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In search of the legendary “Portrait of Dr Gachet”. The last great portrait by Vincent van Gogh disappeared from the public eye three decades ago. The podcast series FINDING VAN GOGH traces the painting’s eventful history – to get to the bottom of the question: where is the masterpiece now?
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Self Taught Artist

Lauren Kristine Art

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What do Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, and I have in common? We're all self taught artists. I stumbled around in the dark as I started my artistic journey... I didn't know what paints to buy, how to varnish my work, or the differences between painting mediums. The mission of the Self Taught Artist podcast is to help artists (and aspiring artists) learn and fully discover the joy of making art. We will cover everything from the basics of painting, to how to sell your work, and beyond.
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Welcome to ”The Enduring Lives,” the podcast that delves into the extraordinary lives of history’s most fascinating individuals. Join us on a captivating journey through time as we explore the intricacies of legendary figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, Cleopatra, Vincent van Gogh, and many more. In each episode, we bring you meticulously researched and beautifully narrated audio biographies, unraveling the layers of these iconic personalities. Through immersive storytelling, you’ll discover ...
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Film Director Phil Grabsky and art-lover Laura Bentham meet each week to talk about paintings that inspire or excite them. Listen to their ‘Painting of the Week’ and explore some of the world’s most amazing art. For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast
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Delve into ’Extraordinary People: Stories and Legacies That Shaped Our World,’ a captivating podcast exploring the lives and impacts of remarkable individuals. From their early years to enduring legacies, join us for in-depth stories and reflections on those who’ve profoundly influenced history and culture.
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My own gray sponge has been saturated and shaped by so many incredible thinkers. This is a podcast where I share the stories of those minds who have inspired mine. From philosophers, poets, musicians, artists, scientists, athletes, and more, I invite listeners to learn a bit more about seekers from the past... and more. Along the way, catch words of wisdom; coalesce with this universal consciousness and continue to grow too. I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast. If y ...
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Virtuous Men Podcast

Virtuous Men Podcast

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Virtuous Men is a podcast produced by creators Jamie Adams and Scott Einig devoted to sharing the lives of men of history, fiction, and today, and the virtues they personify. Each episode will take you through the life of each man and virtue and inspire you to live a virtuous life of your own. Join us for Season 4, a 5-part series on the Lewis and Clark Expedition as we travel alongside the men of the Corps of Discovery and explore the many virtues on display throughout their incredible adve ...
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Podcast Without an Audience

Carey Ann Watkins, Allison Easley

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Hello Teamsters! Join Carey Ann Watkins and Allison Easley as they navigate through psychological and historical topics to discover the truth about the age-old question; are all things connected? New episodes released every Thursday!
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Masterpiece Makers

Alisha Gratehouse

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Art History doesn't have to be dull and boring! Let your kids and teens learn about the different art eras and get to "know" some of the famous artists, by joining veteran homeschool mom and artist, Alisha Gratehouse, and her daughter, Olivia, on a FUN, artsy tour across the centuries as we peek into the lives of some of the most creative minds of all time! Perfect for homeschool morning time, car-schooling or as a complement to your in-depth art study.
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Date Fight!

Date Fight!

