The Blindboy Podcast

By BlindboyboatclubComedy Society & Culture Arts Philosophy

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The Blindboy Podcast episodes

July 06, 2022 How a Spanish fisherman lead the CIA to conclude that reality is a Hologram
In 1966 the US military lost an unexploded nuclear bomb in a Spanish fishing village, this incident set off a chain of incredibly bizarre decades long covert research into the nature of reality itself, which has now been declassified
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56 min
June 29, 2022 Teenage Margaret Thatcher Turtles
How the policies of Margaret Thatcher shaped how the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was written and animated. A extract a boiling hot take through critique of the franchise
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1 hr
June 21, 2022 Speaking to a Cyberpsychologist about the psychology of online behaviour
Dr.Nicola Fox Hamilton is a cyberpsychologist. We chat about what social media is doing to our minds and behavior. Can it make us more hostile? What is the science behind internet trolls? Is social media addictive? And how will VR impact our brains?
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1 hr 32 min
June 15, 2022 CIA involvement in 20th century literature
Art has been appropriated for military purposes throughout the 20th century. Camouflage was inspired by Cubism, Abstract art was used as anti-soviet propaganda and In the 1950's the CIA covertly funded literary magazines to service US Imperialism.
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59 min
June 08, 2022 Swingers Saunas and American cows eating Skittles
A relaxing hot take about Swingers Saunas and American Cows who are force-fed Skittles. Also some mental health chats about anxiety and anger
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59 min
June 01, 2022 The Linear understanding of Time in European Art
Art hot takes from a covid fever dream. Western culture historically understands time to be linear, fixed, and unmovable. I explore the ways this impacted European portrait painting and how West African art changed it
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1 hr 3 min
May 24, 2022 Louise McSharry
I chat with Louise McSharry who is an experienced radio presenter and broadcaster and now hosts her own podcast.
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1 hr 5 min
May 17, 2022 The Myth of the Valley of Madness
Irish Mythology Podcast. For 2000 years, stories have been told that the Slieve Mish Mountains of Kerry can cure mental illness in those who visit. I explore the stories and tales from this area and the recent scientific studies that might explain why.
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56 min
May 11, 2022 The Testicular Musk of a Debs Pants Gusset
I interrogate the semiotics of other people's sweat on rented tuxedos and suits. Also, I speak about a short technique to increase your creativity, which anybody can use.
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58 min
May 04, 2022 The strange English dystopian Sci Fi Novel about Ireland
Ossians Ride is an unintentionally hilarious paranoid English novel written in 1959 about a futuristic Ireland that can obtain nuclear weapons from Turf. I pick it apart and contrast it with other Dystopian fiction. Long Hot Takes
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1 hr 42 min