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On The Rekord
A highlight from Episode 122 - Sept. 17th, 2023 - B.A.N.S
"All right, all right, all right, all right. Welcoming you guys to another lovely episode of On The Record Podcast. I am DJ Intense, your host the most. And to the left of me, I have I am Walt. What's up, Walt? I'm about to say another word, my guy. If you guys heard earlier, you know, we were just doing some things off cameras. They're off the record. Things we don't, we're not going to bring on the record. And if we are, you're not going to get it. Unless you paid for it to Patreon. You know? Yeah, me too. That voice you hear right now, but there's no other than Ceddi said, what's up Ceddi? The infamous C -E -D. What's up people? How you doing people? I'm doing all right, I'm doing all right, man. You know, we took some time off. It was Labor Day weekend. Yeah. And then the final weekend, which is work weekend. Dude, we were work, work, work, work, work. Nonstop. Dude, I just figured they don't. Almost 90 hours of work. OT, OT. Man. One day was 20 hours of work. That's the state job. I can't wait till you quit that job. You and I both, brother. I need to make some money, but working like a slave ain't it, man? Nah. Bob Brock just said it. You think that you can get by with this hard work alone? Nah, you're fooling yourself. You're fooling yourself. Used to do that, but now you're doing that. It's a lie. It's a lie. It's a myth. All people is you do hard work, and you'll become a successor, that's all. Listen, reality is in this country, in America, you have to do a lot of grime. You gotta do a lot of collaboration. Depending on how you wanna do it, but most of the time, all those people who are billionaires and trillionaires are the ones who did the most foul -ish humanly possible to get what they're at right now in life. Listen, right now we're at over 180 days in the writer's strike and the actor's strike right now. And it could have ended this right now. This thing should have been handled already. $50 million for both unions. And now they're gonna get a loss of over $300 to $500 million because of this strike. And you have people like Drew Barrymore's punk ass. Well, she reneged on it though. She had to, because dude, she was getting the business with the WGA and the SGA. And it's separate, you know. Even... Bill Maher's bitch ass too, man, was... I didn't get the damn thing off the running. Was, oh, I don't need no writers, I'll be our show. Look, dude, your show sucks. The Seddie Swear Counter is in full effect. There you go, you have one. You can do like a ding sound from now on for my swears. I'm gonna keep it calm. I'm gonna keep it professional. Seddie the Sailor Man. I can't swish, come on. Listen, man, I'm just telling you, when Seddie get that spinach boy, man, we poppin' ice today. Oh, yeah. Little bird watch out. Now, but on some real issues, like dude, Bill Maher, the guy who said, I'm not a field n -word, I'm a house n -word, and who crapped on Stan Lee after he died and stuff, and says a bunch of other ridiculously retarded things, says he's gonna do a show. Stan Lee who? Marvel comic Stan Lee. Oh, Stan Lee, oh. That's what Bill Maher said. Yo, he be going extra heavy trying to relate to us blacks. You're a not house n -word. You're at the table, bro. You got the good chair. You got the good piece of chicken. He used to be down by the dam, but nowadays, man, it's horrible. He's just, you know, he's trying. What the legend Paul Mooney said, everybody wants to be black, so it's time to be black? Listen, you think Paul Mooney is trying to be black and competent? Hell no. I want to be in a gated community area. What's wrong with you? Like he says, everybody wants to be black. He listen to King Koon, so he know what that's about. Yeah, but Bill Maher is doing his show still, which I think it was crap with writers. It's going to be crap about writers. And then, you know, you're going to have to hire writers who are not non -union writers. We're going to be scabs. We're going to pretty much destroy their any chance of them getting actual work when the strike is done. If you get caught. Well, if you are what you say you are, then have no fear. Even if you're on YouTube and you want to get a chance of being in the industry, you can't do no reviews. No, no movie reviews, no TV show reviews, nothing. There's a strike. You doing that? You will be known and accounted for when you want to get your membership. And trust me, you don't want those problems. But my thing is, if there was already YouTubers like successful already doing movie reviews and being credible and stuff like that, that won't affect them. Is it already locked in like a partnership or whatever with certain movies? Then they could do it. As long as they get the permission from their respective union. OK. If they do something brand new, if we're coming out with The Exorcist coming out next week, they can't do no review for that at all. Oh, wow. Wah wah. Listen, I can't go into it because I want to become in that union because I want to be a voice actor. You want to sell out. I get it. So I can't speak on it at all. No, no, no. He's not selling out. No, he wants to. He wants to. No, he doesn't want to sell out. You want the Disney money. No, I want to buy in. He wants to buy in. Oh, yes. You want to buy in, you got to sell out, right? No, the license is fucking me, bro. I'm just saying. The license, the thing to get a SAG card, it's over $3 ,000 to get a SAG card. And you have to get that SAG card in order to get some work and residuals and all that stuff. That's just what it is. Listen, man, listen, Harvey Weinstein's in prison, bro. He can't get to you, my guy. He can't get to you, my guy. Listen, man, don't take that hotel meeting, bro. Am I Rose McGowan? Shoot it. It's either a Zoom call. I'm actually Judd. It's either a Zoom call or a posh Beverly Hills restaurant or a Permell Studios, wherever that super creep was out here making his rounds. But you don't got to worry about that no more. Filthy behavior. One of the girls was saying like, yeah, when I said no more hanky panky, you know. He felt a way. Yeah, you want that rolling letter to there, don't you? My guy, how could he feel a way? You've been imposing your will on these ladies for a long time. Speaking of entertainment, you had a concert this weekend, right? Yeah, yeah. I was, you know, I was like. This guy was really outside. I was like, I was like, I was like. What concert was this? I was like. Let me tell you. Go ahead, say it. I was like from the acting sheriff up north, back to back out here, you know. Yes, so for all the first time, longtime listeners, and you know, last time listening to how evidence goes, I had a couple of shows. This past Thursday, I went to an event that was sponsored by Spotify for up and coming artists. I saw three, three very, very talented artists. The main artist I went to see goes by Kamari. He's an artist that I discovered around COVID. He has a lot of like influences. He reminds me of like a Frank Ocean. He's really that, you know, artist type dude. And he put out this great, incredible album called A Brief Nirvana, which I advise everybody to check out. His name is Kamari, K -H -A -M -A -R -I. Highly recommend him. And I also saw these two other artists from the UK, St. Harrison and Elmin. That's my boy. And overall, it was a great experience, very, you know. It was at SOB, Sound of Brazil in New York City. Very intimate setting, great turnout, great energy.
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
Fresh update on "patreon" discussed on Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
"At Breaking the Glass Slipper, we believe it is important to have conversations about women and issues of intersectional feminism within science fiction, fantasy and horror. To continue to do so, we need your help. Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Join the conversation by following us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Hello, and welcome to Breaking the Glass Slipper. I'm Lucy Hounsom. And I'm Megan Lee. We often take for granted the role language plays in communicating our favourite stories. And here in the West, there exists an unspoken expectation to be able to consume our favourite media in English. The necessity and importance of translation is a given. Writers producing work in English, but for whom English is their second language, are in a unique position. And we are lucky to be able to host two of them tonight in this episode. Jelena Donato and Ioana Papadopoulos, could you introduce yourselves to our audience and talk a little bit about your books? Hi, my name is Ioana and I am a Greek author based in Scotland. My book is Winter Harvest, which is a dark fantasy, mythology telling about Demeter and various myths, some well known and some not so well known about her. Hello, my name is Jelena and I'm a writer from Croatia. My book is called Darkwood Sleepwater and it's a dark fantasy based on Slavic mythology and folklore. Amazing. And this is really great because this is one of my favourite subjects to talk about. But both of your novels use your native folklore to engage with the themes that you're exploring. And we're really keen to ask you about that. But I'd love to start with some questions about the way that you both engage with the English language, which is the language you've chosen to publish your debut novels in. So how much interaction, if any, is there between your native and your target language during the writing process? I mean, do you draft in one language and then end up publishing in another? How does it work? For me, there isn't really an interaction at the writing process, but there is quite a lot in the inspiration part. Because I always find that inspiration comes from me a lot with music and I listen most exclusively Greek music. So there's like an entire playlist of Greek songs that I would associate with my novel. But then because I live in an English-speaking country, I speak with my husband in English, my daily life is actually mostly English-speaking. I don't find any more, at least, the need to go between the two languages in terms of the creative process. I write in English from scratch and it doesn't work for me otherwise because I live in Croatia and I'm surrounded by Croatian language, so that's the language I communicate in daily. So basically I have to shut it out if I want to write in English and I have to forget about it and just sit down, focus and write my stuff in English. The languages do not mix well, they are very different, they cannot run parallel to each other, so I have to choose one or the other. So if I want to produce something in English, I just usually have to start writing in English from scratch. So why did you want to start writing in English from scratch? What made you want to sit down and write in English rather than in your native tongue? Well, for me, it's been a very long time since I consumed Greek literature, I would have to say, and in terms of Greek publishing, speculative fiction is nearly non-existing. So from a very young age, to be able to read the genres that I like, I had to turn to English, so it kind of feels foreign to think of fantasy, horror, science fiction, any kind of speculative fiction in terms of Greek language. I find that incredibly cringy and incredibly uncomfortable for some reason and I don't know why. So it just didn't feel like it could be anything else and I actually wouldn't trust myself to write in Greek anymore. I think my ability to speak Greek and write Greek is so greatly diminished by living and mostly experiencing the world in an English-speaking way the last 11 years. I'm kind of sorry to hear that, but I'm also slightly horrified at the fact that there's no Greek speculative fiction arena when how many Greek mythology retellings are we seeing coming out of America especially? I mean, every day I get sent another book if I want to read it and it's yet another Greek mythology retelling, so that's kind of irritating. To be fair, if you search you probably might find one or two books, but generally growing up it was either translations or eventually half the things wouldn't even be translated. The most annoying thing is that when I was a child they would translate the first book of a series and they would not translate the rest and it would take until I was good enough in English years later to read the continuation of the story, which really upset me. This has happened to me with my work in German. They've only translated two books instead of all three, so I still get angry German messages saying, please, is there another, is there like a third book coming and I'm like, I'm so sorry. They don't think it sells enough. Yeah, depressing that it comes down to just sales at the end of the day. So basically everything that Joanna said, Croatia is a very small market and the market that usually sells translations. So also there is no, well at least when I was starting out, there was no organic fantasy literature in Croatia. Now there is a community, but it's kind of too late for me because I grew up reading books in English because that was the only way I could read the stuff I wanted to write, to read and to write. And so writing in English was the next step. It was logical because writing fantasy in Croatian for me is just weird. It sounds like incredibly weird to me and strange and I can't do it. I don't know why, because it might be because all those books I read as a teenager influenced my brain and I started thinking of fantasy worlds as words written in English. That might be the case, but I just, I can't write fantasy in Croatian. It's impossible. So I just find that really fascinating that fantasy as a genre for you is so closely intertwined with the English language and the way that you kind of perceive fantasy and want to engage with it as a genre and the tropes and the archetypes that it embodies. That there's a really strong link to English. I don't know why, do you think that's, is that a global thing? I don't know whether that kind of exists in other cultures as well. I mean, we talk about Tolkien, for example, being the grandfather of fantasy and certainly Tolkien and his workers have been massively influential in shaping the more kind of, I suppose, stereotypical or tropish kind of elements of fantasy, elves, dwarves, those sort of the hero's journey kind of motifs. But as a native English speaker, it's not something I kind of stopped to really consider the kind of Englishness of the genre. In terms of Greek, I think there is this kind of false idea that fantasy, because it's so close to fairy tales and folklore, although there is a vocabulary for it and it's a really unique vocabulary with very unique ideas, it's seen as something for children. So it doesn't quite translate in terms of the Greek publishing world, which is exceptionally small and has taken a very large hit for an adult audience. So even I think the translation sometimes struggle with how to market an adult fantasy book, because it's odd in a sense for the kind of society that Greece is and the kind of readership that Greece has, according to what at least the publishers perceive. And I see that even in the bookshops, like the bookshops also struggle in some sense, at least when I was living in Greece and I was growing up, they seem to struggle a little bit with what do you do with a fantasy book that is too graphic for children, but is also not your average readership in Greece. And I don't know how true that is. I don't know how much there is actually data that supports this, but I feel that this is how it's perceived. And then for me as a reader, eventually I had to give up on Greek translated works because it was just cheaper and easier to read them in English. And eventually then I moved into the UK where there is no Greek literature to buy in the same way and there's not really any book market for Greek books. So it just eventually became harder and harder for me to consume Greek literature apart from ancient texts. And also I think in Croatian there is a problem with translation. When translators take fantasy novels sometimes, they use this archaic language which sounds really weird in Croatian. Because it's like if you try to write a fantasy novel in English but using a 19th century language, that's the way it sounds. I don't know why they do it. I think that because it's fake medieval world, they think that the language has to sound old. But it doesn't sound right in Croatian. It doesn't sound organic. And I catch myself thinking about the language while I read the book, which is really bad because then you don't have the chance to actually read the story. And I think that bothers me a lot. And those are the things that happened earlier. Nowadays there are better translators and better translations. But as I said before, I think it's too late for me. If I may also add, I just wanted to say that I think partly on what Jelena said is that because we don't produce the kind of literature that would be using that vocabulary as the organic vocabulary, then it feels really odd to see these terms translated into the equivalent Greek or Croatian. Because they're not exactly the same and you're using the closest equivalent but you're not quite used to seeing it as what that is. So what we might think of as the nymphs or the fairies is actually quite different from the more central European idea. But it is the closest we have in our language. But yet this original idea of what they are is never expressed in literature correctly. So it just always feels that you're seeing these words in an incorrect context. It's interesting what Jelena was saying because in Italy, where I live at the moment, when they have novels they use a very specific kind of tense that you don't use in spoken Italian and only in literary Italian. Which to me just doesn't make any sense because when you're writing, say in English, and your writing teachers will tell you about making dialogue sound natural and trying to establish that sort of realism to it, it seems very odd to me that you have an entire country that reads books specifically written in an unnatural way. So yeah, I find that very interesting. But that's the thing I was trying to tell you about the differences between Croatian and English and how the languages are not parallel. In English, you use all your tenses. I mean, if you have a tense, you use it. In Croatian, we don't. We have past tenses that are not used in everyday language. They're just not. They're taught in school and children learn to recognize them, but nobody uses them nowadays. Well, translators use them. The same thing as in Italian. I speak a bit of Italian, so I know what you're talking about. So it sounds really strange when you see them in books. It sounds unorganic and it sounds archaic. And I think that's a huge problem. Jelena, you talked a bit about the burden of cultural context on your blog, and I've read a couple of your posts now about this topic. It's the struggle to communicate ideas and concepts between cultures when you've basically got one language to use and how that can sometimes not work particularly well. I don't know if you both have struggled with this or wrestled with this idea, but I wondered if you could explain a little bit more about that. Well, I think that in this sense, Jelena is in a better position because she comes from a much bigger culture. So we all know something about Greece and Greek history and Greek myths. Whereas when it comes to Croatia, I don't think you know a single Croatian folk story or myth or anything. So basically, if I want to use that, I have to not just write in English. I have to translate the story itself. I have to translate the meaning. I mean, maybe the simplest parallel here is that, for example, if I talk about something happening in London and if I say that someone lives in Mayfair, you have an idea of who that person might be, right? But if I say that that person lives in some part of Zagreb, you have absolutely no idea what that means. And the same thing is with history, with folklore, with mythology, with culture. So everything I use, I have to find a way to explain without info-dumping. And that's an additional task when you write about Europe. For me, I think it's partly true what Jelena said, that yes, I'm lucky that there is preconception of what Greece is, and especially ancient Greece. But at the same time, I think that this kind of sometimes works in a negative way as well, that because there is this preconceived idea, it's very difficult for people to accept that Greece is not as Western as sometimes people think it is. It has had a huge Eastern influence because Greece is really close and has really strong ties with cultures like the Turkish culture and has always been, as a culture, very much in between three continents in a sense. There's always been influences from Africa. There's always been influences from Asia and from Europe. So although the ancient world and what I wrote, I think, doesn't suffer from that as much because the ancient world is a bit easier for a mainstream English-speaking audience to understand, I still see some of the comments in the first reviews I've seen from my books that really struggle with how femininity is perceived in Greece and how my feminine characters are explored in the book. And I found it even more in short stories I've written that go further into modern Greece, that this idea of what it is to be part of a family, what it is to be Greek, what it is to be normal, is not quite fitting within a mainstream European or English-centric, American-centric, I don't know what the right word is, because they kind of clash, because this Western side has whitewashed in some way Greek history and even unseen Greek history and unseen Greek mythology. And one of my greatest fears is that this too will come clashing and there's definitely going to be some readers that find that difficult, because I'm speaking about it from a Greek perspective and a Greek perspective that has had thousands of years in between looking at those myths. I'm not writing as an unseen Greek woman thinking of unseen Greek. I'm writing as a modern Greek person that has lived abroad, looking at the myths that I grew up with and heard retellings of from my own family who put their own ideas in them, and jokes and songs and an everyday experience of mythology that nearly becomes folkloric. I feel like this is a good time to ask you a bit more. You started to actually speak about your work and your experience with debuting in this genre. And I know, I just read Jelena's post about this idea of, some of what you were saying, some of the readers were engaging with your work in ways that you hadn't anticipated. I particularly thought this was interesting when you mentioned the title, Dark with Deep Water, and the title you think says what it's about and people are still surprised. But what I really thought was so interesting is that you talk about the unfairness, you said the lack of catharsis, the casual cruelty of the world. And I love that. I love the fact that that is a darkness, but maybe it's not what we think is a darkness. Maybe we're just used to thinking that grimdark or dark books feature nihilistic characters or enormous wars or bloody conflicts, but not this more subtle sense of ongoing social injustice. So I wanted to ask you a bit about that. Well, I think that it comes from my experience. I don't want to go into that too deeply because it probably requires too much psychology for me. But I grew up while my country was at war, and then I grew up in a post socialist early capitalist society. And this sense of doom, of unfairness, of bad outcomes, of bad things happening to good people, that's something we have to live with every day. I mean, I don't think it's a coincidence that in my book I have two war veterans walking around and they're traumatized incredibly. They just don't speak about it. But I think that I've built into them something that I feel and I'm surrounded with all the time. And I'm not sure how much Anglo-American readers can pick that up. I mean, the world is at the moment a pretty ugly, screwed up place for everyone. But I'm not sure if they can understand how much unfairness and how much injustice there is and how much I've put into my book. Although it's a completely made up secondary world, I think that all the experiences are basically real and all the feelings, my own feelings about the world and about the outcomes are real. And I think that some people get disappointed with that or even offended. Why did those things happen to those characters? They didn't deserve it. Well, nobody deserves it, but it just happens. And that's exactly why my book is dark. That's why I call it horror, because that's the horror of human existence. I'm getting very philosophical here. But