Raise a Glass

Hunter Dansin
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A show where two friends, Hunter and Eric, raise a glass (or pour one out) to the stories and storytellers that shape them. Each episode they pick a story or three and delve headfirst into how they have been shaped by it. They try to figure what makes the story or storyteller effective and why they love or don't love it.

  1. May 24 ·  Video

    Raise a Glass to Patreon! (Grab bag, feat. All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren and Zelda: The Breath of the Wild) )

    Eric and Hunter announce a Patreon where you can help fill their glasses, and preview a grab bag episode with All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren and The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. Patreon Link! patreon.com/RaiseaGlass2012 Hunter's website: https://write.as/hdansin/ Dawn Must Follow Night on tapas.io (help me reach 100 subs to unlock ad revenue!): https://tapas.io/series/Follow-Night/info Dawn Must Follow Night Part 1 Audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTIY-wdPwfQUU0uboAZa252gVHbu94Uj0 Andrew Mosher Art (our thumbnail): https://www.andrewmosherart.com/

    30 min

  2. May 6 ·  Video

    Raise a Glass to That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis (Space Trilogy Part 3)

    Eric and Hunter infiltrate the N.I.C.E. and get into the ideas that shaped C.S. Lewis's third space trilogy book. The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.88346/page/n9/mode/2up  The Inner Ring by C.S. Lewis: https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/ Research and testimonial based information about the harmful effects of pornography and its links to sex trafficking: https://fightthenewdrug.org/ Quoting Sam Altman from this article: "Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, has compared the need to build AI data centres to having to choose between curing cancer and improving public education. In a blog post last year, he said: “If we are limited by compute, we’ll have to choose which one [curing cancer or improving public education] to prioritise; no one wants to make that choice, so let’s go build.”

    1h 52m
  3. Raise a Glass to Perelandra by C.S. Lewis (Space Trilogy #2)

    Apr 24 ·  Video

    Raise a Glass to Perelandra by C.S. Lewis (Space Trilogy #2)

    In this episode a long time coming, Eric and Hunter get lost in the unfixed land of Perelandra. The quote about the length of books is attributed to Abbè Terrasson in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: "Abbé Terrasson remarks with great justice that, if we estimate the size of a work, not from the number of its pages, but from the time which we require to make ourselves master of it, it may be said of many a book—that it would be much shorter, if it were not so short." Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in space: https://www.cnet.com/science/space/elon-musks-tesla-is-still-floating-in-space-after-7-years/ Poe's Imp of the Perverse: https://poestories.com/read/imp New thumbnail by Andrew Mosher

    1h 56m

  4. Apr 8 ·  Video

    Raise a Glass to Piranesi and the Labyrinth (Jorge Luis Borges, That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis)

    Eric and Hunter get lost in the labyrinth with Piranesi, and lose their minds a little bit, but eventually find a way out. Piranesi by Susanna Clark, The Library of Babel and The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges, That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis. Jamie Dupuis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oWYfbjXa74 The Library of Babel: https://libraryofbabel.info/

    2h 5m

  5. Mar 24 ·  Video

    Raise a Glass to James Baldwin

    Hunter shares one of his favorite writers with Eric. Sonny's Blues: https://docdrop.org/ocr/download/SonnysBlues.Baldwin-bqzsx_ocr.pdfAu Autobiographical Notes from "Notes of a Native Son." Pdf (Pages  18-22). Extra credit is "Alone in Paris," which starts on page 118: https://dn710006.ca.archive.org/0/items/notes-of-a-native-son_202101/Notes%20of%20a%20Native%20Son%20.pdf Pages of Devil Finds Work (bottom left page number 508-504 + 576-580): https://archive.org/details/JamesBaldwinCollectedEssaysLibraryOfAmerica1998/page/n507/mode/2up

    1h 44m

  6. Feb 18 ·  Video

    Raise a Glass to East of Eden by John Steinbeck Part 4

    The fourth and final episode of East of Eden by John Steinbeck! Eric and Hunter bring it home (finally). We hope you have enjoyed this read through! https://www.abebooks.com/9780142004234/East-Eden-John-Steinbeck-Centennial-0142004235/plp A dissertation about the word "Timshel:" https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/steinbeckreview.12.2.0190?read-now=1&seq=4

    1h 54m

  7. 10/24/2025 ·  Video

    Raise a Glass to East of Eden by John Steinbeck Part 3

    Eric and Hunter reprise their discussion of John's Steinbeck's East of Eden. All quotations and page numbers taken from the centennial edition of East of Eden: https://www.abebooks.com/East-Eden-Steinbeck-John-Penguin-Books/32327730762/bd Article exploring John Steinbeck's interpretation of Hebrew: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/steinbeckreview.12.2.0190?read-now=1&seq=5 Levin, Daniel. “John Steinbeck and the Missing Kamatz in East of Eden: How Steinbeck Found a Hebrew Word but Muddled Some Vowels.” The Steinbeck Review, vol. 12, no. 2, 2015, pp. 190–98. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.12.2.0190. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

    1h 20m
  8. Raise a Glass to the Mountain: Hunter's Guitar Journey Part 2 (Slash, Don Felder, Joe Walsh, Jeff Beck)

    08/19/2025 ·  Video

    Raise a Glass to the Mountain: Hunter's Guitar Journey Part 2 (Slash, Don Felder, Joe Walsh, Jeff Beck)

    Hunter shares how he is attempting to get off his mountain's plateau, and how he discovered Jeff Beck.  Correction: the lick Jeff Beck uses to pay tribute to Jimi is from Little Wing, not Wind Cries Mary. My favorite guitar solos: Be My Friend Live (Paul Kossof): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P00-KBLqPwI Sweet Child O Mine (Slash): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7OgIMMRc4 Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35luFxHO5E0 Further on Up the Road (Clapton and Robbie Robertson): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78gR3Dlj7l0 Hotel California (Don Felder and Joe Walsh): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09839DpTctU Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKCt8ssC7cs  Shine On you Crazy Diamond (David Gilmour): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWGE9Gi0bB0&list=RDcWGE9Gi0bB0&start_radio=1 Turn Blue (Dan Auerbach): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5a1Cl_JOJM&list=RDC5a1Cl_JOJM&start_radio=1 Scared for the Children (Jeff Beck): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88mb6yDeQoI Where Were You (the whammy bar song): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPgtreCwk8A Please go watch Jeff Beck Live at Ronnie Scott's, thank you. Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBGm7gJtSZE

    1h 1m
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A show where two friends, Hunter and Eric, raise a glass (or pour one out) to the stories and storytellers that shape them. Each episode they pick a story or three and delve headfirst into how they have been shaped by it. They try to figure what makes the story or storyteller effective and why they love or don't love it.

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  • Creator
    Hunter Dansin
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    63
  • Rating
    Clean
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