Episodes

  • 11. Hot Diggity Dog (Fuck ICE)
    Feb 12 2026

    Show Notes

    What Is A Dog? by Raymond and Lorna Coppinger

    Anatolian Shepherd

    Aggressive Dog

    David Mech

    The Dunbar Dog Bite Scale

    Meet Your Dog by Kim Brophey

    BHARCS & Sindoor Pangal

    Fishing Dogs by Raymond Coppinger

    GIVEAWAY BOOKS

    How Dogs Work by Raymond Coppinger and Mark Feinstein

    Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution by Raymond and Lorna Coppinger

    Independent Bookstore Highlight

    Tropes & Triples

    Haven Watch Supply Drive Event, Feb 15

    Haven Watch

    Authors for Minnesota Day, Feb 28

    Publishers Weekly article: Minnesota Authors Team with Bookstores to Support Immigrants

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    ICE is still here in Minnesota, hunting people, terrorizing neighborhoods, causing trauma and damage, endangering the public.

    Here are two ways you can support our state and get prepared when this bullshit comes to your area.

    Stand With Minnesota website

    Interested in learning about setting up Rapid Response in your community? Go here.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • 10: Minnesota Forever: F*ck ICE
    Feb 7 2026

    Show Notes

    Support our neighbors suffering from federal government fuckery here

    Stand With Minnesota

    Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

    Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery by Ira Rutkow

    The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

    Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris on BlueSky

    Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past by Giles Tremlett

    Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild

    Bookstore Highlight

    Moon Palace Books

    Moon Palace on Bookshop


    Stay Warm, Keep Six, Fuck ICE

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    46 mins
  • 9: The Expectant Father Is Illiterate
    Dec 19 2025

    SHOW NOTES

    Creep: Accusations & Confessions by Myriam Gurba

    Mean by Myriam Gurba

    Poppy: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings by Myriam Gurba

    Myriam Gurba author site

    "Pendaja, You Ain't Steinbeck" by Myriam Gurba

    El Norte film

    "On True Crime" by Myriam Gurba

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    BOOKSTORE SPOTLIGHT

    Goodwill Books: Books, Music, Movies, & Games

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    CATEGORY: FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIES

    The Incredibles

    Spy

    The Ref

    Uncle Buck

    The Birdcage

    Black Christmas

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    52 mins
  • 8: Welcome to Hunkendunken Mart
    Dec 19 2025

    SHOW NOTES

    Kanopy

    501 French Verbs

    The Hunkendunkens by Richard R. Livingston and Harriet Pincus

    The Family Minus by Fernando Krahn

    The Stupids Step Out by Harry Allard, Jr. and James Marshall

    George & Martha by James Marshall

    All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

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    INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE SPOTLIGHT

    Librairie Mosaique







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    43 mins
  • 7: Rabid Fiends & Trillbilly Dreams
    Dec 6 2025

    Show Notes:

    What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

    Trillbilly Workers Party podcast

    Episode 1: JD Vance Is A Snitch

    Episode 37: Cattehouse, or We're Broke and Our Hearts Are Too

    Ken Burns documentary: The Feud

    American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse

    Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake

    Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll

    Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks (podcast)

    EOS Vanilla Bean Lip Balm

    Lush Curl Power Hair Cream

    Paintbox Soapworks: Emulsifying Sugar Scrubs

    Independent Book Store:

    Red Balloon Bookshop

    Super Dooper Jezebel by Tony Ross

    Dr. Dog by Babette Cole

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    41 mins
  • 6: Pilgrim Behavior
    Dec 6 2025

    Show Notes:

    While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family by Kathryn Harrison

    Damnation Island: Sick, Poor, Mad, and Criminal in 19th Century New York by Stacy Horn

    The Kiss: A Memoir by Kathryn Harrison

    Article: What Happens to a School Shooter's Sister?

    She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

    The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir by Toni Bentley

    Independent Bookstore Highlight

    Next Chapter Books

    Catzen Coffee

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    48 mins
  • 5: Holiday Barfbags
    Nov 8 2025

    SHOW NOTES:

    A Barn in New England: Making a Home on Three Acres by Joseph Monninger

    Inside the Third World: The Anatomy of Poverty by Paul Harrison

    FEATURED BOOKSTORE:

    Epilogue Books

    Rockford, Michigan

    Epilogue Books Bookshop.org Link

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    40 mins
  • 4. Big Cabbages and Bad Curses
    Nov 7 2025

    SHOW NOTES:

    Cabbage Soup recipe (again)

    Sex Lies & Videotape: Graham's One Key Strategy

    'It's Insanely Sinister': Horror Writers On the Scariest Stories They've Ever Read

    White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

    The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi

    Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

    We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

    Soucouyant

    To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

    Beloved by Toni Morrison

    Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains by Alexa Hagerty

    The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

    The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery by D.T. Max

    What is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

    Shameless (US)

    Independent Bookstore Highlight

    Booked - Evanston, Illinois

    Our purchases:

    ⁠Stag Dance by Torrey Peters⁠

    ⁠Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail⁠

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    28 mins