The Protagonist Podcast

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Returning guest Allison Epstein joins Joe to discuss the novel Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. This reimagining of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield is a coming-of-age story set in Appalachia in the 1990s and early 2000s. 

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Returning guest Henry Darowski joins Joe to discuss the film Lawrence of Arabia. Based on T.E. Lawrence’s autobiography, Lawrence of Arabia is one of the most iconic films ever made. Directed by David Lean, it stars Peter O’Toole as Lawrence and tells the story of a Lawrence participating in battles in Arabia during the first World War. 

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First-time guest Matthew Brake joins Joe to talk about Animal Man, a notable comic book run from the late 1980s by wrtier Grant Morrison and pencilers Chaz Truog and Paris Cullins. In this story, Animal Man becomes aware he is a comic book character whose life is being made up by a writer, and he goes to confront the author who has made terrible things happen in his life.

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Returning guest John Darowski joins Joe to talk about the classic television show Gilligan’s Island. We’re discussing two episodes, one in which a popular boy band appears on the island looking for a quiet place, and in the other radioactive seeds wash ashore and gives the castaways super powers when they eat the food that grows from the seeds. 

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Returning guests John Darowski and Virginia McAlister join Producer Andrew and Joe for a game of Star Trek Bridge Crew Draft. Each player can select characters from each tv version of Star Trek to fill out a crew. We end up with eclectic selections as the game gives us a chance to talk through the various Star Trek series that have been produced and also highlight some of our favorite characters.

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Returning guest Nicole Freim joins Joe to discuss the first novel from the Dresden Files series. This long-running series by Jim Butcher are urban fantasy novels that use the tone of a boiled detective story. Harry Dresden is a wizard private eye, trying to solve problems that the human police and the magical world aren’t handling well. 

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Returning guest Nik English joins Joe to discuss Glass Onion, the second film starring Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc. This film sees Benoit Blanc solving a murder mystery on a billionaire’s private island.

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Returning guest John Darowski joins Producer Andrew and Joe to discuss Daredevil, a Marvel comic book character created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett in 1964. Daredevil’s secret identity is Matt Murdock, a lawyer who had his other senses heightened in an accident that blinded him. In 2001, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale reimagined the earliest adventures of Daredevil in a mini-series titled Daredevil: Yellow.

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Returning guest Rachel Armstrong joins Joe to discuss the BBC murder mystery series Annika. Nicola Walker plays Annika Strandhead, a single mother who was just placed in charge of Glasgow’s new Marine Homicide Unit. Yes, she solves water murders and it is awesome. Thank you to patron Michael for suggesting this show.

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For our special 500th episode, Protagonist Podcast co-founder Todd Mack returns to discuss two classic films with Joe: The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven. The Seven Samurai is a 1954 film directed by Akira Kurosawa about farmers hiring seven samurai to protect their village from bandits. The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American reimagining of that film directed by John Sturges about villagers hiring seven cowboys to protect them from bandits. 

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