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The Cluttered Desk — 263 episodes

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S16E4: Under the Influence

2

S16E3: In the Name of the Mother (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms)

3

S16E2: What is the Hicks that is to come? (Capitalist Realism Vol. 3)

4

S16E1: Capitalist Realism Vol. 2

5

S15E12: The Simpsons Movie (2007)

6

S15E11: Capitalist Realism Vol. 1

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S15E10: On Frank X Walker's "Amazin' Grace"

8

S15E9: The Lord of the CHUDS

9

S15E8: Superman but with they/them pronouns

10

S15E7: Everything but a dinosaur w/Betsy Cooper

11

S15E6: Debate Me, Bucko!

12

S15E5: Lucky Charms and New Creation

13

S15E4: Pilot Season

14

S15E3: The Steel Man and the Star War

15

S15E2: I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

16

S15E1: A Pedagogical "Love Story"

17

S14E12: Marge Simpson

18

S14E11: Théoden is BRAT

19

S14E10: Colin's Community Essay

20

S14E9: Violence and the Sacred Gains

21

S14E8: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

22

S14E7: Jesus Christ Can Do The Mashed Potato

23

S14E6: Andrew Hicks got that PhD rizz

24

S14E5: X-Men '97 Part 2

25

S14E4: To Me, My Nostalgia (X-Men '97)

26

S14E3: Ghost Protocols

27

S14E2: Deadpool 2 (Tolkien's Version)

28

S14E1: Personal Shopper (2016)

29

S13E12: Cluttered Desk, eh? Doesn't ring a bell

30

S13E11: The Maternal Masculine Figure in The Intern (2015)

31

S13E10: "Prepare yourself to ingest 15 pounds of raw cluttered desk meat"

32

S13E9: The beer garden of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of senators and Ph.D. candidates

33

S13E8: Deadpool (2016)

34

S13E7: Andrew's Cat Has Feelings: On Affect Theory

35

S13E6: Spencer (2021)

36

S13E5: Andrew Hicks Enters the (Re)Home Stretch

37

S13E4: Thomas Wolfe's The Lost Boy

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S13E3: English Majors...Assemble.

39

S13E2: PhD Level Grinding

40

S13E1: X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

41

S12E12: The Simpsons! Volume 2

42

S12E11: Bingeable Jesus Content

43

S12E10: Andrew Hicks, The Greatest Show on Earth

44

S12E9: Maintenance Phase and Vulnerable Conversations

45

S12E8: More X-Men Content! (House of X/Powers of X)

46

S12E7: My Two Mutant Dads (X-Men: First Class)

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S12E6: Russian Doll, Season 2

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S12E5: The Babe Ruth Diet

49

S12E4: Baseball!

50

S12E3: Psychoanalysis, Vol. 1

51

S12E2: The Passion of the Cruz and other bad interpretations

52

S12E1: Pandemic, Year Three

53

S11E9: The Simpsons!

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S11E8: "Civil Disobedience, Bub" or that episode when The Cluttered Desk Podcast talks The Wolverine (2013)

55

S11E7: Andrew Hicks Talks Cormac McCarthy's The Road

56

S11E6: A Thinking Person's X-Men Movie (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)

57

S11E5: An analysis of Todd McGowan's "Citizen Trump"

58

S11E4: X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

59

S11E3: A Slightly Less Tentative X-Men Movie (X2: X-Men United)

60

S11E2: A Tentative X-Men Movie

61

S11E1: Reflecting on 2020 *Spoilers*

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S10E10: Obligatory Title for Convo about X-Men and Shakespeare

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S10E9: On Authorial Intent

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S10E8: Oedipus Wayne

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S10E7: The Monster Bash

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S10E6: Get Out (2017)

67

S10E5: Do the Right Thing (1989)

68

S10E5 Preview Episode | On COVID-19 Narratives

69

S10E4: Andrew and Colin from the machine

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S10E4 Preview Episode | On Ph.D. Progress

71

S10E3: Searching for ScarJo's body in a fiber-optic wilderness

72

S10E3 Preview Episode | On Being Troubled

73

S10E2: Queerbaiting and Star Wars (w/Jana Napier-Ribley)

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S10E2 Preview Episode | On Queering Gilgamesh (w/special guest Jana Napier-Ribley)

75

S10E1: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker *Spoilers*

76

S10E1 Preview Episode (w/special guests Meghan Groves and Jon Phelps)

77

Andrew in Texas Vol. 1: On Expectations

78

S9E6: For he today that pods with me shall be my brother (Season Finale!)

