A strange plague has struck Abbesstown, NH, a sleepy farming village in the foothills of the White Mountain: Fever, the vomiting of blood, wild night terrors that wrack the victims. No medicine seems to work against it, and so the Reverend Josiah Abbess, believing something infernal is at work in his flock, begins his campaign to root out the evil. What follows becomes known as The Abbesstown Vampire Panic. 200 years later, and the peace is once again violently shattered when a man drives hi ...
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Join us as we explore the stranger aspects of our world. From bigfoot creatures and other cryptids to hauntings, hexes, magick, and more. A combination of historical research, witness interviews, discussion, and on-site recordings (where possible) is used to tell stories of the weird-but-true. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a communi ...
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My fingers bend backward and beg me... Please, let us write a story for them. Let us peel the skin to reveal the horror lurking beneath. Pain that feels all too familiar. Torment that hits too close to home. This isn’t an alternate dimension. This isn’t a liminal realm or divergent timeline. These horrors are here and now. This could happen to… Someone Just Like You. Handpicked strange and scary stories brought to life by an extraordinary cast of voice actors including Peter Lewis, Addison P ...
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In recent years, we’ve all become intimately familiar with pandemics and biological contagions. But, what happens when it’s the mind that’s infected? When communities under stress let fear overcome reason, and hysteria is the virus that spreads, what horrors await? This is Hysterical, a show about some of the most horrifying, bizarre, and strange episodes of mass hysteria in human history.
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Strap in. We're going on a trip! Robert and Topher, cofounders of advertising agency Territorial, explore the weird, compelling, and sometimes forgotten corners of our culture through a surprising lens: the brands we all know and/or love. Every episode uses a familiar brand as a roadmap to stories you would never imagine to help you see the world in a new way. To learn more about Robert Balog & Topher Burns, and their work at Territorial, visit www.weareterritorial.com or find them on LinkedIn.
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Episode 133 coming as soon as it's finished! Storytellers and best friends Josie Mitchell and Taylor Basso share the stories that live on in infamy: the strange and the familiar, the tragic and the comic—the bitter and the sweet. New episodes (usually) every other Sunday on the 604 Podcast Network! Support the show: ko-fi.com/bittersweetinfamy
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From the fun and familiar to the strange and obscure, learn something new every day with Merriam-Webster.
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We get into Biblical history, End Times, Fallen Angels, Nephilim and Rephaim Giants, the unseen, as well as science, which more often than not, can merge together! We also get into the Cryptiod world, with some big foot, UFO's and whatever else is going on with these mysterious air crafts and strange happenings in the government.
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Tilted Frame is a speculative fiction anthology podcast where reality slips, logic bends, and the familiar turns strange. Each episode is a complete story, blending science fiction, horror, and mystery into unsettling tales of eerie twists and surreal moments. If you love The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, or stories that blur the line between the ordinary and the impossible, Tilted Frame invites you to step into a world that feels close—yet not quite reality.
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Strange and Familiar brings together Toronto teens, and seniors living in long-term care to share tales of hardship, humour and love. contact: [email protected]
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AnthroPod is produced by the Society for Cultural Anthropology. In each episode, we explore what anthropology teaches us about the world and people around us.
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The Familiar Strange is a podcast about doing anthropology: that is, about listening, looking, trying out, and being with, in pursuit of uncommon knowledge about humans and culture. Find show notes, plus our blog about anthropology's role in the world, at https://www.thefamiliarstrange.com. Twitter: @tfsTweets. FB: facebook.com/thefamiliarstrange. Instagram: @thefamiliarstrange. Brought to you by your familiar strangers: Ian Pollock, Jodie-Lee Trembath, Julia Brown, Simon Theobald, Kylie Won ...
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Extraordinary Stories of Britain is a history podcast packed with fun and informative tales from our island’s long and storied past. Visiting little-known corners of British history, shedding new light on familiar faces, uncovering unusual - and sometimes bizarre - facts along the way, this is the podcast for anglophiles, history buffs, and anyone interested in finding out more about the UK. From killer queens to grime and punishment, from medieval medicine to celebrity cats, from secret sew ...
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👻👻👻 Weekly Creep 👻👻👻 Your hosts Adam and Dulce want to bring you some weekly spooky tales of ghosts, aliens, cryptids, true crime or just weird encounters Weekly Creep's goal is to build a fanbase of listeners who share their own personal tales while also (hopefully) learning something creepy along the way and finding us as funny as we do so we're not just two losers laughing in each other's faces in a dark room... free to DM your personal stories or email us [email protected] 👻👻👻
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Banned Camp: Banned Books, Comedy, and Free Speech vs. Censorship
Jennifer Davis and Dan Schulz – satirical storytellers, critics of book bans, and irreverent humorists exploring banned literature, challenged books, and other cultural controversies.
