Best Vex King Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 116.5 – King Crimson’s Schizoid Man and the Metal in the Hot Middle 8:41

4h ago8:41

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In this brief episode, we spotlight the two metal bands brave enough to tackle the middle part of King Crimson's innovative and highly influential 1969 classic, "21st Century Schizoid Man." Note I: The Radical Research Patreon page is now set up and ready for your patronage. We are offering tiered subscription levels for those who want a set-it-and…

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Episode 116 — What is Psychedelic Music? The Radical Research Answer to a Vexing Question 1:26:45

11d ago1:26:45

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When it comes to a difficult-to-define concept like psychedelia in music, it's subjective. It’s not all hippies with sitars and lava lamps and bongs…but that’s not wrong either. With a little help from author Michael Hicks and his parameters for what makes music psychedelic, we pose the question: “What is Psychedelic Music?” and offer the Radical R…

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Episode 115.5 – Permeable Lines, Part 2 16:12

9d ago16:12

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Our second in the Permeable Lines series, and our first point-5 episode since 83.5 nearly two years ago! That enough numbers for you? Join us for a brief dust-up between inspiration and rip-off. You decide. (More numbers: “18 is actually 9…it stuck in his mind….”) Note I: The Radical Research Patreon page is now set up and ready for your patronage.…

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Episode 115 – Hexx Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself 55:45

23d ago55:45

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We celebrate musicians and bands that rapidly evolve and challenge their audience with newness each endeavor. But the abrupt left-turn San Francisco metal band Hexx took between 1986 and 1987 is beyond fascinating, and beyond the norm. It culminates in one of our favorite albums of the early ‘90s, the mighty, seething, adrenaline-injected Morbid Re…

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Episode 114 – Mourning Sign 1992-1996: Triangulation 1:27:13

2M ago1:27:13

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Radical Research can’t stay away from Scandinavia for more than a brief spell. To that end, your hosts find themselves in Sweden, digging through the short but robust initial run by Mourning Sign. Over the course of a demo, an EP, and two full-lengths, Mourning Sign twisted and bent metal into a wide variety of shapes. Neither exclusively brutal, p…

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Episode 113 – Thief’s ‘Bleed, Memory’: What Was Your Original Face Before You Were Born? 58:07

2M ago58:07

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For our 113th episode, we dispense with the usual exhalations of the past in favor of the thrills of the tense present-future. Thief, the Los Angeles-based brainchild of visionary producer, Dylan Neal, has released one of 2024’s most extraordinary albums, Bleed, Memory, a harrowing journey through the late stages of the human mind and spirit. Witho…

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Episode 112 – We Mean You Harm: Hail Spirit Noir 2012-2021 1:05:49

3M ago1:05:49

1:05:49

For its 112th episode, Radical Research travels to balmy Greece to investigate the cryptic evildoing of Hail Spirit Noir, whose hellbroth of black metal, prog, psychedelia, and witchery strikes a special chord with your hosts. We take a deep look at the band’s first four albums and find ourselves more spellbound than ever before. There is no wardin…

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Security in Matchmaking/Linkups through WhatsApp Tvs : Dewalle's Crib Ep. 7 11:35

3M ago11:35

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In this episode, I brush on a few key points on why security is important in linkups on WhatsApp and maybe other social media platforms. Make sure to listen to the end! Muah! Boi Designs: 🌟 Elevate Your Brand with Design Excellence! 🚀Make your brand shine with captivating design. Let's create something unforgettable! https://wa.me/message/XJEM5AO7X…

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Episode 111 – Immortal’s Blizzard Beasts: Convoking Nebular Dimensions 45:57

4M ago45:57

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For episode 111, Radical Research returns to its spiritual homeland of Norway. But on this trip, RR steers clear of the usual avant suspects and instead climbs the Mountains of Might to take a closer look at Immortal’s twisted and divisive fourth album, 1997’s Blizzard Beasts. Though optically outside of RR’s usual territory, the hosts make a compe…

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Episode 110 – Steven Wilson’s Intrigue Compilation, Dissection Part 2 1:40:20

