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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2022 77:00

Finishing off our Harry Potter series, we discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling. We will break down favorite characters, favorite scenes, least favorites, how it compared to the movie and more.

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The Clark Howard Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2022 31:28

It could be a rocky summer for power blackouts and we've got some vulnerabilities with our energy grid around the county.. What could go wrong and ways to be prepared, including battery powered generators. Also, free stuff! How to get books, music, TV & movies LEGALLY online for nothing! See our guides listed below. Power Outages & Generators: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 FREE Entertainment Content: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show: The 12 Best Free Movie Websites for Online Streaming 11 of the Best Places To Watch TV Shows Online Free 15 of the Best Places To Find Free E-Books 11 of the Best Places To Find Free Audiobooks 15 Places To Listen to Free Music Online Kanopy Review: How Your Library Card Provides Free Streaming Great cancellation spreads beyond Netflix JustWatch Review: 5 Things To Know About the Streaming App Best Homeowners Insurance Companies and Ones To Avoid How To Find and Choose a Financial Advisor Ask Clark: What Is a Backdoor Roth IRA? 5 Things To Know About Series I Savings Bonds Is There a Safe Way To Invest in Real Estate? Clark.com resources Episode transcripts Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Critical Thinking

Radio Zero with Rick and Rose

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2022 78:16

Language Lessons. School Wars. Books + TV. How to Fix the World. Patreon: https://patreon.com/radiozero Livestreams: https://www.facebook.com/RadioZeroUS/live/ https://www.twitch.tv/pcjcusa [...]Read More...

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Winter Round-up: Books, TV, & Movies