that's something I really want to point out and say about my book. You know, I loved your book. I thought it was really, really unusual and extremely refreshing to read that. But yeah, I think the word horror elicits in me a completely different... I suppose my gut reaction to the word horror is to think of slasher movies, to think of body horror, to think of haunted houses, psychopaths wielding giant weapons to cut people up. And I think that's the cultural context or the kind of media context that I bring with me when someone says, oh, I've written a horror book. And I think maybe that's really such an interesting discussion to have, because I think it's not a misunderstanding, but it just highlights the ways that different cultures bring their own preconceptions to a book that's called a fantasy or a book that's called a horror. And I think we'd all just be better off if we try to leave some of those at the door before we open the cover. But yeah, it's really interesting to hear you talk about that because it's not something that I think is discussed that often. And we are a podcast who says that we discuss science fiction, fantasy and horror. And it's like, well, maybe we should go back to the drawing board and redefine what we mean by these terms. I mean, if I tell you that my first horror inspiration is Franz Kafka, then you can understand what I'm trying to say. It's not gore, it's not blood, it's not murder. It's just being an individual in a very, very cruel world. What about you, Joanna? Do you have any things that you felt like when you were writing your book that you felt like didn't quite mesh or you found it difficult to translate ideas or thoughts that you'd had around these Greek stories for a native English speaking audience? Or, as we sort of touched on before, because people think they know a little bit more about Greece, did you find it maybe even harder if you wanted to overturn some of those preconceptions, maybe? Yeah, no, I definitely thought that it's going to upset some people because I think Demeter has not really appeared in ancient literature, has not really had a moment for her to be the heroine of the story as far as I can think. I couldn't think of one. And I always found it, and that was part of my inspiration for this, that what I saw Demeter and what other people saw Demeter in Greece from when I was a child was very different to that crying mother that was primarily portrayed in the westernized Anglo-centric audience. So I very much think that the book is something that's going to be difficult for people to understand when you're trying to find that poor mother. And although she is there, she's a poor mother that does horrible things. And she's a poor mother to one child, but not to all her children. And I think because Demeter is so connected with Persephone, people forget that she has an entire mythology outside of that one child. And I think that, although not in terms of context as much, but in terms of characterization, I think it's going to be a struggle for some people that are looking to see this as a feminist retelling where Demeter is kind of like triumphing at the end. I don't think people will be getting exactly that. She does win, in my opinion, but there's always a cost. And I think that's going to be quite difficult for people to come to terms with this idea that is a very Greek idea, which is that there is a lot of preconceived notions of femininity and she's fighting against them. But these preconceived notions of femininity in a cultural context are not very Western. I think this might be a great opportunity to ask you both actually about how, I mean, okay, I just said we're a podcast on science fiction, fantasy and horror, but really above that, we're a podcast on intersectional feminism. And we want to hear about how writers today are engaging with this idea and these topics. And you talked about preconceived ideas of femininity. Still today, we're still struggling with this. Would you like to elaborate on how you engage with some of the topics that we do tend to raise on this podcast a lot, like the ideas of patriarchy? Okay, if I can go first. So I very much come from a culture that is still quite patriarchal, still very much following that family unit where the father is very much the paterfamilias, the head of the household in so many senses. And a lot of the depictions of femininity in Greek media, to some extent more than others, and it does change as time goes on, but what I grew up with does still have that element very much. And I also grew up with a lot of ideas of that women make the table, women do the dishes, it's a woman's job to clean, it's a woman's job to do the laundry, it's a woman's job to take care of some elements of the house that it's not a man's job to do. And within the book, although it doesn't go into these details of the specifics, Demeter is seen as someone that should have a passive power and should have a kind of abstract sense of power. And everybody's trying to kind of show her that that's her place and she kind of accepts it for the sake of the child, but the moment her child is going to be forced into this world. And I do want to note here that in terms of the ancient texts, Persephone is not meant to be a grown woman. She's meant to be just of marriageable age, which Nancy in Greece could be as young as 13, 14, so it's a very vulnerable child. So even there, the idea of what makes you a woman and when you are a woman is coming into focus and is clashing with a lot of Western ideas. And I've specifically not focused on that, but constantly characters are questioning Demeter's femininity because there's that element of transformation and she keeps trying to fight this patriarchal status of what is meant to be right, who is meant to be the leader. She specifically says that when they were in the stomach, within that nurture element in Cronus's, Hestia was the leader of their family. And yet when they come into the world and come into power, this position is swapped and she is expected to breed, she's expected to marry, she's expected to share power, but no man is expected to share power with her. I have to say that first of all, Croatia is following the current Western trends, so we're getting more conservative actually, which is a shame, but it's happening here and it's happening everywhere and it's frightening. I'm horrified by it, but I don't know how to respond to it other than in writing. And since I write a secondary historical world where there is war and male strength is important and there is obviously no birth control, you always end up with patriarchy, some form of it. You can't accept that if you want to make a plausible world. I try to write my female characters in a way that they oppose it or at least they demonstrate how bad it is for them. And obviously I have two main female characters and Hestia is the one who's trying to be a pick-me-girl, who's trying to play along and it doesn't end well for her in that sense. Basically, she is trying to fulfill all the expectations and she believes in all the fairy tales of patriarchy serves to her and it doesn't end well for her because of that. And so until she realizes that she has to do something for herself, she's basically helpless. And then on the other hand, we have Ida, who is, I think, a favorite character to most of my readers, who's not just fighting against it, but I like her very much because she sees it clearly and she uses it to her own advantage. She's aware of the fact that she lives in a world where no power will be given to her, that she has to take it. And I like her because she's not afraid to take it. I wrote her in that way that she will use any means to get what she wants and that doesn't necessarily make her immoral or bad because she lives in a world that is not kind to her and that is not going to give her anything. So I think they're both sort of mirrors that show different reflections of patriarchy in that world. You also have a bit of a class narrative going on there. How one of your characters obviously comes from a more well-to-do background. She's been given most things as a child and has been raised in a certain level of affluence. And then Ida, of course, is the opposite of that, has had to fight for every scrap that she can get. That's one of my favorite scenes, actually, watching her in the beginning, trying to get the... Well, I want to go into her. I don't want to spoil any books. I'll just say it's one of my favorite scenes, her trying to get her feet under her and get her head in life. But of course, you just said that she does it all herself and she knows that there's no one else out there for her. But yeah, I wondered if there were other themes feeding into that as well. This is looping it a little bit back to English. We are infamous for our class system and what that does to our society and how it influences the creative media that we produce as a country. I used to work in a household of an English Duke. Oh, God! Sorry! That's my dirty little secret. But yes, I was aware of the class. I grew up in different systems. I grew up first in socialism and then in capitalism and then I saw the English class system. As you surely noticed, I did build a pretty firm class system in my novel. It's basically a fiddle system. But I think I tried to make it as realistic as possible and to give some sort of social mobility to my characters. I'm not done with Ida. She's going to go places after this novel. Obviously, she will find a way to make her life better. But I think that I still did keep this idea of a noble hero to a certain extent. Although in a very cynical, very deconstructed way, I think. Because it shows all the weaknesses of that idea and I think it shows the price you have to pay for it. And I think it shows that even if you do everything right, things still go wrong. So I tried to examine and toy with all these ideas that are so common in fantasy. The ideas of nobility, heroism, the ideas of saviours and things like that. I think I've managed to sort of deconstruct a few of them. It occurred to me the other day that I am quite guilty for, I suppose, unconsciously subscribing to the noble hero to the idea of class systems. I mean, like the two novels I've just written, all the protagonists are royal. I mean, we're looking at two royal families. And I don't really know why I did that because it seemed like, I don't know. But it makes you question, why have I immediately made my heroes come from bloodlines? And bloodlines, especially in the new book coming out next year, is a real part of the power in the blood. And take that idea too far and you get into some really dark places. And yeah, it's kind of worrying because you think that there's a lot of, this is slightly off topic, but there's a lot of chat around the idea of working class writers not being able to publish and to be able to pursue a career in writing because of their economic issues. I mean, I don't come from money myself, which is why it's slightly alarming that I feel drawn to writing characters that come from noble lineages. It's very strange. I wonder whether it's baked into the kind of national fabric, like the cultural identity of this country. Just a random thought. No, I think it definitely is. And I've never seen a more firm class system than the British one. And this might be my Croatian thing. I do have, obviously, I do have royal blood. I have royals in my book. But they are punished for it. And their heritage is the worst one to have, basically. They do have privilege, obviously, but they have to pay a very high price for it. And I think I always put something like that in my stories. I never take it for granted. And I'll never write a character who's noble just because he's royal. That doesn't make sense to me. And that might be just because I'm from some different culture. For me, I think it's that it's so old. I've seen it in many cultures, not just in British culture. But even if you look at Greek mythology, the hero is always descended from a god in some way. There's always a kind of lineage that gives you that power. And in my book, I specifically have a scene where Demeter undermines that noble birth just to spite a queen. We like the undermining of noble birth. You mentioned fantasy as a genre full of weird names. Have you ever made up shit in English? Because that's quite strange for me, because thinking about writing in a language that isn't mine, and then also inventing in a language that isn't mine. Yeah, I mean, I didn't invent things in English. But I just wanted to say that I put a bunch of Croatian words in which you English readers might find really strange and unpronounceable. And I thought it was a very fun thing to do, because that's your perception of Slavic languages, something you cannot pronounce. And I said, OK, so I'm going to put some words in and I'm going to have fun with that. I on purpose used a kind of spelling that wouldn't be the more anglicized spelling. So there's a lot of Ks where you might have expected a C or a lot of endings of words and people that is the Greek ending instead of the English ending. So, for example, sirens is syrinas. So I've on purpose kept the more Greek version of those words just to kind of emphasize the Greekness. So I think for somebody looking at the names, they might find them a touch odd, but also familiar. No, I'm just really interested in it, because obviously coming from writing secondary world fantasy, I had to make up some words. I mean, like Starborn is a totally made up word, but this is what is great. I think I was writing some notes about this episode and I think, what did I say? It was like, I think conveyability, but I'm not even sure if conveyability is a word, but you know what I mean when I say it. I was like, things that have to be, conveyability, it works, but this is what's great about English. You can kind of just, you know, you can make a verb out of almost any noun. Yeah. And I think for me, because Greek obviously uses a different alphabet, it's so difficult sometimes to transliterate because I think of the word and the word is in a different alphabet. So it's much harder even to put it in the English word and be true to how to pronounce it and things like that in a way that maybe if you use the more Roman style alphabet, it wouldn't be like that. It's funny to think about speculative fiction and then, you know, throwing in Greek word or Croatian word as kind of the othering of that, you know, the, an alien language or something just that is magical, something that means you can put a meaning to it. Because a lot of English writers who do that, we, you know, we tend to go to Latin and you just throw in like a Latin word to make it somehow magic or whatever. So it does seem to, you know, it kind of makes sense that you then can use your other language skills, even if it's your native language skills, but as a way of bringing in that kind of, I suppose we would think of it as a kind of magical, mystical, mysterious element. But for you, it's just your normal everyday language. I think that Croatian readers, once they get their hands on this book are just going to laugh their heads off. Like when they see that I use like common everyday Croatian words, which probably sound exotic to English speaking readers, such as gospodar for Lord or gospa for lady or things like that. I think they're going to find it like incredibly funny and I'm sort of a bit embarrassed. And, you know, I expect them to say like, why are you treating your language as an exotic thing? And I'm just going to say, well, you know, it's for the English readers. They don't know shit. So that's why I did it. I love those words. It worked on me. Let's just say that. I was like, oh, this does not read like one of those typical fantasy books. It immediately makes it more interesting and magical. So, you know, I think that's great if language can do that. And if a living language can do that and elicit that sort of response in another person, I think it's fantastic. I think that ESL writers are more comfortable writing secondary worlds because the readers and the writers start from scratch. Like even there is some cultural background imported, you are still a foreigner in a secondary world and your readers are, they expect to be ignorant when they enter it. So you can start building from the ground up. Whereas if, as a foreign writer, you write about things that are familiar to you, you can get yourself in deep trouble because you don't know enough. So I think in that sense speculative fiction is a really nice playground for us to test our ideas and to build worlds. Yeah, I totally agree with that. And actually one of the things I did in my novel is that I on purpose used a lot of Greek locations because I always felt that when people write Greek mythology retellings that are set in Greece and people seem not to focus on locations a lot. So I specifically used, and I did a lot of research as to which mountain this happened on, which cape this happened on, which river was that. And I specifically inputted a lot of Greek places because I felt that a lot of times the Greek mythology retellings kind of use Greece as a generic playground, but it's a real place and has real specific locations that these things happen. And these are the origin names of these exact places that people visit, that people live in. This is the origin stories of who we are. So I kind of wanted to represent as much as I could the areas and the specific places that were mentioned in all the different sources that I encountered. And also just to mention, because I always thought I was interesting, because Demeter hasn't appeared in unseen Greek literature as much as other gods. The biggest sources I've gotten about her were from geographers. That's just really interesting. And why it's so important to be broad in your research. Yeah, no, you had to use geographers that just struggled around. Yeah, absolutely. No, I think it's really vital. I mean, my sister song research, the reason I set it where I set it was because I was reading a local archaeology report done by people who aren't even a recognized society. They were just local amateurs who were really interested in it. And they'd done this report and published it on some dark corner of the Internet. And, you know, I found it and thought, hey, I can use that. So, yeah, it's rather a giveaway, isn't it, that it's people based, say, in America who've never actually been to Greece. I'm going to write a Greek book, Greek mythology, but I have no idea what the real Greece actually looks like. Yeah, I can see this being a problem. But it's a great place to wrap up because, you know, I think you sold both your books beautifully to us. They're both out very soon from Ghost Orchid Press. I think Dark with Deep Water is out in a few days.So possibly even by the time this episode airs, this book will be available. And Winter Harvest is November. Great. Is that right? Yes. 21st of November. It's coming out. Fantastic. Well, thank you both so much. We want to hear from you. Let us know what you would like to hear on the next episode of Breaking the Glass Slipper.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 116: Part 1: Eric McBride and the December 2015 San Bernardino Terrorist Attack
"Ola, ola, ola, amigos, amigos, players, playerettes, dudettes, everybody in between, welcome back. This is the follow -on episode to last week with Rick Prado on the 22nd anniversary of 9 -11. We had a theme going here, we wanted to follow through on this next theme, and we'll tell you about that here in just a second, but first of all, welcome. As always, I'm here. I'm Morgan. I'm here literally with my partner in crime, and we're going to do what we did last time. I know some of you guys like small town police water, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to do that when we're talking about something as serious as when we talked about 9 -11. And then this month we're talking with Eric McBride. He retired as the chief of police in San Bernardino City. If you guys remember, Alex Collins we had on was a deputy with San Bernardino County. His partner was killed, Jamie McBride. He was wounded by a piece of shit. We don't even want to mention his name. But we're getting into now the December 2015 terrorist attack at the city of San Bernardino. Fourteen people killed, I think twenty -seven wounded, and it just didn't seem right to follow on. You know, we wanted to have a couple serious discussions, so that's kind of what it was. So before we get started though, just a couple quick things. Head on over to Apple, Spotify, hit those five stars. Let us know what you thought of last week's episode. Let us know what you think of this week's episode. And don't worry folks, next week we'll get back into small town police water. Also head on over to our website, gameofcrimespodcast .com, our book from our prior guest, Rick Prado. You'll see that up there, Black Ops, The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior. Great reading. You just got to get it. We've got everything you need there. Follow us on social media at Game of Crimes on Twitter, at Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram. But follow us on Patreon too, patreon .com slash gameofcrimes. We just recorded some great episodes. You can't make this shit up. We've got 9 -1 -1, Case of the Month. One rule we made is Murph never gets to pick a movie again. He has to submit it for review before we review it. I promise to do better in the future. Well, because you're on the hook for next month. All right. But guys, we have a lot of good stuff over there. Everything about, you know, we get into funny stuff, we get into serious stuff. Our Case of the Month has been recommended by you, the listeners out there. So head on over there, patreon .com slash gameofcrimes. Now this is a show about crime. We normally are fun and jovial because this is a show about crime. We talk about bad people doing bad things and bad people doing bad things to good people. We take the story seriously and that's how we're going to do it. This is not about us having fun and joking at the expense of a serious incident like this. So our next guest, Aaron McBride, like we said, retired as the chief of police, worked his way up from patrol officer, but started off as a Marine, formerly on active duty. He's got some good stories there, but he comes to us through another long list of people, a family of service, the McBrides out in California. He does. You know, our good buddy out in San Diego, Mel Sosa, made an introduction for us, got us to Eric. But the McBride family is well known in the law enforcement circles out there as brother Jamie, his niece Tony, and then Jamie's other daughter are all police officers out there that have experienced violence that, you know what, most cops in the United States don't have to experience. I'm not sure what's going on with the McBride family here, but you know what, they don't shy away from it and they don't run away. They address the issues as they come to them, and they're protecting their communities. Eric here was just the fact that, I mean, he's a trendsetter. You're going to hear him talk about his high school career, getting out of high school early so he could join the Marine Corps early. And his whole life is service to his community and his fellow man. And you know, in my book, there's no greater calling that you're willing to dedicate your life to work for the public. A public servant, I think, is a term of a hero. And that's certainly who we have on here today. And I'll tell you, again, we've got to thank our buddies out there, Southern California Gang Conference, Mel Sosa, all of those people. They're brothers to us. They get us great gifts, great gifts, great guests, which are gifts for things like this. And I'll tell you, you've really got to sit down and listen to this because one of the things that's going to come out of this is stuff that has not really been talked about in the media before, and you'll hear him talk about a call that was received. He's been briefing this to law enforcement. On the day of, he was the, quote, deputy incident commander, but he was the incident commander for all intents and purposes. And so he's not the one at the tip of the spear out there, but this guy has the overview of everything going on. You're going to hear things that went well. You're going to hear about things that didn't go so well. But we will never get to hearing any of this, Murph, unless I ask you, are you ready to play the biggest, baddest? And as we see in this episode, too, the most dangerous game of all, the game of crime. Absolutely. So everybody get in, sit down, shut up, hold on. You're getting ready to hear a story about an incident that I wasn't even aware of, a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California. So Eric, tell us what's going on, brother.
