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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert

– The Cleveland Roundtable

– Borat

– Chapo Trap House

– Jordan Peterson

– ContraPoints on YouTube & Patreon

– Yosha Iglesias

– Vanessa Place’s Gone with the Wind project

– Kenneth Goldsmith

– Mark Leidner

– Michael Shermer’s interview with Michael Egnor & Christof Koch

– Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning

– On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

– There Are More Things by Jorge Luis Borges

– Thomas Ligotti

– Hasan Piker

– Christopher Hitchens

– Ta-Nehisi Coates

– Dave Smith

– J. D. Vance

– Camille Paglia

– Red Scare

– The Monty Hall problem

– Margaret Mead

– The Brontosaurus

– Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges

– Toni Morrison’s Nobel lecture

– Michel Foucault

– Sabrina Carpenter

– Betty Boop

– The Bud Light boycott

– The Sydney Sweeney jeans ad

– Plato’s Cave

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

– Matt Wall

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 Posts

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: Minor Tiresias

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith