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Around the planet People go round in circlesAround the planet Due to the unique way Neutrinowatch is created, you may need to consult the transcript to see who appears today.---Created by Martin Austwick, with help from Jeff Emtman.Written and performed by:Jenny Adamthwaite | Martin Austwick | Vera Chok | Fil Corbett | Jeff Emtman | Camilla Hannah | Adriene Lilly | Hannah McGregor | Molly Naylor | Joanna Neary | Dave Pickering | Jess Shane | Lily Sloane | Ella Watts | Mike Williams |Find us at neutrino.watch and @neutrinowatch on twitter.
For weeks the world has been witness to Israel's deadly assault on Gaza. Today, we uncover the military corporations profiting from the war, and highlight the activism in every corner of the world in support of Palestine. We'll get insight on the conditions on the ground in Gaza before zooming out to look at Israel's military industrial complex and how the United States is enabling genocide, through policymaking and the defense industry. But activists are taking aim and taking action. We close with a discussion on the Palestinian liberation movement from an abolitionist perspective. Learn more about the story and find the transcript on makingcontactradio.org. [https://wp.me/p45WJM-5mG] Like this story? Support independent journalism [https://makingcontact.networkforgood.com/projects/207120-newsmatch-2023], NewsMatch will double your donation up to $1,000! Making Contact [https://makingcontactradio.org/] is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world. This episode includes interviews from Lara Kiswani, executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Rami Almeghari, Gaza-based journalist, and Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor of The Electronic Intifada. This episode is hosted by Lucy Kang, and produced by Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang. Our executive director is Jina Chung. Music by "Minimal Documentary Ambient" by ComaStudio from Pixabay. Engineering by Jeff Emtman. Learn More: Making Contact homepage: www.radioproject.org Arab Resource and Organizing Center: www.araborganizing.org The Electronic Intifada www.electronicintifada.net Panel discussion: Abolition Means No More War: Free Palestine Now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9GjTMP9qZs
We travel to Buenos Aires with reporter Rosina Castillo who immerses us in the culture of a local community arts organization who saw a need in their community and took action during the height of the pandemic. La Casona de Humahuaca transformed their operations to host “ollas populares” or community kitchens to help support their community and make it through the toughest parts of COVID together, all the while learning more about their organization and purpose in the community. We follow that with a conversation with Belen Desmaison, an architect and urbanist who discusses the building of an innovative communal living space with modular food preparation areas in Lima, Peru. Learn more about the story and find the transcript on makingcontactradio.org. Like this story? Support independent journalism, NewsMatch will double your donation up to $1,000! Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world. EPISODE FEATURES: This episode includes interviews from La Casona de Humahuaca, a community arts organization in Buenos Aires, Guillermo Castañeda, a teacher and volunteer, Mariela Jungberg, social psychologist and cultural worker, and Belén Desmaison, urbanist and architect. MAKING CONTACT: This episode is hosted by Amy Gastelum, produced by Rosina Castillo, and engineered by Jeff Emtman. Our executive director is Jina Chung. MUSIC: Ergo Phizmiz - Gretchen's Tango, Blue Dot Sessions Learn More: Learn more about the story and find the transcript on makingcontactradio.org. Like this story? Support independent journalism, NewsMatch will double your donation up to $1,000! Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.
Dear John [Exquisite Corpus]Wendy has something to share, if only she could find the right words. A discombobulated beat poem might convey her emotions better than a straightforward letter. [This is perhaps better enjoyed alongside its transcript, and a cooling beverage]---Made by Martin Austwick with help from Jeff Emtman.Find us at neutrino.watch and @neutrinowatch on twitter.Episode Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lw413tqm4pcnp325l5y9j/Dear-John-Exquisite-Corpus-_transcript.txt?rlkey=ynbfnfh7fn4kam6sal71vocu3&dl=0
A Classic RISK! Singles episode! A story that Jeff Emtman first shared on the podcast in January of 2015 about self surgery. Support RISK! on Patreon at Patreon.com/RISKMake a one-time donation to RISK! at PayPal.me/RISKshowGet tickets to RISK! live shows at RISK-show.com/tourGet the RISK! book at TheRISKBook.comTake our storytelling classes at TheStoryStudio.orgHire Kevin Allison to make a personalized video at Cameo.com/TheKevinAllisonHire Kevin Allison as a coach at KevinAllison.com
n the midst of a stressful move, HBM producer Jeff Emtman finds comfort in the phasing techniques developed by minimalist composer, Steve Reich. Note: this episode contains sounds that cannot be accurately represented by speakers. Please use headphones. Steve Reich compositions excerpted in this episode: Clapping Music, performed by Steve Reich and Wolfram WinkelViolin Phase, performed by Jonathan Morton Pendulum Music, performed by Joan Cerveró, Víctor Trescolí, Isabel León, and Estefanía SánchezHere Be Monsters is an independent podcast supported by listener donations. If you'd like to make a small monthly contribution, visit patreon.com/HBMpodcast. Producer: Jeff Emtman
n the midst of a stressful move, HBM producer Jeff Emtman finds comfort in the phasing techniques developed by minimalist composer, Steve Reich. Note: this episode contains sounds that cannot be accurately represented by speakers. Please use headphones. Steve Reich compositions excerpted in this episode: Clapping Music, performed by Steve Reich and Wolfram WinkelViolin Phase, performed by Jonathan Morton Pendulum Music, performed by Joan Cerveró, Víctor Trescolí, Isabel León, and Estefanía SánchezHere Be Monsters is an independent podcast supported by listener donations. If you'd like to make a small monthly contribution, visit patreon.com/HBMpodcast. Producer: Jeff Emtman
“An enclosure with about a dozen captive pigeons in a park who are fluffing their feathers and flying around with sticks.” Recorded for the Here Be Monsters episode 153: Klänge […]
Allen H Greenfield is a UFOlogist and occult researcher. He's also a father of three. His first child, Alex was the subject of HBM155: Ghosts Aliens Burritos. In that episode, Alex tells stories from his childhood of chasing strange phenomena with his father. In this episode, Here Be Monsters host Jeff Emtman talks to Allen to get the “fatherly perspective” on UFOs, black lodges, tarot, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and (most of all) how to be a good parent. Allen Greenfield is currently working on the final installment of a trilogy whose first two entries are Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts and Secret Rituals of the Men in Black. The forthcoming book is yet to be titled. Also heard on this episode: Rick Emtman, who is Jeff's dad.Content Note: LanguageProducer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: Serocell, The Black SpotSponsor: Pal's PlantsPal's Plants is a Flatbush, Brooklyn based subscription service for potted plants and intriguing zines. Plants can be delivered to the 5 boroughs of New York City. Zines can be delivered anywhere in the USA. Pal's Plants is customized to your preferences. They'll have you fill out a short survey when you sign up so that you can be sure to get something you like each month in the mail. Pal's Plants makes a great gift. Use offer code HBM50 at signup to get half off your first month's subscription. Thank you Pal's Plants for sponsoring Here Be Monsters.
