Ep 208: Password to the Ghost World, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert
– Borat
– ContraPoints on YouTube & Patreon
– Vanessa Place’s Gone with the Wind project
– Michael Shermer’s interview with Michael Egnor & Christof Koch
– Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning
– On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
– There Are More Things by Jorge Luis Borges
– Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
– Toni Morrison’s Nobel lecture
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Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
