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Human Meme episodes
- Don't FallJudge Judy has two words for us, and two words only: DON'T FALL! We explore aging, and health, and the physiological, and social norms, of falling, and of being, felled.11 min
- Aching Actor ArchetypesWhat happens to a classically trained actor who turns to a life in television? We take a turn as he discovers the vortex where talent and expectation meet to find an undivine end in 1970s episodic television.18 min
- Love is Never EnoughIf we have one, singular, predictable, human failing it is this: We LOVE too much! Yes, love is NOT the answer. Love is never enough. Love is overrated, overexposed, and over-occupied! We take the Tricorn love beast for a wrangle in the depths of definition.10 min
- Black English? Black Accent?Can you identify someone's Race only by listening to the way they speak? Can you identify someone's Race by the way they pronounce words? Can you identify someone's Race by the the way they pattern a spoken phrase? We investigate the definition of speech against Race against the color of expectation.15 min
- Shooting the American West WesternValues of the American West have been preserved in television. We watch the history of the Wild West unfold in many broadcast television series that aired over three decades. What is lost to history? Was anything won back in the dramatizations?12 min
- Entrenching the Thucydides TrapThucydides warned us against war with the minority power. We extend the argument of the Thucydides Trap into the trenches of living a modern, conflicted, life.11 min
- Writing is Not a Collaborative ProcessWe write to reveal, but we must act alone. We share how collaboration is important -- but only when it is done separately and apart -- as a writing project.13 min
- How to Know a Bad SingerA singer ruins a slow song with slow singing. We share analysis of three, infamous, "slow singer" failures: Alison Krauss, Rumer, and Diana Krall! Plus, he shares some bonus singers along the way!13 min
- Blackballed: Audree NortonYou beat back a Blackball by ignoring the Blackball. We share the aesthetic legacy of Deaf actress, Audree Norton, who fought against discrimination of the minority, by the minority, in casting -- and for her historic effort -- she was Blackballed by the television industry.12 min
- After the Flood: Hacking the Human Meme PodcastWater, and the purpose of wild sound, persevere against dominion. We share a destructive flood story of redaction, and he reveals the technical derring-do of recording, producing, and publishing this podcast.23 min
About Human Meme
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The Human Meme podcast examines what separates human consciousness from mere biological existence. Each episode investigates the inherited behaviors, cultural transmissions, and cognitive patterns…
that replicate across generations, shaping how we think, grieve, speak, and remember. David Boles, a New York City writer, publisher, and teacher, hosts these conversations as mindfulness with teeth: no production music, no easy comfort, only the direct inquiry into what makes us recognizably human. Since 2016, the podcast has asked why we weep emotional tears, how language emerged from gesture, and whether memory constructs or reveals the self. The irrevocable aesthetic is the commitment to answers that, once understood, cannot be unknown. Be a Human Meme.