From creator Jon Grilz, a collection of the most famous and disturbing creepypastas and urban legends in the world. Listener discretion is advised. Story requests can be made on Instagram @creepypod or via email at info@creepypod.com
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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
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Having trouble sleeping? Join Yoga and meditation teacher Kathryn Nicolai for bedtime stories where nothing much happens to help you relax and sleep peacefully. The stories are a soft landing spot for your mind. Rather than letting your brain race through the same thoughts you’ve been chasing all day, we are taking a detour to a calm and comfy place. We tell the story twice and go a bit slower the second time. You can find our book, "Nothing Much Happens," in over 20 languages. Request your ...
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True, personal stories from new voices and experienced writers resonating with the themes of the Personal Essay/Story Publishing Projects: "Bearing Up" (2018) and "Exploring" (2019).
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What's the one secret you've never told anybody? Welcome to The Secret Room, a podcast about the true stories no one ever tells. Hosted by Ben Hamm.
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New Story Church meets Sunday mornings at 110 Valley Park Road, Phoenixville, PA. For more information, please visit our website: https://newstorychurch.life
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Country Life takes you down country roads to meet ordinary people achieving their dreams. We live in a beautiful country and we'd love to show it. Have you got a great photo? Drop us an email below.
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The most interesting conversations in American life now happen in private. This show is bringing them out of the closet. Stories no one else is telling and conversations with the most fascinating people in the country, every week from former New York Times and Wall Street Journal journalist Bari Weiss.
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This podcast is a collection of German New Medicine case studies. Please note, NOT MEDICAL ADVICE.
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Interviews with scholars of the Caribbean about their new books. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/caribbean-studies
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Good conversation that takes its time, hosted by Erica Heilman.
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Radically empathic advice. Produced by WBUR.
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Massachusetts and New England true crime and local history, and advocacy-focused podcast - the things that happen here. Created and hosted by Boston radio personality, Anngelle Wood (WFNX, WBCN, WZLX), each episode walks you through a local crime story and the people and places involved. Episodes are released every other Friday. See site for live event dates. Online at CrimeoftheTruestKind.com and everywhere you listen to podcasts. Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/crimeofthetruestkin ...
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Interviews with Scholars of Latino Culture and History about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/latino-studies
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For 20 years, the Modern Love column has given New York Times readers a glimpse into the complicated love lives of real people. Since its start, the column has evolved into a TV show, three books and a podcast. Each week, host Anna Martin brings you stories and conversations about love in all its glorious permutations, dumb pitfalls and life-changing moments. New episodes every Wednesday. Listen to this podcast in New York Times Audio, our new iOS app for news subscribers. Download now at ny ...
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When Gloria took a waitressing job at a diner outside of Phoenix, she didn't realize she was now an employee of Midnight Burger, a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner. Every day Midnight Burger appears somewhere new in the cosmos along with it's staff: a galactic drifter, a rogue theoretical physicist, a sentient old-timey radio, and some guy named Caspar. No one knows who built Midnight Burger or how it works, but when it appears there's always someone around who could really use a cup ...
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True horror fan Dan Cummins attempts to terrify his wife Lynze with two new alleged-to-be-true tales each week. Demonic possession, poltergeists, shadow people, and more! Subscribe and listen in the dark to your new weekly nightmare.
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Criminal is the first of its kind. A show about people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. Hosted by Phoebe Judge. Named a Best Podcast of 2023 by the New York Times. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Welcome to the One Mountain Podcast. Sensemaking in a time between worlds. Responding to existential risk with a new story of CosmoErotic Humanism, with Dr. Marc Gafni. To join this podcast live every sunday at 10 am pt go to onemountainmanypaths.org!
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Legendary NYPD detective and private investigator Bo Dietl gives his unfiltered and uncensored take on true crime, issues of the day and New York City stories.
