Best Poetic Metal Podcasts (2024)

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for July 12, 2024 - I Wished Nothing But Ill For Him 59:29

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for July 12, 2024 - I Wished Nothing But Ill For Him Download audio On this show, I play a song from The New Marines; grampa's house is under contract; the family went to Carowinds and we went to Heroescon; my con strategy was different this time; less bin diving, less autograph seeking, more print and collection buyi…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 14 2024 - Swift Immediate Poetic Justice 59:53

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 14 2024 - Swift Immediate Poetic Justice Download audio On this show, I play a song from Agitprop; middle school is finished; I could skate through K-12 and I could not skate through Georgia Tech; I never signed the kid in late for middle school; I was petty cleaning out a classroom; we play "Is This Asshole …

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 3 2024 - Sweaty Working Class Metal Heads 53:55

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 3 2024 - Sweaty Working Class Metal Heads Download audio On this show, I play a song from the Beths; I had to spike a show for audio reasons; I am in danger of getting my Podcast HOF Trophy repossessed; we are limping to the finish line of middle school; my family stayed in grampa's house; the cleaning standa…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 17 2024 - Find a Nickel in your Intestines 5:41

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 17 2024 - Find a Nickel in your Intestines Download audio On this show, I play a song from Bourgeois Tagg; I talk a little about the Ellen James Society and Mojo Nixon; are we a low functioning family? I had a day that was my Platonic ideal of a retired person's day; I hate my school day routine; I don't measu…

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Hap Wilson: “If there’s no risk then there’s no adventure, right?” 46:29

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Ontario explorer, mapmaker, and conservationist Hap Wilson on drawing 400 guide maps across 50 years, traveling more than 40,000 miles of Canadian wilderness by canoe, the one digital tool he likes (it’s Google Earth), saving lives by creating a map that, unlike the one it replaced, did not send tourists over a waterfall, retracing thousand-year-ol…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 11 2024 - Roulette Money Burning a Hole in my Roulette Wallet 50:40

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 11 2024 - Roulette Money Burning a Hole in my Roulette Wallet Download audio On this show, I play a song from Bobo Bojangles; grampa's funeral has happened; I had my first complete EV charging meltdown; we charged at a brand new Circle K charger in Goldsboro; less than one week after I posted my concerns about…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 3 2024 - Open Faced Sandwich Generation 54:14

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 3 2024 - Open Faced Sandwich Generation Download audio On this show, I play a song from There I Ruined It; grampa is no longer with us; his last months were difficult for everyone in such an avoidable dumb way; don't mix your important documents with trash; grampa was a Glengarry lead; wtf is a "personal repre…

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Erick Ingraham: “I guess I gravitate towards difficulty.” 29:49

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Colorado painter, illustrator and mapmaker Erick Ingraham on solving art directors’ problems, making it interesting for himself (“I’m known to make things more complicated than they might need to be”), spending eight years painting the Rockies’ western slope, working from his own photographs, taking inspiration from the past, getting into the cultu…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 26 2024 - Unforced Errors of our Lives 1:01:08

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 26 2024 - Unforced Errors of our Lives Download audio On this show, I play a song from Incognation; I have heard of Theatre of Sheep; I discuss Kyle Clark and his blindness of why one might not want a Tesla; I think Tesla has no pushback on Musk whims; I have plenty of privilege but at least I examine it; Bu…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 20 2024 - The Nothingness I Had Before 59:55

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 20 2024 - The Nothingness I Had Before Download audio On this show I play a song by Love Tractor; I saw Love Tractor open for Husker Du; I switched from Wordpress to Eleventy; I want to return comments to my static web site; I have been gardening old posts and tags from the history of the website; I had forg…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 12 2024 - Pesos In My Pocket 57:44

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 12 2024 - Pesos In My Pocket Download audio On this show I play a song by Edith Frost and explain why; we vacationed in Puerto Vallarta; I needed 10% more Spanish; we zip-lined and drank the history of coffee drinks and chilled; I am rebuilding the Evil Genius Chronicles in Eleventy; give me feedback on the …

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 29 2024 - Nut Jars are the Clutter 51:23

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 29 2024 - Nut Jars are the Clutter Download audio On this show I play a new song by Valley Lodge; I am trying to understand the rules of Australian Rules Football and which teams to root for; why do AFL players kick into coverage most of the time? I need an Australian to mule some AFL gear to the USA for me;…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 22 2024 - Walmart Shoe Endeavor 42:26

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 22 2024 - Walmart Shoe Endeavor Download audio On this show I play a song by The Dreadnoughts; is this asshole the asshole? we are limping this middle school experience to the finish line; parenting is made up of a series of stupid details that shouldn't be necessary; Buc-ees is madness; hating on big stores…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 15 2024 - Punch His Facade in the Facade 57:43

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 15 2024 - Punch His Facade in the Facade Download audio On this show I play a new song by Steve Conte; I understand my child's antipathy for a classmate; Death Sex and Money looking for a new organization is the same dynamic as searching for a sugar daddy; I don't understand what there is for all these peopl…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 9 2024 - Asymmetrical Conversational Warfare 52:07

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 9 2024 - Asymmetrical Conversational Warfare Download audio I play a song by The Jesus and Mary Chain; I talk a little about seeing The Jesus and Mary Chain in concert; the big dog is getting treated for heartworms; I'm staying in the developer relations slack for now; I am so glad I don't have to take jobs …

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 1 2024 - KPIs for Your Douchebaggery 57:42

