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Can hybrid grapes revolutionize the wine world? Adam Huss — Host of the Beyond Organic podcast and Co-owner of Centralas Cellars breaks down what a hybrid truly is, explaining how traditional breeding — and nature itself — has long crossed grape species. With over 70 grape species worldwide, today's modern hybrids are the result of generations of crossing, backcrossing, and innovation. We explore the impact of WWII on agriculture, France's ban on hybrids in appellation wines, and why developing new hybrids is critical for disease resistance, flavor discovery, and more sustainable farming. Plus, Adam shares insights into trialing the “married vine” system — a potential game-changer for soil health, pest management, and flavor expression. 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Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.   Transcript [00:00:03] Beth Vukmanic: Welcome to Sustainable Wine Growing with Vineyard Team, where we bring you the latest in science and research for the wine industry. I'm Beth Vukmanic, Executive Director [00:00:13] In today's podcast, Craig Macmillan, critical resource manager at Niner Wine Estates with longtime SIP Certified Vineyard in the first ever. SIP Certified Winery speaks with Adam Huss, host of the Beyond Organic Podcast and co-owner of Centralis Cellars. [00:00:32] Adam breaks down what a hybrid truly is, explaining how traditional breeding and nature itself has long crossed grape species with over 70 grape species worldwide. Today's modern hybrids are the result of generations of crossing, backcrossing, and innovation. [00:00:50] We explore the impact of World War II on agriculture, France's ban on hybrids and Appalachian wines, and why developing new hybrids is critical for disease resistance, flavor discovery, and more sustainable farming. [00:01:03] Plus, Adam shares insights into trialing the married vine system, a potential game changer for soil health, pest management, and flavor expression. [00:01:12] When Lizbeth didn't get into nursing school on her first try, she could have given up. Instead, she partnered with her mentor Alex, to make a new plan, attend classes part-time, build up her resume and get hands-on hospital work experience. Now Lizbeth has been accepted into Cuesta College's nursing program and her dream of becoming a nurse is back on track. [00:01:36] Lizbeth is a Vineyard Team, Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholar. You can help more students like her who are the children of Vineyard and winery workers reach their dreams of earning a degree by donating to the Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholarship. Just go to vineyardteam.org/donate. [00:01:53] Now let's listen in. [00:01:58] Craig Macmillan: Our guest today is Adam Huss. He is the host of the Beyond Organic Podcast and also co-owner of Centralis Winery in Los Angeles, California. And today we're gonna talk about hybrid grape varieties. Welcome to the podcast, Adam. [00:02:11] Adam Huss: Thanks, Craig. I really appreciate it. Thanks for having me. [00:02:17] Craig Macmillan: So let's just start with the basics. What are hybrid grape varieties? [00:02:22] Adam Huss: I should also say I'm a fan of your podcast as well, so it's really fun to be here. [00:02:26] Craig Macmillan: Thank you. Thank you. [00:02:28] Adam Huss: Been listening for a while. So hybrids, I mean, it's really simple. It's funny, I see stuff on Instagram sometimes where people just are so misinformed and they think that, you know, hybrid means like GMO or something like that. [00:02:41] A hybrid simply is just, you take pollen from grape X, you put it on flowers from grape y, and if those two grapes are from different species, you have a hybrid. If they're from the same species, you just have a cross, and this is something that has been part of traditional breeding since forever. It's also what happens naturally in the wild. [00:03:00] Or I hate, I actually just use two words I try not to use at all, which is like natural and wild, but in forests and streams forests and backyards without human intervention, these pollen get exchanged by wind and everything else and have led to, you know, some of the more. Old popular varieties of grapes that are, considered hybrids that we know of now, like Norton and Isabella and Kaaba. [00:03:23] Nobody actually crossed them. They just happened. So yeah, that's, that's a hybrid. It's very simple. [00:03:29] Craig Macmillan: That's what they are, what aren't they and what are some of the myths surrounding them? [00:03:33] Adam Huss: yeah, great question. You can't generalize about hybrids. Generally speaking. So that's really important thing for people to wrap their heads around, which is because. You know, we'll get into this, but so much, so many hybrids are, and just hybrids in general, are wrapped up in prejudice because we live in this sort of viniferous centric wine world. [00:03:56] You know, , those of us who are in wine, but there, you just can't generalize. The qualities of hybrids are just like humans. Like it depends on what your parents are. You know, you, you get different things every time you mix 'em up and you're not like your brother or sister. If you have a sibling, you know you're gonna be different from them even though you have the same parents. [00:04:13] So that's the same thing happens with grapes. There's genetic diversity and mutation happens and. For hybrids, , the possibilities, the potentials are literally infinite. It's pretty incredible to know that possibility exists. There are over 70 species of grapes on earth besides vitus vara, and if you cross any of those two varieties, yeah, you'll get a genetic cross that's 50 50 of, of two different species. [00:04:40] But that. Within that you could do that cross again and get a different variety of grape, even with the same cross. So it's just amazing. [00:04:51] The modern hybrids that are now out there are. Often multi-species crosses and have been crossed. Generationally again and again and back crossed and recrossed. And so, you know, I was just looking at a hybrid grape that had five species of grapes in its family tree. I mean, there are family trees that would make the royals blush, honestly, in some of these hybrids. [00:05:11] So it's not, it's not something that is just, can be just said. You can say one thing about it or that. And, and the idea of hybridizing doesn't imply anything at all, really, like it is just this process that happens that we've been doing for a long time. This might be a good thing to dispel some of the prejudices. [00:05:34] You know, something like the word foxy often gets thrown around when we start talking about hybrids. I did a whole podcast about this what's really interesting, I just brought this word up to a, a young couple here in LA who are growing grapes and they, they had no idea what I was talking about. [00:05:49] So that's kind of encouraging. Like in, in the younger generations, these prejudices and some of these words that we inherited from the last century , are dying out truly. Which is great, but it still persists and you still hear it a lot and. If anybody goes online and researches some of these grapes, so much of the information available online is actually still misinformation and prejudiced because it comes from this vinifirous centric culture. [00:06:15] And so it's really important for people to understand that like foxy is not what it sounds like. It sounds like it would be this animalistic, musky, maybe scent gland tinged aroma, flavor thing, but. If you taste the grapes that are known as foxy and you go, you know, start researching this by tasting, you'll find that it's actually kind of delicious. [00:06:37] It's usually fruity and you know, candy like strawberry raspberry flavors. And for those of us in the US. It's often something we associate with Grapiness because of Welchs. And the flavors of Welchs, which come from the Concord grape, which is a Foxy grape, are these grapey flavors that we grew up with. [00:06:57] This sense of like grape candy and stuff like that. And that's a lot of times what you find in these, but again, it depends a lot on. The level of the compounds that are in that specific hybrid. Again, you can't, you can't generalize. And just like with anything, if you mix different compounds together, you'll get these nuances and you might have some of that flavor or aroma, but it'll be blended with other things. [00:07:17] And so it takes on new characteristics. So it's way more complex than just thinking like a. All grapes that are hybridized are foxy. That's absolutely not true. Or that foxy is this monolithic thing or that foxy is bad. None of those are true. And then really the other thing to realize is in. Grapes in the native North American varieties of species of grapes. [00:07:41] There's really only one that has been used traditionally in grape breeding and hybridization that has these flavors. And that's Vitus labrusca. It just happened to be used quite a bit because it's endemic to the East coast where a lot of the Europeans who started all this breeding were living and, and it was, you know, very readily apparent in the forest of the East coast. [00:07:59] So that. Got used a lot and it's also got a lot of great qualities of fungal resistance and stuff like that. Muscadine is the other grape that has it, but it's got a different genetic structure so it doesn't get crossed a lot or hybridized a lot. [00:08:11] Craig Macmillan: So like, what are the advantages of hybrids where you take vinifira and you cross it with a Native American indigenous grape? What are the benefits? [00:08:21] Adam Huss: Yeah. Another great question. Just , the historical perspective on this is really important. I think. So, you know, Europeans came here a couple hundred years ago, and eventually they brought some of their favorite plants over, one of which were their grapes. And what they noticed right away is that their grapes, I. [00:08:38] Suffered and died without exception, just across the board. Anything they brought over grape wise just kept dying, kept dying. You know, many people tried for a century at least, you know, including people like Thomas Jefferson, people with enormous amounts of resources, and they just failed. They failed to grow these grapes. [00:08:56] Meanwhile, you know, these things like. Norton, this, these hybridized grapes started developing and people noticed like, oh, this grape, it's crossing with some of , the local varieties and it's doing really well. So they began to realize, like they didn't know then that part of, one of the benefits that you get is phylloxera resistance, for example. [00:09:16] But that was a big one and came to save, you know, Europe's wine industry at the end of the 19th century. But also you have these grapes that . Evolved with the fungal pathogens of this, of these climates of North America and other places around the planet. So they've developed resistance and tolerance for all these things. [00:09:38] And so when you cross them with vinifira, you get some of the desirable characteristics that you might like from Vera, and hopefully you'll get some of that, you know, hardiness and fungal resistance and some of the other, just. General benefits of having hybridized interesting new flavors and characteristics [00:09:56] Craig Macmillan: have you seen some examples of this in your, in your travels? [00:10:01] Adam Huss: the fungal resistance and things like [00:10:03] Craig Macmillan: resistance or Pierces disease resistance or anything like that. [00:10:07] Adam Huss: Oh yeah. I mean, I. Whew, so many. I mean, the fact that people can grow grapes organically in Vermont for example, relies almost entirely on hybrids. You know, first of all, they have extremely cold winters there. They have extremely wet, hot, humid summers there. And if you try to grow vinifera there the only way to do it is with chemicals and, and a lot of heartache and, and high risk agriculture. [00:10:35] But here we have somebody like Matt Niess, who's working entirely with hybrids, with his winery, north American Press, and basically he's not using any sprays in any of his vineyards in here in California because these. These grapes have genetics that developed for resistance to the fungal pathogens of the East Coast. [00:10:55] And so you bring them to this nice dry, you know, Mediterranean climate, they're just like, they're crazy. They're like you know, they're, you can basically spray free now. I mean, some people have a problem with zero sprays because they don't want things to develop, but he has a 70-year-old baco noir vineyard, for example, that's in like a wet region in Sonoma that. [00:11:18] He has never sprayed and it's pumping out grapes and looking beautiful every year. And the really interesting thing about it's, there are some inter plantations of vinfiera in that like somebody. Planted something. Maybe it was Pinot Noir in with the Baco. It's like one every, you know, like there's only a few, a handful of these scattered throughout the acre of the Baco noir, and you can tell which ones those are every year because they're just decimated by mildew by the end of the year, whereas the Baco is just spotless and beautiful. [00:11:46] So that's a really like obvious, [00:11:49] Craig Macmillan: What are the wines like? The bako noir? I've never had a bako noir. [00:11:53] Adam Huss: Oh, his wines. Well, so Baco is nice. It's, I mean, it's higher acid. It's almost like a high acid. Gosh, I don't know what, it's hard. I, I, I hate to go down the rabbit hole of like trying to compare it to a vinifira, but it is unique. But it's a deep red almost interior, like with deep purple, higher acid flavors, but pretty balanced, really luscious. Dark fruited flavors maybe a little. Like Syrah, like meatiness, there may be a touch. You might find that it depends on the year. He's had a couple different vintages, so it's been really interesting to see. I'm, I'm kinda like loving following that year by year, seeing the vintage variation and what. [00:12:35] Different things come out because nobody's really doing this. Nobody's, nobody's experimenting with these. So we don't really know how they'll do in, in California other than what he's doing. And just a couple other growers. But he also this year introduced awba for the first time back into California. [00:12:50] The last catawba Vines were ripped out of California in like the sixties, and he, planted some and finally was able to harvest a crop this year and released what was once. California, I mean, the America's most popular wine from the Ohio River Valley is sparkling catawba, and it's like pink and just delicious, beautiful, beautiful stuff. [00:13:10] If I can step back, I think a lot of the discussion of hybrids, again, comes from this perspective of vinifira culture and how do we. Help vinifera become better. How do we use these hybrids as a tool to help, you know, this sort of vinifira centric culture? But I, I would, I'd like to reframe it. [00:13:31] I think a better way to look at this is hybridization is kind of just what we always do with agriculture. It's how you evolve and adapt your agriculture. Ecologically in the absence of modern chemistry that we have. So like before World War ii, and part of, and this is part of the history, France's history too, is like, you know, we had RA decimating their, their vineyards as well as. , we didn't just bring phylloxera back from North America, we brought BlackRock, Downey mildew, powdery mildew. So , their vines were just like dying. Like they were just dying. And so there was this urgent need and a lot of the hybridization, a lot of, some of our, you know, hybrids like Save El Blanc and things like that. [00:14:15] Came from French breeders who were just trying to save the French wine industry. Like they just wanted to have wine, let alone vinifira. You know, it was that. It was pretty bad at the end of that set, you know? And so they developed these new things and then we, you know, things like Isabella and catawba and things like that were coming over from North America, some of our hybrids that came from here, and pretty soon they had these really productive, really hardy vines with new, interesting flavors that. [00:14:41] People kinda liked 'cause they are like fruity and delicious and interesting and new and, and if you're a farmer and you have less inputs and you get a more productive, like higher yields on your vine, like, it's just kind of a no-brainer. And so people were just planting these things. They really were taking off. [00:14:59] And in 1934, the French were like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Like our, our, first of all, our. Ancient vinifera cultures are going to be completely diluted, but second of all, we're gonna devalue the market 'cause we're gonna have all this like, it's too abundant, you know? So they made, in 1934, they made hybrids illegal in the French Appalachians. [00:15:17] And so that legacy is something that still sticks with us. Of course then World War II happened and we. Didn't really pay much attention to wine at all 'cause we were just trying to survive. But once World War II was over and the the war machine transferred into the pesticide and industrial agricultural machine, the French realized they could keep Vera alive on root stocks of American hybrids or American native varieties by spraying them with these new novel chemistry chemicals. [00:15:49] And so then they started enforcing the ban on hybrids because they could, and they knew they could have the, this alternative. And so that's when you saw like they had their own sort of version of reefer madness where you, you saw a lot of misinformation and hyperbole and outright propaganda and lies about these, these grapes because they were trying to get them out of French vineyards. [00:16:10] It's important to realize that Ban the EU just lifted the ban on hybrids in Appalachian wine in 2021. So it's kind of not surprising that some of these prejudices and misinformation still persist today. We're not too far away from that. I. [00:16:26] Craig Macmillan: And, and why was the band lifted? Do you know? [00:16:30] Adam Huss: That's a great question. It's, it was lifted for ecological reasons because they're realizing these are really important to dealing with climate change. This is like, if you want a sustainable industry, you need to be able to adapt. When you're inside this, this world of vinifira, what I call the vinifira culture, which is, you know, very centered on Vera. [00:16:50] You don't realize how strange it is. You know, it's kind of like growing up with a, a weird family, you know? It's all you know, so you don't know how strange they are until you start seeing the rest of the world. But to think that, you know, 50 years ago we just decided that maybe like. 10 grapes were the pinnacle of viticultural achievement for all time, and we've basically invested all of our energies into, you know, propagating those around the planet and preserving them at all costs is kind of strange when you think about the whole history of agriculture. [00:17:20] And it's really only possible because of cheep fossil fuels and the novel chemistry that we. Have put into our systems. And so if you take those out, if you start thinking ecologically about how do you develop a wine system, I mean the question is like, does it make sense when farming in a world where the only constant is change and we just live in a dynamic world, does it make sense to try to do everything you can to prevent change? [00:17:45] Like is prevention of change like a good strategy? And so I think, you know, diversity and adaptation are. What have always worked, you know, historically through agriculture, and that's kind of the future. I mean, in a real sense, vinifera culture is the past and hybrids are the future. If we want to have a future, there's my enthusiastic, [00:18:09] Craig Macmillan: Well, I'd like you to expand a little bit more on that. 'cause we we have a group of hybrids that are well known or are commonly used. I've, I've been hearing about Marquette a lot more, um, As having a lot of potential WW. What does that future potentially look like and what are some things that would have to happen for that potential to be realized? [00:18:31] Adam Huss: So we have invested, you know, millions of dollars in time and energy and even policy into developing, , the chemicals that we now use to support our, viticulture. And to make it possible in places like Virginia, where, you know, they're developing a whole wine industry there around vinifira in a climate that is, you know, like I said, that was the climate that like Thomas Jefferson failed for and everyone else for hundreds of years failed to grow it there. [00:18:59] If we invested that same amount of time and energy and money into breeding programs and into. Research for the kinds of things that we're now discovering, like DNA markers so that we can have DNA marker assisted breeding. So you're, you're speeding up the breeding process by sometimes two, three years. [00:19:19] Which is, which is significant in a process that can take, you know, 10 to 20 years that any, any little bit helps. So that kinda stuff and just more of it, more private breeders, making it more valuable for private breeders. I always think it's really interesting that like billionaires would rather just do another sort of like cult. [00:19:39] Ego, Napa cab investment, you know, rather than like breed their own personal variety of grape that nobody else could have. I mean, I'm not recommending that, but like, to me that seems really interesting as an idea. You could just have your own proprietary grape variety if you wanted to, you know, but nobody's thinking that way. [00:19:58] But I would say breeding, putting our, our time and energy into breeding not new varieties is, . Really important and, and working with the ones that are already there, I mean. The only reason California's so such strangers to them is because it's so easy to grow here. You know, we're relatively speaking and I get that. [00:20:15] I mean, you know, people like what they like and, and change is hard and market conditions are what they are. But I think we're at a point where. Marking conditions are changed. Like I said, you know, this young couple I was just talking to don't, don't have never even heard the word foxy. And so I think there's a lot more openness to just what's in the glass. Now. [00:20:35] Craig Macmillan: So some. Of it's messaging. If we can have wines that people can taste and do it in a context that's new to them. So there may be an opportunity here with newer wine drinkers or younger wine drinkers potentially, is what it sounds like to me. [00:20:48] Adam Huss: Yeah, and I. I mean, some of this is also realizing all the different ways that hybrids are already being used and could be used. Like, you know, we know you mentioned Pierce's disease. Pierce's disease is this disease that's endemic to California and is heading north. I mean, it's really on the threshold of all of the major wine regions of, of California. [00:21:11] And the only ways . To stop it without hybrids, without resistant hybrids are, are pretty intense. You know, it's like eliminating habitat through, , basically creating a sterile medium of your vineyard and then spraying with insecticides, you know some, sometimes pretty intense insecticides. [00:21:29] The alternative though is there are now multiple varieties of grapes that are. Resistant to them that are tolerant to it so they, they can carry the bacteria, but it won't affect the health of the vine. Those were bred, some of them here, right here in California at uc Davis. And yet if you go to the University of California Agricultural Network Resources page that, you know, kind of handles all the IPM for California, sort of like the resource. [00:21:56] And if you read about Pierce's disease, it makes zero mention of using tolerant. Varieties as a management strategy. And it makes no mention that there are even are tolerant varieties to Pierce's disease as a management strategy. So just that kind of stuff is the shift that has to happen. 