Best Thom O Podcasts (2024)

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Ozu Pt. 1 - The Silent Era (1927 - 1936) 1:01:25

1h ago1:01:25

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I love Ozu. I tell you why for an hour in this first third of my 8pl8s: Ozu trilogy, covering the director's silent film era (1927 - 1936). SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR BORN, BUT... FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

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Pho2 w/ Ryan Simón & Matt Gomes 1:01:32

26m ago1:01:32

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THE SEQUEL!!! Check out part 1 here Ryan Simón, the creator of American Vulgaria magazine, and Matt Gomes, a photographer and musician join me for a SECOND trip thru pics, Infinite Jest tattoos, Tanner Masseth's Surveillance film, and so much more... SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR PHOTO-READY FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.c…

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Pics w/ Ryan Simón & Matt Gomes 1:01:10

8d ago1:01:10

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Ryan Simón, the creator of American Vulgaria magazine, and Matt Gomes, a photographer and musician join me for a trip through the history and the state of photography in the modern age. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR PHOTO-READY FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

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Type O Negative w/Thom 2:13:44

24d ago2:13:44

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Thom from UnironicZyzzPosting joins me for a slow, deep & hard-dive into the history and discography of one of America's most misunderstood bands, Type O Negative. With hints of addiction, religion, and of course, Zyzz. --- Chapters: 0:00 - Origins (1989–1991) 11:14 - Slow, Deep and Hard and The Origin of the Feces (1991-1992) 26:15 - Bloody Kisses…

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Shelby Oaks (2024) Review (Spoiler-free!) 27:04

23d ago27:04

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Initial thoughts / Spoiler-free review of Chris Stuckmann's highly anticipated feature film debut Shelby Oaks (2024), a 3am post-Fantasia premiere ramble. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR OHIO FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

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John Wayne w/ Kelby Losack 1:01:23

1M ago1:01:23

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John Wayning it up with new friend of the show Kelby Losack of the Agitator pod & Broken River book collective SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR WESTERN FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

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Yorgos Lanthimossover w/ Ryan Jackson of Mutual Aberration Society 1:38:37

1M ago1:38:37

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In what critics are calling the Horizon: An American Saga of film-pod crossovers, I am once again teaming up with Ryan Jackson of M.A.S. for a director deep dive. This week, we're going deep into the second half of Yorgos Lanthimos' filmography. We're in a great place mentally!! Films discussed in this ep: -The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) -The …

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Baker CROSSOVERspective w/ Ryan Jackson of Mutual Aberration Society 1:04:06

2M ago1:04:06

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LISTEN TO PART 2 HERE (Mutual Aberration Society) On this legendary crossover episode, I go through EVERY feature film directed by Sean Baker with screenwriter/filmmaker Ryan Jackson. This first half, featuring Four Letter Words (2000), Take Out (2004), Prince of Broadway (2008), and Starlet (2012), was posted on the 8pl8s feed. The second half, fe…

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maybe cut all of this out w/ Nik Oldershaw 40:00

3M ago40:00

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Criterion vs Tubi vs Archive dot org, Eraserhead, beautiful asian women, Robin Williams, bad John Cassavetes plot summaries, and a bunch of horrible tea-spilling & gossip, volcel Spike Lee etc etc with our favorite Chicago comic Nik Oldershaw! SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR HOLLYWOOD FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/…

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Closing: Poems as Teachers (ft. Kai Cheng Thom) | Ep 7 12:42

3M ago12:42

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In this concluding episode of "Poems as Teachers," our special miniseries on conflict and the human condition, host Pádraig Ó Tuama says the poems discussed in this offering are a different kind of teacher: “not as teachers that give us rules to follow — more so teachers that share something of their own intuition.” And for a final reflection, he o…

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Yehuda Amichai — Poems as Teachers | Ep 6 14:04

3M ago14:04

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Being right may feel good, but what human price do we pay for this feeling of rightness? Yehuda Amichai’s poem “The Place Where We Are Right,” translated by Stephen Mitchell, asks us to answer this question, consider how doubt and love might expand and enrich our perspective, and reflect upon the buried and not-so-buried ruins of past conflicts, ar…

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Jericho Brown — Poems as Teachers | Ep 5 13:10

3M ago13:10

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In “Hebrews 13” by Jericho Brown, a narrator says: “my lover and my brother both knocked at my door.” The heat is turned on, scalding coffee is offered and hastily swallowed, and silence is the soundtrack. What an exquisitely awkward triangle it is, and what a human, beautiful, and loving shape that can be. Jericho Brown is the Charles Howard Candl…

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Mosab Abu Toha — Poems as Teachers | Ep 4 16:29

3M ago16:29

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In Mosab Abu Toha’s “Ibrahim Abu Lughod and brother in Yaffa,” two barefoot siblings on a beach sketch out a map of their former home in the sand and argue about what went where. Their longing for return to a place of hospitality, family, memory, friends, and even strangers is alive and tender to the touch. Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, sch…

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Constantine P. Cavafy — Poems as Teachers | Ep 3 17:23

