HBM119: An Episode of Pebbles and Twigs

Here Be Monsters

Here Be Monsters Podcast

Science, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Personal Journals, Documentary

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The end of our seventh season draws near! Just one more episode until we hang up our podcasting hats for a few months. We don’t want you to miss us too much though, so on this episode, we’re tying up some loose ends, answering some questions, and sharing ways that you can stay connected with us even when our podcast feed is quieter.

Content Note:
Sexual references and bodily injury

Five ways to help us out this summer

HBM Summer Art Exchange. You like to make art? You like to get art? Exchange something with a fellow HBM listener. All you have to do is fill out this form. It’s free (well, except for postage).

Merch. Did you know that we have HBM shirts, stickers, art prints, books, sweatshirts? Already have those? Fear not, we’re working on a something new for next season.

The VOICE Hotline Dataset. In 2017, Jeff FOIA’d Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the records of the calls made to their VOICE hotline. The (heavily redacted) spreadsheet contains 5,164 calls with many pieces of metadata for each call record.

Google Sheets Version. This is a version that we’ve cleaned up a tad, added some useful analysis to. You can view and comment collaboratively here.

CSV Version. This is a version that you can use offline in software like Excel and Tableau.

ICE FOIA LIbrary Version. This is straight from the source. Our FOIA is listed under Reports → VOICE Log: Apr. 2017- Oct. 2017

Super Secret Facebook Group. We have a top secret Facebook group. If you want to be a part of it, just find it. That’s the only test to get in.

Voicemail Line. Call us anytime. Tell us your stories or record strange sounds, or ask us questions. We love it when you call. Our number is (765) 374-5263.

More reporting about the VOICE Hotline on Splinter and the Arizona Republic.

Many thanks to the data scientist Ahnjili Zhuparris for the help with the VOICE dataset. She created a whole slew of data visualizations for us here.

Producer: Jeff Emtman
Editor: Jeff Emtman
Music: The Black Spot

Transcript

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0:00.0	From KCRW, this is Here Be Monsters.
0:07.0	It's getting close to our season end. Just one more episode until Bethany and I take our
0:18.1	production break for the summer. We're slowly getting closer to that point where
0:22.1	we get to close out those browser tabs we've had open for the last nine months, you know, archive some slack channels, that kind of thing. It's really exciting.
0:31.0	But even though our season's ending, we're starting a new summer
0:34.8	project that we want you to be a part of. It's a listener art exchange and we
0:39.6	want you to make a piece of art and mail it to another hereby monsters listener and they'll mail you
0:44.6	something back. It's as simple as that. All you have to do is sign up. And you don't have to be a professional
0:50.5	artist or anything. You just have to be a kind person who's willing to put something in the mail for a stranger.
0:55.4	I'll be participating too. I'll probably draw some of the little monsters that I think about when I'm trying to fall asleep.
1:01.7	And Beth's going to make a cross stitch of some crows.
1:05.0	Anyhow, I'm very excited about all this, and so if you'd like to participate in the first ever
1:09.7	hereby monster's summer art exchange, just fill out the form on our website by June 12th.
1:15.4	You can find a link in our show notes or just go to HBM Podcast.com.
1:19.8	S.org.
1:21.0	Arts 2019.
1:33.4	You know a couple weeks ago I was in the forest with a toddler and he brought me these like little piles of things to hold. He'd bring me a couple pebbles, a twig, some clumps of moss.
1:37.0	And he thought these were treasures, and so did I.
1:40.4	Now this episode's going to be a little bit like that, a bit of potpourri, some odds and
1:46.1	ends. All the things that we accumulated throughout the season that need to go on an episode,
1:51.7	but we just weren't sure which one.
1:54.2	It's a collection of little things that I want to give to you, like this recording that I made recently,
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