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A way of life is coming to an end.In this episode we travel with Neil to Wayland's Smithy, near Ashbury, Oxfordshire, Great Britain. To help support the channel & get exclusive videos every week sign up to Neil Oliver on Patreon.comhttps://www.patreon.com/neiloliver To Donate, go to Neil's Website:https://www.neiloliver.com Shop:https://neil-oliver.creator-spring.com YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@Neil-Oliver Rumble site – Neil Oliver Official:https://rumble.com/c/c-6293844 Instagram - NeilOliverLoveLetter:https://www.instagram.com/neiloliverloveletter Podcasts:Season 1: Neil Oliver's Love Letter To The British IslesSeason 2: Neil Oliver's Love Letter To The WorldAvailable on all the usual providershttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/neil-olivers-love-letter-to-the-british-isles #NeilOliver #Wayland'sSmithy #Gods #chamberedtomb #GreatBritain #Uffingtonwhitehorse #Oxfordshire #theRidgeway #England #Britishisles #ghosts #hauntings #history #neiloliverGBNews #travel #culture #ancient #historyfact #explore Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we conclude Jarvis's two-part interview with Russ Tippins and Cindy Maynard of Brooklyn-based classic hard rock revelations Tanith.  The conversation continues to flow easily, with topics ranging from England versus U.S. scene differences and similarities, the recording of the "Citadel" single as the first time the four members of Tanith played together, the affinity of underground metalheads for classic rock stylings, the challenges of starting a band and following your passion, the pros and cons of tour bus life versus van life, and the ongoing writing sessions for Tanith's third album. It's an enlightening and entertaining chat that covers a lot of ground effortlessly. Listen at nightdemon.net/podcast or anywhere you listen to podcasts! Follow us on Instagram Like us on Facebook

In early 1820 a young farm boy by the name of Joseph Smith believed he had a vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ appearing to him, exhorting him not to join any of the existing churches of his day, for they were all corrupt. Just over 200 years later in 2023 in Wilmore, Kentuck in the main chapel on the campus of Asbury Theological Seminary, something of a revival began. For two weeks, thousands of people from all over the world came to Ashbury to see for themselves what was happening. During these two weeks, people prayed and sang worship songs. Many Christians, however, debated as to whether or not this was a genuine revival or just an emotive outpouring of mostly Gen-Z'ers. And most Evangelical Christians criticize Joseph's Smith's first vision as either legendary, completely fabricated, or theologically aberrant. How can we rightly discern whether or not people's personal experiences are truly from God? This week on the Profile we wrap up our conversation with theologian and literary scholar Dr. Jeffery Barbeau about his new book The Last Romantic - C.S. Lewis, English Literature, and Modern Theology and consider more of Lewis's insights and how they can equip us to think biblically about personal religious experiences.Jeffery Barbeau (Ph.D., Marquette University) is professor of theology at Wheaton College, Editor of The Coleridge Bulletin, and a writer on British Romanticism, religion and literature, and the history of Christian thought. His other works include The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion (2021), The Spirit of Methodism: From the Wesleys to a Global Communion (2019), and Religion in Romantic England (2018).Related Links: Go deeper with these related apologetics tools: Watchman Fellowship's Spiritual Abuse Recovery Workbook by David Henke: www.watchman.org/SA Watchman Fellowship Profile on the International Christian Church: by Steve Matthews and Dr. Brady Blevins: www.watchman.org/ICC Watchman Fellowship Profile on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Tim Martin: www.watchman.org/Mormonism Watchman Fellowship Profile on Atheism by Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Jr: www.watchman.org/Mormonism Watchman Fellowship Profile on the Islam by James Walker: www.watchman.org/Muslim Additional ResourcesFREE: We are also offering a subscription to our 4-page bimonthly Profiles here: www.watchman.org/FreePROFILE NOTEBOOK: Order the complete collection of Watchman Fellowship Profiles (around 700 pages -- from Astrology to Zen Buddhism) in either printed or PDF formats here: www.watchman.org/NotebookSUPPORT: Help us create more content like this. Make a tax-deductible donation here: www.watchman.org/GiveApologetics Profile is a ministry of Watchman Fellowship For more information, visit www.watchman.org © Watchman Fellowship, Inc.

This episode is devoted to the Night Demon and Cirith Ungol appearances at the Flaming Metal Festival in Beijing, China on June 3, 2024.  The day was not without adversity, as several members of the touring party were ill, the lighting console was indecipherable, and Rocky was not in peak form.  But the audience was amazing, both bands played killer gigs, and the show was an overwhelming success.  As always, you will hear audio from the gigs, commentary from band and crew, and reflections on an incredible life experience of visiting and performing in China.Become a subscriber today at nightdemon.net/subscriber. This week, subscribers have access to the bonus content below:Streaming Video: Full show - Live in Beijing, China - June 3, 2024 Listen at nightdemon.net/podcast or anywhere you listen to podcasts! Follow us on Instagram Like us on Facebook

NEW EPISODE, NEW ERA, NEW YORK! Johnny returns as he and Mike kick off TNO's coverage of the second book in the Heroes of Olympus series live in front of a raucous crowd in New York City! Sherry leads a fun Q&A as well. Topics include: the cycle, belts, the map, dry ice, Tilden Park, West Coast bagels, Jack in the Crack, floozies, Sweet Summer Child, Spidey-Sense, Dusa, Little Red Riding Hood, Crispy Cheese 'N' Weiners, commitment to the bit, PJ comedy, Sonic Adventure 2, spon-con, tobogganing, power steering, It Follows, Haight & Ashbury, Madame Zeroni, Mad Libs, Seinfeld, Legolas, Circus Maximus, ramparts, kaiju movies, The Wolf Pack, cereal aisles, trivia, and more! WATCH THE VIDEO STREAM OF THIS EP: Patreon Shop TNO NEW 2025 TOUR DATES: www.thenewestolympian.com/live — Find The Newest Olympian Online —  • Website: www.thenewestolympian.com • Patreon: www.thenewestolympian.com/patreon • Twitter: www.twitter.com/newestolympian • Instagram: www.instagram.com/newestolympian • Facebook: www.facebook.com/newestolympian • Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/thenewestolympian • Merch: www.thenewestolympian.com/merch — Production —  • Creator, Host, Producer, Social Media, Web Design: Mike Schubert • Editor: Sherry Guo • Music: Bettina Campomanes and Brandon Grugle • Art: Jessica E. Boyd — About The Show —  Has the Percy Jackson series been slept on by society? Join Mike Schubert as he reads through the books for the first time with the help of longtime PJO fans to cover the plot, take stabs at what happens next, and nerd out over Greek mythology. Whether you're looking for an excuse to finally read these books, or want to re-read an old favorite with a digital book club, grab your blue chocolate chip cookies and listen along. New episodes release on Mondays wherever you get your podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Start Artist Song Time Album Year 1 Ashbury 1 0:00:47 Ashbury Madman 5:37 Endless Skies (Vinyl) 1983 0:06:24 Ashbury Mystery Man 5:19 Endless Skies (Vinyl) 1983 0:11:43 Ashbury Endless Skies 7:30 Endless Skies (Vinyl) 1983 1 Ashbury 2 0:19:46 Ashbury Out Of The Blue 4:38 Eye Of The Stygian Witches 2018 0:24:24 Ashbury Faceless Waters […]

2024 - 10 - 22 Candessa Ashbury by CurtinFM 100.1 in Perth, Western Australia

DCP is a true legend in snowboarding. For over 20 years, he's been pushing the limits of backcountry and freestyle with unmatched style. He's made his mark, filming iconic video parts with the biggest production companies—Kingpin, Mackdawg, Absinthe, Burton, YES, and more. He's also the co-founder of YES Snowboards and CBDayz, a proud father, and a ripping surfer. Thanks for coming on the show, boss! Tune in. Presented by Vans Snow Supported by Ashbury, The Source, Gibbons Whistler, Scandinave Spa Whistler, Skullcandy, Baldface Lodge 

Exploring the Grateful Dead's LegacyIn this episode of the Deadhead Cannabis Show, Larry Mishkin takes listeners on a nostalgic journey through the Grateful Dead's music, focusing on a concert from September 30, 1993, at the Boston Garden. He discusses various songs, including 'Here Comes Sunshine' and 'Spoonful,' while also touching on the band's history and the contributions of key figures like Vince Wellnick and Candace Brightman. The episode also delves into current music news, including a review of Lake Street Dive's performance and updates on marijuana legislation in Ukraine and the U.S.Chapters00:00 Welcome to the Deadhead Cannabis Show03:39 Here Comes Sunshine: A Grateful Dead Classic09:47 Spoonful: The Blues Influence14:00 Music News: Rich Girl and Lake Street Dive24:09 Candace Brightman: The Unsung Hero of Lighting38:01 Broken Arrow: Phil Lesh's Moment to Shine42:19 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds: A Beatles Classic48:26 Marijuana News: Ukraine's Medical Cannabis Legislation54:32 Bipartisan Support for Clean Slate Act01:00:11 Pennsylvania's Push for Marijuana Legalization01:04:25 CBD as a Natural Insecticide01:10:26 Wave to the Wind: A Phil Lesh Tune01:13:18 The Other One: A Grateful Dead Epic Boston GardenSeptember 30, 1993  (31 years ago)Grateful Dead Live at Boston Garden on 1993-09-30 : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet ArchiveINTRO:                                 Here Comes Sunshine                                                Track #1                                                0:08 – 1:48 Released on Wake of the Flood, October 15, 1973, the first album on the band's own “Grateful Dead Records” label. The song was first performed by the Grateful Dead in February 1973. It was played about 30 times through to February 1974 and then dropped from the repertoire. The song returned to the repertoire in December 1992, at the instigation of Vince Welnick, and was then played a few times each year until 1995. Played:  66 timesFirst:  February 9, 1973 at Maples Pavilion, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USALast:  July 2, 1995 at Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN, USA But here's the thing:                         Played 32 times in 1973                        Played 1 time in 1974                        Not played again until December 6, 1992 at Compton Terrace in Chandler, AZ  - 18 years                        Then played a “few” more times in 1993, 94 and 95, never more than 11 times in any one year. I finally caught one in 1993 at the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago with good buddies Marc and Alex. My favorite version is Feb. 15, 1973 at the Dane County Coliseum in Madison, WI SHOW No. 1:                     Spoonful                                                Track #2                                                :50 – 2:35 "Spoonful" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded in 1960 by Howlin' Wolf. Released in June, 1960 by Chess Records in Chicago.  Called "a stark and haunting work",[1] it is one of Dixon's best known and most interpreted songs.[2]Etta James and Harvey Fuqua had a pop and R&B record chart hit with their duet cover of "Spoonful" in 1961, and it was popularized in the late 1960s by the British rock group Cream. Dixon's "Spoonful" is loosely based on "A Spoonful Blues", a song recorded in 1929 by Charley Patton.[3] Earlier related songs include "All I Want Is a Spoonful" by Papa Charlie Jackson (1925) and "Cocaine Blues" by Luke Jordan (1927).The lyrics relate men's sometimes violent search to satisfy their cravings, with "a spoonful" used mostly as a metaphor for pleasures, which have been interpreted as sex, love, and drugs. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed Howlin' Wolf's "Spoonful" as one of the "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll".[9] It is ranked number 154 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2021 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time",[10] up from number 221 on its 2004 list. In 2010, the song was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame "Classics of Blues Recordings" category.[12] In a statement by the foundation, it was noted that "Otis Rush has stated that Dixon presented 'Spoonful' to him, but the song didn't suit Rush's tastes and so it ended up with Wolf, and soon thereafter with Etta James".[12] James' recording with Harvey Fuqua as "Etta & Harvey" reached number 12 on Billboard magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart and number 78 on its Hot 100 singles chart.[13] However, Wolf's original "was the one that inspired so many blues and rock bands in the years to come". The British rock group Cream recorded "Spoonful" for their 1966 UK debut album, Fresh Cream. They were part of a trend in the mid-1960s by rock artists to record a Willie Dixon song for their debut albums. Sung by Bob Weir, normally followed Truckin' in the second set.  This version is rare because it is the second song of the show and does not have a lead in.  Ended Here Comes Sunshine, stopped, and then went into this.  When it follows Truckin', just flows right into Spoonful. Played:  52 timesFirst:  October 15, 1981 at Melkweg, Amsterdam, NetherlandsLast:  December 8, 1994 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, USA  MUSIC NEWS:                              Lead In Music                                                Rich Girl                                                Lake Street Dive                                                Lake Street Dive: Rich Girl [4K] 2018-05-09 - College Street Music Hall; New Haven, CT (youtube.com)                                                0:00 – 1:13 "Rich Girl" is a song by Daryl Hall & John Oates. It debuted on the Billboard Top 40 on February 5, 1977, at number 38 and on March 26, 1977, it became their first of six number-one singles on the BillboardHot 100. The single originally appeared on the 1976 album Bigger Than Both of Us. At the end of 1977, Billboard ranked it as the 23rd biggest hit of the year. The song was rumored to be about the then-scandalous newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. In fact, the title character in the song is based on a spoiled heir to a fast-food chain who was an ex-boyfriend of Daryl Hall's girlfriend, Sara Allen. "But you can't write, 'You're a rich boy' in a song, so I changed it to a girl," Hall told Rolling Stone. Hall elaborated on the song in an interview with American Songwriter: "Rich Girl" was written about an old boyfriend of Sara [Allen]'s from college that she was still friends with at the time. His name is Victor Walker. He came to our apartment, and he was acting sort of strange. His father was quite rich. I think he was involved with some kind of a fast-food chain. I said, "This guy is out of his mind, but he doesn't have to worry about it because his father's gonna bail him out of any problems he gets in." So I sat down and wrote that chorus. [Sings] "He can rely on the old man's money/he can rely on the old man's money/he's a rich guy." I thought that didn't sound right, so I changed it to "Rich Girl". He knows the song was written about him.  Lake Street Dive at Salt Shed Lake Street Dive is an American multi-genre band that was formed in 2004 at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.[1] The band's founding members are Rachael Price, Mike "McDuck" Olson, Bridget Kearney, and Mike Calabrese. Keyboardist Akie Bermiss joined the band on tour in 2017 and was first credited on their 2018 album Free Yourself Up; guitarist James Cornelison joined in 2021 after Olson left the band. The band is based in Brooklyn and frequently tours in North America, Australia, and Europe. The group was formed in 2004 as a "free country band"; they intended to play country music in an improvised, avant-garde style.[3] This concept was abandoned in favor of something that "actually sounded good", according to Mike Olson.[4] The band's name was inspired by the Bryant Lake Bowl, a frequent hang out in the band's early years, located on Lake Street in Minneapolis. Great show last Thursday night my wife and I went with good friends JT and Marni and Rick and Ben. Sitting in the back near the top of the bleachers with a killer view of the Chicago Sky line looking west to southeast and right along the north branch of the Chicago River.  Beautiful weather and a great night overall.  My first time seeing the band although good buddies Alex, Andy and Mike had seen the at Redrocks in July and all spoke very highly of the band which is a good enough endorsement for me. I don't know any of their songs, but they were very good and one of their encores was Rich Girl which made me smile because that too is a song from my high school and college days, that's basically 40+ years ago.  Combined with Goose's cover of the 1970's hit “Hollywood Nights” by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band it was a trip down memory lane. I would recommend seeing this band to any fan of fun music.  They were all clearly having a great time. Katie Pruitt opened and came out to sing a song with LSD. In 2017, Pruitt was awarded the Buddy Holly Prize from the Songwriters Hall of Fame[4] and signed with Round Hill Records.[5] Her EP, OurVinyl Live Session EP was released in March 2018.[6] She was named by Rolling Stone as one of 10 new country artists you need to know[7] and by NPR as one of the 20 artists to watch, highlighting Pruitt as someone who "possesses a soaring, nuanced and expressive voice, and writes with devastating honesty".[8] On September 13, 2019, Pruitt released "Expectations", the title track from her full-length debut. Additional singles from this project were subsequently released: "Loving Her" on October 21, 2019,[9] and "Out of the Blue" on November 15, 2019.[10] On February 21, 2020, Pruitt's debut album, Expectations, was released by Rounder Records.[11][12] She earned a nomination for Emerging Act of the Year at the 2020 Americana Music Honors & Awards.[13] In the same year, she duetted with Canadian singer-songwriter Donovan Woods on "She Waits for Me to Come Back Down", a track from his album Without People.[14] In 2021 the artist was inter alia part of the Newport Folk Festival in July. Recommend her as well.  2.     Move Me Brightly: Grateful Dead Lighting Director Candace Brightman Candace Brightman (born 1944)[1] is an American lighting engineer, known for her longtime association with the Grateful Dead. She is the sister of author Carol Brightman. Brightman grew up in Illinois and studied set design at St John's College, Annapolis, Maryland.[1] She began working as a lighting technician in the Anderson Theater, New York City, and was recruited by Bill Graham to operate lighting at the Fillmore East.[3] In 1970, she operated the house lights at the Chicago Coliseum with Norol Tretiv.[4] She has also worked for Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker and Van Morrison. After serving as house lighting engineer for several Grateful Dead shows, including their 1971 residency at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, she was recruited by the band's Jerry Garcia to work for them full-time.[1] She started working regularly for the Dead on their 1972 tour of Europe (which was recorded and released as Europe 72), and remained their in-house lighting engineer for the remainder of their career.[1] One particular challenge that Brightman faced was having to alter lighting setups immediately in response to the Dead's improvisational style. By the band's final tours in the mid-1990s, she was operating a computer-controlled lighting system and managing a team of technicians.[5] Her work inspired Phish's resident lighting engineer Chris Kuroda, who regularly studied techniques in order to keep up with her standards. Brightman continued working in related spin-off projects until 2005.[1][7] She returned to direct the lighting for the Fare Thee Well concerts in 2015, where she used over 500 fixtures. Now facing significant financial and health related issues. 3.    Neil Young and New Band, The Chrome Hearts, Deliver 13-Minute “Down By The River” on Night One at The Capitol Theatre My buddies and I still can't believe Neil with Crazy Horse did not play their Chicago show back in May this year.  Thank god he's ok and still playing but we are bummed out at missing the shared experience opportunity that only comes along when seeing a rock legend like Neil and there aren't many.   SHOW No. 2:                     Broken Arrow                                                Track #5                                                1:10 – 3:00 Written by Robbie Robertson and released on his album Robbie Robertson released on October 27, 1987.  It reached number 29 on the RPM CanCon charts in 1988.[23]Rod Stewart recorded a version of "Broken Arrow" in 1991 for his album Vagabond Heart.[24] Stewart's version of the song was released as a single on August 26, 1991,[25] with an accompanying music video, reaching number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and number two in Canada. This ballad is not to be confused either with Chuck Berry's 1959 single or Buffalo Springfield's 1967 song of the same name, written by Neil Young. "Broken Arrow" was also performed live by the Grateful Dead from 1993 to 1995 with Phil Lesh on vocals.[28] Grateful Dead spinoff groups The Dead, Phil Lesh and Friends, and The Other Ones have also performed the song, each time with Lesh on vocals.[29] Played:  35 timesFirst:  February 23, 1993 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, USALast:  July 2, 1995 at Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN, USA  SHOW No. 3:         Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds                                    Track #9                                    2:46 – 4:13 "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their May, 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was written primarily by John Lennon with assistance from Paul McCartney, and credited to the Lennon–McCartneysongwriting partnership.[2] Lennon's son Julian inspired the song with a nursery school drawing that he called "Lucy – in the sky with diamonds". Shortly before the album's release, speculation arose that the first letter of each of the nouns in the title intentionally spelled "LSD", the initialism commonly used for the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide.[3] Lennon repeatedly denied that he had intended it as a drug song,[3][4] and attributed the song's fantastical imagery to his reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books.[3] The Beatles recorded "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" in March 1967. Adding to the song's ethereal qualities, the musical arrangement includes a Lowrey organ part heavily treated with studio effects, and a drone provided by an Indian tambura. The song has been recognised as a key work in the psychedelic genre. Among its many cover versions, a 1974 recording by Elton John – with a guest appearance by Lennon – was a number 1 hit in the US and Canada. John Lennon said that his inspiration for the song came when his three-year-old son Julian showed him a nursery school drawing that he called "Lucy – in the Sky with Diamonds",[4] depicting his classmate Lucy O'Donnell.[5] Julian later recalled: "I don't know why I called it that or why it stood out from all my other drawings, but I obviously had an affection for Lucy at that age. I used to show Dad everything I'd built or painted at school, and this one sparked off the idea."[5][6][7]Ringo Starr witnessed the moment and said that Julian first uttered the song's title on returning home from nursery school.[4][8][9] Lennon later said, "I thought that's beautiful. I immediately wrote a song about it." According to Lennon, the lyrics were largely derived from the literary style of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland.[3][10] Lennon had read and admired Carroll's works, and the title of Julian's drawing reminded him of the "Which Dreamed It?" chapter of Through the Looking Glass, in which Alice floats in a "boat beneath a sunny sky".[11] Lennon recalled in a 1980 interview: It was Alice in the boat. She is buying an egg and it turns into Humpty-Dumpty. The woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep and the next minute they are rowing in a rowing boat somewhere and I was visualizing that.[3] Paul McCartney remembered of the song's composition, "We did the whole thing like an Alice in Wonderland idea, being in a boat on the river ... Every so often it broke off and you saw Lucy in the sky with diamonds all over the sky. This Lucy was God, the Big Figure, the White Rabbit."[10] He later recalled helping Lennon finish the song at Lennon's Kenwood home, specifically claiming he contributed the "newspaper taxis" and "cellophane flowers" lyrics.[8][12] Lennon's 1968 interview with Rolling Stone magazine confirmed McCartney's contribution.[13] Lucy O'Donnell Vodden, who lived in Surbiton, Surrey, died 28 September 2009 of complications of lupus at the age of 46. Julian had been informed of her illness and renewed their friendship before her death. Rumours of the connection between the title of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and the initialism "LSD" began circulating shortly after the release of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP in June 1967.[24][25] McCartney gave two interviews in June admitting to having taken the drug.[26][27] Lennon later said he was surprised at the idea the title was a hidden reference to LSD,[3] countering that the song "wasn't about that at all,"[4] and it "was purely unconscious that it came out to be LSD. Until someone pointed it out, I never even thought of it. I mean, who would ever bother to look at initials of a title? ... It's not an acid song."[3] McCartney confirmed Lennon's claim on several occasions.[8][12] In 1968 he said: When you write a song and you mean it one way, and someone comes up and says something about it that you didn't think of – you can't deny it. Like "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," people came up and said, cunningly, "Right, I get it. L-S-D," and it was when [news]papers were talking about LSD, but we never thought about it.[10] In a 2004 interview with Uncut magazine, McCartney confirmed it was "pretty obvious" drugs did influence some of the group's compositions at that time, including "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", though he tempered this statement by adding, "[I]t's easy to overestimate the influence of drugs on the Beatles' music." In 2009 Julian with James Scott Cook and Todd Meagher released "Lucy", a song that is a quasi-follow-up to the Beatles song. The cover of the EP showed four-year-old Julian's original drawing, that now is owned by David Gilmour from Pink Floyd.[59] Lennon's original handwritten lyrics sold at auction in 2011 for $230,000. A lot of fun to see this tune live.  Love that Jerry does the singing even though his voice is very rough and he stumble through some of the lyrics.  It is a Beatles tune, a legendary rock tune, and Jerry sings it like he wrote it at his kitchen table. Phil and Friends with the Quintent cover the tune as well and I believe Warren Haynes does the primary singing on that version.  Warren, Jimmy Herring and Phil really rock that tune like the rock veterans they are. The version is fun because it opens the second set, a place of real prominence even after having played it for six months by this point.  Gotta keep the Deadheads guessing. Played:  19 timesFirst:  March 17, 1993 at Capital Centre, Landover, MD, USALast: June 28, 1995 at The Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI, USA  MJ NEWS: Ukrainian Officials Approve List Of Medical Marijuana Qualifying Conditions Under Country's New Legalization Law2.      Federal Marijuana And Drug Convictions Would Be Automatically Sealed Under New Bipartisan Senate Bill3.      Pennsylvania Police Arrest An Average Of 32 People For Marijuana Possession Every Day, New Data Shows As Lawmakers Weigh Legalization4.      CBD-Rich Hemp Extract Is An Effective Natural Insecticide Against Mosquitoes, New Research Shows   SHOW No. 4:         Wave To The Wind                                    Track #10                                    5:00 – 6:40 Hunter/Lesh tune that was never released.  In fact, the Dead archives say that there is no studio recording of the song.  Not a great song.  I have no real memory of it other than it shows up in song lists for a couple of shows I attended.  Even this version of the tune is really kind of flat and uninspiring but there are not a lot of Phil tunes to feature and you can only discuss Box of Rain so many times.  Just something different to talk about. Played:  21 timesFirst:  February 22, 1992 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, USALast:  December 9, 1993 at Los Angeles Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA, USA  OUTRO:                   The Other One                                    Track #16                                    2:30 – 4:22 "That's It for the Other One" is a song by American band the Grateful Dead. Released on the band's second studio album Anthem of the Sun (released on July 18, 1968) it is made up of four sections—"Cryptical Envelopment", "Quadlibet for Tenderfeet", "The Faster We Go, the Rounder We Get", and "We Leave the Castle". Like other tracks on the album, is a combination of studio and live performances mixed together to create the final product. While the "We Leave the Castle" portion of the song was never performed live by the band, the first three sections were all featured in concert to differing extents. "Cryptical Envelopment", written and sung by Jerry Garcia, was performed from 1967 to 1971, when it was then dropped aside from a select few performances in 1985. "The Faster We Go, the Rounder We Get", written by Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir and sung by Weir, became one of the band's most frequently performed songs in concert (usually denoted as simply "The Other One"). One of the few Grateful Dead songs to have lyrics written by Weir, "The Faster We Go, the Rounder We Get" became one of the Dead's most-played songs (being performed a known 586 times[2]) and most popular vehicles for improvisation, with some performances reaching 30+ minutes in length. The song's lyrics reference the influence of the Merry Pranksters and in particular Neal Cassady.[2] Additionally, the line "the heat came 'round and busted me for smilin' on a cloudy day"  - one of my favorite Grateful Dead lyrics  - refers to a time Weir was arrested for throwing a water balloon at a cop from the upstairs of 710 Ashbury, the Dead's communal home during the ‘60's and early ‘70's before the band moved its headquarters, and the band members moved, to Marin County just past the Golden Gate Bridge when driving out of the City. In my experience, almost always a second set tune.  Back in the late ‘60's and early ‘70's either a full That's It For The Other One suite or just The Other One, would be jammed out as long as Dark Star and sometimes longer.  During the Europe '72 tour, Dark Star and the full Other One Suite traded off every show as the second set psychedelic rock long jam piece.  Often preceded by a Phil bass bomb to bring the independent noodling into a full and tight jam with an energy all of its own. The Other One got its name because it was being written at the same time as Alligator, one of the Dead's very first tunes.  When discussing the tunes, there was Alligator and this other one. I always loved the Other One and was lucky enough to see the full That's It For The Other One suite twice in 1985 during its too brief comeback to celebrate the Dead's 20th anniversary. Played:  550 timesFirst:  October 31, 1967 at Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA, USALast:  July 8, 1995 at Soldier Field in Chicago Birthday shout out: Nephew, Jacob Mishkin, star collegiate baseball player, turns 21and all I can say is “no effing way!”  Happy birthday dude! And a Happy and healthy New Year to those celebrating Rosh Hashanah which begins this week. .Produced by PodConx Deadhead Cannabis Show - https://podconx.com/podcasts/deadhead-cannabis-showLarry Mishkin - https://podconx.com/guests/larry-mishkinRob Hunt - https://podconx.com/guests/rob-huntJay Blakesberg - https://podconx.com/guests/jay-blakesbergSound Designed by Jamie Humiston - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-humiston-91718b1b3/Recorded on Squadcast

