Episode 448: Hidden Figures: The People Who Weren’t In “The Right Stuff”

Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather discuss Hidden Figures, the meaning of a “protagonist,” who exactly has the right stuff, and the relationship between social progress and individual excellence, as well as immigrants in our own families, Irish vs. Polish potato farmers, and our favorite fictional immigrants (beyond Superman), most of them vampires.

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Your Panel

• Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
• Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
• Matthew Wrather: @mwrather

Further Reading

• Bavaria
• Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
• Fictional Immigrants to the United States
• Dracula
• Hidden Figures on Wikipedia and IMDb
• The Right Stuff
• “NASA Celebrates Katherine Johnson with Building Named in Her Honor”