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Hoard Explorer

Hoard Explorer is a new concept in digital resale. I am selling off a personal hoard as-is, and what i can"t sell I destroy. It is my promise to you that I will minimize my impact on landfills by either turning a profit or controlled, responsible incineration. Prices are not dictated by the market. Costs reflect my willingness to part with any given item. So if it"s really expensive, that"s because I don"t want you to have it.

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16 - Little Wabi-Sabi Plates - Part 2

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/04/22

A small mismatched pair of ceramic plates probably bought sometime on a road trip to Montreal in 2016. Chad and I continue our conversation, which veers away from plates and Canada toward his personal stash of ephemera. We debate the value of a single vintage Band-Aid and wonder why it’s so hard to throw away. Chad shares his concerns about memorabilia’s dormant power, suggesting that sentimental attachment to objects can have a toxic effect on the mind. We discuss evidence of early consumer culture

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46:16

15 - Little Wabi-Sabi Plates - Part 1

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2021/04/15

A pair of small mismatched ceramic plates acquired somewhere on a road trip to Montreal in 2016. I have only the vaguest memory of the roadside stall where I picked up these two delightful little handmade plates, but I’m fairly certain it was somewhere between Montreal and the small farmhouse in upstate New York where my old friends Chad and Megan currently reside. Chad lacks even the vaguest memory of these dishes’ provenance, but that doesn’t stop me from calling him and recording it for this

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14 - Tiny Hand-Thrown Bud Vase

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2021/04/08

A small terracotta vessel handmade by a family of potters in a village outside Bundi, India. A shorter than average episode, wherein I leverage my digital hoard as a memory aid to fill in blurry memories of India. I explore (in the words of Rudyard Kipling) “a palace as men build for themselves in uneasy dreams -- the work of goblins rather than of men.” I find a little clay bud vase at the end of a day in the back of an autorickshaw, jouncing around the Rajasthani backroads to go step in stepwells

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39:31

13 - A Turtle Made of Salt

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2021/04/01

A carved saltrock turtle from the Wieliczka Salt Mine outside Kraków, Poland This episode centers on my business junket to Poland in 2016. My boss was dying of stage 4 pancreatic cancer and I had somehow inserted myself into the delicate task of selling his business before he died. So I checked in to The House of the Klezmer, did some catholic stuff on the side, and spent some quality time underground in jazz dives and salt mines. hoardexplorer.com #hoardexplorer #memoir #hoard #junket #wieliczka

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12 - Ephemera 1 - Part 3

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2021/03/25

A final attempt at a first attempt to explore the ephemeral hoard. In this episode I come clean about my underemployment. I review a number of jobs I’ve had over the years as well as my jobhunting philosophy. I consider what it means to be passionate in ones life and even sing a few bars to demonstrate. I draw parallels between the Equal Area Project and my first walkabout in the year 2000. hoardexplorer.com #hoardexplorer #memoir #hoard #neilyoung #passion #williamblake #jobhunt #onehundreddollars

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45:04

11 - Ephemera 1 - Part 2

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2021/03/18

Another attempt at a first attempt to explore the ephemeral hoard. In this episode I attempt to unflatten my face. Sometimes my imagination gets the better of me, and in this particular case it got me good. Last Thanksgiving, I discovered a young man living in a shed behind the unoccupied house next door. What happened next involved a mysterious passport, a pair of dead squirrels, and a true crime podcast that only exists in my head. hoardexplorer.com #hoardexplorer #memoir #hoard #imagination

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21:54

10 - Ephemera 1 - Part 1

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2021/03/11

A first attempt to explore the ephemeral hoard. In this truncated episode I fall flat on my face. Sheer hubris drove me to open up the small folder that contains the last lingering remnants of my previous pattern of ephemera collecting. I normally spend time preparing for each episode. This time, I was unprepared by design, hoping to test my memory on the fly, as well as my ability to relay the autonoetic consciousness associated with the contents. It didn’t end well. hoardexplorer.com

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9 - Venus' Flower Basket

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2021/03/04

A delicate glass skeleton from the vast darkness of the deep sea. This natural wonder was once a living sea sponge with the remarkable ability to build itself almost entirely out of glass. It is another new acquisition to the hoard, which I picked up as an impulse buy at the neighborhood curiosity shop. I go into some detail about this miracle of natural selection which the Japanese call Kairou-Douketsu (“together for eternity”). I then take a left turn into an examination of my personality through

