Three really awesome guys discuss The Sopranos episode by episode...but like in a cool way.
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A show where two literary critics go through all of Kurt Vonnegut, and then Chinua Achebe, novel by novel, periodically interrupted by talking about The Sopranos.
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Episode 79 (The Fleshy Part of the Thigh)
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Ohhhh!!!!! The boys are finally back and so is Tony!!! Every episode is a gift.Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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Paulie's balls, Silvio's asthma, Vito's baby carrots. It's the second part of the Kevin Finnerty saga. Hit the snack bar, grab a bite, have a listen and don't try to buy a gun this time ohhhh!!!!Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Ohhhh it's a Kevin Finnerty ep! What does it mean? Where is he going? Who gives a fuck! Edie Falco gives another monster performance and Kevin Finnerty gets slapped before it was cool. Grab a blackened grouper sandwich and have a listen, stunads!Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com…
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Ohhhh!!! It's the Season 6A Premiere! It's the one with some rats, a members only jacket, some hot dogs, some sushi and an all time (and rare) cliff hanger. Chindon!Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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Ohhhh glad tidings from New York! How long we gotta wait for these guys to finish a goddamn season? It's (finally) the Season Five finale. Plus the boys discuss the Chevy Silverado SB commercial.Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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To this day an extremely difficult hour of television. The boys discuss one of the most pivotal episodes of the series.Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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Ohhhh!!! We're back!!! Again!!!! With everyone's favorite dream episode!!!! Grab a Toblerone and listen!!!Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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Revenge is like cold cuts. It's the one where Chris and Tony B go to Pat's Farm to move a few cans of peaches. Also Janice violently hurting someone? If the shoe fits! Have a fuckin' bull shot and strap in.Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Episode 71 (Unidentified Black Males)
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The boys are full of whiskey and feelings about this episode. Meet us under the bat at Yankee Stadium and be on time cause we don't like to miss the National Anthem. Sometimes recording this podcast is like taking a sh*t.Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Marco! Polo! The podcast was off its axis, but we're back at 12 O'Clock. A sauseetcha for you. The boys discuss an episode that kicks off arguably the greatest run in the series. Grab a Rolling Rock and enjoy. Salud!Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Ohhh!!! The boys are FINALLY back with an extremely late review of The Many Saints of Newark, as well as a chat about what lies ahead for David Chase.Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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A nice, quick-and-dirty bonus episode on "The Voter," Achebe's early stab at A Man of the People! For the rest of our conversation, see the bonus episode from a few weeks ago on The Many Saints of Newark...By Gerry Canavan and Aaron Bady
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Gerry and Aaron talk about what may be their favorite Achebe novel yet, A Man of the People, originally published in 1966. Also they try to figure out whether or not America had a coup.By Aaron Bady and Gerry Canavan
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We are all but faulty microphones in the podcast of an angry God! Thanks to Aaron for his absolutely heroic efforts to recover the audio from this nearly lost episode and thanks to all of you for your grace and forgiveness on the sound quality. In this one we close out the so-called African Trilogy with Arrow of God -- lots of religion talk for all…
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We've had some audio problems with the Arrow of God episode, which Aaron is working hard on and which should be out soon very soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this emergency b-b-b-b-b-b-bonus episode of our brand-new season that is absolutely not a one-off joke, all about The Many Saints of Newark...…
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Quasimodo ain't got sh*t on us!!! The boys get together for the last time before The Many Saints of Newark drops to attempt to predict what will happen.Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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Ohhh!!! The boys are back after a month long hiatus to discuss the Many Saints of Newark press tour and latest trailer. You fuckin' as excited as us? You better be.Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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5. "Chike's School Days," "The Sacrificial Egg," and "Akueke"
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Another week on the short stories from the 50s and 60s! This week it's "Chike's School Days," "The Sacrificial Egg," and "Akueke." If you like stories in which nothing really happens, then this is the podcast for you! Sincere apologies for the slightly tinny sound in spots -- somebody stepped on an egg, and there was a problem with Gerry's mic that…
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4. "Dead Man's Path" and "Marriage Is A Private Affair"
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On this week's not-exactly-a-mini-episode, Gerry and Aaron talk about two of Achebe's early short stories, "Dead Man's Path" and "Marriage Is A Private Affair," while also looking forward and backward to Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease and forward to Arrow of God. Along the way they somehow find time to talk about Kurt Vonnegut, Octavia But…
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Sixty years later, Gerry and Aaron are joined by Keguro Macharia to talk about No Longer at Ease! Should it be illegal to teach Things Fall Apart without also teaching its sequel? Find out within...By Gerry Canavan and Aaron Bady
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It's the episode with Johnny Boy's goomar and JT Dolan and Junior going to funerals just to mange!Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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Carm gets her groove on with Mr. Wegler. Tony B gets his koi on with Mr. Kim. His girlfriend gets her sick and evil on with herself. Chindon!Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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Episode 64 (Irregular Around The Margins)
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Twist my arm! It's the one where Tone turns Christopher into Joe Jerkoff!!! Listen to the boys discuss this awesome episode that Michael Imperioli and Drea De Matteo won Emmys for.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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The fellas are back recording together in the same room for the first time in 18 months! Did it make a difference? You fuckin' decide! We discuss Season 5, Episode 4...whatever happened there.Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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We back!!!! The boys discuss all the food Joe ate when he was in Staten Island, the Many Saints of Newark trailer and one of the great episodes in the series "Where's Johnny?" The fuck you doin'...listen now.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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Gerry and Aaron are back for more Things Fall Apart, talking about parts two and three of the novel. We also talk The Sopranos, Watchmen, Breaking Bad, bad fans, The Things Fall Apart film, just a little Vonnegut, and Achebe's 1973 essay "Named for Victoria, Queen of England"...By Gerry Canavan and Aaron Bady
