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Dispatches From Kint
by Mark Valenti
This is Dispatches from Kint - transmissions from a world that came after. A place rebuilding itself from fragments of meaning, memory, and misplaced logic. Each episode, one quiet voice reports on life in a world where everything has changed, but everyone insists it makes sense. Welcome to Kint. Conditions remain inconclusive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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The Contests Nobody Wanted to Win
Send us Fan Mail In Kint, the hardest thing to defeat is generosity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Locked Door Mystery of Kint
Send us Fan Mail Some questions improve a town simply by remaining unanswered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Book of Kint - The Bridge of Forgetting
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the most useful place in the world is the one halfway between two decisions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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You Need to Visit Kint
Send us Fan Mail The thing about Kint is that it looks ordinary until you start paying attention. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Whybrary
Send us Fan Mail In the Whybrary of Kint, the most valuable thing on the shelves is curiosity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Lamplighter Who Stayed
Send us Fan Mail Electricity lit the streets, but the lamplighter continued illuminating the small things that matter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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A New and Improved Kint
Send us Fan Mail The citizens of Kint eventually realized that an outsider is simply a neighbor who hasn’t stayed long enough. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Complaint Department
Send us Fan Mail In Kint, the hardest part of solving a problem is usually listening long enough to understand it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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Trash and Treasure
Send us Fan Mail The difference between trash and treasure, the citizens of Kint discovered, is usually a story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Day the Dogs Came Back
Send us Fan Mail It turns out the citizens of Kint had been missing more than they realized. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Children of Kint
Send us Fan Mail A town reveals its character by how it treats its children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Statue
Send us Fan Mail In Kint, greatness tends to look too ordinary for a statue. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Flag of Kint
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the clearest symbol is the one that leaves room for everyone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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Club Sixteen
Send us Fan Mail In Kint, the citizens eventually discovered that belonging works better without numbers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Real Map of Kint
Send us Fan Mail Maps can show where things are, but not why they matter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Man Who Began Counting Kint
Send us Fan Mail The moment he began counting Kint, he discovered most of it would not fit inside numbers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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A Personal Message From Your Narrator
Send us Fan Mail There's always a why. And there's always a because. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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Leaving Kint Behind
Send us Fan Mail The wagon was packed, the road was ready, but the town had other plans for his heart. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Book of Kint - Where it Began
Send us Fan Mail The beginning of Kint was not a place, but a promise. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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President Pig
Send us Fan Mail When the citizens of Kint grow weary of what they perceive as an ineffective government, they elect a barnyard animal to lead them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Time Traveler
Send us Fan Mail Did you ever wish you could go back in time and be a child again? The Time Traveler suggests there may be more to our pasts than our memories preserve. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Family Next Door
Send us Fan Mail What makes a person "normal?" Is joy a sufficient motivator to be who we really are? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Man Who Sold Fear
Send us Fan Mail Kint falls victim to a traveling hustler who incites anxiety and fear in order to sell his version of the "news." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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Thatcher the Story Man
Send us Fan Mail When a storyteller visits Kint with a wager, and the result is a stop sign that returns to its wobbly state of existence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Sunday Night Orange Story Hour
Send us Fan Mail An origin story of a storytelling story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Designated Dissenter
Send us Fan Mail Healthy debate can only take place if someone is willing to stand up and challenge conventional wisdom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Basement Tapes
Send us Fan Mail Kint may never know how close it came to losing everything... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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Please Remain On The Ground
Send us Fan Mail Gravity in Kint is as changeable as the weather, and this time is has chosen to misbehave like a toddler. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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Attendance
Send us Fan Mail Teachers have a greater impact on students than might be suspected... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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Not Yet
Send us Fan Mail What happens when your time is up but no one bothered to let you know? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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Episode 10: Get the Click
Send us Fan Mail Everyone wants one. No one knows what it is. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Vortex
Send us Fan Mail Where do Kintians go when they slip into the Vortex? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The One and Only Earth Day
Send us Fan Mail When the Ministry decides to honor Kint’s ancestors, lessons are quickly learned about what types of Earth realities were worth abandoning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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Butterfly Day
Send us Fan Mail A blazingly hot day. Conflict in every direction. And a single butterfly manages somehow to change the course of life in Kint. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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Art For Kint's Sake
Send us Fan Mail What’s in a picture? In Kint, the answers are infinite. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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Nuzz the Multibeast
Send us Fan Mail While researching more efficient food production, scientists accidentally create an animal that contains the traits of all animals combined. Its wisdom and unique perspective leads Kint to a life-altering decision. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
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The Rituals of Mating
Send us Fan Mail Romance in Kint is many things, but it is never without a full menu of rituals that help couples seal the deal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Republic of One
Send us Fan Mail A woman, tired of Kint bureaucracy, secedes into her own country. But she learns that it’s more than laws and rules that bind us together. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Star of Eternity
Send us Fan Mail The most precious jewel in existence is worshipped and applauded – until it’s finally put to good use. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Support the show
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The Hermit with Two Faces
Send us Fan Mail A reclusive hermit visits Kint and accidentally reveals his secret – he’s been hiding a second face that sits on his stomach. His fear of discovery kept him from living a full life, until he learns that in Kint, the unusual can be a valuable resource. Hosted on Acast. See...
