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Cabin - Ep. 11: Finale

Mar 14th, 2022 1h 9m

"The eternity I detect in Nature I predicate of myself also. How many springs I have had this same experience! I am encouraged, for I recognize this steady persistency and recovery of Nature as a quality of myself."—Henry David Thoreau, Journa

Cabin - Ep. 10

Jan 23rd, 2022 59m 39s

"In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. But alone in the distant woods or fields, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly re

Cabin - Ep. 9

Jan 18th, 2022 1h 14m

"It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brain and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador any greater wildn

Cabin - Ep. 8

Dec 31st, 2021 1h 2m

"So I agree with the anarcho-primitivists that the advent of civilization was a great disaster and that the Industrial Revolution was an even greater one. I further agree that a revolution against modernity, and against civilization in general,

UPDATE: The Goods

Nov 24th, 2021 15m 50s

A brief update from Adam, Erikk, and Nick on three very important fronts.First, news on the upcoming conclusion to our CABIN series.Second, on relentlesspicnic.com/storeThird, on the continued existence of patreon.com/relentlesspicnic, the

Cabin - Ep. 7

Dec 29th, 2020 1h 13m

“‘Oh!’ say the technophiles, ‘Science is going to fix all that! We will conquer famine, eliminate psychological suffering, make everybody healthy and happy!’ Yeah, sure. The technophiles are hopelessly naive (or self-deceiving) in their underst

Cabin - Ep. 6

Oct 30th, 2020 1h 2m

“It may be objected that primitive man is physically less secure than modern man, as is shown by his shorter life expectancy; hence modern man suffers from less, not more than the amount of insecurity that is normal for human beings. But psycho

Cabin - Ep. 5

Oct 14th, 2020 1h 10m

“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving

Cabin - Ep. 4

Sep 30th, 2020 1h 8m

“One writer says that Brown's peculiar monomania made him to be ‘dreaded by the Missourians as a supernatural being.’ Sure enough, a hero in the midst of us cowards is always so dreaded. He is just that thing. He shows himself superior to natur

Cabin - Ep. 3

Jun 28th, 2020 1h 16m

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. . . . Some, not wise, go

Cabin - Ep. 2

Jun 10th, 2020 1h 8m

“I perceive that we partially die ourselves through sympathy at the death of each of our friends or near relatives. Each such experience is an assault on our vital force. It becomes a source of wonder that they who have lost many friends still

Cabin - Ep. 1

May 30th, 2020 1h 3m

Cabin is the new season from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over multiple episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout

Cabin - Ep. 0: Prologue

Apr 24th, 2020 11m 38s

A preview of CABIN: the upcoming season from The Relentless Picnic.

Ep. 33 - Shallow Banquet

Apr 12th, 2019 2h 3m

Are we further apart? Are we being fooled? This is an episode about our phantom selves, how we're doing right now, and the feeling that something important has gone wrong.SOURCES:- "Ep. 27: The Wreckage," The Relentless Picnic (Feb. '18):

Ep. 32 - Passage Potluck

Jan 27th, 2019 1h 58m

The world is a snakepit of competing takes and diverging minds. How is anybody supposed to live? In this episode, we play a game called Passage Potluck to straighten it all out. We assembled a packet of short excerpted texts, and forced ourselv

Ep. 31 - Just Citizens

Oct 22nd, 2018 2h 2m

The confidence we’ve always had as a people isn’t simply some romantic dream, or a proverb in a dusty book we read just on the Fourth of July. In this episode we’re talking democracy and consumerism through those American specters John Dewey, t

Ep. 30 - The Mandala

Aug 6th, 2018 1h 48m

Let's talk about movies. How would you talk about a movie if it wants you to shut up? Climb aboard for a one-way trip down the river of striking images, dream-like sequences, and too many meaningful looks. From the ridiculous to the sacred, we

Ep. 29 - The Swarm

May 4th, 2018 2h 4m

This week it’s fourteen conversations about one thing. We do a little research on the symptoms of fascism and begin to feel like an expendable character in the first act of a horror film. Plus: TED talks are blindfolds at the museum, why you mu

Ep. 28 - Ragnarok

Apr 3rd, 2018 2h 11m

It’s time to talk about America. We’re looking at ways to deal with what’s coming, from that bug-out bag full of spare magazines, to terrifying self-sacrifice on South Carolina’s spiritual battlefield, to Hollywood’s last-ditch play for immorta

Ep. 27 - The Wreckage

Feb 15th, 2018 1h 51m

How did this happen? What went wrong? We obsess over the brokenness and try to eyeball the true nature of intimacy: fading, faded, and yet-to-fade. ft. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jordan Catalano, Don Draper, the miserable modern self, someone you

Ep. 26 - This Is Marketplace

Jan 17th, 2018 1h 49m

Like I always say, if the markets are a-singin', you better know how to make 'em dance. Today on the program, it's a deep dive in the shallow pond that is NPR's Marketplace. We'll ask the question: are there Nazis in-studio forcing them to be l

Ep. 25 - Drench the Spark

Dec 18th, 2017 1h 51m

To die, to sleep — perchance to be judged no longer viable in society and sentenced to burn alive from within. Who is truly avenged by our cocktails of untested heartstoppers? Justices: why did we stop, then start, doing this again? Join us at

PATREON: The Announcement

Nov 22nd, 2017 21m 32s

There's a new channel for hot audio content from The Relentless Picnic. It's on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/relentlesspicnicOur episodes will still be released for free, and in the same way as always. But, as a Patron, you'll receive wee