Allen H Greenfield is a UFOlogist and occult researcher. He's also a father of three. His first child, Alex was the subject of HBM155: Ghosts Aliens Burritos. In that episode, Alex tells stories from his childhood of chasing strange phenomena with his father. In this episode, Here Be Monsters host Jeff Emtman talks to Allen to get the “fatherly perspective” on UFOs, black lodges, tarot, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and (most of all) how to be a good parent. Allen Greenfield is currently working on the final installment of a trilogy whose first two entries are Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts and Secret Rituals of the Men in Black. The forthcoming book is yet to be titled. Also heard on this episode: Rick Emtman, who is Jeff's dad.Content Note: LanguageProducer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: Serocell, The Black SpotSponsor: Pal's PlantsPal's Plants is a Flatbush, Brooklyn based subscription service for potted plants and intriguing zines. Plants can be delivered to the 5 boroughs of New York City. Zines can be delivered anywhere in the USA. Pal's Plants is customized to your preferences. They'll have you fill out a short survey when you sign up so that you can be sure to get something you like each month in the mail. Pal's Plants makes a great gift. Use offer code HBM50 at signup to get half off your first month's subscription. Thank you Pal's Plants for sponsoring Here Be Monsters.
Berlin's Schwerbelastungskörper is a massive concrete structure that, today, is hidden in plain sight between a railroad and an apartment building. It's one of just a dozen remaining pieces of Nazi Architecture in Berlin. And it's not much to look at. It was built in 1941 as a test structure for a triumphal arch that Hitler wanted to build in that spot. The Schwerbelastungskörper (“heavy load-bearing body”) is the arch's test structure. It weighs about 12,650 metric tonnes, or about 28 million pounds, and it's the equivalent weight of one of the four massive legs of the never-built arch.This plan was abandoned as World War 2 accelerated. And the structure remained, slowly sinking into Berlin's marshy soil, providing proof of the arch's impossibility. In this episode, HBM host Jeff Emtman visits the Schwerbelastungskorper, records some impulse responses in the structure's single room and reflects on his discomfort in finding beauty in another Nazi structure nearby, Tempelhof Airport (now a public park and refugee camp). Also mentioned on this episode: The Berlin Airlift, Austrian Tyrol, The Little Mermaid (1989), and Der Herr Der Ringe (Lord of the Rings movies dubbed in German). Here Be Monsters is an independent podcast supported by listener donations. If you'd like to make a small monthly contribution, visit patreon.com/HBMpodcast. Registration for the Here Be Monsters Art Exchange is open until November 10th, 2022. Sign up: https://HBMpodcast.com/art/Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: The Black Spot
Berlin's Schwerbelastungskörper is a massive concrete structure that, today, is hidden in plain sight between a railroad and an apartment building. It's one of just a dozen remaining pieces of Nazi Architecture in Berlin. And it's not much to look at. It was built in 1941 as a test structure for a triumphal arch that Hitler wanted to build in that spot. The Schwerbelastungskörper (“heavy load-bearing body”) is the arch's test structure. It weighs about 12,650 metric tonnes, or about 28 million pounds, and it's the equivalent weight of one of the four massive legs of the never-built arch.This plan was abandoned as World War 2 accelerated. And the structure remained, slowly sinking into Berlin's marshy soil, providing proof of the arch's impossibility. In this episode, HBM host Jeff Emtman visits the Schwerbelastungskorper, records some impulse responses in the structure's single room and reflects on his discomfort in finding beauty in another Nazi structure nearby, Tempelhof Airport (now a public park and refugee camp). Also mentioned on this episode: The Berlin Airlift, Austrian Tyrol, The Little Mermaid (1989), and Der Herr Der Ringe (Lord of the Rings movies dubbed in German). Here Be Monsters is an independent podcast supported by listener donations. If you'd like to make a small monthly contribution, visit patreon.com/HBMpodcast. Registration for the Here Be Monsters Art Exchange is open until November 10th, 2022. Sign up: https://HBMpodcast.com/art/Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: The Black Spot
Wendy does her best to understand her friend John Welles through the daily digital diary he's been keeping.This episode may best be enjoyed with its transcript.---Created by Martin Austwick, with help from Jeff Emtman.With thanks to Tim McSmythurs, Dave Pickering and Lily Sloane.Find us at neutrino.watch and @neutrinowatch on twitterTranscript available at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ov3ggamee835tzt/You%20can%20really%20get%20to%20know%20someone%20by%20leafing%20through%20their%20diary%20%5BAlmanac%5D_transcript.txt?dl=0
An underwater photographer sets out on a quest to document harp seals and experiences a moment that becomes a part of her forever. And everyone in the city of Pumpkintown is hunting for Sasquatch, including the only man who knows exactly where Bigfoot lives. STORIES Thin Ice An underwater photographer sets out on a quest to document harp seals and experiences a moment that becomes a part of her forever. This story contains descriptions of animal death in the wild. Sensitive listeners, please be advised Thank you, Jennifer Hayes, for sharing your story with us! Special thanks to Jennifer's guide Mario Cyr and her husband David Doubilet. You can find Jennifer and David's stunning photographs of harp seals in National Geographic Magazine, on their website, or on Jennifer's Instagram. Produced by Shaina Shealy, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot The Sasquatch of Pumpkintown Everyone in Pumpkintown is hunting for Sasquatch… except Ben Becker. He knows exactly where Bigfoot lives. This episode does contain strong language, sensitive listeners please be advised. This story originally aired on the Here Be Monsters podcast hosted by Jeff Emtman. Listen and subscribe for more awesome stories! Produced by Jeff Emtman Snap Classic - Season 13 - Episode 44
Sally Grainger was originally a chef, but in her 20's, she was gifted a copy of an ancient Roman cookbook called Apicius. Apicius is a bit of a fluke. It shouldn't have survived the 2000-ish year journey into the modern era, but it did. And in this episode of Here Be Monsters, Grainger explains how Apicius persisted due to being a favorite text for monks-in-training to practice their gilding skills. And thus, this fascinating book of recipes (featuring cooking instructions for boiled ostrich soup, complex sauces, and cucumbers stewed with brains) is still feeding people today.While cuisine today might seem distant from ostrich soup, Grainger thinks that Roman food often gets inaccurately portrayed as overly decadent or overly spiced. Cooked correctly, the cuisine is quite balanced, she says. And in her book, Cooking Apicius, she uses her knowledge of ancient Roman life to put the recipes in context for a contemporary kitchen and contemporary cooks. Also, on this episode, Jeff also reads from a 1932 English translation of Apicius by Joseph Dommers Vehling, which is available in the public domain thanks to Project Gutenberg. Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: The Black SpotHave you seen the new HBM stickers? They're beautiful. Get yours here. As of publish date: if you buy 4, one of them will be free. The discount gets applied automatically when you add them to your cart.
“Bells on the weekend coming from the church. They give way eventually to birdsong.” Recorded for the Here Be Monsters episode 153: Klänge from Berlin https://www.hbmpodcast.com/podcast/hbm153-klange-from-berlin
In 2012, a street preacher walking three small dogs tried to convince Jeff Emtman of his way of thinking about gender and the afterlife. In this Here Be Monsters brief, Jeff shares the short essay he originally wrote about the dinner party where they attempted to make an uneasy friendship. Jeff re-edited the essay in 2022 and gave pseudonyms to the main characters (“Cliff” and “Sophie”). Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: The Black SpotHere Be Monsters is an independent podcast supported by listeners and advertisements from small businesses. If you'd like to support the show, consider sponsoring an episode, or becoming a supporter on Patreon. Some other news: 1. Album of German field recordingsThe recordings from the last episode (HBM153: Klänge from Berlin) are now available as an album. Listen and purchase here.2. New HBM stickers are here! They're beautiful, screen printed, die-cut, clear vinyl versions of the “HBM” logo. Available for purchase on the HBM store. Patreon supporters can get some for very nearly free by following the instructions in this post.
In 2012, a street preacher walking three small dogs tried to convince Jeff Emtman of his way of thinking about gender and the afterlife. In this Here Be Monsters brief, Jeff shares the short essay he originally wrote about the dinner party where they attempted to make an uneasy friendship. Jeff re-edited the essay in 2022 and gave pseudonyms to the main characters (“Cliff” and “Sophie”). Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: The Black SpotHere Be Monsters is an independent podcast supported by listeners and advertisements from small businesses. If you'd like to support the show, consider sponsoring an episode, or becoming a supporter on Patreon. Some other news: 1. Album of German field recordingsThe recordings from the last episode (HBM153: Klänge from Berlin) are now available as an album. Listen and purchase here.2. New HBM stickers are here! They're beautiful, screen printed, die-cut, clear vinyl versions of the “HBM” logo. Available for purchase on the HBM store. Patreon supporters can get some for very nearly free by following the instructions in this post.
The composer Pauline Oliveros thought there was a difference between hearing and listening. She defined hearing as a passive act, something done with the ears. But she defined listening as something active saying that listening happens in the brain. Sam Parker is a recordist who takes inspiration from Oliveros' words and work. About six years ago, on an episode of Here Be Monsters called Sam's Japan Tapes, Sam shared dozens of recordings he made during his first (and only) trip to Japan. He released those recordings under the name Observance as an album called Japan, 6/21 - 7/14.On this episode, Here Be Monsters host takes two trips to Germany, and records the sounds of Christmas in Berlin, New Years in Saxony, and many hours of people and birds just going about their daily lives in the late winter and early spring. Before Jeff leaves on his first trip, he calls Sam Parker back, to ask for recording advice before the trip, and Sam offers three tips: Take lots of time.Capture moments of everyday routine. Trust your instinctsThe recordings on this episode are available as an album called “Field Recordings: Germany, 2021-2022” and it's available for purchase on Bandcamp, under Jeff Emtman's The Black Spot moniker. Until June 30th, 2022, all profits from the sale of this album will be donated to The International Committee of the Red Cross. Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: Remixes from the recording session in HBM049: Sam's Japan Tapes.Photos: Jeff EmtmanThank Yous: Sam Parker, Johanna Gilje Sponsor: HBM's Patreon SupportersHere Be Monsters' supporters on Patreon send a small monthly (or yearly) donation to help cover Jeff's living expenses, pay contractors, fees, taxes, etc.Listener Kit Roberts supports HBM on patreon, saying “I'm a patron of HBM because no other podcast has ever made me feel like this one does…so small and singular and yet connected to everything all at once.”Thank you so much, HBM Patrons.👽👉Become a patron👈👽Recordings heard in this episodeMM:SS - Description. (📸 means there's a photo in the gallery)08:45 - Train to SeaTac airport.09:45 - Announcements on an Air France flight.11:00 - Turbulance and people rustling.12:30 - Berlin's Brandenburg Airport13:15 - A brown swan hissing and chirping13:30 - Boats rubbing against wooden piers and a small dog barking.14:15 - Cars driving on cobblestone streets.14:45 - Ice Skating at Berlin's Alexanderplatz 📸15:30 - Swing ride with metal chains at Alexanderplatz. 📸16:00 - Riding on the subway, then walking up several flights of stairs.18:45 - Radio playing advertisements, news, and christmas music20:45 - A Christmas Eve service in a cathedral with a speaker reading a children's story.21:30 - Christmas carols playing as people mill around.22:00 - A wedding party in front of the Brandenburg Gate.23:15 - A Christmas exhibit with a lit up polar bear and fog machine.24:00 - Birds chirping in Berlin's Mauerpark as people walk by.25:00 - Crunching frosted leaves on a cold morning.25:30 - Walking through a forest in the Saxony Region of Eastern Germany.📸26:15 - Whistling through hands in the forest.27:00 - Buying 5 kilograms of potatoes from a vending machine as a dog barks.📸27:30 - Mountaintop shop selling hot drinks and snacks in Czechia.27:45 - Chopping kindling. Distant fireworks echoing through the hills in Saxony.28:30 - Snaps and pops of a small fire29:00 - Distant fireworks to celebrate the start of 2022.29:30 - Close fireworks echoing.30:00 - A strong wind blowing on a mountaintop in Saxony.📸30:30 - A tree swing creaking.31:15 - 6AM on the outskirts of Berlin. Traffic starting, crow screaming.32:45 - Captive pigeons fluffing their feathers and cooing at Hasenheide Park34:00 - Slow motion recording of a sudden hailstorm.34:30 - A motorized billboard in a subway station35:00 - Accordion player performs in a subway station in Berlin's Mitte neighborhood.37:45 - Applause after a play.38:15 - A small bird singing several songs.39:30 - Church bells ringing.40:45 - Wind flapping the torn domes of the Teufelsberg listening station as people sing.📸43:00 - Walking through the forest near Teufelsberg as bikes pass.
The composer Pauline Oliveros thought there was a difference between hearing and listening. She defined hearing as a passive act, something done with the ears. But she defined listening as something active saying that listening happens in the brain. Sam Parker is a recordist who takes inspiration from Oliveros' words and work. About six years ago, on an episode of Here Be Monsters called Sam's Japan Tapes, Sam shared dozens of recordings he made during his first (and only) trip to Japan. He released those recordings under the name Observance as an album called Japan, 6/21 - 7/14.On this episode, Here Be Monsters host takes two trips to Germany, and records the sounds of Christmas in Berlin, New Years in Saxony, and many hours of people and birds just going about their daily lives in the late winter and early spring. Before Jeff leaves on his first trip, he calls Sam Parker back, to ask for recording advice before the trip, and Sam offers three tips: Take lots of time.Capture moments of everyday routine. Trust your instinctsThe recordings on this episode are available as an album called “Field Recordings: Germany, 2021-2022” and it's available for purchase on Bandcamp, under Jeff Emtman's The Black Spot moniker. Until June 30th, 2022, all profits from the sale of this album will be donated to The International Committee of the Red Cross. Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: Remixes from the recording session in HBM049: Sam's Japan Tapes.Photos: Jeff EmtmanThank Yous: Sam Parker, Johanna Gilje Sponsor: HBM's Patreon SupportersHere Be Monsters' supporters on Patreon send a small monthly (or yearly) donation to help cover Jeff's living expenses, pay contractors, fees, taxes, etc.Listener Kit Roberts supports HBM on patreon, saying “I'm a patron of HBM because no other podcast has ever made me feel like this one does…so small and singular and yet connected to everything all at once.”Thank you so much, HBM Patrons.
What do you want to happen to your body when you die? It's a touchy topic where tradition, religion and death denial all come into play. But across much of the world, there are just two options: burial and cremation, which both have substantial ecological impacts. In 2019, Washington State passed SB 5001, which legalized several new options for deathcare. In this episode, host Jeff Emtman visits Return Home, a facility in Auburn, Washington that's using one of those new options, called “Natural Organic Reduction” (NOR) which is commonly called “human composting”. Return Home has built the world's largest NOR facility to date, with 74 available individual vessels. Their process (which they've trademarked as “Terramation”) takes about two month to complete, and involves dressing a deceased person in a pressed cotton gown and placing them a bed of organic material, and left to naturally break down using active composting techniques that bring the contents of the vessel to well above 100° Fahrenheit for much of the composting period. The techniques used by Return Home were largely inspired by Katrina Spade, a death activist and the owner of Re:Compose, another NOR facility located near Seattle. Spade was one of the people who strongly advocated for the passage of SB 5001.There's currently one other NOR facility in Washington State: Herland Forrest in Wahkiacus. Currently two other states, Colorado and Oregon have legalized NOR. NOR's future isn't known. It's new and still relatively rare. Do enough people want to be composted to have it be a viable business model? Each of these companies have different approaches to their process. Return Home's model relies on scale. They wouldn't disclose the exact cost of building their facility, or how many simultaneous descendants they'd need in their facility to be profitable. As of publishing, they charge $4,950 for their process and they have 15 of their 74 slots occupied. And in some ways, the full ecological benefits for Return Home's process also rely on scale. In a follow up email, CEO Micah Truman stated that “We calculate our inputs as follows. Our electricity bill each month is about $1,700, and is sufficient to Terramate 74 bodies. This comes to $22 per body. In current gas terms ($5 a gallon at present) that is roughly 4 gallons of gas, which is about 1/8 the amount of gas used for cremation. The number is actually quite a bit better than that, as our electricity bill also powers our entire facility, not just the Terramation equipment.”When asked about the relative emptiness of the facility, Katey Houston (Return Home's Services Manager) said, “The funeral industry is so slow to change. When cremation became a thing, it took sixty years to become mainstream. The fact that we've served just over thirty families now in four months, is quite amazing. And we've continued to grow month-over-month, and that's all I can ask for.”Thank you Hannah Suzanna for help with research for this episode. Here Be Monsters is an independent, listener supported podcast. Consider supporting the show on Patreon. Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: The Black Spot and SerocellSponsor: Sleep With Me PodcastSleep With Me is a podcast that helps you fall asleep. Host Drew Ackerman tells tangential stories, reads old catalogs, makes metaphors about washing machines, and does other calming things all in pursuit of slowing your mind down and letting you drift off to sleep more peacefully. Subscribe to Sleep With Me on any podcast app.