Hearing Jesus: Daily Bible Study
Fresh update on "patreon" discussed on Hearing Jesus: Daily Bible Study
"Hey, friends, before you go, I want to make sure you know about our Patreon page. The Patreon page is really a place to gain all sorts of resources specifically for the Hearing Jesus podcast and the Hearing Jesus for Kids podcast. There's a specific and dedicated private Facebook group, which is a place for me to interact with you, to pray with you, to answer questions. I'd love it for you to join us there. And there's also another level that gives you the inside scoop on everything else that's going on. The journaling prompts are there. If you've been with us for some time, you know that I usually do journaling prompts that helps us get that information from the head to the heart. We have a downloadable daily prayer prompt that helps you get that information processed in a way that it affects your daily life. There's also a Bible reading tracker on there. There's bonus episodes, lots of things on an ongoing basis, a place where you can get all the resources to help you grow in your faith. And the second thing I want to mention to you is the Dawn app, which if you've never heard of that before, I have good news for you. I just recently recorded a series for the Dawn app and also did some writing for them. And it's a daily Bible study and prayer app that is completely free. The link for that is in the show notes. And then the last thing I'm super excited about, I want to tell you that we're going to start having opportunities for travel. This is going to look a couple of different ways, depending on what you're looking for, but it's going to cover things like mission trips, in-person retreats, and also eventually a Bible study trip to Rome. What I'm doing right now is I'm getting everybody's contact information so we can start communicating about what that might look like. So if you are interested in any of that, you can head to shehears.org for more information.
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 142: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.1) The Lost Battalion
"History That Doesn't Suck is a biweekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support HTDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon .com forward slash history that doesn't suck. It's just past 8 a .m. Wednesday, October 2nd, 1918. We're in northeastern France, one week into the combined Franco -American -Muse -Argonne Offensive, and Major Charles Whittlesey, or Galloping Charlie, as the witty, kind -hearted yet energetic and disciplined 34 -year -old New York lawyer turned battalion commander as known, is standing with his men, ready to join the fight already raging in the Argonne Forest. This is no small thing. Let me use the precious moments remaining before the whistle sounds and they charge forward to explain.
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh update on "patreon" discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
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History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 142: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.1) The Lost Battalion
"History That Doesn't Suck is a biweekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support HTDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon .com forward slash history that doesn't suck. It's just past 8 a .m. Wednesday, October 2nd, 1918. We're in northeastern France, one week into the combined Franco -American -Muse -Argonne Offensive, and Major Charles Whittlesey, or Galloping Charlie, as the witty, kind -hearted yet energetic and disciplined 34 -year -old New York lawyer turned battalion commander as known, is standing with his men, ready to join the fight already raging in the Argonne Forest. This is no small thing. Let me use the precious moments remaining before the whistle sounds and they charge forward to explain.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 115: Part 1: Ric Prado Hunts Osama bin Laden and Leads the CIA Response after 9/11
"Ola, ola, ola, amigos, amigos, players, playwrights, dudettes, everybody in between, welcome. This is a special edition of Game of Crimes. We're going to dispense with a couple of things that we normally do, small town police water, things like that, because number one, it's the 22nd anniversary of 9 -11, never forget. And this episode and the following episode that you'll find, too, that we'll be talking about the issues of terrorism. So nothing funny about terrorism, nothing funny about all these people dying. But our next guest, we'll talk about him in a minute, but we just kind of want to set that stage real quickly, though. Thank you guys for joining us. Morgan here, joined by my partner in crime. Hey, it's Murph, everybody. Yeah, hey, guys, head on over to Apple, Spotify, hit those five stars, really means a lot. And after this episode, I think you'll realize why hearing stories like this are so important. So head on over there, head on over to our website, GameOfCrimesPodcast .com. The link to our next guest book, what we'll be talking about, you're going to find that there are all sorts of good stuff there. Follow us on that thing they call social media at Game of Crimes on Twitter, at Game of Crimes Podcast on Facebook and the Instagram. But look, join us over on Patreon, Patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. We just got through recording. You can't make this shit up. Had some fun there. We did our Q &A, which is one of the funnest things we do. I think it's the most fun we have because it's driven by you, our players, right? It's a blast. It's a blast. And we've got good stuff. We got some good comments on our previous episode, 911, what's your emergency? Which was actually recommended to us by one of our guests out there, Bunny, if she's listening. That was her asking about that. So we did that. So hey, good stuff. But yeah, guys, just head on over to Patreon .com. A lot of good stuff. We've got 911, what's your emergency? We've got our Narcometer review, our monthly Q &A, case of the month, you know, and so we have a lot of fun. So join us there. Patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. Now, this is a show about crime. We talk about bad people doing bad things and bad people doing bad things to good people. But in this case, we take the story seriously, you know, we don't take ourselves seriously. Exactly. But in this case, we wanted to just take out some of this because our next guest, Murph came to us by way of a friend of the show again, good friend of the show, Patrick O 'Donnell. Yes, sir. And thank you, Patrick, again, for introducing us to Rick. This guy is a true American patriot and hero. Rick Prado is our guest today, worked as an ops officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. Now, if you've heard me talk in the past, I make jokes about what CIA stands for. But if you've ever seen our presentation, I explained that it's not an indictment of the entire agency. It was one particular person we had problems with while we worked in Colombia. The agency, in my opinion, is one of the best in the world. Everybody dogs them out because they can't publicly defend themselves because everything they do is secret, which goes to protecting our country. So, you know, I know a lot of you probably want to agree to that and you've had bad experiences or you just believe with crap you see on TV or in the movies. But Rick's going to straighten out a lot of that stuff today. You're going to hear stories that you're not going to hear anywhere else. And let me tell you, too, the great thing about Rick is we knew some of the same people and actually one of our guests we had on, Tracy Walder, previously, had just come on the agency at that time. But Rick was in charge of the Counterterrorism Center, CTC, for CIA. When you talk about the tip of the spear, they were the tip of the spear before the tip of the spear got in there, before the Green Berets got in there, before the first military boots were on the ground. It was CIA, their paramilitary officers. Guys, this is a story, you know, and I know people say, we dispel a lot of stuff. But here's the important thing, Rick gets into, we actually have some very candid discussions around 9 -11, the current threat of terrorism, what's going on in the world. We dispel and disabuse people to some of these notions about enhanced interrogation techniques. It's not torture. I know some people disagree with that. It's not torture. Not when we put our folks through the same thing. He'll talk about seer training. But I think the biggest thing that I got out of this, Murph, was just listening. Here's another guy like Jack Garcia, came out of Cuba, fled Castro. These people know what communism looks like. They know how bad this stuff is. And they came to this country. His first firefight was at seven years old. He's going to tell you about that. First time, not that he was actually directly involved, but he was in the middle of a firefight at seven years old with automatic weapons. Again, it's just what an American, you know what the American story is, Murph? Here's somebody who comes to America, loves America, wants to do everything they can to defend and protect America against all enemies and foreign and domestic. And here's another guy that's living proof of the thing you always say, just because we retire doesn't mean our oaths expire. What he's currently doing is great. So hey, look, we're going to, like I said, we're going to dispense with a lot of stuff. We just want to get right into the episode. So before we can talk about this episode, Murph, there is one thing we do have to do. Before we talk about this, I need to ask you, are you ready to play? And you guys will realize this. In honor of 9 -11, the biggest, baddest, most dangerous game of all, the game of crimes. Everybody get in, sit down, shut up and hold on. Bring Rick on a true American patriot. Unbelievable what you're getting ready to hear.
Home Gadget Geeks
A highlight from Paul Braren and Lots of Stuff to Catch Up on! HGG584
"This is the Average Guy Network, and you have found Home Gadget Geeks Show No. 584 with guest Paul Brarren, recorded on September 7, 2023. Here on Home Gadget Geeks, we cover all the favorite tech gadgets that find their way in your home. News, reviews, product updates and conversation, all through The Average Tech Guy. I'm your host, Jim Collison, broadcasting live from the averageguy .tv studios here. And a beautiful fall is on its way. Well, maybe this could be false fall. But we're getting closer. And of course, we'll post the show with world -class show notes out at theaverageguy .tv. Big thanks to Marv B, who joined us last week. Marv, always good to fill in on a pinch. And Marv, great to have you last week. Thanks for coming out. And big thanks to our Patreon subscribers, who are part of the team each and every month. If you're interested in, if you find value in the podcast and you're interested in joining us, head out to theaverageguy .tv slash Patreon. I mentioned Paul is with us. Paul Brarren is back. Paul, you were the most requested guest I've ever had on Home Gadget Geeks in the last couple months. People have been like, Where's Paul? Bring Paul back. So you said, Yes, thank you. And then a whole bunch of people were excited this week. Welcome back to Home Gadget Geeks. Paul Brarrens Thank you so much, Jim. It's very kind. Last time we were on was March of 2022, and a lot has happened in license then. But the outpouring on Twitter, especially John Vigz there, very kind thing said. It was very sweet. Jim Collison Yeah, yeah, it's good, good to catch up with you. We, we go way back with Home, for anyone just joining us, we go back, way back with Home Server Show. We've, we've been together a couple times at some of the meetups. We did you do, what did you do with your, with your old Honda Civic? What, what happened? Paul Brarrens Yeah, my youngest son had it. It didn't last too long. Made a few trips to Pittsburgh and back, and then conked out about 20 miles from home. That was the end of that. But it was like 160 ,000 miles or something. It did all right. You and I married almost the same number of years, right, about the same age, all those things. Jim Collison Yeah, it's, it's, it's very similar. We've gotten, I turned my 06 Civic Hybrid over to Sammy. It's got a quarter of a million miles on it. And it's still chugging along. So we're still having, we replaced the batteries once on your, not well, not on your recommendation. You've done it, and then maybe 10 ,000 miles before the warranty ran out. My batteries went bad. That was the old lead -acid batteries. They weren't the new ones we, we see today. I think they were lead -acid. There's 06, right? Do you think? Paul Brarren Yeah, the back seat didn't fold in that Civic, right? So you couldn't use your trunk the same as a regular Civic, because the seats were behind the back passenger, right? Little funky. Yeah, no, and mine went right before warranty too. But anyhow, going back one topic, you mentioned your weather. 94 degrees, I think, maybe 95 today here in Wethersfield, Connecticut, and it's like our third or fourth day like this in a row. It's been hot. And I've been working outside. I picked this week of all weeks to have vacation where it was a staycation and catching up on yard work and home stuff. But we'll get into that. Part of getting a new house, which is not a new house, 33 -year -old house, is renovations. And a lot, and I do whatever I can, when I can. Jim Collison, CFP® – New to you, new to you, and you kind of try to make it your own. By the way, we're sending some cooler weather to you.
