Be Secret and Exult
A podcast of stories about change
What does it mean to live in times of change—when it’s hard enough to navigate the changes within ourselves? Be Secret and Exult is a podcast of stories about the terrifying, beautiful weirdness of being alive.
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07: After Dreamland
The fourth story in the Comeback series: is it ever really possible to save oneself?
"Belonging, here, was measured in apocalypses."
06: The Revelator
“'I have been waiting a very long time for you,' she said. 'Hours.'”
A true story about the complicated, painful experience of helping, and being helped.
05: We Expect to Be Moving Shortly
"What's it say about bears in the contract?"
The third story in the Comeback series, in which transit worker Alvin Alterman wrestles with some of the inconveniences associated with the end of civilization.
04: In the Maybe
The definition of insanity, they say, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That may be so—but it is also, I would suggest, the definition of love.
A true story about three arrivals in New York City, and everything that followed.
03: The Forty-Seventh Bird
The second story in the Comeback series.
"Safest prophecy in the world. Always something coming."
02: The Comeback
The story of a family struggling to adapt amid an ecological anti-catastrophe, an apocalypse of abundance.
"I can almost guarantee you that this will not go wrong."
01: Be Secret and Exult
A true story about answering a ringing pay phone on a lonely San Francisco night, and what it means to be secret and exult.