'cause it just shows how vinifera centric our entire industry is, like from the top down, even when there are these great strategies that you can use and start implementing to combat these things, ecologically versus chemically. [00:22:25] They're not there, you know, they're not being mentioned. So just little things like that would go a long way. Also, you know, I mean, one of my fun little facts is like. There are already hybrids being used significantly, like probably everybody on who's listening to this has, if you've bought a bottle of wine at a grocery store that was under 20 bucks, you've probably drunk hybrids because 10,000 acres of ruby red is grown in California to make mega purple and mega purples. Pretty much in every, like, you know, mass produced under $20 bottle of wine and it's got esra, Vitus, esra in it. So you've probably been drinking hybrids and not even known about it. [00:23:04] In terms of these Andy Walker hybrids, I do have a little that which were bred for Pierce's disease resistance. I also have kind of a fun story in that I, as you know, like we've, we've both talked to Adam Tolmach, who replanted a whole block that he lost to Pierce's disease with these hybrid varieties, and these are designed specifically to retain a lot of vinifira characteristics. They're like 97% back crossed to be. vinifira and 3% with Vitus, Arizona to have that Pierce's disease resistant specifically. So they don't have a lot of the other benefits that like a higher percentage of North American native varieties would have. Like they, they're still susceptible to powdery mildew and other mildew pretty, pretty intensely, [00:23:44] but just in terms of flavor for anybody who's out there. So I've, I've barrel tasted with Adam. Tasted each of those varieties individually out a barrel. And then we went to his tasting room and tried all of his wines and, and got to, and then he, instead of keeping, he has two red hybrid varieties, two white hybrid varieties, and he blends them and makes a, you know, a, a red blend and a white blend that he calls a state red and state white. [00:24:09] And we went to his tasting room and he makes beautiful wine. All of his wines are great, but no joke. Everybody in my party. Preferred the hybrids to like all of his pinots or raw chardonnay, I mean, I have no idea why. I mean, but, and that's just anecdotal, obviously nothing scientific, but the very least I can say the, the flavors are exciting and delicious. [00:24:29] Right. [00:24:30] Craig Macmillan: If you can get them in front of the consumer, [00:24:33] Adam Huss: Yeah. [00:24:33] Craig Macmillan: the key. That's really the key. [00:24:35] Adam Huss: Right, right, [00:24:36] Craig Macmillan: And for, your own wine making. Are you making wine from hybrids for yourself? [00:24:40] Adam Huss: Not yet just 'cause there are, there just aren't any in California very much, you know, I mean, it's like little patches here and little patches there. And the people that have them are using them for themself, you know, for their own growing. They've grown them specifically you know, Camus has planted some of these Andy Walker hybrids along their riparian corridors to prevent Pierce's disease. [00:24:58] Those varieties specifically are being used. I don't know if they're blending those in. With like their cab or whatever. I honestly think they could, but I don't know if they are. They're probably, I dunno what they're doing with them, but I do grow them here in Los Angeles and I'm, but they're, you know, it's like I'm trying out a bunch of different things, partly just to see how they do, because, you know, they haven't been grown here. [00:25:21] They were developed for colder, wetter climates and so, you know what, how will they grow here in Los Angeles? There's a lot of unanswered questions for some of these. [00:25:30] Craig Macmillan: You and I were chatting before the interview and you have a, a new project that you're very. Excited about tell us a little bit about that, because I thought that was pretty cool. [00:25:39] Adam Huss: Yeah. Thanks. So this past summer, my wife and I finalized the acquisition of this farm in upstate New York that I'm going to develop into a. Married Vine Vida Forestry Demonstration and Research Project. And, and married vines, essentially vines growing with living trees. [00:26:02] But the best way to think about it is if you know the three Sisters of Agriculture, the corn, beans and squash idea, where you plant these. This guild of, of a Polyculture guild, and they have these symbiotic stacking benefits and productivity. This is what a married vine polyculture is for perennial agriculture. And so I don't just see it as vine and tree, but also vine and tree, and then a ground cover and or small shrubs or things like that that are also perennials planted in a guild together to create these stacking benefits and productivity. [00:26:35] Multiple productivity layers as well as making it a grable system because the vines will be up in trees and and we're gonna call it the Beyond Organic Wine Forest Farm. [00:26:47] Craig Macmillan: So gimme some more detail on this. So like, what are the other plants that are in the forest and how are the vines, what's the spacing like? How, how many trees per vine or vine per tree? [00:27:01] How is the vine trellis? Um, I just, I'm really curious about this idea because this goes back to very, very ancient times. [00:27:09] Adam Huss: Yes. Yeah, yeah, [00:27:09] Craig Macmillan: Uh, that I've read about. I've never seen evidence of it, but I have been told that going back to like Roman times, they would plant grapevines, interplant with things like olives, [00:27:18] Adam Huss: yeah, yeah. Yeah. And [00:27:20] Craig Macmillan: use the olive as a trails. [00:27:22] I mean, is this the, is this the same kind of concept? [00:27:24] Adam Huss: You can see some of this still in Italy. So even pre roam the Etruscan times is what the oldest versions of this that are still visible in Campania, just north of Napoli, I think is the largest married vine system that is still in production. And I think it's about, it might be about 34 hectares of this variety where they have elm trees. That are really tall, full sized elm trees. [00:27:51] And then between them they sort of have wires or ropes between the trees and the vines grow up like up 15 meters. Like it's crazy. Like the guys that harvest this, they have like specially designed ladders that are built for their stance so that they can like lock into these 18 meter ladders and be up there like with a little pulley and a bucket, and they're lowering grapes down from way up in the end. [00:28:14] And you get. So many cool things about that, you know, the, the ripeness and the PHS of the grapes change, the higher you go up in that system. , the thinking is they might have even been used to like. Just inhibit invading armies because , it's like a wall of vines and trees that create like almost a perimeter thing. [00:28:33] That that's also how they're being used in Portugal, they are sort of like if you have a little parcel of land, you use trees and vines to create like a living fence keep your domestic animals inside. And animals that might eat them outside and protect, you know, from theft and things like that. [00:28:51] Keep all your crops in a little clo, like a little controlled area. There are old systems where. They're more like feto systems where they were using maple trees and just pollarding them at, at about head height. And every year, every year or two, they would come in and clip off all the new growth and feed it to the livestock. [00:29:10] And meanwhile, the vines were festooned between the, the maple trees is like, you know, just like a garland of, of grapevine. So there's a lot of different things. And what I wanna do is trial several of them. One of the most. Interesting ones that I just saw in whales uses living willows, where you literally just stick a willow slip in the ground, bend it over to the next one that's about a meter and a half away and attach it. [00:29:35] And so you have these arched willow branches that grow once you stick 'em in the ground. They start growing roots and they create like a head high trellis, like a elevated trellis system, and you plant vines in them. And, and it literally looks just like. Like a row of grapevines that you would find here, except the, the trellis is alive and there's no wires and, and you prune the tree when you prune the vine in the winter, you know? [00:29:58] And Willow, I, I don't know if you know, but the, the other interesting thing about that is like willow has been used historically that the salicylic acid is known. Obviously that's aspirin and stuff like that. That's where we get, you know, one of our oldest like pain relievers and things like that. [00:30:12] But. It's used in biodynamic preps as well as an antifungal. And so there's some thought that like this system could be really beneficial to the vines growing with those. Specifically for that, like for antifungal properties or just creating a, you know, showering the vines with this, this salicylic acid thing that will help them grow and have health throughout the season without, with, again, reduced need for sprays of anything. [00:30:37] Craig Macmillan: Yeah, and that was why I brought it up is because there's the idea of working with the natural ecology of what's in the germ plasm of native plants. I. Mixing with an import plant. [00:30:51] And then there's the other way of looking at it and saying, well, what, what about recreating the conditions under which this plant that has evolved in the first place? And I, I just think that there's really fascinating concept. It's really intriguing to me. [00:31:05] yeah. And there's so many different ways you could do it, and that's why it's interested in what you're planning on doing, because there's obviously a lot of ways you could do it. [00:31:11] Adam Huss: Yeah, I wanna experiment with several. Like you said, the, the soil benefits are incredible potentials. And then when you're also thinking about what do I do besides just vines and trees, and I mean, the other thing is like. How does it make the wine taste? Like if you plant a vine with an apple tree or a, a black locust tree, or a honey locust tree, or a, or a mulberry tree, like, does, is the vine happier with one of those trees? [00:31:35] You know what I mean? Does it, does it, you know, and if it is, does that make the wine taste better at the end of the day? All these are really fun questions for me. That's why I'm really excited to do it. But also like what are the benefits in terms of, you know, the health of the vine, the health of the tree? [00:31:50] Do they are, is there symbiotic elements? It seems like they would, I, I think a lot about what kind of mycorrhizal connections and associations the trees have, because we vines have our Arbuscular connections. And so if you plant them with a tree that has similar connections, they might actually have a symbiotic benefit. [00:32:07] They might increase that soil network even further. And then if you're planting shrubs like blueberries or flowers, you know, perennial flowers or Forbes and things like that, that could either be grazed or could be gathered or could be another crop even for you, or it could be a protective thing. [00:32:22] There are things like indigo that you might plant because. Deer don't like it. So you might want that growing around the base of your vine tree thing while it's young, because it will prevent the deer from grazing down your baby vines and trees, you know? And so there's just a, a myriad ways of thinking about these guilds that you can do. [00:32:39] Obviously these are, I. Yeah, they're, they're different. If I was doing it in California, if I was in California, I would be thinking more about olives and pomegranates and figs and things like that, you know, like there's a lot less water for growing trees here, so depending on where you are, unless you're on the coast. [00:32:55] Craig Macmillan: Are you planning on using hybrids in your project? [00:32:59] Adam Huss: Yeah. I don't know how I would do it any other way. Yeah, it's, definitely a climate that. If you try to grow ra, like you're just asking for trouble. And, and just, you know, because of my approach is so ecological, like I will attempt to be as minimal inputs as possible is the other way I look at it. [00:33:20] You know, try to just imitate what's happening around to, to see what that landscape wants to do and then how it. Maintains its health and resilience and maybe, and, and I mean, my, my ideal is to spray not at all. But you know, with not a dogma about that. If I see an issue or if I think like I'm building up these pathogen loads in the vineyard, maybe I'll spray once a year, even if they seem like they're doing okay. [00:33:47] You know, I'm not like dogmatic about nose spray, but I, it's a, it's a fun ideal to reach for. And I, you know, I think potentially with. Some of the symbiotic benefits of these systems that could be achievable with with the right hybrids. You know, I mean, again, I don't wanna generalize about hybrids because you have the Andy Walker hybrids on the one end, which you have to treat just like vinifira in terms of the spray program. [00:34:10] And then on the other hand, you have something like Petite Pearl or Norton, which is like in many cases is almost like a bulletproof. Grape, you know, and in California specifically, it would be like insanely. And then you have things right down the middle. Things like tranet that you know, is basically like, I could blind taste you on Tranet and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between it and gewurztraminer . [00:34:31] But it's more cold, hearty, it has a little more disease resistance. Gives you a just a little bit, a little bit more of a benefit while still getting flavors that are familiar to you. If you like those flavors. [00:34:43] Craig Macmillan: Is there one thing that you would tell growers on this topic? One takeaway. [00:34:48] Adam Huss: Great question. I think give hybrids the same allowance that you give Vinifera. I. We all know there's a huge diversity of Vin Nira from Petite Ough to Riesling. And not everyone is right for every wine drinker and not all of them per perform the same in the vineyard. And, and you know, and we tolerate a lot of. [00:35:12] Frailty and a lot of feebleness in our veneer vines. We, we do a lot of care. We do a lot of like, you know, handholding for our veneer vines when necessary. If we extended the same courtesy to hybrids in terms of understanding and willingness to work with them. I think like that would just go a really long way too. [00:35:33] And I think we'd be surprised to find , they're a lot less handholding than, than Venire generally speaking. I. But also just try some. I think a lot of the prejudice comes from just not being exposed to them right now. You know, if you, if you think, if you're thinking negative thoughts about hybrids, get out there and drink some, you probably just haven't had enough yet. [00:35:51] And if you don't like the first one, you know, how many bad Cabernets have you had? I mean, if, if I had stopped drinking vinifira, I [00:35:59] Craig Macmillan: Yeah, that's, that's a really good point. If I judged every wine by the first wine that I tasted, that's probably not a very, [00:36:06] Adam Huss: right. [00:36:07] Craig Macmillan: good education there, [00:36:08] Adam Huss: Prevented me from exploring further, I would've missed out on some of the more profound taste experiences of my life if I'd let that, you know, guide my, you know, my thinking about it. So yeah, I think it's like anything with prejudice, once you get beyond it, it kind of, you see how silly it is, man. [00:36:25] It's, it's like so freeing and, and there's a whole world to explore out there. And like I said, I really think they're the future. Like if we wanna have a future, . We can only cling to the past for so long until it just becomes untenable. [00:36:38] Craig Macmillan: Right. Where can people find out more about you? [00:36:42] Adam Huss: So beyondorganicwine.com is the, the website for me. The email associate with that is connect@organicwinepodcast.com. [00:36:53] Craig Macmillan: Our guest today has been Adam Huss. He is the host of the Beyond Organic Podcast and is the co-owner of Centralas Wines in Los Angeles. [00:37:01] Thank you so much. This has been a really fascinating conversation and I'd love to connect with you at some point, talk more about. Out this, thanks for being on the podcast [00:37:08] Adam Huss: Thank you so much, Craig. Appreciate it. [00:37:13] Beth Vukmanic: Thank you for listening. Today's podcast was brought to you by VineQuest. A Viticultural consulting firm based in Paso Robles, California, offering expert services in sustainable farming, vineyard development, and pest management. With over 30 years of experience, they provide tailored solutions to enhance vineyard productivity and sustainability for wineries and agribusinesses across California. [00:37:38] Make sure you check out the show notes for links to Adam. His wine, brand, Centralis plus sustainable wine growing podcast episodes on this topic, 135 Cold hardiness of grapes 217. 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Com uma cerimônia memorável, a Olimpíada de Paris se encerrou no domingo (11), sendo aclamada como o evento esportivo mais espetacular de todos os tempos. Quebra de recordes, um desempenho inédito da França, sucesso das mulheres brasileiras, cenários de tirar o fôlego, polêmicas e muitos memes: os Jogos Olímpicos de Paris serão lembrados por uma série de façanhas e fatos.  Daniella Franco, da RFITudo começou com uma cerimônia de abertura grandiosa, com duração de três horas e meia – a primeira em toda a história das Olimpíadas realizada fora de um estádio, com o rio Sena e monumentos como pano de fundo. A festa também foi marcada pela performance de grandes estrelas, como a cantora canadense Céline Dion, que, depois de muito suspense e especulações, interpretou “L'Hymne à L'Amour”, de Edith Piaf, na Torre Eiffel. A abertura dos Jogos Olímpicos de Paris deu o que falar pela beleza, mas também pela ousadia, já que uma das cenas do evento, confundida com a Santa Ceia, suscitou críticas de autoridades religiosas e líderes políticos conservadores em todo o mundo. Artistas e o diretor da cerimônia, Thomas Jolly, chegaram a ser alvo de ameaças de morte. Jolly precisou ir a público explicar que a passagem específica do evento nada tinha a ver com religião, e que teria sido inspirada na pintura “Festa dos Deuses”, obra criada no século 17 pelo holandês Jan Harmens Bilert. "Ninguém jamais encontrará no meu trabalho uma vontade de zombar ou de difamar. Eu quis fazer uma cerimônia para unir e também para reafirmar os valores da República Francesa - Liberdade, Igualdade, Fraternidade - e não para rir de quem quer que seja", afirmou, em entrevista ao canal BFMTV.Polêmicas envolvendo atletasAlgumas polêmicas também envolveram a participação de atletas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Paris. É o caso do jogador holandês de vôlei de praia, Steven van de Velde, condenado por estupro de menor de idade. Ele chegou a ser vaiado na quadra, inclusive pelo público brasileiro, na partida em que ele e seu colega de dupla, Matthew Immers, foram eliminados por Evandro e Arthur nas quartas de final. Já a boxeadora argelina Imane Khelif enfrentou boatos de que seria transgênero. A esportista, que tem hiperandrogenismo, viu sua participação nas competições femininas de Paris 2024 ser contestada. O caso chocou a Argélia, onde Khelif é um ícone. O Comitê Olímpico Internacional defendeu a atleta, que fez um apelo ao público antes de vencer a chinesa Yang Liu e conquistar o ouro na categoria - 66 kg."Envio essa mensagem a todas as pessoas no mundo, para aceitarem as regras e princípios olímpicos e pararem de atacar os atletas porque isso tem consequências, consequências graves", declarou em entrevista à agência American Press. "Esses ataques podem destruir as pessoas, espiritual e mentalmente. E isso divide as pessoas. Por isso, peço que parem com o bullying", disse Khelif.Outra polêmica ocorreu devido à quebra de recorde protagonizada pelo nadador chinês Pan Zhanle, que no dia 31 de julho cravou o tempo de 46:40 na final dos 100 metros do nado livre - um segundo a frente do australiano Kyle Chalmers, que levou a prata. Uma façanha como essa na natação não era vista há cerca de 50 anos, o que levou muitos especialistas a insinuarem a possibilidade de doping, não confirmada nos exames. Quebras de recordesA nadadora canadense prodígio Summer McIntosh, de apenas 17 anos, conquistou três ouros e uma prata nesta edição dos Jogos. Ela ainda registrou um novo tempo nos 200 metros borboleta (2:03:03). A jovem é vista como um dos grandes talentos de Paris 2024, três anos após sua estreia em Tóquio, quando tinha apenas 14 anos.No ciclismo de pista feminino, o recorde de velocidade foi batido cinco vezes em uma única noite, pela Grã-Bretanha, Alemanha, Nova Zelândia e depois duas outras vezes novamente pelas britânicas. Foram elas que levaram o ouro ao chegar à marca final de 45:186. O sueco Armand Duplantis emocionou o Stade de France com seu desempenho no salto com vara, alcançando 6,25 metros. Essa foi a nona vez que o atleta quebrou seu próprio recorde."Estou muito orgulhoso, definitivamente. Recebi mais amor e apoio do que poderia imaginar. Estou tão feliz que pude performar de uma maneira que eu sabia que era capaz. É mais incrível do que eu poderia imaginar, honestamente", declarou. Sucesso nas redes sociais Embora não tenha obtido o mesmo sucesso na competição, o atleta francês Anthony Ammirati viralizou nas redes sociais. Sua eliminação passaria despercebida não fosse sua genitália ter derrubado o sarrafo durante a disputa. Uma plataforma de conteúdo erótico chegou a propor o pagamento de € 250 mil para que o francês posasse diante de suas câmeras por uma hora. Em seu TikTok, Ammirati postou um vídeo em que aparece comendo, com o olhar distante, ao som da trilha sonora do desenho animado Bob Esponja e a seguinte mensagem: "quando você chama mais a atenção por sua genitália que por sua performance".Quem também viralizou nas redes sociais durante os Jogos Olímpicos de Paris foi Snoop Dogg, que se tornou um verdadeiro "mascote do evento". O rapper americano, que participou do revezamento da tocha olímpica, veio a Paris também como comentarista esportivo do canal NBC. Mas não apenas: a estrela experimentou vários esportes - judô, natação, esgrima e halterofilismo. Além disso, vídeos em que o músico aparece falando em francês e até dançando com um cavalo, em Versalhes, divertiram o público.Novas estrelas no mundo do esporteOs Jogos Olímpicos de Paris também entrarão para a história com a ascensão de novos ídolos do esporte. É o caso do nadador francês Léon Marchand, de 22 anos, que se tornou um herói na França ao conquistar cinco medalhas, quatro de ouro e uma de bronze. A RFI conversou com o jovem no estúdio instalado no Club France, espaço do Comitê Olímpico Francês no Parque de la Villette, norte de Paris. "Tenho consciência das minhas conquistas porque as pessoas não param de me perguntar sobre isso. Mas acho que, no fundo, ainda não me dei conta. Vai demorar um pouco, preciso de tempo. Os últimos dias foram muito intensos para mim. Então agora estou começando a voltar à realidade e a compreender o que aconteceu nesses últimos dias. E é uma coisa louca, na verdade", afirmou. O Brasil também fez história em Paris, com várias conquistas. Rebeca Andrade conquistou o primeiro ouro do país na ginástica artística e se tornou a maior medalhista brasileira de todos os tempos: foram quatro pódios apenas nessa Olimpíada, que se somam aos dois realizados em Tóquio. A ginasta de 25 anos conversou com a repórter Maria Paula Carvalho, da RFI, logo após obter o ouro na Arena Bercy e expressou orgulho com sua performance. "Estou muito feliz de estar voltando para o Brasil com o ouro. Os brasileiros mereciam muito! E eu queria muito também, sabe? Eu lutei muito e fiz o meu melhor" celebrou. Sucesso das brasileiras As mulheres brasileiras foram, pela primeira vez, mais numerosas que os homens na delegação nacional: 153 esportistas do sexo feminino contra 124 do masculino. Foram elas também que conquistaram a maioria das medalhas. Além de Rebeca Andrade, subiram no pódio Beatriz Souza e Larissa Pimenta no judô, Tatiana Weston-Webb no surfe, Rayssa Leal no skate street, Bia Ferreira no boxe, além da medalha por equipe da ginástica feminina, do vôlei de quadra, do vôlei de praia, com Ana Patrícia e Duda, e da equipe do futebol feminino, com essa foi a última Olimpíada de Marta. É também uma atleta mulher, a primeira representante do Brasil a disputar uma mesma edição dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paralímpicos, a mesatenista Bruna Alexandre, que avaliou as atletas nacionais. "É algo de muita alegria para o nosso país, ver que a mulher é forte e capaz. Quem sabe em Los Angeles, em 2028, tenha o dobro ou o triplo de esportistas mulheres", disse, em entrevista à RFI.O Brasil também subiu no pódio com William Lima e a equipe mista, no judô; Isaquias Queiroz, na canoagem; Gabriel Medina, no surfe; Augusto Akio, no skate park; Edival Pontes no taekwondo; e Caio Bonfim, na marcha atlética.Os brasileiros também marcaram presença em Paris, colorindo a torcida de verde e amarelo e fazendo muita festa nas arquibancadas e ruas da capital francesa. A gaúcha Roberta Calabro, radicada em Barcelona, veio à Paris assistir a algumas competições. Em entrevista à RFI, ela contou que a experiência foi tão positiva que resolveu prolongar a visita e ir até Marselha, no sul da França, ver a seleção feminina de futebol do Brasil enfrentar e bater a Espanha. "Participar das Olimpíadas sempre foi um sonho para mim, e essa em Paris, uma cidade que eu sempre amei, vai ficar marcada para sempre. Eu assisti a cinco jogos no total e eu fiquei impressionada com a organização. Foi incrível!", comemora.Paris se prepara para Jogos ParalímpicosNa noite de domingo (11), a França se despediu dos Jogos, mas temporariamente. A chama olímpica, exposta em um balão no Jardim das Tulherias, no centro de Paris, se apagou na noite de domingo, durante a cerimônia de encerramento. Mas ela voltará a ser acesa em 28 de agosto, quando iniciam os Jogos Paralímpicos. Enquanto isso, as autoridades francesas cogitam em transformar a escultura de 30 metros de altura e sete de diâmetro em um monumento, como uma lembrança física e permanente dos Jogos Olímpicos de Paris. Leia tambémEm contagem regressiva para Jogos Paralímpicos, atletas brasileiros embarcam rumo a Paris

