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Ep 208: Password to the Ghost World, Pt. 1
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
NB: Oops, I said the wrong first name of Marilyn vos Savant
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW, join the group chat, and send me a poem for Listener Crit!
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert
– The Cleveland Roundtable
– Borat
– Chapo Trap House
– Jordan Peterson
– ContraPoints on YouTube & Patreon
– Yosha Iglesias
– Vanessa Place’s Gone with the Wind project
– Kenneth Goldsmith
– Mark Leidner
– Michael Shermer’s interview with Michael Egnor & Christof Koch
– Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning
– On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
– There Are More Things by Jorge Luis Borges
– Thomas Ligotti
– Hasan Piker
– Christopher Hitchens
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
– Dave Smith
– J. D. Vance
– Camille Paglia
– Red Scare
– The Monty Hall problem
– Margaret Mead
– The Brontosaurus
– Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
– Toni Morrison’s Nobel lecture
– Michel Foucault
– Sabrina Carpenter
– Betty Boop
– The Bud Light boycott
– The Sydney Sweeney jeans ad
– Plato’s Cave
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Chris Childers
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
– Matt Wall
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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By Matthew Buckley Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
NB: Oops, I said the wrong first name of Marilyn vos Savant
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW, join the group chat, and send me a poem for Listener Crit!
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert
– The Cleveland Roundtable
– Borat
– Chapo Trap House
– Jordan Peterson
– ContraPoints on YouTube & Patreon
– Yosha Iglesias
– Vanessa Place’s Gone with the Wind project
– Kenneth Goldsmith
– Mark Leidner
– Michael Shermer’s interview with Michael Egnor & Christof Koch
– Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning
– On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
– There Are More Things by Jorge Luis Borges
– Thomas Ligotti
– Hasan Piker
– Christopher Hitchens
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
– Dave Smith
– J. D. Vance
– Camille Paglia
– Red Scare
– The Monty Hall problem
– Margaret Mead
– The Brontosaurus
– Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
– Toni Morrison’s Nobel lecture
– Michel Foucault
– Sabrina Carpenter
– Betty Boop
– The Bud Light boycott
– The Sydney Sweeney jeans ad
– Plato’s Cave
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Chris Childers
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
– Matt Wall
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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