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Up + Adam with Adam MontielLaetitia and Woods Humane Society Uncork 'SparkJoy' | Up+AdamSponsored by The Mountain Air | Sponsored by Benny’s Pizza | SLOFreeParkingWhat happens when every sip gives back? On this episode of Up+Adam, Adam Montiel welcomes Kasey Helt, Director of DTC Sales at Laetitia Vineyards & Winery, and Robin Colman of Woods Humane Society to share the story behind SparkJoy, a new wine series created to bring together joy, community, and purpose.Inspired by the meaning of Laetitia, which is “joy” and “happiness,” SparkJoy features light, lively, and approachable wines designed for life’s everyday celebrations. For 2026 and 2027, a portion of the proceeds from every SparkJoy bot...
2026-07-2838 min
Building an HourAdam & Eve were ToxicJoin Mauricio and the crew in this high-energy segment as they take a comedic dive into the Book of Genesis and the classic tales of the Bible. From Adam’s "small-gift" frustrations to the awkward logistics of building Noah’s Ark, no holy stone is left unturned in this witty exploration of ancient lore. Get ready for a hilarious, unfiltered breakdown of history's oldest stories as the group debates everything from divine punishments to the true origins of "onanism".So now the question is:are these bits… or career-ending decisions?Tell us what we should...
2026-04-1715 min
The Cosmic Library7.5 In Search of Lost Time: Surprise EndingIn Time Regained, the concluding volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, an older version of the narrator gloomily decides to attend a gathering at the Guermantes' mansion. He’s thinking, as Joshua Landy paraphrases here, "I might as well go and waste my time with these high-society snobs." But then he experiences a jolt of involuntary memory, prompted by a step onto uneven paving stones. His memory casts him across time, and he begins to think that he could commit himself to writing that might also access something true and enduring, beyond conventional time. "With P...
2026-03-1832 minThe Cosmic Library7.4 In Search of Lost Time: Art vs. JealousyThe Prisoner—the fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time—spirals through the vortex of the narrator’s jealousy concerning Albertine. Something of that vortex churns on into The Fugitive—the sixth volume—and then the focus moves toward grief. But across the entire novel, there are intimations of other ways to be, of other possibilities for the narrator. Hannah Freed-Thall describes, for example, a beach scene in the second volume, where the narrator is “in love with the whole landscape, and the sea, and the beach, and the air.” Intense experiences of art also jolt the narrator int...
2026-03-1131 minThe Cosmic Library7.3 In Search of Lost Time: Wasting TimeThe “lost time” of In Search of Lost Time can connote “wasted time,” and Marcel Proust’s narrator does confront wastes of time, through pretentious conversations and moments when habit takes control. But the novel makes much of this waste, and we glimpse something beyond wasted time when involuntary memory prompts the narrator to consider existence beyond a drably habitual scheme.Christine Smallwood reads here from her book La Captive, where, reflecting on concepts of art and wasted time that the narrator considers, she writes, “Art is a record of the waste. It holds the waste, and changes it. Its...
2026-03-0423 min
Dan and Adam Are Afraid89 - The Running Man (2025)Dan and Adam tune into the latest broadcast reboot... This week, the freeloaders try to survive Edgar Wright's 2025 slicker, colder update of The Running Man. We're still here, you sh\*t-eaters !The film discussion begins at 24:10Join the Discord channel:https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyUGo ahead and follow Dan and Adam Are Afraid on YouTube or on various other platforms:https://www.youtube.com/@DanandAdamAreAfraidhttps://www.instagram.com/dansniteouthttps://x.com/dansniteouthttps://letterboxd.com/dansniteout
2026-03-041h 54The Cosmic Library7.2 In Search of Lost Time: Enchanted Self-DiscoveryMarcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time follows the development of a self. The narrator grows up in Combray, in the seaside town of Balbec, in Paris, and resolves to become a writer. But that narrative also encompasses so much else, from historical crises to philosophical riffs to self-doubts. Proust scholar Joshua Landy points out that Proust is “absolutely laying traps for the reader. He's tempting the reader into thinking it's a memoir at times. And he's tempting the reader to think that it's a treatise, that all the things that this narrator says can be take...
2026-02-2543 minThe Cosmic Library7.1 In Search of Lost Time: Imaginary MusicMarcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time lifts off on page after page, but it always returns to earth, back to the narrator’s memories and thoughts and experiences. Somehow, this seven-volume French novel from the early twentieth century covers a vast range of possibility and surprise while still concerned completely with the thoughts and feelings of a single person—the narrator, whom we might or might not call Marcel, and who famously lights up when the taste of a madeleine reveals a world of memory.In this season of The Cosmic Library, we talk about how À...
2026-02-1842 min
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz MusiciansFresh Spin Fridays - January 2026We're looking at the best jazz releases of January 2026! Listen with pianist Adam Maness as he breaks down and reacts to these great tracks.Start your free Open Studio trial for ALLLLL your jazz lesson needs: https://osjazz.link/yhi 00:00 - Intro00:50 - Why Don't You - Sam Fribush, Corey Fonville, Charlie Hunter03:09 - Talking Drum - Julian Lage04:58 - Flim - Winderman, Colman, Kimock06:53 - Nacho Supreme - Motion II08:51 - Wisdom Is Eternal (For Barry Harris)10:49 - Unpersuadable Extern - N∆BOU12:11 - Free Walk - Vla...
2026-01-3120 minThe Cosmic LibrarySeason 7 Trailer: In Search of Lost TimeThe new season of The Cosmic Library is on the way, and this time we’re talking about—and listening to—Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Conversations go everywhere: we’re thinking about the nature of time, music, and the self, and we’re figuring out how focusing on self might take us way beyond ourselves.Each episode will include a reading from In Search of Lost Time. This miniseries, then, works as an unconventional audiobook adaptation of Proust’s novel—full of digressions, conversations about the book, commentary, and riffs, but always looping back into readin...
2026-01-2901 min
Sitch and Adam Show🔴 Dave Smith Vs Colman Hughes ¦ 391Streamed live on Oct 12, 2025 The SITCH and ADAM Show! (Full Livestreams)New Movie, Anime and Game channel! / @howtokillafranchise 😃Join the channel: / @sitchandadamshow | Streamlabs instead of a Superchat? https://streamlabs.com/sitchandfriend... | Support Us On Patreon! / sitchandadam | Support us on Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/sitch-a...
2025-10-149h 12
Beware of SpoilersMovie Review: The Roses (2025)Adam discusses The Roses starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman.
2025-08-3019 min
The Cosmic Library6.5 Karamazov Season: Where Parallels ConvergeBy now, it's clear that The Brothers Karamazov sits comfortably on the shelf of books of infinity, books that can never be completed. It is, for one thing, only the first part of a plan Dostoevsky had for much more. But this novel also emphasizes incompleteness, drives toward potential rather than anything that might be perfectly established on the page.
In episode four, we talked about incompleteness theorems, finding a mathematical dimension to some of our literary notions. And in The Brothers Karamazov, no system of thought is complete on its own. Characters also change each other con...
2025-05-1416 minThe Cosmic Library6.5 Karamazov Season: Where Parallels ConvergeBy now, it's clear that The Brothers Karamazov sits comfortably on the shelf of books of infinity, books that can never be completed. It is, for one thing, only the first part of a plan Dostoevsky had for much more. But this novel also emphasizes incompleteness, drives toward potential rather than anything that might be perfectly established on the page.
In episode four, we talked about incompleteness theorems, finding a mathematical dimension to some of our literary notions. And in The Brothers Karamazov, no system of thought is complete on its own. Characters also change each other con...
2025-05-1417 minThe Cosmic Library6.4 Karamazov Season: Math DreamsIn this season of The Cosmic Library, you’ve heard us discuss how Fyodor Dostoevsky's Karamazov brothers converge, even as they're on seemingly distinct tracks. And the novel directs attention to convergences in surprising ways: at one point, for example, Ivan Karamazov alludes to non-Euclidean geometry in which parallel lines meet—in which otherwise separate things join.
It doesn't just happen mathematically, or philosophically: dreams, too, can bring the novel’s characters toward convergence. Robin Feuer Miller, Dostoevsky scholar, says here: “Dreams that characters have are as important to them, in the long run, and as illuminating to them in...
2025-05-0736 min
The Cosmic Library6.4 Karamazov Season: Math DreamsIn this season of The Cosmic Library, you’ve heard us discuss how Fyodor Dostoevsky's Karamazov brothers converge, even as they're on seemingly distinct tracks. And the novel directs attention to convergences in surprising ways: at one point, for example, Ivan Karamazov alludes to non-Euclidean geometry in which parallel lines meet—in which otherwise separate things join.
It doesn't just happen mathematically, or philosophically: dreams, too, can bring the novel’s characters toward convergence. Robin Feuer Miller, Dostoevsky scholar, says here: “Dreams that characters have are as important to them, in the long run, and as illuminating to them in...
2025-05-0735 min
The Cosmic Library6.3 Karamazov Season: Philosophical PhrenzyIn The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky created his ultimate novel of ideas, with brothers Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha pursuing a range of philosophical, theological, and political arguments and questions even as a crime story takes shape. But there’s a shared, perplexing quality of all their grappling with ideas: they tend toward something beyond—beyond the conventions of routine debate and conversation.
The novelist Andrew Martin says in this latest episode of The Cosmic Library's Karamazov season: “This is a fundamental aspect of the Karamazov legacy, this interest in what can’t be said—it’s like in action and b...
2025-04-3021 minThe Cosmic Library6.3 Karamazov Season: Philosophical PhrenzyIn The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky created his ultimate novel of ideas, with brothers Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha pursuing a range of philosophical, theological, and political arguments and questions even as a crime story takes shape. But there’s a shared, perplexing quality of all their grappling with ideas: they tend toward something beyond—beyond the conventions of routine debate and conversation.
The novelist Andrew Martin says in this latest episode of The Cosmic Library's Karamazov season: “This is a fundamental aspect of the Karamazov legacy, this interest in what can’t be said—it’s like in action and b...
2025-04-3022 minThe Cosmic Library6.2 Karamazov Season: The Fiction MachineIn The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky puts ideas into motion, and into emotional conflict, with combustible results. The convictions he expressed in his nonfiction—religious convictions, for instance—join a mix that contains wildly different points of view, generating a book that encompasses more than the non-fictional Dostoevsky did. In this second episode of The Cosmic Library’s five-episode Karamazov season, we’re thinking about how that works. More broadly, we’re thinking about how fiction works.
“I’m, if not smarter, then at least more interesting as a fiction writer,” says the novelist Andrew Martin, “b...
2025-04-2340 minThe Cosmic Library6.2 Karamazov Season: The Fiction MachineIn The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky puts ideas into motion, and into emotional conflict, with combustible results. The convictions he expressed in his nonfiction—religious convictions, for instance—join a mix that contains wildly different points of view, generating a book that encompasses more than the non-fictional Dostoevsky did. In this second episode of The Cosmic Library’s five-episode Karamazov season, we’re thinking about how that works. More broadly, we’re thinking about how fiction works.
“I’m, if not smarter, then at least more interesting as a fiction writer,” says the novelist Andrew Martin, “b...
2025-04-2341 minThe Cosmic Library6.1 Karamazov Season: The Radio PlayHere, in the first episode of The Cosmic Library’s new season, we start with our radio-play adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov. The play is read for you by people who make fictions—two novelists and a radio host—who will then talk about the novel (and more!) throughout this five-episode miniseries.
The Brothers Karamazov is a story of deeply felt philosophical questions, a family drama, a polyphonic experience of nineteenth-century Russia, and a murder mystery. This all swirls around three siblings, sons of the murdered Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov. In this radio play, we pi...
2025-04-1647 minThe Cosmic Library6.1 Karamazov Season: The Radio PlayHere, in the first episode of The Cosmic Library’s new season, we start with our radio-play adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov. The play is read for you by people who make fictions—two novelists and a radio host—who will then talk about the novel (and more!) throughout this five-episode miniseries.
The Brothers Karamazov is a story of deeply felt philosophical questions, a family drama, a polyphonic experience of nineteenth-century Russia, and a murder mystery. This all swirls around three siblings, sons of the murdered Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov. In this radio play, we pi...
2025-04-1648 minThe Cosmic LibrarySeason 6 Trailer: Karamazov SeasonHere it is: the trailer for season six of The Cosmic Library, which comes out this month. It’s "Karamazov Season," which means this five-episode miniseries will go into and beyond The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Sigmund Freud called it “the most magnificent novel ever,” and it contains so much—a murder mystery, philosophical conundrums, mathematical contemplation, and transformative scenes of ecstasy. For that reason, this miniseries will also contain so much. The first episode will include a radio play adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel, in which the parts of the three central brothers wil...
2025-04-0201 minThe Cosmic LibrarySeason 6 Trailer: Karamazov SeasonHere it is: the trailer for season six of The Cosmic Library, which comes out this month. It’s "Karamazov Season," which means this five-episode miniseries will go into and beyond The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Sigmund Freud called it “the most magnificent novel ever,” and it contains so much—a murder mystery, philosophical conundrums, mathematical contemplation, and transformative scenes of ecstasy. For that reason, this miniseries will also contain so much. The first episode will include a radio play adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel, in which the parts of the three central brothers wil...
2025-04-0202 min
"Over the Top!" The official Trench Crusade podcastEpisode 6: "LORECOPTR!"Episode 6: Lorecoptr!In the trenches: Daniel, Jamie and special guest : Tuomas Pirinen!Synopsis: From before episode one, you have been crying out for one thing and one thing only. LORE! give us LORE! Well, this episode you will receive. The fact that it took so long is because we wanted to give you the best content possible, straight from the man who wrote most of the stuff. Tuomas Pirinen. Enjoy!22:20 Community questions51:30 WARBAND OF THE EPISODE! ....THE FOOD COURT! (by Adam Russel)In th...
2025-02-0158 min
The Cosmic Library5.5 The Short Story in the U.S.: Otherworldly Bedtime StoriesThe word “story” often comes after the word “bedtime,” and for good reason. Stories can frighten us, disturb and shock us, prompt us to change our thinking, but compared to most experiences, reading a story is tranquil. Podcasts, similarly conveying mediated encounters with other lives, are also used as sleep aids (there’s a “sleep” category in Apple Podcasts). Story podcasts, then, can demonstrate powerfully the connections between fiction and sleep. This episode—the concluding episode of The Cosmic Library’s season on the short story in the U.S.—examines those connections.Deborah Treisman says in this...
2024-05-2224 minThe Cosmic Library5.5 The Short Story in the U.S.: Otherworldly Bedtime StoriesThe word “story” often comes after the word “bedtime,” and for good reason. Stories can frighten us, disturb and shock us, prompt us to change our thinking, but compared to most experiences, reading a story is tranquil. Podcasts, similarly conveying mediated encounters with other lives, are also used as sleep aids (there’s a “sleep” category in Apple Podcasts). Story podcasts, then, can demonstrate powerfully the connections between fiction and sleep. This episode—the concluding episode of The Cosmic Library’s season on the short story in the U.S.—examines those connections.Deborah Treisman says in this...
2024-05-2225 minThe Cosmic Library5.4 The Short Story in the U.S.: NYC+MFA+ATL“If my college-age self, reading White Noise, had thought I would one day be discussing word placement with Don DeLillo, I would have had a heart attack,” Deborah Treisman says in this episode. Since those days, in her role as fiction editor at The New Yorker, she has indeed discussed word placement with Don DeLillo, whose stories include “Midnight in Dostoyevsky” and “The Itch.” Treisman has helped bring that kind of story to a wide audience—it’s all part of her work at the center of one of the major institutions in the history of American fiction. In this episode, th...
2024-05-1536 minThe Cosmic Library5.4 The Short Story in the U.S.: NYC+MFA+ATL“If my college-age self, reading White Noise, had thought I would one day be discussing word placement with Don DeLillo, I would have had a heart attack,” Deborah Treisman says in this episode. Since those days, in her role as fiction editor at The New Yorker, she has indeed discussed word placement with Don DeLillo, whose stories include “Midnight in Dostoyevsky” and “The Itch.” Treisman has helped bring that kind of story to a wide audience—it’s all part of her work at the center of one of the major institutions in the history of American fiction. In this episode, th...
2024-05-1537 minThe Cosmic Library5.3 The Short Story in the U.S.: It's WeirdAmerican short stories started out weird. Consider Nathaniel Hawthorne, as we just did in episode two this season—or, consider Edgar Allan Poe. Existential strangeness and cosmic peril pervade these nineteenth-century stories, and those moods have stayed with American short stories into the twenty-first century.Brevity can be crucial for such stories' maximal, cosmic weirdness. Justin Taylor points out here how Poe can get to extremity simply in a sentence. "What Poe brings to the table," Taylor says, "is that extreme purpleness of language, that kind of humidity, that really baroque Poe sentence, where it...
2024-05-0819 minThe Cosmic Library5.3 The Short Story in the U.S.: It's WeirdAmerican short stories started out weird. Consider Nathaniel Hawthorne, as we just did in episode two this season—or, consider Edgar Allan Poe. Existential strangeness and cosmic peril pervade these nineteenth-century stories, and those moods have stayed with American short stories into the twenty-first century.Brevity can be crucial for such stories' maximal, cosmic weirdness. Justin Taylor points out here how Poe can get to extremity simply in a sentence. "What Poe brings to the table," Taylor says, "is that extreme purpleness of language, that kind of humidity, that really baroque Poe sentence, where it...
2024-05-0820 minThe Cosmic Library5.2 The Short Story in the U.S.: Wake Up with WakefieldIt’s time for a story. In this episode of our season on short stories in the United States, you'll hear Nathaniel Hawthorne’s mysterious short story “Wakefield,” read by the actor Max Gordon Moore. It’s a story from the 1830s, reflecting from the first sentence the early American interest in strange information found repeatedly in periodicals, and then it follows that strangeness to cosmic extremes.If you know Hawthorne mostly as the author of The Scarlet Letter, you're in for a surprise in this story about a guy who moves basically next door and h...
2024-05-0136 minThe Cosmic Library5.2 The Short Story in the U.S.: Wake Up with WakefieldIt’s time for a story. In this episode of our season on short stories in the United States, you'll hear Nathaniel Hawthorne’s mysterious short story “Wakefield,” read by the actor Max Gordon Moore. It’s a story from the 1830s, reflecting from the first sentence the early American interest in strange information found repeatedly in periodicals, and then it follows that strangeness to cosmic extremes.If you know Hawthorne mostly as the author of The Scarlet Letter, you're in for a surprise in this story about a guy who moves basically next door and h...
2024-05-0137 min
The Cosmic Library5.1 The Short Story in the U.S.: IntroductionThe Cosmic Library has always followed notions, tangents, and moods prompted by books that can never be neatly summarized or simply decoded. This new season is no exception. Still, there's a difference: we're prompted now by more than one major work. In season five, we're talking about short stories in the United States.You’ll hear from New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman, the novelist Tayari Jones, Washington Post critic Becca Rothfeld, the writer Justin Taylor, the Oxford scholar of short stories Andrew Kahn, and the actor Max Gordon Moore. And you’ll hear a reading of...
2024-04-2428 minThe Cosmic Library5.1 The Short Story in the U.S.: IntroductionThe Cosmic Library has always followed notions, tangents, and moods prompted by books that can never be neatly summarized or simply decoded. This new season is no exception. Still, there's a difference: we're prompted now by more than one major work. In season five, we're talking about short stories in the United States.You’ll hear from New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman, the novelist Tayari Jones, Washington Post critic Becca Rothfeld, the writer Justin Taylor, the Oxford scholar of short stories Andrew Kahn, and the actor Max Gordon Moore. And you’ll hear a reading of...
2024-04-2429 minBeware of SpoilersMovie Review: Wicked Little LettersAdam discusses Wicked Little Letters starring Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman, Anjana Vasan, and Timothy Spall.
2024-04-0516 minThe Cosmic LibrarySeason 5 Trailer: The Short Story in the United StatesThe trailer is here for the new season of The Cosmic Library! This five-episode season concerns a subject both smaller and vaster than any massive book, and that subject is: short stories in the United States.You’ll hear how short stories exceed their own brevity and meld with a reader’s mind; you’ll hear about the history of the short story across continents; you’ll hear how stories are edited at The New Yorker; and you’ll hear a thrilling reading of the cosmically bewildering “Wakefield,” a classic story by Nathaniel Hawthorne in which this...
