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Come Enjoy the Future! We look at past predictions of our future to see how accurate they were. And play along with a fun game futuristic proportions on Enjoy Stuff! We are living in the future! But is it the future everyone expected? Let's find out! News Pringles, Kellogg's, and Crocs team up for a new shoe collection The Jim Henson Documentary now has a Disney+ release fate NBA player deliberately misses a free throw to win opposing fans free chicken sandwiches Sadly, Star Trek - Lower Decks will end after next season, but Star Trek - Strange New Worlds will be back for a 4th season Check out our TeePublic store for some enjoyable swag and all the latest fashion trends What we're Enjoying Jay took a trip to the great outdoors to enjoy Bald Eagle State Park. It's always nice to enjoy nature and get away from the world for a bit. Shua watched Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces. It was a great look at the life of this eclectic and talented comedian. You can find that on Apple TV+. Sci-Fi Saturdays This week on Sci-Fi Saturdays shares the dark predictions of 2004's The Day After Tomorrow. While all the science in this movie may not check out exactly, it does present a strong message about our climate and the state of our country's attitude about the condition of the world. Check it out today! Make sure to play around with the interactive map on MCULocationScout.com. Plus, you can tune in to SHIELD: Case Files where Jay and Shua talk about great stuff in the MCU. Enjoy the Future! Can we predict the future? Sure! Are we going to be right? Well…probably not. But we might get pretty close on a few things. That's what the Usborne Book of the Future did back in 1979. It gave us a look at what they thought was going to be coming in the 21st century. You might be surprised to find out that they got a lot of things kind of right. From robots to cities to travel, we look at some of their more memorable predictions. Plus, Jay plays a game to see just what movies and TV shows predicted some things we have in our world today. What did you hope to see in the future we're living in now? And what's to come in the next 50 years? First person that emails me with the subject line, “Where's my flying car?” will get a special mention on the show. Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to EnjoyStuff@RetroZap.com
In the final hour of The Mark Reardon Show, Mark is joined by Batya Ungar-Sargon, an opinion editor for Newsweek. She shares her thoughts on media malpractice and why she says this week, our press corps revealed themselves for what they truly are: stenographers for terrorists. He is then joined by Duane Diefenbach, a professor of Wildlife Ecology at Penn State. They discuss the project he has work on for years involving tagging and closely watching every moment of a deer in Bald Eagle State Park. They wrap up the show with today's Audio Cut of the Day.
Today is Friday, March 22nd 2019 and we are live from Inglebean. Today we will be talking to @phill_kekoa and @dustinjang who are two young men, that are taking the direction of their lives into their own hands, following their hearts and walking across the USA. Just yesterday someone called the Inglebean asking for a manager to try and coordinate a gift package to these guys because she had heard they are coming through town the next day. She works for a woman owned and run company called Lily Trotters that makes compression socks for hikers and such and heard that they were having some pains so she is sending some of their socks for them. Also bought them a Inglebean gift card. After working out details with her I contacted them and offered a place to crash the night and they pushed thought the late night and crossed Bald Eagle State Park and camped in my Tentrr Site. This morning they are here now in the Bean getting warm and some food in their bellies talking to us. Todays sponsor is The Stone Cold Jackson Podcast https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dustin-jang/stonecoldjackson Before we get into i’d like to ask everyone that is listening to this to please take a minute out of your day and tell a friend or share this with friends on social media. Then get outside :) DennisAlan.com Song of the day A tree to grow By The Lone Bellow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9VzHGRDdUY Phill Kekoa https://www.instagram.com/phill_kekoa/ Dustin Jang https://www.instagram.com/dustinjang/ The Stone Cold Jackson Podcast https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dustin-jang/stonecoldjackson Lily Trotters - Badass & Beautiful Compression Socks https://www.lilytrotters.com/ My side hustles Coffee shop The IngleBean Coffee Shop http://www.inglebean.com/ My new amphitheater Woodward Quarry http://www.inglebean.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dennis-alan/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dennis-alan/support
