Episodes 19
Avg. Duration 16m
Activity Moderate
Since Feb 2021
Latest Episode Oct 2025

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***New episodes coming soon!*** What is Fugues? The quick answer - it’s The Moth with neuroscience and music (and a bit of sci-fi...) A fugue, conventionally, is: (1) a piece of music with multiple melodies played at the same time and... (2) a trance state where a person experiences amnesia, and loses their sense of self. Both uses of the word have a beginning, middle and end. Taking a bit of license, each story we tell in this podcast will be called a fugue. And each fugue will illustrate a handful of mental ingredients. A fugue will also refer to any temporary mental state one is in. For example, you are currently in a podcast description-reading fugue. Hosted by Gabriel Berezin, some fugues will be autobiographical, others are contributions from special guests. ***Episodes 1, 2, and 5 are great places to start!***

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Truth Is a Lie

Oct 29, 2025 23m

Ever had a little mouse in the house? They can be cute! Some folks I know have actually named them. But rats are not quite so endearing, especially when they’re cat-sized. My college roommates and I…

Bully Smile

Sep 30, 2025 7m

Do all bullies stay bullies? Growing up in 80s Lexington, Massachusetts, I was friends with Tyler Brooks - a kid who could terrorize smaller students one moment and charm parents and teachers the…

Remember I Adore You

Jun 17, 2025 26m

The Fugues fiction expedition ventures into romcom territory - or maybe anti-romcom? Remember I Adore You began as a TV pilot my writing partner Natasha Schwartz and I wrote years ago. We loved the…

Heal Thyself

May 27, 2025 2m

The next evolutionary step of free will?This is an excerpt from a series called Audiocorpse. It's inspired by Exquisite Corpse, a game where participants take turns writing or drawing on a sheet of…

Field Trip

May 13, 2025 3m

This teacher and her class are learning all about earth in the 50s.  --Take a close look at this episode’s thumbnail. This image (cartoonified for the purposes of this post) was the prompt for a…

A Morality Rat Tale

Apr 29, 2025 5m

Look I’m not gonna get all gloomcore about the state of things in the world, but it does seem that our appreciation of morality has waned a bit in the last few years. It had me thinking of this one…

100 Ways to Get Over a Breakup

Apr 15, 2025 7m

If you’re going through a breakup right now, stop what you’re doing and listen to this, I think it will help. This is Fugues’ first guest contributor, Mae Nagusky.  She wrote, produced and performed…

Lulu's First Mix Tape

Oct 22, 2024 3m

When you have young children, the well-meaning, unsolicited advice flows. "Enjoy the moment, be present!" “It goes by so fast, cherish everything,” but also “don’t worry so much!” It feels like…

Was I Dreaming When I Wrote This?

Oct 02, 2024 16m

For anyone unsure if a recent memory was a dream or reality - come on down! YOU’re (kind of) the next contestant on…”WAS! I! DREAMING!?”This episode is the crossover between Waking Life (Richard…

Dream Grief (with Brian Cox)

Aug 21, 2024 23m

Almost at the same time, my family experienced a loss I feared my whole life and a new addition I’d fantasized about for decades. And I had a dream as it unfolded that was so clear I wrote down every…

The Mosquito in Me

Jul 30, 2024 7m

The age old question. Does empathy cure personal beef? Actually from a butcher’s perspective that’s no good. Curing actually preserves beef.Nevermind, nevermind...I had a psychedelic experience with…

An Asshole Walks Into a Group Meditation | 3

Oct 27, 2022 23m

The Reveal. Find out how this Mediclub experience ends.The Assholes push the outer limits of the ASS scale. (What geminis!)They stumble on unexpected terrain, questioning the very nature of…

An Asshole Walks Into a Group Meditation | 2

Oct 20, 2022 30m

In part 2 of Assholes, the immersive story of the Mediclub experience continues with three more fugues.The Asshole co-hosts review the similarities between meditation, marijuana and the right…

An Asshole Walks Into a Group Meditation | 1

Oct 11, 2022 23m

Ever been to a group meditation? How did you feel? Third eye open and a blissful permagrin? Or awkward and self conscious?Fugues is back with a new talk show that measures gullibility and skepticism…

Keeper of the Peace Officer | Fate and Biology | 3

Sep 15, 2021 45m

How does increased power impact human minds? It’s almost not someone’s fault if empathy wanes while power accumulates. In fact, it’s basically inevitable.  Joe Smarro, one of the subjects of the HBO…

Bonding, for Better or Worse | Fate & Biology | 2

Jun 11, 2021 30m

Why do we help strangers? And why do we love revenge stories so much?  The same thing that connects those questions connects us all - bonding.There’s an invisible line between groups of people - it…

The Brain's Molotov Cocktail | Fate & Biology | 1

Apr 06, 2021 17m

You ever get in a fight?  I did. Once. Wearing my Red Sox hat at Yankee Stadium. Me (and two Yankees fans) were basically high on an aggressive cocktail of brain chemicals that forced our collective…

Why So Irrational?

Feb 10, 2021 16m

Why are we so prone to bad logic? We’re going to hear two everyday fugues in this episode: the search for a lost spatula and a spilled beer. The real story here is how easy it is to be irrational.…

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Feb 01, 2021 4m Trailer

What's a fugue? In this podcast it's a story - a story that sheds light on how our conscious experience of any given moment operates. Find out what each fugue tell us about the basic ingredients of…

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