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Exciting developments are on the horizon in Minneapolis-St Paul. We dive into the new Gold Line BRT and its potential to redefine transit in the area, exploring its benefits and limitations compared to similar lines. • Overview of the Gold Line and its dedicated infrastructure • Comparison of Gold Line with B-Line and their operational differences • Importance of transit-oriented development along the Gold Line route • Insights into ridership expectations and community impact • Discussion on how urban planning can influence future transit projects If you enjoyed this conversation and want to help us grow, please consider supporting our show via Patreon or checking out our merch store! Send us a textSupport the show
Get ready to uncover the exciting future of Brookvale! Imagine an industrial suburb transformed into a vibrant community hub with new homes, jobs, and expansive facilities. Our latest episode promises an engaging exploration of Brookvale's 15-year revitalization plan, designed to enhance its residential and commercial appeal. Discover how the strategic relocation of the B-Line bus to Warringah Mall has set the stage for increased residential density and a promising horizon for the area. We'll guide you through the historical evolution and future prospects that make Brookvale a prime location for growth and investment.Join us as we highlight the burgeoning interest from businesses eyeing Brookvale's potential along Pittwater Road. With brands like BCF and Kaiser Gyms recognizing its promise as a business hub, Brookvale is on the precipice of an exciting transformation, akin to the renowned changes seen in Alexandria. We'll discuss what these developments mean for the community and investors, offering insights from local experts who are shaping Brookvale's future. Don't miss our compelling discussion on the structural plans poised to attract new businesses and services, bringing innovation and opportunity to the Northern Beaches.
Rich Wilson and Symren Gharial delve into the origins and evolution of 00s punk band 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster, exploring themes of youth, hedonism, and the punk spirit. They reflect on the changing landscape of music, the challenges of maintaining band dynamics, and the personal growth that comes with age. Symren shares his journey of overcoming addiction and the bittersweet nostalgia of their musical legacy, emphasising the importance of community and connection in the music scene. In this engaging conversation, Rich Wilson and Symren Gharial explore the journey of creativity in music, discussing the freedom and challenges of solo projects, the importance of community, and the impact of the internet on music consumption. They reflect on the evolution of music creation, the current state of the industry, and the excitement of continuing to create and collaborate in a changing landscape. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chafic Kazoun is passionate about cocktails and even has his own cocktail bar at home! Listen in to hear more about the secrets to a good cocktail and most importantly what the word is in Mandarin Chinese!
Do you enjoy wine? Entrepreneur and CEO of Beeline Medical Chafic Kazoun is also an avid drinker of fine wines! ShaoLan teaches him the essential words in Chinese to know how to ask for and how to describe fine wine.
How do you say ”software” in Chinese? Software engineer turned entrepreneur Chafic Kazoun calls in from the USA to find out more from ShaoLan.
Steve Gruber discusses news and headlines
First up, enjoy a new Intro for the podcast! Followed by a few notes on the week from yours truly, including on the tragic passing of Mirna Soza while boarding L.A. Metro’s B Line on Monday, April 22nd, as well as on the Armenian Genocide of 1915, commemorated every year on April 24th. Then, fromContinue reading OAXACALIFORNIA: OAXACAN AMERICANS IN L.A. →
We are closing in on the end of the regular season, then the fun really begins. Most teams have between 10 and 13 games left to cement their spots in the post season tourney for ownership of Lord Stanley's Chalice (for one year). Here is the breakdown of this week's show… BU/BC and the Sharks Connection: 0:00 – 15:53 Moneypuck Odds: 15:53 – 21:44 Bruin's Drafting Over the Years: 21:44 – 54:55 The Triple B Line: 54:55 – 1:02:49 The Panthers' Sam Bennett: 1:02:49 – 1:10:03 The Panthers' Bill Zito: 1:10:03 – 1:16:52 Forsberg vs Seider: 1:16:52 – 1:20:48 Tom Wilson-Again a Meathead: 1:20:48 – 1:30:25 Elias Lindholm Not the Same (Is He Healthy?): 1:30:25 – 1:39:43 Will He/Won't He Who will re-sign?: 1:39:43 – 1:52:22 Here is the link for this week's Will He/Won't He question regarding Alex Ovechkin: https://twitter.com/pucksage/status/1771956697336016966 Thank you for listening, don't forget about the PWHL and the Frozen Four! Enjoy the Show!
Imagine unlocking the secret to skyrocketing property values in your portfolio. That's what we're serving up in our latest chat, where we dissect the game-changing effects of major infrastructure projects on real estate markets. From the bustling B-Line bus service in the northern beaches to the transformative tunneling from North Sydney to Balmain, we're not just talking road improvements; we're discussing multi-billion-dollar endeavors that slash commute times and dramatically lift the standard of living. These projects are like steroids for property prices, and we're here to show you how to spot these golden geese before they hatch into common knowledge.Have you ever considered the immense power a new airport like Badgerys Creek can wield over a city's property market? Join us as we venture beyond the obvious and highlight the less conspicuous, yet highly impactful, consequences of such developments. We're not just spotlighting the immediate vicinity; we're casting our analytical gaze 30-40 kilometers from the epicenter, where the ripple effects can jolt property markets in the most unexpected ways. Tune in, and let's navigate these lucrative waters together, so next time you'll be the one saying, "I saw it coming.
Chafic Kazoun is passionate about cocktails and even has his own cocktail bar at home! Listen in to hear more about the secrets to a good cocktail and most importantly what the word is in Mandarin Chinese!
Do you enjoy wine? Entrepreneur and CEO of Beeline Medical Chafic Kazoun is also an avid drinker of fine wines! ShaoLan teaches him the essential words in Chinese to know how to ask for and how to describe fine wine.
How do you say ”software” in Chinese? Software engineer turned entrepreneur Chafic Kazoun calls in from the USA to find out more from ShaoLan.
Mike and Bulldog run through a little bit of the Stanley Cup Finals.
Meet NKY! Julia Keister and Hannah Lowen, a local married couple, will tell us all about this underrated LGBTQ+ destination in the southeast. They'll give us an idea of what this region of the US has to offer and why LGBTQ+ travelers should be adding it to their list of vacation hotspots. Julia was the owner of Lil's Bagels – a Covington, Ky. bagels, coffee and more shop that was also a local LGBTQ community spot for events. Lil's is currently being reimagined in a new space as Lil's Kitchen. Hannah is the Vice President of Operations at New Riff Distilling in Newport, Ky. Newport is right next to Covington, and both are just across the river from Cincinnati, Oh. New Riff is a family and independently owned bourbon distillery that's on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour and also a stop on our local bourbon trail, The B-Line. Sponsor: https://www.meetnky.com/ Other Links: A New Riff on an Old Tradition www.newriffdistilling.com Lil's Kitchen https://www.facebook.com/lilsbagels/ 10 Unique Fests and Things to Do in the NKY/Cincy Region https://www.meetnky.com/blog/post/10-unique-fests-and-things-to-do-in-the-nkycincy-region-this-summer/ Queer Soup Night https://www.queersoupnight.com/ Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Rebels, it was such a treat to get to know these two ladies. It's amazing that 2 people with such different outlooks on life can combine their collective skills to make such an interesting podcast. (If I were to meet my polar opposite, well, he'd be, um....normal?) It just goes to show you that if you've got the heart and the drive, you can pull it all together for a podcast that can truly touch people. Thanks so much to Danielle and Melanie for swinging by! "Allegedly Credible" faves: New Fatherhood Chronicles; Belief In Fatherhood; Random Order; Daddy Issues; Woman Evolve; Eat Smarter w/ Shawn Stevenson; Queens Talk; Jerk, Jollof, and Collard Greens Podcast; The B-Line; Murder, Mystery and Makeup; How Married Are You?; Dear Future Wife "Allegedly Credible" info: Website;https://www.allegedlycredible.com/ Instagram: @allegedlycredible; Facebook: @allegedlycredible These were the podcasts featured on "Sherpa Samples": Aaron Mehnke's Cabinet of Curiosities Your Mom's House The Flop House The Girl in the Blue Mustang Comedy Bang Bang The Bible in a Year w/ Father Mike Schmitz Critical Roll The Viall Files Date Yourself Instead The Unplanned Podcast _____________________________________________________________________________________________ More thanks: Publicist Extraordinaire: Steven Joiner Music Credits/Voiceovers: Bruce Goldberg ( aka Lord Mr. Bruce) Other Voices: The Sherpalu Studio Players beatoven.ai for background music Music by Slip.stream - Mu'gambi "Summer Samba (Samba de Verao)" - https://slip.stream/tracks/3317f5bd-b473-4d74-8a5c-c3a9b18b3365 The Website: sherpalution.com : All episodes and side projects, Merchandise. Affiliate Shop, etc. Click: Link page: https://bio.link/jimthepo Comment on galas.fm: https://galas.fm/p/too_many_podcast Helium Radio Network Fridays at 8:30 AM EDT, on Channel 1, Life Improvement Radio. Communicate: Swell App (leave messages) Wisdom App (live chats Wed nights, 10 PM EDT) jimthepodcastsherpa@gmail.com (email) Support: @sherpalution on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Tik-Tok Review the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Listen on Podopolo (access code-TheSherpa) or Podimo podcast apps (both free); but we're available on ALL podcast apps for free Money donations? Feel free to click here. No pressure! I'll just hold my breath the entire next episode if you don't. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jim-the-podcast-sherpa/message
In this episode, host Jonathan Maus will take you on a tour and ride with Tegan Valo from B-Line Urban Delivery. B-Line is a Portland company that was founded in 2008 and they have carved out a great little niche for their innovative approach to last mile freight logistics.If you're a BikePortland reader, you'll recall several stories we've written about them over the years because of this simple fact: they use pedal-powered electric cargo trikes for their delivery fleet. B-Line has replaced well over 320,000 truck miles with these trikes in over 42,000 deliveries in the past 15 years. And while they're much smaller and safer than a truck or a van, B-Line trikes can still carry up to 700 pounds of cargo. A few days ago, Jonathan met Tegan at their large warehouse in the Central Eastside to learn more about the company, get a rundown of what a typical day looks like. They then hit the road for a few deliveries.
The B-Line Webshow talk with Brian B., The B-Line Webshow is a channel on YouTube that has guest celebrities and is a platform similar to The Loud Spot. A little cross promotion if you will! Check it out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As the General Manager of Prairie Wildlife, hardcore conservationist and businessman, Bennie is into everything upland. Teaming up with Mississippi State University, he has used this property as a platform for the next generation to make habit better in every way. He is in the planning phases of a state of the art kennel that will also offer educational opportunities for the University. Prairie Wildlife also hosted the National Helice Championships this year. This shooting game is taking off all across the south. But the best part of this episode is hearing Bennie's passion for a bird dog and continuing the legacy of what Mr. Jimmy has worked so hard for. The mission of B Line 07 is shared in a way that undeniably contagious for any upland hunter. New things are coming that is meant to keep you connected with the past. This episode is all about continuing the tradition. https://prairiewildlife.com https://www.pwtradeco.com
Brian's info: Instagram & TikTok: brian_b_b_line YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBLineWebshow These are the shows visited in "Sherpa Samples": The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe In Our Time More Or Less: Behind The Statistics The Rest Is Politics Culpable The Psychology of Your 20's Case 63 Back To The Beach Nothing Much Happens:A Bedtime Podcast If Books Could Kill Next week, we're off to "The Sherpa Screening Room" with actor Jason Varso! Link page: https://bio.link/jimthepo Feel free to comment on galas.fm: https://galas.fm/p/too_many_podcast Shop with my affiliates! https://www.sherpalution.com/p/shop-here/ (Note: I can earn commissions through here as an affiliate.) You can leave messages for The Sherpa on the Anchor app, sherpalution.com, or the Swell app(free), or chat live with him Wednesday nights at 10:00 pm( or so) EDT on the Wisdom app(free). You can hear this podcast on the Helium Radio Network Fridays at 8:30 AM EDT, on Channel 1, Life Improvement Radio. Follow the show on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok at @Sherpalution, and check out my website, sherpalution.com , for older episodes, Sherpa Sheets, and Spotify playlists. You'll also find the link to "The Tee Sherpa Shop". Podcast merchandise!! Email me at jimthepodcastsherpa@gmail.com. #VivaLaSherpalution! Publicist Extraordinaire: Steven Joiner Music Credits/Voiceovers: Bruce Goldberg ( aka Lord Mr. Bruce) Other Voices: The Sherpalu Studio Players If you'd like to support the show with a donation, (You know, like with money?) feel free to click here. No pressure. I'll just hold my breath the entire next episode if you don't. But seriously, the free option is to leave a nice review on my website, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening! Don't forget, you can subscribe and listen to this show on any podcast app or website listed on sherpalution.com . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jim-the-podcast-sherpa/message
Join C.A. and Brian from The B-Line entertainment show as well as Emma Glow as they talk about the different types of relationships, and the importance of having a Hoe Handbook. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
EP. 855 - B-LINE THREE YEARS LATER - INFRASTRUCTURE
Pete Church, Head of Rail Delivery for Transport for NSW. Pete gained a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of Leeds, before staying on to study for a Phd in Surveying and Photogrammetry. After quitting his Phd (about half way through), he stumbled into a job in British Rail. He worked in several areas including Bridge Design and Permanent Way, before moving into Client side management of complex railway projects. After nearly twenty years in the UK he headed to Australia, where he's led the delivery of some interesting and diverse transport projects including Wynyard Walk, B-Line, Barangaroo Ferry Hub as well as some familiar rail projects!
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We are sharing an episode from our friends at SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. It is a Below the Radar mini-series called The Trip Diary that focuses on accessible, sustainable and equitable transportation in urban spaces. In this instalment called B-Line to the Future, SFU Urban Studies alum and host Steve Tornes speaks with Bowinn Ma and Uytae Lee about their engagement work involving transit systems, as well as the possible futures of getting around in the Lower Mainland. Listen to the full Trip Diary series: bit.ly/3Ise6F3
On the fourth and final episode of The Trip Diary, Steve Tornes speaks with Bowinn Ma and Uytae Lee about their public engagement work involving transit systems, as well as the possible futures of transportation in the Lower Mainland. Bowinn and Steve have a conversation about INSTPP and B-Line/rapid bus initiative in West Vancouver, while Uytae described how his series, “Uytae Lee's Stories About Here,” brings awareness to urban planning concepts to a larger audience. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/the-trip-diary/182-b-line-to-the-future.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/182-b-line-to-the-future.html Resources: Bowinn Ma's website: https://bowinnmamla.ca/ Uytae Lee with CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/news/author/uytae-lee-1.5094424 Integrated North Shore Transportation Planning Project: http://www.instpp.ca/ Uytae Lee's Stories About Here: https://gem.cbc.ca/media/uytae-lees-stories-about-here/s01 About Here, Uytae's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AboutHere Bio: Bowinn Ma is British Columbia's Minister of State for Infrastructure and the MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale. She is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with a degree in civil engineering (BASc), a masters from the UBC Sauder School of Business (MM), and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Bowinn previously served as Parliamentary Secretary for TransLink and as the Chair for the Select Standing Committee on Crown Corporations, leading an all-party committee to develop recommendations for Transportation Network Services in British Columbia. She has also served as a member of BC's Treasury Board since 2017. Prior to being first elected, Bowinn managed terminal expansion and redevelopment projects for the Vancouver Airport Authority. Uytae Lee produces videos that educate people on the urban planning challenges facing cities today. He is the creator of the CBC series “Stories About Here”, where he explores the often overlooked issues in our own backyards - whether it's the shortage of public bathrooms, sewage leaking into the water, or the bureaucratic roots of the housing crisis. In addition to producing videos for CBC, he hosts a YouTube channel called “About Here”. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Tornes, Steve. “B-Line to the Future — with Bowinn Ma and Uytae Lee” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, July 26, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/182-b-line-to-the-future.html.
Chafic Kazoun is passionate about cocktails and even has his own cocktail bar at home! Listen in to hear more about the secrets to a good cocktail and most importantly what the word is in Mandarin Chinese!
Do you enjoy wine? Entrepreneur and CEO of Beeline Medical Chafic Kazoun is also an avid drinker of fine wines! ShaoLan teaches him the essential words in Chinese to know how to ask for and how to describe fine wine.
How do you say ”software” in Chinese? Software engineer turned entrepreneur Chafic Kazoun calls in from the USA to find out more from ShaoLan.
Hey Everybody,Si Sutton back in the styrups whilst we send Shizzla a virtual bag of grapes & wish him a very speedy recovery!Let me start by thanking absolutely everybody that got involved in the last episode, Welcome to the 2000 club everyone!! :) Lets see if we can top that this month :DThis time we've gone deeper, with all things bassline related, rocing a main room stylee.As LA Woman sees its 50th anniversary, I honour The Doors legacy with a stand out remix to kick things off. Just like my boy Eddie say, House is a feeling, not tied down to a formal set of characteristics. We then pound & throb our way through the next 2hrs, ringing the changes stylistically, but staying true to the B Line with a track list that goes like this.....The Doors X Fish Go Deep - Riders On The Storm (Bcks Re Mix)Mind Street ft Kandie Jones - More & More (Groove Assassin Deep Down)Karol XVII & MB Valence - Deep Beginning (Orig)Lisa Shaw - Free (Deep Phreeze Phunk)Marq Markuz ft Alex Curly - Cocaina (Andezzz DeepaSoul)Miss Coco Brown - I Never Knew (Yllavation Deep & Soulful)Monodeluxe & Deep Bros - Magic Touch (Orig)Ralph Session ft Kat S - Soul Deep (Orig Dub)Roland Clarke - I Get Deep (Shelter)Underground Solution - Luv Dancin' (In Deep)Urban Soul - Alright (Gerd Deep)Hardrive - Deep Inside ( Mr. V Sole Channel)Marlon D - Deep spiritual journey (Deep Prayer)Mena Keys & Marlon D - Love Somebody (Seascape Deep Vocal)Miguel Migs ft Lisa Shaw - Heartbeat (Migs Deep Salted Dub) Soulmagic - We Love This Music (Soulmagic Deep) Bordertown - Deep In My SoulRishi K. - Phenomena (Bobby Deep)Il Padrinos ft. Jocely Brown - That's How Good Love Is (Rulers Of The Deep Dub)Samuri, Divided Souls & Le Alen ft Gina Dunn - Feel It (Chris Deepak)Nutty Nys ft Lu - Moving On (StaSoul Deeper)Rocco & Danny Marquez - Billie Jean (Rocco Deep)
Hey Everybody,Si Sutton back in the styrups whilst we send Shizzla a virtual bag of grapes & wish him a very speedy recovery!Let me start by thanking absolutely everybody that got involved in the last episode, Welcome to the 2000 club everyone!! :) Lets see if we can top that this month :DThis time we've gone deeper, with all things bassline related, rocing a main room stylee.As LA Woman sees its 50th anniversary, I honour The Doors legacy with a stand out remix to kick things off. Just like my boy Eddie say, House is a feeling, not tied down to a formal set of characteristics. We then pound & throb our way through the next 2hrs, ringing the changes stylistically, but staying true to the B Line with a track list that goes like this.....The Doors X Fish Go Deep - Riders On The Storm (Bcks Re Mix)Mind Street ft Kandie Jones - More & More (Groove Assassin Deep Down)Karol XVII & MB Valence - Deep Beginning (Orig)Lisa Shaw - Free (Deep Phreeze Phunk)Marq Markuz ft Alex Curly - Cocaina (Andezzz DeepaSoul)Miss Coco Brown - I Never Knew (Yllavation Deep & Soulful)Monodeluxe & Deep Bros - Magic Touch (Orig)Ralph Session ft Kat S - Soul Deep (Orig Dub)Roland Clarke - I Get Deep (Shelter)Underground Solution - Luv Dancin' (In Deep)Urban Soul - Alright (Gerd Deep)Hardrive - Deep Inside ( Mr. V Sole Channel)Marlon D - Deep spiritual journey (Deep Prayer)Mena Keys & Marlon D - Love Somebody (Seascape Deep Vocal)Miguel Migs ft Lisa Shaw - Heartbeat (Migs Deep Salted Dub) Soulmagic - We Love This Music (Soulmagic Deep) Bordertown - Deep In My SoulRishi K. - Phenomena (Bobby Deep)Il Padrinos ft. Jocely Brown - That's How Good Love Is (Rulers Of The Deep Dub)Samuri, Divided Souls & Le Alen ft Gina Dunn - Feel It (Chris Deepak)Nutty Nys ft Lu - Moving On (StaSoul Deeper)Rocco & Danny Marquez - Billie Jean (Rocco Deep)
WBZ's James Rojas reports on the two new Green Line Stations opened on the B Line as a part of a consolidation project.
For many of us, one of our first experiences handling a paint gun is while learning to tend a pine plantation. It all seems very straight forward… thin from below, a little thin from above, hit the target BA and move on. But sometimes it helps to step back and think about the forest products we are attempting to produce. And one of the most valuable products in a pine plantation can be a utility pole. What does it take to grow and tend utility poles in our stands? In this episode of SilviCast, we dive into the silviculture around utility pole management with Jim Bauer, a Resource Manager with Stella-Jones.
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After spending time in Bali as a family Jules proposed to her husband Stu that they QUIT THEIR JOBS, PACK UP THEIR LIFE, BUY A CARAVAN AND TRAVEL AUSTRALIA. After 3 short months of planning they set off amongst the chaos in 2020. "It was definitely an interesting time to hit the road" "But it all worked out in the end" said Jules. As they ended up spending 16 months on the road. Jules talks about how they sold both of their cars before they left and what they bought to travel in and why. They set off from the Gold Coast, mostly staying in Caravan parks along the East Coast of Australia, by passing Victoria and made a B Line for SA. Due to the current circumstances it really forced them to slow down whilst they were in SA and gave them the opportunity to really watch their kids thrive. W.A was next on their travels, chasing the sun up the West Coast. Jules shares the highlights of the West. Letting you in on some secret spots where they were able to pull the caravan right up on the beach, enjoying their days in the water snorkelling and being surrounded by animals and sea life was truly incredible. Stu and Jules tackled the Gibb River Road. The feeling of nervous energy and being so remote made this part of the trip one of her BEST memories. Jules tells a story.. which wasnt so funny at the time but makes for a great story.. when they found themselves in a spot of trouble as they drove out of Lawn Hill, driving off track and into the middle of nowhere without any phone reception. Some great tips on how to travel on a budget as Jules touches on how much money they had planned to travel with whilst they werent working and what their weekly budget was. No school for their 2 Daughters as they recieved an expemption from the school they were enrolled with and therefore experienced the unschooling method of education. Stay until the end of this eposide to find out what is in store for Van n Aus now that they have finished up their life on the road.. or have they
Chafic Kazoun is passionate about cocktails and even has his own cocktail bar at home! Listen in to hear more about the secrets to a good cocktail and most importantly what the word is in Mandarin Chinese! Read extended show notes for this episode here: https://www.chineasy.com/talk/lessons/189-cocktail/ Explore various topics, special guests, and expansive list of useful Chinese phrases on Talk Chineasy website! goo.gl/VJ8plT Want to practice the pronunciation of words taught in this episode? Have fun learning with activity sheets, recap video, coloring book, and more. Become a Golden Chineasian to enjoy exclusive premium content! goo.gl/vjbtL9
Do you enjoy wine? Entrepreneur and CEO of Beeline Medical Chafic Kazoun is also an avid drinker of fine wines! ShaoLan teaches him the essential words in Chinese to know how to ask for and how to describe fine wine. Read extended show notes for this episode here: https://www.chineasy.com/talk/lessons/165-good-wine/ Explore various topics, special guests, and expansive list of useful Chinese phrases on Talk Chineasy website! goo.gl/VJ8plT Want to practice the pronunciation of words taught in this episode? Have fun learning with activity sheets, recap video, coloring book, and more. Become a Golden Chineasian to enjoy exclusive premium content! goo.gl/vjbtL9
How do you say ”software” in Chinese? Software engineer turned entrepreneur Chafic Kazoun calls in from the USA to find out more from ShaoLan. Read extended show notes for this episode here: https://www.chineasy.com/talk/lessons/163-software/ Explore various topics, special guests, and expansive list of useful Chinese phrases on Talk Chineasy website! goo.gl/VJ8plT Want to practice the pronunciation of words taught in this episode? Have fun learning with activity sheets, recap video, coloring book, and more. Become a Golden Chineasian to enjoy exclusive premium content! goo.gl/vjbtL9
Our series of bonus podcasts continues with Sym Gharial, bass player in The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, naming his favourite album of the era. He picks At The Drive-In's third LP Relationship of Command - and explains how that band influenced Eighties Matchbox when they were starting out. Like Eighties Matchbox, At The Drive-In were able to straddle both NME and Kerrang audiences to an extent, and we go on to discuss the influence of those two magazines, and the importance of definitive reference points for music fans - which those two magazines were in their heyday - vs the broader range of options we have now when it comes to music publishers online etc. Remember you can check out our full episode with Sym about Eighties Matchbox in our library, too. The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster fan? Share your memories of the band with us: Twitter: @TheBITBpod Instagram: @boysinthebandpod Facebook: The Boys In The Band Podcast Or drop us an Email - boysinthebandpod@gmail.com Written, presented and produced by Peter Smith and Richard Gallagher Pod thumbnail design by Daniel Curtin *Recorded on 7 May 2021* FREE BEER! Our sponsors Beer 52 have a great offer for Boys in the Band Podcast listeners! If you fancy a free case of 8 craft beers go to beer52.com/band and all you have to do is cover the postage costs of £5.95.
This week on The Boys in the Band Podcast we talk to Sym Gharial from The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, the hard rocking band from Brighton, about their three albums, wild live shows, and a music video which Liam Gallagher named as a favourite! The band's music was picked up by advertisers and movie-makers - leading to a surprise appearance in Shaun of the Dead! - but away from the commercial space this was a band with a close connection to the fans which followed them. We discuss their rise, their attitude to the rest of the scene at the time, and how they captured that live show intensity on records. The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster fan? Share your memories of the band with us: Twitter: @TheBITBpod Instagram: @boysinthebandpod Facebook: The Boys In The Band Podcast Or drop us an Email - boysinthebandpod@gmail.com Written, presented and produced by Peter Smith and Richard Gallagher Pod thumbnail design by Daniel Curtin *Recorded on 7 May 2021* FREE BEER! Our sponsors Beer 52 have a great offer for Boys in the Band Podcast listeners! If you fancy a free case of 8 craft beers go to beer52.com/band and all you have to do is cover the postage costs of £5.95.
For this week's #my00sNo1album challenge we were joined by three of the four members of Boy Kill Boy. Chris, Shaz, and Kev picked a variety of selections, including Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster's Horse of the Dog, The Killer's Hot Fuss, Blur's Think Tank, and The Strokes' Is This It. But that's just the starting point! We also chat about album artwork, creating a 'band image', Zane Lowe's iconic Gonzo show on MTV2, and Banksy gets another mention!! Remember you can check out our full episode with Boy Kill Boy in our library, too. Boy Kill Boy fan? Share your memories of the band with us: Twitter: @TheBITBpod Instagram: @boysinthebandpod Facebook: The Boys In The Band Podcast Or drop us an Email - boysinthebandpod@gmail.com Written, presented and produced by Peter Smith and Richard Gallagher Pod thumbnail design by Daniel Curtin *Recorded on 21 February 2021* FREE BEER! Our sponsors Beer 52 have a great offer for Boys in the Band Podcast listeners! If you fancy a free case of 8 craft beers go to beer52.com/band and all you have to do is cover the postage costs of £5.95.
This week I interview artist, poet, and creator B_Line_Dot. We dive deep into his craft and discuss the inner workings of being a multifaceted, outsider artist, namely breaking conventional norms in the Art-world and life. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pardonwill/support
Episode 14: Symren Gharial - Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. After many mentions of Eighties Matchbox on previous episodes of the podcast, bassist Sym comes on to discuss his time in the band, his battle with addiction and his new project Primitive Ignorant.
We become scared on the b-line trail. so so so very scared.
Welcome to Episode 21! This episode was an absolute honour to record with Sym who most will better know for his time in The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. A band that Adam has been obsesses with since his teenage years. We talk around his Sym’s new project Primitive_Ignorant and how the experiences he has had as a Sikh and in the minority in the UK and alternative music scene has informed his new musical output. We as ever talk about top gigs played and been to and as you can imagine he has some fierce examples. Apologies for some of the sound quality we did have some issues recording but thanks to David for his editing mastery. Pick up Primitive_Ignorant’s debut album ‘Sikh Punk’ here: https://bit.ly/3idYMhA Watch ‘Ballad of Maryland Estate’ (ft. Le Junk) here: https://youtu.be/TMLLd2mz7ww
i talk about the B Line...its part of the Kentucky Bourbon trail. I visited Old Pogue Distillery, New Riff Distillery, Costco in Florence KY, Boone County Distillers and the Neely Family Distillery.