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A new podcast for every day of the year, in which we present our most cogent, reasoned, and occasionally shouty arguments to decide what each date should be best remembered for. Every episode features fun historical facts, a vote on the winner, and tearful recriminations.
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Mysteries From The Past is a fast-paced, fun, intriguing podcast that examines history's greatest unsolved mysteries! Actor and historian Rory Duffy (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Blue Bloods, Law and Order: SVU) brings audiences back in time with original music, recreation scenes and exciting narration. Get out your magnifying glass and help us solve these mysteries! We would love to hear from you! mysteriesfromthepast@gmail.com
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Spin A Yarn is a storytelling podcast that covers classic fiction works with high quality readings that are meant to immerse the listener in the world of the story. Narrated by Jordan Dawson.
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Have you ever heard of Louis Congo? What about the forgotten Downwinders or The Devil’s Bible? These are just a few examples of people, events, and things from our past that have been lost to time. They’re important in the greater context of our understanding of the world and how our past shaped our present, yet they never made it into history books. In this bi-weekly podcast, freelance journalist, Crystal Ponti, digs up extraordinary excerpts of forgotten history, bringing her passion and l ...
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Hear ye, hear ye! Alex "WORLDWIDE" Kellar (@TheTowerSkin) of the Bored2Life podcast (@Bored2LifePod) joins Josh while Tim's away not covering breaking news of Donald the Trump being shot in the ear and hilariously sealing the fate of the nation. We discuss all manner of shit before and after this news breaks in real time, including 90s dual-film-re…
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This week, Phil and Laura look at Vincent’s other ‘Starry Night’, painted just down the road from his famous yellow house in Arles, and explore the themes of love, madness and beauty that have followed this beloved and troubled artist over the centuries... Support the Show.By Seventh Art Productions
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling" (1749) by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), one of the most influential of the early English novels and a favourite of Dickens. Coleridge wrote that it had one of the 'three most perfect plots ever planned'. Fielding had made his name in the theatre with satirical plays that were so …
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Because there is nothing going on in the world, in history, across the infinite spatio-temporal expanses . . . we watched a movie that Time forgot or never knew to even try to remember, Wilder Napalm (Trailer & Full Movie). Adrian DeLaTorre (@b00tz2big, Never Seen It) joins us once again to meditate upon a timeless tale of two brothers who can gene…
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Friendship is a mutual concern, interest, and love that exists between two people. This love is the kind the Greeks called philia, or brotherly love. One such friendship was that of Lewis Armistead and Winfield S. Hancock. Although these men found themselves on opposing sides of America's most divisive and deadly conflict, their friendship endured …
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Thanks, Joe! Listen, cornfatpop, I've always said you're fit as a ponyfaced fiddle! See the endorsement video here: President Joe Robinette Biden 100% Endorses the Heat Death of the Universe Podcast! Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY Support: patreon / buzzsprout Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org More From Timothy Robert Buechner Po…
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Discuss the hilarious reactions to the presidential debate as massive swaths of the population suddenly realize and/or admit Joe Biden's obvious senility which many maligned people have been screaming from the rooftops since 2019. Julian Assange is free! Good news so unbelievable that's it's surreal. For once. Absolutely unhinged Israelis and their…
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Redemption is the process by which a man regains or acquires virtue in an effort to better his life. Whether it comes about as an atonement for wrongdoing or a realization that a life of sin will never bring fulfillment, redemption is the path toward a life of virtue. One of world literature’s most profound examples of redemption is the hardened co…
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We talk about and often over the first of three 2024 presidential debates between two uniquely unhinged and brain-damaged purveyors of straight up foolishness—LIVE!—as it unfolded before the world's horrified and jaded eyes. First attempt at doing anything video related with the podcast, so apologies for the glitchy quality of the actual debate vid…
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We finish discussing the latter three episodes of The Daily Wire's mind-bogglingly unfunny anti-woke abomination, Mr. Birchum. But before we dive into all that we have a brief free-form conversation that contains talk of feeling like having been forced into secret time travel due to public menaces like Adam Carolla and Tucker Carlson seeming to not…