4M ago1:40:20

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We continue our wander through the 4CD Intrigue compilation. This installment features 15 UK bands, several which we’d never heard of before (Art Nouveau, New Musik, Section 25). We hope this episode helps prove curator Steven Wilson’s note that Intrigue operates on the “idea that conceptual thinking and ambition didn’t suddenly evaporate after ’77…

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Episode 109 – Sigh’s Weirdest! Let the Strangeness Do the Talking 50:53

5M ago50:53

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Sigh is unquestionably one of the weirdest bands in the metal realm. And since Radical Research skews weird, and since we are both fans of Sigh since the mid ‘90s, it seemed obvious that we would eventually do an episode featuring some of the very weirdest of Sigh’s weird moments. So…if you are down with our motto of Keep Metal Weird, you know what…

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11 Rules For Life by Chetan Bhagat | Book by Chetan Bhagat BOOK REVIEW 11:47

5M ago11:47

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11 Rules For Life by Chetan Bhagat | Book by Chetan Bhagat BOOK REVIEW One summer afternoon, Viraj, a food delivery guy, brings lunch for an author named Chetan. He is late and appears to be in distress. When Chetan asks him what the matter is, Viraj breaks down.‘I hate my life. My career is going nowhere. My girlfriend left me. I have no future,’ …

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Episode 108 – Non-Classic-Logo-Era Napalm Death, 1994-1998 1:07:11

5M ago1:07:11

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The body of critical study - and fan adoration - around the music of Napalm Death has concerned itself principally with the band's pioneering grindcore and its transition into the death metal of Harmony Corruption. But what of the band's wilderness years, the mid- to late-1990s? The 108th episode of Radical Research digs into what its hosts conside…

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Episode 107 – The Saturnine Sleep: Tiamat’s A Deeper Kind of Slumber 1:22:21

6M ago1:22:21

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For a podcast that traffics in all things wild and mind-expanding, the subject of our 107th episode makes everything else feel stone-cold sober by comparison. The fifth album by Sweden's Tiamat, A Deeper Kind of Slumber, luxuriates in the wan, reclined possibilities of Leary biscuits and Psilocybin dreams. This episode paddles along the hallucinato…

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Make Epic Money by Ankur Warikoo | BOOK BY @warikoo | book review | Ronak_blog 12:42

6M ago12:42

12:42

CAN YOU REALLY MAKE MONEY? | Make epic money by Ankur Warikoo | Ronak_blogBUY NOW - https://amzn.to/48RtQxNIn his groundbreaking book Do Epic Shit, Warikoo dropped this truth bomb: ‘Three relationships determine our life's course - time, money, and ourselves.’Now, in his third book, Make Epic Money, he dives deep into the complex world of money to …

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Episode 106 — New Metal Massacre: Horrendous, Afterbirth, Laster & Vemod 1:10:11

6M ago1:10:11

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We tend to skew toward the past in our explorations with Radical Research, uncovering sounds we feel are overlooked and/or underrated. We’re breaking our usual time travel approach and focusing solely on some new metal music that thrilled us in 2023 and one very fresh entry for 2024. It’s not 1986 or 1991 anymore, obviously, but 2023 was a great ye…

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Maggie Smith: Financial Independence, Relearning Vulnerability & Dating After Divorce 42:03

6M ago42:03

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Maggie Smith is a poet & writer who found overnight fame when her poem, ‘Good Bones’, went viral on social media in 2016. Later on, her life was to take a further change when her husband of 19 years, and the father of her children, announced he wanted a divorce two years later. Her memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, published in April 202…

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Alice Vincent: A Garden of One's Own 43:54

7M ago43:54

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There are certain rites of passage that take place after a major break-up. For some, it’s a hair-cut or a big solo trip, or a regrettable rebound with someone the polar opposite of your ex. My guest this week, Alice Vincent, departed from the cliches: for her, it was growing plants. In her partly autobiographical books, Rootbound and more recently …

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Episode 105 – We Are Intrigued! Steven Wilson Curates ‘Intrigue’ Compilation & We Dissect [Part 1 of 4] 2:04:42

7M ago2:04:42

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For Episode 105, Radical Research follows the lead of musical polyglot and overachiever, Steven Wilson. Inspired by Wilson's recently-curated, Intrigue: Progressive Sounds in UK Alternative Music 1979-1989, this episode traces out the music found on the first disc of this four-volume edition, digging into such varied artists as Public Image Ltd., J…

