Raise a Glass

By Hunter Dansin

A show where two friends, Hunter and Eric, raise a glass (or pour one out) to the stories and storytellers that shape them. Each episode they pick a story or three and delve headfirst into how they

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June 23, 2026 Raise a Glass to Captain America, Winter Soldier (Season 3 Finale feat. Ben Franklin, Langston Hughes, and more)
Eric and Hunter grapple with the many heads of hydra in the Finale of Season 3. Happy 4th and Happy 250th America! I hope you enjoy. And before you say it, yes, we realized after the fact that helicarriers are not Triskelions...
Raise and Pour ends at 16:40
Join Us on Patreon!
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Facebook in Myanmar
Holy Post
Our episode on The Godfather
Ben Franklin on freedom and Security
SNAP vs. Defense spending
Jimi Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner
The parable of the good samaritan
James Madison in Federalist 51: "But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government."
To Live Well by Alan Noble
Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
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June 23, 2026 Raise a Glass to The Winter Soldier (feat Ben Franklin, Langston Hughes et al. Season 3 Finale!)
Eric and Hunter grapple with the many heads of hydra in the Finale of Season 3. Happy 4th and Happy 250th America! I hope you enjoy. And before you say it, yes, we realized after the fact that helicarriers are not Triskelions...
Raise and Pour ends at 16:40
Join Us on Patreon!

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_People

Facebook in Myanmar: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/5933/2022/en/

Holy Post: https://www.holypost.com/post/716-the-president-vs-the-pope-and-bri-stensrud

Our episode on The Godfather: https://www.patreon.com/RaiseaGlass2012/posts/raise-glass-to-161875828

Ben Franklin on freedom and Security: https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous-liberty-safety-quote-lost-its-context-in-21st-century

SNAP vs. Defense spending: https://www.thepricer.org/how-much-does-snap-cost-the-government/

Jimi Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzZh6-h9fM

The parable of the good samaritan: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke%2010:25-37&version=NIV

James Madison in Federalist 51: "But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government."

To Live Well by Alan Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/to-live-well-alan-noble/1147723324?ean=9781514002247

Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes: https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again
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2h 2min
May 24, 2026 Raise a Glass to Patreon! (Grab bag, feat. All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren and Zelda: The Breath of the Wild) )
Eric and Hunter announce a Patreon where you can help fill their glasses, and preview a grab bag episode with All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren and The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.
Patreon Link! patreon.com/RaiseaGlass2012
Hunter's website: https://write.as/hdansin/
Dawn Must Follow Night on tapas.io (help me reach 100 subs to unlock ad revenue!): https://tapas.io/series/Follow-Night/info
Dawn Must Follow Night Part 1 Audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTIY-wdPwfQUU0uboAZa252gVHbu94Uj0
Andrew Mosher Art (our thumbnail): https://www.andrewmosherart.com/
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May 06, 2026 Raise a Glass to That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis (Space Trilogy Part 3)
Eric and Hunter infiltrate the N.I.C.E. and get into the ideas that shaped C.S. Lewis's third space trilogy book.
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.88346/page/n9/mode/2up
The Inner Ring by C.S. Lewis: https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/
Research and testimonial based information about the harmful effects of pornography and its links to sex trafficking: https://fightthenewdrug.org/
Quoting Sam Altman from this article: "Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, has compared the need to build AI data centres to having to choose between curing cancer and improving public education. In a blog post last year, he said: “If we are limited by compute, we’ll have to choose which one [curing cancer or improving public education] to prioritise; no one wants to make that choice, so let’s go build.”
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1h 53min
April 24, 2026 Raise a Glass to Perelandra by C.S. Lewis (Space Trilogy #2)
In this episode a long time coming, Eric and Hunter get lost in the unfixed land of Perelandra.
The quote about the length of books is attributed to Abbè Terrasson in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason:
"Abbé Terrasson remarks with great justice that, if we estimate the size of a work, not from the number of its pages, but from the time which we require to make ourselves master of it, it may be said of many a book—that it would be much shorter, if it were not so short."
Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in space: https://www.cnet.com/science/space/elon-musks-tesla-is-still-floating-in-space-after-7-years/
Poe's Imp of the Perverse: https://poestories.com/read/imp
New thumbnail by Andrew Mosher
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1h 56min
April 08, 2026 Raise a Glass to Piranesi and the Labyrinth (Jorge Luis Borges, That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis)
Eric and Hunter get lost in the labyrinth with Piranesi, and lose their minds a little bit, but eventually find a way out.
Piranesi by Susanna Clark, The Library of Babel and The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges, That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis.
Jamie Dupuis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oWYfbjXa74
The Library of Babel: https://libraryofbabel.info/