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Love is more than you think. From the creators of Criminal. New episodes twice a month. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Interviews with Scholars of Education about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education
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When correctional officer Valentino Rodriguez first stepped behind prison walls, he wasn't just starting a job, he was joining a family. What he didn’t know was that he was now bound by an unwritten code that would ultimately test his loyalty to his oath and his fellow officers. Five years later, Valentino's sudden death would raise questions from the FBI, his family and his mentor in the elite investigative unit where they both worked. This season, join us as we follow in Valentino’s footst ...
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This is Transmissions, the definitive story of New Order and Joy Division. Based on new and exclusive interviews with Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert and Peter Hook, this series captures those vivid moments that tell their tale like never before. Listen to the music featured in Transmissions here: https://JoyDivision.lnk.to/Transmissions
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In Dead Pilots Society, scripts that were developed by studios and networks but were never produced are given the table reads they deserve. Starring actors you know and love from television and film, a live audience, and a good time in which no one gets notes, no one is fired, and everyone laughs. Presented by Andrew Reich (Friends; Worst Week) Ben Blacker (The Writers Panel podcast; co-creator, Thrilling Adventure Hour), and Noah Findling (The New York Times, Comedy Central).
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The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories
Hawk & Cleaver | A Digital Story Studio bringing you the best new stories to watch, read, sniff, and absorb.
These aren't the stories your mother used to tell you ... no, these are The Other Stories. The Other Stories is a weekly short story podcast. A modern take on The Twilight Zone, Tales From The Crypt, or The Outer Limits. Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF stories delivered right to your podcast feed every Monday morning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Lets Read Podcast centers around narrating True Scary Experiences from real people, just like yourself. Ranging from creepy stalkers to paranormal encounters with the other side. My goal is to lull you into beautiful nightmares. This Podcast updates every Tuesday at 12pm EST! Catch all the new stories, Mon & Thursday at 7pm EST on my YouTube channel, Lets Read!
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What started as a series of short mysteries for the curious mind with a short attention span has evolved into enlightening conversations for the not-so-short attention span. Whether it’s a short mystery, a long conversation, or an audio book, The Way I Heard It is a veritable box of chocolates for the ears, because you never know what you’re going to get.
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You can follow the show at @DrMayaShankar on Instagram. Apple Podcasts’ Best Show of the Year 2021 Editor's Note: Maya Shankar blends compassionate storytelling with the science of human behavior to help us understand who we are and who we become in the face of a big change. Maya is no stranger to change. “My whole childhood revolved around the violin, but that changed in a moment when I injured my hand playing a single note,” says Shankar, who was studying under Itzhak Perlman at the Juilli ...
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Conversations with people who are living with purpose and having a positive impact in our world. Host Steven Moe asks about their life journeys and what has shaped them into who they are today.
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Serial returns with a history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of us don’t about what it’s like to be caught inside an improvised justice system. Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts whose quality and innovation transformed the medium. “Serial” began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show “This American Life.” In 2020, we joined the New York Times Company. Our shows have reached many millions of liste ...
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True terrifying horror stories; kidnappings, serial killers, maniacs and the worst parts of your nightmares come to life. Join us every Thursday as we bring you a new set of real encounters. Share your experience via voicemail at http://hotline.disturbedpodcast.com or email mystory@disturbedpodcast.com.
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Dr. Creepen's Dungeon is a weekly hour-long podcast presenting the very best in contemporary horror, fantasy and sci-fi fiction. It comes out every Thursday. Catch all the new stories, Mon/Wed/Friday at 6pm EST / Midnight CET on my YouTube channel, Dr. Creepen's Vault!
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Interviews with authors of children's literature about their new books
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Welcome to the Fresh Chile Company Podcast - Enchanting Stories of New Mexico. Tune in to listen to all things New Mexico Chile, and other enchanting facts about New Mexico.
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Interviews with Scholars of America about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies
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Superhero Stories read by Captain EJ 💪 Look around - some of our friends you might already know. Captain EJ has the most powerful voice in the world! Together with Mr. Honeybee, they defend The Honeybee Neighborhood. Contact: HoneybeeAndFriends.com/hello
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The Strange, Dark & Mysterious delivered in podcast format. Follow the MrBallen Podcast on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes publish twice a week—every Monday and Thursday. Prime members can listen to new episodes 1-month early and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music. Wondery+ subscribers can listen ad-free in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts.