Spring is supposed to be here, but I live in northcentral Pennsylvania, and it's slow coming. We've had several snow storms in the past few weeks, but the ground is too warm for it to stick around. Then we endured rain and high winds. I believe the temperatures are rising next week to the 60s, so I'm itching for a writer's retreat. I like to go on solo writing retreats, isolating myself from the Internet and phone, and the various tasks that get heaped on my shoulders. My husband is heading out of town in a couple of days, traveling to Florida to visit with family, so I could technically set up a retreat here at the house. But that still leaves the Internet and phone and the classes I'm wrapping up at Lyco. We have three weeks left in the semester, so I can't run away. Yet. I enjoy writing retreats. During sessions of solitude, periods of silence, or "Time Retreats," we shun life's chattering distractions and simply notice what is left: ourselves. - Helen Cordes Last year, I took a solo camping trip and had a great time. I mentioned this on a previous podcast, but it bears repeating. I took my camper and my dog to Bald Eagle State Park, about an hour's drive west of here. No Internet except for the data on my phone. X Writers don’t always feel inspired to be creative. It’s happened to me. I’d been on a hiatus from my fiction writing career for too long. It wasn’t intentional. I let other tasks and chores get in the way. I wanted to wrap up a book series and move onto the next one, but I needed to get back into the groove. I wrote quite a bit on a novel I'm working on, and I read several books. It was a week of peace, hiking the trails with my dog, taking photographs, relaxing around the campfire, cooking whatever I wanted whenever I wanted to, going to bed late and sleeping in. It's not the first writing retreat I've taken. I journeyed to Virginia with my friend Janice Ogurcak one year, when she had a timeshare vacation to use and her husband wasn't available. We drove to a cabin in the woods in January, and spent sleepless nights listening to the constant honking of migrating Canada geese. We also drove into D.C. to have lunch with her son and my daughter, at Old Ebbit's Grille. Then we toured the National Archives. I wrapped up my first novel on that retreat, wrapped in blankets and downing kegs of coffee. Come to think of it, that's probably why I could sleep. Not the geese. Jan slept fine. Writing retreats are great outlets for creativity, and they inspire me to kickstart new writing routines. What helps even more than retreats are writing sprints. I look at these as mini retreats. My infatuation with writing sprints blossomed after I attended a workshop taught by Dr. Rachael Hungerford, on “Journal to the Self.” At the short workshop, she armed attendees with tools to journal efficiently. I used her 5-minute and 10-minute writing sprints to break through a stubborn mindset, and was delighted with the feedback. This is the kind of positive reinforcement you can only get with a challenge. Challenges force us to prioritize, and I needed a reason to quit shuffling between email and social media and my manuscript. I was able to combat this by accepting a simple, short challenge. It had a beginning and an end, and positive results. It's a win-win situation. So how about you? Can you take a writing retreat? If not, consider writing sprints. Better yet, create a mini writing retreat wherever you are. Aren't writing retreats a time of solitude and quiet, when you go away to a secluded location to focus on your writing project? Yes, but also no. According to Judy Reeves, author of "The Writer's Retreat Kit: A Guide for Creative Exploration and Personal Expression," a writing retreat is time you take out of your ordinary day-in and day-out routine, when you set aside everything else and give yourself over to your writing.
