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Mike Gallagher Podcast
The Coolest Birthday Gift From the American Adversaries in Orlando
"We have some fans called the American adversaries, and this is Chris Hart and Nostra Denis and this great crew of hosts. However, who have an evening show you Nostra Dennis and the American adversaries, and they're a local show out of Orlando, their fans of the Eminem experience. Apparently. Well, they sent me a birthday gift, which is one of the coolest birthday gifts I've ever gotten. Three jars of M and M's that they picked up from Disney springs. Now that's cute right there. M and M's, the M and M experience. They sent you some M and M's. That's lovely enough right there. So I get a note, happy birthday from the American adversaries and in Orlando, I thought of you and Mark when we saw these at Disney springs, look carefully at the tiny images and you'll see why, feel free to share these with Mark Davis and then on the birthday card, Chris Hart, who's one of the hosts, said, I'm loving the M and M experience. And by the way, Chris said, Trump is Moby dick. He will prevail 2024. I love that. Anyway, so I looked at the M and M's. Yeah. Mark? They've got your image and mine. Stamped on the M and M's. It's the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life. Now I don't want to eat them, but I've eaten half of one drug. Okay, it's a lovely, and again, did you post it? Did I post it? I'll put a slide of that on the M and M experience. For those that don't even do social media, one of the first things they'll do is show you the big slide. The thing will be 5 to 20 feet tall on the screen. But one of them says M and M EXP, because you can't fit the whole word on an M and M. You can fit on an M and M, little tiny microscopic image of you and me. I mean, I don't know how that's done. I don't know how we walked on the moon. I guess I do understand that. But I don't know how to get those images on the M and M, but I don't know if that ink is a car set of gym. It's the Disney magic.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
America and Religion
"So what do you think of an hour dedicated to religion? This country was founded by people steeped in the Bible. Let us considered by many the greatest American novel Moby dick begins with call me Ishmael. It was so assumed at the time was at mid 19th century. It was so assumed that the time that everybody in America would know the reference and today it would mean nothing to the vast majority of Americans. The crisis is the post Christian post judeo Christian post biblical crisis. So if I can help you understand what religion teaches, that would be, I think that would be a service.
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak: What Can We Learn From 'The Godfather' Films?
"You've written a great piece at stream dot org about The Godfather movies, talk about that. Sure. Well, we just had the 50th anniversary of the first godfather film. And you know, it's kind of something mysterious about art. It's not predictable. The Godfather one and two are among the greatest films in American history. They're based on a pot boiler novel by Mario puto that you would read at the beach of no particular. Yeah, we've got to say this. The novel, it's not like it was a great work of art and they turned into a great movie. It was a middling work of art by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, ingeniously transformed it into spectacular film. Two, godfather one and godfather two. They're two of the greatest films ever made. I would skip godfather three. We could talk about that later. Well, I'll tell you that he re shot. He re edited godfather three. It's now called godfather coda, the death of Michael Corleone. And it's actually a decent film. But the new godfather three was not a decent film. It was so pathetic that I was actually shocked. But let's forget that. It never happened. Godfather one and two, two, the greatest films ever made. And now that's interesting because, again, based on a mediocre work of fiction, but then some of the great novels like Moby dick turned out to be mediocre films. Nobody remembers the movie of Moby dick. I remember Gregory Peck. Greg, Gregory Peck as ahab on the whale and they say, look, even in death, he beckons anyway, never mind. But you're quite right, some of the greatest works of fiction don't make great movies, but not so with those great movies are based on middle works of fiction. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Hermetic Astrology Podcast
"moby dick" Discussed on Hermetic Astrology Podcast
"Moby dick comes out of the 19th century as well. And, you know, so if jaws is alluding to that, there's that going on. But all the way back to the ancient myths, there is this understanding. It's almost like objective and cool headed in the mythology. It's like, oh yes, we're encountering that primordial chaos. Just hand the hand the girl over. You know, it's what you have to do to balance the energies. Yes. Yeah, and it's weird because it's like, they're kind of missing the point to me that quint becomes a monster in his hatred of the monster. Yeah. That's true. You know what I'm saying? And the mayor becomes a monster in his willingness to take profit over taking over his responsibilities. Oh my God, you know? I'll get back to Nietzsche bringing it back. Yeah, now and honestly, I'd personally the quaint monster is more, it's more honest. Because it's just, it's just, it's that Nietzsche and careful when you fight monsters. But the mayor, that's on integrated. I mean, this is what we're dealing with in our political. I mean, dude, capitalism, the rule of the land is let the buyer beware. It's predatory, man. Yeah. Yeah. You know? It's like, that's true. So yeah. The really scary too because unlike a wolf for a Jaguar or something that we see as agile and intelligent. Sharks are terrifying. No, they do have that dead look in there. Dead eyes, big giant mouths dead eyes, and that really is like they never stopped swimming either. Yeah. They can't. They would literally drown if they stopped swimming. 'cause they don't have gills that pump water like other fishes do. Yeah. Yeah, they're literally like machines, like they literally the way they described them in the movie. One thing I don't know if you I don't know if you caught it. It's literally like almost 30 years since Quentin survived the USS Indianapolis that the movie is set in 74 and the USS Indianapolis scene that he was the survivor of this where this ship that delivered the bomb then got torpedoed and a thousand men went in the water in like 300 came out, right? It's literally 30 years later that he has this confrontation with jobs. So it's literally the Saturn return of his and yeah, and it's like the idea of karma because and you know, you think about it, he could have said holy shit. Like I went through this horrible idea and look at me how lucky I am to just be alive after that, right?.
Artificial Intelligence (AI Podcast) with Lex Fridman
"moby dick" Discussed on Artificial Intelligence (AI Podcast) with Lex Fridman
"The book that we read. Even though i had read brush novels. I was fifty. And i think Cured me from being a novelist. Disturbed your dream the s. cured you. Okay what was the book. Moby dick so why moby dick diy. And so i. I've read it since and i. It's a great novel. Maybe it's as good as the russian. I've never made it through. I thought it was to boil too long. Okay your words are going to mesh with say excellent and you may have the same problem at all. I'm not a writer. It may be so the problem is moby. Dick is what i remember was is there was a chapter that was maybe one hundred pages. Long all describe meanest why there was a and the white whale and it was the battle between ahab with his wooden peg leg in the white whale and there was a chapter. That was a hundred pages long in my memory. I don't know how long it really was. that describes in detail. Great white whale what he was doing. What is fins are alike and this and that and it was incredibly boring. The word you used that. I thought if this is great literature screw it laugh. Say okay now. Why did i have a problem. I know now in reflection. Because i still read a lot and i. I read that Novel you know. After i was thirty or forty years old and the problem is simple. I diagnosed with the problem. Was i that novel contrast to the russian novels which are very realistic. Point of view is one huge metaphor at fifteen years old. I probably didn't know the word. And i certainly didn't know the meaning of metaphor you like. What do i care about a fish why he told him as one big metaphor so reading it later as a metaphor i could really enjoy it but the teacher gave me the wrong book. Or maybe is the right book..
In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"moby dick" Discussed on In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"That work has so much force and energy in it. Because part of its planet. Terry which i don't pretend to understand but i trust rick and so i just try to follow his argument right. Oh gosh how fascinating this is well. It is an young himself. I want to share this with you. At the beginning of chapter called psychology and literature which is in volume fifteen. Call the spirit and man art and literature young's making a distinction between visionary fiction and psychological fiction any lays out several points of each any says by count moby dick z. Greatest american visionary fiction. It's right at the top so my fantasy is because in the collected works. I have not found hit. I've not found young speaking about it. But been in the vaults in zurich where shunned sanni has said there could be six arrate or nine more volumes of young's work So that. I think he said it'll take thirty years to create the complete works of young not the collected works and my fantasy. Is that somewhere in there. He has written about moby dick because young wouldn't just say that off the cuff that this is the greatest american visionary novel fiction that we have. I wonder if if james hillman ran across that question in his access to to study. Good question i'm just beginning to learn about hillman. Yeah estimating person he is or he was oh yeah he really extended young's writing and of course took over as director of the young institute in zurich and wrote revisiting psychology at baroness and it was published in seventy five seventy five but hillman. Hillman understands the poetic imagination. Like few writers. I've ever read. He's bruins. i've just started reading that book. Yeah we've vacationing. Yeah now okay. I'm gonna make another shift. And then i've got to run okay but we're talking out. I really wanna hit this one. Okay you have a new book out yes. It was just published a week ago. I wanna hear about it. Well first of all. What's the title of the book out. So it's the the the way of myth stories subtle wisdom.
In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"moby dick" Discussed on In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"And he says. I see it in common people. The guy that swings a pickaxe of building the railroad or somebody shoveling coal. He said this is where god in. The nobility of human beings is saying in the common person out in the ones that are running the government and then he bills speaking. Yeah this is okay. This is my l. i. Because he narrates it. I i defer to him. He says this is the great god almighty whose democratic he wants a sense of equity and justice to permeate all human beings not just in america but across the globe. I mean this was a vision in eighteen fifty one that was so radical. I mean i think he sold couple of hundred copies of of the of moby dick. Nobody was reading it. It took about eighty five years for critics to trip across it and said what the hell is this. Where's this been hiding see. America wasn't ready for mobile. It ready for melville. So that's the analogy. That i want to develop that the attack on the capital is the attempt to assassinate mock rec- itself and that's our white whale police so democracy was moby dick. Yes yes and you know okay. Now i haven't read moby dick but my perception was that the moby dick was the bad guy according to the dismembered imagination of ahab and the wounded imagination of ahab. That's what it is. But then clay. Towards the end of the novel there are three sightings of moby dick and the chapters are called first day second day third day on the third day he shatters depict. What but the first day when. The white whale doesn't breach but surfaces the language is that a god is just appeared out of the depths. So here's a halves facetious reality of moby dick. And then here's ishmail seeing it and describing it. And we have two different galaxies functioning. Yeah so it's just. But rick rick really helped me understand on a cosmic energy level..
In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"moby dick" Discussed on In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"And trump. Play the victim card in getting people to buy into. This was stolen from me. I'm i'm agreed. I'm wounded and you need to make this right. The people that gathered on january six is the crew of the pe- quad and the quad was a halves ship. A shift in was the captain of the ship and they had was after moby dick. Yes and the p. quad peak. Quat people were almost extinguished completely in the mass occurs when are wonderful A federation was assassinating native american tribes across the country. They are thriving now in new england because of the casinos. So they're healthy tried. No but it's interesting that the the ship that all of these men are on which is made in part by parts of wales whale bones and teeth and it's the p. quad is halfway all half's Whale ship Partly a container for the world. It's a microcosm for the world and this lie is perpetrated through. Superstition threw a fear of abraham himself. o end to entice he nails a gold doubloon to the main mast when he has the entire crew gathered on the quarter deck. Quite a piece of change at that time. And it's from kito ecuador the the the the doubloon the first man who cites the white whale that doubloon is his so he puts an economic stimulus and and they buy into it. So this is melville showing this is my rig how an entire people like the black people can be demonized by a belief that they are not they don't measure up to what is called a human being so of course they can be enslaved because they're they're essentially animals. They're brutes so my my intention and there are passages moby dick in which I'll send the of cindy. Pc where melville says you know. There are individual bad people but democrac- creates an ideal.
In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"moby dick" Discussed on In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"Play. Where are you reading. These are my notes. Oh of from cosmos and psyche. Oh okay look at that. Beautiful and Yeah now i wanna read something here. Okay retards this. Is the time volcanically intense evolutionary pressures for the radical reconfiguration of all life structures. I i'm not sure if if that came out of the book or something that he said on my podcast okay. That's right now. We've had him on twice. Yeah and oh my gosh. It's you know okay so we've gone from the greene knight to solar leaner yup. Now we're at chaco canyon. Chaco and chaco canyon has pointed to the cosmos. Yes which is so beautifully written about and cosmos and psyche by harness. Okay so sale. Back the moby. Dick lower boiling the ocean. Here you're going to go up to and y'all gonna do a study or you may still be doing it depending on cova on moby dick and you're drawing some analogies are parallels with how the story goes in how speaks to what's happening in the world today and i love free to talk about it. Uncut uncensored win. Now if you can just because what you said earlier was before we before we went live. You're telling me this wonderful story and about who moby dick represents and how all the parallels with what's happened in the world today. Yeah so okay. Let me pick up his pick up a thread here. You know what's what's fascinating me. Several on this read of moby dick is the is the because we're living in the atmosphere of everyday now is the power to create a mass of people a belief based on a fantasy not facs not fact and this is this is a job playing the victim that way wail dismasted me in the sea of japan. And i believe that it is and gives his speech on the quarterdeck he says. I don't care if the white whale is the agent of evil or the principle of evil. I will strikes through the mask and slay it in the in. The mass. Is that curtain separating the phenomenal world from the world of metaphysics from ontological from the visible presences. And see this is part of. What's going on today. If i'm gonna make some connections here. Yeah there's That there is this rage to get people to believe in what is both invisible and unreal.
In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"moby dick" Discussed on In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"I think you'd probably google or youtube it. I've got the cd over here on the shelf so work but i bet you could pull it up in. It's fifty five or sixty minutes. No more redford's redford narrates it because he became fascinated and they interviewed native americans about the history. And so it's history and myth coming together cosmos. And you know very much. Got tournus of movement cosmos and and order and it's brilliant humane cosmos and psyche psyche. Yeah he has a wonderful chapter on moby dick in there too. He does he. Does i remember reading it. And then i reread it about three mornings go. There is a. I haven't got past the first hundred pages your i'm reading it like this. I mean i just keep going. It's so beautifully written in this. So packed with information and knowledge and wisdom. It haven't gotten to the chapter on moby dick yet. Oh i went to. I went to the index under melville. Because he points out. And i don't know enough about cosmology but he said the reason. There is so much force in power in this epic. Is that melville road. During this cycle of saturn urinals and pluto your well. I could be right but but but you can. You can look up melville in the index Goaded the chapter on on moby. Dick 'cause i took two or three pages of notes on it. And i was going to use it in untuckit in october Yeah keep going. But i haven't read. I've read maybe sixty pages at the front end those chapters. But i've i have it right down in my on the floor with a whole series of books that i know i'm needing to be able to put my hands on and i decided i'm gonna go back the cosmos and psyche. Now the point. I looked it up. Because i i put it in my journal. I drew in there. okay. And it's the conjunction of jupiter and saturn. Yes in employer does there. But they are square to urine us. Yes so saturn. Okay in jupiter generous leader associated with health wealth.
In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"moby dick" Discussed on In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"At the time. This is one of these synchronous dick moments when the sun comes with a ray of light and creates a dagger of light at a particular place on the spiral and she looks at that. And she says this is an accidental. What the hell's going on here. Nobody hit ever interpreted so. She started to got permission to started to measure and discovered that that dagger of light over the period of one year or two years. I wanna lose the details. But you'll get the spirit of it move across that spiral and it was a it was a it was a clock it was cosmic clock so she researches it sober and then she gets is crazy idea. Oh and then. She measures the walls of jaakko buildings even extending out two or three miles from chuckle and discovers that the that the sun moves along the walls like it moves along the spiral so now she's starting to see this uniformity of purpose and then she gets this notion i wonder if the moon's light has any value or a connection so she starts measuring moonlight and discovers that the moon's light also falls along these Architectural buildings and she says holy crap. She didn't say that. I'm saying it. But kind of excitement for her. She said what these choco wins have done is brought the cosmos down into an architectural construction. So that the sunlight in the blue light mirror the movements of the cosmos and she broke the mystery of choco wide open and campbell the votes two or three pages to it in one of his atlases of world mythology. And i didn't know that. When i came across the documentary and started showing students and then i think one of them said you know campbell does write about us if wear and i bought the book and have it over here. But i'm thinking about you know your your work with the with the men's group that that chalco is earthly mirror of the cosmic interplay of sunlight and moon glow or moon. Radiance if you will. It's just and can you imagine people living there who know that they're moving around living cooking punting with this cosmic harmony round them all the time reflecting the the The sky reflecting the cosmos. It's just it's magnificent but bring back. Yeah exactly what how. He's talking about this book. Solar light lunar light. Yeah and oh my.
