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Sean Thomas Kane
This podcast is a broadcasted version of Seán Kane's Wednesday Blog. Covering topics from history to natural history, astronomy, and language, the Wednesday Blog offers listeners a thoughtful reflection in the middle of each week. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sean-thomas-kane/support
This week, for the penultimate post of the Wednesday Blog, how machinery needs constant maintenance to keep functioning.
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Sources:
[1] Surekha Davies, “Walter Raleigh’s headless monsters and annotation as thinking,” in Strange and Wonderous: Notes from a Science Historian, (6 October 2025).
[2] “Asking the Computer,” Wednesday Blog 5.26.
This week, how living in a culture is required to speak a language in depth.
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Sources:
[1] “A Letter from San Juan,” Wednesday Blog 3.29.
[2] “The North American Tour,” Wednesday Blog 5.34.
This week, bringing together my research and my life through wine.
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Sources:
[1] Thevet, Singularitez, 14v.
[2] Thevet, Singularitez, 15r.
[3] Thevet, Singularitez, 159r.
[4] Thevet, Singularitez, 15v.
[5] Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 4 vols., (Paris, 1873-1877)s.v. « mignol. »
[6] Florike Egmond, Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630,(Reaktion Books, 2017), 30; Mackenzie Cooley, The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance,(University of Chicago Press, 2022), 101.
[7] Thevet, Singularitez, 18v.
[8] Thevet, Singularitez, 19r.
[9] Thevet, Singularitez, 19v.
[10] Thevet, Singularitez, 19v-20r.
[11] Homer, Odyssey 9.403, trans. Fagles.
This week, recent events have inspired me to think about the wide, wide world on a smaller scale.
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Click here to buy a copy of my book Travels in Time Across Europe which tells the stories from my year living in London that began 10 years ago this week.
This week, on the current round of redistricting sweeping through Missouri.
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Sources
[1] “On Democracy,” Wednesday Blog 5.39.
[2] “We, Irish Americans,” Wednesday Blog 6.10.
[3] “On Servant Leadership,” Wednesday Blog 6.15.
[4] “Freedom from Fear,” Wednesday Blog 2.6; “Embodied Patriotism,” Wednesday Blog 6.26.
[5] “Governor Kehoe announces special session on congressional redistricting and initiative petition reform,” Office of the Governor of the State of Missouri, 29 August 2025.
[6] “A Scary Time For Chicago | Trump Gets FOMO Over China's Military Parade | Donald's Life Lessons,” The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (3 September 2025), YouTube.
[7] “A Defense of Humanism in a Time of War,” Wednesday Blog 6.24.
This week, comparing the benefits of pleasure with the rewards of good work.
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Sources:
- Photo: © Juan Valentín CC BY-NC 4.0 https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/427040191. No modifications made. Available under public license. Image slightly cropped length-wise for podcast episode art.
- [1] André Thevet, Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique, (Antwerp, 1558), 4v ; Aristotle, Situations and Names of Winds 973b, 12–13.
- [2] Homer, Odyssey 9.106–110, trans. Robert Fagles, (Penguin, 1996), 214.
- [3] Homer, Odyssey 9.110–117, trans. Fagles, 214.
- [4] Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1118a.
- [5] Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1118a, 8.
This week, how the greatest wisdom is simple in nature.
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Sources:
Photo by Elizabeth Duke.
[1] Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek: The Saint’s Life of Alexis Zorba, trans. Peter Bien, (Simon and Schuster, 1946, 2014), 81.
[2] “Elephant Tails,” Wednesday Blog 5.24.
[3] “Asking the Computer,” Wednesday Blog 5.26.
[4] “On Political Violence,” Wednesday Blog 5.17.
This week, I reflect on the flexibility of the word world.
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This week, I argue that we must have some degree of artifice to organize our thoughts and recognize the things we see in our world.
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Sources:
[1] For my recent essays referring to this current historiographic project see “On Sources,” Wednesday Blog 6.22, “On Writing,” Ibid., 6.27, and “On Knowledge,” Ibid., 6.29.
