The Barrels of Bear Brook – pt. 2
Welcome back to The Barrels of Bear Brook. In this installment I will be analyzing the third and fourth episodes titled, “A Smaller Haystack” and “Eunsoon Jun”. Both episodes begin with the infamous narrator Jason…
Category: Podcast Reflections
Dr. Death – “Chris and Jerry” & “Occam’s Razor”
Dr. Christopher Duntsch – the name sends shivers down the spines of medical professionals, forced to remember the personification of the flaws in our own healthcare system. Following the first episode of Dr. Death,…
A Murder on Orchard Street – Episodes 3, 4, and 5
For this weeks blog post I listened to episodes 3, 4, and 5 of A Murder on Orchard Street. Episode 3 was centered on the accused murderer of Burke O’Brien, Forest Bloede, where he actually…
Serial S2E2: The Golden Chicken
In my previous blog entry, we discussed the tale of Bowe Bergdahl, the American Soldier that, in an apparent death wish, left his post and wandered into Taliban controlled Afghanistan. While we do know now…
The Black Tapes part 2
After listening to more episodes from ‘The Black Tapes’ podcast, I heard about many more interesting ghost stories, and noticed some continued patterns from the first episodes. I’ve been interested in the different stories and…
Cults of Our Lives: Part 2
In the next few episodes of The Cults of Our Lives, Halle and Stasie continue to take a deeper look at the world’s most bizarre cults. I listened to four more episodes: Heaven’s Gate, Symbionese Liberation Army,…
Ear Hustle: Part 2
Welcome back to another Ear Hustle blog post installment. To recap, the term “ear hustle” is named after a prison slang for eavesdropping, and the entirety of the podcast takes place inside the San Quentin…
“Anne Hamilton” -Cults-
This episode tells the story of one of the only cults led by a woman. This cult first started as a typical yoga class led by a spiritually motivated woman named Anne Hamilton. This class,…
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Fear is something that all people feel at points in their lives. We can’t live without it, but that doesn’t make it any easier to handle when something frightening is presented to us. A lot…
The Black Tapes – Second Post
One particular element of this podcast series that was prevalent throughout all the episodes that helped linked them together was their consistent structure. Each episode started out with the same introduction music and with the…