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Talky Bnonnsense #15: Things we recommend (no paid promotions)
A grab-bag of advice on things worth knowing and doing that for some reason many people don’t know or do.
Jun 19, 2025
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Talky Bnonnsense #14: Tallish tales of St. David of Wales
Smokey regales us with the legendary embellishments around the patron saint of Wales — and makes a rather interesting point about how he reframed the…
Mar 11, 2025
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Bnonn Tennant
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Talky Bnonnsense #13: Rhythms of eternity
Bnonn and Smokey discuss the natural and cyclical rhythms built into the human psyche, which somehow involves the French Revolution, Hadestown, Joss…
Jan 21, 2025
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Talky Bnonnsense #12: Smokey’s review of The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale
Having just seen the Lord of the Rings musical on stage, Smokey pontificates on the good, the bad and the ugly, giving it 4 stars for sheer…
Nov 14, 2024
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35:16
Talky Bnonnsense #11: the specious stereotype of cooking (art) vs baking (science)
In which Smokey, driven mad by her great learning, rants with considerable erudition about how cooking is just as much a science as baking, baking is as…
Nov 9, 2024
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Talky Bnonnsense #10: divorcing Superman
This episode is not actually about Superman, or divorce; it’s a metaphor, people.
Oct 21, 2024
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Talky Bnonnsense #9: is disability an impediment to marriage?
What is the heart of marriage?
Aug 5, 2024
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Talky Bnonnsense #8: wives with jobs aren’t (necessarily) betraying their husbands
While it’s true that a wife should be oriented toward her husband, her household, and especially her children, it is false that simply having a job ipso…
Jul 2, 2024
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Talky Bnonnsense #7: how Jane Austen (kinda) predicted feminism
Smokey, in lieu of doing research for the next episode, instead regales us with wisdomous thoughts about how the character motifs in Jane Austen’s…
Jun 14, 2024
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Talky Bnonnsense #6: celebrating leap day by gathering the remainder
Why is the solar calendar not exactly 365 days?
Feb 29, 2024
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20:03
Talky Bnonnsense #5: Smokey's favorite historical clothes
In researching season 1 of True Magic, Smokey has come across many fascinating and historically significant garments.
Feb 21, 2024
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Talky Bnonnsense #4: Noodle Theory
In this landmark episode, Smokey expounds, for the first time, her most notable contribution to the history of symbolic thought.
Sep 20, 2023
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Bnonn Tennant
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14:56
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