Gute Laune in der Plattnerei! Schon wieder!Es geht um Altherren-Rock. Schon wieder! Aber nicht um irgendwelchen, sondern um das vielleicht beste Rockalbum, das niemand kennt. Die Jungs von Ashbury aus Arizona haben 1983 mit ihrem Debüt “Endless Skies” ein derart musikalisches Kleinod von gefühlvollem, warmen Southern Hard-Rock erschaffen, dass Pint und Kain sich einig sind: Prädikat “besonders wertvoll”. Wer ist Dieter Gorny und weshalb verwechselt Pint ihn mit Dieter Bürgy oder meinte er doch Jürgen Richter? Was haben Waschmaschinen damit zu tun und wieso taucht Mark Knopfler ständig in der Plattnerei auf? Wie ging der Glückskeksspruch von Kain nochmal, weshalb verwechselt er “Gefährliche Liebschaften” mit “Eine dunkle Begierde” und wieso ruft niemand Mr. Vain? Mahnende Magier, mysteriöse Männer, erloschene Liebe, harte Kämpfe und die Suche nach Rache unter endlosen Himmeln im Angesicht der Verzweiflung. All das erwartet euch in der neuen Episode Plattnerei.So wholesome und relatable waren wir lange nicht!

Why are wrestling books so expensive and what happens when Ashbury Park & Red Hook collide? Get the answers on this weeks brand new episode of The Wrestling With My Thoughts Podcast!

The Ashbury Team was visiting town so I sat down with; Louif Paradis, Ivika Jurgenson, Parker Szumowski and Harrison Gordon. We chat on what they've been up to as of late. Thank you Ashbury for getting us together! If you need new goggles/ sunglasses check out - www.ashburyeyewear.com Rider owned. 

[00:00:00] David Gyerston: So much of this begins with the reality that these presidential roles are too big for any single person to manage. We're always looking for the next Moses or David. And the reality is, there is no Moses or David anymore that can possibly handle everything that needs to be done. So I've stopped thinking about finding presidents and started thinking about teams that can make up the office of the president, which is a different perspective. +++++++++++++++++++ [00:00:28] Tommy Thomas (2): Our guest today is Dr. David Gyerston. David completed bachelor's level studies in theology at Lauren Park College in Ontario, Canada. Took his BA in Philosophy and Religion and Psychology from Spring Arbor University. He has Masters level studies in College Student Personnel and Sociology from Michigan State.  Masters level studies in Comparative Higher Education from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and Management from Michigan State University. All of these degrees were completed by a man who never graduated high school. At least not the way most of us did. In fact, one of his high school guidance counselors told him that he wasn't smart enough to graduate and he should drop out and get a job in the gold mines or the lumberyards. From this inauspicious beginning, David went on to be the President of three different universities. He and I have been friends for at least 20 years, and it's an honor to have him as our guest today. [00:01:33] Tommy Thomas:  Before we take it too deep of a dive into your professional career, take us back to your childhood. What two or three experiences do you remember as having shaped you best? [00:01:47] David Gyerston: Tommy, I am Canadian. I was born in Toronto, but I was raised in Timmins, which is about a hundred miles south of Hudson's Bay in a gold mining and lumbering community right on the Quebec border. And childhood was difficult. My dad was an alcoholic, and my mom had some really severe emotional and mental and physical problems. So, I ran away from home when I was 13. And a Free Methodist minister and his wife, who were pastoring a little congregation up there in the Great White North took me in off the streets. I lived with them for the next five years and had come to faith through their witness and ministry when I was about 14. But still had a lot of trouble. I never graduated high school, and don't have a high school diploma to this day. And one of the most profound experiences I had, other than my conversion experience, under Jim and Marion Tutelage, was my high school guidance counselor calling me in when I was 15 years old and telling me that, these were his words, David, you're just too stupid to be in school. You need to drop out and get a job in the gold mines or in the lumber yards, which were the two main industries in northern Canada at that time. And so I talked to Jim and Marion about it and they said, no, persist. The guidance counselor was correct. I flunked out in the 12th grade, never finished. But Jim and Marion felt strongly that God had a plan for my life. I didn't know what it would be, but the Free Methodist denomination had a Bible school and residential high school near Toronto, and Jim and Marion talked them into letting me in for one semester. So, I had to take some high school courses, and then started on the Bachelor of Theology degree, the three-year program, to begin preparing for pastoral ministry. And that's when I really came alive, not just spiritually, but also intellectually and academically. I really fell in love with the study of scripture and the disciplines of learning. And so those would have been a couple of major turning points for me that shaped me in my childhood.  I had the privilege of leading my dad to the Lord at the Salvation Army drop-in center in Toronto. He was out on the streets. I'd been pastoring in the city for a couple of years and went down to help the Salvation Army at their Harbor Light Mission. One night when I was preaching, my dad came in off the street, and I didn't know he was there, he didn't know I was there, and when they had the altar service at the end, he came forward. And the captain and I led him to the Lord and the Salvation Army took him in. He was a cook, and so he cooked for their officer's training college there when I was in Toronto. And with the problem with alcohol, it's a recidivism situation. And he fell off the wagon two or three times, but I believe he made a genuine commitment to the Lord. And then later I also saw my mom come to faith as well. So I was able to be reconciled to both my parents even though they never reconciled together. I trust that they're reconciled now with Jesus in heaven. Those are a couple of major anchor points for me. [00:05:14] Tommy Thomas: With that kind of backdrop, walk us through your pilgrimage to the PhD. [00:05:20] David Gyerston: I went to Lorne Park College, which was the Free Methodist School. Completed two years of the Bachelor of Theology degree when the school went bankrupt and closed. Those of us in that program had the option of either transferring to Roberts Wesleyan College or Spring Arbor College, and I ended up going to Spring Arbor, with about a dozen others from Lorne Park, and while I was there, I came under the tutelage of Dr. David McKenna. He took an interest in me and began to suggest that perhaps my calling, because I wasn't sure about pastoral ministry, was Christian higher education. And then when he left and went to be president at Seattle Pacific University Dr. Elwood Voller came from Roberts, interestingly enough, as president, and he picked up that mantle, and so he got me into a master's degree program at Michigan State, where he had previously been Dean of Student Affairs there, earlier in his career, and I finished up. I did a Master's in Sociology, Social Work, and Counseling. Then felt I needed to go back to Canada because I owed some service and went back to pastor a church in Toronto and did a second Master's Degree in Comparative Higher Education at the University of Toronto.  And so I was specializing in comparative higher education, comparing and contrasting the U. S. system of higher education with the Australian system of higher education. And again, not to get in the weeds, but the Australians were the first to really pioneer distance education. And so, they were doing a lot of education over ham radio in the Outback. It was really interesting to see how they began that distance-distributed education model that was later picked up in the U. S. systems. Then came back to Spring Arbor, working and teaching at the university, and pursued a Ph.D. at Michigan State, which was in administration and management, particularly focused on college and university administration and management. And then did a special cognate in the field of organizational communication theory and innovation theory. And then graduated with a Ph.D. in that area. [00:07:43] Tommy Thomas: So, I know you taught along the way, but think back to your first management job when you actually had people reporting to you. What do you remember about that? [00:07:52] David Gyerston: Woody Voller felt that I needed to get a lot of experience across the various administrative operations. And so, I was in student development, I was in admissions recruitment, and enrollment management. I was in fundraising in the area of writing grants and raising money, alumni relations, and church relations. In most of those, I only had a secretary reporting to me so my first really significant time of leadership came when I was invited to go to Virginia Beach to help start what was originally CBN University. I was one of the founding team members of Regent University and that grew then and we ended up with a significant number of faculty and staff. Later I was President and had those responsibilities and was invited then after that to become President at Asbury University and went there and led the institution for seven years and then was invited to Taylor University as President and led that institution for five years. And so that was the senior leadership journey went into semi-retirement, went back into teaching in the PhD programs and Doctor of Ministry or Doctor of Strategic Leadership Programs at Regent was in an endowed faculty chair. Then began my consulting and coaching work with the emerging Christian leaders during that time. I went out to California for a couple of years but one of my clients was struggling with an accreditation issue. So I took over the leadership of that institution to help them through that. And then we decided to retire back here in Kentucky. At Asbury, and with that known, the president at the seminary asked me to come back and be the founding dean of the Beeson School of Practical Theology. When I was here previously with David McKenna, I'd served with him as his vice president and was on the faculty at the seminary earlier on in my career before I went back to Virginia Beach, and that's too long a story to tell. But, essentially, we had gotten a $60 million grant from the Beeson family to start the Beeson Center and when Dr. Tennant at the seminary heard I was coming back, he wanted me to come back and revisit that and restructure it. So I was Associate Provost and Dean of the Beeson Center. And then the school, until just recently, when I finally, I never was going to fully retire, but I finally retired again from getting a paycheck and now I'm working, in the coaching and consulting and doing some teaching on the side. ++++++++++++++++++++ [00:10:36] Tommy Thomas:  You've been a part of two maybe two quasi-startups. So I guess the Beeson Center was a startup, and CBN was pretty much a startup. When you think of a startup, in this case, a university or college, what are some things that are different than when you went to Ashbury and Taylor, where you had something that had been around a long time? [00:10:59] David Gyerston: Yeah, I sequentially, the startup was moving from Spring Arbor to Virginia Beach. Throughout my career, I've either been involved in start-ups, fix-ups, or ramp-ups and usually, it's three to five years in those various settings. And in my career path, essentially, I've either been involved in startups, fix-ups, or ramp-ups, have been essentially, and usually it's three to five years in those various settings. And in going to Regent, of course, it was ground zero and starting everything from scratch. There were three of us on the initial team, an academic leader, a librarian, and myself, for everything else. And of course, it's navigating all of the various governmental and accreditation hoops in order to even start a university, which took us a year, and then trying to decide where we would focus in terms of our curriculum. Initially, we felt we could have the greatest impact by focusing on graduate-level education at the master's level. Intentionally Christ-centered, we were looking for students who had a call in their life and needed a place to enhance their call. And so, we established what we thought were the six or seven major arenas where if we could find talented, deeply committed Christian men and women and train them well and put them into positions of influence, we perhaps could impact culture the quickest and the fastest. And so communications, and then education, and then business, and then counseling, then law. All became part of the original plan and within five years, we had all of those programs up and operating with a student body of around seven or eight hundred. Today, Regent has a student body of over ten thousand. It's 11,500 this past year both with an undergraduate and graduate program up through the Ph.D. [00:12:49] Tommy Thomas: So you've hired a lot of people and you've fired one or two probably. But when you're hiring at the cabinet level, what are you looking for? [00:12:57] David Gyerston: So much of this begins with the reality that these presidential roles are too big for any single person to manage. I've been doing a lot of work the last decade or more helping universities in transition, and particularly working with them as they try to figure out who they're going to need to lead them next. And particularly the last three to five years, the complexities have been so intense that it's become clear that there's no single person who can possibly do all that a president's office is responsible for. So I've stopped thinking about finding presidents and thinking about teams that can make up the office of the president, which is a different perspective. And so you begin with, obviously, the institutional needs. And there are some generalized needs that all institutions have, but there are some immediately pressing needs. When I am working with a Board on the on-boarding of a new president, one of the questions I am asking is “What are the essential big rocks that the President needs to move in the first 90-120 days on the job?” That are distinctive and unique to that institution. And so the president needs to be equipped to address those. Often when I'm onboarding new presidents, one of the things I'm working with the Board of Trustees on and the search committee on, are what are the essential big rocks the president needs to move in the first 90 to 120 days. Or there isn't going to be any institution left. And you've got to deal with the crises at hand. And that then determines, the nature of the president's ability to handle those. And in building a team now, in terms of the office of the president, the C-Suite that will support the President, you begin with what are the institutional needs, the most pressing needs at this moment, what are the skill sets needed to address those pressing needs. Do they exist in the president, or does the president need to bring around her or him, the team members that can bring the multiple different skill sets needed to address and resolve the Immediate crises and then the long-term needs of the institution? One of the things that we're finding, Tommy, is that the old model, which was the command and control, top-down, the person that went to the mountain and got the direction and came back and said, here's where we're going, that model isn't working anymore. In most institutions, let alone higher education institutions. And so in the faith-based community, of course, we're always looking for, the next Moses or David. And the reality is, there is no Moses or David anymore that can possibly handle everything that needs to be done. And so, one of the most important skill sets in a new executive leader is can that person understand their strengths and weaknesses, and do they have an orientation toward collaborative decision making and are they able to identify build and support a team then that can bring the various pieces to bear and that means a person that's not threatened by people smarter than them, and more equipped and talented than them. Usually in the C suite when I've been asked to help presidents identify direct reports, that's the strategy I follow. What are your needs? What are your skill sets, Mr. President, Mrs. President, meeting those needs? And what kind of team members do you need in order to complement and supplement yourself? And that collaborative model with a person who's very, and this is another dimension, very secure in their sense of calling to the position becomes really important, particularly for faith-based institutions. [00:16:32] Tommy Thomas: So, let's flip that over then, I know every now and then you've had to release somebody. How is that best done? [00:16:40] David Gyerston: I don't think there's any off-the-rack suit, and plan to do this. I think, obviously, it begins with a very honest, open and thorough assessment of where the individual is not performing effectively. Not everybody would agree with me on this. I tend to view a subordinate's dysfunction as my dysfunction. And it's my problem. What is it that I haven't done to ensure that this person is equipped, is empowered, enabled, and is supported to get the job done?  It's the old biblical idea. Let's look at the spec - beam in my own eye here before I start looking at the spec in somebody else's. And then it's a process of being sure that we've thoroughly communicated to the employee, the dysfunctioning employee, what the expectations are a lot of times people are surprised when they're fired because they had no idea what the supervisor was expecting of them because the supervisor had not communicated effectively, and there is now a lot of legal realities around due process and paper trails. And that's helped us, I think, as leaders, to be more thorough in communicating and documenting areas that need improvement and usually, I like to start with here's where some dysfunctions need to be corrected. Let's work together to figure out how to correct them. Here are the objectives and the performance measurements we're going to use and then give three to five to six months if that's possible. Sometimes you've got to let somebody go very quickly. If it's a moral failure or a complete incompetence failure, you may have to act more quickly. But I want to be sure before I fired anyone, that I had thoroughly communicated my expectations, and had laid out a thorough plan for them to be successful. And then after feedback over several weeks, a couple of months, three months, if that still wasn't making them successful, then to work with them to find a respectable and honorable departure and wherever that was possible and we had the financial resources, we always wanted to give people, a landing pad so that they could be assisted in finding their next place of employment. If a person is just completely incompetent, so much of this is attitude, I think, in bringing up children, often it isn't the behavior that we want to discipline, it's the attitude behind the behavior that we want to focus on and so for me, I'm always looking for is, does this person have a teachable spirit? Is there a sense of humility? The other thing to take into account is, and I've failed here a couple of times badly, where I left a person in a position too long in terms of hoping that they would course correct and I did damage to their team and their team members were hurt, frustrated several of them in a couple of situations end up just quitting because they felt like nothing was going to change. And I realized then that I've got to find a balance between giving time for people to perform effectively and recognizing when it's time. I think if there's any mistake I've made in my career, it's that I've not fired fast enough. Because so much grace was given to me, I think I tend to allow that to color my approach to people. And sometimes there's too much grace when more deliberate immediate action is going to be needed. ++++++++++++++++++++= [00:20:33] Tommy Thomas: I'll move over to team leadership for a minute. I want you to think of maybe your best team and then tell me about the most ambitious project you've ever undertaken and how you got the team to come behind you. [00:20:48] David Gyerston: Again, various opportunities present themselves at various times, some of those are unique opportunities that are positive in nature. We have the opportunity to receive a 50 million grant and we need to figure out how we're going to use that effectively. There are times when essentially, we're in crisis. And we've got to figure out collaboratively and in unity how we're going to deal with those crises. The one for me, which was most significant, is when I became the president of an institution, I won't name specifically, and walked into a very large building project that had failed miserably and they'd been trying to raise money for two or three years, it was a $25 or $30 million project, which in that institution's case was the largest they'd ever taken on, and they had only raised a couple of million. And so, we had to pull a team together to figure out why wasn't the money coming in? Because I tend to operate on the principle that if God ordered it, then God's going to provide for it. And if God isn't providing for it, then possibly he didn't order it. And so we went right back to square one on this particular facility. And again, without getting too far in the weeds, went back to a complete reassessment of the actual needs and what the facilities were going to be used for, pulled a massive team together of end users, as well as key people, including prospective donors alumni in that institution. And then relaunched we had to eat about a million dollars of costs on the old plan. But we launched it and within three years or less than three years, we had raised all of the money necessary to build the building debt-free. And so much of that was again, basically getting the right people, involved in the opportunity at the right time and place. And then giving them the freedom to bring their creativity and inviting them to make it happen. And that institution tended to look to its CEO for all of the decision-making. So, we had a culture change that needed to be made. And initially, people were uncomfortable being invited into a collaborative process. They were used to being good soldiers. The general issued the orders. And we marched on the hill and took it or didn't take it. This idea of participating in the design and decision-making and process was something that from a cultural vantage point had to be addressed before we could actually be successful. So I don't know if that gets at what you're thinking about Tommy, but that's just a process I've used. [00:23:39] Tommy Thomas: Going over to maybe back to general leadership, and we see I guess probably if you've been around as long as you and I have, you've probably seen a lot of leaders fail. What do you think is the most dangerous behavior or trait that contributes to a leader's derailing her or his career? [00:24:01] David Gyerston:   There are lots of ways to describe this, but I think basically a core sense of humility and understanding what your limitations are. I think most of the triage work I've done with leaders in crisis really comes back to their own understanding of their, or lack of understanding of their weaknesses and limitations. And so often the failure is the direct result of a blindness to those aspects of their leadership style, their decision-making that essentially, they weren't aware of. And some of this we define broadly in psychological terms as EQ, the ability to read the room accurately, to discern how we're coming across. A lot of times one of the manifestations of a lack of EQ is a talker rather than the listener kind of orientation, somebody asks a question and answers it for themself. I see that a lot, particularly in Western leadership. I've taught in Singapore, I've taught in South Africa, and there's a very different modality of leadership in those settings. We in the Western world have this great man, great woman approach. So, the leader of the belief that they have to have the answer for everything and they can never admit that they're not capable of bringing the answer or that they need help in finding the answer. And so that all boils down to a lack of self-awareness which often is manifested in a lack of humility to admit where a leader needs assistance and help. Sometimes that gets shown particularly in a relationship between a CEO and their board, where the CEO is not completely forthcoming, particularly with difficult news or bad news. And we say in college university administration that the boards of trustees only have one employee, that's the president, right? And they rely then on the president to provide them with all of the accurate and transparent information they need to make good decisions, and I would say about 75% of the time when I'm invited to help with a leadership crisis, it's been a breakdown in communication between the CEO and the board, and I have a situation where I helped with a senior executive level search where the top three senior executives were fired, and they were shocked they were fired, and the board of trustees was shocked they were shocked. Because they thought they were communicating effectively to the leadership team and vice versa, and they were just missing each other, so one of the first things we had to do before even beginning the search process for new leadership was to figure out how to help the board become more effective in communicating, but also in asking for the strategic information that was essential to the viability and fidelity of the institution's mission. A lot of presidents in higher education, basically their reports to the board are designed to prove to the board they've hired the right guy as president. And in reality, the board needs to see some of the difficulties and be presented with reporting that is actionable, that allows them to make their fiduciary decisions with wisdom, etc. [00:27:36] Tommy Thomas: Yes, it's been said that we learn most from our failures If that's the case, why are most of us so afraid to fail? [00:27:44] David Gyerston: Again, I think it's a cultural expectation, particularly for leaders, that they have to be seen as competent and capable and successful. And I remember when I was pastoring in Toronto, pastoring one of our larger congregations in my denomination, and I was a young buck and a little bit too much full of myself. And I realized that, and one Sunday ended up having to apologize to the congregation for a couple of things that I had said and done. And they weren't moral failures or ethical failures, they were just, unwise things. As I stood at the door and shook hands with the folk as they were leaving, one of my more faithful members said to me, looked at me and she said, Pastor Gyerston, don't you ever do that again. And I said, what do you mean? And she says, don't you ever get up in front and tell us that you failed. She said, I don't want a pastor who is a failure. And so you've got this incredible sense of pressure that's on leaders that I think so often mitigates against us being transparent enough to admit that we are in need of help. You think of Moses, but he had to have Aaron stand on either side of him to hold up his hands. Aaron was the spiritual support. We think he was more of the operational administrative support person. And so, Moses could not have been successful in praying in that successful battle, had it not been for the fact that he admitted he couldn't hold his hands up until the sun went down. Unless a leader is willing to admit that he can't do everything and needs help, the tyranny of failure will be a part of that leader's administrative style. And then he needed people on either side of him to be holding up his hands. And so unless a leader is willing to admit they're in need then there's going to be this how is this tyranny of the fear of failure that's going to be a part of that leader's administrative style. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ As David shared, he has been the President of three different universities. You can only imagine the lessons on board governance, both best practices and some not-so-good that he has observed in working with different board chairs and reporting to different boards. Join us next week as we continue this conversation with David Gyerston.  Our focus will be Board Governance. [00:30:13] Tommy Thomas: Thank you for joining us today. If you are a first-time listener, I hope you will subscribe and become a regular. You can find links to all the episodes on our website: www.jobfitmatters.com/podcast. If there are topics you'd like for me to explore, my email address is tthomas@jobfitmatters.com.   Word of mouth has been identified as the most valuable form of marketing. Surveys tell us that consumers believe recommendations from friends and family over all other forms of advertising. If you've heard something today that's worth passing on, please share it with others. You're already helping me make something special for the next generation of nonprofit leaders. I'll be back next week with a new episode. Until then, stay the course on our journey to help make the nonprofit sector more effective and sustainable.   Links & Resources JobfitMatters Website Next Gen Nonprofit Leadership with Tommy Thomas The Perfect Search – What every board needs to know about hiring their next CEO   Connect tthomas@jobfitmatters.com Follow Tommy on LinkedIn  