[2] Lee Alan Dugatkin, Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose, (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
[3] Staffan Müller-Wille, “Linnean Lens | Linnaeus’ Lapland Journey Diary (1732),“ moderated by Isabelle Charmantier, virtual lecture, 12 May 2025, by the Linnean Society of London, YouTube, 1:04:18, link here.
[4] Jason Roberts, Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life, (Random House, 2024), 45–49.
[5] Roberts, 20.
[6] Roberts, 115–125.
[7] Roberts, 109.
[8] André Thevet, Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique, (Antwerp, 1558), 16r–16v. The translation is my own.
[9] Roberts, 109.
[10] Damião de Góis, Chronica do Felicissimo Rei Dom Emanuel, 4 vols., (Lisbon, 1566–1567).
[11] Geraldine Heng, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 190.
[12] Roberts, 110.
[13] Michael Wintroub, A Savage Mirror: Power, Identity, and Knowledge in Early Modern France, (Stanford University Press, 2006), 42.
[14] Roberts, xii.
[15] Roberts, 107.
[16] Roberts, 96–98.
[17] Michael Allin, Zarafa: A Giraffe’s True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris, (Delta, 1998).
This week, I express my dismay at how fast time seems to be moving for me of late and how it reflects the existence of various sources of knowledge in our world.
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Sources:
[1] Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age, (University of Chicago Press, 2025), 603.
[2] If this word epistemology leaves you confused, have no fear, for my own benefit as well I wrote a blog post explaining this word alongside two of its compatriots. “Three Ologies,” Wednesday Blog 6.6 (podcast 5.6).
This week, I want to address how we recognize knowledge in comparison to the various fields of inquiry through which we refine our understanding of things.
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Art
Raphael, The School of Athens (1509–1511), Apostolic Palace, Vatican Museums, Vatican City. Public Domain.
Sources
- “On Writing,” Wednesday Blog 6.27.
- Surekha Davies, Humans: A Monstrous History, (University of California Press, 2025).
- Marcy Norton, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492, (Harvard University Press, 2024), 307.
- Dead Poets Society, (1989) "What will your verse be?" Video on YouTube.
This week, I discuss some of the things which are common to all of us, problems we all share, and why I think we ought to look at solving those problems.
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This week, some words about the art, and the craft, of writing.
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Links in this episode:
- Patrick Kingsley, Ronen Bergman, and Natan Odenheimer, “How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power,” The New York Times Magazine, (11 July 2025).
- John McWhorter, “It’s Time to Let Go of ‘African American’,” The New York Times, (10 July 2025).
- Bishop Mark J. Seitz, D.D., “The Living Vein of Compassion’: Immigration & the Catholic Church at this moment,” Commonweal Magazine, (June 2025), 26–32.
- “On Technology,” The Wednesday Blog 5.2.
- “Artificial Intelligence,” The Wednesday Blog 4.1.
This week, on the patriotism we live in our ordinary lives.
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In honor of Independence Day, here is a recitation of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
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This week, some words on endings.
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This week, why we should not lose sight of our common humanity in a time of war.
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This week's sources:
[1] “Masks,” Wednesday Blog 4.15.
[2] Luke 10:27 (New American Bible).
[3] St. Augustine, Confessions 8.7.
[4] Joan-Pau Rubiés, “The Renaissance of Encounters and the Renaissance of Antiquities,” Renaissance Quarterly 78, no. 1 (2025): 1–41, at 12.
[5] Philippe Desan, Montaigne: A Life, trans. Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal, (Princeton University Press, 2017), xxxiii.
[6] “On the Cannibals,” Wednesday Blog 4.20.
This week, the coalescence of my thoughts over the last few months about how the way we communicate today in 2025 is so rooted in our technology.
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This week, the fourth in several scribblings about my research: borrowing from Oscar Wilde, the importance of being earnest with one’s sources.
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Sources:
- Ologies Podcast: https://www.alieward.com/ologies
- "Metropolis," Wednesday Blog 3.20: https://wednesdayblog.org/2023/01/11/metropolis/.
