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This is a fun episode of diaries, as we hear about the gap year travels not only of Gyles, but also of Harriet too. Because she has finally dug out an old diary, and shares a few entries with Gyles at the beginning of today's show - and they're from her gap year, which was partly spent travelling in India. Then we get stuck into Gyles's travels, which were in the U.S. We hear about his job, teaching in a school in Baltimore, his trip to New York City to stay with some relations, his Aunt Polly's funeral, and his money worries. This episode also features another brief appearance from Joan of Arc, who first appeared in the Beethoven show last week - and it features Harriet and Gyles testing out their American accents. Apologies to any genuine Americans listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman searching for her lost nephew. Her Aunt Polly goes abroad with her new Uncle, Dr. Chilton. While in Boston, Pollyanna meets new friends and has several interesting adventures...A startling change in Aunt Polly's and Pollyanna's circumstances require Pollyanna to come up with a workable solution. Pollyanna's solution brings all her new friends from Boston and her old friends in Beldingsville together. Pollyanna also discovers she has to make a choice. Who will win her heart?  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman searching for her lost nephew. Her Aunt Polly goes abroad with her new Uncle, Dr. Chilton. While in Boston, Pollyanna meets new friends and has several interesting adventures...A startling change in Aunt Polly's and Pollyanna's circumstances require Pollyanna to come up with a workable solution. Pollyanna's solution brings all her new friends from Boston and her old friends in Beldingsville together. Pollyanna also discovers she has to make a choice. Who will win her heart?  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman searching for her lost nephew. Her Aunt Polly goes abroad with her new Uncle, Dr. Chilton. While in Boston, Pollyanna meets new friends and has several interesting adventures...A startling change in Aunt Polly's and Pollyanna's circumstances require Pollyanna to come up with a workable solution. Pollyanna's solution brings all her new friends from Boston and her old friends in Beldingsville together. Pollyanna also discovers she has to make a choice. Who will win her heart?  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman searching for her lost nephew. Her Aunt Polly goes abroad with her new Uncle, Dr. Chilton. While in Boston, Pollyanna meets new friends and has several interesting adventures...A startling change in Aunt Polly's and Pollyanna's circumstances require Pollyanna to come up with a workable solution. Pollyanna's solution brings all her new friends from Boston and her old friends in Beldingsville together. Pollyanna also discovers she has to make a choice. Who will win her heart?  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman searching for her lost nephew. Her Aunt Polly goes abroad with her new Uncle, Dr. Chilton. While in Boston, Pollyanna meets new friends and has several interesting adventures...A startling change in Aunt Polly's and Pollyanna's circumstances require Pollyanna to come up with a workable solution. Pollyanna's solution brings all her new friends from Boston and her old friends in Beldingsville together. Pollyanna also discovers she has to make a choice. Who will win her heart?  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

By order of the Peaky Blinders, we bring you the grand finale of Mobster March! In this week's episode of The Art of Costume Podcast, Elizabeth and Spencer dive into all six seasons of Peaky Blinders and the impeccable costumes that brought the world of the Shelby family to life.From the sharp three-piece suits and newsboy caps of Tommy Shelby, played by the ever-dashing Cillian Murphy, to the unforgettable presence of Helen McCrory's Aunt Polly, we explore the power, grit, and elegance behind every look. Plus, we discuss the many villains, the endless scorned mistresses, and the signature Peaky Blinders aesthetic that made this series a style phenomenon. So pour yourself a whiskey, straighten your flat cap, and join us for this wild ride through the world of crime, power, and impeccable tailoring.► WonderCon Panel moderated by Spencer on March 28th► Podcast Merch Store⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠► Join our Discord► Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠► TikTok

By order of the Peaky Blinders, we bring you the grand finale of Mobster March! In this week's episode of The Art of Costume Podcast, Elizabeth and Spencer dive into all six seasons of Peaky Blinders and the impeccable costumes that brought the world of the Shelby family to life.From the sharp three-piece suits and newsboy caps of Tommy Shelby, played by the ever-dashing Cillian Murphy, to the unforgettable presence of Helen McCrory's Aunt Polly, we explore the power, grit, and elegance behind every look. Plus, we discuss the many villains, the endless scorned mistresses, and the signature Peaky Blinders aesthetic that made this series a style phenomenon. So pour yourself a whiskey, straighten your flat cap, and join us for this wild ride through the world of crime, power, and impeccable tailoring.► WonderCon Panel moderated by Spencer on March 28th► Podcast Merch Store⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠► Join our Discord► Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠► TikTok

Join Mr Tumble for his very own radio show and today's guest Aunt Polly is having fun with a quiz. Sing along to Little Bo Peep, The Friends Song and Ten in the Bed.

This Sunday on Vintage Classic Radio's "Sunday Night Playhouse," we invite you to tune in for a special rebroadcast of "The Campbell Playhouse" featuring the iconic Orson Welles in "Huckleberry Finn." Originally aired on March 17th, 1940, this adaptation of Mark Twain's beloved novel is brought vividly to life with a stellar cast. Orson Welles stars as the narrator, adding his legendary depth to the storytelling, while Jackie Cooper portrays the adventurous Huckleberry Finn. Walter Catlett brings a charismatic flair to the role of the Duke, and Clara Blandick enhances the cast as Aunt Polly, providing a warm yet formidable presence. The production also features additional performances by esteemed actors of the time, creating a rich tapestry of characters that navigate the complexities of friendship, freedom, and societal norms along the Mississippi River. Join us for this engaging journey through one of America's most cherished tales.

Join Mr Tumble for his very own radio show and today's guest Aunt Polly is having fun with a quiz. Sing along to Little Bo Peep, The Friends Song and Ten in the Bed.

Mr Tumble's guest Grandad Tumble has a splashing time with Incey Wincey Spider, Rock-a-Bye Baby and Round and Round the Garden. Plus, a Top 5 and Aunt Polly has the News

Episode 116   By the Shores of Silver Lake chapter 7 "Where the West Begins"   Join us this week as we discuss the Big Sioux River, buffalo wallows, the 1800s buffalo population, "Uncle Sam's Farm", the James River, and where is Aunt Polly?

Solomon Owl listened to Aunt Polly's advice and didn't eat for a whole week while bumping into trees to get rid of the wishbone. Now, he is going back to see if he is better. Aunt Polly checks him over, and he leaves very unhappy and hungry. She tells him he should not eat for another week, but he does not listen to what she has to say.  Sleep Tight!, Sheryl & Clark❤️

Mr Tumble's guest Aunt Polly pops to the farm for some milk. Sing along to Old MacDonald, I'm a Little Teapot and Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken. Grandad Tumble has the News!

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain chapter 42, narrated by Isaac BirchallSubscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :Dhttps://www.patreon.com/theessentialreadshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/joinSUMMARY:In the morning Uncle Sylas goes into town again but comes back soon looking disappointed at not having found Tom. At breakfast, Sylas remembers a letter that he was supposed to give Aunt Sally but before she could open it, she runs outside and joins a crowd that is carrying Tom, safely, and carrying Jim, bound, and tied. Tom is taken inside, and Huck goes to see that Jim is okay. The farmers want to hang Jim, but as he doesn't belong to them, he can't be. They however do tie him up even harder and say that his rations are to be reduced to only bread and water. The doctor comes in and changes their minds about torturing Jim. He says that Jim was the best nurse that he could have asked for while taking care of Jim. This gets the men to leave Jim alone, but they aren't too happy about having a runaway slave in their midst. Huck then goes inside to see Aunt Sally and Tom. He is sleeping, but Aunt Sally dotes on him like never before. After a while, Tom finally wakes up, and before Huck can tell him that everything went wrong, he starts asking if Jim got away safe, and starts telling Aunt Sally about how he and Huck helped him escape. Aunt Sally interjects though and tells Tom that Jim didn't get free, and that he is back in chains. Tom leaps up and yells that Jim has in fact been free for 2 months, he was freed in the will of Mrs Watson. Just as he is going on about this, Aunt Polly, arrives out of the blue, and Huck jumps under the bed. She reprimands Tom and tells Sally that he and Huckleberry Finn and Tom have been pretending to be different Sawyer kids all this time. Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Could Aunt Polly really be softening toward her loving niece, Pollyanna? Nancy thinks so, because Aunt Polly sent her out with an umbrella because she was afraid Pollyanna would be caught by a thunderstorm. And now Pollyanna is beginning to see the tenderness with her own eyes! Somehow, Pollyanna's exuberant and loving spirit seems to be rubbing off on all the people around her!Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life.Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and there's no better way to relax than to hear Stories Come to Life! Let me know what you think! Please send an email to me at kluker@marshallpl.org. I'd love to hear from you!

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Do you remember that old Tom the gardener once mentioned to Nancy that long years ago Aunt Polly had quarreled with a lover? From watching the way Mr. Pendleton has softened under Pollyanna's sweet friendship, Nancy has decided that the old lover was Mr. Pendleton! She tells Pollyanna, and of course the tenderhearted girl wants to do whatever she can to reconcile the lovers so they will both be less lonely and more able to find gladness in the world. But no one could be more surprised about this perfectly logical supposition than Mr. Pendleton himself! Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life.Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and there's no better way to relax than to hear Stories Come to Life! Let me know what you think! Please send an email to me at kluker@marshallpl.org. I'd love to hear from you!

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. When Pollyanna walks back home after her unsuccessful meeting with the Beldingsville Ladies Aid, she takes a path through Pendleton Woods. Here she finds Mr. Pendleton who has fallen and broken his leg! Her resourcefulness brings him relief, and soon Pollyanna becomes acquainted with kindly Dr. Chilton, who claims that Pollyanna herself is a tonic of good health he wishes he could prescribe to all his patients! Of all the people in town, only Aunt Polly doesn't seem to be softening under Pollyanna's benign influence. Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life.Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and there's no better way to relax than to hear Stories Come to Life! Let me know what you think! Please send an email to me at kluker@marshallpl.org. I'd love to hear from you!

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Pollyanna has a big heart. She finds something about just about everything in her world to love, from a scraggly kitten to a stray dog, and even to a little homeless boy. And she is already winning the hearts of those around her, including Mrs. Snow and, of course, dear Nancy. The only problem is that not everyone appreciates her open heart, not always Aunt Polly, and certainly not the Ladies Aid!  Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life.Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and there's no better way to relax than to hear Stories Come to Life! Let me know what you think! Please send an email to me at kluker@marshallpl.org. I'd love to hear from you!

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. What an extraordinary child! That is the reaction Aunt Polly, and in fact, many of the residents of Beldingsville seem to exclaim when they make Pollyanna's acquaintance. Not only does Pollyanna not realize when she is being punished, for example, but she takes the punishment as a special reward, planned to make her happy. You see, Pollyanna has been playing a game ever since she was a very little, little girl, in which she tries to find something about every situation that can make her glad. Yes indeed, what an extraordinary girl! Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life.Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and there's no better way to relax than to hear Stories Come to Life! Let me know what you think! Please send an email to me at kluker@marshallpl.org. I'd love to hear from you!

Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. In 1913, American author Eleanor H. Porter's most famous book, Pollyanna, was published. Here is the delightful story of eleven-year-old Pollyanna (named after her mother's two sisters). When Pollyanna's beloved father dies, Pollyanna is sent to the town of Beldingsville, Vermont, to live with her austere and coldly dutiful Aunt Polly. Nancy, the young hired girl, is appalled at the less than warm welcome shown to the sweet young orphan, and is determined to be a friend and a rock of refuge to the young girl.Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life.Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and there's no better way to relax than to hear Stories Come to Life! Let me know what you think! Please send an email to me at kluker@marshallpl.org. I'd love to hear from you!

Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain原文CHAPTER FIVE: The plan to free JimWhen I heard that I nearly failed trough the floor but it was a big piece of luck.It was easy for me to be Tom Sawyer, because Tom was my best friend.He and his brother Sid lived with their Aunt Polly up in St. Petersburg, and I knew all about them.Now I learnt that Aunt Polly had a sister, who was Mrs. Phelps.She and her husband were Tom's Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas.And Tom was coming down south by boat to stay with them for a bit.We all sat there talking and I could answer all their questions about the Sawyer family.I was feeling really happy about this when suddenly I heard a boat on the river.'Tom could be on that boat,' I thought, 'and he's going to walk in here and call out my name before I can stop him. I've got to go and meet him.'So I told the Phelpses that I would go into town to get my bags, which were at the boat station.I hurried up the road and before I was halfway to town, there was Tom Sawyer coming along.When he saw me, his mouth fell open and he looked a bit white in the face.'Aren't you dead?' he said. 'Everybody said that you were murdered!''I'm not dead yet,' I said, 'but listen.…'I told him about my adventures, and Tom loved all that.Then I told him about the Phelpses and that they thought I was Tom Sawyer.'What shall we do?' I asked him.Tom thought for a bit, and then he said, 'I know. You take my bags and say they're yours. I'll come to the house in about half an hour.''All right,' I said, 'but there's another thing. You know old Miss Watson's slave Jim, who ran away? Well, he's a prisoner here, and I'm going to help him escape.''Jim?' Tom said. 'But he's-'Then he stopped and thought.'Right. I'll help, too. I'll make a really good plan.'He looked very excited.So I went back to the house with the bags, and Tom came along half an hour later.He knocked on the door and when his Aunt Sally opened it, he said he was Sid, Tom's brother.He wanted his visit to be a surprise for his dear old Aunt Sally, he said.Well, Aunt Sally was very pleased to see Tom and Sid.She thought it was wonderful.She and Uncle Silas were really nice people.When we were alone later, Tom and I talked about Jim's escape.I said I had a plan, and Tom listened to it.'It's a good plan,' he said when I finished. 'But it's too easy! It's got to be a real escape, like a real adventure in a story-book. So we want something difficult and dangerous. Now, listen to this...'So he told me his plan.I knew it would be a good one because Tom's plans are always crazy and exciting.And we sure had a lot of fun with that plan!We knew that Jim was locked up in a hut outside the house.Every night we got out through our bedroom window and dug a hole right under the wall of the hut.It took us a week, and it was hard work.We talked to Jim secretly and told him about the plan, and he was really pleased.We also wrote secret letters to everybody.Tom said that people always do this in books.We wrote that there was a gang of slave-thieves coming up from the south.They wanted to steal Jim and get the three hundred dollars from his owner.Well, the Phelpses and their friends got very excited, and on the night of the escape I went into the sitting- room, and there was a crowd of men in there - all with guns!I ran and told Tom, and he said that this was really good.'It's a real adventure now, all right,' he said, very excited. 'Perhaps they'll come after us, and shoot, and we'll all get killed!'Well, there wasn't time to think about it because it all happened so quickly.We got Jim out through the hole under the wall, and began to rundown to the river.But the men heard us and came after us.They began to shoot, and so we ran as fast as we could to the canoe.We got in it and went over to Spanish Island.My raft was there, and our plan was to escape on that and go on downriver.'Now, Jim,' I cried, 'you're a free man!'We were all very happy, but Tom was the happiest of all, because he had a bullet in his leg.When Jim and I heard that, we weren't so happy.Tom wanted the adventure to go on, but Jim and I said that a doctor must look at Tom's leg.Tom was getting angry about this.But Jim said: 'You listen to me, Tom Sawyer. You say I'm a free man now, and perhaps I am. But old Jim is not going to run away and leave one of his friends with a bullet in his leg! So I'm staying right here until a doctor comes.'I knew Jim would say that.He was a good, true friend, and you can't say that about many people.Well, that was the end of the adventure, really.I went and found doctor in the town.He was a kind old man, and he said he would go over to the island.But Tom's leg got very bad, and the next day the doctor and some other men carried Tom home to the Phelpses' house.They brought Jim too, and they locked him up in the hut again.But the doctor said, 'Be kind to him, because he didn't run away and he stayed to help me with the boy.'They took Tom up to bed because his leg was really bad, and Aunt Sally sat with him while he slept.I didn't want to answer any questions so I kept out of everybody's way.When Tom woke up the next day, he felt better.I was in the room and he said to me, 'Jim's all right, isn't he?'I didn't know what to say because Aunt Sally was listening, and before I could stop him, Tom went on: 'We did it, Aunt Sally, Me and Tom here. We helped Jim escape.'He told her all about the digging and everything, and Aunt Sally's mouth was opening and closing like a fish.Then she got really angry with Tom.'That slave is locked up again and he's going to stay there. And if I catch you again-'Tom suddenly sat up in bed.'You can't do that!' he cried. 'Jim was old Miss Watson's slave, but she died two months ago. Before she died, she wrote that she wanted Jim to be free, and not a slave any more. Jim's a free man, not a slave!'Well, that was a surprise to me and Aunt Sally!She thought Tom was crazy.'But Sid, why did you help him to escape, if he was free already?' she said.'I wanted the adventure, of course!' said Tom.'We made a really exciting plan and... Oh my!... AUNT POLLY!'We turned round, and there was Tom's Aunt Polly in the doorway!That was the second big surprise.Aunt Sally was really pleased to see her sister, and jumped up to put her arms round her.I got under the bed as fast as I could.There was trouble coming for me and Tom, that was for sure.Then Aunt Polly said to Tom, 'You always were a terrible boy, Tom Sawyer, and I want to know-''But Polly dear,' said Aunt Sally, 'this isn't Tom. It's Sid. Tom was here a minute ago. Where is he?''Where's Huck Finn, you mean,' replied Aunt Polly.'Come out from under that bed, Huck Finn.' So Tom and I had to explain everything and Polly said that Aunt Sally road and told her that Tom and Sid were there.She knew that it wasn't true.So she decided to come and find out what was happening.But she said that it was true about Miss Watson, and that Jim was a free man now.We got Jim out of the hut, and Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas were really nice to him.Later, Tom, Jim and I had a long talk by ourselves.Tom talked and talked, and then he said, 'Let's all three of us run away one night, and go and have adventures in the wild country down south.'It sounded like a good plan to me.'The only thing is,' I said, 'I haven't got any money to buy the right clothes and things. All my money back in St Petersburg will be in Pop's pockets by now.''No,' said Tom. 'Your money's all there. Your Pop never came back.''No, and he won't come back, Huck,' Jim said.I'm really pleased about that because it was very difficult to write a book and I won't do it again.But I think I'm going to have to run away before the others, because Aunt Sally wants me to live with her.I'll have to sleep in a bed and wear clean clothes and learn to be good, and I can't do that again.I've done it once already.The End, Yours Truly Huck Finn

Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain词汇提示1.canoe 独木舟2.sack 麻袋3.raft 木筏原文CHAPTER TWO: Huck escapes and finds a friendMostly it was a lazy, comfortable kind of life, but after about two months Pop began to hit me too much with his stick.He often went away into town too, and then he always locked me in the hut.Once he was away for three days and I thought I was never going to get out again.When he came back that time, he was drunk and angry.He wanted my money, but Judge Thatcher wouldn't give it to him.The judge wanted to send me to live with the widow again, Pop told me.I wasn't very pleased about that.I didn't want to go back there.So I decided to escape and go down the river and live in the woods somewhere.When Pop was out, I began to cut a hole in the wooden wall of the hut.In a few days, when the hole was bigger, I could take the wood out, escape through the hole, and put the wood back.One morning, Pop sent me down to the river to catch some fish for breakfast.To my surprise, there was a canoe in the water and there was no one in it.Immediately, I jumped into the river and brought the canoe to the side.It was lucky that Pop didn't see me, and I decided to hide the canoe under some trees and use it when I escaped.When I escaped that afternoon, Pop locked me in and went off to town.He won't be back to night, I thought.So I began to work hard at my hole, soon I could get out through it.And I carried food and drink and Pop's gun down to the canoe.Then I put back the wood to hide the hole, took the gun and went into the woods.There I shot a wild pig and took it back to the hut with me.Next, I broke down the door with an axe.I carried the pig into the hut and put some of its blood on the ground.Then I put some big stones in a sack and pulled it along behind me to the river.Last of all, I put some blood and some of my hair on the axe.I left the axe in a corner of the hut and I took the pig down to the river.'They won't know it's only a pig in the river,' I said to myself. 'They'll think it's me.'Then I took the canoe and went down the river to Jackson's Island.By then it was nearly dark, so I hid the canoe under some trees and went to sleep.It was after eight o'clock when I woke up the next day and the sun was high in the sky.I was warm and comfortable and I didn't want to get up.Suddenly, I heard a noise up the river.Carefully, I looked through the trees, and I saw a boat full of people.There was Pop, Judge Thatcher, Tom Sawyer and his Aunt Polly and his brother Sid, and lots of others.They were looking for my body in the river.I watched them, but they didn't see me, and in the end they went away.I knew that nobody was going to come and look for me again.I found a good place under the trees to sleep and to put my things.Then I caught a fish and cooked it over a fire.I lived like that for three days, and then I decided to have a look round the island.So I went into the woods.'This is my island,' I thought. 'I'm the only person on it.'Suddenly, just in front of me, I saw a fire, and it was still smoking.There was somebody on my island!I didn't wait.I turned and went straight back.But I couldn't sleep.After a time, I said to myself, 'I can't live like this. I must find out who it is.'Silently, I moved along the river in my canoe, under the darkness of the trees.And then I stopped through the trees.I could see the light of a fire.Afraid, I left my canoe and went nearer.There was a man lying by the fire.Suddenly, he sat up, and I saw that it was Jim, Ms. Watson's slave.I was really happy to see him.'Hello, Jim,' I cried, and I jumped out from behind the tree.Jim fell to his knees.'Please don't hurt me,' He cried, 'I've always been good to dead people. ''It's all right, Jim. I'm not dead,' I said.'But why are you here on the island?' I asked.'Well, Huck,' he began.'Old Miss Watson wanted to sell me. A man came into town and told Miss Watson that he'd buy me for eight hundred dollars. She couldn't say no, so I ran away. I ran down to the river to hide, but everybody in the town was there. They said you were dead, Huck. I had to wait all day to get away. When it was dark, I got on to a big boat and hid. When we came near this island, I jumped into the water and swam here.'Jim finished his story and then we both carried all our things into a cave and hid the canoe under some trees.We were just in time because then the rains came.It rained for days, and the river got higher and higher.All kinds of things came down the river, and one night there was a little wooden house, Iying half on its side.We got the canoe out and went to take a look.Through the window we could see a bed, two old chairs and some old clothes.There was something lying in the comer and we thought it looked like a man.Jim went in to see, but he said, 'He's dead. Someone shot him in the back. Don't look at his face, Huck. It's terrible!'I didn't want to see the dead man's face, so I didn't look.We just took the old clothes and a few other things, and went back to our cave on the island.Another night, when we were outlooking for things on the river, we found a raft.It was made of good, strong wood, and was about four meters by five meters.This could be useful, I said to Jim.So we pulled it back to the island behind the canoe and tied it up under the trees.

This podcast episode of Amanda Seales features a discussion about governor Gregg Abbott of Texas calling diversity efforts illegal, as well as the question of whether married women should attend nightclubs. The episode also features a special guest, Black history expert Ernest Crem, who teaches us about Aunt Polly and her impact on the African-American community. This episode is sure to provide an interesting and informative discussion about the current state of diversity in the United States. Listen laugh and learn with the Amanda Seales Show. FOLLOW ALONG AS WE COVER: (03:58) BLACKURATE NEWS: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Calls Diversity Efforts 'Illegal,' Tells State Agencies To Stop. Teen Girls Experiencing Record Levels of Sadness And Violence (09:47) Tyler Perry Helping Low-Income Seniors in ATL ...So They Don't Have To Move (12:55) Relationship Segment-Should Married Women Go To Clubs With Their Single Friends (16:59) CALL US ANYTIME AT 1 855 AMANDA 8…THATS 855 262-6328 … Wednesday On The Show A Tik Toker Said, This Type Of Man Never Chases Women…We Have A Caller From Houston Dropping His Opinion (19:40) BLACKURATE NEWS: Trump's Plan For A 2nd Term Reportedly Includes Firing Squads, Hangings, And Group Executions. Tyrese Says His Label Released Him On The Anniversary Of His Mother's Passing (25:53) Didn't Cha Know @Mrcrim3 Ernest Crem III Checks In With Amanda Seales And DJ Nailz To Tell Us The Little-Known Story Of Aunty Polly (Polly Jackson).  (35:10) We Always Want You To Stay Connected With Us And Hear Your Opinions On The Things We Discuss…CALL US ANYTIME AT 1 855 AMANDA 8…THAT'S 855 262-6328 … (37:39) BLACKURATE NEWS: Two Men Were Arrested After Robbing 9 Banks Over 20 Days. Mo' Money: Jay-Z Reportedly Sells Controlling Stake In D'ussé For $750m Ending Legal Dispute With Bacardi (44:13) Men Are Attracted To Women Who Know This (49:24) Amanda And Nailz Discuss Their Plans For This Weekend (53:07) A Caller Checks In With Amanda Seales To Tell Her She Changed Her Life. CALL US ANYTIME AT 1 855 AMANDA 8…THATS 855 262-6328 (55:20) BLACKURATE NEWS: This One Is For The Kids….Barney Franchise Is Getting Relaunched By Mattel FOLLOW THE SHOW ON ALL SOCIALS: @sealessaidit @amandaseales @djnailz If you have a comment leave Amanda a message at 1 855-AMANDA-8 that's 1-855-262-6328See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter audiobook. Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman searching for her lost nephew. Her Aunt Polly goes abroad with her new Uncle, Dr. Chilton. While in Boston, Pollyanna meets new friends and has several interesting adventures... A startling change in Aunt Polly's and Pollyanna's circumstances require Pollyanna to come up with a workable solution. Pollyanna's solution brings all her new friends from Boston and her old friends in Beldingsville together. Pollyanna also discovers she has to make a choice. Who will win her heart?

Mr Tumble's guest Aunt Polly pops to the farm for some milk. Sing along to Old MacDonald, I'm a Little Teapot and Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken. Grandad Tumble has the News!

