Raise a Glass: Recent Episodes
Hunter Dansin
Eric and Hunter discuss two films that make various Cowboy flavored impressions about violence and manliness.
Eric tries to warm Hunter's cold, cynical heart with his love for the Olympics and the stories we tell about it.
Derek Redmond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2G8KVzTwfw
Michael Phelps medals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F81cLjRY4to
Mikaela Shiffrin's Essay: https://signature.theplayerstribune.com/mikaela-shiffrin-olympics-team-usa-skiing/p/1
Ifixit: https://www.ifixit.com/
Eric and Hunter fall headfirst into East of Eden and barely stay afloat.
American Born Chinese: https://theroastedbookery.com/product/american-born-chinese
Eric and Hunter take different routes through Pokemon and How to Train Your Dragon, back to their childhoods, when there were dragons.
Hunter and Eric raise a glass to the High Kings before and after the concert, featuring a couple covers and some rainbow chasing.
Eric and Hunter delve into the world of Thomas Hardy with Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Hunter's essay: https://write.as/hdansin/a-pure-woman-sits-up-in-a-coffin
The Novels of Thomas Hardy (p245): https://archive.org/details/commonreaderseco0000wool/page/7/mode/1up
How Should One Read a Book: https://yalereview.org/article/virginia-woolf-essay-how-should-read-book
Eric and Hunter dive headfirst into Part 1 of East of Eden while munching bunny cookies.
East of Eden Centennial Edition: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=east%20of%20eden%20centennial%20edition&sts=t&ds=20
Eric and Hunter spend a late night session with the N64. Eric shares about the importance of the system to him while Hunter gets a little salty.
Epic Beau's parody, "Up B": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM2uCot0Rmo
Hunter shares some of his favorite games on the PS4 with Eric.
Guitar work by Hunter, both inspired by the Outer Wilds soundtrack (Travelers and Timber Hearth).
Lady Knight the Brave's video essay on The Last of Us 1 & 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2lFauyNMVA
Eric and Hunter kick off their series of in person game system episodes with a look at the Playstation 2.
Eric and Hunter return to the world of The Witcher. They're a little bit rusty, but the swords are sharp as ever and a couple potions in their glasses get them through.
Note: Geralt is in fact 90-100 years old during the events of the Witcher III (according to a lore entry in the game), but Sapkowski never actually states his age.
Killing Monsters Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0i88t0Kacs
Wolven Storm (Priscilla's Song): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SAGrc9cjvY
Raxabit gameplay videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEablyCJWxs
Detlaff boss fight (SPOILERS, but probably the best showcase of Witcher 3 combat ever): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih27CmFgTPc
Guitar by Hunter. It is an instrumental adaption of Wolven Storm and Toss a Coin to Your Witcher.
Tavern SFX: https://freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/209354/
Hunter gives an update about RAG's hiatus for the holiday season.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles on Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/110
Hunter's essay on Tess: https://hdansin.writeas.com/a-pure-woman-sits-up-in-a-coffin
We will plan to discuss Part I of East of Eden after Tess.
On the first episode of Season 3, Eric and Hunter welcome Jordan onto the podcast to discuss the first three books of Wheel of Time. Much like the Wheel of Time all topics promised in the beginning are covered, but they are weaved throughout and pay off... eventually. Hunter also frequently says 3 and a half when he means 2 and a half.
Eric and Hunter discuss the upcoming season of Raise a Glass.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=east%20of%20eden%20john%20steinbeck&sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-TopNavISS-_-Results&ds=20
Eric and Hunter reflect on Season 2 and talk about plans for Season 3. Consider getting a copy of East of Eden to read along with us next season!
East of Eden: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30564545041&searchurl=ds%3D20%26kn%3Deast%2Bof%2Beden%2Bjohn%2Bsteinbeck%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title2
Eric and Hunter talk (and sing (and 'rap')) about the musical about the namesake of their alma mater. Hunter also mispronounces Samuel Seabury as "Samuel Seavery".
Petition and info about Jeff McArn: https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/support-for-jeff
https://www.hamiltonmonitor.com/post/chaplain-jeff-mcarn-quietly-terminated-for-new-direction
Eric and Hunter rack up lots of points (you decide if they're positive or negative) talking about Michael Shur's The Good Place. Beware! This will spoil everything!
