The Protagonist Podcast

It’s the start of the year so it’s time to make our picks for our annual Fantasy Box Office game. Joe and Producer Andrew pick the films they think will make the most money this year. The players get the money earned at the domestic box office by each film, multiplied by its Rotten Tomatoes score. At the end of the year, whoever has accumulated the highest adjusted box office total wins the game.

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Joe and Producer Andrew look back at the last year of media, and look ahead at the next year of podcasting. Listeners, please make suggestions for episodes you would like to hear!

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Returning guest Virginia McAlister joins Joe to talk about one of the oldest stories we know of in human history. The Iliad is an epic poem composed by Homer and passed down orally for centuries before being written down sometime in the 8th century B.C. The Iliad tells the story of some events during the Trojan War.

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Last month, we were saddened to learn of the passing of Kevin Conroy, an actor best-known for his voicework playing Bruce Wayne/Batman. Returning guest Chris “Mav” Maverick joins Joe and Producer Andrew to talk about what made Conroy’s performance singular. We’ll be discussing “Christmas with the Joker” and “Holiday Knights,” two episodes from Batman animated series where Conroy became the voice of Batman for a generation of fans.

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Long-time listeners know the rules. Producer Andrew sends Todd Mack and Joe a list of Christmas movie titles, and they each have to invent a plot based on the title alone. Andrew picks his favorite made-up plot after each round. This year there is the closest to a duplicate plot they’ve ever had, but also lots of surprising twists along the way. Happy holidays, listeners!

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Joe and Producer Andrew are talking about Hawkeye, one of Marvel’s Disney+ mini-series. This series sees the return of Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton, Florence Pugh as Yelena, and Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin, and the introduction of Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop and Alaqua Cox as Echo. It’s a Christmas-themed Marvel mini-series that touches base with the MCU’s past and sets up its future.

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Producer Andrew joins Joe to discuss A Muppet Family Christmas, a special that is the Avengers: Infinity War of the Jim Henson’s muppet creations. Bringing together the Muppets, Sesame Street characters, and the Fraggles into one hour of Christmas magic, the special also features a rare Jim Henson cameo at the end. 

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Returning guest Rachel Armstrong joins Joe and Producer Andrew to talk about the stories we love and have returned to at different points in our lives. We also talk about media that we associate with certain times of the year and have traditions in revisiting.

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Patron Tim asked us to discuss Jim Henson’s The Storyteller, and this series is a delight. Returning guest John Darowski joins Joe to talk about three episodes: “Hans, My Hedgehog,” “A Story Short,” and “The Soldier and Death.” John Hurt stars as The Storyteller in this series, which has very interesting behind-the-scenes trivia to go along with a fascinating storytelling style in the episodes themselves.

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Protagonist Podcast co-founder Todd Mack is back! Todd joins Joe to discuss Pushing Daisies, a magical tv series about a man who can bring the dead back to life. We’re discussing the pilot episode, titled “Pie-lette,” which is a perfect hour of television.

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