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Love banned books? Hate censorship? Same. You’re our kind of people. Banned Camp is a comedy podcast where we read banned books and try to figure out why they were banned in the first place. Each season, we tackle a new banned book, reading it chapter by chapter and asking: What made someone clutch their pearls and scream, "BAN IT!"? (Spoiler: It’s rarely what you’d expect.) One thing is clear—the people banning these books often haven’t read them. While we uncover some eyebrow-raising momen ...
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GetReligion is a national and global journalism site focusing on how the mainstream press covers religion news in politics, entertainment, business and sports.
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Oddnormal takes you deep into the shadows of our everyday lives, where the familiar becomes strange and the unexplainable leaves us questioning reality. From curious quirks in daily encounters to baffling phenomena that defy all logic, we explore whether the world is truly growing stranger — and if global weirding has reached a tipping point. Join us as we uncover the hidden oddities lurking in plain sight.
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How many ways are there to be human? Each week Anthropologist on the Street Dr. Carie Little Hersh invites different cultural experts to illuminate the hidden ideas, practices, and power dynamics that make our lives both familiar and strange.
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Parallel worlds! Imaginary tales! Alternate realities! Join us as we travel the comic book omniverse to discuss the tales which attempt to answer the question "what if...?" and give us new and strange takes on characters as familiar as yesterday!
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The Best PodCast you've never heard of!
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On My Strange Bible, we're focused on exploring the strange and fascinating aspects of the Bible that often go unnoticed or forgotten. Delve along with us into the oddities, miracles, and unexplained events in the Bible that make it truly unique. In each episode, we'll uncover these hidden gems and invite you to reimagine familiar stories and discover new perspectives. This ain’t your grandma’s Bible.
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NEW EPISODES EVERY THUESDAY AND FRIDAY!!!! GL Deep Dives is not just a podcast—it is a journey into the unknown, an exploration of the mysteries that shape our world and challenge our understanding of reality. Hosted by Gorgorod, the show is built on curiosity, critical thinking, and the refusal to accept easy answers. Every episode is an invitation to look beyond the surface, to pull back the veil of the ordinary, and to question what lies beneath the stories humanity has carried for millen ...
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We take the stories you know and make them sillier! Pen and Paper and Popcorn is an improvised comedy podcast that reimagines well-known stories through the medium of roleplaying games. While each game starts in a familiar place, player choices and luck always ensure they end somewhere new and strange. The podcast is hosted by Charlie Rowland, and features a rotating cast of actors, improvisors and gamers.
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Limited Capacity is a collection of six short stories about the strange and twisted ways we interact with the internet, and with each other. Punctuated with dark humour and surprising twists, each episode blurs the lines between horror, thriller, mockumentary and satire. The stories take on digital appropriation, toxic positivity, a self-help podcast for people who hate self-help and a talking chicken. Each immersive episode is packed with intimate and jarring stories that are both completel ...
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NeoScum is a future-fantasy comedy podcast featuring five Chicago improvisers antagonizing their way through the roleplaying classic, Shadowrun. It follows a group of misfits and outsiders: a chromehead decker, a teenage candy-junky klepto, a kid's show wizard with a petulant thirst for adventure, and the nastiest trucker this side of the robo-Mason-Dixon. Join the irascible NeoScum crew as they make their way across a strange but familiar America in 2077, doling out street justice to every ...
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Welcome to Flyts of Fancy, a booze-laden mythology podcast by Cate and Trish! We're best friends of nearly 20 years with an intensely strange and strangely intense love of mythology. Join us while we continuously subject our livers to alcohol and your ears to hot takes on classic stories you may or may not be familiar with. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/flytsoffancy/support
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—a podcast where curiosity and imagination run free. Imagine if you wake up one day to find a completely different world. Animals and plants you are familiar with are replaced by strange ones. The air smells and tastes different. Each episode, we will explore our world with an imaginary item or without a familiar one. You can participate by leaving your imagination via voice at http://anchor.fm/ourworldofimagination or (717) 804-4297. Let me know if you would like your voicemail played on th ...
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PRIVACY POLICY! As we do not hold any identifiable data from subscribers, we don't need one. Thank You! Meanwhile, The Urban Tiger will keep bringing you regular free podcasts of short stories, independent and original music and poems, plus occasional tracks from my friends. I look forward to your comments... Urban Tiger Radio is proud to support two life-affirming charities: The Pink Ribbon Foundation & The Outdoor Guide Foundation
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Do you remember the first time you watched The Wizard of Oz? The familiar pair of red shoes that sparkle as Dorothy skips down the yellow brick road, a rare collector’s item worth millions. In the summer of 2005, a pair was stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in the small town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. No Place Like Home follows a classic heist story against the nostalgic backdrop of one of the most famous movies and Hollywood props of all time. Journalist Ariel Ramchandani and editor Seyw ...
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Winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing’s People’s Choice Award 2016 A sister grows inside the body of another and wants to return; a woman accidentally walks through walls where her newfound intimacy offends. By turns surreal, mournful, and droll, this collection of short stories investigates our conflicting urge for intimacy and transcendence. Enter this cabinet of wonders to find your mind and spirit expand. While the concerns and struggles are familiar — loneliness, troubled marriage ...
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It has happened to me and it has probably happened to you. It is sudden and quick, leaving you as unexpectedly as it came. It is a feeling which is more unfamiliar than familiar. This podcast is all about that feeling of familiarity that you can't do away with. Stories that are not just compelling, but rebelling. This is The Unfamiliar Déjà Vu.
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Kit and the Mystical Forest (spoken as Kit and the Mystic Forest) is a fairytale adventure series telling the story of a young girl named Kit Woods whose mother suddenly and inexplicably becomes gravely ill with a strange affliction that hardens her skin, changing her into an inert, inhuman husk. Her father, who finds the illness familiar, rushes off to a mysterious Forest to obtain the cure; however, after a long, long, very long time, only his horse returns home. It is now up to Kit to sav ...
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Real Fairies Radio In our experience, fairies ARE real and we're here to talk about them. Even though this is a new radio show, we aren't new to the subject of real fairies. As strange as it may sound, we have been communicating with residents of the fairy realm, elves in particular, since 2004. For some of you, this is old news, especially those who are familiar with our website, RealFairies.net. To others, this may be a bit out there but we're hoping you will keep an open mind as we take y ...
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From the author who started it all and New Zealand's original podcast authoress, Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine return to Podiobooks.com with Tales from the Archives, a collection of original steampunk short stories set in the world of their award-winning series, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. Featuring voices familiar and new, Pip and Tee invite you to sample the fantastic world of their shadowy organisation that fights for Queen and Empire against the mysterious and unknown. This vol ...
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Stories to Tell When You Stay at Home Specially developed during April 2020, when large part so the globe were on lockdown. It is strange times, we all know that, oddly familiar yet completely unknown. These are stories for adults, while they tidy up, do the washing up, sit very still, try to get some sleep….They are recorded in lockdown, created in a homemade recording studio made from duvets and light fittings. Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night A series of 9 episodes of short, str ...
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A Stranger in the House of God is the Podcast of award winning author John Koessler. Growing up the son of agnostics, John Koessler saw a Catholic church on one end of the street and a Baptist on the other. In the no-man’s land between the two, this curious outsider wondered about the God they worshiped—and began a lifelong search to comprehend the grace and mystery of God. John's podcast addresses fundamental questions and struggles faced by spiritual seekers and mature believers.
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Set in the small secluded valley of Sleepy Hollow, Irving’s short speculative story follows the rivalry between Ichabod Crane and Brom Van Brunt for Katrina Van Tassel’s hand in marriage. Mostly inhabited by descendants from Dutch settlers, the residents are known for their belief in superstitions and the supernatural, and have many stories to suffice their colorful imaginations. The story begins when the scrawny schoolmaster Ichabod Crane from Connecticut moves to Sleepy Hollow for a teachi ...
