KCRW's Here Be Monsters
By Jeff Emtman and Bethany Denton
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Description
A podcast exploring the dark corners of the human mind. Stories from artists, scientists, philosophers and journalists. Decidedly brainy and always interesting.
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CleanHBM068: The Wake Up Stick [EXPLICIT] | When Dylan Wright placed his first Craigslist ad back in 2006, he called himself a “nice and genuine person with waking up problems.” He was looking for someone to help him in the mornings. First it was phone calls, but those d | 11/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM067: Dispatches From PestWorld 2016 | Feeling anxiety about the American presidential election, HBM host Jeff Emtman took a trip to a place he hoped to be insulated from politics: PestWorld 2016, the largest American gathering of pest management professionals. | 11/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM066: What Jacob Heard [EXPLICIT] | In his freshman year of high school, Jacob was feeling helpless against his gay attractions. Exasperated, he asked aloud for a demon to come into his body. He figured he was already evil, so he might as well “get something out of it | 10/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM065: We Pay Them In Meat | Preparing an animal’s skeleton for display is incredibly labor intensive for human hands. So curators have turned to a family of beetles with millenia of experience. | 10/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM064: A Shrinking Shadow [EXPLICIT] | Erin was fat as a kid. Since middle school, she tried all different methods to lose weight. From a young age she developed the idea that the most important thing she could do with her life was lose weight. | 9/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitHBM063: The Art of the Scam, by Malibu Ron [EXPLICIT] | Presumably, any given mystic falls into one of two groups: true believers and scam artists. But it's near impossible to know which they are unless they tell you outright. | 9/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM062: The Near Death of Sir Deja Doog [EXPLICIT] | When he was twelve, Eric Alexander started writing songs as a way to make sense of the confusing world around him. Faced with the prospect of an early death later in his life, he ignored the doctors’ orders fearing the surgery would | 8/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM061: The Natural State of Hitchhiking [EXPLICIT] | Jeff Emtman left home in the summer of 2011 to hitchhike the United States, to see if strangers would chop him up and put him in their trunks, if he gave them the option to. | 8/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSeason 5 Soon! | Well, it's official. We're coming back! We've just re-signed our contract with KCRW, meaning that we're producing another 20 episodes of Here Be Monsters next year. | 8/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM060: The Predators of McNeil Island [EXPLICIT] | McNeil Island sits in Washington State's Puget Sound, just three miles northwest of Steilacoom. For the last 150-odd years, McNeil Island has been a place to house society's undesirables. Eventually the island prison closed, but by th | 4/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanYour Last Memory Of Being Free | This is a preview of our 60th episode and season 4 finale. In this preview, a defense lawyer asks a man to recall the last time he remembers being free. | 4/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM059: When Cthulhu Calls | The most notable monster created by Howard Phillips Lovecraft was a massive tentacled being omnipotent, yet completely uncaring that sleeps in the depths of the ocean. Cthulhu, Lovecraft called it --a creature that will one day rise ag | 3/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM058: Kelly is Cold | It was early in the morning of New Years Day and Kelly had just bought a purse-load of psychedelic mushrooms from Laramie Wyoming's local "druggist." Kelly handed them out to the assembled company and took some himself. He felt a bit a | 3/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM057: Impostor in a Pink Pinstripe Suit [EXPLICIT] | Growing up in small-town Montana, Bethany Denton's parents and teachers told her what she knew already: she was brilliant. Bethany couldn't help but feel destined for something big, even though she often skipped her school readings and | 2/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM056: It Works Better in Movies [EXPLICIT] | When Lina Misitzis was a teenager, she told people she was dying. She wasn't. But, an entire genre of "dying girl gets the guy" movies taught her that landing a boyfriend required a certain brevity on this planet. She only lied to men, | 2/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM055: Ghost Tape Number Ten | All is fair in love and war... even mind games. The United States military employs psychological warfare in nearly every war it's part of. The US Military calls these tactics "Psychological Operations", or "PSYOP". | 1/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM054: Flaming Sword of Truth | Patti Negri is a witch who lives in a house buried deep in the Hollywood Hills. Here Be Monsters producer Jeff Emtman and performance artist Lenae Day went to visit her one day in October 2015, audio recorder in-hand, in an attempt to | 1/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM053: Eleven Trips to Dreamworld | In 2014, Jeff Emtman mailed tape recorders to people around the world. He asked them to keep the recorders by their beds and flip them on early in the morning as their dreams were still fresh in their minds. Once the tape was full, the | 12/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM052: Call 601-2-SATAN-2 [EXPLICIT] | Christian prayer hotlines are common in the United States. Less common are prayer hotlines for the other guy. Since 2012 the Satanic Missionary