What do you want to happen to your body when you die? It's a touchy topic where tradition, religion and death denial all come into play. But across much of the world, there are just two options: burial and cremation, which both have substantial ecological impacts. In 2019, Washington State passed SB 5001, which legalized several new options for deathcare. In this episode, host Jeff Emtman visits Return Home, a facility in Auburn, Washington that's using one of those new options, called “Natural Organic Reduction” (NOR) which is commonly called “human composting”. Return Home has built the world's largest NOR facility to date, with 74 available individual vessels. Their process (which they've trademarked as “Terramation”) takes about two month to complete, and involves dressing a deceased person in a pressed cotton gown and placing them a bed of organic material, and left to naturally break down using active composting techniques that bring the contents of the vessel to well above 100° Fahrenheit for much of the composting period. The techniques used by Return Home were largely inspired by Katrina Spade, a death activist and the owner of Recompose, another NOR facility located near Seattle. Spade was one of the people who strongly advocated for the passage of SB 5001.There's currently one other NOR facility in Washington State: Herland Forrest in Wahkiacus. Currently two other states, Colorado and Oregon have legalized NOR. NOR's future isn't known. It's new and still relatively rare. Do enough people want to be composted to have it be a viable business model? Each of these companies have different approaches to their process. Return Home's model relies on scale. They wouldn't disclose the exact cost of building their facility, or how many simultaneous descendants they'd need in their facility to be profitable. As of publishing, they charge $4,950 for their process and they have 15 of their 74 slots occupied. And in some ways, the full ecological benefits for Return Home's process also rely on scale. In a follow up email, CEO Micah Truman stated that “We calculate our inputs as follows. Our electricity bill each month is about $1,700, and is sufficient to Terramate 74 bodies. This comes to $22 per body. In current gas terms ($5 a gallon at present) that is roughly 4 gallons of gas, which is about 1/8 the amount of gas used for cremation. The number is actually quite a bit better than that, as our electricity bill also powers our entire facility, not just the Terramation equipment.”When asked about the relative emptiness of the facility, Katey Houston (Return Home's Services Manager) said, “The funeral industry is so slow to change. When cremation became a thing, it took sixty years to become mainstream. The fact that we've served just over thirty families now in four months, is quite amazing. And we've continued to grow month-over-month, and that's all I can ask for.”Thank you Hannah Suzanna for help with research for this episode. Here Be Monsters is an independent, listener supported podcast. Consider supporting the show on Patreon. Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: The Black Spot and SerocellSponsor: Sleep With Me PodcastSleep With Me is a podcast that helps you fall asleep. Host Drew Ackerman tells tangential stories, reads old catalogs, makes metaphors about washing machines, and does other calming things all in pursuit of slowing your mind down and letting you drift off to sleep more peacefully. Subscribe to Sleep With Me on any podcast app.
Alex and Rose are podcasters with a deep and unusual relationship to Gus Hommes' music. Their podcast “Gus by Gus” explores the structure, politics, biography and spirituality of a different Gus Hommes song every day - for what might feel like an eternity.---Created by Lily Sloane and Martin Austwick, with help from Jeff Emtman.With thanks to Sam Pay of @songbysongpodFind us at neutrino.watch and @neutrinowatch on twitterTranscript available at: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/y8bznxzb8h5lyn7/Gus%20by%20Gus%20-%20Musings%20and%20Magic%20%5BCartomancy%5D_transcript.txt?dl=0
We've completed our second season of UnTextbooked! Our team of young producers have done phenomenal work exploring topics and questions that really matter, including episodes about the War on Terror, Native American boarding schools, population control, and much more.In this episode our editor Bethany Denton shares excerpts from four of her favorite Season 2 episodes:Is every presidency doomed to fail?Can the War on Terror ever truly end?Does population control work?Why were Native American kids required to attend boarding schools?Want to be part of our team for season 3? Apply here. Music: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
Season 10 of Here Be Monsters starts and host Jeff Emtman hallucinates his adolescence while working long hours. Scenes from middle school dances, dawn bus rides, the basement, and ( most crucially), a late-night raffle at a hardware store.Do you like Here Be Monsters? Tell your friends, support HBM on Patreon, and have your boss sponsor an episode.Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: Serocell and The Black SpotSponsor: RadioLabAre you curious about the world, but also want to be surprised, and even moved? Radiolab experiments with sound and storytelling allowing science to fuse with culture, and information to sound like… well, music. Join hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser for an experiential investigation that explores themes and ideas through a patchwork of people, sounds, and stories. Listen to Radiolab
Season 10 of Here Be Monsters starts and host Jeff Emtman hallucinates his adolescence while working long hours. Scenes from middle school dances, dawn bus rides, the basement, and ( most crucially), a late-night raffle at a hardware store.Do you like Here Be Monsters? Tell your friends, support HBM on Patreon, and have your boss sponsor an episode.Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: Serocell and The Black SpotSponsor: RadioLabAre you curious about the world, but also want to be surprised, and even moved? Radiolab experiments with sound and storytelling allowing science to fuse with culture, and information to sound like… well, music. Join hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser for an experiential investigation that explores themes and ideas through a patchwork of people, sounds, and stories. Listen to Radiolab
Season 10 is nearly here! The season starts on March 9th and episodes will be released on a rolling basis until all ten shows are published.Want to advertise on an episode? Fill out the sponsorship request form. Want to support HBM with a small monthly donation? Become a patron on Patreon. Can't wait to share the season with you. More soon. Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: The Black Spot
Gluteal strategies serves up a creative kick every day to get you unstuck from that jam you're in. ---Made by Martin Austwick and Jeff Emtman.Find us at neutrino.watch and @neutrinowatch on twitter.Episode Transcript: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/6hs1lpwvsuauzzm/Gluteal%20Strategies%20%5BExquisite%20Corpus%5D.txt?dl=0