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A weekly Asian & Pacific folklore podcast. Join Kamuela Kaneshiro as he shares tales of people, traditions, and gods from Pacific Island countries, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. These stories influenced films, Marvel and DC comic books, Disney movies, Netflix series, TV shows, and books. Episodes include a featured song, and Hawaiian word. www.LegendsFromThePacific.com
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Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. Sometimes funny. Always moving. Selected Shorts connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy. New episodes every Thursday, from Symphony Space.
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The Wyrd Side is a New Weird / Folk Horror podcast that follows the paranormal investigations of Aiden Summers and Katherine Moore as they uncover the dangerous truth lurking behind the myths and legends of the British Isles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Immigration can be such a loaded and divisive issue. There is a lot of heated rhetoric around this topic and more than a little misunderstanding. This show will present the personal stories of people in St Louis who are from every corner of the globe. In addition to personal testimonies, you will hear about events from local ethnic communities, as well as information from the home countries of these New Americans! Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on N ...
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Scary Story Podcast features scary stories about darkness, unexplained phenomena, ghosts, and the paranormal. A collection of short original horror tales written by Edwin Covarrubias.
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A team of xenoarchaeologists travel to distant worlds searching for traces of a now-vanished alien race. Each season brings a new site, new secrets and new dangers.
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Tessa Thompson stars as an idealistic young journalist trying to make a name for herself by following a group of paranormal explorers, obsessed with a seemingly harmless pastime known as the Left/Right Game. The journey takes her into a supernatural world that she and the other members of the expedition can neither handle nor survive.
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Proof that it's never too late, you're never too old, so go do that thing you're always talking about!
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Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Las Cruces is Enchanting
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Someone asked me about the history of Las Cruces. I could talk for hours, but in the next 15 minutes I will mention some stories, good and bad that locals know and some that they do not. Certainly, Las Cruces has quite a history. When the Sun is rising or setting, it often looks like a picture in an art gallery. Las Cruces is a City of Enchantment …
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BONUS: Sukey on NPR’s The Sunday Story | S2: New Folsom
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Get a behind-the-scenes peek at the reporting for On Our Watch: New Folsom as Ayesha Rascoe, host of NPR’s The Sunday Story from Up First, speaks with Sukey about the season and the wider context of this kind of journalism. Resources If you are currently in crisis, you can dial 988 [U.S.] to reach the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. SAMHSA Na…
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Ep. #22 Uganda with Christine Sseremba & Majesty Mukulu: From Dramatic Arts to Culinary Arts
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Ron talks to Christine Sseremba and Majesty Mukulu from Uganda. MUSIC: So Good - Eddy Kenzo Next week Ron will talk with Naoya Fujimoto from Japan! Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL https://newstalkstl.com/stories-of-new-americans-with-ron-klutho/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcaster…
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From the Garden of Eden to the final pages of scripture in the new heaven and new earth, we read God’s extraordinary autobiography. The author and the finisher of our faith has designed humanity to be the living and breathing embodiment of his image, right at the heart of his creation. Now, because of Jesus’ entrance into, and redemption of, our pa…
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Jessica Lander, "Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education" (Beacon Press, 2022)
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A landmark work that weaves captivating stories about the past, present, and personal into an inspiring vision for how America can educate immigrant students Setting out from her classroom, Jessica Lander takes the reader on a powerful and urgent journey to understand what it takes for immigrant students to become Americans. A compelling read for e…
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391: NEW STORY—Credit Where It’s Due
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Here's a brand new story about the performance of a lifetime followed by another edition of Two Dudes Talking, a.k.a. Mike and Chuck break it down with some laughs. Shout out to our terrific sponsors BuildSubmarines.com Explore available careers! American-Giant.com/MIKE Use code MIKE to get 20% off your order. PureTalk.com/Rowe Save 50% off your fi…
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The Future of Humanity| Dr. Marc Gafni #402
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World Religion as a Context for Our Diversity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Future of Humanity with Soryu Forall | Dr. Marc Gafni #402 June 23, 2024 THIS WEEK’S EVOLUTIONARY LOVE CODE: “There are two forms of existential risk: The death of humanity and the death of our humanity. Artificial Intelligence potentially participates in both. Bri…