Society in Olympia, Washington manages a Satanic prayer line on their blog and receive pray | 12/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM051: Sister Bethany, Proxy for the Dead | Bethany Denton was about five years old when she learned that she was a Mormon. When she was eight, she learned that she was an eternal spirit destined for an eternal afterlife. The idea of eternity terrified her, and made her afraid t | 11/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM050: The Scientist is Not the Angel of Death | In this episode of Here Be Monsters, Jeff Emtman joins "The Scientist," an unnamed cancer researcher, for an after-hours trip to his lab, where they visit the hundreds of lab mice that he tends to. The Scientist's job is to inject his | 11/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM049: Sam's Japan Tapes | On this episode, Sam Parker and Jeff Emtman discuss the merits of deep listening and whether it's possible for a sound to be truly ugly. Sam also shares three of his audio postcards. | 10/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM048: Barrie's Mental Tempest [EXPLICIT] | Barrie Wylie has heard voices for as long as he can remember. Growing up on a small island in Scotland, the voices in his head were like secret best friends that he could play with. When he left school to become a fisherman at 15, his | 10/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM047: Peacocks Without Tails [EXPLICIT] | When Hippocrates noticed that the hair on the top of his head was falling out, he fought it by applying various ointments of opium to his scalp. But none of them worked. So he called it a disease and named it "Alopecia" (translated to | 9/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM046: Crooked Skirts | Growing up in Queens, NY, Karen Smith had no reason to suspect anything was wrong with her. Even when it hurt to sit for too long, or when her clothes didn't fit right, everything seemed fine. That's because Karen's mother did everythi | 9/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM045: Deep Stealth Mode (How to Be a Girl) | Marlo Mack gave birth to a son. At least, she thought she did. But her son crawled towards dresses, wanted to be a princess, and asked to grow long blonde hair. At age 3, Marlo's son asked to go back into mommy's tummy, so he could com | 9/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM044: Distant Warfare | Bridget Burnquist was backpacking around Southeast Asia. After weeks of drinking cheap liquor on beautiful beaches, she was beginning to feel as though her experiences were merely superficial. She heard rumors that the small country of | 8/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLying in a Stranger's Grave | Carlos Gemora loved the feeling of the dirt at the cemetary where he used to dig graves. One day he climbed down into the loamy, silty soil and looked up at the sky. It felt like a womb...a death womb. | 8/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM043: Last Chance To Evacuate Earth | Marshall Applewhite met Bonnie Nettles in 1972, and together they built a religion. It was called Heaven's Gate, and it drew heavily from the bible, astrology, and Star Trek. Applewhite and Nettles believed they were placed on Earth to | 7/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM042: Deers | Andy Wilson and Ryan Graves are best friends, despite having very different opinions on the hierarchy of human and animal life. The two come face-to-face with those differences after a fatal encounter on a frigid winter day in northeas | 7/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM041: Crossing The River, Being Watched | In his junior year of high school, Here Be Monsters host Jeff Emtman left his home and everything he knew to study in a tiny village nestled in the Cascade Mountain Range of Washington state. As an outsider among outsiders, Jeff soon b | 6/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFear of Silence | On this episode, Jeff calls back crow researcher Kaeli Swift and asks her what it was like to sit in silence with a stranger. Bethany explains the differences in the anxieties that she and Jeff have towards silence. | 5/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTerrible Resonance: Live Show Announcement | A live podcast from Here Be Monsters about subversive sound, earthquakes, ghosts, outer space, sonic weaponry, and whales. | 2/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM040: The Reformation Bible Puritan Baptist Church [EXPLICIT] | In this episode, Emile visits the church to investigate the story of Eric's rise and fall in the bizarre, radical, niche world of anti-papal internet talk radio and finds out how Eric's upbringing in the Civil Rights Era informed his v | 2/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanForty Monster Bites | A look back at our first 40 episodes. | 12/31/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNearly Opposite Reactions | This episode is a follow-up to Here Be Monsters Episode 40, in which producer Emile B Klein talks to the pastor of The Reformation Puritan Bible Church, an anti-papal and white supremacist organization. | 12/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM039: A Goddamn Missionary | In this episode of Here Be Monsters, Terry often refers to Manic Depression, a condition that, per the DSM 5 has been reclassified as Bipolar Disorder. | 10/1/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM038: Do Crows Mourn Their Dead? | On this episode of Here Be Monsters, we look at the strange behaviors of crows and how they might be able to teach humanity about the origins of funerals and emotions. | 9/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPotential Energy (Live) [EXPLICIT] | This episode is a recording from a live storySLAM organized by The Moth. However, this is *not* from The Moth's podcast. | 8/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM037: Uncertain Death | On this episode