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Natalie Wood was one of the biggest film stars of the late 50s and early 60s, starring in such classics as Miracle On 34th Street while still a child and continuing on to acclaimed roles in Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story, and more. By 1981 her career had cooled, but she still had one thing from her early days of stardom - her marriage to fellow actor Robert Wagner. Well, remarriage, to be precise. There was uncertainty about whether the second Wood-Wagner marriage would survive much longer by the time the couple, fellow movie star Christopher Walken, and skipper Dennis Davern set off for a weekend-long jaunt on the couple's yacht, the Splendour, just after Thanksgiving 1981. At the end of the trip, only 3 of the 4 guests on the Splendour would return home alive. What really happened the fateful night that Natalie Wood supposedly drowned off the California coast? Was it simply a terrible accident, as ruled in the coroner's initial report, or something much more insidious? And why is the famous "Number 2" from the Austin Powers film series the LA police department's number 1 suspect? We tackle all the stories, theories, and more for a drama-packed 1 year anniversary episode! ________________________________________ Connect with us on social media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/aintitscary Twitter: @aintitscary Instagram: @aintitscary Patreon: www.patreon.com/aintitscary ___________________________________________ Thank you to our sponsors: BetterHelp - Special offer for Ain't it Scary? listeners: Get 10% off your first month at www.betterhelp.com/aintitscary Audible - Get a FREE audiobook and 30-Day Free Trial at www.audibletrial.com/aintitscary BarkBox - Enjoy a FREE month of BarkBox on us when you sign up for a 6 or 12-month BarkBox subscription! Visit www.barkbox.com/aintitscary for more details Hunt a Killer - Receive 20% off your first Hunt a Killer subscription box at www.huntakiller.com with the code SCARYSQUAD at checkout! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aintitscary/support

Nik Walker (Hamilton, Ain't Too Proud) is a true Disney Parks fan, and shares everything from his favorite memories of going to the Parks, as well as his connection to the brand on this episode of "E-Ticket to Broadway." As a young boy in Boston where he would watch all of the Disney animated classics ("Disney was my babysitter") Nik discusses how he very early on was affected by the magic that was started by a Mouse. He recalls his early trips to the Parks--including a connection with Tom Sawyer's Island, a stay at the Grand Floridian, as well as his first trip on The Indiana Jones Adventure at Disneyland (spoiler alert: it didn't last too long)--and finding a sense of home that is incredibly welcoming, full of incredible smells and sounds. Nik reveals his strong admiration for Flight of Passage and Galaxy's Edge, and shares a funny story of explaining The Haunted Mansion to his wife on a trip they took together to the Parks. He and David discuss Land v. World, and the joy that is taking non-believers to the Disney Parks and converting them. As such a devoted member of the different fandoms that are now included in the Disney umbrella--Star Wars, Marvel, and The Muppets--David asks about Nik's favorite characters from each world, and together they play "Walt, Stan, George, or Jim," a game in which David reads a quote and Nik guesses which visionary (Walt Disney, Stan Lee, George Lucas, or Jim Henson) said it. What's on Nik Walker's Disney bucket list? Listen to find out! Follow on Instagram: @etickettobroadway Nik's Instagram: @nikkywalks David's Instagram: @directedbydavidalpert Learn more at www.eticketpodcast.com Part of the Broadway Podcast Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We got Euge and Stanger this week and they are answering your questions! They cover amino acids, mobility days, how to stay positive while aging, and how to train to improve explosiveness and cutting abilities for sports. ”Ain't nothin to it but to do it”  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Barraclough - All the Best for the Future / West Papuan Summit Zoom Meeting / West Papuan Rent Collective - On its Knees / Myanmar People's Defense Units / PIBCI - it Ain't Over Yet / What About the House of Saudi? / Financing Public Health During a Pandemic / COVID-19 Update - Vaccination No Fault Indemnity Scheme / Morrison's Father's Day Fiasco / Guinea Coup - Australian Miners Spooked / Matthew (African Gangs) Guy / I've a Devilish Plan - Help MeWest Papuan Summit: Zoom meeting, 2pm, 19th September, register: trybooking.com/BTCC2For more information: dfait.federalrepublicofwestpapua.org

We're pleased to share a session led by Buddy Greene and Odessa Settles called "Ain't Gonna Lay My Religion Down" from 2020's Hutchmoot: Homebound, in both video and audio form. Through stories and music, Buddy & Odessa discuss the difficulty of living in an unjust world and how our faith can act as an anchor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The whole Ain't No Such Thing crew saw David Bruckner's The Night House and had to talk about it. Amanda, Kevin, Jess, and Erica discuss this film along with hopes for the upcoming Hellraiser reboot, to be produced by the same team behind The Night House.WARNING: This review includes SPOILERS!Ain't No Such Thing is narrated and produced by Amanda RachelsSupport our Patreon Campaign for access to:More StoriesHorror Movie ReviewsVideo UpdatesPDF Transcripts of Our StoriesPhysical Merchandise: Magnets & Autographed PhotosLive Skype Sessions with Amanda, Jess and KevinJoin our Facebook group for exclusive insights and art based on our stories: https://www.facebook.com/groups/aintnosuchthingAin't No Such Thing © Inverse Press, LLC

8.15.21 | "Ain't Nobody Running Me Out Of The God Business" | Bishop Larry Booker by The Rock Church of Fort Myers

This week’s show includes some difficult altercations, some bulge watching, some snitch talking, and some rage. This week’s featured song of the week is Ain’t Nice by Viagra Boys

¡Hola a todos! Este episodio épico estará protagonizado por la nueva y muy esperada película de David Lowery junto con A24, The Green Knight (2021), y lo mejor que pudimos hallar para hilar temáticamente esta charla, el gran clásico de Ingmar Bergman, El Séptimo Sello (1957), además de lo que vimos en la semana. Estén atentos a nuestro Instagram, nuestro Twitter y nuestro canal de Youtube Letterboxd: Christiam, Jesús (00:04:43) El séptimo sello (1957) (00:57:14) Lo que vimos en la semana La Nuée (La nube, 2020) (01:10:24) The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021) (01:19:41) A Ghost Story (2017) (01:31:27) The Green Knight (2021) (01:51:50) Spoilers: The Green Knight (2021) Referencias: The Queens Gambit (serie, 2020) Shatranj ke khilari (Los Jugadores de Ajedrez, 1977) Minority Report (2002) Persona (1966) Krótki film o zabijaniu (A Short Film About Killing, 1988) The Leftovers (serie, 2014) True Detective (serie, 2014) Dans ma peau (2002) Saint Maud (2019) The Lodge (2019) The Swerve (2018) The Babadook (2014) The Witcher (serie, 2019) Arrival (2016) Mother! (2017) Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) Pete's Dragon (2016) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pinpumpan/support

This week on the Ain't Easy Being Green Podcast.......The 53 man roster has been Finalized and A.E.B.G. called in the big guns to help us break it down! The boys from Weapons Hot join us to talk Roster Cuts, the depth chart, surprises & disappointments from EVERY positional group! PLUS : TE Chris Herndon got traded for a 4th and a 6th rounder to the Vikings????....HOW...IS....THAT....POSSIBLE?

That title just hurts the soul when somebody says those words to you, Respectfully lol.A lot of Arthur Fist moments happened when we did this one. I mean one of us is mad that there isn't equality for nipples, meanwhile the other is mad that the crate challenge has come to an end. Blaming all the "woke" post that were going around on FB but in reality it's just tech companies looking out for "safety" yeah iight.Time stamps:01:10 Issa Shwired Intro03:25 Branch Binging:                                               Zeus Tv Network and Joseline's Cabaret                                               Marvel What If...Speedrun'n16:18 Free Agency Is Over, back at work and Melatonin is a Bih!20:40 NEW ALLITERATION ALERT: Truly Talk Thirsty Thursday, I don't know where we going with this but, I had to explain this *Smooch* Chef's Kiss25:00 Waking up as the opposite Sex...what is the first thing you would do?29:30 Nipple Equality34:15 This Anti-Abortion law in Texas is Madness39:25 Art imitating life too much, Apple Privacy (Minority Report) New York getting flooded (Day After Tomorrow)41:57 My Body is ready for Fall, but buttnaked sleeping? Hope ya'll change ya sheets DAILY!!47:20 School starting back up for the kids!!! We back to wearing Mask out in public again.55:20 THEY ENDED CRATE CHALLENGES??? Ain't No Way...Ain't No Way... Youtube and Twitch got some weird policies lately.

Introduction Innocent story: Shoe 6:00 Stupid Situationship - Billy Corgan 8:03 Living in squalor - University of Colorado 10:01 Covid extreme symptoms 12:30 James 1: 2-4 14:10 Proverbs 1: Wisdom Personified 17:15 You just have to face it. 17:26 Not perfection, just acknowledge it's rough 18:08 The second wind of Covid “could finally breathe” (Amy) 18:50 How do you slow down? Focus on your energy 19:26 Limit your inputs 19:40 On social media first thing in the morning? Reflect with yourself first 21:00 Clarify your thinking by being intentional 21:50 Do not disturb or turn off notifications 22:30 Center your soul through slowing down - what am I about and what do I care about? 23:43 Who do I spend my time and energy? 23:50 Mental health is key - Sims Foundation https://simsfoundation.org/about-us/ 24:30 Mental health is not linear 25:11 Feelings fluctuate 26:14 No backsliding with feelings-no judgment 26:30 Coate is a Genius 27:46 Misdiagnosis https://www.amazon.com/Misdiagnosis-Diagnoses-Gifted-Children-Adults/dp/1935067435?asin=0910707642&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1 28:14 Mischief and anxiety in the classroom (often a sign of genius) 29:24 Cry Macho “You used to be strong macho” “This macho thing is over rated, people trying to be macho to show they got grit. That's all they end up with.” 30:10 Tough guy lies 30:20 What am I supposed to learn from this? 31:42 Mental toughness - asking for help and saying you don't know the answer is key. 32:07 Grinning and bearing isn't the plan-you're still bearing it. 32:20 Think back on your timeline 32:87 Runners don't like the first mile 33:35 Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City https://www.amazon.com/Yes-Improvisation-Reverses-Creativity-Collaboration-Lessons/dp/0062248545 33:45 "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill 34:11 Reframe it: “I get to do this” 35:21 We don't avoid tough things because we become a more authentic stronger sense of who we truly are 36:20 Creativity comes from constraints 37:02 Challenges are opportunities to grow - you don't have to like them Three Things: Book-Stillness it the Key https://www.amazon.com/s?k=stillness+is+the+key&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 Podcast: Rebuilding the Past https://www.instagram.com/p/CQq-ZPsD-ci/Blog: Brainpickings.com Where can I find Coate? Twitter: @andrewjcoate IG: @andrewjcoate Medium: https://andrewjcoate.medium.com/paradise-makes-no-demands-d2979f2e2489 42:19 Paradise Makes No Demands The Geography of Genius https://www.amazon.com/Geography-Genius-Lessons-Worlds-Creative/dp/145169167X Where Can I Find Amy? www.amyperras.com Linkedin: Amy Perras Twitter: @perras_scope IG @aintgonnabenostupid Tik Tok @aintgonnabenostupid Ain't Gonna Be No Stupid Woman (Book) https://amzn.to/2Np4aRj Ain't Gonna Be No Stupid podcast https://spoti.fi/2Nt4nTm Ain't Gonna Be No Stupid YouTube Channel https://bit.ly/3fT6v31 Coaching Session https://tinyurl.com/perrasscoping --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aintgonnabenostupid/support

THE RETURN OF PITCH IT! To celebrate 175 EPISODES of the podcast, we're bringing back a fan-favorite segment featuring host Aeric Azana's favorite Rogue: Captain Boomerang! Join us for "Boomer's Big Score: A Rogues Tale"! Plus this weeks Comics Countdown and more! Time Stamps: 00:00:45 Intro 00:02:05 News of the Week 00:19:49 Boomer's Big Score 00:26:21 Act I 00:54:33 Act II 01:17:24 Act III 01:45:15 Comics Countdown 01:57:02 Wrap-Up Follow us! Twitter: twitter.com/geeksplainedpod?lang=en Instagram: www.instagram.com/geeksplainedpod/?hl=en Send us your questions for the Geeksplained Mailbag! Email: Geeksplained@gmail.com Music Sampled: "Sayonara" by SAKEROCK "That's Life" by Frank Sinatra "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry "The Wanderer" by Dion "Rockin' Robin" by Bobby Day "Jump in the Line" by Harry Belafonte "Maybellene" by Chuck Berry "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" by Dean Martin "La Vie En Rose" by Edith Piaf "December, 1963" by The Four Seasons "That Old Black Magic" by Louis Prima & Keely Smith "Miserlou" by Dick Dale "Beggin" by The Four Seasons

If you're looking for a well-researched, yet grisly story told with a wink and a laugh...well, we have 49 other episodes we can recommend. To celebrate our big 50th episode, we wanted to do something a little different. Coast to Coast AM, the cream of the crop of late-night call-in shows, has been delivering the finest in weird listening since 1988 - and we'd be remiss not to pay tribute to one of our biggest influences. Sean and Carrie dip a toe into the archives for some wild Area 51 calls and straight-faced Bigfoot talk with George Noory, Art Bell and a whole lot more! ________________________________________ Connect with us on social media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/aintitscary Twitter: @aintitscary Instagram: @aintitscary Patreon: www.patreon.com/aintitscary ___________________________________________ Thank you to our sponsors: BetterHelp - Special offer for Ain't it Scary? listeners: Get 10% off your first month at www.betterhelp.com/aintitscary Audible - Get a FREE audiobook and 30-Day Free Trial at www.audibletrial.com/aintitscary BarkBox - Enjoy a FREE month of BarkBox on us when you sign up for a 6 or 12-month BarkBox subscription! Visit www.barkbox.com/aintitscary for more details Hunt a Killer - Receive 20% off your first Hunt a Killer subscription box at www.huntakiller.com with the code SCARYSQUAD at checkout! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aintitscary/support

Krystall Poppin is a new and energetic Mexican/American bilingual rapper hailing from El Paso, Texas. Her unique vocals and clever rhyme execution has managed to help her stand out from the current state of female artists. 2021 is looking like her break out year without a doubt! After drawing the attention of some heavy weights in the music industry, she has been quickly rising through the ranks and establishing herself as a groundbreaking artist with limitless potential. Her latest single “One More Time” featuring fellow Texan Paula Deanda, is guaranteed to make waves this summer with it's excellent production, catchy vocals, and addictive vibes! Save it to your playlist today! Check out her other recent releases “Facetime”, “Ain't No Stoppin", and “Hello"!   See what Krystall Poppin is up to! https://www.instagram.com/krystallpoppin/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/3DIquQWs6ZlFAKdahiPCwC?si=WG1vVJCBR4-Nk0Rp3BTkeQ http://youtube.com/krystallpoppin https://soundcloud.com/krystallpoppin   Give us a follow! Social Media Instagram - @pandanomicspodcast or @davidchenpanda Learn more about our host "David Chen" at www.pandanomics.com Business Inquiries - pandanomicspodcast@gmail.com 

Shawn and Cory are moving into a new dorm, and Meghan is moving in with her best friend! New scenery for all as Skylar and Meghan chat about Season 6 Episode 3 Ain't College Great? Join us as we relive our college experiences and dissect the class "Existential Thought and its Effects on Quantum Physics" - like... what even is that? Thank you all so much for listening, and go follow us on Instagram (@thefeenycallpodcast), Facebook and Twitter (@feenycall). Send us an email (feenycallpodcast@gmail.com), or leave us a voicemail that could be featured on the show! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-feeny-call/support