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Episode 21: Message From the Stars
Send us Fan Mail A signal arrives from impossibly far away, carrying the final transmission of those who lived before the Event. As Kint’s scientists decode the voices of the lost, citizens gather to listen, awed by the realization that the people who doomed the world also refused to stop loving...
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Episode 20: The Truth About Cats
Send us Fan Mail All cats in Kint, it seems, have been fluent in human language for centuries; they simply declined to participate. When asked why they never spoke sooner, a tabby explained, “Have you humans heard yourselves? It would be like talking to a dog.” Hosted on Acast. See...
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Episode 19: The Wish Jar
Send us Fan Mail In Kint, a woman named Lira finds the small glass jar she once filled with childhood wishes, tiny folded promises she’d long forgotten. Her life hasn’t turned out the way she imagined; the disappointments feel heavy, the years like missed chances. But as she opens each slip, she...
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Episode 18: The Girl Who Loved Trains
Send us Fan Mail A quiet child whose lifelong fascination with locomotives becomes a kind of devotion. One day, without warning, she arrives at the station not to watch but to board, suitcase in hand. And when the town asks where she’s going, she simply smiles and says, “I’ll know when I get...
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Episode 17: A Temporary Majesty
Send us Fan Mail We explore the Kintian custom of granting ordinary citizens brief, symbolic reign over the community. A local butcher and a traffic officer are unexpectedly crowned king, and their short-lived rule reveals both the tenderness and absurdity of elevating everyday people to…
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Episode 16: Where Kint Began
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we learn how Kint grew out of a single relic from Before: a battered, bureaucratic manual titled Knowledge Integration and Normalization Taskforce. It offered no guidance beyond a few cryptic acronyms and half-useful procedures, so the early Kintians did the only...
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Episode 15: The Great Punctuation Debate
Send us Fan Mail Kint erects a giant question-mark sculpture in the town square, encouraging citizens to question belief, dogma, and certainty itself. But people object; some find it unsettling, others say it invites doubt, and still others think it’s simply ugly. It’s replaced with an…
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Episode 14: On Love
Send us Fan Mail Kintians categorize everything: ideas, emotions, behaviors, even superstitions, until nothing remains that can’t be neatly filed. But love refuses the system. It won’t stay in one category, or eight, or eighty. It spills over every boundary they create: logic, even language. And…
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Episode 13: The Whistling Prohibition
Send us Fan Mail When Kint’s leaders ban whistling, claiming it disrupts “collective cognitive harmony," they accidentally unleash a bureaucratic nightmare. Citizens who used whistling to regulate mood must turn to humming, which soon becomes a louder, stranger public nuisance. Committees form,...
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Episode 12: Dream Rentals
Send us Fan Mail In Kint, where sleep is only loosely coordinated with rest, the Ministry of Nocturnal Affairs has introduced its most controversial service yet: Dream Rentals. The premise is simple. If your dreams have grown stale, repetitive, or bureaucratic in tone, you may rent someone else’s...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This is Dispatches from Kint - transmissions from a world that came after. A place rebuilding itself from fragments of meaning, memory, and misplaced logic. Each episode, one quiet voice reports on life in a world where everything has changed, but everyone insists it makes sense. Welcome to Kint. Conditions remain inconclusive.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
HOSTED BY
Mark Valenti
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This is Dispatches from Kint - transmissions from a world that came after. A place rebuilding itself from fragments of meaning, memory, and misplaced logic. Each episode, one quiet voice reports on life in a world where everything has changed, but everyone insists it makes sense. Welcome to Kint....
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Dispatches From Kint is created and hosted by Mark Valenti.
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