David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg talk about the exact opposite--immortality, living forever. | 7/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM036: Throw It In The Ocean [EXPLICIT] | In this episode of Here Be Monsters, Eric describes his experience inside the turret, putting organic material into garbage bags, wading through the destruction. He describes how it awakened a contradiction between his sense of duty an | 7/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM035: Spirits Of The Past | In this episode of Here Be Monsters, freelance producer Mickey Capper attends a modern seance, conducted by 20-somethings under an udder-like canopy in a living room in Chicago. | 6/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM034: The Grandmother And The Vine Of The Dead | In this episode, producer Lauren Stelling visits her old boss Cherub, who was facing a lot of grief after her best friend's daughter, Zippy, was killed in a freak accident of nature. | 6/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM033: What One Does [EXPLICIT] | In this extended interview, Ryan Beltz talks about German Romanticism, jouissance, Stoicism and the nature of anger, and how The World Speed Project is a rebellion against the "what one does" that society shoves our throats. | 5/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM032: Fugitives Of The Blue Laguna | This week's episode is about a nerdy Oklahoman teenager named David who runs away with the love of his life to what started as an adventure, turned into something really serious, really fast. | 5/7/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM031: The Roman Slug Death Orgy | In a strange, small, moss-covered forest in Bellingham, Washington, Jeff stumbled on to the most gruesome scene of hedonism he's ever seen. | 4/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM030: Crickets, Cadavers And Conventional Wisdom | This episode is a Grab-bag, it contains three segments that serve as follow-ups to the three most recent episodes of Here Be Monsters: Do Crickets Sing Hymns, Balancing Act, Johnathan's Cadaver Paintings. | 11/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM029: Do Crickets Sing Hymns? | In this episode, audio engineer Toby Reif takes us down the rabbit hole of audio theory to help us understand how sound-stretching works, and the reasons why the long loop of cricket noises have touched so many. | 11/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM028: Jonathan's Cadaver Paintings | In this episode, Jonathan Happ is an artist who takes a recorder into the University of Washington's cadaver lab and reports on what he sees, and why he draws and paints images of the dead bodies in display. | 10/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM027: Balancing Act | In recent history, vaccines, sterilization, and other modern treatments have pushed Humorism out of the picture. But traditions ingrained in culture, science, and religion for thousands of years don’t just vanish. | 10/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM026: John Comes Down The Birth Canal | In this episode, John describes the first trauma that he experienced in life—something we all share. And he explains how he overcame that trauma to become the person he is today. | 10/2/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM025: The Sasquatch Of Pumpkintown vs Motley Crue Jon Bon Jovi | In the episode, Ben Becker tells the story of a disgusting hound dog named “Motley Crue John Bon Jovi”, a tobacco-juice soaked Sasquatch suit, and the world’s worst hot sauce. | 9/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM024: The Friendliest Town In Texas [Explicit] | Shoppingspree Clark showed up on the side of the road outside the “Friendliest Town in Texas” with nothing more than a sketchpad and the burnt-out ruin of the RV he’d just bought. | 9/4/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM023: The Near Destruction Of Rey Jaguar [Extended Cut] | In this episode, we travel to Seattle’s South Park neighborhood for Lucha Libre In The Park, a free wrestling event put on by Lucha Libre Volcanica. | 8/21/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM022: The Holy Ghost Fixes David's Brain | David Blackshire Key had brain cancer and one of his side-effects was a strange sensitivity to light called "photophobia". After doctors removed the tumor, his painful sensitivity continued. So he turned to his faith, looking for heali | 8/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM021: Potential Energy | The story involves electronic dance music, a laundromat, a bunch of sweaty teenagers pretending like it’s the eighties and one of the loudest amplifiers I’ve ever heard. | 7/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM020: Without Name | In this episode, Lina goes back to her old neighborhood looking for nothing in particular. She's greeted by familiar faces, new tenants, and a series of stories that tell a modern ghost story of a building in the bad part of Brooklyn. | 3/6/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM019: The Other One Percent | This week’s show is about Pete Brook’s 2011 journey across America to interview photographers, criminologists, and, most of all, the prisoners of New York’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility. | 2/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM018: How I Learned to Love Rejection (Pt. 2) | This episode looks at the lessons Jeff Emtman learned in his trip, joining a carnival, sleeping in a cemetery, and camping with a train rider named Puke. | 2/2/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM017: How I Learned to Love Rejection (Pt. 1) | This episode looks at the lessons Jeff Emtman learned in his trip, including meeting a pastor, finding a strange cave, admiring the bizarre beauty of Yellowstone, and witnessing a fatal shooting. | 1/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM016: 10,000 Juggalos [EXPLICIT] | On this episode of the Here Be