It was this Khudhābandah who embraced Islam [...] when he died, there succeeded to the kingdom his son Abū Sa'īd Bahādur Khān. He was an excellent and a generous king. He became king while of tender age, and when I saw him in Baghdād he was still a youth, the most beautiful of God's creatures in features, and without any growth on his cheeks. His vizier at that time was the amīr Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad, son of Khwāja Rashīd; his father was one of the migrant Jews, and had been appointed vizier by the sultan Muḥammad Khudhābandah, the father of Abū Sa'īd. I saw both [the sultan and his vizier] one day on the Tigris in a launch [...]; in front of him was Dimashq Khwāja, son  of the amīr [Choban], who held the mastery over Abū Sa'īd, and to the right and left of him were [...] musicians and dancers. I was witness to one of his acts of generosity on the same day; he was accosted by a company of blind men, who complained to him of their miserable state, and he ordered each one of them to be given a garment, a slave to elad him, and a regular allowance for his maintenance.       So the great Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta describes Abu Sa'id in the early 1330s, the final ruler of the Ilkhanate to preside over the united ulus, and to hold any authority. Succeeding his father Oljeitu as a 12 year old boy in July 1317, Abu Sa'id spent his first years on the Ilkhanid throne in the shadow of the great emir, the Noyan Choban. Today, we take you through the life and reign of Abu Sa'id, the last of the Khan in the line of Hulegu, grandson of Chinggis and conqueror of Baghdad. I'm your host David, and this is Kings and Generals: Ages of Conquest.       Abu Sa'id's early life was spent under the control of Choban. Unlike his contemporary, El-Temur, the Yuan Dynasty chancellor who left the boy-khan Toghon Temur a mistreated and ignored puppet who feared for his life; Choban protected the young Abu Sa'id and ensured he had a proper Islamic education, teaching him to read, write and speak Persian and Arabic, while also versing him in the history and genealogies of the house of Chinggis Khan and the noyans. In the opinion of the great historian of the Ilkhanate, Charles Melville, Choban viewed himself as a servant of the state, a man who combined pride in service to the Chinggisids while observing sharia law. He was, granted, an exceptionally powerful servant. But his Khan, Oljeitu, had put Abu Sa'id in the care of Choban, and Choban was going to provide for the young lad. Needless to say, almost all decrees of the early reign of Abu Sa'id, if not all of them, first had to pass the approval of Choban, if they did not come from his mind originally. A military man, Choban was not always aware of, or cared for, court protocols both in the Ilkhanate or those it engaged in diplomacy with. Yet he was still a pragmatist, who recognized the strengths and weaknesses of the khanate he now oversaw.   Initially, Abu Sa'id Il-Khan and Choban had kept Rashid al-Din and Taj al-Din ‘Ali-Shah in place as Ilkhanid viziers. Rashid al-Din had of course served since the last years of Ghazan's reign, and ‘Ali-Shah had been appointed to the position in 1312 by Oljeitu. Neither man much liked the other, and ‘Ali-Shah saw the new khan as an opportunity to oust Rashid. Only two months after Abu Sa'id's enthronement, ‘Ali-Shah's whispers succeeded in getting the young Khan to dismiss Rashid al-Din from service. Rashid's retirement did not last long, as Choban swiftly recalled him, telling Rashid that his service to the state was as necessary as salt to food. Choban seemed to genuinely recognize Rashid al-Din's talents and wanted to keep him on, but had not counted on Taj al-Din ‘Ali Shah conspiring with Rashid al-Din's enemies, who loathed him for his wealth, success and still doubted the authenticity of his conversion to Islam. Rashid al-Din, of course, had been born and raised in  a Jewish family. While he had converted to Islam over four decades prior, his Jewish heritage was reason enough for some to despise him.    Rashid's rivals, aided with money and whispers, raised new charges: that Rashid al-Din's son Ibrahim had poisoned Oljeitu Il-Khan on Rashid's orders. As Rashid al-Din had been Oljeitu's physician during his final illness, it was a damning charge. Choban, never one skilled in the subtleties and conspiring of government, either believed the rumours or was paid off by ‘Ali-Shah. He informed Abu Sa'id of the accusation, and various bribed commanders affirmed the veracity. It was a tough trial, and Rashid al-Din fought vigorously. But Abu Sa'id wanted revenge for his father. In July 1318, Rashid al-Din watched helplessly as his son Ibrahim was decapitated before him. As the executioner's blade came for him, he yelled his final defiance: “say to ‘Ali Shah, “You have had me killed for no crime. It will not be long before fate will requite you of me, and the only difference between us will be that my grave will be older than yours.”  Rashid al-Din was then cut in half at the waist and his head paraded around Tabriz while people chanted “this is the head of the Jew who abused the name of God; may God's curse be upon him!” His quarter built outside the city, the Rab-e Rashidi was looted and burned. So ended the long career of Rashid al-Din Hamadani, vizier and historian, the author of our much relied on Compendium of Chronicles. Taj al-Din ‘Ali-Shah only outlived Rashid by six years, though he would be the only Ilkhanid vizier for sure known to have died a natural death.       Following Rashid's death, a more pressing crisis struck the Ilkhanate. The pax Mongolica achieved in 1305 finally unraveled violently in 1318 and 1319. A Chagatai prince in Ilkhanid service revolted and requested aid from his kinsmen in Central Asia, threatening an invasion from the east, while in the north an army under the new Khan of the Golden Horde, Ozbeg, raced over the Caucasus. It was narrowly fought. Husain Noyan was sent to crush the Chagatai uprising, while the young Abu Sa'id, always one to heedlessly dismiss risks,  marched to face mighty Ozbeg. Defeated in the first battle, only the timely reinforcement by Choban Noyan saved Abu Sa'id and forced Ozbeg to retreat at the Kur River. The Chagatai and Jochid threat did not dissipate though. Both khanates invaded again over the 1320s, though repeatedly it was Choban's family who proved decisive in repelling them. Ozbeg's second invasion was defeated by Choban around 1325, and in 1326 an attack by the future Chagatai Khan Tarmashirin was overcome by Choban's oldest son, Hasan.        While these external foes were faced, internal rebellion also rocked the khanate. Commanders who fled before Ozbeg were severely punished by Choban, and in response they plotted to overthrow Abu Sa'id and replace him for his uncle, Irenjin. The plot was discovered, and Abu Sa'id once more led the army. This time victory was gained: despite even Irinjin's wife, a Chinggisid warrior princess named Konchek, fighting for him on the battlefield, they could not overcome the Il-Khan. Konchek was so notable for her courage, at least, that according to the Persian writer Mustawfi in his Zafarnama, the Mongols recognized Konchek's bravery on the battlefield by posthumously giving her a man's name, Ahmad. She was not the only one recognized for courage in the revolt.  The young khan himself showed great bravery in battle, riding into the thick of danger. For this he earned the sobriquet Baatar, “hero, brave, valiant.” Hence, you will often see his name as Abu Sa'd Bahadur Khan, by which he liked to style himself for the rest of his life.       Despite their victories Choban was very aware of how stressed Ilkhanid resources were. In addition to natural disasters destabilizing things, the vast fronts they needed to protect against Ozbeg, the Chagatais, the Neguderis and internal rebellions left no extra troops for the frontier with the Mamluks. Having taken part in Ghazan and Oljeitu's campaigns into Syria, Choban was under no illusion of the difficulty in operating there and dealing with the Mamluks in open battle. Not only that, in 1321 Choban's own son Temurtash, the governor of Anatolia since 1316, had revolted and declared himself an independent monarch. Not just a steppe khan, mind you, but as the Islamic messiah who heralded the end of days, the mahdi. He had been in touch with the Mamluks for some time, upon his revolt Temurtash requested they provide him with an army to defend his frontiers. The Mamluk Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad, for his part, did not provide one. It was a great embarrassment for Choban, who dragged his son kicking and screaming back to the Ilkhanate in 1324. Even when not physically fighting, the Mamluks' potential to support rebellion, especially among the constantly seditious Anatolian governors, meant they were an intrinsic threat to order within the khanate. To protect the khanate, Choban needed an end to the fighting with the Mamluks, and he knew it could not be won through an invasion.    Once Choban successfully convinced Abu Sa'id to the wisdom of the preposition, in 1321 a secret embassy reached Cairo to speak to Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad: it brought word of peace, an end to the 60 years of war the Mamluks and Ilkhans had fought. The 1321 embassy is the first recorded attempt, though feelers may have been secretly sent in either direction in the previous years. Al-Nasir Muhammad was immediately struck by the idea. Never had he been an effective military leader, and he still recalled with dread his defeat at Ghazan's hands two decades prior. It helped that the Ilkhanid message bore no demands of submission or tribute; only fine gifts, and words of friendship between two equal states. Though there were conditions, such as asking al-Nasir to stop sending assassins after Mamluk defectors in the Ilkhanate like Qara-Sunqor and to end raiding each other's borders, there was not even a hint of the ideology of Chinggisid world domination which had previously permeated all diplomacy between the two. Indeed, this has led some historians like Reuven Amitai to suggest Abu Sa'id abandoned the idea of Chinggisid global hegemony, though he maintained respect for his lineage and ancestry. We may suspect it was simply a recognition of the reality of the situation on the part of Abu Sa'id and Choban.   Thus by 1322, the Mamluk Sultanate and Ilkhanate were at peace. Embassies went back and forth at regular intervals for the rest of Abu Sa'id's life. Generally, they went well; the Mamluk ambassador to Abu Sa'id's court was a man named Aytamish, of Mongolian heritage who knew the language and genealogies, as well as being a man of fine Islamic piety. He was absolutely adored by Abu Sa'id. The Il-Khan soon made a surprising suggestion: a marriage alliance linking their houses and solidifying the new order. Now, this was not itself uncommon. It was a regular Mongol ploy to tighten control over  vassals with marriages, though a marriage alliance with a non-submitted state was a slightly different matter. Al-Nasir Muhammad himself had already married a princess from the Golden Horde, Tulunbey, in 1320 though it ended in divorce and was a rather embassasing matter all around, as the always paranoid al-Nasir had accused her of not actually being a Chinggisid. What al-Nasir wanted was to marry a Chinggisid princess of absolutely certain lineage in order to elevate his own dynasty. The Ilkhanid response did not fill him with much hope. They wanted a Mamluk princess to marry Abu Sa'id or one of Choban's sons, with the hint being that they preferred the latter. The implication, as far as al-Nasir believed, was clear. The Il-Khan and Choban, despite the peace, did not think al-Nasir as a Qipchaq Mamluk was worthy to marry a Chinggisid. Al-Nasir's reaction was, rather typical of himself, somewhat petulant. He made the bride price too high: demanding the city of Diyar Bakir, and for his own name to be read out in sermons in the Ilkhanate before Abu Sa'id's. He always managed to insist that none of his daughters were of marriageable age. This is despite these talks going on over the entire 1320s, when  al-Nasir married off a number of his daughters throughout the decade. No marriage would ever materialize between al-Nasir and the Ilkhanid dynasty.       Though fighting came to an end, there was another space in which Abu Sa'id could challenge al-Nasir Muhammad: the religious one. Both Choban and Abu Sa'id were staunch Sunni Muslims, and wanted to press their claims as the heads of a good Muslim empire. One of the best ways to do this was charitable works and patronizing pilgrimages to the two holy cities of Islam, Mecca and Medina.  The problem was the Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad considered himself the Guardian of the two Holy Cities, and as an always suspicious man, any effort the Il-Khan undertook in that region looked like an attempt to undermine him. His most direct challenge to al-Nasir came in 1319. That year he had sent a fine new set of kiswa, or black curtains, to be placed on the Kaaba, the square structure at the centre of Mecca which serves as the holiest place in Islam. Placing new curtains on the Kaaba was one of the symbols of sovereignty as the chief Muslim monarch, and was perhaps Abu Sa'id's most overt effort to challenge al-Nasir. For his part, al-Nasir ensured the pilgrim caravan he sponsored entered before Abu Sa'id's, and prevented the curtains the Il-Khan sent from ever being used. Though Abu Sa'id did not try to so directly challenge al-Nasir's hegemony there again, the Il-Khan and Choban continued to throw out suggestions and sponsor projects in the region. At one point Abu Sa'id proposed going on hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca himself. Choban meanwhile spent considerable sums to restore a much needed well outside Mecca for pilgrims, and also had a large public bath, school and tomb for himself built in Medina beside the mosque of the Prophet. Whenever news of their efforts came to al-Nasir, he would promptly panic and explode in anger. Personally going on hajj three times, he threw piles of money at the Holy Cities in an effort to remind everyone that he was the greater Muslim and their protector. After their peace in 1322, Abu Sa'id largely accepted al-Nasir's superiority in religion and stewardship over Mecca and Medina, though on occasion surprised the Mamluk Sultan. In 1330 Abu Sa'id sent an elephant, with no immediate explanation, on the pilgrimage. It succeeded in doing little but confusing the locals and costing an inordinate amount of money to feed before dying near Medina. The most effective show of the power of the Chinggisid monarch, it was not.    Another embarrassing matter soon surfaced. In a rather poor judgement of character, or perhaps on Choban's urging, Abu Sa'id pardoned and reinstated Choban's son Temurtash, who only in 1321 had declared himself an independent sovereign. The arrogance Temurtash had once he was secure back in Anatolia annoyed Abu Sa'id, as did the haughtiness of another of Choban's sons, Dimashq Khwaja. As viceroy over Azerbaijan, Iraq and Iraq-i ‘ajam, Dimashq wielded extraordinary power, as if he were vizier. Worse still, according to Ibn Battuta, Dimashq had taken it upon himself to sleep with as many wives of the late Oljeitu Il-Khan as possible. One of these women, Dunya Khatun, urged Abu Sa'id to act before she too fell victim to him. Choban had provided his sons and followers valuable positions across the Ilkhanate, and the children walked around as if they were as mighty as Chinggisids. Their father continued to ignore complaints raised against them, as long as they did not declare open defiance of the Khan as Temurtash had done. As Abu Sa'id grew to manhood, he grew more and more impatient of the influence of the Chobani, which he increasingly felt was at his expense. His anger at Dimashq and the other sons of Choban were fanned by his vizer, Rukn al-Din Sa'in. A former protege of Choban, now he plotted against him, and convinced Abu Sa'id that he now ruled as khan in name only.    The sentiment is echoed by Ibn Battuta, who wrote that “when the Sultan Abu Sa'id succeeded, being a young boy [...] the chief of the amirs, [Choban], gained control over him and deprived him of all powers of administration, so that nothing of sovereignty remained in his hands but the name.  It is related that on the occasion of one of the festivals Abu Sa'id needed ready money to meet some expenses, but having no means of procuring it he sent for one of the merchants, who gave him what money he wished.” Entering adulthood and fed on stories of his mighty ancestors, Abu Sa'id chafed under the constraints placed on him by Choban.    The tipping point came when Abu Sa'id set eyes on one of Choban's daughters, the beautiful Baghdad Khatun. A proud woman who held her eye and apparently liked to carry around a sword, Abu Sa'id was instantly in love. This itself was not a problem; Choban himself had married two of Abu Sa'id's sisters, the latest, Sati Beg, as recently as 1319. No, the problem was that Baghdad Khatun was already married to one of the most prominent noyans in the kingdom, Shaykh Hasan-i Buzurg of the Jalayir. Late in the summer of 1325, Abu Sa'id alerted Choban of his interests in his daughter. Choban was aghast; as a good Muslim, he would not allow his daughter to be led into adultery, even for the Il-Khan, and forbid the divorce. Attempting to discourage Abu Sa'id's efforts, Choban quickly tried to move Baghdad Khatun and her husband out of the Khan's sight. His plan was flummoxed when news came in 1326 of an attack by the Chagatai prince, the future Khan Tarmashirin, on the Ilkhanate's eastern territory. Choban and his eldest son Hasan rode out and successfully defeated Tarmashirin, but in their absence Abu Sa'id decided it was time to rid himself of the house of Choban once and for all.   Late in 1326, Abu Sa'id made his move. Choban's son Dimashq Khwaja was captured and imprisoned in the citadel at Sultaniyya, where he was killed while trying to escape in summer 1327. Choban was furious, and turned back to avenge his son's death. Abu Sa'id raised his own army and prepared to meet his former guardian. As their armies neared each other, Choban's followers began to desert to the Il-Khan, and Choban was forced to flee. Mirroring the fall of Ghazan's viceroy Nawruz some thirty years prior, Choban made his way to Herat, where in the winter of 1327 he was strangled to death. When Choban's son in Anatolia, Temurtash, learned of his father's death he once again declared his independence, and fled to the Mamluk Sultanate seeking military support. In 1328 he was killed when Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad suspected Temurtash of having designs on the Mamluk throne. Some of Choban's other sons under the leadership of the eldest, Hasan, fled to the Golden Horde, where in time Ozbeg Khan had them killed. By the time the dust settled, Abu Sa'id had forced the divorce of Shaykh Hasan Jalayir and Baghdad Khatun, and married her himself.  Abu Sa'id granted her the mercy of allowing Choban to be buried in his splendid tomb in Medina, though Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad had the final laugh over Choban. He denied Choban's burial inside his tomb, forcing him to be buried in a cemetery outside the city, and sent Temurtash's severed head to the Ilkhanid court.   By 1328 Abu Sa'id was finally the man in full control of the Ilkhanate. He once again brought up the marriage between his family and al-Nasir Muhammad. Despite his initial receptiveness, once again al-Nasir stalled and no progress was made. In practice, little government changed under Abu Sa'id's sole rule. Restrictions against Christian were reimposed: the jizya had been permanently reinstituted, and in 1334 the order went out that Christians were supposed to bear tattoos to mark them out, in addition to signs sewn into their clothing to make them easy to distinguish. How far these were implemented remains unclear, as Abu Sa'id did not seem to interfere with the archbishopric at Sultaniyya founded in his reign. Abu Sa'id remained infatuated with Baghdad Khatun, whose influence over the Il-Khan grew. In this manner she was able to protect the remainder of her siblings and family, aided by the fact that Abu Sa'id showed a willingness to forgive. Baghdad Khatun's former husband, Shaykh Hasan Jalayir, was accused of attempting to assassinate Abu Sa'id and imprisoned, before being pardoned and given a new position in Anatolia in 1333. Even the memory of Rashid al-Din, once accused of poisoning Abu Sa'id's father Oljeitu, was rehabilitated, as Abu Sa'id made Rashid's son Ghiyath al-Din his new vizier.  Able to devote himself to artistic pursuits, Abu Sa'id in his spare time composed poetry in Arabic and Persian to al-Nasir Muhammad in Cairo, comparing and discussing Abu Sa'id's ability.    So the early 1330s passed by relatively quietly in the Ilkhanate. Indeed, the reign of Abu Sa'id would be remembered as a Golden Age, the “Good ol' days,” for writers of the succeeding generation.  Ibn Battuta passed through the Ilkhanate for the first time in these years, and was amazed at the power and glory of the Il-Khan. Abu Sa'id's only problem facing him was his lack of a male heir. The efforts of Ghazan had greatly pruned the house of Hulegu, and Abu Sa'id had no son or brother to succeed him, though not for lack of trying on his part. When Baghdad Khatun failed to produce an heir for him, it seems Abu Sa'id's interest began to wane. In accounts such as Ibn Battuta's, Abu Sa'id doted upon Baghdad Khatun until he saw Dilshad Khatun. She was Baghdad Khatun's niece, the daughter of her late brother Dimashq who Abu Sa'id had so hated. He apparently found her even more beautiful than he had his current wife. Once the Il-Khan married the girl, he seemingly forgot about Baghdad Khatun. Ignored, her influence dwindling, Baghdad Khatun's fury smoldered over the following months.    In the summer of 1335, word came to Abu Sa'id that Ozbeg Khan of the Golden Horde was planning another invasion on the Caucasus. Abu Sa'id called up his armies and advanced to defend his borders, but on the 30th of November, 1335, Abu Sa'id died en route in Azerbaijan, only thirty years old. According to Ibn Battuta, Abu Sa'id had been poisoned by the scorned Baghdad Khatun. With no child except for a pregnant Dilshad Khatun left behind, the Ilkhanate awas about to rip itself apart. Our next episodes deal with the disintegration of the Ilkhanate so be sure to subscribe to the Kings and Generals podcast to follow. If you enjoyed this and would like to help us continue producing great content, please consider supporting us on patreon at www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals, or sharing this with your friends. This episode was researched and written by our series historian, Jack Wilson. I'm your host David, and we'll catch you on the next one. 

