13 episodes
Monocular Mikkel Elbech
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- Society & Culture
Monocular is a storytelling podcast that offers you a one-eyed look at the distant and not-so-distant past. Each episode presents a complete story in the form of an autobiographical essay written by Mikkel Elbech, a professional writer and Danish expat living in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
For well over a decade, he has worked as a professional copywriter, journalist and interviewer, having probably written millions of words over the years. But the vast majority of these have had the goal of satisfying editors, clients, and project managers.
With Monocular, he’s writing for his own pleasure and sharing his own stories. Here, he truly has the final word.
Monocular is a Toro Town Storyworks production, and for more information about the company – a one-stop shop for all kinds of storytelling – please visit torotown.com.
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Corporate Sellout
A liberal arts student suddenly finds himself working for the quintessential kind of massive corporation: An insurance company. This is a classic fish-out-of-water story about colliding attitudes and the impossibility of adapting to this otherworldly universe. The liberal arts student in question was obviously me, and I was 25 years old at the time. I learned a lot from holding this job, and my views of what big corporations are all about were forever shaped by the experience.
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Checking in at the Tokio Hotel
Angry Danish teenagers clash with older music fans who try to lecture them on why they will eventually grow out of their obsession with a certain German emo band. A story about the concert review that generated more discussion than any other in the history of Denmark’s biggest music magazine.
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Yes, today, Satan (part 3)
When you’re 17 years old and have just left satanism behind, what comes next on the long road of intellectual self-discovery? Regular old atheism? Nihilism? Or something else entirely? This is part three of a three-part episode about my journey to the Dark Side.
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Yes, today, Satan (part 2)
A newly minted 16-year-old satanist goes to highschool. His teacher, who will be forced to read all of his devilish essays, is an older woman, who also happens to be a former priest. Now, there’s a match made in heaven – or is it hell? This is part two of a three-part episode about my journey to the Dark Side.
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Yes, today, Satan (part 1)
Satanism can be surprisingly appealing to a white, middle-class teenage boy in Denmark, if he’s sufficiently ripe for taking a stand against the hypocrisy of Christianity. Part one of a three-part episode about my journey to the Dark Side.
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Sunny Down Snuff, I'm Alright (part 2)
How do you discover a band that you thought you already knew and had maybe even written off as an uncool oldies band? That’s one of the main questions I ponder in the second part of this marathon episode about the Beach Boys. The episode contains an exclusive performance by Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle.