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Electric Enthusiasm

Katie Cobalt and Alexander Kjerulf

The podcast that celebrates unironic enthusiasm. Your hosts, both highly experienced enthusiasts, take each you on tours of topics that are fun, fascinating and exciting. Topics include music, science, movies, books, comics, historical figures and much more. There are detours into even weirder topics, as the fancy strikes us. Listen for the three words you love to hear: "By the way..." New episode weekly.

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00:49:02

Hallelujah - The Prettiest (And Most Abused) Song In...

Electric Enthusiasm ·

2021/11/23

This amazing song took 7 years to write and was then roundly ignored. Only after a cover version and the untimely death of an artist did the song finally become popular. Since then, Leonard Cohen’s masterpiece has been covered at least 300 times and was used in The West Wing, Scrubs, Watchmen, Shrek and much much more. Everybody treats it like a sad song, but it’s not – Cohen’s intention was much more joyful. BTWs include death of the author, communication in relationships and ice cream chords. Get

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00:48:22

Cynthia and Hatsune - Fictional women who became real

Electric Enthusiasm ·

2021/11/16

Cynthia Gaba was a celebrity in 1930s high society in New York. Hatsune Miku is a singer with a global fan base who has even gone to space. But here's the twist: Cynthia was a mannequin and Hatsune is 100% digital! How did two women, who are clearly not "real" in the traditional sense, become so successful and what does that say about the nature of celebrity and even of reality? What is real? BTWs include William Gibson's 1996 novel Idoru which predicted Hatsune Miku, men who fall in love with

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00:39:44

Ultramarathons - Extreme running and the nutcases who...

Electric Enthusiasm ·

2021/11/10

Mark Dowds was out of shape and nearing 40 when he discovered ultra-marathons and has now run several dozen of them. Mark tells us what it's like to run 50km (or more!) in steep terrain and challenging conditions, the extreme emotions you experience and how he maintains his enthusiasm for both training and competing. BTWs include Guinness, gummy bears and the monarchy. In the moment of meta Katie gives three tips for how you can enjoy being bad at stuff. See the full show notes and links or leave a

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00:37:51

Cosplay - Going Hard With Hot Glue And A Dream

Electric Enthusiasm ·

2021/11/02

Our guest in this episode is Agent Colbert, a very enthusiastic cosplayer who's known for her vintage aesthetic, rocking Agent Carter and the marvelous Mrs. Maisel cosplays but she has also done everything from Ty Lee from Avatar the last Airbender to Velma from Scooby Doo. Learn what it takes to cosplay, what it's like to go to conventions with 1000s of other cosplayers and how to find out what character you should cosplay as! BTWs include perfectionism, badass Asian women and The Lake Wobegon

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00:56:26

Niels Bohr - The man who played dice with the...

Electric Enthusiasm ·

2021/10/28

Alex gets his hometown pride on and celebrates the life of fellow Copenhagener Niels Bohr, who revolutionized physics twice over. He may be the smartest person in physics... and he was definitely the nicest! Hear about Bohr's epic feud with Einstein (drama!) and get a (very short) intro to the weird and freaky world of quantum physics. It will blow your mind. BTWs include: Nerd humor, the world's smartest cat and dead people. So many dead people. This episode was co-written by FDC Willard. In the

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00:42:25

Dune, the novel - 1000 times better than the movie(s)

Electric Enthusiasm ·

2021/10/20

Now that Villeneuve's Dune movie is finally coming out in America, it's time for Alex to try to convince Katie to read a book that is notoriously long and complex... but ultimately so worth it. Dune is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time. It was written by American author Frank Herbert, and came out in 1965, over 50 years ago, but contains themes and ideas that make it relevant to this day. This episode has NO SPOILERS for either the book or the movie. BTWs include: What Tolkien

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00:55:30

Cha Chaan Teng - Hong Kong's Bizarre East/West Fusion...