2024-04-0301 minThe Cosmic LibrarySeason 5 Trailer: The Short Story in the United StatesThe trailer is here for the new season of The Cosmic Library! This five-episode season concerns a subject both smaller and vaster than any massive book, and that subject is: short stories in the United States.You’ll hear how short stories exceed their own brevity and meld with a reader’s mind; you’ll hear about the history of the short story across continents; you’ll hear how stories are edited at The New Yorker; and you’ll hear a thrilling reading of the cosmically bewildering “Wakefield,” a classic story by Nathaniel Hawthorne in which this...
2024-04-0302 min
Business Creators Radio Show with Adam HommeyHow Branding Can Help Develop You, With Zachary ColmanDiscover the transformative power of branding in this episode!
Explore personal branding for professional growth, emphasizing authenticity and storytelling. Dive into business rebranding strategies with a focus on building a community-centric approach.
Learn how to foster engagement, collaborate effectively, and create a brand identity that resonates with your audience. Join us for actionable insights to elevate your personal and business brand in the ever-evolving landscape.
Tune in to hear Zachary Colman’s thoughts on:
How to go from a me to a we to an us
How to build retention internally and ex...
2024-01-301h 06Beware of SpoilersMovie Review: RustinJoin Adam for a discussion of Rustin on Netflix starring Colman Domingo and Chris Rock.
2023-12-0511 minThe Cosmic Library4.5 The Hall of the Monkey King: ImmortalityHere, in the conclusion of our five-episode season on The Hall of the Monkey King, you’ll hear about Journey to the West’s capacity for reinvention across centuries—about, in other words, its openness to different circumstances, something like the Monkey King's own openness, his playfulness.Julia Lovell says, “Running through Monkey's actions and personality is a love of this thing called play. He's an incredibly playful character. And I don't think it's a coincidence that the Chinese word in the title of the novel that is translated as 'journey'—you—can also be translated as 'play.'"...
2023-07-0424 minThe Cosmic Library4.5 The Hall of the Monkey King: ImmortalityHere, in the conclusion of our five-episode season on The Hall of the Monkey King, you’ll hear about Journey to the West’s capacity for reinvention across centuries—about, in other words, its openness to different circumstances, something like the Monkey King's own openness, his playfulness.Julia Lovell says, “Running through Monkey's actions and personality is a love of this thing called play. He's an incredibly playful character. And I don't think it's a coincidence that the Chinese word in the title of the novel that is translated as 'journey'—you—can also be translated as 'play.'"...
2023-07-0427 minThe Cosmic Library4.4 The Hall of the Monkey King: Cinematic TranscendenceYou can encounter Journey to the West in film, on television, in comic books—it’s a sixteenth-century novel that lives comfortably in an age of cinema and video games. This episode, then, follows a tangent away from the sixteenth century and into the movies. We’re talking about heroic quests and martial arts in media centuries after Journey to the West’s publication.Wuxia cinema, in particular, occupies our attention here. These are films of high drama and martial arts in pre-modern, legendary Chinese settings. Karen Fang, scholar of cinema and literature at the Univ...
2023-06-2718 minThe Cosmic Library4.4 The Hall of the Monkey King: Cinematic TranscendenceYou can encounter Journey to the West in film, on television, in comic books—it’s a sixteenth-century novel that lives comfortably in an age of cinema and video games. This episode, then, follows a tangent away from the sixteenth century and into the movies. We’re talking about heroic quests and martial arts in media centuries after Journey to the West’s publication.Wuxia cinema, in particular, occupies our attention here. These are films of high drama and martial arts in pre-modern, legendary Chinese settings. Karen Fang, scholar of cinema and literature at the Univ...
2023-06-2720 min
The Cosmic Library4.3 The Hall of the Monkey King: The Flawed Mind MonkeyYou might, for good reason, not associate restless irreverence with religious engagement. But in Journey to the West, the Monkey King’s adventure through Daoist and Buddhist drama does have both elements, and the book weaves together multiple moods as result, including those of spiritual clarity and zany satirical play. Whether the novel does all this for the sake of ultimate, anarchic satire, for a livelier spirituality, or for other reasons: that all gets debated. Julia Lovell says in this episode:Literary critics have been arguing about the spiritual, religious elements of the book for centuries. Some ha...
2023-06-2025 minThe Cosmic Library4.3 The Hall of the Monkey King: The Flawed Mind MonkeyYou might, for good reason, not associate restless irreverence with religious engagement. But in Journey to the West, the Monkey King’s adventure through Daoist and Buddhist drama does have both elements, and the book weaves together multiple moods as result, including those of spiritual clarity and zany satirical play. Whether the novel does all this for the sake of ultimate, anarchic satire, for a livelier spirituality, or for other reasons: that all gets debated. Julia Lovell says in this episode:Literary critics have been arguing about the spiritual, religious elements of the book for centuries. Some ha...
2023-06-2028 minThe Cosmic Library4.2 The Hall of the Monkey King: Lawful ChaosDifferent belief systems—and just differences in general—collide and merge in Journey to the West, the classic Chinese novel at the center of this season. “In Dungeons & Dragons terminology, you’ve got this lawful good monk and then you have this chaotic good monkey,” says Kaiser Kuo (co-founder of China's first heavy metal band and host of the Sinica Podcast) in this episode. And their quest succeeds: the combination of the monk Tripitaka's lawfulness and the Monkey King's chaos works out.That intertwinement of differences shapes Journey to the West, on multiple levels. It’s about...
2023-06-1328 min
The Cosmic Library4.2 The Hall of the Monkey King: Lawful ChaosDifferent belief systems—and just differences in general—collide and merge in Journey to the West, the classic Chinese novel at the center of this season. “In Dungeons & Dragons terminology, you’ve got this lawful good monk and then you have this chaotic good monkey,” says Kaiser Kuo (co-founder of China's first heavy metal band and host of the Sinica Podcast) in this episode. And their quest succeeds: the combination of the monk Tripitaka's lawfulness and the Monkey King's chaos works out.That intertwinement of differences shapes Journey to the West, on multiple levels. It’s about...
2023-06-1325 minThe Cosmic Library4.1 The Hall of the Monkey King: IntroductionThe Cosmic Library is back, with a five-episode season on Journey to the West, the classic 16th-century Chinese novel of comic mischief, spirituality, bureaucratic maneuvers, and superpowered fight scenes. It’s the story of a monk’s journey west for Buddhist texts, and that journey is moved along by the rambunctious Monkey King, whose interests include troublemaking and the pursuit of immortality.In film, television, comic books, videogames, and elsewhere, this book remains in pop culture; for example, its story is woven into the new Disney+ streaming series American Born Chinese (based on a grap...
2023-06-0621 min
The Cosmic Library4.1 The Hall of the Monkey King: IntroductionThe Cosmic Library is back, with a five-episode season on Journey to the West, the classic 16th-century Chinese novel of comic mischief, spirituality, bureaucratic maneuvers, and superpowered fight scenes. It’s the story of a monk’s journey west for Buddhist texts, and that journey is moved along by the rambunctious Monkey King, whose interests include troublemaking and the pursuit of immortality.In film, television, comic books, videogames, and elsewhere, this book remains in pop culture; for example, its story is woven into the new Disney+ streaming series American Born Chinese (based on a grap...
