Skip to content

jo vraca

storyteller.creator.cook.witch

jo vraca

storyteller.creator.cook.witch

  • About me
  • Blog
  • My Books
  • #amreading
  • #amreading – the outrage files
  • Podcast
Blog

Little Edie Beale or How the Hell is This the First Time I’ve Heard Of Her?

  • Posted on 28 March 2022
  • No Comments

If you are into strange documentaries about, well, nothing, checkout Grey Gardens from 1975. The daughter is where spinsters came from, I swear! “There’s nothing worse than a staunch woman.…

Read More
Blog

Am I Nice? Yeah, Go (%#& Yourself.

  • Posted on 15 February 2022
  • No Comments

How did such a nice word that we use to mean sweet and polite, also come to be an insult for some? Well, today’s word, nice, started out as a…

Read More
Blog

ASMR – Head Orgasms, Triggers & Bob Ross

  • Posted on 1 February 2022
  • No Comments

I have a treat for you today. This episode isn’t just about one word, but a series of words that have been strung together and have created a movement, a…

Read More
Blog

Things I learned today

  • Posted on 21 January 2022
  • No Comments

It took me to 52 and a half years of age to learn that there are people who customise their Lamborghinis. I’m not talking about adding tinted windows or roof…

Read More
Blog

Hysteria – Wandering Wombs, Toxic Semen & Exorcisms

  • Posted on 16 January 2022
  • No Comments

  When you think of hysteria, what comes to mind? Melancholia, anxiety, frigidity. It’s a problem that can be solved, says Doctor Dalrymple from the Netflix feel good movie, Hysteria.…

Read More
Blog

Resolutions – Barbarians, Two-Faced Gods, Serial Killers & Roast Swans

  • Posted on 4 January 2022
  • No Comments

Each and every year I buy a diary and I make a resolution to use it ALL YEAR. This is my year. I say that every year. And each and…

Read More
Blog

Christmas Elves & Pooping Birds – Where do Christmas Traditions Come From?

  • Posted on 21 December 2021
  • No Comments

  It’s almost Christmas so there’s no better time of the year to have a look at the words we use once a year with abandon. From Eggnog to Kris…

Read More
Blog

What do Peeping Tom & The Rosary Have in Common?

  • Posted on 7 December 2021
  • No Comments

When was the last time you said or heard someone say “Peeping Tom”? Chances are, it has been a while. Same with me. Yet, I know the term, as I’m…

Read More
Blog

Leftie Lucifer

  • Posted on 23 November 2021
  • No Comments

I was talking to my mum not long ago and mentioned that one of my cousins is a leftie. Mum was shocked. “Has she tried using her right hand?” she…

Read More
Blog

Stockholm Syndrome – Abba, Patty Hearst and Anna Freud

  • Posted on 10 November 2021
  • No Comments

Just in case you’re wondering, I have a real weak spot for curiosities and curious people – you know, people who behave irrationally, rule breakers and general riff raff. I’m…

Read More

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 5 6 7 … 29 Next

Hi, I’m Jo!

In an alternate universe, I was Doctor Phil or Martha Stewart. Or Monica Belluci. Or Hemingway. Or Kitty Von Krusher. But mainly, I want to grow up to be just like Little Edie Beale. In this universe I’m a writer, journalist, podcaster, seeker, pet wrangler, wife, and a mother to the universe (in training).

Newsletter

Free Book? SIgn up to my never-spammy newsletter and I'll send you my book of short stories - Girls!

Podcast

Say What
Say What

Say What?

Listen OnApple Podcasts
Troll – What do Ogres, George Michael & Chrissy Teigen Have in Common?
byJo Vraca

If you think a Troll is an ogre from northern European mythology, a beast under the bridge, you’d be missing half the story. It’s about so much more. It’s also about big boulders that litter the Scandinavian countryside, Chrissy Teigen, eBay, Reddit and those cute little plastic toys we collected in the 80s that will make someone rich one day.

Mainly we’ll talk about internet trolls because they’re all around us.

Plus Creative Cursing from Around The World takes us to Serbia.

Join me on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/saywhatthepodcast

Please share and leave us a review on your favourite podcast app including Apple and Spotify – it makes it easier for others to find the show.

Produced by Jo Vraca. You can find my books on Amazon

Sound engineering and original music by Jeff Willis. You can find his tunes on Spotify and iTunes

Additional music thanks to https://uppbeat.io

Troll – What do Ogres, George Michael & Chrissy Teigen Have in Common?
Episode play icon
Troll – What do Ogres, George Michael & Chrissy Teigen Have in Common?
Episode Description
Episode play icon
Propaganda – War, Pandemics, Soap & Cigarettes, oh and the Pope
Episode Description
Episode play icon
Hoax – Real Mermaids, Magicians and Balloon Boy does Metal
Episode Description
Search Results placeholder

Seek

Archives

Copyright © 2023 Jo Vraca All rights reserved. Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Web Log by ThemeMiles.