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain原文Chapter VIII: The TreasureTom went into the dark tunnel.He saw alight and heard a noise."Who is looking for us?" he thought.Suddenly he saw a hand with a candle.Then he saw a man. It was Injun Joe!Tom was terribly scared.But it was dark and Injun Joe did not see Tom.Injun Joe went away quickly.Tom returned to Becky but he did not tell her about Injun Joe.She was very weak.It was Tuesday and in St Petersburg everyone was worried.Where were Tom and Becky?Many people from the village went to the cave and looked for them.But they could not find them.Mrs Thatcher became very ill and Aunt Polly's hair became white.Then on Tuesday night there was a lot of noise in the streets of St Petersburg."They're here! Becky and Tom are here!" cried the people happily.No one went to sleep that night.Everyone listened to Tom's story about his adventure in the cave."We were lost for along time. We were hungry and scared.Then remembered the string in my pocket.I used the long string to help me. I went down many tunnels.And I always returned to Becky because I followed the string.Then I found another entrance to the cave.It was very small and it was near the river."Tom and Becky were happy but very tired and hungry.Becky stayed in bed for many days because she was weak.Tom stayed in bed for a few days too.Sometime after the adventure in the cave, Tom went to visit Becky.Mr Thatcher asked Tom, "Do you want to go to the cave again?""Oh, I'm not afraid of the cave," said Tom."Well, nobody is going into the cave again. There are big doors in front of the entrance now. And I have the keys," said Mr Thatcher."What!" Tom's face became white."Is something wrong, Tom?" asked Mr Thatcher."Injun Joe's in the cave!" cried Tom.Many men from St Petersburg went to the cave and opened the big doors.They found Injun Joe on the ground. He was dead.After Injun Joe's funeral Tom went to see Huck."Now that Injun Joe's dead, we'll never find the money," said Huck sadly."Listen, Huck," said Tom, "I know where the money is" "Really?" asked Huck with big eyes."The money is in the cave! I saw Injun Joe in the cave. Why was he in the cave? Because he took the money there," said Tom."Say it again, Tom," said Huck."The money's in the cave and we can take it.""But we'll get lost in the cave," said Huck."No, we won't. I've got candles and a long string. Let's go and get a boat!" said Tom.They took a small boat and went down the Mississippi River to McDougal's Cave."Look, Huck, here's the other entrance," said Tom."It's very small," said Huck.Tom and Huck went into the cave.They were careful and used the long string to help them.Tom suddenly stopped and said, "I saw Injun Joe here." "His ghost is probably here too," said Huck, "Let's go now!""His ghost isn't here. It's probably at the other entrance.""Well, alright. But let's hurry," said Huck.Tom looked around slowly and then cried, "Look, here's the cross!"There was a black cross on the wall of the cave."You're right! It's the cross!" said Huck. "Let's dig under the cross."They dug and dug. Finally they found a small room.There was a small bed, some old candles and a few bottles.And there was the treasure box!They opened it and saw the gold and silver coins."We're rich, Tom, we're rich! cried Huck, "This is wonderful!""I always knew it!" said Tom, "Now let's take our treasure and leave."They followed the long string and were soon out of the cave.The two boys took their treasure to Aunt Polly's house.A lot of people in St Petersburg saw the boys and the treasure.They followed them to Aunt Polly's house.Aunt Polly was surprised to see the boys and all the people."Tom, what's in that old box?" she asked.Tom opened the treasure box.Everyone was amazed.They looked at all the silver and gold coins.There was $12,000!Tom told his long story about Injun Joe and the treasure.It was a great story and the people listened with their eyes wide open.Now Tom and Huck were rich and famous in St Petersburg!

Roughly one quarter of the season is in the books and the crew reconvenes to discuss trends, predictions, contenders, and pretenders. The twist? Host of the pod, Drew, uses Peaky Blinders clips and quotes to ask the tough questions on the NFL season. Aaron Rodgers as the Tommy Shelby loner. Tom Brady as the 45 year old Aunt Polly still breaking hearts. And other gems from the series and how they relate to the 2022 NFL Season through Week 5. Will Broncos Country Ride? How many losing seasons have other coaches had compared to Mike Tomlin? Will Saquon keep up this pace? Enjoy the fun!

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain词汇提示1.sheriff 警长2.jail 监狱3.pirate 海盗4.raft 木筏5.funeral 葬礼原文Chapter four：Jackson's IslandThe next day everyone knew about poor Dr Robinson.The sheriff found Muff Potter's knife near the body of the doctor.He put Muff in St Petersburg's small jail.Tom and Huck looked at each other."We saw Injun Joe kill the doctor," said Torn, "Muff didn't kill him. Poor Muff!""I know," said Huck, "But we mustn't say anything. Remember, Injun Joe is dangerous - very dangerous.I'm sorry for Muff Potter, too."The two boys were afraid."We must keep this secret," said Tom sadly.Tom could not forget.At night he had bad dreams about Injun Joe and Muff Potter.He kept the terrible secret but he was very unhappy.Aunt Polly was worried about him.She gave him a lot of different medicines.But Tom did not feel better.He was unhappy at school too.Becky Thatcher didn't talk to him anymore."No one loves me," thought Tom, "What a horrible life!"It was now summer and there was no more school.Tom and his friend Joe Harper went to sit by the Mississippi River.They fished, talked and looked at the boats.One day Tom said, "Let's go do something exciting!""OK!" said Joe, "But where can we go and what can we do?""Let's run away! We can go and live on Jackson's Island. We can be pirates. A pirate's life is exciting," said Tom.Jackson's Island was a small island in the Mississippi River.It was about three miles south of St Petersburg.No one lived on the island."Huckleberry Finn can come with us too," said Tom, "Remember, Joe, don't you're your mother, father or anyone about our adventure. Go home and bring some food. We'll meet here at midnight."Tom and Joe were excited. At midnight the three boys met on the river.Tom brought some meat to eat.Joe brought some bread and Huck brought a frying pan.They found a small raft and they went down the river to Jackson's Island.When they arrived on the island, they made a fire and cooked some meat."This is fun!" said Joe."We're free and we can do everything we want!" said Tom."What do pirates do?" asked Huck."They go on ships and take the money. Then they go to an island and hide it in a secret place," said Tom.The three boys were happy and slept under the stars.The next morning, they went swimming in the river.Then they went fishing.They cooked the fish on the fire and ate it.It was delicious.After breakfast they walked around the island and went swimming again.In the afternoon they sat around the fire and ate some meat.Suddenly Tom said, "Can you hear a strange noise? Listen!""What is it?" asked Joe."Let's go and see," said Huck.They ran to the river.They saw a steamboat and a lot of small boats near it."Every boat from St Petersburg is out on the river," said Joe, "What's happening?""They're looking for a dead body," said Huck, "The same thing happened last summer when Bill Turner fell into the river and drowned."The three boys felt like heroes and laughed."The people of St Petersburg are looking for us. They're talking about us. We're famous!" said Tom happily.This was an exciting adventure for Tom, Huck and Joe! They felt like real pirates on Jackson's island.The boats and the steamboat went away.The boys went fishing again and had fish for dinner.Then they slept under the stars.But Tom could not sleep.The next morning, he wasn't there."Where's Tom?" asked Joe. "I don't know," said Huck.After a few minutes Huck said, "Look! Tom's swimming in the river. He's coming to the island."Tom told them his story."Last night I couldn't sleep. I thought about Aunt Polly. So I went home but no one saw me. I saw Aunt Polly and your mother, Joe. Poor Aunt Polly cried a lot. And your mother was very sad too. Everyone thinks we're dead. I heard some interesting things.""What did you hear?" asked Huck."Well, there will be a funeral for us on Sunday at the church," said Tom.Huck andJoe looked at him with big eyes. "And now I have a great idea. Listen - "Tom told Huck and Joe his great idea.They liked it and laughed.Sunday was the day of the funeral.There were no happy faces in St Petersburg.Everyone in the village was in the small church.Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary and Joe Harper's family were all dressed in black.The Reverend said many kind words about the three boys.The boys' families cried and cried.Becky Thatcher cried.Everyone cried a lot.Suddenly there was a noise at the church door.The Reverend looked up and stopped speaking.Everyone in the church turned around and looked.Their mouths opened.The three dead boys slowly walked into the church.Tom was first, then Joe and then Huck.There was great silence for a moment.Then Aunt Polly, Mary and Joe's mother ran to the boys.They kissed Tom and Joe.Aunt Polly cried and then she laughed. Poor Huck did not know what to do.No one kissed him.He started moving away but Tom stopped him."Aunt Polly, it's not right. Somebody must be happy to see Huck," said Tom. "Oh, you're right Tom!" cried Aunt Polly and she kissed Huck.Tom was very proud of his great idea.Then the Reverend said, "Let us sing and be happy!"Everybody sang and laughed.It was a very happy day.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain词汇提示1.beetle 甲壳虫2.reverend 牧师3.graveyard 墓地4.witch 女巫5.whispered 耳语原文Chapter II: Tom and HuckThe next day was Sunday.Tom wore his clean Sunday clothes - he hated this!Tom, Sid and Mary always went to Sunday school on Sunday morning.But Tom was not a good student and never listened to the teacher.After Sunday school Tom and his family went to church.This Sunday he had a big black beetle in his pocket.When the Reverend started speaking, Tom took the black beetle out of his pocket.He put it on the floor.There was a little dog in the church.It saw the beetle and wanted to play with it.Suddenly the beetle bit the dog's nose.The little dog barked and everyone looked at it.It jumped and ran after the black beetle.It ran all about the church barking and making a lot of noise.The people in the church laughed silently.Their faces were red. The Reverend continued talking but no one listened to him.Tom was happy because he had an interesting morning in church.On Monday morning Tom did not want to get up."Get up immediately, Tom, and get ready for school!" Aunt Polly cried.On his way to school Tom met his friend Huckleberry Finn.Huck's father drank whiskey all the time and did not work.Huck had no mother and no home.He lived in the streets and did not go to school.His clothes were old and dirty.He went fishing and swimming when he wanted.Huck was happy.All the mothers of the village hated him because he was lazy and used bad language.All the children of the town liked him very much. They admired him."Hello, Huckleberry! What's that?""It's a dead cat," said Huck."What will we do with it?" asked Tom."I want to take it to the graveyard after midnight," Huck said, "A dead cat can callghosts out of their graves.""Really?" asked Tom."Well, old Mrs Hopkins told me. She's a witch and she knows about these things," said Huck."Can I come with you?" asked Tom."Of course! Or are you afraid of ghosts?" asked Huck."Afraid of ghosts! Of course not!" said Tom , "Come and call me at my window at eleven o'clock tonight."Tom was late for school.The teacher was angry and said, "Thomas Sawyer! Why are you late again?"Suddenly Tom saw a new girl in the classroom.She had blue eyes and long blonde hair.She was very beautiful. Tom looked at her.He was in love!There was a free chair next to her and Tom wanted to sit there.But how?Tom thought quickly and said, "I stopped to talk to Huckleberry Finn."The teacher was very angry."You know you must never talk to that boy!"The teacher took his stick and hit Tom.The children laughed at Tom.He sat down next to the new girl.He looked at her.Then he drew a picture of a house."Let me see it," she whispered.Tom put the picture in front of her."It's nice. Draw a man," she said.Tom drew a man near the house.It was a terrible picture, but the girl liked it."You draw beautifully. I can't draw," said the girl."I can teach you after school," said Tom."Oh, thank you!""What's your name?"Tom asked. "Becky Thatcher. I know your name. It's Tom Sawyer."That night Tom and Sid were in bed at half past nine.Sid was soon asleep but Tom was not.At eleven o'clock he heard Huck meow.He dressed quickly and went out of the bedroom window."Let's go!" whispered Huck.He had his dead cat.Tom and Huck walked down the dark road.They walked for about half an hour.The graveyard was on a hill.There were a lot of trees and a lot of graves; everything was dark and scary.The wind made strange noises and dark clouds covered the moon."Are the ghosts making these noises?" thought Tom.He was afraid but he said nothing."Now let's find the grave of Hoss Williams," said Huck.They soon found the grave."Here it is. He died last week," said Huck."Do you think Hoss Williams can hear us?" asked Tom."Well, I think his ghost can hear us," said Huck."Then let's call him Mr Williams," said Tom."Alright," said Huck, "But everybody called him Hoss.""Sh!" "What is it, Tom?" asked Huck."Do you hear the noise? Look over there, Huck! Oh, no!" said Tom.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain原文Chapter I: Tom and the Fence"Tom! Tom!" There was no answer."Where is that boy? Tom!" Aunt Polly looked under the bed but she only found the cat."Tom!" she cried.Then she heard a noise behind her.A small boy ran past and she stopped him with her hand."What are you doing, Tom?" she asked."Nothing.""Nothing. Look at your hand and your mouth. I told you not to eat the jam.""Oh, Aunt Polly, look behind you!"The old lady looked and Tom ran away.Aunt Polly was surprised and then she laughed."I never learn.Tom always plays tricks on me and I never learn.I love Tom. He's my sister's child - she's dead.But it's not easy to look after him.Tomorrow is Saturday and there's no school.But Tom must work tomorrow.He hates work but he must do it."Tom lived in the small village of St Petersburg with his Aunt Polly, his brother Sid and his sister Mary.The summer evenings were long, and in the evenings Tom liked walking around the village.One evening he saw a big boy in front of him.The boy was a stranger.Tom was surprised because he did not see new people often.This boy had very nice, expensive clothes."He's got shoes, a new shirt and a tie. And it's not Sunday," Tom thought. "My clothes are old and ugly."Tom looked at him and the big boy looked at Tom.Tom did not like him.Finally he said, "I can beat you!""Why don't you try?" said the boy."Well, I can," said Tom."No, you can't.""Yes, I can."There was silence."You're afraid," said the boy."I'm not afraid," said Tom."Yes, you are.""No, I'm not."There was more silence.Then Tom pushed the boy and the boy pushed Tom.Soon they were on the ground.Tom pulled the boy's hair and hit him hard.They both fought a lot.The big boy was angry and started crying. "Stop," he said,"Stop!""Now, that will teach you something," said Tom.Tom arrived home late and he was very dirty.When Aunt Polly saw his dirty clothes, she thought, "What can I do with this boy?Well, tomorrow is Saturday, and he must work."Saturday morning was beautiful and sunny.It was summer and the world was happy.Tom sat in front of the fence and looked at it.It was thirty yards long and nine feet high.He was very unhappy."It's Saturday and I must paint this long fence.All my friends will laugh at me," he thought.He put his long brush in the white paint and started painting.He stopped and looked at his work.Then he continued painting.After a few minutes he had a great idea.He continued painting the fence.He saw his friend Ben Rogers in the street.Ben had an apple in his hand.He came to look at the fence."You're working for your aunt," said Ben.Tom said nothing.He continued painting."I'm going swimming but you can't come with me. You're working," said Ben."Do you call this work?" asked Tom."Of course it's work. You're painting a fence, "said Ben."Maybe it's work but maybe it isn't. I like it!" said Tom, "I can swim every day, but I can't paint a fence every day."Ben watched Tom.He painted slowly and carefully. He often stopped and moved back from the fence.He looked at his work and smiled.Ben was suddenly interested in the fence and said, "Let me paint a little, Tom."Tom thought for a moment."I'm sorry, Ben. Aunt Polly wants me to do it because I'm very good at painting.My brother Sid wanted to do it, but he's not good at painting.""Oh, please, Tom! Please can I paint? I'm good at painting too.Here, you can have some of my apple." "No, Ben, I can't -""Then take all of my apple!"Tom was happy but he did not smile.He gave Ben the brush and sat down to eat the apple.Tom's other friends came by.At first they laughed at him.But soon they all wanted to paint the fence.Billy Fisher gave Tom a kite and Johnny Miller brought him a dead rat.His other friends gave him an old knife, a cat with one eye, an old blue bottle, an old key and other interesting things.His friends painted the fence and Tom now had a lot of interesting things.He went back home."Aunt Polly, can I go to play now?"When Aunt Polly saw the beautiful white fence she was very happy.She gave Tom a big apple and said, "Yes, go and play! But don't come home late!"

