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Episode 42 – BSG and GWOT Part I
Episode Date: February 22, 2020Damian and Ed Discuess
A Geek History of Time
Two public-school teacher-nerd-geeks (with surprisingly little overlap in our geekdom) teach each other through the common ground of history about our favorite things
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Episode 41 - Captain America and the New Deal Part II
Episode Date: February 15, 2020Damian and Ed discuss how Steve Rogers / Captain American is the personification of The New Deal.
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Episode 40 - Captain America and the New Deal Part I
Episode Date: February 8, 2020Damian and Ed discuss how Steve Rogers / Captain American is the personification of The New Deal.
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Episode 39 - V For Vendetta Part II
Episode Date: February 1, 2020This week, comic book writer Tim Watts joins Damian for a discussion of the changing resonance of V for Vendetta over time and across media (the comic...
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Episode 38- V For Vendetta Part I
Episode Date: January 25, 2020This week, comic book writer Tim Watts joins Damian for a discussion of the changing resonance of V for Vendetta over time and across media (the comic...
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Holidays Hiatus 2019
Episode Date: December 24, 2019A message from Producer George about the break we’re taking for the holidays. See you all in the next decade!
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Episode 37- Which Hogwarts House Has No Chill?
Episode Date: November 24, 2019Our good friend Tessa Pogorelskin joins us for a discussion around the defining traits of the Houses of Hogwarts. As the lone Gryffindor at the table...
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Episode 36- The Evolution of Orcs
Episode Date: November 16, 2019In this episode, Ed traces the development of Orcs from their origins in Tolkien’s work up through their current incarnation in World of Warcraft, and...
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Episode 35- Marvel's Civil War and the Patriot Act (Part 2)
Episode Date: November 9, 2019In this episode, Damian fully develops his argument about the connection between the Patriot Act and Civil War. Ed spends some time talking about wha...
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Episode 34- Marvel's Civil War and the Patriot Act
Episode Date: November 4, 2019Damian sets up the real-world background for the passage of the Patriot Act in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Ed laments how the Civil War series seem...
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Episode 33- Screwball Comedy and World War II (Part 2)
Episode Date: October 27, 2019Damian reveals the results of far too much time spent reading old microfiche of “Variety” magazines, and he and Ed get into a discussion of the Apollo...
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Episode 32- Screwball Comedy and World War II
Episode Date: October 19, 2019Damian describes the roots of the Screwball Comedy genre and its gender politics dynamics. Ed has an epiphany about screwball relating to the roots o...
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Episode 31- Jedi, Buddhism, and Counterculture
Episode Date: October 13, 2019In our first episode about Star Wars (!), Ed illuminates how the Jedi should be inherently countercultural figures. He explains where he thinks Lucas...
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Episode 30- New Season, New Producer, Who Dis? (Part 2)
Episode Date: October 5, 2019Producer George judges the contestants in the D&D Thunderdome- Ed continues to marvel at the brutality of Lyudmila, and Damian does likewise about the...
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Episode 29- New Season, New Producer, Who Dis? (Part 1)
Episode Date: September 28, 2019George joins the team to help bring up the technical quality of the whole operation. Damian and Ed initiate him by forcing him to pick the best D&D 5...
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Episode 28- The X-Men and the Civil Rights Movement (Part 3)
Episode Date: September 21, 2019In this episode, Ed and Damian wrap up their analysis with a continued look at the representation of LGBTQ+ characters and issues in the X-Men.
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Episode 27- The X-Men and the Civil Rights Movement (Part 2)
Episode Date: August 25, 2019In this episode, Damian lauds Stan Lee for his anti-racism, but deducts some points for well-meaning cluelessness. Ed calls Jim Shooter a jackass. G...
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Episode 26- The X-Men and the Civil Rights Movement
Episode Date: August 18, 2019Damian summarizes the zeitgeist and current events in the United States at the time the X-Men started. Ed tries heroically to use clean language whil...
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Episode 25- Possession is Nine Tenths of Government (Part 2)
Episode Date: August 12, 2019Damian continues his analysis of the appeal of possession stories in times of disillusionment with government. Along the way he gives Ed a week's wor...
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Episode 24- Possession is Nine Tenths of Government (Part 1)
Episode Date: August 4, 2019We find out what possessed Damian to research the zeitgeist of horror movies in the '70s, and why Ed takes a dog with him when he goes house hunting.