Mismatched Texts

Hosted by two popular culture superfan-scholars, Mismatched Texts is a show that brings together novels, films, games, and narratives of all kinds into seemingly odd pairings and reveals the ways in which they address similar themes.

Mismatched Texts is a society podcast hosted by Justice Hagan & Andrew Hoffmann, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Justice Hagan & Andrew Hoffmann hosts Mismatched Texts, a society show with 100 episodes published.

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  Episode #122

  Short # 82 - ST Next Gen 2.12: The Royale

  Sep 20, 202626 minS1

  Wherein Andy and Justice gamble their sanity by revisiting one of the emptiest episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation 's second season, "The Royale." In a nostalgic bid to get audience attention by revisiting 1960s gangster Las Vegas, the crew explores the fiction but not the facts of the events. Forced to relive the narrative of a pulp novel, they ignore the acutal reason why this fantasy exists in the first place, in a very un-Star Trek fashion. Picard gets stuck on the Fermat's Last Theorem math problem while Data manipulates math in a way to escape the fantasy. At least Data was true to character while doing it. What an empty mess.

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  Episode #121

  Short # 81 - Sony PlayStation & The Loss of Physical Media

  Aug 9, 202628 minS1

  Wherein Justice and Andy preemtively mourn the loss of physical media following Sony's annoucement that PlayStation games will no longer have discs in the next two years. Why are we being pushed exclusively into the digital age? Someone must be benefitting from this. Granted, Steam has been exclusively digital for a generation and many people appreciate that convenience. But when you couple this with the recent publishing announcement to end the mass market paperback, the threat to knowledge preservation seems unaffordable.

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  Episode #120

  Short # 80 - ST Next Gen 2.10: The Dauphin

  Jul 10, 202621 minS1

  Wherein Andy and Justice court disappointment in their rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation season two episode ten, "The Dauphin." This is among the most forgettable episodes of the series. Case in point: we forgot that we recorded this review and moved on to "Contagion." Why do the writers continually pitch Wesley's personal life as something interesting? Why does he seek romantic advice from Geordi, who has even less game than him? Why would a Klingon mating ritual help a teenage human? And finally, why does the Enterprise have no interest in learning about the seemingly remarkable species that they are transporting to a diplomatic event? This one's a stinker.

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  Episode #119

  Short # 79 - The Boys Series Wrap-up

  Jun 19, 202629 minS1

  <p>Wherein Justice and Andy bludgeon their way through the uneven final season of the uneven series run of The Boys. What started off so promising simply took too long to produce and became a pastiche of itself. If the attitude or tone of the show didn't change, why did our reception of it? How did what was once shocking become routine? And even expected and boring? It's so dreadfully disappointing that it's difficult to encapsulate in a single joke. At least it's over.</p>

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  Episode #118

  Short # 78 - Starfleet Academy Pre-Post-Mortem

  May 1, 202650 minS1

  <p>Wherein Andy and Justice flunk the class of 3196 and pick through the carcass of an unfinished yet canceled show, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. This show is terrible all around: plot, check - setting, check - tone, check - theme, check. Why did the studio greenlight a show they had no confidence in? Is this the end of the Kurtzman era Star Trek? Will this finally make them put the franchise on ice for a generation? If Discovery was bad, and Section 31 was worse, then this one reads like fan fiction.</p>

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