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HariCuts
by Hari
HariCuts are stories, ideas, and reflections by Hari Stephen Kumar, professional storyteller and storytelling coach. Episodes are released roughly once a week, but frequency may vary depending on the current state of the global pandemic and/or collapse of democracy.www.storycoach.ioinstagram.com/haritellastory
Episodes
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The Long View - Week 01 (Election 2020)
Just 6 days to go till Election Day in the election of our lifetimes, and this week I bring you THREE very special guests: fellow badass phone bank trainers Nancy, Nimat, and Sherrie. We dive into the joys and travails of training phone bank callers, and so this is a "behind the scenes" episode...
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The Long View - Week 02 (Election 2020)
2 weeks to go till Election Day in the election of our lifetimes, and this week I bring you the #BTS episode, stories from being behind the scenes with the WisDems virtually as I become a rapid response "supervolunteer" with them. Also featuring a surprise mystery letter from a voter in Wisconsin...
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The Long View - Week 03 (Election 2020)
3 weeks to go, and COVID is back in the news, reminding us that the election of our lifetimes is taking place in the middle of the most deadly global pandemic of our lifetimes. Battleground states such as Wisconsin, where I'm volunteering, are facing a rapid surge in COVID cases with real...
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The Long View - Week 04 (Election 2020)
Week 4, the week that feels like a year -- during which Trump gets covid, and the stupidest apocalypse gets even stupider. In this episode I share a little bit about what my week looks like, as a phone bank volunteer, as a worker with a full-time day job, as a single dad, and as someone isolated...
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The Long View - Week 05 (Election 2020)
Just 5 weeks to go, and the day after the first presidential debate, I pivot from the trauma and depression of watching that orange ... thing ... assault basic human decency, and I instead focus this episode on the basic human decency of everyday people who are getting involved in this election.…
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The Long View - Week 06 (Election 2020)
Hey, you -- yeah, YOU, reading this right now and listening to this episode... this is your call to adventure, get involved, join me in making an impact on the election of our lifetimes. Yes, we only have 6 weeks to go, and this is the week when RBG passed away. The stakes just got that much...
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The Long View - Week 07 (Election 2020)
7 weeks to go till the election of our lifetimes! This week I interview Rebecca, a fellow phone bank trainer and a mom, activist, and social change educator. We get to know a bit more of her story and motivating tensions driving her involvement in making an impact on the election. We dive into…
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The Long View - Week 08 (Election 2020)
8 weeks to go to the election of our lifetimes, and this week I dive into the world of being a poll worker. I bring you behind the scenes of a small precinct at a polling station in the Central Massachusetts town of Auburn, during the Massachusetts state primary election on Tuesday, September 1....
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The Long View - Week 09 (Election 2020)
Featuring my first guest interview: Steve, an organizer of phonebank calls into Wisconsin. It's Tue, Sept 1, and exactly 9 weeks to go till the election of our lifetimes. This week we get into the world of phonebanking, and we get to see a bit of the behind-the-scenes life of an everyday…
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The Long View - Week 10 (Election 2020)
It's the election of our lifetimes, and certainly the most consequential election of my life. We will all be telling stories about this election for decades to come -- but what are the stories we are crafting in the weeks leading up to this election? What are the stories of us everyday people…
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Storytelling 101-05: Supporting Characters
In which we get into the most COLORFUL principle of storytelling: supporting characters! What do supporting characters do in a story, who are they, and why are they so important in storytelling? Crucially, what are the powerful choices we can make in terms of diversity and inclusion as we craft...
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Storytelling 101-04: Scene
In which we dive into the GROOVIEST principle of storytelling -- the art of telling a story in scenes, to build an audience experience marked by curiosity and rapt attention. Music credits: Alte Herren by KieLoKaz, and royalty-free songs from Purple Planet Music. (CC-BY-NC-SA 2020) Hari Stephen...
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Black Lives Matter: Turning Points in Storytelling
A bridge episode in which I reflect on a historic and eventful month of June, including Juneteenth, and reflect on some of the stories that come together in the broader story of making sure that Black Lives Matter. I dive into the story of the 2009 arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and walk…
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For Floyd
For Floyd. For Trayvon. For Emmett. For Marissa. And... for the rest of us, may we rewrite the stories yet to be told. A good place to start or continue is this list of 75 things you can do to take action against social injustice and police killings:...
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Storytelling 101-03 : Plot/Twists
It all started, as so many stories in Ireland do, when an Irish lass led me astray... So come travel with me to scenic Ireland, land of storytellers and dragons, as I get into the key principle of the Plot of a story, which is actually about the twists and turns of the tale rather than a straight...
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Storytelling 101-02 : Main Character
In which we get into the second key principle of Storytelling 101: Main Character. Who is the main character in a story? Who gets to decide? Or does the story pick the main character? And of all the details about the main character, which ones are truly important for the story? I also try…
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Storytelling 101-01 : Motivating Tension
Introducing Storytelling 101! In this launch episode we dive into what I consider to be the single most important principle of storytelling: Motivating Tension. We look at this concept from a few different angles, and then I try to apply it to the baseline story that is my "workbench" for these...
