Here Be Monsters
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Here Be Monsters
An independent podcast about fear, beauty and the unknown. Since 2012. Hosted by Jeff Emtman and others.
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184 epizod
HBM159: Final Haircuts
During a moment of personal turmoil, Rocky Villanueva gets an email from a long-time client. His client is in his final weeks of life, and is getting...
The Thaw & Die Grenze
Jeff walks to the edge of Berlin and explains why the Here Be Monsters feed has been quiet for so long.
On the way, Jeff talks about plans for...
HBM158: An Illusion
n the midst of a stressful move, HBM producer Jeff Emtman finds comfort in the phasing techniques developed by minimalist composer, Steve Reich.
HBM157: The Raw Whatever
Allen H Greenfield is a UFOlogist and occult researcher. He’s also a father of three.
His first child, Alex was the subject of HBM155: Ghosts...
HBM156: Heavy Load-Bearing Body
Berlin’s Schwerbelastungskörper is a massive concrete structure that, today, is hidden in plain sight between a railroad and an apartment building. I...
The HBM Art Exchange is Back!
The Here Be Monsters Art Exchange is back!
It’s a really simple and wonderful thing where you, gentle listener, can mail a piece of art to a str...
HBM155: Ghosts Aliens Burritos
Content Note: pervasive language, brief mentions of bigotry.
Alex Greenfield says that there was no such thing as a normal day when he was a kid...
HBM154: Ancient Roman Recipes
Sally Grainger was originally a chef, but in her 20’s, she was gifted a copy of an ancient Roman cookbook called Apicius.
Apicius is a bit of a...
The Straight and Narrow
In 2012, a street preacher walking three small dogs tried to convince Jeff Emtman of his way of thinking about gender and the afterlife.
In thi...
HBM153: Klänge from Berlin
The composer Pauline Oliveros thought there was a difference between hearing and listening. She defined hearing as a passive act, something done with...
HBM152: Dirt Becomes You
What do you want to happen to your body when you die? It’s a touchy topic where tradition, religion and death denial all come into play. But across...
HBM151: Blowgun Time Warp
Season 10 of Here Be Monsters starts and host Jeff Emtman hallucinates his adolescence while working long hours. Scenes from middle school dances, da...
Season 10 is Coming!
Season 10 is nearly here! The season starts on March 9th and episodes will be released on a rolling basis until all ten shows are published.
Wa...
Leaving Spotify
I’ve decided to remove my work from Spotify. It’s not just their recent controversies around Joe Rogan, it’s a much bigger problem with the way that...
HBM150: Cold Water
The origins of Julia Susara’s chronic fatigue are hard to pin down. She still doesn’t know exactly how it started but suspects that a deeply broken h...
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HBM149: The Daily Blast [Neutrinowatch]
A short episode from the new show Neutrinowatch: A Daily Generative Podcast. Each episode of Neutrinowatch changes a lil’ bit every day.
This...
So What Exactly is Episode 149?
Episode 149 is an odd duck for sure. It changes every day due to some coding trickery that is happening behind the scenes.
That episode is a p...
HBM148: Early Attempts at Summoning Dream Beings
As a teenager, HBM host Jeff Emtman fell asleep most nights listening to Coast To Coast AM, a long running talk show about the world’s weirdnesses. ...
HBM147: Chasing Tardigrades
With much of the world shut down over the last year, HBM host Jeff Emtman started wondering if there were smaller venues where the world still felt op...
Theodora is @hypo_inspo
A brief follow-up to last episode: you can now follow our AI-powered friend Theodora on Twitter! She tweets several times a day, giving bad advice, g...
HBM146: Theodora
How does a computer learn to speak with emotion and conviction?
Language is hard to express as a set of firm rules. Every language rule seems...
HBM145: The Juice Library
Like so many others, Amanda Petrus got a bit lost after college. She had a chemistry degree and not a lot of direction. But she was able to find work...
HBM144: Keeping A Place
HBM Host Jeff Emtman has always been afraid of losing his memories. Places he cares about keep getting torn down.
In this episode, Jeff bikes ar...
HBM143: Laughing Rats and Dawn Rituals
Animals sometimes make noises that would be impossible to place without context. In this episode: three types of animal vocalizations—described by th...
HBM142: The Vastness of the Universe
1,420,405,751* hertz is a very important frequency. It’s the frequency that hydrogen radiates at, creating radio waves that can be detected far away....
HBM141: Filthy Riches
When a group of broke college students start throwing lavish feasts, HBM host Jeff Emtman begins to wonder at the source of the food, initially assumi...
Season 9 = February 17th
Season 9 will be here soon! We’ll bring you ten new episodes about fear, beauty and the unknown.
We’ll see the fight for survival and beauty...
HBM Continues as an Independent Podcast
For the last five years, Here Be Monsters has been a part of KCRW. And in those years, we’ve put out a 100+ episodes under KCRW’s imprint.
HBM140: The New Black Wall Street
There used to be a neighborhood in Tulsa where Black people were wealthy. They owned businesses, built a giant church, a public library. Some Black Tu...
HBM139: Acceptable Pains
Hedonism seems pretty appealing right now—seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. On HBM137: Superhappiness, the hedonist philosopher, David Pearce imagin...
HBM138: Did Neanderthals Bury their Dead?
There’s a large cave in the foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan. It looks out over green and yellow fields and a river far below. Starting in the 1950’s, the...
HBM137: Superhappiness
David Pearce thinks it's possible to end suffering. He’s a philosopher* who studies “hedonic zero”, the state of being which is completely neutral--ne...
HBM136: Jacob's Lost Biography
In 2012, Jacob Lemanski started writing his autobiography a few words at a time when he signed his name on the digital card readers at the grocery sto...
HBM135: Dying Well
We live in a culture of “death denial”. That’s what Amanda Provenzano thinks. She sees it when medical professionals use euphemisms like ‘passing away...
HBM134: Questionable Hobbies of the Socially Isolated
Searching for something to do during government-mandated social distancing, Here Be Monsters host Jeff Emtman recently digitized his cassette collecti...
HBM133: Prey of Worms
Bodies are odd. Anyone who can see their own nose will tell you the same. So will anyone whose diet changed their body odor. And so will anyone who...
HBM132: Moral Enhancement
Natalia Montes was a teenager living in Florida when Travyon Martin was killed. She says his picture reminded her of her classmates, “It could have h...
HBM131: A Cure for Carsickness
Bethany Denton has a long history of carsickness. Ever since she was a little girl, long car rides made her nauseous and gave her stomachaches. Once,...
HBM130: Mother Pigeon / Sister Marta
Mother Pigeon says the wild animals of New York City are hungry. So she feeds them.
Each morning, a flock of about 150 pigeons waits for her at...
HBM129: The Underearthlings
Lars Christian Kofoed Rømer claims his red hat is mere coincidence. He wears it because his mother-in-law knit it for him 15 years ago and he quite li...