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Leslie Stephens: The Joy of Living Alone, Plus How To Design a Home for One 49:30

7M ago49:30

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Leslie Stephens is the writer behind Morning Person, a top 10 Substack newsletter that chronicles her life in Portland, Oregon. In August last year, shortly after her 30th birthday, Leslie announced to her readers that she was separating from her husband. Over the past 18 months, she’s chronicled her journey of living by herself for the first time,…

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Max Dickins: On Male Friendship & Overcoming Weekend Loneliness 42:17

7M ago42:17

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Getting engaged to your partner is typically a time for celebration. But for today’s guest Max Dickins, it was …. more complicated. As he prepared to propose to his girlfriend, Naomi, he had an uncomfortable revelation: he couldn’t think of anyone to ask to be his best man. This prompted a personal crisis for the writer and comedian – one which ins…

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Anita Bhagwandas: Finding a Social Balance When You Live Alone 49:39

7M ago49:39

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My guest this week is Anita Bhagwandas, an award winning beauty director, and more recently the author of Ugly: Giving Us Back Our Beauty Standards, a book that examines the damaging impact of narrow beauty ideals and serves as a brilliant manifesto towards a more inclusive attitude. The book explores the importance of practising self care on your …

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Jessica Pan: The Introvert's Guide to Socialising 50:54

8M ago50:54

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In this episode, Jessica Pan discusses her book 'Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come' and her journey of embracing extroversion. As we discuss on the show, Jessica is almost the opposite to me – she’s an introvert who learnt to be more extraverted, whereas I started exploring Alonement as a means of dealing with my fear, as an extrovert, of being…

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Poppy Jay: From Arranged Marriage to Falling in Love with Singlehood 42:09

8M ago42:09

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My guest on this week’s episode is Poppy Jay, best known as the co-host of Brown Girls Do It Too, which won Podcast of the Year at the British Podcast Awards 2020. She’s also a BAFTA-nominated documentary maker, devoted to chronicling difficult, real-life stories for BBC Three and Channel 4. But she’s also been honest about her own: after entering …

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Thomas Curran: The Dark Side of Perfectionism 43:39

8M ago43:39

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'That's the root of perfectionism: that chronic deficit thinking, the belief that we're not good enough. That we're not attractive enough, smart enough, fit enough, whatever it might be. In order to compensate for those feelings, we project on to the world a perfect persona that we feel like everybody wants to see – that we should be, essentially. …

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Episode 104 – Diskord 2007-2021: Architectonic Death 1:07:42

8M ago1:07:42

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As is so often the case, Radical Research, for its 104th episode, finds itself in Norway, only this time to investigate the psycho-necrotic brutality of Oslo’s Diskord. At once garage-y, asymmetric, and morbid, Diskord hawks death-wares that invite listeners to stroll through the hallways of the weird metal madhouse. Only death and Norway are real.…

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Episode 103 – We’re After the Same Thing: Dead Horse’s Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers 1:03:52

9M ago1:03:52

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Death, humor, society? Who doesn't love these things? Radical Research certainly does! So, it should come as no surprise that we chose the second album by Houston, Texas' Dead Horse as the subject of our 103rd episode. Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers, released by Big Chief Records in 1991, plunders the remotest corners of thrash, hardcore, and ma…

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Episode 102 – INTO ANOTHER with Brothers from Other Mothers 1:01:34

9M ago1:01:34

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Forged in the crucible of the Tri-State hardcore and thrash scenes, New York City's Into Another released three genre-defying albums that blend together -- seemlessly -- the disparate sensibilities of its members. The band's membership boasts a heritage that includes such stalwart acts as Whiplash and Youth of Today, though Into Another's rich, mys…

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World’s Best Girlfriend by DURJOY DATTA | READ IT OR SKIP IT? | RONAK SHAH 6:23

9M ago6:23

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World’s Best Girlfriend by DURJOY DATTA | READ IT OR SKIP IT? | RONAK SHAHBOOK LINK - https://amzn.to/460vBqKABOUT BOOK -D and A meet under improbable circumstances in the most unlikely of places-a posh resort in the Andamans. While A is fighting hard to escape the shackles of a lower middle-class existence, D is aimless and unsure of what his futu…

