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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

Bob Dylan

Boyz II Men

A Complete Unknown (2024)

Timothée Chalamet

Malcolm Gladwell interviews Paul Simon

David Sims

John Ashbery

Visions of Johanna by Bob Dylan

Joan Baez

A League of Their Own (1992)

Pete Seeger  

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

Jazz Chisholm Jr.

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

Jennifer Senior  

The King (2019)

Frequently mentioned names:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Morri Creech

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Amit Majmudar

– Ethan McGuire

– Coleman Glenn

– Chris Childers

– Alexis Sears

– JP Gritton

– Alex Pepple

– Ernie Hilbert

– Joanna Pearson

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