As the 1998 movie The Truman Show becomes ever more pertinent to our reality TV and social media obsessed minds, your host has fallen deep into a rabbit hole about the movie, and sees some parallels to modern times' family vlogger channels. Join us this week for an exploration of the theory of Christof as Truman's controlling father figure. Yes, there is ranting involved.

Here's the link to the Wikipedia entry for The Truman Show.

Link to Jessica Maddox's article about the financial protections recently put into place for FamTube kids can be found here.

Tiffany Ferguson's excellent video discussing Shari Franke's book is linked here, and you can support both her work and Shari Franke's book by clicking here to purchase it using Tiffany's affiliate link.

Link to Cinema Therapy's "Therapist Reacts To The Truman Show".

The article from The Guardian can be found here.

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A lesbian character in a 19th century novel? Mon dieu! If, like me, you've only ever read the abridged version of Alexandre Dumas's classic French historical fiction epic, you'll be surprised by what awaits in the unabridged version. Join Ok Real Quick as we dive into the textual evidence of Eugenie Danglar's romantic love for Louise d'Armilly.

This week's Special Segment is "From My To Be Read Pile", where we talk about the book "The Black Count" by Tom Reiss.

Heather Rose Jones's The Rise of Gay Paris can be found through this link.

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"Best friend isn't a person, Danny. It's a tier." That phrase (from The Mindy Project) has lived in my head rent-free for over ten years. But...can you actually have more than one best friend? Join us for an exploration of all things besties on this week's episode of Ok Real Quick Pod!

This week's Special Segment is The Chisme Chorner where we discuss this gem from the "Wedding Shaming" subreddit.

Refinery29 NOT Refinery21 article *facepalm*

The social brain hypothesis and its implications for social evolution

Calling Dunbar’s Numbers

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