In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"moby dick" Discussed on In Search of the New Compassionate Male
"This screen night of film also shows it's the interior journey that's taking place simultaneously and if you live the one out and ignore the other or vice versa you'll always be in the position of an unlit life both have to be lived out. My name is playboy. Can and i am in search of the new compassionate male. I believe in the midst of these incredible times of change. A new compassionate mail is emerging as the new archetype in this podcast is intended to give voice to both men and women on the overarching topic of compassion. Consciousness in men. What does the new movie the green knight had to do with moby dick or chaco canyon or the sun and the moon or even the cosmos. How do they relate to one another. And how do they relate to our world. Today the couple of days ago. I had the chance to catch up with our friend. Dennis slattery as usual. Dennis pates a fascinating picture. So let's catch up with that conversation. Okay so i need to know about the green knight and you were just telling me that you saw the movie yell so in taught sir gawain and the green knight the title of it. It's a show. Chevelle rick epic. And yesterday mike copy of sir gawain in the green knight translated by. J r r tolkien. In one thousand. Nine hundred seventy three then edited by his third son. Chris saw the copy. That came is a twenty twenty one translation. The publication and i started reading it this morning and it just took me back into that medieval world of arthur and the round table. And i wrote the film. Editor are lean. Astor off what i wanna do. I wanna do comparison. But i do want to dip in to see where lowry the director of the film diverged from the original reading tolkien translation and i opened it up and came in with my coffee and started to read it. And just what a joy so. But i'm thinking about you with the the men's group because you're you're pointing a few minutes ago to leadership than the heart. There's so many beheadings that take place in the bill and i think my reading is this this young competent night. Who is the nephew of. King arthur when the green knight comes in on his horse into the roundtable room where they're already to bank with but arthur says we can't start the feasting until i hear a good story about chivalry and right then the green knight who is just magnificent with branches and leaves and he's a giant with an axe the size of.
I Read Comic Book
"moby dick" Discussed on I Read Comic Book
"Would be hard live just yet okay. Although it is it is a good idea. Yeah t wade's it would be sort of a masterclass. Some artist do that. I feel quite ready for that. Sure sure sure yet. But we'll one of the goals that we have And it's tied up to the to the patriots to is that at some point we would like to go on the road. Nc artists in their studios instead of doing this assume actually go visit their studio in travel across the globe in talk to them in their work environment. that's one of the goals that we have. So yeah definitely component of traveling in the channel in vermont to come. I think that would be fascinating. If only because i know i've seen some artists studios like you know through clips and other things like other interviews and stuff but to actually get that breakdown know talk like artists artists and stuff and even just to do something With the perspective that you're you're channel offers that they could be really really exciting. We're thinking about maybe doing some something like the cast. The case studies. Sue breaking down or powell and have the artists that were visiting. Choose that peach or the and doing with them. You know that could be. That could be fun. Yeah that sounds awesome also a to come back to the production values like mica said. Sometimes you see some glimpses of of artists studios or however much people wanna share about their spaces on social media but that but with your channels production values. It's just gonna experience for everybody that would be the challenging part because when you travel. You can't bring your lights. Reflectors still would be challenging to achieve professionally grow professional. Look without all the weapon that we have the studio it can be done you in pair with just like huge backpacks full of lights and cameras and stuff like that just studios. Well we're sort of running out of tape here. I don't care if you had anything else. You wanted to get into one more question to ask before we wrap up here. Ooh.
I Read Comic Book
"moby dick" Discussed on I Read Comic Book
"You know that were done because we knew that when we launched it would be hard to get into a rhythm but what we would like to do. Starting a couple of weeks from now is taking a week week and a half to like film. Everything in film like a couple of shows per because we have different types of shows. We have a book club like you said. We have case studies in all of the all of those shows have a different setup and the setups and delighting take a lot of time to like just building together and make it to make it work so when you have to build bill sad for which is the one show. It's a waste of time. You what we should do is like film two or three in the same set and we haven't been able to do that because i haven't been able to write them ahead Because i don't have enough time so what we will be doing. Is that film everything over a week. We're gonna have to go back to question the answer. It more bit more precisely. So what we'll do is We'll figure out what we wanna do like this case study for example is going to be about this or that book i will get an exclusive about one. We are gonna be doing an akira case city at some point because of course we will. I don't know if it's going to be the next one or but it will happen. I've started writing something. I'm not happy with it. So i'm going to toss it in start. There is a lot of that. Well i mean it does. I will say like the quality of the videos that we've seen it's like you're not going to get it on the first shot from what ends up being the end of that process. I mean all the videos are great. So far that's what you gotta do. I'm all for it. The case the first case study that we did which was the hawkeye will filmed it three different times over the course of two weeks and it was like this is not good enough. The lightning is not good enough. Might delivery likes maybe dynamism or you know all the Tossed shows after shows..
I Read Comic Book
"moby dick" Discussed on I Read Comic Book
"This doesn't just happen. I mean the along those same lines you know i was. I was overall just like floored by like. I think you see a lot of youtubers. Who will who will grow into a level of where i think your show is at from the get-go over more your channels from the gecko as they learn more and more at clearly you. The two of you have studied your the craft. And i made sure that you're highlighting the correct things while things are being spoken like the the editing in a lot of your videos when you're doing page breakdowns. Just has blown my mind like in terms of getting me to think more about comic books and thinking about page layouts and thinking about intentional pieces of things that are on the page. 'cause i think you know as readers we take a lot of things for granted and you highlighting things like the hawkeye breakdown is the one that really sticks out in my mind Just talking about the way that lines are used to draw your attention as a reader and i noticed since watching those videos. I'm starting to see little bits and pieces of those Understanding why is doing the thing that they're doing. Beat like i was reading a book the other day and i noticed that the word bubbles were kind of out of order but when i read the page it didn't seem out of order. I notice that there were very quote unquote hidden directional guidelines to draw me back upwards on the page to read the last word bubble in the correct order ads. Just i'm blown away that that that artists are thinking about that. So seeing you break things down like that on your channel is just just incredible to me. I really really enjoy it. Thank you thank you so much. It felt like being let in on a secret code and actually that episode made me so mad because my reaction was. What do you mean are disarm manipulating me controlling me..
