BizzleCast 30 - Star Trek v Star Wars, Asimov to the Avengers with Matt Goisman

We made it to 30!!!! The Bizzle is thrilled to celebrate this landmark by sitting down with fellow Wesleyan alum and current professional sports reporter Matt Goisman ’05 to discuss 'Star Trek,' its relationship to 'Star Wars,’ and the cultural relevance of their unique visions of the future (past?). But as so often happens when two masters of nerdiness have a chat, the conversation quickly morphed into a discussion of just about every scifi/fantasy occurrence from Asimov to the Avengers. Currently a sports reporter in New England, Matt Goisman wrote an extremely interesting thesis at Wesleyan where he looked at the characteristics of traditional Jewish heroes, specifically Moses, Jacob, the Talmudic rabbis and Hershel of Ostropol. Matt’s thesis looked at whether or not the Golem and modern superheroes could be described as traditional Jewish heroes or represented a redefinition of Jewish heroism more appropriate to a setting that had shifted from Eastern Europe to 20th century America. Sign up for BizzleCast on iTunes (keyword: BizzleCast) or use the RSS feed on any podcast app: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:35604552/sounds.rss