A gleaner’s garland, abraxas bop. Eulogy for the hyacinth rainbow. Throttlebottom doo-dah at the flicker-flame's trial. Cattywampus yawp, ninnyhammer’s neigh. Elegiac dirge of the Anthropocene’s twilight, echoing through Shadow Gulch. Canceled event horizon. Extinction boogaloo, debacle bacchanal, hot mess hecatomb. The jitter-glitch shuffle fiasco at the last-gasp hosanna potluck. Warble.
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Join self-certified, award-pining histographer Scott Pinkmountain each week as he spelunks the annals of history from before the Big Bang right up until this very moment right now, heroically embodying the philosophic truism: Comedy + Tragedy = Time. Broadcasting live from the historic Capital Defunct Breakfast Soda Building in Hollywood, CA (not to be confused with the Capitol Building in Hollywood, CA), Pinkmountain brings you the #1 rated The-History-Channeler-themed podcast with the help ...
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In Season 2 of Make/Work (beginning with Episode 38), Scott Pinkmountain will speak with artists and activists about how they are responding to the new administration and the role that art and creativity can play in resistance. The show will seek to primarily amplify the voices and work of those being targeted and attacked by this administration. In Season 1 of Make/Work (Episodes 1-37), Pinkmountain spoke with people working in a wide range of creative mediums about how they survive, how th ...
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ZUM 25TH ANNIVERSARY SHOWS: Sat Dec 2, Thee Stork Club, Oakland, CA - Growing, Marshall Trammell & Paul Costuros, Somnambulists, My Heart, an Inverted Flame Sunday Dec 3, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA - Bromp Treb, My Heart, an Inverted Flame, Somnambulists ---- Zum is a record label and former print fanzine started in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founder George Chen (freelance writer, musician, comic), now based in Los Angeles, selects music and chats with friends from different genres of creat ...
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This episode is dedicated to Hector Alvarez, Johnny Ray Martin and David Morgan Produced, Written and Performed by Scott Pinkmountain Intro Concert Band 1, CD 23 by Dan Plonsey Crane Zelhart Written and performed by Katie Schmid Music by the Frontierville Saloon House Band Sunshine Lightyear Cohen Co-written by David Henson and Scott Pinkmountain P…
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Higgenbaum’s Mitvah is written and produced by Scott Pinkmountain. Music: soft crusade – vexed method Scott Pinkmountain – Guided Meditation 1 John Shiurba – live (for Matthew) Martyn Cawthorne of Gong Spa – Full Length Gong Bath with Paiste Gongs Juna Serita – electric bass Theme from Deep ThroatBy Scott Pinkmountain
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This episode is sponsored by the letter B. Higgenbaum’s Mitzvah is written and produced by Scott Pinkmountain. The music for “The Eleven Senses” is Trtre from the album Tee (For Big Band) by Scott Pinkmountain. F(ear) was composed by Matt Ingalls. “The Dark Room” features Kashyapa J. Fisher and Cynthia Furman and was both edited and scored with ori…
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This episode is sponsored by Prussian Pumpernut Fudge Doubt Scott Pinkmountain - Words and Music with: Lindsday Beamish - Words Jesse Gilbert - Words Anthony Lukens - Organ Justin Pinkerton - Drums Shecky Pinkmountain - SingingBy Scott Pinkmountain
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25th Anniversary Mix (Dublab Archive)
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I got to fill in for Rob Barber (The Urxed)'s dublab spot this month - and it was a great timing to promote the 25th anniversary of Zum and the new Zum Audio Vol 5 compilation that is coming out on Aug 18th (of course there are delays on the physical - even for a CD) Here's the link to the archive, but I thought it'd be worth sharing on the ol' pod…
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Counterpoint/Counterpoint - Sane Gun Regulation
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*Trigger warning: This issue speaks honestly and frankly about reality, which is very, very upsetting. Host Scott Pinkmountain returns from years in the wild to deliver the long-awaited solution to the seemingly intractable debate around the 2nd Amendment. Spoiler alert - it's not intractable. He solved it, quite elegantly and fairly, actually.…
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George and Scott Pinkmountain talk sustainable creativity
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This was originally going to be part of a new podcast interview series with Scott Pinkmountain (https://www.scottpinkmountain.com/) but he ended up going a different direction. I still thought it was an interesting conversation where I talk about my background in music and comedy. Also taking a moment to let you know, if you are in the Bay Area, we…
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Sup Doc Bonus - FEELS GOOD MAN director Arthur Jones & producer Giorgio Angelini
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From episode 137 of Sup Doc, my other podcast about documentaries. First-time director Arthur Jones and producer Giorgio Angelini share the twisted tale of artist Matt Furie's most famous creation becoming a meme identified with the Alt Right. They chronicle Furie's attempt to reclaim Pepe the Frog for good and share the process of starting in comi…
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In Episode 40 of Make/Work, host speaks with writer and activist Kate Schatz, author of the New York Times bestselling and , which she did in collaboration with illustrator Miriam Klein Stahl. Schatz is also one of the founders of the nationwide feminist resistance network , which she started with Leslie Dotson Van Every and Jennye Garibaldi, and w…
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is a musician, vocalist, and experimental performer. Much of Wood’s music and performance is an intensely visceral celebration and embrace of the body, often his own, which he fearlessly exposes while rendering gorgeous and virtuosic melodies. The effect is a powerful and intimate expression of his singular beauty that simultaneously reveals the mo…
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is an LA-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. Pickens’s background is in Counseling Psychology and she applies those skills to her work, specializing in supporting queer and trans artists, women, and artists of color. After the election Pickens wrote the how-to guide—Making Art During Fascism—and started running a free weekly drop-i…
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Melody Parker composes intricate chamber songs, and is her imaginative debut record. It invites the listener to inhabit an otherworldly place and time, yet it evokes the familiar as much as the fantastical. She has created these songs with mourning and celebration for this watery home we know—and for the paradoxical richness of our experience withi…
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Episode 52 is the final episode of season one of THC. Thanks for an amazing year. Check back for updates on season 2 soon. If you are just joining us, you definitely don't want to start here. Maybe go back to episode 2 and start there. For the rest of you, y'all rule.
