Best Sync Book Radio Podcasts (2025)

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Ep. 123: Cleveland Silent Film Festival • Lukas Foerster on Weimar Comedies • A Gish Sisters Book 1:27:37

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!23: Emily Laurance on The Cleveland Silent Film Festival and Colloquium • Lukas Foerster on Champagne and Caviar: Four Weimar Comedies • Ben Urish and Rick Geary on The Movie Girls, by Jan Wahl (87:38)By Michael Gebert

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122: Richard Koszarski and Dennis Doros on Made in New Jersey • Lon Davis on Edward Everett Horton 1:38:24

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122: Richard Koszarski on Made in New Jersey • Dennis Doros on New Jersey, Queen Kelly and Missing Movies • Lon Davis on Edward Everett Horton (98:24)By Michael Gebert

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42 Minutes Episode 397: Paul Weston 4:04:31

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Topics: Perlesvaus, Glastonbury Tor, Close Encounters, Glastonbury Zodiac, Liminal, Grail Literature, Pendragon, 1975, Ley Lines, Andrew Collins, 1990, Geomancy, Glastonbury Romance, Glastonbury Vision Quest, Katharine Maltwood, Tradition & Gnosis, Powys...

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Always Record Episode 264 (Part 2): Glastonbury Romance (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 3:07:12

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Spring Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 396. Visit: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=396

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Always Record Episode 264: Glastonbury Romance (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 2:17:17

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Spring Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 396. Visit: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=396

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42 Minutes Episode 396: Spring Book Club 3:06:26

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Topics: Stonehenge, Gaddis, Solstice, New Jerusalem, Arthurian Literature, Consciousness, The Cows, Mixed At Every Point, Thirst Trap, Big Bang, Wookie Hole, Persephone, Hades, de Boron, Tor, Pageant, Blood, Underworld, 1920s, Person, All Views, Christ, The ...

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121: Rob Byrne on San Francisco Film Preserve • Lisa Stein Haven on Early Buster Keaton 1:24:27

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Rob Byrne on San Francisco Film Preserve • Lisa Stein Haven, author of Early Buster Keaton: From the Vaudeville Stage to Comique Films, 1899-1920 (84:28)By Michael Gebert

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120: Eddie Muller and the Dames of Noir • Ben Model on The Silent Film Universe 1:31:13

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Eddie Muller, author of Dark City Dames • Ben Model, author of The Silent Film UniverseBy Michael Gebert

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119: First Women of Hollywood • The Visionary June Mathis 1:27:33

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Mary Mallory, author of First Women of Hollywood • Thomas J. Slater, author of June Mathis: The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary (87:33)By Michael Gebert

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Always Record Episode 263: Idylls of the King (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 2:36:09

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Winter Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 395. Visit: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=395

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42 Minutes Episode 395: Winter Book Club 1:37:31

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Topics: Galahad, Perceaval's Sister, Malory, Jousting, Poetry, Reader's Guide, Arthur, Emperor of Rome, Mordred, Guinevere, Lancelot, Corruption, Roundtable, British Empire, Romanticism, Wagner, Imagination, Fancy, Courtly Love, Perfect Love

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118: Nasty Women Return! • Rhea Combs on Oscar Micheaux • Katie Gee Salisbury on Anna May Wong 1:32:55

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Nasty Women Return! Karen Pearlman on Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy • Rhea Combs on Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collection • Katie Gee Salisbury, author of Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong (92:56)By Michael Gebert

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117: Steve Massa on Roscoe Arbuckle • Noah Isenberg on Edgar Ulmer 1:32:14

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Steve Massa on a Roscoe Arbuckle DVD/Blu-ray Kickstarter • Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins (92:14)By Michael Gebert

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Always Record Episode 262: Le Morte D'Arthur (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 2:26:03

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Fall Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 394. Visit: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=394

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Always Record Episode 262 (Part 2): Le Morte D'Arthur (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 3:36:33

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Fall Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 394. Visit: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=394

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42 Minutes Episode 394: Fall Book Club 1:28:32

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Topics: Sickness, Prose, Reality, Box Scores, Worldly Knight, Spiritual Knight, Cohere, Themes, Galahad, Continuations, Lanzelet, Vulgate, Chaucer, Purity, Merlin, Monmouth, The Firste Moevere, Original Spelling, Ovid, Round Table, Avalon, Alliteration, Enli...