Chapter Thirty-three - A party rushes down to the cave, unlocks the door, and finds Injun Joe starved to death inside. He evidently has eaten the few bats he could catch, used every candle stump he could find, and made a cup out of rock and placed it under a dripping stalactite to catch a spoonful of water a day. Chapter Thirty-Four - Tom tells them not to worry. Sid comes in and informs them that the party is being given in honor of the Welshman, Mr. Jones, and his sons, and that Mr. Jones plans to surprise everyone by announcing that Huck was the real hero. Chapter Thirty-Five - Tom and Huck's discovery of buried treasure changes the entire village. Everyone seeks out old haunted houses and digs in vain for buried treasure. The Widow Douglas invests Huck's money at 6 percent, and Aunt Polly has Judge Thatcher do the same for Tom. Read by John Greenman

Chapter Eighteen - The morning after Tom returns from the island, Aunt Polly scolds him for having made her suffer so much and for not having given her some hint that he was not actually dead. Tom argues that doing so would have spoiled the whole adventure, but he admits that he “dreamed” about everyone back in town. Chapter Nineteen - Back home, Aunt Polly has learned from Mrs. Harper that Tom's dream was a fake and that he came home one night and spied on them. Aunt Polly is mad at him for making her look like a fool in front of Mrs. Harper and then asks why he came home but still did nothing to relieve everyone's sorrow. Tom replies that he was going to leave a message for her, but he was afraid it would spoil the surprise, so he left it in his pocket. Chapter Twenty - Back at school, Tom attempts a reconciliation with Becky, but she blows him off. Becky proceeds to find a key in the lock of the teacher's desk drawer; the drawer contains a book that only the teacher, Mr. Dobbins, is allowed to read. Read by John Greenman

Chapter Thirteen - Tom resolves to act on his earlier impulse to become a pirate. He meets Joe Harper, who agrees to join Tom, because his mother has wrongly accused and punished him for stealing cream. Chapter Fourteen - A large group of boats appears on the river, and, after some confusion, the boys realize that the townspeople are searching for them, assuming they have drowned. This realization actually excites boys and makes them feel like heroes. After dinner, however, both Tom and Joe begin to consider otherwise. Chapter Fifteen - Tom swims to the nearby Illinois shore and stows away on a ferry to cross back to Missouri. At home, Tom finds Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary, and Mrs. Harper all sitting together. He hides and listens to their conversation. Read by John Greenman

Chapter Five - All the townspeople assemble in the church for Sunday service. Reverend Sprague begins offering prayers for all the world's citizens. Chapter Six - On Monday morning, Tom feigns a “mortified toe” with the hope of staying home from school. When that fails, he complains of a toothache, but Aunt Polly yanks out the loose tooth and sends him off to school. Read by John Greenman

Chapter Three - In this chapter, Tom first sees Becky Thatcher. To attract her attention, he begins a series of outlandish and absurd "show-offs" to little avail. At supper that night, when Aunt Polly is out of the room, Sid accidentally breaks the sugar bowl. Chapter Four - Tom prepares for Sunday school with the help of his cousin Mary. As Tom struggles halfheartedly to learn his Bible verses, Mary encourages and entices him with the promise of “something ever so nice.” Tom then dresses for church, and he, Mary, and Sid hurry off to Sunday school, which Tom loathes. Read by John Greenman

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River. This was the first novel to be written on a typewriter. Chapter One - The novel opens with Aunt Polly scouring the house in search of her nephew, Tom Sawyer. She finds him in the closet, discovers that his hands are covered with jam, and prepares to give him a whipping. Tom escapes over the fence. Tom comes home at suppertime to help Aunt Polly's young slave, Jim, chop wood. Aunt Polly asks Tom about skipping school. Tom explains his wet hair by saying that he pumped water on his head. Chapter Two - On Saturday morning, Aunt Polly sends Tom out to whitewash the fence. Jim passes by, and Tom tries to get him to do some of the whitewashing in return for a a marble. Jim almost agrees, but Aunt Polly appears and chases him off. A little while later, Ben Rogers, another boy Tom's age, walks by. Tom convinces Ben that whitewashing a fence is great pleasure, Ben agrees to give Tom his apple in exchange for the privilege of working on the fence. Over the course of the day, every boy who passes ends up staying to whitewash, and each one gives Tom something in exchange. By the time the fence has three coats, Tom has collected a hoard of miscellaneous treasures. Read by John Greenman

Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter audiobook. Pollyanna tells the story of Pollyanna Whittier, a young girl who goes to live with her wealthy Aunt Polly after her father's death. Pollyanna's philosophy of life centers around what she calls "The Glad Game": she always tries to find something to be glad about in every situation, and to always do without delay whatever she thinks is right. With this philosophy, and her own sunny personality, she brings so much gladness to her aunt's dispirited New England town that she transforms it into a pleasant, healthy place to live. Eventually, however, even Pollyanna's robust optimism is put to the test when she loses the use of her legs in an accident.

Thomas P. Detter (1826 - ) READERS The design of this work is to show the unhappy results of jealousy and misplaced confidence, arid the wicked designs of corrupt parties. Man and woman were created for a noble purpose by their Creator; but how often do we see families that have lived long happily together rent in twain by such malignant characters as Mrs. H., Aunt Polly and Martha Lovejoy more fully explained in the following work. Such characters are to be found in all communities, like hungry wolves hunting down their prey; they often paralyze the hopes of the good and just, cause doubts, gloom and despair to overhang their pathway, where the radiant sunlight of happiness had long beamed. Malicious persons, like Sampson's foxes, are ever scattering the firebrands of hate, mischief and discord, and should be shunned by all lovers of good society. Genre(s): Single Author Collections --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/3daudiobooks0/support

It's the holidays, and therefore, cue Aunt Polly with 20 questions on why you're still single and why people aren't lining up to marry you. The damsels address the importance of accepting being single in this episode: why it's OK, how to not resent your friends in relationships, your family's pressure, and how to avoid settling just to find a significant other. This is the episode for you if cuffing season drives you crazy and is effecting your mental health!

By Mark Twain Adapted by Catherine Nichols Illustrated by Amy Bates

Meet Linney! This snail is on a once-in-a-lifetime journey but found time to stop & chat with Aunt Polly.

Show Notes: https://restauranttopia.com/episode-62-hospitality-101-with-aunt-polly-and-cousin-anna/ At 92 and 86 years young respectively, Polly and Anna still entertain friends and family more than often, and in fact, Polly only aspires to have a full table of smiling faces. It's that pleasing people that drives her…that service and that tending to others' needs for her own satisfaction. At some point, most of us were fueled by the same…hell, it is a lot of the reason we do what we do in the first place. We in the business could take a few notes from these two dynamos. While they are not in business, their sense of hospitality is off the charts. Anna's secret? You just have to love them. At all costs, love them! By putting their guests first, they then become fulfilled. The same applies to your restaurant, but fulfillment not only takes the form of pleasing guests but also through increased business. In a world with a business-first mentality, focusing on the most amazing hospitality serves as a major competitive advantage, and you may just find yourself enjoying the ride a bit more. Smiling faces and truly appreciative guests tend to fuel a very positive, feel-good fire within. It seems a lot of the industry is losing sight of why we are in business in the first place. Take a note from Polly and Anna – serve others first and the rest will come! Join our mailing list and get our newsletter: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/dojKlZ5 Enter your email and get the very latest from Restauranttopia - marketing tips and insights, announcements, pro tips, and more! And don't worry, we hate spam too! Check out the show notes at https://restauranttopia.com/category/podcast-episodes/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Restauranttopia/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/restauranttopia  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/restauranttopia/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9aRVuDUYsV370Rfh-QxDag Brian Seitz https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-j-seitz-j-d-19863616/ David Ross https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-ross-b6b39175/ Anthony Hamilton https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-hamilton-5805013a/  

All Star Jayson comes back this episode to rip apart Disney's attempt at discussing racism in the Wonderful World of Disney TV movie Polly. They're in agreement that Polly should be remade, and Jon wants more story and songs for Aunt Polly.Jayson's Socials - Facebook: Jayson KerrInstagram: @jaysonlkerrTwitter: @jaysonlkerrPodcast Socials -Email: butasongpod@gmail.comInstagram: @butasongpodTwitter: @butasongpodFacebook: @butasongpodNext episode: Carmen Jones!

Happy Mothers Day! On this weeks episode of Top 10, we celebrate Moms. We take a look at the top 10 moms from film and television, from Wanda Maximoff to Aunt Polly on Peaky Blinders. See who made the list this week. Do you agree with our list? Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/GeekVibesNation Website - https://geekvibesnation.com Instagram - https://instagram.com/geekvibesnation #WandaVision #MothersDay #PeakyBlinders Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/geek-vibes-nation/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Happy Mothers Day! On this weeks episode of Top 10, we celebrate Moms. We take a look at the top 10 moms from film and television, from Wanda Maximoff to Aunt Polly on Peaky Blinders. See who made the list this week. Do you agree with our list? Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/GeekVibesNation Website - https://geekvibesnation.com Instagram - https://instagram.com/geekvibesnation #WandaVision #MothersDay #PeakyBlinders Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/top-10-with-tia/donations

Mr Tumble’s guest Grandad Tumble has a splashing time with Incey Wincey Spider, Rock-a-Bye Baby and Round and Round the Garden. Plus, a Top 5 and Aunt Polly has the News.

Matthew Bannister on Helen McCrory, the actor best known for playing the matriarch Aunt Polly in Peaky Blinders, but equally acclaimed for her classical stage performances. David Hare pays tribute. Hans Küng, the controversial Catholic theologian who often clashed with the Vatican and wrote many books including 'Does God Exist?” and “Can We Save The Catholic Church?”. Eric Gordon, the communist journalist who took his family to live in China under Chairman Mao and on his return bought the North London newspaper the Camden Journal and turned its fortunes around. George Reynolds, the colourful ex-offender who became a multi-millionaire, bought his local football club Darlington FC and once offered to pay off the mortgages of many of his employees and give them each a Mercedes car. Producer: Neil George Interviewed guest: David Hare Interviewed guest: Mark Strong Interviewed guest: Michael Coveney Interviewed guest: David Willey Interviewed guest: Charles Curran Interviewed guest: Kim Gordon Interviewed guest: Mike Amos Archive clips used: Sunday programme: Radio 4, TX 7.10.2012; Infallibility Questioned - Prof. Hans Kung: Radio 4, TX 24.7.1971; BBC News: BBC One, TX 16.12.1968; Twenty-Four Hours - Gordon Family Interview: Radio 4, TX 20.10.1969; BBC News: BBC One, TX 16.10.1969; Midweek: Radio 4, TX 2.4.2003; Homeground - George Reynolds Playing By His Own Rules: BBC 2, TX 16.3.2004; Desert Island Discs – Helen McCrory: Radio 4, TX 3.7.2020

For more information...for Identity Blueprint or To BE A Voice-A guest on this podcast go tohttps://iKingsMedia.comYOU HAVE A VOICEIf you could, what day would you choose to grow old and pass on to be withJesus?⠀My Aunt Polly passed on this early Easter morning.⠀Lots on my mind today this Easter morning. I can’t help but wonder if she walked in all her dreams.⠀I think she did especially with her children and grand kids.⠀She was an amazing cook and found much of her identity in not just the cooking but preparing the meal. She was also an amazing photographer.⠀Lots of memories with her.....she and Horace were always good to me...After dad passed, mom, my oldest brother and I were allowed to stay with her....for a few weeks as the tenderness of my dad was so intense.⠀I learned to really ride a motorcycle while staying with them despite her concern.⠀She welcomed my husband Dave with open arms sharing her love and kindness which was she was so well known for!⠀Aunt Polly used to almost always tell the story concerning my antics when my three brothers and I stayed with her one winter week as my mom was giving birth to my little brother.⠀With great drama she’d share how one time my brothers and me would not be quiet one night at bed time. She said she went back to the rooms to tell us to hush up. We kept acting up....⠀With great description she shares how she went into one room “for the laaaast time” to really give the two brothers in there the riot act...to be quiet. And then...she went into the room where I was and was just about to yell...When she saw me.I was kneeling in my crib in a prayer mode, hands together and moving my lips like I was praying.....⠀She had to get out fast as she said it was so funny while precious at same time!⠀After sharing, she’s simply laughs and laughs at that memory.⠀God bless my Uncle Horace and cousins...as a legend of the Okanogan Valley passes today. ⠀#lifeispreciousFor a Identity Blueprint please simply click here to learn more.

