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In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #48: 1980's Roller Rink Dumpster III

DJ Emerald was rocking the 80’s on college radio back in the 90’s when most folks were ‘so over’ the best decade ever! Now she brings some of her favorite lessor known tracks and a few personal stories along with her to the Woodpile behind the roller rink dumpster.

In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #47: Tryna Herd Cats IX

Welcome to more philosophical explorations back by the woodpile, this time dealing with our attraction to beauty, satisfaction in the artificial and affecting those we’ll never meet. Compare the results against your own experience!

In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #46: Wheels, Deals & Forgotten History

 

There are so many stories behind anything humans have had a hand in- including cars- that are unknown; and sadly there’s also stories behind actual humans that are forgotten. Michael J. Sparks comes Back by the Woodpile to talk about both his colorful experiences with wheeling and dealing in the automotive business and his love for lost names in history he’d like us not to forget.

In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #45: Ghosty Stories III

Dead girls beckoning fellers in for a swim, a spirit babel fish app, a swinging summer camp noose, trying to outwit the devil, the tiniest claw marks, a dog not quite ready to leave, lost foreign ghosts in Japan and guts splattered on the road. What’s all this mean? Another episode of In the Corner Back by the Woodpile, ghost story edition!

In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #44: Vintage Halloween Jams

To our ears there’s nothing creepier than Halloween songs played on scratchy old records and sang by long dead musicians. To help us mine through the fertile bone yard of said tunes, musicologist Dirk Allman of the Carolina History Project brings along a few of his favorite finds by to the Corner Woodpile podcast. Learn about swamp gas, dancing with the devil, skeletons on the rag and the singing acoustics of closed coffins.

In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #42: Creaky Limbs, Swings and Mouths

In keeping with a spirits of the season, we present another weird short story, this one by Spun Counterguy. (Patches of a Second-Hand Planet) “Creaky Limbs, Swings and Mouths” involves a plot of land that’s ended up a graveyard more than its vegetable garden original intentions.

In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #41: Tao of Tao II- Gourd & Cross

Sister Sung-Hae Kim is a South Korean Catholic and an expert on interreligious dialogues, having recently published a book specifically about the relationship between Taoism and Christianity entitled The Gourd and the Cross. She joins us In the Corner Back by the Woodpile to discuss both her book and her life’s work!

In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #40: A Flurescent Decade on a Hill II

 

On this second installment of our look back at the culture, history and individual lives of those of us who lived through the 1980’s, we learn about learning English as a second-language from George Michael, having one’s own monkey, being shaped by Origin’s Ultima and the lesson of property rights in the woods!

In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #39: Tryna Herd Cats VIII

More chats philosophical, this time getting deep in the Oxford, UK scene as well as some US presidential wisdom.

In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #38: A Fluorescent Decade on a Hill I

Kids that weren’t even born in the 1980s are now way into that decade and all it had to offer by way of fashion, music, movies, video games and so on. So what better way to dig deeper into the era than to talk to the folks that lived through it. On this first episode of A Fluorescent Decade on a Hill, guests chat about the perils of jelly shoes, following Duran Duran around the world, romancing a shy guy, beatmatch pioneer Farley Jackmaster Funk and ruining Halloween for a whole entire town.

In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #37: 1980s Roller Rink Dumpster II

 

DJ’s Mindub and Spun Counterguy have dug through many of funky containers to find these particular discarded joints from the Reagan era and they’ve come to share them with us on this latest podcast. This time around they bring the jams that touch on electro, teenager R&B, gospel pop queens, those Daft Punks, power chord pop and also a tribute to a new band carrying the 80’s torch.

 

In the Corner Back by the Woodpile #36: Tryna Herd Cats VII

Wanderings in wisdom.