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Amazonian tribe gets the internet for the first time via Elon Musk and its society immediately degenerates into financial scams and porn addiction. Pair of Evangelical weirdo fascists upset about the name of a quaint seaside Californian town taking the 'Christ' out of Fuckin' in the Backseat Lover's Point & Makeout Ridge. Chinese People Exist...BUT…
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Briahna Joy Gray booted from her job for crimes against zionistic propaganda. Joe Brandon one million percent shat himself on stage while memorializing D-Day. LGBT-GOP? Delusional or really delusional? Dark Brandon pleases Blue MAGA by doing exactly what Red MAGA wants. Nikki Haley signs munitions ("Finish them!") that will be or already certainly …
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the greatest poet of his age', Thomas Wyatt (1503 -1542), who brought the poetry of the Italian Renaissance into the English Tudor world, especially the sonnet, so preparing the way for Shakespeare and Donne. As an ambassador to Henry VIII and, allegedly, too close to Anne Boleyn, he experienced great privilege unde…
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We discuss The Daily Wire's latest original "entertainment" programming, Mr. Birchum, which is shockingly unfunny and politically stale even by Daily Wire standards, all thanks to Adam Corolla's insistance that people will love the musings and non-adventures of his wildly beloved woodshop teacher character, Mr. Birchum. It's so fucking unbelievably…
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Quick Q&A in our accidental new segment Korea Korner. The ICC, the ICJ, and belligerance and mafioso style threats made by Lindsey Graham, Tony Blinken et al. Cartoonishly Evil Business Cabal's WhatApp Chat Gets Leaked, Consent No Longer Needs Manufacturing (+Remember Noam Chomsky being on the Epstein flight logs??) IDF threatens literal prepubesce…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest European playwrights of the twentieth century. The aim of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was to make the familiar ‘strange’: with plays such as Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle he wanted his audience not to sit back but to engage, observe and discover the contradictions in life, and act o…
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Exploration is the act of traveling to an unknown land in order to investigate its terrain, resources, and benefits to humanity. The explorer's spirit is something many of us have felt ourselves; the need to search out the unknown, and to see the previously unseen. In this episode, we will tell the story of a man who greatly influenced the Pacific …
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Anthony Blinken rocks in the free world and eats pizza in a Nazi restaurant. [Factual correction: 48, not "like a hundred," people died in the Odessa Trade Union Fire.] Biden channels Dirty Harry and now we have three debates between him and Trump to look forward to. Huge windfall for the pharmacuetical amphetimine industry. Morning Joe gets righte…
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We discuss the somehow fifteen years in the making, unhinged in all ways, crème de la crème of Bad Cinema—an animated kid's movie trying to cash in on 1995's Toy Story mania—Foodfight! We gather 'round the table of the theater of the mind with good-bad cinema coorespondant Adrian DeLaTorre (@b00tz2big) of the podcast Never Seen It and discuss all i…
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MAGA diapers and brainworms. More brainworms abound in the form of the ever-mindnumbing Red Scare podcast and their recent strokefest with the most boring and incoherent and inexplicably valorized of "race realism" blowhards, Steve Sailer. They have a wonderfully stupid time being little "Noticers" together. Farha Khalidi is the actually intelligen…
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Brotherhood is a relationship between men that runs far deeper than friendship. Men who serve together in war, go on a mission, perform a great task, or build one another up in tough times are said to be like a band of brothers. Unlike friendship, however, brotherhood is a bond that transcends time and space. One of the most important and influenti…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes' comedy in which the women of Athens and Sparta, led by Lysistrata, secure peace in the long-running war between them by staging a sex strike. To the men in the audience in 411BC, the idea that peace in the Peloponnesian War could be won so easily was ridiculous and the thought that their wives could hav…
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Sacrifice is the act of willingly forsaking one’s personal wellbeing for the good of others. The ultimate expression of sacrifice is found in giving up one’s life to save another. One such story is that of Technical Sergeant John A. Chapman. In this episode, we will tell the story of his heroic stand and how his actions not only went above the call…
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All the elements for an explosion of class struggle are amassing aboard the Serenade of the Seas' nine month long world-spanning, sanity-teasing cruise. Obama 2008 campaign ad that used the WUSSUP! commercial to inspire the unwashed masses. Change. That's wassup. Four distinctly stupid theories about why these dern kids are making such a ruckus fro…
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This week's topic of discussion is Holbein’s masterpiece from one of the most important years in British history – 1533. This was the year that Henry VIII broke from the Catholic church, married Anne Boleyn and had a daughter who would become one of England’s most popular monarchs, Elizabeth I...  Support the Show.…