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When we think of the Underground Railroad, our first thought may go to Harriet Tubman. But have you heard the story of Aunt Polly Jackson who helped escaped Black people using her two unlikely weapons of choice? This is her story... Become a patron for exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/shaakirawhite Follow us on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3e1z0eR Follow us on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3erzeMp Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blackhistorymoments Welcome to Black History Moments! This podcast is all about Black history and the stories we've left untold over the years. Hosted by Shaakira White We strive for accuracy in our storytelling. Sources used can be found below: https://bit.ly/3ol1fcp, https://bit.ly/3iSLyb0, https://bit.ly/3ppBJnB, https://bit.ly/2MtlvLy, https://to.pbs.org/3psj4rb, https://apple.co/39q25Ae --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/blackhistorymoments/support

Join Mr Tumble for his very own radio show and today’s guest Aunt Polly is having fun with a quiz. Sing along to Little Bo Peep, The Friends Song and Ten in the Bed.

The Holidays are Hard and Nattie and Cousin Jane are already dealing with Holiday related issues and "laughing all the way"!

Mr Tumble’s guest Grandad Tumble has a splashing time with Incey Wincey Spider, Rock-a-Bye Baby and Round and Round the Garden. Plus, a Top 5 and Aunt Polly has the News.

CUZ'N CHAT Podcast is dedicating this episode to HBCUs! If you attended an HBCU, you understand the molding and character development that takes place on campus. We tried our best to put words to how we feel, but there are no words to fully express what can be gained from attending an HBCU. Come with us to my (Dawna) Home by the Sea in Va. & then to N.C. (Brad) for some Aggie pride! (During our chat, I forgot to mention that Brad's dad - my Uncle Alvin - went to Florida A&M, Aunt Polly went to Va. State & our cousin Tish went to Savannah State.) Follow us on IG, FB & Twitter @cuznchat. Subscribe to our YouTube channel & check out all podcast episodes on our website. cuznchat.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cuznchat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cuznchat/support

Mr Tumble’s guest Aunt Polly pops to the farm for some milk. Sing along to Old MacDonald, I’m a Little Teapot and Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken. Grandad Tumble has the News!

We continue with our book, "The adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain. As we follow through and see what punishment Tom's Aunt Polly had in-store for him. This chapter turns out to be an eye-opener to Tom as well as for us the readers.

