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Bread & Barricades: A Les Mis Podcast

Comedy education podcast where Nemo and Stevie read Victor Hugo's Les Mis in a search to understand it and our world better.

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Bread & Barricades: V.xvii, Marius is Perfect

Cw: reference to domestic and child abuse, discrimination against incarcerated people, Nemo and Stevie are together at long last! This week we stare at a wall! It's the day after the wedding and Hugo immediately comes at us with his usual gross bullshit. Valjean makes his confession because he’s a (stupidly) honest man, and Cosette is transformed into … “a woman”. Marius thinks he’s galaxy brained…

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Bread & Barricades: V.xvi, Valjean's Traumatised Yaoi Hands

Cw: descriptions of grief, dehumanisation and incarceration Jean Valjean goes home to have sad flashbacks about Cosette's childhood, then wrestles with a new dilemma. Then we talk about Murderbot quite a bit before going back to him being sad, untherapised and traumatised. This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi . It is a Captain's…

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Bread & Barricades: V.xv, God's Jorkin' it out the Window

Cw: suicide reference, racism mention, anti-LGBT policits reference, Straight out the gate with derailed impure thoughts about Valjean, then it's onto the wedding of a century. It's Mardis Gras and this old man needs to yell at a cloud before another old man gives a wedding speech! This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi . It is a Captain's…

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Bread & Barricades: V.xiv, Hummingbirds with Beaks and Claws

Cw: suicide mention, referenced homophobia Burying gold in forests, shipper's goggles make us sad, and we get obsessed with numbers yet again (p0ur 1 6ut 4 2avert). Hugo thrills us with civil status, violet scents and an old man dresses his granddaughter-in-law in his mistress's clothes, then we talk for a while about masculinity. Listen to Asian Pirate Musical now! This podcast was produced by…

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Bread & Barricades: V.xiii, Straight’s a Mistake

Cw: death mention, graphic injury description, drug use mention We made a joke about never coming back…. And then went away for a while. But we’re back and with more chaotic energy than ever! Javert’s ghost haunts other characters in the hunt for Valjean, and Hugo says happy pride before we settle in for our hardest job yet… caring about Marius. This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio…

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Bread & Barricades: V.xii, Twenty Memoriams

Cw: conversations about death, suicide, Trump mention Our favourite girly goes through it… for the last time. Just like Javert, we are quite thoroughly derailed. The Penal Code document mentioned Henri Gisquet This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction and intro composing is by JDWasabi . It is a Captain's Collection Creation . Bread & Barricades (@LesMisPodcast) | Twitter Bread…

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Bread & Barricades: V.xi, Sad Eyed Javert

Cw: implications of suicide, death, Hugo starts us off with some equal opportunity foot fetish, the return of a knob, and Javert and Valjean meet again in filthy circumstances. Javert and Valjean have a tense cab ride around town, Marius narrowly escapes becoming the protagonist of a different musical and if an old man can change, then so can other people. I talk about Nestor. It's not Nestor,…

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Bread & Barricades: V.x, Rich People Inconvenienced

Cw: description of drowning, death, sewage, [re-uploaded, apologies for the incorrect audio] Hugo sucks us in with a horrifying account of the sewers, Jean Valean struggles through the sewers, gets down on his knees, only to be met with a familiar and talkative face. Order The Construction of Race in Les Mis Fanworks here ER Martian fic This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction…

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Bread & Barricades: V.ix, Cloaca Meetcute

Cw: discussions of sewage, getting lost in the dark, references to suicide, death, Hugo takes us into the horrors of the sewers, where our smart boy is led by the hand of God. A criminal goes for a stroll by the Seine, pursued by a tall man who is more attractive than Chris Evans… and we finally reach the culmination of a bready bit. This podcast was produced by Nemo Martin. The audio direction…

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Bread & Barricades: V.viii, HUGUANO OOZE

Cw: sinophobia, discussion of sewage, We dive into the sewers and for the first time ever, Hugo might be right about science, and also teaches us some new words?? We say the word cloaca about seventy thousand times, the English are respectable, and we find Javert's Inspection Chamber ;) Also, did you know the origin of the word OOZE? Prepare yourself because Nemo and Stevie have a LOT of passion…

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