Gods & Ghosts

Gods & Ghosts

A podcast about the stories we tell ourselves https://www.patreon.com/godsandghosts

Episodes

October 16, 2018 15 mins

A short essay followed by a collection of flood myths from across the globe. Originally created for The Flood Magazine: http://thefloodmag.com/

List of stories used (and many more) can be found here: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html 

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I talked to the author of that infamous "Sorry, Not Sorry, My Parents Paid for My Coachella Trip" article.

http://www.discordantyears.com/blog-1/2018/5/14/sorry-not-sorry-my-parents-paid-for-my-coachella-trip 

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May 11, 2018 18 mins

A look inside the world of fanfiction and online romance novels. 

For an exciting fanfiction experience check out https://twitter.com/fanfiction_txt

The "My Immortal" article I mention in the intro can be found here: http://www.vulture.com/2015/03/bizarre-unsolved-mystery-of-my-immortal.html 

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April 21, 2018 28 mins

I asked people what it's like to work on Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform.

Inspired by this article: https://theoutline.com/post/2564/amazon-mechanical-turk-poetry?zd=1&zi=aswdtqsx

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February 27, 2018 22 mins

The history of tear gas w/ Dr Anna Feigenbaum. You can buy her book at the link below:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2109-tear-gas

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January 31, 2018 10 mins

If you've got a pair of nice-ish headphones you might want to use them for this one.

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January 9, 2018 29 mins

The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest armed uprising on US soil since the Civil War. So why haven't you heard of it? Chuck Keeney breaks down one of the most important moments in the history of the Labor Movement in the US, and explains why it's important to remember.

 

Read more at:

https://twitter.com/CBelmontKeeney/status/938449291697360896

 

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November 26, 2017 25 mins

I talked to Mark Bray about the history and rationale behind militant antifascism. You can check out his book, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook here: https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/antifa/ 

 

 

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November 16, 2017 21 mins

Peter Moscowitz has one neat trick to solve the housing crisis.

Check out their book here: https://petermoskowitz.com/book/ 

And the article that gave me the idea to reach out to them for this episode here: https://theoutline.com/post/2153/evict-the-rich 

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October 14, 2017 23 mins

A look at the limits of police reform w/ Alex Vitale. His new book, "The End of Policing" is out now via Verso Books.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing 

 

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October 3, 2017 6 mins

One time someone listened to this and told me it was like a "Kafka-esque Groundhog Day."

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First they came for the Juggalos, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Juggalo...

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https://soundcloud.com/roxxired 

https://www.juggalomarch.com/the-people 

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October 30, 2016 19 mins
A friend of mine puts a mythical hunting method to the test.
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June 12, 2016 42 mins

The narrative of transformation is a popular one in religious circles. But how do we know if those stories are true? Music: Dadala - "Radio Memory" Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Ars Sonor - "The Anger Subsides" Attribution-ShareAlike: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Schemawound - "An Unreliable Narrator," "A Mo...

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May 15, 2016 39 mins
Pashtunwali is the unwritten code of ethics followed by the ruling tribe of Afghanistan. One of the laws of Pashtunwali is that one must offer unconditional asylum to anybody who asks. I talked to NPR's Joanna Kakissis and Gulwali Passarlay, an Afghan refugee, to try and view the refugee crisis through the lens of Pashtunwali. Music: Dadala – “Radio Memory”  Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.  Kl...
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April 17, 2016 19 mins
A poem by Charles Jensen adapted for the radio by Tyler Hill
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