Sean, Lon, and Butch give a brief update on the Chicago Flying Phantom. They discuss a new Upright, Canine Creature reported in the Bald Eagle State Park in Pennsylvania from July 4th. The show switches gears as the guys recount the some of their favorite, disturbing Bigfoot Encounters. http://www.arcaneradio.com http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com http://www.uforcop.com
This week on Expanded Perspectives the guys start the show out talking about how if you step into a taxi in south London later this year and you might not have to think about paying a tip. The UK’s first fully public trial of autonomous vehicles will soon be under way. For four weeks, a fleet of driverless shuttles will each ferry up to five passengers and a “safety warden” along a 2-kilometre route in Greenwich. Previous trials there and in the town of Milton Keynes required participants to register in advance. This time the vehicles will pick up anyone wanting a ride. The four-stop route will connect a hotel close to the O2 Arena concert venue with the Millennium Village housing development. En route, the shuttles will also call at a river-bus stop and a cable car terminal. Then, University of Washington researchers have invented a cellphone that requires no batteries—a major leap forward in moving beyond chargers, cords and dying phones. Instead, the phone harvests the few microwatts of power it requires from either ambient radio signals or light. Then, a resident of the Weikert, PA area a friend were on a designated hiking trail in the Bald Eagle State Park when they heard something walking to their right in the woods as if following them. It turned out to not be a bear. What it was, was far more frightening. Then, in a tiny, remote Aboriginal community in outback Australia, an American linguist discovered that a new language emerged among the young people in the community and is now spoken by around 350 individuals, all under the age of 35. But how was this new language spawned when they were already perfectly able to communicate with each other without it? After the break Kyle brings up some incredible encounters with multiple UFOs during the Vietnam War. Some even attacked both American and NVA soldiers. All of this and more on this weeks installment of Expanded Perspectives! Show Notes: UK’s First Public Autonomous Taxi Trial to Begin Soon First Battery-Free Cellphone Makes Calls by Harvesting Ambient Power Upright Canine Encounter - Bald Eagle State Forest, PA New Language Spawned in Remote Australian Town and Only 350 People Can Speak It Sponsors: Dollar Shave Club Book of the Month Music: All music for Expanded Perspectives is provided by Pretty Lights. Purchase, Download and Donate at www.prettylightsmusic.com. Songs Used: Pretty Lights vs. Led Zeppelin Gold Coast Hustle B-Rock Drift Away
This week on Expanded Perspectives the guys start the show out talking about how if you step into a taxi in south London later this year and you might not have to think about paying a tip. The UK’s first fully public trial of autonomous vehicles will soon be under way. For four weeks, a fleet of driverless shuttles will each ferry up to five passengers and a “safety warden” along a 2-kilometre route in Greenwich. Previous trials there and in the town of Milton Keynes required participants to register in advance. This time the vehicles will pick up anyone wanting a ride. The four-stop route will connect a hotel close to the O2 Arena concert venue with the Millennium Village housing development. En route, the shuttles will also call at a river-bus stop and a cable car terminal. Then, University of Washington researchers have invented a cellphone that requires no batteries—a major leap forward in moving beyond chargers, cords and dying phones. Instead, the phone harvests the few microwatts of power it requires from either ambient radio signals or light. Then, a resident of the Weikert, PA area a friend were on a designated hiking trail in the Bald Eagle State Park when they heard something walking to their right in the woods as if following them. It turned out to not be a bear. What it was, was far more frightening. Then, in a tiny, remote Aboriginal community in outback Australia, an American linguist discovered that a new language emerged among the young people in the community and is now spoken by around 350 individuals, all under the age of 35. But how was this new language spawned when they were already perfectly able to communicate with each other without it? After the break Kyle brings up some incredible encounters with multiple UFOs during the Vietnam War. Some even attacked both American and NVA soldiers. All of this and more on this weeks installment of Expanded Perspectives! Show Notes: UK’s First Public Autonomous Taxi Trial to Begin Soon First Battery-Free Cellphone Makes Calls by Harvesting Ambient Power Upright Canine Encounter - Bald Eagle State Forest, PA New Language Spawned in Remote Australian Town and Only 350 People Can Speak It Sponsors: Dollar Shave Club Book of the Month Music: All music for Expanded Perspectives is provided by Pretty Lights. Purchase, Download and Donate at www.prettylightsmusic.com. Songs Used: Pretty Lights vs. Led Zeppelin Gold Coast Hustle B-Rock Drift Away