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Show #910 Blues With Horns Vol. 3 Another volume of horn drenched music. 01. Kyle Culkin - So Damn Old (3:45) (Pork Chops & Blues, Tonebucker Records, 2021) 02. Eli 'Paperboy' Reed - I Found You Out (3:34) (Come and Get It!, Capitol Records, 2010) 03. Rodd Bland & the Members Only Band - Soon As The Weather Breaks (5:41) (Live On Beale Street, Nola Blue Records, 2021) 04. Jimmie Bratcher - Chicken Tastes The Same (2:44) (I'm Hungry, Ain't Skeert Tunes, 2021) 05. Michele D'Amour & The Love Dealers - Cradle To The Hearse (3:46) (Heart Of Memphis, Blueskitty Records, 2019) 06. Big Rude Jake - Let's Kill All The Rock Stars (4:46) (Big Rude Jake, Roadrunner Records, 1999) 07. Mick Pini - Standing In The Rain (4:33) (Backtrack, self-release, 2021) 08. Mary Jo Curry Band - Turn It Loose (3:46) (Front Porch, self-release, 2020) 09. Eddie 9V - Little Black Flies (3:15) (Little Black Flies, Ruf Records, 2021) 10. Keeshea Pratt Band - Easily Replaced (3:31) (Believe, self-release, 2018) 11. Georgie Fame - I Want To Know (3:33) (The Blues and Me, Go Jazz Records, 1992) 12. Paula Harris - Something Wicked (4:43) (Speakeasy, Blu Gruv Music, 2019) 13. Chris Whiteley - Ex-Fiance Twice Removed (3:56) (It's The Natural Thing To Do, Electro-Fi Records, 2005) 14. Joanne Shaw Taylor - My Heart Got A Mind Of Its Own (4:31) (Wild, Silvertone Records, 2018) 15. Hitman Blues Band - Buy That Man A Drink (2:42) (Not My Circus Not My Monkey, Nerus Records, 2021) 16. Chris Cain - Too Many Problems (3:40) (Raising Cain, Alligator Records, 2021) 17. Whitney Shay - You Won't Put Out This Flame (2:35) (Stand Up!, Ruf Records, 2020) 18. Dave Thomas - I Like My Chicken Fried (4:10) (One More Mile, Blonde On Blonde Direct, 2021) 19. Betty Fox Band - Feels So Good (4:13) (Peace In Pieces, self-release, 2020) 20. Teskey Brothers - Sunshine Baby (2:49) (Run Home Slow, Decca Records, 2019) 21. Dennis Gruenling & Jump Time - Blues Up And Down (3:30) (That's Right!, BackBender Records, 2001) Bandana Blues is and will always be a labor of love. Please help Spinner deal with the costs of hosting & bandwidth. Visit www.bandanablues.com and hit the tipjar. Any amount is much appreciated, no matter how small. Thank you.

Soundcloud Followers (https://soundcloud.com/nghtowlbtz) receive the show Friday night and the podcast goes worldwide the following day Saturday at 12PM PST. Thanks to all of you who wished me a Happy Birthday last week. I had so much fun with my family celebrating. This is is the Birthday hangover edition of the show and we say goodbye to the month of August with a Disko n' Funky themed episode. Join us for Hour 2 as this week welcome the return of my homie Isaac effect from 2Live Mafia and Good Vibe Tribe. Tracklist: 1) Block & Crown - Could You Be Loved (Original Mix) 2) Hatiras - Bogota (Original Mix) 3) Kormak - Baybee (Extended Mix) 4) Samo - What A Feeling (Danny Cruz Remix) 5) Ain't No Sunshine Laurent Simeca, Crazibiza - (Nari Extended Mix) 6) 2Lovers - Strings (Original Mix) 7) Sharlotte De Vine - Extravaganza (Jackin Rebuild Mix) 8)Soulvation - Took My Love Away (Original Mix) 9) Chelsea Singh - To the Sky (Original Mix) 10)Route 87 - Soul Groove (Club Mix) 11) Ben Sterling - Hardys House (Original Mix) 12) Jason Lindell - Disco Dancin (Tech House Vip Mix) 13)Ben Sterling - Dimensions (Original Mix) 14)Catz 'n Dogz - First Night Out (Original Mix) 15) Matroda, Bleu Clair - Disco Tool (Original Mix) 16)Piero Pirupa, Leon (Italy) - Stronger (Extended Mix) 17)Florence And The Machine - You've Got The Love (Mark Knight Remix)

Christina Jones is an aspiring musical theater artist, musician, and voice actress studying musical theater at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, with a specialization in songwriting. She has been singing ever since she was a little girl, starting in school and church working her way up to bigger performances as he years went by. She has participated and competed in both local and national competitions, such as the St. Louis Teen Talent Competition (winner in 2017), American Idol (season 13), and Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, NY. She has participated in theatrical work on and offline, including but not limited to shows such as Cabaret (Ensemble), Shrek the Musical (Dragon), Big Fish (The Witch and Josephine respectively), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Peasblossom and the Fairy) and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf (Lady in Yellow). When she is not focused on school, she can be found writing poetry and creating covers for her weekly series on Instagram called Saturday Jazz. She is expected to play Janet in The Rocky orror Show at Moonbox Productions in Boston, MA, and Charlaine Woodard in Ain't Misbehavin' at Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA in 2022. Christina has also just released her debut album, You Were My Compass, with songs written by Kimiko Ishizaka, which can be found on her website.  Connect with Christina Jones online:  Instagram: christinajonesofficial/ Facebook: christinajonesmusic tiktok:  _christinajones Website: Christinajones.com Purchase Christina's new album "You Are My Compass" now at ChristinaJones.com For more information and news, check out our website and on social media: www.BringBackSoulMusic.com. Facebook: /BringBackSoulMusic2019 Instagram: /bringbacksoulmusic2019/ ​Twitter: https://twitter.com/BringBackSoulM1   Merch available at 'The Soul Shop'

Christina Jones is an aspiring musical theater artist, musician, and voice actress studying musical theater at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, with a specialization in songwriting. She has been singing ever since she was a little girl, starting in school and church working her way up to bigger performances as he years went by. She has participated and competed in both local and national competitions, such as the St. Louis Teen Talent Competition (winner in 2017), American Idol (season 13), and Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, NY. She has participated in theatrical work on and offline, including but not limited to shows such as Cabaret (Ensemble), Shrek the Musical (Dragon), Big Fish (The Witch and Josephine respectively), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Peasblossom and the Fairy) and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf (Lady in Yellow). When she is not focused on school, she can be found writing poetry and creating covers for her weekly series on Instagram called Saturday Jazz. She is expected to play Janet in The Rocky orror Show at Moonbox Productions in Boston, MA, and Charlaine Woodard in Ain't Misbehavin' at Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA in 2022. Christina has also just released her debut album, You Were My Compass, with songs written by Kimiko Ishizaka, which can be found on her website.  Connect with Christina Jones online:  Instagram: christinajonesofficial/ Facebook: christinajonesmusic tiktok:  _christinajones Website: Christinajones.com Purchase Christina's new album "You Are My Compass" now at ChristinaJones.com For more information and news, check out our website and on social media: www.BringBackSoulMusic.com. Facebook: /BringBackSoulMusic2019 Instagram: /bringbacksoulmusic2019/ ​Twitter: https://twitter.com/BringBackSoulM1   Merch available at 'The Soul Shop'

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Haig's Kabob House presents HYE JAMS RADIO with Paisan Kapitan and Kristina as they broadcast from CHUMMY STUDIOS in Los Angeles, California.  This week, your ArmoTalian host, along with his beautiful Armenian co-host, are Swaggin' and Braggin' all show long. Tune in for all the fun as they welcome rapper, producer and international recording artist, "Big E - Mastamindz" to the show. Ain't nuttin' but a party every week on Hye Jams Radio!

Introductions 1:48 Innocent Stories 2:13 Book reference: A Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart 2:28 Compliant vs reaching our potential 2:49 Matt's Innocent Tiger Story - age 8 4:00 Comedy in the “tragic” moments of life 5:33 Remote learning stifled voices without realizing it 6:14 Masks and projecting our voices 6:30 Masks and the smile 7:26 Speak Up 7:46 Theatre vocal exercises 8:30 Empowering student voices by reading their writing in front of the class. 9:00 Main Dish: Misdiagnosis: Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children 9:41 The Genius Child by Langston Hughes 10:10 Soul rape at school 10:27 Glorifying genius can also backfire 10:43 the burden of genius/giftedness 11:07 take care of yourself-don't try to be perfect 11:29 1. Gifted and undiagnosed learning disability, 2. Severe learning disabilities but highly gifted elsewhere. 3. Majority: Learning disability masked their giftedness, average but performing below their gifted level. 13:44 Elevating Student Voices in Education https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2019/08/14/473197/elevating-s tudent-voice-education/ 14:00 Elevating Student Voices (Allyship) https://www.greatschoolspartnership.org/empowering-students-to-use-their-voice/ 15:34 Vulnerability is key when working with people, teenager, to break down these walls. 16:00 We are there to serve. 16:29 Share your own struggles, show our failures 17:00 What do you need right now? 17:21 Self-efficacy 19:00 Deepening Student Voice - Open Mic representing ALL students https://www.ascd.org/blogs/deepening-student-voice-and-empowerment 19:44 Voices that are stifled and we don't fit in that box. 20:31 Tiger metaphor 21:21 What's really happening with our students? ASK!! 22:22 Empowering solutions by disrupting the inequities of the school. 23:02 What identity do you want to learn more about 23:21 Social-emotional learning should be a part of every class. 23:49 Empower vs. stifle - less conflict 24:17 “Empowering student voices transform the learning from being an observer to being an initiator” 25:38 When we disagree, doesn't make our point invalid 25:50 Look past ourselves, there is still more work to be done. 26:20 Create a safe environment or students won't share Additional Sources: National Speech and Debate https://www.speechanddebate.org/explore-membership-students/ Additional Sources: National Speech and Debate https://www.speechanddebate.org/explore-membership-students/ Where Can I Find Matt? Twitter: @MrCapriolaOLCHS Charities: aidschicago.org and chicagolandlabrescue.org Where Can I Find Amy? www.amyperras.com Linkedin: Amy Perras Twitter: @perras_scope IG @aintgonnabenostupid Tik Tok @aintgonnabenostupid Ain't Gonna Be No Stupid Woman (Book) https://amzn.to/2Np4aRj YouTube: Ain't Gonna Be No Stupid https://bit.ly/3fT6v31 Coaching Session https://tinyurl.com/perrasscoping --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aintgonnabenostupid/support

In this episode, I'm chatting with Soul Singer, former background singer for Ike & Tina Turner, Owner of Sweetie Pies, Ms. Robbie! She talked about what her led her to music, her new song “Ain't My Stuff Good Enough”, and much more! Keep up with her on IG @ msrobbie & Check her out on Youtube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l3ivk8KkQ7Q&feature=youtu.be Keep up with your host on Instagram @unpacking_the_box_podcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/linnea-38/support