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 1 2024 - KPIs for Your Douchebaggery Download audio I play a song by Dolly Varden; we recognize the passing of Mister Joe Klein; I don't know how to change the size of the system font on a Mac; Adam Savage really impressed me with his take on point of view; I once again rage against awards for creative work;…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 24 2024 - Mandolin Slicer for your Fingerprints 51:18

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 24 2024 - Mandolin Slicer for your Fingerprints Download audio I play a song by Valley Lodge; I admitted defeat and rented a storage space; I am working on one box at a time in organization; I am shipping family stuff away and losing some stuff due to destruction; moving to the bed and failing to sleep is…

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Stephen Walter: “Maps are inherently political if they’re interesting.” 42:36

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London artist and mapmaker Stephen Walter on two decades of drawing and painting “the semiotic residues of humankind,” an invitation to map an Ivorian national park (and why you should wait for the dry season before attempting this), approaching six years of work on an NYC map, interpreting Michael Drayton’s 17th c. topographical poem Poly-Olbion i…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 16 2024 - Most Points are my Weak Point 52:00

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 16 2024 - Most Points are my Weak Point Download audio I play a song by Indoor Garden Party; I don't understand people who are treating Twitter as if things were normal; I watched the Superbowl; the ads are not worth watching and RFK Jr's ad was the worst; I made one good play in one year of playing footb…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 10 2024 - Be the Merch You Want to See In The World 51:54

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 10 2024 - Be the Merch You Want to See In The World Download audio I play a song by Glass Eye; Mastodon is fine for social media but social media is the right answer to the wrong question; going viral is supposed to be the goal but it makes me nervous; no social media is designed to make you happier; I ma…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 3 2024 - Turducken 56:42

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 3 2024 - Turducken Download audio I play a song by Brown Sabbath; one more grampa story; I enjoy Cartoonist Kayfabe as a program but they are just missing making themselves an essential resource; I made sure to get a HeroesCon VIP membership this year; that extra half-hour of early admission is very helpf…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 26 2024 - Clangy Clangy Phone Rings 58:13

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 26 2024 - Clangy Clangy Phone Rings Download audio In this episode I play a song by The Gentle Readers; I am back on the Eat To Live plan after almost two years away; retirement also leads to engineering what the rest of your life looks like; using the older men in my life as positive and negative examples…

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 12 2024 - Not Much of an Issue, Not Much of a Solution 58:52

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 12 2024 - Not Much of an Issue, Not Much of a Solution Download audio In this episode I play a song by You Am I; buying some cameras seems be helping the dog pee situation; we took the first road trip in the electric Audi; the free credits with Electrify America aren't of much worse when they never work; I…

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John Tauranac: “I seldom think macroscopically; I think microscopically.” 36:00

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Manhattan writer and cartographer John Tauranac on his first maps of Midtown’s pedestrian passages, a public debate with Massimo Vignelli (“His geography was egregious”), working at a very different MTA (they used to have an aesthetics committee?), the “no improvements” made to the subway map since he chaired the 1979 MTA map committee, guiding Yan…

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Andrew Middleton: “There’s something poetic about running a map store.” 50:09

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In early 2023 GIS analyst and cartographer Andrew Middleton saw a tweet about Andy Nosal’s search for someone to take over The Map Center, Nosal's map shop in Pawtucket, RI; six months later Middleton left California to move into one of the last map retail stores in the U.S. We discuss his goal of turning the shop into an inviting retail space and …

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Lionel Portier: “What I'm trying to convey with my maps is the pleasure of seeing beautiful things.” 28:33

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Lyonnais illustrator and designer Lionel Portier on a mapmaking career that spans 30 years and five continents, accepting any map challenge an art director might conceive, a travel magazine gig that led to an Australian passport, painting 100 birds for a wetland park, his favorite territory to illustrate, spending three months on a 3x4-ft. map of B…

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Isaac Dushku: “A map has to evoke a feeling of adventure or a feeling of home.” 38:13

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Utah artist Isaac Dushku on how a map has to evoke either a feeling of adventure or a feeling of home, the best- and worst-selling states in his catalog (he drew all 50), taking his business Lord of Maps from being ghosted on Facebook Marketplace to supporting his family, creating a board book of America’s highest peaks with a “ridiculously complic…

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Sam Usle: “Slowly but surely we’re starting to recover the built environment.” 46:35

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Urbanist and illustrator Sam Usle on designing human-scale communities and rendering them in watercolors, why theme parks reflect a yearning for human-scale towns, redesigning part of his high school campus before graduation, why you can thank Le Corbusier for hideous Revit-default cities, the axonometric map that sold Disneyland, storytelling with…

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Naomi Rosenberg: "Get out of your sighted bubble.” 33:37

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Naomi Rosenberg, assistant director of the Media and Accessible Design Lab at San Francisco’s LightHouse for the Blind, discusses the art of making fingertip-readable maps: why clutter is the enemy of good tactile maps, the quest for an affordable embosser, being locked to 24 pt. type, creating large-scale accessible maps for the Golden Gate Nation…

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Matthew Dean Shaffer: “My approach is to try and be as accurate as possible.“ 52:22

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New Haven architectural designer and artist Matthew Dean Shaffer on balancing accuracy with art, taking a break from straight lines to draw birds, software-driven homogeneity in American architecture (“Straight-out-of-Revit, as we say”), why he draws the vegetation last, how anything’s better for the urban fabric than a surface parking lot, and sac…

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