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S2 Teaser Episode: The Untold Story of World In Motion
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Transmissions Season 2 launches in August, picking up where Season 1 ended, with the classic Blue Monday. Thereafter we revisit pivotal moments, wild stories and iconic tunes via new interviews with Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner. Plus New Order superfans like Johnny Marr, Billy Corgan and Virgil Abloh. In this tease…
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Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)
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Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture, yet many people instinctively regard them as recent immigrants rather than a longstanding racial group. In Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism (The New Press, 2020), Laura Gómez, a leading expert on race, law, and society, illuminates the fascinating r…
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Episode Notes Announcement transcript: "Hello listeners, Chris Magilton, creator and producer of Among the Stars and Bones here. This is a quick announcement to let you know that, due to things not quite going to plan, our mid-season break is going to be a little longer than anticipated. Today was intended to be our return, and post-production is j…
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Episode 129: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Truth with Sid Rosenberg
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On this episode of Bo Dietl's One Tough Podcast, Bo talks with his close friend and guest, Sid Rosenberg. They discuss various topics including their loyalty to each other, the continued impact of historical tragedies such as 9/11 and October attacks on Israel, and the significance of remembering these events. They touch on New York City's crime is…
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– “I could have died happily in Florence.” “I’ll mind the kids. You take the trip. I’ve seen all the world I need to see.” A published news journalist and a practiced lawyer, Cherie Cox calls North Carolina home. Awards include the Charlotte Writers’ Club first place in poetry. Published short stories, essays, professional legal articles and poetry…
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Oneka LaBennett, "Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Previously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform the nation. This sea change presents a unique opportunity to dissect both the environmental impacts of modern-world resource extraction and the obscured yet damaging ways in whic…
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Sigrid Schönfelder, "'Gold Fever' and Women: Transformations in Lives, Health Care and Medicine in the 19th Century American West" (Transcript, 2023)
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Throughout its history, the American West symbolized a place of hope and new beginnings, where anything was possible, especially for men. However, the history written until the 1970s and 1980s excluded women. In 'Gold Fever' and Women: Transformations in Lives, Health Care and Medicine in the 19th Century American West (Transcript, 2023), Sigrid Sc…
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Dan brings us a creepy doll double feature today! The first tale, is a story of a little brother terrorized by his older sister’s doll, first by her pranking him with it, and then later, the doll seems to take the pranking on as its own. The next doll revolves around the creepy Swiss legend of the Sennentuntschi. Can a carved wooden doll come to li…
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A short scary story about a person who discovers scary podcasts but gets much more than he bargained for. This is how horror stories turn real. Up next, check out Horror Story at HorrorStory.com Try out episodes with no ads through ScaryPlus.com that will let you listen right here, you can try it out for free and cancel whenever. Get in touch with …
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246: THE HORRIFYING RACE TO SAVE HER LIFE | 22 True Scary Stories | EP 234
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This episode includes narrations of true creepy encounters submitted by normal folks just like yourself. Today you'll experience horrifying stories about driving at night, Facebook marketplace encounters & being stranded in the middle of nowhere HAVE A STORY TO SUBMIT? www.Reddit.com/r/LetsReadOfficial Or over email: LetsReadSubmissions@gmail.com F…
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393: The War on Warriors with Pete Hegseth
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In honor of Independence Day, TWIHI welcomes Army veteran and NYT bestselling author Pete Hegseth, who talks about why civic rituals like parades are so important to convey what we value as a society, how to acknowledge America’s faults while still appreciating her greatness, and how our armed forces are destroying themselves from the inside. Pete’…
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In January, I was announced as a 2024 TED speaker in Vancouver. Predictably, a small group of very loud people were angry—mostly on Twitter. Then, five TED fellows resigned. They wrote a letter to the head of TED, Chris Anderson, titled: “TED Fellows Refuse to Be Associated with Genocide Apologists.” They pleaded to disinvite me, plus a few others …
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Lance J. Sussman, "Portrait of an American Rabbi: In His Own Words" (Xlibris US, 2023)