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
A highlight from Something a little monstrous with Isabel Caas
"At Breaking the Glass Slipper we believe it is important to have conversations about women and issues of intersectional feminism within science fiction, fantasy and horror. To continue to do so we need your help. Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Join the conversation by following us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Hello and welcome to Breaking the Glass Slipper. I'm Charlotte Bond. I'm Megan Lee. And I'm Lucy Hounsom. From the very first tales of the supernatural, vampires have held a special place in the hearts of storytellers. Over the years they've been reinvented again and again. In movie terms we've had The Elegant and the Elfin in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, while Gary Oldman gave us a seductive but sinister version of Dracula himself in Coppola's film. With regards to books we've had endearing but vicious vampire children in Let the Right One In, and Stephen King himself claims that his vampire novel Salem's Lot is one of his favourites, linking the dying of small towns with the curse of the vampire. With the exception of the Swedish Let the Right One In, most of our well -known vampires are decidedly Western. But in The Vampires of El Norte, Isabel Canas has created her own brand of very savage vampires that face off against Vaqueros. Isabel is joining us in this episode to talk about what inspired her Mexican vampires and what her novel says about being a woman in 1840s Mexico fighting not just against supernatural beings but against the expectations of society. Isabel, thank you so much for joining us. Please tell our listeners a little bit about yourself and your books. Thank you so much for having me. I've been looking forward to this. I love, love, love this podcast. So getting the email from my publicist saying that this was in the books, I was like, yes, I'm so excited. Oh, it's lovely to have you. I am a Mexican -American speculative fiction author. I live in the Pacific Northwest. I'm a recovering academic, so we might get a little nitty and gritty when it comes to my research and talking about folklore and the kinds of things that informed Vampires of El Norte, which is, I guess you could bill it, and it has been billed as a supernatural Western set in what is now South Texas in 1846 at the beginning of the Mexican -American war. And it's about two childhood sweethearts named Nena and Nestor who are separated at the age of 13 because of a tragedy and are thrown together again nine years later on the road to war. And they have to defend their home Rancho from threats, both human and supernatural. And the supernatural, like spoiler alert, is the vampires. I have to admit, I've read lots of vampire novels, but none quite like yours. So how are vampires traditionally represented in Mexican literature? Are they like you present them in your books, which is kind of not quite human, but humanoid and sort of vicious and savage and unnatural? Is that what they are in Mexican literature or is there a branch of them in there? Do you tell us? Well, yeah, when it comes to Mexican, when it comes to literature, I would draw a line between literature and folklore. This is my academic coming out. But also there are, I guess, many kinds of vampires when we talk about literature and folklore in Mexico. I think Mexican literature in particular, in terms of genre literature, we have Silvia Moreno -Garcia's Certain Dark Things, which features a vampire in modern Mexico City. It is fantastic. But when it comes to modern literature, there's a lot of influence from the West. The Anglo American tradition of the vampire is, of course, something that occurs in pop culture. When it comes to folklore, however, when I was researching this book, I came across some interesting stuff. The original idea that was like the seed of this novel took place in a different part of Mexico, which is where the book ended up being set, which is now South Texas, which is where my family has hailed from for generations. Originally, I was looking at more central Mexico, maybe like in the environs of Mexico City. In the state of Tlaxcala, there are legends of what are called bloodsucking witches or Tlahualpuches and these entities, I guess, could fall under the heading of vampire, given their predilection for blood. They're very different from the Western European vampire that most people are familiar with from pop culture. So I was fascinated by these creatures who are, I believe exclusively women, and their affliction is something that they are born with and that manifests with puberty. There's so much to pick apart there. When I was putting the book together, I realized that they deserve their own novel. I was kind of back to square one.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 114: Part 1: Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith is still Defending and Protecting
"Ola, ola, ola, amigos, amigos, players, playwrights, dududettes, everybody in between. Welcome to episode 114 of Game of Crimes, the 114th attempt to silence us once again. And as I say, we shall not go quietly into the night, will we, Murph? That's right. We're not going anywhere. Not going anywhere, all right. It reminds me of that case with the guys from NYPD. Yeah, go fuck yourself. Hey, guys, welcome back. Hey, we got some good stuff for you, but as always, before we get to it, we gotta do just some quick housekeeping. Hey, head on over to Apple Spotify, hit those five stars. Really means a lot. Guys, if you're on Stitcher, move off Stitcher. That's like officially closed now. So I think you'll hear they've moved a lot of that stuff over to Spotify, but make sure you find us on your favorite podcasting platform and hit that subscribe button on it so you get these episodes delivered to you without thinking about it, without fail, every Monday and Tuesday. Also head on over to our website, gameofcrimespodcast .com. Hey, we've got some interesting stuff coming up. We've got guests, you know, we've got books, quite a few books that we're working on. We've got some guests coming up, like a medical examiner. We've got some books from there. We've got CIA guy. We've got a guy who writes for Tom Clancy now, former US Marshal. Got his books. So we got a lot of good stuff coming up. So head on over there. Also follow us on that thing they call social media at Game of Crimes on Twitter, Game of Crimes on podcast, Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram, but head on over to patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. We just got through recording a 911 episode that will, that's interesting, but it will break your heart, make you mad and piss you off. Oh yeah. I'm still, if I get a little bitchy on this intro, you'll know why, cause we just finished it. But we don't wanna give away the ending because you gotta put your ears on, you gotta be an audio Sherlock Holmes and figure out what went on. So, but we got a lot of good stuff. We got our Q and A coming out. You can't make this shit up. We did our Narcometer review, which Murph will never be allowed to recommend another movie for Narcometer review without prior review. It's a truth, I agree. Yeah, but we did just finish season three of Narcos where our buddy, Chris Feisal, Dave Mitchell, they were the DEA agents that helped bring down the Cali Cartel. So we go through and we analyze season three of Narcos, the gentlemen of the Cali Cartel. So we got a lot of good stuff. So patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. Also head on over and find Facebook, type in Game of Crimes fans, and guess what? You will find the internal, the secret fan group run by our favorite mafia queen, the iron fist with the velvet glove, Sandy Salvato, who shall allow you entrance into the inner sanctum. Answer a couple of questions, get close, come on people, give it a shot, give it the old college try. You too may be on the inside where all the hilarity, jocularity happens in a bubble of insularity. Okay, the arities. And that is, I tell you what, there's some funny stuff that goes on there. You really need to take a look at it. It'll brighten your day. Right, and you know what else brightens your day, Murph? What's that? It's our next little section. And we call that? Well, guess what time it is though. First of all, guess what time it is? Guess what time it is? What time is it, Murph? I bet it's time for Police Small Town Blutter. And I forgot to tell you, hey, this is Show About Crime. We talk about bad people doing bad things and bad people doing bad things to good people. We take the story seriously, not ourself. How do we know that? Because we do Small Town Police Blutter. Sorry, we got it backwards. It's like one of those endings at the end of a pharmaceutical commercial, you know, the previous hit of the mother. Anyway, all right, let's get into this. We're keeping you on your toes, that's all. I might've had some caffeine today. Anyway, hey, Murph, this story comes to us from Lancaster County, Nebraska. All right. You always want good citizens, right? A good citizen out there called in, told dispatchers, hey, somebody is driving a truck on the wrong side of the road. Highway 77 in Lancaster County nearly ran him off the road. So driver, I mean, the caller gives excellent description, says, hey, here's where it happened. Here's where the collision nearly happened. And so obviously they vector deputies in, right? So even though the guy's rattled, he's able to give them, you know, the calls. So the deputy gets out there and the deputy finds the driver and pulls it over. And he's the caller. He's the caller. Deputy goes, do you know why I stopped you? Yeah, because I was on the wrong side of the road. The man responded jockeying the air up to a missed exit. Oh, okay, well, you know, the problem is he had a blood alcohol content, twice the legal limit. Oh, don't you just hate when that happens? Yeah, so he confessed to calling 911 on himself and the deputy realized who he had in custody. Yeah, I did that because I thought somebody was on the wrong side of the fucking road, bro. The deputy goes, yeah, but it turned out to be you. But it turned out it was you. He goes, yep, like a dumb fuck. He says this on body cam day. Hey, you know what, ladies and gentlemen, we have a sectional Patreon called you can't make this shit up. This is the first one from that. Hey, there's a truck almost ran me off the road. Yeah, unfortunately for you, Skippy, they were going the right way. You were going the wrong way. That's wonderful. Hey, Mark, I know at your age, you're not on a dating app, right, but you've heard of those dating apps, right? Match .com, you know, Tinder. Yeah, you know, and what do they always say? You know, like, if you like somebody, you swipe right. I think it is, if you don't like them, you swipe left. Have my money. Something like that, right, so. Obviously you have. Well, no, no, I have, because I read the story. So, what do you think would be an innovative way to find a fugitive? Are you using a dating app? This guy out of England, he's a million dollar fraudster. He apparently swiped flight, you know, instead of right, he swiped flight. This wanted man, Wayne Parker, successfully evaded authorities for nearly a year after committing a million dollars in fraud, but then the farmer from Suffolk, England, signed up for a dating app, right? They were shocked to see, cops, coppers were shocked to see the convicted criminal crop up after Parker created a profile on Match .com. So, what happened was the 35 year old scammer was found guilty a year ago of owing a whopping $970 ,000 to a supplier. He failed to appear in court in February for sentencing and was being hunted by police to no avail until the on the lam lothario, this is them writing that, not me, decided to start looking for love in all the wrong places. So, I mean, if he'd waited, what, seven years, the statute of limitations run out, he could have done it, but no. Since going on the run, Mr. Paca is known to have been using Match's dating website. He's also been hiring cars in a bid and is believed to avoid detection by the police. So, he failed to appear in court. So, he said he would return to Suffolk to face the consequences of his action, but so far has failed to head to, has failed to do so. So, it's only a matter of time before the law catches up. We would strongly urge him to hand himself in. Well, guess what? They didn't have to wait too long. Now, this frisky farmer, he'd previously been prosecuted for posing a serious risk of spreading bovine tuberculosis. He failed to dispose of farmed animal remains appropriately, was found to be moving large quantities of cattle without following the proper process, as well as not keeping adequate records of the cattle. So, he was handed a 12 -week jail sentence and an 18 -month suspension from doing business. That was then, but now he's going to go to prison for a million dollars in fraud, all because he had the urge he got on the dating site. Oh, because he's stupid. He's stupid. Speaking of stupid, Murph, this next one comes to us from Vero Beach, Florida, population 16 ,534. Salute. And that's a beautiful place. Yeah, so Rashad McGriff, he, I'll give it away, he went to jail. He has a lengthy rap sheet, currently on probation, following conviction in March for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. What kind of taunt could an ex -girlfriend send over a text that would cause this felon, this person now charged with battery and burglary, what kind of taunt could send him over the edge? I'm going to guess it was a reference, a negative reference towards his private parts. She taunted him via text about having a little penis. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Investigators say that the 42 -year -old woman was in her bed when McGriff got into the house, which he has no commitments to. He then punched the woman in the face and choked her, which then obstructed her ability to breathe temporarily. She was bleeding from the bridge, did you ever know? She told police that she texted McGriff a photo of somebody else's penis and advised Rashad he had a little one. Oh my God. Oh, oh, I don't even know what to say. Sorry. Well, the judge ordered McGriff to have no contact with the victim because he threatened her as well. So he's been previously, the woman's previously sued McGriff three times for failure to pay child support. So they do have a hearing. So hey, look, domestic violence is not funny, but you know, sending a picture of somebody's junk and then following it up with a really small piece of junk and saying, you got a little one or something like that. Oh no, actually she sent him a picture. She sent a picture of apparently what she liked and said that you've got a much smaller one. Did she call him shorty or stubby? Yeah, we shouldn't make fun of that, I'm sorry. Yeah, well, we'll just see if the evidence stands up in court. Anyway, thank you very much. Hey, well, let's, we're gonna, what we're gonna do is I'm gonna talk about our next guest. We'll do the intro here because then when we get into the interview, we're not gonna do re -intro the intro. But this one, this one's the one I helped arrange because I've known this person for probably 18 years now. No, her and her husband. And for those of you in law enforcement, when I say the name JD Buck Savage, if you've been around, except Murph. Murph had no idea until they started watching the videos. Legendary police trainer, used to train Caliber Press, Street Survival, has a, him and his wife now, we'll talk about, have a company, The Winning Mind, they do a lot of this. Now, Betsy Brantner Smith, Sergeant Betsy Brantner Smith retired after 29 years on the Naperville Police Department, which I used to be up in Naperville for some other stuff in a prior life, actually had a TV series about her, a lot of good stuff. But now she is the spokesperson for the National Police Association, nationalpolice .org. And Murph, I would say we had a good, some of you folks, I'm gonna tell you right now, this is gonna be a controversial topic for some of you. You're not gonna like it because, but we get into some, we, you know, hey, we talk about the facts around what's happening with police right now, what's going on, the narratives, and Betsy pulls no punches. Look, with all of our guests, they have the absolute right to the First Amendment. She gets to say what she wants to say because it's her opinion, it's her voice. But the other thing too is, I'm not gonna give it away, you're gonna find out on the episode, but Betsy has a right to say what she wants to say when you understand what she's been through and what she survived. And she's an effective, I remember times she used to get ahold of me and say, hey, I see you on Fox and CNN and all this stuff all the time. And she'd be jealous. I'm like, I sent her a text, hey, I see you on all these shows all the time, I'm jealous now. I tell you what, once you hear her talk, she's a feisty little lady, you can see why she was selected as a national spokesperson for the National Police Association. And as you'll hear me say at the end of the interview, she was honestly a breath of fresh air, standing up in discussion, hot issues that involve the police culture, but she's just not giving an opinion. She's backing it up with facts and statistics, which is, anybody can have an opinion, just like buttholes, we've all got them, but when you back them up with facts, there's a good position. So this was honestly a great interview with Betsy. It was a pleasure to meet you. I will continue to watch JD Buck Savage videos here. They're funny. If you haven't seen them, just go on YouTube and put in JD Buck Savage and you'll see them. Saw drunk? If you want to know where saw drunk arrested same originated as JD Buck Savage. You just know hanging out with these two, you're gonna come out with tears streaming down your cheeks cause they're gonna keep you laughing. Oh man, Dave and I had a good time. Well, Murph, we can't get to it until I ask you the question that is on everybody's mind, mind, mad, mind, on our mad mind. Our mad mind, are you ready to play the biggest, baddest, most dangerous game of all? The unadulterated, unfettered, unrestricted game of crimes. Here we are. Yes, we are ready. So get in, sit down, shut up and hold on. We got Ms. Betsy coming on. You're gonna love this lady.
Home Gadget Geeks
A highlight from Marv Bee with the NetAlly Cyber Scope, Bose Sound Sport, AI News and a New Podcast HGG583
"This is the Average Guy Network, and you have found Home Gadget Geeks Show No. 583 with guest Marv B recorded on August 31, 2023. Here on Home Gadget Geeks, we cover all your favorite tech gadgets that find their way into your home. News, reviews, product updates and conversation all for the average tech guest. I'm your host, Jim Collison, broadcasting live from the averageguy .tv studios here in a beautiful Bellevue, Nebraska. Smokey. I'm kind of looking forward to the winter when we can put these fires out up north and out west. And my throat has been scratchy all summer. And it's just, it's like, Marv, it's like we're smoking a pack of cigarettes every day. Marv Birdie... Are you getting the little haze and dust? You know, do you actually see it? Yeah, yeah, this, this blue moon or this moon, full moon that we had last night that everybody's been talking about, it was, yeah, or it was like orange here. So it's so hazy. And it just kind of gets to the back of your throat. I'll be, I, you know, I'll be excited for winter to get here to get those fires put out for sure. And I'm sure those Canadians will be happy to have those put out. Are people walking around wearing masks? No, that's never gonna happen in Nebraska. Not ever again. No, not ever again. That's never, that will never, that will never happen. Anyways, we'll get some better weather coming up. Spring, or fall is on its way. We'll post a show with some world -class show notes and some links to some things that you're going to want to run out and buy. I'm telling you, Marv's got something that you're going to want to buy this weekend. I'll have a link to it out at TheAverageGuy .tv. Big thanks to Shane Dyer, who joined us two weeks ago from Irrigreen. Talked a little bit about that. And I always think of it as a 3D water printer for your lawn. It was kind of interesting what they got going on there. But, Shane, thanks for coming on. Big thanks to our Patreon subscribers as well. If you're getting value from the podcast and you want to get back, easiest way to do that's on Patreon. Check it out. TheAverageGuy .tv slash Patreon. Marv, you're back on. You've got some gadgets to talk about tonight. You know what I forgot to do in the pre -show is the drink preview. What do you got, Sam Adams, what? Marv So you and I, feeling the same way a little end of summer, kind of something to whet your whistle. And, and the kids drained the summer shandy that I had. I had some wine and Kugel's summer shandy, that one, that one out last weekend. And so we're out of those. Some Oktoberfest. I think I got some Heinekens left in there. I always got Guinness in there. But, you know, do you really want to drink? Are you a Guinness guy? Do you like Guinness at all? Sam Adams I, so I did drink Guinness years ago. I was, I went through this phase where I was drinking things like Guinness and Grosch and the original Heineken, you know, the thick, the thick hardy beers. Jim Collison Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Brian in the chat says, Both of those sound refreshing, the ones we're drinking. There's something about a good, dark, hardy beer. We have a local place called Pint 9, and they have what's called an Oso, O -S -O. And it's a thick, chocolatey, coffee, delicious. And we, I went there with some friends who were like, I can't drink it in the summer. And I'm like, Oh, I'll drink it any day, any day. It's super good. Yeah, well, we forgot to, forgot to do the beer pour in the preshow. I just wanted to get to it. But Marv, thanks for coming on tonight.
A World of Difference
A highlight from Emotional Health: Dr. Barry Krakow on Advocating for Better Sleep and Tips for Finding Quality Care
"Hi, podcast listeners. Welcome to the A World of Difference podcast. We have so many guests on this show making a difference in our lives, making a difference all around the world with the expertise that they bring. And yet so many of you are reaching out to me saying, You want more? It's not enough. Just what we're putting on these podcast episodes for you. And so I am here to extend a very warm welcome to you to our Difference Maker community where you can join for as little as $5 a month to get all this extra content out the gate. You're gonna get 30 plus minisodes of exclusive content not available for the regular podcast listeners and an exclusive minisode every month. And you'll get exclusive voting power to help us pick podcast topics and more. And that's at our Changers tier. There's three different main tiers and then an extra larger tier. But whatever tier that you join at, you will be included in this extra content. And I know that many of you are wanting to go a little bit deeper. And so even though it gets a little wild in there sometimes because of how deep we go, I want you to join us there. This extra content is very special. It means a great deal to me to be a part of this community with you. And I would love to just exchange ideas or perspectives that you have around these different episodes. And that's the place where we do it. So please show up to our Difference Maker community. Give us $5 out of your pocket every month. And I think that you'll have a lot of fun in there because we do. And I would love for you to join us. So go to patreon .com slash a world of difference to join us Welcome there. to the A World of Difference podcast. I'm Lori Adams Brown. And this is a podcast for those who are different and want to make a difference.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 113: Part 1: Tye Holand is Saving Children with Operation Underground Railroad
"As we are recording this in just a couple of hours, Notre Dame will be taking the field in Dublin, Ireland to defeat Navy on the field of battle once again. Let's hope Navy puts up a good battle anyway. You got to root for Navy, right? And Navy always puts up a good battle. Anyway, hey guys, welcome to episode 113, constituting the 113th attempt to silence us. And as we always say, we shall not go quietly into the night. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I just don't know what's going on with me. Hey guys, welcome. Of course, you know who I am. Who are you? I'm the guy who puts up with your crap every show, I think. That's right. Goes by the nickname of Murph. Hey everybody, welcome back. Hey guys, welcome back. Hey, just some real quick housekeeping before we get started. Just head on over to Apple Spotify, hit those five stars. We really appreciate it guys. And it's really meant a lot to us seeing some of your comments. We've done some things based on your suggestions, guests, new things that we've tried. So we really appreciate it. Also head on over to our website, gameofcrimespodcast .com. We put everything there, including our book list. We've got so many great books there, including our recent interview with Kathy Reichs, The Bone Hacker, the one that they made the Fox show Bones about. So we got some really good stuff coming on. Also follow us on that thing they call social media at Game of Crimes on Twitter, Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram. But where you got to be Murph? I'm telling you where you got to be besides 230 Eastern on Saturday, which you guys won't be hearing this. You'll be hearing it after the fact, but if you're listening somehow magically now, besides being there and watching Notre Dame become victorious, it's also heading on over to patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. Don't laugh at me and don't call this North Dakota either. That is, that's heresy. I will have the Pope excommunicate everybody in Orlando. All right. He has his North gear Dakota on today. Not only that, Murph, let me show you. Nobody else can see this. Look what else I got.
