The Board Named Itself [Patreon Preview]

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

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I dive into the history of Ouija Boards with historian and planchette collector Brandon Hodge. To hear this and other bonus episodes of Otherworld, sign up at www.patreon.com/otherworld To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Other World Patreon. I'm your host Jack Wagner. This is a short
0:11.8	preview of a full episode that's available now to our patrons.
0:15.7	If you want to hear the full thing and all the other bonus episodes, you could sign up at
0:20.4	Patreon.com.
0:22.0	otherworld.
0:23.0	In this episode I'll be speaking to Brandon Hodge
0:28.0	about the history of Ouija boards, talking boards,
0:30.6	Planchetes, and everything in between. Brandon is a historian. B
0:34.4	Planchetts and everything in between. Brandon is a historian and he has one of the largest if not the largest collection of
0:39.6	Planchetts in the world. I spoke to a lot of different people in the process of making these
0:45.6	Zozo episodes. Brandon was one of those people. I originally wanted to do a brief
0:51.6	intro section about the history of Wejibords before Chase's story,
0:57.0	but after talking to Brandon for just a few minutes, I immediately realized the origin story is very long and complicated and
1:06.2	that this would have to be its own episode. Brandon Hodge is very passionate
1:12.2	about Wejibords.
1:14.0	Skeptic probably wouldn't be the right word,
1:17.0	but his interest is definitely more historical than spiritual,
1:21.0	I would say, which is good because I think it's important to have
1:24.9	balance when we approach topics like these. So this is my conversation with
1:31.3	Brandon Hodge about the history of Ouija Boards.
1:34.7	I'm going to call this episode, The Board named itself, and you're listening to the
1:39.8	Other World Patreon.
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