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Park Bench Ontology

Park Bench Ontology

De: Gavin Stephens
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is a low-stakes existential crisis disguised as a comedy podcast for people quietly losing faith in the script of modern life. Each week, comedian and writer Gavin Stephens dissects the absurd machinery of capitalism and culture — from sitcoms to wealth inequality, Baudrillard to people who talk in the movies — exposing the broken myths, invisible rules, and slow-motion collapse we all pretend isn’t happening.


Presented by The Chonilla Network.

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Episodios
  • The Bench Is Still Here — A Note Before the Break

    The Bench Is Still Here — A Note Before the Break
    Mar 16 2026

    Season 2 is done. This is a short note before the pause — where the show has been, where it's going, and why the bench isn't going anywhere.


    Season 3 is coming. I'm not ready to talk about it yet.


    New episodes return later this year.


    🎙 Park Bench Ontology — existential comedy for the end of the world.


    🔗 Follow & Support:

    🌐 Website: http://gavinstephens.ca

    🎧 Podcast: https://pod.link/uncolonized

    📷 Instagram: @countgavin

    🐦 Bluesky: gavinstephens.substack.com

    🎵 TikTok: @ParkBenchOntology

    📼 YouTube: http://youtube.com/@parkbenchontology


    Also, Check out the Substack: Dispatch From The Simulation


    Subscribe and leave a review!

    🎙 Park Bench Ontology — existential comedy for the end of the world.


    🔗 Follow & Support:

    🌐 Website: http://gavinstephens.ca

    🎧 Podcast: https://pod.link/uncolonized

    📷 Instagram: @countgavin

    🐦 Bluesky: gavinstephens.substack.com

    🎵 TikTok: @ParkBenchOntology

    📼 YouTube: http://youtube.com/@parkbenchontology


    Also, Check out the Substack: Dispatch From The Simulation


    Subscribe and leave a review!

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    1 m
  • Grocery Store Security Guards and the Collapse of Abundance

    Grocery Store Security Guards and the Collapse of Abundance
    Mar 9 2026

    The security guard at the grocery store is a sign before they are a deterrent. This episode takes Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower as its anchor and reads scarcity not as a natural condition but as a managed one — enforced through bodies, symbols, and spatial logic. What does it mean when abundance collapses not into emptiness, but into enclosure? Season 2 finale.


    🎙 Park Bench Ontology — existential comedy for the end of the world.


    🔗 Follow & Support:

    🌐 Website: http://gavinstephens.ca

    🎧 Podcast: https://pod.link/uncolonized

    📷 Instagram: @countgavin

    🐦 Bluesky: gavinstephens.substack.com

    🎵 TikTok: @ParkBenchOntology

    📼 YouTube: http://youtube.com/@parkbenchontology


    Also, Check out the Substack: Dispatch From The Simulation


    Subscribe and leave a review!



    🎙 Park Bench Ontology — existential comedy for the end of the world.


    🔗 Follow & Support:

    🌐 Website: http://gavinstephens.ca

    🎧 Podcast: https://pod.link/uncolonized

    📷 Instagram: @countgavin

    🐦 Bluesky: gavinstephens.substack.com

    🎵 TikTok: @ParkBenchOntology

    📼 YouTube: http://youtube.com/@parkbenchontology


    Also, Check out the Substack: Dispatch From The Simulation


    Subscribe and leave a review!

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    17 m
  • Childs Was Right

    Childs Was Right
    Feb 23 2026

    In 1982, John Carpenter released The Thing — a film about paranoia in isolation.


    But beneath the alien horror is a quieter question:


    Why does crisis always seem to produce the same kind of leader?


    From Snake Plissken to MacReady to Jack Burton, Carpenter’s collaborations with Kurt Russell trace the erosion of the American hero myth.


    When the Berlin Wall fell, the external enemy collapsed. The crisis logic didn’t.

    It moved inward.

    This episode explores suspicion, authority, neoliberal shock, and why marginalized spaces are often testing grounds for what eventually reaches the centre.


    Childs wasn’t the threat.

    He was the warning.

    —

    Park Bench Ontology is a series examining culture, identity, and the systems that shape perception.


    🎙 Park Bench Ontology — existential comedy for the end of the world.


    🔗 Follow & Support:

    🌐 Website: http://gavinstephens.ca

    🎧 Podcast: https://pod.link/uncolonized

    📷 Instagram: @countgavin

    🐦 Bluesky: gavinstephens.substack.com

    🎵 TikTok: @ParkBenchOntology

    📼 YouTube: http://youtube.com/@parkbenchontology


    Also, Check out the Substack: Dispatch From The Simulation


    Subscribe and leave a review!



    🎙 Park Bench Ontology — existential comedy for the end of the world.


    🔗 Follow & Support:

    🌐 Website: http://gavinstephens.ca

    🎧 Podcast: https://pod.link/uncolonized

    📷 Instagram: @countgavin

    🐦 Bluesky: gavinstephens.substack.com

    🎵 TikTok: @ParkBenchOntology

    📼 YouTube: http://youtube.com/@parkbenchontology


    Also, Check out the Substack: Dispatch From The Simulation


    Subscribe and leave a review!

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    12 m
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