Broken Spine Social Club

In 1990, Emory graduate Chris McCandless donated his life savings and took off to wander the American West. In 1992, McCandless's remains were found in the back of a bus in the Alaskan bush. The seminal “Into the Wild,” by investigative journalist, climber, and outdoorsman Jon Krakauer attempts to uncover not *what* happened to the off-grid adventurer, but *why* McCandless took off on his own. And from the safety of cozy couch, accompanied by white wine and hot water bottles, two routine-driven girls discuss the same. SHOP BOOKS OF THE POD:https://bookshop.org/lists/books-of-the-podINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bsscpod Chris McCandless, True Crime, Books, Nature, Nature Writing, Book Club, Adventure Story, Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, Into Thin Air

You may know him from the Oscars circuit for films such as “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri” or “The Banshees of Inishierin”. But my work wife Cliona knows him (albeit, slightly mistakenly) as “that local fella” who wrote the plays her Grannie and Aunt took her to in Galway. Today we are talking Hans Christen Andersen, colonialism, and Phoebe Waller Bridge along with Martin McDonough’s very very very funny 2018 play, “A Very Very Very Dark Matter”. SHOP BOOKS OF THE POD:https://bookshop.org/lists/books-of-the-podINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bsscpod Books, Literature, Culture, Book Club, Books to Read, Favorite Books, Best Books, Plays, Theatre

Calm and calamity meet when my nature friend Alyssa Armbruster joins the podcast to discuss her favorite read, 1949’s ‘A Sand County Almanac’ by naturalist and conservationist, Aldo Leopold. Alyssa and I chat about how to define nature in a contemporary context, how to live seasonally, and the steps we can all take to live Leopold’s ‘Land Ethic’. SHOP BOOKS OF THE POD:https://bookshop.org/lists/books-of-the-podINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bsscpod nature, ecology, environmental sciences, natural resources, Aldo Leopold, conservation

In this red, white, and blue mini-sode, I cover my top anxiety-relief tips and tricks as the most stressful day of the calendar year approaches: Election Day. Morning to night, I share the practices, tools, and tips that help me bring calm into my life each day, in hopes this Election Day won’t be a panic-inducing, blue-light addled mess for you, dear listener! Happy listening and don’t forget to vote! SHOP BOOKS OF THE POD:https://bookshop.org/lists/books-of-the-podINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bsscpod