In the world of venture capital, opportunity is everywhere, but access is not. Ita Ekpoudom, partner at venture capital firm GingerBread Capital, which backs high growth female founded companies, explains the need to spread the funding across gender lines, what the main advantages are in investing in female founded companies, and how individual investors can get in on the action. Liz also offers her take on why VC funding is such a hot trend, and why investors want to put capital into areas shaping the future of American businesses. For more, read Liz's weekly column every Thursday on SoFi's blog at https://www.sofi.com/blog/category/investment-strategy/ or follow her on Twitter @LizYoungStrat
The Cold War was a decades-long military conflict that dominated geopolitics in the latter half of the 20th century. And as Americans, we often see it framed as a binary conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union; one that ended around the time the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. But historian Odd Arne Westad, author of The Global Cold War, thinks that version of the story is incomplete. The US and USSR never engaged in direct combat with one another, so the Cold War was fought indirectly via proxy wars and embargoes, and many Third World countries are still dealing with the effects. On this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Anya Dua interviews Dr. Westad about the global impacts of the Cold War, more than thirty years after it ended.Book: The Global Cold WarGuest: Dr. Odd Arne Westad, Professor of history at Yale UniversityProducer: Anya DuaMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
The United States is still reckoning with its history of racism. For a century after slavery ended, US businesses, banks, schools, and neighborhoods were segregated by race. It took a series of Supreme Court cases and acts of Congress to legally ban discrimination based on race, but discrimination isn't just a switch that can be turned from “on” to “off.” The legacy of these unfair laws still affect Black Americans today.One example of this is is a method of housing discrimination called “redlining”. It refers to the practice of banks and federal agencies denying loans for homes in neighborhoods deemed too “high risk”, which was often code for “not white.” This made it harder for Black Americans to buy homes, which made it harder to accrue generational wealth. As a result, Black Americans are more likely to live in neighborhoods with lower property values. And in a country where public schools are funded by property taxes, this is a difficult cycle to break. In effect, the United States is still segregated, but unofficially.Richard Rothstein has been studying this disparity for a long time. He wrote about it in his book The Color of Law. On this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Jonathan Dabel interviews Mr. Rothstein about the lasting effects of redlining on Black Americans.Book: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaGuest: Richard Rothstein, PhD, Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.Producer: Jonathan DabelMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
There is a fundamental duality in how Asian Americans are perceived in our country. They've at times been held up as the “model minority”, affirming this idea that the American Dream is alive and well if only immigrants could work harder. At other times they've been regarded as threatening and perpetually foreign. A recent example of this is the dramatic rise in anti-Asian violence in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.On this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Victor Ye interviews Dr. Erika Lee, author of The Making of Asian America: A History. They discuss the history of Asians in America and why stereotypes from hundreds of years ago still persist today.Book: The Making of Asian America: A HistoryGuest: Erika Lee, PhD, History Professor at the University of MinnesotaProducer: Victor YeMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
American food is unlike anything else in the world. And it goes a lot deeper than hamburgers and pizza. The thing that makes American food special is the stunning variety of options and how accessible it is to the average consumer. Also some regional American dishes that are impossible to find anywhere else on the planetDr. Paul Freedman is a historian who thinks that all of these factors--standardization, variety, and regionality--can tell us a lot about American culture and identity.On this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Grace Davis interviews Dr. Freedman about his book American Cuisine: and How it Got This Way.Book: American Cuisine: and How it Got This WayGuest: Dr. Paul Freedman, Professor of History at Yale University Producer: Grace DavisMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
It's no secret that society will eventually have to transition away from fossil fuels. Some governments and businesses think the answer is biofuels,like ethanol. Ethanol is a type of alcohol—the same type of alcohol that humans have been producing for millenia. And so, in much of the world, the techniques to produce ethanol are already known and exploited. All it takes is the fermentation of sugary crop, like potatoes, corn, or sugarcane. The result is a clear liquid fuel that can power engines, similar to gasoline. Brazil has long been the world's leading producer of sugarcane. In the 1970's, Brazil started switching more and more of its fuel supply over to ethanol. What started as an effort to combat the trade embargoes turned into a large-scale experiment on alternative fuels. But the story of Brazilian ethanol is complicated—It's a worldwide industry predicated on exploitative labor and has significant environmental problems of its own. On this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Jessica Chiriboga interviews Jennifer Eaglin, about the history of Brazil's ethanol industry. They discuss the conditions that primed Brazil to make the transition, and the lessons learned along the way.Book: Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol Guest: Jennifer Eaglin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental History and Sustainability at Ohio State UniversityProducer: Jessica ChiribogaMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
For centuries, Iran had a strict social hierarchy that prevented women—particularly upper class women—from participating in public life. This started to change in the early 20th century when Iranians became disillusioned with the ruling class and had a constitutional revolution. This new constitution established a parliament, public schools, and also opened the door for women to start asserting their own rights to education and employment. Following the constitutional revolution was a period of rapid modernization in Iran. Girls were allowed to go to school, and women were encouraged to stop veiling to look more like their European counterparts. Over the course of a few decades, women's role in society changed dramatically.In 1979, their roles changed again. Islamic fundamentalists were frustrated by Western influence on Iran's culture and economy, and ushered in another revolution. Almost overnight, women were once again restricted from participating in public life.This history fascinates UnTextbooked producer Arya Barkesseh. He's Iranian American, and after witnessing a White Wednesday protest while on a family trip to Tehran, he wanted to know more about the evolution of women's rights in Iran. On this episode of UnTextbooked, Arya interviews Dr. Janet Afary, author of the book Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. They discuss the cultural context for both the constitutional and Islamic revolutions, and the ways in which Persian women have asserted agency in big and small ways throughout history.Book: Sexual Politics in Modern IranGuest: Janet Afary, PhD, professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa BarbaraProducer: Arya BarkessehMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
