Here Be Monsters

By Jeff Emtman and Bethany Denton

Society & Culture Arts Science & Medicine History Philosophy Social Sciences

What's Here Be Monsters about?

A podcast exploring the dark corners of the human mind. Stories from artists, scientists, philosophers and journalists. Decidedly brainy and always interesting.

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08.13.2020 HBM Continues as an Independent Podcast However, moving forward, HBM will continue as an independent production, and no longer be distributed through the KCRW feed.
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.
04.15.2020 HBM135: Dying Well Amanda Provenzano says people are too afraid of death; that’s why she became a death doula.
04.08.2020 What Can You Hear? (Love Me) A wonderful episode of a wonderful podcast: the CBC’s Love Me . Subscribe on your favorite podcast app.
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 Should you have the right to hasten your own execution?
05.22.2019 HBM119: An Episode of Pebbles and Twigs An episode where Jeff finds little things on the forest floor and hands them to you...metaphorically speaking.
05.15.2019 Listen to Lost Notes Lost Notes is a podcast that we love. It’s about music. We think you should subscribe.
05.08.2019 HBM118: Mountain Seabed Meeting an ancient relative that’s no bigger than your thumb.
04.24.2019 HBM117: Grave Oversight Can satellites help prevent genocide?
04.10.2019 HBM116: Finest and Most Rotten (Going Forward) Do you think this is a good world?
03.27.2019 HBM115: Bound in Walton et al. A book bound in the skin of its author causes eye-rolls for its modern-day caretakers.
03.13.2019 HBM114: Envisioning AIDS With your eyes closed in a dark room, a voice guides you through the process of dying from AIDS.
02.27.2019 HBM113: The Last Ones Two radio producers and a conservationist explore grief, loss, and caribou habitat on a snowy walk in the woods.
02.13.2019 HBM112: Negative Space Jeff listens to the spaces inbetween words to see if the answers to his problems are buried there.
01.30.2019 HBM111: Waiting for Earth Bethany Denton wonders if her unborn children still watch her from the premortal existence.
01.16.2019 HBM110: Big Numbers Jeff explains why numbers are like telescopes.
01.02.2019 HBM109: Untitled Noises of New York (Sound Matters) HBM host Jeff Emtman attempts to capture the essence of NYC. Re-aired from the Bang and Bang and Olufsen podcast Sound Matters .
12.19.2018 HBM108: Witch of Saratoga Sleeping in the forest as homage to Angeline Tubbs, aka. “The Witch of Saratoga.”
12.05.2018 HBM107: Carlo Surrenders In theology school, Carlo Nakar asked, “Lord, what is the hardest thing you could possibly ask me to do?” He got a verbal answer.
11.21.2018 HBM106: Beautiful Stories about Dead Animals (part 2) Personal stories of animal death and the bodies they leave behind, as told by writer Kryssanne Adams. Part 2 of 2.
11.14.2018 Listen to Nocturne Nocturne is a podcast that we love. It’s about the night. We think you should subscribe.
11.07.2018 HBM105: Beautiful Stories about Dead Animals (part 1) Personal stories of animal death and the bodies they leave behind, as told by writer Kryssanne Adams. Part 1 of 2.
10.24.2018 HBM104: Scrapheap Reactor Max Turnquist is building a fusion reactor in his bedroom.
10.10.2018 HBM103: Fate’s Notebook Reynaldo Gulin had a notebook full of warnings and advice that was supposed to keep his family from danger. But after he died, a second, unforeseen death shook his family’s faith in Santeria.
09.26.2018 HBM102: Breath Holder Free diver Archer Mayo searches for unusual treasures in the murky water of the Columbia River.
09.12.2018 HBM101: Much Corruption Jeff Emtman finds himself distracted by dragons and their ilk as he kayaks with one of the world’s hairiest people.
08.15.2018 Season 7 and HBM Sweatshirts Our 7th season starts on September 12th, 2018.
06.06.2018 HBM100: Faraway Minds Anna Klein worries that her fantasies of running away to the remote corners of the world may be a familial urge to isolate herself, the same way her father did...a tendency that ultimately contributed to his early death.
05.23.2018 HBM099: Spell for the Repulsion of Astral Vampires In this video episode of Here Be Monsters, Jeff shares his special spell of repulsion for astral energy vampires that are draining humans of their life force en masse.
05.09.2018 HBM098: Feed the Queen There's the new colony of leaf cutter ants at the Victoria Bug Zoo with the potential to reach over more than a million ants.
04.25.2018 HBM097: Fox Teeth The Icelandic government placed a bounty on each Arctic Fox killed (if you can provide its tail as proof).

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What's Here Be Monsters about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Here Be Monsters episodes:

HBM Continues as an Independent Podcast

HBM140: The New Black Wall Street

HBM139: Acceptable Pains

HBM138: Did Neanderthals Bury their Dead?

HBM137: Superhappiness

HBM136: Jacob’s Lost Biography

HBM135: Dying Well

What Can You Hear? (Love Me)

HBM134: Questionable Hobbies of the Socially Isolated

HBM133: Prey of Worms

HBM132: Moral Enhancement

HBM131: A Cure for Carsickness

HBM130: Mother Pigeon / Sister Marta

HBM129: The Underearthlings

HBM128: Seeing Auras

HBM127: QALYs

HBM126: Sounding the Deep

HBM125: Deepfaking Nixon

HBM124: Banana Softies

HBM123: Water Witches

HBM122: Should Cows Have Names?

HBM121: True North

Season 8 = October 2

HBM120: Own Worst Interest

HBM119: An Episode of Pebbles and Twigs

Listen to Lost Notes

HBM118: Mountain Seabed

HBM117: Grave Oversight

HBM116: Finest and Most Rotten (Going Forward)

HBM115: Bound in Walton et al.

HBM114: Envisioning AIDS

HBM113: The Last Ones

HBM112: Negative Space

HBM111: Waiting for Earth

HBM110: Big Numbers

HBM109: Untitled Noises of New York (Sound Matters)

HBM108: Witch of Saratoga

HBM107: Carlo Surrenders

HBM106: Beautiful Stories about Dead Animals (part 2)

Listen to Nocturne

HBM105: Beautiful Stories about Dead Animals (part 1)

HBM104: Scrapheap Reactor

HBM103: Fate’s Notebook

HBM102: Breath Holder

HBM101: Much Corruption

Season 7 and HBM Sweatshirts

HBM100: Faraway Minds

HBM099: Spell for the Repulsion of Astral Vampires

HBM098: Feed the Queen

HBM097: Fox Teeth

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