- Marie V. Alessandro, "The Workers of Metropolis" in Cinema at UMass Boston, (6 November 2020), https://blogs.umb.edu/cinemastudies/2020/11/06/workers-of-metropolis/
- Surekha Davies, “Here be black holes: Like sea monsters on premodern maps, deep-space images are science’s fanciful means to chart the edges of the known world,” Aeon (13 July 2020), https://aeon.co/essays/how-black-holes-are-like-sea-monsters-at-the-edge-of-our-vision.
- Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Ed., Notes-Bibliography System Quick Guide, https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html.
- Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, trans. S.G.C. Middlemore, (London, 1878): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2074.
This week, the third in several scribblings about my research: how studying Thevet and his world fulfills a need to find purpose in life.
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This week, the second in several scribblings about my research: why I chose to study André Thevet and build my career on the mound of his works.
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This week, the first in several scribblings about my research: how I connect historic places in my sources with their modern names.
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This week, I spoke with a friend who converted to Catholicism as an adult about her conversion and how she relates to the Catholic Church as a whole.
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This week, I reflect on the role of love in balancing between self-praise and community in a discussion of vanity.
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This week, some comments about my trip to Boston last month and reflections on that resilient city.
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This week, in memory of His Holiness Pope Francis and of the revolutionary anniversaries in America and Ireland this week, some words on the humility necessary for the best sorts of leaders.
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This week, reflections on Michel de Montaigne’s perception of his changing character throughout his life.
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This week, how our relationship with the natural world reflects on our relationships with each other.
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Photo by Hariprasad Ashwene, 2024.
This week, a few words on taking life slower.
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This week, how I take nuance and particularity into account in my efforts as a translator.
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This week, what does it mean for my community to call ourselves Irish Americans?
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This week, a meditation on the Name of God.
Art: Studio of El Greco, "Agony in the Garden," (1590) oil on canvas, 102 x 131 cm, Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, Ohio, USA, National Gallery, London.
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This week, a few words on homeownership.
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How distractions can be beneficial or detrimental, from a certain point of view.
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I recommend you now listen to: On Pauses
A link to the WBEZ Chicago story referenced in this episode.
This week, talking through three terms I’ve historically had trouble understanding: epistemology, ontology, and teleology.
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This week, how numbers are both a universal language and symbols representing deeper meaning.
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This week, I discuss how my experience working with genealogy databases helped prepare me to be a professional researcher.
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This week, some thoughts on the divestment of our social media attention and why I choose to use different platforms for different sorts of messages.
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Photo of the author by Hariprasad Ashwene, 2024.
This week, looking ahead to the next 25 years here are three things that I hope we see become ordinary things by 2050.
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This week, to begin Season 5, I discuss some hopes of mine for the first quarter of the twenty-first century through reflections on three things that I imagined might be possible twenty-five years ago.
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Season 4 Finale: This week, to celebrate Christmas I’ve decided to write a bit about naming conventions that I’ve come across, and to explain why I use my full name professionally.
Nollaig shona daoibh | Merry Christmas!
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This week, for my birthday I want to write to you about my belief in all of us and how democracy remains our best hope.
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This week, how the same tools can be used to weave a variety of different stories.
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This week, some notes on the story I released here last week, more about Carruthers Smith and the other stories who populate that tale.
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This week, a story about excess and secrets all in a museum built by an old reclusive Gilded Age tycoon named Carruthers Smith.
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The episode artwork this week was generated by Dreamstudio. I really need to get back to sketching.
This week, an odd sort of sorrow that explains my reading habits.
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This week, some words on the places I visited and the people I met on this North American Tour I finished on Sunday.
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This week, to start November, a realization I had recently about how to overcome less severe colds.
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Photo: a moose diorama on display at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia taken by the author in August 2022.
This week, I have a spooky short story for you, based on an experience I had over the summer.
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Photo: an empty corridor in the Paris Métro as seen by the author on the evening when this spooky story takes place.
This week, some words about silence in communication.
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Photo: the poster for the new film "Lee" which is discussed in this episode.
This week, I want to write to you about the revealed joys found in the experience of editing.
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This week, I discuss the two Irish words for the horse, and what they tell us about the history of the Irish language.
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This week, a great celebration commences in our national pastime.
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This week, to conclude a month of chaos I interviewed environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb about his book Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter.