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Episode 61 (Rat Pack) with Jordan Morris
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Ohhh the boys are joined by writer/comedian Jordan Morris to discuss Season Five, Episode 2! Tony Blundetto debuts (without Tubbs) and rats do rat stuff. Pop a squat on the shitter, light a cig and have a listen!Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Gerry and Aaron dive into Things Fall Apart, chapters 1-13!By Gerry Canavan and Aaron Bady
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Ohhh!!!! The boys are back for Season Five (the best season). The Class of 2004 is getting out and the show is cooking. Get that egg salad out of your ears and enjoy.Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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The first episode of season two! Gerry and Aaron discuss the gameplan for Grad School Achebe, the history and reception of African literature inside and outside academia, Achebe's place in the canon, his uncanny recurrent deaths on social media, the finer points of pronunciation, and more. Next week: the podcast falls apart. Texts discussed: Chinua…
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Oh!!!! It's the greatest acting in television history. No big deal. The boys discuss the Season Four Finale. Pour a big bowl shark fin soup, a spoonful of salsa and don't forget the mutherfucking goddamn orange peel beef.Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Episode 58 (Eloise) with Mike Vorkunov
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The fellas are joined by The Athletic's Mike Vorkunov to discuss Season 4, Episode 12 as well as his excellent piece on the time James Gandolfini and Edie Falco played their Sopranos characters to try and lure LeBron James to the Knicks.Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoice…
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Calling all cars! Get your appraising shit and start appraising, Victah. The boys discuss Season 4, Episode 11. I don't know what we do to these episodes, but they're delicious. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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Episode 56 (The Strong, Silent Type)
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It's the intervennnntion!!!! The boys discuss the episode where Chris hits rock bottom, Carm cuts her hair without asking and Furio comes back to New Jersey. Pour a glass of wine that hopefully doesn't remind you of peoples' feet and enjoy!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Put some sour cream in your eggs, sit back and remember one of the all-timers. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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Episode 54 (Mergers and Acquisitions) with Adam Malamut
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The boys are joined by Game of Zones creator and Jersey boy Adam Malamut to get into some horseshit. We'll make sure you understand the finer points. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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Episode 53 (Watching Too Much Television)
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Whattya hear, whattya say? The boys discuss the HUD episode (Season 4, Ep 7). A little Chi Lites, a little belt whipping. Enjoy!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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Episode 52 (Everybody Hurts) with James Montalbano
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Everybody hunky dory? C'est cassé message machine broken? The fellas are joined by listener and pizza maker James Montalbano (@Pizzamici) to discuss one of the great Artie Bucco episodes. Pour an armagnac or a Nonino Picolit and enjoy!!!Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoice…
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The boys are back with some good old-fashioned horseplay! They discuss Season 4, Episode 5 then drop a new little segment and finish up as always with Fuckin' Internet. Happy St. Patty's Day to all the non-Paisans!Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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25. Death March, Power Rankings, and Celebratory Clambake
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In which Gerry and Aaron reflect on what they have done, admit their wrongdoing, and commit to never doing it again.By Gerry Canavan and Aaron Bady
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Oh!!! We took a break from Season Four to do our first ever MAILBAG EPISODE!!! Listeners sent in their fuckin' questions. The boys answered them. Were we at the top of our fuckin' class? You be the judge. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPod Submit your Blue Wire Hustle application here: http://bwhustle.com/joinLearn more about your ad ch…
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The last bonusisode of season one is one last quick spin through immortality, 1954's "The Big Trip Up Yonder" / "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"... Stay tuned for the very long, very fun season one finale, coming soon!By Aaron Bady and Gerry Canavan
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Ohhh!!! It's fawthah's birthday and weyah havin' cake from cawvel!!! Johnny Sack is on a mission to get rid of Ralph over the Ginny joke. The boys discuss Season Four, Episode Four.Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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Episode 48 (Christopher) with Dani Pallotta
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The boys are joined by the lovely Dani Pallotta to chat about the infamous Christopher Columbus episode. Sit on your ass, smoke some mushrooms and enjoy. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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This is the one the podcast has always been building towards: Gerry, Aaron, and special guest Brian Thill take on Galápagos. Does it hold up? Is it secretly the best Vonnegut novel? Can Kurt wriggle out of being canceled one last time? Only our big brains know for sure...By Gerry Canavan and Aaron Bady
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The Ginny Sack joke. Stolen fiber optics. Shooting junk. Stolen tiles. Sassy teenagers. The guys discuss Season Four, Episode Two. Sit back, look out for flying shrapnel, get some wings in your hair and enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Blue Wire
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Episode 46 (For All Debts Public and Private) with Chris Gethard
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Back with a boom! We are blessed to have the King of New Jersey himself Chris Gethard. From Wild Bird Center to the Hooters in Wayne to Down Neck, Chris takes us on a trip through David Chase's deep Jersey references in the Season Four premiere and beyond. A total fuckin' treat. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad…
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Oh!!! The boys are back with a new series of episodes we call "Sopranos Home Movies" where we watch obscure flicks with Sopranos cast members and then discuss. Back to the show next week with the Season Four premiere, you stunads!!! Take it eaze. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co…
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Gerry and Aaron return for a discussion of "EPICAC" (1950)! Join us for a meandering tour of automation, machine learning, feminism, suicide, the war machine, masculinity, STEM, and so much more...By Aaron Bady and Gerry Canavan
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The boys close out this shit year, by closing out Season Three. Can't believe we're this far into the show, but then again we believed there was a flying saucer over East Rutherford. Happy New Year!!!Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @OhSopranosPodSubmit your Blue Wire Hustle application here: http://bwhustle.com/joinLearn more about your ad choices.…
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