Adam Scott and Scott Aukerman return as superfan Adam Scott Aukerman—this time to discuss the music and the impact of Bruce Springsteen. In this first installment, Scott and Scott reminisce about when they first heard The Boss's music before diving into a track-by-track breakdown of his debut studio album, "Greetings From Ashbury Park, N.J."

Episode 165 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Dark Stat” and the career of the Grateful Dead. This is a long one, even longer than the previous episode, but don't worry, that won't be the norm. There's a reason these two were much longer than average. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-minute bonus episode available, on "Codine" by the Charlatans. Errata I mispronounce Brent Mydland's name as Myland a couple of times, and in the introduction I say "Touch of Grey" came out in 1988 -- I later, correctly, say 1987. (I seem to have had a real problem with dates in the intro -- I also originally talked about "Blue Suede Shoes" being in 1954 before fixing it in the edit to be 1956) Resources No Mixcloud this week, as there are too many songs by the Grateful Dead, and Grayfolded runs to two hours. I referred to a lot of books for this episode, partly because almost everything about the Grateful Dead is written from a fannish perspective that already assumes background knowledge, rather than to provide that background knowledge. Of the various books I used, Dennis McNally's biography of the band and This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead by Blair Jackson and David Gans are probably most useful for the casually interested. Other books on the Dead I used included McNally's Jerry on Jerry, a collection of interviews with Garcia; Deal, Bill Kreutzmann's autobiography; The Grateful Dead FAQ by Tony Sclafani; So Many Roads by David Browne; Deadology by Howard F. Weiner; Fare Thee Well by Joel Selvin and Pamela Turley; and Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads by David Shenk and Steve Silberman. Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is the classic account of the Pranksters, though not always reliable. I reference Slaughterhouse Five a lot. As well as the novel itself, which everyone should read, I also read this rather excellent graphic novel adaptation, and The Writer's Crusade, a book about the writing of the novel. I also reference Ted Sturgeon's More Than Human. For background on the scene around Astounding Science Fiction which included Sturgeon, John W. Campbell, L. Ron Hubbard, and many other science fiction writers, I recommend Alec Nevala-Lee's Astounding. 1,000 True Fans can be read online, as can the essay on the Californian ideology, and John Perry Barlow's "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace". The best collection of Grateful Dead material is the box set The Golden Road, which contains all the albums released in Pigpen's lifetime along with a lot of bonus material, but which appears currently out of print. Live/Dead contains both the live version of "Dark Star" which made it well known and, as a CD bonus track, the original single version. And archive.org has more live recordings of the group than you can possibly ever listen to. Grayfolded can be bought from John Oswald's Bandcamp Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript [Excerpt: Tuning from "Grayfolded", under the warnings Before we begin -- as we're tuning up, as it were, I should mention that this episode contains discussions of alcoholism, drug addiction, racism, nonconsensual drugging of other people, and deaths from drug abuse, suicide, and car accidents. As always, I try to deal with these subjects as carefully as possible, but if you find any of those things upsetting you may wish to read the transcript rather than listen to this episode, or skip it altogether. Also, I should note that the members of the Grateful Dead were much freer with their use of swearing in interviews than any other band we've covered so far, and that makes using quotes from them rather more difficult than with other bands, given the limitations of the rules imposed to stop the podcast being marked as adult. If I quote anything with a word I can't use here, I'll give a brief pause in the audio, and in the transcript I'll have the word in square brackets. [tuning ends] All this happened, more or less. In 1910, T. S. Eliot started work on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", which at the time was deemed barely poetry, with one reviewer imagining Eliot saying "I'll just put down the first thing that comes into my head, and call it 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.'" It is now considered one of the great classics of modernist literature. In 1969, Kurt Vonnegut wrote "Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death", a book in which the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, comes unstuck in time, and starts living a nonlinear life, hopping around between times reliving his experiences in the Second World War, and future experiences up to 1976 after being kidnapped by beings from the planet Tralfamadore. Or perhaps he has flashbacks and hallucinations after having a breakdown from PTSD. It is now considered one of the great classics of modernist literature or of science fiction, depending on how you look at it. In 1953, Theodore Sturgeon wrote More Than Human. It is now considered one of the great classics of science fiction. In 1950, L. Ron Hubbard wrote Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. It is now considered either a bad piece of science fiction or one of the great revelatory works of religious history, depending on how you look at it. In 1994, 1995, and 1996 the composer John Oswald released, first as two individual CDs and then as a double-CD, an album called Grayfolded, which the composer says in the liner notes he thinks of as existing in Tralfamadorian time. The Tralfamadorians in Vonnegut's novels don't see time as a linear thing with a beginning and end, but as a continuum that they can move between at will. When someone dies, they just think that at this particular point in time they're not doing so good, but at other points in time they're fine, so why focus on the bad time? In the book, when told of someone dying, the Tralfamadorians just say "so it goes". In between the first CD's release and the release of the double-CD version, Jerry Garcia died. From August 1942 through August 1995, Jerry Garcia was alive. So it goes. Shall we go, you and I? [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Dark Star (Omni 3/30/94)"] "One principle has become clear. Since motives are so frequently found in combination, it is essential that the complex types be analyzed and arranged, with an eye kept single nevertheless to the master-theme under discussion. Collectors, both primary and subsidiary, have done such valiant service that the treasures at our command are amply sufficient for such studies, so extensive, indeed, that the task of going through them thoroughly has become too great for the unassisted student. It cannot be too strongly urged that a single theme in its various types and compounds must be made predominant in any useful comparative study. This is true when the sources and analogues of any literary work are treated; it is even truer when the bare motive is discussed. The Grateful Dead furnishes an apt illustration of the necessity of such handling. It appears in a variety of different combinations, almost never alone. Indeed, it is so widespread a tale, and its combinations are so various, that there is the utmost difficulty in determining just what may properly be regarded the original kernel of it, the simple theme to which other motives were joined. Various opinions, as we shall see, have been held with reference to this matter, most of them justified perhaps by the materials in the hands of the scholars holding them, but none quite adequate in view of later evidence." That's a quote from The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story, by Gordon Hall Gerould, published in 1908. Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five opens with a chapter about the process of writing the novel itself, and how difficult it was. He says "I would hate to tell you what this lousy little book cost me in money and anxiety and time. When I got home from the Second World War twenty-three years ago, I thought it would be easy for me to write about the destruction of Dresden, since all I would have to do would be to report what I had seen. And I thought, too, that it would be a masterpiece or at least make me a lot of money, since the subject was so big." This is an episode several of my listeners have been looking forward to, but it's one I've been dreading writing, because this is an episode -- I think the only one in the series -- where the format of the podcast simply *will not* work. Were the Grateful Dead not such an important band, I would skip this episode altogether, but they're a band that simply can't be ignored, and that's a real problem here. Because my intent, always, with this podcast, is to present the recordings of the artists in question, put them in context, and explain why they were important, what their music meant to its listeners. To put, as far as is possible, the positive case for why the music mattered *in the context of its time*. Not why it matters now, or why it matters to me, but why it matters *in its historical context*. Whether I like the music or not isn't the point. Whether it stands up now isn't the point. I play the music, explain what it was they were doing, why they were doing it, what people saw in it. If I do my job well, you come away listening to "Blue Suede Shoes" the way people heard it in 1956, or "Good Vibrations" the way people heard it in 1966, and understanding why people were so impressed by those records. That is simply *not possible* for the Grateful Dead. I can present a case for them as musicians, and hope to do so. I can explain the appeal as best I understand it, and talk about things I like in their music, and things I've noticed. But what I can't do is present their recordings the way they were received in the sixties and explain why they were popular. Because every other act I have covered or will cover in this podcast has been a *recording* act, and their success was based on records. They may also have been exceptional live performers, but James Brown or Ike and Tina Turner are remembered for great *records*, like "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" or "River Deep, Mountain High". Their great moments were captured on vinyl, to be listened back to, and susceptible of analysis. That is not the case for the Grateful Dead, and what is worse *they explicitly said, publicly, on multiple occasions* that it is not possible for me to understand their art, and thus that it is not possible for me to explain it. The Grateful Dead did make studio records, some of them very good. But they always said, consistently, over a thirty year period, that their records didn't capture what they did, and that the only way -- the *only* way, they were very clear about this -- that one could actually understand and appreciate their music, was to see them live, and furthermore to see them live while on psychedelic drugs. [Excerpt: Grateful Dead crowd noise] I never saw the Grateful Dead live -- their last UK performance was a couple of years before I went to my first ever gig -- and I have never taken a psychedelic substance. So by the Grateful Dead's own criteria, it is literally impossible for me to understand or explain their music the way that it should be understood or explained. In a way I'm in a similar position to the one I was in with La Monte Young in the last episode, whose music it's mostly impossible to experience without being in his presence. This is one reason of several why I placed these two episodes back to back. Of course, there is a difference between Young and the Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead allowed -- even encouraged -- the recording of their live performances. There are literally thousands of concert recordings in circulation, many of them of professional quality. I have listened to many of those, and I can hear what they were doing. I can tell you what *I* think is interesting about their music, and about their musicianship. And I think I can build up a good case for why they were important, and why they're interesting, and why those recordings are worth listening to. And I can certainly explain the cultural phenomenon that was the Grateful Dead. But just know that while I may have found *a* point, *an* explanation for why the Grateful Dead were important, by the band's own lights and those of their fans, no matter how good a job I do in this episode, I *cannot* get it right. And that is, in itself, enough of a reason for this episode to exist, and for me to try, even harder than I normally do, to get it right *anyway*. Because no matter how well I do my job this episode will stand as an example of why this series is called "*A* History", not *the* history. Because parts of the past are ephemeral. There are things about which it's true to say "You had to be there". I cannot know what it was like to have been an American the day Kennedy was shot, I cannot know what it was like to be alive when a man walked on the Moon. Those are things nobody my age or younger can ever experience. And since August the ninth, 1995, the experience of hearing the Grateful Dead's music the way they wanted it heard has been in that category. And that is by design. Jerry Garcia once said "if you work really hard as an artist, you may be able to build something they can't tear down, you know, after you're gone... What I want to do is I want it here. I want it now, in this lifetime. I want what I enjoy to last as long as I do and not last any longer. You know, I don't want something that ends up being as much a nuisance as it is a work of art, you know?" And there's another difficulty. There are only two points in time where it makes sense to do a podcast episode on the Grateful Dead -- late 1967 and early 1968, when the San Francisco scene they were part of was at its most culturally relevant, and 1988 when they had their only top ten hit and gained their largest audience. I can't realistically leave them out of the story until 1988, so it has to be 1968. But the songs they are most remembered for are those they wrote between 1970 and 1972, and those songs are influenced by artists and events we haven't yet covered in the podcast, who will be getting their own episodes in the future. I can't explain those things in this episode, because they need whole episodes of their own. I can't not explain them without leaving out important context for the Grateful Dead. So the best I can do is treat the story I'm telling as if it were in Tralfamadorian time. All of it's happening all at once, and some of it is happening in different episodes that haven't been recorded yet. The podcast as a whole travels linearly from 1938 through to 1999, but this episode is happening in 1968 and 1972 and 1988 and 1995 and other times, all at once. Sometimes I'll talk about things as if you're already familiar with them, but they haven't happened yet in the story. Feel free to come unstuck in time and revisit this time after episode 167, and 172, and 176, and 192, and experience it again. So this has to be an experimental episode. It may well be an experiment that you think fails. If so, the next episode is likely to be far more to your taste, and much shorter than this or the last episode, two episodes that between them have to create a scaffolding on which will hang much of the rest of this podcast's narrative. I've finished my Grateful Dead script now. The next one I write is going to be fun: [Excerpt: Grateful Dead, "Dark Star"] Infrastructure means everything. How we get from place to place, how we transport goods, information, and ourselves, makes a big difference in how society is structured, and in the music we hear. For many centuries, the prime means of long-distance transport was by water -- sailing ships on the ocean, canal boats and steamboats for inland navigation -- and so folk songs talked about the ship as both means of escape, means of making a living, and in some senses as a trap. You'd go out to sea for adventure, or to escape your problems, but you'd find that the sea itself brought its own problems. Because of this we have a long, long tradition of sea shanties which are known throughout the world: [Excerpt: A. L. Lloyd, "Off to Sea Once More"] But in the nineteenth century, the railway was invented and, at least as far as travel within a landmass goes, it replaced the steamboat in the popular imaginary. Now the railway was how you got from place to place, and how you moved freight from one place to another. The railway brought freedom, and was an opportunity for outlaws, whether train robbers or a romanticised version of the hobo hopping onto a freight train and making his way to new lands and new opportunity. It was the train that brought soldiers home from wars, and the train that allowed the Great Migration of Black people from the South to the industrial North. There would still be songs about the riverboats, about how ol' man river keeps rolling along and about the big river Johnny Cash sang about, but increasingly they would be songs of the past, not the present. The train quickly replaced the steamboat in the iconography of what we now think of as roots music -- blues, country, folk, and early jazz music. Sometimes this was very literal. Furry Lewis' "Kassie Jones" -- about a legendary train driver who would break the rules to make sure his train made the station on time, but who ended up sacrificing his own life to save his passengers in a train crash -- is based on "Alabamy Bound", which as we heard in the episode on "Stagger Lee", was about steamboats: [Excerpt: Furry Lewis, "Kassie Jones"] In the early episodes of this podcast we heard many, many, songs about the railway. Louis Jordan saying "take me right back to the track, Jack", Rosetta Tharpe singing about how "this train don't carry no gamblers", the trickster freight train driver driving on the "Rock Island Line", the mystery train sixteen coaches long, the train that kept-a-rollin' all night long, the Midnight Special which the prisoners wished would shine its ever-loving light on them, and the train coming past Folsom Prison whose whistle makes Johnny Cash hang his head and cry. But by the 1960s, that kind of song had started to dry up. It would happen on occasion -- "People Get Ready" by the Impressions is the most obvious example of the train metaphor in an important sixties record -- but by the late sixties the train was no longer a symbol of freedom but of the past. In 1969 Harry Nilsson sang about how "Nobody Cares About the Railroads Any More", and in 1968 the Kinks sang about "The Last of the Steam-Powered Trains". When in 1968 Merle Haggard sang about a freight train, it was as a memory, of a child with hopes that ended up thwarted by reality and his own nature: [Excerpt: Merle Haggard, "Mama Tried"] And the reason for this was that there had been another shift, a shift that had started in the forties and accelerated in the late fifties but had taken a little time to ripple through the culture. Now the train had been replaced in the popular imaginary by motorised transport. Instead of hopping on a train without paying, if you had no money in your pocket you'd have to hitch-hike all the way. Freedom now meant individuality. The ultimate in freedom was the biker -- the Hell's Angels who could go anywhere, unburdened by anything -- and instead of goods being moved by freight train, increasingly they were being moved by truck drivers. By the mid-seventies, truck drivers took a central place in American life, and the most romantic way to live life was to live it on the road. On The Road was also the title of a 1957 novel by Jack Kerouac, which was one of the first major signs of this cultural shift in America. Kerouac was writing about events in the late forties and early fifties, but his book was also a precursor of the sixties counterculture. He wrote the book on one continuous sheet of paper, as a stream of consciousness. Kerouac died in 1969 of an internal haemmorage brought on by too much alcohol consumption. So it goes. But the big key to this cultural shift was caused by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, a massive infrastructure spending bill that led to the construction of the modern American Interstate Highway system. This accelerated a program that had already started, of building much bigger, safer, faster roads. It also, as anyone who has read Robert Caro's The Power Broker knows, reinforced segregation and white flight. It did this both by making commuting into major cities from the suburbs easier -- thus allowing white people with more money to move further away from the cities and still work there -- and by bulldozing community spaces where Black people lived. More than a million people lost their homes and were forcibly moved, and orders of magnitude more lost their communities' parks and green spaces. And both as a result of deliberate actions and unconscious bigotry, the bulk of those affected were Black people -- who often found themselves, if they weren't forced to move, on one side of a ten-lane highway where the park used to be, with white people on the other side of the highway. The Federal-Aid Highway Act gave even more power to the unaccountable central planners like Robert Moses, the urban planner in New York who managed to become arguably the most powerful man in the city without ever getting elected, partly by slowly compromising away his early progressive ideals in the service of gaining more power. Of course, not every new highway was built through areas where poor Black people lived. Some were planned to go through richer areas for white people, just because you can't completely do away with geographical realities. For example one was planned to be built through part of San Francisco, a rich, white part. But the people who owned properties in that area had enough political power and clout to fight the development, and after nearly a decade of fighting it, the development was called off in late 1966. But over that time, many of the owners of the impressive buildings in the area had moved out, and they had no incentive to improve or maintain their properties while they were under threat of demolition, so many of them were rented out very cheaply. And when the beat community that Kerouac wrote about, many of whom had settled in San Francisco, grew too large and notorious for the area of the city they were in, North Beach, many of them moved to these cheap homes in a previously-exclusive area. The area known as Haight-Ashbury. [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Grayfolded"] Stories all have their starts, even stories told in Tralfamadorian time, although sometimes those starts are shrouded in legend. For example, the story of Scientology's start has been told many times, with different people claiming to have heard L. Ron Hubbard talk about how writing was a mug's game, and if you wanted to make real money, you needed to get followers, start a religion. Either he said this over and over and over again, to many different science fiction writers, or most science fiction writers of his generation were liars. Of course, the definition of a writer is someone who tells lies for money, so who knows? One of the more plausible accounts of him saying that is given by Theodore Sturgeon. Sturgeon's account is more believable than most, because Sturgeon went on to be a supporter of Dianetics, the "new science" that Hubbard turned into his religion, for decades, even while telling the story. The story of the Grateful Dead probably starts as it ends, with Jerry Garcia. There are three things that everyone writing about the Dead says about Garcia's childhood, so we might as well say them here too. The first is that he was named by a music-loving father after Jerome Kern, the songwriter responsible for songs like "Ol' Man River" (though as Oscar Hammerstein's widow liked to point out, "Jerome Kern wrote dum-dum-dum-dum, *my husband* wrote 'Ol' Man River'" -- an important distinction we need to bear in mind when talking about songwriters who write music but not lyrics). The second is that when he was five years old that music-loving father drowned -- and Garcia would always say he had seen his father dying, though some sources claim this was a false memory. So it goes. And the third fact, which for some reason is always told after the second even though it comes before it chronologically, is that when he was four he lost two joints from his right middle finger. Garcia grew up a troubled teen, and in turn caused trouble for other people, but he also developed a few interests that would follow him through his life. He loved the fantastical, especially the fantastical macabre, and became an avid fan of horror and science fiction -- and through his love of old monster films he became enamoured with cinema more generally. Indeed, in 1983 he bought the film rights to Kurt Vonnegut's science fiction novel The Sirens of Titan, the first story in which the Tralfamadorians appear, and wrote a script based on it. He wanted to produce the film himself, with Francis Ford Coppola directing and Bill Murray starring, but most importantly for him he wanted to prevent anyone who didn't care about it from doing it badly. And in that he succeeded. As of 2023 there is no film of The Sirens of Titan. He loved to paint, and would continue that for the rest of his life, with one of his favourite subjects being Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein monster. And when he was eleven or twelve, he heard for the first time a record that was hugely influential to a whole generation of Californian musicians, even though it was a New York record -- "Gee" by the Crows: [Excerpt: The Crows, "Gee"] Garcia would say later "That was an important song. That was the first kind of, like where the voices had that kind of not-trained-singer voices, but tough-guy-on-the-street voice." That record introduced him to R&B, and soon he was listening to Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, to Ray Charles, and to a record we've not talked about in the podcast but which was one of the great early doo-wop records, "WPLJ" by the Four Deuces: [Excerpt: The Four Deuces, "WPLJ"] Garcia said of that record "That was one of my anthem songs when I was in junior high school and high school and around there. That was one of those songs everybody knew. And that everybody sang. Everybody sang that street-corner favorite." Garcia moved around a lot as a child, and didn't have much time for school by his own account, but one of the few teachers he did respect was an art teacher when he was in North Beach, Walter Hedrick. Hedrick was also one of the earliest of the conceptual artists, and one of the most important figures in the San Francisco arts scene that would become known as the Beat Generation (or the Beatniks, which was originally a disparaging term). Hedrick was a painter and sculptor, but also organised happenings, and he had also been one of the prime movers in starting a series of poetry readings in San Francisco, the first one of which had involved Allen Ginsberg giving the first ever reading of "Howl" -- one of a small number of poems, along with Eliot's "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land" and possibly Pound's Cantos, which can be said to have changed twentieth-century literature. Garcia was fifteen when he got to know Hedrick, in 1957, and by then the Beat scene had already become almost a parody of itself, having become known to the public because of the publication of works like On the Road, and the major artists in the scene were already rejecting the label. By this point tourists were flocking to North Beach to see these beatniks they'd heard about on TV, and Hedrick was actually employed by one cafe to sit in the window wearing a beret, turtleneck, sandals, and beard, and draw and paint, to attract the tourists who flocked by the busload because they could see that there was a "genuine beatnik" in the cafe. Hedrick was, as well as a visual artist, a guitarist and banjo player who played in traditional jazz bands, and he would bring records in to class for his students to listen to, and Garcia particularly remembered him bringing in records by Big Bill Broonzy: [Excerpt: Big Bill Broonzy, "When Things Go Wrong (It Hurts Me Too)"] Garcia was already an avid fan of rock and roll music, but it was being inspired by Hedrick that led him to get his first guitar. Like his contemporary Paul McCartney around the same time, he was initially given the wrong instrument as a birthday present -- in Garcia's case his mother gave him an accordion -- but he soon persuaded her to swap it for an electric guitar he saw in a pawn shop. And like his other contemporary, John Lennon, Garcia initially tuned his instrument incorrectly. He said later "When I started playing the guitar, believe me, I didn't know anybody that played. I mean, I didn't know anybody that played the guitar. Nobody. They weren't around. There were no guitar teachers. You couldn't take lessons. There was nothing like that, you know? When I was a kid and I had my first electric guitar, I had it tuned wrong and learned how to play on it with it tuned wrong for about a year. And I was getting somewhere on it, you know… Finally, I met a guy that knew how to tune it right and showed me three chords, and it was like a revelation. You know what I mean? It was like somebody gave me the key to heaven." He joined a band, the Chords, which mostly played big band music, and his friend Gary Foster taught him some of the rudiments of playing the guitar -- things like how to use a capo to change keys. But he was always a rebellious kid, and soon found himself faced with a choice between joining the military or going to prison. He chose the former, and it was during his time in the Army that a friend, Ron Stevenson, introduced him to the music of Merle Travis, and to Travis-style guitar picking: [Excerpt: Merle Travis, "Nine-Pound Hammer"] Garcia had never encountered playing like that before, but he instantly recognised that Travis, and Chet Atkins who Stevenson also played for him, had been an influence on Scotty Moore. He started to realise that the music he'd listened to as a teenager was influenced by music that went further back. But Stevenson, as well as teaching Garcia some of the rudiments of Travis-picking, also indirectly led to Garcia getting discharged from the Army. Stevenson was not a well man, and became suicidal. Garcia decided it was more important to keep his friend company and make sure he didn't kill himself than it was to turn up for roll call, and as a result he got discharged himself on psychiatric grounds -- according to Garcia he told the Army psychiatrist "I was involved in stuff that was more important to me in the moment than the army was and that was the reason I was late" and the psychiatrist thought it was neurotic of Garcia to have his own set of values separate from that of the Army. After discharge, Garcia did various jobs, including working as a transcriptionist for Lenny Bruce, the comedian who was a huge influence on the counterculture. In one of the various attacks over the years by authoritarians on language, Bruce was repeatedly arrested for obscenity, and in 1961 he was arrested at a jazz club in North Beach. Sixty years ago, the parts of speech that were being criminalised weren't pronouns, but prepositions and verbs: [Excerpt: Lenny Bruce, "To is a Preposition, Come is a Verb"] That piece, indeed, was so controversial that when Frank Zappa quoted part of it in a song in 1968, the record label insisted on the relevant passage being played backwards so people couldn't hear such disgusting filth: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Harry You're a Beast"] (Anyone familiar with that song will understand that the censored portion is possibly the least offensive part of the whole thing). Bruce was facing trial, and he needed transcripts of what he had said in his recordings to present in court. Incidentally, there seems to be some confusion over exactly which of Bruce's many obscenity trials Garcia became a transcriptionist for. Dennis McNally says in his biography of the band, published in 2002, that it was the