[Transcript below] Adapted by Julie Hoverson from the short story by H.P. Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling When Kenton Stanfield takes a job on Venus hunting for power crystals, he finds the hazards of the job too much to handle.  Cast List Kenton Stanfield - Reynaud LeBoeuf Frederick Dwight - Cole Hornaday Marshall Miller - Pat McNally Dana Manners - Julie Hoverson Supply Clerk - Marge Lutton Recorder - Beverly Poole Music:  Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com) Recorded in Conjunction with ART (American Radio Theater) Editing and Sound:   Julie Hoverson Cover Photo:  Julie Hoverson  "What kind of a place is it? Would you believe it's a mining colony on the steamy jungle planet we call Venus?" ___________________________________________________________________ Within the walls of Eryx  Adapted by Julie Hoverson from the original story by H.P. Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling. This was the second story I ever tried to adapt - the first one I did as an audio drama.  I had previously adapted The Thing on the Doorstep into a short film script - which I much later rewrote into an audio drama, and that will come up when it comes up.  This one was also one of the original ten episodes I put together for the series. You can see, I was starting with an easy writer to adapt.... H.P. Lovecraft.  HAH! Since then, I have actually adapted a LOT of Lovecraft, and one of the reasons his writing is so hard to translate into other mediums is that much of his genius is in his actual use of words, and unless you quote his long descriptive passages word for word, you lose that.  And if you do quote large chunks of it, you might as well just make an audio book.  I try and walk a fine line. As an aside - I know the title of the story is actually "IN the Walls of Eryx", but that always bothered me as being incorrect - the RATS are IN the walls (in the story The Rats in the Walls).  These guys are WITHIN the walls - between the actual walls, you know? In the Walls of Eryx was one of HPL's many collaborations and rewrites.  Little is known of Kenneth Sterling, the high school student and aspiring writer who sought Lovecraft's help, but he was clearly a sci fi fan - Eryx is unusual among Lovecraft's works as being a pure scifi story, with very little horror or mythos or mythical background to it, even if Lovecraft is generally credited with a complete rewrite and expansion of Kenneth's original idea. In the 1930s, when this was written, a common sci fi trope was that Venus was a steamy jungle planet, often populated by some lizardy species, and it appears as such in this story.  The other details are fairly unique to Eryx. Since the original story was all one man's report, technically written out, I had to pull scenes from his story and create them, and the characters in them, from whole cloth.  Not to mention adding somebody - "Miss Manners" - he could report in to throughout the story, to add some audio texture when Kenton was technically out on his own, as well as the voice for his "recorder" unit, which also functions as a sort of encyclopedia, and helps break up the heavy data dump of "this is how Venus works".  Perhaps the weirdest thing to try and portray in audio is the very "visual" presence - or absence - of the walls themselves.  A maze of invisible walls.  Or the native Venusians - whose weird cries were originally geese, if I remember correctly.  I think I slowed them down and ran them backward, or something like that. I also chose to tell this story vastly out of order, to give a sense of foreboding from the very start, as the audience hears how bad Kenton is doing, winding down, but still without giving away how it will ultimately end.  To make the time shifts clear, since they happen throughout the story, I created three different background ambiances for his log entries - since they have no other point of reference - each with his breather machinery getting a bit clunkier and running down.  Beyond that, everything rested heavily on Reynaud LeBeouf, the actor playing Kenton, to create the stages of the character's downward spiral.  We did record each set of scenes separately, out of order, essentially, so all the chatty beginnings were all at once and the weak and wearied end at the end.  Rey is one of my core group of go-to actors, and you'll hear him a lot in 19 Nocturne Boulevard. This was also recorded with the help of A-R-T - American Radio Theater - and many of the actors in it were part of that group.  A-R-T is a group of old time radio enthusiasts who focused on re-creating old episodes and working on the occasional newer play.  Having been part of the group for years before I began 19 Nocturne Boulevard, I featured various actors from A-R-T in a number of my episodes. _______________________________________________________________ WITHIN THE WALLS OF ERYX Cast: Kenton J. Stanfield (M/25), space prospector Frederick N. Dwight (M/30), space prospector Marshall Miller (M/40), commander Dana Manners (F/30), contact at control Supply Clerk (any) Recorder, mechanical voice (any)   OLIVIA      Did you have any trouble finding it?  What do you mean, what kind of a place is it?  Would you believe, it's a mining camp on the steamy jungle planet we call Venus?  NOTE:     "AMBIANCE" CUES ARE FOR BACKGROUND SOUNDS THAT CONTINUE THROUGHOUT EACH SCENE.  THEY ARE DETAILED AT THE END OF THE SCRIPT MUSIC SCENE 1.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 5 KENTON     [filter, weak]  Venus month 6, day 14, nighttime.  Kenton J. Stanfield.  Perhaps my final report.  [rasping bark of almost laughter]  My fifth whole day.  Canteen went dry at noon.  Food tablets not dangerously low... yet.  Chlorate cubes are my real worry.  I feel...weak from my forced economy in oxygen, and from my constantly mounting thirst. MUSIC   SCENE 2.     MINING BASE SOUND     TWO MEN WALK IN A FACILITY KENTON     [hale & hearty]  You're still using Carter oxygen units?  But they're so darn heavy! MILLER     Budget's god around here, kid.  You'll see.  We're not funded like the government. KENTON     A Dubois mask isn't that much more, and does the job at half the weight.  Saves on chlorate cubes, too. MILLER     Just figure how much "not much more" IS when multiplied by over a hundred prospectors.  If you last up here, you can always get yourself a Dubois.  [chuckles]  Once you start making the big bucks. KENTON     The way you say that... MILLER     Oh, it happens.  Just not that often. MUSIC   SCENE 3.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 5 KENTON     [filter, weak]  I do not know the time.  It is dark.  There is something damnable... something uncanny... about this labyrinth. I could swear that I had eliminated certain turns through charting, and yet each new trial belies some assumption I had thought established.  Never before did I realize how lost we are without visual landmarks.  MUSIC   SCENE 4.     JUNGLE SOUND     SLIGHT, RHYTHMIC BEEPING CONTINUES UNDER ENTIRE SCENE [crystal detector] SOUND     [FILTER] CRACKLE OF RADIO INTERFERENCE INTERMITTENT THROUGHOUT. DANA     [filter]  Hey greenhorn!  This is your contact, Dana Manners, speaking.  [chuckle]  That's Miss Manners, to you.  You got me for a glorious half hour. KENTON     What?  Why only--? DANA     [filter]  Don't none of you boys ever crack a manual?  [quoting]  "The company's only rebroadcast orbiter is a" - well, it's a dang fast critter - so it "provides a window for one half hour approximately every six hours for each sector."  And that's your first five minutes.  Care to waste some more, or you plan to make some kinda report? KENTON     [chuckling]  Sorry!  OK, my coordinates-- SOUND     different beeping [pocket recorder] DANA     [filter]  Good-Ness.  Did you bring your blankie, too?  All that boring info is sent up automatic-like.  KENTON     [worried]  But... my log, too? DANA     [filter]  [pause, prolonging the agony]  Nah, takes too much juice.  This way, you get to edit out all your little personal comments and naughty little secrets before handing it over for archiving. KENTON     [relieved]  Oh.  Good.  DANA     [filter]  So you one of those boys who grew up just panting to work on Venus? KENTON     Actually, I wanted to be a writer.  Venus just pays better.  Now it seems like I-- DANA     [filter]  --got hustled out of the base the minute your feet touched the sweet soggy ground?  Y'ain't the first.  "Here's your mask, grab your suit, what's yer hurry?" KENTON     Pretty much. MUSIC   SCENE 5.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 5 KENTON     [filter, weak]  ...Continued.  The effect of all these fr-fruitless wanderings is one of profound discouragement.  I can understand how poor Dwight must have felt.  His corpse is now just a skeleton, and the sificlighs and farnoth-flies are gone.   MUSIC     SCENE 6.     MINING BASE AMB          CANTEEN, EATING MILLER     It's all about the crystals, kid.  You read the manual? KENTON     Well... MILLER     You had an entire rocket trip and--? KENTON     [sheepish]  Well...  There was this poker game-- MILLER     [oh lord!]  Save me from greenhorns with less sense than kittens!  That book could have saved your life, you know.  KENTON     Well, I figured there'd be time-- MILLER     There's never enough time.  Men who can withstand the strains of crystal hunting here on Venus are few and far between.  Most - like yourself - last no more than three trips.  KENTON     What makes you think--? MILLER     Prove me wrong. DWIGHT     [off mike]  Hey!  Miller! MILLER     See that?  Now there's a guy who knows his beans. DWIGHT     [coming closer, gloating]  Miller!  Read it and weep! SOUND     paper FLOURISH. DWIGHT     Twenty-three carats! MILLER     Twenty-three?  That's-- DWIGHT     Right there in black and white.  Beat that! MILLER     [to Kenton]  Kenton, this is Dwight - Fred Dwight, one of the brightest stars of the Terra Nova Corp.  DWIGHT     The brightest star.  Ken, is it?  Well, Ken, there ain't no one else out there's netted as many total lifetime karats as me.  Over seven hundred.  KENTON     Oh.  Um, I don't-- MILLER     Kid skipped the manual. DWIGHT     Pfah.  OK, it takes about 20 karats to power, say the entire city of Chicago for a year.  Shoot, by my calculations, I've kept the entire eastern seaboard lit for the last five! MUSIC   SCENE 7.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 4 KENTON     [filter, tired]  Nightfall.  There is nothing to do but persevere.  Dwight would have got out if he had kept on a minute longer.  It is just possible that somebody from Terra Nova will come looking for me before long, although this is only my fourth day out.  MUSIC   SCENE 8.     SUPPLY OFFICE SOUND          OBJECTS BEING BROUGHT OUT AND SET DOWN SUPPLY CLERK     Suit fit OK?  Last chance. KENTON     Feels fine. MILLER     With the tropical atmosphere out there, you better be sure - five days is a long damn time to chafe. KENTON     [chuckles]  I understand.  I'm sure.  So my tour is five days? MILLER     To start with.  You remember Dwight?  Now there's a long-hauler.  Does about 2 months - earth months, 60 days - on most trips.  SUPPLY CLERK     Food tablets.  One week. SOUND     BOX being set down. MILLER     But then, he's been Cytherean for over a decade.  KENTON     Cytherean?  MILLER     Means "of Venus" to us long-timers.  We feel "Venusian" sounds too damn silly after all the crummy movies. SUPPLY CLERK     Breathing unit. SOUND     larger box KENTON     Cytherean.  Got it. MILLER     Dwight's practically one of the locals.  You seen them yet? SUPPLY CLERK     Chlorate cubes.  One week. SOUND     another box KENTON     Only pictures - now THAT part of the manual I did look over.  [shudder]  Creepy little buggers, aren't they? MILLER     Little?  Ken, Ken, Ken.  [sigh]  You didn't look hard enough - on average, the lizard-men run seven feet tall! KENTON     Holy--! SUPPLY CLERK     Recording unit. SOUND     box MILLER     Don't worry too much.  They're-- well, they're not harmless, not by a long chalk, but they're... manageable. KENTON     So those...tentacles they've got for arms...? SUPPLY CLERK     Crystal detector. SOUND     box. MILLER     Arms, legs, tongue, who knows what they are - Yup, four or five feet long on some of them.  We call them lizard-men, what with the greenish, scaly skin and all, but they're not really like anything back home. KENTON     [awe]  Seven feet tall... SUPPLY CLERK     Flame pistol.  Fully charged. SOUND     box. MUSIC   SCENE 9.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 4 KENTON     [filter, tired]  Four days out.  I think.  I am resolved not to hasten matters as Dwight did.  His grinning skull has just turned toward me, shifting by the groping of one of the scavengers that are picking him over.  The ghoulish stare of its empty eye-sockets is worse than the tentacled onlookers that stand gloating around the invisible barrier laughing at me.  Another day and I shall go mad, if I do not drop dead from exhaustion. MUSIC   SCENE 10.     JUNGLE SOUND     strong, rhythmic beeping THROUGHOUT SCENE [crystal detector] KENTON     You still there, Miss Manners? DANA     [filter, very crackly throughout]  Just another coupla minutes.  What's your beef? KENTON     I've got a reading on my crystal detector - looks like a big one.  DANA     [filter]  Them things ain't reliable for size, just direction.  Could be just an itty bitty one, real nearby. KENTON     Well, what's the terrain like due, um... SOUND     beeping gets slower, then picks up again AS HE TURNS KENTON     North, I think, of my current position? DANA     [filter]  North?  [prolonged crackle]  --Erycinian highlands--  [crackle]  --last known position of-- SOUND     crackling.  CLICK - radio turned off. KENTON     Great.  On my own again.  Recorder? RECORDER     [filter, mechanical voice]  Ready. KENTON     Erycinian highlands? RECORDER     [filter]  A plateau mapped by Matsugawa from the air fifty years ago.  Designated 'Eryx'  One of the few areas of any size on Venus noted for a lack of vegetation-- KENTON     Off.  Lack of vegetation?  That'll be a relief.  Anything to get out of those rubbery creepers and overhanging fronds. MUSIC   SCENE 11.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 3 KENTON     [filter, normal]  Month 6, Day 12, my third day out.  Afternoon.  In less than an hour, I saw that the jungle growths were thinning out, and by five o'clock - after passing through a belt of tree-ferns with very little underbrush - I emerged on a broad plateau.  My progress now became rapid, and I saw by the wavering of my detector-needle that I was getting closer to the crystal I sought.  MUSIC   SCENE 12.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     BAR - MAINLY MALE VOICES MILLER     Some brainy types insist they're intelligent.  DWIGHT     The lizzies?  [dismissive]  Screwballs. KENTON     Well, they build cities-- DWIGHT     Anthills.  Beehives.  And we don't try to make treaties with bugs, do we?  Hmm? KENTON     But they talk... don't they? MILLER     That's been debated for years.  There seems to be some pattern to the tentacle movements-- DWIGHT     Yeah, and bees dance.  I've been out there longer than just about anyone, and they're nothing but a damn nuisance. MILLER     A religious nuisance. DWIGHT     So they worship the crystals.  Big deal.  They can't use 'em - don't even know they do anything more'n glow.  If we wanna change things, we got about two real choices-- MILLER     [ironic]  Try and civilize them, like we did with everyone back home? DWIGHT     Nah - they're way too primitive for that.  I say we either gotta cage 'em up like the animals they are-- MILLER     We've tried THAT one before, too. DWIGHT     Or we can just blow em all away.  Why not?  They're not decorative, useful, or even edible.  They don't do ANYTHING worth keeping 'em around. MUSIC   SCENE 13.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 4 KENTON     [filter, tired]  Note to self.  Um, day - fourth.  Fourth day.  I racked my brains with speculations regarding the material, origin, and purpose of the strange edifice.  That the hands of men might have reared it, I could not for a moment believe.  Human knowledge does not include any perfectly transparent, non-reflective solid such as the substance of this building.  Did a forgotten race of highly-evolved beings precede the man-lizards as masters of Venus?  The strange and seemingly non-practical building and its material suggests a religious purpose. MUSIC   SCENE 14.     PLATEAU SOUND     RADIO STATIC KENTON     Contact?  You back yet?  Manners?  Damn. SOUND     crackling static.  radio CLICKS off KENTON     This is just... nuts!  SOUND     two thunks - pounding on stone wall KENTON     What the heck is this stuff? SOUND     pounding, hand groping along wall KENTON     Hmm.  Smooth.  Cool to the-- SOUND     RADIO STATIC DANA     [filter]  Contact here.  Report? KENTON     Have I got a report for you!  I found an invisible wall! MUSIC   SCENE 15.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 5 KENTON     [filter, weak]  Fifth day out, and I doubt I will see a sixth.  Very weak.  Did not sleep much till daylight.  Must save chlorate cubes, so I'm nearly suffocating for lack of oxygen.  Can't walk much of the time, but ma-manage a crawl.  Those damnable green things keep staring and laughing with their tentacles, and sometimes they gesticulate in a way that makes me think they share some terrible joke, just beyond my perception. MUSIC   SCENE 16.     PLATEAU DANA     [filter]  Listen to me real careful now, Ken.  You need to close your eyes and start backing up.  Right this minute. KENTON     What?  My recorder unit lists nothing about invisible walls-- DANA     [filter]  You backing up yet?  Ignore anything you see or hear-- KENTON     Why, for crying out loud? DANA     [filter]  Get yourself clear first, then check your recorder's entry for mirage-plants.  Move your backside!  Them things're deadly. KENTON     Wait.  No...  Wait a minute.  I'm in the middle of the plains of Eryx.  No plants within a half mile.  Nothing to see but mud, and-- [cuts himself off] SOUND     BEEPING [crystal detector] DANA     [filter]  [beat]  Yeah?  Mud and ...? KENTON     [evasive]  Hmm?  Oh, the walls.  But you can't SEE them because they're invisible. MUSIC   SCENE 17.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 3 KENTON     [filter]  Third day, supplemental.  What made my heart leap was a smaller detail, whose position could not have been far from the plain's exact centre.  It was a single point of light, blazing through the mist and seeming to draw a piercing, concentrated luminescence from the yellowish, vapor-dulled sunbeams.  This, without doubt, was the crystal I sought.  I could hardly wonder, as I glimpsed the distant glow, that those miserable man-lizards worship them. MUSIC   SCENE 18.     PLATEAU SOUND     squishy footsteps, intermittent throughout KENTON     --maybe 20 feet tall - I managed to throw a handful of mud about that high, and it went over. DANA     [filter]  I ain't got any maps or archives with specifics for that locale.  Not a popular spot, seeing as there's none of the streams them crystals show up in. KENTON     No streams, but plenty of damp - the whole plateau is-- [slight shudder] --like a solid sheet of slimy mud, with a light frosting of ground mist.  DANA     [filter]  Could this wall thing be some kinda natural phenomena? KENTON     Too smooth.  Very regular.  Slightly curved, too, I think.  Ovoid. DANA     [filter]  You writers and your big ole words...  Been all the way round yet? KENTON     I don't think so, but I can't really tell-- DANA     [filter]  [condescending]  Well, did you hit your own dainty little footsteps again? KENTON     Not a chance.  The mud is so liquid, it just doesn't take - not even for a minute.  It's like I haven't been here before. DANA     [filter]  I need you to mark your position and come back to base, Ken.  This is way outside standard procedure.  You hear me? KENTON     Got it.  I'll get out of here pretty soon.  I just wanted to--  SOUND     BEEPING [crystal detector] SPEEDS UP SLIGHTLY.  THEN IS MUFFLED. KENTON     --to get all the way round, just once.  DANA     [filter]  Honey, I'll be flat out of range in two shakes.  I don't want to worry you none, but if anything happens out there, it could be days before help'll arrive. KENTON     Days?  But a lander would only‑‑ DANA     [filter]  Manpower and money, old son.  Base only has a dozen resident staff, and none of us is jungle-worthy.  We gotta wait for some of you roughnecks to wander on home, THEN the company has to pay fer their time fer a rescue.  Why d'you think they load you up with plenty of ammo?  Much cheaper.  KENTON     It's a wonder they bother. DANA     [filter]  [serious]  And death benefits.  KENTON     What? DANA     [filter]  They're cheaper, too. MUSIC   SCENE 19.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 5 KENTON     [filter, weak]  Horror and despair. Baffled again!  I had been deceived once more, and was apparently back where I had been on my first futile attempt to leave the labyrinth.  Whether I screamed aloud I do not know - perhaps I was too weak to utter a sound.  I merely lay dazed in the mud for a long period, while the greenish things outside leaped and laughed and gestured.   MUSIC   SCENE 20.     MINING BASE KENTON     Isn't this a lot of ammo?  I mean, seven clips-- DWIGHT     One a day - that's pretty average.  Save 'em for the trip home.  The lizzies don't usually try much right away - that is, until you got one of their precious crystals.  The worst you can expect before you make a find is pot-shots with blow-gun darts. KENTON     Blow-guns?  That's it? DWIGHT     Don't scoff.  One of those darts'll slice through your suit like butter.  All it needs to do is nick you and the local germs do the rest - if the insects don't get you first.  [beat]  If you don't get back to base in time...  Well, you noticed the bartender's hand? KENTON     [gulps]  The hook? DWIGHT     Um-hmm. MUSIC   SCENE 21.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 3 KENTON     [filter, normal]  Late afternoon, third day.  I have said that even from a great distance the shining object's position seems indefinably queer - a slight mound rising from the slime and mist.  Now - at about a hundred yards - I could see plainly just what that mound was.  It was the body of a man in one of the Company's protective suits, lying on his back, with his oxygen mask half buried in the mud a few inches away.  In his right hand, crushed convulsively against his chest, was the crystal which had led me here - a spheroid of incredible size, so large that the dead fingers could scarcely close over it.  I wondered who the man was. MUSIC   SCENE 22.     PLATEAU KENTON     Holy cow!  SOUND     THUMP ON WALL KENTON     Dwight?  SOUND     THUMPING ON WALL, HURRIED SPLISHING FOOTSTEPS KENTON     Oh, jeez. [SOUND: THUMP]  But the walls-- [SOUND: THUMP]  How could he--  [gasps]  Woah! SOUND     splash in the watery mud as he finds a gap. MUSIC   SCENE 23.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 3 KENTON     [filter, normal]  There was an opening about three feet wide.  Without a moment's hesitation I stepped through and advanced two paces to the prostrate body - which lay in what seemed to be an intersecting doorless corridor.  It gave me a fresh curiosity to find that the interior of this vast enclosure was divided by partitions... MUSIC   SCENE 24.     BAR SOUND     TIN CUP SET DOWN DWIGHT     [a bit drunk]  I hope I die out there.  SOUND     LIQUID POURS KENTON     You want to die? DWIGHT     No - don't WANT to, just that when I do, I hope it's out there.  In the jungle.  The scavengers'll strip me clean in a coupla hours and no one'll ever know what happened. MILLER     Just make sure you're dead first.  Some of them bugs don't wait. KENTON     Will they really--? MILLER     That's why the suits are made the way they are - like cellophane, but thicker.  No weave, no tiny holes for bugs to get in through. KENTON     But the suit doesn't cover everything--? DWIGHT     Ah, they don't like the breather.  Smells bad or something.  So your head is pretty safe... as long as you don't take it off. MUSIC   SCENE 25.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 3 KENTON     [filter, normal]  Looking about for some possible cause of death, my eyes lit upon the oxygen mask lying close to the body's feet.  Probably carelessly buckled, so the weight of the tubes worked the straps loose - wouldn't've happened with a Dubois sponge-reservoir mask.   MUSIC   SCENE 26.     PLATEAU KENTON     Well, Dwight, old buddy, you got your wish.  At least this baby won't go to waste.  [grunts]  Let go!  [grunts again]  Aha!  SOUND     a couple of squish-steps KENTON     Waitaminute.  Wait...  Rigor mortis, it... it doesn't last...  Manners, you there?  SOUND     crackle of radio KENTON     Recorder? RECORDER     Ready. KENTON     Rigor mortis. RECORDER     A condition of deceased flesh.  A spasming of muscles-- KENTON     How long does it last? SOUND     rustling, slapping noises far in background RECORDER     Rigor begins 3-7 hours after termination of life, and lasts approximately 12 hours. KENTON     Off.  Holy--!  Dwight... SOUND     rustling, slapping noises build KENTON     What in sam hill--?  [what the heck?] MUSIC   SCENE 27.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 3 KENTON     [filter, normal]  It was a group of a dozen or so of those detestable man-lizards emerging from the forest far off across the plain.  When they drew nearer they seemed less truly reptilian - only the flat head and the green, slimy, frog-like skin carrying out the idea.  They walked erect on odd, thick stumps, which made curious noises in the mud.  The motions of their tentacles - if the theories are right - indicated that the things were in animated conversation. MUSIC   SCENE 28.     PLATEAU DANA     [filter]  You asleep? KENTON     [bummed]  Would it matter? DANA     [filter]  You sound real down.  Tell mama Manners all about it.  You may not have a lot of time, though, there's some sunspot activity predicted for tonight, so I may have to miss a date or two-- but you can forgive a girl for that, can't you? KENTON     I--  I'm lost. DANA     [filter]  Nonsense.  You're nowhere near uncharted territory.  Just punch into the recorder-- KENTON     Oh, I know exactly where I am.  But I'm still lost. DANA     [filter, half joking]  Is this where I start telling you to back away quickly?  KENTON     The invisible wall?  Well, it's more like-- DANA     [filter]  Like what?  An invisible barn? KENTON     --An invisible ...maze.  I can see the entire plain from here, the trees are at the edges, the sky above, but I can't... get... out. DANA     [filter]  Have you tried taking every left fork?  That usually-- KENTON     There's something else.  I-- There's a crowd of the lizard-men just waiting at the entrance - ready to jump me if I manage to escape. DANA     [filter]  Two things-- KENTON     I need some help-- DANA     [filter, sadly]  Ain't gonna happen.  [crackle]  Not for a couple days.  Sunspots play havoc with landing vehicles, same as communications. KENTON     So I just-- DANA     [filter]  Listen to me Ken.  You've never tried shooting one of them things, have ya?  The flame guns are particularly nasty.  Them critters go up like oily rags.  Once you get one or two of 'em, the others'll head for the hills.  They don't really wanna fight-- DWIGHT     [filter, distant and echoey]  That is, until you got one of the precious crystals. KENTON     Oh.  [resolved]  No. DANA     [filter]  No?  No what? KENTON     I'm not giving it up. DANA     [filter]  That's the spirit, Ken.  Long as you're in a safe place, just sit tight, and we'll get a rescue party in, soon as possible. KENTON     [considering]  You mean other prospectors, right? DANA     [filter]  Yep.  KENTON     Maybe I will be out of here by then... MUSIC   SCENE 29.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 4 KENTON     [filter, tired]  Fourth day.  Shortly after dawn.  The alluring crystal, the body of the man who seized it before me - these have acquired a dark and threatening meaning.  Dwight was a victim, too.  He must have been trapped some time ago, and failed to find his way out.  His mask probably didn't slip accidentally.  Rather than face a lingering death he solved the issue by letting the lethal atmosphere do its work.  The horrible irony of his fate lay in his position - only a few feet from the exit he failed to find.  And now I'm as trapped as he'd been.  MUSIC   SCENE 30.     plateau KENTON     [tired, but not quite exhausted - yet] Recorder. RECORDER     [filter]  Ready. KENTON     Location - central chamber.  Describe? RECORDER     [filter]  Round chamber.  Six irregularly spaced egresses. KENTON     Progress? RECORDER     [filter]  You have 27 times attempted the exit you designated "door in line with corpse and tree". KENTON     Yeah, well...  Then I realized three of the doors all line up that way.  There's just not enough difference in perspective. RECORDER     [filter]  You have recorded 43 trips out of the central chamber.  KENTON     I know.  With no way to mark anything, I can't tell which door is which. RECORDER     [filter]  You have attempted to score the wall with your knife, and with your flame pistol.  You have tried to make a mark in ink, and smear it with mud.  You have reported no success. KENTON     Picking a damn door at random would do me more good. RECORDER     [filter]  Correlating the turns you have thus far recorded, a random choice would give you odds of 1 in-- KENTON     Off. MUSIC   SCENE 31.     KENTON'S LOG AMBIANCE     LOG 5 KENTON     [filter, weak]  This, then, is the end.  Three days, taking me nowhere.  My strength is gone.  It was no common series of mischances which made me lose my way in this roofless, unseen tangle of corridors.  Far from it.  Beyond doubt, the place is a genuine maze - a labyrinth - a trap set to catch humans.  MUSIC   SCENE 32.     PLATEAU KENTON     [weak, not on filter]  Hiya Dwight.  Hey, buddy. SOUND     weak pounding on wall, splishes of vague movement in the mud. KENTON     You got it all over me.  You almost made it, old pal.  Almost... SOUND     RUSTLING AND SPLISHING [Kenton takes out his recorder] KENTON     Recorder on. RECORDER     [filter]  Ready. SOUND     ALIEN NOISES GET LOUDER. KENTON     [weak]  I have just taken the great crystal out of my pouch to look at in my last moments.  It shines fiercely and menacingly in the red rays of the dying day.  The leaping horde have noticed it, and their g-gestures have changed in a way I cannot understand.  I am ... growing ... numb.   SOUND     ONE LAST LABORED EXHALE, MACHINE SLOWS, THEN A MOMENT OF SILENCE. MUSIC   SCENE 33.     GENERAL QUARTERS [NOTE:       Miller is dictating, not playing back, so he is NOT on a filter] MILLER     Operative A-49, Kenton J. Stanfield left Terra Nova early on six-twelve, for a short-term trip.  Due back 13th or 14th.  Did not appear by evening of 15th.  Followed last reported location to Erycinian Highland.  Brought plane down nearby and corner of the wing crashed on unseen obstruction.  Approaching on foot, we came up short against a smooth, invisible barrier.  Located skeleton of Operative B-9, Frederick N. Dwight of Koenig's division, and aforementioned deceased, Stanfield.  We had great difficulty in getting to Stanfield, but finally succeeded.  We shall bury Dwight and Stanfield in the company graveyard, and ship the crystal on the next-- SOUND     beep [phone].  MILLER     Off. SOUND     phone picked up. MILLER     Miller. DANA     [filter]  I heard-- MILLER     Yeah. DANA     [filter]  And I'm real sorry.  Boy seemed real nice-- MILLER     He was.  Keep it under your hat, but I think this is the last straw. DANA     [filter]  Last straw? MILLER     [sigh]  I have been warned.  The next rocket'll be carrying marines. DANA     [filter]  [shocked]  Oh.  Well.  I AM sorry. MILLER     Yeah. SOUND     HANGS up PHONE.  MILLER      Recorder on. SOUND     CLICK. RECORDER     [filter] Ready. MILLER     [sigh]  Personal note.  I am impressed not only with the irony of Dwight's fate, but with that of Stanfield as well.  We found a doorway some fifteen feet past Dwight.  Beyond this was a hall and ... oh, hell... Stanfield could have reached the outside by walking twenty-two feet if he had just found the opening directly behind him. MUSIC END