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Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D., has been a leading rabbi and scholar of the American Jewish experience throughout his long career. Now Rabbi Emeritus of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, PA, he previously served as Rabbi of Temple Concord of Binghamton, NY, and Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Binghamton University…
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Ben Wright, "Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism" (LSU Press, 2020)
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Ben Wright's Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism (LSU Press, 2020) demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early years of the republic. From the American Revolution through the eruption of schisms in the three largest Protestant denominati…
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Faith Smith, "Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2023)
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In Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century (Duke UP, 2023), Faith Smith engages with a period in the history of the Anglophone Caribbean often overlooked as nondescript, quiet, and embarrassingly pro-imperial within the larger narrative of Jamaican and Trinidadian nationalism. Between the 1865 Mor…
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Welcome to the Horizon Part 3: The Wayfaring Stranger
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"... Something in the sky..." Cast: Benjamin Burdick as Frank Melody Bridges as June Cat Blackard as Verge Tina Case as Diedre Camille Smicker as Trinkett Written and Directed by Joe Fisher Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson Music by Ian Ferguson Additional Music: Holding on Hope by Megan Wofford Art by Existentially Exhausted Bean Support…
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Captain EJ - Becoming Stronger (Field Transmission - EP.3)
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I don’t know about you, Hero, I’ve had some pretty hard times in my life. If I’m honest, I’ve come out stronger because of those challenges. Even if I wouldn’t necessarily choose to have gone through them, making it through is enough to prove my strength and belief in myself. I’m going to make it through anything that comes my way…and I know you wi…
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Too Hot For Radio: Dierdre Coyle "Stakes"
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Writer Deirdre Coyle’s fiction and essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Lit Hub, The New Republic, The Texas Observer, Hobart Pulp, and elsewhere. This story, "Stakes," was performed at a show at the Getty Center in L.A., at a show produced in conjunction with the online literary collective, Belletrist Book Club. If you don't know Belletris…
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Sally Rooney Reads “Opening Theory”
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Sally Rooney reads her story “Opening Theory,” from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Rooney is the author of three novels, “Conversations with Friends,” “Normal People,” and “Beautiful World, Where Are You.” A new novel, “Intermezzo,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in September.…
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Meaghan Stiman, "Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves (Princeton UP, 2024), Meaghan Stiman examines the experiences of predominantly upper-middle-class suburbanites who bought second homes in the city or the country. Drawing on interviews wit…
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Postscript: Does the June POTUS Debate Matter?
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On Thursday, June 27th, President Joe Biden and Trump debated for 90 minutes without a live audience or the usually provided by the Commission on Presidential Debates. Instead, two CNN journalists – Dana Bash and Jake Tapper – asked the questions. Not only was the format a departure but the timing was unusually early for a presidential debate. Toda…
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Dealing with the Devil (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
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At 6:45 AM on an ordinary Tuesday in Salt Lake City, Utah, a father and son lugged a heavy jewelry case into the lobby of a high-rise building. They ran a jewelry store together on the third floor, and had come in early to set up their new display. They heard the lobby door open behind them and turned to see a man holding a cardboard box. The man s…
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What Comes After Gold, With Olympian Missy Franklin
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Swimmer Missy Franklin won four gold medals at her first Olympics. But as she trained for her second trip to the world stage, her mental health began to crumble. With so much to defend, the pool suddenly felt like a pressure cooker. She talks with Maya about coping with defeat and how she learned to value her identity outside of sports. To hear mor…
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Our story tonight is called Summer Afternoons, and it’s a story about the possibilities of a special part of the day. It’s also about an empty ginger ale bottle filled with windflowers, a walk by the railroad tracks, date bars, and park benches, and elevating the everyday. We give to a different charity each week, and this week, we are giving to A …
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Something Strange Happened During A Routine Power Outage
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Written and Narrated by: Alicia Atkins *** Bonus Episode: "House of Rules" *** Story link: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/House_of_Rules *** https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ *** Support the show at patreon.com/creepypod *** Sound design by: Pacific Obadiah *** Title music by: Alex Aldea Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me…
