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What is The Constant?The Constant is a History of Getting Things Wrong.
Every other Tuesday we look at the accidents, mistakes and bad ideas that helped misshape our world. Like the breakfast cereal magnate who spent his fortune dynamiting the sky, or Marie Antoinette’s hypnotist, or the mobster who tried to escape prison through resurrection. |
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What Do People Say About The Constant?
...there’s something refreshing about hearing all of history’s blatant mistakes, trials, errors, and retrials laid out over the course of this series... The Constant reminds us that the human race has no idea what it’s doing, and that no matter how far science progresses, a state of blissful ignorance is usually our default. Credit host Mark Chrisler, who structures this labyrinthian narrative about the “artist” known as Darko Maver like a thriller, deftly nailing each new twist in the story with an engaging flourish... Chrisler’s storytelling prowess makes this episode a masterful slow burn, patiently explicating its narrative before building to a resonant emotional climax. This one is hard to shake. |
One of IndieWire's 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2020! Featured in AARP Magazine, August 2020 [The Constant is] a short, smart, and funny indie show, and absolutely worth binging if you enjoy chuckling at previous generations with righteous hindsight (while trying not to think about the insane things we currently believe). ... The Constant is a thoughtful, often very humorous program… Chrisler has achieved something rather remarkable through The Constant. The podcast is like a sort of wry history lesson from Spalding Gray, keenly blending careful research, storytelling, and humor while elucidating all of the wrongheaded beliefs that humanity has ever held true… There is seemingly no source too deep, nor any topic too obscure for The Constant to explore. - Ben Cannon’s Constant Listener
Unabashedly curious and persistent, and with a unique blend of charm and humor… Once you are drawn into the story, there is no going back. |
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Who is The Constant?The Constant is created, written, produced and hosted by Mark Chrisler. Mark is a playwright, best known for plays like 'Worse Than Tigers', 'The Art of Painting', 'Teatime at Golgotha' and 'Phonies, Frauds and Fakes: A Play That is Absolutely Not About My Ex-Girlfriend'. His work has been produced or developed at The New Ohio Theatre, ACT, The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Stella Adler Studio, A Red Orchid, Ilkhom Theatre, Prop Thtr and many more. He’s published through Broadway Play Publishing as well as Smith and Kraus and holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Ohio University.
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