Reaction Post: Conversations with People Who Hate Me: Episode 32: Trash

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In the summer of 2017 journalist Katie Herzog wrote a piece that was widely criticized. Ultimately she found herself at the bottom of a social media pile-on. 3,000 miles east of Katie, a woman named Robyn Kanner joined that pile-on tweeting “ur just trash.” In this episode, taped live in front an audience, Katie and Robyn meet onstage for the first time to discuss what happened between them, and the unlikely twist that brought them closer than they would have ever guessed.

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Reaction Post: The Orbiting Human Circus S2: Naughty Till New Years: Sixthly, the Flea Talks

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Tim Robbins stars as the flea. Yes, we convinced an Oscar winner to portray a flea. Poor man. He did nothing to deserve this.

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Reaction Post: Sleep With Me Podcast: 842 – Sanctuary | Mandoborian on Mandalorian Chapter 4

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A sleepy little planet stocks a larder fully of lotr larping bedtimes stories for you.

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Reaction Post: Sleep With Me Podcast: 843 – Mini Golf Memories

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We will take a gently trip to a dreamy glen of golf and your sleeplessness will be minimized.

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Reaction Post: Sleep With Me Podcast: 844 – Knott’s Berry Farm with Ray

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Pillowy biscuits will float like a theme log ride across your dreams as you slumber as we take a trip with my neighbor Ray to a chicken dinner, a water park and America’s first theme park.

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Reaction Post: Sleep With Me Podcast: 845 – The Gumchewer | Mandoborian on Mandalorian Ep5

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Kind and bright eyes will be your safe sitter as you dream of rolling dunes.

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Reaction Post: Sleep With Me Podcast: 846 – Becoming a Working Artist

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A seminar of snoozes as I lay out a plan to podcast full time.

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Reaction Post: Start With This: Writing for Performance (Live from Boston)

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We’re live from Boston with special guest Bilal Dardai, alum of the Neo-Futurist theater company and writer for the podcast “Unwell.” In this episode we talk about writing specifically for performance.

Consume: Gnome Sane by Joey Rizzolo, New York Neo-Futurists

Create: Write a 100-word story, 3rd person, someone confessing a crime. Then, write it again in 1st person by the person confessing. Then write it one more time for live performance. Think about what the performer should do with their body. How is the audience involved?

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Reaction Post: Harry Potter and the Sacred Text: Affirmation: The Unknowable Room (Bk 6, Ch 21)

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Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of Affirmation in chapter twenty-one of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This week Casper and Vanessa discuss Harry and Hermione’s different relationships with house-elves, Ron’s sense of sufficiency, and some icky sexist moments that stuck out in this chapter. Throughout the episode we consider the question: Can you affirm yourself?

Thanks to Sam Blanckensee for this week's voicemail! If you want to read our response to J.K. Rowling’s tweet, you can find it here. Next week we’re reading Chapter twenty-two, After the Burial, through the theme of Bitterness.

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Reaction Post: Harry Potter and the Sacred Text: Bitterness: After the Burial (Bk 6, Ch 22)

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Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of Bitterness in chapter twenty-two of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This week Casper and Vanessa discuss why Hermione doesn’t want to go to Aragog’s funeral, whether Slughorn does a good eulogy, and Miriam from the story of Exodus. Throughout the episode we consider the question: Does bitterness have something to do with sorrow?

Thanks to Eve for this week's voicemail! Next week we’re reading chapter twenty-three, Horcruxes, through the theme of Memory.

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Reaction Post: Harry Potter and the Sacred Text: Memory: Horcruxes (Bk 6, Ch 23)

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Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of Memory in chapter twenty-three of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This week Casper and Vanessa discuss Harry’s resemblance to Tom Riddle, Dumbledore’s impending doom, and their different theories of the soul. Throughout the episode we consider the question: what’s our theory of the difference between a memory and a story we tell ourselves?

Thanks to Clover for this week's voicemail! Next week we’re reading chapter twenty-four, Sectumsempra, through the theme of Regret with special guest Nadia Boltz-Weber.

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