2023-06-0619 minThe Cosmic LibrarySeason 4 Trailer: The Hall of the Monkey KingThe Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming—books of dreams, infinity, mysteries—turn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake; in season two, it was 1,001 Nights; season three, the Hebrew Bible. This spring, in a season titled "The Hall of the Monkey King," we're talking and thinking about Journey to the West, the fantastical Chinese novel full of action and comedy and spiritual adventure.Guests for season four will...
2023-05-2501 minThe Cosmic LibrarySeason 4 Trailer: The Hall of the Monkey KingThe Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming—books of dreams, infinity, mysteries—turn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake; in season two, it was 1,001 Nights; season three, the Hebrew Bible. This spring, in a season titled "The Hall of the Monkey King," we're talking and thinking about Journey to the West, the fantastical Chinese novel full of action and comedy and spiritual adventure.Guests for season four will...
2023-05-2502 min
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCASTEP.197 - PADDY CONSIDINEAdam talks with British actor and musician Paddy Considine about Hot Fuzz, life in the Game Of Thrones universe, self doubt, some of the childhood experiences at school and at home that have fed into Paddy's more intense portrayals, and Paddy's love of US indie legends Guided By Voices.Conversation recorded remotely on October 11th, 2022Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and Becca Bryers for conversation editing.Podcast artwork by Helen Green RELATED LINKSPADDY'S RECENT GUIDED BY VOICES SPOTIFY PLAYLISTSCREEN AGE by FENTON B...
2022-12-061h 09Business Creators Radio Show with Adam Hommey5 Tips to Help Entrepreneurs Make the Leap from Building to Selling Their Product, With Dr. Allan ColmanAll too often, entrepreneurs are so gung-ho on building their new product or service that they don’t take time to think through how they will finance, market and sell it. Their singular focus likely accounts for the meager 20 percent survival rate of early startups.
For early-phase entrepreneurs making the leap from building the product to selling it, they must lay a foundation that positions them for success. This involves formulating a marketing strategy, developing an attention-getting brand, identifying financing opportunities, and working to learn prospects’ businesses inside out so they can become valued business partners who brin...
2022-10-271h 00
The HRLocker PodcastHiring for Success with Adam Coleman, CEO, HRLockerRecruitment can lie within the HR dept in many companies and can often be a time-consuming and costly process. Finding potential candidates is only the beginning of the journey. The next step? The Interview. But how do you hire for success and is there a process that can help you fill that position with the best candidate possible? On today’s show, we have our very own Adam Colman, CEO of HRLocker. As a CEO of a scaling company that has tripled in size over the last 2 years, recruitment has been high on the agenda in H...
2022-08-0436 minThe Cosmic Library3.5 Mosaic Mosaic: You Take It from HereIt's not just the contradictions in the Hebrew Bible that puzzle and provoke readers—there are, throughout, passages of intense emotional or moral provocation. See, for instance, Ecclesiastes, which in the King James translation begins:Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.Ecclesiastes challenges familiar notions of what life is about, notions of meaning or us...
2022-05-1023 minThe Cosmic Library3.5 Mosaic Mosaic: You Take It from HereIt's not just the contradictions in the Hebrew Bible that puzzle and provoke readers—there are, throughout, passages of intense emotional or moral provocation. See, for instance, Ecclesiastes, which in the King James translation begins:Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.Ecclesiastes challenges familiar notions of what life is about, notions of meaning or us...
2022-05-1020 minThe Cosmic Library3.4 Mosaic Mosaic: Struggling with DisasterFrom the book of Genesis on, the Hebrew Bible presents a struggle with language: a struggle to establish meaning, to figure out the right uses of words, to understand one's place in the world. The famous early scene of struggle in the Hebrew Bible, Jacob's wrestling match with the divine, goes as follows in the King James translation: Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the ho...
2022-05-0320 minThe Cosmic Library3.4 Mosaic Mosaic: Struggling with DisasterFrom the book of Genesis on, the Hebrew Bible presents a struggle with language: a struggle to establish meaning, to figure out the right uses of words, to understand one's place in the world. The famous early scene of struggle in the Hebrew Bible, Jacob's wrestling match with the divine, goes as follows in the King James translation: Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the ho...
2022-05-0322 min
The Cosmic Library3.3 Mosaic Mosaic: Dream InterpretationStuck in a lonely motel room, you have a good chance of finding a Bible, left for anyone similarly stuck in a strange interval between days. In this way, it’s yet another night book. The Bible also has famous night scenes, and dream scenes, too: Jacob's dream of angels, Joseph's dream of sheaves of wheat. So this chapter of “Mosaic Mosaic” explores dream interpretation and that foundational dream-interpreter Sigmund Freud, himself a close reader of the Hebrew Bible."Literature guides Freud's thinking all the way through," says Tom DeRose of the Freud Museum in Lon...
2022-04-2629 minThe Cosmic Library3.3 Mosaic Mosaic: Dream InterpretationStuck in a lonely motel room, you have a good chance of finding a Bible, left for anyone similarly stuck in a strange interval between days. In this way, it’s yet another night book. The Bible also has famous night scenes, and dream scenes, too: Jacob's dream of angels, Joseph's dream of sheaves of wheat. So this chapter of “Mosaic Mosaic” explores dream interpretation and that foundational dream-interpreter Sigmund Freud, himself a close reader of the Hebrew Bible."Literature guides Freud's thinking all the way through," says Tom DeRose of the Freud Museum in Lon...
2022-04-2632 minThe Cosmic Library3.2 Mosaic Mosaic: Laws of Emotion“We regulate each other’s nervous systems,” says the neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett in this chapter of “Mosaic Mosaic.” “We are the caretakers of each other’s nervous systems.” So feeling—and thinking—and the regulations of law join together; the idea that laws exist apart from our nervous systems, our feelings, doesn’t quite work, in this sense.The poet Peter Cole here describes an emotional state associated with the language of rules and ritual in the Hebrew Bible, and in Leviticus particularly. He says, “I was just totally spellbound by the choreography of sacrifice.” And the novelist Joshua Cohen...
2022-04-1938 minThe Cosmic Library3.2 Mosaic Mosaic: Laws of Emotion“We regulate each other’s nervous systems,” says the neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett in this chapter of “Mosaic Mosaic.” “We are the caretakers of each other’s nervous systems.” So feeling—and thinking—and the regulations of law join together; the idea that laws exist apart from our nervous systems, our feelings, doesn’t quite work, in this sense.The poet Peter Cole here describes an emotional state associated with the language of rules and ritual in the Hebrew Bible, and in Leviticus particularly. He says, “I was just totally spellbound by the choreography of sacrifice.” And the novelist Joshua Cohen...
