You Only Guide Me by Surprise

Just off of State Highway 77 in rural Georgia stands America’s very own Stonehenge. It’s the centerpiece of a decades-old mystery involving rogue millionaires, christian mystics, and doomsday cults. I want to know who built it and why.

The Georgia Guidestones

American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse by Randall Sullivan

Nobody Knows How to Interpret This Doomsday Stonehenge in Georgia

On Facebook in 2018, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene endorsed conspiracy theories that 9/11 was an inside job and that Sandy Hook was staged

Elbert County Chamber of Commerce

In Search of a Flat Earth

The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory by Jesse Walker

What Turns Conspiracy Theorists into Killers? | Truth Hurts

Conspiracy Theories, Explained

I’m an environmental journalist, but I never write about overpopulation. Here’s why.

Music by Blue Dot Sessions:

Allston Night Owl

In Passage

Jumbel

Apollo Diedre 

Lowball

Drch

ZigZag Heart

Bivly

Alarm Cycle

An Unknown Visitor

Gilly Wash

Thule Racer

Ultima Thule

A transcript of this episode can be found here.

Unauthorized construction in my new neighborhood leads me to conduct an independent investigation into some of the world’s most mischievous zoning law offenders. The trouble? Only children have ever laid eyes on them. 

Urban Fairies of Ann Arbor

Fairies of Delray

Music by Blue Dot Sessions:

The Crisper 

Pitho Magnus

Eggs and Powder

TwoPound

Lick Stick

Copper Halls

Lo Margin

Crumbtown

The Records

Donnalee

Four Count

Music Box Theme by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4090-music-box-theme

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Comfortable Mystery 2 by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3528-comfortable-mystery-2

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

A transcript of this episode can be found here.

A hijacking.

A transformative veering.

A meditation on the totemic and poetic significance of the dolphin through the ages.

A welcome.

Further reading:

You Only Guide Me By Surprise: Poetry and the Dolphin’s Turn by Peter Sacks

The Dolphin by Robert Lowell

Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo

Delphine by Rainer Maria Rilke

Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats

The Riverman by Elizabeth Bishop

Music by Blue Dot Sessions:

Capilla

VK Mendl

A transcript of this episode is available here.