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IWP Ep50 Matt Niess - North American Press -Today I'm talking with Matt Niess of North American Press. Matt's making wonderful and expressive wines from native and hybrid grapes and some apples. His winemaking is top notch and low intervention.  We discuss his introduction to hybrids, the characteristics of some that he's working with, how to ethically forage and how these grapes fit in with climate change. Find Matts wine at www.NorthAmericanPress.wine or @north_american_press Follow the podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.instagram.com/indiewinepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or email indiewinepodcast@gmail.com with questions, comments or feedback. Please rate or subscribe or if you are able consider making a donation to help me continue telling wine stories and keep the podcast ad free - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.patreon.com/IndieWinePodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Thanks. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indie-wine-podcast/id1673557547⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/06FsKGiM9mYhhCHEFDOwjb⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/indiewinepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-wood4/support

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It's another season of international sports competition, so where has one tennis star disappeared to this time?June 1933, Frank Shields loses at the French Championship then disappears only to be found later crossing the ocean. Meanwhile another sport takes notice with a superb knockout.Other people and subjects include: Cobina Wright, Prince Serge Mdivani, Prince David Mdivani, Rebecca “Billie” Tenney Shields, Queen Mary of England – Mary of Teck, Prince of Wales – Prince David – future King Edward VIII – Duke of Windsor, Prince Albert – Bertie – King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III of England, Vlad III – Vlad Tepes – Vlad the Impaler – Vlad Dracula, Julius "Julie" Seligson, Ellsworth Vines, Sidney Wood, George Lott, Cliff Sutter, Wilmer Allison, Helen Jacobs, Elizabeth Ryan, Mrs. Dorothy Andrus Burke, Christian Boussus, Cilli Aussem, Dunleavy-Cleaves firm, insurance policies, heavyweight boxing match, promoter, fighter, referee, Aryan, Jew, Nazi, American, African American, Max Baer, Max Schmeling, Jack Dempsey, Primo Carnera, Hitler, Nazis, Nazi publication Der Sturmer, Luftwaffe, Purge of Berlin, Joe Lewis – the Brown Bomber, Greta Garbo, June Knight, Rocky IV, Rocky Balboa, Ivan Drago, Harry Anslinger, Federal Narcotics Division, ocean liners – President Harding, Paris Europa, Le Havre, Auteuil, France, New York, Yankee Stadium, French Hardcourt Tennis Championship, London Championship, Wimbledon, Davis Cup, Newport Tennis Week, tennis, amateur status, appendicitis, strawberries, injury, Bigger Than Life by William Shields, missing person, tuxedo, stowaway, Prince Michael Romanoff – Harry Gerguson, stowaway monkey Jenny, recurring themes, overlaps, Michael Malice, Beyond Belief: the American Press & the Coming of the Holocaust 1933 – 1945 by Deborah Lipstadt, resilience, letting go, making choices changing course, Netflix film Unfrosted by Jerry Seinfeld, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Amy Schumer, Pop-Tarts,…--Extra Notes / Call to Action:Beyond Belief: the American Press & the Coming of the Holocaust 1933 – 1945 by Deborah LipstadtInstagram: @howhistorylooks Dracula & British royals connectionhttps://www.instagram.com/p/C8FcLUWMDPx/Next 2 episodes major turning pointShare, like, subscribe--Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 1 Music: Sunshine by Jack Hylton, Album Fascinating Rhythm – Great Hits of the 20sSection 2 Music: Just As Long As The World Goes Round And Around by Jay Wilbur, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 3 Music: Red Sails In The Sunset by Casani Club Orchestra, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30sEnd Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands--https://asthemoneyburns.com/X / TW / IG – @asthemoneyburnsX / Twitter – https://twitter.com/asthemoneyburnsInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/asthemoneyburns/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/

