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Hosted by Stephen Ryan · 🇺🇸 us · EN · 29 episodes
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An ongoing personal project to force myself to semi-regularly (like every couple of weeks?) do something even a little bit expressive or creative. Expect random topics, an obvious lack of scripting, wandering focus, varying energy and questionable microphone quality. The only consistent thing will be the idiot saying it all!
Stephen Ryan hosts A Place to Stray, a society show with 29 episodes published.
Hello, dear listener. This is The Story of A Boy and His Close Personal Friend, Who Was Shaped Suspiciously Like an Internet Media Production Company. It may surprise you to learn that I was the boy. Nothing else about t
Episode 26 of A Place To Stray. Sometimes, naming a podcast episode is a creative outlet in and of itself. You measure puns against each other, trying out different wordplays and cadences. Brevity is an art form unto its
Episode 25 of A Place to Stray. About 18 months ago, I made an episode about data presentation (thrilling, I know). Everyone yelled at me to stop using Goodreads, because I complained about the lack of graphs and data it
Episode 24 of A Place to Stray. How much of you at 13 years old self is still a part of your current self? That was a real person, with thoughts and opinions. And, if you're 26 like me, you've doubled that kid's experien
Episode 23 of A Place To Stray. Disclaimer: No animals, real or fictional, were harmed in the making of this episode. But like. Would you still listen if a fictional dog didn't make it through? And if you knew a dog was
Did you know that the release of Super Mario Bros on the NES is now closer to the Second World War than to the present day? Isn't that CRAZY? Isn't that NUTS? Isn't that INSANE? No? You don't think so? Not especially? I
Episode 21 of A Place to Stray. If you could speak to the gods and have them answer your questions or reveal the future, would you? For deities' minds are fundamentally different from our own, their words arcane and thei
Episode 20 of A Place to Stray. Having returned to his home planet, Stephen decides to re-familiarize himself with the place through the power of song. He immediately falls down so many rabbit holes that he had to cut mo
The unsung hero of the podcast, from the very first episode, has been the mint tea Stephen drinks to keep his throat alive while talking for (sometimes) hours. He realises he doesn't actually know that much about mint, a
Episode 18 of A Place to Stray. This episode releases a week before Stephen's thesis. He is stressed, busy, overworking and undersleeping. It's the perfect time for him to revisit and try (very very badly) to explain one
Episode 17 of A Place to Stray The first of his two "Thesis Mode" episodes, Stephen reminisces about the times before, when he was travelling and, crucially, wasn't writing a thesis. This leads to a full-circle moment at
Episode 16 of A Place to Stray. Stephen misses his cat. At the time of recording, he would see Ash the next day. At the time of release, he does not know when he'll see that little grey idiot next. To fill that little fl
Episode 15 of A Place to Stray. This month finds Stephen still recovering from the transcendent experience of eating whole, actual meals two days in a row, as opposed to the usual slop he "cooks". He takes an hour to rum
Episode 14 of A Place to Stray. Content warning: This episode makes explicit and recurring reference to Valentines Day, despite coming out the day afterwards when you thought you might be finally safe from all that. Even
Episode 13 of a Place to Stray. Famously, all goalkeepers are at least a little bit mad. This month, Stephen explores why goalkeeping has always been his favourite position in most sports, and what exactly that might say
Episode 12 of A Place to Stray. Studio Ghibli has earned its place as one of the most beloved animation studios in the world, having spent decades masterfully exploring the cross-sections between joy and sorrow, whimsy a
Episode 11 of A Place To Stray. Stephen takes a short break from his children's literature degree to read a children's book. He falls hopelessly in love with it, and spends an hour badly trying to convince you to do so a
Episode 10 of A Place to Stray. Having moved over and (kind of) settled in, Stephen waves farewell to bi-weekly podcasts with a review of his first couple of weeks in the UK, and a glance through the things he brought wi
Episode 9 of A Place to Stray As Stephen discovers the joy of packing for longer than a week away, he discusses the things he needs to leave in Ireland that he would, if he had the choice, bring with him. He also talks a
Episode 8 of A Place To Stray Podcasting about podcasting makes its grand, entirely accidental return! Stephen records an episode about AI, hates it, records a bit more about how much he hates it, and then records anothe
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A Place to Stray is hosted by Stephen Ryan. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 29 episodes.
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