most famous of them, in autumn 1964, but in a later book, Jerry on Jerry, a book of interviews of Garcia edited by McNally, McNally talks about it being when Garcia was nineteen, which would mean it was Bruce's first trial, in 1961. We can put this down to the fact that many of the people involved, not least Garcia, lived in Tralfamadorian time, and were rather hazy on dates, but I'm placing the story here rather than in 1964 because it seems to make more sense that Garcia would be involved in a trial based on an incident in San Francisco than one in New York. Garcia got the job, even though he couldn't type, because by this point he'd spent so long listening to recordings of old folk and country music that he was used to transcribing indecipherable accents, and often, as Garcia would tell it, Bruce would mumble very fast and condense multiple syllables into one. Garcia was particularly impressed by Bruce's ability to improvise but talk in entire paragraphs, and he compared his use of language to bebop. Another thing that was starting to impress Garcia, and which he also compared to bebop, was bluegrass: [Excerpt: Bill Monroe, "Fire on the Mountain"] Bluegrass is a music that is often considered very traditional, because it's based on traditional songs and uses acoustic instruments, but in fact it was a terribly *modern* music, and largely a postwar creation of a single band -- Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys. And Garcia was right when he said it was "white bebop" -- though he did say "The only thing it doesn't have is the harmonic richness of bebop. You know what I mean? That's what it's missing, but it has everything else." Both bebop and bluegrass evolved after the second world war, though they were informed by music from before it, and both prized the ability to improvise, and technical excellence. Both are musics that involved playing *fast*, in an ensemble, and being able to respond quickly to the other musicians. Both musics were also intensely rhythmic, a response to a faster paced, more stressful world. They were both part of the general change in the arts towards immediacy that we looked at in the last episode with the creation first of expressionism and then of pop art. Bluegrass didn't go into the harmonic explorations that modern jazz did, but it was absolutely as modern as anything Charlie Parker was doing, and came from the same impulses. It was tradition and innovation, the past and the future simultaneously. Bill Monroe, Jackson Pollock, Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac, and Lenny Bruce were all in their own ways responding to the same cultural moment, and it was that which Garcia was responding to. But he didn't become able to play bluegrass until after a tragedy which shaped his life even more than his father's death had. Garcia had been to a party and was in a car with his friends Lee Adams, Paul Speegle, and Alan Trist. Adams was driving at ninety miles an hour when they hit a tight curve and crashed. Garcia, Adams, and Trist were all severely injured but survived. Speegle died. So it goes. This tragedy changed Garcia's attitudes totally. Of all his friends, Speegle was the one who was most serious about his art, and who treated it as something to work on. Garcia had always been someone who fundamentally didn't want to work or take any responsibility for anything. And he remained that way -- except for his music. Speegle's death changed Garcia's attitude to that, totally. If his friend wasn't going to be able to practice his own art any more, Garcia would practice his, in tribute to him. He resolved to become a virtuoso on guitar and banjo. His girlfriend of the time later said “I don't know if you've spent time with someone rehearsing ‘Foggy Mountain Breakdown' on a banjo for eight hours, but Jerry practiced endlessly. He really wanted to excel and be the best. He had tremendous personal ambition in the musical arena, and he wanted to master whatever he set out to explore. Then he would set another sight for himself. And practice another eight hours a day of new licks.” But of course, you can't make ensemble music on your own: [Excerpt: Jerry Garcia and Bob Hunter, "Oh Mary Don't You Weep" (including end)] "Evelyn said, “What is it called when a person needs a … person … when you want to be touched and the … two are like one thing and there isn't anything else at all anywhere?” Alicia, who had read books, thought about it. “Love,” she said at length." That's from More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon, a book I'll be quoting a few more times as the story goes on. Robert Hunter, like Garcia, was just out of the military -- in his case, the National Guard -- and he came into Garcia's life just after Paul Speegle had left it. Garcia and Alan Trist met Hunter ten days after the accident, and the three men started hanging out together, Trist and Hunter writing while Garcia played music. Garcia and Hunter both bonded over their shared love for the beats, and for traditional music, and the two formed a duo, Bob and Jerry, which performed together a handful of times. They started playing together, in fact, after Hunter picked up a guitar and started playing a song and halfway through Garcia took it off him and finished the song himself. The two of them learned songs from the Harry Smith Anthology -- Garcia was completely apolitical, and only once voted in his life, for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to keep Goldwater out, and regretted even doing that, and so he didn't learn any of the more political material people like Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan were doing at the time -- but their duo only lasted a short time because Hunter wasn't an especially good guitarist. Hunter would, though, continue to jam with Garcia and other friends, sometimes playing mandolin, while Garcia played solo gigs and with other musicians as well, playing and moving round the Bay Area and performing with whoever he could: [Excerpt: Jerry Garcia, "Railroad Bill"] "Bleshing, that was Janie's word. She said Baby told it to her. She said it meant everyone all together being something, even if they all did different things. Two arms, two legs, one body, one head, all working together, although a head can't walk and arms can't think. Lone said maybe it was a mixture of “blending” and “meshing,” but I don't think he believed that himself. It was a lot more than that." That's from More Than Human In 1961, Garcia and Hunter met another young musician, but one who was interested in a very different type of music. Phil Lesh was a serious student of modern classical music, a classically-trained violinist and trumpeter whose interest was solidly in the experimental and whose attitude can be summed up by a story that's always told about him meeting his close friend Tom Constanten for the first time. Lesh had been talking with someone about serialism, and Constanten had interrupted, saying "Music stopped being created in 1750 but it started again in 1950". Lesh just stuck out his hand, recognising a kindred spirit. Lesh and Constanten were both students of Luciano Berio, the experimental composer who created compositions for magnetic tape: [Excerpt: Luciano Berio, "Momenti"] Berio had been one of the founders of the Studio di fonologia musicale di Radio Milano, a studio for producing contemporary electronic music where John Cage had worked for a time, and he had also worked with the electronic music pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Lesh would later remember being very impressed when Berio brought a tape into the classroom -- the actual multitrack tape for Stockhausen's revolutionary piece Gesang Der Juenglinge: [Excerpt: Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Gesang Der Juenglinge"] Lesh at first had been distrustful of Garcia -- Garcia was charismatic and had followers, and Lesh never liked people like that. But he was impressed by Garcia's playing, and soon realised that the two men, despite their very different musical interests, had a lot in common. Lesh was interested in the technology of music as well as in performing and composing it, and so when he wasn't studying he helped out by engineering at the university's radio station. Lesh was impressed by Garcia's playing, and suggested to the presenter of the station's folk show, the Midnight Special, that Garcia be a guest. Garcia was so good that he ended up getting an entire solo show to himself, where normally the show would feature multiple acts. Lesh and Constanten soon moved away from the Bay Area to Las Vegas, but both would be back -- in Constanten's case he would form an experimental group in San Francisco with their fellow student Steve Reich, and that group (though not with Constanten performing) would later premiere Terry Riley's In C, a piece influenced by La Monte Young and often considered one of the great masterpieces of minimalist music. By early 1962 Garcia and Hunter had formed a bluegrass band, with Garcia on guitar and banjo and Hunter on mandolin, and a rotating cast of other musicians including Ken Frankel, who played banjo and fiddle. They performed under different names, including the Tub Thumpers, the Hart Valley Drifters, and the Sleepy Valley Hog Stompers, and played a mixture of bluegrass and old-time music -- and were very careful about the distinction: [Excerpt: The Hart Valley Drifters, "Cripple Creek"] In 1993, the Republican political activist John Perry Barlow was invited to talk to the CIA about the possibilities open to them with what was then called the Information Superhighway. He later wrote, in part "They told me they'd brought Steve Jobs in a few weeks before to indoctrinate them in modern information management. And they were delighted when I returned later, bringing with me a platoon of Internet gurus, including Esther Dyson, Mitch Kapor, Tony Rutkowski, and Vint Cerf. They sealed us into an electronically impenetrable room to discuss the radical possibility that a good first step in lifting their blackout would be for the CIA to put up a Web site... We told them that information exchange was a barter system, and that to receive, one must also be willing to share. This was an alien notion to them. They weren't even willing to share information among themselves, much less the world." 1962 brought a new experience for Robert Hunter. Hunter had been recruited into taking part in psychological tests at Stanford University, which in the sixties and seventies was one of the preeminent universities for psychological experiments. As part of this, Hunter was given $140 to attend the VA hospital (where a janitor named Ken Kesey, who had himself taken part in a similar set of experiments a couple of years earlier, worked a day job while he was working on his first novel) for four weeks on the run, and take different psychedelic drugs each time, starting with LSD, so his reactions could be observed. (It was later revealed that these experiments were part of a CIA project called MKUltra, designed to investigate the possibility of using psychedelic drugs for mind control, blackmail, and torture. Hunter was quite lucky in that he was told what was going to happen to him and paid for his time. Other subjects included the unlucky customers of brothels the CIA set up as fronts -- they dosed the customers' drinks and observed them through two-way mirrors. Some of their experimental subjects died by suicide as a result of their experiences. So it goes. ) Hunter was interested in taking LSD after reading Aldous Huxley's writings about psychedelic substances, and he brought his typewriter along to the experiment. During the first test, he wrote a six-page text, a short excerpt from which is now widely quoted, reading in part "Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist ... and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell-like (must I take you by the hand, ever so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resounding bells" Hunter's experience led to everyone in their social circle wanting to try LSD, and soon they'd all come to the same conclusion -- this was something special. But Garcia needed money -- he'd got his girlfriend pregnant, and they'd married (this would be the first of several marriages in Garcia's life, and I won't be covering them all -- at Garcia's funeral, his second wife, Carolyn, said Garcia always called her the love of his life, and his first wife and his early-sixties girlfriend who he proposed to again in the nineties both simultaneously said "He said that to me!"). So he started teaching guitar at a music shop in Palo Alto. Hunter had no time for Garcia's incipient domesticity and thought that his wife was trying to make him live a conventional life, and the two drifted apart somewhat, though they'd still play together occasionally. Through working at the music store, Garcia got to know the manager, Troy Weidenheimer, who had a rock and roll band called the Zodiacs. Garcia joined the band on bass, despite that not being his instrument. He later said "Troy was a lot of fun, but I wasn't good enough a musician then to have been able to deal with it. I was out of my idiom, really, 'cause when I played with Troy I was playing electric bass, you know. I never was a good bass player. Sometimes I was playing in the wrong key and didn't even [fuckin'] know it. I couldn't hear that low, after playing banjo, you know, and going to electric...But Troy taught me the principle of, hey, you know, just stomp your foot and get on it. He was great. A great one for the instant arrangement, you know. And he was also fearless for that thing of get your friends to do it." Garcia's tenure in the Zodiacs didn't last long, nor did this experiment with rock and roll, but two other members of the Zodiacs will be notable later in the story -- the harmonica player, an old friend of Garcia's named Ron McKernan, who would soon gain the nickname Pig Pen after the Peanuts character, and the drummer, Bill Kreutzmann: [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Drums/Space (Skull & Bones version)"] Kreutzmann said of the Zodiacs "Jerry was the hired bass player and I was the hired drummer. I only remember playing that one gig with them, but I was in way over my head. I always did that. I always played things that were really hard and it didn't matter. I just went for it." Garcia and Kreutzmann didn't really get to know each other then, but Garcia did get to know someone else who would soon be very important in his life. Bob Weir was from a very different background than Garcia, though both had the shared experience of long bouts of chronic illness as children. He had grown up in a very wealthy family, and had always been well-liked, but he was what we would now call neurodivergent -- reading books about the band he talks about being dyslexic but clearly has other undiagnosed neurodivergences, which often go along with dyslexia -- and as a result he was deemed to have behavioural problems which led to him getting expelled from pre-school and kicked out of the cub scouts. He was never academically gifted, thanks to his dyslexia, but he was always enthusiastic about music -- to a fault. He learned to play boogie piano but played so loudly and so often his parents sold the piano. He had a trumpet, but the neighbours complained about him playing it outside. Finally he switched to the guitar, an instrument with which it is of course impossible to make too loud a noise. The first song he learned was the Kingston Trio's version of an old sea shanty, "The Wreck of the John B": [Excerpt: The Kingston Trio, "The Wreck of the John B"] He was sent off to a private school in Colorado for teenagers with behavioural issues, and there he met the boy who would become his lifelong friend, John Perry Barlow. Unfortunately the two troublemakers got on with each other *so* well that after their first year they were told that it was too disruptive having both of them at the school, and only one could stay there the next year. Barlow stayed and Weir moved back to the Bay Area. By this point, Weir was getting more interested in folk music that went beyond the commercial folk of the Kingston Trio. As he said later "There was something in there that was ringing my bells. What I had grown up thinking of as hillbilly music, it started to have some depth for me, and I could start to hear the music in it. Suddenly, it wasn't just a bunch of ignorant hillbillies playing what they could. There was some depth and expertise and stuff like that to aspire to.” He moved from school to school but one thing that stayed with him was his love of playing guitar, and he started taking lessons from Troy Weidenheimer, but he got most of his education going to folk clubs and hootenannies. He regularly went to the Tangent, a club where Garcia played, but Garcia's bluegrass banjo playing was far too rigorous for a free spirit like Weir to emulate, and instead he started trying to copy one of the guitarists who was a regular there, Jorma Kaukonnen. On New Year's Eve 1963 Weir was out walking with his friends Bob Matthews and Rich Macauley, and they passed the music shop where Garcia was a teacher, and heard him playing his banjo. They knocked and asked if they could come in -- they all knew Garcia a little, and Bob Matthews was one of his students, having become interested in playing banjo after hearing the theme tune to the Beverly Hillbillies, played by the bluegrass greats Flatt and Scruggs: [Excerpt: Flatt and Scruggs, "The Beverly Hillbillies"] Garcia at first told these kids, several years younger than him, that they couldn't come in -- he was waiting for his students to show up. But Weir said “Jerry, listen, it's seven-thirty on New Year's Eve, and I don't think you're going to be seeing your students tonight.” Garcia realised the wisdom of this, and invited the teenagers in to jam with him. At the time, there was a bit of a renaissance in jug bands, as we talked about back in the episode on the Lovin' Spoonful. This was a form of music that had grown up in the 1920s, and was similar and related to skiffle and coffee-pot bands -- jug bands would tend to have a mixture of portable string instruments like guitars and banjos, harmonicas, and people using improvised instruments, particularly blowing into a jug. The most popular of these bands had been Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, led by banjo player Gus Cannon and with harmonica player Noah Lewis: [Excerpt: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, "Viola Lee Blues"] With the folk revival, Cannon's work had become well-known again. The Rooftop Singers, a Kingston Trio style folk group, had had a hit with his song "Walk Right In" in 1963, and as a result of that success Cannon had even signed a record contract with Stax -- Stax's first album ever, a month before Booker T and the MGs' first album, was in fact the eighty-year-old Cannon playing his banjo and singing his old songs. The rediscovery of Cannon had started a craze for jug bands, and the most popular of the new jug bands was Jim Kweskin's Jug Band, which did a mixture of old songs like "You're a Viper" and more recent material redone in the old style. Weir, Matthews, and Macauley had been to see the Kweskin band the night before, and had been very impressed, especially by their singer Maria D'Amato -- who would later marry her bandmate Geoff Muldaur and take his name -- and her performance of Leiber and Stoller's "I'm a Woman": [Excerpt: Jim Kweskin's Jug Band, "I'm a Woman"] Matthews suggested that they form their own jug band, and Garcia eagerly agreed -- though Matthews found himself rapidly moving from banjo to washboard to kazoo to second kazoo before realising he was surplus to requirements. Robert Hunter was similarly an early member but claimed he "didn't have the embouchure" to play the jug, and was soon also out. He moved to LA and started studying Scientology -- later claiming that he wanted science-fictional magic powers, which L. Ron Hubbard's new religion certainly offered. The group took the name Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions -- apparently they varied the spelling every time they played -- and had a rotating membership that at one time or another included about twenty different people, but tended always to have Garcia on banjo, Weir on jug and later guitar, and Garcia's friend Pig Pen on harmonica: [Excerpt: Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions, "On the Road Again"] The group played quite regularly in early 1964, but Garcia's first love was still bluegrass, and he was trying to build an audience with his bluegrass band, The Black Mountain Boys. But bluegrass was very unpopular in the Bay Area, where it was simultaneously thought of as unsophisticated -- as "hillbilly music" -- and as elitist, because it required actual instrumental ability, which wasn't in any great supply in the amateur folk scene. But instrumental ability was something Garcia definitely had, as at this point he was still practising eight hours a day, every day, and it shows on the recordings of the Black Mountain Boys: [Excerpt: The Black Mountain Boys, "Rosa Lee McFall"] By the summer, Bob Weir was also working at the music shop, and so Garcia let Weir take over his students while he and the Black Mountain Boys' guitarist Sandy Rothman went on a road trip to see as many bluegrass musicians as they could and to audition for Bill Monroe himself. As it happened, Garcia found himself too shy to audition for Monroe, but Rothman later ended up playing with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. On his return to the Bay Area, Garcia resumed playing with the Uptown Jug Champions, but Pig Pen started pestering him to do something different. While both men had overlapping tastes in music and a love for the blues, Garcia's tastes had always been towards the country end of the spectrum while Pig Pen's were towards R&B. And while the Uptown Jug Champions were all a bit disdainful of the Beatles at first -- apart from Bob Weir, the youngest of the group, who thought they were interesting -- Pig Pen had become enamoured of another British band who were just starting to make it big: [Excerpt: The Rolling Stones, "Not Fade Away"] 29) Garcia liked the first Rolling Stones album too, and he eventually took Pig Pen's point -- the stuff that the Rolling Stones were doing, covers of Slim Harpo and Buddy Holly, was not a million miles away from the material they were doing as Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions. Pig Pen could play a little electric organ, Bob had been fooling around with the electric guitars in the music shop. Why not give it a go? The stuff bands like the Rolling Stones were doing wasn't that different from the electric blues that Pig Pen liked, and they'd all seen A Hard Day's Night -- they could carry on playing with banjos, jugs, and kazoos and have the respect of a handful of folkies, or they could get electric instruments and potentially have screaming girls and millions of dollars, while playing the same songs. This was a convincing argument, especially when Dana Morgan Jr, the son of the owner of the music shop, told them they could have free electric instruments if they let him join on bass. Morgan wasn't that great on bass, but what the hell, free instruments. Pig Pen had the best voice and stage presence, so he became the frontman of the new group, singing most of the leads, though Jerry and Bob would both sing a few songs, and playing harmonica and organ. Weir was on rhythm guitar, and Garcia was the lead guitarist and obvious leader of the group. They just needed a drummer, and handily Bill Kreutzmann, who had played with Garcia and Pig Pen in the Zodiacs, was also now teaching music at the music shop. Not only that, but about three weeks before they decided to go electric, Kreutzmann had seen the Uptown Jug Champions performing and been astonished by Garcia's musicianship and charisma, and said to himself "Man, I'm gonna follow that guy forever!" The new group named themselves the Warlocks, and started rehearsing in earnest. Around this time, Garcia also finally managed to get some of the LSD that his friend Robert Hunter had been so enthusiastic about three years earlier, and it was a life-changing experience for him. In particular, he credited LSD with making him comfortable being a less disciplined player -- as a bluegrass player he'd had to be frighteningly precise, but now he was playing rock and needed to loosen up. A few days after taking LSD for the first time, Garcia also heard some of Bob Dylan's new material, and realised that the folk singer he'd had little time for with his preachy politics was now making electric music that owed a lot more to the Beat culture Garcia considered himself part of: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homesick Blues"] Another person who was hugely affected by hearing that was Phil Lesh, who later said "I couldn't believe that was Bob Dylan on AM radio, with an electric band. It changed my whole consciousness: if something like that could happen, the sky was the limit." Up to that point, Lesh had been focused entirely on his avant-garde music, working with friends like Steve Reich to push music forward, inspired by people like John Cage and La Monte Young, but now he realised there was music of value in the rock world. He'd quickly started going to rock gigs, seeing the Rolling Stones and the Byrds, and then he took acid and went to see his friend Garcia's new electric band play their third ever gig. He was blown away, and very quickly it was decided that Lesh would be the group's new bass player -- though everyone involved tells a different story as to who made the decision and how it came about, and accounts also vary as to whether Dana Morgan took his sacking gracefully and let his erstwhile bandmates keep their instruments, or whether they had to scrounge up some new ones. Lesh had never played bass before, but he was a talented multi-instrumentalist with a deep understanding of music and an ability to compose and improvise, and the repertoire the Warlocks were playing in the early days was mostly three-chord material that doesn't take much rehearsal -- though it was apparently beyond the abilities of poor Dana Morgan, who apparently had to be told note-by-note what to play by Garcia, and learn it by rote. Garcia told Lesh what notes the strings of a bass were tuned to, told him to borrow a guitar and practice, and within two weeks he was on stage with the Warlocks: [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, “Grayfolded"] In September 1995, just weeks after Jerry Garcia's death, an article was published in Mute magazine identifying a cultural trend that had shaped the nineties, and would as it turned out shape at least the next thirty years. It's titled "The Californian Ideology", though it may be better titled "The Bay Area Ideology", and it identifies a worldview that had grown up in Silicon Valley, based around the ideas of the hippie movement, of right-wing libertarianism, of science fiction authors, and of Marshall McLuhan. It starts "There is an emerging global orthodoxy concerning the relation between society, technology and politics. We have called this orthodoxy `the Californian Ideology' in honour of the state where it originated. By naturalising and giving a technological proof to a libertarian political philosophy, and therefore foreclosing on alternative futures, the Californian Ideologues are able to assert that social and political debates about the future have now become meaningless. The California Ideology is a mix of cybernetics, free market economics, and counter-culture libertarianism and is promulgated by magazines such as WIRED and MONDO 2000 and preached in the books of Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly and others. The new faith has been embraced by computer nerds, slacker students, 30-something capitalists, hip academics, futurist bureaucrats and even the President of the USA himself. As usual, Europeans have not been slow to copy the latest fashion from America. While a recent EU report recommended adopting the Californian free enterprise model to build the 'infobahn', cutting-edge artists and academics have been championing the 'post-human' philosophy developed by the West Coast's Extropian cult. With no obvious opponents, the global dominance of the Californian ideology appears to be complete." [Excerpt: Grayfolded] The Warlocks' first gig with Phil Lesh on bass was on June the 18th 1965, at a club called Frenchy's with a teenage clientele. Lesh thought his playing had been wooden and it wasn't a good gig, and apparently the management of Frenchy's agreed -- they were meant to play a second night there, but turned up to be told they'd been replaced by a band with an accordion and clarinet. But by September the group had managed to get themselves a residency at a small bar named the In Room, and playing there every night made them cohere. They were at this point playing the kind of sets that bar bands everywhere play to this day, though at the time the songs they were playing, like "Gloria" by Them and "In the Midnight Hour", were the most contemporary of hits. Another song that they introduced into their repertoire was "Do You Believe in Magic" by the Lovin' Spoonful, another band which had grown up out of former jug band musicians. As well as playing their own sets, they were also the house band at The In Room and as such had to back various touring artists who were the headline acts. The first act they had to back up was Cornell Gunter's version of the Coasters. Gunter had brought his own guitarist along as musical director, and for the first show Weir sat in the audience watching the show and learning the parts, staring intently at this musical director's playing. After seeing that, Weir's playing was changed, because he also picked up how the guitarist was guiding the band while playing, the small cues that a musical director will use to steer the musicians in the right direction. Weir started doing these things himself when he was singing lead -- Pig Pen was the frontman but everyone except Bill sang sometimes -- and the group soon found that rather than Garcia being the sole leader, now whoever was the lead singer for the song was the de facto conductor as well. By this point, the Bay Area was getting almost overrun with people forming electric guitar bands, as every major urban area in America was. Some of the bands were even having hits already -- We Five had had a number three hit with "You Were On My Mind", a song which had originally been performed by the folk duo Ian and Sylvia: [Excerpt: We Five, "You Were On My Mind"] Although the band that was most highly regarded on the scene, the Charlatans, was having problems with the various record companies they tried to get signed to, and didn't end up making a record until 1969. If tracks like "Number One" had been released in 1965 when they were recorded, the history of the San Francisco music scene may have taken a very different turn: [Excerpt: The Charlatans, "Number One"] Bands like Jefferson Airplane, the Great Society, and Big Brother and the Holding Company were also forming, and Autumn Records was having a run of success with records by the Beau Brummels, whose records were produced by Autumn's in-house A&R man, Sly Stone: [Excerpt: The Beau Brummels, "Laugh Laugh"] The Warlocks were somewhat cut off from this, playing in a dive bar whose clientele was mostly depressed alcoholics. But the fact that they were playing every night for an audience that didn't care much gave them freedom, and they used that freedom to improvise. Both Lesh and Garcia were big fans of John Coltrane, and they started to take lessons from his style of playing. When the group played "Gloria" or "Midnight Hour" or whatever, they started to extend the songs and give themselves long instrumental passages for soloing. Garcia's playing wasn't influenced *harmonically* by Coltrane -- in fact Garcia was always a rather harmonically simple player. He'd tend to play lead lines either in Mixolydian mode, which is one of the most standard modes in rock, pop, blues, and jazz, or he'd play the notes of the chord that was being played, so if the band were playing a G chord his lead would emphasise the notes G, B, and D. But what he was influenced by was Coltrane's tendency to improvise in long, complex, phrases that made up a single thought -- Coltrane was thinking musically in paragraphs, rather than sentences, and Garcia started to try the same kind of th

