A Red Dot
Frank has been an advocate for the perhaps the most universally abhorred group in America: sex offenders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 24, 2015•56 min•Season 4Ep. 17
Love and Radio
Nick van der Kolk's Love and Radio features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. Get inside the mind of a rogue taxidermist. Find out what it's like to experience a stroke firsthand. Or spend time with an artist who gives away her life savings every night. You've never heard anything like it before.
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Greetings from Coney Island
Rachel Prince receives a mysterious letter from 1938. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 29, 2015•28 min•Season 4Ep. 15
The Adventures of Zoe Nightingale
For the last few years, Zoe Nightingale has been recording random, often hilarious, and sometimes harrowing conversations with people from all walks of life, exploring the balancing act of sin and virtue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 25, 2015•25 min•Season 4Ep. 14
Paremoremo
Paul Wood was sentenced to life in prison for murder at age 18, and began his adult life negotiating the social dynamics of some of New Zealand's toughest prisons, including the maximum security wing of Paremoremo Prison (now Auckland Prison). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 23, 2015•35 min•Season 4Ep. 13
Thank You, Princess
Ceara Lynch has a ten year career as a self-described humiliatrix, catering to a wide variety of sexual fetishes over the internet, and gaining exposure to a unique part of the human psyche. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 27, 2015•47 min•Season 4Ep. 11
The Living Room
Diane's new neighbors across the way never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 06, 2015•23 min•Season 4Ep. 10
An Old Lion, or a Lover’s Lute
Jerome and Ana work a couple blocks from one another in Oakland, California. When Jerome called out to her in the street, she pulled out her microphone and asked if he could repeat what he said to her. This is the conversation that followed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 19, 2014•29 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Of Birds and Boundaries
An eruv is a ritual enclosure that allows religious Jews to negate rules against carrying certain objects (like housekeys or strollers) during the Sabbath. This conversation is not about that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 25, 2014•29 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Choir Boy
Tom Justice is passionate about cycling, and was on the shortlist for the US Olympic Team. Also, he’s a bank robber. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 21, 2014•34 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Sesquipedalian
Charles Farrell was born to a sophisticated middle class family in Boston, but at age 12, he left home and came of age on the street, joining “low-life culture”, the underbelly of boxing, and avant garde piano. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 29, 2014•49 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Hostile Planet
We think of certain events as profoundly life-altering. Getting married or emigrating to a new country, say. But you can always get divorced, and you can almost always move back. Taylor is weighing a life decision from which there would be no turning back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 13, 2014•24 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Another Planet
The true story of Clyde Casey, a street performer who used surrealism and abstract art to fight crime in Los Angeles’ Skid Row in the 1980s, and the creator of a place called Another Planet. Also featuring the voices of Tim Robbins (yes, THAT Tim Robbins), Lonnie Johnson, Flame Simon, and Richard Haxton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 08, 2014•32 min•Season 4Ep. 2
The Silver Dollar
Music is Daryl Davis’ profession, but extreme racism is his obsession. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 27, 2014•39 min•Season 4Ep. 1
The Pandrogyne
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is the founding fa/mo/ther of Industrial music, a performance artist, and a very, very, very devoted husband. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 10, 2013•28 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Jack and Ellen
Hey kids, this interview isn’t for you. You should skip this one. Ellen was struggling for money, working as a Subway “sandwich artist” (yes, that’s a real thing). So she decided to find a new job, and settled on one that allowed her to make over $30,000 for just a couple hours of work each … Continue reading Jack and Ellen → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 21, 2013•30 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Greenberg’s War
Lewis Greenberg is an artist unlike any other, a winner of the coveted Geezer of the Year award, and a man on a mission–much to the chagrin of his Ballwin, Missouri neighbors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 22, 2012•23 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Seventy Weeks
Andre Taylor identified strongly with Daniel from the Bible, who interpreted the visions and dreams of kings. And like Daniel, he spent 3 years in a Babylonian captivity of sorts. But Daniel never had quite the unorthodox career path of Andre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 19, 2012•35 min•Season 3Ep. 2
The Man in the Road
On a late night along an empty Utah highway, Melvin Dummar says he came across a bloodied man lying by the road. It’s cliched to say this, but it’s really true: the story of that discovery would profoundly alter the course of his life forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 26, 2011•26 min•Season 2Ep. 5
The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt
Jay Thunderbolt’s business card is a little mysterious. It reads, “Thunderbolt – Party Naked” and gives a phone number. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 11, 2011•28 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Dirty Balloons
Amy was dead broke when she found a Craigslist ad looking for a balloon porn fetish model. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 09, 2010•30 min•Season 2Ep. 2
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