When a group of broke college students start throwing lavish feasts, HBM host Jeff Emtman begins to wonder at the source of the food, initially assuming it was stolen.  But he’s soon corrected.  Confronted with the shocking amount of food waste in the local dumpsters, he quickly turns into a freegan dumpster diving evangelist, but is often thwarted by an angry employee of a local produce stand.  An employee whose face is always hidden by a bright headlamp. These encounters rattle him, making it hard for him to separate reality from his recurring night terrors about the incidents.  But, years later, and more than a hundred of miles away, he has an encounter in a chocolate dumpster which cures him of those nightmares. Many thanks to Jesse Chappelle and Hallie Sloan, who helped in the research of this episode. Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: Serocell, August Friis, The Black SpotSponsor: Coffee Beer of Portland, Oregon Coffee Beer gets you to and from the best parts of your day.  Located at 4142 SE 42nd Ave, Portland, OR 97206, they serve coffee, beer, snacks and groceries for pick-up and delivery.  Order yours at coffeebeerdelivers.comCoffee Beer’s merch can be shipped!  HBM host Jeff Emtman especially likes their “Leave Me Alone” shirt.  Shirts, mugs and more, at coffeebeer.meThank you Coffee Beer for sponsoring HBM! 

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HBM141: Filthy Riches

Season 9 will be here soon!  We’ll bring you ten new episodes about fear, beauty and the unknown.  We’ll see the fight for survival and beauty of the microscopic world.  We’ll learn how balloons can be used to capture the souls of doomed buildings.  We’ll listen for alien transmissions on a reserved shortwave frequency.  We’ll luxuriate in the scent discarded cocoa bean husks. and you’ll get quick-fixes to all your problems from the all-knowing, hyper-dimensional entity that sometimes advises Jeff in his sleep. As a side note, we’ve been re-shuffling some things behind the scenes on the podcast feed.  If you’ve got duplicate episodes showing up, you can likely fix that by unsubscribing and re-subscribing to Here Be Monsters.  Thanks for your patience! Also, we have a Patreon now.  Your support is very much appreciated.  Thank you! Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: The Black Spot 

Season 9 = February 17th

However, moving forward, HBM will continue as an independent production, and no longer be distributed through the KCRW feed.

HBM Continues as an Independent Podcast

Black Tulsans record a rap album in a house that once belonged to a famous Klansman. 

HBM140: The New Black Wall Street

Is volunteering for pain an unnecessary cruelty? Or is it a fundamental part of being human? 

HBM139: Acceptable Pains

New research suggests that Neanderthals did many of the things once thought to be exclusively “human.”

HBM138: Did Neanderthals Bury their Dead?

HBM137: Superhappiness

Jacob Lemanski tries to write an unreadable book.

HBM136: Jacob’s Lost Biography

Amanda Provenzano says people are too afraid of death; that’s why she became a death doula.

HBM135: Dying Well

A wonderful episode of a wonderful podcast: the CBC’s Love Me.  Subscribe on your favorite podcast app. 

What Can You Hear? (Love Me)

Jeff makes blackout poetry with cassette tapes. 

HBM134: Questionable Hobbies of the Socially Isolated

Is your body more of a machine, or a garden?

HBM133: Prey of Worms

If there’s a pill that makes people less racist, should cops be forced to take it?

HBM132: Moral Enhancement

The smell of gasoline imparts nausea and a heartfelt nostalgia on HBM producer Bethany Denton. 

HBM131: A Cure for Carsickness

New York City’s defender of maligned animals enacts “pigilante” justice while dressed as a nun. 

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