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There's so much going on here at THC centrale that we needed to devote an entire episode just to catching up. Lots of help from our contributing reporters. Zero (volunteer) help from Higgenbaum.
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Clearly, this was inevitable. Also, Happy Anniversary to us!!
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Deep in the obscure taverns of histories past, and other times before this, we discover some things are always what they seem to be. Join us. Metaphorically.
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For the first time ever, we un-story the tale of how the internet came to be. There had to be a first time for everything, and seeing as how the internet falls under the greater category of everything, this is a first time for that. So, don't say we never do things we haven't done before.
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Things keep getting deeper and deeper into mosaic-like sky puzzle weaving here at THC. You're going to want to hear this podcast, in addition to watching it as well, also. Too.
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This episode features: Mosaic weaving, business plowing, foregrounding, elision, thought cancelling, malware, forbidden zones, egregious zones and ozones, as well as camel-toting, hoots, and reference to other dimensions. Thank you.
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THC Summer of Hate 2016 Recap Cap Cap in Yo Ass
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A little mini-episode to tide you over while Dr. Pinkmountain is "incapacitated" with some heavy lifting. For a direct link to the single from this episode, click here! https://soundcloud.com/the-history-channeler/summer-of-hate-recap-cap-cap-in-yo-ass
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Dear Reader, we wanted to catch you up on a few of our "precious" staff members' goings on here at THC centrale. Remember Lil' Jaffy Bozo, our Twintern? He's currently serving a short sentence for collusion and assault in a private Turkish prison, which explains why our Twintern page is radically defuncted. Higgenbaum is totally fine, but totally u…
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If you are a hardcore THCer, you may have noticed that our sound quality was, shall we say, "compromised," last week. We apologize for this and have since discovered the cause of the lapse in our perfection. It was, of course, Higgenbaum. He touched a button that ruined our perfection, as usual. We've taken the precaution of wrapping Higgenbaum's h…
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Do you remember when things used to matter? Today we bring you a very special episode featuring the Unauthorized Autobiography of someone who was born long after that time. Dig deep into the pest with us, here, on The History Channeler, a podcast, which if you still don't know what that is, help us find out.…
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After a week of infirmy, we're back!! All will be explained in great detail, as our specialty is great details, which sets us apart from other history podcasts which feature great pauses, great intentions, great attempts, perhaps, but details? Eh. Like we always say: The History Channeler. Come for the details. Stay for the Greatness.…
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If you have not heard episode #39 (The Float Tank), we recommend listening to that first, then coming back here, ingesting 71microns of float tank greywater over the course of an unlimited amount of time, and retiring to your antechambre. Relax. It's only float tank juice.
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Since Dr. Pinkmountain is mysteriously nowhere to be found this week, we've hastily arranged a showcase featuring this nation's most cherished stand-up historians with a very special guest emcee. Also, it's our 40th anniversary. As the traditional 40th anniversary gift is food, go ahead and treat us, feed us, and don't ever need us!…
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We know it's redundant to say, because every episode is special, but this is a special episode. "How special?" you ask. It meets and surpasses the ethical standards for specialness established by the Ways and Means and Ways Committee of the Mishegas, CL Kiwanas Club parish #37B as denoted in the 1949 guidelines, signed by President, Clerk and Execu…
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Here, at the nexus of historgraphical consciousness, we relegate all you thought you knew to the abyss and repopulate your mega-thoughts with dynamic flux data product, sponsored this week with actual advertisers. Prove us wrong.
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Slightly different format show - my radio show from 9th Floor is no longer on iTunes so I thought I'd throw it up here, a mix of music and talk. My interview guest Chris Thomson (Circus Lupus, Ignition, Lunch Meat, Soulside, Unrest) recorded July 25. 2015Playlist: Mdou Moctar – A Fleur Tamgak – Afelan (Sahel Sounds)Everybody Row – Escape Plan – The…
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THC#37 Cleveland Cavaliers 2016 NBA Champions
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We regard the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers to be the 2016 NBA Champions, basketball. Here is the story of their storied season and its grand finale.