In the spring of 2001, 2-year-old Wesley Morgan lived in Clinton, Louisiana with his 19-year-old mother, Ruby Harvard, and her boyfriend, 37-year-old Burnell Hilton Jr. He was a happy toddler, who loved to play and learn. Still, on the morning of May 15th, a mother's worst nightmare becomes a reality when Wesley vanishes from the family home without a trace. 23 years later, Wesley's case is cold, and authorities are adamant that Ruby is not telling the truth about what happened on that fateful day. If you have any information regarding Wesley's case, you are urged to call the FBI at 1 (800) CALL-FBI (225-5324) or Crimestoppers at (504) 822-1111. There is a $10,000 reward offered by authorities for information in the case.You can also call the east feliciana parish sheriff's office at 225-683-5459.Connect with us on Social Media!You can find us at:Instagram: @bookofthedeadpodX: @bkofthedeadpodFacebook: The Book of the Dead PodcastTikTok: BookofthedeadpodOr visit our website at www.botdpod.com Promo for Scottish Murders:Scottish Murders is an award shortlisted victim focused podcast, dedicated to solved and unsolved murders carried out on people from or living in Scotland, and is hosted by Dawn, and occasionally Dawn's sister, Cole.Listen to the Podcast here4538DMLA - Wesley Dale Morgan. (n.d.). https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/4538dmla.htmlAmerican Press Staff. (2015, December 14). La. two-year-old still missing after disappearing in 2001 - American Press. American Press. https://www.americanpress.com/2015/12/14/la-two-year-old-still-missing-after-disappearing-in-2001/Arledge, H. (2023, May 26). What happened to Little Wesley Morgan? HL Arledge's Bayou Justice. https://bayoujustice.com/2023/05/what-happened-to-little-wesley-morgan/Associated Press. (2001a, May 17). Search continues into night for missing two-year-old boy. The Daily Advertiser, 8.Associated Press. (2001b, May 18). Search for toddler enters third day. The Town Talk, 5.Associated Press. (2001c, May 19). FBI questions missing boy's mother. The Daily Advertiser, 10.Associated Press. (2001d, May 20). Boy's disappearance brings unrelated arrest. The Town Talk, 24.Associated Press. (2001e, May 21). Couple may have lied about missing boy. The Daily World, 2.Associated Press. (2001f, May 25). Investigators appeal to relatives of missing boy. The Daily Advertiser, 14.Associated Press. (2001g, June 6). Consultation with Psychic brings on new search. The Daily Advertiser, 10.Assosciated Press. (2001, May 24). Missing boy's mother faces more questions. The Daily Advertiser, 12.Baker, K. (2020, October 22). Police Still Search for Boy, 2, Who Vanished from La. Porch in 2001: 'It's Something You Never Forget' Peoplemag. https://people.com/crime/police-still-search-boy-missing-porch-louisiana-wesley-dale-morgan/Editorial Team. (2011, January 3). Cost of adoption Update: 2009-2010 | Adoptive Families. https://www.adoptivefamilies.com/resources/adoption-news/cost-of-adoption-2010/FBI investigating disappearance of Louisiana boy 15 years later. (2016, August 16). NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/cold-case-spotlight/fbi-investigating-disappearance-louisiana-boy-wesley-morgan-15-years-later-n626511FBI's Child Abduction Rapid Deployment (CARD) Team Reinvestigating a 15-Year-Old Cold Case in Louisiana. (2016, April 27). Federal Bureau of Investigation. https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/neworleans/news/press-releases/fbi2019s-child-abduction-rapid-deployment-card-team-reinvestigating-a-15-year-old-cold-case-in-louisianaHave you seen this child? Wesley Dale Morgan. (n.d.). https://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/912370/1Jennifer. (2024, June 18). Toddler Vanishes in Broad Daylight: Where is Wesley Morgan? Medium. https://medium.com/@wherearetheypodcast/toddler-vanishes-in-broad-daylight-where-is-wesley-morgan-d5e4342230e6Louisiana Amber Alert. (n.d.). Louisiana State Police. https://www.lsp.org/community-outreach/alerts/amber-alerts/Missing: Wesley Morgan | Clinton, LA | Uncovered. (n.d.). https://uncovered.com/cases/wesley-morganMother accused of selling her missing child. (n.d.). Criminal. https://vocal.media/criminal/mother-accused-of-selling-her-missing-childUlkins, G. (2018, May 16). Where's Wesley? Butterfly release marks 17 years since boy's disappearance. https://www.wafb.com. https://www.wafb.com/story/38199279/butterfly-release-held-to-mark-17th-anniversary-of-little-boys-disappearance/Wafb. (2005a, February 11). Boy's Vanishing still a mystery. https://www.wafb.com. https://www.wafb.com/story/2931845/boys-vanishing-still-a-mystery/Wafb. (2005b, March 16). Boy's sixth birthday goes uncelebrated. https://www.wafb.com. https://www.wafb.com/story/3075805/boys-sixth-birthday-goes-uncelebrated/Wafb. (2008a, January 17). Woman arrested for allegedly trying to sell her child. https://www.wafb.com. https://www.wafb.com/story/7599800/woman-arrested-for-allegedly-trying-to-sell-her-child/Wafb. (2008b, March 17). East Feliciana Parish mother pleads not guilty to trying to sell child. https://www.wafb.com. https://www.wafb.com/story/7999109/east-feliciana-parish-mother-pleads-not-guilty-to-trying-to-sell-child/Wafb. (2008c, June 16). Charges dropped against woman accused of trying to sell her baby. https://www.wafb.com. https://www.wafb.com/story/8458191/charges-dropped-against-woman-accused-of-trying-to-sell-her-baby/Wbrz. (2024, June 21). 21 billboards in BR with Wesley Dale Morgan case information. WBRZ. https://www.wbrz.com/news/21-billboards-in-br-with-wesley-dale-morgan-case-informationWesley Dale Morgan - LA Repository for Unidentified & Missing People. (n.d.). http://identifyla.lsu.edu/profile.php?id=239Wesley Dale Morgan – The Charley Project. (n.d.). https://charleyproject.org/case/wesley-dale-morgan

