52 episodes
The Relentless Picnic Stanley Picnic
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5.0 • 15 Ratings
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Inquiry. Travesty. Not like other podcasts.
@stanleypicnic: @georgelazenby, @juskewitch, @erikk38
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Introducing the Mad Men Project
Coming soon to https://patreon.com/relentlesspicnic, starting on Wednesday, January 31st.
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the past is unlocked. there is a future.
We report on some changes we're making to our Patreon page, make public some formerly-locked-up bonus content, and speak about the future of The Relentless Picnic — which is real, and is coming.
We've missed you, friends.
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Cabin - Ep. 11: Finale
"The eternity I detect in Nature I predicate of myself also. How many springs I have had this same experience! I am encouraged, for I recognize this steady persistency and recovery of Nature as a quality of myself."
—Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1856
CABIN is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11 episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019, 2020, and 2021.
This is the final episode of CABIN.
Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content.
Our web site is relentlesspicnic.com
SOURCES (Ep. 11):
- Treat: Hotel Room Q&A pt. 3: More Q's, more A's, 8:09–11:26 (Aug. 2019), available to our Patreon supporters: bit.ly/3q1Jl24 ;
- The journals of Henry David Thoreau (1837-1861): bit.ly/36Lxavm ;
- "Anthony Bourdain on Vices, Humanity, and Foodies" by Khushbu Shah (Eater; Aug. 2014): bit.ly/3q4rtmY ;
- season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998. -
Cabin - Ep. 10
"In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. But alone in the distant woods or fields, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related, and that cold and solitude are friends of mine. I wish to get the Concord, the Massachusetts, the America, out of my head and be sane a part of every day."
—Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1855
This is the penultimate episode of CABIN, which will conclude with Ep. 11.
Cabin is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11 episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019, 2020, and 2021.
Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content.
Our web site is relentlesspicnic.com
SOURCES (Ep. 10):
- "Deserter's Song" by Blackout Beach, 2011: spoti.fi/3IukcDJ ;
- season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998. -
Cabin - Ep. 9
"It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brain and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador any greater wildness than in some recess in Concord, i.e., than I import into it."
—Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1856
Cabin is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11 episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019, 2020, and 2021.
Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content.
Our web site is relentlesspicnic.com
SOURCES (Ep. 9):
- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1954): amzn.to/3o2zdmy ;
- An anonymous comment submitted to relentlesspicnic.com, Feb. 29, 2020 ;
- Plato, Apology (40C-41C);
- "The Last Frontier: Homesteaders on the margins of America" by Ted Conover (Harper's; Aug. 2019): bit.ly/3KyesLl ;
- season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998. -
Cabin - Ep. 8
"So I agree with the anarcho-primitivists that the advent of civilization was a great disaster and that the Industrial Revolution was an even greater one. I further agree that a revolution against modernity, and against civilization in general, is necessary. But you can’t build an effective revolutionary movement out of soft-headed dreamers, lazies, and charlatans. You have to have tough-minded, realistic, practical people, and people of that kind don’t need the anarcho-primitivists’ mushy utopian myth."
—T. Kaczynski, "The Truth About Primitive Life: A Critique of Anarcho-Primitivism," 2008.
Cabin is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11 episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019, 2020, and 2021.
Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content.
Our web site is relentlesspicnic.com
SOURCES (Ep. 8):
- Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies, by Bruno Latour (1999): bit.ly/3qxCaxK ;
- The Unabomber In His Own Words (2018), dir. Mick Grogan, on Netflix: bit.ly/2DbHkuh ;
- Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. “The Unabomber”, ed. and introduction by David Skirbina, 2010: amzn.to/2STTFYH ;
- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1954): amzn.to/3o2zdmy ;
- "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" by Bill Joy, Wired (4/1/00): bit.ly/3hw5uQD ;
- "Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber" by Alston Chase, Atlantic (June 2000): bit.ly/3mISjzh ;
- "Eco-terrorists set fire to Vail Mountain 20 years ago, and the response showed how mutual aid could benefit mountain communities" by Randy Wyrick, Denver Post (10/27/18): dpo.st/3EKRHzF ;
- season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998.
Customer Reviews
Wildly unfocused in the best possible way
You know all those Medium artles with titles that begin with 'Why' or 'How', and then they speak to the question in a very direct way that somehow tells you nothing? This is sort of the opposite of that -- looking at the thing from a million different angles, never quite answering a question directly but somehow always moving towards a clearer or fuller understanding of it.
Also there was a story about a guy who didn't realise men were supposed to use toilet seats.
a valued piece
The following is a well-known story, verifiable from a variety of media outlets, but which is worth repeating here for the benefit of those whose only source of news is the iTunes catalogue:
Earlier this year, a metal ammunition case containing a large reel-to-reel tape was discovered in the locked back bedroom of an abandoned house, somewhere in upstate New York.
At first it was thought that it would never be heard. The material was fragile; it was recorded on an obscure variety of quarter-inch tape, discontinued in the early 1980s, and after years of exposure to the cold, damp environs, the tape had fused to the spindle in one solid mass.
Fortunately, the tape fell into the hands of Chuckles 'Charlie' Picnic, a retired sound engineer who, after baking the tape in a warm oven to loosen the chemical bonds, was able to piece together the original recordings. This, I'm told, is the result.
Three men sit in conversation. One of them has a high voice; one has a middle-pitched voice; one has a low voice. We know nothing more about them than this. Each is assigned a role in this peculiar ritual, and each fulfils it precisely.
The high-voiced man is prone to bursts of manic laughter and wild enthusiasm. The middle-voiced man has a certain cold-eyed cogency. The low-voiced man tends towards melancholy. He dreams of a landscape speckled by crematoria.
Considering their age, the quality of these recordings is remarkable. However, it's immediately apparent that Charlie was unable to repair the effects of 'bleed through', where magnetic data from an earlier section of the tape has merged over time with later sections in which it was in direct contact to form a kind of audio palimpsest of voices, sounds, noises, music. Whatever meaning one could ascribe to these juxtapositions is essentially accidental.
The recording is most notable for being one of the few remaining pieces of documented second-hand evidence for the film 'Citizen Kane'. In certain quarters of the internet, rabid Wellesians persist in their belief of the existence of this film. All three men behave exactly as though they had seen it: it is, perhaps, the keystone of the delusion in which they all inhabit.
The location of the house has never been disclosed.
Onion Crunch
Nice to hear a podcast mention my favourite condiment, Onion Crunch.