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
A highlight from The poison salon with Rose Biggin
"At Breaking the Glass Slipper, we believe it is important to have conversations about women and issues of intersectional feminism within science fiction, fantasy and horror. To continue to do so, we need your help. Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Join the conversation by following us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Hello and welcome to Breaking the Glass Slipper. I'm Lucy Hounsom. And I'm Megan Lee. In the preface to Les Fleurs du Mal, The Flowers of Evil, Baudelaire indicated that boredom is the truest suffering, and this idea later became central to the fin de siècle movement of the 1890s, an era of decadence in which artifice masqueraded as, or was even elevated to the status of, art. The Belladonna Invitation by Rose Biggin is a gothic exploration of the cult and cost of celebrity. It looks at the consequences of wealth, the ethical complexity of aestheticism, and ultimately asks the question, is celebrity or the mask of it worth dying for? We are extremely fortunate to have Rose with us on the show today. I loved this book, I devoured it in a couple of days. So I'm really keen to chat to Rose all about it. Would you like to introduce yourself to our listeners? Hi, I'm Rose Biggin. I'm a writer and a theatre maker based in London. I work between performance and I do a bit of dance and I do a bit of writing, short fiction and novels, often exploring things like art and artifice. So thank you for having me. As I said, I absolutely adored The Belladonna Invitation, which is out now from Ghost Orchid Press. It's a small press that's putting out some really exciting books at the moment. So I do urge everybody to just go and have a look at their titles. We're hoping to talk to some of their authors, other authors later in the year as well. Since you mentioned art and artifice, and I've mentioned also one of my favourite literary periods, the 1890s for the Fada Siekla, which is, yeah, it produced some really remarkable novels. But what I really liked in your book is this idea of death salons, this exclusive and expensive gathering where guests deliberately poison themselves. And I felt like that suggests that wealth directly enables the taking of absurd risks in pursuit of sensation. And this is horribly topical. I'm sure you know what I'm referring to at the moment, this having money and that leads directly to your doom. I wanted to dig into this idea of extreme wealth leading to a possible disregard for life itself. Yes. Well, the poison salons were something that came right at the start of the conceptualisation of the novel, before the idea was even novel sized. Maybe I could get to that later. But I immediately knew from the beginning about the dark, fin de siekla world that I wanted to set the story in, the main character, Bella Donna, her name, what she would do, the work she would do. This was all part of the texture of that world. I think the poison salon is the exclusive secret thing that she runs at the end of the official salons that just felt like a very interesting way to make those themes a bit tangible and a little bit tasty, I suppose, a sort of texture to the world. But I think something that interests me is that the character Bella Donna works in this world. She runs these salons and she takes on a very ambitious devotee apprentice and that's the perspective character. That's who we see the story, who we see the novel through in her eyes. Quite quickly, they get a little bit used to it. We have this glamorous showpiece thing she does, but what I was quite interested was showing the work that goes on beneath creating that kind of glamorous or that dangerous or that show -stopping event. They actually get a little bit used to it. It's central to what they do, but it's also part of the job. They run these things and the business and the practicalities of running these things, what it takes to uphold that glamorous edifice. We sort of see underneath that. There's a moment when the perspective character first learns about the poison salon because she doesn't walk in on day one. She's led up to experiencing it. She asks Bella Donna, I can't remember the exact quote, but why people come to this, why people do this. Bella Donna says, she words it a lot better than I would say it, but she says something like, she doesn't know why. It's either obvious or she's sure she doesn't want to know. We're at a little bit of distance from why people come to this. It's sort of a texture of that kind of world where we then see the relationship between the Bella Donna, who's this socialite, this mysterious character and her apprentices. They're working it through. I suppose equally, it's interesting to think that people do get blind drunk at parties and die from that. They take drugs. This perspective isn't one I don't have a particularly strong position about people doing high risk things to get a high. I'm quite liberal about that. It's just that I think the extremeness of the sort of poison berries and the way that is a combination of beauty and danger and the temptation of it feels like something. The Bella Donna is selling you that as an idea as well. The novel is kind of selling it to you as a reader. This is something someone's doing, but also her job is to sort of sell that it is particularly dangerous, particularly cool. That's part of her Fin de Sica celebrity and her glamour. Of course, after the apprentice character has done it once, she never wants to do it again. I think there's a relationship between this thing, this glamorous, decadent, dangerous thing, the poison salon, but part of the mystique of that and the upholding and the creation of the mystique of that is sort of where the book's territory really is. I love this exploration of the fact that they're very expensive. They're exclusive. Not anybody can just get into one of these poison salons. It just raises the idea of what I mentioned in the intro, this Baudelaire's saying that it's like the worst thing, the worst misery is boredom. Is that what happens when you have this extreme wealth and privilege that it's kind of horrible because the welfare state wasn't established in that period. There were tons of people who were living in abject poverty, scrabbling at life to try and keep on living. Then you've got this aristocratic class who was so wealthy that they are eating poison to try and get some kind of kick out of them. I think that that juxtaposition is that the whole moral question surrounding those ideas is so fascinating. But also, everyone knows not many people can get in. The exclusivity of it is, they talk about that. They know that's part of, you have to uphold. You have to uphold that. That's part of the fun. There is a huge consequence to, well, not just the poison salons themselves, but to the way that Belladonna behaves towards men who fall in love with her. It does force us to question the moral integrity of the world that she's constructed around herself. Was that something that was central also to you that you wanted to explore? It's a glamorous, beautiful world, but it comes at a huge cost to some people. Yeah, well, it's worth saying that the big, dramatic, jealous lover moment, I don't think it's a spoiler really because he comes in quite early. A guy appears, there's a sort of dramatic, jealous lover moment. The reason that happens, the reason we have that character, his name is Lucien, that is a trope that we have in culture and in these sorts of stories. The novel that is in the DNA of the Belladonna invitation is The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas -Phew, the son of Alexandre Dumas -Phew, who wrote The Three Musketeers and so on. His son wrote a novel, The Lady of the Camellias, which was a big hit at the time. It was adapted for stage and it later turned into the opera. Verdi adapted the story for his opera, La Traviata, and that's where Moulin Rouge gets its plot from. Although The Lady of the Camellias isn't so well known now, it has quite an interesting cultural footprint. Some of the initial skeleton of this Belladonna character and the lover who comes in and how she deals with that is a trope that I was looking to try to rework in a new way. He has his big, dramatic, jealous moment and she deals with that in a way that she doesn't deal with it in the text that I was just referring to. What I wanted was to have the man arise, but the emphasis isn't really on how she navigates that romantic or that pseudo -romantic world, but how she navigates the pressures that she's under and how that impacts on her relationship with Flora, or F, the name of the apprentice that she takes on who's watching all this happen. The relationship with the lover and how that sort of goes and how that ends up is interesting for me because of how it impacts on the central relationship between the two women. I do want to talk about Belladonna a little bit more in a bit because I do feel like there's a Rebecca vibe to her. She's on every page, but I don't feel like we ever really can say that we know who she really is. However, you mentioned F or Flora and I was so intrigued by these two names that she's sometimes Flora and she's sometimes F. There's a mask in there too. Do you have to have a mask to enter this constructed world? Who is Flora? Yeah, it's very interesting. In a way, I tried to make it quite an intimate novel. In a way, although she's F or Flora and there are things we don't know about this mysterious figure, she's also the perspective character of the book and we're sort of under her skin quite literally at times. I tried to really bring bodily sensation and feel and intensity of mental into construction her how she's seeing the world. At the same time, she's sometimes F, sometimes Flora. That's not necessarily an explicit puzzle that can be solved. It's more done through feel. There isn't a secret why she's one or the other. It's more how I felt in the writing, which name it felt like she was the best living up to in the time and in the moment. It does change. I suppose it's how she feels, who she feels she is in that moment. If she's expanded to take that kind of Flora name, which Belladonna gives her as well, or is just a letter, just a kind of ghost making things happen. I think in art, particularly in some forms, songwriting for example, or certain types of writing, certain genres, there's quite a lot of value placed on perceived sincerity or honesty, authenticity we might say. I'd argue it's maybe not necessarily about the world of art or celebrity itself that's all about masks, but particularly it's about a psychological perspective on the layers that we tell ourselves. The narratives we tell ourselves and what we tell other people, multiple selves that exist inside of us. I suppose the point is you don't need to be the top of society, La Dame, Belladonna, to have secrets and to have a sense that there are multiple selves within you and who will you show yourself to be at any one moment to other people depending on. F is a thinker, she's a planner. She's kind of a bit of a schemer, although that sounds a little bit Del Boyish. It's much more like, how can I get what I want? What do I need to do? Who do I need to be to these people in order to get from A to B? I suppose that's sort of the psychological territory that we're in, really. I think it's also, F is on the surface, we think they're going to be an entry character for the reader, I suppose. Of course, they're the perspective character, they're the one we identify with, but she's also hiding from the reader a little bit as well. It's an invite, it's to have fun to enter this world where there is mystery, there are characters who know more than what they tell you. I suppose I've just tried to embody that quality as well as depicting it. I wanted that to be something that hopefully is tantalising to the reader in form as well as in content. It is very tantalising and I was intrigued by both characters, but I'm glad that now you've kind of introduced both of these principal women. I wanted to talk a little bit about the power dynamic between them because they come from different classes. Flora is basically a servant and Belladonna is dripping with diamonds. Why set up this particular power dynamic? Class is a particular issue here and the fact that Flora is a servant to someone who stands at the very top of the social ladder. The power dynamic and the basic power struggle between them was the whole reason to write the novel, to be honest. As I mentioned earlier, I alluded to Lady of the Camellias and I had an idea to do a kind of goth, poison -y version of that. We'll call her Belladonna, she'll wear the blackberries in her hair and that all came quite fully formed. It felt like an idea that could potentially make quite a creepy short story. Fine. The jealous lover arrives, she deals with him, the end. I didn't quite write it because somehow there was something missing. There wasn't quite a reason to write it. It didn't feel like I had everything that I needed. There was a point where I was just puzzling over one of those scenes, maybe her and Lucienne or something. I suddenly thought, wait, who's watching this? Who's seeing this happen? Suddenly, it was one of those rare thunderbolt moments. Well, you know how it is artistically. You have a bolt from the blue that's actually a decade in the making. I'm sure I'd already had this idea, probably. The perspective is that Belladonna has a close assistant. She has a close person or someone, a devotee, who idolises her and she watches this. Suddenly, the muscle of the story is the power dynamic, the power struggle between those two. Then the guy coming in is like, you know, that's just part of the job. What does our shift bring us today? Ah, it's a guy. Then the romantic story isn't the focus, but it's the friendship or the test, the tempestuous combination of dependence and subversion between those two women. In a way, making her a servant or a lower class just makes Belladonna's world even more unobtainable because then that's further that you also do it. Whenever you don't, you do. That's also a handy driver to talk about wanting and desire. The notoriety that Belladonna has and the fame she has makes her far more distant. When we first see her, she's literally on the top of the private box in the balcony and F is staring up at her from below. That's one of the first dynamics between them that we see. I don't think it's a spoiler to say F is looking at Belladonna throughout the entire book. I wanted F to set out to achieve something unobtainable. Having her background be from the printing press in that kind of world was a deliberate decision as well because I wanted the Belladonna. She's got a very famous signature. She signs her name with black purple ink. She's associated with fine art, with calligraphy, with, as you say, dripping with diamonds. There's a liquidity to her as well as beauty and jewelry and so on. Whereas F has come from working in a printing press is all about industrial technologies. It's about replication. It's about mechanical reproduction. We're deliberately putting letters to create a specific thing that you need, which is how F goes about navigating the world. In comparison, what she sees Belladonna doing, and of course this is F's perspective, what she sees Belladonna doing is all about glamour and relationship building and beauty and rehearsal and performance and liveness. F is much more thinking in terms of these little metal blocks.
Dear Chiefs Podcast
"How to Kill a Firefighter in 5 Easy Steps" With James Geering
"So you talked about your blog for a second and I want to talk about it for a minute because I was reading through your website this morning and this blog really caught my attention it's from 2018 so you probably remember the how to kill a firefighter in five easy steps yes and it's still the same problem today so by that point it had been a couple of years talking about some very pertinent things which is flogging a dead horse to some people if they listen to the podcast a lot but it blows my mind how people are still completely oblivious to it but yeah for example we talk about cancer oh it's you know wash your gear absolutely a small part of the overall thing but the strength of the individual's human body to carcinogens resist is a massive part of that mental health oh james it was what you saw with that you know decapitated three -year -olds absolutely that's a part of it but if you know for example my own personal journey and I never actually I was very very fortunate I had so many positive coping mechanisms given to me just by accident I mean none of us can manipulate our childhood but I was extremely lucky but I almost died in a house fire when I was four so you know you could look at the the three -year -old thing and be like why isn't he getting better well maybe I've never addressed the four -year -old me thing before I ever put the uniform on so that piece was really seeing that this information was kind of getting out there and people completely still refusing to address that so for example sleep deprivation the shifts one of the things that die on my sword elements is that the insanity that if you go into a bank or a grocery store right now 99 of the people working there their work week ends at 40 hours but the person that wakes up from a dead sleep at three in the morning slides down a two -story pole gets in the back of a rig drives lights and sirens against traffic goes to a fire makes entry does a search pulls someone out maybe even then doffs their gear and functions as a paramedic 56 hour week is perfectly acceptable before mandatory so this was the big thing is like yeah if you want to kill firefighters and just keep doing the same thing that you're doing and you're smashing it congratulations you're reaching your quota which is what is a body count again or we could actually take a step back listen to all the science that's already out there from every other profession except ours and police and realize that we're killing our people and until we invest in our first responders and give them the rest and the recovery that we need in our profession I would argue that a 2472 should be an industry standard at minimum then I mean the longer time goes on the more blood is on your hands and you have the information like just my podcast alone 800 experts from neuroscientists sleep medicine experts coaches and nutritionists and you name it so you can't say you didn't know so now it's knowingly burying your peoples and that was 2018 that's five years ago I was already just angry about it because I myself had put two years worth of information out there for free anyone can access no Patreon no exclusive membership just open source for the whole world so they say about insanity doing the same thing expecting different results you know push -ups haven't fixed mental health clean cabs I'm all for that concept not surgically but leaning that way but we're still losing people hand over fist from cancer so it's not just the fires it's not just the exposures to trauma there's other elements that we have to bring into this conversation
Home Gadget Geeks
A highlight from Irrigreen CEO Shane Dyer and Precision Irrigation for Lawn Water Savings HGG582
"This is the Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geeks show number 582 with guest Shane Dyer, recorded on August 17, 2023. Here on Home Gadget Geeks we cover all the favorite tech gadgets that find their way to your home and today maybe outside of your home. News, reviews, product updates and conversation all for the Average Guy. I'm your host Jim Carlson broadcasting live from TheAverageGuy .tv studios here in a beautiful Bellevue Nebraska although heat warnings for Saturday. Shane maybe you'll have something to say about that as we think about lawn surviving these hot hot days but of course we'll post the show and I'll have a few tonight some some links for you to follow out at TheAverageGuy .tv. Big thanks to Jay Franzi joined us last week, caught up with Jay a little bit, always good to have him on. Jay thanks for coming on and a big thanks to our Patreon subscribers. If you want to join the Patreon team if you're finding value in the podcast and you want to give back join our Patreon team TheAverageGuy .tv slash Patreon. I introduced him here just very briefly but Shane Dyer has opted from, from, oh he is from I should know this, Ira Green and Shane's coming in from the West Coast. Shane thanks for coming on tonight, great to have you. Oh man such a pleasure. Ira Green tell us a little well let's before we dig into that let's get to know you a little bit I know there may be a serial entrepreneurial story here for you to tell too but give us a little bit of your background how'd you get to where you're at today? Wow so I think I've been a geek kind of all my life you know playing around and cutting up computer cases since high school and then I really fell in love with some of these new ideas back at back in the old ages before there was a term called IoT with making little things talk to the internet so I was one of Professor Theresa Meng's students at Stanford studying electrical engineering and computer science and putting some of the first doing some of the first work on sort of like distributed wireless networks and then figuring out what it meant when something that wasn't really looked like a computer could talk to the internet which was just kind of booming at that time. Yeah yeah I think a lot of innovation came out of that that not that just that class but those classes that area I grew up in the Bay Area I was a I left in in the middle 80s I think I've we thought it was booming and there's a lot of cool stuff from my dad was an IBMer so I spent a lot of time in that space I left moved overseas came back just three years later as some amazing stuff came out of that let's talk a little bit about Irrigreen and the company that you co -founded and CEO of now give us a little background on that.
THE EMBC NETWORK
A highlight from Laughs and Business Insights A Conversation with Eli Halpern, the Comedian Entrepreneur Behind The Golden Cricket Brand.
"And that's it. Thanks for watching! You can support MrFudgeMonkeyz on Patreon. See you next time! Thanks for watching! See you next time! Thanks for watching! See you next time! Thanks for watching! So then that's acting as a flashlight. All right, that works. That works for me. Well, so Eli, your story began a long time ago. As a young child, and by the way, this is not something we hear all the time, that someone begins working for themselves at an age as early as 12. I mean, I wanna learn about that. I wanna know more. I know that we'll get some people intrigued here. And there's the other thing. I mean, some people's like, well, how could you possibly be working at 12? We're in the States, and we don't work at that age that early, and so all these questions, let's kind of bust those myths and get them out of the way, and then let's just make it happen. So what got you into it? And I'm sure you went to school with all that stuff, but that's something that's unique about you. Yeah, yeah, so my entrepreneurial spirit has kind of always persisted. It came to me at a younger age than most. I feel like just because I had a larger awareness for humanity and existence and society, based on the fact that I was just very curious, I asked a lot of questions. As long as I can remember, I have always just looked out at the world and been like, what the hell is going on here? We're all, I remember when I was watching kids play kickball at recess when I started school, and I was just like, we're all just like naked people wearing clothes, and we mowed down all these trees to build the school here. Like I was thinking very intensely about every little situation. So it just led me to eventually just realize that everything kind of revolved around money, and that if I can get some money in my possession, essentially I won't have to listen to anyone. And I was always about freedom. And my parents were, they were parents, they're telling me what to do and stuff, and trying to raise me how they saw fit. I had bigger plans. I looked at people around me, parents, teachers, authority figures who were trying to tell me who to be. And I would just look at all of them thinking, I don't want to be anything like any of you guys. So it was easy for me to really see through a lot of BS and realize that people were telling me things not for my own personal wellbeing or for the best of me, but at my deficit, it would work against me to listen to them and to essentially assimilate, throw my dreams away, graduate from a college and work for someone else, which is what I essentially have been rebelling against in my own personal life since the beginning. It didn't start out as like, I want to be an entrepreneur. I want to own a business. It was literally just, I want M &M's. M &M's were my favorite thing at the time, and those cost money. And I just knew that if I had enough M &M's, I'd be happy. And fast forward, fast forward 20 something years, and I can afford so many M &M's now that I don't even want them anymore. Now, I don't even, I try not to eat sugar. There's four other things, that's all. Well, so thank you for that intro. And I want to break some of that stuff down because you've touched on a lot of things that are important to our listeners. And our audiences are diverse. We have parents, we have younger crowds and people that have ambition and vision of their life. But you've touched on a lot of things. First of all, I love the wandering and pondering spirit of yours, whereby you question things. And I think that's something that's lacking in a lot of us. Unfortunately, not everybody has that ability to just question everything and ask why and always try to analyze what's going on. Why is this this way? And when you start asking questions, and technically what you find is like, sometimes answers that don't make sense. And it's the reality of things. I mean, if anybody right now listening to watching starts asking questions about everything that's going on around them, they're going to open their eyes to a point where they'd be like, damn, what the hell do I live? I mean, this is a whole different world that we're in. Because really that's what it is. We have this almost a veil that is upon us. And we are just conditioned to everything that's around us, the way it's been told to us all our lives. And most people will take it for granted. There's no questioning of things. Now, you started that at an early age. And I love the way he's like, why is the school this way? Why people are doing this way? We're all, and you see, asking questions. Now, someone at that age typically doesn't have that in their mind. I mean, and I love what you said about you wanted M &Ms and it revolved around money. Because if you have money, you can buy whatever you want. And at that point, that's what you wanted. And that's a big thing. And by the way, it is a trait that you have that is unique because not everybody has that. And then you said something very interesting that parents, and typically all people around us, listen, I'm a parent, I can tell you. There is a degree of that in all of us where we want our kids to have a certain way of growth and a certain way of future and try to almost guide them. And sometimes to your point, it's not really what they want and not understanding that specifically and not allowing them to be who they were or who they really wanna be, it's a problem, right? But you saw that early on, it didn't make sense that everybody, and I love the concept that everybody has this dynamic that we are almost conditioned to, it's robotic. We are born, you go to school, you're being told that you're gonna finish that school, you're gonna go to the next level, the next level, the next level, go to college, potentially get that master's or at least a bachelor's and hopefully that gets you a good job and then you wanna get more, you need to get more education and so on and so forth. Now we say the word education, I mean, ultimately today, you can have so much knowledge without having to go to school. That's two different things. I mean, being intelligent and intellectual versus being educated in a formal education format, those are two different things, but it's been the system. And then that system is geared towards creating labor employees. And those are the ones that actually do the job. And by the way, any entrepreneur out there somehow uses people to work for them and within their companies, but the concept is there. And everybody, for the most part, is getting that concept from the get -go. That's what you're being told since you're a kid. That's when I was a kid, same thing. My parents were like, you wanna go to school, you wanna do this, you wanna get this, or you can get a good job, and ultimately a good job will result into some money, and then you grew up and stuff. And I kinda bought in that Kool -Aid for a long time. You know what I mean? But you kinda challenged that status quo, and you basically, you were rebellious about it, and you did. And for our people, by the way, there's nothing wrong with going through that system. If that's what you want, if you're okay with it, then that's the system that you gotta go through. I find today, more than ever, people, because of the technology, because the access of knowledge, because of the smartphones and everything that we have available to us, and the platforms and the social and stuff, people can do a lot more things today, differently from what, like 20 years ago, period and out, right? It's just the way it is. So it's creating a whole opportunity for younger folks to do a lot more than, essentially, how it's been traditionally over the last century or so. So I just wanted to clarify that and break that down for our audiences here, because it is a very important piece where someone is already destined to be in the world of business, entrepreneurship, and whether it's a choice or not, how you wanna go about it. I mean, you wanted to go the other route and do stuff. Now, I still am not clear. I mean, did you actually go to school to do the same process, or you actually challenged that whole thing and did it in a different way? I went to college. I was actually trying to major in chemistry. I was pretty much just like, I'm just gonna go here to just say I went to, I like tried it out. And like I knew going in, I was gonna drop out. You went through the motions. I was just like, yeah, yeah. I just, and I started a Amazon store, which is like in the same vein of the eBay. So I've been pretty consistently doing e -commerce type stuff. And ended I up dropping out after like two or three years. And after that, I spent most of my twenties like traveling the world and just trying to understand other perspectives and just see as much as possible and just basically just understand why we're here. And pretty much figured it out. And now I'm just like, all right, I'll just enjoy living while I'm here. Well, hold on, hold on. So you said you figured out why we're here. I mean, that's a big question. I mean, are you able to share with us that enlightenment about why we're here? I mean, at least the way you discovered it, just curious. Cause that's a big question that I think we all are in the search for the answer, right? Like why are we in this world? What's the purpose? And it is a tough question. I mean, it depends what angle you go about it. I mean - Have you heard of the Sumerian tablets? Yes, but I'm not too clear about the details, but yeah. So the Sumerian tablets are the oldest document written on earth. And they essentially tell the creation story of humanity and can be corroborated with other ancient pieces of literature and texts that have been found on like every major continent. And they contain all the major stories in the Bible, like Adam and Eve and like all the old Testament stuff, like the great flood and the tower of Babel. And basically says that humans were created as a slave race for the Anunnaki to mine gold, which kind of is how the world still works today. Like we're all just a bunch of slaves that are trying to collect gold for our higher ups. It's essentially the same thing. Like humanity's just always been like this. It's just, it's a business unlike any other group of living things or animals. Humanity is innately tied to money and an economy and a mathematical algorithm of resources. And I think initially money did represent resources, but now I see money more as representing attention because, well, it can be both for sure. But the amount of money someone has is generally correlated with the amount of attention they have. Like any famous person you see, unless it's their first time going viral for anything ever, there's a good chance that they have at least a million dollars. Like anyone you hear talking, like I don't think this podcast is gonna be getting a hundred thousand plays for this episode, but if it was, we'd both be rich probably. You know what I mean? It's like there's - From your mouth to God's mouth, to Gazys as they say, right? You know, hey, you never know. This is a pretty interesting show. I think it's gonna have its own play. Well, I'm just saying that based on the fact that none of the podcasts I have done have gotten there. sort Not any of explanation for me or you as individuals, but I just think the attention factor translates into money very easily because that's why I'm trying to build up my following and do like branding and stuff. I just had my first clip hit a million views today on Instagram. So that was pretty cool. We need to talk about that, but yeah, we'll catch on that one. Yeah, yeah, that just happened today. So I mean, basically you keep pumping out a million plus views on your clips. That's gonna turn into money somewhere along the way. It's like you create a product or a service, subscribe to my Patreon for my podcast or my business that I'm gonna bring up now. It's called Golden Cricket, where I make cricket protein bars made of actual crickets because crickets are 65 % protein by weight. They contain all nine essential amino acids. They use 2 ,000 times less water to produce than whey protein. They're basically the food of the future. They are high in calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, potassium, and I'm also a standup comedian. So as a comedian, the worst thing you can have in the audience is crickets. So I figure we'll just kill them all and turn them into food. And there's revenge served in every bite. So there's a lot of layers to it. Oh, hold on. I gotta do this. I had to do it. It's crickets, Matty. Sorry. You just had that queued up? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead, man. Well, yeah. So like, you know, I build my following enough that I can pivot those sales to my product or not sales, pivot those audience members to my product page and convert that into a sale. Or - It's the right way to do it. Or I'm growing my music catalog and my podcast, like all these things. I'm creating a bunch of things that I can funnel people to once I build the audience. Which is, it's a weird thing to be trying to do, just to be consciously thinking about how can I appeal to the maximum number of people on the internet while maintaining my authenticity and integrity. It's a weird mental gymnastic you gotta do with yourself. And then I end up putting out stuff that I don't even like. That's what happened with this clip specifically. I made a stupid joke about being gay. And I was like, I haven't been putting up content much. I should just put one up. And I ran it past a friend. I was like, should I post this one? And they're like, yeah, it's funny. I'm like, ah, really? I don't really like it that much. I posted it. And I think that was three days ago and it's been gaining traction ever since I posted it. And it just crossed a million views like an hour ago. Instagram. Yeah. Ooh. And I've been posting a bunch of videos on YouTube shorts under Octavius Thunder. So if you like me talking now, then I do more of that on my page. But the YouTube shorts, there's something going on in the algorithm right now where it's just bumping people up. And I do these things where I film me talking to my dog and it has like a vine type of recording where you just hold it down and then it records and you let your thumb up, it stops recording. So I can flip the camera around and like have a conversation with my dog with his just like little face after everything I say. So I can make like these stupid jokes and then it'll be his face looking at me like that was a stupid joke. And I think that blueprint right there has made it for a very attractive piece of content that I can just do whenever. And so I'll put like 10, 15 of those a day out. Like minimal, minimal effort. Like I'll press record without even knowing what I'm gonna say. And I'll just make something up and it doesn't matter. And then they'll blow up and I'll gain like around 30 new subscribers a day. I'm up to like 1 ,637 subscribers right now on YouTube. And I've been doing this for like a couple months. Wow, very nice. So yeah, I've been trying to test out the social media virality algorithm for quite some time. And I just now feel like I'm gaining some success with it. So, but it's very up and down as is any success in life. There's one aspect of you don't wanna get too used to the stuff blowing up cause then it doesn't happen. You're like, oh, I suck. But then also like you shouldn't even care about it at all cause it doesn't mean anything if it doesn't turn into money yet. But also that's not true. You still have to care about it cause it's on the way there. So it just really jumbles up your priorities. Cause you've been taught your whole life to not care about likes and stuff, but then it's like, oh, well now it matters now. These are things like views and stuff. If you're running a media based business or you're measuring your marketing analysis, like these are key performance indicators that you would show to venture capitalists. Like these, it's important data that can affect financing.
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More
"It isn't always easy deciding how to educate our kids. From log cabin presidents to historical figures who attended the finest institutions, we see success can come in different ways. But for those who want the benefit of a public education, yet need greater flexibility than a traditional brick -and -mortar school can provide, K -12 -powered schools can help your child reach their full potential. K -12 -powered schools are accredited, tuition -free, online public schools for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. It provides an engaging curriculum that's adaptable to individual learning styles. Whether your student is a high -performing scholar, athlete, or perhaps has medical or other needs that necessitate studying from home, they can learn at their own pace while in their own place from state -certified teachers trained in online education. Plus, K -12 offers social opportunities and in -person events. Join the more than 2 million families who have chosen K -12 and empower your student to reach their full potential now. Go to k12 .com slash htds today to learn more and find a tuition -free K -12 -powered school near you. That's the letter K, the number 12 dot com slash htds, k12 .com slash htds. History That Doesn't Suck is a biweekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support HTDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon .com forward slash history that doesn't suck.
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More
"It isn't always easy deciding how to educate our kids. From log cabin presidents to historical figures who attended the finest institutions, we see success can come in different ways. But for those who want the benefit of a public education, yet need greater flexibility than a traditional brick -and -mortar school can provide, K -12 -powered schools can help your child reach their full potential. K -12 -powered schools are accredited, tuition -free, online public schools for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. It provides an engaging curriculum that's adaptable to individual learning styles. Whether your student is a high -performing scholar, athlete, or perhaps has medical or other needs that necessitate studying from home, they can learn at their own pace while in their own place from state -certified teachers trained in online education. Plus, K -12 offers social opportunities and in -person events. Join the more than 2 million families who have chosen K -12 and empower your student to reach their full potential now. Go to k12 .com slash htds today to learn more and find a tuition -free K -12 -powered school near you. That's the letter K, the number 12 dot com slash htds, k12 .com slash htds. History That Doesn't Suck is a biweekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support HTDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon .com forward slash history that doesn't suck.
Home Gadget Geeks
A highlight from Jay Franze, Tips and Tricks for Discount Shopping Sites HGG581
"This is the Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geeks Show No. 851 with guest Jay Franzi, recorded on August 10, 2023. Here on Home Gadget Geeks, we cover all the favorite tech gadgets that find their way in your home. News, reviews, product updates, and conversation, all through the Average Tech Guy. I'm your host, Jim Kausa, broadcasting live from averageguy .tv studios here in the beautiful Bellevue, Nebraska. Jay Franzi's with me tonight. We, we, Jay, starting like 4th of July, it started raining here, and it just hasn't stopped. And the grass is green, the trees are green, everything is green. It's glorious here. My sister was just in town today having lunch with us, and she's like, It's so green here. And I'm like, Well, this is not typical. Have you guys been getting as much rain as we have? You know, I think we are getting more rain than normal. You know, it's just once or twice a day, maybe. But I'll tell you, I'll take it because moving back from California, there was no rain and everything was brown. So now being back in this neck of the woods, everything's green, and it's beautiful. It's hot and humid, but it's beautiful. Yeah, it's just been a, it's been a really wet, I mean, we had a really dry spring and then just started raining, and it hasn't stopped. We're supposed to get rain all the rest of the week. Brian Auer in chat says, So are we doing a meetup for show 1000? This is 851. That's 250 shows. I do 50 a year. That'd be 5 years from now. Well, we'll see. We'll see, Brian. We'll see how that goes. And so, of course, big thanks to Randy Walker, who joined me last week, fun to have him on the program. And we spent a little time together, if you haven't caught up on 580, get back there and get that done. Big thanks to our Patreon subscribers as well, if you're finding value in the podcast and you want to give back, easiest way to do that is through Patreon, whether you do it for one month or, or a annual subscription of some sort, whatever you want to do. Check it out, theaverageguy .tv slash Patreon. You've already heard from Jay, but Jay's back on the show tonight. Jay, welcome back. Well, thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Your show last week, that was the WordPress episode, right? Yeah, there was a WordPress one. Yeah, it's good. Kind of, it was, it was kind of good to catch up on WordPress. It had been a while. He actually, after the show, Randy said, let's dig in, I'd said a few things, I think that alarmed him. So he was like, Hey, let's dig in a little bit. And so I shared my screen and we went through some things and he was like, nah, you need to change that. You need to change that. You need to fix this and go, this is how you see blocks. Because I was like, I don't think I've ever seen blocks. And he was like, hmm. Let's take a look. Yeah, so Randy, Randy, thanks for, for hanging out with me. We actually, he introduced me to blocks. And we did some things on the site, and, you know, I'll be forever better for it. So Randy, thanks for coming in. Speaking of that, Jay, last time you were on the show, you talked a little bit about building a fire pit. Have you made any progress on said fire pit? If, if you mean progress is we pick the stuff out, yes. OK. Have we done anything? No.
Game of Crimes
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"All right, folks, if you've made it this far, it's Morgan of Murph and Morgan. You know that this will be our final Patreon episode for the month of December because we took December off to retool rejuvenate, work on some things, but in the meantime, we wanted to leave you guys with some of the content we've done on Patreon, which you can find at Patreon dot com slash game of crimes. And our final one, we're going to do for you guys. It's our case of the month. Murph and I go back in time, we look at cases, most of the time cases we've done, and we look at cases that maybe some other people have done. And what we do is we go into these are cases you probably have a couple of them you've heard about, especially the ones Murph was on. But some of these are ones you've never heard about, but we dive into the details behind it. We tell you the stories of some of the cases and the things that we've worked on and how it affected us and what we did. So I always enjoy case of the month because it really gets into more of a deep dive, how investigations are done. What kind of things have to be done to clear a case. Right, as you'll hear, if you haven't listened to our other three Patreon episodes in the month of December, as we get a little more opinionated, whereas when we're doing our regular interviews, we want the story from the guest. We don't want you to hear the story from us. So we want you to hear the from the horse's mouth, so to speak. So you may not agree with all our opinions, but hey, if you don't let us know, and if you do let us know, let us know what you think about Patreon and we ask you if you enjoyed this. Sign up for Patreon for 2023. We're going to have a lot more good content. Don't wait till 2023. Sign up now if you're listening to this now, you've had the entire month of December with free content. So folks, sign up now, how to sign up now. Here's how to order. Patreon dot com slash game of crimes. One more that's Patreon dot com slash game of crimes.
