{"podcast":{"title":"Gods, Ghosts & UFOs","slug":"gods-ghosts-ufos-7311055","podcast_index_feed_id":7311055,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/PHTE8192086022","website_url":"https://ggupodcast.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/f28b7064-6e15-11f0-b1fd-3b3cefd70e77/image/62afb579d9dc6939fc5207ce3e41a72f.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"SpectreVision Radio","episode_count":71,"summary":"This is a show about all the things they said weren't real. Guided by strange headlines and ancient mysteries, Jordan and Mal explore the paranormal, metaphysical, and supernatural with all the earnestness and insight two big-hearted nerds can muster. If you don't have a good time, then you don't know what a good time is. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring the anomalous, the luminous, and the numinous. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠ ⁠linktr.ee/spectrevision⁠","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gods-ghosts-ufos-7311055"},"episode":{"title":"BONUS - Not Your Muppets Christmas Carol","slug":"bonus-not-your-muppets-christmas-carol","published_at":"2025-12-24T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gods-ghosts-ufos-7311055/bonus-not-your-muppets-christmas-carol","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gods-ghosts-ufos-7311055","url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE8655192035.mp3","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE8655192035.mp3","summary":"If you’ve got a quiet moment this week, here’s a thoughtful radio essay from Tom that explores the intersections of Victorian literature, social conscience, and what it means to truly connect with our fellows. Yes, it turns out we can be serious sometimes. Please try not to faint. In this piece, Tom tracks the circumstances that led Charles Dickens to write A Christmas Carol, from his disastrous American tour and the child labor reports that haunted him, to his compulsive night walks through London’s streets where he encountered the cast out and forgotten. Within this substrate, Tom weaves together Dickens’ personal struggles, the neuroscience of human connection, and an urgent message about what we’ve lost (and must reclaim) in our age of radical isolation and screen-mediated existence. Consider this our gift to you: a half-hour to slow down and remember that, “no one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.” Truly, we wish you the very best of the season, and count you among our beloved fellows. Tom, Mal, & Jordan PS - For six years running, Jordan has been making compilations on Spotify called Hot Christmas. Here’s the latest. And here are links to all the others: Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"If you’ve got a quiet moment this week, here’s a thoughtful radio essay from Tom that explores the intersections of Victorian literature, social conscienc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1756,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gods-ghosts-ufos-7311055/episodes/bonus-not-your-muppets-christmas-carol/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gods-ghosts-ufos-7311055/bonus-not-your-muppets-christmas-carol.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}