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King Henry VIII. Beheader of wives. Noted fat guy. Lover of turkey legs. Henry the 8th has become a punch line, known for his break with the Roman Catholic Church over his obsession with Anne Boleyn and gradual decay into a stinking, ulcerating laughingstock by the time of his death at 55 in 1547. But Henry VIII wasn't just a big goofus...he also exhibited classic signs of psychopathy, narcissism, and traits of being a serial killer. One that didn't get his own hands dirty, of course, but a killer all the same. The clergy, his wives, rebels and former friends and mentors: no one was safe from Henry's order of a falling axe and a missing head. If you stood in his way, it didn't matter if you were his lover or God Himself...Henry's word was gospel, and nothing - and no one - else mattered. Join us to dissect the mind of this cold-hearted killer, one whose hot-blooded decisions changed the Tudor dynasty - and England itself - forever. ________________________________________ Connect with us on social media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/aintitscary Twitter: @aintitscary Instagram: @aintitscary Patreon: www.patreon.com/aintitscary ___________________________________________ Thank you to our sponsors: BetterHelp - Special offer for Ain't it Scary? listeners: Get 10% off your first month at www.betterhelp.com/aintitscary Audible - Get a FREE audiobook and 30-Day Free Trial at www.audibletrial.com/aintitscary BarkBox - Enjoy a FREE month of BarkBox on us when you sign up for a 6 or 12-month BarkBox subscription! Visit www.barkbox.com/aintitscary for more details Hunt a Killer - Receive 20% off your first Hunt a Killer subscription box at www.huntakiller.com with the code SCARYSQUAD at checkout! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aintitscary/support

R&B music has changed. It was once the soundtrack of love, but is now more like a journal of pain. Through this music, George tracks the breakdown of the African American family since the 1970s. He discovers that higher poverty and incarceration rates among African Americans left a generation of children to fend for themselves. By the 1990s Gangsta rappers were displaying disrespect to women - and the market loved it and rewarded it. At the same time, Black women were pushing back through songs calling out immature men, and celebrating financial independence. Warning: This episode contains very strong language and language which may offend, as well as some adult themes. Credits: Written by George the Poet Produced by Benbrick and George the Poet Mixing, recording and editing by Benbrick. With music from: Ginuwine - Differences Jhené Aiko - P*$$Y Fairy (OTW) Kaash Paige - Love Songs George The Poet - Baby Father Cardi B - WAP (feat. Megan Thee Stallion) Megan Thee Stallion - Cash Shit (feat. DaBaby) Rick Ross - Sanctified (feat. Kanye West & Big Sean) Drake & GIVĒON - Chicago Freestyle Chris Brown - Loyal (Instrumental) Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing) Whitney Houston - It's Not Right But It's Okay Dr Dre - Bi*****s Ain't S**t Destiny's Child - Bills, Bills, Bills Sunshine Anderson - Heard It All Before TLC - No Scrubs Jazmine Sullivan - Pick Up Your Feelings All original music is written by Benbrick and recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Thank you to: My team: Sandra, Vidhu, and Birungi. Dylan Haskins and the team at BBC Sounds, BBC Concert Orchestra. Torrie Maas. My Common Ground team: Anne Whitehead, Darshan Sanghrajka, and Benbrick. Archive: The clips of Candi Staton used at 07:31, 08:05, 08:28 and 08:59 are taken from her interview with Paul Morley on Guardian Music. The clips of Jay-z used at 11:06 are taken from his interview on the Scandinavian talk show Skavlan, and his interview with Sway for MTV. The clip of Tupac used at 11:32 is taken from his BET Networks interview with Ed Gordon. The clip of 50 Cent used at 12:23 is taken from his interview with Larry King for Ora TV. The clip of Barack Obama used at 13:01 is taken from CBS News. The clip of Lauryn Hill used at 14:26 is taken from her 1998 BET Rap City interview. The clip talking about crack used at 20:05 is taken from the Glide Memorial Church conference “The Race Against Crack”. Have You Heard George's Podcast? is a George the Poet production for BBC Sounds. Commissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Eland Commissioning Senior Producer: Alex Entwistle Commissioning Executive for BBC: Dylan Haskins

This week on the Ain't Easy Being Green Podcast......Robert Saleh and Zach Wilson continue the (pre season) undefeated streak with a 23-14 win over the Green Bay Packers!!!.....Wilson looked Sharp, poised, steady and effective. What is his pre season grade so far? How is he doing in comparison to the other rookie qbs? Why his top 5 QB (pre season) QB rating may NOT be fools gold!! PLUS: Lawson injury, defensive issues, Mims/Cole, M Carter sighting, Kroft is ascending and C Herndon still a bum etc etc etc

We've all heard stories of Elizabeth Bathory, who is known as the most torturous and prolific female serial killer in history. Was she really the monster we all know her as, or was she the Regina George of her time – a powerful woman with enemies just as mean as she was? Kyna, host of the Historical AF podcast joins us for our second spooky true crime episode. Listen in for a giggle-filled discussion on the famed Blood Countess and her residence-turned-prison, Cachtice Castle. To see our sources for this episode, head to our website at www.spookysciencesisters.com. Hit subscribe to be notified of future episodes, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@SpookySciPod), TikTok (@SpookyScience), and Facebook (@SpookyScienceSisters) for even more spooky content! Help us grow by sharing with a friend and leaving a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support the show further by buying us a “spirit”! Promo at the beginning of the episode from Ain’t It Scary? with Sean & Carrie. Spooky Science Sisters is a member of the Straight Up Strange Podcast Network.

Ain't nothin' gonna break his stride. Ain't nothin' gonna slow him down. Oh, no. He's got to keep on cooking those wings. Wings 4 Water founder Chris Turney drops by the studio to talk to Nick and Jason about next week's 5th annual Wings 4 Water charity event at Harris Park. 

This week's Local Talent Guest was the band Tracen Hollow! They performed Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine"! What grade do you give? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week's Local Talent Guest was the band Tracen Hollow! They performed Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine"! What grade do you give? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Choke-boxing, Cocaine Nazis, and Exploding Sharks, are some of the things that happen when we learn that there "Ain't No Heels at the Carnival" all during the 9th ever TNA PPV. (PPV Starts 12:24)

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Our last episode dealt with the reign of Ghazan Khan, ruler of the Mongol Ilkhanate from 1295 to 1304. A powerful Muslim monarch, Ghazan's reign reinvigorated the Khanate, greatly advancing the already underway islamization of the region's Mongol population. With his death, we enter the final phase of the Ilkhanate's history.  First, we will look at the reign of Ghazan's brother and successor, Oljeitu Khudabandah, the penultimate ruler of the united Ilkhanate. I'm your host David, and this is Kings and Generals: Ages of Conquest.   When Ghazan Khan succumbed to his illness on the 17th of May, 1304, the always thorough Ghazan had been prepared. Leaving no male heirs behind and wishing to avoid having the realm descend into warfare, he had forced the military elite and princes to elect his younger brother Oljeitu as Khan. The 24 year old Oljeitu was duly enthroned that July, under the title of Sultan Ghiyath al-Din. The process was remarkably peaceful, with no resistance or massacres accompanying it- with the exception of Oljeitu preemptively having Prince Ala-Fireng, a son of the former Il-Khan Geikhatu, killed, for he had been seen as a potential rival. As far as Ilkhanid successions went, it was nearly as calm as you could hope for. Granted, Ghazan had killed most potential claimants during his own reign.   Oljeitu was a son of Arghun Il-Khan, born in 1280. He and Ghazan were of different mothers: Ghazan was born to one of Arghun's concubines, whereas Oljeitu was born to Arghun's third wife, a Kereit Nestorian Christian named Orug Khatun.  If Oljeitu's life could be remarked upon for one thing, even before he became Il-Khan, it was experimentation with religion, usually accompanied by a change of name. Firstly, it seems he was born and raised a Buddhist, much like Ghazan and their father Arghun. The name he was originally given is unclear: in some sources it was Oljeitu or Oljei Buqa, a Mongolian Buddhist name meaning “blessed.” Yet in others, he is confusingly called Kharbandah or Khudabandah. The two names confused even medieval sources. Khudabandah in Persian means “servant of God,” and it seems that Oljeitu often went by this name in his adult life. However, he was also called Kharbandah, which means “donkey driver,” or “servant of the donkey.” No one, medieval or modern, has provided a fully accepted explanation for why he bore such competing names. The Mongols had a custom for a child to be named after the first thing the mother saw after giving birth. Ibn Battuta, travelling through the Ilkhanate in the 1330s, reported that Oljeitu's mother Orug Khatun had first seen a donkey driver. Yet, as none of her other children bore Persian names, it is confusing that she would not have given him the Mongolian equivalent, Qulanchi. Other sources have him first called Kharbandah, and then change it to Khudabandah upon his enthronement, while others have him take Oljeitu at that time, after the reigning Great Khan, Khubilai's grandson Temur Oljeitu. Historian Timothy May suggests the kharbandah/khudabandah matter was a rude pun given to him by Sunni schoalars upon Oljeitu's conversion to Shia Islam. Of course, this is not helped by the fact that the main biography of Oljeitu's life, written by Qashani soon after the Il-Khan's death, has him also called Temuder at some point in his youth too.    Regardless if Oljeitu had the name of Oljeitu or Khudabandah at birth, when he was around 10 years old he was given another name and religion: Nicholas, after Pope Nicholas IV. Arghun, during negotiations with said Pope, had Oljeitu baptised and given a Christian name, or rather it's Mongolian form, Nikolya.  The young Oljeitu did not stick with Christianity, as he returned to Buddhism in his teenage years. But this was not to be his final conversion, no sir. He soon joined his brother Ghazan in becoming a Muslim, when he took the name Muhammad. This was not enough for him: first he was an adherent to the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam, before choosing the school of Shafi'ism. Disgusted by infighting between these schools, some of the noyans who had less love for Islam convinced Oljeitu to “return to the Old ways.” This meant a brief return to Buddhism, possibly a dabble in traditional Mongol Tengriism, before in 1309 or 1310, settling onto Twelver Shi'a Islam. And if that wasn't enough for you, some authors then have him return to Sunni Islam on his deathbed in 1316, though this may just be a posthumous effort by Sunni authors in the Ilkhanate to rehabilitate him.   So, for those of you who had trouble following that, his full name and title was Sultan Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad Khudabandah Oljeitu, and his religious path went Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Buddhism, Sunni Islam in two different schools, Buddhism, Shi'a Islam and then a possible return to Sunni Islam. As Oljeitu is the most common name by which he is known, we'll stick with that.   When Oljeitu became Khan of the Ilkhanate in 1304, he was in the midst of his Sunni Islam phase. Much of his initial years in power was spent following in the footsteps of his late brother, whose tomb he regularly visited for guidance and solace. He reaffirmed the viziers Rashid al-Din and Sa'd al-Siwaji in their posts, as well as Ghazan's great commander Qutlughshah as the viceroy. Like Ghazan, Oljeitu initially called for the destruction of Christian churches and imposition of the jizya, the poll-tax Christians and Jews had to pay under Islamic law. Also like Ghazan, he quickly rescinded these measures, and by 1305 was writing letters to the Pope and Kings of England and France seeking to orchestrate a military alliance against the Mamluks. Unlike Ghazan, he was greeted soon after his enthronement with messengers from the Great Khan, his namesake Temur Oljeitu, from the Chagatai Khan Du'a and the Ogedeid Khan Chapar. They bore glad tidings: news of the Great Mongol Peace. Du'a and Chapar had already recognized Temur Oljeitu's overlordship, and now Oljeitu Il-khan was invited to reaffirm the Ilkhante's loyalty as well. He promptly agreed, as did the then reigning Khan of the Golden Horde, Toqta. By 1305 the pax Mongolica was properly established, and Oljeitu and his son, Abu Sa'id, born in 1305, sent tribute to Temur Oljeitu's heirs for the remainder of their lives. Of course, the peace did not long last anywhere. Even before Oljeitu's death in 1316, conflict resumed with the Chagatai Khanate, and when a new Khan came to the Golden Horde in 1313, Ozbeg, he immediately eyed the pastures of the Caucasus.    With his Mongol borders secured for the time being, Oljeitu could focus on other issues on his mind. One was the building of a new capital, Sultaniyya. Originally begun by his father Arghun, it had lain largely derelict since his death. Some 320 kilometres southeast of the current capital, Tabriz,  Oljeitu restored and built upon the site in 1305, naming it Sultaniyya. Laying in excellent hunting grounds, the city became a home for the scholars and artists who Oljeitu richly patronized. It also housed his massive tomb complex, which still partially stands today; in fact, Oljeitu's 49 metre tall tomb, the Dome of Sultaniyya, is one of the few structures remaining of the city, a monument to Oljeitu's love of building. From 1318 onwards, it was also home to an archbishopric.    Sultaniyya sits in northwestern Iran, and its location may have been behind one of Oljeitu's next moves, the conquest of the Iranian province of Gilan. This hard to access region lies on the southernmost coast of the Caspian Sea, a mountainous enclave of dense forest and humidity. Since the time of Chormaqun in the 1230s, Gilan had escaped the might of the Mongols, and Oljeitu decided to end its independence, and in May 1307, a four-pronged assault on Gilan was launched. Initial successes met with the submission of a number of local rulers, but were followed with the defeat and death of the great Noyan Qutlughshah in battle. Efforts to avenge Qutlughshah were unsuccessful, and a disappointed Oljeitu ordered a withdrawal, having failed to fully annex the region.   The campaign had one great consequence for the Ilkhanate. The death of Qutlughshah left open the route for the rise of another military leader, Choban. Having been high in the noyad since the accession of Geikhatu, Choban's wealth and prestige had only increased. A staunch Muslim and firm supporter of Chinggisid rule, Choban Noyan, or the Emir Choban as he is often known, deftly filled the vacuum left by Qutlughshah's death. We will return to him in a few minutes.    It was not long after the return from Gilan that Oljeitu experienced his crisis of faith with Sunni Islam. A judicial dispute over a marriage held before the court in 1308 or ‘09 between representatives of the two main Sunni schools of thought, Hanafi scholars and a Shafi qadi,  devolved into mud-slinging between the representatives of the two schools. The Mongols of Oljeitu's court were annoyed by the constant argumentation, and disgusted by the insults levied between the parties involved.  The sources indicate that both parties looked the worse afterwards, and the Mongols' frustration with complicated Islamic thought and law is evident.  This was compounded when lightning struck and killed some of Oljeitu comrades in his attendance. Worried that this was the displeasure of the almighty, some of Oljeitu's noyans decided that this was a sign that the Mongols needed to return to their own faith. As a first step, it was suggested that Oljeitu should, in classic Turko-Mongolian custom, pass between two fires in order to purify himself, after the misfortune of the lightning strike. The Il-Khan attempted a brief flirtation with his pre-Islamic faiths, but found it either personally or politically untenable, for by then enough of the noyad was Muslim that going too far back could release a violent response.    The solution presented itself in the form of Shi'a Islam.  Why Oljeitu chose the Shi'a branch of Islam varies widely in the sources, as various sufis, qadis or members of the military elite are credited with converting him. In one account he is touched by a visit to the shrine of ‘Ali in Najaf, while in another account he is convinced of the merits of Shi'a Islam when someone compared the succession to the Prophet Muhammad to the succession of a Chinggisid monarch. The first four caliphs recognized by Sunni Muslims, it was argued, was akin to having a non-Chinggisid succeed a Chinggisid. Regardless of whoever or whatever convinced him, around 1309 Oljeitu became a Twelver Shi'a Muslim, recognizing ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib as the rightful heir to the Prophet. Oljeitu like his late brother Ghazan adored ‘Ali and honoured his lineage. While not seeking to convert the population of the Ilkhanate en masse to the Shi'a faith, Oljeitu had the names of the twelve Shi'a imams on his coinage and the khutba, the Friday sermons, which prompted resistance in cities like Baghdad and Tabriz. If we believe Mamluk accounts, Oljeitu's conversion led to rebellions across Iran.   Speaking of the Mamluks, Oljeitu's next military action was directed against this old enemy. Ever since Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil's assassination in 1293, the Mamluk Sultanate had been wrought with political intrigue and instability and a series of short lived usurpers. By 1312, al-Ashraf Khalil's younger brother al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun had been enthroned three times, deposed once and abdicated once. On his third enthronement in 1310, the 25 year old al-Nasir had effectively spent his entire life a puppet thrown around between rivals, and had little military experience. He had been in nominal command during the humiliating defeat at Wadi al-Khaznadar against Ghazan in 1299. Initially on his own enthronement, Oljeitu had sent rather conciliatory messages to the Mamluks, nearly approaching a temporary ceasefire in tone. But Oljeitu was by no means opposed to an attack on the Mamluks: he simply needed time to recoup from the invasions of Ghazan's final years, while holding out hope that the requested European aid would come to fruition. As he had indicated in his letters in 1305, the Mongol khanates were now at peace: why could the Europeans not see  this was a prime time to attack, when the Il-Khan needn't worry over his distant frontiers? But as the years passed with no responses and no signs of any forthcoming alliance, Oljeitu gave up hope on their assistance. Therefore, when another round of Mamluk defectors entered the Ilkhanate with news of Mamluk weakness with the reenthronement of the young al-Nasir Muhammad,  Oljeitu must have thought it an auspicious time for an assault.   Unlike Ghazan's campaign, Oljeitu's was poorly planned. Launched late in 1312, the Mongols led a halfhearted siege of Rahbat al-Sham along the Euphrates River that December. There, it was not royal Mamluks who were levied against Oljeitu's army, but desperate townsfolk who offered stiff resistance, inflicting heavy casualties on Oljeitu's ill-provisioned force. By the time al-Nasir's army had rallied and advanced, Oljeitu's forces had already crossed back over the river into the Ilkhanate. Though neither side knew it, this abysmal showing was the final full-scale invasion the Mongols launched into Syria. Only minor border raids and diplomatic posturing would follow. Oljeitu continued to welcome and reward Mamluk defectors though, who he used to help build up the Ilkhanate's own version of Mamluk slave soldiers, largely Mongol boys who had been sold into slavery and then later purchased by the Il-Khans. One of the Mamluk defectors, to Oljeitu's glee, was a fellow named Qara-Sunqor, who had played a major role in the assassination of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad's older brother and predeceassor al-Ashraf Khalil. The housing of Qara-Sunqor remained a sore point in Ilkhanid-Mamluk relations until the end of the 1320s.   Oljeitu was not finished with his military exercises, ordering an army to annex parts of Afghanistan in order to clamp down on the raids by the Negudaris. The Chagatai Khan Esen-Buqa not only saw the Negudaris as his subjects, but had feared the Yuan Dynasty and Ilkhanate were planning a two-pronged attack on his central kingdom. In an attempt to strike first, Esen-Buqa and his brother Kebek lead an invasion into Ilkhanid Khurasan in 1315, which despite early successes was called off when they learned that the Yuan Dynasty had actually invaded their eastern territory, as we saw previously in this podcast in episode 48, the second part on the Chagatai Khanate. Afterwards, Oljeitu placed his eight year old son, Abu Sa'id, as governor over Khurasan, the traditional position for Ilkhanid heirs. Oljeitu himself had held it for his brother Ghazan.    Ghazan had favoured the vizier, Rashid al-Din, and Oljeitu likewise continued to honour him. Soon after becoming Il-Khan Oljeitu instructed Rashid al-Din to expand his History of Ghazan, turning it into the great Compendium of Chronicles we know it as. In 1312, Oljeitu took the side of Rashid al-Din when he fell out with the other vizier, Sa'd al-Din Savaji. Corrupt and arrogant, he had made many enemies over his tenure, and once he lost the support of Rashid al-Din, Savaji was alone. When Rashid made his report to Oljeitu, which included charges of embezzlement, Oljeitu had Savaji tried and executed in February 1312. His replacement was Taj al-Din ‘Ali-Shah, a former jewel seller who turned out to have all of Savaji's negative traits in spades. ‘Ali-Shah is usually remarked upon for two things, the first being that he would be the only Ilkhanid vizier known to have died of natural causes in his own bed, and the second being his role in the death of Rashid al-Din. Rashid and ‘Ali-Shah did not get along well, and their fighting led to Oljeitu dividing the Ilkhanate into two separate administrative zones to keep them apart.    Rashid al-Din's standing with Oljeitu did not falter though, and he nursed Oljeitu when he fell ill in winter 1316. Suffering from severe stomach pain and intense diarrhea, Rashid's attempt to help purge the illness by providing laxatives only weakened Oljeitu's hold over his bowels. On the 17th of December 1316, Oljeitu Il-Khan died in Sultaniyya. He was only 36 years old.  Like many Mongol princes, his alcoholism seems to have been the key factor in his premature death.        Oljeitu had been adamant that his son Abu Sa'id should succeed him, and luckily had picked a good man to help ensure it was achieved. Choban Noyan, who had only grown in influence over Oljeitu's life and married the Il-Khan's daughter, though as devout Sunni Muslim seems to have not cared for Oljeitu becoming a Shi'ite. Wealthy, powerful, influential and respected among the princes and military elite, Choban also had the strength to boss around whoever failed to listen in the first place. Thus in July of 1317,  under Choban's guidance, did Abu Sa'id peacefully succeed his father, without any accompanying assassinations. Oljeitu was the first Il-Khan to be directly succeeded by his son since Abaqa succeeded Hulegu back in 1265. Of course, as a 12 year old boy Abu Sa'id could not do much ruling, and Choban oversaw the actual runnings of government. Until he came of age, Choban protected the boy and ensured he received a proper Islamic education, while also being versed in Chinggisid history. Abu Sa'id was the only Il-Khan to have been a Muslim his entire life, and unlike Ghazan and Oljeitu would show no attachment to Shia Islam.  In the meantime, Choban's sons were placed in prominent positions around the empire, and if the Chobanid family happened to enrich themselves even further along the way while leaving Abu Sa'id out of power, then where were the consequences in that? Well, there may have been a few. To see those consequences, be sure to subscribe to the Kings and Generals podcast to follow. If you enjoyed this and would like to help us continue producing great content, please consider supporting us on patreon at www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals, or sharing this with your friends. This episode was researched and written by our series historian, Jack Wilson. I'm your host David, and we'll catch you on the next one. 

Our brave Podders are back from Summer Break!!! They threw away their summer reading lists (reading is for the nerds) and instead watched a movie about reading books.  It's The Neverending Story, y'all!!!! So be sure to ration your sandwich, saddle up your luck dragon, and book a therapy session, because we're diving into some childhood trauma.  Ain't no party like a Falkor party because a Falkor party never ends! 

I've recorded hundreds of episodes of Muscle for Life on a huge variety of things related to health, fitness, and lifestyle, ranging from the basics of diet and exercise like energy and macronutrient balance and progressive overload and training frequency and volume to fads like the ketogenic and carnivore diet and collagen protein to more unfamiliar territories like body weight set point and fasted cardio. Some episodes resonate with my crowd more than others, but all of them contain at least a few key takeaways that just about anyone can benefit from (that's what I tell myself at least). And as cool as that is, it poses a problem for you, my dear listener: Ain't nobody got time for that. Well okay, some people do make the time to listen to most or even all of my podcasts, but my wizbang analytics tell me that while many listeners tune in on a regular basis, they don't catch every installment of Muscle for Life and thus miss out on insights that could help them get a little better inside and outside the gym. People have also been saying they'd like me to do more shorter, multi-topic episodes, like my Q&As. And so I got an idea: how about a “best of” series of podcasts that contains a few of the most practical and compelling ideas, tips, and moments from my most popular episodes? This way, people who are new to the show can quickly determine if it's for them or not, and those who enjoy what I'm doing but don't have the time or inclination to listen to all of my stuff can still benefit from the discussions and find new episodes to listen to. So, in this installment of The Best of Muscle for Life, you'll be hearing hand-picked morsels from three episodes: Kurtis Frank on the Best Functional Foods for Improving Health and Wellbeing (Originally published 2/9/2019) Are Compound Exercises Better Than Isolation Exercises? (Originally published 3/6/2019) Motivation Monday: What Got You Here (Probably) Won't Get You There (Originally published 11/5/2018) And we'll be starting with number one, Kurtis Frank on the Best Functional Foods for Improving Health and Wellbeing. Timestamps: 5:16 - Kurtis Frank on the Best Functional Foods for Improving Health and Wellbeing 14:45 - Are Compound Exercises Better Than Isolation Exercises? 20:40 - Motivation Monday: What Got You Here (Probably) Won't Get You There Mentioned on the Show: Shop Legion Supplements Here: https://buylegion.com/mike

Introductions: :42 Tony comes out of social media hiding 1:33 lost independence but gained it back 3:00 benefits of reconnecting with social media 3:16 love/hate relationship with social media 3:40 never just in one cliche 4:38 Stay true to yourself 4:55 Innocent story-Quiet chair in kindergarten 6:15 Amy's talks too much and disturbs others comments causing her to shut down 7:09 Ain't Gonna Be No Stupid Teacher story 7:43 Stupid Situationship - Tony's in-laws 8:43 Life with no car 10:10 Trying to get others to like you futility 11:11 Working from home 12:00 Tony's profession 13:03 Lambeau, Tony's cat 13:30 1. Acting like a bully 16:20 Party peer pressure 16:40 Reared by an alcoholic 17:24 Old soul wise beyond his years 17:50 2. Avoiding Losing at all Costs 18:11 Wrestling manager 19:41 3. Restraining One's Emotions except for pride and anger 20:20 Nice guy vs. bad boy 20:47 President, CEO, chairman of the friend's zone 21:22 Let out your emotions 21:54 Story behind Tony's marriage 23:13 Relationships dying slowly are brutal 24:48 Like me for who I am 25:15 Men and the pursuit 25:55 Taking the plunge into marriage 26:09 Get your mental health right 28:46 Mental Health Stability 30:10 We are all a work in progress 31:40 4. Aggression in Conflict 33:49 How technology has contributed to anxiety 34:34 Benefits of therapy 35:27 Therapeutic Alliance 35:50 5. Dominance Over Other 36:12 The Uncommon Male 36:49 Ain't Gonna Be No Stupid Boomer 38:08 False Perception of Black and White TV 39:19 When I was your age 40:10 6. Treating Women as Sex Objects 40:20 7. Resorting to Violence to Resolve Conflict 40:43 Katherine Hepburn “You can't have it all” 41:30 Amy's Fighting in classroom 43:43 You can't fake gravity 44:04 Amy's chipped tooth wrestling with her brother 45:03 Tony's first and last fight 46:00 8. “Boys will be Boys" 47:00 Respect for women 48:00 Good men out there 48:40 9. Feeling it's not okay to talk about your feelings 49:00 Self Awareness and Reflection 49:15 Always right? You're toxic 50:12 Insincere apologies are worse than no apology 51:00 Famous people with a gap in their teeth like Tony 51:59 Sit with your triggers 52:21 10. Homophobia 53:21 Wrecked by Star is Born 54:00 NFL Pink Attire 56:00 Be You- Sensitivity is because we are provoked 57:23 Narcissistic abuse 57:32 "Be Curious, Not Judgmental" Ted Lasso Where Can I FInd Tony? https://theultimaterabbit.com/411interviewer@gmail.com Amanda Crochets YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InwX8wdlGcI Where Can I Find Amy? www.amyperras.com Linkedin: Amy Perras Twitter: @perras_scope IG @aintgonnabenostupid Tik Tok @aintgonnabenostupid Ain't Gonna Be No Stupid Woman (Book) https://amzn.to/2Np4aRj Ain't Gonna Be No Stupid podcast https://spoti.fi/2Nt4nTm Ain't Gonna Be No Stupid YouTube Channel https://bit.ly/3fT6v31 Coaching Session https://tinyurl.com/perrasscoping --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aintgonnabenostupid/support

The new show delivers the best new and classic tunes right to your ears and dares you not to fall in love with the sounds! We'll focus a set on bands and musicians on the record label Mama Bird Recording Company, give you an earful of excellent tunes for new music week, heat it up with the hottest of #Hottakes, and so much more. All of this and more for your consideration! Playlist: Gold Lion – Yeah Yeah Yeahs No New Tale To Tell – Love and Rockets Cuts Across The Land – The Duke Spirt Ain't Nice – Viagra Boys Everything Is Average Nowadays – Kaiser Chiefs No Aloha – The Breeders Close To Me – The Cure She Loves The Cure – Big Train Salary Man – Kiwi Jr. Ain't No Baby – Stella and the Very Messed  Tell Me To Run – Coral Moons New Wave – Sleater-Kinney Random Name Generator – Wilco Up All Night – Aaron Lee Tasjan I'm More Inclined – Teenage Fanclub Kyoto – Phoebe Bridgers Positive Push – Luka Kuplowsky Wrong With You – Tristen Bottom of the Bottle – TK & The Holy Know-Nothings Bound To Lose – Denver Nature's Way – Johanna Samuels The First Day – Villagers Stoned at the Nail Salon – Lorde She's Gone – GA-20 For Your Consideration – Maggie Rose Feel Good – Ty Segall Fine To Me – Pokey Lafarge Miles Away – The Money War Tip-Toe – The Florets Static – Eleanor Buckland

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For almost as long as America's been a country, there have been stories of strange lights and objects zipping around the North American skies. This week, we've chosen some particularly intriguing tales from the New England states - Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Connecticut - and try to figure out whether these unidentified flying objects are merely terrestrial, extraterrestrial, or something else altogether. From a mass abduction/sighting incident in the '60s Berkshires to a bizarre experience one summer on Lake Champlain to some of our own unexplainable skygazing experiences, we take an out-of-this world tour of Northeast UFO history! ________________________________________ Connect with us on social media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/aintitscary Twitter: @aintitscary Instagram: @aintitscary Patreon: www.patreon.com/aintitscary ___________________________________________ Thank you to our sponsors: BetterHelp - Special offer for Ain't it Scary? listeners: Get 10% off your first month at www.betterhelp.com/aintitscary Audible - Get a FREE audiobook and 30-Day Free Trial at www.audibletrial.com/aintitscary BarkBox - Enjoy a FREE month of BarkBox on us when you sign up for a 6 or 12-month BarkBox subscription! Visit www.barkbox.com/aintitscary for more details Hunt a Killer - Receive 20% off your first Hunt a Killer subscription box at www.huntakiller.com with the code SCARYSQUAD at checkout! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aintitscary/support

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Ever since we were young whippersnappers, we've been enamoured at the way Kurupt so eloquently expressed his sense of financial restraint on Ain't No Fun. The bucket list gets smaller, and we're honoured to have Kurupt on the show! 25 years later, he is still who he is.    In this interview, Young Gotti talks about HRSMN's debut finale, working with Snoop and Dre, Death Row's family feel and messing up spell check for all his fans.    Follow Sumit  

