Curly's Curated Books

Curly's Curated Books


Latest Episodes

We Don't Need An Umpire To Play Ball
March 24, 2022

Why did I rename the show? Is there really a mass exodus from California? Why are the New York Times and Washington Post secret editing old articles? Why are we denying the eradication of smallpox? Should Lia Thomas be able to compete as a woman? Does Flo

I'm Only Serving Culturally Appropriated Corned Beef
March 16, 2022

Why are we still masking on public transportation? Why are we canceling everything Russian? What is the purpose of the outsider? Why are we censoring The Cure? Are they secretly rewriting our digital media? Is Ron DeSantis the next president? Are Trumpers

Highlights: The Dropout // I'm in a Hurry (audio version)
March 08, 2022

This is the audio version of my post about the first episode of the Hulu mini-series The DropoutFuck off MCUThe Dropout podcast John Carreyrou’s book Bad BloodCarreyrou’s podcast Bad Blood: The Final ChapterHBO documentary, The Inventor: Out for Blood in

The Great American Fask Mask Fetish
March 07, 2022

Does somebody actually believe that Biden’s State of the Union was strong? Should we institute a new no-fly zone over Ukraine? Do N95 masks have an electrostatic charge? And why the hell are you still wearing a mask?Biden’s State of the Union Did Somethin

State of Incompetence
March 02, 2022

Marjorie Taylor Greene loves nazis, Trump’s Putin statement wasn’t as bad as I thought but he’s still a bitch, Ukraine is holding strong against Goliath, NATO grew some balls, thoughts on the state of the union (which I didn’t watch,) Lauren Boebert screa

Rise of the Boot-Lickers
February 26, 2022

Here we go. Let's see how many people I piss off now as I defend Marjorie Taylor Greene (I can't believe it either,) call Donald Trump a pussy, advocate war, compare climate change to the radio being on the wrong station (oops,) and call out all the Putin

Red Pill: Start or End Here
February 14, 2022

Consider this a rebirth. My plan is to start podcasting again but I’m in the process of moving, so I don’t have a studio or even much privacy to record. I wanted to plant a flag for the direction I plan to go and this episode is that flag. I’m leaving the

The Inward Dive
November 03, 2021

Thoughts on external vs internal creation and how they relate to the purpose of self-portraiture.

The Inward Dive
November 03, 2021

Thoughts on external vs internal creation and how they relate to the purpose of self-portraiture. Get full access to Graphorrhea at cahall.substack.com/subscribe

Publishers Foreword | The Essays of Emerson
October 16, 2021

This is the first episode in my detailed exploration of the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I explain why I've chosen this project for the first half of the episode and then I dig into the publisher's foreword. There are a bunch of versions of Emerson's es