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Forgive the intrusion, but we're receiving a live incoming message on our top secret encoded skrillex machine and we had to share it with you in real time! If you're a regular listener, this is extremely exciting for us to bring this to you. If you're new to the show, this probably won't make too much sense to you. We're, uh, happy to have you here…
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Well, not exactly. You kind of have to listen to the episode to catch our wav.length. Get it? Higgenbaum doesn't. He is presently locked in the stairwell with a bucket stuck on his head. In other words, another average day for HGB. (CKO, however, is #1)
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We return with a special "Sacred Entomology" episode where we do that. Scott wanted me to ask you not to tell Syd about some stuff that comes up in this episode, but it doesn't matter really because Syd doesn't listen to the show. Ever. Have I mentioned lately that CKO RULES!!!!! -cko
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Scott has not heard the final cut of this episode, and we'd like to keep it that way. Please help us hide the truth from "Dr." Pinkmountain. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. -Syd Ballabad.
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There is a first for everything, and this is our first episode #33 1/3. It's ALSO our first mini episode. Expect other firsts as time continues to move in the direction we're mostly accustomed with it having moved.
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Some things are better left unknown. Those that aren't, are featured here, on America's PodCast TM: History Channeler, The. All persons depicted in this channel are 100% real.
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Zum Podcast Episode 24 - Michael Morley ----------- Exciting to meet up with Mr. Michael Morley of The Dead C, Gate, 2 Foot Flame, and much more. Legendary New Zealand music and art figure, I had a chat with Michael at a Gate show with Ramleh in San Francisco. We touch on his art career, other music projects, daily life in Port Chalmers, and even t…
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"In the name of free men everywhere, I elect me to rule this state of one, an island unto itself, unaffiliated, and thus free from the corrupting influence of special interests and also I don't like the Zionist Jewbags. In my country, I'm allowed to say that. Zionist Jewbags. There, I said it again. Zionist Jewbags. Zionist Jewbags." - Carl Hanson …
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Forget everything you think you knew. Good. That's a start. Now relearn human language, some of your involuntary bodily functions and how to send money online, then listen closely to this episode of America's finest THC-themed podcast. This week we meet a Brand New Special Guest. You're going to be happy.…
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We don't recommend starting here if you're new to the show. Also, if you haven't yet listened to episode #29, do so first. That being said, and while we've got your attention, have you tried our THC branded fragrant plumb muffins? You should. Available at all retail stores and on lines.
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THC #29 What's In Esqueegee Accidente's Vault?
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*If you're new to the show, WELCOME! However, we don't recommendstarting here. Too much en media. Roll it back a few episodes. Andbring us lunch. In this episode, we take you live to the super-sub-basement ofthe Capital Building (Holloywood, CA), former home of the nowdefunct Capital Breakfast Soda Company, where Dr. ScottPinkmountain excavates Esq…
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Thusly careens the saga of Blaire and Blaine, winterswept upon afield of hoppy, their feelings all but showing through their woolentriple-knits and dairy-dun blazers, caps hinting at askew,kerchiefs rakish and unsoil'd, sentiment reaching supernaturalheights. Tune in next week to find out which one is Blaire, andwhich one Blaine.…
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Dear hardcore THC'ers, friends, supplicants and donors, it's our pleasure to introduce to you by name the many gentlefolk who help make The History Channeler the most special dear treasure that it is. Without their selfless sacrifice and grueling labor (under tyrannical, sub-human conditions), this show would be nothing more than the raving drivel …
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I put the phrase "sentient eels" in the TAG box, as an "easter" egg for future generations "to" discover. - Higgen, baum Follow twitter @THChanneler -Jeff Bezos, Twintern Who gave you morons the Libsyn password? -CKO, Intern #1
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Listen carefully to this week's episode for secret embedded clues as to whether or not Marmaduke will get into yet another zany escapade with Dagwood, Garfield, Opus and the gang. Will hijinx ensue? You betcha they will.
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We got a new intern specifically to handle our online fingers and such. You may now follow The History Channeler at THChanneler on a twitter thing. According to our new intern, who will be recognized soon.
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Episode 23 marks a unique milestone in the life of every podcast. As the most numerically optimized double digit prime number, 23 resonates vibrationally across both the heart and perennial gland, opening the sacred "historic" eye of insight. That this particular episode falls on the 23rd day of the month, sets the stage for a once-in-a-generation …
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"History" she ululated, "is a many-fingered parasite, not unlike the citadel at dusk." She unwrapped a gumball, pocketed the meaty bit and let the casing fall from her forgiving fingers to the loosely-packed earth upon which she trod. Trod. (CKO in perpetuity)
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We'd like to use this space to introduce you to our invaluable support staff members. Unfortunately, there's no one on our support staff that we consider invaluable. Unless "invaluable" means "unvaluable," which, doesn't it seem like it should? (Syd, can you make a note of that for a future Sacred Entomology segment? - SP)…
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