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WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans Wake

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October 13, 2026 · 1 hr 56 min

Long-promised, finally delivered! No, Toby and TJ didn't get their Finnegans Wake tattoos yet (it might happen one day), but we are finally back to talk about half of WAKE's epic visit to Ireland! Listen to the audio podcast but also hop…
Episode 41: Pluribus and Finnegans Wake

March 16, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min

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Episode 40: Finishing WAKE

April 23, 2025 · 1 hr 43 min

We can't believe it. Can you believe it? We actually finished reading Finnegans Wake. What started out as a podcast to read an "unreadable book" has turned into a journey that has endeared us to a magical community, connected with our…
Episode 39: 4.1 (Part 2), p613-628

April 16, 2025 · 1 hr 51 min

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Bonus: WAKE: The Album with Tommy Mackay

April 9, 2025 · 1 hr 56 min

In the grand tradition of Finnegans Wake, WAKE has looped back around on itself to become a self-generating machine, as we welcome back musical innovator and the most reckless of stramashers, Tommy Mackay, to talk about WAKE: the Album!…
Episode 38: 4.1 (Part 1), p593-613

April 2, 2025 · 2 hr 7 min

Book Four is upon us, and it is with mixed feelings, both excited and sad, that we launch into the final segments of Finnegans Wake. Helping us along the way is fan-favourite WAKE veteran, internationally-acclaimed author, Lucy "old…
Bonus: Professors Adrien Peyrache and Arjun Krishnaswamy on Wake and the Sleeping Brain

March 26, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min

If sleep is the panacea of all ills, WAKE has found the very experts who can tell you exactly why that’s the case! On this week’s special bonus episode, Toby and TJ welcome internationally renowned neuroscientists, Professors Adrian…
Bonus: Fionnán O’Connor on Whiskey and the Wake (or, Jamessan’s Slake)

March 17, 2025 · 1 hr 28 min

Flushed with their firestuffostered friendship, WAKE celebrates St. Patrick’s Day by exploring all of the many ways that Finnegans Wake refers to whiskey: Ireland’s beloved, potent créatúr. Joined by world whiskey historian and former…
Bonus: Igor Belokrinitsky and the Ukrainian Wake in Progress Reading Group

March 12, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min

With stubbornness and defiance, WAKE welcomes the wonderful Igor Belokrinitsky, representative of the Ukrainian Wake in Progress Finnegans Wake reading group! Igor joins Toby and TJ for a wide-ranging conversation about the true meaning of…
Bonus: Neal Kosaly-Meyer and Memorising the Wake

March 5, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min

Ever have trouble remembering things? Phone numbers? Grocery lists? Names of casual acquaintances? If so, get ready to feel very self-conscious, because on this week's WAKE, we meet the indomitable Neal Kosaly-Meyer, a musician who…
Bonus: Peter O'Brien and Wake-inspired Art

February 26, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min

Peter O’Brien is an artist, a visionary, and a life-long Joycean, with the energy to not only dream up one major Finnegans Wake-centric artistic offshoot, but is busy scheming about how to top it. We first became aware of Peter as a…