Here Be Monsters

<p >The Here Be Monsters Art Exchange is back!</p><p >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...

<p >Content Note: pervasive language, brief mentions of bigotry.</p><p >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...

<p >Sally Grainger was originally a chef, but in her 20’s, she was gifted a copy of an ancient Roman cookbook called Apicius. </p><p >Apicius is a bit of a fluke. It shouldn’t have survived the 2000-ish year journey...

<p >In 2012, a street preacher walking three small dogs tried to convince Jeff Emtman of his way of thinking about gender and the afterlife. </p><p >In this Here Be Monsters brief, Jeff shares the short essay he...

<p >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 saying...

<p >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...

<p >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...

<p >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.</p><p >Want to advertise on an episode? Fill out the sponsorship request...

<p >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. </p><p >If you listen on an app other...

<p >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. </p><p >She spent about three...

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

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

<p >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...

<p >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. </p><p >In this episode, Jeff interviews Chloé Savard of the...

<p >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...