Talking Nixon, Movies, Sports & Horses On the Thinking Poker Podcast
After the usual strategy talk comes about an hour-long conversation between myself and co-hosts Nate Meyvis and Andrew Brokos. We ended up covering a number of different topics, starting out with my two college courses “Poker in American Film and Culture” and “Tricky Dick: Richard Nixon, Poker, and Politics.”
Since I just wrapped up teaching the Nixon class for the first time, I talk for a while about Nixon and his poker story. Donald Trump came up in there, too, along with some discussion about how politics and campaigning has changed over the last half-century or so.
Then we moved over into discussing in a more general way poker’s place in American culture before circling back to the “Poker in American Film and Culture” course and some talk about A Streetcar Named Desire, The Odd Couple, and John Wayne movies.
Toward the latter part of the hour we focused a bit on sports and the rise of analytics, moved over to chat about horses and farm life (and parallels between dressage and poker), and then I espoused the much underrated virtues of cleaning stalls.
If you’re curious, get started on those New Year’s resolutions early and go for a walk or jog, and while you do give the show a listen. And if you do, you can let me know what you were thinking when listening to the Thinking Poker Podcast.
Labels: *the rumble, Donald Trump, film, Poker in American Film and Culture, Richard Nixon, teaching, The Thinking Poker Podcast, Tricky Dick
posted by Short-Stacked Shamus at 12/29/2015 05:21:00 PM
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I espoused the much underrated virtues of cleaning stalls.
Earlier in my life, I went to a horse farm and asked to clean out their stalls. Yes, I asked them to let me. I bagged the manure, took it home, and used it to improve the soil (mostly clay, this was in Raleigh NC) in my new garden. I expected manure and straw, but it was manure and saw dust. That worked, too.
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