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Returning guest John Darowski joins Joe to discuss two classic characters from an iconic series of stories by P.G. Wodehouse. Jeeves is the platonic ideal of an English butler, and his interactions with the lovable but hapless Wooster have influenced pop culture portrayals of butlers and their gentleman for more than a century. We’re talking about the short stories “Jeeves Takes Charge,” “Bertie Changes His Mind,” and “Without the Option.”

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Returning guest Virginia McAlister joins Joe to talk about the film The Devil Wears Prada. We talk about Meryl Streep’s amazing performance (obviously), the moral and ethical questions raised by the film, and also the boyfriend.

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Producer Andrew and Joe have a discussion about Cozy Reality Television and why it’s so appealing. We talk about season-long shows like The Great British Baking Show (Bake-Off), The Great Pottery Throw Down, or Making It, and also episodic shows like Chopped or Forged in Fire. 

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Protagonist Podcast co-founder Todd Mack is back to discuss the first volume in the graphic novel series Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi. Volume 1: The Stonekeeper, tells the story of Emily Hayes and her brother Navin as they enter a strange, magical, sci-fi world to try and rescue their mother who has been kidnapped.

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Returning guest Rachel Armstrong joins Joe to discuss Richard Poole from Death in Paradise. This BBC series sees a British detective assigned to a Caribbean island where he solves a murder each episode. We’re discussing the pilot episode, “Arriving in Paradise.”

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Returning guest Rachel Armstrong and first-time guest Sarah Brinton join Joe to discuss The Blue Castle, a 1926 novel by L.M. Montgomery. Most famous for her Anne of Green Gables novels, The Blue Castle is a Montgomery story about a woman discovering independence, love, and happiness after she is told she only has one year to live.

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First-time guest James Goldberg joins Joe to discuss the Bollywood film Veer-Zaara. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan as Veer and Preity Zinta as Zaara. It tells the story of star-crossed lovers, one who is Indian and who is Pakistani.

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First time guest Andrew Deman joins Joe to discuss Forge and Storm from Uncanny X-Men #186. Andrew is the project lead of The Claremont Run, a project exploring Chris Claremont’s sixteen year run on Uncanny X-Men, its impact on gender and sexuality in comics, and long continuity in modern media. He is an expert on this subject, and also an experienced podcaster as a co-host of The Oh Gosh, Oh Wow! Podcast, a podcast that goes issue by issue through Excalibur, a Marvel comic book about a team of mutants co-created by Chris Claremont. In this episode, we’re discussing Forge and Storm, in a story where Storm has recently been de-powered by a weapon that Forge invented.

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Protagonist Podcast co-founder Todd Mack joins Joe to play a game of Elevator Pitches. Producer Andrew draws elements from hats, and then Todd and Joe must a quick pitch for a story based on those elements.

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Returning guest John Darowski joins Joe to discuss Menolly from Dragonsong. Dragonsong is a science-fantasy novel by Anne McCaffrey. It is part of a very large series of novels set on the world of Pern, where a acidic fungus called thread periodically falls from the sky, but dragonriders are able to fend off the thread if they burn it in the sky.  It was published in 1976 tells the story of Menolly, a musically gifted girl growing up in a fishing village who accidentally bonds with a group of fire lizards. Happy birthday to listener Colleen!

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