I Read Comic Book
"moby dick" Discussed on I Read Comic Book
"In the first place which i thought was a really interesting note when you've when you're thinking about a book that's kind of all ages this this Kind of pushing this idea that like none of this stuff really matters is just titles. Why do we care I thought was a really cool thing that this book was doing and not in a way. That's like boys are not this and girls and not that it was just kind of in the story naturally We were talking about that quite a bit in her book club. I love this book. It's a first second constant with the bangers. And i don't understand how i'm so happy that they keep knocking out books like this and they're crazy good. I feel like the last three or four years. They've just been killing it. It's a few years ago. I was at a was talking to a At new comic con from first second and he told me that he sent me a box with their more recent books and some that were published earlier but the you know the they still liked a lot and they send me this box with maybe like five or six books inside them inside. I have loved. And that's where for me. Because i tend to like one book at a to like you know. I'm i'm i'm not liking everything that i read but those books were just most of them incredible. I was very very surprised at the overall quality of Of what they're putting out exactly and it's great. Because i feel like a lot of those books are accessible by any type of reader like you could pick this up with a lot of commonality no comics knowledge. And you'll still have a lot of fun and it's all it's mostly all ages. It's mostly like leaning towards like a larger audience than what tom cox typically caters towards. So i don't know what they're doing but they're doing something right over there. Let's kind of that that attitude of Not just putting yourself in the direct market and focusing on like a book sized format that can go in a bookshop or get sold at a book fair or lingua when people are buying especially for these all ages books. A you have a birthday party coming up for your kid and your relatives have no idea what to get them. All of them are going to go into a bookstore and say what should i get my kitten. It's they're gonna pick visually and it's just like a better chance of reaching a wider audience of people who are not specifically tuned into comic books. In what the comic book world is doing definitely will. Let's let's move on a little bit. Let's talk about comic books. That are coming out in the next couple of weeks or so comics are coming out on may twenty six two thousand twenty one here in the us. What are you both excited for this week. Let's start with you. Keira so in direct contrast to saying otis road movie dick and graphic noble format looking ahead to the comic books coming out this week. Top of my list. You all might remember that. Few months ago i was really excited about the my little pony transformers crossover comic book. And they're back. My little pony transformers the magic of cyber trod issue number. Two is out this week and the cover is just like rainbows and robots everywhere. I mean that's awesome like sometimes. I just want comics to be super fun and not have to be something serious In that vein there were a couple of dc comics that stood out to me. There's a stargell spring break special and the star girl television series on the cw. Is i think a good representation of everything i liked about. Dc comics like team based books in the mid to thousands..
I Read Comic Book
"moby dick" Discussed on I Read Comic Book
"That i'm in and i was really upset that i had to read it because it i in the book club. Nominations for books. I really wanted to read the autumn lands tooth and claw but this one ended up winning by a couple of votes. So i went into it kind of just like whatever other book and it turns out. It's the best book that i've read in tony twenty so far period or excuse me twenty twenty one all right whatever year it is it is. The story follows this fantasy style. Like anthropomorphic group of characters who kind of fit a standard role in your style party. They get swept up in this mystery involving a royal family and a mysterious evil plant. And then there's some big bad that's out there you know you're kind of standard fantasy. Dnd story where these heroes saved the day based on this thing but the stakes are stacked up against them but every single character in this book is super lovable. We've got prince chirp. Who's an extremely excitable frog. Whose roguish indices get her in trouble constantly goro. Who's the strongest most fun. Most mysterious snake person you've ever met. He has the best. One liners in the group. There's rose who's a sorceress cat. Who just can't seem to find the right time to say the right thing and june. The quote magical botanist aka druid dog. Who's the only level headed one in the party. So of course as the story goes on. Everyone kind of fits these roles. And there's so much so much passion character in every single page of this book. Like i implore you to go look this up because it is so beautiful like this this book every single page is you could print it out. Put it on the wall. And i think the reason for that is because this originally started as a web comic that eventually grew into a much bigger story and the pair of decided that publishing through first second was probably the best way to do things. Yeah this is like a really all ages book like. There's there's violence in their steaks. And there's there's all sorts of character developments in twists and turns that i as a thirty year old really really love that if i gave this to a twelve year. Old kid who was just looking for a nice book to read. They would love this as much as i did. Because i'm a child. And i enjoy childish things but i also think that. There's a lot of really good humor in this that it doesn't matter how old you are You'll think this is really good time and it feels like a really strong modern book like a book that was created in twenty twenty twenty twenty one just with the type of humor and the type of characters that are in and i think the there's an emphasis on like at one point in the story with this royal family that gets involved. There's this emphasis on like the 'gendering of royal names right like the 'gendering of king and queen and prince and princess and stuff like that. Why do we even do that..
I Read Comic Book
"moby dick" Discussed on I Read Comic Book
"Well. I've just looking to the art on this Just a preview of it i. it's black and white. It looks gorgeous. Reminds me of this artists that i i've loved her work for years. Who does like these very stark charcoals almost but obviously there's there's a lot more thinner line work done on clear connolly's her name. She's like a new jersey based artist. man i'm picking up this graphic novel i didn't think i'd ever wanna read moby dick period arm and now you've you've now maybe. Maybe i will read a book about a boat and whale. The book session mike. It's about obsession right. I mean. I know there's it's bigger than that. I'm going to try to read this one at face value and see what i can take from it Evan run you feel better. Yeah you lied. What once or twice saying that. I have actually one of those definitely one of those books were people know the highlights and they know the characters. 'cause they've just been circulated in different media in different references. So line like even if you haven't read it you kind of get. The idea of captain ahab is in you know moby dick the whale and there's an ocean voyage. There's an entire concept album by like one of my favorite bands ever called mastodon and they do an entire moby dick theme album. So i know a lot about moby dick. I think through listening to that music. I don't think that they're depicting the whole book. But you know. I understand the name captain ahab. I know there's a whale involved in the story so anyways I for me really quick before out myself for being any any more ignorant and naive. Let me talk about some of the books that i've read recently I read young shadow by ben spears brett from our discord recommended. This book will before when it was on preorder and I was really excited to get it. the idea is young shadow is a street. Vigilante in bolt city Helping people in his neighborhood busting criminals doing good work for the people in his neighborhood when he discovers that a crime organization comprised of trust front punks cops at a ceo plan to push their power in the city young shadow decides. He needs to stop them. And this feels like kind of a cut and dry like just street. Vigilante-type story But i think that ben spears really tackles this book from a angle of st alanthea's don't have to be batman daredevil spider man they can be kind of like wholesome people that kind of have a chip on their shoulder but ultimately are very good people..
I Read Comic Book
"moby dick" Discussed on I Read Comic Book
"Yeah which is a book that i adore like it's easily on my top. Ten of my favorite books ever. I think it's a fantastic comic And also i have been reading today to books. They're quick to to read. Because it's mostly pictures of john mcnaughton. I dunno that. I'm pronouncing his name right. But it's a it's not you know monte released comic book it's more graphic novel format. I think it's no brow that puts his books out into. I've been reading. That is very illustrative. It's small panels and poetic You know of things about nature and people taking the time to look at nature and all that and it's beautiful. It's not a tough read. It's easy to end. It's just gorgeous. Sounds like the right kind of meditative content. That maybe you needed if this week was overwhelming exact. I wouldn't be able to process like a watchman for example too much totally understandable. You know we'll have to look those up if if if it's something that's a nice easy read. I'm always looking for something like that. Because i feel like we always wanna find like the next big thing. That's going to really make you think. And you've got to find these deeper inner themes and stuff but sometimes it's just nice to have a book that's just you know just there to to kind of just read and just not have to think too hard about just enjoy on that same theme. Although it's very different. I bought a collected edition of a bone which i had never read. Oh yeah that's the same sort of books Always very different. Because it's all black and white or just inks and it's like real story but it's mostly it reads on one level and that's good you know it is like you said not. Everything has to be like on many different levels of understanding and So yeah. I think i'm into like simple easy to read books right now. That's understandable. i think when you're when you're doing a lot of work like analyzing art and stuff like that like you've been doing on your youtube channel like i think it's nice to just sit back and kind of take something at face value right. We'll care what about you. How have you been what kind of comic books if you've been reading. I am also exhausted but for different reasons..
