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Oh the Places You'll Go

Stuck in a dead-end gig? Looking for your first real job? Feeling disheartened?

Don’t fret friends, we’ve all been there, Oracles included! Join us on our latest episode as we examine and categorize some high, and low points from our own professional pasts.

Stuck in a dead-end gig? Looking for your first real job? Feeling disheartened?

Don’t fret friends, we’ve all been there, Oracles included! Join us on our latest episode as we examine and categorize some high, and low points from our own professional pasts.

Oh the Places You'll Go
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...Karen please
Subway Sandwich Artist
Benjamin Buttons
Hancock Fabrics Clerk
Inside a Clock Tower
Resource Center and Collections intern at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Resume Builder: Trial by Flambé
Student Supervisor - Circulation UWM Golda Meir Library
Strictly Celluloid Employed
Cashier at Fazolis
The Picture of Dorian Halcyon Day
Nerd Camp Counselor
 

Categorical Oracle is a comedy podcast that pits three brave librarians against the rampant disorder of the modern world. Every other week your hosts apply the combined might of their organizational skills to a new topic in their never-ending quest to make things make sense.

 
 
 

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GOOP Products

Beat the heat with the Oracles as they take a look at some classic ice cream truck treats

Got $755 to drop on a pot? Then have we got a show for you.

GOOP Products
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Beats by Dre
Platine Medium Saucepan, 18cm
Beer taste on a champagne budget
Fur Oil
Dribble Glass for the Thirsty
Nuage Ceramic Stoneware Lamp
For cool Apple Trees
Joint Case
Gilding Your Georgia O'Keeffe Lily
Olga
Nouveau Sheesh!
Rose Quartz Crystal Straw
Pepper's Plots…for World Domination
Darkfin Power Gloves
Placebo-in-a-Tuxedo
Psychic Vampire Repellent
"You Should Be Mine" by Jeffrey Osborne "Can you woo, woo, woo?"
Rose Quartz Egg
 

Categorical Oracle is a comedy podcast that pits three brave librarians against the rampant disorder of the modern world. Every other week your hosts apply the combined might of their organizational skills to a new topic in their never-ending quest to make things make sense.

 
 
 

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Hot Takes on Cool Treats: Ice Cream Truck Edition

Beat the heat with the Oracles as they take a look at some classic ice cream truck treats

Beat the heat with the Oracles as they take a look at some classic ice cream truck treats

Hot Takes on Cool Treats: Ice Cream Truck Edition
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6 Chill-ion Dollar Meal
- Strawberry Shortcake Bar
- Choco Taco
Barbie Power Wheels
- Characters Bar (with Gumball Eyes)
Dante's Chill-ferno
- Screwball
Delia's inflatable chair
- Push Up Pops
Something for the Dads
- Chipwich
 

Categorical Oracle is a comedy podcast that pits three brave librarians against the rampant disorder of the modern world. Every other week your hosts apply the combined might of their organizational skills to a new topic in their never-ending quest to make things make sense.

 
 
 
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Pure Moods pt. 2

The epic journey concludes on Pure Moods, part 2

The epic journey concludes on Pure Moods, part 2

Pure Moods pt. 2
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Burning Down the Laos...Wait this is china fool!
- Main Title Theme from The Last Emperor
Gas Giant
- My Wife with Champagne Shoulders
Jail cell closing
- Crockett's Theme
Jail cell closing - Lesser known theme
- Theme from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
- The Promise
Manhattan Clam Chowder
- Theme from The Mission
Tantric Sax
- Lily Was Here
Trixie Mattel in a headdress - Suprisingly fine
- Yeha-Noha (Wishes of Happiness & Prosperity)
Uganarama
- Makambo
 

Categorical Oracle is a comedy podcast that pits three brave librarians against the rampant disorder of the modern world. Every other week your hosts apply the combined might of their organizational skills to a new topic in their never-ending quest to make things make sense.

 
 
 
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Pure Moods pt. 1

Sail away with us on the first half of a journey through the soundtrack to 90s suburban relaxation, Pure Moods

Sail away with us on the first half of a journey through the soundtrack to 90s suburban relaxation, Pure Moods

Pure Moods pt. 1
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Aum-unst-unst-unst
Oxygène Part IV
Belief Aperitif
Sweet Lullaby
Gwen Stefani's Harajuku girls phase
Gwen Stefani's Harajuku girls phase
Iced White Zin on a Sunday
Orinoco Flow
Mama's Sound Bath's Got Jets
'
Adiemus
Marquis de Sade (/ʃɑːˈdeɪ/ shah-DAY)
Sadeness, Pt. 1
Philip Glass' Monster Mash
Tubular Bells Part 1
The dick wolf cash register sound
The X-Files Theme (DADO Paranormal Activity Mix)
 

Categorical Oracle is a comedy podcast that pits three brave librarians against the rampant disorder of the modern world. Every other week your hosts apply the combined might of their organizational skills to a new topic in their never-ending quest to make things make sense.