Game of Crimes
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"Well, Notre-Dame lost to Ohio State, but everybody thought they were just going to get blown away and let me tell you, it was a close game until the last quarter. But it was not the blowout. They did not score the points they wanted to. It was a great defensive great defensive game. West Virginia got beat by Pitt, which is horrible, but western kind of beat themselves. Hey, but you know what, how about an hour in Alabama this week speaking to a law enforcement conference? And we actually went through Tuscaloosa and we got the police officer picked us up as an old friend and we got to stop there at the football stadium and take our pictures and hopefully we're going to get to meet maybe coach Sabin down the road. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Even all right. One more, he says one more, I'm sorry. I never apologize, Fred, don't say I'm sorry. This is what this is here for. Yeah, baby. It's like going to the dentist, you know, going to the doctor and say, hey, I'm sorry, you know, for coming in here. I mean, I pay all this money for health insurance. I'm sorry I'm using it. You're paying for Patreon, Fred, use it. This is what we're here for. Yep. One more, I'm sorry, but over the next 5 years, do you see a big swing in law enforcement? What changes do you see coming in law enforcement? So Murph, put on your Nostradamus hat, put on your lord. I hope there is a change to get away from this defunding the police. Everybody wants to say this is just like a cliche saying almost that police officers need more training. Most police officers get a buttload of training. And there's insurance requirements every year. The problem is, whenever a government has an issue and they don't know what to do with it, they dump it on the cops. Police officers, I've been through, I went through the western state police academy.
Game of Crimes
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"Absolutely. So yeah, so Fred, that's kind of a, we're going to go in depth with this on Derek malt, so stay tuned for that. You're going to love me for it. You'll love me. Well, let's get to the next one. He goes, Fred is in Texas. He says, one more question. I've really started to think about governor rabbit sending undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities. I'm going to just mince words for a second. Illegal aliens. I know everybody wants to be politically correct, but if you enter this country, you are technically everybody is an alien. You are registered alien or an illegal alien. And that's just a matter of law. It's not a negative. It's not a pejorative. It's the way that, look, when I go to the UK, I'm an alien. But I'm a documented alien on their passport and everything. So, but they talk about sending them to sanctuary cities while he gets the concept and so he asks the question, do you think the drug cartels will start using this as a way to get their people to these cities and distribute drugs or use people to help with the sex trafficking victims as well? But that's already been done before they even shift the buses because guess what? Even without what Abbott's doing down there, he's really taking, it's called displacement. He's taking the problem and putting it in another location. We don't want to get into debate, is that right? Is it wrong? It's happening. So you deal with the reality. The reality is that's current reality. It's happening. So, but just to put it in context, I think it was New York or Chicago got like 800 immigrants and they declared an emergency. Texas is getting 2 million a year. Yeah. I think what's her name in D.C. starting to get them? Yeah. Mariel Bowser. So up in this area. And Lori Lightfoot, and the new New York mayor. So they're starting to feel this now. I will tell you this, Fred, I mean, that's done they're getting the word out because the media is saying, oh, look, here come the buses or here's what's happening. The cartels are sending people to these cities anyway because that's part of the trafficking. They want to go someplace. Sometimes once they dump them over the border, that's it. That's all they care about. So I don't think the cartels have a plan to say, hey, let's get our people out. Because they already done, once they get across the border, mission accomplished. But the people coming across the border that are being intercepted and voluntarily turning themselves in that are ending up on the bus. Those I worry about them, but the ones I worry about more are the goda ways. The ones that are not contacted by law enforcement because if your contacted by law enforcement and you've got fentanyl, you're arrested. I mean, that changes the game. But I think, but I think and from a sex trafficking standpoint, but realize a lot of these people coming across the border that are on these buses or that are being trans that are being displaced in other areas. Many of them are single adult males. So you look at the God aways too. There's a lot of those there. The ones I worry about too about terrorist getting into the country, they've captured MS 13 members that have active warts for murder. They've captured people off the terrorist watch list coming across the border. These places. So I don't think the busing is the issue. I think that is a political ploy designed to raise attention on an issue.
Game of Crimes
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"Are they 18 years old? Are they under 18? I can just see, I can just, by the way, remember the Department of Justice is the world's largest law firm. They stay in business for a reason by finding something to pick on. Hey, too, sandy. Just because you are a queen and you're here on Patreon and for our other Patreon listeners, we're trying to get an individual on here to have another episode on human trafficking, sex trafficking. I'm not going to release his name yet, because he hasn't agreed to it. His secretary has responded affirmatively and asked for dates. We've offered him some dates and we're waiting to hear back from our confirmation. But the stories that this guy is going to bring on, I saw him on. I got the idea. I was watching The Today Show one morning with my wife. And saw this guy and he's got an operation. He's got a business that does this, and they were using a movie actress to pose as an underage girl to set up perverts for these sex meetings. And then they work, they turn it over to local police and local police are there. And make the bus. But there's a lot more going on than that. So just to give you a heads up, we haven't forgotten about this. It's one of the most important issues we've ever had on our podcast. And we're not going to give up on it. We're going to continue to bring it to everybody's attention as much as we can. So your questions are always appreciated. What was I saw something on Facebook? And I never responded to that I'm recommending no. She said, I remember you saying sandy that you said Steve Murphy is saying, don't go on TikTok. The first of all, Steve Murphy does not tell the queen what to do. Queen is the queen, sandy. So you the boss. The other thing is TikTok, stay away from it. It's just a warning. Yeah. Chinese run, they run the algorithms, hurt some very interesting things about TikTok. We actually should go a little bit in depth on that on a later episode. But what we don't do that. Remember we had Aaron Turner on here. And Turner's one of the smartest men I've ever met in my life and I asked him what's the biggest Chinese threat against the United States? Hesitate. He said TikTok. TikTok. Dive into that later. We shall dive into that later. Here comes a question from another one of our long time. Oh, yeah. Always full of questions. Fungi, Frederick nicolosi, Frederick, mister Frederick, he says question for September Q&A, mister Murphy and mister Morgan. You're always so nice. You can just call the Smurf and Morgan, but have either of you guys heard of any new tactics that the DEA or other law enforcement agencies are using to try and cut down all these fentanyl poisonings.
Game of Crimes
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"Was led by somebody named doctor Abby's Steve lano and doctor Robert plus at George Washington University. So GW, that's out in our area here. And doctor Richard souvenir at temple university up in Philadelphia. So to legitimate universities to legitimate researchers, I checked out their names. I did some research to make sure that, hey, these are the right folks. They are. This is something that has listed on their university sites as well as stuff. So it's legitimate now I will tell you, they've got apps out there that you can download. And one of the things you do is whenever you're someplace, you take a picture of it, you use location based services because they want, they want to be able to tie it. Okay, where's this picture being taken from? They don't want you to take a picture and say, well, I took it at the motel 6 over here. Then we don't really know. So the one thing you have to be aware of, you have to use your location based services. So a little bit of a privacy issue, but you do take pictures of the hotel rooms and you submit it. And they do share that information. I don't know how they share it. Or what avenues they share it, but I do know they do, but I will tell you this. One of my friends, good friends who listens to our regular podcast. I don't know if he's on Patreon. The SOB he makes enough money. He should be on Patreon. He works for Microsoft. He's the head. He's also a former firefighter. So that explains a lot. Oh, there you go. There you go. Rick sack at Microsoft. One of the things Microsoft does that they give away. They don't charge for. They maintain a database of child pornography images. But the way they maintain it is they use a cryptographic function called a hash value. So in other words, you apply this very sophisticated mathematical formula to a picture. It creates a unique identity. And then so if you get another picture like that that's been shared, rather than sharing the picture, which let me tell you, after training people in computer crime investigation, Internet investigations seeing some of this stuff. You don't want people saying this stuff. It is some of the most horrendous. The most terrible stuff you could see what people do to children. Yeah. And so one of the things they do is, and because these pictures, if they're in the database, they have now been verified and they run them through what's also called the Tanner scale. It's a way to look at development of bones and everything else and determine are they under a certain age. It's not a precise thing. He says, well, there are 12 years and three months old. But it's pretty clear you can look at something and go, that child is 11 years old. They're in the age range of ten to 12, or they're in the age range of 12 to 14. So it's used a lot in court to prove that the child was underage, so it becomes child pornography as opposed to just pornography. It's unbelievable. There's some sick, freaking people in this world. There are so sandy go to traffic, TR, AFF, ic, traffic, cam dot
The Flow Up
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"Like that TikTok where they have an opening to one of those 1990s sitcoms and each character is in the middle of doing whatever it is that they always do, and then they look over their shoulder like, oh, hey, you're here. Hi, I'm the creator. I'm sister. I'm big brother, whatever. So it's like that. Every single job in this, it's me. And hopefully one day I can lean on some delegation and I can order some things. I'm not one of those people that's a control freak. Listen, once I can afford it, I will hire it, okay? I'm all about pain for peace of mind. That's my jam. So we'll get there. We're getting there. I'm on Patreon and I'm super excited about it. There are three tiers that I'm offering ranging from donations of $7 a month to 21, and I've got some yoga content, some Ricky content, terrible, meditation, behind the scenes, clips and reels and bloopers of the podcast, recordings, exclusive and deeper dives into the interviews. I'm also going to be doing new moon and full moon rituals and reflections. So it's a vibe. It's definitely a vibe. Check me out over on Patreon, go to WWW Patreon, backslash the flow up. That is literally the only way you'll be able to find the page. If you go to Patreon and search the flow up, it will not come up. So Patreon dot com backslash to flow up, check out the page. I have a cool intro video on there, explaining all the tears. So I hope that you can support me there. And if you don't have the ability to make a monthly contribution, then maybe you'd consider making a one time donation. Every little bit really does help and I appreciate it from the bottom is part of my heart. All right, let's get into the episode for real for real. So let's begin to transition into meditation time. This meditation will be for promoting deep relaxation, release intention, so the optimal time to listen and maybe in the evening before your nighttime rituals or whatever see fit for an ultimate relaxation experience. Take a moment to find a comfortable seat, or lay down in a comfortable surface. Adjust your body and your clothes so that you are about 10% more comfortable. Once you arrive, take a deep breath in through the nose and release, exhaling.
Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast
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"Going. What's something you wish you knew before. He became a pilot How expensive it would be. But i would have maybe worked a little more. Yeah get the money. What's your favorite book..
We Need To Talk About Ghosts
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"Going to make any difference mine. I'm hoping to gone but then again he's been a good friend to us because it's become fond impossible. Everyone is being quantitive. Untreated it i just but now the jokes gone. Say what we're going to do now. I don't talk about a mixed message so well. Everyone likes him. As part of the family you know and he he makes everyone feel good rarely so we got an exorcist then to get rid of him but that was sad because if he's lomb we all treated them as a joke mr best it we teach them as a bit of joke and now the jokes gone. So we'll have to employ someone with sense of humor so i don't know i don't know bbut was a wonderful little tale that in your knitwear factory amazing. Let's have horn more. This one is. I think it's the oldest of the lot. This is one thousand nine hundred seventy two and a pottery warehouse in stoke-on-trent it is so let's see what this has got to offer footsteps weird. I i came the full length of cardiff. They stopped the car and we sort of shadow. Dark shadow then. The footsteps continued won. The footsteps stuffed. It was then the run and for me sell to this. What was there or any net. New noordin couldn't continue because it seems audit this block of ice. I would stone cold and for few seconds. I just couldn't move now. I don't know about you but thought genuinely gives me shivers by as one of the best little descriptions of place ghost on what the hell is this block of ice the into you know you just couldn't move. This is amazing in terms of an anecdotal first-person anecdotal ghost experience albeit from nine hundred. Seventy two i mean. How do you can't mistake that it's not called the art phenomenon is it. You run into an icy cold and being able to move pasta amazing so then we hear from her friend who stood next to. What about you mrs. How did you feel same. As i say i couldn't move. I just couldn't do anything to what you rooted to. The spot couldn't move no carry-on working here now. All you're going to give jobs. They can late taught every day or forty two p slack missing him said yes we continue but if we thought we got to see to hear no. Isn't that interesting. it's people going on record. I mean you. I wouldn't do that now if somebody said to me. If this on tape if this changes in your workplace will you leave. If it doesn't change. Sorry i wouldn't say yeah i'm gonna leave. I'm gonna leave if that out. Because i wouldn't want the managers seeing it and being like. Oh my god this feller gonna leave. If we don't pull our weight. I wouldn't do it now. In two thousand and twenty one this is nine hundred. Seventy two where you could get sucked at the drop of a hat for nothin' full in some way and these ladies are on tape for the news report going. Yeah if you don't get rid of the ghost. We're not going to work here anymore. It's amazing it's such a good story. Where the comedy comes into this is what about to hear from a guy who's a self professed medium and he's the most well-spoken english medium dressed full in seventies finery that you could imagine. Listen to these fantastic higginson. What have you found out today. When i first came coming along i was not so sure. We're gonna be a genuine manifestation because minute brought are to refined the rally figment of the imagination. Where you can pay some calls or natural means. it's makes it was not quite genuine. But when i got here I was aware That certainly was a manifestation. It was not a sort of evil thing you to some of someone certainly wanted to communicate and i had tried to impress people that she was here. But she's a lady that worked here on us pulsed away and i knew who to so they share his very well spare can man bit of a cad. He does now. He's got down into the nitty gritty. He's just said there and he has a big smile on his face when he says this he says quite clearly. I think we can all agree. I know who it is. I know who it is he. Now let's see. I don't know entirely toll name but i do know that It's elated. At worked his pasta with pulse. Very very suddenly. I mean i could ever stopping the dark. That was a former employee. Generally means i wouldn't be doing a big grin again. I knew who had tears really. Who is it. I i don't know with the name i know. They used to care and they died very suddenly. Most people die very suddenly these days. No one goes well. He was shot in the leg and he bled out on the floor over the course of three hours. It's most people. Death is thing isn't it rarely anyway. I'm probably being a bit facetious with them. Let's see what more this very very polish medium has to say and Was a happy person and while roundabout fifty five to To sixty advantage but this is the twentieth century. Can you honestly expect people to still going believing in ghost in this day and age. Now there's a question and a half isn't it. I mean fabulously the journalist because he could have very easily been like. Whoa done up to the nines. You're clearly very icon question. What you do for a living of course but it didn't he was like don't you think it'd be silly to believe guests and this answer is actually very good very good. Well i think we perhaps believe not in actual guests but the man survives the grave because the too many of us that it's true and things over three million people in great britain believing it There must be something in it and of course there is. Well done mr bosch psychic. I do like that answer. Not necessarily the well. We don't necessarily believe in ghosts part. But i do like that. We believe that man survived the grave. very good or woman. Of course sexist. Little boy in the seventies ammonia. You confirmed what mr higginson fold. What did you tell him. I.