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Our favourite episodes from the eight year of THE OTHER STORIES. 86.3 The Walled Garden A little girl discovers a hidden garden in the grounds of an old house. Written and narrated by Georgia Cook (https://twitter.com/georgiacooked) Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes) With music by North Without End (https://freemusicarchive.org/…
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Annie Proulx Reads “The Hadal Zone”
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Annie Proulx reads her story “The Hadal Zone,” from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Proulx’s works of fiction include the novels “That Old Ace in the Hole” and “Barkskins,” and three collections of Wyoming stories, “Close Range,” “Bad Dirt,” and “Fine Just the Way It Is.” She is a winner of the pen/Faulkner Award, the Pulitzer Prize, …
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Felicia Arriaga, "Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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In recent years, dozens of counties in North Carolina have partnered with federal law enforcement in the criminalization of immigration--what many have dubbed "crimmigration." Southern border enforcement still monopolizes the national immigration debate, but immigration enforcement has become common within the United States as well. While Immigrati…
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Bayley J. Marquez, "Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space" (U California Press, 2024)
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Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system of industrial education that attempted to transform Black and Indigenous peoples and land. This form of teaching—what Bayley J. Marquez names plantation pedagogy—was built on the claim that slavery and land dispossession are fundamentall…
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Felicia Arriaga, "Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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In recent years, dozens of counties in North Carolina have partnered with federal law enforcement in the criminalization of immigration--what many have dubbed "crimmigration." Southern border enforcement still monopolizes the national immigration debate, but immigration enforcement has become common within the United States as well. While Immigrati…
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Bayley J. Marquez, "Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space" (U California Press, 2024)
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Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system of industrial education that attempted to transform Black and Indigenous peoples and land. This form of teaching—what Bayley J. Marquez names plantation pedagogy—was built on the claim that slavery and land dispossession are fundamentall…
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Rachel Williams, "Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront" (Kent State UP, 2024)
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Examining how a civilian organization used the Civil War to advance their religious mission. Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront (Kent State UP, 2024) discusses the work of the United States Christian Commission (USCC), a civilian relief agency established by northern evangelical Protestants to mi…
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This episode was originally released on August 18th, 2018. The Sugars have been thinking about what it means to say goodbye and let go. In this first episode of our two-part series on moving on, the Sugars and Claire Bidwell Smith answer two letters from people struggling to move past their grief after the death of their loved ones. The first lette…
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– “I have your back.” She knows by my face not to ask why. Barbara Reese Yager is a writer who draws inspiration from life on her farm with dogs and horses and her love for her family and friends. She was a winner of the Charlotte Writers Ruth Moose Fiction contest. Barbara’s work appeared in an anthology of non-fiction, Sooner or Later by the Pers…
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Nancy Woloch, "Women and the American Experience: A Concise History" (Routledge, 2024)
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The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History (Routledge, 2024) is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women’s history from the seventeenth century to the present that illuminates the diversity of women’s experience and underscores the roles that women have played as agents of change. Moving women’s lives from the margins of …
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EP 67 | Molassacre, The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, Boston, Massachusetts
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Send a message to the show Late Release! Coming in hot with the history on this one with the Corpse Flower, The Tot Finder, a Nine-Alarm Fire, and The Wizard of Oz/Darkside of The Moon, The Beaneaters, and the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. The Molassacre. A Molasstrophe. That's what happens when 2 million gallons of molasses explodes onto the narro…
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129. The Holder of the Downtrodden *** 130. The Holder of the Script *** 131. The Holder of Loyalty *** 132. The Holder of Fame *** Stories can be found at: https://theholderseries.wordpress.com/ *** Sound design by: Samii Taylor *** Music credits: Mystery Of A Haunted Memory by Jonathan Mogavero Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm…
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