155. Baseball Utopia in Eephus -- Carson Lund

155. Baseball Utopia in Eephus -- Carson Lund

"What is joy when everything has been monetized and optimized?" For Carson Lund, the answer is rec league baseball, and his new film Eephus is about how a meaningless, anachronistic activity like a local baseball league can actually be the most meaningful and important thing you can do. The film is an ode to baseball, a comedy, and "an argument for democracy at a more human level, people just figuring things out."

You can find ways to stream Eephus or watch it in the theater here: https://www.eephusfilm.com/

And here's the Hawthorne quote I got totally wrong in the episode:

The novels of Anthony Trollope "just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were being made a show of."

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185. Radicalism in the American Revolution

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184. The Horizontal Transcendence of the Everyday -- Clare Carlisle

184. The Horizontal Transcendence of the Everyday -- Clare Carlisle

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183. Mrs. Orwell -- Andrea Chalupa

183. Mrs. Orwell -- Andrea Chalupa

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181. The Language of Incompleteness -- Amit Chaudhuri

181. The Language of Incompleteness -- Amit Chaudhuri

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180. Aurora -- Kim Stanley Robinson

180. Aurora -- Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson comes back to discuss Aurora, his novel of a generational starship, in which generations of humans are born, live, and die onboard without ever seeing a planet. We discuss the gen...

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179. Socialism from Bernie to Mamdani -- Dan Chiasson

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178. Fighting for the Future of PM Press -- Ramsey Kanaan

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