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This episode contains content from Gotquestions.org. We explore the definition of revival in the context of Christianity aka Christian Revival. What does it mean to believers, what are the evidence in scripture, what is the basic 'history' of Christian Revival & so much more! I was personally motivated to look into this topic based on the recent 2023 revival @ Ashbury & the varied opinions & views in the body of believers. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/obsidian-queen/message

As she'll note in the beginning of this interview with Sean Gonsalves, Gina Birch loves her job as Program Coordinator at the Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center in Cleveland, Ohio. She discusses the remarkable transition in Cleveland from a city lagging in digital equity metrics to one toward the top of its game. They discuss the Affordable Connectivity Plan, ACP, and some of the challenges associated with the digital divide. Finally, they discuss some of the lessons they have taken from the Net Inclusion conference. 

Host Anthony Desiato and guest Joe Marcello (DOLLAR BIN BANDITS podcast) dig into the main portion of the Electric Superman saga—featuring many explanations of Big Blue's new power set, Jimmy Olsen's fall from grace, Lex Luthor's return to glory, new supporting cast additions Scorn and Ashbury, and tie-ins to DC's GENESIS event—in Part II of "Electric 'Til Superman," an epic podcast event mining the late 1990s in the Triangle Era comics and beyond.This episode covers: Superman #126-131 by Dan Jurgens & Ron Frenz; Man of Steel #70-76 by Louise Simonson, Jon Bogdanove, & Scot Eaton; Action Comics 735-741 by Dave Michelinie & Tom Grummett; Adventures of Superman #548-554 by Karl Kesel & Stuart Immonen; and Man of Tomorrow #9 by Roger Stern & Paul Ryan.Digging for Kryptonite is a Flat Squirrel Production. Key art by Gregg Schigiel and theme music by Basic Printer. Support the show and receive exclusive podcast content at Patreon.com/AnthonyDesiato. The spinoff podcast DIGGING FOR JUSTICE: A DC FAN JOURNEY is available at all reward levels.Join the conversation by becoming part of the Flat Squirrel Podcast Network Facebook Group, and follow DFK on Instagram (@diggingforkryptonitepod) and Twitter (@diggingforkrpod). Visit FlatSquirrelProductions.com for more film and podcast projects. Visit BCW Supplies and use promo code FSP to save 10% on your next order of comics supplies.

2/24/23 7am CT Hour John, Glen and Sarah chat about the 1 Year Anniversary of the war in Ukraine and Catholic Fish Frys Mary  breaks down what is happening at Ashbury College with their revival and how the Holy Spirit is working in both Pentecostal and Catholic Church. Marcellino continues with practical suggestions for Lent. Jordan shares the many different ways that homeschooling can give your child a one of a kind education and information about a free Virtual College Fair.

Reverse The Curse 2 Chron. 29:6-8 #nightlight #RTTBROS The Bible is clear that judgment begins at the house of God which means revival begins at the house of God. if we want to see a turn around in our nation we desperately need to see a turn around in our churches and in our own personal walk with God. I hope the young people at this Ashbury revival will lead our nation to a world shaking revival as we all repent and believe

A 51-year-old man was arrested and charged with killing and discarding his wife's body. A motorist spotted Dawn Cruz, 51, with "serious injuries" at Ashbury and Colonial avenues on Sunday, Oct. 30. Ocean Township police arrived and pronounced the victim deceased. Jeremy Cruz, the victim's husband, turned himself in shortly after and was charged with first-degree murder, according to the prosecutor's office. Cruz remains in jail without bond, according to records. The prosecutor's office stated he faces life in jail if convicted of murder.If you have a CRAZY FAMILY STORY, tell us!! Call Toll-Free 1-833-CRAY-FAM or  Write through our form at http://www.crazyfampod.com

Hello, today I had the privilege of bringing back a top-notch guest of the show, Mr. Marc Salzano.  In this collaborative episode, we each reviewed 2 tracks and in combined total, covered songs from 4 separate bands from the heavy metal and hard rock genres.  It was a blast!  As promised, below are the links to each of the bands' songs and lyrics: Stryper - "Yahweh"  song - https://youtu.be/FRyXDlPthH0   /    lyrics:  https://genius.com/Stryper-yahweh-lyrics Newsted - "As the Crow Flies" song - https://youtu.be/I1hbx265Ehw  /   lyrics: https://genius.com/Newsted-as-the-crow-flies-lyrics Jag Panzer - "Battered and Bruised" song - https://youtu.be/MiQkL94JcjE /   lyrics: https://genius.com/Jag-panzer-battered-and-bruised-lyrics Ashbury - "Out of the Blue" song - https://youtu.be/JpFSz9Mb1G4  /  lyrics: https://genius.com/Ashbury-out-of-the-blue-lyrics

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/bay-area-meetups-this-weekend We have three Bay Area meetups this weekend: Berkeley, at 1 PM on Sunday 9/18, at the Rose Garden Inn (2740 Telegraph Ave) San Francisco, at 11 AM on Sunday 9/18, “in the Panhandle, between Ashbury and Masonic, with an ACX sign” San Jose, at 2 PM on Saturday 9/17, at 3806 Williams Rd. Please RSVP to David Friedman (ddfr[at]daviddfriedman[dot]com) so he knows how many people are coming. I will be at the Berkeley one. Feel free to come even if you've never been to a meetup before, even if you only recently started reading the blog, even if you're not “the typical ACX reader”, even if you hate us and everything we stand for, etc. There are usually 50-100 people at these so you should be able to lose yourself in the crowd. Shouldn't we have planned meetups further apart for people who wanted to go to multiple of them? Yes, and this is directly my fault, up to and including rescheduling to avoid the San Jose one . . . right on to the same day as the San Francisco one. Sorry, I'll try to do better next time. Also coming up this weekend are meetups in Washington DC, Atlanta, Columbus, Providence, Cape Town, Cambridge (UK), Kuala Lumpur, Chicago, Houston, Toronto, New Haven, Bangalore, and many more. See the list for more details.

It's Clash of Schools time! Today we have Ashbury College vs St. Dominics's Catholic School for girls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Kevin Brown - President, Ashbury University joins Brad Johnson. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/plexuss/message

In deze aflevering vertelt Jan Delvaux over Ashbury Faith. Ze waren de koningen van de muziekscene in Antwerpen, net voor dEUS. Als dé band van het moment, werden ze opgepikt door MTV en hun beroemdste roadie was Stef Kamil Carlens.

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Jule returns to New Mexico and finds herself surrounded by old friends again. Not only does she rediscover some wonderful friendships but she also goes on a journey to discover herself. A wondrous world of witches, demons, and gods is discovered as Jule finds that she, too, is different. Together with the help of her friends and love interest, William, she slowly embraces the inevitable changes from human to lycan. We entered this world and discussed it with the author of this book, Heather Ashbury, and had such a fabulous time. Join us as we chat with Heather about this magical world she's created and follow her for more of this wonderful tale of a woman's road to self-discovery.  ***We would love and appreciate it if you could Subscribe then Rate & Review us on iTunes! Follow us @ShhhDirtyBooks on FB, IG, Twitter as well as on our website at ShhhDirtyBooks.com. Thank you for joining us!*** Music by Jim Townsend

As the Grateful Dead's star continued to rise, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan felt he would rather be a dark star, invisible to the world. But he couldn't hide. Not from the throngs of fans. And not from the San Francisco Police Department. Maybe they saw Pig's leather vest and cowboy hat and figured he was an outlaw. Or maybe they just wanted to outlaw his type and the whole freaky scene along with him. And they tried to do just that in the fall of 1967, as the sun set on the Summer of Love and the Dead waited like sitting ducks at their house at 710 Ashbury Street. For more info on the 27 CLUB and other great shows, visit the Double Elvis website and follow Double Elvis on Twitter and Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

T and I get to know the person behind More Than Human, a paranormal book. Heather also tells us a little about being a witch and how many different types there are (spoiler its a lot). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thebceshow/message

Did you hear the news? After a hiatus since October 2018, the legendary Frost and Fire Festival is back. This year's installment is being held in Derry, Northern Ireland on June 17-18, 2022. In honor of this special event, we look back in this episode on the history of Frost and Fire. We begin appropriately enough at the beginning, by discussing Jarvis's history of promoting live shows since his teenage years. Then we fast forward to 2015, when the original Frost and Fire Festival idea was born as a way of bringing the metal masses to Ventura, California, spurred onward by the prospect of a signing session with reclusive Ventura metal heroes Cirith Ungol. You will hear how the Frost and Fire Festival concept evolved from that, culminating in a special event in London headlined by Angel Witch in May 2018. Jarvis addresses the future of Frost and Fire, including possibilities back in Ventura and on Catalina Island. But for now, all eyes are on Derry, Northern Ireland for June 2022. Get your tickets and make plans to be there while you still can.Become a subscriber today at nightdemon.net/subscriber. This week, subscribers have access to the bonus content below:Tickets and merchandise for Frost and FirelandIll Repute "Clean Cut American Kid" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnx5UCsKLoECirith Ungol "Atom Smasher" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXad-fBSncEAshbury "Vengeance" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAvNdtUjZGEManilla Road "Crystal Logic" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJGDmGZjXxkAngel Witch "Sorceress" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJkHaZt_I6EFrost and Fireland Ticket link - https://theheavymetalstore.bandcamp.com/Listen at nightdemon.net/podcast or anywhere you listen to podcasts! 

This week on DisrupTV, we interviewed Steve Hoffman, Venture investor, Chairman & CEO of Founders Space, Mike Nugent, Managing Director at Vestigo Ventures and Ryan David Williams, Founder of Ashbury. DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. Brought to you by Constellation Executive Network: constellationr.com/CEN.

#HeatherAshbury #AmWriting #BooktubeHeather Ashbury joins the podcast. At first, it's kind of quiet, but Heather gets animated as we talk her books, video games, living in a small town area, and much more. Heather is just so chill, and I loved having her on the show. Take a listen.Heather AshburyMore Than HumanInstagramPatreonSpaceheyWebsiteMy Stuff:Sponsors:Kat Flannery - Fulfilling your writing, marketing and teaching needs. Kat Flannery - Bringing out the best in all of us.ServicesAdvertising Services - Let me create your advertising for your next book or campaign. If you're a creative wondering how to create your advertising for your next project, I can create video, audio, written and graphics. Let me help you get your story, and your best story, out there.Available Now:Alice Won? - Available now. Alice escaped the asylum and pursues the Queen of Hearts to the Greek Labyrinth in the underworld, there she must engage in a game of croquet unlike any other, against Jason of the Argonauts. Illustrated by Kenzie Carr, written by yours truly, come to wonderland Dec. 1st, where the real games begin.Support And Subscribe:Buy my MerchBuy Me A CoffeeNewsletterPatreonTwitchYoutube

Another special & extended episode where I break from routine and feature music from artists both Prog-Scure and famous. In each episode of this series, I'm playing one half (one full side) of outstanding and influential albums throughout rock ‘n' roll history, regardless of sub-genre. In this episode, hear diverse artists including Ashbury, Budgie, The […]

Is the amount of information on food labels helping or hindering us when it comes to making choices about what we purchase? Consumers are said to be demanding transparency regarding the foods they eat – from animal welfare to sustainability and health and nutrition information, they want to know it all.  Surely a better-informed consumer can make better choices for their health, right?  This may not be the case with some research suggesting labelling could even be contributing to the obesity crisis. So, are the regulations surrounding food labelling a failure? Or are consumers simply ignoring the signs? A product might boast that it is low in fat, but are shoppers interested enough to read beyond the headline and find out that it is high in sugar? In this episode of the Table Talk podcast, in partnership with Ashbury – The Product Information People, Stefan Gates delves into the fascinating world of food labelling. He is joined by Ashbury's Regulatory Affairs Director, Pete Martin, as they look at the psychology, regulations and language that is at play as businesses try to make a profit while following the law and protecting the health of consumers. They investigate labelling's worst offenders that appear to lead to some consumer confusion and discuss how best to get the most useful information in front of consumers' eyes. We also learn how companies like Ashbury work with brands to ensure they get the most from their labelling and delve into the possible impact Brexit will have on food labels. Pete Martin, Regulatory Affairs Director, Ashbury With a 30-year career working in technical law for grocery and retail providers, Pete Martin brings a wealth of industry knowledge and expertise to his role as Regulatory Director at product information specialist, Ashbury.  From providing practical support and advice to clients, through to carrying out in-depth audits, delivering compliance information, and ensuring complete due diligence, Pete is not only hugely experienced in working with both food and non-food products, but is passionate about protecting brands and end consumers. At Ashbury, Pete specialises in helping clients innovate within the lines of the food regulation law - ultimately helping them to grow their brand, maximise existing markets, and develop best practice labelling compliance management.