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BEFORE WE SAID GOODBYE by Toshikazu Kawaguchi | Book 4 | RONAK SHAH 6:11

9M ago6:11

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BEFORE WE SAID GOODBYE by Toshikazu Kawaguchi | RONAK SHAHBefore We Say Goodbye: Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Book 4audiobook - https://amzn.to/3rtiDmObook - https://amzn.to/3rtiDmOToshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could trav…

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{IN HINDI} Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Complete book summary 33:00

9M ago33:00

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{Hindi} Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen in Hindi summary | Buy the book here - https://amzn.to/45jasqZ"Pride and Prejudice" is a classic novel set in the early 19th-century English countryside. It primarily focuses on the manners, marriage, and morality of the British landed gentry of the time.The story revolves around Elizabeth Bennet, one of f…

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Episode 101 – Ambulance Chasing: Ulver’s ‘Blood Inside’ 1:10:58

10M ago1:10:58

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After several years of perdition, silence, and melancholy, Oslo’s Ulver, a totem of the Radical Research faith, released, in 2005, its sixth full-length album, the manic and panicked Blood Inside. The album has inspired divisive opinions and obsessive worship. Its nine songs come together like a house of mirrors, where every lunatic fantasy, every …

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Episode 100 – VOIVOD is the Engine That Powers Us 2:45:28

11M ago2:45:28

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2023 marks the 40th anniversary of Voivod, a band that are at the very heart of everything we do at Radical Research and everything we listen to as incorrigible music obsessives. In celebration, Voivod released Morgoth Tales, which finds the Mark V lineup (Snake, Away, Chewy, Rocky) covering songs from various past eras. For ourselves, we pay tribu…

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Vex King: How To Practise Self-Love Through Your Actions 49:48

11M ago49:48

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You can’t really love anyone until you love yourself. While we see this a lot on Instagram, it’s something that actually requires a lot of exploration – and it’s my guest this week, the bestselling author and mind coach Vex King, that many of us have turned to over the past few years to teach us the true power of self-love, through his books, first…

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Ruby Warrington: My Marriage Wouldn't Work With Children 49:15

11M ago49:15

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My guest this week is Women Without Kids author, Ruby Warrington. We're are at a fascinating time in history – where, both in the UK, US, and across almost every developed nation like Switzerland, Italy, Japan and South Korea, adults are having children later in life – or, indeed, not at all. While statistics vary, it is a recognised trend – and th…

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Donna Lancaster: Alone Is Where I Meet Myself 49:56

12M ago49:56

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Donna Lancaster is a coach and therapist, best known as the co-creator of The Bridge, a retreat designed to help attendees navigate grief and loss, and the author of a book of the same name. More recently, Donna has published a pocket book called Wise Words for Women, full of advice on how to live a rewarding, connected life. I know we hear a lot o…

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Episode 99 – The Four Freaks Roundtable: Jeff & Hunter + Thomas Nul & Brian Grebenz 1:50:21

12M ago1:50:21

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For 98 episodes, the pilots of Radical Research have gone it together. Mind you, the hosts have had some curatorial help along the way (Jason William Walton and Forrest Pitts, please take a bow). But on the eve of episode 100, Radical Research has called on two of its most stalwart allies, the estimable Thomas Nul and Brian Grebenz. Over the course…

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Naoise Dolan: Autism, (Un)happy Couples & The Joy Of Being A Foreigner 42:10

12M ago42:10

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This week’s guest is author Naoise Dolan. I am absolutely thrilled to have Naoise on this season – she’s widely consider of the millennial generation’s most talented writers, ever since her Sunday Times bestseller debut novel Exciting Times was published in 2020. It’s currently being adapted into an Amazon Studios TV production starring Phoebe Dyne…

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Caggie Dunlop: Overcoming Anxious Attachment In A Relationship 48:52

1y ago48:52

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My guest for this week’s episode is podcaster and author Caggie Dunlop, whom you might also recognise as a former cast member on the rather well known reality show called Made in Chelsea. Caggie has since reached a whole different audience. Her show Saturn Returns – which explores the coming of age happens somewhere around your late twenties and ea…

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Adam Gopnik: Solitude And The City, Edward Hopper & The Joy Of Being Alone In A Crowd 40:39

