Here Be Monsters

Here Be Monsters episodes:

• 12.14.2022

  HBM158: An Illusion

  Phased music for anxious minds.

  
• 11.28.2022

  HBM157: The Raw Whatever

  Allen H Greenfield on UFOlogy, evil magick, and parenting.

  
• 11.09.2022

  HBM156: Heavy Load-Bearing Body

  Bigness, ugliness and beauty as it relates to Berlin’s Schwerbelastungskörper.

  
• 10.24.2022

  The HBM Art Exchange is Back!

  Sign up at HBMpodcast.com/art

  
• 08.24.2022

  HBM155: Ghosts Aliens Burritos

  The kid of a famous UFO hunter tells stories about the occult and food poisoning.

  
• 06.22.2022

  HBM154: Ancient Roman Recipes

  Can you taste the past?

  
• 06.02.2022

  The Straight and Narrow

  A street preacher tries to convince Jeff of his views about the role of gender in Christianity.

  
• 05.04.2022

  HBM153: Klänge from Berlin

  Field recordings and discussions of sound and heart from across Germany (and a tiny bit from Czechia).

  
• 03.30.2022

  HBM152: Dirt Becomes You

  Body composting in the Evergreen State

  
• 03.09.2022

  HBM151: Blowgun Time Warp

  Season 10 of Here Be Monsters starts and host Jeff Emtman hallucinates his adolescence while working long hours.

  
• 02.11.2022

  Season 10 is Coming!

  It'll be here March 9th, 2022.

  
• 02.08.2022

  Leaving Spotify

  Explaining my recent decision to remove Here Be Monsters from Spotify.

  
• 07.01.2021

  HBM150: Cold Water

  Julia found a solution in the ocean.

  
• 06.16.2021

  HBM149: The Daily Blast [Neutrinowatch]

  An episode from Jeff’s new project, Neutrinowatch: A Daily Generative Podcast. This episode *should* update itself daily with new content. Delete and re-download to hear the latest version.

  
• 06.16.2021

  So What Exactly is Episode 149?

  HBM149 requires explanation. So here’s a lengthy one.

  
• 06.02.2021

  HBM148: Early Attempts at Summoning Dream Beings

  Jeff tries to become the world’s first slumbering podcast advice columnist.

  
• 05.19.2021

  HBM147: Chasing Tardigrades

  Cheap thrills from squeezing damp moss.

  
• 05.05.2021

  Theodora is @hypo_inspo

  HBM146’s AI-powered speech bot nows offers strange advice several times daily at https://twitter.com/hypo_inspo

  
• 04.28.2021

  HBM146: Theodora

  Can computers learn to speak with emotion and conviction?

  
• 04.14.2021

  HBM145: The Juice Library

  A paranoid fruit punch expert meets an aspiring valkyrie.

  
• 03.31.2021

  HBM144: Keeping A Place

  Capturing the sonic fingerprints of important places before they’re gone forever.

  
• 03.17.2021

  HBM143: Laughing Rats and Dawn Rituals

  Maybe you just need some odd animal sounds.

  
• 03.03.2021

  HBM142: The Vastness of the Universe

  The effort to find intelligent extraterrestrial life is hampered by the slowness of light, the bigness of space, and some humans who don’t follow the rules.

  
• 02.17.2021

  HBM141: Filthy Riches

  Chance encounters in food waste bins.

  
• 01.08.2021

  Season 9 = February 17th

  If you’re getting this episode, it means you’re still subscribed to the Here Be Monsters! Good on you! We’ve been switching some technical things around behind the scenes, so if you have duplicate episodes in your feed, unsubscribing...

  
• 08.13.2020

  HBM Continues as an Independent Podcast

  Here Be Monsters will continue production as an independent podcast, no longer associated with KCRW.

  
• 06.24.2020

  HBM140: The New Black Wall Street

  Black Tulsans record a rap album in a house that once belonged to a famous Klansman.

  
• 06.10.2020

  HBM139: Acceptable Pains

  Is volunteering for pain an unnecessary cruelty? Or is it a fundamental part of being human?

  
• 05.27.2020

  HBM138: Did Neanderthals Bury their Dead?

  New research suggests that Neanderthals did many of the things once thought to be exclusively “human.”

  
• 05.13.2020

  HBM137: Superhappiness

  David Pearce wants to end all suffering.

  
• 04.29.2020

  HBM136: Jacob's Lost Biography

  Jacob Lemanski tries to write an unreadable book.

  
• 04.29.2020

  HBM136: Jacob’s Lost Biography

  Jacob Lemanski tries to write an unreadable book.

  
• 04.15.2020

  HBM135: Dying Well

  Amanda Provenzano says people are too afraid of death; that’s why she became a death doula.

  
• 04.01.2020

  HBM134: Questionable Hobbies of the Socially Isolated

  Jeff makes blackout poetry with cassette tapes.

  
• 03.18.2020

  HBM133: Prey of Worms

  Is your body more of a machine, or a garden?

  
• 03.04.2020

  HBM132: Moral Enhancement

  If there’s a pill that makes people less racist, should cops be forced to take it?

  
• 02.19.2020

  HBM131: A Cure for Carsickness

  The smell of gasoline imparts nausea and a heartfelt nostalgia on HBM producer Bethany Denton.

  
• 02.05.2020

  HBM130: Mother Pigeon / Sister Marta

  New York City’s defender of maligned animals enacts “pigilante” justice while dressed as a nun.

  
• 01.22.2020

  HBM129: The Underearthlings

  Legends of an underground people on a small Baltic island.

  
• 01.08.2020

  HBM128: Seeing Auras

  A childhood loss leads Colby Richardson to meet a man who teaches him to see his dead mother’s aura.

  
• 12.25.2019

  HBM127: QALYs

  Would you trade a month of your life to give a decade to a stranger? What if it were four strangers? Or thirty?

  
• 12.11.2019

  HBM126: Sounding the Deep

  Most of the ocean floor has never been mapped in detail. Some scientists are trying to change that, using sonar to see what satellites can’t.

  
• 11.27.2019

  HBM125: Deepfaking Nixon

  How to make the president say what he never said.

  
• 11.13.2019

  HBM124: Banana Softies

  A cancer researcher grows tired of euthanizing monkeys.

  
• 10.30.2019

  HBM123: Water Witches

  What moves the rods of a water dowser? Is it magic, science or imagination?

  
• 10.16.2019

  HBM122: Should Cows Have Names?

  Producer Bethany Denton wants to know if her meat-eater’s guilt is justified.

  
• 10.02.2019

  HBM121: True North

  Here Be Monsters host Jeff Emtman climbs a tree, stops believing in God.

  
• 09.23.2019

  Season 8 = October 2

  Here Be Monsters is back! Season 8 begins October 2nd, 2019.

  
• 06.05.2019

  HBM120: Own Worst Interest

  In the fall of 1989, in Vancouver, Washington, a short, 29 year-old man named Westley Allan Dodd raped and murdered three young boys. The boys were brothers Cole and William Neer, ages 10 and 11, and four year old Lee...

  
• 05.22.2019

  HBM119: An Episode of Pebbles and Twigs

  The end of our seventh season draws near! Just one more episode until we hang up our podcasting hats for a few months. We don’t want you to miss us too much though, so on this episode, we’re tying up...