2022-04-1941 min
The Cosmic Library3.1 Mosaic Mosaic: IntroductionThis season, we're rambling through and beyond a book sacred in multiple traditions, a book that keeps generating debate and commentary and tangents. It's the Hebrew Bible, home to Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and his Ark, David and Goliath, and prophets like Isaiah and Ezekiel. Here, in a season we're calling "Mosaic Mosaic," it especially prompts conversations about the mysteries of thought and language.The novelist Joshua Cohen explains in this episode that the Hebrew Bible poses fundamental questions about language. As he puts it: "Why are there letters, actually? Why do...
2022-04-1231 minThe Cosmic Library3.1 Mosaic Mosaic: IntroductionThis season, we're rambling through and beyond a book sacred in multiple traditions, a book that keeps generating debate and commentary and tangents. It's the Hebrew Bible, home to Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and his Ark, David and Goliath, and prophets like Isaiah and Ezekiel. Here, in a season we're calling "Mosaic Mosaic," it especially prompts conversations about the mysteries of thought and language.The novelist Joshua Cohen explains in this episode that the Hebrew Bible poses fundamental questions about language. As he puts it: "Why are there letters, actually? Why do...
2022-04-1235 minThe Cosmic LibrarySeason 3 Trailer: Introducing Mosaic MosaicThe Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming—books of dreams, infinity, mysteries—turn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake; in season two, it was 1,001 Nights. Season three, titled Mosaic Mosaic and premiering on April 11, journeys through and beyond the Hebrew Bible. Guests for season three include: Peter Cole, the poet and MacArthur genius whose new book Draw Me After will be out this fall; Elisa Gabbert, poet and poetry...
2022-04-0603 minThe Cosmic LibrarySeason 3 Trailer: Introducing Mosaic MosaicThe Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming—books of dreams, infinity, mysteries—turn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake; in season two, it was 1,001 Nights. Season three, titled Mosaic Mosaic and premiering on April 11, journeys through and beyond the Hebrew Bible. Guests for season three include: Peter Cole, the poet and MacArthur genius whose new book Draw Me After will be out this fall; Elisa Gabbert, poet and poetry...
2022-04-0602 min
Henry westons old mate the podcastHWOM WITH ADAM COLMAN. HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT IT??STU AND PHIL ARE JOINED BY GUEST ADAM COLMAN. ADAM'S A RECOVERING ALCOHOLIC WHO'S BEEN ON AN AMAZING JOURNEY OVER THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS SINCE JOINING THE "IT STARTS MONDAY" COMMUNITY. LISTEN TO ADAM TELL HIS STORY FROM THE BAD TIMES MOVING TO THE HUGELY POSITIVE NOW!! ADAMS TWITTER VIDEOS ARE A MUST WATCH FOR ANYONE LOOKING FOR DAILY INSPIRATION. ENJOY THE EPISODE.
2022-01-2552 min
Attaboy ClarenceGentlemen ThievesIn this episode of Attaboy Clarence...Charles Aznavour guides us, musically, into this week's theme... thieves!It's John vs Lionel in the Battle Of The Barrymores, but who will come out on top? Arsene Lupin the master thief, or the detective trailing him? The answer may surprise you, in 1932's Arsene Lupin, one of the racier crime thrillers of the pre-code era...We're then in the company of that most refined of gentleman thieves - Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman from 1930, starring Ronald Colman and Kay Francis, and featuring a wonderful second act heist!
2022-01-241h 18The Cosmic Library2.5 The Worlds of Scheherazade: InconclusionThe 1,001 Nights are not typically about conclusions, but about the suggestion of more stories, more information passed from person to person, language to language. In this, the last episode of this season, Mazen Naous—a scholar whose specialties include the Nights—points out the implication of the phrase “thousand and one nights”: “There’s always one more story, always one more story to be told, the stories have no beginning and no end. That’s partly why the Nights still inspire rewrites and reinventions and adaptations to this day.”“I think the book doesn’t end,” says Yasmine...
2021-12-0727 minThe Cosmic Library2.5 The Worlds of Scheherazade: InconclusionThe 1,001 Nights are not typically about conclusions, but about the suggestion of more stories, more information passed from person to person, language to language. In this, the last episode of this season, Mazen Naous—a scholar whose specialties include the Nights—points out the implication of the phrase “thousand and one nights”: “There’s always one more story, always one more story to be told, the stories have no beginning and no end. That’s partly why the Nights still inspire rewrites and reinventions and adaptations to this day.”“I think the book doesn’t end,” says Yasmine...
2021-12-0731 minThe Cosmic Library2.4 The Worlds of Scheherazade: Survival1,001 Nights begins in horror: a king threatens to kill, and Shahrazad tells stories to keep the king from doing so. The ongoing nature of the stories, then, relies on a drive to live, manifesting the basic connection between our intuitive selves and imagination.When stories really survive, there’s more to them than repetitive cliffhangers or excessively elaborated detail—something more than escapist entertainment, even if that’s there, too. Hearty White says in this episode, “I don’t care for the movies that are in mythical places. They’re ‘world-creating’? They’re world-limiting. Every time they ad...
2021-11-3033 min
The Cosmic Library2.4 The Worlds of Scheherazade: Survival1,001 Nights begins in horror: a king threatens to kill, and Shahrazad tells stories to keep the king from doing so. The ongoing nature of the stories, then, relies on a drive to live, manifesting the basic connection between our intuitive selves and imagination.When stories really survive, there’s more to them than repetitive cliffhangers or excessively elaborated detail—something more than escapist entertainment, even if that’s there, too. Hearty White says in this episode, “I don’t care for the movies that are in mythical places. They’re ‘world-creating’? They’re world-limiting. Every time they ad...
2021-11-3030 minThe Cosmic Library2.3 The Worlds of Scheherazade: Formulaic SurprisesThe 1,001 Nights are full of patterns; the stories have formulas, and this too anticipates the world of television, comic books, video games. Yasmine Seale, translator of the Nights, says in this episode, “Formula is essential to the work. It draws it force from accumulation. It draws its meaning from pattern.”But formulaic narrative doesn’t necessarily mean mind-numbing sameness. It can mean the opposite. Hearty White, the host of Miracle Nutrition on WFMU, talks in this episode about watching formulaic Three Stooges episodes, which don’t limit the viewer’s imagination. Instead, you get the sense that an artist...
2021-11-2334 minThe Cosmic Library2.3 The Worlds of Scheherazade: Formulaic SurprisesThe 1,001 Nights are full of patterns; the stories have formulas, and this too anticipates the world of television, comic books, video games. Yasmine Seale, translator of the Nights, says in this episode, “Formula is essential to the work. It draws it force from accumulation. It draws its meaning from pattern.”But formulaic narrative doesn’t necessarily mean mind-numbing sameness. It can mean the opposite. Hearty White, the host of Miracle Nutrition on WFMU, talks in this episode about watching formulaic Three Stooges episodes, which don’t limit the viewer’s imagination. Instead, you get the sense that an artist...
