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Nov 20, 2020

Award-winning journalist and author Samantha Allen joins Garrett Martin to discuss Free Solo, the National Geographic documentary about Alex Honnold and his amazing free solo climb of El Capitan. What drives somebody to push themselves to the furthest edges of human achievement? And what are the ethics of encouraging...


Nov 13, 2020

30 years before Disney bought Marvel, and almost 30 years before Iron Man launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the comic book company tried to launch an animation empire off the back of a Saturday morning cartoon starring Spider-Man and his, uh, pretty alright friends. Henry Gilbert, co-host of the Talking...


Nov 6, 2020

This week we present a brief digression from our regularly scheduled program. Garrett Martin went down to Disney World last week, during a pandemic, and here's his report on what he found. How comfortable did he feel? How much did he enjoy theme parks with all of the COVID precautions? Why is he writing about himself...