Monsters Podcast, Director Sean Dunne speaks of the bizzare culture of The Gathering where he found a system of mutual respect and "practicing what you preach" in every aspect from religious tolerance to | 12/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM015: Jacob Visits Saturn | An aspiring sophisticate drinks liquid MDMA and experiences a rollercoaster of self esteem and significance. This episode looks at what it means to live a meaningful life through the eyes of Jacob on his journey across the solar system | 11/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM014: Andrea Quits NPR | On this episode, Andrea Seabrook talks about why she was quit her job as NPR's Congressional Reporter and about the true nature of Washington DC as she explains in her new podcast she's producing called DecodeDC. | 11/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Operating System of Dictators | In this Brief, we're going to take a look at the Red Star operating system--meant for use in what many consider to be the most isolated country on this planet. | 11/14/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM013: Bridget Finds Loss | Writer Bridget Burnquist went to vacation on the eve of her 27th birthday. She felt dead. On this episode, she tells a story from the colorful slums of Lima, Peru where she had an experience that made her alive again. | 11/8/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM012: How to Live and Die Until You're 80 | A college professor (who prefers to remain nameless) collapses in class and becomes one of the few people to survive his own death. On this episode, he tells his story of death and resurrection. | 10/31/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFellowship Wrap Up | Closing thoughts on the Soundcloud Community Fellowship. Production will continue in coming months, though at a decreased pace. | 10/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM011: Puke Quits Trainriding [EXPLICIT] | I met Puke when I was walking down the street on a trans-America hitchhiking trip in 2011. We camped together in the park, and before we fell asleep, I pulled out my recorder and had him tell some stories about his impending transition | 10/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Golden Age of Piracy | A brief followup to Episode 10: The Time Traveler's Convention. Ben "New Roommate" Becker tells us about his favorite historical period. | 10/20/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM010: The Time Travelers Convention | On this episode, Andrew Nissenbaum tells his story and explains some of the achievements and hurdles yet to overcome before the 2013 Time Travelers Convention. | 10/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat the $&@# is that Bug? | Help me identify this many-legged friend and you could win a neat prize that will make you the coolest kid on the block by a long shot. | 10/14/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM009: Captain Staudinger Flees Myanmar | On this episode, Chris Staudinger tells his story of escaping Myanmar (Burma) after he and his friends saw something that they should not have seen. | 10/10/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM008: Chuck Gets Circumcised [EXPLICIT] | Chuck was twelve when he went to a health clinic in the Philippines to rid himself of his "tip" and become a man. Of course, little went according to plan. | 10/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM007: Placentophagy | Humans are one of just four land-dwelling mammals who don't regularly eat their placentas after childbirth. But that's changing as, each year, more and more mothers are electing to save their placenta to eat. | 9/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM006: Clever Hans | On this episode, Kathy Johnson of the Medicine Horse Project explains the nature of equine intelligence in regards to Clever Hans. | 9/19/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM005: The Team Says "Hello" | Here Be Monster's five producers (Bethany Denton, Gina Cole, Lindsay Myron, Kyle Gootkin, and Mark Nowak) introduce themselves to you. | 9/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM003: John Dips Below | On this episode takes place on a night when John goes down to visit a friend, under a dock. | 8/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM002: Of Maps and Monsters | This episode is a discussion of historical reactions to the unknown--from the monsters living in margins of the Nuremberg Chronicle to the a apocryphal predictions of a "future" map of the world. | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHBM001: Prisoner's Cinema | Prisoner's Cinema is a phenomena experienced by those who spend prolonged amounts of time in the dark. The "Cinema" refers to the series of images that the mind creates, often emotionally intense or terrifying. | 8/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJeff Emtman is a 2012 SoundCloud Fellow | Here Be Monsters is a new radio project supported by the 2012 SoundCloud Community Fellowship. | 8/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSoundCloud Fellowship Introduction | Introduction for a new audio documentary series: Here Be Monsters, the podcast about the unknown. | 7/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
definitely worth a download
Cerebral and mesmerizing, this is the kind of show that will have you coming back each week just to see where it'll take you next.
Simpering host, light treatment of serious topics.
Firstly, the host’s voice is going to be a divisive issue. He has an incredibly simpering voice and likes to deliver his lines in a soft, whispery voice which is sure to irritate the hell out of some.
The topics they discuss are sometimes interesting, but the level of insight is shallow at best.
Often feels like Scooby Doo, except with a van full of philosophy freshmen in place of the Scooby Gang.
Listen!
Great podcast. Very visual and enlightening!
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