Crushing Disappointment

"I'll open up a can of whoop-ass on you!"

Welcome to Episode #22 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Mariam about Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Disappointments: In trying to make it more linear have you made it less interesting? Shouldn't you be better at making the guests feel relaxed? Should you have done Alfred Russel Wallace or Isambard Kingdom Brunel as originally planned?

BBC Radio 4: Judy Garland: The Final Rainbow

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

BBC Radio 4 Extra: Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly

Science Daily: Why Do People Support Underdogs And Find Them So Appealing?

L. Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers (The New York Times) The Eternal Appeal of the Underdog

"If I have 15 minutes, we'd drink tea, eat biscuits. I talk, you laugh, and we'd be on our way. Unfortunately, I don't."

Welcome to Episode #21 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Sofia about her crush on Henry Cavill.

Disappointments: Should you have discussed the difference between not seeing and embracing difference? Did you make up your stat about mental health issues for people who lose weight? I can't find that article.

Henry Cavill's Instagram post about his dog

Helen Coffey (The Independent): Two men take 'emotional support' falcons on flight

BBC: 'Emotional support peacock' barred from United Airlines plane

BBC: Asos bulldog clipped dress causes a fuss online

Henry Cavill talks dating and filming naked scenes in The Tudors in Elle Magazine interview

Daniellé Abena Scott-Haughton (Danielle Dash): Stephanie Yeboah, Jameela Jamil & White Feminism

Kayleigh Donaldson (Pajiba): The Problem with Jameela Jamil's body positivity campaign

Katherine Singh (Flare): Henry Cavill Joins the Growing List of Men Who Don't Understand #MeToo

Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and Me

Superman bad CGI Face in Justice League

Christopher Reeve Workout 'Superman (1978)' Behind The Scenes

Fractal Enlightenment: How to Become an Overman (Übermensch) in Seven “Easy” Steps

Darren Franich (Entertainment Weekly): Mission: Impossible — Fallout and the redemption of Henry Cavill

"... I know how to fence and you don't. Or, I have class and you don't. Take your pick."

Welcome to Episode #20 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Sidney Berthier about his childhood crush on Lindsay Lohan.

Disappointments: Would an understanding of post-structuralism have been useful here? Should you have pointed out that you were 12 when you first saw V for Vendetta? Do you know what "self-effacing" means? Is everything with two options a double?

Sidney's website: www.sidneyberthier.com

Charlie Chaplin: Speech from The Great Dictator

"U.S. Air Force: Origin Story" advert shown before Captain Marvel in the US.

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (The Daily Dot): Is ‘Captain Marvel’ military propaganda?

Chris Heasman (Little White Lies): Captain Marvel’s Air Force problem

Reuben Baron (Comic Book Resources): The MCU's Relationship With the Military, From Iron Man to Captain Marvel

Dan Hassler-Forest: Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age - the chapter "Disaster Capitalism and the Traumatized superhero" shows my reading of V for Vendetta to be pretty juvenile. Also, the chapter "Surveillance, Control and Visibility in the Neoliberal City" briefly looks at how Iron Man's 'superficial rejection of the military-industrial complex is contradicted by its ongoing celebration of militarized (and privatized) cutting-edge technology' (p.183).

Geoffrey Macnab (The Independent): Doubles in the movies

Emma Jones (BBC Culture): Why are there so many doppelgangers in films right now?

Alissa Wilkinson (The Atlantic): What's With All the Movies About Doppelgängers?

Kristen Fuller, M.D. (Psychology Today): JOMO: The Joy of Missing Out

Louis Menand (New Yorker): What Personality Tests Really Deliver

Harley Therapy: Your ‘Shadow’ Self – What It Is, And How It Can Help You

Christina Sarich (The Mind Unleashed): 7 Ways to Spot Your Shadow Self & How to Use It to Become Free

Hannah Gadsby: Nanette

Mara Wilson (Cracked): 7 Reasons Child Stars Go Crazy (An Insider's Perspective)

Olivia Laing: The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

BFI: 10 great films about doubles

"It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind"

Welcome to Episode #19 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Rob about his teenage crush on Debbie Harry.

Disappointments: Are you out of your depth talking about music? Are you out of your depth talking about the 70s? Did you cut out the times you didn't know the bands Rob was talking about (OMD, The Specials, Japan, Altered Images, George Benson, Joan Armatrading, The Beat etc.)? Did you subsequently pretend to know The Stranglers?

Wayne Koestenbaum: “Debbie Harry at the Supermarket” from My 1980s & Other Essays

Sue Steward & Sheryl Garratt: Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: True Life Stories of Women in Pop

Jamie James (Rolling Stone): Platinum Blonde

Andy Beckett: When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies

"I'm sorry, Harry. I know it's New Year's Eve. I know you're feeling lonely, but you just can't show up here, tell me you love me, and expect that to make everything all right. It doesn't work this way."

Welcome to Episode #18 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Anna about New Year's Eve.

Disappointments: Did you try and hug afterwards and whack Anna in the face with your shoulder? Did your interrupt and dismiss an apology? Did you ignore your dad's contribution to Christmas?

Ana Swanson (The Independent): New Year’s Eve: The scientific reason why it is generally terrible

Emily Esfahani Smith (TED Talk): There’s more to life than being happy

Marwa Azab Ph.D. (Psychology Today): Why Sharing Your Goals Makes Them Less Achievable?

Richard Wiseman: New Year’s Resolution Project

Wentworth Miller (Oxford Union): Clip & Full Q&A

Alfie Bown: Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism

"If I want your opinion I'LL ASK FOR IT!!!"