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18 - Storytelling 101 Teaser
Introducing Storytelling 101! A series of episodes in which I share basic principles of storytelling and apply them to try and tell the story of a Qantas airplane catastrophe. Comments welcome on anchor.fm/haricuts or on instagram.com/haritellastory.
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17 - Dot Space, Not Dot Space Space
In which we decide, in the middle of a global pandemic, to dive into a religious war and find an unlikely hero in Microsoft Word, and we relish the new hell that certain snooty professors in certain snooty New England colleges will now have to endure every time they type. Comments welcome, so…
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16 - Caspar Part 3
In which we wrap up the story of Caspar, Keeper of the Treasure, etc., with a surprising twist in the tail—errm, tale—involving the mystery of why Baby Girl went under the fence in the first place, and what was Edmond thinking, and a tangential connection to the Netflix documentary Tiger King....
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15 - Caspar Part 2
In which we return to the world of Caspar, Keeper of the Treasure, etc., but this time from a different set of eyes, reliving the events of that fateful “Hump Day” from a blissfully pre-pandemic time when the news had time and space for the misadventures of Florida Man and Florida Woman...…
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14 - Caspar Part 1
In which I bring you into the world of Caspar, Keeper of the Treasure, Prince of the Desert, sole purveyor of all he, uhm, purveys, until one fated Wednesday — a “Hump Day” — that cannot be forgotten once you’ve heard it. Comments welcome at anchor.fm/haricuts or instagram.com/haritellastory.
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13 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
In which we finally conclude our Caribbean Luxury Cruise with David Foster Wallace, involving a drinking game where we drink with each of the 48 footnotes in an action-packed last day of minute-by-minute managed activities, featuring losing at chess to a 9-year-old girl, winning at decktop Ping...
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12 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
In which we spend a morning with David Foster Wallace docked in port on deck 12 of the m.v. Nadir, reflecting on the sky, the sea, the transformation of passengers into American bovine tourists, the deep lie of the promise to sate the Insatiable Infant within us, and the juxtaposition of all of...
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11 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
In which we take an interlude with David Foster Wallace to reflect on the differences in the seas and sands of the Caribbean, and of life, and the meaningful distinction between beauty and prettiness, and on the expense of stillness in the middle of a global pandemic. Comments welcome at...
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10 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
In which we take respite from being stuck inside during a global pandemic to go on a cruise with David Foster Wallace where ... we find ourselves stuck inside a cabin in a cruise ship with DFW, who proceeds to observe, with curiosity and fascination, everything in the cabin, including an...
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09 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
In which we immerse ourselves in the luxury of shipboard life on board the m.v. Nadir (nee Zenith) with David Foster Wallace, and end up ruminating on the meaning of hospitality that has a sinister anal-retention to it, and on the front-line nature of service work in the midst of a global…
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08 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
In which DFW finally has a sunny day on deck but has to involve, in DFW style, a dive into matters concerning advertising, essays, essaymercials, ads as fundamentally non-art, and the sinister nature of ads that pretend to be art. Also featuring a footnote on the fucking mess that is the...
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07 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
In which we experience the first two days of sailing on a luxury Caribbean cruise with David Foster Wallace, involving pitching, rolling, romance, nausea, Table 64, and the Anti-Mona Alliance. Comments welcome at anchor.fm/haricuts or instagram.com/haritellastory.
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06 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
In which we finally, finally, after 5 long sections and 23 pages and 26 footnotes, finally we set sail aboard the m.v Nadir (nee Zenith) on a 7-Night Caribbean Luxury Cruise with David Foster Wallace. Subscribe and leave a comment at anchor.fm/haricuts or instagram.com/haritellastory.
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05 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
In which we embark, in storytelling mode and present-tense, with David Foster Wallace, as he boards a luxury Caribbean cruise in 1996, along the way reflecting on operatic infants, correlations between guilt and self-indulgence, and that rarity: the footnote that DFW decided not to write.…
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04 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
In which we take respite from a global pandemic to check in with David Foster Wallace in 1996, on a luxury Caribbean cruise, pondering death, birth, advertising, the puzzle over his use of the word "preterite," and finding unexpected basic human decency in NYC or Boston. If you know what DFW…
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03 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Easter during a global pandemic, and I light candles for the dead and the living among us, raise a glass of bourbon to us all. Buckle up folks, as shit gets real, David Foster Wallace-style: we dive headlong into serious themes of despair in section 3 of his essay "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll…
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02 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
It's still a global pandemic! Most of us are still stuck inside, and so I continue with episode 2 of this pandemic season of HariCuts with the next section of David Foster Wallace's 1996 essay "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again." Now featuring my own commentary as HariNotes(tm) at the…
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01 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
It's a global pandemic! We are all stuck inside, and we miss being outside, but there's one place out there where we all definitely don't want to be right now: that's right, cruise ships. Cruise ships are terrible things, cruise lines are terrible companies, and the people that run them are...
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Bus Chicken Police Station
A story from South India, involving a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation bus, a brave chicken, and a sleepy police station.
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HariCuts are stories, ideas, and reflections by Hari Stephen Kumar, professional storyteller and storytelling coach. Episodes are released roughly once a week, but frequency may vary depending on the current state of the global pandemic and/or collapse of democracy.www.storycoach.ioinstagram.com/haritellastory
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