Ep 197: Insulting Everybody’s Dad, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
A Complete Unknown (2024)
Malcolm Gladwell interviews Paul Simon
Visions of Johanna by Bob Dylan
A League of Their Own (1992)
The 2025 Super Bowl halftime show
Dubliners by James Joyce
Legs by ZZ Top
Megan Moroney profiled in The New Yorker
A Bar Song (Tipsy) by Shaboozey
Matthew and Cameron discuss books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the Secret Show
Chalamet's SAG Awards acceptance speech
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Secret show notes
So We’ll Go No More a Roving by Lord Byron
Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson and the Simon & Garfunkel version
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
The King (2019)
Frequently mentioned names:
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