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116: Dave Kehr on To Save and Project • Copenhagen Silent Film Festival • Moguls 1:30:22

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Dave Kehr on MoMA's To Save and Project preservation festival • Thomas Christensen on the Copenhagen Silent Film Festival • Authors Michael Benson and Craig Singer on Moguls: The Lives and Times of Hollywood Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck (90:33)By Michael Gebert

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115: Top Ten in Physical Media 2024 • South West Silents & Film Noir UK • Burt Kearns on Shemp! 1:36:57

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Top Ten in Physical Media 2024, with Bruce Calvert • James Harrison on South West Silents & Film Noir UK • Burt Kearns on Shemp! (96:58)By Michael Gebert

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Always Record Episode 261: Perceval (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 1:11:17

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Summer Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 393.

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Always Record Episode 261 (Part 3): Perceval (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 1:25:44

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Summer Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 393.

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Always Record Episode 261 (Part 2): Perceval (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 2:21:04

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Summer Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 393.

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114: Silents Synced • Pordenone Festival Report 2024 • Thomas Walsh on Art Director Ben Carré 1:33:32

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Josh Frank, creator of Silents Synced • Pordenone Festival Report 2024, with Lokke Heiss • Thomas Waksh on pioneering art director Ben Carré (93:32)By Michael Gebert

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42 Minutes Episode 393: Summer Book Club 1:21:24

11M ago1:21:24

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Topics: Media, Good News, Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, Welsh, Irish, Celtic, Ritual, Mystery Cults, Mabinogion, Plato, Albigensian, Neo-Platonic, Song of Solomon, Feminism, Horn of Plenty, Troubadour, 12th Century, God, Christ, Sprit, Electricity, Story T...

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113: John Ford and the Cavalry • Francis Ford • The Brothers of the Bs 1:30:33

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Michael F. Blake, author of The Cavalry Trilogy: John Ford, John Wayne, and the Making of Three Classic Westerns • Kathy Fuller Seeley on Francis Ford • Thomas Reeder, author of Poverty Row Royalty: The Films of Producer Sigmund Neufeld and His Brother, Director Sam Newfield (90:33)By Michael Gebert

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112: Seeing Napoleon • Rouben Mamoulian • Helen Morgan 1:31:14

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Bruce Calvert on the new restoration of Napoleon (1927) • Kurt Jensen, author of Peerless: Rouben Mamoulian, Hollywood and Broadway • Christopher S. Connelly, author of Helen Morgan: The Original Torch Singer and Ziegfeld's Last Star (91:14)By Michael Gebert

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Always Record Episode 260 (Part 2): pARzival (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 3:03:23

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Spring Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 392. Visit: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=392

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Always Record Episode 260: pARzival (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 2:47:01

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Spring Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 392. Visit: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=392

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42 Minutes Episode 392: Spring Book Club 1:31:44

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Topics: Higher Meaning, Joseph Campbell, Jung Purpose, Myth, Teleology, Material Goal, Spiritual Quest, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Superheroes, Arthurian Literature, The Grail, The Matter of Britain, The History of the Kings of Britain, Hengist and Horsa, An...

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111: Dave Glass on Monty Banks • Jeffrey L. Carrier on Patsy Ruth Miller 1:18:25

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Dave Glass on silent comedian Monty Banks • Jeffrey L. Carrier on silent star Patsy Ruth Miller (78:25)By Michael Gebert

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110: Vitagraph Comedies • Film Is Dead. Long Live Film! • Lon Davis Meets The Old Stars 1:39:53

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Vitagraph Comedies, with Rob Stone, George Willeman and Lynanne Schweighofer • Peter Flynn, director of Film is Dead. Long Live Film! • Lon Davis, author of Stumbling Into Film History (99:54)By Michael Gebert

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109: Billy! Brackett and Wilder • Double Indemnity and the Rise of Noir 1:39:22

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Donald Brackett, author of Double Solitaire: The Films of Brackett and Wilder • Alain Silver and James Ursini, authors of From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir (99:22)By Michael Gebert

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Always Record Episode 259 (Part 2): Valis (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 2:38:16

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Winter Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 391. Visit: https://www.burningshore.com/p/pkds-divine-interference?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=34995&post_id=141762783&utm_campaign=email-post-…

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Always Record Episode 259: Valis (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 2:33:46

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Winter Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 391. Visit: https://www.burningshore.com/p/pkds-divine-interference?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=34995&post_id=141762783&utm_campaign=email-post-…

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Always Record Episode 259 (Part 3): Valis (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 2:29:59

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Winter Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 391. Visit: https://www.burningshore.com/p/pkds-divine-interference?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=34995&post_id=141762783&utm_campaign=email-post-…

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Always Record Episode 259 (Part 4): Valis (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 1:37:03

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Winter Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 391. Visit: https://www.burningshore.com/p/pkds-divine-interference?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=34995&post_id=141762783&utm_campaign=email-post-…

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42 Minutes Episode 391: Winter Book Club 2:47:27

1+ y ago2:47:27

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Topics: PKD, Synchromysticism, Vast Active Living Intelligence, Reality, Gnosticism, Truth, Path, Trash Stratum, Humor, Playmate, 1991, Nag Hammadi, Black Iron Prison, Hyper-Links, Sync-Link, Communication, Friends of God, Blade Runner, Three-Eyed Fish Peopl...

