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  • Weeks 0-52: What I Learned
    Jun 1 2025

    In which the podcaster stops by a diner, tells you what you don’t want to know, tells you what you do want to know, and bids you adieu.


    MY LINKS

    Creative website: http://richardloranger.com
    Literary Services: http://PowerUnit17.com
    Bandcamp page: https://richardloranger.bandcamp.com/

    Email: hello@richardloranger.com


    LINKS & INFO

    Also sprach Zarathustra, tone poem by Richard Strauss

    “Here at the end of all things” – Frodo and Sam escape Mount Doom at the end of Return of the King, dir. Peter Jackson (2003)

    Audacity – Wikipedia page

    Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television – Wikipedia page

    Porky Pig – Wikipedia page

    Theodor Adorno – Wikipedia page

    Frankfurt School – Wikipedia page

    The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman, M.D. and Michael E. Long, Health Sciences Research Commons

    Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke, M.D., NPR interview

    Happy the Clown, entry on Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia webpage

    Balafon – Wikipedia page

    Heather Cox Richardson’s YouTube channel

    Dean Spade’s website

    In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil

    Halley Low on Instagram

    The Wizard of Oz on Wikipedia

    Joy Harjo – Wikipedia page

    Henri Tajfel – Wikipedia page

    Rimski & Handkerchief

    Mary Poppins, dir. Robert Stevenson (1964)

    ”Hello, I Must Be Going,” sung by Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers (1930)

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    48 min
  • Weeks 49-50: I'll Show You the Life of the Mind
    May 17 2025

    Episode 32 – Weeks 49-50: I’ll Show You the Life of the Mind

    In which the podcaster gives a bad review, takes you on a walk to nowhere, and advocates ecstasy as a form of resistance.

    LINKS & INFO

    Also sprach Zarathustra, tone poem by Richard Strauss

    Barton Fink, 1991 film by the Coen Brothers

    Coen Brothers

    Equus, a play by Peter Shaeffer

    Surrealism

    Exquisite corpse

    Influx Blinklists (chapbook)

    Blinklists as text art

    Mammal (Roof Books, 2023)

    San Francisco International Arts Festival

    Dandelion Dance Theater

    Carla Lucero

    Flower Moon

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    52 min
  • Weeks 47-48: The H-Word
    May 4 2025

    Episode 31 – Weeks 47-48: The H-Word

    In which the podcaster explains the tragedy of humankind and you can’t stop laughing.

    LINKS & INFO

    The B-52s

    “Rock Lobster” on YouTube


    https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-do-we-laugh/


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter


    O Brother, Where Art Thou?


    Doctor Strangelove


    Waiting for Guffman


    Galaxy Quest


    Marx Brothers


    What’s Up Doc?


    Mack Sennett


    Rick & Morty


    Madge & Bisket


    Equus

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    36 min
  • Weeks 45-46: Aye, I, Eye
    Apr 19 2025

    Episode 30 – Weeks 45-46: Aye, I, Eye

    In which the podcaster introduces himself, dissolves all boundaries, and stirs up some weather.

    LINKS & INFO

    Moustafa Bayoumi

    graysexuality

    Henri Tajfel

    Mammal, Roof Books, 2023

    Neurodiversity

    Vitreous Detachment


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    7/25/24 - There's a new review of the podcast by Tom Greenwood in a monthly newsletter from Wholegrain Digital, a sustainable web company in UK, at https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56. Yay!

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    50 min
  • Week 44: Resistance Mixtape
    Apr 5 2025

    In which the podcaster reanimates dialog, disobeys much, and proffers ingredients for an albatross stew.

    LINKS & INFO

    Network, dir. Sidney Lumet (1976).
    Speech 1
    Peter Finch as Howard Beale
    Speech 2
    Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen

    Joy Harjo, “The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window” from She Had Some Horses. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983

    Victor Hernandez Cruz, “tu no eres” recorded by Christopher Funkhouser at Naropa Institute, 1991. Rough translation in the episode transcript.

    Barbie, dir. Greta Gerwig (2023)
    America Ferrera as Gloria (main speech)
    Voices in response:
    Alexandra Shipp as Writer Barbie
    Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie
    Margot Robbie as Stereotypical Barbie
    Ariana Greenblatt as Sasha, Gloria's daughter

    Hidden Figures, dir. Theodore Melfi (2016)
    Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Goble Johnson (speech)
    Kevin Costner as Al Harrison, director of the Space Task Group

    Stonewall Forever, dir. Ro Haber, is a documentary from NYC’s LGBT Community Center. You can watch it in its entirety at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjRv7dJTync, and PLEASE DO. The voices that you hear in the excerpts are, in this order, Chella Man, Jay Toole, Martin Boyce, Agosto Machado, Wallace Sanders, Judy Bowen, Sylvia Rivera, Karla Jay, Bianey Garcia, and Zackary Drucker.