 
 
 
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CO Archives: Subversive Summer Reading

Welcome summer with a CO Classic, Subversive Summer Reading

Welcome summer with a CO Classic, Subversive Summer Reading

ep 19: Subversive Summer Reading
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DCOM
The Baby-Sitters Club: Dawn and the Surfer Ghost
NPR fund drive tote bag full of kolrabi
Annie on My Mind
Personal Pan-Demic Pizza
Uglies
Premise-Wise the Clown
Flowers in the Attic
sucks to be you, nerd
Go Ask Alice
Swipe Right for teen sex
Forever...
The Shady Bunch
"The Face on the Milk Carton "
 

Categorical Oracle is a comedy podcast that pits three brave librarians against the rampant disorder of the modern world. Every other week your hosts apply the combined might of their organizational skills to a new topic in their never-ending quest to make things make sense.

 
 
 
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ep 26: Weird Celebrity Diets

Did you go a little hard on the turkey and potatoes this Thanksgiving? Looking to shed some of that holiday weight and willing to take all of the joy out of your life? Well then why don’t sit back and join the Oracles as they take a crack at organizing some unique celebrity diets.

If you’re interested in learning more, and supporting the podcast, check out Rebecca Harrington’s Book, “I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting” here: https://amzn.to/2DWxOdM

Did you go a little hard on the turkey and potatoes this Thanksgiving? Looking to shed some of that holiday weight and willing to take all of the joy out of your life? Well then why don’t sit back and join the Oracles as they take a crack at organizing some unique celebrity diets.

If you’re interested in learning more, and supporting the podcast, check out Rebecca Harrington’s Book, “I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting” here: https://amzn.to/2DWxOdM

ep 24: Weird Celebrity Diets
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1 Percenter BMI
Jackie O
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The All Peeing Eye
The All Peeing Eye
Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Cover Bro
Tom Brady and Gisele
I'm with her
I'm with her
Men just wanna be included
Carmelo Anthony
Steve Jobs
Strange Gag-gic
Madonna
Liz Taylor
 

Categorical Oracle is a comedy podcast that pits three brave librarians against the rampant disorder of the modern world. Every other week your hosts apply the combined might of their organizational skills to a new topic in their never-ending quest to make things make sense.

 
 
 
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ep 23: Conspiracy Theories

Bust out those tin-foil hats sheeple, in honor of this, the spookiest month, the Oracles are taking on one of their most terrifying topics yet, Conspiracy Theories.

Bust out those tin-foil hats sheeple, in honor of this, the spookiest month, the Oracles are taking on one of their most terrifying topics yet, Conspiracy Theories.

ep 23: Conspiracy Theories
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American Splendorman
Flat Earth Theory
Brains Are Weird
Mandela Effect
Cold blooded, Check it and See
Reptillians
Escha-ton of laughs
Denver International Airport
FBI (Federal Body Invaders)
The Tuskegee Syphillis Experiement
Jenny McCarthyism
Fluoride
Moon shoes on a trampoline
Phantom Time Hypothesis
Senti-mental yearny
Roswell Crash
 

Categorical Oracle is a comedy podcast that pits three brave librarians against the rampant disorder of the modern world. Every other week your hosts apply the combined might of their organizational skills to a new topic in their never-ending quest to make things make sense.

 
 
 
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ep 19: Subversive Summer Reading

This week the Oracles are adding “overachievers” to their many titles and accolades by knocking out their summer reading lists early. However don’t be fooled into thinking they’re apple-polishing milquetoasts; for when all the “outdoor kids” were off playing sportsball your hosts had their noses buried in the bawdiest, juiciest, and wildest YA they could find, and they’ll joyride that train all the way to a library co-signed personal pan pizza. Features special guest Kate Whitney co-host of the latest Outrageous Mechanisms show, Space Bras!

This week the Oracles are adding “overachievers” to their many titles and accolades by knocking out their summer reading lists early. However don’t be fooled into thinking they’re apple-polishing milquetoasts; for when all the “outdoor kids” were off playing sportsball your hosts had their noses buried in the bawdiest, juiciest, and wildest YA they could find, and they’ll joyride that train all the way to a library co-signed personal pan pizza. Features special guest Kate Whitney co-host of the latest Outrageous Mechanisms show, Space Bras!

ep 19: Subversive Summer Reading
Categorical Oracle
 

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DCOM
The Baby-Sitters Club: Dawn and the Surfer Ghost
NPR fund drive tote bag full of kolrabi
Annie on My Mind
Personal Pan-Demic Pizza
Uglies
Premise-Wise the Clown
Flowers in the Attic
sucks to be you, nerd
Go Ask Alice
Swipe Right for teen sex
Forever...
The Shady Bunch
"The Face on the Milk Carton "
 

Categorical Oracle is a comedy podcast that pits three brave librarians against the rampant disorder of the modern world. Every other week your hosts apply the combined might of their organizational skills to a new topic in their never-ending quest to make things make sense.

 
 
 
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