The Protagonist Podcast

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Returning guest Kestra Darowski joins Producer Andrew and Joe to discuss the Disney film Encanto. That’s right, we’re talking about Bruno…and the rest of the Madrigal family.

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Protagonist Podcast co-founder Todd Mack joins Producer Andrew and Joe for our annual Halloween Special!

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Protagonist Podcast co-founder Todd Mack joins Joe to discuss the tv series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We’re discussing the two-part season 2 finale titled “Becoming.” The series stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers, a vampire slayer who fights supernatural monsters.

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It’s our 616th episode, so we had to do a Marvel special. Returning guests Nicole Freim and Chris “Mav” Maverick join Producer Andrew and Joe to discuss the Marvel comic book universe.

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Returning guest Josh Allen joins Joe to discuss the class collection of scary stories that has haunted elementary school classrooms since the 1980s. Written by Alvin Schwartz with art by Stephen Gammell, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a staple of the spooky season for children starting to pursue the world of creepy tales. We’re discussing “The Hook,” “The Walk,” and “A Ghost in the Mirror.”

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Returning guest Nicole Freim joins Joe to discuss the film Barbie. Directed by Greta Gerwig, and starring Margot Robbie as Barbie, America Ferrera as Gloria, Ariana Greenblatt as Sasha, and Ryan Gosling as Ken, the film tells the story of Barbie leaving Barbieland to go to the real world at the same time Gloria and Sasha leave the real world and enter Barbieland. 

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Returning guest John Darowski joins Joe to discuss the novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. It tells the story of John Buchan on the run from both authorities and members of a criminal gang as he gets caught up in a murder mystery and an international conspiracy. This novel is credited with inventing the “man on the run” genre of storytelling. 

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Returning guest George Tsakiridis joins Joe to discuss Better Call Saul, the prequel series to Breaking Bad. We’re discussing the pilot episode of the series, which stars Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill, though viewers of Breaking Bad knew him as Saul Goodman. This character study explores how Jimmy McGill makes the ethically dubious choices that result in him becoming the characters viewers knew from Breaking Bad.

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Returning guest Josh Allen joins Joe to discuss one of the most famous Superman stories ever told. Written by Alan Moore with art by Curt Swan, this was the last Superman told before the DC Universe was reset at the conclusion of The Crisis on Infinite Earth’s mini-series, and John Byrne established a new Superman continuity. It tells the story of Lois Lane being interviewed 10 years after Superman was last seen.

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Returning guest Branden Ushio joins Joe to play a round of Pop Culture Fives. We choose a random pop culture topic and give rapid responses to the prompt (the rapidity of the responses varies greatly, we get into a good rhythm by the end).

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