We Need To Talk About Ghosts
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"Yes yes that's right This guy thinks scary than the exorcist would be. If selectors pops into the exorcist film will remove the demon possessing reagan and the student activism and poltergeist activity to the nth degree people being mad by demonic forces will remove all of our and instead the exorcist will be a few footsteps few milk bottles clanging and of course the toilet flush. I think we can all agree. These this activity here does make the acussed. Look like mickey mouse being facetious on it. But it did over satellite disney. Let's be honest okay. Anyway now he gets a one of the employees stories. And i like the employees stories because the it seems to be women in these little interviews they seem to be very authentic and the men. Just be well. I don't believe in it's all you know. As long as you've got right and closing down the number bothered brennan way. This is one of the employees stories. And i had a footsteps behind me. How can i stop knows nothing. Nobody there and that kind of that. Continue to up to the top of the stairs so stood for me to you now and then only automated some of the things that i had had to and i thought who could get pushed down the stairs headmaster little miniature to and then i felt a presence suspect somebody quite close to me. Didn't touch me. And then i just started downstairs and i look back again. But they're still. I didn't say anyone until now what you will see. She's a lovely lady and what you will see when the video thing together is when the bit where she says. I could be thrown down the stairs. She as a massive grin on her face like she was really disappointed. Really excited to the fact that she could have been thrown on the stairs. It's like look could it be thrown downstairs thought ground dear then i'll insult the devil himself and see if you'll choke me downstairs full lami working day. Now what you'll hear next is this guy's clear obsession with absolute paranoia and fear about toilet flushes ereli. Most because he's already said that. That makes it scary than the exorcist. The fact that the toilet worst and he just can't let it go other people talked about. Laboratories flushing face when i opened warm. This boy must have Came in here on the scene plus and plus catches stuff on the floor. The party like this on the pane of glass which was across in there. Which is you could see. Very bigness has been smashed across the core. Here it would have to fall down there. You'd expect to just all this was out with everything cleared out of here onto the floor now but anywhere else that goes into this office. I will say they're stuck. I was talking there. He seems genuine and he seems genuinely scared. It's like he's a. He looks like a caretaker a guy and he's clearly in his takes office and is gonna look up fearing faced when the guy says like can anyone else get any and he's like no just many he looks genuinely scared so he's an bit difficult to make out what he'd be saying there. I think party was accents. Part because of the recording equipment in the seventies bought yeah. He's quite convincing. If being perfectly honest now you're going to hear one of the bosses now and talk about someone trying to give like an absolute corporates answer to xs zoom questions. It's amazing listen to this administration to exercise this year. I understand the same. We have a problem that of course that we probably got about fifteen religion the factory. So do we get fifty ministers in. Did we get all the religions to agree on one minister to the exercising the more corporate answer to the paranormal. It's amazing i mean we got an place all the time not to do with exorcisms but it's kind of like can i take days holy next week. Well you can. But there's a lot of people want today's holy if you have to give you a day's holiday then give everyone a day's holiday and therefore what you want to do. Ask everyone if they can all agree. Who should have the day's holiday that's basically what he's gone there with the paranormal. So hats off to that. Ceo of that company there fantastic okay. Let's delve back into the seventies yet. Another interview okay. So next we're going to a knitwear factory in nineteen seventy three years now unlike the swimming pool guy. Who's like i'm going to star in this from. Start to finish in my coffee in my swimming costume baby this one just jumps inventive with staff and stuff however it does have one of the greatest former owners of the companies names. Listen out for it. It will be obvious when it comes on. 'cause i'm going to jump in and mention it but it's amazing anyway. This is one of the employees stories thrill one morning about. What's right into the factor. I'm ooh talking about to sell and one of the guys you stop talking. And i said what's the matter to just live jessica walks in and we're just sorta turnaround in this salt missing. Nothing you cannot say you think of that. Justice rather went down smoke now like i said the elliott. The two women in these interviews seem to be more authentic and what i love about her little speech there is the fact that she doesn't try and like embellish issues and say those a man in the left or there was a figures she's like it wasn't a figure we couldn't make out what it was. It was a shape. It was a shape of smoke and it just went up. It's so authentic shiva saying because it's like she's just literally saying what she's seen it's catchphrase. She's just saying what she says. So yeah she rarely She made me a believer of this little story. We're not going to hear the the boss of the time of that knitwear factory. Tell us a little bit about the history of the place which is very interesting and then we lan obviously the name of the former owner. Well this story goes the in the day it was a knitting mill was one of the largest in the trunk in eighteen nineties j w was recalled nuts mr starr. It was the end of this. Did you get that's right. The former owner was cold. Mr bastard or mr start if you will please please pronounce my name properly. It's a start you don't get many bus styles about these days. Do you know not since the court did you change your name. Now you'll hear on the next part. Unfortunately he met an untimely end. The poll starred committed suicide on the premises in which is now our knitting room. And how did he commit. They only himself in the offices and seemingly overlaid on the same and he's never arrested. All polka. paul starred killed himself over. Lady how very eighteenth century well nineteenth century very like ero. I shall live anymore. I wonder if she said. I can't be with you. Pass start for our sons and daughters will all be starts. Maybe he's like oh right even if we're married before birther be passed our odds perhaps by the way. That's sad isn't it. yes it is. And then you're going to hear next. Is another description of axes in terms of the fact. They've got an existential power in this place and it makes me think in the seventy s accesses must've had no free time because these seemingly everywhere and every northern factory the must like an on-call accessed and as happened in this place they also got an accident can been cold and he's out the next offseason fifty. You really think it's.
Down To Folk
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Pop Culture Leftovers
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"Soured and now he's he's luke skywalker on the fucking island. I'm dry theories if you hand me. You're a good theory thrown it over my shoulder. i'm drinking. I'm drinking green milk from that bucket. And i'm drinking. Green milk from ted broke me. Wanda vision fucking broke me. It really did like it. Broke my fucking brain but let some of the things could still happen in other properties especially in doctor strange. I don't think there's any fan theory that's ruled out at this. You know. I honestly don't even know if we'll ever see one again. They might not even bring her into another show like we could be like ten years from be like whatever happened to wanda what happened to wander maximov. What happened to that is in the mountains. I'll i'll say something that i've been thinking about since loves in the. Is that going back to what the lombardo live take. The first marvel property in the year Remember that the a lot of the payoff comes really really like really down the road like it takes three four even five movies and we were used to that. We went in entire year with anything so now just desperately want the answers now. One of now we wanted we wanted fucking the system. We wanted to be clear cut and dry this theaters. Quicksilver this is peter. Maximum napa traumatic. We wanted it now. Because it's been so goddamn long since we've had anything totally. Yeah i think the creators very patient. And i think the sands are not patient at all. We might see some of this stuff. Well i mean it's also it's the first it's the first show. It's the first yet show and we. We didn't know you know how how impactful this is going to be the over overall. Mcu like how. How big is this story. Going to be in the future of of marble and i would have thought that it was going to set up like the next phase four villain and now i'm wrong. I mean i was just dead wrong so it was a very personal story of wanda and dealing with grief and then and then accepting this apparently now. Because she's hearing her kids in another multipurpose what the fuck is going on with the show. I have no idea this mine. And she's caring for kids because clearly she snapped quite a bit. No she's married them. I mean that great line She says the cates. Thank you for choosing me to be your mom area. You know it was iran interesting way to put it right. Drives them at le- sent them to a different dimension instead of them you know dissolving like vision. I've got an intern guys. I have an interview in ten minutes. We've got to wrap this up. I've got an interview that i am interviewing the director from psycho gorman.
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"I mean they know this fans would do so to purposely put stuff in wanna vision and for it to really all be nothing like that is another level of mean. Yeah yeah wanda want to truck on top of agnes. How many people when the solve the shoes under the truck goes damn. Thats brian talking about the wizard of oz shelter. We actually brought that up on last night's recording. I brought that same thing one hundred percent. And that's what made me keep thinking. Well we've got agatha as the bad which we're going to have dotty as the good witch and like none of that happened so you know about that though. My gosh. that seem dadi was so heartbreaking. Oh yeah she really sold that she really sold it. The the one actor. What's her name from that seventies show when she's basically saying yes she's basically saying like you know if don't leave us like this if if anything just let us die kill us and it's like. Wow wow yeah on the may own man. He's just like i'm so tired. He's always like delivering the mail. He's like never able to just start moving like you get you get the sense that none of them ever really slept right because the when visions visiting the outskirts of the town. Everyone's just standing still with their eyes open though mayors and allowed them to sleep. They had heard nightmares right. Oh right right right right. Yeah yeah okay. So did they actually sleep like property because they were just you know bombarded by nightmare after nightmare. Just just exhausted probably crazy. We'll knock grace. Oh my god they're all gonna get hooked on ambien. I swear it's gonna be whole fucking town is going to be sleepwalking. I think that it really sleep that much. Because i think a lot of times. It just went from one episode straight into the next. Because like it'd be daytime in you know like like whatever and for all it's dark or reversed it just there was never like a like. It was never like the same time of day what everyone thinks on the costume. At the end you liked it awesome good. I loved it. Jake was not a fan. He said he thought that it looked too much. Like magneto costume from the bryan singer movies. He thought looked to two single unit to to singer university. Yeah you know. i don't know i don't know about the rest of you. i remember jerk often mckellar outfit. So how what is he talking about. Look like maybe broadly at a theme. I can see that. But i didn't think that at all like color wise. Yeah but i mean. I don't know total. i liked it. I thought it looked great. What did jake wanted she did. He want wanted to have that halloween costume ghetto. I honestly i don't know i. I don't think he elaborated more on like what he wanted. He just thought it looked to singer universe and he just wasn't a fan so i read someplace that on her new costume. If you look closely like on the helmet and the belt. She's got ruins on to help. Protect yourself dating by kept so that no on the belt. Yeah isn't yeah on the helmet. There's an m shaped like one of the ruins on the wall and there's another one hundred bell definitely. That's bad ads. That's been backed by man movie when think does anyone think. How does this tie into the the next spider that we think is going to go all wonky into the multi verse. 'cause i had a theory i really think much of spider man while watching it..
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"This was a neighbor smoking. I think they did it just to. I mean really kind of troll. Honestly you're totally right. And they did. Lean into the trolling on this. And then with the fan base. Going crazy on speculating. Aja added to it. Is there a. Is there a chance that he is wonder man. Simon williams who was an actor who i hadn't even considered about knowing that yeah good at being quicksilver that just want him to be quicksilver and goes. Why would they give us an appears. Not dude i. I totally agree with you. One hundred percent. I'm not like in a perfect world. You wouldn't have fucked with us this way. Because this is trolling the highest rate. It is mean though. Because like i said this last night it's not just it's not even just as simple as npr's playing this version of right. It's the fact that he's playing the exact same version of quicksilver like beat everything. Exactly the same as the fox. Verse peter so like just the fact. That is exactly exactly the same. Like why would you haven't do that. The only difference between this quicksilver. I noticed and like the fox walks over is when When quicksilver is in fox he don't seem like that trail that he has is just dipping around everywhere and here the dnc. Quicksilver with like the that blur when he's interesting. What color was the blur was purple for. Agatha's magic or was it something else. We have blue wouldn't matches closed nationals. Close absolutely yeah. I still think they left it so open under that. They can bring it back and if they're going to bring any fox x. men character out and reboots the rest. He's related to wanda he's the only one that they can bring in e can be you know that character. I want that. I want that. But do i trust them after this. No i no not at. Aw hell no. We went as far as to watch as a teacher cast last night and look at the man cave. He's got in that in that movie and it matches up with the show down to the point where wolverine says you know i got this friend outside of dc baltimore's outside of dc in wild vision as a baltimore orioles. Chris davis poster on his wall. Oh my gosh. Wow that is so bad rabbit hole so much that why not. Just give us that. I keep the guys we need to. We need to get. We need to get on change dot org startup petition. In the where like he is in the room with monica like stopping or from leaving he touched just touches her and then she shoots back at. That's on a quicksilver. Like is it 'cause like i don't know what he did like. She shot back like she was hit with something. That's a speed thing. He does adan days of future past. Wendy's awhile chester on the room. Okay how many little details like that flake. That's that's even this is if this really is troll of marble hanley ha ha we league guys that to to do like the posters and stuff and to make the the decor and his house and one vision mirror or be similar to the one of course they know the fans are going to go back and try to see if they can pick out any similar..
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"And i don't think that she saw it through that lens yet and i think maybe later she will like she can act that maybe later she's like. I can actually help wanda she did seem to be teaching her stuff throughout the episode. She taught her. You know this is how you do a transportation spell. This is how you this is what ruins do. She did seem to be leading her in a way. I think she was doing that. I think she was doing that. Like a cocky way like look at me and there's and you're so ignorant you're just you don't know anything you know your your your your home schooled you now. I'm jealous of wanda because like want has all of this power. I natural power with no. And it's like i worked so hard to train. And so when she was in that scene where she was getting burned by her. Her coven or you know whatever was going to happen to her. I didn't. I felt like she was putting on an act. I didn't feel like she was really begging them for help. I feel like she was trying to make. It seem like that. But i feel like initially. She's just got rid of her and she just wanted all of that power. Like and from what i remember. Wasn't the mother wearing kind of a crown to like divisions crown but it was white. It was blue. I think are yeah and so i was trying to figure out like this has to be connection and the fact that she's so agatha's so powerful. She has come from powerful line of witches and for her own mother to come in and not just like slap your hand for learning magic. She was learning the darkest of magic. I just yeah. I think the whole thing was just wound up to make her seem like. Oh yeah i want to help you but not really like i'm evil and i'm i'm hearing the story. I did pick that up to like. You can read that seen different ways but i did. There was like this moment like this. I guess like this little look in her eye when she's just like you can tell she's kinda playing them so i did kind of see that i did kind of pick that up. There's an episode three palpitation. And there you know looking at condone one hundred percent now june. She just might be one note she just might be a one note villain here. I just i. I hope not. I mean especially. I think we're going to see her again. See her again. I think that we ought characters in this show will bring them back the other properties. Well it's crazy like this show. Br brought back darcy for crying out loud from the former fees. So yeah we could definitely see some of these characters popping up in other disney plus shows or even movies. I love dr of that. They brought her back. But i almost feel like that character could have just spent anybody but or she wasn't even going to school for astrophysics political science major but she was but she needed credits to graduate. Signed up. the..
Knowing Faith
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"The devil and demons comes from pop culture and it's hard to separate folk theology from actual biblical teaching to the other question. How do we believe the serpent. The guard was satan was. It was the serpent the garden satan. I think we we certainly don't Have any reason to want to distance him from that scene. And i think that The way that we see him spoken up elsewhere is in serpent like terms. And so that tells me that we're probably supposed to be drawing that very tight connection to after that. Jt no i mean. He's called the father of lies. I think that's one of the references that ties him very tightly to that passage because We see the value. I li- being told so. Yeah i don't. I don't think there's any reason to say that. That is a direction we wouldn't want to take the the the interpretation agreed. What does that with matthew. Twenty seven fifty one through fifty three. It seems out of sequence of the narrative it's only mentioned in matthew there seems to be a general consensus that they return to their homes and then died again is there are theological reason why they would need to wi with. They need to die again. Couldn't god simply take them like inuk We actually dealt with this passage when we were going through The gospel of matthew We dealt with this passage. Gosh was it two years ago. Now we dealt with matthew twenty seven so you can look back on the archives and probably find a little bit of this and there but the passage in question is and behold the curtain of the temple was torn to from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised coming out of the tombs after his resurrection. They went into the holy cities and appeared to many when the centurion and those who are with him keeping watch over. Jesus all the earthquake what took place. They were filled with awe. Am i reading the right passage. Yeah yeah okay So there seems to be general consistent. Return to their homes and then died again. Is there a theological reason. Why they would need a diag- it couldn't god simply take them like nick. I don't know. I don't know i don't know the answer to this. An earth show the teams were open at fallen for ray outside the go ahead. Well i was gonna say. I'm less concerned about what happened with these people. Because i think we have lazarus kind of pattern for this. I'm more concerned about duck. That's the one that throws me for a loop. I'm not lie. I'm like what was happening. There yep like. Why did those guys not experienced death but This passage to me. I'm like sure they could just be like lazarus because you know they're they're Assign their functioning as a sign of a of a future full resurrection But i don. I don't understand why and elijah just skipped.
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"She actually was teaching the week on the emperor katori psalms for our some study that we just did and she mentioned to me How people don't realize when they pray even so come lord. Jesus that they're actually calling down god's wrath on unbelievers thought. Wow that's a really good word. Because people tend to pray that in an escapist frame of thought like my life is really hard. I wish jesus would return. But we need to understand that asking for the return of christ is asking for the consummation of the kingdom which involves this this final accounting I think we would probably pray that prayer from a soap more sober-minded place if we if we did so been asked when someone that you're disciple and helping through addiction has already confessed their sin but has relapsed given into temptation again. What do you say. This is obviously really complex. And it's a little bit of. I think our depth in terms of justice ministry Kyle jenner ministers of the gospel not therapists addiction counselors. So what we are able to do is remind this people this person or group of people of god's grace and mercy that extended to them through the blood of jesus that we call them to repentance and pray that god would give them a long season of repentance victory over whatever addiction. They're walking through. We want to place them in community. We'd want to give them perhaps. Accountability structures within the context of the church trusted friends and counsel and guidance but it also might be time depending on the severity of this addiction. And the harm that they're doing to themselves or others to get them in touch with some professional help. Like professional counseling professional therapy professional addiction counselor because one of the things that christians need to be reminded of is to be human beings to have a body sold that kadhamy and that's a complex economy and sometimes the sin that we develop aren't just a matter of i should will myself harder out of sin actually deeply ingrained brainwaves or chemical imbalances that that can develop over the course of years and even decades that require professional help that the church isn't qualified to walk through not because the church doesn't believe in the power of the gospel but in the same way that we would say if somebody needs to get chemotherapy treatment or radiation treatment we would send we would go with them and pray with them and walk them to the doctor's office but it's possible that some kind of additional treatment might be needed. That would help this person walk freedom over a longer period.
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"I think the only way that i would say that the way that jesus intercedes for us the way that the bible talks about is he's interceding for us as a mediator as a god man which is fundamentally different than the way that the holy spirit could intercede for us. Holy spirit is not have a second nature that has been assumed by the one person of the son. Therefore the sun intercedes impetus high priest through the holy spirit. Because there's only one one god's in essence so it is. It's largely the same. But i would say the sun is mediating our behalf in a way that spirit was never intended to enhance. Does that makes us absolutely. I would yeah. I would say that. That's right yeah. I would say when it comes to like if we're talking about prayer specifically or like a dress to god i would say that the spirit makes our words intelligible to god. Yeah so the the holy spirit takes our words. I think this is what. Paul is getting at romans. Eight likewise spirit helps us in our weakness for we do not know what to pray for as we ought but the spirit himself intercedes for us with groening's too deep for words you think about even it earned first corinthians where paul talks about the spirit searching the depths of god even the depths of man i would say that the holy spirit is taking our words and making them intelligent intelligible to god in jesus christ and so yes the the role of jesus in the spirit in mediation intercession is so yes. It's different. it's different works. Good job guys bound together in the one undivided work of god. Though in relationship to his people divided axe yup divided by the person yep There are samantha. there are so many different analogies to explain the trinity but most to heretical. Is there a good analogy that you know of one that helps explain. The trinity to a child would be also helpful. Is the jd show. Well i will say this. Jt warm your heart I was walking around in the children's area at the village on sunday and we have the image in the fidget spinner image of the trinity on the wall in the children's area. That children can trace their fingers. And so it's not that we would think that they would necessarily immediately understand the trinity. But we start to give them some ways to to move toward that as they grow into their understanding. But i saw that and i thought oh this is like the j. t. wall sweet Speaking of fidget spinners for my tenth anniversary. Mesa's going to get mad at me for sharing the story I got macy a new wedding ring with ten small diamonds on it in one. Big one signify ten years and she got me..