Have you ever been in a tight spot, trying to avoid the cops with blood all over your tie. Inconvenient to say the least! Join us now as we follow Jimmy and George as they discover the perfect solution to their dilemma, in this Twelve Chimes sponsor promo for the fabulous Relic Vintage, "The Bloody Tie." San Francisco's finest vintage boutique offering high quality men and women's apparel, accessories and jewelry from 1920s-1970s. Check them out at www.relicvintagesf.com, on Etsy at RelicVintageSF, and follow them on Instagram at @relicvintage!! And come visit Relic at their FABULOUS NEW LOCATION: 1475 Haight Street, at Ashbury in San Francisco. Writer/Director/Producer: Aimee Pavy George: Aaron Seymour
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Precision medicine is refocusing which clinical trials are possible, but we still have a ~5% participation rate and non-diverse patient demographic. Community oncology is the doorway to changing the face of clinical trials in the era of precision medicine. In this podcast, we talk about why, how and what's in it for your practice to facilitate clinical trials in the community setting.Learn more about our partners at VieCure.Dr. Paul Bunn Jr., MD, FASCO: Dr. Bunn is a Distinguished Professor​, VieCure Clinical Advisory Council Member, and James Dudley Endowed Chair in Lung Cancer Research​ Division of Medical Oncology University of Colorado.Dr. Fred Ashbury, PhD, MACE: Dr. Ashbury is a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at VieCure. He is responsible for developing and maintaining VieCure's oncology clinical content, genomic-science knowledge identification and codification, and the design and implementation of the treatment strategy rules that underpin our platform.The content and information contained in this podcast is provided [exclusively or solely] by VieCure and AmerisourceBergen is not responsible and does not verify for accuracy any of the information contained in the podcast. The primary purpose of the podcast is to educate and inform. This podcast does not constitute medical or other professional advice or services.

A new transmission and a fresh start for season 2 of Void Signal. Anders and Yaz of Ashbury heights stop by to chat about upcoming releases, fans, and pancakes. Visit Ashbury Heights (bandcamp.com) for more. You can also stop by https://VoidSignal.net for interviews, playlists, and more.

On Ep. 55, Winston Etheridge III drops in on the show to discuss Cleveland culture in the 90s, choosing Bowling Green State University to further his football playing career, experiencing turbulence w/ injuries and being a graduate assistant at Penn State and University of Memphis. Etheridge speaks to how he got introduced to corporate Finance and the ladder he moved through to get to where he is now. Subscribe to the channel and turn your notifications on!

The Haight-Ashbury district is a neighborhood in San Francisco that was aptly-named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. Running from Masonic Avenue to Stanyan Street, the beloved neighborhood is residential as well as commercial; famous for its connection to hippies and counterculture in the 1960s, it has long been one of the most dynamic, lively, and interesting neighborhoods in San Francisco. In 1965 Judge John Dearman moved into the Upper Haight, into the very house where he and his family still live today. Judge John, as he is affectionately known to some, is a retired Superior Court Judge for the City and County of San Francisco. When he retired in 2009, Judge Dearman had been the longest serving judge in the history of San Francisco. Judge Dearman has long been an activist for change and the betterment of others, and recently celebrated his 90th birthday on March 28th, 2021! Meet the Hon. Judge John Dearman!

Arthur Gaus grew up on a famous block in The City. In this podcast, the native San Francisco comedian traces his story back to his parents' choice to buy a house on Ashbury just off Haight Street in the late-'70s. Arthur shares stories of growing up in his family's Victorian and hanging out on Haight Street, in Golden Gate Park (despite how dangerous everyone said it was back then), and in his backyard. His grade school was near the gate to Chinatown, a neighborhood he and his friends spent a lot of time exploring. Arthur talks about his high school years and ends the podcast with a funny story about being one of the the only boys in a play at a girls' school. Check back Thursday for Part 2, when we'll hear all about how Arthur Gaus got started doing comedy. Related Podcast Dara Kosberg Part 1 Photography by Michelle Kilfeather

In this episode, Claire has the great privilege of speaking with former MP and OAM, Ros Kelly. She shares her personal and professional life story that was fuelled by a desire to escape a cycle of poverty and disempowerment by throwing herself into her education. With the support of her mother, she received a scholarship at St. Ursula's College, Ashbury, and later obtained a BA DipEd from the University of Sydney. She was the first woman in her family to complete high school, let alone university, where again, she threw herself into the opportunities that presented themselves. She became a teacher, but was also politicised by the Vietnam War, so joined the Labor Party while at the University of Sydney. While a junior high school teacher, Ros got more actively involved in politics in Canberra and became the secretary for her branch. She was then elected the first woman member of the ACT House of Assembly and also became the first woman chair of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Schools Authority. She decided to leave her teaching days behind her as she pursued a career in politics, which later saw her become the first Labor woman federal minister in the House of Representatives and the first to give birth while holding office. Ros resigned from federal politics in 1995, and has worked as a senior executive in environmental management since that time. She has been on the Board of Trustees of the National Breast Cancer Foundation, a trustee for the World Wide Fund for Nature and a board member of the Westpac Emergency Helicopter Service. In 2004, Ros was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to the community through promoting corporate environmental responsibility and fostering dialogue between business and conservation groups, to the Australian Parliament, and to women's health. Hear directly from Ros why it's important to take opportunities as they present themselves, to know who you are and to choose the right partner, because we all need someone who has our back.  LinkedIn Ros Kelly | Claire Braund (host) Further Information about Women on Boards (WOB) membership, events & services, please visit our website. to receive our weekly newsletter, subscribe to WOB as a Basic Member (free). join as a Full Member for full access to our Board Vacancies, WOBShare (our online member platform) and more. Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter

Dirty Linen heads to Sydney to chat to Sharon Salloum, owner of Syrian restaurant Almond Bar in Darlinghurst and 3 Tomatoes Cafe in Ashbury. We chat about the daily difficulties of running small hospitality businesses. Sharon admits that everything is hard and that margins are incredibly slim but she still burns with passion for the industry. When your heart fills by feeding people, you never really question why you do it. We also talk a lot about barbecue!https://www.almondbar.com.auhttps://www.instagram.com/sharonsalloum/?hl=enFollow Dirty Linen on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/deepintheweedspodcast/?hl=enFollow Danihttps://www.instagram.com/danivalentFollow Deep In The Weeds on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/deepintheweedspodcast/?hl=enFollow Rob Locke (Executive Producer)https://www.instagram.com/foodwinedine/Follow Huck (Executive Producer)https://www.instagram.com/huckstergram/

Try this on for size... it's Episode 67 with Cassidy Clarity! In this week’s episode, we begin with a first-person story from our guest: The story of 811 Ashbury (0:30). We then welcome Cassidy to the show (5:30), before jumping into “Where you at” (6:20). For our main topic, we discuss finding a home and Jim’s salmon analogy (13:15), while also talking about the hot housing market (17:20), where we feel most at home (19:00), the tension between comfort and adventure (25:00), ownership and place (29:00), planning with kids in mind (32:15), not settling (38:40), and one thing we’d want to keep and eliminate from our childhood home (49:30). No dressing room this week, but you can check our links on our email list to see what we are trying on for size! As always, we hope you enjoy!

The Head of the HSE says it's inexcusable that some staff in nursing homes are refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19. And it comes as Ailsbury and Ashbury nursing homes told Andrea Gilligan on Lunchtime Live on Newstalk they’ve had to offer raffles and cash prices for staff. Tadgh Daly, CEO of Nursing Homes Ireland, joined Kieran on Monday's edition of The Hard Shoulder. It was also revealed recently by the Department of Health that there are no plans to buy Covid-19 vaccine supplies outside of the EU. David Quinn is a columnist with the Sunday Times, and he told Kieran why it's a scandal.

Hi everybody, and Welcome to mini-episode #8 of Attendance Bias. Today’s mini-episode features “46 Days” from August 7, 2010 at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, California. Before we get going today, it should be noted that, impressive as the “46 Days” from this run is, today’s episode is more about my admiration for the Greek Theater than it is about the jam. This three-night run was the only time I’ve been there, and it made a lasting impression. In 2009, my girlfriend at the time and I lucked out and won Phish tickets by mail for all four shows at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado. Aside from my journeys to It and Coventry, that was the farthest I’d traveled to see Phish up to that point. Not only was it fun to go on an adventure for four shows, but the majesty and natural beauty of Red Rocks provided such a stunning backdrop that the music was almost beside the point (although parts of the run were excellent).When 2010 came around, my girlfriend began working on her teaching degree and we decided to plan a summer vacation. Neither of us had been to San Francisco before, so we decided to spend a week there. We did a ton of research on hotels, flights, tours, scheduling, etc. and figured that the first week of August would be best. As it happened, Phish announced their summer tour about two weeks after we booked our trip and wouldn’t you know it—there were kicking off the 2nd half of the tour at the legendary Greek Theater in Berkeley, just a short BART ride from downtown San Francisco. The ticket gods were with us again, as we got tickets for all three shows from the lotto. We extended our trip by a day and eagerly awaited August.We arrived in SF and hit all the tourist stuff: Pier 39, the Golden Gate Bridge, Sonoma and Napa, Haight-Ashbury, 710 Ashbury, a Giants/Dodgers game, Union Square, Chinatown (where I had the most delicious salt-and-pepper chicken wings ever), and of course: In-N-Out burger. After a week of galavanting around the city and taking in much of what it had to offer, it was time for us to travel over the bay to Berkeley. Having never visited NorCal before, I was stunned at how the 60-degree August afternoons in San Francisco would shoot up to high 80s in Berkeley, just 12 miles northeast of the city.Arriving at the venue was an absolute joy. Berkeley reminds me of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village; a small community with lots of independent businesses and a sense of permissiveness. UC Berkeley is the epitome of a “College Campus.” Very green grass and column-supported academic-type lecture halls everywhere. When most of us picture “college,” it’s the archetype that probably pops into our heads.The Greek was/is an entirely GA venue. It’s obviously great because you can end up anywhere you want without restrictions. On the other hand, if you’re not in line early in the day of the show, you’re stuck up on the lawn or toward the back of the floor. We arrived at the venue with about two hours before the doors opened, so we got in line and made friends with everyone around us.Although I was at Red Rocks the previous year, these were my first true West Coast shows, and the differences struck me immediately: First, there was far less drinking. I don’t know if it was because the show was on a college campus, but I didn’t see anyone walking past the line with an overflowing red cup or bottle. Even the couple ahead of us who brought a bottle of wine were eager to split it with as many people as possible, as opposed to drinking it between the two of them.People were generally friendlier and more laid back than on the east coast. Not tha

In this podcast, Jeremy picks up where he left off in Part 1, talking about the job he got at a skateboarding company that brought him back to San Francisco after a short time on the road. He goes on to catalog the various places in The City where he has lived, including North Beach, the neighborhood Jeremy calls home to this day. The story of his move to that neighborhood includes tips on how to crack the code of Craigslist apartments. Fast-forward to, well, "now," and Jeremy recounts the stories behind his "Stay Strong" posters, which have been popping up on the fronts of boarded-up bars and also in people's windows all over town for the last eight months. It involves Anchor Brewing and the U.S. Bartenders Guild. He ends this episode talking about the place he's been doing an artist's residency since September—the Doolan-Larson building in the Upper Haight. The residency was made possible with the help of SF Heritage, a rad non-profit working to preserve the history of The City. As mentioned, we recorded this podcast at the Doolan-Larson building at Haight and Ashbury in October 2020. For more info on the building and SF Heritage, go here. Photography by Michelle Kilfeather

Hip-hop, hills, and art drew Jeremy Fish to San Francisco from 3,000 miles away. In this episode, the prolific and iconic SF artist traces his family line back to both grandfathers. One worked with his hands to make art; the other was a salesman. Jeremy sees bits of himself in both ancestors. He was born in Albany, New York, and spent most of his youth in Saratoga Springs. When it came time to go to college (in 1994), not only was The City less expensive than Boston and New York, but Jeremy also had one hell of a trip out here, which he retells in the podcast. Follow Jeremy on Twitter and Instagram, and check out his website, Silly Pink Bunnies. And check back Thursday for Part 2 to hear more of Jeremy's story. ​We recorded this podcast at the Doolan-Larson building at Haight and Ashbury in October 2020. To see some photos of the building, go to our website or follow us on social media. Photography by Michelle Kilfeather

Real Talk 3.4   Hosted by:  Chad Otterstrom, Bjorn Leines, and Mark Sullivan   Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Real Talk} www.youtube.com/c/thesnowboardproject   We're back for season 3 and welcoming our new Real Talk co-hosts Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines and jumping right into snowboarding news covering:   Movies and teasers, upcoming gear & tech, and a whole lot more.   The first three episodes of the seasons real talk her up on YouTube now. Check it out on YouTube! Http://YouTube.com/c/thesnowboardproject   MOVIES & TEASERS NEWS   Dustbox I Wanted Most https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5TbSNbMXc&feature=emb_logo   One hell of a journey, from SLC to Fargo, MN, Montreal and more we drove nearly 10,000 miles before Covid-19 had us headed home.    Dan McGonagle, Robby Meehan, Cody Warble, Peter Cerulo, Cooper Whittier, Reid Smith, Jonas Harris, Brett Kulas, Ryan Collins, Noah Peterson and Benny Milam.   With support from: Vans snow, Ride Snowboards, Bruhlers, GNU, Sims, and Ashbury   Film & Edit Colton Morgan & Mo Jennings   Channel Zero Featuring Nils Mindnich, Hans Mindnich, Wolfgang Nyvelt, Jeremy Jones, Ivika Jürgensen, Garrett Warnick, Clemens Millauer, Ylfa Rúnarsdóttir, Jamie Lynn, Estelle Pensiero, Sam Klein, Chris Corning, Skyler Gallardo, Tom Tramnitz, Roope Tonteri, Johan Rosen, Joon Ivanov, and Sammy Blaze. Lungie Land #59 https://vimeo.com/469339569#at=13   Me and Casey Nelson warming up for the spring we didn't get. I'm happy with the days we did get though! It was fun while it lasted. I always wish I could have gotten more tricks even when I get a full season anyways. I hope you enjoy this and get stoked to ride your snowboard down a hill! Thanks to Burton for all the gear needed to shred and thanks to GoPro for the camera to document the shredding. SENSELESS - FREEDAWGERS  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfVR6JaOYZU&feature=emb_logo   A fresh freedawgin' cut featuring Skyler Gallardo, Adrian Mitchell, Tony Ceccarelli, Keegan Hosefros, Nick Strother, Caleb Kinnear, Demetri Bales, and Jesse Gomez. Film/edit: D. Holcomb   SUCKS. - DRAYDEN GARDNER FULL PART https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-8mM3SqEXk&feature=emb_logo From California to Canada, take a trip with Bataleon Snowboard's newest family member, Drayden Gardner as he takes his creative riding style and fresh perspective to the streets. Sit back, relax and enjoy the visual experience crafted by Drayden and Jupiter People's Kyle Schafer.   SUCKS. Volume 1 is only the beginning and such phenomena must be respected by science, the world will take heed.   Director: Kyle Schafer Riders: Drayden Gardner, Dylan Burnley   Jupiter People Bataleon Snowboards   Reality BREAKDOWN - JED ANDERSON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLdcFEKJBc4&feature=emb_logo Film/edit: Jake Durham Guest Riders: Chaney Gilmore, Billy Cotie, Reid Smith, Dan Liedahl Additional Filming: Justin Meyer Graphics: Michael Corpuz Six Days - Eric Jackson  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thHDdorK4JA&feature=emb_logo Eric Jackson's season came slamming to a halt, as the coronavirus pandemic continued to spread. Filmed entirely over just six days in the month of February, here is how his season was going before being cut short.   Snomosapiens - DEEP POWDER IN WHITEFISH  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VB90qeyVXA&feature=emb_logo Some of the Bonfire Outerwear Team, Ralph Kucharek, Beau Bishop, and Aspen Rain Weaver travel to Whitefish, Montana for a heavy dose of DEEP Powder! We were super lucky to have it snow 6 feet before we showed up and another 2 feet as we stayed in Whitefish. We got to rip at Whitefish Resort for a couple of days before making our way to some epic and unreal Snowcat Boarding at Great Northern Powder Guides. Enjoy our take on a stellar snowstorm. Song: Pharcyde by our good friends Little Stranger Music AND A WHOLE LOT MORE...     Produced by: Mark Sullivan Dustin H James   This episode is sponsored by:   Cardiff Snowcraft  @cardiffsnow www.cardiffsnow.com Coupon Code: “THESNOWBOARDPROJECT15” {15% off at their website)    Never Summer Snowboards @neversummer www.neversummer.com    Lago Snowboards @lagosnowboards www.lagosnowboards.com   Check them out!  

Il était temps pour ce podcast de s'aventurer sur les terres du hard rock. C'est donc le groupe américain Ashbury fondé par deux frères venus d'Arizona qui est chargé d'ouvrir la voie. Retour sur leur premier (et pendant longtemps, seul) album sorti en 1983, Endless Skies. Une bonne occasion pour tout le monde de secouer la tête sur des rythmes endiablés, mais pas que. Titres diffusés durant l'émission : Warning ! Take Your Love Away Vengeance Twilight Madman Hard Fight Endless Skies Le Twitter de l'émissionLe Twitter de Fox

Robbie Conal is a legendary American guerrilla poster artist noted for his gnarled, grotesque depictions of U.S. political figures of note. Topics: Kamala Harris, Oceanside Museum Street Art Event, Baseball, My Parents were communists..., Covid Family updates, The heyday of Haight and Ashbury, Beatnicks, LSD trip stories, Robbie on Andy Warhol, The Factory was toxic, Nancy Spero, Leon Golub.

Lance Hakker is a self-described “darkman” which makes him the  perfect guest for a business episode.  Lance makes things happen behind the scenes in the world of boardsports and you know what he has done, but you never hear his name.  His resume speaks for itself though…from K2 to founding Ashbury and Videograss and then on to The Berrics and now Element, Lance has had some amazing gigs and shares the behind the scenes of it all.  It’s another great listen and my second business podcast in a row with an identical twin! Lance Hakker Show Notes: 3:00:  Identical twin, childhood, and skateboarding 8:00:  Snowboarding, Football and Nima 20:00: Sponsorship and Sims 24:30:  Stanley:  Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast 22:45:  Mike’s snowboarding, almost shooting with Whitey, and school 32:00:  K2, his vision, and contests 44:00:  10 Barrel Brewery:  Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone 45:00:  Starting Asbury, building it, and Videograss 45:00:  Skid Row, what happens with Ashbury  and Videograss 64:00:  The Berrics and Element 68:00:  Inappropriate Questions with Jered Garrison

Buckle up! Once again I have a great guest who offered a content rich conversation about one of my favorite subjects; aromatherapy!!! Join us as Harlie and I chat about good sanitizing and detoxing practices with the use of essential oils and salts, why you want to diffuse right now, and how to connect to your guides through a device she calls a Dragon Fly. And, that's not all! Here is a little background on today's guest; Harlie Greenspoon Harlie has been a strong contributor to the growth Ashbury's Aromatherapy. A  Canadian supplier of pure essential oils, unscented bases, healing salts, packaging & hydrosols. They also offer custom blends, fragrance duplication, product development and private labelling. With over 7 years experience working with wellness centres, aromatherapists, practitioners schools, spas, etc, her focus has been to develop a company's retail presence while enhancing existing services and products, and is considered a wealth of knowledge and trust in the industry. She thrives on building relationships and truly enjoys being able to make a positive impact on the businesses and people she works with. Her customized approach in handling business needs is what sets Ashbury’s apart from other wholesalers. Now a Certified Aromatherapist, and can personally help in the creation of your custom products and recipes. Also professionally trained in the field of Esthetics, Colour, Light and Crystal Therapies. Please email or call to discuss the possibilities! Info@ashburys.com 1-800-225-1226 ext 501. To learn more about ordering your Dragon Fly Spirit Amplifyer, follow this link here: http://yourspiritguides.com/1-2-3/

Jody Wachniak is a professional snowboarder living the dream in Whistler who's sponsors include K2, Vans, Billabong, Ashbury, Howl, Stance, and Ergogenics. He grew up riding at Springhill outside of Winnipeg, so his rail skills are on point and now he’s taken it to the backcountry where he’s killing it with big mountain freestyle. Jody gives back to snowboarding with his King Of The Hill event every year at Springhill and his podcast features an all time line up of must listen guests. He came down to the Knowshow in Vancouver and recorded this episode in front of a live audience. Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NDZ2GQSRQ2BQQ&source=url)

Episode#21 features the one, the only, Bob Crain. California born folk rock singer, song writer, guitarist musician with a day job! Solo artist and frontman on the Ashbury Medicine Show. Bob was the mastermind behind the Taste of Indie Collective, bringing together a community of Musician’s within Melbourne for a short but brilliant moment in time. This was where I first met Bob.It was an absolute pleasure to have Bob on Foxx on the Wire and chat with him for over 2 hours! I warned you he would talk your ears off...Sit back, relax and enjoy this chat with Bob...bobcrain.com.auFoxx on the Wire guest Spotify PlaylistFoxx on the Wire websiteUntil next time...~ Foxx ~

Here are our picks for September's Hotties of the Month: Huck Gallagher from The Lady Rogue by Jenn Bennett Reid Diggory from Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin. Kai Wentforth from For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund Here's our list of Honorable Mentions: Loom from The Glass Spare by Lauren DeStefano Chase from 738 Days by Stacey Kade Alex from The Traitor’s Ruin by Erin Beaty Aren from The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen Prince Cardan from The Cruel Price by Holly Black Kel O’Donnell from Wrapped Up In You by Jill Shalvis Mateo Torres from All Played Out by Cora Carmack Silas Moore from All Broke Down by Cora Carmack The Duke of Ashbury from The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare Sébastien Saint Germain from The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh Did we miss any favorite guys this month? Let us know in the comments if there's a guy we're missing out on and we'll get right on him!