Joan Leegant's new story collection, Displaced Persons (New American Press 2024) delves into human stories of living in the 21st century. Characters transform after illness or divorce, move to a new city or a new country, get caught between different cultures and traditions, or stumble into scary situations. People can be resilient about change and might rebuild themselves after loss, suffering, and illness, but they don't all bounce back with equal fervor. Characters struggle with Jewish identity, family issues, social expectations, and health, and stories are set now and, in the past. Some stories are in the states, others are in Europe and Israel. This is a brave collection during a time when antisemitism is bubbling up again, and memories of times past seem surprisingly current. Joan Leegant's first book of stories, An Hour in Paradise: Stories (W.W. Norton, 2003), won the PEN/New England Book Award and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. She is also the author of a novel, Wherever You Go (W. W. Norton, 2010). Her prize-winning stories have appeared in over two dozen literary magazines and anthologies. She has also written essays and pieces on writing craft. Formerly an attorney, she taught at Harvard, Oklahoma State, and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where she was also the writer-in-residence at Hugo House. For five years she was the visiting writer at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv where she also lectured at Israeli schools on American literature and culture under the auspices of the U.S. Embassy, and taught English to African refugees and asylum seekers. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts with her husband, Allen Katzoff, who works in nonprofit administration. When she's not working, Joan spends a lot of time at the piano playing show tunes, light jazz, and klezmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Joan Leegant's new story collection, Displaced Persons (New American Press 2024) delves into human stories of living in the 21st century. Characters transform after illness or divorce, move to a new city or a new country, get caught between different cultures and traditions, or stumble into scary situations. People can be resilient about change and might rebuild themselves after loss, suffering, and illness, but they don't all bounce back with equal fervor. Characters struggle with Jewish identity, family issues, social expectations, and health, and stories are set now and, in the past. Some stories are in the states, others are in Europe and Israel. This is a brave collection during a time when antisemitism is bubbling up again, and memories of times past seem surprisingly current. Joan Leegant's first book of stories, An Hour in Paradise: Stories (W.W. Norton, 2003), won the PEN/New England Book Award and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. She is also the author of a novel, Wherever You Go (W. W. Norton, 2010). Her prize-winning stories have appeared in over two dozen literary magazines and anthologies. She has also written essays and pieces on writing craft. Formerly an attorney, she taught at Harvard, Oklahoma State, and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where she was also the writer-in-residence at Hugo House. For five years she was the visiting writer at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv where she also lectured at Israeli schools on American literature and culture under the auspices of the U.S. Embassy, and taught English to African refugees and asylum seekers. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts with her husband, Allen Katzoff, who works in nonprofit administration. When she's not working, Joan spends a lot of time at the piano playing show tunes, light jazz, and klezmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Journalism in America was a highly profitable business for more than a century until the internet – and other factors – disrupted the traditional business model resulting in decades of declining advertising and subscription revenue. Last week, the Los Angeles Times cut about 20 percent of its staff, adding to a growing list of news organizations making cuts in the past few months: The Washington Post, Business Insider, Sports Illustrated and NBC News. Meanwhile, hedge funds and private equity firms buying up newspapers has also changed the industry – a trend Bay Area filmmaker Rick Goldsmith examines in his new documentary, “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink.” We'll talk about the demise of local newspapers, efforts to revive the news business, and what it means for democracy. Guests: Rick Goldsmith, documentary filmmaker; director, "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink" (2023), "Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press" (1996) and "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers" (2009) Julie Reynolds, freelance journalist; producer, Gray Area - a podcast about justice and redemption; part-time associate editor, The Imprint S. Mitra Kalita, CEO, URL Media - a network of Black and Brown community news outlets that share content and revenue; publisher, Epicenter-NYC; veteran journalist; media executive; prolific commentator and author Ramona Giwargis, co-founder and CEO, San Jose Spotlight