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Links
- Ben Goldfarb's Website: https://www.bengoldfarb.com
- NOAA Fisheries, "Oregon Beavers Engineer Better Fish Habitat, More Fish," 14 July 2016.
- Popular Science, "From the Archives: Do Beavers Rule on Mars?", 6 May 2022.
- Harvest Public Media, "The Midwest and Great Plains are gearing up for water fights fueled by climate change", 3 Sep 2024.
Photo Credit: Beaver in the Pipestone Creek, Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota. Photo: Gabe Yellowhawk. Public Domain. Learn more here.
This week, I address news that the latest version of ChatGPT will help with your math problems.
Links:
- New York Times, 12 Sep. 2024, Cade Metz, "OpenAI Unveils New ChatGPT That Can Reason Through Math and Science."
- Eddie Burback, 1 Sep. 2024, "AI is here. What now?" YouTube.
This week, some moderation in Maverick’s “need for speed.”
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This week, some animalistic thoughts.
Photo credit: Fighting African Elephants in Stanley Field Hall. Taxidermy by Carl Akeley . 41411 is on the left with two tusks and its trunk is raised. 41410 is on the right, with one tusk. (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
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This week, I take you along on an investigation I undertook recently into a family heirloom from World War II.
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In the last week, I’ve learned about the impermanence of things after a flood struck our house.
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In celebration of the last few weeks of the Summer Olympics in Paris, I want to write to you about the optimism that the Olympics embody.
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This week, how it’s good to pause and notice the ways we supersede older things with the new while benefiting from the old all the same.
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This week, some words on two books about exploration that I’ve read this summer: Hampton Sides’s The Wide Wide Sea, and Michael Palin’s Erebus.
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This past weekend, history was made when President Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. The next 48 hours inspired tremendous hope again.
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This week, I feel compelled by this past weekend’s events to write about the follies of political violence.
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This week, I have a short story for you that I wrote three years ago after the death of a dear friend.
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This week, I’m writing to you with this week’s holiday in mind, with some of my aspirations and hopes for America.
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This week, a few words about the trip I just completed to London and Paris.
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This week, I have a short story for you, in the style of an Irish aisling, a dream narrative, about a tiger basking in the warm February sun.
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This week, I conclude my three-part reflection on Dante’s Divine Comedy with the Paradiso.
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Last week, I wrote my thoughts on the first cantica of Dante’s Divine Comedy. This week then, the second part, the Purgatorio.
All quotations from the Divine Comedy come from Robin Kirkpatrick’s English translation published in the 2012 Penguin edition.
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A while ago, I began reading Dante's Divine Comedy. So, over the next three weeks I will be writing my own reflections on each of its three parts. This week then, I begin with the Inferno.
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- Dante: Inferno to Paradise, https://dantedocumentary.com
- The Blues Brothers, "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love and Sweet Home Chicago," https://youtu.be/FrLZoQUl2mQ?si=g9rLDM6ZPM7tXJ97
- Molly Fischer, "The Tyranny of Terrazzo: Will the millennial aesthetic ever end?", The Cut: New York Magazine, (3 March 2020), https://www.thecut.com/2020/03/will-the-millennial-aesthetic-ever-end.html
- Ian McKellen's performance in Macbeth "Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow" speech (5.5.17–28): https://youtu.be/4LDdyafsR7g?si=3qgAmsaKW6oKJKXq
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Last week, I listened to an essay from the New York Times Magazine about the possibility that one might lose their first language if they use another too much. Today then, I write to my own experience in this matter.
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Last week, the 7th of May 2024, marked the 200th anniversary of the premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Today then, I want to talk with you about the hope which runs through that Ode to Joy.
The recordings of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony heard in this episode came from the 1956 album by the ProMusica Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under the direction of Jascha Horenstein and are free to use under the Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal label and can be found in full at archive.org.
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This past weekend, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art debuted a new retrospective exhibit on the life and work of Franco-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle. One of her great initiatives was to express rebellious joy in her art, especially later in her career.
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Over the last week, I've been thinking about how much I still use cash, and what that says about my lifestyle as a whole.
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Over the last week, I've been thinking about the standards we define to cast a model of normality, or in an older term normalcy. This week then, I try to answer the question of what even is normal?
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This Monday, North America experienced its second total solar eclipse in the last decade.
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This week, after going down the rabbit hole of the Chicago Manual of Style's monthly Q&A newsletter, I thought I'd talk a bit about grammar.
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Last week, I returned to Chicago, this time on a business trip to attend a conference, and on the way took time to slow things down and enjoy the lived experience.
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This week, to begin Season 4 of the Wednesday Blog podcast, I want to talk about what it means to exist. I know, small topic for a Wednesday.
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This week, to round out Season 3 of the Wednesday Blog podcast, a few words about my love for museums.
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This week, I want to talk a bit about how the period I study resonates in our everyday lives through the foods we eat.
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Today, one week after this city's great triumph and great tragedy, I've decided to reflect on the week now passed.
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In a week of great triumph for my city and impactful announcements, some words on civic pride.
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This week some words on time management.
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I've long wondered about what kind of leader I want to be. This week a coalescing of those ponderings.
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As we end the coldest month of the year and I think ahead, I want to share with you my thoughts on the joy of travel.
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This week I want to talk about how we can recognize the existence of unknown things.
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This week, how technology enhances and supplements human nature.
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This week, a discussion of copyright expiration and what that means for this publication.
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As we end 2023, I want to discuss doubt, one of the great drivers of my faith.
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Today it's my birthday. So, some words about milestones.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, a reflection on the rising Sun.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, some words about St. Nick.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, how we enhance our vision with innovation.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, recognizing the sixtieth anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, my perspective on the last century and a half as a time of tremendous change.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, I argue that we should stick to Standard Time
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, some words about a trip just completed.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, I extol the virtues of listening to our bedfellows in nature.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, looking back to a Renaissance philosopher to try and make sense of the present.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, I have a bone to pick with the weather.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, why our conversations about ecology and culture are grounded in loss.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, a look back 200 years to another time of great political change in the United States.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, I try to remember a story for this week that I came up with on Saturday while lost in a parking garage.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, how we present ourselves to the world around us and in the mirror to our own reflections.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, recollections of this past holiday weekend's activities at the Kansas City Irish Fest and beyond.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, some thoughts on what it means to be a man in 2023 inspired by Greta Gerwig's new film Barbie. Yes, there are a handful of mild spoilers.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, how I've learned to deal with stage-fright and in some cases overcome it.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, I've decided to write about some of the advice I'm thinking about as I prepare to teach an entirely new age range in this new school year.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, how the pandemic made permanent somethings that were once reserved for fieldwork.
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This week on the Wednesday Blog, I want to air a pet peeve of mine about stories taken out of context.
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This Monday, I went to see the new Christopher Nolan film about the life and work of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the team that invented the atomic bomb.
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This week, adding onto last week's release about my work as a translator, I'm discussing my view on how language ought to be personalized.
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This week, I talk about my experiences as a translator.
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This week, the Wednesday Blog is coming out a day early in honor of our Independence Day.
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This week, a consideration of how memories survive as stories.
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This week, in honor of Bloomsday, how reading Joyce helped prepare me for my doctorate.
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This week I'm discussing what the word "classical" means to me in musical as well as historical and political terms.
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Concerns have been raised lately over the risk that the increasing artificial intelligence of our computers poses to humanity. I think the risk truly lies in who teaches these computers and what they are taught.
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Season 2 Finale: This week, the conclusion of "Ghosts in the Wind" as Dr. Olivia Stephens and her team make a groundbreaking discovery on Mars.
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This week, the story continues as Dr. Olivia Stephens settles down on Mars with her colleagues at Elysium Base, making new friends and continuing her search for evidence of past Martian life.
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This week I'm beginning the three part Season 2 finale titled "Ghosts in the Wind" which follows the astrobiologist Dr. Olivia Stephens in the year 2055 as she tracks down traces of past life on Mars.
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Over the weekend I was in Chicago to see a special exhibit at the Art Institute called Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears. It got me thinking about the appeal of the surreal.