What we Owe to Eachother by T.M. Scanlon: https://www.booksamillion.com/p/What-We-Owe-Each-Other/T-M-Scanlon/9780674004238
The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31429286060&searchurl=sortby%3D17%26tn%3Ddivine%2Bconspiracy&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title3
Eric and Hunter raise a glass to one of Eric's favorite movies, About Time starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, and Bill Nighy. Don't worry, they only make Dad puns on the name of the movie about twenty times.
About Time: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2194499/
Sleep deprivation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6473877/
Mindfulness: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/mindfulness
Eric and Hunter pour one out for the 2014 movie "God's Not Dead" while going on various theological and philosophical tangents, some of which are more productive than others.
In their inaugural grab/gab bag episode, Eric and Hunter grab various stories and storytellers from hats and gab about them.
Hunter and Eric talk about some of Andrew's comics and paintings, as well as his process and the nature of art.
Buy Andrew's work: https://www.andrewmosherart.com/shop
Eric and Hunter welcome guest and friend Andrew Mosher to discuss his comic books and art. Part 1 of 2.
Andrew's website: https://www.andrewmosherart.com/
Purchase Komodo Queen and Me: https://www.andrewmosherart.com/shop/komodo-queen-me-comic-book
Eric listens to Hunter quote Twenty One Pilots lyrics. Includes covers of "My Blood" and "Trees."
Hunter also realizes now (after recording the podcast) that he should have remembered that it was the anniversary of Blurryface...
Eric and Hunter discuss After the Last Border, the story of two families and refuge in America.
Resources:
After the Last Border: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=after%20the%20last%20border%20by%20jessica%20goudeau&sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-TopNavISS-_-Results&ds=20
World Relief (Advocate, Volunteer, Give): https://worldrelief.org/
Welcoming the Stranger: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31377247010&searchurl=kn%3Dwelcoming%2Bthe%2Bstranger%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1
Eric and Hunter resume season 2 with part 2 of their discussion of Yu Hua's To Live, discussing the film adaption directed by Zhang Yimou.
Hunter's website: https://hdansin.writeas.com/about-me
Solus OS: https://getsol.us/
Eric and Hunter experience déjà vu as they introduce To Live by Yu Hua, a story that follows the struggle of Fu Gui to survive and take care of his family through war, famine, and the political upheavals of the Cultural Revolution in China. This will be the last episode before a brief hiatus.
Hate Crimes against Asian Americans: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56218684
Chinese dialects and Mandarin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH213QEckeg
In this potluck episode, Eric and Hunter surprise eachother and the laws of time with stories. Also includes an inconceivable performance of Vizzini from the Princess Bride by Eric.
Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com
Eric and Hunter explore the vast reaches of Star Trek media, sharing their favorite shows and movies and how it has shaped themselves and culture. Hunter also mispeaks and says "Carlos Beltran" when he meant "Robert Beltran."
Human Trafficking Awareness: https://www.alliance87.org/interactive/modern-slavery-statistics/
How Pornography can Fuel Sex Trafficking:
https://fightthenewdrug.org/how-porn-can-fuel-sex-trafficking/
Donate to a non-profit dedicated to helping survivors: https://www.amirahinc.org/
Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com
Hunter and Eric discuss how one of America's most important storytellers and public figures, Martin Luther King Jr, has shaped the country and more.
Works by King discussed:
Letter From Birmingham Jail
"I Have a Dream"
"Where Do We Go From Here"
"I've Been to the Mountaintop"
Books Cited:
A Call to Conscience
Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s
"I Have a Dream" Children's Book
Eric and Hunter kick off season 2 with one of Hunter's favorite writers.
Links:
Dawen 王大文
Virginia Woolf: "The Russian Point of View"
Virginia Woolf: "How Should One Read a Book?"
Hunter Dansin: "Move the Tree to the Middle"
In this vanity episode, Eric interviews Hunter about the writing process of his first book, Dawn Must Follow Night. They also conclude the first season and discuss hopes for next season.
Buy Hunter's book: https://hdansin.writeas.com/dawn-must-follow-night
Read for free on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/Follow-Night
Listen to the audiobook: YouTube Playlist
Support Hunter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hdansin
Hunter's social links: https://hdansin.writeas.com/about-me
In spite of the tennis, for reasons unknown, Eric and Hunter raise a glass to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and the Library of Babel by Jose Luis Borges, musing on the meaning and meaninglessness of life and knowledge.
