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SPLANCHNICS: The Society for the Preservation of Literature, the Arts, Numinosity, Culture, Humor, Nerdiness, Inspiration, Creativity & Storytelling

Clare Walker & Hannah Kubiak

We are a mother-daughter team of creative artists irreverently discussing books, movies, TV shows, theater, art, bad grammar, or whatever else has captured our imaginations. This is a very serious podcast!!

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47:27

Book Club: That Hideous Strength

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2025/10/04

Clare and Hannah struggle to untangle the final book in C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy: That Hideous Strength. Clare declares this book did not require a wizard. Hannah finally discovers a romantic subplot she's invested in. Once again, we mention The Abolition of Man, but only because Lewis mentioned it first. Get your own copy of That Hideous Strength at Clare’s Bookshop.org shop. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Click here to send us a text message! Support the show We pro...

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24:34

Creation Myths Across Cultures

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2025/09/25

After reading Perelandra, Clare and Hannah have been thinking about creation myths. In this episode, Hannah shares the whacky ideas the Greeks, Norse, and Chinese cultures had about how the world came to be. Listener discretion advised for the following reasons: We mention the raunchy aspects of Greek mythology.Both hosts devolve into wailing the saxophone riff from "Careless Whispers."Hannah was left unsupervized on-mic for aproximately 27 seconds.We’d love to hear your thoughts! Click...

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Book Club: Perelandra

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2025/09/13

Clare and Hannah continue their journey through Deep Heaven with C.S. Lewis, to a pure and unfallen planet where everyone is naked without shame. Seriously. The only clothed person in this entire book is literally the Devil. The planet is Perelandra—what we call Venus—a newly created Paradise, complete with a “human” King and Queen to be its stewards. But the Ancient Enemy, Satan, inflamed with Envy and bent on destruction, high-tails it there on a mission of corruption and evil. This time, E...

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28:35

C.S. Lewis' Five Kinds of Sci-Fi

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2025/08/30

Clare and Hannah have a close encounter! In this episode we go over C.S. Lewis' five kinds of science fiction, as detailed in, "On Science Fiction." We’d love to hear from you! Click here to send us a text message! Support the show We provide links and other resources to help you find and enjoy the things we talked about on this episode! Note that some of these may include “affiliate” links to books and other products. When you click through and purchase, the price of the item is the same for...

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23:14

Book Club: Out of the Silent Planet

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2025/08/16

In this book club episode, Clare and Hannah travel into space and try not to embarass themselves as they discuss C.S. Lewis's science fiction classic, Out of the Silent Planet. Naturally, they mention The Abolition of Man. For complete show notes, including a list of the books we discussed and one of the most beautiful passages Lewis wrote, click through to the episode page on the Splanchnics website. If you’d like to get your own copy of Out of the Silent Planet, or any of the books we...

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12:55

Songs that Rocked Our World: Changeless Whisper

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2025/05/31

Clare and Hannah both share a song that rocked their world. Hannah tries to rap (sort of), and Clare tells the story of the 10,000-pound haircut. Like the comments section of George Michael's "Careless Whisper," we hope you find this episode charmingly, wholesomely, vaguely off-color. The songs: “Change” by NF. “Careless Whisper” by Wham! featuring George Michael, 1984 Sexy Sax Man Support the show We provide links and other resources to help you find and enjoy the things we talked abou...

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28:22

Book Club: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

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2025/04/25

Clare and Hannah take on Jekyll and Hyde in a battle of Victorian proportions. In other words, we slink furtively through darkened doorways, scandalize young housemaids sitting up past their bedtime, and write letters to our lawyers with the tantalizing instruction: "Do not open until I have died or disappeared under mysterious circumstances." Get your own copy of this Robert Louis Stevenson classic, here at Clare's Bookshop.org store! Or, since Jekyll & Hyde is in the public...

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29:13

Tragedy vs. Evil

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2025/03/22

This is a very serious episode. Clare and Hannah tackle a topic that is probably far beyond them, but that's never stopped them before. Today we discuss the difference between tragedy and evil. Hannah brings up vampires because at least she knows something about those. Support the show We provide these resources to help you find and enjoy the things we talked about on this episode! Note that some of these may include “affiliate” links to books and other products. When you click through and pu...

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17:38

Songs that Rocked Our World: I Can't Help But Wonder...

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2025/02/18

Clare and Hannah each share another song that rocked their worlds. Clare's song is a universal story about the plight of the working poor, just as relevant today as it was forty years ago. Hannah spends most of her allotted time describing what happens if you trespass at a war vet's house and pester his wife (You get shot, that's what). Also, her song made both of us cry a little. Hannah’s song: “I Can’t Help But Wonder” by Jorge Rivera-Herrans Clare’s song: “Fast Car” written and perform...

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S3: E8- 2024: The Year that Blew Our Minds

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2025/02/04

Clare and Hannah look back on 2024 as the year that blew their minds every other day. A few examples: The day that Israel blew the pants off their enemies.The presidential candidate who almost got his head blown off on live television.Amazing health discoveries that will keep you from blowing up the bathroom at your in-laws' house. Mentioned in this episode: “Stopping or reducing dietary fiber intake reduces constipation and its associated symptoms” (Sorry if that’s TMI…) The Brillianc...

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28:31

S3: E6- Book Club: The Island of Dr. Moreau

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2024/11/27

Clare and Hannah read H.G. Wells' "The Island of Dr. Moreau," and discuss universal themes like the hubris of science, the true nature of humanity, and their uncanny ability to shoehorn a C.S. Lewis shoutout into any discussion. Support the show

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S3: E5- The Art of Nope

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2024/09/16

Clare and Hannah share their experiences practicing martial arts. By share their experiences, we mean they soared with exquisite grace through a grove of bamboo trees, exchanging blows that shook the surrounding wilderness and awakened a long-dormant volcano. Support the show

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S3:E4- Book Club: Catch 22

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2024/06/28

Clare and Hannah return with another book club, this time covering Joseph Heller's Catch 22, a satirical commentary on corporate malfeasance, nonsense, incompetence and bureaucracy. A classic war novel that coined a phrase still prominent in the modern zeitgeist, Catch 22 left Clare feeling like a dummy and convinced Hannah that she does indeed have a twisted brain. In other words, a bit of light reading for your summer.Support the Show.

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Breakfast Chat 9: Your Vet Did What?

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2024/02/03

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34:19

S3:E3- To Kill a King

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2024/02/03

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S3:E2- The Life and Times of Henry and Henry

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2023/09/04

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Breakfast Chat 8: Songs that Rocked Our World, Pt. 3

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2023/08/29

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S3: E1- Book Club: "True Grit"

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2023/08/22

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Breakfast Chat 7: "Your Dog Ate What? Again?" (Weird...

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2023/08/15

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Breakfast Chat 6: Our Favorite Circles of Hell...

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2023/07/01

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