Email: umphreakparentspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @UmphreakparentsShow Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/UmphreakParentsPodcast/Closed Facebook Group: Umphreak ParentsWebsite: https://umphreakparentspodcast.weebly.com/Swftcharge information: https://www.swftcharge.com/Listener Survey: https://tinyurl.com/y67tcxrxThe Woodlands: https://thewoodlandsfestival.com/The "interview' project: http://umanon.com/projects/interview-project/Halloween + Philly shows information: http://www.umphreys.com/2019/06/halloween-and-philadelphia-2019/NYE information: http://www.umphreys.com/2019/07/new-years-eve-2019-confirmed/Fall Tour Information: http://www.umphreys.com/2019/07/new-fall-2019-dates-announced/"A realist guide to a succesful music career" : https://tinyurl.com/y2pd9tayEpisode 67: https://tinyurl.com/y5ufnum8Episode 36: https://tinyurl.com/y5nu7d2pThe set lists for the shows discussed:August 29th: http://allthings.umphreys.com/setlists/?date=2019-08-29August 30th: http://allthings.umphreys.com/setlists/?date=2019-08-30Where you can listen to the shows discussed:August 29th:UMLive: https://tinyurl.com/yytdofmtNugs.net: https://tinyurl.com/y29t8qfcAugust 30th:UMLive: https://tinyurl.com/yxn2hkzlNugs.net: https://tinyurl.com/yyk6btbnArchive.org: https://archive.org/details/um2019-08-30Photographs from the shows:Tara Gracer Photography :August 29th: https://tinyurl.com/y4a2lfpoAugust 30th: https://tinyurl.com/yxqkmo45Levene Photographers:August 30th: https://tinyurl.com/y364bplvMatthew Lang Photography: https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Fs57kAFvj/Matthew's review of the Stone Pony show: https://tinyurl.com/y3zh46wlJanuary 29th 2017:Setlist: http://allthings.umphreys.com/setlists/?date=2017-01-29UMLive: https://tinyurl.com/y3su2mvhNugs.net: https://tinyurl.com/y43jrre7Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/um2017-01-29.BerlinerCM33

The Everyday Sniper Episode 172 Return to AK, APO SH Edition Rifle I am back in AK for the next block of classes and I wanted to drop an update on the SH Edition APO rifle. I knocked out a video detailing the system and why we spec'd it the way I did.  I think Ashbury is doing a great job with the package, and things are quickly moving forward from the base system.  Soon we will have paired options and that is very exciting.  This system is moving forward.  Also, I answer a few podbean questions as well as give you insight into my thinking when it comes to comparisons.  Lots of guys continue to ask me my favorite color, and if you listen, the point of the podcast is to give you the tools to make your own buying decisions.  Nobody will pick things in your best interest better than you, so arm yourself with the knowledge being dropped to make those better buying choices. We'll do our best to keep knocking these out, but don't forget you can always find me on Sniper's Hide in the forum. Thanks for listening, thanks for sharing and especially thanks for commenting. No Wind, 

  DJ L.D.’s Memorial Day Eve Setlist #2. Make sure to check out all three. 1. Peter Heppner — Just One Word (PixTom Mix) 2. Psyclon Nine — Lamb of God 3. Faderhead — Darker Please 4. Tumor — Showtime 5. Iris — Sorrow Expert 6. PreEmptive Strike 0.1 — T.A.L.O.S. (Radio Edit) 7. Ashbury [&hellip

Highlighted Questions2:02 Are The New 2019 Gibson's A Home Run Or A Downgrade?26:20 We are excited about Gibson because Start Wars?55:27 Thoughts on the Gibson removable pick guard?Question Index0:00 Intro0:26 What Pick up with 4 conductor sounds like a Gibson 57 classic?2:02 Are The New 2019 Gibson's A Home Run Or A Downgrade?9:20 My new Danelectrohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFHuJLqy28c12:12 Is the Stew Mac Neck Jig worth the money?15:19 Do have to set up every guitar you buy?17:40 CMG guitars?https://rna-music.myshopify.com21:09 Thoughts on Toneshaper https://www.toneshapers.com22:07 What Do I think of Solar guitars?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhM1b-lYEnQ23:14 How do you keep or remove a autograph on a guitar?25:25 Coffeebeer?26:20 We are excited about Gibson because Start Wars?28:46 Stock pick ups are getting so good30:41 Good Upgrade J bass pick ups?https://bartolini.net/product-category/bass-pickups/j-bass/33:50 Why do most people play a 4 string bass instead of a 5 string?36:09 Ashbury bass?37:38 Do I play Ukulele?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpLtCElf26Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRmXltUCp0U38:50 How to figure out where buzz is coming from?41:18 My Dimarzio gap. 42:20 Thoughts on affordable tube amps fro home?43:42 Thank You Brian and why I gave him my Danelectro?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6No3240jNc45:59 Why your guitar will go sharp when it sits?49:58 Gear Trends, please check it outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6No3240jNc51:00 Is it bad to keep a Les Paul in a case?52:00 The Wall of dirt lolhttp://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/06/arizona.dust.storm/index.html53:18 Should you store your guitars in cases verticaly or horizontally?55:27 Thoughts on the Gibson removable pick guard?57:58 Boss Pedal standshttps://reverb.com/item/19017964-slow-gear-electronics-pedal-stand-for-boss-black1:00:24 What is the Fender Blues Jr of bass amps?1:01:35 The old PRS CE or the new one?1:03:04 Buy a Fender Tele or two Slick guitars?1:06:26 Do you think Rock Smith will help a player?1:08:00 The guitar industry did not understand Guitar Hero and Rock Band1:14:47 Best amp to contrast with a Marshall?1:17:00 Musicman and Suhr why I have trouble buying one1:19:00 A big Thank you to the Patreons that make this show happenhttps://www.patreon.com/phillipmcknightKYGSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/phillipmcknightKYG)

On this week's episode of the Spirit of 608 podcast, we hear from a FEST founder who witnessed a fashion manufacturer's shocking environmental damage early on in her career at one of top brands of the day. What she saw was something she never forgot. Fast forward through leaving corporate fashion to start her own ecommerce brand and arriving at today, and she's joined with other fashion industry insiders to create the change she wants to see in the world. Here's what that looks like: leveraging her background in the industry to manufacture a made-in-California, environmentally-conscious shoe with a low carbon footprint, then crowdfunding it to success. But not only that: her commitment to changing how footwear is made goes far beyond her own brand, as evidenced in a new Ethical Footwear Design Course she's helped to create in partnership with PENSOLE - the first training for designers of its kind. Meet this week's guest, Mary Sue Papale, co-founder of Ashbury Skies + The BENDY.   What you'll learn Mary Sue Papale was working at one of the biggest brands of the 80’s and was enjoying a successful career in fashion when she suddenly witnessed something that changed her life forever. She saw firsthand the damage that the fashion industry levies on the environment - and more specifically, an entire lake. Find out how that experience has shaped her career - and future businesses on the show.  How you'll be inspired For so many entrepreneurs, the biggest challenge is not doing all the things - but really just trying to stick to one. If that's you, you'll draw essentialism inspo from listening to Mary Sue talk about the value of niching down to focus on one very special product. Hear why Mary Sue and her team chose this direction - and why it's working for them - on the episode.  What you'll tell your friends OMG, I was listening to the Spirit of 608 podcast today, and the woman on the show was talking about a lavendar lake, like from fashion industry dye runoff. I know it happens, but can you imagine just standing there looking at an entire lake that essentially became a chemical dumping ground so we can have cool looking handbags? It's crazy. But it led her to change the direction of her career and pioneer change - so inspiring!  Resource of the week One Million By One Million Mary Sue recommends this global online accelerator program as a place for mission-based entrepreneurs to head, thanks to its goal of nurturing one million founders to reach a million in annual revenue.  Connect with Mary Sue Papale Website: ashburyskies.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AshburySkies/ Instagram: @ashburyskies Twitter: @ashburyskies Mentioned in this episode: Esprit Nordstrom Facebook Google Ads Amazon Nasty Gal Modcloth Magic eBay Walmart.com One Million By One Million Medium Facebook Ads   T-shirt motto: Ask me about the Bendy, a modern comfort shoe.   Find more episodes featuring women at the forefront of FEST online at www.Spiritof608.com.

A common thread I’ve discovered through interviewing so many social entrepreneurs is that they worked at a particular field that isn’t inherently social conscious and they realized, something had to be done to change it or make it better. They weren’t just going to sit back and say, “Oh that’s a terrible problem, someone should really do something about that.” So, more often than not, they left that job to do something and be a part of the solution. My guest this week is Mary Sue Papale, the founder of Ashbury Skies. Mary’s upbringing and career background have greatly influenced the way she runs her business today and she has now developed a brand new shoe called the Bendy Shoe. It’s an athleisure shoe that is adorable, but it is completely ethical from start to finish. All the materials, the people that make the shoes - everything from start to finish is completely ethical. She shares all about her story today and I can’t wait for you to hear this conversation. A COG IN THE WHEEL Mary Sue Papale got her beginnings working for a fast fashion company - first in manufacturing and then on the buying side of things. She felt like she was a cog in the wheel of fast fashion, even in a time before the faults of fast fashion were truly realized.  During her time working for this fast fashion company, she visited a tannery making kidskin leather. She was lead into the back of the tannery building, where she saw a small pond. She noticed that the pond was purple. They were dumping waste into a pond behind the building, and her employer went so far as to laugh about the situation. Mary Sue knew that she needed to be a part of the solution. MADE TO ORDER Mary Sue decided she no longer wanted to be a part of fast fashion. She had a sinking spell about the kind of work she was doing, and how unsustainable it was. She decided to step aside, even without an alternate plan in place. After much thought, she created Ashbury Skies - a small online shoe store for independent shoe designers. Most of her goods were made to order, rather than made in mass quantities. She sought to take part in the changing tides of ecommerce - taking advantage of the fact that a beautiful online shoe store could compete with larger retailers. AMERICAN SOURCING FOR A MODERN SHOE She eventually sought out to find a shoe that was great-looking, comfortable, flexible, and could be made in the US. In the last year she has been working incredibly hard on a major project - The Bendy Shoe - a shoe with a conscious. The Bendy Shoe is entirely ethically crafted in Los Angeles. Ashbury Skies wants their company to be authentic, and to be real. They are keeping production right in their backyard, making it kinder and gentler on the planet. About Mary Sue Papale, Founder of  Ashbury Skies: Mary Sue is co-founder of Ashbury Skies and the Bendy: A shoe with a conscience. Prior to this she held senior management positions in Footwear and Accessories in buying and production for Esprit, Red Envelope and Bebe. Her fascinating story is about how unknowingly she played a part in the explosion of fast fashion and mass consumerism, as we know it today. After finally reconciling that she was a cog in the wheel for these reckless business practices, she stepped aside and launched her own shoe business in 2011. Ashbury Skies is a unique curated assortment of shoes for small independent designers. Most recently she created a modern comfort shoe, made in California, that is launching this summer. She now invites women to join in the revolution of rethinking fast fashion. CONNECT WITH SABRINA Website: https://www.ashburyskies.com/ Instagram: @ashburyskies Facebook: Ashbury Skies Twitter: @ashburyskies LinkedIn: Ashbury Skies | Mary Sue Papale Special thanks to CAUSEBOX for sponsoring this week’s Business with Purpose podcast. Use coupon code MOLLY for $15 off! Join my Purchase with Purpose Facebook group and let’s continue the conversation! https://www.facebook.com/groups/purchasewithpurpose/ Subscribe to the Business with Purpose podcast (and I’d love it if you left a review** on iTunes!) Subscribe on iTunes** Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Radio Public Subscribe via Podcast RSS Feed **Want to know how to leave a review of the Business with Purpose Podcast on iTunes from your iPhone or iPad? Launch Apple’s Podcast app. Tap the Search tab. Enter “Business with Purpose“ Tap the blue Search key at the bottom right. Tap the Blue album art for the podcast. Tap the Reviews tab. Tap Write a Review at the bottom. Enter your iTunes password to login. Tap the Stars to leave a rating. Enter title text and content to leave a review. Tap Send.  

Ep 34: Getting it DONE with Rekia Beverly We are only a few months away from the new year. I can't believe it!  If you are anything like me you still have a few goals left to accomplish before the ball drops in Time Square. Maybe you've stayed focused all year and are sure to check everything off your list in the time remaining.  Or maybe you are like the millions of others who started strong, but at some point during the year, just lost your momentum. Don't be too hard on yourself. It's easy to fall behind with all of the other responsibilities you probably have. It's not too late though. Yes, we've had more than eight months go by, but you still have time left to get a few things done.  My guest today knows a thing or two about getting things done. She shares how she went beyond having bright ideas and zero follow through to writing a series of children's book!   About Rekia Beverly Rekia is a native of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, a career educator and a writer. She is the creator of the Mrs. Ashbury's children's book series. She created Mrs. Ashbury to empower students and educators with the representation of a teacher as their advocate and a positive, exciting and welcoming presence in their world. She wants to make both parents and students aware that teacher's are as excited and unsure as their students.  "I wanted the world to view teaching from the teacher's perspective." says Rekia. She is pleased to be able to share Mrs. Ashbury with families and students and hopes to share the adventures of Mrs. Ashbury and her class for years to come.     In this episode: Learn the keys to following through on your bright ideas Advice for entrepreneurs and writers without support from friends and family Time management tips The importance of accountability in achieving your goals   Links: Rekia's Website (Mrs. Ashbury's World) Mrs. Ashbury's IG Ready to start that business? M.O.S.A.I.C Women Network Need Encouragement? Courageous Living Community  Courage's Book: Power Principles Courageous Living, How I Overcame Depression, Saved My Marriage and Took Back My Life  StruggleXChange 

A review of the June 28th- Buffalo NY, June 29th Boston MA + June 30th Ashbury Park NJ shows + an'on this day' discussion of the July 3. 2011 Red Rocks show followed by the first set of that show • email: umphreakparentspodcast@gmail.com • twitter: @Umphreakparents • Facebook: Umphreak Parents • Umphrey's Mcgee Tour Dates: http://www.umphreys.com/tour/ • Set list for this episodes "on this day" http://allthings.umphreys.com/setlists/?date=2011-07-03 • Set list from Brendan, Joel + Friends show 6/16/18 https://twitter.com/goldlikejoel/status/1008426180947701760 • Article from Jambands.com about Joel at Electric Forest http://www.jambands.com/news/2018/06/27/kyle- hollingsworth-and-joel-cummins-team-up-for-duo-show-at-electric-forest/ • Where you can snag your copy of HoF 2017: https://merch.umphreys.com/product/UYLP33/hall-of-fame-class-of-2017-2-lp?cp=null • Which version of Red Tape is better? http://nugs.net/browse/music/6344/Umphreys-McGee-mp3-flac-download-5-27-2011-Summer-Camp-Chillicothe-IL or http://nugs.net/browse/music/6452/Umphreys-McGee-mp3-flac-download-7-3-2011-Red-Rocks-Amphitheatre-Morrison-CO • Omega Moos Set list Night 1 + Night 2 https://twitter.com/umphreysmcgee/status/1010584213865795587

On an exciting new SoSnSbSb, we've got one hell of a professional guest. Producer / musician / all-around industry talent Andrew Horowitz is here! You may know him from Tally Hall. You've most certainly heard his work on John Legend's Love in the Future. Today you can also know him from this podcast! We're talking Bruce Springsteen, Parliament, and Jars of Clay.  And, of course, we're keeping it cool with a refreshing Brooklyn Summer Ale. It's SoSnSbSb! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sosnsbsbpodcast/support

It's not surprising that Sharon Salloum would pursue a career in food – her dad has a thing for DIY cooking devices and even pioneered a shopping trolley/fridge shelf/lawnmower barbecue. Her mother and grandmother taught her the power of food around the family table, and their recipes inspired her Almond Bar cookbook – which landed her two international Gourmand Cookbook awards. Just hearing Sharon talk about Syrian dishes is the very opposite of a hunger suppressant; it will make you want to order her food immediately. But Sharon actually decided to work in healthcare before teaming up with her sister Carol to open Almond Bar in Darlinghurst and their newish cafe 3 Tomatoes in Ashbury. Her ingredients are grounded in local postcodes – vine leaves cut from her parents' yard, fresh za'atar from an uncle's home, or visits to a Western Sydney grocer who sells home-made shanklish from neighbours or excess produce from their suburban gardens.  And given that Sharon has has strong memories of riding donkeys in her father's Syrian homeland (and eating some extraordinary breakfasts in the country), it's obvious why she has gone out of her way to find hospitality work and opportunities for refugees from the region. She's also taking part in the big Cook For Syria fundraising dinner happening on June 18 at Three Blue Ducks in Rosebery, in aid of UNICEF Australia's Syria Crisis Appeal for Children, and you can find her sfouf recipe in the upcoming Bake For Syria cookbook. To more about Cook For Syria and how you can participate, visit cookforsyria.com.  

Tips from everyone’s favorite teacher/Book Character, Mrs. Ashbury

Many assume the Summer of Love was the pinnacle of the Hippie movement. But the reality is a lot more complicated. KALW and THE INTERSECTION's David Boyer dug into the archives of the 1960s and the memories of folks who were there. The goal: To separate the history and myths around the Summer of Love and it's supposed epicenter, the corner of Haight & Ashbury. www.theintersection.fm

Note: This episode originally aired in March 2016. Danny Clinch, harmonica player and the greatest rock photographer of the past 25 years, joins me to talk about the debut album of his idol and frequent collaborator Bruce Springsteen - ‘Greetings from Ashbury Park NJ'. Danny talks about the parallels between his NJ upbringing and the characters on the album, why Springsteen's managers have also produced his records, the album's youthful energy, how he went from Bruce fan to his go-to photographer, jamming with the Boss on stage, introducing Bruce to Jason Isbell and how he manages to capture so many intimate, iconic moments with Springsteen and other legendary artists.   My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop music. Each episode features a different songwriter or musician discussing their favorite album of all time - their history with it, the making of the album, individual songs and the album's influence on their own music. Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist and photographer from Sydney, Australia who has worked in the music industry since 2007. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the feature film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins, in addition to many commercials and music videos. If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

Knitting Segments Show Ready Knits Sockhead Hat by Kelly McClure     Knits in Rehearsal Currently working on my 2nd (or 3rd) pair of Los Monos Locos Socks by Jennifer O'Sullivan   Vanilla Socks    On the Spice Market by Melanie Berg for the #bigbadbergalong   Knitting News, Notes and Events Join me as I discuss the highlights of my trip to Rhinebeck and enjoy the photos! Such a wonderful trip and I hope to repeat it again in the future!   The Vendors I mentioned:    Indie Untangled:  Voolenvine Yarns Backyard Fiberworks White Birch Fiber Arts   Rhinebeck: O Wool Into the Whirled Katrinkles Neighborhood Fiber Company I mentioned the pattern I have in mind for my NFC yarn, Harley.   Here are some pics from the weekend!     Next planned Knitting Events: Zombie Knitpocalypse in June 2017   PalKal 2016 Updates   Thank you so much to all of the sponsors and participants. I am so happy to have had so much excitement around this KAL!   If you haven't yet, please check out episode 60 where all of the winners were announced. I need to hear from all winners by December 1, 2016, or I will have to redraw for some of the prizes!   In addition, I have opened up a new thread for a giveaway of one Sock Ruler, as the winner had already purchased one and would like for it to go to someone who really wants one! Please enter that thread if you are interested!      Big Bad Berg Along Join me and some of my very favorite podcasters in knitting as many Melanie Berg patterns as we can!    We will joined by: In a Sknit  The Prairie Girls Knit and Spin Down Cellar Studio Podcast Commuter Knitter Knitting Butterflies The Knitmore Girls   We are working with some fabulous Indie Dyers for this KAL: Sun Valley Fibers There will be Free Shipping in the US for kits and special pricing on the kits that they are making up just for this KAL. You can get the same kit as I am getting or as one of the other podcasters. More information is coming, but look for a special link "Big Bad Berg-Along" on their website. Use the code BigBadBergAlong at checkout.     Lollipop Yarns Joan dyed up some special Duet and Trio kits especially for Ashbury or Quicksilver patterns. She will be offering Free Shipping if you use the code BigBadBergAlong at checkout. She will be having a few more updates as she gets the yarn available, so check out her group on Ravelry and her website for specific details.   One Twisted Tree Danie will be offering a couple of different fall themed kits for the KAL. Check out the website for more information.   Prizes: One lucky participant will win a 30$ gift certificate to Sun Valley Fibers!   One lucky participant will win this 2 color shawl kit from Lollipop Yarns!       Knitter's Journal Giveaway I reviewed The Knitter's Journal  by Jane Klein on Episode 61.  If you would like to win a copy of this for your collection, please check out the Ravelry group and enter to win one! This contest will stay open until December 1, 2016. You must be a member of the group to win, one entry per person.   Non-Knitting Segments   Meatless Monday Quinoa Stuffed Bell Peppers   Love it or Leave it Love: The Out on the Linai Podcast, all about the Golden Girls   Leave: Daylight Savings Time   Other News and Notes In case you missed it: I RAN A MARATHON!!   Listen up for a brief recap of my marathon experience.           Books   On this episode I talked only about books I have finished recently.   Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple   Real Murders by Charlaine Harris   The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney   The Trespasser by Tana French   Commonwealth by Ann Patchett   Other Updates Life has slowed down considerably since my marathon. I am enjoying the time with friends and family, and of course, the extra knitting time!   Hopefully this means the podcast will be back on a more regular schedule!        