Lucky's tirade from Waiting for Godot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGQToJ9RR-4
The Library of Babel: https://archive.org/details/TheLibraryOfBabel
Real life Library of Babel: https://libraryofbabel.info/
The Last Question by Asimov: http://www.thelastquestion.net/
Hunter's poem about writing in books: https://hdansin.writeas.com/in-the-margin
Eric and Hunter discuss Andrew Peterson's advent album, Behold the Lamb of God, get into the weeds with their complicated relationship with "Christian art", but bring it back around at the end.
Also includes a special cover of "Matthew's Begats."
Behold the Lamb of God: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9CMF_co2fU&list=OLAK5uy_mNgLQcjnTtnrXNLYTJzUunMJI3adt_CTo
Hunter's website: https://hdansin.writeas.com/
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow; creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of this podcast.
Eric and Hunter invite Michael to share his history with Macbeth, how it has shaped him, and why he loves it.
Hunter makes Eric an offer he can't refuse: talking about the Godfather.
Eric's thesis available on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/godfather-thesis-75000862?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
"The Godfather and the limits of representation" by NPR: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/31/1133013484/the-godfather-and-the-limitations-of-representation
Eric and Hunter discuss one of their favorite boardgames of all time, Dominion, and even play a couple games.
Video of the games available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hdansin
Dominion pro on YouTube mentioned in podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/MicQsenoch
Eric and Hunter discuss Travels with Charley in Search of America, a travelogue written by a very sarcastic John Steinbeck. They also acknowledge the native people that lived on the land before they did.
Hunter's essay inspired by Steinbeck: https://hdansin.writeas.com/to-remember
Like a ticking that you can't get out of your mind, like the Raven that quotes only one desparing word, Eric and Hunter can't stop talking about Edgar Allan Poe.
The Philosophy of Composition: https://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/philcomp.htm
Eric and Hunter talk about Taylor Swift's new album, as well as Taylor Swift as an artist. Eric also asks Hunter about his own music and a potential album.
Eric and Hunter mansplain the first season of both Rings of Power and She Hulk, among other things.
Tolkien's essay "On Fairy Stories": https://uh.edu/fdis/_taylor-dev/readings/tolkien.html
Eric and Hunter discuss the book Fools Crow by James Welch, an immersive novel about a Blackfoot native set during 1870. They talk about how it impacted them and shaped their understanding of the history and culture of indigenous people in America. They also touch on depictions of native people in other media.
Warning: Briefly mentions a scene in the novel that involves rape.
Hunter's essay about the controversy in his hometown: https://hdansin.writeas.com/to-remember
Eric and Hunter discuss Ready Player One, the book and the movie, how it shaped the culture and them personally.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "The Cry of the Human": https://www.bartleby.com/293/80.html
Hey Poor Player TV, Second Opinion on RPO: https://www.heypoorplayer.com/2017/07/28/second-opinion-ready-player-one-worst-thing-nerd-culture-ever-produced/
A piece Hunter wrote after reading Ready Player One for the first time: https://medium.com/@hdansin/do-something-new-33376af02460
Guitar jam intro and outro by Hunter.
Eric and Hunter discuss Needtobreathe, focusing on The Heat and Rivers in The Wasteland. Includes a special medley by Hunter on the Ukulele.
In the first part of this episode, Eric and Hunter discuss Linkin Park and the non-meaning of life.
Eric and Hunter discuss two low budget but loveable movies.
El Mariachi: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104815/
Future Folk: https://futurefolk.com/
Eric and Hunter discuss three different stories by classic Russian authors. They also listen to an opera about a nose.
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602381h.html
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/600
Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/985
In this episode Eric and Hunter fanboy over Tolkien, discussing the influence of his work on their lives, as well as the first two episodes of the Rings of Power.
Discussed article: https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/its-time-to-remember-tolkien-again
Tolkien's letter to Milton Waldman: https://www.tolkienestate.com/letters/letter-to-milton-waldman-publisher-1951/
Not explicitly discussed, but a great read by Tolkien himself on "fairy stories": https://archive.org/details/on-fairy-stories_202110/page/n1/mode/2up
In this episode, Eric and Hunter discuss their favorite books of all time, how they came to love them, and favorites that they are currently reading. This episode also features a special recording of "Follow Me, Sancho," an original song written by Hunter featuring Eric on upright bass and background vocals.