3M ago17:23

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We ask questions to find out the facts, but what if you can’t trust the answers, the questions, or the person who's asking the questions? In Constantine P. Cavafy’s “Waiting for the Barbarians,” translated by Evan Jones, leaders exercise a sinister kind of violence — they’ve taken over people’s imaginations with showy displays of wealth and privile…

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Joy Harjo — Poems as Teachers | Ep 2 17:43

3M ago17:43

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As appealing as it may sound, is it really possible to live in a world completely free of conflict? No. And since differences and disagreements are inevitable and natural, Joy Harjo gives ground rules in “Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings.” Her call to us echoes across time and space — a call to listen, to humility, to justice, and to recognizing…

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Introducing: Poems as Teachers (ft. Wisława Szymborska) | Ep 1 10:25

3M ago10:25

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Host Pádraig Ó Tuama gives an overview of this Poetry Unbound mini season that's devoted to poems with wisdom to offer about conflict and humanity. He also brings us Wisława Szymborska’s “A Word on Statistics,” translated by Joanna Trzeciak, which covers statistics of the most human kind — like the number of people in a group of 100 who think they …

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Hemingway's Nippon w/ Zach Langley Chi Chi 1:09:37

5M ago1:09:37

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zach langley chi chi is an American drag queen in Japan and the host of the I'M SO POPULAR podcast ------------ SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR JAPANESE FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

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Thomas Lux — Refrigerator, 1957 14:09

6M ago14:09

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If your home were a museum — and they all are, in a way — what would the contents of your refrigerator say about you and those you live with? In his poem “Refrigerator, 1957,” Thomas Lux opens the door to his childhood appliance and oh, does a three-quarters full jar of maraschino cherries speak volumes. Thomas Lux was an American poet and professo…

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Rita Wong — flush 15:59

6M ago15:59

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The word “flush” is a verb, as in an activity that we do umpteen times a day. It’s also an adjective that conveys abundance. Fittingly, Rita Wong’s poem “flush” offers a praise song to water’s expansive and unceasing presence in our lives — from our toilets to our teacups, from inside our bodies to outside our buildings, and from our soil to our sk…

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Maria Dahvana Headley — Beowulf 15:55

6M ago15:55

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Bro — this is definitely not the “Beowulf” that you read back in school. Maria Dahvana Headley’s gutsy, swaggering translation brings the Old English epic poem roaring into this century, showing you why this tale of fraught family ties, power plays and posturing, and mighty, imperfect people is as relevant as ever. Maria Dahvana Headley is the New …

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100% Morocco w/ Dark Margaritaville aka The Memes Of Saturn 57:03

6M ago57:03

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liminal intl newport ft. Dark Marg / Memes of Saturn pour yourself a grape fanta & light up a grape swisher sweet... audio heaven! Inventive purple digital artist Dark Marg / Memes of Saturn comes on to discuss Poor Things, edging trailers, Morocco smokes, liminal airports, while his home slides!! What a terrific display of stability!! SHARE THE SH…

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Michael Klein — Swale 14:02

6M ago14:02

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A horse race from the 1980s may not seem like the obvious inspiration for a poem that celebrates so many of the things that make our lives worth living — good company (human and animal), good books, good food, and honest work — and that is just part of the surprise, delight, and surging joy of Michael Klein’s “Swale.” Michael Klein is a two-time wi…

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Ray Young Bear — Our Bird Aegis 13:45

6M ago13:45

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What holds our bodies together? Yes, there are the biological components, such as the cells, fluids, fibers, but what about the bone-deep stuff, the histories, myths, aches, resolves? In “Our Bird Aegis,” poet Ray Young Bear evokes an adolescent eagle to show how this blend of the visceral, the inherited, and the self-made abides in each of us, no …

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Suji Kwock Kim — Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border 15:36

6M ago15:36

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While disputes over contested lands result in damage that can be seen and documented, they also create countless unseen ruptures in the hearts, minds and souls of the humans caught in the chaos. By giving voice to yearning, Suji Kwock Kim’s poem “Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border” shows how bearing witness and asking…

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Amber McBride — ROLL CALL: NEW TAROT NAMES FOR BLACK GIRLS 16:35

7M ago16:35

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In “ROLL CALL: NEW TAROT NAMES FOR BLACK GIRLS,” Amber McBride treats us to a playful litany of language that twists and leaps and never stumbles. Flavored with old-time Christianity, old-time hoodoo, and a modern alchemy all her own, it talks back to prejudice, reclaims the words meant to take people down, and forges new identities that shimmer wi…

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Carl Dennis — Breath 15:23

7M ago15:23

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A fragile and wondrous technology that we all possess, the human breath powers any number of things in our lives — speeches, feats of music, athleticism, and more. Carl Dennis’s powerful and meditative poem “Breath” calls on us to take a moment, give our breath our full attention, and celebrate it. Carl Dennis is the author of 13 works of poetry, i…

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Elisa Gonzalez — To My Twenty-Four-Year-Old Self 14:49

