Here Be Monsters

The Here Be Monsters Art Exchange is back! It’s a really simple and wonderful thing where you, gentle listener, can mail a piece of art to a stranger and get a piece of art in return. It’s open to artists of all...

Content Note: pervasive language, brief mentions of bigotry. Alex Greenfield says that there was no such thing as a normal day when he was a kid.  His dad ( Allen H Greenfield ) self describes as a “researcher in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I’ve decided to remove my work from Spotify.  It’s not just their recent controversies around Joe Rogan, it’s a much bigger problem with the way that Spotify treats the medium .   If you listen on an app...

The origins of Julia Susara’s chronic fatigue are hard to pin down.  She still doesn’t know exactly how it started but suspects that a deeply broken heart had something to do with it.   She spent about...

A short episode from the new show Neutrinowatch: A Daily Generative Podcast .  Each episode of Neutrinowatch changes a lil’ bit every day.   This episode, The Daily Blast , features two computerized...

Episode 149 is an odd duck for sure.  It changes every day due to some coding trickery that is happening behind the scenes.  That episode is a part of a bigger project, a new podcast project that’s potentially...

As a teenager, HBM host Jeff Emtman fell asleep most nights listening to Coast To Coast AM , a long running talk show about the world’s weirdnesses.   One of the guests stuck out though; one who spoke on his...

With much of the world shut down over the last year, HBM host Jeff Emtman started wondering if there were smaller venues where the world still felt open.  In this episode, Jeff interviews Chloé Savard of the...

A brief follow-up to last episode: you can now follow our AI-powered friend Theodora on Twitter! She tweets several times a day, giving bad advice, good advice, and some strange poetry. Her account’s called Hypothetical...