I Read Comic Book
"moby dick" Discussed on I Read Comic Book
"Hey and a very special guest elsa chartres. I thank you both for joining me this week. I am so very excited to talk to both of you about comics. But before we get into things. I have one quick announcement. We've a book club coming up on june fifth on our discord. If you're not already on their head over irc be podcasts. Dot com slash dischord and come and chat about sweet tooth volume with us. My heart is ready to break with this new tv series. That's coming out. So i'm rereading the comic book. I'm very excited about that. And before we get into talking about comic books. Because i do have a legally mandated question to ask. I do need to ask our guest to tells a little bit about herself else. I'm so happy that you could be here on the show. 'cause you tell the folks at home a little bit about who. You are sure absolutely awesome. Hi ruin my name. Is elsa ayman artist and writer. I guess i can take her tune east. I don't know whether that applies or not anyway. I've heard it used interchangeably illustrator cartoonist. It feels fence. He sacred tunis's so i'm going to go do comex. I did I worked for this year model for a number of years Although started out. Doing some indy work and then About three years ago. I decided to move back to indie comics. And since then i've been working on my own creator own books. And i also do kick starters in. I have youtube channel With partner and so basically. That's what i do and you've got a brand new patriot where people can get exclusive content from you. Yes yes you know. It's it's a nice way to get in touch to to have a different form of communication With people that follow my work. And i post things that i don't show on social media process of and And i have newsletter over there as well coming curation us later. So let's things unlikely. Yeah i mean. I feel like i feel like over. The last few months is just there. Is this huge explosion of everything Elsa and i love it..
CNBC's Fast Money
Stocks End Lower Amid Decline in Tech Shares
"We start off with another tech wreck on wall. Street the nasdaq falling more than two percent. Today tesla facebook netflix apple. All dropping sharply and check out the iwan's wm small-cap etf losses accelerating into the close. It is now down six and a half percent this week alone. All this happening as yield actually fell today. So what do you make of all this guy you know. It's like you're my head. Because i was going to start with the russell russell's actually down nine percent since the all time high we made. I think on monday march fifteenth. And i'll tell you we do this. We do a call every day. At twelve. Thirty and tim seymour came out. I think the market was at the highest. They said there's something about this day. I don't particularly like and he turned out to be a bit of a soothsayer. And i'll say this this is one of those moby dick days when you just bookmark. A certain page will bookmark this one fellas and girls because a lot of really interesting things happen to vicks obviously rallied late russell. Down big you know you mentioned ticket and wacked with interest rates. Actually going lower. There are a lot of things not to like about today. And it's got me a little bit concerned now with that setup concern for awhile for today really weird field at all day to manifest itself late with the sell off
What Book Hooked You?
Interview With Author David Yoon
"This week. I'm thrilled to have david yunan. Whose newest book super fake love song is out now. An conversation that we pretty much covered all talk about his newest book a his debut his writing journey and a lot about what he was like as a young person so really enjoyed talking to david. Hope you enjoy listening listening so david. What book hooked you. What book hooked me It's it was when i was in middle school. I don't know exactly how old i was. But i remember talking to my librarian and i was like i don't know to read their so many books in the school library and she just pulled out the halloween tree by ray bradbury and If you read this book but it's it has these awesome woodcut Drawings in it and it came up a long time ago. Like in the sixties. I want to say and this is way before like killington and the newspaper from the nightmare before christmas. But it's kind of there's a character in it. That is the skeleton dude with. I think he has a pumpkin for a head. I know he doesn't but he's like this very skeleton like figure and he's very creepy and he's very Theatrical like jack's kellington was and he challenges This group of boys on halloween when their trick or treating to to give up a year of their lives to save the life of their best friend Pippin who's at homesick can't trick or treat and so they travel around the world and learn about like all these Reports and customs that surrounding death and they wind up in mexico and they eat The sugar skulls and that is like. I'm going to give up a year my life to save my friend and It was just so it's like super atmospheric and super moody. This is awesome so then at of course read all very bradberry. I could find reading stuff. I shouldn't have been reading and so middle school time. Was that in age. Like were you a big reader. Then was it hard to get you to read or was it something where you pretty much constantly always had some sort of book. You're working your way through. I mean i was always reading. Yeah for sure Is reading a lot of stuff But then that book kind of it was like my first sorta grownup book. I guess and after that i started reading a of piers anthony fancy novels and i read like fifteen close and i was like wait a second. It's kind of the same story over and over again and that's florida and Then i started reading a lot of stephen king which i know i shouldn't have been reading And my dad was a weird guy to he. he He studied victorian like them. He he focused on the metaphysical poets. Okay it adds seoul university in career and then when it came to the united states he studied library science all things. wow and so he was like you need to be reading old man and the sea You need to be reading. Was it on human bondage and then lady chatterley's lover and was like that. I don't think i should be reading this. But he didn't care he's like the crazy. Daddy shows like the horror movies to his kids because he wants them to to Have a good sense of the canon. Anna is exposed to a lot of stuff that i probably shouldn't have been but i'm grateful for it and i would imagine while it was definitely helping Definitely helpful for your reading life to have a dad like that and that was kind of pushing it but was there any sort of rebellion there. That because you were being forced to read so many books were pushed upon you that reading. You rebelled against or turn against it because it was it was assigned by by dad I don't know it's hard to remember like like reading moby dick before high school. Sure looks like there's no way. I'm gonna finish so even if it did come from like a friend i don't know if i would have just cause but it did. It did feel like homework for sure At the same time like my older brother. I have one older brother. And he was a big reader to He used to read at the dinner table and it was like a problem. You know But i you know. I'm a little brother saw. I'll read to on just like him. I want to compete in everything we do. Because we're siblings. So he also turned me into the reader just sort of inadvertently and so when you got to high school especially when those are when in in those english courses you're being assigned full size novels and things like that. Didn't you find and really getting into what's canonized literature. We'll call it. Were you kind of a step ahead. That you think In those courses because dad already sorta had you on that home regiment of a reading those types of books. That's a funny question. Because i just realized really recently i mean my dad passed away like over a year ago. and so It just when you're when your parent passes away and makes you think a lot about your relationship in like your whole history. And i was like dude. My dad was like an outsized influence in in my interest in writing in books. I never appreciated him fully for that. He just kinda did it sure Yes and when. I hit high school. It was english. Classes where my absolute favorite My english teachers were my absolute favorite. My locker got broken into one time. So isis i was like no lockers and i used my english teacher's classroom as my locker That's how much we trusted. Each other's liked each other so that was sort of the year of You know camus. And ray bradbury. Shirley jackson and margaret atwood. That's like when i started really getting into those guys and and then i was like all right. This is this is really important to me. Plus i also had study hall. Not how i had studied hall but Journal i wrote in my journal pretty much every day so and so i take it
PODSHIP EARTH
The Food Fix
"I must admit to being exhausted. The last four years has taken a massive psychological and emotional toll that i'm only now just beginning to appreciate truthfully the struggle to keep hope that this day would arrive of alluded me the good news that we now have the opportunity to reignite democracy civility truth and move towards healing both our country and the earth. We've gone so far backwards that we need to move forward with deliberate tangible and bold steps one of the voices calling for such a revolution in thinking and action is dr mark. Hyman mark is a systems thinker and for dr. Hyman health is about connecting the soil with the farmer with the groza without diet and only when we connect all those dots. Can we begin to achieve planetary regeneration. As we'll hear in today's podcast what is truly staggering is the cost of today's broken food system. In which sixty percent of our calories in the us come in the form of ultra processed food. Dr mark hyman is head of strategy and innovation of the cleveland clinic center for functional medicine. He's the founder and director of the ultra wellness center and the board president of clinical affairs for the institute of functional medicine. Mark hosts one of the leading health. Podcast the doctors pharmacies spelled f. a. a. c. y. Pham esi marcus. The thirteen time. New york best seller author. His most recent book is called food. Fix how to save our health our economy our communities and our planet one bite. At a time i sought by ascii mark. How he got into medicine in the first place. Ming doctor was a total afterthought for me buddhist student in college. I studied buddhism. Asian studies chinese. I studied ecology. The environment systems thinking ancient systems of healing. Very eclectic and i decided after i graduated. But what am. I going do with a degree in buddhism so i took a long hike by myself in the shenandoah valley through my backpack brought a copy of moby dick. Because it was a very thick books. I could carry and read house before kindle and I just walked and thought and just kind of thought about what i wanted to do in the buddhist framework is really about healing. It's a it's a healing system. It's not really a religion it's really a system of healing of the mind and it's about the relief of suffering it's about compassion and love and service and and those were things that really called to me as a young man and i thought well. What could i do. That kind of fits all that. I could be a monk. That didn't sound like a lot of fun. But i decided i could be a doctor and it was a total afterthought i just i didn't have any science courses. I had to go back. And take some pre med courses and ended up loving. And i decided i would just keep doing as long as i liked it. And if i didn't like it anymore. I would stop and so far so good thirty years later. I mean that's great advice for anyone thinking about people. Ask me career advice. I say that like if you enjoy it if it fills you keep doing it and if it doesn't maybe think about stopping it exactly exactly chain. I've changed so many things i've been you know a small town country doctrine idaho and a native american reservation. Emergency room doctor started clinics in china ex patriots. I was the medical director. Kanye ranch i developed my own. Practice started writing books and teaching About functional medicine became the faculty of functional medicine institute and direct and the chairman of it started big center for functional medicine at cleveland clinic. And now i'm sort of moving into a different phase of thinking about how do we deal with the intersecting issues of food and health and agriculture environment which all may seem separate but are actually all one problem and if we want to solve one we have to solve them all to before we end that. What is functional medicine. What does that mean. That joke is the opposite of dysfunctional medicine. Which is what we have now. As essentially a system of thinking it's not a methodology or treatment or attests supplement is is essentially a way of thinking about disease based on systems. It's it's base c ecosystem medicine. You understand that that the environment is an ecosystem and that everything has to be imbalanced in nature. For to thrive and in madison we really created a reductionist model that allows us to focus on diseases and symptoms in drugs to target those symptoms and not really understand what is health. We never took the course in medical school. Creating a healthy human wanna one. You know we we basically learn how to diagnose and diseases functional. Medicine is the science creating health. And when you do that does goes away. The side effect if you create a healthy ecosystem for example on a farm or a natural ecosystem it becomes. Resilient disease doesn't occur.