1y ago40:39

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This week's guest is Adam Gopnik, a long-standing staff writer at the New Yorker, and the award-winning author of a frankly intimidating number of books, most recently The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery, which explores the process of learning a new skill. And then there was his recent Hollywood debut – those who’ve seen Oscar-winning film Tar…

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Dr Nicole Lepera: How A Fear of Being Alone Feels In Your Body 46:00

1y ago46:00

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This week’s guest is Dr Nicole LePera, whom you might be more familiar with as the Holistic Psychologist – the handle of her somewhat insanely popular Instagram account. She’s also the author of multiple books, including her New York bestseller How To Do The Work, and her latest title, a workbook called How To Meet Your Self. With fans including El…

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Episode 98 – The Meads of Asphodel’s Guts Spun on the Loom of Judgment 1:22:08

1y ago1:22:08

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Formed in 1998 in the Hertfordshire region of England, The Meads of Asphodel are a special, experimental heavy metal band with many distinctive and beguiling qualities. So why did it take one of the Radical Research hosts 24 years to acquire a taste for the Meads? We don’t have the answer, but in this episode, Jeff runs down all his favorite aspect…

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Amy Key: Single For 22 Years – A Life Story Told Through Joni Mitchell Songs 49:05

1y ago49:05

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This week's guest on the podcast is the poet Amy Key. We're here to discuss her first work of prose, Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life, which is a memoir inspired by the work of Amy's beloved musical icon, Joni Mitchell. Aged 44. Amy has been single for 22 years. Her book challenges us to consider the claim that life can both be…

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Susan Cain: The 'Quiet' Author On Free Falling Through Her Early 30s, Plus Why She Married An Extrovert 49:44

1y ago49:44

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The Alonement podcast is back! And for the first episode of this season, I’m speaking to one of the most-requested guests since the show began: Susan Cain. Susan is the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, a book which spent eight years on the New York bestseller list after its publication in 2012. The book w…

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Episode 97 – Disembowelment Discography 1990-1993: A Burial In 14 Snippets 1:07:47

1y ago1:07:47

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Is heaviness a quantifiable aspect of music? Can a piece of music display such weight, such heft, that the listener can only accept its heaviness as fact? Radical Research says “Yes,” and we are here to offer evidence. For our 97th episode, we take our second trip down under to survey the concise but mighty discography of Disembowelment. We invite …

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Episode 96 – This is Not Some Stupid Quest: Disillusion’s Glorious ‘Gloria’ 1:08:08

1y ago1:08:08

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The Southeastern United States, from whence Radical Research is broadcast, has long prided itself on its sundry wrestling traditions. From the bare-chested hectoring of the SoCon to the gator-tangling of Central Florida, southerners approach wrestling with a sense of birthright authority. But today we face a new challenger: taxonomy. The second ful…

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Episode 95 – Bad-Ass Fusion Decapitations Part 3: Time to Kill 58:12

1+ y ago58:12

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Herein we present the third and likely final installment of our Bad-Ass Fusion Decapitations series. We repeat two bands previously featured on other episodes (Kraan, King Crimson) and bring you eight more missives from the deepest cosmos. Watch that noggin of yours -- the headhunters are abound tonight!Note I: As noted within the episode, here’s t…

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Shark tank india | shark tank india book review 9:34

1+ y ago9:34

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Episode 94 – The Real Freakshow: Psychotic Waltz 1990-1996 1:21:29

1+ y ago1:21:29

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Over the course of its previous 93 episodes, Radical Research has banged, thrashed, and decapitated but never before has it waltzed. That ends now. Formed as Aslan in 1985, San Diego's Psychotic Waltz released four full-length albums in the ‘90s, each of which challenges all received notions of "progressive metal." Despite being one the most even-h…

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#3 - Hunter Fogarty: Who Do You Think You Are 25:18

1+ y ago25:18

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In this episode Hunter dives into the topic of limiting beliefs in the first solo episode of the ThirdEyeThoughts podcast. If you enjoy this episode please consider rating the show 5 stars! Third Eye Thoughts: Instagram Twitter Facebook TikTok Hunter Fogarty: Instagram TwitterBy Hunter Fogarty

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