Prepare yourselves, listeners - this one is a doozy. Evangelion serves up a heaping dollop of back story and indulges in its most sadistic episode, bar none. Joseph pours one out for Asuka and digs into the show’s surrealist sexual assault boss fight from a survivor’s perspective. Ian takes Gendo out back after unpacking his absolute embodiment of the millennial scammer ideal. Plus - What do Eva and Tarkovsky’s Stalker have in common? It all comes down to a very contentious elevator. (CW: Sexual abuse.) Analysis: 13:26 Source: Super Eyepatch Wolf - “In Defense of the Elevator Scene from Evangelion”