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Friendship is one of the most special of all bonds between human beings. Without friendship, we as men would never realize our greatest potential. One of the greatest portrayals of friendship in all of fiction is the bond between Andy and Red, the two principal characters of the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and i…
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We return to the more standard format of a flurry of cornucopias of pastiches of mixed bags of different topics. Cucker Tarlson forcibly time travels us back to the culture wars of the mid 2000s by confidently denying that evolutionary theory is a viable reality. Anthony Fauci did not have to conspiratorily create HIV to be the heinous person that …
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Finnish epic poem that first appeared in print in 1835 in what was then the Grand Duchy of Finland, part of the Russian Empire and until recently part of Sweden. The compiler of this epic was a doctor, Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884), who had travelled the land to hear traditional poems about mythical heroes being sung…
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Redemption is the act of being brought back from a path of destruction and set on the path of freedom and righteousness. It is a critical piece of anyone’s story who seeks to pursue virtue and live to their full potential. One of American pop-culture's most vivid examples of redemption is in the life of legendary country music star Johnny Cash. In …
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We dive into the widely heralded, earth-toned and Scorsese-helmed artifact of the mid-70s, The Last Waltz, with special guest Elicia McCoy. We discover extratexual tidbits, branch off into fractals of digression, share diverging and converging opinions alike, and generally have a hip and groovy time thinking about the Thankgiving Day 1976 vibes cre…
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Survival is a virtue that cannot be attained without great loss, hardship, and danger. In many such cases, a man loses everything and has nothing but his life to hold onto. One of the 19th century’s most incredible tales of survival is the tragedy of the whaleship Essex. To this day, it is widely considered to be the most horrific voyage in the his…
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Before we talk about the overall phenomenon and legacy of Occupy Wall Street, we briefly acknowledge the final betweeted words of OJ Simpson: "Hospice? Whatchoo talkin bout hospice?" Referenced previous episodes: 124 - The Lost Boomer Death Squad Crossover Episode 070 - The CDC and Bill Gates: Normalizing Death 013 - WAR IS A RACKET! Commiserate on…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dance which, from when it reached Britain in the early nineteenth century, revolutionised the relationship between music, literature and people here for the next hundred years. While it may seem formal now, it was the informality and daring that drove its popularity, with couples holding each other as they spun r…
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We go strictly off-the-cuff. Something not done since Episode 064 - Our 11th Hour Improvised Episode. Come for the hodgepodge, stay for the fun talk about getting arrested and locked up. Extreme sleep deprivation (for one of us). Fake news generator (perchance.org/newsheadline). Self-haircuts: yea or nay? The rhythm method. Struggling mightily to l…
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Join us on The Enduring Lives podcast as we delve into the remarkable life of Ernest Shackleton, the legendary polar explorer who embodied resilience and courage in the face of adversity. From his ambitious expeditions to the Antarctic to his heroic leadership during the ill-fated Endurance voyage, Shackleton's story is one of determination, surviv…
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We discuss the new documentary series The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping and the inexhaustable ability to exploit and capitalize upon anything under the sun, including 'troubled teens,' 'at-risk youth,' etc. We talk about the micro to the macro regarding the Troubled Teen Industry (TTI) and Josh brings along some firsthand experience with work…
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We talk about the origins, taxonomies, evolutionary arc and generally weird and grotesque nature of the broadly defined Manosphere/Redpill subculture. Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY Support: patreon / buzzsprout Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org General Recommendations Josh's Recommendations: 1) The Pickup Artist 2) The Dark Side…
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Daniel Hale is finally out of prison and has written an article that asks why he was locked up for the same crime Joe Biden has openly admitted to (although Joe's motives were far less noble than Daniel's). Jordan "Stop! Or My Dragon of Chaos Will Shoot!" Peterson continues to publicly lose his mind and keep the grift alive and well, redmeat-induce…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's book which first appeared in print in 1865 with illustrations by John Tenniel. It has since become one of the best known works in English, captivating readers who follow young Alice as she chases a white rabbit, pink eyed, in a waistcoat with pocket watch, down a rabbit hole that becomes a well and in…
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