Today we celebrate one of Alabama's first botanists and the poet who went by the pseudonym AE. We'll also learn about Wood Expert and xylotomist ("xy·lot·o·mist") who solved the crime of the century. We celebrate one of the 20th century's leading landscape architects. We also celebrate the Dog Days of summer through poetry. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about plant passion and inspiration in order to "Cultivate Green Space in Your Home and Heart." And then we'll wrap things up with the story of a touching 2014 botanical art installation around the Tower of London. But first, let's catch up on some Greetings from Gardeners around the world and today's curated news. Subscribe Apple|Google|Spotify|Stitcher|iHeart Gardener Greetings To participate in the Gardener Greetings segment, send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org And, to listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to play The Daily Gardener Podcast. It's that easy. Curated News New National Wildflower Network Opens Major Routes Across UK for Pollinating Insects | The Independent "A national network of linked wildflower highways has been launched this week to provide more habitat for the UK's vital pollinating insects, including bees, butterflies, hoverflies, and moths. The newly completed B-Lines network for England has been launched by conservation charity Buglife with support from Defra. The scheme will create a vast interconnected web of potential and existing wildflower habitats across the whole country. Catherine Jones, pollinator officer at Buglife, said: "A complete England B-Lines network is a real landmark step in our mission to reverse insect declines and lend a helping hand to our struggling pollinators. We hope that organizations and people across England will help with our shared endeavor to create thousands of hectares of new pollinator-friendly wildflower habitats along the B-Lines." Buglife is asking people to grow more flowers, shrubs, and trees, let gardens grow wild and to mow grass less frequently, not to disturb insects, and to try not to use pesticides. Almost 17,000 tonnes of pesticides are sprayed across the British countryside each year. The country has lost 97 percent of its wildflower meadows since the 1930s and 87 percent of its wetlands. Both of these habitats support a huge array of wildlife." Alright, that's it for today's gardening news. Now, if you'd like to check out my curated news articles and blog posts for yourself, you're in luck, because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There's no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group. Important Events 1901 Today is the anniversary of the death of botanist Charles Theodore Mohr. Although he was born in Germany and educated in Stuttgart, Charles became one of Alabama's first botanists. He emigrated to the United States in 1848. A trained pharmacist, Charles traveled the world before settling in Alabama, and he especially enjoyed collecting plant specimens in Surinam. Charles's travel log shows that he even participated in the California gold rush and lived Mexico, Indiana, and Kentucky before settling in Alabama. In 1857, Charles started Chas. Mohr & Son Pharmacists and Chemists in Mobile, Alabama. Charles spent his entire life collecting and organizing his specimens. In fact, by the time his book on the plants of Alabama was published, Charles was seventy-seven years old. After Charles died, his herbarium specimens were donated to the University of Alabama Herbarium (15,000 specimens) and the United States National Herbarium (18,000 specimens). 1935 Today is the anniversary of the death of the poet George William Russell, who went by the pseudonym AE. Russell attended the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin. There he met a lifelong friend - the poet William Butler Yeats. Russell became the editor of The Irish Homestead. His famous quotes include the following: "Our hearts were drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see." "You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time." 1967 Today is the anniversary of the death of Wood Expert and xylotomist Arthur Koehler. Xylotomy is preparing little pieces of wood and then examining them under a microscope or microtome. Koehler worked as a chief wood technologist at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin. Koehler's expertise led him to become one of the very first forensic botanists. When the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped in 1932, a homemade ladder was used to access the nursery. Koehler, along with 38,000 others, sent letters to the Lindbergh's offering prayers and assistance. Yet Koehler's expertise would become the linchpin to convicting the man accused of the crime, making Koehler one of the world's first official forensic botanists. Forensic botany is simply using plants to help solve crimes. Three months after the crime was committed, samples of the ladder were sent to Koehler. Koehler studied the pieces through his microscope discovered that four different kinds of wood were used to make the ladder—Douglas Fir, Ponderosa Pine, Birch, and North Carolina pine. In an interview with the Saturday Evening Post, Koehler was quoted saying, "I'm no Sherlock Holmes, but I have specialized in the study of wood. Just as a doctor who devotes himself to stomachs or tonsils … so I, a forester, have done with wood." A year later, Koehler was invited to see the ladder in person, and that in-person visit was revealing. Koehler discovered the ladder was handmade. He measured each piece to the nose, getting exact measurements. He understood how each piece was cut, how the pieces would have fit into a car, and then assembled at the Lindbergh home. Incredibly, Koehler was able to determine the origin of the piece of North Carolina pine used to build the ladder - it was sold in the Bronx. Ransom notes from the case lead police to hone in on the same area. Koehler was convinced the suspect would have the woodworking tools required to build the ladder. In the Lindbergh case, the wood from the ladder helped identify a carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann. When the police arrested Hauptmann, they not only found $14,000 of ransom money but the evidence Koehler could link to the ladder: the saws used to make the cuts, the particular nails used to build the ladder and a missing floorboard from Hauptmann's attic that was clearly used in the construction of the 16th rail of the ladder. In fact, when the rail was removed, it slipped perfectly back into place in Hauptmann's attic - right down to the nail holes and nails on the board. Koehler estimated the chances of someone else supplying the lumber for the ladder to be one in ten quadrillions. Koehler's knowledge and testimony during the trial were vital to Hauptmann's capture and conviction. The "Crime of the Century" solved by carefully studying the only witness - a "wooden witness." It was Arthur Koehler who said, "In all of the years of my work, I have been consumed with the absolute reliability of the testimony of trees. They carry in themselves the record of their history. They show with absolute fidelity the progress of the years, storms, drought, floods, injuries, and any human touch. A tree never lies." 1996 Today is the anniversary of the death of one of the 20th century's leading landscape architects, Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe. Jellicoe was multi-talented, but his true passion was landscape and garden design, which he described as "the mother of all arts." He was a founder member of the Landscape Institute. Over his 70-year career, Jellicoe designed more than 100 landscapes around the world. Jellicoe designed the John F Kennedy memorial site by the River Thames in Berkshire. Jellicoe's final and most ambitious project was the Moody Gardens in Galveston, Texas. Jellicoe imagined a design where visitors could walk through the history of the landscape, from the Garden of Eden and the gardens of ancient Egypt to a design inspired by Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain (1924). As the Moody Garden website acknowledges, "It was the culminating work of his design career but has not, as yet, been implemented. We live in hope." Jellicoe's favorite garden was the gardens he designed in Hemel Hempstead. Jellicoe designed the Hemel Hempstead Water Gardens to improve the quality of life for the townspeople. Jellicoe designed a canal with dams and little bridges to take visitors from the town parking lot to shopping. Jellicoe designed the canal after seeing one of Paul Klee's paintings of a serpent. Jellicoe said, "The lake is the head, and the canal is the body," wrote Jellicoe in his book Studies in Landscape Design. "The eye is the fountain; the mouth is where the water passes over the weir. The formal and partly classical flower gardens are like a howdah strapped to its back. In short, the beast is harnessed, docile, and in the service of man." Unearthed Words Here are some words about the Dog Days of summer - which officially started on July 3 and runs through August 11. How hushed and still are earth and air, How languid 'neath the sun's fierce ray - Drooping and faint - the flowerets fair, On this hot, sultry, summer day. — Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon ("Lew-Pro-awn", Canadian writer and poet, An Afternoon in July Cool in the very furnace of July The water-meadows lie; The green stalks of their grasses and their flowers They still refresh at fountains, never dry. — John Drinkwater, British poet and dramatist Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. — Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture critic, and writer A ladder sticking up at the open window, The top of an old ladder; And all of Summer is there. Great waves and tufts of wistaria surge across the window, And a thin, belated blossom. Jerks up and down in the sunlight; Purple translucence against the blue sky. "Tie back this branch," I say, But my hands are sticky with leaves, And my nostrils widen to the smell of crushed green. The ladder moves uneasily at the open window, And I call to the man beneath, "Tie back that branch." There is a ladder leaning against the window-sill, And a mutter of thunder in the air. — Amy Lowell, American poet, Dog Days "Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it." — Russel Baker, American journalist and satirist Grow That Garden Library How to Make a Plant Love You by Summer Rayne Oakes This book came out in July of 2019, and the subtitle is Cultivate Green Space in Your Home and Heart. Michael Brune, the Executive Director of the Sierra Club, said, "I don't care what color your thumbs are —Summer Rayne Oakes will not only inspire you to connect with nature by taking care of plants but open your eyes to how even the humblest of them take care of us." Summer keeps over 500 species of live houseplants in her Brooklyn apartment. She's an environmental scientist, an entrepreneur, and (according to a New York Times profile) the icon of wellness-minded millennials who want to bring nature indoors. The book is 208 pages of plant passion and inspiration. It covers both plant styling and care. You can get a copy of How to Make a Plant Love You by Summer Rayne Oakes and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $15. Today's Botanic Spark 2014 The outdoor public art piece called Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red was installed in the moat around the Tower of London. The work commemorated the centenary of the outbreak of World War I and was made up of 888,246 ceramic red poppies, one for each British or Colonial serviceman killed in the War. The title, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, refers to the first line of a poem by an unknown soldier in World War I. For this magnificent piece fo public art, Paul Cummins designed the ceramic poppies, and Tom Piper handled the conceptual design. Almost one million of Paul's ceramic red poppies appeared to burst forth from the Tower and then flow across the moat. Poppies seeped out of the Weeping Window and cascaded down a wall. Almost 20,000 volunteers helped with the installation. And, although it was started on this day in 2014, it was not completed until November 11 of that same year.
Chafic Kazoun is passionate about cocktails and even has his own cocktail bar at home! Listen in to hear more about the secrets to a good cocktail and most importantly what the word is in Mandarin Chinese! Read extended show notes for this episode here: https://www.chineasy.com/talk/lessons/189-cocktail/ Explore various topics, special guests, and expansive list of useful Chinese phrases on Talk Chineasy website! goo.gl/VJ8plT Want to practice the pronunciation of words taught in this episode? Have fun learning with activity sheets, recap video, coloring book, and more. Become a Golden Chineasian to enjoy exclusive premium content! goo.gl/vjbtL9
Do you enjoy wine? Entrepreneur and CEO of Beeline Medical Chafic Kazoun is also an avid drinker of fine wines! ShaoLan teaches him the essential words in Chinese to know how to ask for and how to describe fine wine. Read extended show notes for this episode here: https://www.chineasy.com/talk/lessons/165-good-wine/ Explore various topics, special guests, and expansive list of useful Chinese phrases on Talk Chineasy website! goo.gl/VJ8plT Want to practice the pronunciation of words taught in this episode? Have fun learning with activity sheets, recap video, coloring book, and more. Become a Golden Chineasian to enjoy exclusive premium content! goo.gl/vjbtL9
How do you say ”software” in Chinese? Software engineer turned entrepreneur Chafic Kazoun calls in from the USA to find out more from ShaoLan. Read extended show notes for this episode here: https://www.chineasy.com/talk/lessons/163-software/ Explore various topics, special guests, and expansive list of useful Chinese phrases on Talk Chineasy website! goo.gl/VJ8plT Want to practice the pronunciation of words taught in this episode? Have fun learning with activity sheets, recap video, coloring book, and more. Become a Golden Chineasian to enjoy exclusive premium content! goo.gl/vjbtL9
Jamie's a Canadian from Calgary who worked his butt off to chase the pro cycling dream. He made it to Europe and raced professionally there but with the option to do another year he decided the life wasn't for him and walked away from pro cycling to return to Squamish, BC where we both call home. Now, when it's pouring rain, 2 degrees out and we're both looking out the window, I'm dreading a 6 hour day training on the bike, soaked and freezing in the valley while Jamie is licking his chops, getting the tire chains on the Tacoma to head higher up the mountain where we both know it's nuking fresh powder. We both live for the epic days. The days that start before sunrise and finish with a headlamp. When you're totally buckled and just dying to get back to the trail head, fall into your car and B-Line to the local watering hole for Beers and Burritos. In any proper mountain town (not the rich touristy ski towns), as long as you're dressed to show you just had an epic one out in the mountains, locals excuse the smell and as you drink and feed from the fountain of youth, the stories start flowing. Here's some of those stories. To follow myself and more content go to jackburkecycling.com or follow me on Instagram jackflash66
When the great Mick Fleetwood sips some good whiskey with Fred Minnick over Zoom, the iconic Fleetwood Mac drummer digs deep into his personal life and shares details of his life he never has before. Along the way, he talks olfactory, missing hugs and restaurants during the pandemic and Peter Green, whom he credits for founding Fleetwood Mac. Follow Mick Fleetwood Twitter: https://twitter.com/MickFleetwood Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realmickfleetwood/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mickfleetwoodofficial/ Fleetwood Mac: https://www.fleetwoodmac.com/ Follow Fred Minnick Twitter: https://twitter.com/FredMinnick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fred.minnick/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fredminnick/ Sponsors Michter's: https://michters.com/ B-Line: https://findyoursippingpoint.com/ RackHouse Whiskey Club: https://www.rackhousewhiskeyclub.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pete Hitzeman makes his second visit to The Gravel Lot, and we rewind the tape to cover all those juicy background stories we missed the first time around. We also dive into The B Line, his new editorial column for TGL, and what we hope to bring to cycling media, cyclists, and the future of the show. Visit The B Line Follow TGL today: Facebook - Instagram - Twitter Subscribe to The Gravel Lot on the Wide Angle Podium Network and become a member TODAY and get access to EXCLUSIVE bonus content. Be Free Ride Bikes: The best kit on the market, customized to YOUR specifications. Learn more about WORX Powertools: Use code "GEARUP" at checkout for 15% off Grimpeur Brothers Coffee: Purchase The Full Schleck or Hello Cyclocross Friends Espresso and support WAP today! Handup Gloves: Use code "PEBBLE$" for 20% off EVERYTHING in store. Noxgear: Use code "pebbles" for 35% off your order Watch Unknown Country TODAY: Jake Wells' journey to the Dirty Kanza XL Visit The Gravel Lot website for our latest podcast, Real Talk videos, Bonus Content, shop, social media, and everything in between. Learn more about Undertipper and download their latest album “Y'all” at: http://undertipper.bandcamp.com/
Sam Appelbaum joins us from B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery! The cargo-tricycle-based logistics company has a few things up its hard-working sleeves, such as the Greater good box and Green Wheels from local market New Seasons. Sam also chats about trains, hammocks, COVID-19 era coworking, and the Skyline Tavern Tuesday ride! Thanks to our nationally recognized “top beer … Continue reading E512 – B•Line's Sam Appelbaum →
Anarchist Resistance In Prison: Jennifer A. Rose and Comrade Z On this podcast minisode, we feature the voices of two incarcerated comrades: Jennifer Amelie Rose and Comrade Z. Both chats were conducted through the mail and are voiced by comrades in the Channel Zero Network. Jennifer Rose [04:07-12:12] First you'll hear Jennifer Rose. Jennifer, formerly known as Jennifer Gann, is a member of the Fire Ant Collective which just released it's 6th issue and is due to put out another very soon. She is a trans woman who came up in the southern California punk scene, became politicized and began organizing inside of prison since the late 1990's. Jennifer Rose has a parole hearing that she could use support letters for coming up on July 28th, 2020 and also more letters in support of her commutation application. Read the transcription below. You can learn more about Jennifer Rose's case by visiting BabyGirlGann.noblogs.org where you can find out how to donate to her legal fund. You can read issues #1-5 of Fire Ant Journal up at Bloomington ABC's website & #6 at Blue Ridge ABC's website. And you can write to Jennifer at: Jennifer Rose E – 23852 Salinas Valley State Prison D3-1250 P.O. Box 1050 Soledad, CA 93960 You can find out how to format support letters, you can email her lawyer, Richard Rutledge at RLaw@RutledgeAttorneys.com or write to Mr Rutledge at: Richard Rutledge, Attorney At Law 7960 B Soquel Drive #354 Aptos, CA 95003 You can write letters of support to the Board of Parole Hearings on behalf of Jennifer by addressing them to the following address: Board of Parole Hearings Post Office Box 4036 Sacramento, CA 95812-4036 And you can write to the CA governor, Gavin Newsom on Jennifer's behalf by addressing them to: Governor Gavin Newsom1303 10th Street, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 Comrade Z [13:17-33:49] Since this was conducted in writing, Jennifer's words are being voiced by Margaret Killjoy, the host of the podcasts ‘Live Like The World is Dying' and ‘We Will Remember Freedom', both members of the Channel Zero Network. Then, we'll hear from Comrade Z, aka Julio Alex Zuniga, an anarchist prisoner in Texas, about the situation at the Darrington Unit. Comrade Z was mentioned by Jason Renard Walker at the end of our interview that we aired on April 19, 2020. Although all three conversations cover some hard to listen to subject matter, we want to give a special warning to Comrade Z's portion, which talks in detail about terrible conditions at Darrington and discusses suicide and death of prisoners. You can read another interview with Comrade Z that appeared recently on ItsGoingDown.org and you can check out and/or purchase his artwork on instagram by viewing @julioazunigaart. Thanks to Matt Brodnax for helping us set this interview up and his support for Comrade Z. Transcription: Comrade Z PDF (unimposed) Zine (imposed PDF) You can write to Comrade Z at: Julio A. Zuniga #1961551 Darrington Unit 59 Darrington Rd. Rosharon, TX 77583 Jason Goudlock As a closing note, I had hoped to share recent words from Jason Goudlock, currently incarcerated at Toledo CI in Ohio, give a brief update on his situation and how the ODRC is not handling covid-19 however technical difficulties got in the way. Suffice to say, prisoners were still being transferred into Toledo CI shortly before April 15th, prisoners were not given any significant protective gear nor cleaning supplies and folks were starting to get sick. Learn about Jason's case, watch the documentary about him and find out how to support him at FreeJasonGoudlock.org. You can reach Jason via jpay email or write him at Jason William Goudlock, #284-561 PO Box 80033 Toledo, OH 43608 . ... . .. Transcription of Jennifer Rose interview TFSR: Could you please introduce yourself for the audience? Who are you and where are you? Jennifer Rose: I'm glad to hear from you and happy to have this opportunity to participate in The Final Straw Radio. So, to introduce myself, my name is Jennifer Rose. I'm a a trans woman incarcerated in California and currently held at Salinas Valley State Prison, a men's facility. TFSR: Can you tell us a bit about where you came from and how you came to be incarcerated? Jennifer Rose:I'm from Southern California, born and raised in Riverside, and spent my teenage years living in Huntington Beach (Orange County). I was in the 1980's punk rock scene around the L.A. area doing a lot of drinking and drugs which led to my involvement in an attempted robbery and another armed robbery for which I was jailed, convicted and sent to prison for seven years. TFSR: How did you become politicized? Jennifer Rose: While I was serving my time at Folsom Prison, I became involved in prison protests and abolitionist struggle, for which I was targeted, placed in solitary confinement and beaten by guards. This is how I became politicized as a prison rebel, resisting brutality and torture, sabotaging and breaking a dozen prison cell windows in the inhumane ‘Ad-Seg' unit. I was involved in the gladiator fights where guards encouraged racial violence and then shot at us with 9mm assault rifles using live ammo. There were additional charges brought against me for attacking a pig officer, for weapon possession, and for two assaults on a state prosecutor and associate warden. For these I was given a 25 years-to-life sentence under the ‘three strikes' law. This was around 1995 and 1996. TFSR: Can you talk about the struggle of being a woman in a male-assigned prison? What sort of support have you received and what sorts of hurdles? Jennifer Rose: To answer your question about being a transwoman in a men's facility, we have faced the most adverse circumstances imaginable. From the discriminatory harassment and brutality of the pigs, to the hatred and violence of other prisoners, and even rapes and murder! This has began to change more recently, at last in California with many legal reforms and court victories. I have been able to find widespread support from outside groupls like Black & Pink and TGI Justice project, among others. Also, lots of support among abolitionist and anarchist collectives, and the extended family of LGBTQ prisoners. The main hurdles we face continue to be our unsafe housing conditions, exposure to homophobic and transmisogynist violence from gangs, domestic and sexual violence. We are in a very disadvantageous situation facing the various types of gender violence on a daily! TFSR: Is there anything else you'd like to say about how you discovered anarchism and what inspires you about anarchy? Jennifer Rose: I became politicized during the 1991 Folsom Prison Food Strike, which was a protest against proposed visiting restrictions that cut our visiting days from four times a week to twice (weekends and holidays). Just prior to this, I was given a copy of the anarchist zine Love & Rage by another prisoner and had also been influenced by Jailhouse Lawyers to educate myself about so-called legal rights and remedies for which I became a strong advocate. Eventually I would learn the hard way that the pigs don't give a fuck about the law, or peoples rights. It's only used at their convenience as a tool of social control and criminalization of marginalized people and communities. The people thing that inspires me about Anarchy is the simplicity of the idea, of abolishing the State and it's illegitimate Power. They claim their Authority from God and Natural Law… and originally as white male property owners under colonial government. That's crap! I love the basic concept of Anarchy, which is Freedom! It's basic principles of voluntary cooperation and mutual aid, non-hierarchy and autonomous collectives, internationalism and solidarity, etc. TFSR: Have you been able to do much organizing within prison? If so, around what sorts of issues and how did it go? Jennifer Rose: I've done a lot of organizing within prisons, including legal advocacy and ‘jailhouse lawyer' work, as former leadership in Black & Pink and working with TGI Justice Project to change discriminatory policies and improve living conditions for trans women in the men's prisons. We've had a lot of success and made progress over the past 12 years or so, including betteer access to basic trans health care (e.g. hormones, surgery, etc), access to and inclusion in prison programs and job assignments, accommodation of women's clothing and cosmetics and more awareness of and prevention of sexual abuse among other things. I am currently awaiting an approved gender affirming surgery and transfer to a women's facility sometime this year! TFSR: You mentioned in a letter with me that you organized briefly with Maoists. Are you now or have you ever been a Maoist (that's a Senator McCarthy joke)? But, really, how did that happen? What was that like? Jennifer Rose: As for Maoists, yes, I did work with MIM-Prisons for a while which offered study group sand worked directly with prisoners on many projects. I carried on a dialogue with them via correspondence, often debating with them over my anarchist sympathies and their political line on gender and State power (their ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat'). I did think I could work within that Maoist framework at one point, but eventually had to reject the ideological bickering sectarianism of Maoists. I've always been an anarchist at heart, even when I went through this stage in my personal development. Eventually I came in contact with insurrectionary anarchist writings from Greek comrades in the FAI-IRF and CCF, which I was strongly influenced by, and developed friendships with like-minded comrades. TFSR: You're a collective member of Fire Ant. Can you talk about the project and what part you play in it? Jennifer Rose: I'm extremely proud of my involvement as a member of the Fire Ant collective. The project started as a concept I was discussing with several different comrades via regular correspondence, including Robcat, Michael Kimble, Sean Swain and Bloomington ABC. We all had similar ideas of trying to organize and faciliate a national or international anarchist prisoner conference where we could bring together the collective voice of imprisoned anarchist rebels, perhaps publish a paper, start a support fund to raise funds and material aid, and generally build anarchist prisoner solidarity in a way we haven't yet seen! We've always had ABC and National Jericho Movement mainly focus on leftist ‘political prisoners.' Many imprisoned anarchists are not recognized as ‘political.' In point of fact, we are anti-political! However, we believe that ALL prisons are political. Anyways, the part I played is pulling all these comrades' ideas together, and putting them in direct contact about this exciting project. Once Robcat offered to facilitate a zine, Bloomington ABC offered to provide printing and distribution free! And they also halready had a support fund set up. So we all pulled together and formed the Fire Ant collective. Robcat came up with the name and we all contributed to the zine connecting our individual and collective struggles from prisons across the U.S. and internationally! I'm proud to be an accomplice in this seditious conspiracy toward worldwide anarchist insurgency. TFSR: There have been some victories of recent in your sentence. Can you talk about what happened? Jennifer Rose: As far as my recent sentence reduction on October 28, 2019, this only affected one of my sentences for assault and battery on the prosecutor, a ‘non-serious' felony, which was knocked down from 25-years-to-life to 8 years. Yay! TFSR: Similarly, you were telling me of improvements in the conditions of your confinement as relates to gender, right? And what are next steps for you and what can listeners do to support you and try to hasten your release? Jennifer Rose: My next steps are getting my surgery, transferring to a women's facility, and a parole suitability hearing on July 28, 2020 with the Board of Parole Hearings (BPH). The greatest support comes in the form of letters to the Board and/or the Governor advocating for my release, and any amount of commissary funds which I can receive via jpay.com. TFSR: I'm not sure if you're much of a reader, but do you have any book suggestions for the audience? Jennifer Rose: As for recommended reading, I would strongly suggest the Emma Goldman autobiography and Assata Shakur autobiography, Michelle Alexander's ‘The New Jim Crow', and anything by Butch Lee, Sean Swain or Greek insurrectionary anarchists of CCF! TFSR: Any comrades you want to shout out on the show? Jennifer Rose: Shoutouts to Robcat, Breezy, Michael Kibmle, Sean Swain, Eric King, Marius Mason, Jeremy Hammond, Sacramento Prisoner Support, Nashville ABC, Nadja in Bloomington and Chelsea Manning! And in case I missed someone, solidarity to all anarchists and antifascists! Thank you for your efforts in the struggle. To The streets!!! Thank you! . ... . .. Transcription of Comrade Z interview TFSR: Would you please introduce yourself for the audience? Who you are, where you are, how you got there? Comrade Z: Hello Everyone, Thank you for having me on The Final Straw. It's an honor. My name is Julio A. Zuniga. Alex is what everyone calls me, or Comrade Z for those who are standing with me 10 toes down in solidarity. I am a survivor of B-Line solitary confinement at Dirty Darrington Unit and currently trying to reach out to activists and anarchists in the area who can help me organize a statewide work stoppage. Enemy of the State and of the Dirty Darrington administration, my whole heart and soul is hellbent on bringing the attention of the entire nation to the administration and it's human rights violations, cruel and unusual punishment, physical assaults by staff, mailroom policy changes, inadequate law library, commissary price gouging, infestation of roaches, mice and spiders, sewage leaks in the cells, constant power outages, the list goes on and on. The torture tactics are of primary concern because it's driving people to die by suicide. So far it's been 1 suicide per year since I've been here. How I got here was because abolitionists in East Texas rose up against Telford Unit, for Housing Administrative Segregation inmates at that facility without telling the surrounding community about it. They were against it. People of New Boston, TX and Texarkana found out about TDCJ housing G4 and G5 offenders because an Officer Davison was murdered by a solitary confinement offender who was being tortured by Telford Unit by withholding his mail and refusing him basics he needed, like food. This caused the entire town to begin the takedown of wardens and the torture of all inmates by using lockdowns for 90 days or more, then by stopping all hot meals for an entire year in 2017. So, since that officer died in 2015, it was the people who brought forth change to that unit. It is now a pre-release unit, no administrative segregation offenders and no solitary confinement. I was not blessed with any kind of support, so I intentionally got into trouble just so they could ship me off. Best move I ever made, so I thought. However, that is how I ended up here. TFSR: What can