    Janice Mirikitani, excerpt from the film Why Is Preparing Fish a Political Act?, dir. Russell Leong (1990)

    Jane Fonda, excerpt from her acceptance speech for a SAG Life Achievement Award, Feb 23, 2025.

    Tongo Eisen-Martin, “The Course of Meal”, recorded for the Create Justice project in 2017.

    Monolog from Episode 1 of The Newsroom, dir. Greg Mottola and written by Aaron Sorkin
    Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy (main speech)
    Other voices (in order):
    David Cromer as Debate Moderator
    Riley Voelkel as Jennifer Johnson
    Elizabeth Marvel as Sharon
    Jason Butler Harner as Lewis

    Senator Cory Booker on the Senate floor, 2:45 pm Eastern Daylight Time on April 1, 2025, 19 hours 45 minutes into a filibuster that went on until 8:05 pm, breaking the record at 25 hours 5 minutes. .

    The Great Dictator, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin (1940).

    THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, APRIL 19.

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    Visit http://richardloranger.com for writings, publications, reading and performance videos, upcoming events, and more! Also a podcast tab that includes large versions of all the episode logos. :)

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    1 h et 18 min
  • Weeks 42-43: Pop Quiz
    Mar 29 2025

    In which the podcaster gives you an unexpected assignment.

    LINKS

    The cut-up lines on the episode logo are from the poem “Final Exam” by Nancy Lambert, taken from the anthology Practising Angels, ed. Michael Mayo, Seismograph Publications (1986). You can find a digital copy of this terrific collection here on the Internet Archive.

    Alien (1979) on Wikipedia (this entry is just for the first film of – currently – seven, along with crossovers and books)

    Gloria Gaynor, “I Will Survive” on YouTube (3:15 version – with lyrics and roller boogie!)

    Check out INeedANewPledge.com for New Pledges of Allegiance

    THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ONE WEEK FROM TODAY ON SATURDAY, APRIL 5.

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    7/25/24 - There's a new review of the podcast by Tom Greenwood in a monthly newsletter from Wholegrain Digital, a sustainable web company in UK, at https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56. Yay!

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    24 min
  • Weeks 40-41: That Man Behind the Curtain
    Mar 16 2025

    In which the podcaster puts on a classic, takes off some masks, and explains the politics of the moment.

    LINKS

    The Wizard of Oz on Wikipedia (includes a link to the page about the books)

    Muriel Rukeyser on Wikipedia

    Adrienne Rich on Wikipedia

    No More Masks! anthology – page on poets.org
    (has a couple of links to purchase that are not Amazon)

    To find Meta Support for Instagram or Facebook, you need to pay for Meta Verified at $11.99 per month. (Don’t sign up till you need it – then you can cancel later.) Besides a little checkmark by your profile pic, one of the benefits is called Enhanced Support, meaning you can get help via chat. Of course if you’re locked out of your account, you can’t access the support option either. But if you have both a Facebook and an Instagram account, you can start Meta Verified on the one can access and report the problem with the other account. It might take a few days (they say). As of this posting I haven’t heard from them about my hacked Facebook account after three days, so who knows – but I do know someone who got his hacked account back through this method. Don’t forget to cancel Meta Verified after everything is fixed (unless you want to keep it).

    THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, MARCH 29.

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    And thanks for listening!

    Visit http://richardloranger.com for writings, publications, reading and performance videos, upcoming events, and more! Also a podcast tab that includes large versions of all the episode logos. :)

    7/25/24 - There's a new review of the podcast by Tom Greenwood in a monthly newsletter from Wholegrain Digital, a sustainable web company in UK, at https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56. Yay!

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    40 min
  • Weeks 38-39: On Losing Things
    Mar 2 2025

    In which the podcaster takes on a tragicomic perspective while shattering glass, misplacing teeth, and taking a joyride through Hollywood.

    LINKS

    Dianoga – Wookieepedia page

    Golden State Film Festival – 2025 Program

    · Not sure this link will hold up, but you can open a pdf of the program. It has a bad interface, but if you click on the three bars on the upper left, you can scroll down it page by page. You’ll find the poster for our film “Force Drift” (which I designed) on page 5.

    Ken Paul Rosenthal’s website (more links in Episode 21)

    Itzhak Perlman on Wikipedia

    Yaakov Andrew Cohen is @realyaakovcohen on Instagram

    THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, MARCH 15.

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    7/25/24 - There's a new review of the podcast by Tom Greenwood in a monthly newsletter from Wholegrain Digital, a sustainable web company in UK, at https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56. Yay!

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    31 min