2021-11-2331 minThe Cosmic Library2.2 The Worlds of Scheherazade: Magnet MountainThe House of Wisdom was a center of learning in Baghdad of the Abbasid caliphate. Established in the eighth century, it sustained a golden age of science that coincided with the collection of early versions of the 1,001 Nights. In this episode, we hear about the science of the Nights, the science of the Abbasid age, and the history, more broadly, of science fiction.A similar exchange from culture to culture, language to language, made possible the scientific advances of this time and 1,001 Nights. The very frame narrative of Shahrazad is a Persian story, and leading figures associated...
2021-11-1630 minThe Cosmic Library2.2 The Worlds of Scheherazade: Magnet MountainThe House of Wisdom was a center of learning in Baghdad of the Abbasid caliphate. Established in the eighth century, it sustained a golden age of science that coincided with the collection of early versions of the 1,001 Nights. In this episode, we hear about the science of the Nights, the science of the Abbasid age, and the history, more broadly, of science fiction.A similar exchange from culture to culture, language to language, made possible the scientific advances of this time and 1,001 Nights. The very frame narrative of Shahrazad is a Persian story, and leading figures associated...
2021-11-1627 minThe Cosmic Library2.1 The Worlds of Scheherazade: IntroductionYou know Shahrazad, who tells a story every night in order to survive and save lives; you also know the collection of stories that results: 1,001 Nights. At least, you've felt the influence of those stories. On TV, in books, in comics—you’ve experienced things informed by the episodic narratives of Shahrazad. And in this season of The Cosmic Library, you’ll hear how the Nights opened paths to infinite story possibility within repetitive constraints.Even as the threat of death looms over Shahrazad in the Nights, her narrative inventions promise something that exceeds the power of a tyra...
2021-11-0928 min
The Cosmic Library2.1 The Worlds of Scheherazade: IntroductionYou know Shahrazad, who tells a story every night in order to survive and save lives; you also know the collection of stories that results: 1,001 Nights. At least, you've felt the influence of those stories. On TV, in books, in comics—you’ve experienced things informed by the episodic narratives of Shahrazad. And in this season of The Cosmic Library, you’ll hear how the Nights opened paths to infinite story possibility within repetitive constraints.Even as the threat of death looms over Shahrazad in the Nights, her narrative inventions promise something that exceeds the power of a tyra...
2021-11-0925 minThe Cosmic LibraryThe Worlds of Scheherazade TrailerThe Cosmic Library follows tangents out of literary classics concerned with infinity. Building on Lit Hub’s five-part Finnegan and Friends podcast, this series explores the most unfathomable books in conversation with an eclectic cast of guests. The upcoming season, The Worlds of Scheherazade, plunges into and out of the 1,001 Nights with guests Katy Waldman, critic at The New Yorker; Yasmine Seale, translator of the 1,001 Nights; Jim Al-Khalili, theoretical physicist; Mazen Naous, professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Hearty White, host of Miracle Nutrition on WFMU. Learn more about your ad cho...
2021-10-2503 minThe Cosmic LibraryThe Worlds of Scheherazade TrailerThe Cosmic Library follows tangents out of literary classics concerned with infinity. Building on Lit Hub’s five-part Finnegan and Friends podcast, this series explores the most unfathomable books in conversation with an eclectic cast of guests. The upcoming season, The Worlds of Scheherazade, plunges into and out of the 1,001 Nights with guests Katy Waldman, critic at The New Yorker; Yasmine Seale, translator of the 1,001 Nights; Jim Al-Khalili, theoretical physicist; Mazen Naous, professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Hearty White, host of Miracle Nutrition on WFMU. Learn more about your ad cho...
2021-10-2502 min
The Cosmic Library1.5 Finnegan and Friends: Musical ConclusionsSome of Finnegans Wake’s canniest readers, like guest Olwen Fouéré, don’t read the whole thing. That makes sense, too, considering that the book is itself incomplete: the last line doesn’t end, has no period. You’re left with a book that cannot conclude itself, that avoids coherence. So what are all these words doing, if not communicating? In part, they’re making music. They’re an experiment with language’s sounds.Joyce obsessed over such sounds, including the sound linkages that connect meanings in ways impossible to track consistently. The scholar Joseph N...
2021-04-2918 minThe Cosmic Library1.5 Finnegan and Friends: Musical ConclusionsSome of Finnegans Wake’s canniest readers, like guest Olwen Fouéré, don’t read the whole thing. That makes sense, too, considering that the book is itself incomplete: the last line doesn’t end, has no period. You’re left with a book that cannot conclude itself, that avoids coherence. So what are all these words doing, if not communicating? In part, they’re making music. They’re an experiment with language’s sounds.Joyce obsessed over such sounds, including the sound linkages that connect meanings in ways impossible to track consistently. The scholar Joseph N...
2021-04-2920 minThe Cosmic Library1.4 Finnegan and Friends: Familiar LanguageThink of your most obscure, private, family chatter—some combination of baby-talk and nicknames and reiterations of the same concerns or jokes. It wouldn’t make sense to outsiders, but it makes a special kind of sense to you. It’s language that communicates in a highly local way, and not at all in other ways. And yet: everyone sort of knows how this language works. In Finnegans Wake, that private language converges, even, with broadly recognizable mythic language. We’re reading about a family—the patriarch HCE, the mother ALP, the sons Shem and Shaun, and daughter Issy—but they’re...
2021-04-2223 min
The Cosmic Library1.4 Finnegan and Friends: Familiar LanguageThink of your most obscure, private, family chatter—some combination of baby-talk and nicknames and reiterations of the same concerns or jokes. It wouldn’t make sense to outsiders, but it makes a special kind of sense to you. It’s language that communicates in a highly local way, and not at all in other ways. And yet: everyone sort of knows how this language works. In Finnegans Wake, that private language converges, even, with broadly recognizable mythic language. We’re reading about a family—the patriarch HCE, the mother ALP, the sons Shem and Shaun, and daughter Issy—but they’re...
2021-04-2220 min
Speak Film and EnterEpisode 310: The FatherIn this episode, we review the highly-acclaimed new drama "The Father", starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. Listen now!
2021-04-1935 minThe Cosmic Library1.3 Finnegan and Friends: WaterThe “wake” in Finnegans Wake means both a joyous funereal gathering (here Joyce invented the word “funferal”) and a rising from sleep. But it also suggests the wake that follows movement through water. The book’s language, while dreamy and ceremonial, is also material, and often watery. This is appropriate, because like dreams, water brings us into an ongoing process of expansive life. Cosmically expansive, even. Alok Jha says in this episode that while we’re mostly water-beings on a planet covered in water, “all of those molecules of water came not from the Earth; the Earth’s water comes from space...