79

S9E6 Preview Episode | On Andrew Going Out His Door

80

S9E5: The Lord of the Rings Book Club Volume 7

81

S9E5 Preview Episode | On The Fellowship of the Ring

82

S9E4: We Give John Green ★★★★☆

83

S9E4 Preview Episode | On DUDE Wipes

84

S9E3: Andrew Hicks puts the Internet on blast

85

S9E3 Preview Episode | On Surviving Twitter

86

The Lord of the Rings Book Club Volume 6

87

S9E2: A Game of Groans

88

S9E2 Preview Episode | On Fan Reactions

89

S9E1: Jean Grey, you're nothing but trouble

90

S9E1 Preview Episode | On Andrew's Perfect X-Men Movie

91

The Lord of the Rings Book Club Volume 5

92

Interstitial Episode: Avengers: Endgame *Spoilers*

93

S8E6: The Broken Man and The Lady with a Death Wish (Season Finale!)

94

S8E6 Preview Episode | On Recommendations

95

S8E5: Should we throw out the Zizek with the bathwater?

96

S8E5 Preview Episode | On the Op-Ed

97

S8E4: On Harmontown

98

S8E4 Preview Episode | On Being a Completist

99

S8E3: Andrew Hicks and Flannery O'Connor go to couples therapy

100

S8E3 Preview Episode | On Academic Writing

101

S8E2: Searching for history's masterpieces but not through the past

102

S8E2 Preview Episode | On Authority Figures

103

S8E1: bar•ol•a•try (n): excessive admiration of energy bars

104

S8E1 Preview Episode | On Grading Rubrics

105

Timing Is Everything Vol. 4

106

The Bourbon Aficionado-Part 2 (w/Perry Ritter)

107

The Bourbon Aficionado-Part 1 (w/Perry Ritter)

108

Timing Is Everything Vol. 3

109

The Small Batch Brewer (w/Michael Peck of Elderbrew)

110

Timing Is Everything Vol. 2

111

S7E6: The Cluttered Desk Podcast Always Pays Its Debts *Live*

112

S7E6 Preview Episode | On Performing Live

113

S7E5: Timing Is Everything Vol. 1

114

S7E5 Preview Episode | Live GoT Episode Announcement

115

S7E4: Getting #DinoWoke (w/special guest Betsy Couper)

116

S7E4 Preview Episode | On Dinosaurs as Pets

117

The Process - Part 1 (featuring Daniel Couper)

118

Coming Soon: The Process

119

S7E3: I'm just a teenage dirtbag (named Gatsby)...baby

120

S7E3 Preview Episode | On Returning to Old Favorites

121

S7E2: Hey humanities profs, here's a well wrought burn!

122

S7E2 Preview Episode | On Character

123

Jon Phelps on Avengers: Infinity War *Spoilers*

124

S7E1: "Get me a cinematic universe!" *Spoilers*

125

S7E1 Preview Episode *Spoilers*

126

Interstitial Episode: On John Paul Stevens' "Repeal the Second Amendment"

127

Black Tapes In Review: Our Thoughts on "They know."

128

S6E6: Finding the Mythical Middle Ground (Season Finale!)