Today I am speaking with Jesse Draper. Jesse is a mother of 2 boys, founding partner of Halogen Ventures as well as creator and host of Emmy nominated television series, The Valley Girl Show. Draper is a 4th generation venture capitalist focused on early-stage investing in female-founded consumer technology. Among her 55 portfolio companies, are the Skimm, Carbon38, HopSkipDrive, The Flex Company, Eloquii (recently sold to Walmart) and This is L which recently sold to P&G. She stars on SET's television series Meet the Draper's currently in it's second season.   This podcast series is hosted by Patricia Kathleen and Wilde Agency Media. This series is a platform for women, female-identified, & non-binary individuals to share their professional stories and personal narrative as it relates to their story. This podcast is designed to hold a space for all individuals to learn from their counterparts regardless of age, status, or industry.    TRANSCRIPTION *Please note, this is an automated transcription please excuse any typos or errors   [00:00:00] In this episode, I had the fortunate opportunity to speak with Jesse Draper. Jesse is the founder of Holligan Ventures and the creator and host of Emmy nominated The Valley Girl Show. Key Points addressed where Jesse's founding of Holligan Ventures and its work as a Los Angeles based venture capital fund focused on investing in early stage consumer technology startups with a female in the founding team. We also unpacked Jesse's extensive knowledge of creating and hosting what was the first tech talk show, the Valley Girl Show, and what the industry was like a decade ago during the show's inception and growth. Stay tuned for my informative talk with Jesse Draper.   [00:00:43] Hi, my name is Patricia Kathleen, and this podcast series contains interviews I conduct with women. Female identified and non binary individuals regarding their professional stories and personal narrative. This podcast is designed to hold a space for all individuals to learn from their counterparts regardless of age status for industry. We aim to contribute to the evolving global dialog surrounding underrepresented figures in all industries across the USA and abroad. If you're enjoying this podcast, be sure to check out our subsequent series that dove deep into specific areas such as Vegan life, fasting and roundtable topics. They can be found via our Web site. Patricia Kathleen .COM, where you can also join our newsletter. You can also subscribe to all of our series on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Pod Bean and YouTube. Thanks for listening. Now let's start the conversation.   [00:01:40] Hi, everyone, and welcome back. I'm your host, Patricia. And today, I am so excited to be sitting down with Jesse Draper.   [00:01:46] She's the founder of Halogen Ventures and the host and creator of Emmy nominated The Valley Girl Show. You can find out more about all of the endeavors that we talk about today and her on Hellgren v.C dot com. Welcome, Jesse.   [00:02:01] Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. I love what you're doing.   [00:02:05] Absolutely. I love what you're doing. So the feeling is mutual for everyone listening. We're going to climb into a quick bio of Jesse. But before we get to that, in case you're new to our series, a quick roadmap for today's podcast, we'll follow the same trajectory as all of them in the series. First, we'll look at and packing Jesse's academic and professional background leading to the launch of Helen Ventures. Any pertinent information that we can garner from that? Then we'll go jump straight into unpacking HelpAge and Ventures. And for everyone listening, all of our nerdy little founders, not crew, is out there. We'll start out the logistics, the who, what, when, where, why funding all of that, the logistical stuff up front. We'll get into the ethos of what they're doing with halogen and how all of it's working. The impetus. Some of the markets that they've service and the populations that they kind of look at working with. And then we'll also unpack the Valley Girls show it is Emmy nominated. It's it's got a really cool impetus. Jesse spoke with a bunch of really fantastic people over the past decade. And I have a lot of production questions for those of you who are looking at it, the medium of kind of mixing in YouTube with everything that everyone's doing has been a very real part of the integration model and as as you could, particularly entrepreneurship and followership. But we'll kind of look at all of that and then we'll unpack other media like endeavors that she and her prolific family that she comes from have done. Then we'll turn our attention towards looking at goals and plans that Jesse has for the next one to three years. This has changed for everyone, entrepreneurs and successful titans alike. Given the recent Koban 19 pandemic and how some of that has changed and what her conversation with her company and herself has been like in reassessing those goals for future plans, we'll wrap everything up with advice that Jessie has. For those of you who are looking to get involved with her, what she does, or perhaps emulate some of her careers. Magical success, as promised. A quick bio on Jessie before I begin peppering her with questions. Jessie Draper is a mother of two boys, founding partner of Logan Ventures, as well as a creator and host of the Emmy nominated television series The Valley Girl Show. Draper is a fourth generation venture capitalist focused on early stage investing in female founded consumer technology. Among her fifty five portfolio companies are the skim carbon 38 Hop, Skip, Drive, the Flex Company and Eloqua recently sold to Wal-Mart. And this is Elle, which recently sold to PMG. She stars on Essie's television series Meet the Draper is currently in its second season. It says here it might be in its third or fourth. We were just talking. We'll get Jesse to clarify that later on.   [00:04:43] Draper was listed by Marie Claire magazine as one of the 50 most connected women in America. Draper has been a contributor to Marie-Claire Matchable Forbes and is a regular investor and tech personality on shows including TLC, Girls Starter, The Katie Couric Show. Fox is Good Day, L.A.. CNBC sees Who Wants to be the Next Millionaire. Invest in Ventor and Freedoms Startup U.   [00:05:10] She proudly sits on the Board of Directors of Enterprise Technology Company Work Blue Fever PREE Madonna, creator of Nale Bought and the nonprofit board biz world. Draper supports the Parkinson's Institute and is very involved with growing UCLA as female entrepreneurship community. Now, Jesse, I know if I am if I stumbled over any of that, you can absolutely clarify. But before we get into unpacking halogen and everything that you're doing there, I'm hoping you can draw us a roadmap for everyone listening or watching the vodcast today of your early academic and professional life that led you to launching Holligan.   [00:05:49] Yeah, I. Hello, everyone. I'm happy to be here. And, you know, I think like most career trajectories, it's it's not you know, it's not a straight line by any means. But it does make sense for you here. Sort of like you have moved me. But I grew up in Silicon Valley, as you mentioned. I'm a fourth generation investor and the first female in line. I didn't think I could go into that profession, although I had many venture capitalists in my blood. And that was sort of all I knew growing up in Silicon Valley. I grew up around incredible entrepreneurs. It was, you know, a very privileged human being. And I. But again, I didn't think I could go into this profession because my mom worked incredibly hard raising four children. And my dad was very he really opens the curtains to me in terms of educating me about startups. I worked with him a little ice or steels for him through my show, like Paperless Post and numerous others. And I I worked at an asset management company just after college, but I just didn't think that I could go directly into that career because I didn't see any women around me. And so I saw my Aunt Polly and they say, you can be what you can see. And my aunt was this very successful actress. And, you know, it's sort of funny, but I thought, oh, as an eight year old child, like, that's what a traditional job for a woman, you know, because she's something and I'm very close to and that's what she does. And she was on the show called 30 Something in the 80s that was really popular. It's coming back on Netflix, actually. Shameless plug. And she I just idolized her. So I went into entertainment and I, I went to UCLA. I studied theater, film and television. And I my dad was always kind of in the back of my head saying, Harvey can make this a business. How is this a career? You know, he was supportive, but he was sort of like, you need to figure out how to make a living doing this. And it's a very difficult lifestyle. If, you know, she's like, it's rare that Polly had such a successful career and still has. And so I went to UCLA after UCLA was on and a glowing show was acting, was going to cattle calls. And I very quickly was like, OK, I love and respect to this profession, but I go to these cattle calls and there's a thousand girls who look just like me and are probably much more talented. And my heart is really good with this world of technology. And so I kind of combined my two passions and I basically said, OK, I have a third season of this Nickelodeon show and then I have a six month hiatus. And instead of auditioning this year, I'm going to go start a technology talk show. I've never seen one. I always thought these people should be idolized. And I say it's the first technology talk show. You know, people can kind of come at me and prove to me that there was one before. But I had the former CEO, Eric Schmidt, in two thousand eight on my show and no one cared. So I bet it was like one of the first in these like early, early days after two seasons of the show online. And, you know, you were alluding to asking about distribution, et cetera. You know, this was my own entrepreneurial print, unreal journey. It was like early days of digital distribution. No one knew what they were doing. It was a complete disaster to get your content out there. And I was looking for eyeballs, but because I was on a no gloating show on Nickelodeon, was owned by Viacom. And I anytime and Viacom was in a lawsuit with YouTube. And so anytime I put something up on YouTube, it would be taken down because my identity was owned at that time by Nickelodeon, essentially like my IP. It was this weird thing that everyone was still figuring out. So I didn't really focus on YouTube, but I was like, where else can I find eyeballs? And so I ended up working with Forbes, Mashable, numerous others, and we created content. I was one of the first shows to do a deal with all those airports and hotels. Now it's much more normal, but we were getting millions and millions of users through those. And I was just it was this really discombobulated situation. After two seasons of the show, we then took it to television, were ultimately nominated for an Emmy, but also after two seasons of the show. So we did a total of. Seasons, sorry, I feel like I'm all over the place today. The world is in shambles. That's right. I'm sure it would be bad not to even address that. These are horrible. I mean, these wonderful protests are going on. But just like there's so much horror in the world right now in the last word of all these problems. So so basically, I sat through the show after two seasons of interviewing incredible men in technology. I was like, this is still the problem. There's a huge problem here. Like, I just didn't viewed men in technology for two seasons. I didn't think I could go into technology because I didn't see any women. And I need to change this. So I made an initiative to interview 50 percent women in technology on the show. And this was like. Long enough ago that it was impossible to get the Meg Whitman's of the world. It is so difficult because they did not want to put themselves out there. This was like a generation of women who were like, I'm not going to help you. I had to fight so hard to get to where I am. And I was dying for mentors. I was dying for advisers. And I just got shot down and shot down again. And I'm forever grateful to the women of fashion technology because once that started booming a little bit, it was Jen Hyman from Rent the Runway. She came on my show. That made it OK for Rebecca Minkoff to come on my show. That made it okay for the guilt girls to come on my show. And that made it OK for Sheryl Sandberg to come on my show before she'd written Lean In, before she had really gotten out there. She was a new CEO at Facebook and that changed my life. I got all of a sudden it was like celebrities and Jessica Alba and the CTO of the United States of America and like really put me on the map. And it was a fun, silly talk show. Very different than most technology talk shows. But I started doing this like Rock in Women series. And I look back to that first Rock and Women series. It was so cool. It was Sheryl Sandberg. It was this woman, Beth Cross, who started area. If anyone is a horseback rider, that's like the biggest horseback riding brand. It was really a heart. So I'm still pretty close with from Eventbrite, which has now gone public, like looking at these women, just like me chills. And that was the beginning of this journey that I was just striving for more for women. I grew up again in this family of investors, and I knew what a good deal looks like. And I was sending my dad all these deals because they pitched the show as a technology company. And I'd say you're too early for the show, but maybe you should go talk to some investors. I know. And then I was like, I can do this. I don't have any money, but I can do this. And so I, I started seeing some deals. I'd say you're a little early for the show. Love what you're doing. Can I write you a Penneys check? A thousand dollars, a thousand dollars, whatever I could afford at the time. Sometimes I would negotiate sweat equity and get some advisory shares and, you know, help them with PR and media exposure. And I created this nice little track record. I'm one of those companies I sold for a twenty five X return in less than 18 months on the secondary market. And that was like just a huge moment for me where I realized. The show was going OK. I was barely breaking even. Media is still pretty broken, although everyone's eyes are on online. So this is it's booming right now. But I was like, there's something wrong. I've never been on television. I've been online. No one knows how to make this a really profitable business unless you're selling tons of swag. And we were too, you know, early to, like, have that brand recognition. And so we. So I just sort of put the show on pause. I had to be I got married, had a baby simultaneously while raising my first fund. So I used the track record from those little angel investments I'd made to raise fund one. I pitched five hundred investors, closed, maybe 50 of them. And the first people I went to were these people I had created relationships with through my talk show. And so Alexis, moving from Gilt Group was one of my first investors, you know, and I got this nice group of people who had watched and gotten to know me through my sort of media channel. And that was how I began to build my network in terms of raising capital. We're now on our second fund and we've invested in 62 companies, all female founded. There has to be a female on the founding team of five. We've had about six exits to date. Two were one hundred for one hundred million dollars. And that's still pretty early in terms of our trajectory. And I just want to keep thinking about investing in women as an opportunity. A lot of women are going out and saying, oh, poor me, I'm a woman. Invest in me. This is an opportunity. This is not a charity case. Investing in women is not charity. You are going to make a lot of money. Women raise half as much capital. They double the return. And and so that's where proving that out day by day. I'm also really proud of the fact that because I went off of I live in L.A., we I went off of the traditional Silicon Valley Road, which I literally grew up on and totally love and respect. But again, there was no gender diversity whatsoever. And I'm I put out this. We are investing in women. And it was like this bat signal. This magnet for thousands of female deals because women are looking for women investors is they're starting companies that often men don't relate to. And you need we need men. There's not a man hating club we need, especially because they control the majority. But we really need people to invest in more women. And so I started thinking about, oh, wow, we're getting all these women from all over and we're investing in the best deals and completely just that was our beginning strategy. And we have over 60 percent minority led companies because we were looking for the best. And I'm so proud of that, especially today, because it is so important to we always say, you know, invest in diversity. We invest in diversity of gender, race and age. And I think that diversity breeds success. And it's really important to give everybody a shot. We are we're very easy to get a hold of. You can hit me up through the website. You can, you know, purchase through the website. You can find me on Instagram. I'm taking pitches through Instagram at Jessee. See Draper dot com. Jessica Draper from all over the place today. Goodness, Patricia. But I'm I at. But we take pitches everywhere because I never want people to feel like you have to have an introduction to me. I think it's really important that everyone has a shot and we might miss out on the next, you know, Uber or something even better if we don't look at every deal we possibly can. And so anyway, that is my that's how I got here.   [00:18:24] Now you're here.   [00:18:26] I well, I think it's interesting when you talk about the culture of, you know, you can see we can get into the statistics that everyone's heard a million times over about the consumer dollars and the power that women and women identified non binary.   [00:18:38] Those communities have in what they're spending and how they're not taking advantage over that power and things like that. But you and I were talking off the record before we started filming about this kind of I was kind of baptized into the concept a little bit too late for my comfort. But this concept of the lifecycle of the female entrepreneur and founder and how the matriculation should naturally turn into when I say female, I mean female identified non-binding as well. Pretty much anyone other than the white man. It's kind of been represented and spoken about as 50 years. Not that I don't care about them, I just don't. Not speaking to them right now. The responsibility that they have in the life cycle about eventually matriculating all the way through and becoming investors themselves and becoming, you know, part of this like giving back into that system where they invest in. Melinda Gates has talked recently on a very open platform. Is this being one of her major issues and concerns as of late? And I think that it's so important to kind of unpack that. And one of the most interesting things, we have all these correlations and nothing is causation and a member never claiming that. But there are these correlate of values. When you say, you know, we were just looking for the best and we wanted it to be female or some kind of woman involved in the original founding of it and to have it all of this and also be represented and, you know, minority representations in populations as well as just it's proof, as you're saying, diversification works and it drives. And, you know, there's a lot of different. I come from a huge psychology and sociology background. So a large part of me wants to pass out like who? It's because those people fought harder. It's because they were more used to hearing those because they had to do that. And then if that is neither here nor there and it's again, it's all correlation. But I do think that there is truth in that and people can talk about it all day long. But until you put your effort and your money down as you have, the change is not yet happening. And I think that there's been a lot of discourse in the communities that I have spoken with in women investors and ventures and things of that nature where there's still a lot of chat. There was a lot of hyper conversation about the Metoo movement, you know, and how people were terrified that it was just going to go away, it was going to get all this publication, were going to take down a whole bunch of horrible abusers. And then it was just going to kind of go back to business as usual.   [00:20:49] There wasn't gonna be any law, there wasn't gonna be any change and things like that. And I think the same thing is true with investment.   [00:20:55] And I'm looking at changing the seat at the table, as Gates said, you know, putting the change out there is your your fund has been and talking about it, I think is a crucial part of the process because we can all have these summits and discuss things as women and female identified individuals. But until we start putting those things into motion, it won't change for our children's generation. And that's my goal. You know, mine is is happening right now and playing out well. But my daughters need to come up in a different world where they see people looking like us and female identified individuals at the table, because when I was coming up, I didn't see nary one female in tech until Oriana with Huff Post, like I did not I did not know of one.   [00:21:37] And I hung out with nerds from Atari days up like I was kicking it with with the kids that were playing it, then programing the games, then in their parents garage. And it was always meant and, you know, it was usually always white men. And so even from the visual aspect of the archetype that I saw in person and on TV, you were saying your daughters are clearly going to be fine.   [00:21:59] I'm glad you're even thinking about that. I mean, one of my biggest frustrations, running a fund that focuses on women is that. Fund one. I went out and thought, oh, I'm going to go meet with the female billionaires and all the women investors I can find. And, you know, I'm not saying I sat down with every female billionaire, but quite a few. And what I found is women are more comfortable writing a multimillion dollar check to charity than investing in a fund. And I started asking why. Why are you bragging to me about how you wrote a three million dollar check to that charity you believe in? And why have I had six meetings with you and it's taking you so long to get across the table here. And, you know, they say, well, I don't know that much about venture capital. I prefer if you talk to my husband and it's like meeting six, I now have this rule that after three meetings, you know, you know, if they're in, you know. And I'm like, OK, well, let's meet with your husband, you know, and usually the husband's game. And it's it's fascinating to me. But we started a dinner series. Now you'll have to come to one. And now it's very easy because they're all in to where I was really frustrated that women are not taking enough risk with their capital. And so, anyway, fund, you know, my investors overall are the majority are male. It's probably 60 percent male to female. And that's what's frustrating for me. I, I would love to have, you know, much larger female investor base because of what we're doing. But again, I do love men. I was raised by incredible men. I just got and men control the majority of the capital that we needed changing at those levels. We need it. I walked into a workers comp fund somewhere in the middle of the country and I was like laughed at, like the coffee came out of this guy's mouth. And he's like, I can't believe that you're investing in women. And why would we invest in this fund? You only invest in women. And I was like, OK, well, I guess, OK, I just went back and. So here's why it's a great investment. They raise half as much capital. They double the return. Here's all the data. And I was so grateful because about halfway through that meeting, one of the associates came in and it was a younger guy. And he said, oh, my wife uses that company. And, oh, yeah, I've heard of that one, too. And so I do see it changing. But we need more women in those conversations because these are the pension funds and the did partner investors who invest in capital, in women and make those giant endowments. Those are all run by men. And now they're hiring, you know, a few more women. But we need more women investors. We need more women to understand investing and try. Like, the more you try, you know, big risk equals big reward. Buy some stock. Go on, Robinhood. You like Starbucks? Go buy some Starbucks. That's a public stock. You know, Bitcoin, too, is like one to 17 in terms of female to male. And that is a huge opportunity as well. Like what is Bitcoin? I'm sure everyone's thinking right now on this. Like, go figure it out. You don't have to buy a whole Bitcoin. You can buy a little piece of a Bitcoin. But I think women need to be playing in these circles and taking this risk with their capital. And it makes you feel more comfortable the more you're exposed to it. So I always say like to the men, you know. Bring your sisters, your daughters, your mothers into these conversations, your wives, champion women and wives and significant others should be in every single conversation with your financial manager. I don't care if you don't understand it. Sit there. You will understand it. After you go to a few of these meetings and we'll learn more and you can ask questions about why you're invested in that or what it means to be invested in a real estate fund or whatever it may be. So I just say, like, expose yourself, take more risk with your capital and talk about money. I mean, my friends clam up when I'm like, hey, you guys want to talk about, like, what you're investing in right now. And it's like it's like the air is sucked out of the room. You know, that some people work in finance and it just blows my mind that they don't own any stock. And so I really believe women need to build their pool of capital, build their own family offices, and also know as a woman that you have you own 50 percent of your you know, however, the wealth was created. If your husband worked and you stayed home, you own 50 percent of that. You can decide where that goes. And so I think women just clearly I'm on my soapbox now, but they need to take more risk.   [00:27:02] Yeah. And I think risk aversion is one of the things that, like you were saying, like we need to matriculate out of the next generation coming up.   [00:27:11] You know, it feels like it was baked in and finding out those levels. I think it's bred any kind of a version for me is always bred through ignorance. Right. Anytime you have an exposure, like you're saying, just go along, go to the meeting, become exposed. Make those terms start washing over you. They become very un mystified. Once you hear them enough and you put in the sign value to them those kinds of things, I think that integrating into the high school measurements, you know, young women leaving high school should understand the stock market. And I can promise you about zero point two percent of my entire graduating class from high school, including and the women will probably point zero zero one percent understood or even grasp that the tenants of the stock market, let alone how to how to garner them, you know, and then you say people clam up like even people who are in finance and things of that nature. I do. I think it's based out of fear. Because I think it's fascinating to talk about, especially the areas I don't know of airline ticket until I climb through, but I don't have this kind of like fear based reluctance towards it. And I believe that education is the great equalizer. And so I think that encouraging young women who I run into a lot of artistic circles and encouraging artists like that, that does not give you a get out of jail free card from understanding the ins and outs of the American banking system.   [00:28:29] What are you talking about? We all function in this society, you know, and understanding the tenants, the core tenants of an axiomatic values of some of those are imperative to breaking down the gender bias.   [00:28:41] Yeah, it is interesting, having come from the acting career where you make a large you know, I'm just thinking of artists because I've learned a lot about them, especially through being a venture capitalist. We have a lot of celebrity investors in my fund. And it's interesting, when I pitch a potential investor and they happen to be a celebrity and you fall in two buckets, like either one is like the celebrity who made a chunk of change and spent it. And every time they make a chunk of change, they spend it. And then there's the celebrity who is like, I, I know I need to save this. And I am going to learn a little about investing. I am going to find a financial manager. And those are the like, you know, all the biggest celebrities, you know, who've had these like careers of longevity, who are able to then invest in their own pieces of artwork and produce their own movies because they then have the capital to do that. And so I find it's this sort of like up and down thing in terms of how artists invest. And yeah, it's I do know a lot of artists as well who just kind of check out and it's like, no, you will have. You'll have more flexibility in your career, too. Like investing is for everyone. It's not. And you don't have to have millions of dollars to invest. You can go buy a stock for, you know, 20 to 50 to 100 dollars, whatever you feel like putting aside. And I always like to talk about that. There was this Fidelity study done where they studied Fidelity, did this big study and said who made the most money in the stock market? And it was the people who forgot that they were invested in the stock market. So I like to think I like to tell people that so that you can think about how to invest. Don't get hung up. If the market goes up and down, just hold on. You're in your 20s to thirties when you like, you know, most people don't have any cash. They're just starting to try and build their careers, et cetera. Just every once in a while to go put some put some cash in the stock market. Fifty dollars, hundred dollars, whatever you read about some stock, you know, that seemed interesting to you or you believe that, you know, whatever some sort of like you buy some PMG because everyone's scrambling for toilet paper or whatever it is like. Just think about a reason why you might buy that stock because you believe in that company. And then just leave it there, leave it there, watch it grow, and then you take it out as needed. But I think that that's how you should think about investing in the stock market.   [00:31:26] Absolutely. I want to pivot a little bit before we end up rapping because I have my own personal demands from this podcast. And one of them is to pick your brain on my head. The area that is is kind of near and dear to me. And I kind of want to unpack a little bit of what you did on the Valley Girl show because of when it was started. And we got this little preview of you were talking about like nobody was doing it. And it was this weird monopoly between being pulled down off YouTube and all of these different things. I'm curious, when you went to curate, were you the sole curator of your interview? Questions and research? And when you went to speak to these people, where did you draw your inquiry's from? Did you have this written script? Did you look at everything that you guys were garnering about them and think, I'm going to ask them this, this and this? Like, how did you kind of choose you interviewed Elon Musk. You interviewed a lot of like it wasn't just what you got into the flow was like early.   [00:32:21] And they were all such early stage startups. And Elon Musk, I think, and I both probably feel like that is an interview we wish didn't still exist.   [00:32:32] That's what it is.   [00:32:34] I don't know. He was very cool. It was probably one of his first press interviews. No one had even heard.   [00:32:39] Yeah. He looks like a babe in the woods on. Yeah, that I did. Watch that one. Yeah. Jessica Alba too. I was telling you, I was like. She looks good. Then I was like, well, she always looks good. But then I realized it was a little bit older. But I'm curious, how did you kind of curate your interview question process and who did the editing? Did you have any handle in how the editing and production was done or were you simply the host?   [00:33:03] Such good questions. So season one, I, I went to my Nickelodeon show and then filmed it on a hiatus out of my parents garage. It was a disaster. I hired my brothers were much younger than me and duct taped lamps to the wall. It was such a mess. I knew these sort of editor guys from high school who helped me out and put together those first episodes, which I just cringe thinking about. And then after that, I went back to the Nickelodeon show and I I am so grateful because like Alby Hecht, who's now runs HLN, the Ajoy Network. But I basically said to him, I said, hey, can I sit in on production meetings? Like, I don't know how to run a show, it turns out. And he was so nice. He just kind of was like, yeah, sure. So I went in and I learned about, you know, the production design and lighting and just how they thought about that. And then I started studying like The Ellen DeGeneres Show. I mean, she's still one of my idols forever. Like I would just say to me. And just what she did. And I liked that it was so positive. And then it sort of became this like we called it the Valley Girl because of Silicon Valley. But then it became this like a Valley Girl thing where everything turned pink and we just ran with it. It was a very pink talk show. But every season got a little better. So then I came back and I hired a small production team and they helped me film. And that's when I learned about, you know, like a multi camera shoot and how that worked, because on the Nickelodeon show, it's just a different style of filming. This is like, you know, I'd be like, how many cameras do I need? How. What's the least amount of cameras that I need? Yeah. I don't want to pay any more rent movies than I have to. And so we started a three camera shoot. And then every you know, once you create a really solid format and you know what you're doing in terms of format, then you can kind of branch out from there. And just thing came to fruition. Games that people liked to play, we continued to play. We just continue trying to get people to eat. Edible cockroaches like that did not go well, you know, like your true story. Like there were things that people freaked out. People are really scared of reptiles. It turns out I just was like this any fun anymore? We're not going to do nothing, but. So you you build upon that, so every season I'd come back with new sponsors or whatever and be like, OK, we can use a lot of the props and things from last season and just like put a nice shine over it, you know, and there are certain seasons that definitely stand out to me, especially once we got to television was just like a different level of production. But then we would you know, I remember we we got a jib, we borrowed someone jib, which is like sort of hanging camera so you can get that cool hanging shot has a tiny, tiny room. And it just made it. It like brought it to a whole nother level. We from the Nickelodeon show, there was a lot of music and I had one of the music guys helped me put together like a music thing is like a valley girl. Little funny sound. Intro song that we cut together some fun clips of the show on. And in terms of the questions, I mean. I'm sure you're asking also because as a talk show host, there is no books on this. Right. I read everything. There was like the art of the interview was like that wasn't helpful. Hi. You know, there's really no books on it. And what I would say, having done thousands of interviews and and also been interviewed thousands of times. I really appreciate that you do your research. I think that says everything.   [00:37:03] I'll never forget this one interview I had on Fox Business and. We were on camera when I realized she had not done an ounce of research. And sometimes those shows move fast. So we give everyone the benefit of the doubt. But it's like, you know my name. Know what I'm doing.   [00:37:19] Like, know why I'm here? And it's fine in those situations. If you ever are being interviewed, you should just know that as soon people have no idea and just kind of interrupt and like, give them your whole spiel. But I really appreciate people doing the research. I did just we would book and we would film like, you know, a whole season in a week or two and I would do up to five interviews a day. I don't know how I did that in my early 20s. Like, I now think about that. There was I did some international interviews, too, at conferences and stuff. And I remember there was one day I did eight interviews and I was like, I can't do that again, because you're right, you're on camera. People expect a lot of you. You need to be on point. But yeah. So the first probably Four Seasons, I wrote all the questions myself. Of course, I would get input. I would ask PR. I work with the PR teams. I would always try to get different things so like that no one had talked about. So like with Sheryl Sandberg, I found this weird tidbit online somewhere that she had formerly been an eighties workout instructor. And I saw it and I apparently had I broke that piece of news. And if you watched that episode, she is shocked. She's like, I don't know how you bounce. And I was then quoted like three times in The Wall Street Journal or the show was that was the moment I sort of like, wow, this is crazy. It's like according to the Valley Girl show, you know, Sheryl Sandberg used to be a workout instructor. And I think you want to find those tidbits. And for me, I didn't want the PR fight a version. We would interview these CEOs who had been trained and trained and trained. And I would go in with a bunch of questions and know what I wanted out of the interview. And in the beginning, if you watched those first episodes, you know, I mean, they really haunt me because I didn't know how to do an interview. I just write a whole bunch of questions. Then I started being like, OK, these are topics. And here's the questions I'd like to ask under every topic. And then also, can I make it funny? And so, you know, it evolved like anything. No one's good at it the first time or the second or the third time. But I worked really hard on those interviews, especially at the end and then when we were on.   [00:39:37] We were on Fox in local Fox and appearance's go in and we were poached by. CBS CapEx in San Francisco. And when that happened, I was working 24/7 around the clock. The stories I could tell you from that season. I had moved the show to L.A. and then we would have to turn it around and get it to San Francisco. We would have to close caption it. I was not sleeping. I was newly married, had a baby and was contemplating raising this fund. And I my husband finally sat me down and was like, so this is not humanly sustainable. Yeah, you can't actually do this. But that was when I brought on a writer just to help me with, like monologues because the format had changed a little bit and I couldn't turn around these episodes in time. And the writer who I brought on her name is Liz Hanah, and she is currently b hottest like writer in Hollywood. After she wrote the Valley Girl show, she'd probably like, please never talk about this again. She's after her. She wrote the Valley Girl show. She wrote the Post with Meryl Streep. And so now she's written The Long Shot. She's on every cool show coming out as a writer. She's just she's awesome. And I am so excited to continue to watch her career. But she was funny and she did a really good job coming up with some jokes. And you need other people in there, too.   [00:41:00] At a certain point to just get all of the work done. But I really did. Ultimately, if you're an interview host, you're the one saying it at the end of the day. So if someone else is writing your questions for you and you should think about this in terms of moderating panels or giving presentations, like if someone tells you to say something that you don't feel comfortable with, you're representing yourself. So never say that.   [00:41:23] So we had not with necessarily with Liz, but there were situations where someone would say, oh, you have to ask them about that or you just need to go with what you feel comfortable with. And those were the lessons I learned. Mainly like those are more of like public interviews. When you do it in front of a large audience or what have you.   [00:41:42] Yeah. So I did all the writing for the most part until it came on and I did an extreme amount of research. And then also just how do I come up with an idea like I mean, some things worked and some things didn't because I was trying to make technology approachable. And at that time, it wasn't. It was. People just didn't get it. They didn't understand hardware. They didn't understand software. And so I tried to make crazy analogies. I remember we had these, like, equal guys on one time.   [00:42:13] They were running this company called Equal Field. I filled like a wagon with sugar, like equal like the steps, the sugar steps to sarco.   [00:42:23] It's not even funny when I'm telling you about it, but there are things like that were it was just it was fun to come up with and we would come up with just crazy games. And some people still bring up the Fab Cup to me, which was basically just like a rapid fire questions game. And I think we ultimately at the end call it rapid fire questions. But in the beginning we called it the fluff cut because it was this fluffy bucket. And then I learned that that was like a porn term. And so you just I mean, yeah, like I could tell you all day, but yes, I, I had my hands on everything. I thought I had to be the last person to really work with the interviews, even when Liz came on. Yeah. I just needed to know these people through and through and really figure out what made them tick. And if I didn't feel like I had enough information, I'd like reach out to their assistant or I would just be like, give me something. Give me some, like, fun fact. Like, I don't know, you know, I don't know anything about this. Yeah.   [00:43:24] And it does. And it differentiates. I mean. Well, back when you were doing it, as well as social media, I feel like I can find any little skeleton. I need to know if I'm looking for something.   [00:43:34] But back in that point, it is I think there was a lot of like old school reach out to even just five years ago. It was just a different game.   [00:43:42] And I think it's it's awesome because it's still the Wild West. But I also think I did a podcast recently where I was interviewed about I've started, you know, five podcasts over the past two years. And people are asking me about, like, you know, you seem to have this down. And and I'm a very organized individual. I get very creative in my organized space, you know?   [00:44:02] And so I have these these ledgers, which is why I tend to redo systems that I have. But I it's actually a pet peeve of mine. And I used to think it was because I'm a nerd. I love academia. You know, I always did. I have a master's degree in art history, which just means I like to go to lectures. That's pretty much it. You know, I like to just go and sit around those people and talk and and and essentially my issue with podcasting is not that it's the Wild West, that there's all this like anyone is doing anything. It's that the lack of structure. Like I just a lot of times if someone had pulled up a podcast that it was two hours and ten minutes and I was like, girl, you are asking it from me, but I will give it to you. I will give that to you. But I for the first 10 minutes, the host didn't tell me anything about what I was expected to hear. Whether or not there was gonna be more than one or two guests, like I couldn't figure out the format. Was she going to start reading her diary? What was going to happen there? You know, and I'm down with a lot, so I just. But there was no forecasting. And then when she did get her first guest on, I had realized very, very quickly that she didn't even know she hadn't even spoken prior to hitting record, like she didn't know how to pronounce one's name, let alone anything more than a bio that she had scrubbed off line. And I saw in the interview, I keep telling people, you know, I think that there is a slight onus for anybody who's going to get online and interview someone else that you you should do research. And how much that is, is however much time you have or how much you want to invest in it. But as someone put forth some kind of a structure and research, otherwise, let's not call it a podcast. Let's call it your daily musings. My twelve year old has a podcast. It's got more structure than 90 percent of what I find, you know, and maybe that's because she doesn't want to upset me in here. What you're hearing right now. But I think that there is a responsibility to start passing things out and it will probably come, like you said, with your show, eventually you start to find a beautiful narrative. But I do think that podcasts lack research and structure, and it is kind of daunting, especially to be interviewed when you go on someone's show and they're like, so what is it you do?   [00:46:07] Why am I? Did you find my name in the White Pages? How is this happening?   [00:46:12] You know, I completely agree. And people like being able to depend on something. You know, you get like that carpool karaoke show and it's a very simple format thing. Carpool karaoke in the car. And people love it, you know, hook off with a happy show. Very simple to follow. And I think people. Yeah, I think you're you're completely spot on that people need that structure. And I was actually thinking when you in the beginning, when you're like, this is what we're going to talk about. There's that like sort of like just a good general format to go by is tell what you're gonna tell him, tell him and tell him what you told him. And it's like a very simple format for any show and any research paper.   [00:47:02] It's the perfect paragraph.   [00:47:04] I'm bummed we have to wrap up, but I want to turn now towards goals that you have for the next one to three years. And it's important. I will not ever omit or dodge the current contemporary times. And you were alluding to earlier. So not only are we in the midst of the Cauvin 19 pandemic, how we are also in the midst of the tragedy, the pre cursing and post khaja and that tragedy with George Floyds murder and some of the riots that have happened.   [00:47:31] I'm in San Diego. You're in L.A. There has been a great deal of unsettling and disease with American society. And I'm an optimist. I believe that we're going to come out of this better. I hope for the sake of honoring George and as well as the entire community that he is representing, you know that we can do that. But I'm wondering with your company and your your goals reaching forward with both of those two things kind of compounding and coming into our reality, has it shifted or transformed your goals for the next one to three years or have they stayed the course? Have you doubled down? How does anything look for you? I mean, for all of your endeavors, you know, but for halogen in particular.   [00:48:15] I mean, yeah, like our goals changed at the beginning of Cauvin. And I am I'm devastated about what's going on and I'm uncertain about what's going to happen. Now, we may have to completely transform our goals again. You know, we invest in early stage companies and sometimes there's three people with an idea in a room. It's the riskiest asset class, which is why we do 30 deals per portfolio. And, you know, but it hedges in terms of like if you're an angel investor and you invest in a one off deal right now, it's probably not a good time to invest in a one off deal because, you know, at that stage, it's very likely that I'll go under. They say you need to do 10 deals in order to really see some payoff. And so I feel like our strategy has worked thus far where we invest in these early stage companies. We do 30 deals per portfolio, but week one of co bid. When you deal with early stage companies, you're getting the calls first because we move faster, our companies move faster because they're smaller. So we're hearing 60 percent hits to revenue, 90 percent hits to revenue depending on the business. And so we had two in one week talk to all 62 of our founders. We just called them, got a hold of them and ah, one hundred and fifty item checklist for diligence. Quickly transformed into three things. Yeah. And. Does this company have run or cash through January because we don't know how long this is going to last, too? Based on our experience, you know, pretty quickly, like in a year or two, if a founder can perform, and that's something to keep in mind for founders out there thinking about taking on investment, like prove yourself follow through, especially in the first year or two, because your investors won't give you more money if they feel like you didn't follow through in those first couple of years. So we say based on our experience with these founders, can they execute and take this thing all the way regardless? And then the third thing was, is this business covered, sustainable and beyond? And so while we were about to invest in three new very risky deals that we didn't have experience with the founders, I basically said I put those on hold, which was devastating for the founders.   [00:50:40] And I said, hey, I'm not saying we're not going to we just need to go check out our current portfolio. And then we chose our top performing performing deals. We doubled down on those. And then we were we're early stage fund. We don't have billions of dollars to invest. You know, call me in 10 years. And that's definitely one of my goals. But we're still growing. So we have to be really, really thoughtful, as you always should with your capital. But we we tried to support every founder in every in some way. So we invested in some we hosted a pitch day for some and our our investors invested in some of those. We put together a whole list of resources from debt opportunities to credit lines to banks they could talk to. We had someone tracking the SBA loan, which changes still sort of daily. And we also, like, offered everyone a free hour of PR and other business services just to support whatever they needed.   [00:51:45] My team, Alexis and Ashley from my team, actually one of our companies was growing so fast. So some companies are doing really well. We have this company called Pride. That's like it's like a teenage zoom zoom call. So they're obviously taking off. And they were taking off a little before, but they were growing so quickly that Alexa and Ashley kind of took over their marketing arm for a minute. And now we've helped them put some people in place there. So we were actually helping operate some companies, doing whatever we possibly could. So in terms of goals, we're still hashing those out. But what I'm really proud of is that we put together those goals in one week and we've already executed the plan.   [00:52:27] And that's in two months. We've, you know, invested capital into our best performers and we've supported everybody else to the extent we can. And we continue to do that. And it was not our normal plan at all.   [00:52:42] I do hope, you know, down the road we're on our second fund. I do hope, you know, we raised fund three. We raised fund for and they continue to grow and we continue to grow our team because we're still a startup as well.   [00:52:56] I hope that investing in women is seen more as an opportunity. And I hope we hope that we can help prove that we already are a little with our data that we're collecting on our founders and female founders in general. And and then also just, you know, goals for the world. I hope everyone sees diversity as just an asset to every single business. That's something we're constantly thinking about. So, yes. So that's that's what I would say in terms of our goals. But setting goals is pretty important.   [00:53:28] Yeah. And way to pivot Scullin's 60 companies in one week into transitioning all of that over.   [00:53:33] I mean, do we have a team that all of it. Yes, it was a lot.   [00:53:36] It was I would not want to stare that down on that Monday, and that would be a little bit less. It's a several it's like a whole new cappuccino machine. That's not coffee. I measure everything in coffee cups or especial shots. That's like a machine has a whole nother purchase. That's your own personal barista.   [00:53:53] I'm wondering. So this is my final question. It's my favorite part. And everyone knows who's been listening to me for the past couple of years. But I'm wondering if you walked up to someone in office, a safe social distance or they approached you sometime this week and it was a young woman or a female identified or non binary individual. And they said, listen, Jesse, I'm so glad I caught you. I just finished up learning the entire ins and outs of the film industry. I went to UCLA. I got everything done by buttoned up. I know all bit about it. I've gone to a ton of auditions and I have film industry experience and I've decided I'm going to keep all of that. And I'm also going to pivot now and going to starting my own investment fund and come from a family that's got some background there. But yeah, I'm just going to like, you know, bootstrap it and get going. One of the top three pieces of advice you would give that individual knowing what you know today.   [00:54:49] I would say go for it. I really think especially women, we need more female investors across the board. I would say baby steps just go one step at a time. There are mountains and mountains to climb. And then this goes for fundraising across the board, whether you're fund raising for a fund or for a business, because most people don't have a million dollars to do starting a business in their back pocket. In fact, the majority does. So they typically go raise money. I, I am sort of frustrated when women in particular come to me and say, well, everyone said, no, no one will invest in my company. And I say, OK, well, how many people have you talked to this l. Like, eight. OK, so that's not enough people. I talked to five hundred for my first fund. No joke. And you should plan on going out and talking to at least one hundred. If in 20 meetings you are hearing no's still go back to some of those people and say, hey, like what was the issue here? And it may be such a simple. Fix that, you could, like, throw a slide into your deck that addresses it. And it's no longer an issue. It could be something you haven't thought of before. But definitely listen in those situations. If you plan on going out and having 100 meetings, you'll raise it. You'll raise your your capital, whatever the number is. Just don't get weighed down by the nose. There's going to be a lot of that. And that's in any profession. But somehow it feels very personal when you're raising money and don't look at it that way. Look at it like I kind of talk to these incredible people. And then when they don't invest, say, can you tell me why? And usually shoots, like, has nothing to do with you. It's like, well, actually, like, most of my money is tied up right now, so I don't have any cash to invest. It's like, OK, well that's simple and it has nothing to do with my business or like we already invested too in too many consumer focused funds. And I'm like, oh, OK, I get that. They're trying to diversify their portfolio. I'll go back to their next fund. So I'd just say get through the nose and plan on having a hundred meetings.   [00:57:05] Nice. That's good. And I think you're being realistic, too. That's the scary part. And it's good. It's good to say those things.   [00:57:12] I think people can do at least 40 or you're like 100, 100.   [00:57:17] It'll probably be less so like that.   [00:57:20] Yeah. There's something probably vitally wrong with what you're doing if it's if it's 100 and all knows. But I think that's right.   [00:57:26] That's kind of the attitude of just go until, you know, there's the Hollywood formula. It's not about like, you know, quick breaks and stuff like that. It's like seven years where there's a mathematician that broke down. How long if you audition? Three to four times a week in Hollywood, it takes to make a big role, a main leading role.   [00:57:43] It's like an over. It takes 10 years to have an overnight success.   [00:57:47] Yeah. Exactly. And then it's like everyone's like, oh, they just got here and you're like, no, I've been holding it down a thousand percent. Okay, so I've got go for it baby steps and plan on talking to one hundred people and don't get weighed down by the nose. Just adjust as you go. Those are perfect. I love that Jesse. It went by too quickly. I'm going to have to have you back on. This was fascinating.   [00:58:12] This was so fun. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. And I'm glad you're, you know, showcasing all of these incredible women because we need more people doing that.   [00:58:20] Awesome. Yes. Thank you. I appreciate that. And for everyone listening, I appreciate you. We've been speaking with Dressy--- Jesse Draper. She's the founder of Halogen Ventures and the host and creator of the Emmy nominated The Valley Girl Show.   [00:58:35] You can find out more about Jesse and her team and her fund on Halogen vc dot com.   [00:58:42] I appreciate all of you listening. I appreciate your time. And until we speak again next time, remember to stay in love with the world and always bet on yourself. Slaínte.  