There's a lot of evidence that America is more divided than ever. Our politics, media, and ideologies are so polarized that it puts a stress on our unity as a country. But Dr. Denis Lacorne says that, in spite of that tension, America's strength comes from our nation's commitment to tolerance. The trick is figuring out the balance of tolerating the intolerant.On this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Karly Shepherd interviews Dr. Lacorne about his book The Limits of Tolerance. They explore the origins of the concept, and its impact on American culture.Book: The Limits of Tolerance. Enlightenment Values and Religious FanaticismGuest: Dr. Denis Lacorne, senior research fellow at the Paris Institute of Political Studies Producer: Karly ShepherdMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
The Founders of the United States envisioned the presidency as an office that would be minimal in reach. They didn't want the USA to be a monarchy. But incrementally, the executive branch has expanded. And now, scholars like Dr. Jeremi Suri argue that the modern presidency is crushed by its own power and unable to be fully wielded by the President, leading to decades of broken promises and deep disillusionment amongst citizens.On this episode, UnTextbooked producer Lap Nguyen interviews Professor Suri about the shifting nature of the presidency and why FDR is such a hard act to follow. Book: The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest OfficeGuest: Dr. Jeremi Suri, Professor of Public Affairs and History at University of Texas, AustinProducer: Lap NguyenMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
UnTextbooked producer Sydne Clarke thinks that African American history is often oversimplified or overlooked. Often that history is taught as things that happened to African Americans. We don't often hear about the ways in which African Americans fought for and took care of themselves. Dr. Leslie Alexander studies Black resistance movements, particularly in America. In her research Dr. Alexander has discovered communities and people who were vital to Black activism, but are often forgotten in re-telling African American history.On this episode of UnTextbooked, Sydne interviews Dr. Alexander about her book African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861. They talk about the creation of Black-led organizations for mutual aid, and about how African heritage influenced Black activism then and now.Book: African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861Guest: Dr. Leslie Alexander, associate professor of history and African American studies at Arizona State UniversityProducer: Sydne ClarkeMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
The Greek poet Archilochus said “a fox knows many things, a hedgehog knows one big thing.” This phrase inspired a famous essay by a 20th century philosopher named Isaiah Berlin, who said that pretty much all people can be categorized as either “foxes” or “hedgehogs”. Foxes tend to be agile and perceptive, whereas hedgehogs tend to be resolute and hyper-focused on their end goal. Historian John Lewis Gaddis took Berlin's framework one step further. In his book On Grand Strategy, Dr. Gaddis categorizes great political leaders as landing somewhere on the fox-hedgehog spectrum: Xerxes I, Philip II, Ronald Reagan are all classic hedgehogs. Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Hillary Clinton are all examples of foxes. And Gaddis says if you're lucky, you'll sometimes have a leader who embodies both, as was the case with Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt.On this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Will Bourell interviews Dr. Gaddis about the traits that make for effective and ineffective leaders.Book: On Grand StrategyGuest: John Lewis Gaddis, Professor of history at Yale UniversityProducer: Will BourellMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
With a name like “The United States of America”, it can be easy to forget that this country's borders extend well beyond the fifty states of the union. In fact, millions of American citizens live on US territory well outside those borders. It's not just Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the US Virgin Islands, and the North Mariana Islands, but the many military bases we occupy across the globe too. “Empire” might not always be a word associated with the USA, but some historians think the label fits. Dr. Daniel Immerwahr is one of them, and he thinks that the country's trajectory in capturing new territory bears a striking resemblance to the British Empire—the same one that the country's architects were so often critical of. Book: How to Hide an Empire: a History of the Greater United StatesGuest: Dr. Daniel Immerwahr, Professor of history at Northwestern UniversityProducer: Elliot SmithMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
A hundred years ago, there were roughly 2 billion people in the world. Today, there are almost 8 billion. This rapid quadrupling of the world's population has people asking, is the planet overpopulated? Some say, yes. Others say that it's not so simple.This isn't a new question. Researchers in the 19th and 20th centuries warned that unfettered population growth would lead to famine, poverty, and climate destruction. Some governments and aid agencies took those warnings to heart, and implemented programs to try and lower fertility rates. These programs were sometimes coercive, often incentivizing poor people to be sterilized or have abortions they didn't want. Some societies are still living with unintended consequences of these efforts to control population. Still, the question of whether the earth is overpopulated is still contestedUnTextbooked producer Oliver Wang had always been curious about population control. He's Chinese American, and his family had been shaped by the One-Child policy. So he read the book Fatal Misconception by Dr. Matthew Connelly to learn more. On this episode of UnTextbooked, Oliver and Dr. Connelly explore the origin and impact of population control efforts.Book: Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World PopulationGuest: Dr. Matthew ConnellyProducer: Oliver WangMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