129

S6E6 Preview Episode | Reflections on the Live Harry Potter Episode

130

S6E5: The Harry Potter PodParty *Live*

131

S6E5 Preview Episode

132

S6E4: Moby, Zack Morris, and Your Sims Character Walk Into a Bar... (2 of 2)

133

S6E4: Moby, Zack Morris, and Your Sims Character Walk Into a Bar... (1 of 2)

134

S6E4 Preview Episode

135

Much Ado About Nothing? A Star Wars Story

136

S6E3: A Critical Reading of "Can Your Best Friends Be Books?" by Eve Fairbanks

137

Live Episode Announcement (Harry Potter) | S6E3 Preview Episode

138

S6E2: Andrew on Ahch-To: Our Talk of The Last Jedi

139

S6E2 Preview Episode

140

S6E1: "Noam Chomsky is not a Neo-Nazi"

141

S6E1 Preview Episode

142

Black Tapes In Review: S3E6 Into the Black *Series Finale*

143

Black Tapes In Review: S3E5 Worlds Collide

144

Black Tapes In Review: S3E4 Songs and Signs

145

Black Tapes In Review: S3E3 A Family Gathering

146

S5E6: Our Big(ish) Game of Thrones Episode *Season Finale*

147

S5E6 Preview Episode

148

Black Tapes In Review: S3E2 The Musica Mundana

149

S5E5: A Summer of Comic Book Reading

150

S5E5 Preview Episode *Special Guest Jon Phelps*

151

Black Tapes In Review: S3E1 The Sins of the Father

152

S5E4: A Critical Discussion of "Why I Write" by George Orwell

153

S5E4 Preview Episode

154

The Lord of the Rings Book Club Volume 4

155

The Lord of the Rings Book Club Update for 8.13.17

156

CDP Special: Mr. Graybeal Reporting for Duty to Talk James Bond

157

S5E3: A Critical Discussion of "Climate of Complete Certainty" by Bret Stephens

158

S5E3 Preview Episode

159

S5E2: A Critical Discussion of Rebecca Solnit's "The Loneliness of Donald Trump"

160

S5E2 Preview Episode

161

S5E1: A Driving Review of Wonder Woman *Spoilers*

162

The Lord of the Rings Book Club Volume 3

163

The Lord of the Rings Book Club Update for 6.7.17

164

The Lord of the Rings Book Club Volume 2

165

The Lord of the Rings Book Club Update for 5.11.17

166

S4E6: The Lord of the Rings Book Club Volume 1 *Season Finale*

167

S4E6 Preview Episode *Season Finale*

168

Special Preview: The Lord of the Rings Bookclub

169

An Interview with Jacqui Helbert

170

Cars and Claws, Bub: A Driving Review of Logan

171

An Interview with Daniel Couper *Live*

172

Black Tapes In Review: WE'RE BACK! Well, sort of.

173

The Mixtape: Track 2: Blanket Fort by Bad Cover Band Sam

174

S4E5: Andrew and Colin Try to Stop Hitting Themselves

175

S4E5 Preview Episode

176

S4E4: Storytelling and Podcasts Part 2: A Digital Resurrection *Spoilers*

177

S4E4 Preview Episode

178

S4E3: Andrew and Colin Are Dead: Thoughts on The Stanley Parable

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S4E3 Preview Episode

180

The Mixtape: Track 1: Puberty 2 by Mitski

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S4E2: Andrew Picks a Baseball Team

182

S4E2 Preview Episode

183

S4E1: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

184

S4E1 Preview Episode

185

Andrew In Scotland: There and Back Again

186

Andrew In Scotland Vol. 5: On Reading

187

Andrew In Scotland Vol. 4: On Trump

188

Andrew In Scotland Vol. 3: On Podcasting

189

*Special Preview* The Hop-Ons Podcast

190

Black Tapes In Review: Season 2 Recap

191

Andrew In Scotland Vol. 2: On Comic Book Continuity

192

Andrew In Scotland Vol. 1: On Pilgrimages

193

Black Tapes In Review: S2E12 The Axis Mundi *With Special Guest Daniel Couper*

194

S3E6: Grant Morrison's New X-Men *Season Finale*

195

Black Tapes In Review: S2E11 About a Boy

196

S3E6 Preview Episode

197

S3E5: Ghostbusters (2016)

