Summary: "I don't mind being alone. I just don't want to be insignificant." This week we have writer and performer Morgan Brayton on the podcast to discuss the early feminist fantasy show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Also discussed: New Year's resolutions, The Allusionist and The Lady Show.     Show notes:   Morgan Brayton   Morgan Brayton on Twitter   The Lady Show   Pioneering comic Jean Carroll (YouTube)   Lenny Bruce: All Alone (YouTube)   Shtick, stereotypes, and self-parody: How ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ gets Jewish culture wrong (LA Times)    

Recommendations: Andrea W.:  The Allusionist: Live on the Road (podcast) Lisa: Catch and Kill with Ronan Farrow (podcast) 

Morgan:  I Saw Three Ships by Bill Richardson (book)   Music credits:

"Nouvelle Noel" by Kevin MacLeod Music from https://filmmusic.io CC BY 4.0

"Ghost" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

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Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

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