My Seven Chakras
Unlock Your Untapped Human Potential By Changing How You Breathe With Dan Brule
"Our guest today is the one and only Dan Brulee Denver is a modern day teacher healer and world renowned pioneer in the art and science of breath work. He is one of the creators of breath therapy and he was among the original group of internationally certified rebours. He's a master of Yoga and she gone Janis, medical breathing exercises, and he leaves the worldwide spiritual breathing movement, the coaches trains, and certifies professional Brett workers, and since nineteen seventy, he has traveled to sixty seven countries and a strained more than two hundred and fifty thousand people to use the a bread and breathing for personal growth, professional development, peak performance, self healing, and spiritual awakening, and by the way. Tony Robbins wrote a forward for Danville is books. So you can imagine the die of content, the type of information and wisdom that we're going to get in today's episode, and by the way in case you didn't know this is the third appearance of Dan. Daniela on our forecast and the last time we connected was some wouldn't thousand and eighteen sedan super excited to have you on our show. How's it going? Wow. Wonderful. As I said, if things are going any better I'd have to be twins. Almost feel a little bit guilty during the shut down during this corona craziness Farrah's it's been just it's amazing unplanned unexpected opportunity to to really pause to really stop to dig in and it's resulted in a lot of creative juices flowing and guy been busier than ever. And meanwhile, so many people in the world are really suffering and really struggling and so my heart goes out to people So you know what we we do, what we can we make the best of every situation and sometimes something that we think is something really negative turns out to be a blessing, the gift, and this that that's what's happening for us loosen our corner of the world's around this whole crazy shutdown thing. Absolutely I think it's been hard time for a lot of people around the world especially in terms of divisiveness, your people, both sides, and there's a lot of. Anxiety stress as well. But I think your services and your support are even more needed right now as you very. Profoundly, teach people how to breathe correctly and properly and well. So I think it's a very opportune moment validity to. For this interview I was hoping to start from very beginning. Maybe tell us where did you grow up and what was life as a kid for? Well, you know I was the kid who in the school yard was organizing all the breath holding competitions. You know I can remember we we play with hyperventilating and then like squeezy. Almost pass out and you know just. Playing with the plane with the graph I since I was raised in new Bedford Massachusetts Which is where Moby Dick you know there's a whaling capital of the world. Catholic school who? factory Industry Town Garment Factory Textile Mills the cushion it river was right next to. US some very old American Indian tradition in that part of the world. And So the energy is really beautiful in the forest and long the ocean there. but yeah I. turned onto the breath as a little Catholic boy in kindergarten hearing about how God breathed into the nostrils of man the breath of life and man became a living soul and I don't know it just hearing that as a little Feiger kid. I Dunno lit something in me and And just been a missionary for the breath ever since and every job I've ever had and. has kept taking me back to the breath in one way or another until it's the only thing I've really done now for the last forty years is is been a missionary for the breath. So and it's you know forty fifty years ago I felt like a voice crying out in the desert. Breathing what's that breathing a? and. So now it's great that the science is caught up and can now we have understanding on my some of the ancient yoga practices and guys practices and why they work and and what's what's involved in them and So I love that science and spirit meet and the breath is is exactly a perfect place or science and spirituality could meet.
The Indicator from Planet Money
The Birth Of The Greenback
"Stacey next. Jacob Feldstein. Planet money author of money the true story of amid up during a new book. Say I. brought props for us to do the indicator. I say. That's been months. It's been. That guy's been honking hall eight months. I have props came over so I could give you these troughs. Okay. Go ahead and look at them. All right. Okay. So, this is like a really high quality xerox of an old piece of money. THREE DOLLAR BILL RE dollar bill that's really a real thing. There's like a a lady standing next to in like a ball gown standing next to a cow to I chose a cow to pander to you I do love a cow keep going. Okay. The Orange Bank It's orange because this from the orange. Bank and this is a one dollar bill. So Stacey, these are reproductions of real paper money that was printed by private banks in the United States in the eighteen forties and fifties. This is one of the most interesting periods I found in the history of money when I was working on my book, it's this moment when the United States government did not print money, there was in fact, no single national paper currency but if you wanted to. Open Up Stacey's Bank of New York and print your own paper money. You could. I don't know if I would trust that dollar from that. Was a real problem that was a real problem we'll get to that. I. Mean they were just so many different kinds of money at one point the Chicago Tribune counted eight, thousand, three, hundred, and seventy different kinds of paper money in America. This sounds very confusing for everyone involved this indicator from planet money. I'm Stacey Vanik Smith and Jacob. Goldstein can we make eight, thousand, three, hundred and seventy, the indicator? Yes. Today on the show. How can you even have that many kinds of money and also just what does it tell us about money works? Let's just go. Let's just go a block away to get away from the horn. Yeah. Support for NPR and the following message come from fund. fundraise fund makes it easy for anyone to invest in high quality real estate by building you a portfolio with their more than one billion dollars in assets get started at fundraise dot com slash indicator to have your first ninety days of advisory fees. Waived. This message comes from NPR sponsor. Microsoft teams. Now, there are more ways to be a team with Microsoft teams bring everyone together in a virtual room collaborate live on the same page and see up to forty nine people onscreen learn more at Microsoft Dot com slash teams. So can we should set the scene here Jacob the nineteenth century America lots of is apparently also this was the era when gold and silver were money and Jacob say in the book that the government minted gold and silver coins, but it did not make paper money at that time. The exactly right. So the only paper money in America was printed by all of these different. Private banks people called paper money in fact banknotes, right. So they thought of it as like a piece of paper from a bank and they thought of paper money in particular as like a receipt or a coach ticket as as a thing that you could substitute for gold and silver, and in fact, if you look at at the bills I gave you all have this kind of. Writing like just grab a different one for fun. So we can say what it looks like. Okay. This is the stoning ten bank, a two dollar bill. There's a way. Moby Dick or something Wail Bell we've cow Bill Wail Bill So okay. So now look at the cursive writing see the cursive they're just blowers is stoning to. Two dollars to the bear on demand right and if you look all these different bills are different colors, they have different pictures on them, but they all say that will pay how ever many dollars to the on demand and so the second interest. Yeah it's an Iou because the interesting thing is it's telling you the paper money is not the real money. Right? They're saying we will give you two dollars in gold and silver for this paper money right? So the real money in this world is the underlying gold or silver the paper is just like. The Standard. So this is a time in history when there's not