Like a ticking that you can't get out of your mind, like the Raven that quotes only one desparing word, Eric and Hunter can't stop talking about Edgar Allan Poe.

The Philosophy of Composition: https://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/philcomp.htm

Eric and Hunter talk about Taylor Swift's new album, as well as Taylor Swift as an artist. Eric also asks Hunter about his own music and a potential album.

Eric and Hunter mansplain the first season of both Rings of Power and She Hulk, among other things.

Tolkien's essay "On Fairy Stories": https://uh.edu/fdis/_taylor-dev/readings/tolkien.html

Eric and Hunter discuss the book Fools Crow by James Welch, an immersive novel about a Blackfoot native set during 1870. They talk about how it impacted them and shaped their understanding of the history and culture of indigenous people in America. They also touch on depictions of native people in other media.

Warning: Briefly mentions a scene in the novel that involves rape.

Hunter's essay about the controversy in his hometown: https://hdansin.writeas.com/to-remember

Eric and Hunter discuss Ready Player One, the book and the movie, how it shaped the culture and them personally.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "The Cry of the Human": https://www.bartleby.com/293/80.html

Hey Poor Player TV, Second Opinion on RPO: https://www.heypoorplayer.com/2017/07/28/second-opinion-ready-player-one-worst-thing-nerd-culture-ever-produced/

A piece Hunter wrote after reading Ready Player One for the first time: https://medium.com/@hdansin/do-something-new-33376af02460

Guitar jam intro and outro by Hunter.

Eric and Hunter discuss Needtobreathe, focusing on The Heat and Rivers in The Wasteland. Includes a special medley by Hunter on the Ukulele.

In the first part of this episode, Eric and Hunter discuss Linkin Park and the non-meaning of life.

Eric and Hunter discuss two low budget but loveable movies.

El Mariachi: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104815/

Future Folk: https://futurefolk.com/

Eric and Hunter discuss three different stories by classic Russian authors. They also listen to an opera about a nose.

The Nose by Nikolai Gogol: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602381h.html

Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/600

Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/985

In this episode Eric and Hunter fanboy over Tolkien, discussing the influence of his work on their lives, as well as the first two episodes of the Rings of Power.

Discussed article: https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/its-time-to-remember-tolkien-again 

Tolkien's letter to Milton Waldman: https://www.tolkienestate.com/letters/letter-to-milton-waldman-publisher-1951/ 

Not explicitly discussed, but a great read by Tolkien himself on "fairy stories": https://archive.org/details/on-fairy-stories_202110/page/n1/mode/2up