It’s been a weird week. If you’ve been watching the Republican National Convention, it might feel a little bit like watching a movie. But if you’ve been trying to avoid that by going to the movies, well, that’s starting to feel like a political act all its own. Generally speaking, the world right now is devolving into mass hysteria—a place where dogs and cats are living together.

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Which means now is as good a time as any to talk about Ghostbusters. The reboot from director Paul Feig made slightly more than $46 million in the US on its opening weekend, but its box office performance isn’t really what people are talking about. Instead, the conversation is centered around whether women can be Ghostbusters and whether Kate McKinnon is the breakout star of the movie.

And we’re talking about all those things on this week’s Monitor podcast. (Short version: McKinnon is great. Girls should bust ghosts. This movie is worth your money.) We’re also chatting about how much we’re enjoying The Night Of, who we thought was snubbed in the Emmys nominations, and what we really want to see at Comic-Con International this week.

Tune in, won’t you? We’ve got editors and writers Peter Rubin, Angela Watercutter, and K.M. McFarland in the podcast studio and we ain’t afraid of no jokes.

A few helpful links for things we talk about in the podcast:

-Our recap of the Emmy nominations

-Emmy Grey Ellis’ essay on why Samantha Bee is the political commentator we need this political season

-Angela Watercutter’s piece on why Kate McKinnon is the best thing about Ghostbusters