Here Be Monsters

Jeff tries to become the world’s first slumbering podcast advice columnist.

Cheap thrills from squeezing damp moss.

HBM146’s AI-powered speech bot nows offers strange advice several times daily at https://twitter.com/hypo_inspo

Can computers learn to speak with emotion and conviction?

A paranoid fruit punch expert meets an aspiring valkyrie.

Capturing the sonic fingerprints of important places before they’re gone forever.

Maybe you just need some odd animal sounds.

The effort to find intelligent extraterrestrial life is hampered by the slowness of light, the bigness of space, and some humans who don’t follow the rules.

Chance encounters in food waste bins.

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However, moving forward, HBM will continue as an independent production, and no longer be distributed through the KCRW feed.

Here Be Monsters will continue production as an independent podcast, no longer associated with KCRW.

Black Tulsans record a rap album in a house that once belonged to a famous Klansman.

Black Tulsans record a rap album in a house that once belonged to a famous Klansman.

Is volunteering for pain an unnecessary cruelty? Or is it a fundamental part of being human?