We Defy Augury

By Dave G. Truck

Thoughts and theories (loosely) inspired by literature, life, and all the rest.

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We Defy Augury episodes:

December 02, 2023 Get Out? Or Stay In?
Thoughts (loosely) based on Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Special Guests: The Allman Brothers, The Eagles, Uncle Henry, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Andre Heyworth.
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47min
November 19, 2023 Capitalism . . . 1980s Style
Thoughts on capitalism (loosely) based on three novels published in the 1980s: Carl Hiasen's Tourist Season, Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities, and Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park.
Special Guests: Oingo Boingo, Lloyd Dobbler, Conan O'Brien, and Anthony Bourdain.
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1h 3min
October 23, 2023 Let's Talk About Celine Dion
Thoughts (loosely) based on Carl Wilson's music criticism masterpiece Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste.
Special Guests: Celine Dion, Huey Lewis and the News, New Found Glory, Robert Johnson, Greensky Bluegrass, The Easy Star All Stars, Bas Gaakeer & Mireille Bittar, Joey Satriani, David Berman, Pavement, Beavis and Butthead, David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, greasetruck, and Pythagoras.
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53min
October 04, 2023 Please Stand So Close to Me
Thoughts (loosely) based on Catherine Chidgey's psychological thriller Pet.
Special Guests: The Police, Van Halen, and The Plastics.
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28min
September 24, 2023 Hey Sheeple! Powerful Eyes are Watching You
Thoughts (loosely) based on Colin Dickey's book Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy."
Special Guests: Oedipa Maas, The Beastie Boys, Richard Nixon, Geraldo Rivera, The Who, and The Simpsons.
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58min
September 01, 2023 Spenser, Morality, and the Jock Ethic
Thoughts (loosely) based on Robert B. Parker's novel Mortal Stakes.
Special Guests: Miss Education, Coach D'Amato, Coach Taylor, Falstaff, God, Walter, Donny, and the Dude.
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52min
August 23, 2023 Colleen Hoover and the Art of the Inner Monologue
Thoughts (loosely) based on the novels of Colleen Hoover.
Special Guests: Miss Education, God.
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44min
August 21, 2023 Slouching Towards Something
Thoughts (loosely) based on J. Bradford DeLong's Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century.
Special Guests: Milton Friedman, Gordon Gekko, and Bill Cosby.
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1h 1min
August 13, 2023 The 1970s . . . Characterized by Four Crime Novels
Thoughts (loosely) based on four crime novels set in the 1970s:
The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
The Godwulf Manuscript and God Save the Child by Robert B. Parker
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
Special Guests: Frank Serpico, the A-1 Guy, the Crying Indian, Crazy Eddie Antar, Fred Sandford, Officer Swanhauser, Officer Smith, Chuck D, Dutton Peabody, Tom Doniphon, Uncle Rico, Napoleon Dynamite, Frank the Tank, Blutarski, and Flounder.
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1h 7min
August 02, 2023 Ringworld: Get Down with Some 70s Sci-fi
Thoughts (loosely) based on Larry Niven's 1970 sci-fi novel Ringworld and Katie Williams' 2023 sci-fi novel My Murder.
Special Guests: Joel, Clementine, God, Han, Chewie, and Zardoz.
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50min

FAQs about We Defy Augury:

How many episodes does We Defy Augury have?

The podcast currently has 82 episodes available.