In the spring of 2021, UnTextbooked producer Gavin Scott read a headline that made his heart sink. The remains of 215 indigenous children were discovered buried in a mass grave near the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia. Over the next few months, more mass graves were found outside of other Canadian residential schools. Before they died, these children had been part of a program of forced assimilation. For more than a century, thousands of indigenous children in Canada were required to attend residential schools. The purpose of these schools was to teach them English and encourage them to behave more like white settlers. Survivors of the residential school system say the environment was often harsh. Lots of kids ran away, and some didn't survive their time at school.Producer Gavin Scott is Native American, and even though he didn't have a personal connection to the Canadian residential schools, he knew that the United States had also operated boarding schools with similar intentions. But Gavin didn't really learn much about this history when he was in school. He wanted to know how these schools operated and how they affected the lives of students that attended them.In this episode of UnTextbooked, Gavin interviews Dr. Brenda Child. Dr. Child is a scholar of American Indian studies, and she wrote the book Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families 1900-1940 after reading hundreds of letters written by students, families, and administrators at the Flandreau Indian School and the Haskell Institute. Gavin also interviews his Great Aunt, Babe, about her experiences attending Haskell and the Concho Indian School as a child.Book: Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families 1900-1940Guest: Dr. Brenda Child, Professor of American Studies and American Indian Studies at the University of MinnesotaProducer: Gavin ScottMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
One morning in 1991, Senator Jesse Helms' house was covered with a giant fake condom in an act of protest. Helms had been a vocal opponent of funding AIDS research and he had introduced an infamous and popular bill amendment that prevented federal money from being spent on AIDS research. There were few treatments available at the time, and with no help from the government, HIV was actively spreading across the country. In 1991 alone, nearly 30,000 American died of AIDS, and the numbers would keep rising until the late nineties. The condom on Helms' house was courtesy of the protest group ACT UP, which led a number of high profile direct actions meant to call attention to the AIDS crisis and get people angry. UnTextbooked's Jordan Pettiford was curious about queer history. She came out to her family around the same time the Covid-19 pandemic began. While the context of Covid felt different, she noticed some strange similarities between the present day and the history of AIDS—especially the way in which viruses become political. In this episode, Jordan interviews David France, author of How to Survive a Plague. David France was a first-hand witness to the AIDS epidemic in New York City. He covered the unique actions of the protest movement that called out the government's inaction and discrimination. Book: How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AidsGuest: David France, writer and filmmakerProducer: Jordan PettifordMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
The War On Terror is the longest foreign war the United States has ever fought. So long that many of the soldiers fighting weren't even alive when it started. But the WoT seems unusual for another reason—it's not a war on a nation, or even an organization—it's a war against a concept. September 11, 2001 was the alleged start date of this conflict, after the Twin Towers fell. President George W. Bush stood before congress announcing, “Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.”For many young people, the WoT is all they've ever known, and it can be hard to imagine a time before the United States fought this kind of war. But Dr. Alex Lubin counters this idea in his book: Never-Ending War on Terror. He argues that the United States often prefers this kind of conceptual warfare, and those examples can be seen in the American Indian Wars and the response to movements such as the Black Panthers. In this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Ruba Memon talks to Dr. Lubin about living with the casual Islamophobia that's permeated her entire life, the true meaning of the word “terrorist,” and the story of Malik Jalal, a Pakistani villager who petitioned to have his name removed from the United States' drone-strike kill-list. Book: Never-Ending War on TerrorGuest: Dr. Alex Lubin, Professor of African American Studies at Penn State Producer: Ruba MemonMusic: Silas Bohen and Coleman HamiltonEditors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
Wendy and her friend have a daily conference call to share the news. It's always better to hear bad news from a friendly source.---Created by Jeff Emtman with help from Martin AustwickFind us at neutrino.watch and @neutrinowatch on twitterTranscript at: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/95lka75i3asdjk9/The%20Daily%20Blast%20%5BAlmanac%5D.txt?dl=0
It's a song called The World Outside My Window. Every day the words and music are slightly different from the day before.It contains a Garden of Branching Lyrical Paths - but somehow we always get back to the same place. Sometimes we have to go through a probabilistic journey inspired by Quantum Computing to find our way home.(There are over a million possible variations of this song. Which one did you get?)---Created by Martin Austwick with help from Jeff Emtman. Find us at neutrino.watch and @neutrinowatch on twitter.Episode transcript: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/t66ju5iiju4fjyz/The%20World%20Outside%20My%20Window%20%5BSong%20a%20Day%5D.txt?dl=0
Welcome to Skyjazz! Each night, Wendy and John broadcast live from a stadium in a different city of the world to tell you all about the stars and planets you can see above your heads - and, as ever, we start the show with a listener question!---Created by Martin Austwick based on an original idea by Jeff Emtman. With thanks to Lily Sloane.Find us at neutrino.watch and @neutrinowatch on twitter.Episode Transcript: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/1t7sp7curijn2ep/Wendy%2C%20Watch%20The%20Stars%20%5BAlmanac%5D_transcript.txt?dl=0
An acquaintance from John's wild years reaches out to share demos of his new concept album. ---Created by Jeff Emtman with help from Martin Austwick. Find us at neutrino.watch and @neutrinowatch on twitter.Transcript: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/mtv87greg3hrbx6/Gus%20Hommes%20Has%20Creative%20Differences%20%5BSong%20a%20Day%5D.txt?dl=0
How Neutrinowatch works, and how to operate it safely.---Made by Martin Austwick and Jeff Emtman with voice acting by Ishbel MacFarlane.Episode Transcript:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/80vb00mj0jmeoih/This%20Is%20Neutrinowatch.txt?dl=0
In our conversation, you'll learn:- How to sharpen and improve your storytelling abilities.- How photography greatly influences Jeff's storytelling in a purely audio format.- The overwhelming power of belief and how it shapes the world around us.Episode #23 of "The Process" podcast features Jeff Emtman, creator of the "Here Be Monsters" podcastBefore we get started I just want to say that this is one of my favorite episode ever.Jeff is the creator of the critically acclaimed “Here Be Monsters” podcast which is an immersive storytelling experience that dives deeply into our fear, beliefs, and the human experience.One of the many (many) ways I have great respect (And much jealousy) for Jeff is his ability to create a three dimensional atmosphere within an audio format that world-class. When you listen to his show the world kind of dissolves and fades away and, when it ends, there's this movie credits like snap-back-to-reality that has always held a special place in my heart.To listen to this episode of "The Process with Brad Wilson" podcast, click that download or play button now.Join my email newsletter at: Join my email newsletter at: http://www.MentallyInvincible.com/TheProcessFollow @the_process_podcast on InstagramReach out to me directly at brad@mentallyinvincible.com