Random Satire Podcasts

A video podcast that’s not TV or radio: the poetry of humanity revealed.

Categories: Arts, Comedy

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As children, our first experience of the magic of talking animals, the conflict between good and evil, the battle of wits between the cunning and the innocent most probably came from Aesop’s Fables. These delightful, pithy and brief narratives are simple, easy to understand and convey their message in a memorable and charming fashion. Aesop’s Fables by Aesop consists of about 600 tales, some well-loved and familiar, others less known but just as entertaining and educative and help us map the perimeters of our moral universe. Fables have existed almost since the dawn of time. They hark back to a time when humans and animals lived in harmony and mutual respect. We humans could learn a great deal from the uncomplicated justice and the commonsense values of the animal kingdom. Animals are endowed with immutable personal traits like foxes being cunning, donkeys being patient, lions being proud and wolves being cruel. There is very little biographical information about Aesop. He is reputed to have been born a slave in Samos in ancient Greece in about 600 BC. He earned his liberty through his learning and wit and went on to become a respected diplomat and traveler. Ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle, historians like Plutarch and Herodotus mention Aesop’s fables in their works. Today, these immortal fables have come down to us, as fresh and pristine as they were when they were first told. Aesop’s fables were known at the time of Socrates in the 5th century BC, when they were recounted in oral form. However, they were systematically compiled sometime in 300 BC by a Greek philosopher Demetrius Phalereus. The fables gradually vanished from popular literature till the 14th century AD when they re-surfaced in Byzantine Constantinople. Since then, they traversed with traders and diplomats to Europe and then to the rest of the world. Generations of children have enjoyed old favorites like The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Bear and Two Travelers, The Hare and the Tortoise, The Hen who laid Golden Eggs, The Thirsty Crow, The Lion and the Mouse and many others found in this volume along with less familiar ones. Their charm lies in their simplicity and the plain, straightforward way in which they deliver universal values of honesty, compassion and justice and teach us to shun pride, greed, envy and other negative qualities. They provide an enduring foundation for inculcating values and ethics in children and are at the same time, amusing and entertaining. More great books at LoyalBooks.com

Categories: Arts, Education, Kids & Family

Tags: Aesop, Aesop's Fables, animals, audio books, audiobook, ebooks, Fairy tales, fiction, free audio books, Kids, Languages, Loyal Books, loyalbooks.com, Philosophy, satire

If you’ve never heard the term “Mathematical Fiction” before, Edwin Abbott Abbott’s 1884 novella, Flatland can certainly enlighten you! Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions was published in 1884 and since then, it has been discovered and re-discovered by succeeding generations who have been delighted by its unique view of society and people. The plot opens with a description of the fictional Flatland. The narrator calls himself “Square” and asks readers to “Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Squares, Triangles, Pentagons, Hexagons and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about… but without the power of rising above the surface or sinking below it, very much like shadows…” This is a country where the “solid” or the three dimensional do not exist. The women are Straight Lines, while the men, depending on their status, are figures with three or more sides. The lowest class are the Triangles, while the highest class of all are the Circles. One night the Square has a dream about a world with two dimensions, but it turns out to be a nightmare, and Square is glad to return to the “reality” of Flatland. He has another strange experience, when he has a visitation. A strange presence enters his room. It is a Sphere. Square and his wife are shocked to see such a weird creature. But it begins talking to them and informs them that it belongs to a world called Spaceland. Square visits Spaceland with his new friend and once he realizes that more dimensions are possible, he undergoes a huge spiritual metamorphosis. However the rulers of Flatland are not about to accept such subversive views… Flatland is essentially a novel that uses satire to portray the rigid, unfair and oppressive social class system that pervaded Victorian England. Birth and status determined everything in a person’s life and it was almost impossible for people to move into the upper echelons of society. Flatland is also a virulent attack on the prevailing ideas about women, their role and status. Abbott portrays the unrelenting hierarchies that prevented people from achieving their personal goals. Readers may be reminded of other allegories and satires, notably Plato’s Cave and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. For modern day readers, Flatland is indeed an eye opener into concepts that seemed fixed and certain a century ago, but have been proven otherwise through scientific research. Knowledge is seen as a continuum and not a fixed goal; this is what books like Flatland teach us.

Categories: Arts, Comedy

Tags: audio books, audiobook, ebooks, Edwin Abbott Abbott, fantasy, fiction, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, free audio books, humor, Loyal Books, loyalbooks.com, satire, science, science-fiction

A fun and lighthearted podcast about great places, nice people, and delicious food in the Carolinas and beyond. Podcast episodes include food-centric monologues and interviews with fun and interesting guests.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: Comedy, interviews, Politics, satire, travel

Sophisticated toilet humor featuring: Andrew: A Jewishy-washy child ninja turned autoneurotic, prematurely old man, who’s had it with fictional ghosts triggering his non-fictional anxiety. Puke: A gently misanthropic Army veteran obsessed with sound effects who’s had it with political correctness. Brett: A fierce comedy theorist and peddler of critical thinking who’s had it with how the dumbing down of America is resulting in terrible customer service. Nick: A gender homogenous homosapien homeowner who homologizes without homologating the show, who’s had it with all three of them so much that it’s not even clear of he’s actually part of the show anymore; even though he’s mentioned all the time.

Categories: Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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Phil Hendrie’s historic improvisational genius goes to work everyday in this divinely hilarious satire of the modern media. And that’s only part of what’s really going on here. Get a hold of this top shelf entertainment from one of the acknowledged masters of comedy and social satire.

Categories: Comedy

Tags: Characters, Comedy, free, Funny, hendrie, improv, improvisation, live, phil, Podcast, satire, talk, Voices

People often ask if we know where our children are, but perhaps it is our parents who are unaccounted for! Grab a forty (or the stimulant of your choice), and join iconoclast social workers Kazu Jumanji and Dickie Don as they document American cultural decadence, spiritual malaise, and the erosion of our social norms and political institutions through a balanced fusion of candid ribaldry and insightful inquiry, as well as attempt to answer the essential question of our age: “Where are these people’s parents?”

Categories: Comedy, Society & Culture

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