you tell the listeners about Darrington Unit and your experience being held by the TDCJ? CZ: The Dirty Darrington Unit is a hub unit. Thousands of inmates pass through here weekly, transferring to other units, coming off of UTMB Medical Branch at Galveston, or Psyche Unit Jester 4. Some of them are bleeding, soiled in feces and urine. All mentally ill persons coming off Jester 4 have had no kind of hygiene for over 3 days. All these lay over cells are so unsanitary it takes a healthy person 24 hours to get sick by sleeping in one of these cells. There is nothing humane about that. They usually house people with wrong custody levels, endangering lives at will, resulting in physical and sexual assaults. It's Dirty Darrington's specialty. I encourage you to ask administration how many lives Dirty Darrington has claimed because they refused to help suicidal inmates. Also, how administration uses offenders to snitch on others with a false hope of beating a disciplinary case, then throw them back into population, leaving them to kill themselves behind the dishonor. On the 2nd week of November 2019, a guy killed himself after spilling the beans on others. When he asked them to help him because he felt suicidal, they ignored him. This is the suicide I witnessed that really proved verbatim the words Sean Swain voices in Last Act of the Circus Animals. When Rico killed himself, the show was like Cirque de Soleil. You had every basic need availed to you – blankets, mattresses, toilet paper, toothbrushes, toothpaste, cleaning materials, officers serving trays like they do in population with full portions. They even gave us light bulbs. It was disgusting to see it. You saw paint crews, utility crews, the works. For a week the unit experienced humanity, but once the coast was clear and the administration got away with murder, it was back to torture tactics, a pattern I have seen one too many times on Dirty Darrington. Overall my experience has been depressing, lonely, stressful, painful. I've seen this administration use psychological torture for 23 months straight, for this is how long I've been held in solitary confinement. Only recently was I magically released and placed in E-Line (G5) administrative segregation - the filthy administrative segregation area that is notorious for roach infestations, no lighting in showers, no restrooms on the rec yard so if you have to urinate or have a bowel movement you are going to on the same area men play basketball. Fecal matter is all over the floor and people wonder how they got sick. Easy – as soon as you come in from outside rec, they serve chow. If you have been playing basketball then munch on your baked chicken, then suck the grease off your fingers. You just sucked on chicken flavored fecal matter and urine. Dirty Darrington knows exactly what it's doing. Environmental disaster, B-Line, E-Line, G-Line, A-Line, C-Line, D-Line are all torture areas. In the winter it's cold showers. In the summer they heat your water for you. No coincidence. There is so much more. There are over 200 men in administrative segregation and solitary confinement on Dirty Darrington. Some men are going through it worse because they believe this is normal prison policy. It's not. I'm here to expose this unit and it's human rights violations. I appreciate you hearing me out. TFSR: It's hard to imagine that the staff and administration aren't aware of the conditions there. Are they showing any signs of working to fix the situation? CZ: I knew something was terribly wrong with this unit when it runs through 4 wardens in less than 2 years. They are aware of every single atrocity. They personally handle all grievances and it's rare an inmate ever wins on Step 1. They have to go all the way to Huntsville with their grievance to get fair treatment. By that time it's been 60 days solid since the claim was made. It's designed this way to ensure we never win any kind of grievance claim. Another way, as it is now, that they refuse us grievances all together on Dirty Darrington because they also are aware that if they hand them out they will be reading grievances for years. They know this place is crumbling to pieces. If it rains outside it rains inside too. The guards look like underwater welders when it rains. They wear rain coats indoors to stay dry. Nothing is being done except punishment and enslavement. I am on a mission to learn from outside sources how to organize, to create a psychological warfare on this administration in the name of all the dead that could not deal with their torture chambers and for the mentally ill who cannot speak out against them who are, as we speak, living in horrible conditions on Major Pharr's solitary confinement. It's only a matter of time before another death by suicide. We can thank Dirty Darrington's Administrative Segregation ringmasters for imposing torture on the already weak men by starving them, by withholding their mail, by refusing mailroom to give them pictures of loved ones or birthday cards, or by sending their shakedown team to physically abuse them and confiscate their property. It's all designed to break you. It's happening every day. TFSR: How do the conditions you've described above affect the health of prisoners? What's the condition of physical and mental healthcare available at Darrington Unit? CZ: Personally I don't get sick easy, but since being on Dirty Darrington I've had a serious sinus infection, primarily from the mold in the showers and the dust that carries all kinds of germs. As far as psyche at Dirty Darrington goes, it's got potential. As far as physical, you've got the infamous Nazi doctor Speer, extorting everyone, but not giving adequate care to anyone. If you get sick they still allow this idiot to practice. Nothing gets done about his childish outbursts. He once tried to do a rectal exam on me, He said it was my yearly check-up. This was the first time I met him. As he stood up and slapped on a latex glove my spidey-sense told me to ask a simple question, “What's the name on the computer, sir?” He said “You're Contreras #... blah blah blah” I was like “I'm out!” I've had problems with this doctor ever since, namely because retaliation is a trend on Dirty Darrington when you file a grievance. I tried to explain to everyone what this man tried to do. No one tried to help. He's still here. All my medical treatment was taken away by this man for no reason other than I am or was chronic care hypoglycemic. If you have heat restrictions, work restrictions, anything that will make your ailment easier to handle Dr. Speer will terminate it and then send you into a Twilight Zone of sick calls, just so he can charge the co-pay. Others – he refuses to treat simply because it's not life or death. TFR: Can you talk about the suicides that you've been aware of during your time and are there any in particular you'd like to reflect on? Are there any strings that tie the circumstances together? CZ: Well, I've been on Dirty Darrington for two years, going on three. I got screwed out of my legal work, got all my medical restrictions taken away, basically because I am indigent and I have no one on the outside to call here and raise a fuss, which is the only time you see inmates get what they need. So, B-Line 3rd row, 15th cell, 2018 – A young man hung himself. The image of a nurse chest compressing this man never left me. It really caused me a lot of anger. It was senseless. It taught me just how they break men's minds. It would disgust you. I remember this older man who would wake up screaming and just slowly, losing all reality, these torturers left him in that cell with a stack of trays, full of food with dead mice and roaches that he would just stack up toward the end of his sanity. Inmates could smell death. They tried to talk to him but couldn't stand the stench of death. So, they brought Captain Lance the kitchen boss to remove the trays, stacked 20 high. But, you cannot talk to a broken man. He was a vessel, nothing more. After 2 canisters of pepper spray, still nothing until finally Captain Lance had the courage to tell administrators that he was no longer right. It was his voice that forced them to send him off that night, never to be seen again. For months they left that man in this condition. It's happening now. This is normal? I'm not trying to hear that. For these men, I ask to be armed with support, to feed the torturers a taste of their own medicine. I opened my eyes all the way at this past suicide in November 2019. I'm done talking. We need a bombardment of activism, protest, support. We need an uprising so this administration will be forced to take responsibility for all their fuckery. One thing I know is we have nothing to gain for staying in good standing. “Good time credit” is not counting toward parole. “Work time credit” is another tool they have to control prisoners. Only the prisoners that still believe in the tooth fairy are too scared to accept this fact. People have tried for years to have these laws passed. Republicans are not interested in helping us. With a statewide work stoppage we will bring all these men's dreams to fruition. We need to spread these facts to the entire state and shut it down. Stop slaving for your ringmasters. You want a real change, stop doing your slave jobs. Stop putting money in politicians pockets and ask them to put it your account to pay for the work you do. Slave days ended over 150 years ago – Why do you volunteer to work for the oppressor? Those of you who have no one, wouldn't you like to support yourself in prison instead of risking solitary confinement for stealing food to sell in your living areas for hygiene. I can go on and on. TFSR: What are working conditions like the prisoners incarcerated by the TDCJ as you've experienced? What sort of privileges come along with work, what sort of pay (if any), and sort of work is it? CZ: They work these guys to exhaustion. They do not pay. The work is back breaking. No one will receive as much as an extra portion of food. These units are still slave plantations, only the name has changed. Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Research “The Sugarland 95” – You'll see what I'm talking about. It's time to bring this slavery to a screeching halt. TFSR: How have you experienced support while you've been on the inside? What would you like from folks on the outside? CZ: I had to go to extremes again to have the support I have today. I never conformed to prison culture. I love tattoos, motorcycles, art, hunting, fishing, boats and the only way I was ever going to see or hear about that is by reaching out. As a result of picking up a contraband cell phone I met “Mongoose Matt” by calling a random tattoo shop. Haha! It was awesome. Fineline Tattoo NYC is Matt's workplace and it took all but 60 seconds to make one of the best friends I've ever had. It makes me so proud to say that. Shortly after getting pinched for contraband Matt has been there through all my solitary confinement, sending in anarchist literature, commissary bread for hygiene and art supplies, and in 7 years now on a 15 year sentence for a so called “murder” it's his solidarity and support that saved my life and sanity. Dirty Darrington had officers from the McConnell unit come hit us for shakedown and those creeps took all my property and left me with nothing. This was my breaking point. I just felt like giving up, but Mongoose comes flying in with letters and powerful words of encouragement and because of him I am fighting today. They tried to break me intentionally. I know this for a fact. Only problem is I survived. TDCJs “Cease to speak or cease to breathe” motto doesn't scare me. I have nothing to lose. Now, I'm asking for you to stand with me until we punch a hole in this darkness and make it bleed light. Sean Swain is the other reason I fight. How you doin Sean? Here's the deal – folks out there, my only weapon at the moment is this here pen. I want surrounding activists to contact me so we can get started. This is still far from over and I believe that it's only through the voice of the people that we can bring this down on a statewide level. I could use all the support available in my fight against the state. Things are slowly changing for me, so I will be allowed more visitors on Dirty Darrington Unit. Soon I will be allowed to call out. In the meantime, anyone can write me. There is so much to learn and prepare. No doubt that without your direct support places like Dirty Darrington and surrounding plantations will continue to thrive, rubbing it in the community's face. The Texecution state is also a slavery state. Shut em down. Nobody is gaining a thing. It's a slap in the face when the officials of the state come here to lie to everyone that they are doing everything they can to change these laws so that we actually become productive. The only laws passed are laws to make it harder on us to get home to our families. For the oppressed indigent offenders who cannot afford hygiene products, organizing a hygiene run to bring forth relief, peace of mind, and a sense of compassionate care. I've seen exactly how good this place could be, but as long as we have ringmasters like these hypocrite wardens, coward-ass majors and captains, vindictive supervisors who love to use cowardly acts and body slam people while in restraints such as Sergeant Akinsonu, Sergeant Williams, Sergeant Estrada, Sergeant Baker, who writes her own rules when it comes to keeping people down. All these cowards and a few more on my shit list need to be burned at the stake for their inhumane treatment of human beings. We need to give them a little perspective. We need to all come at them via phone calls, media, advocacy centers, anyone that can hit them where it hurts, to show them that we are not alone. We are not going to accept this kind of abuse and pretend it's normal. It's policy. Policy is made up as they walk to the pisser. It's a shame the population is in love with their ringmaster. As a survivor of these gulags, food is still the #1 tool used to break solitary confinement offenders. Many months I went hungry and many months I eat the unwanted veggies inmates discarded just to survive. Sometimes portions were almost a smear of meat on tray. We need to end this today. TFSR: What inspires you these days? What brings you joy? CZ: Oh that's easy – Defiance from Detritus Books is my inspiration. I've gotten very close to Comrade Mongoose and against the peace and dignity of the Texecution State I'm in constant contact with Comrade King and Comrade Swain. I wish them the best in the struggle and hope to see them soon, for I am coming up for parole soon. It's a crap shoot, but optimism is helpful in situations such as this. I get my jollies by sending Matt handcrafted portraits of all kinds of cool, weird characters. Y'all are actually owners of one of my pieces. Thank you. TFSR: Is there anything I failed to ask you about that you want to talk about? CZ: You all can check out my Instagram @julioazunigaart or contact Matt to place an order for a handmade portrait. I only have No.2 pencils to work with because this unit will not allow my supporters to send me art supplies. Anything that makes people happy like greeting cards and pictures are slowly being taken from us as well. Go figure. This is Bible seminary college too. This is the unit that pumps out “field ministers”. Unbelievable, huh? Bass-akwards, I tell ya! I gotta let ya go for now. It's been an amazing and liberating experience. You all are amazing. Please allow me to send hugs to Sean Swain, Eric King and to all the comrades who are in the trenches fighting their ringmaster. Thank you for setting the example. I hope to be in that position soon. Thanks y'all. Hope to hear from you soon. I would like to close with a quote from Benjamin Tucker: “Power feeds on its spoils and dies when its victims refuse to be despoiled. They can't persuade it to death; they can't vote it to death; they can't shoot it to death; but they can always starve it to death.” . ... . .. Tracks heard in this podast: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - You've Really Got A Hold On Me (instrumental) RZA - The North Sea (instrumental)
Just how many pollinators can you find on one wild carrot flower? And what exactly is a pollinator? Listen to find out! In this podcast episode, Kaska and Johanna Willi, Fife Council's Biodiversity Officier, marvel at the flowers, bugs and beasties which can be found in Tayport’s wildflower meadows established by Fife’s Buzzing project. PLANT volunteers turned out in force to do the sowing and planting in the Spring of 2016. We hear about the extraordinary benefits of this project for protection of these rapidly vanishing natural spaces locally and how it’s already helped our precious pollinator dwellers. Tips on how to make home for pollinators in your own backyard are also included. Project team was careful to involve Tayport community in selecting the meadow sites, they held consultation 'drop-in' event with the Community Council, and also consulted park users in the Common. Fife’s Buzzing was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Fife Environment Trust. Partners in the project included Fife Council and Buglife Scotland. Land owners involved ac included The Woodland Trust Scotland, Fife Golf Trust, St Andrews Botanic Garden, CommScope, Dalbeath farm, Fife Council. Resources: Fife’s buzzing project: https://www.buglife.org.uk/projects/fifes-buzzing/ Buglife’s B-Lines project providing wildlife corridors for insects to connect fragmented habitats (Tayport is on a B-Line!): https://www.buglife.org.uk/our-work/b-lines/ All things bumblebee at Bumblebee Conservation Trust website: https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/ Exploring pollinators – backyard science: Count pollinators visiting your flowers https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/pollinator-monitoring. Flower-Insect-Timed Counts which involve monitoring a flowering plant in a 50x50cm square for 10-15 minutes and counting the different pollinators that visit the flowers. Record bee-flies for Bee Fly watch (April – June): https://www.brc.ac.uk/soldierflies-and-allies/bee-fly-watch Spotting bumblebees on a BeeWalk: https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/beewalk/ Ideas on how to support pollinators in your garden: - Buglife Make a Mini Meadow: https://www.buglife.org.uk/get-involved/gardening-for-bugs/make-a-mini-meadow/ - Buglife How to make a community meadow: https://www.buglife.org.uk/how-to-make-a-community-meadow/ - RHS plants for pollinators (many ornamental plants included): https://www.rhs.org.uk/science/conservation-biodiversity/wildlife/plants-for-pollinators - Wildlife gardening tips from Wildlife Trusts: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/gardening - Garden for life leaflets (Scotland): https://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/local-environmental-quality/community-projects/garden-for-life/resources/
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Chris Hawkes had to pivot his product from peanut butter to eventually making natural energy boosters for active people. B-Line came from a lack of healthy options for boosting your energy on the trail. After having experience with product marketing in the past he took his skills to building his idea and eventually got distribution. Entrepreneurs like Chris learn on the go and pivot their marketing and product strategy along the way.
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Edison Wrzosek was on the B-Line bus eastbound when the commotion began… Edison said that the bus then came to a full stop at the Heather stop… and that's when things took a dramatic turn. Unfortunately, Edison says that this situation has changed how he feels about transit…
在第七届中国移动全球合作伙伴大会上，中国移动咪咕携手康佳集团、创维酷开、海信、奥维互娱、尼尔森等合作伙伴，共同成立了“智慧大屏广告生态共同体”。中国移动宣布将启动“2020年双百亿计划”，2020年将在大屏内容投入50亿元，进一步推动内容、应用、超高清、家庭智能终端等大生态建设，运营商专网广告或将成为大屏营销的新机会。 36氪获悉，B站推出国产原创动画扶持计划——“小宇宙新星计划”，面向所有国产原创动画的创作者，包括在校学生，独立动画人，动画工作室等，由专业评委对其原创动画作品进行评定。新星计划最终评选出了金银铜以及三个单项奖共7部作品，并给予金奖20万元，银奖各5万元，铜奖各3万元，单项奖各1万元的现金奖励，此外，优质作品将有机会与B站签约并进行系列化开发。 据产业链最新爆料称，华为正在全力生产Mate X这款新机，不过由于京东方折叠屏良品率的问题，所以Mate X的供货量不会很大，目前双方正在一起努力解决生产问题，当然这更多的还是为明年3月份那款Mate Xs做准备。 36氪获悉，金山办公将于11月18号，也就是今天，在科创板挂牌上市，上市前夕，金山软件董事长雷军发全员信表示，“从1988年金山创办到今天，WPS走了整整31年。从1999年以金山办公为业务主体准备上市算起，到今天，我们足足等了20年。WPS和金山的历程，就是一个坚持梦想并最终取得胜利的励志故事。”雷军说，WPS已经支持全球46种语言，覆盖全球220个国家和地区，月活跃用户3亿多人，“有WPS榜样在前，我们相信金山云、西山居等业务也将锐意进取，赢得更加辉煌的未来。” 韩国媒体近日关注，日本雅虎与韩国LINE商议合并事宜，认为如果双方成功合并，有望在亚洲互联网市场成为中国阿里巴巴和腾讯的对手。“领航员”公司与日本软银正在推进将各自的子公司LINE和日本雅虎合并的方案。报道称，双方最快有望于本月底就合并案达成最终协议。如果双方成功合并，将拥有超过1亿名用户，在日本互联网、移动市场占据强大的地位。 据国外媒体报道，苹果公司的语音助手Siri将来可能并不局限于语音识别。根据苹果向美国专利与商标局提交的专利申请文件显示，苹果正在开发一种全新的方法，通过在未来版本的Siri或其他系统中添加面部分析功能，来帮助Siri解读用户提出的请求。此举的目的是减少语音请求被误解的次数，苹果试图通过分析用户情绪来做到这一点，以进一步提高准确度。 迪士尼最新定档了五部漫威未定名新片。此前漫威影业已宣布、没定档的新片还有《惊奇队长2》、《银河护卫队3》、新《X战警》/变种人电影、新《神奇四侠》电影、新《刀锋战士》等。《蚁人3》也已在开发中。当然这次定档的新片里，不排除有新加入的项目或改档项目的可能。 8点1氪，今日言论。在非洲创业者大赛的决赛上，马云发表感想时直言：“过去几年中很多初创公司因为筹集了不少资金，而自以为非常成功，自己很讨厌这样。他建议当所有人都觉得未来前途光明时，更应该做好准备迎接挑战，坏事就要来了。” 在2019未来科学大奖颁奖礼现场，未来论坛理事会轮值主席张磊，对到场的中学生和家长说，“科学所代表的理性、好奇、求真精神，则是需要我们每个人终其一生去研习的必修课。”他在致辞中强调，未来论坛创立的初衷，就是希望撒下异想天开的种子，让大家更好地享受科学的乐趣。
在第七届中国移动全球合作伙伴大会上，中国移动咪咕携手康佳集团、创维酷开、海信、奥维互娱、尼尔森等合作伙伴，共同成立了“智慧大屏广告生态共同体”。中国移动宣布将启动“2020年双百亿计划”，2020年将在大屏内容投入50亿元，进一步推动内容、应用、超高清、家庭智能终端等大生态建设，运营商专网广告或将成为大屏营销的新机会。 36氪获悉，B站推出国产原创动画扶持计划——“小宇宙新星计划”，面向所有国产原创动画的创作者，包括在校学生，独立动画人，动画工作室等，由专业评委对其原创动画作品进行评定。新星计划最终评选出了金银铜以及三个单项奖共7部作品，并给予金奖20万元，银奖各5万元，铜奖各3万元，单项奖各1万元的现金奖励，此外，优质作品将有机会与B站签约并进行系列化开发。 据产业链最新爆料称，华为正在全力生产Mate X这款新机，不过由于京东方折叠屏良品率的问题，所以Mate X的供货量不会很大，目前双方正在一起努力解决生产问题，当然这更多的还是为明年3月份那款Mate Xs做准备。 36氪获悉，金山办公将于11月18号，也就是今天，在科创板挂牌上市，上市前夕，金山软件董事长雷军发全员信表示，“从1988年金山创办到今天，WPS走了整整31年。从1999年以金山办公为业务主体准备上市算起，到今天，我们足足等了20年。WPS和金山的历程，就是一个坚持梦想并最终取得胜利的励志故事。”雷军说，WPS已经支持全球46种语言，覆盖全球220个国家和地区，月活跃用户3亿多人，“有WPS榜样在前，我们相信金山云、西山居等业务也将锐意进取，赢得更加辉煌的未来。” 韩国媒体近日关注，日本雅虎与韩国LINE商议合并事宜，认为如果双方成功合并，有望在亚洲互联网市场成为中国阿里巴巴和腾讯的对手。“领航员”公司与日本软银正在推进将各自的子公司LINE和日本雅虎合并的方案。报道称，双方最快有望于本月底就合并案达成最终协议。如果双方成功合并，将拥有超过1亿名用户，在日本互联网、移动市场占据强大的地位。 据国外媒体报道，苹果公司的语音助手Siri将来可能并不局限于语音识别。根据苹果向美国专利与商标局提交的专利申请文件显示，苹果正在开发一种全新的方法，通过在未来版本的Siri或其他系统中添加面部分析功能，来帮助Siri解读用户提出的请求。此举的目的是减少语音请求被误解的次数，苹果试图通过分析用户情绪来做到这一点，以进一步提高准确度。 迪士尼最新定档了五部漫威未定名新片。此前漫威影业已宣布、没定档的新片还有《惊奇队长2》、《银河护卫队3》、新《X战警》/变种人电影、新《神奇四侠》电影、新《刀锋战士》等。《蚁人3》也已在开发中。当然这次定档的新片里，不排除有新加入的项目或改档项目的可能。 8点1氪，今日言论。在非洲创业者大赛的决赛上，马云发表感想时直言：“过去几年中很多初创公司因为筹集了不少资金，而自以为非常成功，自己很讨厌这样。他建议当所有人都觉得未来前途光明时，更应该做好准备迎接挑战，坏事就要来了。” 在2019未来科学大奖颁奖礼现场，未来论坛理事会轮值主席张磊，对到场的中学生和家长说，“科学所代表的理性、好奇、求真精神，则是需要我们每个人终其一生去研习的必修课。”他在致辞中强调，未来论坛创立的初衷，就是希望撒下异想天开的种子，让大家更好地享受科学的乐趣。
On the super-sized fifty-eighth Infinity Podcast — the gang rewatch ANT-MAN and tackle some Dawn Of X, but first: how is the MCU like Broadway? Could JOKER yield positive change? And does a famous dead author reframe Scorsese's New York Times essay? All this and more, on...”BREEDER B-LINE!” Excelsior! Instagram Twitter Email: theinfinitypod@gmail.com "This is Not a News" theme remix by Dan Purcell
Episode 36. A Man of a Million Noises featuring Tom Thum We are stoked to be joined for the 36th instalment of Beers, Beats & The Biz by the human orchestra himself, Tom Thum. We caught Tom in-between international gigs for a cracker of a conversation that spans his entire career, from graffiti to travelling the globe, to TED talks and making the music with his mouth. From his early days growing up along Brisbane’s B-Line and discovering graffiti to meeting the Hype twins, breakdancing and discovering his innate gift for making noise and turning it into success, Tom takes us there. Between it all we talk Brisbane, Joel Turner, getting ya passport stamped, TED Talks, Police Academy, recording techniques, fringe festivals, travel, breaking, being inspired by friends, fellow creatives and having a blue tick on social media. Thanks to Tom for his time and contributions. We are live now on iTunes, Soundcloud and Spotify: download, rate, subscribe, comment, share and thank you for tuning in to Beers, Beats & The Biz. Support The Podcast - www.patreon.com/BeersBeatsTheBiz Brought To You By The Beers Beats & The Biz Team Jake Biz Travis Broi Insideus
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The locations have now been confirmed for the six stations along the upcoming Broadway Subway line. The extension of the Millennium Line begins at VCC-Clark to the east, and ends at Arbutus to the west. The new stops include locations near Emily Carr University, Main Street, Oak Street, and Granville Street. The line will also connect to the existing Broadway-City Hall station, and the final stop will be at a new bus loop on Arbutus, where the B-Line will connect to UBC. Guest: Kenneth Chan Western Canada Editor for the ‘Urbanized' section of Daily Hive
Steve and McNew interview Julie Kirkpatrick about the B-Line, a program promoting the bourbon distilleries, bars and restaurants in Northern Kentucky (findyoursippingpoint.com). Today’s show was sponsored by the ABV Network’s Patreon Campaign (patreon.com/theabvnetwork). Intro music (Welcome to the Show) and outro music (That’s A Wrap) are both by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Check us out at: abvnetwork.com. Join the ABV Network Revolution by adding #ABVNetworkCrew to your profile on social media.
Constructing and maintaining a green building is a difficult and expensive process. One of the more difficult parts is conducting the required mobility survey. This is because the results are often inaccurate and, overall, useless to the building owner. When people are asked about how they move and how they travel, their answers often do … Continue reading B-Line helps design better spaces using actionable mobility data → The post B-Line helps design better spaces using actionable mobility data appeared first on Tech Podcast Network.
Constructing and maintaining a green building is a difficult and expensive process. One of the more difficult parts is conducting the required mobility survey. This is because the results are often inaccurate and, overall, useless to the building owner. When people are asked about how they move and how they travel, their answers often do not represent reality. Fortunately, B-Line is here to help record useable data and made sense of what you have.Rather than conducting interviews with people, hoping that they know what their travel pattern looks like, B-Line uses the occupants' actual travel patterns. People from the building are given access to the mobile app on their phone, where the company can anonymously track the user's behaviors and travel patterns. After the campaign is complete, the building owner is given access to a report detailing how their occupants actually move, making it truly actionable. All of this can be done for less money than traditional methods because no people have to be hired to conduct surveys and no manual data processing has to take place after.One of the big actions that can be taken based on the data is an accurate assessment of how many parking spaces are needed. While this might not sound like a big deal, parking spaces are incredibly expensive to maintain. The average parking space costs about $100,000 and can be a lot more in places like New York City or Los Angeles. If a building owner can eliminate just one spot, it can be a huge cost saving.To demonstrate the power of the platform, B-Line worked with a group of university students at the State University of New York in Syracuse. To start, CEO Aaron Short gave his presentation on how current methods are terrible. The students didn't believe him, and so they conducted a traditional mobility survey with the students and then turned on the system. The students got to see first hand just how little they knew about their travel patterns, and how easy it can be to get false data using traditional methods.The B-Line system can be used for more than just green building certifications. It can be applied to new community developments, universities, and even cities. The service is available now and you can get more information on their website.Sponsored by: Get $5 to protect your credit card information online with Privacy. Amazon Prime gives you more than just free shipping. Get free music, TV shows, movies, videogames and more.
Constructing and maintaining a green building is a difficult and expensive process. One of the more difficult parts is conducting the required mobility survey. This is because the results are often inaccurate and, overall, useless to the building owner. When people are asked about how they move and how they travel, their answers often do not represent reality. Fortunately, B-Line is here to help record useable data and made sense of what you have.Rather than conducting interviews with people, hoping that they know what their travel pattern looks like, B-Line uses the occupants' actual travel patterns. People from the building are given access to the mobile app on their phone, where the company can anonymously track the user's behaviors and travel patterns. After the campaign is complete, the building owner is given access to a report detailing how their occupants actually move, making it truly actionable. All of this can be done for less money than traditional methods because no people have to be hired to conduct surveys and no manual data processing has to take place after.One of the big actions that can be taken based on the data is an accurate assessment of how many parking spaces are needed. While this might not sound like a big deal, parking spaces are incredibly expensive to maintain. The average parking space costs about $100,000 and can be a lot more in places like New York City or Los Angeles. If a building owner can eliminate just one spot, it can be a huge cost saving.To demonstrate the power of the platform, B-Line worked with a group of university students at the State University of New York in Syracuse. To start, CEO Aaron Short gave his presentation on how current methods are terrible. The students didn't believe him, and so they conducted a traditional mobility survey with the students and then turned on the system. The students got to see first hand just how little they knew about their travel patterns, and how easy it can be to get false data using traditional methods.The B-Line system can be used for more than just green building certifications. It can be applied to new community developments, universities, and even cities. The service is available now and you can get more information on their website.Sponsored by: Get $5 to protect your credit card information online with Privacy. Amazon Prime gives you more than just free shipping. Get free music, TV shows, movies, videogames and more.
Steve continues to explore the B-Line, this time stopping in at Old Pogue Distillery (oldpogue.com). Check out the B-Line at: findyoursippingpoint.com. Today’s show was sponsored by the ABV Network’s Patreon Campaign (patreon.com/theabvnetwork). Intro music (Welcome to the Show) and outro music (That’s A Wrap) are both by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Check us out at: abvnetwork.com. Join the ABV Network Revolution by adding #ABVNetworkCrew to your profile on social media.
When two friends create an all-natural energy gel that’s as good as the processed alternatives, they shift into a higher gear and crank out a side hustle. Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are. Share: #SideHustleSchool Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com Twitter: @chrisguillebeau Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chafic Kazoun is passionate about cocktails and even has his own cocktail bar at home! Listen in to hear more about the secrets to a good cocktail and most importantly what the word is in Mandarin Chinese! Read extended show notes for this episode here: https://www.chineasy.com/talk/lessons/189-cocktail/ Explore various topics, special guests, and expansive list of useful Chinese phrases on Talk Chineasy website! goo.gl/VJ8plT Want to practice the pronunciation of words taught in this episode? Have fun learning with activity sheets, recap video, coloring book, and more. Become a Golden Chineasian to enjoy exclusive premium content! goo.gl/vjbtL9
Steve interviews Kim and Peter Newberry of Newberry Bros. Coffee and Prohibition Bar, as part of a series of shows exploring the B-Line (b=bourbon) in Northern Kentucky. Today’s show was sponsored by the ABV Network’s Patreon Campaign (patreon.com/theabvnetwork). Intro music (Welcome to the Show) and outro music (That’s A Wrap) are both by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Check us out at: abvnetwork.com. Join the ABV Network Revolution by adding #ABVNetworkCrew to your profile on social media.
Steve talks to Rick Zumwalde about his restaurant, the Purple Poulet (purplepoulet.com), which is on Northern Kentucky's B-Line (findyoursippingpoint.com). Today’s show was sponsored by the ABV Network’s Patreon Campaign (patreon.com/theabvnetwork). Intro music (Welcome to the Show) and outro music (That’s A Wrap) are both by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Check us out at: abvnetwork.com. Join the ABV Network Revolution by adding #ABVNetworkCrew to your profile on social media.