Electric Enthusiasm ·

2021/10/13

In this episode we talk food and that gets Katie REALLY excited as she shares her enthusiasm for Hong Kong's Cha Chaan Tengs - cheap informal diners that serve a bizarre but delicious Asian take on the western food that the British served in their restaurants. Hear about the pineapple buns that contain zero pineapple, the deep fried peanut butter french toast and Katie's mom's favorite midnight snack: macaroni soup. Katie even gets Alex to make some Hong Kong milk tea and try it on the show... hear

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00:45:33

Swing Guitar - Preserving A Legacy With Enthusiasm...

Electric Enthusiasm ·

2021/10/07

Jonathan Stout is incredibly enthusiastic about preserving the legacy of swing guitar and honoring the people who created and developed the genre. Swing music is amazing but real swing music that actually sounds like it did in the 30s and 40s is depressingly rare these days. Modern jazz musicians tend to look down on swing jazz and even when they do try to play it, they don't do it right and it ends up sounding more like modern jazz. Jonathan is a band leader and guitarist specializing in pre bebop

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00:37:15

Avatar The Last Airbender - The Cartoon That Will...

Electric Enthusiasm ·

2021/09/29

Avatar The Last Airbender is on paper a kids cartoon show... but it's also so much more than that. Over three seasons it tells a story that is poignant, thrilling, funny and - above all - hopeful. Pretty good timing of Netflix to get it onto their service in 2020, just when we all needed a dose of positivity. Hear all about this amazing show, including: A redemption story that beats even Kylo Ren. Uncle Iroh's life lessons. Kickass female characters. What kind of bender Katie and Alex would

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00:40:17

Modesty Blaise - A 1000 Times Cooler Than James Bond

Electric Enthusiasm ·

2021/09/21

Modesty Blaise kicks as much butt as 007 but she does it with way more style and way less borderline rape. Meet the coolest action heroine of the 60s who began her adventures in newspaper comic strips before making her way into novels and some shockingly bad movies. Hear about how feminist and modern the stories are for their time (or any time), including sex positivity, nudity and consent-based sex and how incredibly rare and awesome it is that Modesty (a woman) was the clear leader and Willie

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00:25:10

The Banjo - Loud, Fun And... Sexy?

Electric Enthusiasm ·

2021/09/15

People have a LOT of misconceptions about the banjo and often dismiss it as the instrument of hillbillies or rednecks. But did you know that it's an instrument with a huge history and tradition that can be both loud, fun and... sexy? Our guest enthusiast in this episode is Daniel Rodrigues, a Portuguese jazz musician living in Copenhagen where he plays in several different jazz bands and he is VERY enthusiastic about the banjo. Daniel takes us on a journey of the banjo, that includes: Why it's the

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00:42:42

Josephine Baker - The Most Interesting Woman in the...

Electric Enthusiasm ·

2021/09/09

Singer, dancer, entertainer... but also civil rights activist and spy for France during WWII. Josephine Baker truly is the most interesting woman in the world. Hear all about her amazing life, including her cheetah that would often escape its leash and (encouraged by the audience) menace the band and how she adopted 12 children of different races to form a "rainbow tribe". BTWs include: Celebrity nicknames Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" The Trial of the Chicago 7 In our Moment Of Meta,

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00:48:43

Harpo Marx - The Happiest Nudist In Hollywood

Electric Enthusiasm ·

2021/09/09

Harpo Marx (of the Marx Brothers) was a genius of physical comedy but, maybe more impressively, he was a nice and fun person who lived a truly happy life. Raised in a poor Jewish family on Manhattan and thrown out of school (literally) in 2nd grade, he still ended up living an incredibly interesting life and becoming friends with people like George Gershwin, George Bernard Shaw and Salvador Dali. Hear about his most epic pranks and about his occasional nudism. Harpo could (and would) turn any boring

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00:02:51

The trailer

Electric Enthusiasm ·

2021/08/25

Get a taste for the wonderful world of Electric Enthusiasm, a brand new podcast started by two easily excited enthusiasts.

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