198

Black Tapes In Review: S2E10 Welcome to the Machine

199

S3E5 Preview Episode

200

S3E4: A Tour of Highland Brewing Company

201

S3E4 Preview Episode

202

Black Tapes In Review: S2E9 The Brothers of the Mount

203

S3E3: A Discussion of The Family Tree by Radical Face (2 of 2)

204

S3E3: A Discussion of The Family Tree by Radical Face (1 of 2)

205

Black Tapes In Review: S2E8 Riverview

206

S3E3 Preview Episode

207

S3E2: Something Drunken in the State of Denmark: A Few Thoughts on Hamlet and Macbeth

208

Black Tapes In Review: S2E7 Personal Possessions

209

S3E2 Preview Episode

210

CDP Special: The Next James Bond?

211

The Black Tapes In Review: S2E6 All in the Family

212

S3E1: A CDP Review of X-Men: Apocalypse

213

S3E1 Preview Episode

214

The Black Tapes In Review: S2E5 Cheryl

215

The Black Tapes In Review: Season 1 Part 4 (E10-12)

216

The Black Tapes In Review: More On Percival Black's Voice

217

The Black Tapes In Review: Season 1 Part 3 (E7-9) and Sleep Note #2 Reaction

218

The Black Tapes In Review: Season 1 Part 2 (E4-6) and Sleep Note #1 Reaction

219

The Black Tapes In Review: Delay Announcement

220

Dawn of Confusion: Our Thoughts on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

221

Our Reaction to the Rogue One Teaser Trailer

222

The Black Tapes In Review: Season 1 Part 1 (E1-3)

223

The Black Tapes In Review Season 1 Review Announcement

224

A Review of Pulp Fiction

225

The Black Tapes In Review: Our Reaction to the ANNOUNCEMENT

226

The Black Tapes In Review: S2E4 Voices Carry

227

The Black Tapes In Review: S2E3 Hush Little Baby

228

The Black Tapes In Review: S2E2 Speak No Evil, Think No Evil

229

S2E6: Looking Up: A Conversation about Kurt Busiek's Marvels (2 of 2)

230

S2E6: Looking Up: A Conversation about Kurt Busiek's Marvels (1 of 2)

231

S2E6 Preview Episode

232

The Black Tapes In Review: S2E1 Sleepless in Seattle

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A Special Announcement

234

S2E5: Storytelling and Podcasts: Thoughts on The Black Tapes and Limetown *Spoilers*

235

S2E5 Preview Episode

236

A CDP Special: Jono and Meghan discuss The Force Awakens *Spoilers*

237

S2E4: Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Gravy: Thoughts on Sarah Vowell's The Partly Cloudy Patriot

238

S2E4 Preview Episode and Star Wars Q&A

239

S2E3: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Episode

240

S2E3 Preview Episode

241

S2E2: Britney, Bono, and Beer: Thoughts on Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2 of 2)

242

S2E2: Britney, Bono, and Beer: Thoughts on Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (1 of 2)

243

S2E2 Preview Episode

244

S2E1: Andrew and Colin Play a Video Game: The Gone Home Episode

245

The Season 2 Preview Episode

246

The Spectre Review Special *Spoilers*

247

The Spectre Preview Special

248

Superman's New Secret Identity

249

S1E6: A Book, A Movie, and An Album (Part 3 of 3)

250

S1E6: A Book, A Movie, and An Album (Part 2 of 3)

251

S1E6: A Book, A Movie, and An Album (Part 1 of 3)

252

Mini-Episode 5.5

253

S1E5: Grant Morrison's Batman? Thoughts on Arkham Asylum

254

Mini-Episode 4.5

255

S1E4: A Christopher Nolan Retrospective

256

Mini-Episode 3.5

257

The San Diego Comic-Con 2015 Special

258

S1E3: Rummaging for Answers in the Pages

259

Mini-Episode 2.5

260

S1E2: The Ear Says to the Voice

261

Mini-Episode 1.5

262

S1E1: Stars and Garters, Pilgrims and Shrines

263

S1E0: The Zero Episode