Helen McCrory shares the eight tracks, book and luxury she would want to take with her if cast away to a desert island. Helen McCrory OBE is one of the most versatile and critically acclaimed actresses working today. On screen she has played Anna Karenina, Cherie Blair (twice), Harry Potter's Narcissa Malfoy and the Peaky Blinders matriarch Aunt Polly. Her theatre roles range from Yelena in Uncle Vanya to Euripides' Medea. A diplomat's daughter, she spent her early childhood in Africa before continuing her education in the UK. After a bruising and unsuccessful audition at the Drama Centre in London - she was instructed to find out more about life before learning to act - she travelled to Italy where she discovered art and love and came back to try again. This time she passed the audition. In 1993 she made her mark in Richard Eyre's production of Trelawny of the Wells at the National Theatre and went on to perform leading roles on some of London's most prestigious stages, winning two Olivier Award nominations. She was awarded an OBE for services to drama in 2017. She met her husband, fellow actor Damian Lewis, when they both starred in a play called Five Gold Rings. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic Helen and Damian, together with the comedian Matt Lucas, co-founded the Feed NHS campaign which raises money to provide hot meals to frontline NHS workers. Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Paula McGinley

We're back and venturing once more into the deep! Each week on Deep in the Plus, we pull a different movie or TV show from the Disney plus vault and tell you the history, the details, give our review and tell you if it’s worth your time. This week, we have a classic for you, the very first Disney movie to star Haley Mills – it’s Pollyanna! A young orphan Pollyanna, played by Hayley Mills, believes life's most difficult problems can always be surmounted by a positive attitude. But when she moves in with her very proper Aunt Polly, played by Jane Wyman, Pollyanna is introduced to a range of disheartened people who challenge her upbeat outlook. Not to be discouraged, she sets to work spreading hope and good cheer. However, when the entire community begins a campaign in opposition to her aunt, Pollyanna's goodwill is strained. So travel back to a simpler time as we experience an American classic and we take you deep in the plus. Pollyanna While this was the first Disney movie for Haley Mills, she went on to star in some unforgettable films for the company such as The Parent Trap, In Search of the Castaways, Summer Magic and That Darn Cat! In the 1980s, she also came back to reprise her role as the twins, Susan and Sharon, in Parent Trap II and again in Parent Trap III!  I can only hope we get a chance to see these on Disney+ someday. Click to the video below to see our full review of Pollyanna. You'll also see our bonus recommendations for the best hidden gems on Disney+ in our "Picks of the Week." https://youtu.be/Y0jLw-5AxRk If you're looking for more reviews from us on Deep in the Plus, make sure to go check out our previous episodes reviewing the back catalog of Disney content on the Disney+ streaming network: NewsiesThe Hunchback of Notre DameTRON: LegacyBedknobs and BroomsticksThe Muppets Christmas CarolAladdin: Return of JafarThe Apple Dumpling GangKim Possible: The SeriesThe Computer Wore Tennis ShoesTall TaleMars Needs MomsHoney I Shrunk the KidsLady and the TrampPhineas and Ferb: Star WarsDeep in the Plus: LIVE!The Three MusketeersInvincible Get notified of new Deep in the Plus episodes each week by subscribing to our YouTube channel. You can also follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to share your thoughts on each week's picks.

We are back this weekend with your regularly scheduled quarantine podcasting! This week, we hunkered down to watch POLLYANNA on Disney Plus! Listen as we discuss Hayley Mills' Oscar-winning performance as Pollyanna, Aunt Polly's conservatory, and the twist of the film that had us GOOPED AND GAGGED! Plus - we debate if Leann Rimes has the white version of Toni Braxton's voice?!? You can find us on Instagram.com/theDpodcast and on Twitter.com/theDpodcast. The best way to support the show is by writing us a rating or review wherever you listen to the pod!

Aunt Polly Jackson was a absolute boss during the 19th Century Abolitionist Movement. The Underground Railroad saw a rising star willing to put her life on the line to rescue many slaves. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/elifesmoments/support

Imagine Mark Twain’s iconic ne’er-do-well as the high school counselor who launched your career. LA native and Emeritus Professor Larry Goldstein shares some of his poetry about Los Angeles and tells the story of how child actor Tommy Kelly (who once played Tom Sawyer in the movies) set him on a writing and teaching career that would have made Aunt Polly proud. Read full story at Michigan Today More on Larry Goldstein Faculty Contact Poetry Los Angeles: Reading the Essential Poems of the City

In this last chapter of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the rest of the truth finally comes out-like what Aunt Polly's letter to her brother said, and who was the dead man. To read more about Tom, Huck, and their life, read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Hi everyone! I'm back in China now. Classes started yesterday . . . and today my voice is so tired that I can barely talk! It's not good when a teacher can't talk! I wrote a lot of things on the computer for my students today to read on the screen, so that I wouldn't have to talk as much. It was Oral English class, so I gave them lots of topics to talk about while I observed them. I hope my voice will be better tomorrow, because I have a lot of classes. Today I only had one class, luckily. If my voice recovers, I'll finally make a new recording on Friday or Saturday for you. Here is an episode from about two years ago. LnR 017 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Replay) By Mark Twain: 1835-1910 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76 CHAPTER I. YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.  That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.  There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.  That is nothing.  I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary.  Aunt Polly—Tom's Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. Now the way that the book winds up is this:  Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich.  We got six thousand dollars apiece—all gold.  It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up.  Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round—more than a body could tell what to do with.  The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.  I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.  But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable.  So I went back. The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it. She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up.  Well, then, the old thing commenced again.  The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time. When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them,—that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself.  In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better. After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.

A special Thursday release - Part II of my brother-in-law the Constitutionalist Enigma. Sex robots, orgasm by computer, landlines at boarding schools, drug dealers with dreads, snow shovel awards, dance contests winners, beer medals. It's a late night fireside chat that is pretty disorganized, but you're going to love it! Plus a great message from Aunt Polly and some show news as well. LANDLINE!

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is set in the 1840's in the fictitious town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom lives with his deceased mother's sister, Aunt Polly, and his half-brother, Sid. After Tom plays hooky from school, he is made to whitewash Aunt Polly's fence as punishment, but persuades his friends to do it for him. Tom's real trouble begins when he and Huck Finn witness a murder committed by Injun Joe. They swear to never tell, and the wrong man, Muff Potter, is accused of the crime. Tom, Huck, and a friend run away to be pirates, but become aware that the whole town is searching for their bodies. Each of the boys make an appearance at their own funerals, where they are greeted with open arms. As Muff Potter's trial begins, Tom is overcome with guilt and testifies against Injun Joe, who quickly flees the courtroom. Later, on a class field trip to a cave, Tom and his love interest, Becky Thatcher, get lost. As they run out of food and candles searching for a way out, Tom and Becky come upon Injun Joe, who is using the cave as a hideout. Tom finds a way out just as the search party is giving up. The town rejoices and Judge Thatcher, Becky's father, has the cave sealed, unknowingly trapping Injun Joe inside where he starves to death.

John Pendleton asks Pollyanna to come and live with him (so he could adopt her).  Since Pollyanna thinks Mr. Pendleton and Miss Polly were once sweethearts, she assumes that Aunt Polly will come, too!  This surprises Mr. Pendleton.  

Pollyanna finds out John Pendleton was not in love with Aunt Polly but was once in love with her mother, but lost her to Pollyanna’s father whom she married.  Mr. Pendleton wants Pollyanna to ask Aunt Polly a question….Will she let Pollyanna come to live with him. 

Pollyanna was going to ask Aunt Polly to let her live with Mr. Pendleton, but finds out from Nancy that Aunt Polly likes having her live with her and would miss her if she were gone.  Pollyanna, being the sweet girl she is, decides not to leave Aunt Polly without even asking her the question, then suggests Jimmy Bean live with him.  

John Pendleton comes to visit Aunt Polly to ask about Pollyanna’s condition.  Aunt Polly tells him about Pollyanna’s paralysis.  Mr. Pendleton assures Aunt Polly that when he’d asked Pollyanna to live with him, she had wanted to be with her instead

Aunt Polly wanted a specialist to visit Pollyanna, but he was unable to come due to his own illness, so Pollyanna, Miss Polly, and others must wait.  As they wait for answers that might help Pollyanna, Miss Polly does everything she can to please her niece, except call Dr. Chilton.   Pollyanna grows pale and thin 

As Pollyanna is taking calf’s foot jelly to Mrs. Snow, she meets a boy named Jimmy Bean who’s left the Orphan’s Home to try to find him some “folks”. Pollyanna tries to convince Aunt Polly to take him. When Aunt Polly refuses, Pollyanna plans to go to the Ladies Aid meeting to find him a home.

Back at home, Tom shows uncanny insight about events that took place while he was supposedly "away." Aunt Polly questions his good nature, Becky Thatcher rejects and accepts him, and school comes to a resounding close for the summer.

Witness of a murder makes a heavy burden for Tom and Huck. This brings Tom very low, Aunt Polly tries to cure him, and Tom doses the cat. Rejected in love, Tom turns to "piracy" with Huck and Joe.

Tom tries to get the most out of life as a small boy in a small river town in Missouri before the Civil War, and his Aunt Polly tries to bring him up to responsible respectability, giving him the odious chore of whitewashing their board fence.