7M ago14:49

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Our lives are filled with distances, the physical spans that we travel but also the stranger, vaster expanses between our past and our present or between feeling anchored and connected and feeling terribly alone. A poem can capture all of those in a way that a map can’t, as Elisa Gonzalez superbly demonstrates in “To My Twenty-Four-Year-Old Self.” …

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Ofelia Zepeda — Deer Dance Exhibition 15:27

7M ago15:27

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Most of us do our eavesdropping shyly and secretively, but Ofelia Zepeda’s poem “Deer Dance Exhibition” welcomes us to listen in on an exchange between people as they watch a ceremonial dance. Along the way, we get the sense that what we’re witnessing is more than a conversation — it’s the sounds and sensations of life itself. Ofelia Zepeda is a po…

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Sandra Cisneros — When in Doubt 14:52

7M ago14:52

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Even in the most uneventful of human lives, uncertainty and doubts will inevitably intrude. When faced with those, what can you do to steady yourself? One suggestion: Turn to the poem “When in Doubt” by Sandra Cisneros, where she generously shares some of the wisdom that she’s gleaned over the years. Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, n…

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Kandace Siobhan Walker — Three Mangoes, £1 15:50

7M ago15:50

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To be alive is to be in conversation with the dead. The ghosts of loved ones are always swirling around us, and sometimes we’re lucky enough to catch a glimpse. In the poem “Three Mangoes, £1,” Kandace Siobhan Walker describes a surprising encounter with her late grandmother at a busy market, and an encounter with a stranger. Kandace Siobhan Walker…

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Francisco Aragón — Asleep You Become a Continent 13:04

7M ago13:04

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It is an intimate thing, to watch a lover while they sleep. In Francisco Aragón’s translation of Francisco X. Alarcón’s homoerotic poem, “Asleep You Become a Continent,” a man views his sleeping lover’s body like it’s a landscape: legs underneath sheets become mountains and valleys. The waking lover describes this view like an explorer might an unk…

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Conor Kerr — Winter Songs 14:59

8M ago14:59

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Conor Kerr’s “Winter Songs” depicts a future scene: coyotes roaming through a rewilded city, digging up the bones of Indigenous ancestors who then regenerate and reclaim what was taken. Power is dismantled, something original is restored. Conor Kerr is a Métis/Ukrainian writer living in Edmonton. A member of the Métis Nation of Alberta, he is desce…

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Valencia Robin — The Coup 14:16

8M ago14:16

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Valencia Robin’s poem portrays a tense relationship between mother and daughter; perhaps each resembling the other too much. In desperation — and shock — the daughter says the worst thing she can think of to her mother. What follows is like the fall of a dictator, a coup, an end, an opening. Valencia Robin is an interdisciplinary artist whose pract…

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Eugenia Leigh — How the Dung Beetle Finds Its Way Home 15:51

8M ago15:51

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In a poem about how a small moment can help you make a wise decision, Eugenia Leigh finds the strength to go back home after storming out. No self-pity in the poem, just humor and brilliance. She had every reason to leave, and finds every reason to return. Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of two collections of poetry, Bianca (…

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Poetry Unbound — Season 8 Trailer 1:07

8M ago1:07

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Poetry Unbound with host Pádraig Ó Tuama is back on Monday, January 1. Featured poets in this season include Amber McBride, Eugenia Leigh, Francisco Aragón, Ray Young Bear, and many more. New episodes released every Monday and Friday through February 23. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Overcast, or wherever you listen.…

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Clint Smith with Krista Tippett — What We Know in the "Marrow of Our Bones" 1:05:43

9M ago1:05:43

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Friends, Pádraig here — we are awakening your Poetry Unbound feed to share this brilliant episode from the newest season of On Being, which is well underway. Conversations on love and loss, comedy and ecology, social creativity, poetry, and more all await you in the On Being feed — subscribe now and don’t miss out. And — Poetry Unbound Season 8 is …

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BONUS: Truth-seeking and the Symphony of Language with Henri Cole 1:04:44

12M ago1:04:44

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A central duality appears in the work of Henri Cole: the revelation of emotional truths in concert with a “symphony of language” — often accompanied by arresting similes. We are excited to offer this conversation between Pádraig and Henri, recorded during the 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, New Jersey. Together, they discuss the role of anima…

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BONUS: Making Space for the Erotic with Aimee Nezhukumatathil 1:00:50

12M ago1:00:50

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poems are filled with butchery and blood as she carves space for desire, motherhood, and an encyclopedic knowledge of plants to coexist in life and on the page. We are excited to offer this conversation between Pádraig and Aimee, recorded during the 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, New Jersey. Together, they explore the…

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BONUS: Poetry That Pays Attention with Patricia Smith 1:08:16

12M ago1:08:16

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Through her poetry, Patricia Smith generously, skillfully puts language around what can be seen both in the present and deliberately looking back at oneself. We are excited to offer this conversation between Pádraig and Patricia, recorded during the 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, New Jersey. Together, they explore how memory, persona, and a …

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