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

The Cleveland Roundtable

– Jordan Peterson

– ContraPoints on YouTube & Patreon

– Yosha Iglesias

– Vanessa Place’s Gone with the Wind project

– Kenneth Goldsmith

– Mark Leidner

– 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

– Thomas Ligotti

– Hasan Piker

Christopher Hitchens

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dave Smith

J. D. Vance

Camille Paglia

– Red Scare

– The Monty Hall problem

Margaret Mead

– The Brontosaurus

– Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges

– Toni Morrison’s Nobel lecture

– Michel Foucault

Sabrina Carpenter

– Betty Boop

– The Bud Light boycott

The Sydney Sweeney jeans ad

– Plato’s Cave

Frequently mentioned names:

Joshua Mehigan

Shane McCrae

A. E. Stallings

Ryan Wilson

Morri Creech

Austin Allen

Jonathan Farmer

Zara Raab

Amit Majmudar

Ethan McGuire

Coleman Glenn

Chris Childers

Alexis Sears

JP Gritton

Alex Pepple

Ernie Hilbert

Joanna Pearson

– Matt Wall

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

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