2021-04-1531 minThe Cosmic Library1.3 Finnegan and Friends: WaterThe “wake” in Finnegans Wake means both a joyous funereal gathering (here Joyce invented the word “funferal”) and a rising from sleep. But it also suggests the wake that follows movement through water. The book’s language, while dreamy and ceremonial, is also material, and often watery. This is appropriate, because like dreams, water brings us into an ongoing process of expansive life. Cosmically expansive, even. Alok Jha says in this episode that while we’re mostly water-beings on a planet covered in water, “all of those molecules of water came not from the Earth; the Earth’s water comes from space...
2021-04-1528 minThe Cosmic Library1.2 Finnegan and Friends: DreamsFinnegans Wake—a book of rebirth and reawakening—finds its engine for rejuvenation in dreaminess. This matches what neuroscientists tell us: sleeping and dreaming are regenerative, intellectually and physiologically. Dr. Jade Wu, a sleep specialist at Duke University, tells us in this episode, “Sleeping is actually a very very active state of the brain, and there’s a lot of life-affirming things happening. For example, the growth hormones are being released . . . your brain is literally refreshing itself when you sleep. So in a way you’re not so much dying as getting maybe a little younger in a way, or getting...
2021-04-0833 minThe Cosmic Library1.2 Finnegan and Friends: DreamsFinnegans Wake—a book of rebirth and reawakening—finds its engine for rejuvenation in dreaminess. This matches what neuroscientists tell us: sleeping and dreaming are regenerative, intellectually and physiologically. Dr. Jade Wu, a sleep specialist at Duke University, tells us in this episode, “Sleeping is actually a very very active state of the brain, and there’s a lot of life-affirming things happening. For example, the growth hormones are being released . . . your brain is literally refreshing itself when you sleep. So in a way you’re not so much dying as getting maybe a little younger in a way, or getting...
2021-04-0836 minThe Cosmic Library1.1 Finnegan and Friends: IntroductionJames Joyce’s Finnegans Wake doesn’t work like other novels. It has lines like: “What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy-gods!” In some ways, this makes the book almost impossible to read. H.G. Wells told Joyce, “You have turned your back on common men — on their elementary needs … What is the result? Vast riddles.” The Wake doesn’t have to be difficult, though; you don’t have to read it as a collection of unsolvable riddles. In Finnegan and Friends, we don’t regard the Wake as something to decode completely. Instead, we find in the book a well of...
2021-04-0130 minThe Cosmic Library1.1 Finnegan and Friends: IntroductionJames Joyce’s Finnegans Wake doesn’t work like other novels. It has lines like: “What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy-gods!” In some ways, this makes the book almost impossible to read. H.G. Wells told Joyce, “You have turned your back on common men — on their elementary needs … What is the result? Vast riddles.” The Wake doesn’t have to be difficult, though; you don’t have to read it as a collection of unsolvable riddles. In Finnegan and Friends, we don’t regard the Wake as something to decode completely. Instead, we find in the book a well of...
2021-04-0134 minThe Cosmic LibraryFinnegan and Friends TrailerPrepare for our five-part series about the most mystifying book ever written: James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. With a range of guests—including a novelist, an actor, a sleep specialist, a philosopher, and several Joyce scholars—Finnegan and Friends follows tangents inspired by Joyce’s novel of dreamy strangeness. We discover, along the way, that the Wake’s infinite complexity comes from attention to our most simple, elemental experiences (of dreams, of water, of local and familiar language). This show celebrates the wonders of the basic stuff of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...
2021-03-2402 minThe Cosmic LibraryFinnegan and Friends TrailerPrepare for our five-part series about the most mystifying book ever written: James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. With a range of guests—including a novelist, an actor, a sleep specialist, a philosopher, and several Joyce scholars—Finnegan and Friends follows tangents inspired by Joyce’s novel of dreamy strangeness. We discover, along the way, that the Wake’s infinite complexity comes from attention to our most simple, elemental experiences (of dreams, of water, of local and familiar language). This show celebrates the wonders of the basic stuff of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...
2021-03-2403 min
Asking For a ParentBenji BennettThis week's guest on the podcast is Benji Bennett who is the author of the Children's Literary Series 'Adam'sCloud'. These books were inspired by Benji's son Adam who tragically passed away in 2007 at the tender age of 4 years old.
In this episode Benji tells us about the experience of losing Adam and the impact that the death of a child can have on families and communities. He talks honestly about the struggles and the things that helped him and his family get through it.
We discuss the importance of loss in terms of the last year and how we can al...
2021-03-2458 min
Attaboy ClarenceThe Attaboy Clarence Christmas Cracker 2020!It’s a festive celebration of Yuletide radio musical and movie magic in The Attaboy Clarence Christmas Cracker special!
Starring Basil Rathbone, Ella Fitzgerald, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy McGuire, Ginger Rogers, Santa Claus. Perry Como, Ronald Colman, Pat O’Brien, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby and many, many more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-12-202h 28
Attaboy ClarenceWhipsmart!In this week’s show…
… a TRIO of fabulous movies to tell you about!
1932’s ‘The Beast Of The City’, an ultra-violent Pre-Code prototype of the Scorsese movies to come!
1935’s ‘Whipsaw’ sees a cat-and-cat game of wits between jewel robber, Myrna Loy and lovestruck government agent, Spencer Tracy!
And common-sense reigns supreme, all the way to the Supreme Court in fact, in Columbia’s delightfully intelligent comic-drama, ‘The Talk Of The Town’ from 1942, starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman.
Sookie drops in to talk about how she’s managing in the current situation, and radio entertainment comes courtesy of the Lux Radio...
2020-10-171h 17
Foul Monkeys A Gay PodcastI’m Familiar with the Fish, Bitch…FM901
We’re back and we’ve got our friend/first time guest Holly Baloo on the show today!
Holly is a performer with a monthly queer show called Rainbow-A-Go-Go playing at Comedy Sportz! She’s also a huge fan of pop culture, and chats with the guys about everything from Hillary Duff to the Mara sisters to the great Olivia Colman! Plus, theatre etiquette for being late, naked vacations, and how to put on makeup if you’re colorblind.
Follow Holly on Instagram @HollyBaloo and on Facebook at Facebook.com/HollyBaloochi
Rainbow-a-Go-Go plays at Comed...
2020-02-2542 min
Attaboy ClarenceOh Johnny, Heavens Above!In this week’s show…
Who would be the best Golden Age SUPERHEROES?
How did Adam become a classic movie LOVER?
How did Sookie become a REALITY TV star?
There’s MUSIC from Eddie Cantor and The Andrews Sisters, PLUS…
Reviews of THREE movies featuring Ronald Colman, Ginger Rogers, William Powell, Jack Carson and The Great Profile himself, John Barrymore!
Radio entertainment comes this week from The Sealtest Show, and it’s a real treat… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-11-121h 01
Attaboy ClarenceEpisode 42: Champagne For RonaldThis week, Ronald Colman takes centre stage as Adam presents reviews of three of his movies, along with a double bill of his radio appearances. Elsewhere, there's a listener with a superhero name, some macho shampoo, a rapping uncle and some terribly translated movie quotes! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2015-08-111h 56