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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Halal, shabach, and yadah to the great Bible Lore podcast by @haydentank.bsky.social A fantastically rich and expansive guided journey through one of the weirdest books in the game. The kind of podcast we would make if he had the expertise, the interview chops, and slightly milder ADHD.

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

No one is who they are supposed to be.

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

With Episode 8, Effigy Season One is now fully bingeable. If you were waiting for that "gapless experience," tarry no more! feeds.captivate.fm/effigy/

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

efore Victor Milner became the renowned cinematographer on such pre-code classics as "Design For Living" and "Trouble in Paradise," he was a newsreel photographer for Pathe.

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

If you're sick of Alice's Restaurant, but looking for something captivating that lasts about 18 minutes this Thanksgiving, we've remixed a highlight from Episode 2, "When the Mine Roof Falls," read by the incomparable Colm O'Reilly.

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When the Mine Roof Falls (Narr. by Colm O'Reilly), by Chris Schoen

from the album Sounds From Effigy, Season 1

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 18/07/2023

We've succeeded as a podcast if you observe after listening, oh, no, no, they spent way too much time on this.

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

The marvel of history, at least as it is beheld at the Effigy home office, is that nothing dies as long as there are human minds to live in. The horror is that those same minds can and do bring the past back to our beloved earth all over again.

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

But irregular shapes also have centers, even when those centers are (paradoxically?) multiple. I hope you've had an experience of remaining in some kind of orbit as you listen, even when the path was not always, let's say, mathematically predicable.

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

It is uncanny and humbling, and hopefully it provides a little ballast to my tendency to drift too much. This is a podcast largely about drift itself, about how digression forms a much more direct narrative line than we may expect, even dealing with historical events.

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

I've done almost nothing to heighten these resonances in the narrative. They are self-heightening for anyone following the news in real time. (IMO anyway; please lmk if your experience differs!)

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

But the resonances with the lives of Palestinians in the last 8 months, and in the decades of occupation before that have shimmered in each episode script as if they were written in silver.

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

...and beyond. (We'll call it a wrap with Episode 10.)

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

The topical subject matter of this podcast season has not changed. We trace the same arc we began with, which follows the course (with ample detours) of the Southern Colorado coal strike of 1913/14, up to and through the Ludlow Massacre (which we examine in the latest episode)...

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

For season one we have made the questionable decision to write each episode sequentially, more or less, meaning that each episode since October 2023 has been crafted in an event-scape that is weighted heavily upon by news from and about Gaza.

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

A short thread, for listeners new and old. When we were 4 episodes in, the state of Israel began its current extermination campaign in the Gaza strip. Life was a struggle for many Gazans before this campaign, but it became a true nightmare thereafter, every day a new Guernica.

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Friends, frenemies, admirers, critics, maniacs, insomniacs, and inquisitives, it is for you that we create and deliver this and every episode of Effigy. Please enjoy it with your whole glandular system!

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S1: E7 The Bosom of Abraham

<p>For a transcript, please visit the podcast website at <a href="http://effigypod.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://effigypod.com/.</a> </p><p>To support the show, become a...

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

This still of strikers firing on the train is from Milner's footage. He was reportedly shouting at them not to waste their ammunition as he filmed.

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

There had been rumors that an armored train was coming up from Trinidad to wipe out the colony with machine guns (the train wasn't armored, and it wasn't headed for Ludlow, but it was transporting Baldwin Felts agents as reinforcements to a battle in the nearby Berwind mine).

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

On October 27, he came down to Ludlow at the request of journalist Don MacGregor to document what would become the third gun battle at the Ludlow tent colony.

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

efore Victor Milner became the renowned cinematographer on such pre-code classics as "Design For Living" and "Trouble in Paradise," he was a newsreel photographer for Pathe.

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Effigy: An Audio Folly @effigypod.bsky.social · 18/07/2023

We've succeeded as a podcast if you observe after listening, oh, no, no, they spent way too much time on this.

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