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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Literary Matters

– Before the Bath by Ismail Kadare (Albanian, not Turkish!)

– The University of St. Thomas in Houston

– New Verse Review

– Paradise Lost by John Milton

– Red Scare

– Grok

– Chubby Checker by M. I. Devine

– Regarding your workplace matter by Belinda Rule

– Human Math by Tin Fogdall

– The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot

– On Settler Colonialism by Adam Kirsch

– One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

– Ridley Road (2021 UK-2022 US)

– Rory Kinnear

– Something, Anything (2014)

– The Spitfire Grill (1996)

Frequently mentioned names:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Morri Creech

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Amit Majmudar

– Ethan McGuire

– Coleman Glenn

– Chris Childers

– Alexis Sears

– JP Gritton

– Alex Pepple

– Ernie Hilbert

– Joann…