Tuesday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m.
Eisner Award-winning writer and artist Michael Kupperman will speak with journalist Virgil Texas about his graphic memoir, “All the Answers.” In it, he tells the story of his famous father, a child prodigy on the TV show “Quiz Kids.”
Yeah I wouldn't even consider watching it without Virgil. They're good together and I think they push each other into a much stronger, more focused socialist mindset. But Brie alone just doesn't sound like a good time.
Edit: And to clarify, I probably wouldn't watch just Virgil rambling alone or with some lib guest either. Idk why it worked so well with the two of them, but it did.
One of the reasons I was never a huge fan of "Beltway Garage".
I think that, early on, Virgil got to play this kind-of naive outsider voice to black politics. And so he got to voice some of the confusion that a lot of white leftist dudes have on subjects related to race and the political stack in black cities and districts. He tended to have a light touch, particularly during the interviews. But he also got to ask the dumb-guy outsider question that made understanding the various contradictions and conflicts within older traditional democratic political blocks easier.
His warm-up banter with Brie also made them both seem more human and more relatable. Really, every Podcast needs costars, because the whole medium is about having a dialogue. Virgil was also pretty good about bringing in guys like Chompsky and Wolfe to get the White Leftist Academic take on politics and let Brie provider her outsider perspective in turn.
It was generally just a nice Odd Couple vibe.