A philosopher, a historian, and Tucker Carlson walk into a bar… Welcome to Episode 2 of Massively Disabled, the one where Élaina lays out her methodology and rolls it up in a rucksack, ready for the road. We're talking narrative medicine, citational practices, and the philosophical uses of history (whatever that is) to better understand how we are going to approach the topic of long COVID. The clip from Hannah Sullivan-Facknitz was taken, with permission, from a longer interview for Philosophy Casting Call: "Ethics of Kinship in the Archive w/Hannah Sullivan-Facknitz" Sources mentioned in the episode: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's “Eugenic World Building and Disability: The Strange World of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go” The Scottish Healthcare Workers Coalition calling for the return of mask mandates in hospitals The House of Lords' Long COVID debate on 17 November 2022 Department for Work and Pensions' “Households below average income: for financial years ending 1995 to 2022” Sara Ahmed's “On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life” Michel Foucault's “Discipline and Punish” and “History of Sexuality: Vol . 1” American Press article on Dominion Voting suing Fox News about 2020 election claims Annemarie Mol's “The Body Multiple” Ian Hacking's “Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illness” Rita Charon's “Narrative Medicine: Honoring the stories of illness” Danielle Spencer's “Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity” Mich Ciurria's “Disabled People Should Define Disability” In the spirit of intentional citing, it must be noted that the title of this episode employs the term “methodology queen”, first heard on the health and wellness debunking podcast “Maintenance Phase”, co-hosted by Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes. Full transcripts and references are available at www.massivelydisabled.com Please rate and review Massively Disabled on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. This helps other people find the show. You can follow the show on Instagram and Twitter @massdisabledpod Hosting, producing, and editing is done by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril Music is by Morgan Kluck-Keil This podcast is made with the support of the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, Usher Institute, at the University of Edinburgh.

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We're talking hybrid grapes and their place in the future of the wine industry. Kathryn explains native vs hybrid grapes, where they grow, and why they require less maintenance and fewer chemicals in the vineyard. The hosts open a bottle of Baco Noir from Sonoma Coast made by hybrid-champion Matt Neiss. The wine industry faces many challenges with climate change and hybrid grapes could be part of the solution. Tug asks: why have people been averse to cultivating and drinking these grapes before? The stigmas are pervasive (the bottle this week is delicious!). In other news, the kids are finally all in school, even the littlest one. And their parents celebrate! Tug and Kathryn gush over a night at the Hollywood Bowl for The Sound of Music sing-a-long. The Wine of the Week is the North American Press ‘The Rebel' Baco Noir, Sonoma Coast, CA 2021. Follow Us on Instagram @Thelongfinish @esterswine @kathrynweilcoker @tugcoker North American Press northamericanpress.wine IG: @north_american_press IG: @vinous_california

“For once, therefore, a man woke up and saw that what mattered was not to proclaim democracy but to see the full reality, not to follow slogans, but to see things as they are. This would be particularly important today, for people would then realize that the events which reign with such blood and terror over the whole of humanity are guided and directed from just a few centers. People will never realize this if they persist in the delusion that nation is fighting nation, and allow the European and American Press to lull them to sleep over the kinds of relations that are said to exist between nations.” ~Rudolf Steiner, Fall of the Spirits of Darkness, : Lecture 14: Into the Future, Dornach, 28 October 1917 https://reverseritual.com/world-turning-9-11/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hazel-archer-ginsberg/message

Ed Opperman interviews Daniel Hopsicker, Author of Barry and The Boys, about Barry Seal the CIA cocaine smuggler durring Iran Contra and the subject of the Tom Cruise movie American MadeNOTE: Chapter 35 is intentionally missing from the printing of this publication. This was intentionally done by the publisher and is not a printing error.This is the story of Barry Seal, the biggest drug smuggler in American history, who died in a hail of bullets with George Bush's private phone number in his wallet...The Wall Street Journal called Barry Seal "the ghost haunting the Whitewater probe." He was far more than that.Based on a 3-year long investigation, Daniel Hopsicker discovered the ‘secret history’ the American Press was afraid to tell… Seal, the most successful drug smuggler in American history, was also — and not coincidentally — a lifelong CIA agent, one of the most famous who ever lived, active in everything from the Bay of Pigs to Watergate to the Kennedy Assassination. And all this before becoming famous for importing tons of cocaine through Mena, Arkansas in the Scandal that won’t go away.The story of Barry Seal is the story of what happens when guys we pay to protect us — CIA guys — go into business with guys we’re paying them to protect us against.."Made" guys. Mobsters… Organized Crime.Ripping the ‘official story’ on the so-called "Clinton Scandals" to shreds, Barry and ‘the Boys’ breaks the biggest scoop of all about the Arkansas Drug Connection: where the money went.And goes…Did the big-time "players" in small ‘backwards’ Arkansas — Bill Clinton, Vince Foster, Jackson Stephens, Jim Blair, Don Tyson — stand idly by while Barry Seal made billions of dollars importing cocaine through their state?Or were the "goings-on in Mena" of Barry and ‘the boys’ just the continuation of… ‘business as usual?’America’s Secret History—Revealed:You’ll learn about the incredible involvement with Seal’s narcotics smuggling organization of top officials in both major American political parties… Republican Attorney General Ed Meese… Democratic National Chairman Charles Manatt… Al Gore’s Campaign Chairman, Tony Coelho…You’ll discover why a young Arkansas Attorney named Bill Clinton signed a "get-out-of-jail-free" personal recognizance bond for Barry Seal, after Seal had been jailed for drug smuggling in Mena…in the ‘70’s.And you’ll learn of the suspicious and long-lasting link between ‘smuggler’ Barry Seal and the Bush Family, Senior and Junior.Most importantly, you’ll discover why a photograph taken by a night club photographer in a Mexico City nightspot ten months before the Kennedy assassination holds the key to the shadowy organization responsible for the massive corruption in Bill Clinton's Arkansas twenty years later…Commenting on the CIA’s affair with the Mafia, L.B.J.’s press secretary, Bill Moyers said, "Once we decide that anything goes, anything can come home to haunt us."After you’ve read Barry and ‘the boys’ you’ll understand what he meant.5 years ago #-, #/, #:, #american, #american made, #barry, #barry seal, #cia, #daniel, #dorothy, #drug, #drug smuggling, #hopsicker, #kilgallen, #made-, #mark, #seal, #shaw, #smugglingThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Jmenuje se Radka a svět jí zná pod příjmením Leitmeritz. Je to pseudonym, protože její české příjmení bylo na Západě pro mnoho lidí nevyslovitelné. Fotila obálky Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New York Times a mnoho dalších. Za portrét Nicole Kidman získala ocenění American Press. Českému publiku se přibližuje také výstavou Tennis Garden, kterou má Radka Leitmeritz v pražském Uměleckoprůmyslovém museu. Jedná se o expozici záběrů z knihy ONE: LOVE, která je věnována českému ženskému tenisu a uvidíte ji do 30. července.

Nesmíte se bát, říká fotografka Radka Leitmeritz. Sama odvahu prokázala, když v necelých dvaceti odešla s prázdnou kapsou do Paříže. Neuměla tehdy ani slovo francouzsky a angličtinou nevládla o moc líp, což byla jedna z mnoha překážek na cestě za jejím snem stát se módní fotografkou. „Neměla jsem moc na výběr. Jediný způsob, jak to dělat, bylo těžce makat a hodně věřit tomu, že se to třeba povede,“ vzpomíná, co předcházelo tomu, než se stala vůbec první Češkou, jejíž snímky se dostaly na stránky magazínů jako Vanity Fair, Variety nebo Wall Street Journal. Kromě tisíců modelek zvěčnila také celou řadu hollywoodských hvězd. Za portrét oscarové herečky Nicole Kidman získala prestižní cenu American Press.

Episode 2456 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a story about how the good people of Louisiana are going to celebrate National Viet Nam Veterans day on March 29. The featured story came from The American Press and … Continue reading →

Rep. Chip Roy talks East Palestine, Ukraine, US Spending, the border and so much more! PLUS – Karrine Jean Pierre spews more lies to the American Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rep. Chip Roy talks East Palestine, Ukraine, US Spending, the border and so much more! PLUS – Karrine Jean Pierre spews more lies to the American Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Kerr was a guest on Kenny Mayne podcast on Friday...with one of the topics of conversation centered around the mainstream media in America. Steve Kerr made a number of accurate statements about the media...then his narrative took a wrong turn. Steve Kerr claimed the problem with the media is profit...and insinuated that state-run media would solve these issues. We dispute the claims of Steve Kerr...and explain how state-run media would expound the problems in America.

This week, we're bringing you an episode from our archives that's more relevant than ever.After former President Donald Trump's recent announcement of his 2024 White House bid — and his reinstatement on Twitter — there's the matter of the media: What role should the press play in preserving democratic institutions?When we first asked this question back in December 2021, Times Opinion columnist Ross Douthat pushed back on media critics like N.Y.U. associate professor Jay Rosen, who asserted that the press should strive to be “pro-truth, pro-voting, anti-racist, and aggressively pro-democracy.” Ross disagreed, claiming that such a stance could feed more polarization. Together, Jane, Ross and Jay debate how the press should cover politics, and Donald Trump, in a democratic society.Mentioned in this episode:“Can the Press Prevent a Trump Restoration?” by Ross Douthat“You Cannot Keep From Getting Swept up in Trump's Agenda Without a Firm Grasp on Your Own” and “Two Paths Forward for the American Press,” by Jay Rosen, published in PressThink in May 2020 and November 2020, respectively.(A full transcript of the episode is available on the Times website.)

Nov. 9 marks 84 years since Kristallnacht, the infamous wave of antisemitic pogroms organized by the Nazi regime that served as a prelude to the Holocaust. At the time, it was among the biggest news stories in the American media.