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    Knitting Segments Knits in Rehearsal Currently working on my 2nd (or 3rd) pair of Los Monos Locos Socks by Jennifer O'Sullivan   Vanilla Socks    On the Spice Market by Melanie Berg for the #bigbadbergalong   Knitting News, Notes and Events   The PalKal2016 is officially over! I am so proud that we had 663 entries this year. Thanks so much to all of the participants. If you entered, make sure you listen to see if you are a lucky winner! If you are a winner, please email me!    Producing Sponsors    Sock Ruler Fiber to Fabric Magic Bijou Basin Ranch Media Peruana Designs Alana Dakos from Never Not Knitting  Infinite Twist Knitter's Pride Fix a Stitch Eucalan Della Q Ancient Arts Fibre Thanks so much to our Cameo Sponsors who offered prizes!  Ancient Threads Farm Etsy Shop and Website/Podcast  Ann of the Carolina Fiber Girls  Brenda Castiel Designs Daniela Richardson from A Coffee Fueled Life  Janis Ficker of the Carolina Fiber Girls C.C. Almon from the Geeky Girls Knit Podcast Jennifer Lassonde of the Down Cellar Studio Podcast Knitting Daddy Greg of the Unraveling Podcast Mary of the Kino Knits Podcast Kristine Beeson of the Yarnings Podcast Paula of the Knitting Pipeline Podcast Sarah Shoo of Cultivate and Create Podcast Susie White of the Prairie Girls Knit and Spin Podcast Ashley of Twist Fiber Studio and the Twisted Stitcher Podcast Zombody Knits  Julia from the Whole Lotta Craft Podcast Angela from the Revelations of a Delusional Knitter Podcast Steph from the Happy Buffalo Boutique Amy from the Stockinette Zombies Podcast Anne from Wooly Wonka Fiber Claire from New Hampshire Knits Jan Hamby of the Twinset Designs Podcast        These folks are our Featured Performers and really made the PalKal happen by offering great discounts!  Ashley of Twist Fiber Studio and the Twisted Stitcher Podcast Brenda Castiel Designs Daniela Richardson from the Coffee Fueled Life Podcast Knitting Daddy Greg of the Unraveling Podcast Jennifer Lassonde of the Down Cellar Studio Podcast   Mary of the Kino Knits Podcast Lynda from Ancient Threads Farm and Podcast Sarah Shoo of Cultivate and Create Podcast Susie White of the Prairie Girls Knit and Spin Podcast Paula of the Knitting Pipeline Podcast Ann of the Carolina Fiber Girls  Lisa of Zombody Knits  Kristine Beeson of the Yarnings Podcast C.C. Almon from the Geeky Girls Knit Podcast Kristi from the In a Sknit Video Podcast Janis Ficker/ of the Carolina Fiber Girls Twinset Jan from the Twinset Designs Podcast Julia from the Whole Lotta Craft Podcast Angela from Revelations of a Dellusional Knitter Podcast Stephanie from Happy Buffalo Boutique Anne from Wooly Wonka Fiber and podcast  Twinset Ellen from the Twinset Designs Podcast Claire of New Hampshire Knits   Our next Knit Along! The Big Bad BergAlong Join myself and some of my very favorite podcasters in knitting as many Melanie Berg patterns as we can!    We will joined by: In a Sknit  The Prairie Girls Knit and Spin Down Cellar Studio Podcast Commuter Knitter Knitting Butterflies The Knitmore Girls   We are working with some fabulous Indie Dyers for this KAL: Sun Valley Fibers There will be Free Shipping in the US for kits and special pricing on the kits that they are making up just for this KAL. You can get the same kit as I am getting or as one of the other podcasters. More information is coming, but look for a special link "Big Bad Berg-Along" on their website. Use the code BigBadBergAlong at checkout.     Lollipop Yarns Joan is dyeing up some special Duet and Trio kits especially for Ashbury or Quicksilver patterns. She will be offering Free Shipping if you use the code BigBadBergAlong at checkout. She will be having a few more updates as she gets the yarn available, so check out her group on Ravelry and her website for specific details.   One Twisted Tree Danie will be offering a couple of different fall themed kits for the KAL. Check out the website for more information.     Rhinebeck is October 15th and 16th, 2016. Let me know if you plan on attending!   Knitting Talkback: Festival Prep I talk about my preparations for any fiber festival, and if you have any suggestions for festival prep and especially for Rhinebeck, please share them on the episode thread.    I mentioned the booties I am ordering which can be found at the Walking Company, I ended up ordering them from Zappos.    Here are the bags I mentioned: Kavu Bag (not the exact one I have)   Pumpkin Pouch    Non-Knitting Segments   Under Pressure   Pressure Cooker Beef Barbacoa   Love it or Leave it Love: Modcloth   Leave: My hoarse, raspy new school year voice.    Other News and Notes Running Updates I ran my longest distance EVER 2 weeks ago: 22 Miles. My marathon is now just a month away!   Books I finished reading and/or listening to:    Crowned and Dangerous by Rhys Bowen   Still Life by Louise Penny    The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper  by Phaedra Patrick           Currently Reading:  The Deepest Waters by Dan Walsh    A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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Thank you for tuning in to Episode 97 of the Down Cellar Studio Podcast. This week's segments included:   Off the Needles On the Needles Brainstorming From the Armchair Crafty Adventures KAL News Events On a Happy Note Quote of the Week Off the Needles Skipping Stones Hat  Pattern: Skipping Stones by Sally Cameron part of the Friendship across the Oceans collection with Clare Devine Needles: US 4 (3.5 mm) Yarn: Gale's Art Super Star DK   Misfit Socks Pattern: OMG Heel Socks by Megan Williams Needles: US 1 (2.0 mm) & US 1.5 (2.25 mm) Yarn: Mint Rain Hand Dyed Yarn- Self Striping Twist Sock in the "We're all Misfits" colorway   Scrappy Sock Yarn Preemie Hat   Pattern: Scrappy Sock Yarn Preemie Hat by Greg Cohoon (Unraveling Podcast) Yarn: Holiday Yarns- Flocksock in Peachy Keen Needles: US 3 (3.25 mm) Counts as an entry for the  PAL KAL in the Actually Knitting Podcast Group, runs until 9/15.   On the Needles   Halloween Socks 2016 Pattern: Smooth Operator Socks by Susan B Anderson Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm) Yarn: Regia, Arnie & Carlos Color #02459     Amma Granny Square Top Pattern: Amma Granny Square Top by Maria Valles Hook: C 2.75 mm Yarn: Aunt Lydia's Crochet Thread Classic 10 in a creamy vanilla color    Sir Dandy Cephalopod Pattern: Sir Dandy Cephalopod by Susan Claudino Needles: US 6 Yarn: Spunky Eclectic Targhee Classic in colorway: Emerald Isle Lot 1015 (195 yards)- worsted weight- greens and blues….. so oceanic.    Hot Air Balloon Socks Pattern: OMG Heel Socks by Megan Williams Needles: US 1 (2.25 mm) (Need to do this when more than 450 yards in 100 gram skein) Yarn: Andre Sue Knits (Etsy) Notes. Plan for 4 shortie socks with different heels and toes. 2016 Patriots Socks Pattern: OMG Heel Socks by Megan Williams Needles: US 1 (2.25 mm) Yarn: Knitters Brewing Company Sockaholic II in NE Patriots Tailgate Party Colorway Brainstorming I mentioned last time I'm looking for yarn for more Christmas socks. I purchased a skein from Lilliput Yarn in the Bumpus Hounds colorway and I love it!     I'm totally jonesing to cast on the Fidra Hat by Gudrun Johnston From the Armchair In this episode I reviewed the Knitters Pride Nova Platina Special Interchangeable Set. This is a set of  16 inch (40 cm) needles that retails for $64.39. It comes with needle sizes 4-10. Definitely worth checking out, but tune in to hear my review! Some new (to me) podcasts I'd recommend: Stitching the High Notes (video- on YouTube) Slow Your Home Podcast (audio podcast available on iTunes or wherever you subscribe to podcasts) Crafty Adventures I've been doing some sewing. I used the following two tutorials: Hue Loco Holiday Project Bag Tutorial Video Tutorial  Open Wide Zippered Pouch Tutorial   KAL News 12 Months to Christmas KAL 12 Months to Christmas FO Thread 12 Months to Christmas Chat Thread The Big, Bad, Berg-a-long We will start on October 1st and go through November 15, 2016. Knit any pattern by talented Melanie Berg 6 Podcasts Participating- each will offer prizes, you are welcome to enter in each group’s thread. Knitting Butterflies, Actually Knitting, Prairie Girls Knit & Spin, In a Sknit & Commuter Knitter Podcast We are so lucky to have the designer Melanie Berg offering our listeners a 10% discount on her patterns (self-published) starting September 15th, 2016 and ending November 2, 2016. Use the code BigBadBergAlong at checkout on Ravelry. We are also going to be working with 3 Indie Dyers for this KAL. Sun Valley Fibers: There will be Free Shipping in the US for kits and special pricing on the kits that they are making up just for this KAL. You can get the same kit as I am getting or as one of the other podcasters. More information is coming, but look for a special link “Big Bad Berg-Along” on their website. Use the code BigBadBergAlong at checkout. Lollipop Yarns:  On September 11 at 7pm Eastern there will be an update featuring Duet and Trio kits especially for Ashbury or Quicksilver patterns. She will be offering Free Shipping if you use the codeBigBadBergAlong at checkout. She will have these kits up for preview starting Monday September 5th, 2016 in the Lollipop Yarn Ravelry Group as well as on her website, linked above. One Twisted Tree: Danie will be offering a couple of different fall themed kits for the KAL. Check out the website for more information. I am planning to do the Sunwalker Shawl. with MCS from Sun Valley Fibers in Kensington Colorway. Participating in the Pigskin Party? You can double dip and this will earn you Interception points! Pigskin Party '16 Wondering what this crazy KAL is? Check out this page which gives you the best overview with all necessary links. Check out the Rules but if you still have questions, come over to the Questions thread and ask. We’re happy to help. Put your Name on the Roster then claim your spot in the End Zone Dance Thread Continue to update this with all of the points you earn during the KAL Check out our amazing sponsors. Find the coupons here. Some of our Pro Shop Level Sponsors will be creating exclusive items for Pigskin Party participants. They may come out at different times and will likely be limited in quantities, so keep your eyes on this Exclusive Items thread in the group for all the latest news Scope out the prizes! Don't forget to use #DCSPigskinParty2016 on Instagram so we check out what you're doing and you can be eligible for participation prizes. Want to make sure you know the latest news about the Interceptions, swaps and other fun challenges throughout the Pigskin Party? Stay tuned to the Sidelines Games thread in the Ravelry Group. Pro Shop Sponsors Berry Colorful Yarnings Bijou Basin Ranch Daizie Knits Fair Winds Farm Fiber Nymph Dye Works Knit Life Designs Knitcircus Yarns Knits4Comfort Knitters Brewing Company Knitty Kitty Bags Lilliput Yarn Media Peruana Designs One Geek To Craft Them All Pearl and Plum Plum Deluxe Tea Prairie Bag Works Sun Valley Fibers Sunsoaked Yarns The Yarn Sellar Yarn Geek Fibers Key Details Mentioned in this Episode Show Your Team Spirit Interception has been announced. Runs 9/8-9/25. Click link for details. Big Bad Berg-a-long will run as an Interception. Lots of coupon codes available! Don't miss out! Looking for Sponsor knitting patterns? Check out this bundle curated by group member roocmc On a Happy Note    Meeting group member, Mislissa (Melissa) who has been able to come to my local knitting group! Settling into fall and doing more crafting! Kiddos going back to school! Getting back to the gym and getting closer to my weight loss goal (and yes, I still eat delicious things like Chipotle!) My dear friend and college roommate, Amber learning to knit so we've been connecting over that which I've thoroughly enjoyed! I shared some funny audio from her at the end of the episode. I also talked about how I recommend this book by Susan B Anderson to help her learn to knit and she's loved it!   Quote of the Week   “By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.” —Helen Hunt Jackson --------------------- Thank you for tuning in!   Contact Information: Ravelry: BostonJen & Down Cellar Studio Podcast Ravelry Group Twitter: Instagram & Periscope: BostonJen1 Facebook: www.facebook.com/downcellarstudio Sign up for my email newsletter to get the latest on everything happening in the Down Cellar Studio!

Knitting Segments This episode is brought to you by Never Not Knitting and Sock Ruler!    Show-Ready Knits Zigzagular Socks by Susie White Quadruple Threat PalKal Project here with 4 podcasts represented: Prairie Girls Knit and Spin Podcast  Twist Fiber Studio and the Twisted Stitcher Podcast The Fat Squirrel Speaks Megan Williams of The Stockinette Zombies     Vanilla Socks with Scrumptious Purl Self-Striping Yarn.       Knits in Rehearsal Astonish Top by Katy Banks.  This is now in a semi-permanent time-out!   I worked a lot recently on my Sock Yarn Blanket, Memory Blanket by Georgie Nicholson   Currently working on my 2nd (or 3rd) pair of Los Monos Locos Socks by Jennifer O'Sullivan   This episode of Actually Knitting is brought to you by the Never Not Knitting online shop where you will find unusual gifts and notions for knitters such as handcarved knitting needles, specialty buttons, and stitch marker jewelry. Check out the latest offerings at nevernotknitting.com. Looking for a new project to knit? Use the coupon code PalKal2016 to receive 50% off of a pdf pattern of your choice!   Knitting News, Notes and Events PalKal2016 is Almost Over!     Rules:    The basic idea is to support a podcaster you listen to or watch by knitting one of their patterns and/or using their yarns for your project. You can also use a project bag or stitch marker by a podcaster! The design, yarn/fiber and/or project bag must be from a knitting/crochet/fiber podcaster. (Not all 3, just one of those to qualify). Spinning also counts, just make sure it’s a finished product. Use the chatter thread for discussion. Make suggestions. There are TONS of podcasts out there and almost no one knows about all of them, so if you know of a podcaster designer/yarnie/bag maker, feel free to share with us! You are encouraged to take advantage of the coupon codes offered by our sponsors, but you are not limited to those podcasters for the KAL. Sponsors and coupon codes are listed in the appropriate threads and will be listed on the podcast as well. Please post finished objects in the non-chatter thread and include a link to the podcaster you are supporting. Enter as many projects as you like! There is no minimum yardage requirement or limit to the projects you can enter. If you use more than one podcaster product/design/bag/etc on one project, you may create multiple entries for that project. For example: Knit the Zigzagular Socks by prairiegirlsusie using yarn by Oh! Loops and use a project bag by thefatsquirrel, you can enter that project into the FO thread 3 separate times, just link to each podcaster seperately in each post. A note about project bags: a project bag may only be entered into the contest one time for an entry. (You can’t just keep using a podcaster project bag over and over and entering the contest that way). The same applies for stitch markers. Wips count! Just finish them between June 15 and September 15, 2016. You must be a member of the Actually Knitting Podcast Group to win. Have fun supporting a podcaster designer or yarnie! Please support as many different podcasts as you can! Please do not chatter in the non-chatter thread. It makes it more difficult to draw a winner! Use the tag PALKAL2016 here on Ravelry and #palkal2016 on Instagram. Feel free to double, triple, quadruple dip! Today I will highlight our Cameo Sponsors who are donating prizes for the KAL. For more information, check out the threads on Ravelry in the Actually Knitting Podcast Group.    Jenn Sheelan Designs and Podcast     Lilliput Yarn     One Twisted Tree/Prairie Girl Danie of the Prairie Girls Knit and Spin Podcast      The Relentless Knitting Podcast     The Twisted Stitches Podcast     Unwind Yarn Company/Dana from the Just One More Row Podcast     I am also highlighting the prizes being offered by these Top Billing Sponsors. These sponsors have donated prizes as well as coupon codes. More information about all of this can be found in the threads on the Ravelry group, but today we will focus on the prizes.    Ancient Threads Farm Etsy Shop and Website/Podcast        A skein of yarn, winner's choice.      Ann of the Carolina Fiber Girls         Copy of the Fletcher's Falling Leaves Sock Pattern       Brenda Castiel Designs        3 Patterns of winners' choice Daniela Richardson from A Coffee Fueled Life         5 Patterns from her Ravelry Store.      Janis Ficker of the Carolina Fiber Girls           Copy of her 10 Day Sweater Pattern     C.C. Almon from the Geeky Girls Knit Podcast         Copy of her ebook, Coffee with C.C.      Jennifer Lassonde of the Down Cellar Studio Podcast         Copy of one of her patterns from her Ravelry Store   Knitting Daddy Greg of the Unraveling Podcast          2 copies of his Scrappy Sock Yarn Preemie Hat   Mary of the Kino Knits Podcast          Copy of her Adrenaline Junkie Sock Pattern    Kristine Beeson of the Yarnings Podcast          Winner's Choice of pattern from her Ravelry Store     Paula of the Knitting Pipeline Podcast          5 patterns from her Ravelry store and one winner will receive a shawl quantity of yarn from Quince           and Co.    Sarah Shoo of Cultivate and Create Podcast          3 patterns from her Ravelry Shop   Susie White of the Prairie Girls Knit and Spin Podcast          Copy of one of her patterns from her Ravelry Shop   Ashley of Twist Fiber Studio and the Twisted Stitcher Podcast           Project bag of winner's choice from her Etsy Shop   Zombody Knits             A project bag from her Etsy Shop   Julia from the Whole Lotta Craft Podcast            Pattern from her Ravelry Shop for one lucky winner!       Angela from the Revelations of a Delusional Knitter Podcast             Winner's choice of a pattern from her Ravelry Store!   Steph from the Happy Buffalo Boutique           A skein of yarn, winner’s choice   Amy from the Stockinette Zombies Podcast           Winner’s choice of pattern from her Ravelry Store, some yarn from her own stash and a project bag     from the SilverShedUSA!   Anne from Wooly Wonka Fiber           As a prize, Anne is offering one lucky listener $30.00 in patterns from her Designer Store on    Ravelry. The winner will be able to pick any combination of individual patterns that suits!   Claire from New Hampshire Knits            2 balls of West Yorkshire Spinners yarn from their Country Bird collection in the Bullfinch and                             Cayenne Pepper color ways (so a patterned ball with a contrasting solid for heels etc).    Jan Hamby of the Twinset Designs Podcast           A Noste-Demi and Noste-Mini   Producing Sponsors offering Discounts:    Sock Ruler             25% off 1 regular sock ruler   Fiber to Fabric Magic              Buy 4 get one free Needle Keepers   Bijou Basin Ranch              15% discount on yarn, excluding Qiviut and Paco-Vicuna   Media Peruana Designs              25% off a pattern in her Ravelry Shop   Alana Dakos from Never Not Knitting               50% off a PDF pattern of your choice in her Ravery Shop      Infinite Twist              Free 50 gram mini skein with purchase     In addition to those mentioned above, the following are also producing sponsors of the PalKal 2016:   Knitter's Pride Fix a Stitch Eucalan Della Q Ancient Arts Fibre   Virtual Knit Night? I have scheduled one for September 6th, 2016 at 7pm Eastern time. If you are interested, here is the link to my Google Profile. Add me to your circle and then send me an email or private message telling me your email address and name so I can add you to the hangout.   Rhinebeck is October 15th and 16th, 2016. Let me know if you plan on attending!   New Knit-a-Long coming up starting October 1, 2016     The Big, Bad, Berg-a-long We will start on October 1st and go through November 15, 2016. There will be 6 podcasts participating. Any Melanie Berg patterns will be eligible for participation.    I am so excited to be collaborating with 5 of my favorite podcasts for this event!   In a Sknit  The Prairie Girls Knit and Spin Down Cellar Studio Podcast Commuter Knitter Knitting Butterflies     We are so lucky to have the designer Melanie Berg offering our listeners a 10% discount on her patterns (self-published) starting September 15th, 2016 and ending November 2, 2016. Use the code BigBadBergAlong at checkout.   We are also going to be working with 3 Indie Dyers for this KAL.   Sun Valley Fibers There will be Free Shipping in the US for kits and special pricing on the kits that they are making up just for this KAL. You can get the same kit as I am getting or as one of the other podcasters. More information is coming, but look for a special link "Big Bad Berg-Along" on their website. Use the code BigBadBergAlong at checkout.     Lollipop Yarns On September 11 at 7pm Eastern there will be an update featuring Duet and Trio kits especially for Ashbury or Quicksilver patterns. She will be offering Free Shipping if you use the code BigBadBergAlong at checkout. She will have these kits up for preview starting Monday September 5th, 2016 in the Lollipop Yarn Ravelry Group as well as on her website, linked above.   Oh! And there will be a self-striping update on Sunday September 4th at 7pm.   One Twisted Tree Danie will be offering a couple of different fall themed kits for the KAL. Check out the website for more information.     Podcast Premiere This week I talked about a new to me podcast, the Hey Sister Podcast on Youtube.   This episode of Actually Knitting is brought to you by The Sock Ruler.  "The Sock Ruler is an innovative measuring tool for sock knitters. Whether the sock is knit toe up or cuff down the ruler works equally well.  It is constructed of a heavy duty, yet flexible plastic and measures from the inside of the sock, allowing the sock to lie flat and ensure accurate measurements." Visit our website, www.sockruler.com, for more information and don’t forget to use coupon code “palkal2016” for 25% off of a regular sock ruler from now until September 15th.     Non-Knitting Segments One Pot Wonders   Vegetarian Spaghetti Squash Skillet from The Cookin' Canuck.   Love it or Leave it   Love: Healthy choices we are making at home are really starting to pay off!   Leave: I now basically work in the middle of a Construction/Destruction zone at school.      Other News and Notes   Running Updates I ran my longest distance ever this past weekend. 20 Miles! Who Am I??   Book Updates I finished reading:    Night Film by Marissa Pessl         Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty   The Art of Crash Landing by Melissa De Carlo   I am currently reading:  Crowned and Dangerous by Rhys Bowen Still Life by Louise Penny