Welcome to Episode #17 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Dan about his crush on Misty.

Disappointments: Did removing the sound of breaths make the beginning sound stilted? Does the audio actually sound better? Is "me and another football person" the worst phrasing of all time? Despite cutting out over half of the recording, is this episode too long? Do you act like a dickhead in the chat about "the one"?

Pop Culture Detective: The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory and The Complicity of Geek Masculinity on the Big Bang Theory

The Adam Buxton Podcast Episode 83: Simon Pegg

Savage Lovecast Podcast with Dan Savage

Shirley M. Ogletree, Cristal N. Martinez, Trent R. Turner and Brad Mason: Pokémon: Exploring the Role of Gender

Anne Allison: Portable monsters and commodity cuteness: Pokémon as Japan’s new global power

David Buckingham Julian Sefton-Green: Gotta catch ’em all: structure, agency and pedagogy in children’s media culture

How TV Ruined Your Life: Episode 4 - Love

Joseph Tobin: Pikachu’s Global Adventure

“It is all impersonal; it is political.”

Welcome to Episode #16 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Joseph about his crush on Naomi Wolf.

Disappointments: Did you manage to make a long introduction that is still unclear? Have you added another piece of clutter to the information overload that you're experiencing? Why did you stop asking questions and just start talking about yourself?

Adam Ruins Everything Podcast Episode 44: Dr. Daniel Jolley on Why Conspiracy Theories Are Harmful

The Receipts Podcast Episode 48: XXX Feat. Oloni

Naomi Wolf: Oxford Union Address

Naomi Wolf's blog on DailyClout

Adam Curtis on UFOs and Perception Management, a clip from HyperNormalisation

Nicholas Negroponte: Being Digital

Greenpeace's view on 'Chemtrails' | UK

Christina Hoff Sommers: Who Stole Feminism?

Casper G Schoemaker: A critical appraisal of the anorexia statistics in The Beauty Myth: introducing Wolf's Overdo and Lie Factor (WOLF)

Maia Szalavitz: Naomi Wolf’s Vagina Aside, What Neuroscience Really Says About Female Desire

Eve Andrews: The real fear behind climate conspiracy theories

Lyndon Johnson control the weather, to control the world ! 1962

Fake Book Covers on the Subway PART TWO

"If by my life or death I can protect you, I will."

Welcome to Episode #15 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Steph about her crush on Aragorn, son of Arathorn.

Disappointments: How many different ways can you say Éowyn? Do you pronounce every author's name incorrectly? You were right the first time: Strider was almost called "Trotter". He was "Stomper" in Bored of the Rings.

Jennifer Grek Martin: “Two Roads to Middle Earth:” Comparing the Visualization of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Cinematic Trilogy

Mariah Huehner: “I am No Man” Doesn’t Cut It: The Story of Eowyn

Virtuella: Aragorn - a feminist’s nightmare?

Thessaly La Force (NY Times): Viggo Mortensen, the Unlikely Leading Man

Judy Ann Ford & Robin Anne Reid: Aragorn’s Journey Towards Kingship in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings

Lynette R. Porter: Unsung Heroes of The Lord of the Rings: From the Page to the Screen

Also, here's the picture of Stuart Townsend as Aragorn, an article about the unpublished letter, the Tumblr posts from Trekkie-Lover and Smokesprite, The Anthology of Aragorn Illness and Injury Fiction, an article about The Mellon Chronicles, and Anarchistica's comment on a reddit thread.

And here's a video of Mysonne doing a much better job than me of expressing how men need to do better.

"I'm smart, you're dumb; I'm big, you're little; I'm right, you're wrong, and there's nothing you can do about it."

Welcome to Episode #14 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Misha about her recurring dreams about Danny DeVito.

Disappointments: Did you re-record a section where you said Anna's full name? Are you that tall that you are frequently having people hug your stomach? How do you say "translated"? Misha, isn't it called Lust Stories, not Love Stories?

sexuallyattractedtodannydevito.tumblr

Richard Mertens (Medium): 4 Nightmares I’ve Had Where I Woke Up to Danny DeVito Holding Me

Tom Gerken (BBC News): Danny DeVito takes teen's cardboard cutout to It's Always Sunny set

Funny or Die: Fifty Shades of DeVito

Erik Hedegaard (Rolling Stone): Danny DeVito at 70: A National Treasure on Sex, Drugs and Family

Frank T. McAndrew Ph.D. (Psychology Today): The Freudian Symbolism in Your Dreams

Saul McLeod (Simply Psychology): What are the most interesting ideas of Sigmund Freud?

Dream Moods: Dream Symbol Search Results

Riz Ahmed talks about acting stereotypes

Jonah Hill Hurts

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"I make a point of avoiding familiarity with pirates"

Welcome to Episode #13 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Abi about her crush on Orlando Bloom.

Disappointments: Does your memory make sense considering Orlando Bloom is in the background of the shot of Keira Knightley's leg? Was Orlando Bloom in Kinky Boots, Abi? Have you already used your True Blood/Games of Thrones material? Did you butcher this episode in the edit by trying to make it Orlando Bloom specific? Have you made everything worse with your introduction?

The Leg Scene - I must have thought it was Johnny Depp's leg.

Marshall Sella (GQ): The Epic Life of Orlando Bloom

Kaleem Aftab (The Independent): Orlando Bloom interview - the pin-up hero is leaving blockbusters behind: 'No more family films. Now it’s grittier roles'

Hannah Furness (The Telegraph): Orlando Bloom interrupts his own play to yell at audience member to 'put that f------ iPad away'