I told you... I told you... I told you... Russia is far from being defeated by Ukraine. The American Press really does not know what to do with itself at this given moment. They don't know whether to celebrate that something is actually happening or be mad because Putin is spanking their beloved Zelensky. The war effort is heating up and it's exciting. For video - click here link to article: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/russia-strikes-kyiv-multiple-ukrainian-cities-dead-91274593 Podcast intro and outro from Jeremy Marsan and link to https://jeremymarsan.com/. 476070__jjmarsan__hello-user-bright-cheery-intro-music; Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) 117592__soundmary__aplause-short-burst & 472688__silverillusionist__fire-burst Russian artillery sound clip Join us at www.radiantfire.org

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I am not sure what it is going to take for the American people to see what the Press is doing but misinformation abounds.  Vladimir Putin release a speech today restating his position and announcing to his people that a greater mobilization effort will be taking place because of the direct threats against the Russian homeland by West (United States)  and our allies.  3 things... 1)Vladimir Putin's goal has remained the same, free the people of Donetsk and Luhansk, 2) Give those people a chance to vote for what they want & 3) Vladimir Putin looks good for someone the American Press says is dying of Cancer.  No matter how you slice it, we are going to war with a country who is doing everything in its power to avoid war.  Where will this end?  I have no idea.  Listen as I share my thoughts. To See Video - click here See transcript of Putins' Speech below. sounds clips from - an-upsetting-theme-by-kevin-macleod; 472688__silverillusionist__fire-burst, & 117592__soundmary__aplause-short-burst

Live from the no panic zone—I'm Steve Gruber—I am America's Voice— I am a radical MAGA American extremist— AND I have heard enough! The radical Green New Dealers and those that think your gender is determined by the pants you wear or the color of your hair—are done here—we will prevail!   Here are three big things you need to know right now— ONE— Just when you thought things could not possibly get worse—there is a looming beer shortage—and you are not going to believe why—I will have that coming up— TWO— Whistleblowers inside the FBI say President Biden pushed hard to fabricate extremist and White Supremacy cases—just to bolster his claims of those things— THREE— Speaking of Joe Biden—I talked to you yesterday about the pathetic 60 Minutes interview conducted by Scott Pelley of CBS News that was like a softball tournament—with a bunch of ridiculously easy questions—and basically no follow up at all—and no discussion at all about the border crisis—brought to light last week when Governor Ron DeSantis sent just 50 illegals to Martha's Vineyard and sent the Democrats and all the far-left people into a total meltdown—   But here is something you haven't heard before— I will get back to that in a moment— But first the truly disgraceful 60 Minutes interview—that would be an embarrassment to Mike Wallace, Morley Safer and all the legendary journalists that created the franchise and turned into must watch TV on Sunday nights across America— When I was a kid—60 Minutes was something my father sat down to watch every week—it wasn't optional and you were not allowed to make noise while it was on—or ask too many questions—which I was guilty of many times—60 Minutes, despite the very left leaning political viewpoints of the main on camera folks—was willing to go after anyone—ask the questions that no one else would—and really pound people with bruising interviews, no matter what their political affiliation was— Let's be clear—that is not 60 Minutes today—it is a case study in the decline and failure of American media almost across the board at the big 3 networks and their cable news spinoffs—and Scott Pelley—was an embarrassment to the 60 Minutes Brand—and himself with such silly questions— The one that really stuck in my mind when I watched it—was when he asked President Biden—what came to mind when he saw the staged FBI picture of folders inside former President Donald Trumps Mar-a-Lago estate—following the raid on August 8th… I mean he could have just said—what is wrong with Donald Trump? Is Donald Trump a bad man, how bad would it be if he were President again—should he even be allowed to run again? I mean seriously—asking fluff questions about your main political rival—that have no substance and are just teeing up Biden to fire away at a target that cannot even respond—I think pathetic might be too polite— BUT and this is a very big BUT—despite the questions being hand fed to Joe Biden very gently—and with no serious follow up or pushback from Pelley the make-believe journalist—Joe Biden managed to create several major blunders—and remember this is his first sit down interview with anyone in 7 months— Among other things, Biden told us the Covid-19 pandemic is over—which means every rule used to manipulate the American people in all 50 states—are basically null and void today—and that left people scrambling—remember just two weeks ago Biden gave away a Trillion dollars to erase student loan debt—mostly for well off folks—and all in the name of Covid— Biden then for the fourth time in a few months—put the Chinese on notice that America is willing to fight for Taiwan—and this is really serious—I mean this senile old man with this kind of reckless talk could get us into a serious shooting war with Beijing— And those things are bad—BUT when it comes to the mid-term elections coming up on November 8th— he took a seriously wrong turn—and totally dismissed the idea that Americans are hurting when it comes to the sky high inflation numbers—and the economic pain ordinary Americans are in right now— He sounded more out of touch on that answer than most of the others—and he wasn't doing well there as we have already heard— I mean this is completely out to lunch—and calling what he did tone deaf—is not nearly strong enough— And his trainwreck of an interview on 60 Minutes might be the high point of the Presidents month—because the deal the President proclaimed he'd secured between a dozen railroad unions and the companies they work for could be in serious jeopardy of never getting ratified—and the deal could be rejected in mid-October—delivering a crippling blow to the US economy—less than a month before Election Day— If just one of those unions says no to the contract—which many insiders say is quite possible—then the whole thing appears will fall apart—and Joe Biden will have delivered to himself an October surprise—of epic and potentially devastating results—  I will of course keep an eye on it for you—  But wouldn't it be nice—it the American Press would just do its job and report on the facts—not cover some of it up like a cat in a litter box and amplify others—I mean even Bill Maher has figured it out—Joe Biden is a doofus—and anyone that would continue to support these things… well, you figure it out…  

Christopher shares thoughts and insights about our corrupted American Press.  Our American Press has been controlled by the Clintons, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.  Listen at my viewpoint on Mikhail Gorbachev.  Listen at the dumb things that our press has been saying about Putin...  Putin is going to snub Gorbachev's funeral, Putin is going to disrespect Gorbachev and they just completely got it wrong.  Guess what I got the official transcripts from the Kremlin.  Listen as I share the dumbness of our American Press. Podcast intro and outro from Jeremy Marsan and link to https://jeremymarsan.com/. 476070__jjmarsan__hello-user-bright-cheery-intro-music; Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) 117592__soundmary__aplause-short-burst & 472688__silverillusionist__fire-burst

There is nothing good on the horizon for democrats going into the midterms and the assassination of Shinzo Abe reveals how broken the American press truly is.

There is nothing good on the horizon for democrats going into the midterms and the assassination of Shinzo Abe reveals how broken the American press truly is.

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Author, playwright and poet Oscar Wilde was a popular literary figure in late Victorian England. After graduating from Oxford University, he lectured as a poet, art critic and a leading proponent of the principles of aestheticism. In 1891, he published The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel which was panned as immoral by Victorian critics, but is now considered one of his most notable works. As a dramatist, many of Wilde's plays were well received including his satirical comedies Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), his most famous play. Unconventional in his writing and life, Wilde's affair with a young man led to his arrest on charges of "gross indecency" in 1895. He was imprisoned for two years and died in poverty three years after his release at the age of 46.From https://www.biography.com/writer/oscar-wildeFor more information about Oscar Wilde:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Anand Giridharadas on Wilde, at 23:03: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-063-anand-giridharadasLady Windermere's Fan: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lady-windermeres-fan-oscar-wilde/1100533269“Oscar Wilde”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/oscar-wilde“How Oscar Wilde Won Over the American Press”: https://lithub.com/how-oscar-wilde-won-over-the-american-press/

This week on the AntiSocial Network, we're joined by George William of the Daily American Press to discuss his daily political reporting and how the country can be saved. 

Before social media, newspapers provided a key way to communicate and to gain information, especially for the Black community. The St. Louis Palladium, The St. Louis Argus and The St. Louis American were among the early pioneers of the African American press.  Just press play to hear the whole story. -----  Click on search links to see if there are episodes with related content: Cicely Hunter, Civil Rights, Journalism, Black History,  Business, ------  Podcast Transcript: I'm Cicely Hunter, Public Historian from the Missouri Historical Society, and here's history, on eighty-eight-one, KDHX. ——— Technology has transformed the way we communicate, and social media has become a tool for entertainment and a place to discuss important topics. While today we have Instagram and Facebook, for much of the 20th century and beyond, African Americans relied on Black newspapers as a conventional way to communicate with each other due to the lack of coverage in other newspaper outlets. This allowed Black people to be informed across rivers, railways, within Black churches, clubs, and other fraternal organizations. African Americans were dedicated to producing their own newspapers to emphasize racial pride, promote Black businesses, and recognize important and everyday people of their time. Some of the early St. Louis papers included the St. Louis Palladium, National Tribune, Pythian Voice, and American Eagle which were founded in the late 1800s before St. Louis Argus and The St. Louis American. Black newspapers provided ways to communicate information, entertain, and advise the Black community about key topics. ——— For example, on July 16, 1904, the St. Louis Palladium republished an article called “Abandon Meeting at Fair” detailing that the executive committee of the National Association of Colored Women planned to host their convention at the World's Fair, but Booker T. Washington's wife vehemently disagreed by indicating that “the exposition directors had discriminated against Colored women in the matter of securing employment on the grounds and against the race in general.” When a vote was held to determine the location for it, delegates voted to move it to St. Paul AME church. ——— The St. Louis Palladium no longer remains in print, but the St. Louis American which was founded in 1928 continues to serve as a key staple for the African American community and is currently the single largest weekly newspaper in the entire state of Missouri. ——— Here's history is a joint production of the Missouri Historical Society and KDHX. I'm Cicely Hunter and this is eighty-eight-one, KDHX, St. Louis. ———  

The Center for West European Studies presents Taso Lagos' book talk, "From My Village to the Global Village: Finding America in a Greek Restaurant" on March 8, 2022. Taso Lagos presents his book, "Cooking Greek, Becoming American: 40 Years at Seattle's Continental Restaurant." Taso G. Lagos was born and raised in a small village in rural Greece. He immigrated to the United States when he was nine. For the past 21 years, he has taught at the University of Washington, covering subjects including "American Press & Politics," "Global Impact of Smart Technologies" and "Diaspora Communities in Seattle and Beyond.". Besides Cooking Greek/Becoming American, his books include 86 Days in Greece; American Zeus: The Life of Alexander Pantages, Theater Mogul; Charisma and Religious War in America: Ministries and Rivalries of Sister Aimee and 'Fighting Bob'. He is currently working on a survey of Greek restaurants in the United States from 1880 to the present and a Nation Branding History of the United States. This talk is hosted by the Center for West European Studies and EU Center, and the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at the University of Washington, Seattle, and is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

The Center for West European Studies presents Taso Lagos' book talk, "From My Village to the Global Village: Finding America in a Greek Restaurant" on March 8, 2022. Taso Lagos presents his book, "Cooking Greek, Becoming American: 40 Years at Seattle's Continental Restaurant." Taso G. Lagos was born and raised in a small village in rural Greece. He immigrated to the United States when he was nine. For the past 21 years, he has taught at the University of Washington, covering subjects including "American Press & Politics," "Global Impact of Smart Technologies" and "Diaspora Communities in Seattle and Beyond.". Besides Cooking Greek/Becoming American, his books include 86 Days in Greece; American Zeus: The Life of Alexander Pantages, Theater Mogul; Charisma and Religious War in America: Ministries and Rivalries of Sister Aimee and 'Fighting Bob'. He is currently working on a survey of Greek restaurants in the United States from 1880 to the present and a Nation Branding History of the United States. This talk is hosted by the Center for West European Studies and EU Center, and the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, and is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Happy Saturday everyone!  Today we have an extra special 2 coffee show for you.  Our first sip is Black Rifle's Espresso Blend made in the American Press with a splash of heavy cream.  Our second sip is Christmas In A Cup from Two Roasting Joe's with a splash of egg nog.  Today we talk about Mike's bow hunting adventures and how he is working on being on time.  We also get into some thoughts on a selection from "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. Oh yeah.....Mike got his Black Belt in BJJ last week too:) Enjoy! Just for our listeners Gold Leaf gave us a discount code for 15% of anything in their shop.  Just enter COFFEEREGULAR at checkout.  Enjoy! CHECK OUT TODAYS COFFEE AT: Black Rifle Coffee Co https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ Two Roasting Joe's http://www.tworoastingjoes.com/ CHECK OUT TODAYS BOOK AT: The Body Keeps the Score https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/313183/the-body-keeps-the-score-by-bessel-van-der-kolk-md/ GOLD LEAF JOURNALS  https://shopgoldleaf.com/products/coffee-journal Discount Code: COFFEEREGULAR  CHECK OUT TRANQUILITY CAFE AT: https://www.thetranquilitycafe.com/ CHECK OUT THE LEGION PROJECT AT: https://thelegionproject.com/ CHECK US OUT ON: SHOPIFY: https://coffee-regular-podcast.myshopify.com/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ZhSOy5oDAHOAm4ggUdL2V?si=5DBsXhK3R2ufSMgpgtFGng iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-regular/id1460681914 PODBEAN AT: https://coffeeregularshow.podbean.com FACEBOOK AT: Coffee Regular Podcast INSTAGRAM AT: @coffeeregularpodcast  

With the midterms just months away and the 2024 presidential race around the corner, the press is gearing up to cover more deeply polarizing election cycles.And how it should do that is an equally polarizing question. The media's role in preserving — and reporting on — our democratic institutions is up for discussion.Last week, the New York Times Opinion columnist Ross Douthat pushed back on media critics like the N.Y.U. associate professor Jay Rosen. Jay asserts that the press should strive to be “pro-truth, pro-voting, anti-racist, and aggressively pro-democracy.”Ross disagrees, claiming that such a stance could feed more polarization.So, this week Jane Coaston invited Ross and Jay to the show for a lively debate over how the press should cover politics in a democratic society.Mentioned in this episode:“Can the Press Prevent a Trump Restoration?” by Ross Douthat, published last week“You Cannot Keep From Getting Swept up in Trump's Agenda Without a Firm Grasp on Your Own” and “Two Paths Forward for the American Press,” by Jay Rosen, published in PressThink in May 2020 and November 2020, respectively.

