The Overthinkers tackle the controversy over Mike Daisey’s monlogue, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.”

Episode 194: You Don’t Know My Momentum originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel, John Perich, and David Shechner to overthink their favorite fictional streets, truth and fiction, and Mike Daisey’s monlogue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.


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Further Reading


A transcript of Mike Daisey’s monologue, The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs


This American Life Retracts “The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” by Mike Daisey


Mike Daisey distinguishes between journalism and theater and delivers a preface to his monologue


21 Dog Years: A Cube Dweller’s Tale by Mike Daisey


Putting the “I” in Story by Matthew Baldwin


Logical Positivism on Wikipedia


Reality and Hyperreality, from the University of Chicago School of Media Theory


Rumble in the Jungle on IMDb


Margin Call on Rotten Tomatoes


“Electric Avenue,” by Eddie Grant


“Thunder Road” by Bruce Springsteen, performed live, 1976

Episode 194: You Don’t Know My Momentum originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]