Think Outside the Box Set

By Maddie Hunt and Cameron DeWhitt

Your hosts Maddie Hunt and Cameron DeWhitt explore artists that have achieved renown or success, but that for some reason are unfamiliar. For example, do you know anyone who’s listened to an entire Ga... more

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The podcast currently has 265 episodes available.

Think Outside the Box Set episodes:

October 16, 2018S6E1. Beer Headphones
Fush Yu Mang by Smash Mouth.
Nathan doesn’t even have fun being grumpy, Cameron is willing to “give it to him,” and Smash Mouth has a small break in their lives of unending privilege.
Learnin' Links:
Countable noun

There are twice as many kangaroos as people in Australia

Rat Race concert scene
Listen along to Fush Yu Mang here!
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1h 34min
October 08, 2018S5E8. Better than Pure Sentimental Nonsense
The Visitors by ABBA.
Cameron criticizes Nathan for audio good practices, Nathan tries to avoid mom-shaming, and ABBA wants to build a disco song.
Learnin' Links:
MacGuffin

Interlocutor

Men by Scene on Radio
Listen along to The Visitors here!
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1h 9min
October 01, 2018S5E7. Gimme that Divorce Table
Cameron attends a musical orgy convention, Nathan has a precognition (of boredom), and and ABBA can’t finish without Night Velvet™.
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Panpipes

Omnibus Project’s episode on dancing mania

Bad Dad, Soccer Dad

Feet of clay

Hit Parade’s episode on the Bee Gees

“What Is Love” is not a C+C Music Factory song. Nathan (a moron) regrets the error.

Men by Scene on Radio
Listen along to S(o)uper Trouper here!
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1h 13min
September 24, 2018S5E6. Upbeat Disco Schlager
Upbeat Disco Schlager
Cameron eats his tea, Nathan complains about dingos punching kangaroos, and and ABBA teaches Genius.com commenters about how the wind casts shadows.
Learnin' Links:
Omnibus' episode on disco demolition

Mnemosyne

Harvest by Neil Young

In case you forgot about Schlager
Listen along to Voulez-Vous here!
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1h 17min
September 17, 2018S5E5. This Ain't No Mayonnaise
ABBA: The Album by ABBA.
Nathan does eagle stuff, Cameron eats a nice bow of eagle noodles, and ABBA really makes us think with questions like "what if eagles?"
Learnin' Links:
Schlager

Fucking Jumping the shark

Ostinato

Maps—wait!
Listen along to ABBA: The Album here!
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1h 8min
September 10, 2018S5E4. Ice-Cold Goss
Arrival by ABBA.
Nathan invents the academic discipline of Mexicorientalism, Cameron gets Famous for His Drippins™, and ABBA teaches us how sexy geometry can be.
Learnin' Links:
It's legally complicated, but spousal rape was either legal or punished less severely than other forms of rape in the US until 1993ish

Roger Ebert famously said that video games cannot be art—but tempered his position a while later

James Bond, rapist—not just old-school Bond either; this is from 2012

Perhaps it's worth citing Edward Said's foundational book Orientalism, because we sure seem to reference it a lot
Listen along to Arrival here!
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1h 22min
September 03, 2018S5E3. Sister See-Ya
ABBA by ABBA.
Nathan makes a bold declaration about trees, Cameron makes a courageous confession about what kind of man he is, and ABBA warms our hearts in the tropical loveland of Sweden.
Learnin' Links:
Zwarte Piet

Let me google that for you

Apparently the Dutch were so involved in the slave trade that there was a region called the “Dutch Slave Coast”. Yikes.
Listen along to ABBA here!
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1h 3min
August 27, 2018S5E2. My Mama Sad
Waterloo by ABBA.
This MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY, THRILL as Nathan and Cameron choose completely arbitrary moments where they think ABBA is being self-aware, and then THROW DOWN.
Learnin' Links:
Did an MJ impersonator sing on the last Michael Jackson album?

The Battle of Waterloo

Cowper’s gland

David Livingstone

King Léopold II’s brutal colonial rule in the Congo

“Whitey on the Moon”

Bechdel test

Please Mr Kenendy from Inside Llewyn Davis

Nathan’s favorite song by Television
Listen along to Waterloo here!
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1h 19min
August 20, 2018S5E1. Quadrilengual Trilingual Quouple
Ring Ring by ABBA.
Nathan sags himself right off a cliff, Becca gets herself into an Ikea Situation, and Cameron begins his transformation into Barry Sacks (the king of the bari sax).
Learnin' Links:
Abba in Hebrew (and other Semitic languages)

“Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.”

Speaking of angel cats…
Listen along to Ring Ring here!
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1h 21min
August 13, 2018S4E9. Wicked T-Pains Never Die
Oblivion by T-Pain.
Nathan courageously admits he can’t do 18 push-ups, Cameron pitches a movie reboot, and T-Pain is laid to rest.
Learnin' Links:
Hieroglyphics

Teff

WPA source recordings
Listen along to Oblivion here!
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1h 13min

FAQs about Think Outside the Box Set:

How many episodes does Think Outside the Box Set have?

The podcast currently has 265 episodes available.