Best Jeff Rients Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 125 - Rise of the Studium Generale 3:24

5+ y ago3:24

3:24

from Olaf Pedersen's The First Universities

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Episode 124 - Beehives & the Kibbutz 2:55

5+ y ago2:55

2:55

a selection from Moshe Safdie's memoir Beyond Habitat

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Episode 123 - The Dogdom of the Dead 1:29

5+ y ago1:29

1:29

a poem by A. E. Stallings

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Episode 122 - War is a Racket 3:27

5+ y ago3:27

3:27

from a pamphlet written by Major General Smedley Butler (1881-1940)

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Episode 121 - Hasslefree Poetry 1:20

5+ y ago1:20

1:20

a poem y Linda Ori

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Episode 120 - Antique Monsters 1:03

5+ y ago1:03

1:03

a short poem by Barry Middleton

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Episode 119 - Zoo Specimen by Jim Cowan 2:28

6y ago2:28

2:28

sci-fi from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1973

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Episode 118 - Wesley Willis whups Batman's ass 1:30

6y ago1:30

1:30

The greatest poem ever written

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Episode 117 - Grignr vs. the rat 7:37

6y ago7:37

7:37

A page from Jim Theis' legendary tale, "The Eye of Argon"

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Episode 116 - Sense Education 3:04

6y ago3:04

3:04

A page from Jeffrey Schrank's Teaching Human Beings: 101 Subversive Activities for the Classroom

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Episode 115 - Deciphering Dessert 2:01

6y ago2:01

2:01

from the poster "A Guide to Deciphering Dessert" by Bambi Edlund of edible INK

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Episode 114 - Second Warning 5:02

6y ago5:02

5:02

The first page of "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice"

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Episode 113 - History of the University 3:29

6y ago3:29

3:29

A passage from the first chapter of Immanuel Wallerstein's World-Systems Analysis

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Episode 112 - O Captain! My Captain! 1:36

6y ago1:36

1:36

From Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

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Episode 111 - Jubilate Agno 4:18

6y ago4:18

4:18

a passage from Christopher Smart's asylum epic

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Episode 110 - The Road to Hell 1:31

6y ago1:31

1:31

a poem by Robert E. Howard

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Episode 109 - Viola vanished 5:03

6y ago5:03

5:03

From Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni

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Episode 108 - A Sense of Proportion 2:18

6y ago2:18

2:18

A brief passage from Douglas Adam's novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

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Episode 107 - The Baloney Detection Kit 3:34

6y ago3:34

3:34

Nine steps to better reasoning from Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World

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Episode 106 - 3 by Mary Oliver 2:31

6y ago2:31

2:31

A trio of short poems by the recently deceased poet.

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Episode 105 - Questions for Reflection 5:18

6y ago5:18

5:18

The full list is available here: https://itotd.com/articles/2444/the-questionnaires-of-james-lipton-bernard-pivot-and-marcel-proust/

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Episode 104 - The Yellow Wallpaper 3:08

6y ago3:08

3:08

The conclusion to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic short story

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Episode 103 - Eris Rediscovered 2:25

6y ago2:25

2:25

From that amazing book, the Principia Discordia

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Episode 102 - The Mysterious Bible 3:17

6y ago3:17

3:17

A passage from James Hogg's novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

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Episode 101 - Demythologizing Whiteness 4:11

6y ago4:11

4:11

From Achille Mbembe's essay "Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive." https://tinyurl.com/y793c57m

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Episode 100 - You can ask your ass 3:19

6y ago3:19

3:19

From James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

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Episode 99 - The Meanings of Prehistoric Art 5:25

6y ago5:25

5:25

From "What the caves are trying to tell us" by Sam Kriss. https://tinyurl.com/y6w22u9g

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Episode 97 - A lewd crambo 1:14

6y ago1:14

1:14

A saucy 18th century example of a now-forgotten verse form

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Episode 98 - The Anatomy of Melancholy 4:10

6y ago4:10

4:10

A brief passage from the classic and prodigious work by Robert Burton

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Episode 96 - The Oldest Love Poem 2:07

6y ago2:07

2:07

"The Love Song of Shu-Sin," translated from the cuneiform by Samuel Noah Kramer

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Episode 95 - Now in Your Own Thoughts 2:32

6y ago2:32

2:32

From Bodil Jönsson's Unwinding the Clock

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Episode 94 - The Reality of the Unseen 5:13

6y ago5:13

5:13

From William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience

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Episode 93 - The Tay Bridge Disaster 3:37

6y ago3:37

3:37

Some name this 1880 poem by William McGonagall as the worst verse in the English language.

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Episode 92 Spectacular Time 8:09

6y ago8:09

8:09

From Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle

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Episode 91 - Dr. Johnson on Shakespeare 3:39

6y ago3:39

3:39

From Samuel Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare

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Episode 90 - Of Roon & the 1,000 Home Gods 4:40

6y ago4:40

4:40

From Lord Dunsany's The Gods of Pegana

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Episode 89 - Roots of Bone 2:27

6y ago2:27

2:27

Shirt fiction from Uel Aramcheck. More if Uel's work can be found here: http://www.northofreality.com/

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Episode 88 - Performing Anxiety in the Name of Gasp 2:22

6y ago2:22

2:22

A poem by Evan Nave

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Episode 87 - The Dao of Robber Zhi 2:38

6y ago2:38

2:38

From the Zhuangzi

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Episode 86 - Chaldea and Amazonia 3:23

6y ago3:23

3:23

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, circa 1357-1371

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Episode 85 - Three by Trivedi 2:01

6y ago2:01

2:01

a trio of short poems by Amish Trivedi

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Episode 84 - Formation of the World 3:36

6y ago3:36

3:36

From Book V of Lucretius' On the Nature of Things

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Episode 83 - Curators of Experience 2:04

6y ago2:04

2:04

From Peter Mendelsund's What We See When We Read

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Episode 82 - The Tao of Isabella Mears 1:07

6y ago1:07

1:07

The opening of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching as rendered into English by Isabella Mears.

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Episode 81 - Robert Anton Wilson on belief 3:05

6y ago3:05

3:05

From the 1986 preface to Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati

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Episode 80 - To Dream You Are King of England 2:18

6y ago2:18

2:18

From the writings of surrealist Remedios Varo

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Episode 79 - In This Country, I Hear… 1:44

6y ago1:44

1:44

a poem by Bertolt Brecht

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Episode 78 - Puzzles vs. Mysteries 2:04

6y ago2:04

2:04

From a New Yorker essay by Malcolm Gladwell

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Episode 77 - Real 18th-Century Novels 8:26

6y ago8:26

8:26

a amazing true list

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Episode 76 - Birthday of the World 1:55

6y ago1:55

1:55

an old Jewish story

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