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108: Bryony Dixon on Victorian Film • Death by Laughter • Tod Slaughter 1:27:20

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Bryony Dixon on Victorian Film • Maggie Hennefeld on Women and Death by Laughter • Sam Dunn on the Deadly Doings of Tod Slaughter (87:20)By Michael Gebert

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107: Dan Streible on Orphan Films • Mike Mashon on the Changing Preservation Scene 1:25:52

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Dan Streible on Orphan Films • Mike Mashon on the Changing Preservation Scene (85:52)By Michael Gebert

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Always Record Episode 258: Moby Dick (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 2:15:40

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Fall Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 390. Visit: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=390

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Always Record Episode 258 (Part 2): Moby Dick (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 3:12:12

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Fall Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 390. Visit: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=390

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42 Minutes Episode 390: Fall Book Club 2:54:53

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Topics: Nantucket Whaling, Quaker, The Line, Shakespeare, Job, Order, Chaos, McCarthy, Civil War, 1840's, the Essex, Sync Journey, Theatrical, Industrialism, Metaphor, Blasphemy, Gnosticism, Leviathan, Demi Urge, Ishmael & Ahab, Dragon Perseus, Hero of O...

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106: Donald Bogle on Lena Horne • Restoring William S. Hart • Pamela Hutchinson on The Red Shoes 1:36:44

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Donald Bogle, author of Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed • Tracey Goessel on restoring William S. Hart • Pamela Hutchinson, author of BFI Film Classics: The Red Shoes (96:44)By Michael Gebert

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105: Top Ten in Physical Media 2023, with Bruce Calvert • Foster Hirsch on Movies in the 50s 1:37:11

1+ y ago1:37:11

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Top Ten in Physical Media 2023, with Bruce Calvert and Michael Gebert • Foster Hirsch, author of Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties, on Movie Culture in the 50s (97:11)By Michael Gebert

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104: Pordenone 2023 Festival Report • The "Only" Woman Animator • Scott Eyman on Chaplin vs. America 1:48:27

2y ago1:48:27

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NitrateVille Radio Ep. 104: Pordenone 2023 Festival Report, with Lokke Heiss • Mindy Johnson on Bessie Mae Kelley, The "Only" Woman Animator • Scott Eyman, author of Charlie Chaplin vs. America (108:27)By Michael Gebert

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103: Northern Silents • Lisa Stein Haven on Chaplin at First National • Sarah Royal on Lucy 1:36:04

2y ago1:36:04

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Jonny Best on the Northern Silent Film Festival • Lisa Stein Haven, author of The Early Years of Charlie Chaplin: Final Shorts and First Features • Sarah Royal, author of AKA Lucy: The Dynamic and Determined Life of Lucille Ball (96:04)By Michael Gebert

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Always Record Episode 257: Blood Meridian (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 2:55:10

2y ago2:55:10

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Spring Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 389. Visit: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=389

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Always Record Episode 257 (Part 2): Blood Meridian (With 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club) 2:43:47

2y ago2:43:47

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Sync Book Radio presents a 42 Minutes/Always Record crossover for the 42 Minutes Spring Book Club. Always Record is the second portion of the conversation, continuing from 42 Minutes episode 389. Visit: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=389

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42 Minutes Episode 389: Summer Book Club 3:05:06

2y ago3:05:06

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Topics: The Kid, Moby Dick, The Judge, Captain White, Glanton Gang, Mason & Dixon, Slavery, Civil War, Fantasy, Carnival, Four of Cups, Ahab & The Whale, Sunset, Sunrise, Jacob Boehme, Senseless Violence, My Confession, Chamberlain, Thanos, Crowley, ...

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102: Rob Byrne on Foolish Wives • Eddie Muller on Kid and Cocktail Noir • Becoming Nick and Nora 1:40:27

2y ago1:40:27

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Rob Byrne on Restoring Foolish Wives • Eddie Muller on Kid Noir and Cocktail Noir Books • Rob Kozlowski, author of Becoming Nick and Nora (100:27)By Michael Gebert

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101: Serge Bromberg on Laurel & Hardy Year One • Josh Mills on Ernie in Kovacsland 1:20:37

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Serge Bromberg on Laurel & Hardy Year One • Josh Mills on Ernie in Kovacsland (80:36)By Michael Gebert