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 21, 2025 is: lugubrious \loo-GOO-bree-us\ adjective See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 20, 2025 is: enmity \EN-muh-tee\ noun See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 19, 2025 is: succumb \suh-KUM\ verb See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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GetReligion editor Terry Mattingly discusses “For many journalists, Kirk’s widow is speaking in a strange code”By Terry Mattingly
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The Hanging Gardens of Nineveh: A Wonder Reclaimed
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In this episode of GL Deep Dives, we unravel the mystery of the Hanging Gardens — not of Babylon, but of Nineveh. Could one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have been misplaced in history? Join us as we explore groundbreaking research, ancient texts, and modern theories that suggest the famed gardens were actually built by the Assyrian kin…
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Morgen shares stories of encountering an entity in the guise of the Cowardly Lion, a hairy creature seen in two different forms, some possible fae experiences and more. If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFami…
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Brave New World | Ch. 6.1 – Lenina Wants Fun, Bernard Wants Meaning
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In this episode of Banned Camp, Jennifer and Dan read Chapter 6.1 of Brave New World, where Lenina weighs a holiday with Bernard against the North Pole with Benito Hoover, and Bernard proves that being “odd” means wanting walks and conversations instead of electromagnetic golf. Their helicopter date over the English Channel spirals into an argument…
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Sympathy for a devil. A godly man makes a horrible sacrifice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 16, 2025 is: debunk \dee-BUNK\ verb See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Brave New World | Ch. 5.1 – Orgy-Porgy, Ford and Fun
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In this episode of Banned Camp, Jennifer and Dan dive into Chapter 5.1 of Brave New World, where Bernard attends his dreaded Solidarity Service. Twelve strangers gather around a table, chant hymns to Ford, pass around Soma ice cream, and end the night with a full-blown “Orgy-Porgy.” Jennifer zeroes in on Huxley’s satire of ritual and religion, Dan …
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From Stonehenge to Greenwich, Celtic seasons to Roman calendars, candle clocks to knocker-uppers - and John Harrison’s chronometer. This podcast tells the story of how language, and technology shaped the way we keep time.By Stories of Britain
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The Great Pyramid: Ancient Wonder, Modern Discovery
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In this GL Deep Dives episode, we journey into the heart of one of the world's most iconic structures — the Great Pyramid of Giza. Was it simply a tomb, or does it hold secrets that modern science is only beginning to uncover? From architectural precision to cosmic alignments and modern-day discoveries, we peel back the layers of history to reveal …
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Big Skookum B.C. Road Trip! Josie, Taylor, and special guests Lucia Misch and Ruy Gonzalez travel around Canada's beautiful westernmost province, British Columbia, with stops including the legendary Shambhala Music Festival in Salmo, a gusty ferry ride across Upper Arrow Lake, and a dip in the river-fed Lussier Hot Springs! Plus: Taylor loses a fam…
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 14, 2025 is: perpetuity \per-puh-TOO-uh-tee\ noun See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 13, 2025 is: consummate \KAHN-suh-mut\ adjective See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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GetReligion editor Terry Mattingly discusses “Take care: It’s hard for journalists to write about saints”By Terry Mattingly
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👽 Area 51: Fact, Fiction, and Enduring Mysteries
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Shrouded in secrecy and soaked in speculation, Area 51 has captured imaginations for decades — but what really goes on beyond those guarded fences? In this electrifying episode of GL Deep Dives, we peel back the layers of conspiracy and history. From UFO crash sites and alien tech to black-budget aircraft and Cold War coverups, we separate the gove…
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Rabbit Trap is a new film which weaves a tale of the faerie folk with strange sounds, a haunted landscape, and the emotional pull of three intense characters. The writer/director, Bryn Chainey; sound designer, Graham Reznick; and producer, Daniel Noah join Timothy for a discussion about the film, the sounds of The Other, faeries, and more. If you w…
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 11, 2025 is: zoomorphic \zoh-uh-MOR-fik\ adjective See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Brave New World | Ch. 4.3 – Compost, Cabarets, and Contraceptive Belts
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In this episode of Banned Camp, Jennifer and Dan read Chapter 4.3 of Brave New World, where death is recycled into phosphorus, Soma turns nightlife into bliss, and hypnopaedia makes even contraceptive drills sound normal. Jennifer predicts the society disposes of “defective” people like factory rejects, Dan riffs on compost burials and egg shells a…
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 10, 2025 is: griot \GREE-oh\ noun See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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In this episode of Strange(r) Coordinates, Aydan Sarikaya and Robert Balog talk with Ben Jenkins about the signals, impressions, and contexts that drive creative work and shape how people experience brands. From the way we read meaning before we hear messages, to the role of culture in creativity, this conversation explores the messy, human side of…
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A fever breaks out in town, and a preacher takes drastic measures to control an outbreak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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Brave New World | Ch. 4.2 – Bernard’s Inches and Helmholtz’s Hunger
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In this episode of Banned Camp, Jennifer and Dan continue Chapter 4 of Brave New World, where Bernard sulks about being shorter than the average Alpha and Helmholtz Watson proves that too much brain can be just as isolating as too little brawn. Bernard struggles with his insecurities, yells at lower castes, and tries to brag about his date with Len…
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