Episode 425: Lord Commander Stryker of Lord of the Hobbits

Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather remember their favorite moments of the 2016 Olympics in Rio, wonder what Jon Snow is doing in an Infinity commercial, deliver a solid undergraduate poetry survey lecture on meter and prosody, and delve in to the sexy-dangerous capital-R Romanticism of William Blake’s The Tyger.

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Episode 425: Lord Commander Stryker of Lord of the Hobbits originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]