BONUS: This Better Not Awaken Anything In Me (with Catherynne Valente)

Welcome back to the Crown & Anchor, Greyhounds! On this bonus episode Christian and Brett host the wonderful Catherynne Valente to discuss her recent essay, "This Better Not Awaken Anything In Me: How Ted Lasso Totally Did Awaken Lots of Things In Me Even Though Absolutely No One Asked It To Go So Hard."Our conversation touches on Bob Fosse, Star Wars, Eurovision,  David Foster Wallace, Allen Iverson, and Kanye. We  also chat about how Ted Lasso exemplifies the highest ideals of Americanism, how he inspires us to become better versions of ourselves, and how we all just wish he was our dad. Discussed On This EpisodeThis Better Not Awaken Anything In Me: How Ted Lasso Totally Did Awaken Lots of Things In Me Even Though Absolutely No One Asked It To Go So Hard (Catherynne Valente, 2021)The Bechdel Test (Dictionary dot com)Cat Valente’s Patreon, Twitter, and Instagram pagesThe Refrigerator Monologues (Catherynne Valente & Annie Wu, 2017)Women In Refrigerators (Wikipedia, 1999)Space Opera (Catherynne Valente, 2018)All That Jazz (IMDB, 1979)The "Ted Lasso" way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced (Salon, 2020)'Ted Lasso' Is a Wonderful Comfort Binge, Really (Thrillist, 2020)E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction (David Foster Wallace, 1993)Iverson Practice! (Youtube, 2002)Everything an American needs to Understand Eurovision (Vox, 2014)From A Certain Point of View (Star Wars, 2020)Exogorth (Wookieepedia)A Brief History of Pitch Correction in Music (Izotope, 2018)Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram.A full transcript of this episode can be found here.Richmond Til We Die is a conversation about the Apple TV+ show Ted Lasso. A place where fans (and curious newcomers) come together to discuss the characters, their relationships to each other, and how they're able to make us laugh until we can hardly breathe one minute and then feel with the deepest parts of our hearts the next. When you're here, you're a Greyhound!