federal bank, there's not a national bank. There's like thousands of of little local banks and I guess all these banks can issue their own money. That's right and it's kind of evolving in this period at the beginning of this ehre the eighteen thirties. If you wanted to open a bank, typically you had to go to your state legislature and get special approval. Basically, they had to pass a special law that would let you open your bank and this was problematic because I was super corrupt essentially. Bank and print money. Then you're gonNA bribe whoever you have to. Say all the knee. All due respect to get them to let you open your bank. Right. So around eighteen forty, a little earlier, this new idea became popular. The new idea was called free banking. And the idea of free banking was anybody who is willing to follow a few basic rules could. Take and start printing money and literally start printing money and you know not surprisingly a lot of people wanted to print money. This is how we get eight thousand different kinds of money. Yes. How do you know if the bill that someone's handing you is real money or if it's literally just a piece of paper from the First Bank of Stacey Vanik Smith which might be real money. I wouldn't. Maybe. Add bribed senator so I love this so there arose in response to this problem these special periodicals Magazines that were privately published called banknote reporters. And what they were was these lists in tiny font of every kind of money. So I actually have a reproduction here another prop from a page. This one was called. Thomson's Bank note. Reporter. K.. So the people who subscribe to this merchants people who need to accept money. So so let's just say I'm running a bar and I got my thompsons bank note reporter and I come in I need a drink who thirsty I'm thirsty. So okay. So the page of the bank note reporter I printed out is for Orange Bank. Okay. Okay. So have that bill right here it is and it's a one dollar bill. So I find Orange Bank here in my Bengal reporter and it says Okay Orange Bank listed different bills and says ones and under wants it describes what the bill is supposed to look like says to horses check. Hey, Cart Jack Blacksmith shop male portrait Jack Girl. Check. So it's at least plausibly real. The reporter also tells me something else that's important and that explains a lot about how many works at this time. Typically would tell me whether I should accept that paper money at full face vowed I can buy my dollar whiskey with this whether you can get your dollar whiskey because remember what we care about is whether I can turn in that paper money for gold or silver, and so if the bank is shaky or even if it's just really far away. You know the reporter might say, just knock five cents off the dollar give Stacey Ninety five cents worth of whiskey instead of a dollar that took a really long time to buy that we ski. It does seem like it would have been absurdly inconvenient right and for a long time when people look back at this period, the basic story of free banking was just that was a horrible idea like that many kinds of money right but. Much, later, like in the nineteen seventies. This generation of economic historians started going back and looking more closely. At the banks and how money works in this period and what they saw when they really went through the numbers was basically like it wasn't that bad Bankston go bus that often people didn't usually lose much money when they used. We're you overall they would lose like a few percent which is. Kind of like what you pay today. So when you take money out of the weird off Brand ATM at. The corner store. which I always do. Yeah, I. Mean. That's basically like the the bartenders giving you ninety cents for your dollar when you do that, right? So. Obviously, we do not have eight thousand different kinds of money now this ended and it ended after the civil war. Yeah was the civil war. So during the civil war, that old American argument of can we have national banks or not came up again and Congress passed a few important banking laws. One of them basically taxed all those thousands of kind of state banknotes out of existence, and then the other one created these new national banks that printed much more reliable, much more uniform paper money. It's interesting because I mean, this was obviously after the civil war was the time when the United States went from like a collection of. To One Country, and it seems like the same thing happened with currency maybe not a coincidence. Your I mean, there is this idea at least in the modern world money is part of what makes a country a country and I think you do see that happening at this moment in the united. States when we go from thousands of kinds of money toward one uniform kind of paper money I'm just sad we lost the cow bills. Because you know Jacob I have a fever and the cure. This story in like a whole bunch of other like believable stories like this are in your new book money. The true story of a made up thing. This episode of the indicator was produced by Nick. Fountain fact check by Britney Cronin, the indicators edited by Patty hearst and is a production
5 Minutes in Church History
Moby Dick Chapter Eight
"Welcome back to another episode of Church history. Last week we were talking about the pulpit that Latin Word Putnam, and that object that appears in so many churches. Well, we also find the pulpit, appearing in of all places that great American novel by Herman, Melville none other than moby. Dick Moby Dick has one hundred and thirty five chapters. They have fascinating names like the shark massacre and interesting names, two of the chapters in particular come early in the book that have great names chapter nine is entitled the sermon. Sermon, Chapter Eight is entitled The pulpit so this is Melville's description of a pulpit of a fabled new. England church, it's sort of a conglomerate picture that Melville is putting together. And of course they are about to go out to sea questing after the great white whale, and before they go, all the sailors will show up that. Sunday in church to hear that sermon before they're sent off to see, and they might not come back again well. This is chapter eight on the pulpit. Let's read Melville's description. He tells us how he's sitting there. In the Pew of the Church and Father Maple comes in, and then he starts walking towards the pulpit. Melville says like most old fashioned pulpits. It was a very lofty one and since. Our stairs to such a height would by its long angle with the floor seriously constrict the already small area of the chapel, the architect it seemed had acted upon the hint of Father Maple, and finish the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular that is straight up and down side ladder like those used in mounting ship from a boat at sea. The wife of a whaling captain had provided the chapel with a handsome pair of red ropes for this latter. Halting for an instant at the foot of the ladder, and with both hands, grasping the ornamental knobs of those red ropes, Father Maple cast a look upwards, and then with a truly sailor, like, but still reverential dexterity hand over hand, mounted the steps as if ascending the main top of his vessel. Melville continues, nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same seat taste that had achieved the latter. It's paneled front was in the likeness of shifts, bluff bows and the holy. Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work fashioned after a ship's fiddle headed beak. What could be full of more meaning Melville asks. For the pulpit. Is Ever this Earth's foremost part? All the rest comes in its rear. The pulpit leads the world from thence. It is the storm of God's quick. Wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the god of breezes. Fair or foul is I invoked for favourable winds. Yes, yes, the world's a ship on its passage out not a voyage complete, and the pulpit is its prow. Well, that's from the pen of Melville. What a fascinating line he gives us. Did you hear it in that last paragraph I read and the pope it leads the world. Well. That's chapter eight. The pulpit from Melville's great novel. Some have called I. Know Dr Sprawl often called it the great American novel Moby Dick or The whale.
