brown

I think of that as less of a trigger warning and more of a “we know it’s outdated, stand down on emailing us about it” kind of thing.

Anonymous

I would rather have that than them re-editing it like they have with other things.

Lucas Gremista

"El toothbrusho, el flooro..." I'm dying :)

PRETENTIEUX

Micah you are going to love The Stand. I also recommend Hearts in Atlantis! It's his weirdest book IMO. I was living in a youth shelter and that book got passed around. It was a beautiful hardcover I guess someone had donated. A bunch of us started playing hearts everywhere we went. Literally on the bus we'd be crouched in the back playing hearts on the floor lmao. Great book. Speaking of trigger warnings, this was in 2002 and there was a rule that the TV volume had to be set to multiples of either 2 or 5 because some of the kids had severe issues that caused them to have an episode if it was on something like 47 or 54. That was in a very special place for kids that had problems to begin with so it was understandable. It's quite scary that the general population of the west is treated like this now.

Jonathan Turner

Can we get this best friend of Dagans on a special show of some sorts? We got Colins best friend Ramon on, its time for PJ. Maybe a Dagan and PJ episode.

Jordan Knepp

I remember Spike eating yellow grass in The Land Before Time and thinking it looked so tasty. The animators did a great job

Anonymous

The article you referenced about Brandon Sanderson was written by Wired not The New York Times. Hope that helps you find it if you were looking. Fun show!

Kevin Cooper

A missed opportunity to use the soundboard: "My cleaning ladies are so Spanish..." "HOW SPANISH ARE THEY?!" *ba-dum-tsssss*

Kevin Cooper

After trigger warnings, I would say that we're about two or three steps away from just handing out SOMA tablets to everyone. #BraveNewWorld