Of all the rulers of the Ilkhanate, perhaps none matched the might or the glory of Ghazan. Of a prestigious lineage: son of Arghun Ilkhan, grandson of Abaqa Ilkhan, great-grandson of Hulegu Ilkhan, great-great-grandson of Tolui and great-great-great-grandson of Chinggis Khan, Ghazan ruled with the self-assured confidence of a proud Chinggisid, who at the same time was veiled in an Islamic legitimacy. For Ghazan, while not the first Muslim monarch of the Ilkhanate, was the one who permanently islamicized the khanate. The Ilkhanate after Ghazan was a very different entity from the time before him, and the course of this we will examine in today's episode. I'm your host David, and this is Kings and Generals: Ages of Conquest.    Ghazan did not come to the throne peacefully. As we covered in our last episode on the Ilkhanate, since the reign of his father Arghun Ghazan had been the top commander on the Ilkhanate's eastern border, defending against Chagatais, Neguderis and the rebelling general Nawruz. Though Ghazan was not happy with his uncle Geikhatu's election as Il-Khan in 1291, he accepted it. Geikhatu was murdered in early 1295 and an invitation soon came to Ghazan for the throne, he happily accepted. But when a cousin, Baidu, was hurriedly elected by a group of rambunctious princes led by Taghachar Noyan, Ghazan was furious. The result was skirmishing and near full out civil war only narrowly averted. In the end, on the urging of his former foe Nawruz, Ghazan converted to Islam, rallied his forces and stole away Baidu's supporters. On Ghazan's order, Baidu was executed, and Ghazan was finally elected as Il-Khan in autumn 1295; taking the title of Sultan Mahmad, as well as padishah-i islam, Emperor of Islam.   Twenty-four years old when he stepped onto the throne, Ghazan was already an individual who had made himself known for his military ability and defence of the Ilkhanate's eastern border. Having brought about the submission of the former rebel Nawruz Noyan, Ghazan had made Nawruz his number two man. A staunch and loyal supporter of Ghazan, especially once he had convinced the young prince to convert to Islam, Nawruz became Ghazan's na'ib, viceroy,  and acted a sword and shield for Ghazan… as long as Ghazan did as he wished. It seems that at the start of his reign, Ghazan struggled to control Nawruz, and on Nawruz's urging, Ghazan's first decree had been to order the destruction of Christian, Jewish and Buddhist places of worship in Islamic cities in the Ilkhanate, especially in Tabriz and Baghdad, the empire's chief cities. While Ghazan, as a new convert to Islam, may have sought to establish his credentials as a good Muslim monarch, Nawruz seems to have been the more zealous of the two and behind this pogrom.    Once Ghazan reached Tabriz in October 1295 and was officially enthroned the following November, his first orders of business were to set out allotments, who would govern where, who was rewarded for their loyalty, and other enthronement celebrations. One of his bodyguard commanders, Mulai, was made the governor of Diyarbakir, and in a decidedly un-islamic ceremony, Ghazan married one of his father's widows, Bulughan Khatun. Already it was clear that Ghazan's conversion to Islam and lofty islamic titles had not replaced his Mongolian identity; while such a marriage, called levirate, was not just encouraged but expected among Mongols, particularly their monarchs, this sort of marriage was expressly forbidden in islam. Ghazan's servants sought to justify it based on the fact that Ghazan's father Arghun had not been a Muslim, and hence the marriage never truly legal. Whether this convinced anyone is debatable, but none could tell Ghazan “no.”   But in what was to be a common trend in Ghazan's reign, punishment was also to be violently meted out once celebrations were done. Ghazan had seen the noyans who had proven themselves duplicitous over the previous reigns, jumping from candidate to candidate as fortunes change. Ghazan would have none of it. The noyan Qunchuqbal was put on trial and executed. Qunchuqbal's comrade, Taghachar Noyan, who had betrayed every Il-Khan since Teguder Ahmad, was too powerful with too many friends to be so summarily executed, so he was instead “rewarded” with a cushy appointment in Anatolia, where he was quietly murdered. The murder of Taghachar angered one of his friends, the governor of Anatolia named Baltu Noyan. Baltu rebelled at the start of 1296, and Ghazan responded with a large army led by his loyal commander and brother-in-law, Qutlughshah Noyan. It took until the winter of 1296 for Qutlughshah's forces to defeat and kill Baltu.   This was not the only plot Ghazan faced. In the winter of 1295 forces from the Chagatai Khanate attacked Khurasan and Mazandaran. Ghazan sent Nawruz Noyan and two princes, Sögä and Barula, to repulse them, but the princes soon began to plot against Ghazan. Once learning of their plots, Ghazan ordered Nawruz to turn back and kill them. Another Chinggisid prince, a descendant of Chinggis Khan's brother Qasar named Arslan, also revolted and was quickly put down. By the end of 1296, Ghazan had faced rebellion from five imperial princes, who were all killed on his order. By the end of his reign,  at least seven Chinggisid princes, 31 noyans and 10 high ranking Persian officials perished by the will of Ghazan.  One of the most significant was the former vizier, Jamal al-Din Dastjirdani, who was executed in October 1296 on Ghazan's order, after a trial which would ultimately bring down Nawruz as well.   Dastjirdani's great rival was Sadr' al-Din Zanjani, who has popped up repeatedly over our previous episodes, usually seeking the vizierate and generally causing trouble.  Having been vizier under Geikhatu Il-Khan, he had lost the position under Geikhatu's successor Baidu, who gave it to Zanjani's rival Jamal al-Din Dastjirdani. During Ghazan's final march on Baidu, Zanjani was one of the first to abandon Baidu for Ghazan, and was rewarded with the position of vizier. However, Ghazan found himself displeased with his viziers; Zanjani was removed after a few months, replaced with Sharaf al-Din Simnani, who was in turn replaced in September 1296 by Zanjani's old foe, Dastjirdani. Dastjirdani was a close ally to Nawruz, and to reclaim the position of vizier Zanjani would need to take down both men. First, he whispered in Ghazan's ear of Dastjirdani's corruption, that he had been embezzling a huge quantity of funds from the treasury. Ghazan quickly had Dastjirdani put on trial and executed, after only a month as vizier.    Zanjani was given the position for the third time, and quickly looked to undermine Nawruz. His timing was good, as Nawruz's standing with Ghazan had already fallen. Once Ghazan had sent Nawruz east to push the Chagatais out of Khurasan, Ghazan rescinded the most extreme prosecutions against Christians and Jews, who could reconstruct their churches and synagogues. In fact, Ghazan would punish Muslims who led assaults on Christian and Jewish buildings later in his reign. The same privilege was not extended to Buddhists, who permanently lost their standing in the Ilkhanate and Iran. They were given the choice of conversion, or of leaving the Ilkhanate. Once victory was achieved over the Chagatais, Nawruz returned to Tabriz to visit his very sick wife. As he journeyed west, some of the troops Nawruz left in Khurasan revolted, pillaged territory and joined the Chagatais.   Ghazan was furious, insulted Nawruz and ordered him back to his post. Nawruz cooly replied that he would, once he had visited his ill wife. Ghazan's now poor disposition to Nawruz was taken advantage of by his new vizier, Zanjani. When a clerk in service of a Baghdadi merchant who travelled often to Mamluk Egypt was arrested in March 1297, Zanjani struck. Zanjani and his brother fabricated letters from Nawruz to the Mamluk Sultans, which depicted Nawruz as a man conspiring with them. Planting the letter into the clerk's belongings, they watched and waited. When Ghazan personally interrogated the clerk, he swore his innocence and made no mention of the letters. But when Ghazan searched the man's possessions and found the letter ascribed to Nawruz, he was apoplectic with rage. On the spot, Ghazan ordered the clerk beaten to death, then called for the deaths of Nawruz's family and servants, then ordered Nawruz's arrest. Nawruz fled upon learning of this, but was captured at Herat and turned over to Noyan Qutlughshah in August 1297, who had Nawruz cut in half. The late noyan's severed head spent some years adorning one of Baghdad's gates.   Nawruz's downfall saw the stars of both Zanjani and Qutlughshah rise. In the meantime, Ghazan continued to advance his image as an almighty Muslim monarch, educating himself on Islamic laws and in 1297,  donning a turban. He even experimented with bearing black banners as the ‘Abbasids once did, portraying himself as a sort of replacement ‘Abbasid Caliph, in part to challenge the puppet ‘Abbasid Caliphs the Mamluks kept in Cairo. Zanjani was finally confident in his position as vizier and wielded extreme power. But in the fashion of all Ikhanid viziers, his arrogance bred enemies. In March 1298, news came to Ghazan's ears that Zanjani was stealing funds from the imperial treasury. Fearing for his life, Zanjani decided to shift the blame away from himself. He went before Ghazan and bravely made accusations against one of his deputies and friends, a physician in Ghazan's keshig named Rashid al-Din. Ghazan saw through Zanjani's effort to condemn Rashid, and put a stop to it, though Zanjani maintained his position. The vizier needed a new plot, and to deal with Rashid al-Din. When Qutlughshah Noyan returned from crushing a rebellion in Georgia, the Noyan argued with Zanjani over tribute from the kingdom. Fearing the powerful Qutlughshah's wrath, Zanjani thought of himself a devilish plan to rid himself of both Qutlughshah and Rashid al-Din. He notified Ghazan that Qutlughshah had  ruined the economy of Georgia. Ghazan was then mad at Qutlughshah, who openly wondered who had made the accusation to Ghazan. Zanjani told Qutlughshah that it had been Rashid al-Din, and Qutlughshah stormed off to question Rashid over the matter.   But Zanjani had not counted on one thing: the friendly relations between Qutlughshah and Rashid al-Din from their time in the keshig together. When Qutlughshah questioned Rashid as to why the physician had denounced him, Rashid convinced Qutlughshah of his innocence in the matter. Returning to Ghazan, they quickly deduced that it was the plotting of Zanjani turning them against each other. In April 1298, Zanjani was put on trial and given over to Qutlughshah for execution, who had Zanjani killed in the same manner as Nawruz; cut in half. So ended the third vizierate of Sadr' al-Din Zanjani.   Following Zanjani's bisection, Ghazan lifted two men into the position of vizier in 1298: Sa'd al-Siwaji and Rashid al-Din Hamadani. If the latter name is familiar, it is because Rashid al-Din has been a voice we have commonly consulted in our podcast. Indeed, we could say that Rashid al-Din is one of, if not the, most important single medieval author on the Mongols, for he is the author of the massive Compendium of Chronicles, which he began soon after Zanjani's fall. First we should finally give mr. Rashid al-Din an introduction. He was born in the northwestern Iranian city of Hamadan around 1247 into a Jewish family. Like his father, Rashid was trained as a physician. As Hamadan was an important centre for Iranian Jews, featuring a Rabbinical college, and as evidenced from his knowledge of Jewish customs and Hebrew in the Compendium of Chronicles, we can say that Rashid was educated and raised in Jewish law. Yet for unclear reasons, he converted to Sunni Islam around the age of 30, perhaps in order to benefit his entrance into the majority Muslim bureacracy of the Ilkhanate. Most of his life between these broad strokes before the end of the thirteenth century is unknown. Perhaps as early as the reign of Abaqa Il-Khan did Rashid enter service of the Il-Khans in the role of a physician, and likely served Il-Khan Geikhatu as a steward and prepared his food. According to his own testament, during the failed effort to implement paper money in the midst of economic woes under Geikhatu, Rashid spent his own money to support the vizier's office of Zanjani with food and cooks.   By the time of Zanjani's final vizierate during Ghazan's reign, Rashid al-Din appears as a trusted associated respected by Ghazan and Qutlughshah Noyan, though we know nothing of how this relationship came about beyond Rashid's presence in the keshig, the imperial bodyguard, in which he had served as steward. Surprisingly little is known of Rashid al-Din's activities before he became Sa'd al-Siwaji's associate in the vizierate. Rashid al-Din was a highly educated man, well read in the Qur'an, poetry and the great Iranian national epic, the Shahnama of Firdausi, and was a man proud of Persian culture. A trained physician, he also showed interest in science, history and agriculture, all interests he pursued during his long reign at the top of the Mongol bureaucracy. Soon after reaching this lofty position, he was commissioned by Ghazan to begin a history of the Mongol Empire, from Chinggis Khan to Ghazan himself. This work was to be the beginning of the vast Jami' al-Tawarikh, the Compendium of Chronicles, which under Ghazan's successor Oljeitu was expanded to become a universal history covering Chinese, Turkish, Islamic, Indian and, to a lesser extent, Frankish history. Much of the central part of the Compendium of Chronicles is the Ghazanid Chronicle, his history of the Mongol Empire. Named for his patron, this is a history of the Mongol Empire relying on now lost sources, including a Mongolian source on Chinggis Khan's life, the Authentic Chronicle of Chinggis Khan, also called the Veritable Record of Chinggis Khan. Though this source is no longer extant, it was used by Rashid al-Din and two of the most important surviving Chinese sources on Chinggis Khan, the Shengwu Qinzheng lu and the first chapter of the Yuan Shi. The compilers of the Secret History of the Mongols used the same sources the Authentic Chronicle did, and the authors of the Authentic Chronicle made use of the Secret History of the Mongols, which Rashid himself did not have access to. It was, you know, secret, after all.    Additionally, Rashid made use of earlier Arabic and Persian sources on the Mongols, such as ibn al-Athir, al-Nasawi and ‘Ala al-Din Juvaini's History of the World Conqueror, who of course had been the older brother of Shams al-Din Juvaini, one of Rashid al-Din's predecessors as Ilkhanid vizier. Further information in Rashid al-Din's Compendium of Chronicles was collected from envoys from other Mongol khanates, a high ranking judge from the Yuan Dynasty named Bolod Chingsang, and apparently from Ghazan himself. Fittingly, Rashid al-Din's history is the main source for Ghazan's reign, to whom he devotes a very lengthy chapter, which concludes with forty stories illustrating Ghazan's character and supreme ability. If we take Rashid's account of Ghazan's life at face value, then Ghazan was fluent in Mongolian, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Kashmiri, Tibetan, Chinese and a “Frankish” language. As well, he was a master goldsmith, blacksmith, carpenter and painter who also loved history, medicine, astronomy and alchemy. A perfect Muslim monarch who loved and cared for his people, and refused to harm even a fly if it landed in his food. In Rashid al-Din's account, the period before Ghazan is one of almost total anarchy, where inept khans more interested in hunting and feasting allowed their viziers and noyans to run the empire; in contrast, Ghazan took true interest in running the government, and under his guidance numerous reforms were launched to rejuvenate the struggling Ilkhanate. How much of this is true is hard to say; we know, for instance, that Ghazan had to rely on interpreters for dealing with Arabic speaking embassies from Damascus, and it seems doubtful the 30 year old Ghazan had found time to master so many industries during his military career.  The fact that most of our Persian sources were written during or after Ghazan's reign makes it hard to check many of Rashid's statements on the earlier period.  The glowing nature of Rashid's descriptions of Ghazan is often humorous when compared to other contemporaries, such as the Armenian Het'um of Corycus, who describes Ghazan as exceptionally short and ugly.   Regardless, Rashid al-Din's work is incredibly valuable, and few histories on the Mongol Empire will fail to make reference to it. While Rashid played up Ghazan's glory, there can be no doubt that under Ghazan serious reforms were undertaken, though whether Ghazan was the inspiration for them, or they came from Rashid himself is unknown. A major effort was directed to reducing abuses of the empire's agricultural base and farming population. From limiting the numbers of officials and clerks who took advantage of their gereg privileges to collect supplies from the yam routes, to stamping out bandity with more highway patrolmen and new laws. They  also tried to prevent the Mongols from harassing the sedentary population. As the Mongols were not provided a salary, many had to support themselves by collecting what they needed through force from the Ilkhan's subjects. Ghazan sought to solve this by granting lands to Mongol minghaans. The income from these allotted farms and villages would be used to support these Mongols, and stop their pillaging.  These were accompanied by monetary reforms and new silver currency, bearing not Mongolian inscriptions but the shahada and Ghazan's title of padishah-i islam. Measurements and weights throughout the Ilkhanate were ordered to be standardized largely based on what was used in Tabriz, in order to facilitate trade between regions. Canals and underground waterways were built to provide water for cities and irrigation. He also forbid the practice of enticing young women into prostitution.   Under Ghazan, the Ilkhanid treasury was reformed and refilled. The poorly managed treasury had before been subjected to theft from its own guards, and no accounts were made regarding what was contained within or spent. Ghazan and his vizers al-Siwaji and Rashid al-Din remedied this, with a more effective system under better protection. Evidently this was not mere rhetoric on Rashid al-Din's part, as evidenced by Ghazan's massive building projects and army mobilizations which indicate a substantial financial backing. At Tabriz, the Ilkhanid capital, Ghazan spent great sums improving the city. A new wall was built around it, along with entire new districts; one of these Ghazan made “New Tabriz,” and encouraged merchants and travellers to frequent it. Rashid al-Din was allotted funds to build himself an entire suburb in Tabriz, the famed Rab-e Rashidi. Here, Rashid al-Din oversaw a community of scholars, scientists and artists from across Iran to as far away as China and Italy. It became a veritable factory that was, in time, tasked by Rashid in copying and reproducing the Compendium of Chronicles, both its text and artwork. Rashid al-Din hoped for his magnum opus to become a medieval bestseller, and dreamed of a copy in every city of the Ilkhanate.   Ghazan was not above a little indulgence in Tabriz, in the form of a massive tomb complex for himself. It was a massive construction that was supposed to be larger than even the mighty mausoleum of the Seljuq Sultan Sanjar. Unfortunately, little of these projects remain. Even Rashid al-Din's suburb is now little more than a dusty mound outside of Tabriz today. The cause of this we will see in our next episode.   While these efforts were ongoing, Ghazan turned his eyes to military matters. Initially, these were defensive, as with the Chagatais, or crushing rebellions. After the end of Baltu's revolt in Anatolia, one of the men left in charge of the peninsula, Sulemish, a grandson of Baiju Noyan, began to have his own designs on the region. In contact with the Mamluks, when thick snowfall in winter 1298 cut Anatolia off from the rest of the Ilkhanate, Sulemish revolted. Ghazan of course, would have none of this. When spring came in 1299, an army under Qutlughshah Noyan was sent to bring Sulemish to heel. When his army was defeated, Sulemish fled to the Mamluks, left his brother as a hostage with them and returned to Anatolia with an army. This too was quickly defeated, and Sulemish brought captive to Tabriz, where late in 1299 he was publicly, and very violently, executed.    The revolt, brief as it was, brought the Mamluks to Ghazan's full attention. Their now shared religion was no cause for peace between them. Like Teguder Ahmad, Ghazan believed it should have made it easier for the Mamluks to submit to him, but their failure to respond to his declaration of his conversion in 1295 infuriated him. Ghazan had no love for them: intensely proud of his Chinggisid ancestry, to Ghazan the Mamluks - lowly slave soldiers who had become kings and were, even worse, Qipchaqs - were nothing but natural servants of the Mongols. Their submission, either through diplomacy or conquest was necessary and inevitable, and the fact they now shared a God did not change that. In March of 1299, defectors came to the Ilkhanate from the Mamluk Sultanate, and brought Ghazan up to speed on what had been happening in Cairo. The news pleased him. From the highs of the might of Baybars, Qalawun and al-Ashraf Khalil, the position of Sultan had become decidedly vulnerable. A young son of Qalawun, al-Nasir Muhammad, had been enthroned following al-Ashraf Khalil's murder, but his regent, a man of Mongolian origin named, somewhat ironically, Kitbuqa, seized power. al-Nasir Muhammad was deposed and Kitbuqa became Sultan, only to be in turn pushed out by another Mamluk named Lajin. Lajin ruled for three years until his murder at the start of 1299, and the 14 year old al-Nasir Muhammad was recalled to resume the Sultanic title, though real power was in the hands of the emirs.    Thus, as Ghazan had stomped down on threats to his throne and strengthened his power by 1299, the Mamluk Sultanate was ruled over by a young boy with no power fought over between squabbling emirs. It was as perfect a time as any to complete the conquest started by Hulegu some 40 years prior. Ghazan, always with an eye to the message, found a perfect pretext for war when during Ramadan in summer 1299, a Mamluk raiding party raped women in a mosque in an Ilkhanid town. With this, Ghazan was able to get a fatwa declared, coming into Syria in the final weeks of 1299 not as a Mongol conqueror, but a jihadi warrior come to preserve the dignity of Muslims. The fact that he brought a significant body of Christian soldiers from Armenia and Georgia was not lost on his Mamluk critics, especially the famous Hanbali jurist ibn Taymiyyah.    In terms of execution, Ghazan's 1299 campaign was brilliantly orchestrated. His timing was perfect, and he kept tight discipline over his troops to limit raiding on the population of Syria. On December 22nd, 1299, Ghazan met the army of al-Nasir Muhammad outside of Homs, where his great-uncle Mongke-Temur had been defeated in 1281. Unlike Mongke-Temur, Ghazan was a very experienced captain. He positioned his army at the nearby water source and forced the Mamluks to cross the desert to attack him.  The young al-Nasir Muhammad could not overawe the infighting between the emirs, and Ghazan soundly outmaneuvered them. Known as the battle of Wadi al-Khaznadar, Ghazan inflicted a devastating defeat on the Mamluk army- the only major victory enjoyed by the Mongols in all their conflict with the Mamluks. The sultan fled all the way back to Egypt, his army routed, his baggage abandoned and looted by the Mongols. The news of the Mamluk defeat spread rapidly across the region, and Mamluk garrisons from Syria and Palestine melted away or ran to join the sultan in Cairo. In the last days of the thirteenth century, Ghazan took the submission of Damascus. Here, if we believe Rashid al-Din, he took the time to further humiliate the Mamluks. He is supposed to have asked the assembled Damascene delegation who his ancestors were. They explained that he was Ghazan, son of Arghun, son of Abaqa, son of Hulegu, son of Tolui, son of Chinggis Khan. And who, Ghazan asked, was al-Nasir Muhammad's father? They answered that it was Sultan Qalawun. And who, Ghazan asked again, was Qalawun's father? Those assembled could not answer, for Qalawun's father was an unknown Qipchaq slave from the great steppe, from where Qalawun had been taken as a boy. Ghazan's point had been to demonstrate his own exalted lineage, from the grandest of all conquerors, the family given command by heaven to conquer the world. In contrast, the Mamluks were slaves, nobodies, and without right to rule.    Whether or not Ghazan really had this interaction, it does play into the skillful propaganda he employed during the campaign. As Damascus he had letters read out in Arabic signalling that he would spare the population and denounced Mamluk rule. These letters are rich with Qor'anic references, and it would have felt they were now the subjects of a Muslim, rather than a Mongol. Not all were drawn in by Ghazan's efforts. A Mamluk scholar in Damascus, ibn Taymiyyah, virulently decried Ghazan as a false Muslim served by a Jew, Rashid al-Din, and accused Ghazan of venerating Chinggis Khan as a prophet. Seeking to encourage resistance against Ghazan, Taymiyyah claimed to have rarely seen the Mongols pray, that they were ignorant of Islam or had Shi'a leanings. The latter is not entirely false; Ghazan had a deep affection for the Caliph ‘Ali and his family, the first legitimate caliph in the eyes of Shi'a Muslims, and like many Mongols was annoyed at infighting between Sunni schools.   Damascus was not put to the torch, and Mongol forces advanced down through Palestine. In some reports, they even entered Jerusalem itself. The path seemed open to Egypt. Yet, in February 1300 Ghazan suddenly turned back to the Ilkhanate, leaving a smaller force under Qutlughshah and the King of Cilicia Armenia, Het'um II, to briefly hold the region until they too retreated. By the start of the summer, the Mamluks had retaken their lost territory. Why Ghazan withdrew is unclear; the most common explanation is that he chose to avoid the summer heat, judging that he lacked the resources to supply an army all the way into Egypt once the summer sun beat down. Certainly, it was not because he lacked desire: in the autumn of 1300 he resumed the campaign, entering Syria again only for sudden extreme rainfall to turn the roads into deep mud that trapped men and horses. Unable to advance, he withdrew the army. Letters were sent to Europe following the first invasion seeking to organize an alliance, but brought, as usual, no actual results. He launched another invasion in spring 1303 under Qutlughshah Noyan, while Ghazan hung back. Qutlughshah suffered a great defeat against the Mamluks at Marj al-Suffar, for which Ghazan had him beaten with a rod upon his return. Yet another invasion was ordered in fall 1303, but was halted when Ghazan's health took a downward turn.   Ghazan seems to have suffered from routine inflammation of the eyes, mentioned by Rashid al-Din for the first time in 1299. In September 1303, the inflammation returned and quickly became serious. Rashid mentions that Ghazan was cauterized in two places, though unclear where or why. The Il-Khan made a show of moving about on a platform built on the backs of two elephants, an effort to hide the fact he could barely walk and could no longer ride his horse due to the pain. In January 1304, his youngest wife  Kärämün Khatun died, which became an emotional blow on top of his physical ailments. The vigorous monarch became depressed, the death of a wife making his own impending mortality seem all the greater. As the weather warmed he recovered some strength, and was able to ride and hunt again. Almost immediately, perhaps as a show of vitality or change of scenery, he set out for Rayy. The decision was foolhardly. On the road his symptoms returned and he lost his appetite. It became clear to all, especially himself, that he was dying. Retaining his mental faculties even as his body failed him, he summoned the noyans to him, and made them swear over and over again to confirm his brother Oljeitu as his successor. Perhaps only once he felt confident their oaths were genuine, did Ghazan allow himself to pass. On the 17th of May, 1304, Ghazan Il-Khan succumbed to his illness. He was 32 years old. His body was returned to Tabriz and entombed in his massive mausoleum, the first Il-Khan to abandon the secret burials of the Mongols. As per his wishes, his brother Oljeitu was enthroned as Khan of the Ilkhanate, setting off the final stage of the Khanate's history. The reign of Oljeitu begins our next episode, so be sure to subscribe to the Kings and Generals podcast to follow. If you enjoyed this and would like to help us continue producing great content, please consider supporting us on patreon at www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals, or sharing this with your friends. This episode was researched and written by our series historian, Jack Wilson. I'm your host David, and we'll catch you on the next one.