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Feb 2023
1h 21m

Monster Baby #104 Clanging! (A Conversat...

Ted DesMaisons and Lisa Rowland
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How does a “silly verbal tennis match” become a profound spiritual practice?  Inspired by the intro “Clanging” game they played on the immediately previous Monster Baby episode #103, Ted and Lisa invited the game’s creators, Dion Flynn and Josh Radnor, to come on the podcast themselves—and they accepted! For context: Dion Flynn is a writer, [more…]

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