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2h 5min
March 24, 2026 Raise a Glass to James Baldwin
Hunter shares one of his favorite writers with Eric.
Sonny's Blues: https://docdrop.org/ocr/download/SonnysBlues.Baldwin-bqzsx_ocr.pdfAu
Autobiographical Notes from "Notes of a Native Son." Pdf (Pages 18-22). Extra credit is "Alone in Paris," which starts on page 118: https://dn710006.ca.archive.org/0/items/notes-of-a-native-son_202101/Notes%20of%20a%20Native%20Son%20.pdf
Pages of Devil Finds Work (bottom left page number 508-504 + 576-580): https://archive.org/details/JamesBaldwinCollectedEssaysLibraryOfAmerica1998/page/n507/mode/2up
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1h 45min
February 18, 2026 Raise a Glass to East of Eden by John Steinbeck Part 4
The fourth and final episode of East of Eden by John Steinbeck! Eric and Hunter bring it home (finally). We hope you have enjoyed this read through!
https://www.abebooks.com/9780142004234/East-Eden-John-Steinbeck-Centennial-0142004235/plp
A dissertation about the word "Timshel:" https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/steinbeckreview.12.2.0190?read-now=1&seq=4

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1h 55min
October 24, 2025 Raise a Glass to East of Eden by John Steinbeck Part 3
Eric and Hunter reprise their discussion of John's Steinbeck's East of Eden. All quotations and page numbers taken from the centennial edition of East of Eden: https://www.abebooks.com/East-Eden-Steinbeck-John-Penguin-Books/32327730762/bd
Article exploring John Steinbeck's interpretation of Hebrew: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/steinbeckreview.12.2.0190?read-now=1&seq=5
Levin, Daniel. “John Steinbeck and the Missing Kamatz in East of Eden: How Steinbeck Found a Hebrew Word but Muddled Some Vowels.” The Steinbeck Review, vol. 12, no. 2, 2015, pp. 190–98. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.12.2.0190. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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1h 21min
August 19, 2025 Raise a Glass to the Mountain: Hunter's Guitar Journey Part 2 (Slash, Don Felder, Joe Walsh, Jeff Beck)
Hunter shares how he is attempting to get off his mountain's plateau, and how he discovered Jeff Beck.
Correction: the lick Jeff Beck uses to pay tribute to Jimi is from Little Wing, not Wind Cries Mary.
My favorite guitar solos:
Be My Friend Live (Paul Kossof): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P00-KBLqPwI
Sweet Child O Mine (Slash): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7OgIMMRc4
Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35luFxHO5E0
Further on Up the Road (Clapton and Robbie Robertson): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78gR3Dlj7l0
Hotel California (Don Felder and Joe Walsh): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09839DpTctU
Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKCt8ssC7cs
Shine On you Crazy Diamond (David Gilmour): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWGE9Gi0bB0&list=RDcWGE9Gi0bB0&start_radio=1
Turn Blue (Dan Auerbach): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5a1Cl_JOJM&list=RDC5a1Cl_JOJM&start_radio=1
Scared for the Children (Jeff Beck): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88mb6yDeQoI
Where Were You (the whammy bar song): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPgtreCwk8A
Please go watch Jeff Beck Live at Ronnie Scott's, thank you.
Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBGm7gJtSZE

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FAQs about Raise a Glass:

How many episodes does Raise a Glass have?

The podcast currently has 65 episodes available.