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Wrap Up 4: Benevolent Overlords • Superhero Ethics • Episode 417

Wrap Up 4: Benevolent Overlords

Matthew Fox and Paul Hoppe, a professional poker player and writer, weigh an alien button that would fix the world by overriding free will, starting with meat-eating and climate denial.

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Wrap Up 3: Amanda Waller • Superhero Ethics • Episode 416

Wrap Up 3: Amanda Waller

Matthew Fox and Paul Hoppe, a professional poker player and writer, weigh Amanda Waller’s secret-government logic and who gets to decide when a threat to humanity is real enough to justify it.

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Wrap Up 2: Civil War • Superhero Ethics • Episode 415

Wrap Up 2: Civil War

Matthew Fox and Paul Hoppe, ask who should answer for the Lagos blast in Captain America: Civil War before the Accords on this week’s Superhero Ethics.

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Wrap Up 1: A New Lens • Superhero Ethics • Episode 414

Wrap Up 1: A New Lens

Matthew Fox and Paul Hoppe, a poker player and writer, look back on 400+ episodes to sort heroes from anti-villains, testing Killmonger, Anakin, and Luthen.

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Women’s Baseball • Superhero Ethics • Episode 413

Women’s Baseball

Matthew Fox and Paul Hoppe, a poker player and lifelong baseball fan, look back on the first Women’s Pro Baseball League season and A League of Their Own.

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Profiling • Superhero Ethics • Episode 411

Profiling

Matthew Fox and Paul Hoppe, a professional poker player and writer, trace profiling from cops and Green Lantern to card rooms, casinos, and comic book stereotypes.

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