- 11 minutes 43 secondsTry It 10 Times: A Playful Way to Unburden Yourself with Whitney Henry-Lester
In this episode, Whitney Henry-Lester shares weirdly helpful approaches to overcoming personal baggage through playful experiments like Tensies which you should follow here.
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30 September 2026, 5:42 am - 15 minutes 14 secondsThe Ground Space is Part of Your World Space with Katie Stone
Katie Stone is the host and producer of The Children's Hour radio show and podcast. They launched a new series of “Shorts”, featuring teensy engaging episode highlights from their award-winning programs paired with ready-to-use learning guides to make teaching easy and fun. There are 2-minute episodes about stuff like balloons, being yourself, refugees…all the topics are picked by the kids. Check 'em out!!!!
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23 September 2026, 6:27 am - 13 minutes 56 secondsWhen You Know You're Alone You Make Different Decisions with Margret Glaspy
Margaret Glaspy is a New York-based singer/songwriter. Her newest album, I Am Both, is essential. She might be coming to a town near you.
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16 September 2026, 7:21 am - 2 hours 9 minutesI'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. A feed drop with That Aged Well!
I love Zoolander so much. If you do too, you're gonna love today's episode which comes from the podcast That Aged Well. Come join hosts Erika and Paul as they re-experience this wild ride of a movie, filled with male models, assassins, and, of course, orange mocha frappuccinos!
More about the show: Feel conflicted about the movies you loved as a kid? Paul and Erika guide you through all that beloved garbage we watched...after all, nostalgia is more fun when you aren't the only one embarrassed by it. Come dive into yesterday's pop culture today. An 80s kid? A 90s kid? A horror aficionado? A musical singalonger? That Aged Well has got a little something for all on their website.
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9 September 2026, 6:07 am - 13 minutes 59 secondsWe Should Strategically Half-Ass Way More Things (or May The Bogan Be With You) with Steve Kamb
Steve Kamb is the founder of Nerd Fitness and the author of HOW TO TRY AGAIN. The book he referances is... Start Ugly: The Unexpected Path to Everyday Creativity by David duChemin
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This episode's archival cousin: Aiming at Meh with Brian Selfon
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2 September 2026, 6:57 am - 10 minutes 13 secondsYou Can't Make Anyone Love You + Yet Another Shenanigan!
Listener Clio called the Weirdly Helpline with her shenanigan and you should too @ 844-935-2378.
Piper at the Gates of Dawn! | The Wind in the Willows | Full Episode
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Jan Worth-Nelson and Ted Nelson are writers and editors from Flint, MI. More about Sheldon Kopp's, An Eschatological Laundry List.
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26 August 2026, 9:32 am - 25 minutes 16 secondsThe Art of Shenanigans with Rebecca Garza-Bortman and a Legion of Weird Helpers
Rebecca Garza-Bortman is a designer, musician, writer, & mother living in Berkeley. This episode features WH listeners Julia, Lauren, Erica, Meredith, another Lauren, Katie and Mike.
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20 August 2026, 1:26 pm - 10 minutes 30 secondsThis is A Tangible Way to Fake It Till You Make It with Evangeline Garreau
Evangeline Garreau is a queer ADHD gemini and a creative project coach who accompanies artists of all kinds on their creative journeys, helping them get unstuck and put in the work to bring their visions into reality. Check out her newslettter, Belly Spark. It's so good. You can work with her too!
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19 August 2026, 5:53 am - 15 minutes 14 secondsThe World Is a Laboratory of Story Ideas with Mallary Tenore Tarpley
Mallary Tenore Tarpley is the award-winning author of SLIP and an assistant professor of practice at the University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication and the McCombs School of Business, where she teaches journalism and writing. This episode was inspired by Mallary's recent piece, Embracing the lost art of people-watching published in Neiman Storyboard.
If you liked this episode you'll also like God is in the Details or Why Listening to Strangers on the Train is Fantastic Raw Material for your Storytelling with Craig Finn from The Hold Steady.
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5 August 2026, 6:53 am - 13 minutes 51 secondsA Weirdly Helpful Travel Guide
Annie Sim is the CEO (Chief Eating Officer) of The Table Less Traveled
Evan Stern is the host of Vanishing Postcards
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29 July 2026, 6:29 am - 15 minutes 6 secondsA Weirdly Helpful View From Behind the Supermarket Register
Ann Larson is the author of Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register.
Her writing on education, debt, and low-wage work has appeared in The New Republic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Fast Company, and The Nation, among other publications. She is coauthor of Can’t Pay Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition and is a fellow with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
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