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46:16

8 - Weird Little Alien Troll

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2021/02/25

A strikingly ugly figurine with tufts of yellow hair. I received a strange letter in the mail containing a solitary plastic figurine which I can confidently say defies description. The envelope came from a listener in Seattle who also happens to be a dear friend (and hoarding-adjacent fellow traveler). I return the favor by promptly scheduling a Zoom conversation and dutifully recording it for your enjoyment and edification. And thus we have our very first guest on the show! We discuss his various

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51:08

7 - Creamer Dog

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2021/02/18

An old Japanese creamer shaped like a blue pug. Instead of investigating the origins of this faded old creamer from Japan, I turn my attention to the “why” of Creamer Dog. Why is he mine? Of all the things I’ve thrown away over the years, why did he make the cut? Why is he still here? This leads us to directly address the psychiatric condition of hoarding disorder as outlined by the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th edition). I thankfully am not afflicted with such a tragic

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6 - Vintage Wooden Dumbbells

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2021/02/11

A pair of vintage wood dumbbells purchased from the Modern Antiquarium in Healdsburg CA sometime between 2015 and 2019. I am not entirely convinced that these are, in fact, wooden dumbbells but I’m hard pressed to find evidence to the contrary. In this episode, I attempt to determine the type of wood through calculator soup cube roots and wood density charts. I reveal the complete recipe for my most excellent sourdough waffles. I describe my dalliance with Etsy and eBay and the sale of what was

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45:45

5 - Ecuadorian Souvenir Plate - Part 3

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2021/02/04

Part 3 of a vibrantly colored metal souvenir plate from Ecuador in 2011. The souvenir plate returns for one more go at Ecuadorian backstory for my father and extended family. We follow the Swett family from colonial Massachusetts to 19th century Guayaquil all the way to my Nana Olga. Names and dates roll out in an almost biblical succession of begot-begot-begot (usually a Charles). There are tales of derring-do during the war of 1812, shipwrecks and cannibalism off the coast of South America, and a

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4 - Ecuadorian Souvenir Plate - Part 2

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2021/01/28

Part 2 of a vibrantly colored metal souvenir plate from Ecuador in 2011. The small souvenir plate made of stamped metal takes a back seat to René Girard’s concept of mimetic desire as I riff on my early aspirations to “being” smart and cultured (with questionable success). Eventually I return to the task at hand, trying to roughly sketch my parents’ short foray into the Venezuelan ice business in the early 60’s. I conclude with an ill-advised attempt to read a letter (written in illegible Spanish

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3 - Ecuadorian Souvenir Plate - Part 1

Hoard Explorer ·

2021/01/21

A vibrantly colored metal souvenir plate from Ecuador in 2011. This weeks episode considers a small souvenir plate made of stamped metal that reminds me of my father in a very circuitous way. I bought the plate in Ecuador, dad was born in Ecuador, his birthday was last week, my cousin in Ecuador recently sent me a copy of a letter from my father to my uncle in Ecuador sent in 1970, just a couple of years before I was born. It seems like now is the time to dig into my origin story, family drama and

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44:26

2 - Damien Hirst Espresso Cups with Saucers

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2021/01/14

A pair of Damien Hirst anamorphic demitasse sets from the Tate Modern gift shop in 2012. On the afternoon of Thursday June 21, 2012, I purchased a pair of Damien Hirst Espresso Cups & Saucers from the gift shop at the Tate Modern. I’ve been a fan of the bad boy of British art since the 1990’s, so I just couldn’t pass up the chance to check out this mind-bending survey of his works against the backdrop of the 2012 Olympics. Earlier that morning, I met a video game recruiter outside the Great Portland

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44:56

1 - Preamble Ramble

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2021/01/07

STOP! Listen to the most recent episode before attempting to "start at the beginning". Next, listen to Episode 28 - The Actual First Episode. Only then may you listen to the Preamble Ramble. To do otherwise risks breaking this podcast. A brief introduction to the glorious Hoard and the ground rules for the podcast. This is Hoard Explorer. It’s not a gross and sad hoard like you see on reality TV, and it’s nowhere near as large and invasive a “hoarder” hoard. But it is a slightly irrational hoard of

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0 - Hoard Explorer Season 1 Trailer

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2021/01/02

Now I’m not a capital “H” Hoarder but I can relate, you know? Hoard Explorer is a podcast where I grab a thing from my pile of stuff and use it to pry open a rabbit hole to jump in. I dunno, it’s like I go into a trance or something and I’ll be piecing together my weird little life, one minute I’m this reckless poet guy on drugs and suddenly I’m talking about the physics of neuroscience and then I’m an urban professional, like a video game producer or something, until I’m broke and semi-retired in

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