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Last Friday, I took Amtrak's Missouri River Runner from Independence to Kansas City's Union Station to see how the NFL Draft was affecting public transit in & around the Station.
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This week I want to share a few words about the beauty of Spring.
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This coming Friday will mark the 2,776th anniversary of the traditional date for the founding of the City of Rome.
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Some words about how changing perspective changes what one sees.
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It's Holy Week in Western Christianity (Catholicism and Protestantism), so some words about that.
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This week to finish out March, a few words on the need to keep things simple.
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Here are the two websites I mentioned regarding the new Kansas flag proposals:
Flags for Good's Kansas Flag: https://flagsforgood.com/products/kansas-flag
Anson from Lawrence's New Kansas Flag: https://www.newkansasflag.com/
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Today, I'm going to talk for a bit about how the meanings of words change.
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This past week I was in San Juan, Puerto Rico for the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America.
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Today, I'm talking about a particularly versatile Latin verb that I'll admit I'm rather fond of: mittō.
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Today, is the Welsh National Holiday, the Feast of St. David.
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Today is Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. Some thoughts about that.
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Today, on Chiefs Parade Day, I thought it'd be interesting to consider the distinctions between an author and a writer.
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Today, I'm talking about the classic 1942 film Casablanca with my good friend Alex Brisson.
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Today, some reflections on St. Brigid's Day.
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This week I'm considering the fundamental question of whether we are inherently good or bad.
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This week, I decided to return to one of my favorite short stories, which may someday be expanded into a novel, the arrival of the airship Phaëton over Kansas City.
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Some thoughts on how dynamic silent films remain even now nearly a century after the development of talking pictures.
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Today, at the start of the new year I want to discuss the balance between belief and science, something greatly needed.
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Today, some words on the blizzard of this past week.
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Today, some words about my thirtieth birthday.
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Today, I want to talk about one of the most useful of words: Cosmos.
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Today, I'm celebrating the 1st anniversary of the Wednesday Blog podcast!
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Today, I want to pass on some helpful things I've learned about essay writing both through my work as a Teaching Assistant and in my work on my own dissertation.
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Today, I'm reflecting on the last three years spent in Binghamton and the things about life and work in academia I've learned.
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This past weekend saw the first snowflakes of the season here in Binghamton, New York.
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Today, I want to share some thoughts with you about my research.
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I'm releasing my first ever Wednesday Blog Tuesday Special. Go vote!
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This week I want to talk about traveling, one of those things that I love doing.
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This week responding to a video by Canadian political YouTuber J.J. McCullough about cultural homogenization.
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This week why it's stubborn of us to think of ourselves as separate from nature.
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This week an ethical question that's been housed in the realm of science fiction for now.
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This week let's talk about one of the first great modern astronomers: Galileo Galilei.
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This week, a bit about suspending disbelief when hearing a good story.
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This week, I paid a visit to a life-sized recreation of the sets of the original Star Trek series.
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This week, why it's important to keep the Irish language alive.
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This week, to start Season 2 off: some considerations I've had about whether to prefer electronic books or stick with the physical ones.
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This week, the third and final part of the season finale, a tale of my longest commute to date.
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This week, the second part of the season finale, a tale of my longest commute to date.
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This week, the first part of the season finale, a tale of my longest commute to date.
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This week, the commencement of academic festivities for another nine months.
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This week, I finally returned to Irish school this summer after a decade away.
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This week, some exciting news about the upcoming launch of Artemis 1.
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This week, I wonder about the word wonder.
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This week, some inspiration from the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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This week, I want to speak to you about the meaning of the word "political."
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This week, a message for the present moment for the future prosperity of the country.
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This week, I want to tell you about my cat Kitty.
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This week, I feel a bit sentimental about the biggest anniversary in my life to date.
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This week, how we tend to stick to the same things over our lives.
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This week, how art impacts how we see the world around us.