Steve, McNew, Miss Beka Sue and Royce talk about the B-Line (findyoursippingpoint.com), a group of distilleries, and bourbon-centric bars and restaurants clustered in Northern Kentucky. Today’s show was sponsored by the ABV Network’s Patreon Campaign (patreon.com/theabvnetwork). Intro music (Welcome to the Show) and outro music (That’s A Wrap) are both by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Check us out at: abvnetwork.com. Join the ABV Network Revolution by adding #ABVNetworkCrew to your profile on social media.
Do you enjoy wine? Entrepreneur and CEO of Beeline Medical Chafic Kazoun is also an avid drinker of fine wines! ShaoLan teaches him the essential words in Chinese to know how to ask for and how to describe fine wine. Read extended show notes for this episode here: https://www.chineasy.com/talk/lessons/165-good-wine/ Explore various topics, special guests, and expansive list of useful Chinese phrases on Talk Chineasy website! goo.gl/VJ8plT Want to practice the pronunciation of words taught in this episode? Have fun learning with activity sheets, recap video, coloring book, and more. Become a Golden Chineasian to enjoy exclusive premium content! goo.gl/vjbtL9
How do you say ”software” in Chinese? Software engineer turned entrepreneur Chafic Kazoun calls in from the USA to find out more from ShaoLan. Read extended show notes for this episode here: https://www.chineasy.com/talk/lessons/163-software/ Explore various topics, special guests, and expansive list of useful Chinese phrases on Talk Chineasy website! goo.gl/VJ8plT Want to practice the pronunciation of words taught in this episode? Have fun learning with activity sheets, recap video, coloring book, and more. Become a Golden Chineasian to enjoy exclusive premium content! goo.gl/vjbtL9
If you’re of a certain age, like your three esteemed hosts, there’s a fair chance you’ve heard the name The Eighties Matchbox B-Live Disaster. The smashed their way into the music press with this, their debut album, and a reputation for chaotic, enthralling on stage antics that captured the attention of music lovers and press alike. They also happened to pop onto the scene at the same time as a bunch of scuzzy garage rock bands, of which they sound absolutely nothing like. They arrived with the plaudits and credibility that some of those bands, like The Datsuns or The D4, hadn’t really shown. What’s more, their sound was just weird compared to what was going on at the time. They turned up, kicked the shit out of everyone, and stuck around to watch the scene pick up the pieces and vanish into the distance. And their reputation certainly wasn’t harmed by their strange look, either. ‘Horse of the Dog’ heralded the arrival of a truly strange, unique band who would later go on to release a further two albums which saw them showcase the whole gamut of their weirdness, moving away from bluesy, gothic psychobilly, to punk n roll, scuzzy desert rock and eclectic psyche. On this episode Chris lays bare his adoration for the band, and we cover the band’s back cat, talk about some of the weird support slots they picked up over their career, do a potted history of psychobilly and much more. Is ‘Horse of the Dog’ the best 80s Matchbox album? Vote on our Facebook page.
On Episode 19 of Shotgun The Aux we are joined by Bournemouth based DJ and Producer; Specifik.Head of Bournemouth based record label B-Line Recordings, Specifik has made his mark on the local Hip Hop community over the years, working with a multitude of emcees, producers, b-boys, graff writers and other creative types from the scene.We chat to Specifik about how he got into making Hip Hop, the ethos behind the B-Line label, the Second to None crew, graffiti, supporting Public Enemy, the state of UK Hip Hop right now and much more!Specifik also brought round a stack of vinyl from the B-Line back catalogue, which features some of the most prominent names in UK Hip Hop.This episode also features the tracks “Blade Runner” by Specifik feat. Cosm and Jabbathakut and “Kill The Slack” by Specifik.You can tune in to hear Specifik do his thing on the Cold Krush Radio show every Friday night at 8:30 on Trax FM.
Matthew and Patrick are back to talk almost all thing transit. Vancouver City Council considers the UBC subway and reimagining the Granville Street Bridge while West Vancouver debates a B-Line […] The post Boutique Buses and the Dunbar Diaspora appeared first on Cambie Report.
Note: The following content is created tongue-in-cheek style and is intended for the comedic entertainment and enjoyment of people who are not easily offended. If you’re easily insulted and get all mouthy and whatnot, understand that you may one day be mooned. By the host. While he’s driving. That’s just his way of saying, “Hi friend! You have no sense of humor!” Otherwise, proceed. This world is a dangerous place full of lazy people who’d rather take your money by force rather than work for it and teens who think every other day is a good time to create a new social media challenge like eating detergent pods or snorting condoms. That’s just to name a couple. While the world will never be truly fixed, I hope I can do my part to help by offering my own opinions and maybe - just maybe - we’ll take a step closer. I have three pieces of commentary that I think might lead us in a better direction. I’m Michael Blackston and this wasteland you’re about to enter ... it’s a little thing I like to call my Funny, Messy, Life. ____________________________________________________ It all starts with a mindset. We’ve got to take control of our thoughts before we can take control of our actions. Baby steps and crap. I try and take control at the beginning of every new year, but it might not be what you think. Recently a friend I just made up to segue into the story asked me how I was doing keeping up with the resolutions I’d made at the first of the year. I’ll tell you like I told my friend ... I Resolve NOT To Make Resolutions The Christmas season was a hard one due to all the stuff I had to do. I finally got it all done, but afterward I felt like I‘d been run over by the entire kick line of The Rockettes Magical Yule Tide Gala Christmas Under The Lights Holiday Bonanza Gala. Under normal circumstances, that might not have been such a bad thing. But in this analogy, these are the ladies that didn’t quite make the cut; the third string Rockettes who aren’t as good with their feet and definitely wouldn’t make the calendar. In that case, I’d rather not be trampled, yet that’s exactly how I felt. Follow that by the unseasonably warm weather and constant rain and you’ve got a good helping of the blahs. It just didn’t feel like Christmas to me. So I resolved to make the next year different. Because it’s up to us to choose our own attitudes. But I hate resolutions. People make them every year and rarely follow through. Gyms get an influx of new members who’ve resolved to get in shape. People buy brand new workout clothes and all sorts of exercise equipment as a result of their resolve. It doesn’t take long before those same clothes become bedtime wear and those pieces of exercise equipment become racks to hang the laundry you’ve not gotten around to putting in the closet.. Artists like me decide it’s finally time to start working on that masterpiece they’ve been meaning to get to and writers like me decide to compose that novel they’ve been talking about. The masterpiece sits, after the initial hesitant few strokes of the brush, unfinished for weeks, months, or years, all the while giving the artist an excuse we like to call a “work in progress”. The novel gets maybe ten to twenty pages old before it’s forgotten for something newer until the author can shake the “writer’s block”. Not to mention these common resolutions (Not To): Smoke Drink Cuss Fight Cheat Look at somebody else naked on the internet Look at yourself naked on the internet Have road rage Pick boogers Origami I decided to NOT make resolutions ever again. I know what I need to do and I don’t need some kind of a eureka moment or statement of dedication to make a thing happen. What I did decide to do is officially announce my anti-resolutions. These are things in my life I’m happy with and that I intend to keep in my routine. I will not be changing my intense need to create. I write, paint, draw, act, sing, compose, dance in the shower, and make puppets from socks I find on the side of the road. I don’t send thank you cards unless I didn’t get to thank you verbally and in person. I’m familiar with the “etiquette” argument, but I meant it the first time when I told you to your face. I don’t like to repeat myself. Did you get that? I don’t like to repeat myself. I touched on this in the last episode so why is it coming up again? Oh. I guess I brought it up. Just know that if you get the sense someone is avoiding you in Walmart, it’s me putting into practice my sweet ninja skills of invisibility so I don’t have to look you in the eye if I think you wanted a thank you note. I’ll always hate being continually spoken to after the initial “hello” if I’m sitting at a table and obviously engaged in my writing or if I’m reading a book. I appreciate the hospitality, I do. But if I’ve replied kindly and then redirected my attention to my task, that’s an indication that I wish for the conversation to be over. It doesn’t mean that I don’t like you. It just means that at that particular moment, I don’t like you as much as I like my story or my book. I’m sorry if that’s rude. We’ll have to debate it another day; a day when I like you better than what I’m writing right now. I will never change my stance on coffee. That stance is thus: Coffee is the nectar of God and my heavenly mansion will come equipped with an ever flowing river of java with just the right amount of cream and sugar. I will call the river, The Ever Flowing River Of Java With Just The Right Amount Of Cream And Sugar. I realize that there’re Snooty-Britches people who may be reading, listening to, or watching this and you might believe that coffee should only be swallowed if it’s black. You have the right to that opinion and I won’t harbor any ill will toward you for that conviction. However, should you be stranded on the side of the road in a thunderstorm with a temperature just above freezing with no cell service and I drive by in my working automobile while completely dry from head to toe with the heater on and drinking a hot cup of Joe touched by the angel of caffeine, don’t feel sad if I don’t stop. Me raising my steaming, creamy, sugery cup to you and pointing as I pass is just my way of saying, “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” I’ll remain staunchly against the summer. I’m a man of the fall and winter. I’m Mr. White Christmas. I’m Mr. Snow. I want to scrape my window every morning with a credit card because I keep forgetting to buy a proper window scraper. I know several of you people who will wholeheartedly take up the gauntlet for the cause of Summer. We’ll just have to respect each other from opposing sides of the street. And if you feel the chill of my gaze as I wish for Old Man Winter to blow his nose in your hair, that’s just my jolly way of saying, “STOP IT! HEAT IS HOT!” I think I’ve made my point about resolutions. They’re not for me. Another note: I warned you that I’d be satirically taking on a mean spirit in this article and that you might consider whether or not you could handle it. So I’m sorry if you’re angry now. Don’t worry, I didn’t mean to make you mad and I hope you’ll forgive me. If not, I ask the comedy muses to find really funny ways to make your life interesting when the new year comes. It’s just my kindly way of saying, “Nanny Nanny Boo Boo.” _____________________________________________________ So we understand now that it starts in our head and the action is to follow. Unfortunately one of the world’s biggest problems is that there tends to be this big wall made of TVs, video games, couches, and comfy blankets between us and the action. Well friends, fear not. I believe I have ... The Solution To Procrastination My son forgot all about a project for school until just hours till bedtime the night before it was due. Scratch that. It was overdue and he told us he’d be deducted 20 points from his final score for that, but at least he’d been given one more chance to present his 3-D scale model of the Great Pyramids of Egypt. When I asked why he’d waited so long to do it, especially when his mom and I have been on him about not turning in his work, I got the old, “I’m sorry! I forgot” routine. If you’ve ever been the parent of a teen, you’ll hear those words in your head with the tone the teen union insists its members use - the tone that suggests it’s all your fault. The truth was, he’d procrastinated. So there I was helping him to get it together and harping like dads do when teens act teenagery, while the past-his-bedtime clock ticked away. We still have issues to deal with when it comes to my son and his school responsibilities, but I have to admit that as a student, he gets it honest. It’s only been recently that I’ve learned to poke the devil of procrastination in the eye with a sharp stick. I recognize it’s a problem that haunts a lot of people. I didn’t get around to checking the actual numbers, but I’m sure there are a few. As a student, I put off doing my homework and projects too, but now I’ve discovered some keys to getting things done. Although I’d rather give you this lesson tomorrow, I’ll go ahead and do it while we’re here. These are some things I’ve put into practice in my own life in order to be able to write “The End” on the story of any particular task. They’re systems, if you will, that’ll help you find completion and be able to say, “I’m done!” These are tactical positions you can take in the war with your own personal devil and will serve as your own personal stick to poke in its own personal eye, shouting, “Take that, devil! That’s my sweet, sweet, efficiency in your eye socket!” These ideas are manna to the righteous ones who would follow the religion of the Go Getter. They’re suggestions that …. I suppose I should just get to it …. First, don’t hatch all your eggs in one horse’s mouth. We tend to be people who have too many irons in the fire. I know I’m one of them, so shut up if you know me and have told me so. I know I’m preaching to the choir. But as much as I love having a full plate in front of me at life’s supper table, I can’t eat it all in one bite. I have to take it by the mouthfuls and chew on it, then swallow it, then savor the awesomeness that was that bite. And I have to keep it separated because everybody knows that if your food touches, everything on the plate is ruined. Your tasks are the same way. If they’re all mixed up together, you got problems. The mashed potatoes of work are dirty dancing with the corn on the cob of your hobbies, which just rolled over from a sordid affair with the peas of your honey-do list. You can’t have that. You have to segregate them and tackle them one by one and in the order of your priorities. Second, give a name to each day of the week. This means assigning a task to each day, even if it’s just one a day, that MUST be completed before you can go to bed or sit up all night binge watching Andy Griffith on Netflix. Give each day a name; something like: Bills-Are-Duesday Mendsday, the day you mend stuff. Write-A-Few-Wordsday or ... Fred. You can think of any crazy name and make it fun. Do you think Barney would go to sleep with a job undone? I don’t think so. Well, on second thought, I think there was an episode where Andy caught Barney asleep in the back when he was supposed to be watching the Courthouse/Sheriff’s Office/Detox/Rehab facility of Mayberry. And now I want to watch that episode. I’ll get to that one day. When I feel like it. Third, get yourself an Accountability Partner. They’re all the rage and for good reason. They’re awesome. With an accountability partner, you have a partner to keep you accountable. Give them a list of things you need to have done every day before the sun sets and then get together with them to see if you made it happen or not. If you succeed, you get a nice pat on the back and maybe a gift certificate to a fancy day spa. And if you fail, you might have some sort of punishment in place to make you think about what you’ve done. For instance, you might have to buy your accountability partner coffee or a milkshake or a massage at one of those totally legit parlors with the dark windows and flashing neon. My wife is my accountability partner, but it’s a little different. She gives me the list of what I need to get done before the end of the day and then we discuss my success and failure over a tall glass of guilt. It’s a good motivator. Our prizes for success leave a lot to be desired, though. She put the brakes on the idea of getting me a massage at one of those parlors with dark windows. It’s a good thing too because a couple days later, the one I was thinking about got busted for somehting or other. As far as punishment for not doing the things she asked during the day, she did say it would be technically similar to the denial I was getting by being told I couldn’t go to a massage parlor, but that didn’t make a lot of sense to me. The main thing is: Keep the main thing the main thing the main thing thing. When you have too much stuff on your plate, making sure nothing touches and eating one bite at a time is definitely a difficult proposition. But if you want to succeed, you have to chew on one thing at a time and swallow it before you put another bite in your mouth. We’re back to the food analogy, but it fits. If you stuff bite after bite in without following through with the chew/swallow technique, you’re bound to choke. Make each task your priority and focus on that alone until you’ve finished it. You’ll choke trying to do everything at once. The thing is, if you do it all together, nothing gets done and you get frustrated about it and you don’t sleep because you feel like you’re just spinning your wheels and nothing is going right. If you leave the rest alone until the one you’re working on is finished, then you get to erase it from your mental chalkboard and forget about it. There’s nothing sweeter, except maybe baby chicken babies pecking at a ground covered in sugar cubes and Froot Loops. In the grand scheme of things, nobody but you and your accountability partner will probably ever know you’re a procrastinator. Okay, unless you’re a project manager who never manages their projects or a student who “forgets” to do his assignments. But you’ll definitely know and that’s what’s important. Having the confidence that you’re a doer, not a didn’t do yet’er, is a power that nobody but the devil can take from you. And since I poked a stick in his eye, I think he’ll be gone for a while. I mean, I’ll check to make sure he’s gone ... But it can wait till tomorrow. _____________________________________________________ Now we’re getting down to the nitty-gritty. I’ve fixed the procrastination issue and we come to what I think is one of the biggest problems we have in our society - Politics. People lean too heavily on them and while I respect that everyone has an opinion, how about we all keep them to ourselves unless we’re asked. In other words ... No Politics For You I like having lunch with my wife during the week. It doesn’t happen very often due to our schedules, but every now and then, we get the opportunity to break bread over an afternoon meal and share how our day is going. It’s cherished time. It’s a wonderful way to be spend a few moments together and remind ourselves why we fell in love with each other. We had the fortune to find an hour available at the same time recently, so we met and drove a few blocks over to a new café in town. We placed our orders, found our table while we waited for our food, and began the small talk that only a couple that’s been married for over two decades can appreciate. Our cell phones even took a backseat to the conversation. Everything was nice … until a dude walked in who thought it would be just the perfect place to begin a loud political rant. So now, I’m gonna step up on my own soapbox and do a little ranting myself. To that guy and everyone like him: I’m glad you have an opinion. But as they say, often very crudely, so I’ll tread lightly because there might be children listening - oh, and God … God is listening - Opinions are like a certain body part. Everybody has one. You’re entitled to yours, of course. It’s a free country. I think it even says something about speech in the constitution. But the middle of a restaurant while I’m trying to enjoy time with my wife and a greasy cheese steak is not the appropriate place to loudly proclaim it. To be honest, much of what the man was saying happened to be things I agreed with. But he said it in that way people do when they’re way too proud of themselves. He would make a boisterous political statement that included his recognition of what’s wrong with the country, then quickly glance around at the tables to make sure everybody could hear him; a little smirk riding on his face. My wife had to shush me after I said something loudly of my own about my feelings on being interrupted by Marty McPolitics. It didn’t help that the man looked like he was on his way to an audition for a Grizzly Adams reboot. And that would have been fine, but his L.A. hipster accent didn’t match his exterior and my OCD sensibilities didn’t care for the combo. He was one of those guys who had the long beard of a mountain man and camouflage apparel, yet you wouldn’t trust him to build your shelter if the two of you were lost in the woods together. Then again, I probably don’t look like the type you’d trust as your walking survival kit either, but I know my share about it. Thanks, dad! (And also every episode of Man Vs. Wild) Once he and his friend got their food, they took their conversation to private mode at a table across the room, but I kept noticing the loudmouth’s friend cutting his eyes at me and I wondered if he’d heard what I said earlier or maybe he favored my jeans and t-shirt ensemble to his friend’s get up that assumed an attitude more along the lines of, “I ain’t payin’ no dang prop’ty taxes. I’ll jess live in th’ woods down by th’ crick.” I know that in today’s climate political tensions are high. I realize that everyone stands on one side of the road or the other and they have their reasons for it. I encourage political discussion as long as I’m nowhere within five miles of it with earplugs firmly squished into my head via a Q-Tip so they can’t fall out, while loud CDs of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra or the soundtrack to Phantom Of The Opera blare away in the background. And if I could also order a herd of those screaming goats surrounding me at the time, that’d be great. Yes, politics are important. And yes, they should be discussed. I’ll do the research and I’ll know how to vote come time to step into the ballot booth. And if you’re the type who loves to debate, feel free to find some folks who are like-minded and go to your happy place of arguing to no avail and getting all hopped up on anger and adrenaline when someone says something you don’t like. Usually, that’s Twitter or Facebook. It’s all good. Just leave me and my meal out of it. I don’t want to be subjected to your thoughts when my only recourse is to either say something to you (which, as I said before, was immediately met with a “shut up or I’ll kill you” look by my wife), to get up and leave, or to try my best to ignore you while you infringe on my right not to listen to your yapping. Again, should I have found myself behind a podium or mixed up in a round of, “Why our country is on a B-Line for hell” with the men at church, this is a guy I would have chosen to stand beside me. He and I actually see eye to eye, politically. But SHUT YER PIE HOLE! I’M EATIN' PIE! I doubt the lady taking your order had the answer you provided in mind when she asked how you were doing today. The answer to that question should always be something along the lines of, “Great, and you?” not, “Well if (insert the politician you hate) had anything to do with it, we’d all be feeling like prisoners while they and the Big Money in Washington do everything they can to keep all of us under their thumbs and giving away all our rights and there are too many deer out there right now because they want to keep us from shooting too many and it’s all because of the government bureaus and their bureaucratic bureaucracy and what about cats and you know it’s the White House and who’s occupying it right now that released all the cats – and drones are coming up your toilet pipes while you’re sitting there and taking pictures of your hoo-hoo parts without you knowing it because Big Brother has to know every little detail about you.” (Since I said earlier that I agreed with the man’s ideals, I do feel it necessary to mention that the former tirade is a fictional and exaggerated account of what was actually said. I like cats.) It’s okay if you have your opinions, just don’t pepper my tomatoes with it. Facebook has a wonderful feature that I’ve come to be blissfully familiar with when it comes to people who can’t stop blasting out their politically laced commentaries. It’s called an “Unfollow” option. It’s absolutely your page and social media is a place for you to create all the content your little heart desires in whatever fashion you desire and however often you desire it. But I have the opportunity to step away if I so choose. I can live my life without having to be inundated with politics while you drone on and on and on without interrupting my meal. All I’m trying to stress is that while you have a right to your political thoughts and opinions and while there are certainly plenty of forums for your runaway trains of thought, I don’t have an “Unfollow” button I can click out there in the real world, so not everything and everywhere is that forum. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do something. I’m certain that young man who desperately needs to have a conversation with as razor is passionate and brings a lot to the table; I know he brought more than we ordered to our table. And we need to have dialogues about these things. You need to have done your homework before you place your vote. Otherwise stay home. We don’t need to be voting due to popularity or because your family has always voted a certain way. Know the issues and attempt to elect the person who fits the most closely with your ideals and who you think will be the absolute best choice. But while we’re learning and making our well-informed decisions, let’s keep it on the down low unless the conversation naturally leads there. Don’t walk into a restaurant all jacked up on emotion and beef jerky and start blurting out how the government is planning a hostile seizure of your cat hoard. That may be so, but I’m trying to eat. _____________________________________________________ Whew. I’m glad that’s done. The world can thank me. I’ve fixed it - at least a little.
Sharon's End of the Line (EotL) Adventures returns! Sharon makes a beeline for the B line for a mysterious adventure to Brighton Beach and an enriching trip to the Edgar Allan Poe house. Also, Sharon and Sean get into a contentious conversation about mangoes.
Thousands of Vancouver commuters ride the 99 B-Line bus route every day. But do you ever really listen to the sounds of the 99? Or are you constantly plugged in to your music, podcast, conversation or phone call? This piece is an uninterrupted audio experience of riding the 99 B-Line from UBC to Commercial-Broadway, as recorded from the very far back right-hand seat. Everything’s there, from waiting in the rain to the beeps of the compass cards to the driver coming over the intercom to remind people to step away from the doors. Think of it as an audio love-letter to public transit and the 99 — the bus we all love to hate.
It finally happened! Joe Sakic and a couple other teams finally worked out a deal to send Matt Duchene out of Colorado. Who won the trade? Just how good is Kyle Turris? All this and more on your favourite hockey podcast! A full bench at Geeta's palatial estate this week to discuss the Duchene trade. What it means for the Stanley Cup chances for both Nashville and Ottawa. Two teams that made runs deep in the playoffs and based on their new depth at centre, could make their way right back! They also discuss the Vancouver Canucks' top line. Brock Boeser, Bo Horvat and Sven Baertschi. The Killer B line. The B-Sharps. The 99 B-Line. Whatever you want to call them, they lit up the Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins on Hockey Night in Canada and people are taking notice around the league! They look at the Vegas Golden Knights' dismal eastern road trip as the team comes back to reality. They also look at the awful goalie injury luck they've encountered all year and if they could make the playoffs with a healthy roster. Finally, they discuss Kole Lind, the Vancouver Canucks' second round pick who is turning heads, putting up points and really starting to make everyone ask exactly what Jim Benning was asking on Draft day, "How come nobody is taking Kole Lind?" Enjoy! If you're a $5 or more backer on Patreon, you can continue listening to this episode on "5 Minutes For Paying" Geeta discusses her Tinder match's deep 10 year Google search on her and Ryan shares why he ended things with his latest Bumble date. Visit www.patreon.com/pucksonnet Follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook
Gllrrroooooo!!! RACHEL WENITSKY (Reductress) joins Matt & Bowen on a HOT NEW Las Culturistas!! And they don’t waste no time, botch! They REVEAL the origins of GRLOOOOOOOO and then make a B LINE straight for SHONDA. Later, they GET INTO House Of Cards Season 5 FILTH, Trump as America’s shitty show runner, the ICONIC Mouth Time Podcast, McDonalds SEDUCTION, getting sick in TWO Pret a Mangers in one day, and…MORE? If you’re a CULTURISTA, don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a review on iTunes. The stats matter, bitch! LAS CULTURISTAS HAS A PATREON! For $5/month, you get exclusive access to WEEKLY Patreon-ONLY Las Culturistas content!! https://www.patreon.com/lasculturistas CONNECT W/ LAS CULTURISTAS ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER for the best in "I Don't Think So, Honey" action, updates on live shows, conversations with the Las Culturistas community, and behind-the scenes photos/videos: www.facebook.com/lasculturistas twitter.com/lasculturistas LAS CULTURISTAS IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/las-culturistas/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Hi All, Just managing to squeeze the latest one in before we leave April behind and dive head long into the summer warm up. I hope you're all well? Newness form a wealth of incredible talent for you, B.Bravo, Howling, Sampha, Fest Swrods, Paper Tiger, Annéke Laurent, Reic Martin, Bearcubs, James Chatburn and a ton more, make it an absolute corker. Enjoy it and please make sure you tell the world! Love you...Rxx P.S. GET IN TOUCH ON: HIDEOUTSESSIONS@MAC.COM https://twitter.com/FranksonMusicUK https://soundcloud.com/FranksonMusicUK https://www.facebook.com/FranksonMusicUK Tracklist: 1. UMN, ft. Cappo & Phil Most Chill ‘MSK - Mind State Krakatoa' (B-Line) 2. Dream Mclean & The Last Skeptik ‘Uni' (Thanks For Trying) 3. Roy Roberts Experience ‘You Ain't Miss It' (Perfect Toy) 4. Bastien Keb ‘Pick Up' (First Word) 5. B. Bravo ft. Trailer Limon ‘Freak It' (Bastard Jazz) 6. Poldoore ‘Hard To Forget (Moods Remix)' (Cold Busted) 7. James Chatburn ‘Omens' (Soulection) 8. Bearcubs ‘Underwaterfall (Crayon remix)' (All Points) 9. David Baron, ft. Simi Stone ‘The Steps' (Here And Now) 10. Forest Swords ‘The Highest Flood' (Ninja Tune) 11. Mike Lowery ‘Ohhhh Seve' (Bandcamp) 12. William Florelle ‘As The Sun Sets' (Wotnot) 13. Paper Tiger ‘Drift (Murder He Wrote Remix)' (Wah Wah 45s) 14. HVOB and Winston Marshall 'Astra' (Tragen) 15. Annéke Laurent 'Me and My Son' (Rough Recordings) 16. Eric Martin, ft. Lifford ‘Be (Black Sonix Remix)' (Hypernation) 17. Boxwork ‘Portland Push (Fybe:one remix)' (Shades) 18. Skipson ‘Nopkin' (Dream Awake) 19. Ben Kaczor ‘Balance' (Bandcamp) 20. Anchorsong ‘Gyotens Kalimba (Wa Wu We Simplification)' (Tru Thoughts) 21. Vakula ‘809' (Release Sustain) 22. Spirituals ‘Handrums' (Doumen) 23. Howling ‘Phases' (Counter) 24. Synkro ‘If Only' (Bandcamp) 25. Sampha ‘No One Knows Me (Like The Piano)' (Young Turks)
Hamilton City Councillors have decided to nix the request for the Bay Street LRT stop. Some of the concerns included whether it would make the LRT slower than the B-Line bus.Keanin Loomis. President & CEO, Hamilton Chamber of CommerceLloyd Ferguson. City Councillor, Ward 12, City of Hamilton. Do you think the Bay Street LRT stop should've been scrapped? With process of bringing back the downtown core, wouldn't a Bay Street stop been beneficial?Ryan McGreal, Editor of Raise the Hammer
Hamilton City Councillors have decided to nix the request for the Bay Street LRT stop. Some of the concerns included whether it would make the LRT slower than the B-Line bus. Keanin Loomis. President & CEO, Hamilton Chamber of Commerce
(Bloomberg) -- Taking Stock with Kathleen Hays and Pimm Fox. GUESTS: SMALL BUSINESS FOCUS: Hartley Thompson, President of B-Line Medical, on providing medical schools, training schools, and other hospitals with a video-based technology to improve patient safety.
The train to Denver International Airport starts next week, but a long-waited train to Boulder and Longmont, called the B Line, is years from completion. Then, band Leader Glenn Miller and songstress Lannie Garrett are among this year’s inductees to the Colorado Music Hall of Fame. And, blocks called Cubelets are self-contained robots designed to teach kids creativity.
From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/wu-092-winter-studio-tour/ Looking for beautiful hand-crafted gifts? Here's your perfect solution: the 31st annual Bainbridge Island Winter Studio Tour! From December 5th through December 7th the tour will feature hand-crafted artwork displayed by 62 local artists in nine studios and community halls around the island. An impressive selection of locally-made, original artwork will include paintings, pottery, jewelry, photography, glass, fiber, metal, sculpture, and fine woodworking. In this episode of “What's Up Bainbridge,” BCB host Annie Osburn interviews local furniture makers Robert Spangler and Birgit Josenhans, whose West Blakely woodworking studio is one of the nine locations on the tour. For more than 35 years, Spangler has devoted himself to the craft of fine woodworking. Josenhans assists in the process of designing and building, and also creates a line of boxes, boards and benches appropriately called the “B-Line,” made from locally harvested woods and sustainable materials. A twice-annual island art show tradition, the Studio Tour welcomes patrons into local artist studios, providing an opportunity to meet the artists and learn about their craft. The Studio Tour can be enjoyed all in one day, or spread out over a leisurely three days. Studios are open 10 to 6 on Friday and Saturday, December 5th and 6th, and 10 to 5 on Sunday, December 7th. The nine locations on this year's tour include: the Robert Spangler Studio, the American Legion Hall, the Filipino American Hall, Strawberry Hill Mini Gym, the Waterfront Park Community Center, the Grange Hall, Siebert Pottery Studio, Hidden Cove Pottery & Tile, and Seabold Hall. Visit www.bistudiotour.com to download a brochure and map of the tour venues and learn more about this winter's tour. Credits: BCB host, producer and text author: Annie Osburn; BCB field tech and audio editor: Tim Bird; BCB social media publisher: Diane Walker.
When you think of an urban core, what do you think of? Traffic? Congestion? Noise? With Franklin Jones’ vision for B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery, it doesn’t have to be that way. (See also my earlier episode featuring Rob Sadowsky of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance.) B-Line uses these amazing human-powered (electric assist) tricycles to make the … Continue reading Purpose Podcast 028 — Franklin Jones (B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery): To Make Our Communities More Livable
Andrew Austin stops by from Americans for Transit (twitter: @A4Transit) to share some impacts of the government shutdown and how it fits in with the ongoing austerity culture. We learn about transit diversity, labor issues and the BART strike, and review why it's critical for transit agencies to support their employees and maintain a positive work environment. That means listening to employees and riders, such as by hosting town hall meetings on buses. Later, why smaller cars, electric cars, self-driving cars, personal rapid transit and other pretend solutions fail to move us forward. The real solution is to dismantle car culture but these things promote it and leave us further from the sustainable places we so desperately need.Check out my latest Streets.mn article critiquing the backwards transit planning process that has led Minneapolis to consider building an expensive rail line in a low-density corridor instead of improving mobility where actual needs exist.Moreover, what are we trying to accomplish here? That’s the first question a transit planner or advocate should be asking of any proposal. I’m afraid we’re doing it all backwards. ... From the very start we have asked not “How can we improve our transit network?” but “Where should we put our next rail line?” That makes no sense.See some facts on Metro Transit. I also mentioned two existing routes that are due for capacity upgrades: TranksLink 99 B Line bus rapid transit, Vancouver, BC. (episode 23 and/or capacity post); MBTA Green Line light rail, BostonWhy good health care depends on transit, courtesy of previous guest Scott Bogren (CTAA). Daniel shares his thoughts on a new bus route making its only stop at a major university in the largest North American city without any public transit. Enjoy the show? Please share this show around, follow me on Facebook on Twitter, leave reviews, tell your friends and consider making a donation to support this work.
In this episode of Bloody Angola Woody Overton and Jim Chapman tell the story of legendary Warden Burl Cain. Burl Cain was the longest serving Warden in the history of Louisiana State Penitentiary and his vision and reforms changed this historic prison forever. This docu-series is the most anticipated and sought after we have ever done on Bloody Angola Podcast and it starts now!#BloodyAngolaPodcast #BurlCain #Becomingthewarden #Louisianastatepenitentiary #PrisonWarden #Podcasts #Dixoncorrectionalinstitute #DCI #MDOCOur Sponsors for this episode have a great deal for you!GET 16 FREE MEALS PLUS FREE SHIPPING AT HELLOFRESH!HelloFresh delivers step-by-step recipes and fresh, pre-portioned ingredients right to your door. First, you set your meal plan preferences with options for carnivores, vegetarians, calorie-counters, and more. You'll choose from 30+ delicious weekly recipes carefully put together by the amazing chefs!Click Here to Take advantage of 16 FREE MEALS and FREE SHIPPING!FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOWBECOMING THE WARDEN: THE LEGACY AND LEGEND THAT IS BURL CAIN PART 1Jim: Hey, everyone, and welcome back to Bloody-Woody: -Angola.Jim: A podcast 142 years in the making. Woody: The Complete Story of America's Bloodiest Prison. Jim: And I'm Jim Chapman. Woody: And I'm Woody Overton. Jim: And we're back, Woody Overton. Woody: Back in the saddle. Jim: Back in effect. Woody: Back in effect. Jim: And we're bringing y'all a hell of a story today. Highly requested.Woody: Yes. A legend.Jim: Legend. Someone you have some experience with. Woody: I do. I have a lot of years of experience with him. Solid dude. They can say whatever they want to. Everybody's going to have their haters or whatever. And certainly, he marches to the beat of a different drummer, but he's a visionary and has affected so many lives. Jim: Boy, he sure has. And I'll tell you, as far as research, I've probably enjoyed researching this man more than just about anyone I've researched.Woody: I've read his book years ago when it came out. Of course, I have the family history at Angola and all that, and of course, my personal history with him. Just super, super intelligent, super unique.Jim: Yeah, very. I think that's a great word to describe him. And of course, if you're hanging by a thread right now trying to figure out who we're talking about, it is the legendary warden of Angola, Burl Cain. So, we're going to start off and we're just going to take you through a journey of his life.Woody: Yeah. And I think it's so important, this research that you put together, a lot of it I didn't know, especially about the early years. And I don't know how they haven't made a movie about him yet, honestly. Jim: It's got to be coming at some point. Woody: Y'all, we've done a couple of series before, but not real long ones or anything. But it's going to be several parts to this. But you got to stay tuned because every one of them is going to kick you. Jim: Yeah. So, to start off, he was born in Pitkin, Louisiana, and I was not familiar with Pitkin. Woody: Small town in Vernon Parish. Jim: Vernon Parish. And for those of you that are kind of wondering where Vernon Parish is, that's on the Texas line. It's in the center of the state all the way to the westernmost.Woody: If you're familiar with Toledo Bend, the largest lake and kind of splits Louisiana. Texas too, but fantastic for fishing, all that. It's real close to that. Kind of a piney woods area, but really, really rural. Shit, there's not even any major highways to get over there. From off the Interstate 49, which runs north and south, splits the state. Shit, it's probably hour and a half, two hours from there. Jim: Yeah. And he actually described it in an interview one time, and he said, "We didn't even have a stoplight."Woody: Yeah, well, my hometown still doesn't have a stoplight.Jim: [laughs] So, you think about that, folks. He went from that to warden of the largest maximum-security prison in the United States which, first of all, goes to show you that it doesn't matter where you're from, it doesn't matter, hard work and really destined. I think he was kind of touched by God to do what he does. He's 80 years old as of today. Woody: So, he is a couple of years younger than my dad. Actually, maybe one year because my dad was born the week before Peral Harbor, and he was born on July 2nd, 1942. Jim: And still going.Woody: Still going, very, very healthy. Jim: We're going to get into that. Woody: But he grew up on a farm, y'all, that's where he developed his work ethic. And let me tell you something, this dude can work. Jim: Let me tell you, if you're 80 years old-- look, if I make 80, I'm considering that a success. When you're 80 and you're still working, that tells you who he is as far as his work ethic is concerned. He grew up on a farm that would play a huge role in his future development. And he grew up in a very religious house. Woody: Right. Back then, not knocking it, but a lot of people, especially ones that were raised on farms, their parents had to raise them as help. I mean, they worked. Jim: That's right. You needed help, you had another kid.Woody: Talking about throwing hay, tending animals and cows and everything else and working the gardens. And hey, there wasn't any PlayStations and cable TV or anything. Hell, they're lucky if they had electricity. Jim: And you woke up 4:30 in the morning to milk them cows and do all those things. Woody: You didn't have a problem going to bed at dark with your ass tired.Jim: You were tired. And his household was very religious, y'all, extremely religious. He attended church, as he described it, every time the doors were open since birth. And he didn't even dance. He wasn't allowed to dance or attend dancing--[crosstalk] Woody: And I had a lot of people that I grew up with that were the same way. That just wasn't acceptable. People talk about Bible Belt, I can't say Vernon is directly, but I know there's some count-- not counties, parishes over there that are actually dry. They don't sell alcohol. They're Bible Belt. So, down here where south Louisiana, where everything goes, and then you hit that area of the state, it was borderline to the west of Alexandria and all that, but they were really, really country, and the farther north you go, the more country getting. There's a couple of dry parishes in the state, and this area would have been one of them.Jim: No doubt. At his age, being born in '42, he was kind of hitting those late teenage years when Elvis Presley-Woody: Absolutely.Jim: -was big. So, I'd love to sit him down and ask him, "How did you avoid dance when Elvis Presley came on the radio?"Woody: He didn't have a radio. Jim: [laughs] Yeah, that's it. That's probably exactly what he would say. "I was out there milking cows. I wasn't worried about the King." Also, Burl Cain never dreamed he would be a prison warden growing up. Of course, being from such a small town, that'd be like most people dreaming they were going to be an astronaut. It just didn't seem possible. As a matter of fact, he remembers vividly fearing Angola, as it was common for his mother to tell him, "If you don't straighten up, you're going to end up in Angola." It was a threat, matter of fact. Woody: And one thing they did even back then, believe it or not, is most schools, once a year, certain age group of kids, they bus them to Angola. And of course, it was educational for them, and they didn't hold back. They took you down the walks and stuff like that, and they fed you the prison food, and they were like, most girls be crying and shit like that, and they're like, "I ain't never coming to this motherfucker."Jim: Yeah. It was used as a form of threat. And so, he had another dream. And believe it or not, y'all, he wanted to be a veterinarian.Woody: Yeah, he wanted to be a vet. And when he graduated from high school, he went to LSU Alexandria campus, y'all, that's a satellite campus, and they have one in Alexandria and one in Shreveport to do just that. But he struggled coming from a small town where the chemistry side of school basically was a fight for him. And they just didn't teach a whole lot beyond the basics, like the element charts and stuff like that at his high school. So, he switched to something that was more prevalent in the areas from and that's agriculture, education. Let me tell you something, vet school is tough. You might as well go and become a doctor. Nowadays, you got to have a four point whatever just to get in, and there's no guarantee you're going to make it. And it's heavy, heavy on sciences. Jim: A lot of people don't realize LSU has probably the best vet school, if not one of the best in the country. Woody: So, imagine this, coming from probably my hometown, I graduated we had 28 in my graduating class. Still don't have a red light to this day. I submit to you that his town was smaller. And back then, they didn't test for the kids to pass the test. You just got the books, you know Jim, it was a different type of education. And they were just giving your basics.But the ag part, growing up on a farm, he already knew tons about it. And pretty much everyone in his family were teachers. So, he settled on basically just working towards a life of teaching after college, which I think is very unique now that I know him.Jim: Right. You look back on that life and you see how those skills benefited him, even though he wasn't in the world of education when he really got going. So, he graduates from LSU in agriculture education. He starts teaching at a high school, and [chuckles] he figures out in about three months' time that teaching is not easy.Woody: Not at the high school level.Jim: Yeah, not at the high school level. So, he figured, "This ain't for me." He lasted about three months, and he went to work for the state of Louisiana at what's known as the Louisiana Farm Bureau. Woody: Yeah, Louisiana, of course, our number one industry is oil and gas. It's kind of a tossup between the two, but then you have seafood, and then it's agriculture. And the seafood and agriculture are kind of on the same level. Like, where I'm from, it's all farms, we raise trees. So, agriculture is beyond just raising cows. It's growing trees. It's everything that you can profit from in the long run by growing it or raising it.Jim: That's right. And he was a master of that, having grown up in it, and then got official education in it. And in 1976--Woody: '76, I was six years old.Jim: I was two. [laughs] In 1976, he finally starts his career in state government, and he started out with the Louisiana Department of Corrections as the Assistant Secretary for Agribusiness.Woody: And that's huge. Now, I'm going to be honest with you, and this is just a straight-up truth, and it's how I got my state government job, my first one with the Department of Corrections. Actually, when I was in high school, I got a job. One of the local state reps got me a job cutting grass at the state-run old folks' home and the Villa. So, when he gets this job with the state, there's a lot of things that go along with that. One of them is, and I have some personal knowledge of this, I'll tell y'all probably on the next episode, one of them is you're civil service. And there's a lot of protections afforded to you through the civil service. And you get your guaranteed raises. You're never going to get rich, but you have protection. There's a certain comfort level of that.Jim: Yeah, they can't just fire you.Woody: Right. Real quick. When I left the university PD, we were civil service, to go to the sheriff's office, and they were like, "Why would you leave a civil service job to go somewhere where you're an at will employee?" I said, "Well, I don't need civil service to save my job." But civil service, and this is the truth, this is how much protection you have, if I was state police and I walked in my captain's office and I got on his desk and I took a shit on his desk, the first time, all they can do is give you a verbal warning. The second time, I go in and take a shit on his desk, then they can write you up for it. And the third time, they can fire you. There's only certain offenses like drugs or whatever that they can fire you for on the spot. Jim: Did you ever take a shit on his desk? [laughs] Woody: No, I didn't. I didn't have a captain either. I answered to the colonel. But just an example. And they say, it's like the Snark missile. For you who don't remember, during the Iraq War, Saddam had these missiles called Snarks. Every time they were developed and every time they fire them, the fuckers blow up. And so, they said, civil service employee is like a Snark missile. You can't fire and you can't make it work. That's not true. A lot of the best people in the world are lifetime state employees, and a lot of my dear friends are. Jim: Absolutely. And look, y'all, this is 1976, so the economy is down at this point in time. That was a really good job. And of course, look, any sort of state job at that level, sometimes you got to know somebody, Woody Overton.Woody: Absolutely. Jim: That ain't changed. That's been that way since the beginning of time.Woody: [crosstalk] -is and it's Louisiana. Jim: That's right. Woody: I got my job at Department of Corrections because my dad pulled some strings with politicians. Jim: Sure. And that was a good job. And this was a downtime in the economy. So, Burl freely admits, and he said this on many interviews, that his brother was instrumental in getting him that job. His brother, y'all, and whether you're aware of this or not, was a senator from the state of Louisiana. Woody: They look almost identical. I'm surprised that they're not twins. Jim: Yeah. So, he starts that job, and he's a rockstar at it. He's doing great, and in 1981, he gets an opportunity. Woody: 10 years before I went there. In 1981, he became the Warden of Dixon Correctional Institute, known as DCI. And he was only 38.Jim: Only 38, warden of the prison. Woody: When I met him, it was in '90 or '91, and of course, he had been the warden for 10 years. DCI, y'all, it's a mixed security prison, and this is kind of a misnomer here too, but mixed security, meaning it has medium, maximum, and some trusty camps. The trusty camps would be like-- Jackson, Louisiana, is full of state-run facilities. Villa, like I was telling you about, geriatric home, state run. The hospital from mentally insane, which is basically on DCI property, right across the street from their Claiborne. And it has the state-run mental hospital. If you don't have healthcare and you legitimately to be, I'd say crazy, what's politically correct term? Jim: Nuts. [laughs] Woody: If you're literally nuts, you went there. Look, I had an aunt who spent most of her life in that hospital. Then, you have DCI. It's all these state run-- the war vets home was there. Biggest state war vets home is there. So, you have all these state-run facilities. And I guarantee you, all my people from Jackson, I've got family from there, all of them were state employees, one facility or another. So, DCI is located right outside of Jackson, y'all, which is about 40 minutes north of Baton Rouge. Small town still to this day. One major road running through it. And then, DCI is off of one of those roads.But the mixed security, the main camp at DCI where I worked, you had two maximum security camps. And then, they had the satellite, the trusty camp at the state mental hospital. And that's because they took everything there. They were orderlies and took care of the grounds and the whole nine yards. And I used to go to little peewee football practice on the state ground. And there, the prisoners would line up on the fence, all the trustys. And years later on extra duty shifts, I would go pick up and I'd go be the guard at the trusty camp there. But they do that for economic reasons, and Burl had them do that for economic reasons because they didn't have to bust them back and forth to work every day. Jim: Wow. Woody: And so, they were there around the clock. And they were instrumental in all the state-run facilities, the trustees, the cow barns and everything. I'm talking about, look, DCI wasn't 18,000 acres, but it was a lot, but spread out in different areas. The cow barns and all that, shit, they raised cattle for the state of Louisiana. But anyway, it was there. Burl--Jim: 38 years old.Woody: Yeah, I didn't know that--[crosstalk]Jim: Damn, when I was 38, there's no way I'm running a prison. I'm lucky to stay out of prison. Woody: You're right. I was in Texas still when I was 38.Jim: Yeah, really amazing and a huge opportunity. And guess what? It was his first experience as being a warden, what he would become just an absolute legend for it. At that time, DCI had about 1400 inmates. That was its capacity. And it was female and male, which made it different from other prisons. It was also relatively new. It had been built in 1976, so it was only six years old. That's like the state-of-the-art presence, especially compared to Angola at that time, which was hundred years old.Woody: By the time I got there in '91, there were no females there. It was probably like 2500, they had added on to it. Jim: So, no females at that time, gotcha. Woody: And then, the other kicker is, and I forgot to mention this earlier, so I say it's about 40 minutes north of Baton Rouge. Well, guess what? It's only 30 miles from Bloody Angola. It's East and West Louisiana. I was born and raised in Clinton, where my grandfather was a judge, but West Feliciana butts up to it. My mama was from West Feliciana, where her daddy was the DA during this time, actually. But that 30 miles is deceiving because back then, they had the old road to Bloody Angola and that wound up the Tunica Hills and part of it's gravel and shit. And when you turn it off at 61, it took you another 40 minutes to get from there, the last 10 miles to get in. Jim: It seemed like 300 miles. It was not what you would call picturesque. You're not looking at the Rockies when you're going down the highway. This is where Cain coined what would eventually be one of his most famous phrases. He started at the facility, and as is common, your first day on the job as warden, you're going to have a meeting with all of your people, and you're going to learn the ins and outs of this prison, things that maybe the outgoing warden didn't tell you. And one of the things he found out was that they had no worship services for the inmates. And it was where he kind of coined the phrase, "moral rehabilitation." Woody: He carried that [crosstalk] to talk about it, but he still carries to this day. And he was serious about it. Jim: Yeah. It was, as a matter of fact, one of the first things he changed at Dixon, was bringing religion into prisons, something that, look, we're going to talk a lot about. So, he becomes a rockstar again. He's just killing it at Dixon. Woody: Let me tell you just a couple real quick stories, and I know I'm going off script, but I met him the first time, I think it was 1990 or 1991, and I got hired. So, he had what they call the White House. And the White House was an administrative building. I had to go to the White House, do paperwork and stuff like that, but I hadn't seen him. And then they put me on the largest rec room-- after I got back from Angola, doing my training and all that. They put me on the largest rec room at DCI. And long story short, I ended up getting in a fight with him because the captain told me, you give them direct orders like, "Hey, do this," and if they don't do it, you can arrest them for it. And so, one of them I told to come with me, and he turned around, ran out in the yard, and I had to hit my pager and get the captain to come. And the captain went out there and got him and arrested him. He said, "But next time you do it, you hit your pager, and you use whatever force necessary to bring the situation out of control." Well, it wasn't two weeks later, Sunday night, they turned off the lights in the dorm, and I told him to clear the rec room, except for the night guys that were up. And one guy was standing on the back wall by the water fountain with his foot up on the wall. And we said, "Get to your house." And I told him, "Get to your house." And he just kind of looked at me. I said, "I'm not going to tell you again. Get to your house." And he didn't move. And so, I hit my pager, and I said, "Well, you're under arrest. You're coming with me?" He said, "Fuck you." And he turned around, walked into the dorm, which was closing down at that time. The lights and the inmates are shuffling back and forth, getting the water, going to the bathroom, and I tackled him, and the fist fight was on. So, Captain Raymond Newman said, he said, "Man, when I hit that rec room door, and I was long ways away from it," he said, "And I didn't see you." He said, "I knew it sure had turned to shit. I knew shit was going down." And what happened was that there's a couple of fireable offenses. One, if you get caught having sex with an inmate or you get caught bringing in contraband or sleeping on duty, civil service doesn't protect you for that. And the biggest one is if another officer is in a fight and you don't help them, then you can be fired on the spot.Well, there's two sergeants on the dorm. I'm fighting with this guy. I didn't think I could start a riot. And I'm fighting with this guy, and he's a big dude, and one of the sergeant is trying to help me, the other froze up, didn't want to do anything. Newman came in. Long story short, we get him out. We were punching, we were punching. My eye was swollen and stuff. Long story short, Ray gets me to the office. He said, "You got to go home." I'm like, "Fucking getting fired, man." I said, "Ray, you told me, use whatever force necessary. He wouldn't stop and put my hands on, and he went to fight." And he said, "You could have started a fucking riot, man. You realize that? You got to go home, and we'll call you." I'm like, "Fuck, I'm getting fired." So, they called me on Monday morning, and he said, "You need to report to Warden Cain's office." Jim: [chuckles] Oh, shit. Woody: My first time in a life on the carpet, besides the military, being called on the carpet, it means you know you're going to get your ass shoot to get fired or whatever. And he brought me in, and I'll never forget it. He actually got up from behind his desk and he shook my hand. He said, "Sergeant Overton, come on in. Have a seat. Boy, tell me what happened." I said, "Warden Cain, Captain Newman, he was in there." I wasn't trying to throw him on the bus. I said, "This is what happened before. He told me next time, use whatever force necessary to bring the situation under control. And so, I did. We ended up fighting." He leaned back and steepled his fingers a little bit, kind of like [unintelligible [00:26:36] would. Warden Cain, he's not big in stature, he's not tall, but he's not fat, but he's kind of-- I don't want to say heavy set, he's more of a round of shape. You wouldn't think this guy has such a presence, but he does, but he was just super, super nice. He said, "All right, son, I get that. I appreciate you taking an initiative. But I'm going to send you somewhere where you could fight every single night." I said, "Well, where is that?" He said, "I'm going to send you to the working cell block. That's where we have our worst of our worst, and somebody's going to be--" You know what, he would curse sometimes. As religious as he was, and he probably did say ass-- when he got mad, he'd curse. But he said, "I'm going to send you back there." And believe me, I passed this down to all the guys I trained over the years. I would tell them, I say, "Look, you don't have to go out of your way put your hands on somebody to look for shit because there's enough assholes out there that are legitimately going to give you a reason to fight them, when you go to arrest them or whatever." He said, "I'm to going put you back there." And I did it, and I rose up as a superstar. And every time he'd see me, he'd say, "How are you doing, Sergeant Overton?" Jim: Love that story, and I'm sure you've got several. And what we're going to do, folks, is this is going to be a docuseries. So, this is going to be three episodes. In the third episode, we're going to have Kelly Jennings, who also has some experience with Burl Cain on the show. And it's going to be storytelling time with Woody and Kelly. And they're going to tell some stories that are just fire.Woody: We need to promote that.Jim: Yeah.Woody: The last episode is going to be The True Stories.Jim: The True Stories. Woody: From Woody-Jim: From Woody. [chuckles] Woody: -and female Woody.[chuckles] Jim: Yeah. You can't get no better than that. Look, I got the best seat in the house, and I'm going to be kind of the moderator of what will be an amazing episode coming up just in a couple of weeks. We're going to move on. Look, Warden Cain, he became an absolute star. He made a name for himself. And of course, he had a brother that was in politics. And so, they knew the Cain name. And in 1995, the warden of Angola, a guy by the name of John Whitley, who at some point we're going to do a story on, but John Whitley was retiring. And so, secretary at that time was Richard Stalder. Woody: And he was the head of the Department of Corrections when I was there also. Jim: That secretary he is kind of like who is the boss of the wardens.Woody: He's the boss of all the prisons. Jim: Yeah. Outside of the governor, he is the top person in the prison system. And he announces the new warden will be the warden at that time of DCI, which was Burl Cain. Now, you may be surprised to know something. Burl Cain did not want that job. [laughs] Woody: Yeah. And that's because he knew that wardens in Angola didn't last long.Jim: That's right. Woody: I think they averaged just over five years of service because Angola was so bad, y'all, and somebody had to be the scapegoat for the bad things that happened. But he wasn't left much of a choice. He had the most experience of any warden in the state of Louisiana with his 14 years at DCI. So, he took it.Jim: Secretary Stalder just basically said, "You're going to be the warden of Angola."Woody: When he took it, I tell you, it was truly bloody Angola, and they were under all this federal scrutiny and everything else. And he's like, "Mm, don't want to do it." I'm sure it was a challenge to him, but he didn't want to lose what he had going on.Jim: No. You're 14 years at one place, you have a system, it's working. You're looked at as a rockstar in the system, and now you're being sent another challenge. You're comfortable. You don't want to have to do that. But also, Angola had some issues. There were 300 attacks on the staff and 766 inmate-on-inmate assaults, half of which were--Woody: That was in one year, the year before he went there. And this was right around when I was getting out of corrections, he left right after I left DCI. And he went up there but, fuck, I knew about it. I mean, you heard about it. It didn't make the news every day, but it made the correctional officer grapevine. It was bad shit.Jim: Yeah. I remember when he was announced as the warden of Angola, and if you were from the state of Louisiana, I mean, that was big news. Big news. Side note to that, this may or may not seem out of order, but I'm going to mention it now. He was actually still living at DCI throughout-- Wardens typically live at the prison they're at.Woody: They have very nice homes that are provided to them by the state at no cost. It's part of your salary, and it's maintained by the convicts and all that. He took the job. But shit, nobody wants to move-- especially back then, wants to move to Angola, not even on the B-Line, because it's so fucking far away. I knew his wife at the time, and then he was there, and he's got kids and the whole nine yards.Jim: Well, and you may wonder who took his place at DCI. Well, Jimmy Le Blanc took his place there. They were good friends. Woody: Jimmy was an underwarden to Burl at the time. And so basically, Burl Cain tapped him to take it over. Jim: Right. And he made a deal with him. He said, "Look, take it over. I think you would be a great replacement for me, but I ain't moving out of my house." [laughs] He literally said that. And Jimmy Le Blanc was okay with that. In the state of Louisiana, they gave Jimmy Le Blanc kind of a stipend for the home he was already living in, because that's considered a perk. It's a huge perk. Woody: It's a big part of your salary. And I'm sure you have it in here, Jim, that when Stalder retired, Jim Le Blanc ultimately became the head of the corrections--[crosstalk] Jim: Yeah, we'll be getting into that. But just to finish that point up, Cain lived at DCI, y'all until 1999. And what prompted him to actually leave was the murder of Captain David Knapps in Angola. And we'll get into that in the second episode. Woody: Captain David Knapps was a multi-generational correctional officer, and he lived on the B-Line. And that's all he ever knew. His father done and his grandfather done, his brothers and everybody-- he lived there. And he was brutally murdered in '99 during an attempted prison escape. And we're going to cover that. Ultimately, he's a superhero, but Burl would have been his boss for almost five years at that time.One thing I'm going to tell you about Burl Cain, is as any good leader in any good spot, if your people take care of you, you damn well going to take care of your people. And you're going to know who they are, and you're going to promote them up and everything because, unfortunately, and I've said this many times, and I felt this, I truly did believe this, some of the people that you worked with in corrections were shittier than the convicts. I think that plays into the whole civil service thing, because you can't fire them, you can't make them work, and they knew the rulebooks and all that, but absolutely 95% of them were the best people in the world. But Burl knew who were his rising stars and who would run whatever, and David Knapps was one of them. Jim: Look, being a good leader, one of the best attributes you can have is being able to spot other good leaders.Woody: And I've had so many, and I'm telling you, I think he is probably one of the best leaders I've ever had. And I'm talking about my military career, my police career, my corrections career, whatever. Jim: Yeah, you've been around a lot of them.Woody: And I took a lot of his leadership skills from him. Like that day when I was trouble in his office, I mean, if I'd have been a turd, he'd have fired me. But no, he gave me freedom to run. And he knew I was going to handle my business.Jim: Yeah. So, imagine you're Burl Cain, it's 1995, February, and you're now in charge of the largest maximum-security prison in America. 18,000 acres of sheer intimidation.Woody: And the worst of the worst.Jim: And the worst of the worst.Woody: I would put those guys up there against any convict in the world as far as the horrificness of the crimes, etc. Jim: So, warden gets there, and one of the first things he did was he outlines his philosophy to the inmates, and I'm going to quote him here. He said, "Your dorm is like a city or a community. The beds and houses along that are the street, with the street being the aisle itself. So, three beds down is like saying three houses down. You should visit your neighbors." Woody: He'd actually say that, yeah. Jim: "Counsel your neighbors and be concerned for each other. Keep your city free from drugs and violence. And don't curse. Once you start cursing each other, violence is sure to follow." That was his philosophy. Woody: Absolute genius. And do you know that to this day that's what they call their bunks and stuff as their houses? Jim: Yeah. Well, it essentially is.Woody: And the aisles, because these big long aisles that run in between rows of bunks and they call them their streets. Jim: That's their streets. Woody: Isn't that crazy? Jim: It is. Woody: I never knew Burl was the one that coined that phrase. Jim: Yeah. And so, I'm going to tell you a quick story here, Woody and I both, and this is about when he went to Angola, he had to deal with one thing he didn't have to really deal with at DCI, and that was executions. I don't care who you are, I don't care how blessed you are to deal with certain things, that's hard for anybody.Woody: And keeping in mind that Burl-- when I knew him, as far as I know to this day, he's a very strong Christian man. Jim: Absolutely. His first experience with that was with an inmate by the name of Thomas Ward. And this would play probably-- I bet, if Burl was sitting across from us, and Warden Cain, if you'd ever like to sit across from us, we'd love to have you. I've tried to reach out to your guy. But if he was sitting across from us, he'd probably say this changed him more than anything else he's ever done.It was just after midnight, Warden Cain found himself alone. He was in the death chamber with Thomas Ward. And without one word, Woody, he lifts his hand, he gives a thumbs down signal, which he would later say he hated. He hated doing that. It did not feel right to him, but it was a signal that was common to give to the executioner. This was lethal injection. So, when you would issue that lethal dose, he would give that thumbs down signal. The lethal dose gets administered, and six minutes later, Ward was dead. It was Cain's first execution.Now, immediately, Cain began to regret that signal, as I told you. His uneasiness, it started to grow. He felt guilty because he never found out Ward's spiritual condition that night or before. He just basically ordered the lethal dose to be administered. Warden Cain actually was quoted as saying, "He didn't utter a word as we strapped him to the gurney. When the time came to ask him if he had anything to say, he didn't answer. He just choked up." The execution took place only three months, y'all, after Cain took over as warden and completely spearheaded the change that we're about to tell you in that prison.Woody: So, real quick, let's go back to that. We've talked about executions before on the show, but now in the execution chamber, the warden is the one that's in there, and they have to read the death warrant. But giving that thumbs down, he didn't know what he was going to feel. It's the first time he ever basically legally murdered someone, and that's it. But I know as a Christian man, he just saw somebody being murdered, even though it's legal murder. He just saw the state of Louisiana take a human being's life, and he knows that he's not in there for being a choir boy, but as a Christian, he's thinking, "Mm, you know what? I should have talked to him. And even if he told me, 'Go to hell, I don't believe in Jesus,' I'd have done my job as a Christian to try to spread the word, to give him a chance to call on Jesus to repent." Jim: That's right. And he had a conversation with his mother, Woody, after this. It bothered him that much. And his mom said, "You need to do everything you can to get those guys spiritually ready to meet the Lord, because you're going to have to answer for that."Woody: Because--[crosstalk] Jim: Yeah, me too.Woody: When you have that opportunity, and so very few people do, to ever have an opportunity to talk to someone that you know is about to die, and even like I said, even if they reject you, you don't take that opportunity, you have to answer for it. Jim: You're going to have to answer for it, and it bothered him. Literally, this was the start, y'all, and we can't even dictate into words how huge this is. But this was the start of a change at Angola. Not to sound like Donald Trump, but like nothing you've ever seen. Just unbelievable. He started instituting what he called, and this was another phrase that he coined, "cultural change." The first thing he did, and thank God, Woody was not working there at this time.Woody: Right. I'd have been damn sure been in trouble for it.Jim: He banned cursing by guards and inmates. Now, you can only control that so much, but it was definitely frowned upon. I think that's why he banned it. Woody: Actually, they put it in the rulebook after that that you can't curse. Jim: Yeah. And he believed that cursing led to other things. It wasn't the curse word itself. Now, as Woody said, he said one every now and then, but it was when it was appropriate. Woody: I said it, I'm not going to lie. [laughter] Woody: What he's talking about-- I got to interject again. Jim: Sure. Woody: What he's talking about is, I would carry this later on. When I talk to the younger guys and say, "Listen, most of the time when you're dealing with people, you're dealing with them on their worst day. They're going to be upset, they're going to be screaming, they're going to be cursing. So, you should start out nice as can be." Look, when I was in the street, unless we were fighting or something, we didn't curse people. Will Graves [unintelligible 00:43:37] would have hung your ass or any department I work for. I said, "You always start out low and treat them super kind, even if they're cursing you and berating you, start out low, because then if you need to jump up and escalate, they'll be surprised."But one person cursing at another one, it's not going to end well usually. Especially between men, and one of them has never had any respect for authority in their entire life, and they hate you as a correctional officer. What is he doing with this just simple thing? By taking out curse words or trying to take out curse words, he is making a mutual level of respect. You take that off, that gasoline that can do no good. Somebody's going to feel degraded, somebody's going to be pissed off, say, "Fuck you, Jim Chapman. You're a dick," where's it going from there? Jim: That's right. Fisticuff. Woody: If you give me a direct verbal order, and I'm like, "Yessir." Then, I can go write you up. There's other ways to handle it. So, that was genius on Burl's part.Jim: It really was. And he also instituted cleanliness, like we told you earlier, he had this conversation with the inmates where he said, "This is your house. Keep your house clean. Encourage your neighbors to keep their house clean. Cut your grass." Woody: Most of them come from lifestyles that they never had anything clean. They lived in the hoods, they were raised around cursing, they had no respect for anything. And he's just trying to give them the base things. Just because you're in prison, doesn't mean you're not living. Jim: That's right. And he started inviting kind of the outside world. Look, let me tell y'all real quick. One of the hardest things to do for me in preparation for these shows is research. And why is that? Because we're dealing with a prison where not a lot gets out, for obvious reasons and I get it, but it requires an enormous amount of work to dig up some of this stuff because it just doesn't get out. He, at the beginning, was very open with inviting people into the prison, letting them see-- look, Barbara Walters, which we'll tell you a story on later, came into the prison and actually did I think it was a 2020 special on the executions that take place there. So it was a huge thing on that front. But his message initially was, "We don't have anything to hide, and we want to let people in here, see what we're doing to change what is in a horrible situation."Woody: Yeah. "Not that we're perfect by far, but we're not hiding anything." The culture in the past was, shit, loose lips sink ships. What happens in Angola, dies in Angola. Jim: So, I know y'all are ready for something here. And that is what was one of the more historic changes that he made right off the bat, well, we got it for you. One of the first, maybe one of the most controversial changes that he made, but this is Burl Cain genius right here. So, he's sitting there-- I'm assuming he's sitting at his desk one morning, this is how I'm picturing it. And he says, "We got a problem. Our death row inmates, most of them can't read and they can't write." It might surprise y'all to know that they didn't offer any sort of education, even as simple as reading and writing to death row inmates.Woody: They just locked them up. Jim: Yeah. So, you might say to yourself, "Well, who cares?" Burl Cain cared. And the reason he cared was not-- these are condemned men, so they're probably not getting out. Although we have done many stories with you guys where people were exonerated and didn't do it. So, there are those situations. But his thing was, if they can't read and they can't write, especially if they can't read, they can't read the Bible. That was a problem for him. He didn't like that.Woody: That's exactly right.Jim: And so, it was the first change he made, was he said, "We're going to offer education to our death row inmates." That's huge, Woody Overton. Woody: That's huge. Like you said, most of them had never had any kind of education. Right? Jim: Right. Woody: Ultimately, y'all, during this time, the death penalty put on hold and stuff like that, years later and stuff. But what do you give somebody who's locked up 23 hours a day and then they're all by themselves? That's where people go crazy and then they got nothing to do, they didn't have TVs, they didn't have all this stuff. So, he gives them, we say the word "hope," not hope that they're going to live, but he gives them something to do besides sit there and rot. Jim: That's right. Woody: And if you're going to sit there and rot, if the Bible is the only book you can read, maybe you glean something from it. And it goes back to what his mama said, you got to give them the opportunity. Jim: You got to give them the opportunity. And that's just what he did. It was controversial. Look, there were people screaming, "Why are we spending money to educate death roommates?" And yes, most of them did horrible things. But his thought process was, the way he felt about it, "I'm not only in charge of their imprisonment, I'm in charge of their soul. And this is between me and God and what I am doing to try to help these men." And that's the way he thought. And the prisoners themselves really started to take note. This guy seems like he cares. I mean, it was probably an absolute shock to them. Woody: He didn't judge them for what-- And I got this from his time too, and he told me this. He said, "Your job is not to punish them. Your job is to keep them safe and keep the public safe from them escaping. They're doing their time for their crime. Your job is not to punish. You treat them like a human being." And nobody had ever done that. Jim: Nobody had ever done that. He does another historical thing right after that, and that is, he was the first warden to invite, and in this case, it was the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, to come in. And basically, they had like a satellite seminary right there at Angola. For those of you that don't know what they do, they offer degrees in the field of seminary so you can become an ordained minister.Woody: Basically, it's like a Bible college.Jim: Yeah. This was genius. I cannot stress enough how genius this was, because in his long-term vision and if anybody can say anything about Burl Cain, he had vision. In his long-term vision, he saw inmates changing other inmates through God. And that's what was missing in prisons, in his opinion. That was probably, looking back on it, one of the most successful programs he ever had. Those graduates, they would be allowed to travel, not only to other prisons in Louisiana, but eventually all over the country. They were going all over the country speaking at these other prisons, and he called that imposing morality. Woody: And back to you, now, you get a degree from a college, then you have a little bit more self-worth. And these college studies aren't free. They were funded by outside donations. And Angola offered a four-year college degree in ministry, including instructions in Greek and Hebrew, as well as lessons on how to preach.Jim: Yeah. And it really changed the lives of not only these inmates themselves and gave them self-worth, but it enabled them to go out and then work to change others. Woody: And this gives me the bumps again, if you're doing that and you get self-worth for the first time in your life, guess what you're not doing? You're not raping and killing. Inside the prison, there's still raping and killing.Jim: Mainly hit it right on the head. Woody: Look, we're going to talk about Christianity and God and all this stuff a lot during this series, but here's the deal. I don't care what you believe in. And there certainly are convicts at Angola that were like, "Fuck you, I don't believe in anything. I'm an atheist," whatever. And that's fine too. But they were given an opportunity because Burl was raised that way. Jim: That's right. And he knew that the principles in religion were sound things that would keep people out of trouble.Woody: He also knew Angola was full of the darkness. He was trying to shine a little light and make the darkness back up. Jim: That's right. So, he started thinking about this and looking at the things that were missing from Angola. This became pretty successful. And he knew that work was or learning to work was critical in rehabilitation. Many of the inmates in Angola, y'all, they had never learned to work. They basically grew up in life, they robbed, they raped, they pillaged, and they murdered to survive. So, he instilled what he called meaningful work. Woody: Well, yeah, and let me tell you this, another famous Burl Cain saying, when you get to prison, he introduced himself and he said, "Welcome to the Department of Corrections. You're here for however long you've been sentenced. We're not here to punish you. We're here to make you secure. But you're sentenced to hard labor. Religion is an option. You'll have that opportunity while you're here to get religion, but work is not. You're going to work every day, and everybody has a job." And that goes back to him teaching the basics. Like I said, most of them never even knew how to work. They weren't raised like-- my daddy raised me, and your daddy raised you with a good work ethic. Jim: That's right. And it also gave them that pride that they were seeking, obviously, teaching these inmates to work. And he wasn't done yet. And this is probably-- well, it definitely is another part of his vision in those early days. And that was he founded a program in Angola called Malachi Dads. He did this with some inmates who came to him. Now, Warden Cain, he took note, y'all, of the fact that almost all convicts on Angola grew up in a broken home with the father typically being absent. Look, that's at any prison in the country, overall, it is not even close. Woody: It's not something we're making of. Jim: It's an issue.Woody: We're not people we're picking on or whatever. It's just the way it is. Jim: Yeah, I mean, you're talking 6000 inmates and most of them were fathers, but they came from broken homes. And so, it didn't take a genius for Warden Cain to figure out maybe that's part of the problem. Now, you can't fix the people that are in there. They can't be at home with their kids, they're in prison. But this program--Woody: And they're there in prison for the worst. [crosstalk] Jim: The worst of the worst. So, he knew that there's kids out there and they're now growing up without a father because he's in prison.Woody: Well, also, I'm going to interrupt you again, there are generational prisoners in there. There are fathers and whose sons, or grandfathers, or dads whose sons murder and grew up because it's the only thing they ever knew, right? Jim: Absolutely. Woody: And they got sent to Angola. I'm telling you, there's generational. Their grandson, the oldest one now, who's old, old timer in Angola whose son is down now for life of murder, that guy's son would come in for murder. He's looking this and he's like--Jim: It's a pattern. Woody: Oh, yeah. It's proven. And you're right, him being a forward genius thinker, he's like, "Mm, you know what? Why wouldn't I try this? Why wouldn't I try? If I can make a change in one person's life, it'd be something special." And nobody had ever done what you're about to tell about.Jim: That's right. He gets with about, let's say, these six trusted inmates that he had that they were all graduates of this seminary. And he says, "Do y'all see the same problem I do?" And they said, "Not only do we see the problem, we can institute a program where we teach other inmates how to be fathers behind bars." It's possible. Look, I got chill bumps again. They form what they call Malachi Dads. Basically, this is one of the best programs he ever instituted. And it was a program in which fathers that were incarcerated learned how to parent their kids from inside of prison. We're going to play you a clip real quick. These are the inmate founders of Malachi Dads. And they're discussing a little bit about Warden Cain and a lot about that program. We're going to play that right now. [video recording of Malachi Dads]Ron: My name is Ron Hickson. I've been incarcerated for 25 years. I'm serving life sentence for second-degree murder. Darryl: My name is Darryl Waters. I'm from Gibson, Louisiana, and I was sentenced for second-degree murder in 1992. George: My name is George Gilliam. I am from New Orleans. I'm currently serving a life sentence for a second-degree murder. We discovered in 2006 that a child of an incarcerated father had a 70% likelihood to come to prison and so we discovered those statistics and God gave us favor and that became Malachi Dads. Just because you're locked up in prison, that does not give you the right to not still be a father. Healthy people, who have a heart that's healed, who have a soul that's whole, they want to help, they want to give back. And that's what we do every day. Interviewer: Why do you think violence has come down in Angola?Inmate: When Warden Cain came on the scene, what he did was open up the door of opportunity. He was able to see, "If I can get these guys to start coming out to success because what success do, it change the way you think." If I can achieve something, I feel better about myself. [clip ends]Woody: Wow. Super. There's so much to be said, y'all. I'm going to do one more part that is-- maybe I don't want to say shows a harsher side, because it's not a harsher side, but it shows the business side of Burl. Jim: And a good story.Woody: He's all about trying to shine the light in the darkness and see what kind of positive things can come about it. But he's also all about, it's his prison and who's going to rule it. But listen to this story. This is crazy. And Jim researched this, and I had never-- believe it or not, I had never even heard of this. But as we told you many times on the show, Angola is huge. It's sprawling over 18,000 acres. And that's mostly-- the camps are spread out. It's mostly agriculture, big fields, Tunica Hills, Mississippi River, shit ton of wildlife. So one day, one of the convicts saw a huge 400-pound black bear on the property, and they freaked out and they're like, "Holy shit." Most of these guys are city boys, etc. Jim: They don't like the wolfdogs.Woody: Right. Until two years ago, I had never seen a bear in the state of Louisiana. But in Jackson, where DCI was, the first restaurant I've worked at was called Bear Corners. Back in the day, black bears were preliminary in the area. And now, they're coming back because of strict hunting ban, etc. But you got this mass 18,000 acres, and as rare as they are, there's a bear.Jim: In the middle of the prison.Woody: Massive black bear living in the middle of Angola. And you know what Burl thought? Jim: [laughs] [crosstalk] Woody: You know what? Kind of scared me, And I know it scared them because they came running to me. And he's like, "That's just extra security."[laughter]Jim: That's exactly how he said it. Woody: And I'll quote him. He said, "I love that bear being right where it is. And I tell you what, none of our inmates are going to try to get out after dark and wander around when they might run into a big old bear. It's like having another guard at no cost to the taxpayer." He was about business. We keep talking about all these good things that he's doing, let me tell you something, and we'll talk about it in later episodes in the series. I've seen it, that's one dude you don't want to see mad. And it's one dude that knows his business, right? Jim: That's right. Woody: Anyway, the bear was first seen by an inmate crossing the road in the prison. And it was taking a stroll near the center of prison, where about five and a half square miles were mostly untouched piney woods, y'all. And the prison workers measured the bear's footprints, which were six inches in diameter. Now, every inch that they can measure equals 75 pounds. The biologists have figured this out. So, that made that bear about 450 pounds. And Cain said, the wildlife people told us they think it's a big female they've been tracking for a while. And Warden Cain estimated at the time that 8 to 10 bears lived on that 18,000 acres. Jim: Holy crap. Woody: You better believe he promoted the shit out. Jim: Oh, yeah, I was about to say that. He told every inmate.Woody: When they come in, "Hey, if you out in the field, you see a bear, you ain't going to be the fast. You just got to be fast from one of the other convicts. We might not shoot you if you're running from the bear, but if you go out there at night, that bear is hungry. Bears got to eat." Jim: Y'all, we're just getting started. Woody: Yeah, just getting started. Jim: But we got to cut this one off. We've gone over an hour. Woody: Still though, I'm going to say it again, wait until you hear-- we talked a lot about-Jim: Oh, my God, we ain't scratched the surface.Woody: -the positive side today, which is something. But I'm going to tell you something, tough dude, bruh. There's a reason he lasted as long as he lasted and is still doing what he does. But it's the totality of circumstances of the man, which to me makes him a legend. Jim: Just to give you a little sauce for what you can look forward to the next episode, we're going to talk about a little bit about Billy Cannon and how Burl Cain was instrumental in bringing him into Angola. We're going to talk about Hurricane Katrina and the effect that that had on Angola prison. Y'all going to love that story. Look, this is stuff you cannot find anywhere else. Woody: We're going to talk about some executions. Jim: Yeah, how about his second execution, different than the first, right? Woody: And then what happened following after that. Just a whole--Jim: Captain Knapps. Woody: Captain David Knapps.Jim: A bunch more to bring you. Woody: Can't wait to bring you. And we appreciate and love each and every one of y'all. Jim: Yeah. Thank y'all for-Woody: Patreon members-Jim: -everything. Woody: -you rock. Our Patreon members, the show couldn't run without you. We appreciate y'all so much. Y'all, look, if you want to be a patron member, go to patreon.com/bloodyangola. Jim: We've got a bonus episode coming next week. So, what we're going to do next week when we record our second episode of the story of Burl Cain, we're also going to record our bonus episode just for patron members. And what it's going to be on, y'all, is we released the first episode to the general public, it was on executions and we kind of told a little bit of the story and it was great. We've got more for you, but it's only going to be for patrons, that second one, it's a good one. Woody: Y'all, we have all the different tier levels with all the different benefits. And I'm telling you right now, I've been doing this over five years, podcasting, and Real Life Real Crime original probably doesn't have as many patron episodes locked up as [crosstalk] of Bloody Angola. Jim: We got a ton of it. That's right. Woody: If you like Bloody Angola, go subscribe. If you can't be a patron member, we love you just as much. Jim: And transcripts. People love the transcripts. We've got all of our episodes transcribed on Patreon for some of the tiers, and these are not transcriptions, y'all, that are like the AI versions. 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You'll choose from 30+ delicious weekly recipes carefully put together by the amazing chefs!Click Here to Take advantage of 16 FREE MEALS and FREE SHIPPING!www.Hellofresh.com/BloodyAngola501954 THROUGH AN INMATES EYES: Bloody Angola Podcast TranscriptJim: Hey everyone and welcome back to Bloody-Woody: -Angola.Jim: A podcast 142 years in the making.Woody: The Complete Story of America's Bloodiest Prison.Jim: And I'm Jim Chapman. Woody: And I'm Woody Overton.Jim: And we got some Angolites.Woody: Right? I love these stories, man. True, true history from the past. Before we get started, we want to say our thoughts and prayers are with all our people in Florida and Georgia that are getting slammed right now, or got slammed yesterday and came ashore as a Category 3.Jim: And continue to get slammed. Woody: And it's just bad. And they said they haven't seen a storm like that in 125 years. So, just prayers for them. I guess you call it Idalia, I-D-A-L-I-A. It's just bad, prayer for them. We know what they're going through.Jim: Yeah, we've been through a few of those ourselves. So, our hearts and prayers and thoughts are with those folks and the road to recovery. You will recover. It'll seem like you won't, but you'll come back. Look, we've done a lot of historical podcasts with relation to the Angolite, the prison weekly paper that Angola has put out for so many years. This is an award-winning paper all over the world.Woody: And actually turned into a magazine because I had a subscription to it back in the 90s. Jim: Absolutely. Some of the stories from back in the day, y'all, you just won't believe until we read them. We've had a lot of people ask for us to do another one. Got a lot of messages. So, we're bringing you another one today because we got our hands on a lot of them from the 50s and 60s. So, we kind of cherry pick what we feel like are the best stories out of those magazines, and we go over those with y'all. And I'll start it off. And this is an Angolite from April 21st, 1956. Woody: Wow.Jim: Yeah. That was a heck of a time in America, and even in Angola, as you're about to hear. Woody: Definitely Bloody Angola, man. Jim: Yes, for sure. And as a matter of fact, we're going to start off with a bloody story at Bloody Angola, and it was a headline. It said, "Two Dead, One Hurt. Tragedy trip hammered a triple blow at Angola last weekend, leaving two inmates dead and another maimed for life." It says one of the two dead suffered fatal injuries in an accident. The second died of a heart attack. Maimed with his right hand amputated at the wrist was a third.Woody: Wow. Jim: The dead Charles D. Clarkson, 24, of Caddo Parish. He had fallen under the wheels of a tractor last Friday. A broken rib punctured his lung. He died enroute to Charity Hospital, New Orleans. Lawrence Virgil Turley, 55, a carpenter, died Sunday afternoon at the General Hospital of a heart attack. Injured only a half hour after he had been assigned to work on the Mammoth Press at the Tag plant, Venice Landry, 20, had his right hand mangled under the giant bolster ram. Woody: Wow. Jim: Which is the thing, y'all, that stamps it. Woody: Slams.Jim: Yeah, slams that steel and stamps those plates. His hand was amputated at General Hospital Saturday. Pretty, pretty wild stuff going on at Angola. And look, these days, they don't give you those reports. Typically, you really got to dig for them.Woody: The General Hospital really wasn't a hospital. That's when the nurse, the angel-- they call her angel, was there, there was no doctor and all that. It's crazy, right? Jim: That's right. Woody: And the language they use in these, y'all, is really comical. Jim: And you've got to remember, this was a different time. So, you'll hear things like colored and whites. Woody: It's their words, not ours. Jim: That's right. Woody: All right, so the next one says, "Two Fail in Brief Freedom. Wallace McDonald and Norman Stroupe are in a tight, locked cells today following a brief bid for liberty Tuesday night. Security officials said the two took off from the transportation department in Downtown Angola-" That's funny. "In Downtown Angola Tuesday about noon. They were recaptured within a six-hour period by local authorities, both formerly bedded down at Camp H2," the report said. Jim: [laughs] Woody: Kind of brief on that. Jim: Yeah. Basically, they turned a jet-- and that's what I really like about these, is they do tell you about the escapes and stuff. I mean, they don't hold back.Woody: Downtown Angola.Jim: Yeah. [chuckles] Well, how about this one? "Cleaver in an attack tried," says, "John Newton, a new prison kitchen worker, was jailed Monday on a charge of felonious assault with a meat cleaver." Yes, sir. "Newton is said to have sliced Albert Johnson upside his head following an argument. Johnson was hospitalized with lacerations." Woody: Jeez Louise.Jim: Yeah. So, Mr. Johnson got a--Woody: Meat cleaver to the head. Jim: You don't attack people with meat cleavers.Woody: Bloody Angola for sure. Jim: That's right. Woody: So crazy. And then this next one, y'all says, "Heavy equipment acts to rush free houses. Using earth from the miles long embankment of the old Louisiana and Arkansas right of way, the LSP Heavy Equipment department-" That's funny. "Under Superintendent Dennis Johnson was last week engaged in an all-out operation to fill a five-acre plot of ground for the construction of 21 new free personnel houses. The plot is located on the B-Line at the foot of the old receiving station hill. It is to be filled to a depth of 36 inches. Johnson says he expects his department will wind up with the earth fill operation within two weeks. Construction houses will then start, he said." It's funny. They're talking about building part of the B-Line, another 21 houses added.Jim: Yeah. So, this is back, y'all, for those that may just be joining us, the B-Line is where all the free people live. Woody: Inside the wire. Jim: Inside the wire. And this was during the construction of that way back in 1956.Woody: And my mama lived there during that time.Jim: And we'll go on to another page of this one. And there's an article, it says, "More crippled birds. A second group of crippled pelicans, each with the wings broke by hail in the recent storm, were sighted last Sunday by deck passengers on the Angola ferry. The birds have roosted on the log a few feet from the shore and near the middle of the ferry landing. Observers said the wings will heal in time and that it is no rescue operation."Woody: That's crazy. Jim: And the reason we included that one is, it's interesting that they try to keep you up to date with what's going on the outside. And the only way they know that is to look out those bars in that wire and actually see it. A little story on pelicans. Who knew hail could injure their wings? Woody: The news of the day, right? Jim: Yeah. Woody: All right. This one says, "O, let us spray. An old-fashioned mattress spraying bee was held at Camp E last Monday, under the eagle eye of the unit captain, A. Couvillon. The action was aimed at eliminating any wandering insects who had hoped to make the unit their dwelling place this summer." [laughter] Woody: It's spraying for bedbugs, basically.Jim: Yeah.Woody: That's funny.Jim: And something that you had to do up in Angola for sure. Woody: It had to be really bad for them to do it for the convicts. Jim: That's right. And then, we'll continue on. And there's one that says, "Falls upstairs, breaks his jaw." Woody: Uh-oh.Jim: That's right. "Joseph Tornabene, Camp H-1 juvenile, fell upstairs one day last week and broke his jaw in three places."Woody: I bet that didn't happen. Jim: [laughs] "The adolescent was returning to his bunk after a shower, according to the story told to the hospital. He was taken to Charity Hospital in New Orleans for treatment." So, they're basically trying to say-- Woody: They beat his ass.Jim: [laughs] Broke his jaw--[crosstalk] Woody: "You better tell them you fell up the stairs, boy."Jim: Yeah, that's it. Woody: That's funny. Jim: Broke his jaw in three places from a slip. That was one that I really thought painted a picture of the times in prison. Woody: Funny. I think that's when they had the convict guards too. All right, so here we go. The title of this is "Pocketed Razor Draws Jail Time." Says, "He told arresting officers he was just going to shave, but they didn't believe him. He is James B. Shivers of the STU, and he was caught with a straight razor. The board assessed a term on bread and duck because they said only blades for a razor are lawful."Jim: [laughs] [crosstalk] Jesus Christ. And when they caught him, he said, "Well, I was just using it to shave." Woody: "Yeah, I was just using it to shave." Jim: "What's wrong with that?" All right, how about this one? "Fresh fish leave sheltered cloister as labor beckons. 34 fish, until recently swimming unfettered in the administration unit tank-" And, y'all, when they refer to fish, they're talking about new prisoners. "-At the General Hospital have been screened, tested, probed, and activated by members of the classifications board at a recent session. Purpose of the session was to ascertain whether the fish can earn his bed and board. A few whose records indicated they were unlikely to run were made trustys on the spot. Others who must wait and further test went on jobs under the gun. [crosstalk] 18 of the fish are today assigned to the Angola Cane Corn and Cotton Company as field laborers."[laughter] Jim: "In the number were those who will live at Camp A, H and H-2. Culinary work attracted three men, a clerkship and garage work for a third and a welding for a fourth." So, they were classifying them into jobs. And of all those people, 34 fish, only three were made trustys. So, that tells you most of them, they were like, "Eh, you're going to run--[crosstalk]" Woody: Those three had probably been there before, and then the ones under the gun, that's the shittiest job in the world. Can you imagine, like this summer, when it's 105 and then 116 with a heat index out there all day long, swinging a hoe? That's crazy.Jim: Yeah, that's insane.Woody: But they did something to get there.Jim: That's right. Woody: This one says, "Brown bags chops. John Hunt told the man he was hungry, and he had purloined the poke chops-", and they spell it P-O-K-E, y'all, "-for a midnight snack. The man sighed and put his pencil in notebook and told John, 'Put them back.' But on going through the gate again, the same suspicious bulge was evident." Jim: [laughs] Woody: Right. "Searched for chops, were confiscated, as was also Hunt's trusty pass from Pine Ford dormitory, his mail is now being sent to the local jail."Jim: Which means lockdown, basically. Woody: That's funny. Jim: They locked his ass down. Woody: Extra poke chops out the kitchen.Jim: Poke chops. Woody: Poke chops. Jim: Yeah. So that was from that one, and we're going to do another one here from August 11, 1956. And there's a headline on there. It says, "Angola's Informal Hot Seat. Someone at Angola that I'm not going to name, that I neither know nor care was almost burned to a cinder one day last week."Woody: Uh-oh.Jim: Oh, this guy must have been mad at him. "It seems that this 'worker' presumably was doing a little digging under the steel plate that separates the medium from the trusty compounds, which is located beneath the walkway directly below the snitch box at the medium security gate." So, this dude was digging a hole--[crosstalk] Woody: He wanted to get out. Jim: "He quit in a hurry-" it gets better, "-when a bolt of sizzling lightning momentarily blinded him and luckily did not fry his hide. His shovel had cut through one of nine cables, each of which was live with 2300 volts of crackling death."Woody: What? Jim: Yes, sir. "The soil around the cable was burned to charcoal, and if the lucky bum had come into contact with that current in that cable, they'd have been buried right there where they found him."Woody: Wow. Jim: "Take this information for what it's worth and continue grave digging. The Angolite or dig your own grave, literally, with the assurance that the Angolite will make your name famous throughout the state. It's up to you."Woody: That's funny. Jim: [laughs] That guy was [unintelligible [00:15:55] trying to escape. Woody: [crosstalk] -dig out and dug into the cable lines. [crosstalk] -signs you see, "Don't dig here." They didn't have those back then. Crazy. All right, here we go, Bloody Angola. So, this one's called "Dumbbell Opens Passoit's Scalp." Jim: Uh-oh. [laughs] Woody: "Veral Passoit, was removed from the cell block to the hospital, August 8th, with a head wound. Veral, who was removed from the cell block area, August 8th, with a head wound, which he claimed to have suffered when a weight he was lifting fell on his noggin. Hospital records show that he is getting along very nicely despite the 15 or 18 sutures required to close the clean tight wound."Jim: Somebody hit him with a dumbbell. [laughs] Woody: Hit him with a knife. Dumbbell wouldn't leave a clean, open wound, it'd be smashed. Jim: Yeah. Woody: But they weren't going to rat on each other.Jim: Mm-hmm. Woody: [crosstalk] -take your lick.Jim: And y'all imagine this, now this is the 50s. These guys, there is no TV and all that. I mean, this is the only entertainment you get, and the only way you can keep up with what's going on in prison as an inmate. Woody: It was a huge prison, right? Jim: Yes. So, we'll move on. This is February 21st, 1959 edition. And the headline says, "New Prices at the Camp Store." And I really enjoyed this one because I'm going to give you actual prices, but it says, "Mr. James Thornton, Chief Administrative Officer, announced new price levels for many items at the camp store this week. And we have printed the price list on page 6." So, when you go to page six, I just highlighted some of these, and I'm going to read off to you that I found interesting. So, back in 1959, if you needed some Alka Seltzer, it was going to cost you 28 cents. Woody: Really? Jim: 28 cents. Cheez-It's, 10 cents. Woody: I can't believe they still had Cheez-It back then. Jim: Yeah. No, it surprised me. Cigarettes. You want some king size cigarettes? It's going to cost you 30 cents. Woody: What? Jim: So, if you want some kings and then some regulars, 29 cents. Woody: Yeah, but that was their currency back then. That's what they paid each other with. Jim: That's right. Community coffee, 40 cents. Woody: Community coffee, way back then. Jim: Way back then, and it was instant. Noxzema, 19 cents. Woody: I was using Noxzema in prison. Jim: [laughs] That's a great-- Look, they got nail clippers for 20 cents. Woody: Keep yourself properly clean. Jim: That's it. Potato chips, 5 cents. Woody: Really? Jim: Yeah. Shampoo, White Rain brand. Who knew that was around then? 41 cents. Rolling tobacco, 12 cents. Woody: Wow. That's a big deal in prison too, when I used to be there and they still had cigarettes, you could tell who was a really poor convict because they had the Bugler in the can or that blue can. The Bugler was a yellow, red, white, blue, and the other one was just a light blue can. But they were the ones that couldn't afford the Camels or the Marlboros or whatever and had to roll their own cigarettes. And the ones who couldn't afford any of those, when the other ones would throw their butts out, they'd go pick up the butts and smoke the butts. Jim: Oh, come on. Ugh. Toothpaste, everybody's got to have toothpaste. Well, it cost you 12 cents for Colgate. Woody: Wow. It's cheap.Jim: Yeah. Vicks salve, 35 cents. And they had Vaseline hair oil back then. That was 14 cents. So, I'm going to take this and I'm going to post it on the Patreon.Woody: Yeah, because there's a lot of stuff. Jim: Yeah, it's a lot of stuff, but pretty cool to go through. They got pork skins on here. They got all kinds of stuff. Liver pills. Woody: Liver pills. [chuckles] Jim: What they call hives, which are like crackers back then. So, we'll post that on there so you patron members can look through it and really have some fun.Woody: Yeah, that's funny. Jim: Checking that out. And we'll go to September 10th, 1955. Woody is going to start us off on that one. Woody: All right. So, September 1955. "Airport here averages plane per day. Attendance at the Angola airport were a shade busy last week. Logged in and out were three planes." They were real busy, huh? "Monday, the Paul A. Lambert Cessna arrived and departed. Tuesday the Jas F. O'Neill craft. And Wednesday, a Red two plane bearing number N970246." Jim: Oh, my God, they even knew the tag number.Woody: [chuckles] I know my mom when she was on the parole board, they used to fly them around the state because more cost efficient and quicker to get them there and stuff. But I can't believe they had it back in the 50s.Jim: Yeah, planes have been around a while. They were flying them in World War II and all.Woody: Yeah, but not passenger planes. Jim: Yeah.Woody: I mean some, but I guess it was probably military surplus. Jim: Yeah. "One on the lam still running," it says. "Police in four states--" and I'm going to look up this case, y'all, because I was like, wow, this would be a good one to cover. "Police in four states are today looking for Ray Coughron, 28, a 15-year termer, formerly domiciled at Camp H-2. Donning a correctional officer's uniform, Coughron quietly slipped out of the yard gate last Sunday. Bloodhounds failed to pick up his trail." Woody: He must have somebody waiting on him. Jim: Well, they have to have checked out [crosstalk] never heard of that.Woody: I mean, he had a CO uniform and then he got out. And if the Angola Chase team couldn't get on him? He's gone. Jim: Yeah. And he did. Woody: If I was going to run, you--[crosstalk] Jim: He got correctional officer's uniform. Must have worked in a laundry or something. Woody: If I was going to run or you were going to run, you'd have somebody waiting on you, right? Jim: Yeah. Woody: I wouldn't be running those hills or trying to swim the river. Jim: And I guarantee, y'all, one difference because I've read a lot of these Angolites between then and now is they don't post escapes in the Angolite anymore. They don't want any other prisoners reading that.Woody: It's kind of like the mass shootings nowadays. We don't say the shooter's name. Like the one that just did it in Dollar Store, he copied the one in the same city five years before and mentioned it in his manifesto. Jim: That's right. Woody: But anyway. All right, so let's go to September 10th, 1955. That's 73 years ago, y'all, next week or the week after, says, "New laundry washes for all. For the first time in the history of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, a centrally located laundry is now handling washing and ironing for the entire institution."Jim: Oh.Woody: Right. "Today, wheels are rolling at the new prison and a crew of 15 men is daily turning out clean sheets, towels, pants, shirts, and personal linen of male inmates at all camps. The work formally had been done in part at the women's unit. The other part at individual camps. Set up in preparation for the time when all male inmates are housed at the new prison. The laundry, under the managership of Captain Bill Kerr, is currently turning out 1100 pounds of dry wash hourly. With the mangle of four ironing sheets, the plant will later on press pants and shirts. 'Ten pressing units have been ordered and are to be installed,' Captain Kerr said. A schedule has been worked out to handle washing five days per week. Saturday is general cleanup day for the plant. The plant at the woman's camp now handles only free personnel laundry." [laughter] Woody: They want to mix them up. That's your job. Another one building, they didn't have AC and they turned out 1100 pounds. Jim: Oh, yeah. Woody: It's crazy. Jim: And it's interesting that back then, 1955 is when they started just finally having this main laundry facility for the--[crosstalk] Woody: One thing they don't mention in there is underwear. So, when you get in, they give you prison-issued underwear. But when you do send your stuff into the laundry, most inmates keep their underwear and have their bitch wash them. That's why I say you'll be tossing salads and washing dirty drawers. They'll actually rent out their bitch to wash people's dirty underwear in their sinks. And they hand scrub them with soap and wash them and they hang them and make them fresh for whomever for like a couple of cigarettes. Jim: Wow. There you go, straight from the wolf, right there. "Prison guard post reaching skyward," this one says. "Those new two-story steel skeletons you see poking skyward with the yellow-painted girders are indications it won't be long. They're the structural steel columns for the new guard towers at the new prison. Each will be complete with glassed-in cupola and searchlight." Woody: And they're still there today. Jim: And they're still there today. Yeah. They made them to last back in those days, but built those new guard towers way back then. Woody: Yeah. The funny thing about those is when you go up in them, the outside doors lock, but they're manned 24/7, never take off. I've worked them before. You go in, they actually sit on the outside of the fence. So, inmates can't get to that door. So, you have to go to the door and holler up at the guard, the CO, and they lower you a key down and you unlock it and it's on a string. They pull it back up and you go in and you lock it from the inside. And it's got a spiral staircase. You come through, like a trap door, and it's a round room. That's where your rifle and your shotgun is and your lights and stuff like that. Jim: Yeah.Woody: It's pretty cool. Jim: Awesome. Woody: And then a telephone. That's the only other thing you have. You might have a radio, but pretty interesting. All right, so let's go to, again, on September 10th, 1955, says, "Free Ferry soon to open at St. Francisville. According to the Plainsman of Zachary-" That's the plainsman. It is the Zachary newspaper. "According to the Plainsman of Zachary, named The Feliciana, the vessel costs $200,000 and it may take a load off the Angola ferry. Visitors may enter via the front gate." Jim: Interesting. Woody: I have to ask my mom about that one because it didn't run for long.Jim: Yeah. Woody: Now, they have the ferry that still to this day that runs across into-- I think it might be [unintelligible 00:28:20]. It runs across the river and a lot of free people live over there. Or they'll drive into that ferry and the ferry drives them across and they come in. But this one would-- imagine how many COs lived in St. Francisville, which is back then, you had to take that long ass, hour-long road out, then get to St. Francisville another 10 or 15 minutes, I guess, they just ran them right up the river about a 15-minute ride. Jim: Yeah. Back then you had to have a ferry to go across that. Woody: Yeah. There's no bridges. You're right. Jim: Continuing on. This one is hilarious, y'all. It says, "Voodoo-Hoodoo. You've seen those copper wire amulets and necklaces of beans and so on. Voodoo stuff, maybe. Anyway, Edward Harris of Camp A walked up to the man last week and said people were after him. He didn't elaborate whether he had been hexed or just plain conjured. They locked him up lightly in the sneezer until the bug doctor examines his head." [laughter] Woody: We'll call it [unintelligible 00:29:33] of a mental case. The man said, "They're after him, so lock him up." Jim: The funny thing is with that particular deal is this guy's exposing him to the whole prison. Woody: Yeah. Jim: So, these guys, look, they gossip worse than anybody you've ever seen, and they're all nosy. Woody: They've got nothing else to do. Jim: That's right. Woody: Basically, he went to the man and ratted himself out. Crazy. Put him in the sneezer.Jim: Sneezer. Woody: "Ex-guard hurt in camp fracas. Frank Peoples, who until last Saturday was a guard was busted back to trusty-ship that day." So, that means he was an inmate guard. Jim: Yeah. Woody: "The following morning, he was rushed to the General Hospital suffering with a knotted head."[laughter] Woody: "He's resting well on the colored ward today." Think about this, the prison guards and we talked about that was a way for them to save money and everything back then, but at nighttime, they might have had one CO per camp, in nighttime, they just locked them in. And the prison guards in there were like gods. And you can get one taken out, he got demoted, and he got his ass beat that night. Jim: [laughs] Love that. And we got a couple on this page, and they're short, so I'm going to read a couple. I'll let Woody read a couple. The first says, "Bathing to be enforced." Yes. "Beware your long-eared scouts and men of wrath who nothing fear except a bath. White dormitory at the new prison were all set to give one of their number a dunking last week on account that he hadn't put the showers to use since he entered the joint, which is a violations of the rules, besides." [chuckles] So that was a little short one. Woody: Even most of the convicts don't like a stinky ass. Jim: That's right. Woody: You get some people in there, not only have they not ever followed the rules in civilization, but they don't have any personal hygiene. So, I think what they're probably saying is the inmates drug them in there [crosstalk] ass down. Jim: That's exactly what they did. Gave him a GI shower. [laughs] Woody: [crosstalk] -stinky motherfucker.Jim: They basically forced his ass take a bath. He must have been stinking. Imagine you're working out in those fields all day. Oh, my God.Woody: Nasty. No deodorant and everything else. Jim: You would think you'd want to take one. But anyhoo, "Localite knifed in camp affray. Henry Davis at Camp F underwent a ham stitching at the emergency ward of the General Hospital one day last week. Henny ran afoul of a knife in the hands of an unidentified assailant." Woody: [crosstalk] -he's unidentified. Jim: [laughs] Woody: He ran afoul of him. Jim: Yeah. Woody: That's crazy. Jim: Yeah. I love the way they wrote back then. Woody: I love it. Jim: It's a totally different dialect. Woody: Nobody was ratting anybody out. They just did. Jim: Yeah. Unidentified, I'm sure. Woody: And again, this is still September 10th, 1955, and says, "Cuts out early, ends in jail. He was trying to get to camp early for dinner, Calvin Mitchell, a camp aid trusty, told officials last week. Cutting grass with a crew, Mitchell was missed at a field count. A chase ensued and the lad was found wondering. They put him in the hole, pending DB action." The disciplinary board, y'all. Crazy.Jim: Yeah. Basically, he tried to say, "I was just hungry, going early to eat." Woody: [crosstalk] -get that meal. Jim: [laughs] Wandering.Woody: The next one. "Pipe used in knotting spree. When Warren Guidry of Camp of F uses a pipe, he uses a big one. One and a half inches. One day last week, he wielded it with painful and telling effect upon the noggin of Manson Powell, authorities said. Guidry is awaiting the outcome of a trial. Powell is awaiting the taking off of bandages." [laughter] Woody: That's funniest shit.Jim: That's crazy.Woody: It's like every day, this one's getting knifed, this one's getting hit.Jim: I'm telling you-- Woody: In the noggin. Jim: Yes, the noggin. And look, we're going to go way back to 1954, November 27th. And the headline on this one really struck my interest. It says, "34 shot in rabies try-out." Woody: What? Jim: Yeah. Now, y'all got to remember there was a time there was no rabies shot. You got rabies, you just went nuts or whatever. And a lot of times when they would get these shots, they would try them out on like inmates.Woody: New medical procedures. Jim: Yeah. They would be the guinea pig. Woody: Drug companies come in and basically pay the prison to get their test subjects. Jim: Yeah. So, it says, "34 Angola inmates, six of them women, are today nursing slightly sore arms in what is said to have been the first guinea pig effort ever made here in the interest of medical science. The 34 last Saturday and Sunday were given the first of a series of inoculations aimed at testing a new type of vaccine for the treatment of rabies. All were volunteers," the prison management said.Woody: Yeah, bet.Jim: [laughs] They might have paid them something, I don't know. Woody: [crosstalk] -cigarette. Jim: Yeah. "Under the auspice of the School of Medicine at Tulane University at New Orleans, the inoculations were given by Dr. DP. Conwell, a Tulane medical staffer." There you are, at the start of the rabies vaccine in history. And who knew Angola played such a big part in that?Woody: Well, I had actually heard something before about them trying new procedures on convicts, because who were going to complain? And they gave them a couple of smokes. They were like, "Whatever." Jim: That's it. Woody: [crosstalk] "-anyway. Give me the shot." That's crazy. That shit wouldn't fly nowadays. Jim: No. Woody: All right, so let's take you to the next one we're going to do. And it says, "Count soars, official--" And that's spelled count soars, S-O-A-R-S, "Official sore," S-O-R-E, "Fresh fish may find no room." And then, y'all, we're talking about fresh inmates. "Today's inmate population swelled to a total of 2810, brought consternation to camp officials and worried frowns to the management last week. For the headcount is the highest here since the end of World War II, an authoritative source said. Already overcrowded at most units, Angola camp chiefs have been hard put to find sleeping room for their new borders. The count is suspected to hit 3000 by mid-year of 1955."Jim: Dang.Woody: That's crazy. Jim: Yeah.Woody: It's double that now. Jim: And they've added on--Woody: They've got a bunch of other prisons now too. They didn't have DCI and Winn and all those other prisons back then.Jim: Yeah. And so, we're still in 1954. And it says, "Here's that stuff again. Like the old saying about the character who, every time he opened his mouth, put his foot in it, last week, The Angolite carried a story about a patch of that nauseous stuff, okra, [laughs] situated just outside the fence of the woman's camp. And proving that the dames don't look into other people's backyards, as soon as she had read the account, buxom Alice said-," buxom Alice, they called her buxom Alice. "Buxom Alice said, 'Where's the okra? Why, I just love okra.' Yesterday at all units the food service department ordered for supper, you guessed it, boiled okra." Yuck. [laughter] Woody: That's funny. Jim: They didn't like that boiled okra.Woody: They're feeding them-- [crosstalk] Jim: I kind of like okra myself. Woody: [crosstalk] -especially my [unintelligible 00:38:15]-- Didn't cost them a whole lot to feed them. Jim: Buxom Alice, she liked her some okra. Woody: Right. Buxom Alice. That's funny. Well, y'all, I'm going to read you these next two. "Four men fail to rise, shine. Captain says your neck is mine. Four localites who bed down at Camp A were collared by police at that unit one day last week and charged with failing to rise and shine in the morning, as is customary in places like this. The four, Claudius Wall, Victor Stewart, Howard D. Keyes, and Robert Lewis, were escorted to the camp lockup to weigh the action of the disciplinary board. Because the quartet was asleep when they should have been awake, the camp count was snafued. Nothing will irritate a prison management as much as a fouled-up count of heads, it was said." [laughter]Woody: You messed up the count, you were going in a hole. That still happens today. And these dudes just didn't want to get up. That's funny. All right. Jim: Love it. Woody: Let me read this one. "Loader whops, hurts worker. Sammy Robinson of Camp F was hospitalized Monday for injuries when he met up with a cane sling while working on a loader near the unit. Robinson is said to have been whopped about the head by the loader slings, which broke loose." Jim: Oh, my God. Woody: "He's on the colored ward." Wow. So, I guess one of the things flew off the machine or somebody probably hit him in the head with one of those [unintelligible 00:40:02]. That's crazy. Jim: Yeah. They're not going to rat each other up. Woody: Yeah. Jim: All right, we'll go to 1955, June 18th, and this headline says "STU-", and I'm not sure what STU stands for. Woody: It's going to be a Special Lockdown Unit. Jim: There you go. "STU men stage short-lived buck. Residents of the STU, disgruntled over the quality and distribution of the food and a few other items, refused to enter their mess hall Wednesday evening, declaring a camp wide buck."Woody: Uh-oh. That's right. "When the people came, however, the usual conversation settled everything." [laughs]Woody: They're like, "I'm about to shoot your ass." Jim: The usual conversation. I love it. Woody: That's funny. So, bucking up, y'all, and I've been a part of a couple of them, but they were like, "Fuck it, we're not doing it, and we're going to protest." And Warden Burl Cain, we talked about this on an episode, came in. He said, "Give the first one--" They weren't going to work in a crawfish plant. "Give the first one a direct verbal order, and as soon as they say no, arrest them." You still get arrested. So, bucking up. And the usual conversation was had, probably the same thing, like back then, "We're going to shoot you if you don't go to work." June 18th, 1955. "A little girl wants her dog. Tuffy, where are you? A farm-wide search has failed to produce any sign of Tuffy, the six-year-old Boston terrier who was owned by plumber foreman, Harry Dwyer, who'd made his home at Camp E and claimed the yard there as his personal domain. Dwyer says he is sure Tuffy is not dead. His body would have been found by this time, he reasoned. Meanwhile, Tuffy's little mistress, eight-year-old Nickie Dwyer, sent the following message to the Angolite. 'My dog's name was Tuffy. He was eight years old at the time he disappeared. He was a faithful dog and I loved him so. I was raised with Tuffy. He was smarter than most dogs. I do have three other dogs, but they will never mean as much to me as Tuffy. Please bring him back to me, Nickie Dwyer.'" [laughter] Woody: I wonder if my momma knew her.Jim: That's crazy. So, this was apparently a plumber foreman. He had a dog that hung out at the camps.Woody: And they were all inside--[crosstalk] Jim: Daughter sent a plea to the Angolite. Woody: Let me do another real quick, says, "Stray dog round-up now in operation. In accordance with an order from the management, all stray dogs on the farm are being rounded up for disposal each evening. The drive will be in effect through July 4th." So, they were looking for--[crosstalk] Jim: Oh, my God.Woody: Stray dogs, they were killing their ass. Jim: Yeah. For disposal. Woody: Right. Jim: That's crazy.Woody: What if they cooked them? Jim: 1955, y'all. All right, "What's in a name?" This was a good one. "James Williams, who boards at Camp I and has a Yankee accent, which he acquired in Madison County, Wisconsin, wishes the management would learn that he is not James A. Williams. It's a little confusing at first, but not so very difficult once you get the hang of it from Williams. 'Their James A. Williams lives at Camp A,' he explained earnestly, as our eyes began to get glassy. 'Like last October. I almost went to the Red Hats,' he continued. 'Or November, when they called me to the visiting room and walked me into a family of total strangers,' he continued. 'It's getting so I never know who I am, much less where I am.' Williams said it happened again last week. He came within a split second of appearing before the parole board with a lawyer and four relatives, but not his relatives. 'I keep wondering what's going to happen when this other boy's time is up,' he sighed, shaking his head dolefully. It is an interesting thought at that." Woody: What was his name? Jim: James A. Williams. But they had two James A. Williams. Woody: They probably had five of them. He's from Wisconsin. Boy, you know he was doing a hard time [crosstalk] Wisconsin the other day, it was 50 degrees in the morning. I got in Louisiana, it was 100 degrees. Jim: Come on. Jesus. Well, James A. Williams, hopefully they released the guy-- Woody: [crosstalk] -Madison County where the guy was from. Jim: Wow. Woody: All right. "Busy tag plant takes short order," from June 18th, 1955. "An order for 40 large game preserve signs, each with replicas of the bobwhite quail in the corners, was turned out on time by the tag plant last week. They are on 24-hour duty producing a million new auto licensed tags for 56." Jim: Unbelievable. Woody: "Plus hundreds of steel bunks for the new prison. Sheet metal gutters and what have you." [laughter] Woody: Most of these, y'all, are just like a little bitty short articles. All right, the next one says, "Knife victim has loss of memory." I can imagine. "Hyde Walker of Camp F was hospitalized Tuesday with superficial knife wounds on his left arm and shoulder. Stricken with a lapse of memory, says he was unable to recall how he got hurt. Security officials suggested that he might have got careless while shaving."[laughter] Jim: That is great.Woody: They weren't even worried about him. Jim: And they might have been the ones that hurt him. He might have got lax while shaving. Yeah, that's crazy. Here's one I found interesting. It says, "Dental clinic cracks own record. The biggest week in the history of the dental department went on record during the seven days from June 5th through the 11th of 1955, according to their bookkeeping department. The figures show a total of 115 patients were handled. Seven plates were complete and fitted, and 12 others were put into process. There were 51 extractions, 34 marked miscellaneous, and a variety of other entries." So basically, they're pulling teeth left and right. That one week, they pulled 51 teeth. I thought that was interesting. Woody: [crosstalk] -too many feelings when they could just rip them out. Jim: Yeah. And I'll give you this one. It says, "Two use razorblade, put cells in stitches. Two unidentified colored women from Camp D were treated for minor lacerations at the emergency ward last Tuesday. Weapons used is said to have been a razorblade. Following treatment for both, they were released and returned to camp." So, they tried to commit suicide. Two women.Woody: I wonder if they got in a fight with each other. Maybe they did. Two unidentified women from Camp D were treated for minor-- They might have gotten in a knife fight with each other. Jim: Maybe.Woody: Maybe it was suicide. I don't know. All right, September 18th, 1954, y'all. "Uniforms for free personnel soon. For the first time in the history of Louisiana State Penitentiary, correctional officers will be garbed in uniforms." Wow, this is interesting. "'Hats, coats, trousers, and shirts are on order and will be issued,' Secretary Chief W. H. Maynard said Wednesday. The uniforms will be of a forest green hue with beige-colored shirts, the official said. There will be no badges, however, nor any marks of rank worn. A shoulder patch will designate the wearer as an LSP officer."Jim: How about that?Woody: 1954 is when they had got the first uniforms. That's crazy.Jim: That's crazy. It had been around since 1901 as a state prison, and it took till 1954 to get-- so they just wore whatever they wanted, I guess. Button up shirts or something.Woody: Blue jeans and something. Real quick, at the top of this page, it says, "Dixie's only prison weekly, The Angolite." And it gives Volume 2, number 41. Angola, Louisiana. September 18th, 1954, 10 pages. But then, it had this box that says "Warning!!!! Laggards are warned. Monday, September 20th is the deadline for filing your petition for the October Pardon Board. Don't get stuck out."[laughter] Jim: Even in Angola, inside of Angola, you have thieves that steal from other inmates. "Dees, the barber shop got looted. The barber is offering a reward." In this article, it says, "Yes, sir. It never rains, but when it rains, it pours. Seems a fella has to get down in bed sick to find out who his friends are. Monday, Dees, the rotund Camp E ex-barber, woke up one day at the General Hospital where he is suffering from a diabetic onset, to find out that his shop at Camp E had been burglarized. Missing, he said, is $300 worth of barber tools and unfurnished leather goods. Dees has posted a $25 reward for the arrest and conviction of the miscreant. Or, he'll pay it for the return of the goods, no questions asked."Woody: $25 back then, shit, you can always buy a car for it. Jim: Yeah. And he was basically saying, "Look, if you took it, if you just give it back to me, I'll give you $25, or I'll pay someone $25 to find out who it was."Woody: That's pretty much their craft. And each camp would have one. That's an esteemed position, most of them-- Jim: And $300 worth back then? Inside prison, that's a million dollars.Woody: Yeah. September 18th, 1954. "Free inmate menus now the same. For what is believed to be the first time on Angola, menus for free personnel and inmates were identical last week, with the exception of breakfast. The innovation is by order of food services manager, J. H. Bonnette. A huge saving is expected to result from the consolidation, the food department said. Breakfast in the inmate dining rooms are planned, but for free personnel consists of short orders only." [laughter] Woody: I guess if you're free personnel, you can order your eggs over easy or whatever, and the rest of them are just getting shit on a shingle. That is funny.Jim: Yeah. So, you actually have a choice if you're free personnel. If you're not free personnel, you get what they throw on that plate. I'm going to read a couple of these, and I'll let Woody read the last one we're going to do for you today. And this was a correction from Old Wooden Ear. And he says-- Old Wooden Ear. He says, "Irate Camp Fers have asked for a correction. Seems one Freddie Armstrong, whom The Angolite said last week had been stabbed in a humbug, was not from Camp F, but from Camp A. The Angolite is happy to make this correction and with the hope that if any others get stabbed at Camp F, they won't bleed." Woody: That's funny. Jim: Even The Angolite had to issue retractions. And then, this one says, "Escapee, guards play hide and seek. Guard lines were still out yesterday for Ulice Baker, 28, a colored Camp C trusty who was found to be missing last Saturday. Baker, serving a seven-year sentence, is thought to still be hiding somewhere on the farm." How about that? Look, they were escaping left and right back in them days.Woody: The way it was they're still trying to, but they got a whole lot more security stuff in place, razor wire and all that and the wolfdogs. All right, this one says, big headlines, "Frazier is oldest! A glance at the records settled the question once and for all who's the convict with the longest time in point of service on Angola. Records showed Charlie Frazier--" We need to talk about him. Jim: Yeah. Woody: "Records show Charlie Frazier Camp H-2 hospital steward was received in September of 1933 with one sentence of 18 years, one of 28 years, and a life term, all stacked on top of the other. Charlie is registered number 23409, is the oldest on the books. His discharge date, however, is still 20 years away. The book says December 3rd, 1974." Now, look in the DOC, you're known by your inmate numbers. Now, they're alone. Fucking that means he was the 23409th inmate when he came in, ever to go to the gates of Angola. After the Civil War when they started.Jim: And probably one of the most notorious-- really, in American history, there's a whole big, long story for Charlie Frazier, and we will tell his story one day. He's a tough one to research because this was so long ago, but I'm going to come up with some stuff for him. Just two quick short ones, and then we got to wrap it up for today. This one says, "Toe whacked off. Andrew Peters, a resident of the STU, lost the third toe on his right foot via surgery last week. The operation was performed at the Angola General Hospital." So, something happened, he had to whack his toe off. Woody: He had diabetes or something. Jim: And then, the one below it says, "Three and a hassle. Three juveniles at H-1 were sporting an assortment of moused eyes, puffed lips, and other sores today as the result of a free-for-all hassle last Tuesday. The trio, all of whom were unidentified, were given first aid, a piece of steak for their eyes and sent home--" Woody: And they run a piece of steak with a baloney. Jim: [laughs] Yeah, there was no steak, I can promise you.Woody: We need to look in that too, because they're housing the juveniles there now and they're so fucking pissed off about it. But [crosstalk] back then they had women and juveniles too. Woody: Yeah, they sure did. And so, we'll be bringing you stuff on that. Appreciate all you patrons out there that follow. Look, we dropped a bonus episode Monday just for patrons, where we covered the first 20 death row inmates that are requesting clemency and got those hearings. We went into an in-depth breakdown of each of those, dropped that on Monday. So, if you're not a patron, join Patreon, you can get that. Another quick announcement, Apple Podcast. For those that don't do Patreon for whatever reason, we're now on Apple Podcast as a subscription option as well. You just go to your Apple Podcast app, and you'll see it. I'm going to label all those. It'll say Apple Podcast Bonus Episode.Woody: Yeah. Also, what happens on Apple Podcast, anytime you go to the Apple Podcast player, and you type in "Bloody Angola," it'll pull it up and it'll give you, like, I think it's free trial for whatever, for seven days. It'll list episodes and everything else. Pretty cool deal, I think. Jim: If you're not and you want to try it, there's a free trial going on. Woody: Some people [crosstalk] either they don't know what Patreon is or they don't want to use it. I have that on the regular Real Life Real Crime. Jim: Well, some people want-- and they want to listen to their podcast through one particular app and not have to go different places. So, Apple Podcast enables that. Woody: So, if you like it and you want to try it and then get your free seven-day trial and go listen to some bonus episodes because we got a ton of them. Jim: We got a ton. Woody: And thank y'all and we love you so much. We appreciate each and every one of you. Jim: Yeah. And until next time, I'm Jim Chapman. 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In this episode of Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Woody Overton and Jim Chapman, they wrap up season 4 of the podcast and give you an amazing sneak peek into season 5!#thewrap #truecrime #bloodyangolapodcast #podcastBLOODY ANGOLA PODCAST: THE WRAP FULL TRANSCRIPT Jim: Hey everyone and welcome back to another edition of Bloody- Woody: Angola.Jim: A podcast 142 years in the making.Woody: The Complete Story of America's Bloodiest Prison.Jim: And I'm Jim Chapman.Woody: And I'm Woody Overton.Jim: And Woody Overton, we've been doing 18 episodes. This is the 19th episode of Season 4.Woody: Wow. Sounds like it's time for a wrap [crosstalk] right? Jim: It must be.Woody: That is a lot.Jim: That is a lot. And, y'all, we have so much fun doing this. We just go and go and go, and before you know it, we've got four seasons and one. But we love it that way. And so, today we thought it was fun to not only kind of wrap up the season and discuss our thoughts on the Episodes that we did drop, but give you a sneak peek into what, Woody Overton, I think is going to be our best season ever.Woody: It's absolutely going to be the best, because we got the best stuff coming up. Jim: Oh, yes.Woody: And you did the best research and we got guests and everything else.Jim: Yeah. We're raising the bar to say the least for Season 5. But let's talk about Season 4, which, y'all, our most successful season to date. We had so many different subjects that we covered and when we envisioned this podcast, that was one of the things that we envisioned was being very broad about how we covered Angola.Woody: Right. We told you every story would be different. We've had some that were uplifting, we had some that were mentally disturbing about crime and we had just everything. We're going to talk about some, but it's all varied and all true.Jim: Oh, yeah. And we started off Season 4 with The Rise & Fall of C-Murder.Woody: That's right. Great one. We got a lot of response from that.Jim: Really kicked off the season.Woody: Really, really excellent. Loved it. I didn't really understand that he was such a legend in Louisiana.Jim: Yeah, he really was. And what a story. A lot of what we covered surrounded the fact that his case, there was never a whole lot of, say, proof. There was a lot of circumstantialstuff. And we covered some of the holes in that case and also covered some of the things that pointed towards C-Murder being involved. But we left it up to the listener to kind of judge for themselves what they thought.Woody: Right. We brought to you a lot of facts on it, researched and watched documentaries and everything else. And then, you got it from our perspective, and you the story and me the detective on it. So very interesting. If y'all hadn't heard it, you need to go listen to it.Jim: That's right. And then went straight from there into When Evil Escapes, which was the story of Casey White and Vicky White.Woody: Yes. That's crazy. And, y'all, it ties back into Bloody Angola because that's unfortunately those relationships develop. That's a very real deal. And here you have this career lady. I mean, her whole life's been about this and then she falls under the spell of this monstrous-Jim: Monster, yeah.Woody: -big dude. And the story that unfolds is just so crazy and how they end up.Jim: The ending on that one was fire. And we want to remind everyone you can go back and listen. If you hear us mention an episode that you haven't listened to yet, you can go back through and you'll find it. Just scroll down through Season 4. In Episode 3, we started our Death Sentence series which covered the death row exonerations with DNA and things like that taking place in Angola specifically.Woody: Yeah. And those cases were phenomenal. And I know a lot of people are against the death penalty and always say, "Well--" You come home and find your kid raped and mutilated, etc. But this shows the other side of it and their valid argument that, "Hey, you know what? Sometimes they get it wrong." So, we gave you the unbiased truth on these people that got out. And what actually ultimately happened to them. Go back and listen to it because you'll find a common thread on every one of them that got released. Didn't do so well.Jim: That's right. And then we felt it only right to cover those that were executed, I guess you could say, for the right reasons. There was preponderance of proof and that was with our Death Chamber Part 1 and just covered those guys that walked down and sat in Gruesome Gertie.Woody: Right. And not we only told about their crimes, we told about some of the [unintelligible 00:06:28] stuff, but then last meals, last words. And again, I think you find in most of those that some of the last words are almost the same and I don't want to ruin it for you, so go listen to it. But I've always been super fascinated by the last meals and last words.Jim: Yeah.Woody: And some great, great two-part series, wasn't it?Jim: Yeah. Well, yeah, two parts.Woody: Because there's that much information and that much fire in it.Jim: After that, we kind of got back to telling you the stories of some people that-- this guy in particular is still sitting in Angola and that is Principal to Murder, Justin Granier who committed some crimes in Gonzales, Louisiana.Woody: That's right, yeah. Very, very interesting to say the least.Jim: I found that as well because Justin is one that gained popularity on TikTok and some other places because he was on a show that featured Louisiana State Penitentiary and his work through several programs that they offer and does appear to be someone that is very resentful of his crime and all those sorts of things. But we're not going to ruin it for you. Go listen to it. Season 4, Episode 6, we covered The Escape From Angola in 1953. That was Ricardo Escobar who's--Woody: That's right.Jim: --a little home invasion.Woody: He did. And my grandfather actually ruled in this case. My namesake, actually, or I guess I'm his namesake and my son has the same name, but it's different time in what happened in this case. I think the first time ever any kind of verdict had come down like that in the state of Louisiana for an escapee.Jim: Yeah, it's a good one. Check it out. Season 4, Episode 7, we finally did it. We brought you becoming the warden. Burl Cain Part 1.Woody: Yes. [crosstalk] -legend- Jim: Wow, that was good.Woody: -and such, an early influence on me in my professional career when I worked for him before he became the Warden of Angola. He was the warden of Dixon Correctional Institute. Y'all, this story is amazing.Jim: It really is. And continues to this day. Woody: And we actually did several episodes.Jim: We sure did. As a matter of fact, Season 4, Episode 8 and 9 are the second and third parts of that series.Woody: Yeah. It covers everything from him coming up as the warden in Angola, to how he turned Angola around. Even to Hurricane Katrina coverage, and the bus station and all. Go listen to it. I get goosebumps. That dude just is amazing.Jim: Oh, yeah.Woody: Sorry, Warden Cain, I said dude. Jim: [laughs]Woody: That gentleman is amazing.Jim: He really is. And if somebody's listening that knows him, we'd love to talk to him. We can do whatever, we can go up there, we can record him remotely, whatever, but I do know that he has paid some attention to our page and we'd love to sit down and talk to such alegend. Season 4, Episode 10, we went back to the death chamber. Had a lot of people wanting us to follow up on that with more execution stories. And we brought you Death Chamber Part 2. And then Episode 11, we wrapped that series up with a Part 3. We actually covered all of them from 1980 on.Woody: That's right. And then all the way up to Gerald Bordelon.Jim: Yes.Woody: Which was the last one put to death and he's right here out of the Livingston Parish.Jim: That's right.Woody: Very, very interesting. And you get to see the true nightmare of evil these people are.Jim: Absolutely. And then, Season 4, Episode 12, we went ahead and did a part 2 to death sentence and talked about more exonerations that have happened due to DNA or other technicalities. It doesn't necessarily mean-- when someone's exonerated, it doesn't necessarily mean they didn't do it. It just means there was-- unless it's a DNA situation, it just typically means that there was a technicality that was discovered later on that may have changed that sentence from death to life in prison.Woody: Right. They may have commuted it or what have you, but it's very interesting on each individual case, no two are the same.Jim: Then, we went and brought you to Season 4, Episode 13, and we started The Angolite Files.Woody: Yeah, that was fascinating. Jim: Those are fun, man.Woody: Where we go back, y'all, to the oldest editions that Jim found and the wording they use in. We read the actual articles and most of them are just really, really short, but it's like they didn't have any entertainment. They didn't have TV or radio station back then, the Angola's radio station. But the wordings are just crazy. And the things they talk about-- I know people, that's one of our most popular series, so y'all got to check it out.Jim: A little plug on Real Life Real Crime here, but it's funny that Woody, okay, so he just wrapped a really, really good series that you got to go here when we were, I guess you can say marketing this, one of the things that I put out there was that this was your seat inside a courtroom during an actual death penalty trial. And Woody really brings you inside of that as he goes over these transcripts that were very important and needed to be included. But you do something unique, which is-- and I end up doing the same thing from time to time, which is your voice almost changes and you go into this role and it's great because--Woody: Because you're in a character.Jim: Oh, yeah. He gets into that character and he's like, "Let me ask you something." Love it, man. So, go listen to that on Real Life Real Crime for sure if you have the opportunity. In Season 4, Episode 14, we brought you the Elite Chase Team.Woody: Ooh, what a great story.Jim: Ah, that was a good one.Woody: The best of the best at what they do, and not only for bloody Angola, they're sofamous, they get calls for assistance everywhere.Jim: Absolutely.Woody: If you going to run, that's one group of men that you don't want coming after you.Jim: Yo, you don't.Woody: And they've got it down to the science.Jim: They really do. So, go listen to that. Learn all about this Chase Team that is probably one of the best, if not the best in the nation.Woody: I'd put them up against anybody.Jim: Season 4, Episode 15, we had so much response on Becoming The Warden that we dropped an episode called Catch Your House, and it was Woody and Unspeakable's Kelly Jennings joining him as a guest on that show. And they discussed their relationship with Burl Cain, having both worked for him.Woody: Right. Very, very interesting. You get to hear from an old correctional officer's point of view and then a classification officer's point of view. And, of course, two totally different jobs. And KJ has awesome stories too. It's a great episode.Jim: Yeah. And then, we just continued on, and something happened in Louisiana that was generating a lot of talk in the news. And because we have a lot of ambiguity with this show, we bring you current stuff too, if it's making these kind of headlines. And we felt like this was something important. And the response we got from people that listened after the fact let us know that it was important. And that was The Louisiana Clemency Debacle Part 1.Woody: And that's actually a worldwide watch situation now because it's the first time it's ever been done in the history of certainly the state of Louisiana, but in the history of the United States and probably the history of the world. And then, you have both sides. Certainly, the people that wanted these things to go through and then I just don't understand it still.Jim: You and me and million other listeners, apparently. We actually, y'all, got some very special messages from families of people who are actually facing this, and they wanted to just thank us for shedding light on that. Of course, no thanks needed. That was our honor to do and all those sorts of things. But it really hit home to both of us the importance of what we're doing as it relates to situations like that.Woody: And we ended up telling, y'all, where they were from, what their crimes are, and it's just-- you got to listen to it.Jim: Yeah. And then, we continued on with Season 4, Episode 17. That was part two of the Clemency Debacle. And then after that, we even dropped a bonus episode called-- just for patrons, called The First 20 that covered the first 20 of these clemency hearings, the first 20 inmates that are coming up for these hearings.Woody: What it covered, y'all, everybody got the base list of the crimes and where they're from, etc. For the patrons, and thank you, patrons, the show wouldn't run without you, andApple subscribers now, we really delved into their crimes. We told exactly what happened and who was murdered and why was aggravating circumstances and the whole nine yards.Jim: Yeah.Woody: I mean, you can't get any deeper than what we gave them.Jim: That's right. And so, that episode just was absolute fire. And then, Season 4, Episode 18, we went back to The Angolite, and we did 1954 Through The Inmates Eyes and covered several Angolites in and around the year 1954. And one thing that's really great about those Angolites is it really does give you the view from that convict's standpoint. [crosstalk]Woody: Right. Again, the language they use, of course, most of those terms wouldn't be not only politically correct today, but just flat out strange to hear some of them. And we didn't read the whole magazine, y'all. We just picked out certain little articles throughout. Everything from dude who stole and got busted stealing peanut butter, which they put it in their all own words to such and such. And they worded a different way, but basically-Jim: Fights.Woody: -who got stabbed. And such stories today, spung a leak, or however they say, but you got to go listen to it. If you love Bloody Angola, and you love the history of the show, I mean, these articles and the wording and all the history, just the day-to-day life on the plantation back then is crazy.Jim: It really is. And the great thing was, back in those days, they didn't censor things that got out of Angola like they do now. Those Angolites, I mean, they really talked about some stuff that would make you raise an eyebrow that no way it would get out now.Woody: Right.Jim: But back then--Woody: And back then, really, though, it was really put on for the convicts and then it became nationally known and everything else and people would get subscription. Hell, I had a subscription to it in the early 90s. But back then, it was more like their newspaper.Jim: Yeah, that's right. And so that was the season that our most fire season so far as Woody would say. And so, when we're looking back at this, we're like, "Man, we just set a real high bar for Season 5," but we're up to the challenge.Woody: That's right.Jim: We're up to the challenge. [crosstalk] We're going to tell you more. That's right. Woody: We'll take it to the next level maybe.Jim: The next level. That's what we do. And so, we're going to give y'all a look right now into Season 5 and some things that are definitely going to take place. And look, anytime you start off a season, you look for that one story, that one character that really grabs an audience because you're constantly gaining listeners. So, that's kind of your goal, is I want to put something out there first that people can really get attracted to and we found that.Woody: We definitely did.Jim: Charlie Frazier--Woody: Probably the most infamous convict ever. Well, I can't say that. Jim: I would say in the South for sure.Woody: Certainly, the Brent Miller killings and stuff like that--[crosstalk] Jim: Yeah.Woody: But this guy overall, what he did, how he lived his life. And what he did to eventually end up in Angola and all the things that happened, holy smokes. Y'all, we're going way back in history here. It's not a stretch to say that-- our episode in whatever season, the Red Hat Cell Block, it's not a stretch to say they built that cell block for Charlie Frazier. He was a bad ass. He could escape from anywhere. But we're going to tell you everything about him.Jim: And he did.Woody: And Jim Chapman has outpunted his coverage this time. Jim: Oh, my God, ever, ever.Woody: Wait till you see in Patreon, you'll get to see more than anybody else because all the documents and news stories and photographs and it's going to blow your mind. And as any proper great story that I've learned over the years doing on Real Life Real Crime, it's going to have to be a multi-part series. And you're going to want it to be a multi-part series. The only thing you're going to hate is when that episode ends because you're like, "Argh," till the next one.Jim: There's no doubt about it.Woody: And the patrons, of course, will get it commercial free and early releases.Jim: That's right. Look, with this particular guy, ever since we first started this, Season 1, I have been digging, digging, digging. It is very, very hard to get information on this particular guy, Charlie Frazier, for a multitude of reasons. One, back then, they just didn't keep records like they do now.Woody: No social media.Jim: Yeah, there's things that happen every time things get lost. Woody: There's no cable news, no TV channels or whatever.Jim: No doubt. This guy, I'm telling y'all, I'll make a promise to you. In my opinion, this will be the definitive history of Charlie Frazier. No doubt about it. I have over 100 pages' worth of information. Now, we're going to freeball this thing. Freeball, that's kind of weird-- but we're going to freeball it. We might not wear no underwear in the studio today. [chuckles] But we're going definitely talk off the cuff about this guy.But Patreon members, I want to say this just for you people. Look, everybody that gets this show outside of a Patreon or outside of an Apple Podcast and we're going to talk about that in just a minute. Anybody that gets information outside of that is getting it for free. And we love that. Look, everybody cannot be a subscriber. So, what we ask for those people to do is if you want to pay us back for the hours and hours we spend doing this stuff, all you have todo is share the podcast. And that is all we would ever ask for those that just are not in a position where they can support any other way. We appreciate that, we love it, we get it, and so those people, we thank as well.But our Patreon members, they have a financial investment in our success and that's huge. We love, love all of you, whether you do that or not. But for those folks, we give them something extra for that.Woody: We give them a lot extra- Jim: Yes.Woody: -Patreon members for Bloody Angola. Unless we are doing a little TikTok right now because--Jim: We don't do enough of that, right? [crosstalk]Woody: For the BA, y'all, on TikTok, we're discussing the ending of this season and thebeginning of the next and the fire stories. And we love y'all.Jim: Yes. That's right. We actually just dropped it, so check out that TikTok, by the way, Real Life Real Crime on TikTok. And you'll see all kinds of great stuff. But getting back to that, this particular Charlie Frazier episode, y'all, I have newspaper articles, clippings. I have actual records from where Charlie Frazier checked into hotels and signed his name. I have actual pictures of the places where people were killed. All of that, we're going to put just for patron members.Woody: We really think it's going to be such a success-- somebody's going to want to do a documentary on, and you've already done all the work.Jim: Yeah. If you're not a member yet, join in the next couple of weeks. We're also going to talk about a little guy by the name of Huddie Ledbetter who is otherwise known as Lead Belly. Look, for those of y'all that aren't familiar, he is probably the most popular or one of the most popular convicts ever in Bloody Angola. He was a blues musician that actually got released from prison-Woody: Because he was a blues musician.Woody: -because he was-- some people say he's the best blues musician ever. So, we're going to be covering the story. His story is absolutely unbelievable. Phenomenal story. We're going to be doing that this season. How about-- y'all ready for this? Look, we've been working on getting someone on the show that would-- I've never seen an interview that this guy has done.Woody: Me either.Jim: But he has done something that is worldwide famous, and that is he was the detectivethat actually caught Robert Lee Willie and Joe Vaccaro.Woody: Not only caught them, he's the one that actually got confessions out of. FBI and everybody else also was there, and they flew Mr. Sharp in. They flew him in and he got the confessions.Jim: So, this season, Detective Donald Sharp, for those of y'all, Robert Lee Willie and Joe Vaccaro, well, let me tell you this. Sean Penn played the character in Dead Man Walking that these guys were based after.Woody: I think he won an Academy Award for it.Jim: I believe he did as well. This exclusive interview with Detective Donald Sharp coming atyou this season, get ready for it.Woody: And we would want to thank him ahead of time for coming in and doing this. [crosstalk]Jim: Yeah, he don't have to do it. I want to thank his daughter who reached out to me and kind of got me in contact with Detective Sharp.Woody: Thank you.Jim: Yeah, thank you very much. And a fan of the show, and listens to the show, shoutout toher.Woody: Right. That's amazing.Jim: Also, how about there's something in Angola that we've been requested since Season 1 to talk about, and that is the Rodeo.Woody: Rodeo. And by the time we get to this story, the Rodeo happens four weekends, every weekend in October, every year, and then I think one weekend in April. But anyway, it'll be that time by the time this story comes out. It's just a whole different world.Jim: Yeah. We're going to bring it to you.Woody: We're going to bring it to you and it's so much that goes on and all that.Jim: So, we're going to be bringing you the Angola Rodeo. And how about something that I get a lot of requests for and that-- Actually, a lot of people are shocked, they know that at some point through listening to our show that women were imprisoned at Angola.Woody: My grandmother was actually a correctional officer there for the women part of the prison. When my mama was a baby girl, they lived on the B-Line.Jim: There you go, and I haven't even talked to Woody about this yet, but I actually have been doing an enormous amount of research on women in Angola specifically. I have a heck of a show that we're going to be bringing your way specifically about the women.Woody: Yeah.Jim: So, you're going to love that.Woody: If the master historian researcher says he's got it, then-- [crosstalk]Jim: I got it. I got the juice. [laughs]Woody: He loves to give me the juice for the fourth time, and I'm like, "Oh, wow."Jim: Yeah, man. When I found the juice on Charlie Frazier, it was 11 o'clock at night, I'm texting Woody.Jim: I was like, "Yes, yes."Woody: "You're not going to believe what I got my hands on."Jim: When we finally do get to take the tour of Angola, we're going to be able maybe teach them something.Woody: Oh, yeah. In addition to that, we're going to bring you a couple of single cases that have really made a lot of headlines in Angola. One of them is just a horrible individual. We're going to talk about, not only his time before he was incarcerated in Angola and what he did, but we're going to tell you about what he did when he got there, which includes escape attempts. And it's a guy by the name of Brandon Scott Lavergne. We're going to be bringing you that finally after a lot of research. And we're going to bring you another one that I have my eye on, but we'll leave that one a surprise. We'll let you wait. Now, so that's some upcoming stuff that we have.And we also want to tell you about some new features that we have on Bloody Angola that we've been constantly working towards. When you're running these podcasts and you're doing these things, it's a constant work because you have to stay up with technology. And one of the things that I felt like we, and Woody also felt like we had a gap in, was our Apple Podcast listeners that we have a Patreon and let me tell y'all, the Patreon is where it's at, as far as detailed bonus content. There's no limitations to Patreon. You can have several different tiers and all that, but some people just don't do it. They're just not fans of it, maybe of that website or whatever. We want to make sure we didn't leave them out. So, we partnered with Apple Podcast to where you can get bonus episodes and early releases right from Apple Podcast. You don't have to sign up for another source. I think they just bill your Apple account like they do the App Store and stuff.Jim: The other thing about it is, Jim, is they get to try it.Woody: Yes, it's a seven-day free trial.Jim: Free trial, we're offering a free trial for seven days.Woody: So, go in and listen to content. If you don't like it, great. But I can promise you, you're going to love it.Jim: Yeah, you're going to love it.Woody: Like you said, it's different from Patreon and I get that. But some people just want tobe able to go and punch a button and listen.Jim: Absolutely. And hey, look, were honored to have Apple Podcast approve us for that. That's an approval process. It's not automatic like some things are, so it spoke highly of our show that they would approve us for that, wanted us on board and pushing us and all those sorts of things. Also, another reminder on that front, two quick things. Bloody Angola, follow the Facebook page because we post all kinds of fun stuff on there. Sometimes, it's just updates. Sometimes, it's just what we're doing.Woody: Jim always comes up with the coolest artwork for each episode. [chuckles] [crosstalk]Jim: I love it. I'm so proud of my artwork. That is another thing I text Woody at 11 o'clock, "Check this out."Woody: "Woody, look at this," and I am like waiting outside of my box [unintelligible 00:32:21].Jim: [laughs] Yeah, no doubt about it. So, check that out. And we also have a website where you can purchase Bloody Angola swag. Look, we just added a couple of things. Another thing that our highest tier Patreon members get, they get a quarterly gift. We don't want to send the same t-shirt 10 ten times or a different t-shirt every time. So, every time we send that quarterly gift, it's something different. So, those of you out there that I know are listening right now that got one of those, maybe post a picture of you holding it, maybe a selfie, and send it to me and maybe I'll send you something extra and put it on the page.Woody: Not only is it Bloody Angola related, this latest round, we even signed it. Jim: Oh, yeah, that's right.Woody: Jim and I both signed them.Jim: That's right. And we'll be offering those also for purchase, I just got to get those uploaded to the website and you can buy. We have a few of those left and you can be styling in some Blood Angola swag. But don't forget about the website and the fact you can listen to all the episodes directly from it if you chose to. It has a swag store. We also do some blogging on there. So, I'm sure I'm going to be doing a lot of blogging coming up with these crazy episodes. But you can check those blogs out and those are great things to share on Facebook pages and stuff for people that may be interested.Woody, our growth, which is what you look for is nothing too short of staggering.Woody: Y'all validate us. And it's amazing. I want to say this, I think it's September 30th?Jim: Yeah, for the Podcast Awards? Yeah, September 30th.Woody: I want to remind you all, y'all voted and made us a Top 10 finalists for the History category-Jim: Huge honor.Woody: -in all podcasts in the world, in the History category. And it's a huge honor. Hey, just to make the finals is fire, and the Top 10 in the World in History? We're already winners and I think we got a real legit shot because of you fans.Jim: Yeah. I do too. September 30th, another thing with the Facebook, we're going to post the link where you can go watch it live. They have a little award ceremony online. You can click on that and you can actually watch the whole Podcast Awards online. And they'll announce the winners and play little videos, acceptance videos.Woody: I just want to thank y'all again for getting us there, just under a year old.Jim: And we love it because with this award ceremony in particular, the fans vote on it. It'snot a panel of people that don't know us.Woody: It's people's choice. Y'all did it. The top 10 belongs to y'all, not Jim and I. And if we win it, that'd be another blessing. And the award belongs to y'all.Jim: That's right. Just a last little thing today. This will be a shorter episode than normal because it's a wrap-up show. But we want to let you know that next week, we're going to do a little episode swap, and we're going to have everything. We're going to be prepping for Season 5, but we're going to put a fire episode of Real Life Real Crime on the feed here with Bloody Angola.Woody: Absolutely. It's going to be love, and I love it. We hadn't done one of those in a long time. We're also going to put a Bloody Angola episode on Real Life Real Crime Original.Jim: That's right. Because everybody that listens to one, then listen to the other, our numbers will be exactly the same. [laughs] So hopefully, someone will hear that maybe they'll introduce other people to the family.Woody: And y'all, this is a process, and certainly it is a business. So many podcasts come and go, but we have grown and grown and grown, and we've made it. And yes, Patreons, thank you so much, now our Apple subscribers. And thank you to our advertisers.Jim: Oh, yeah. And I'm glad you mentioned that. HelloFresh, which is advertising on this episode.Woody: Look, I'm a foodie, and I'm not just giving a senseless plug. They've been sponsoring me through Real Life Real Crime since like 2019. And the food is phenomenal.Jim: It is.Woody: I guess I get stuck in my old Cajun cooking ways or whatever. They send me this box of stuff and I'm like, "Oh," but all the sauces and the fresh meats and everything are in there, and I've never been disappointed. Sometimes, I tell my wife, like, "I'll reorder that right now." And it's a great deal.Jim: It really is. And in the show notes of this episode, you can get that, and I believe it's 50BLOODYANGOLA.Woody: That's the code.Jim: And you get all kinds of perks. It's like 50% off 15 meals or something like that. Woody: It's way cheaper than going out to eat or having something delivered.Jim: Especially with that code but make sure you use that code, y'all, and we'll link it. We're going to talk about it in the description of this podcast. Just scroll down and you'll get all the information you need on that deal. And it helps support the show. It helps keep your grocery bill down.Woody: And it helps filling your stomach with some great food.Jim: That's right.Woody: You'll be looking like a crackhead like me for that box to be delivered. Jim: [laughs] That's it. And it makes you look like a heck of a cook.Woody: Oh, yeah. If you want to impress somebody, oh, yeah, it's--Jim: Yeah. So, check them out, HelloFresh. We're very thankful for them. And look, on another note on that, and the last thing we'll bring up on sponsors, I've had a few local folks to Louisiana ask about sponsoring Bloody Angola. If you want information on that, just shoot me an email, jim@localleadersthepodcast.com or bloodyangola@gmail.com. I check the first one quicker than the second one. So, that one I check every five minutes, so the Local Leaders is the best one to use. But I can give you some information on how you can be a local sponsor for the show.Woody: Yeah. And a lot of different options on that. And we have a huge listener base, especially here in Louisiana.Jim: Absolutely. And we give you guys a special deal because you're local folks and we want to help you out. So, until next time, I'm Jim Chapman.Woody: And I'm Woody Overton. 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