“Making it harder to vote, and harder to understand what the party is really about — these are two parts of the same project” for the Republican Party, Jay Rosen writes. “The conflict with honest journalism is structural. To be its dwindling self, the G.O.P. has to also be at war with the press, unless of course the press folds under pressure.”Rosen is a professor of journalism at N.Y.U., author of the blog “PressThink,” and one of America's sharpest contemporary media critics. And his argument is a simple one: The media's implicit model of American politics — of two coequal parties with competing governing philosophies — is fundamentally broken. Today, the most important axis of political conflict is not between left and right, but between pro- and anti-democracy forces.The way Rosen sees it, the American mainstream press must make a choice: Will it double down on its commitment to detached, nonpartisan neutrality? Or will it choose instead to boldly and aggressively defend truth and democracy?These days, Rosen's view seems almost common-sensical. But he's been critiquing “both sides” journalism — and the model of politics underlying it — for years now, long before such arguments came into vogue. As a result, he's done some of the most original thinking about what an alternative model of journalism would look like, and wrestled with the inevitable political, social and economic tensions that come with it.So this conversation is about what pro-democracy journalism could look like in practice and the thorny questions that this approach to coverage raises. But it also touches on the drawbacks of the press's focus on Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema; how journalists should cover Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson; why Rosen believes “moderate” and “centrist” are “two of the most ideology-soaked terms” in political journalism; the consequences of an economy where political news has to compete for attention with Netflix, Xbox and TikTok; and why Substack and podcasting may hold one of the keys to restoring trust in the media.Mentioned:“Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record” by Megan Brenan“The Coming Confrontation Between the American Press and the Republican Party” by Jay Rosen on PressThink“Battleship Newspaper” by Jay Rosen on PressThink“Election Coverage: The Road Not Taken” by Jay Rosen on PressThinkCBS News poll on Build Back BetterBook Recommendations:The Boys on the Bus by Timothy CrouseMaking News by Gaye TuchmanDeciding What's News by Herbert GansThis episode is guest-hosted by Nicole Hemmer, a historian whose work focuses on the right-wing media and American politics. She is an associate research scholar with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project at Columbia and author of “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics.” You can follow her on Twitter @PastPunditry. (There's more about the other guest hosts during Ezra's parental leave here.)

From MeToo to Wuflu, the American Press is no longer the American Press. Plus great stories about amnesia and why they matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From MeToo to Wuflu, the American Press is no longer the American Press. Plus great stories about amnesia and why they matter.

Coffee and Community. There are two words that aren't far removed. In this conversation, Brian Gumm of Ross Street Roasting and Alex Caza of Firstbloom sit down with me to talk Aeropress and American Press and what community is defined as being to them. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast

When James Madison drafted the First Amendment, “the press” referred to the newspapers of our nation, such as the Pennsylvania Gazette owned by Benjamin Franklin, the most popular paper in the 13 colonies.Things rocked along swimmingly for about 200 years, then one day we walked outside to get the newspaper, sat down to read it, and realized it was yesterday's news. Welcome to the 21st Century, where your telephone is also your newspaper, TV, encyclopedia, magazine, restaurant menu, instruction manual, shopping mall, worldwide map, and phone book. The computer chip gave us the internet, an unregulated realm where irresponsible people are free to spray false reports, fabricated data, and doctored photos across our society like a flamethrower washing over a field of dry grass. Presto, the world is on fire.I believe that people are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. When I was a younger man, television and radio newscasts were trustworthy places to gather reliable facts, even when the presentation of those facts was slanted by the opinion of the reporter. News directors took their guardianship of journalistic integrity seriously, as did most of the rank-and-file reporters. But their collective consciences and good intentions were not what kept us safe. The people of the United States own the airwaves of our nation.Regulating the access to those airwaves began with the Radio Act of 1912, later to be replaced by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1934. For most of the 20th century, America had safeguards that made television and radio news reliable, but in the 9 years between 1987, the 7th year of the Reagan presidency, and 1996, the 4th year of the Clinton presidency, those safeguards were quietly dismantled. Let's take a look at the most important ones:1. The Fairness Doctrine: Introduced in 1949, the Fairness Doctrine required broadcasters to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was honest, equitable, and balanced. If you failed to serve the public in this way, you could lose your license to broadcast. Broadcasters hated the Fairness Doctrine, of course, because it was a pain in the ass. In 1987, Edward O. Fritts, president of the National Assn. of Broadcasters, argued that “broadcasters believe in fairness” and that the Fairness Doctrine was “unconstitutional and an infringement on free speech. It is an intrusion into broadcasters' journalistic judgment.” President Reagan agreed and issued an executive order. Poof… No more Fairness Doctrine. TV and radio stations were now free to slant the news as aggressively as they wanted. 2. Ownership Limits: In 1927, we began to worry about what might happen if too few people controlled the news. Consequently, no one was allowed to own more than three TV stations nationwide. That number was increased to five stations in 1944, then the 7-7-7 rule of 1953 said no one could own more than 7 TV stations, 7 FM radio stations and 7 AM radio stations. In 1985, 7-7-7 became 12-12-12. Then in 1996, the FCC eliminated all limits on radio stations, and said you could own as many TV stations as you wanted as long as those TV stations were collectively reaching no more than 35% of the national audience. As a result, truckloads of investor dollars were gathered and broadcast “consolidation” began. Then in 2002, the 5-member FCC voted 3-2 along party lines (3 Republicans, 2 Democrats) to throw out the national audience limit. Bingo… If you could put together enough money, you could now control the news. American newscasters were no longer required to serve the public interest, or to present both sides of an issue, or even to tell the truth. So for the past 18 years we've been surrounded by flamethrowers on every side. I'm sure glad it hasn't resulted...

On this show, we discuss the history, impact, challenges, and future of the African American press. Joining us for this discussion are Cash Michael, a journalist for several newspapers in North Carolina and Professor Brett Chambers, who teaches in the Department of Mass Communications at North Carolina Central University.

Ed opperman interview Mark Shaw about the murder of Dorothy KilgallenWas What's My Line TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? If so, is the main suspect in her death still at large? These questions and more are answered in former CNN, ESPN, and USA Today legal analyst Mark Shaw's 25th book, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much. Through discovery of never-before-seen videotaped eyewitness interviews with those closest to Kilgallen and secret government documents, Shaw unfolds a “whodunit” murder mystery featuring suspects including Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover, Mafia Don Carlos Marcello and a "Mystery Man" who may have silenced Kilgallen. All while by presenting through Kilgallen's eyes the most compelling evidence about the JFK assassinations since the House Select Committee on Assassination's investigation in the 1970s. Called by the New York Post, “the most powerful female voice in America,” and by acclaimed author Mark Lane the “the only serious journalist in America who was concerned with who killed John Kennedy and getting all of the facts about the assassination,” Kilgallen's official cause of death reported as an overdose of barbiturates combined with alcohol, has always been suspect since no investigation occurred despite the death scene having been staged. Shaw proves Kilgallen, a remarkable woman who broke the "glass ceiling" before the term became fashionable, was denied the justice she deserved, that is until now. More about the book may be learned at thereporterwhoknewtoomuch.com or thedorothykilgallenstory.org.Part Two Ed Opperman interviews Daniel Hopsicker, Author of Barry and The Boys, about Barry Seal the CIA cocaine smuggler durring Iran Contra and the subject of the Tom Cruise movie American MadeNOTE: Chapter 35 is intentionally missing from the printing of this publication. This was intentionally done by the publisher and is not a printing error.This is the story of Barry Seal, the biggest drug smuggler in American history, who died in a hail of bullets with George Bush's private phone number in his wallet...The Wall Street Journal called Barry Seal "the ghost haunting the Whitewater probe." He was far more than that.Based on a 3-year long investigation, Daniel Hopsicker discovered the ‘secret history’ the American Press was afraid to tell… Seal, the most successful drug smuggler in American history, was also — and not coincidentally — a lifelong CIA agent, one of the most famous who ever lived, active in everything from the Bay of Pigs to Watergate to the Kennedy Assassination. And all this before becoming famous for importing tons of cocaine through Mena, Arkansas in the Scandal that won’t go away.The story of Barry Seal is the story of what happens when guys we pay to protect us — CIA guys — go into business with guys we’re paying them to protect us against.."Made" guys. Mobsters… Organized Crime.Ripping the ‘official story’ on the so-called "Clinton Scandals" to shreds, Barry and ‘the Boys’ breaks the biggest scoop of all about the Arkansas Drug Connection: where the money went.And goes…Did the big-time "players" in small ‘backwards’ Arkansas — Bill Clinton, Vince Foster, Jackson Stephens, Jim Blair, Don Tyson — stand idly by while Barry Seal made billions of dollars importing cocaine through their state?Or were the "goings-on in Mena" of Barry and ‘the boys’ just the continuation of… ‘business as usual?’America’s Secret History—Revealed:You’ll learn about the incredible involvement with Seal’s narcotics smuggling organization of top officials in both major American political parties… Republican Attorney General Ed Meese… Democratic National Chairman Charles Manatt… Al Gore’s Campaign Chairman, Tony Coelho…You’ll discover why a young Arkansas Attorney named Bill Clinton signed a "get-out-of-jail-free" personal recognizance bond for Barry Seal, after Seal had been jailed for drug smuggling in Mena…in the ‘70’s.And you’ll learn of the suspicious and long-lasting link between ‘smuggler’ Barry Seal and the Bush Family, Senior and Junior.Most importantly, you’ll discover why a photograph taken by a night club photographer in a Mexico City nightspot ten months before the Kennedy assassination holds the key to the shadowy organization responsible for the massive corruption in Bill Clinton's Arkansas twenty years later…Commenting on the CIA’s affair with the Mafia, L.B.J.’s press secretary, Bill Moyers said, "Once we decide that anything goes, anything can come home to haunt us."After you’ve read Barry and ‘the boys’ you’ll understand what he meant.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement