<p>Who watches the Watch House? Not us, the book is better. Ross Cleaver returns to discuss Robert Westall&#8217;s <em>The Watch House</em> (1977).</p>
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<p>John McCoy  with Ross Cleaver</p>

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     <h4><a href="https://johnmccoy.org/2025/12/09/hang-in-there/" class="link" target="_blank">*Pathetic Fallacy* post to accompany this episode</a></h4>
     
    
     <h4><a href="https://youtu.be/6C94QikLp1w?si=Xf43vYWETmMdxgKq" class="link" target="_blank">The 1988 BBC adaptation (if you must)</a></h4>
     
    
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<description>Who watches the Watch House? Not us, the book is better. Ross Cleaver returns to discuss Robert Westall’s The Watch House (1977). &lt;p&gt;John McCoy  with Ross Cleaver.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Who watches the Watch House? Not us, the book is better. Ross Cleaver returns to discuss Robert Westall’s The Watch House (1977)....

182: The Watch House

<p>The answer, my friend&#8230;is not a lyric in the any of the songs the McCoy Brothers discuss. For this annual drunk Thanksgiving Special, Rob, Dan, and John talk about <em>Where Have All the Flowers Gone?</em>, <em>One Tin Soldier</em>, and <em>Alice&#8217;s Restaurant</em>.</p>
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<p>John McCoy   with Rob McCoy and Dan McCoy</p>

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     <h4><a href="https://johnmccoy.org/2025/11/27/hoorah-for-the-pumpkin-pie/" class="link" target="_blank">Pathetic Fallacy: Hurrah for the Pumpkin Pie</a></h4>
     <p>A companion essay for this episode on my blog about Thanksgiving specials and protest songs.</p>

    
     <h4><a href="https://youtu.be/LkTXcwc3zvk?si=TWZHVv0CGAOW4s1D" class="link" target="_blank">The Kingston Trio: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (1961)</a></h4>
     <p>One of the most successful covers of this song, originally by Pete Seeger.</p>

    
     <h4><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjGnvst6AmA&list=RDkjGnvst6AmA&start_radio=1" class="link" target="_blank">The Original Caste: One Tin Soldier (1969)</a></h4>
     <p>In the episode I don&#8217;t remember who wrote this song, but it was Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter.</p>

    
     <h4><a href="https://youtu.be/WaKIX6oaSLs?si=3ci0V0kVxSlZLhYi" class="link" target="_blank">Arlo Guthrie: Alice's Restaurant Massacree (1967)</a></h4>
     <p>Here it is in all its 18 1/2 minute glory.</p>

    
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The answer, my friend…is not a lyric in the any of the songs the McCoy Brothers discuss. For this annual drunk Thanksgiving Special, Rob, Dan, and John talk about Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, One Tin Soldier, and Alice’s Restaurant....

181: Thanksgiving Special: Protest Songs

<p>Podcasts could happen to anyone. David Loehr discusses exits and entrances in Tom Stoppard&#8217;s <em>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead</em> (first performed 1966, published 1967). </p>
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<p>John McCoy  with David J. Loehr</p>

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     <h4><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnE997wjCmY" class="link" target="_blank">Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead</a></h4>
     <p>Trailer for 1990 movie.</p>

    
     <h4><a href="https://youtu.be/JNJv-Ebi67I?si=6mNLj8BUjGw6sQQl" class="link" target="_blank">Björk: Bachelorette</a></h4>
     <p>That Björk video John references, if anyone cares.</p>

    
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Podcasts could happen to anyone. David Loehr discusses exits and entrances in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (first performed 1966, published 1967)....

180: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

<p>Don&#8217;t it allways seem to go, you don&#8217;t know what unicorns you got til they&#8217;re gone. Kathy Campbell discusses Peter S. Beagle&#8217;s 1968 <em>The Last Unicorn</em>.</p>
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<p>John McCoy  with Kathy Campbell</p>

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     <h4><a href="https://johnmccoy.org/2025/10/08/im-aliiiiiiive/" class="link" target="_blank">I'm Aliiiiiiive</a></h4>
     <p>My Pathetic Fallacy blogpost about theme song for the movie version of The Last Unicorn.</p>

    
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Don’t it allways seem to go, you don’t know what unicorns you got til they’re gone. Kathy Campbell discusses Peter S. Beagle’s 1968 The Last Unicorn....

179: The Last Unicorn

<p>BEEP boop what is&#8230; love? Well, we don&#8217;t figure this out, but John Siracusa does return to Sophomore Lit to discuss Karel Čapek&#8217;s play <em>R.U.R.</em> (1920), the origin of the word &#8220;robot.&#8221; </p>
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<p>John McCoy  with John Siracusa</p>

 
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<description>BEEP boop what is… love? Well, we don’t figure this out, but John Siracusa does return to Sophomore Lit to discuss Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. (1920), the origin of the word “robot.”  &lt;p&gt;John McCoy  with John Siracusa.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

BEEP boop what is… love? Well, we don’t figure this out, but John Siracusa does return to Sophomore Lit to discuss Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. (1920), the origin of the word “robot.”...

178: R.U.R.

John McCoy and a guest host read books you might have been assigned in high school, or college, or other stuff you might have read when you were a kid. The theming is loose!


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