Eyes on Conservation Podcast
Bathsheba Demuth: Environmental Historian
"This episode of is on Conservation I spoke with author and environmental historian Bethsheba. Demuth Demuth is an assistant professor at Brown University who specializes in the intersection between humans. Ecosystems ideas in history the work that I do as an environmental historian is broadly focused on the North American and Russian Arctic and particularly the relationships between people and animals and people in Ecosystems. More broadly over the past two hundred years or so. We talked over. Skype demuth was in fairbanks as the professor was performing research for her new book. Her first book is titled Floating Coast and Environmental History of the Bering Straits. Npr called it. A quote deeply studied deeply felt book that lays out a devastating complex history of change notes. What faces us now and dares us to imagine better in quote as we proceed and get into this interview. I will note that I spoke with Professor Demuth while she was at the university library so it can be a little loud in the background at times. It's a busy place. I can promise you however that this will be one of the most compelling and interesting accounts of the history of whaling that you had ever you look so cold yes. It's a little chilly up here. What's the what's the weather like right? Now it's actually a pretty Balmy day today. It's about twenty degrees. It was about fifty degrees colder here last week. You've you've draw the line pretty much anything around ten. Just can't do it for me of all the things that makes this whole conversation. That much more interesting demuth was actually drawn to the Arctic in her young adult life and even lived in the Yukon for two years. And yes doing all the things that you're imagining right now tracking bears hunting. Caribou FISHING SALMON. And yes even. Husky Mushin Dog sledding and no. I'm not making that up. She's that for real your your first journeys out there. If I understand right was your running dog sled yes so when I was eighteen I decided to take a gap year as we. Now call them although they weren't really called then And went to a little community north of the Arctic Circle in the Yukon territory to be a dog handler which is basically an apprentice to somebody who has a dog team and I knew nothing about sled dogs. When I moved up there I was eighteen so I thought I knew something about things but I really didn't. And that was my first introduction to the Arctic. Okay and how long you said you do that for two years. Yes do you. Do you still remember how to do it? I mean I. It's kind of like riding a bicycle except in this particular case. You're working with dogs so you can remember how to do the physical pieces of it but you also need to have a relationship with animals. You're working with so. I'm sure that if I had a team and I spent a lot of time with them would would all come back because I would be making that relationship with dogs but I'd like a bicycle. You can't just grab one and go right right. Yeah that makes sense You don't have to get to know your bike. I right I probably ended up working appear because my dad read me too much Jack London when I was a kid. So there's definitely a literary connection in there now. I could do a really poor job of basically giving it a synopsis of the Book. Or I'm sure it would be much more articulate coming from you Tell us a little bit more about the Soviet whaling And more specifically what you found so fascinating a about that topic. Yes the book that I published. Just this past fall called floating coast looks at basically the the past two hundred years or so along the Bering Strait both the Russian Arctic and in the US Arctic. It's a it's a two country history but because it's an environmental history in some ways it's a history of no country because it's looking at processes an an animals that don't really matched onto nation state borders and the the the project is kind book ended no Pun intended by could have two episodes of large scale whaling the first one being in the nineteenth century for market whalers capitalist wailers most of them coming from New England in fact some of them from where I now live in Providence. Who were coming up to kill bowhead. Whales for oil for lamp oil mostly and then the book closes with a couple of chapters about Soviet whaling in the twentieth century. Which in many ways is just the socialist analog to the to the capitalist wailing in that it is Quite excessive it kills whales far outside their capacity to to reproduce. And keep keep up with the demand and those kind of frames of the book in some ways. Show the things that I found really interesting about this part of the world as a historian. Who's interested in the ways that people's ideas influence the environments? They live in and vice versa. Which is that. It's a it's a place that has a very similar ecology on both sides of the Bering Strait. If you drop down on the peninsula or the seward Peninsula Chukchi Peninsulas in Russia and the seward Peninsula's in Alaska. He can't really tell one from the other right. And let's you know the place extremely well. Because the the flora and the fauna in geology are really comparable but of course in the twentieth century. It gets split by these two big economic ideologies that imagine each other in opposition. Which is you know. Capitalism and socialism. So it's kind of a natural experiment to see how these two ways of managing environments in some sense that the Soviet Union the United States brought with them interact with Arctic species and in the case of Wales they do it very similarly which is more or less trying to kill everywhere they possibly can ya. It's like it's kind of shocking especially when you talk about like as a concern of how many whales are being impacted or what that's doing to the ecosystem comes up that the answer kind of always came back to will. Don't worry. Technology will save us from. That will deliver a positive outcome. Okay can you elaborate on that? Yes this was one of the really interesting commonalities I found between two groups of whalers who were operating hundred years apart from each other or more and in two extremely different cultural and economic contexts is at the end of nineteenth century moby. Dick STYLE TALL SHIP. Whalers call me. Ishmael an ordinary seaman before the mast on the good ship check. What found out a man on Christmas Day of the year? Eighteen forty four on a thousand days. Voight very aware that when they entered a new population of Wales and a piece of the ocean that they hadn't been hunting in before that they would they called. Wailing it out or fishing it out that they would kill off an enormous number of the animals that were that were available locally and that they were doing this and getting further and further from home. So they're aware and using the word extinction by the end of the nineteenth century but at the same time as they're talking about extinction they're basically saying well if we put in place some technological Improvements if our ships get faster. If we're more able to navigate around the sea ice will be able to still catch these whales and there was this kind of belief that because Wales were really intelligent. And all of the whalers nudists and talk about this in detail that there were more whales. They were just shy or had gotten smart and were hiding in new places. So there's actually a couple of lines in Moby Dick Melville talks about you know the whales are just hiding behind the Arctic Sea ice and then after the Second World War the Soviet Union sort of follows the same pattern in that they have very sophisticated marine biology by that point in many ways the the research that so the marine biologist or doing is ahead of what's happening in the United States particularly when it comes to studying ways that whales are social animals and able to communicate vocally with each other They're they're way ahead of what's happening in English. Speaking Countries but at the same time as an aware that that the populations of wheels are dropping but at the same time. They're convinced that as long as they just kind of keep putting more technology online. They're going to be able to keep killing
At Home with Gary Sullivan
New research finds link between Alzheimer's and gum disease bacteria
"Week in rock and roll history. Start back in nineteen fifty nine where six thousand teenagers attend the first night of the faded winter dance party with buddy Holly at the million dollar ballroom in Milwaukee despite temperatures of seventeen below and thirteen inches of snow. Some dedicated kids this week in one thousand nine sixty six the beach boys went into the studio to record wouldn't it be nice, which would be the opening track on their forthcoming album. Pet. Sounds this week in nineteen seventy four Led Zeppelin appeared at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis with over seventeen thousand fans the set list included rock and roll over the hills and far away. The song remains the same the rain song. Kashmir trampled. Underfoot Moby Dick stairway to heaven whole lot of love and black dog and a few others tickets cost just eight dollars and fifty cents this week in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight Michael Jackson went to number one on. On the US singles chart with the way. You make me feel. It was the third single from Jackson's seventh studio album bad for which Jackson had written over sixty songs for the album with plans of releasing a three disc album appraiser Quincy Jones convinced Jackson to make bad a one disc LP and this week in nineteen fifty five Edward van Halen is born just outside of Amsterdam in the Netherlands his family, eventually settles in Pasadena, California, where he forms ban Halen with his brother Alex van halen's biggest billboard hits. Of course. Nineteen eighty-four. There's your look back at this week's rock almanac. If you think making false threats is a joke. Think again, any communication threatening students teachers and staff at schools or public places is a federal crime that could lock people behind prison doors for up to five years. FBI deputy director David outage making you aware that hoax threats have real consequences. We don't want to see a young person began their adult lives with a felony record making false threats is not a joke. Think before you post. Visit FBI dot com. The thought of my sons growing up without me inspired me to quit smoking.
WBZ Morning News
Experts: UAE, Saudis may have committed war crimes in Yemen
"The UN says the governments of Yemen the United Arab Emirates and Saudi. Arabia may be responsible for war crimes during three years, of escalated fighting against rebels in Yemen We have more from ABC's Tom, rivers not mincing his words Charles Garo away in Geneva from. The UN, experts group says the rebels. And, Saudi Arabia in the UAE may have conducted attacks in violation of the principles of distinction proportionality and all precautions. Which may amount to war crimes meanwhile the Saudi led coalition accuses the UN of. Biased reports on their Yemen airstrikes more than fifteen thousand civilians have been killed or injured. Since the war