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- Immersive Van Gogh: https://www.kansascityvangogh.com
- Claude Monet, Boulevard des Capucines, (1873): https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/17852/boulevard-des-capucines
- George Caleb Bingham's Catalog: https://www.binghamcatalogue.org
- Thomas Hart Benton's art at the Nelson-Atkins: https://art.nelson-atkins.org/people/2320/thomas-hart-benton/objects
- "Hard Times Come Again No More" by The Chieftains and Paolo Nutini: https://youtu.be/uPqjQTkEA6g
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This week, living in exciting times often turns out to be a bit unlucky, from a certain point of view.
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This week, some thoughts on what keeps a culture alive.
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This week, reflections on childhood, from my own personal experience.
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This week I'm reflecting on the 2011 Best Picture winner "The Artist" and introducing a new segment to The Wednesday Blog in an interview with my friend Alex Brisson about the film.
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Star Trek: The Original Siblings Podcast: https://stosibspod.buzzsprout.com
Brissflix: https://www.alexbrisson.com/brissflix
The musical interlude in this episode comes from "April Showers" recorded by Gene Rodimich's Orchestra in 1922. Listen to the full version here: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_Various_Artists/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_04072015/April_Showers_-_Gene_Rodemichs_Orchestra/
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This week, introducing my research into the introduction of the three-toed sloth to European science in the 1550s. I'll be giving a public talk about my work at the Kopernik Observatory and Science Center in Vestal, NY on Friday, 29 April 2022 at 8 pm Eastern, 7 pm Central.
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Also here's a link to the Kopernik Observatory's website:
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This week, a bit of self-reflection. The Man from Earth website The Man from Earth trailer
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This week, some thoughts inspired by the Jerome Bixby written 2007 science fiction film The Man from Earth.
The Man from Earth website
The Man from Earth trailer
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This week, a response to a clip from the Franco-German TV series Karambolage about sandwiches in France.
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sandwich
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This week, some things I've noticed about how people communicate online.
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This week, how baseball broadcasting today is a tale in what not to do. All musical performances included are my own.
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This week, a celebration of baseball's triumphant return and one small complaint about a rule change.
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This week, how electric cars can contribute to the sanctions against the Russian government.
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This week, I want to tell you about a trip I took last weekend to Washington, D.C.
Links:
The Smithsonian's Futures Exhibit: https://aib.si.edu/futures/
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This week, a bit about humanity's greatest asset, and our greatest fault.
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This week, how I've learned that patience really is a virtue.
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This week, an attempt at trying to suggest how we humanity can be better humans.
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This week, a bit of Jesuit word play.
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This week, I want to explain how fiction is necessary for my survival.
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This week, I'm thinking about how we humans fit into the structures of natural history.
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This week, I'm talking about my first road trip in an electric car.
For my sources see:
[1] 7-Eleven Corporate, "7-Eleven Charges Forward with Installation of 500 Electric Vehicle Ports by End of 2022, Providing Convenient Charging Options that Drive a More Sustainable Future," (1 June 2021), https://corp.7-eleven.com/corp-press-releases/06-01-2021-7-eleven-charges-forward-with-installation-of-500-electric-vehicle-ports-by-end-of-2022-providing-convenient-charging-options-that-drive-a-more-sustainable-future
[2] Statista, "Number of 7-Eleven Stores in the United States from 2017 to 2020," (July 2021), https://www.statista.com/statistics/1130946/number-of-7-eleven-stores-us/
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In this episode I talk about how FDR’s Four Freedoms from his 1941 State of the Union is pertinent to today.
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In this episode I argue that we should consider Space exploration as a way of uniting humanity around a common cause in what otherwise is a time when we seem far more divided.
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This week I'm discussing what Christmas has meant to me throughout my life, and how it fits into the mythos of the seasons overall.
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This week, I want to talk about some reasons that I see for why we Americans are so deeply divided. You can find the editorial by Charles M. Blow that inspired this episode here.
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This week, I'm proposing that we've entered a new period in the history of the English language.
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In English should we say that Jesus "became human" or "became man"? Join me as I work through the history of the Nicene Creed and how this most pivotal of beliefs was interpreted first by the Greek speaking Church Fathers who wrote the Creed, later by the Latin speaking Catholic Church, and today by us English speakers. You can read a transcript of the full episode here. Written, read, and produced by Seán Thomas Kane. © Seán Thomas Kane, 2021.
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