Cognitive Revolution

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2022 27:28

It’s officially spring now: time to reflect on what I’ve read (and watched) over winter. Overall, in the past few months I’ve found myself with little inclination to read works of psychology, or even much non-fiction generally.Maybe that’s because I’m in the final stages of finishing my PhD, and so I find myself restlessly trying to cover non-psychological territory. But I don’t think that’s it. The real reason—or the story that I’ve come up with at any rate—has to do with how I’m growing as a person. It has to do with the fundamental complicatedness of life. I’m trying to embrace it. Not escape it.The driving force in psychological research is simplification. The research takes a seemingly complicated dynamic in human behavior and subjugate it into some conceptually understandable (usually dichotomous) box. How does reasoning and decision-making work? Well, it’s complicated. But you can start by dividing things into System 1 and System 2. The first one is fast, relies on heuristics, and prone to bias. The second one is slow, deliberate, and based in logical processing. That’s an example. It’s the essence of Daniel Kahneman’s famous Thinking, Fast and Slow.And this kind of dichotomizing and conceptual simplification is something I’m drawn to. I find it compelling. It’s standard-operating-procedure for anyone interested in writing about psychology, and I hope to do a lot of it in my own work as a writer. But I also feel that in coming up on ten years of studying psychology and cognitive science, I’m starting to wonder about other approaches to studying the human mind.What if, instead of taking the complicated aspects of behavior and trying to simplify them, we leaned into the complicatedness of human life in its full convoluted glory? What would that look like? Well, it would look like a novel. And up until recently—let’s say a couple years ago—I didn’t know what to do with that. As I wrote in my essay on the Hungarian masterpiece Journey by Moonlight, I always felt like I was waiting for someone to come along and explain what was happening to me while reading the book. Then I became frustrated when no conceptually simplified dichotomy was forthcoming. Having exhausted the simplifying approach via psychology (or at the very least, gone a long way with where that will take me) I find myself ready to encounter some new territory, some ground that requires new and different tools for me to grow something in it. So like I said. I’m working on trying to lean into the complexity of life, rather than subjugate it. It’s okay if I don’t understand everything. The set of things I can engage with if I don’t expect to “understand” them is much larger than what I could otherwise deal with. That seems to me like a big benefit. I also feel there are aspects of life—relationships with partners and family especially come to mind—that really lend themselves to investigating through literary rather than scientific means.So here I am. I’ve read a few novels in the opening months of this year. I’ve also watched quite a bit of TV. But that has less to do with growing as a person. It’s more that English winters are the perfect inspiration for shrugging off responsibilities and settling in on the couch. If you ask me, that sounds way better than working on my dissertation.Books“End of the End of the World” by Jonathan Franzen.I’ve been going through a bit of a Franzen-phase. I’d never read him before. But I counted his novel Freedom as my second favorite book I read in 2021. This is his most recent collection of essays. It was… mostly about birds? Like, it’s a book about climate change, but it turns out that the only reason J Franz really cares about climate change is because it’s going to kill off a bunch of bird species. The whole consequences-for-humans aspect of the whole thing seems to be an auxiliary consideration. Anyway. I was just happy to read something that gives me a bit more direct insight into the mind of someone whose novel I loved. This just happened to be the one that popped up first at the used book store, but I’m looking forward to reading his other collections of non-fiction.“The Three Body Problem” by Cixin LiuOne of the questions I always ask my guests on Cognitive Revolution is which three books have most influenced them. The three most common answers are: “Gödel, Escher, Bach” by Douglas Hofstadter; “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl; and this one. It’s a work of science fiction by a Chinese author. I don’t read much science fiction. It’s just not really my thing. But I figured in this case I’d like to give it a go. And while I enjoyed reading this one, I wouldn’t say I’m in a rush to finish the trilogy. Part of me felt like the reason a bunch of scientists recommended this book is that all of the main characters are scientists and all of the key plot points are scientific. So scientists are just happy to see themselves represented in what is undoubtedly a great, creative, and ambitious work of literature.“Think Again” by Adam GrantI got into this in early February, but I haven’t finished yet. Adam Grant is Exhibit A of the simplifying process of psychology I described in the intro. And part of me means that in a really good way; he’s the state-of-the-art in making complicated ideas as comprehensive as possible while still retaining their incisive edge. But I also can’t escape the feeling of kitsch—that when he’s explaining an idea he’s really Doing A Thing. Like, he understands how explaining works and so now he’s applying the tried-and-tested formula. It’s a great formula. But it’s just that—a formula. And so I find myself less drawn to that kind of work than I maybe would have five years ago. Still, it’s a thesis that I find myself in deep sympathy with: that we need always to be reevaluating our closely held assumptions, habits, and beliefs. So it’s still a worthwhile read, and an archetypal example of why Adam Grant is at the top of the bringing-psych-research-to-a-broader-audience game.“Spring” by David SzalayThis rounds out a trio of books I’ve read over the past year by this British-Hungarian author. By far the best was his “All that Man Is,” which I ranked fourth in my books from last year. This early offering is definitely a less refined work than that one. It’s a novel of manners, with the social milieu under consideration essentially being the millennial dating-scene of London. It’s got great London vibes and great romantically frustrated millennial vibes. I’d recommended it for anyone for whom that sounds appealing.“Outline” by Rachel CuskThis will definitely make my year-end book list. I had never heard of Rachel Cusk before. But I can see why she’s so well-regarded. I’m looking forward to getting into the rest of her works—this one is actually the first installment in a trilogy, so those other two books are high on my list.I was actually recommended this book by Sam Gershman. In citing his most influential books, he mentioned “Three Body Problem,” which I’d definitely gotten from a number of guests already. But he also mentioned Rachel Cusk. At first, I forgot about it in the moment, then when I revisited the episode I became intrigued. I’m super glad I found her.Essentially, this novel takes place across ten different conversations. The narrator is a writer who travels from London to Greece to give a writing seminar. So there’s not really any conventional plot, at least in terms of there being rising action and a driving narrative thread throughout the story. Instead, what you get are encounters with people from different walks of life—a London billionaire, a Greek taxi driver, an aspiring writer—each of whom gives the narrator an insight into their worldview. The conceit of the book is that each of one of these people is hyper-articulate about their own views and perspectives. It’s sort of like Aaron Sorkin-style dialogue, where any one of the characters has the verbal skills to destroy an interlocutor in a formal debate. These are the “outlines” of people’s lives that we get a glimpse into. And, as ever, by understanding more about how others see the world, we’re getting closer to understanding the hidden and unexpected nuances within our own perspective.“Heart of Darkness” by Joseph ConradThe classic. Extended essay forthcoming…“It is written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”“A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor TowlesI read this book hoping that the theme of “being trapped at home” will never again be as salient for me as it has been over the past two years. So I went in expecting a book that was moody and dark (i.e., Russian) and about a dude who was essentially isolated by himself in a room for a long period of time. Turns out, that’s not at all what the book is about. It is, above all, about fun. I think of the book less like a novel that’s driven by an overarching plot, but more like a TV show—where each episode features a distinct, encapsulated story line. There are a few threads running throughout. But it’s more that each chapter is a Seinfeldian stand-alone vignette, where something fairly inane but nevertheless entertaining and mildly hilarious transpires. Even so, I still hope the “trapped at home” theme never quite resonates in the way it has over the past two years…“Normal People” by Sally RooneyThis book is a phenomenon. And whenever something sells a gazillion copies I’m always interested to see what resonated so deeply with people. I read Matt Haig’s “Midnight Library” last year, which falls into the same category (it wasn’t for me). I liked Sally Rooney a lot more. I’d already watched the BBC TV show based on the book, and it turns out that the series is a really high-fidelity adaptation. I’d even say that Paul Mescal in the series is way more Connelly than Connell is in the book. At any rate, the book didn’t blow my mind or anything. But it resonates with a larger theme I’ve been thinking about recently, which is: What constitutes a “normal” relationship? As in, what is the baseline expectation about how a relationship (between two romantic partners) should be functioning? The answer is somewhere between “totally perfect all the time” and “totally catastrophic always”. But I think even trying to say which end of the spectrum a normal relationship lands on according to business as usual is even really tough to say! This is one of the big themes of “complicatedness” that I’ve been leaning into recently. Relationships are complicated. Sally Rooney definitely thinks so. Marianne and Connell’s relationship is definitely on the “totally catastrophic always” side of the spectrum—punctuated with brief spells of bliss—and that says a lot if they’re the “normal people” in the title. But maybe “normal” is instead aspirational, and they just want to be normal like everyone else and not so fucked up. Maybe we all wanted to be less fucked up and more normal like everyone else. Another novelist who is fascinated by this question is Jonathan Franzen. Have I mentioned him before?“The Corrections” by Jonathan FranzenThe approximately 14,000 pages between Franzen’s “Freedom” and “The Corrections” have totally changed the way I think about life. That’s not an exaggeration. They’ve done more to reorient my thinking than anything else I’ve engaged with in recent memory.The basic theme shared between the books is about what to do with a fucked-up family. Both books deal with five characters. And in each chapter, we see things from the perspective of one of the characters (it’s essentially a third-person narrator who at any one time has privileged vantage into a single character’s view). The way I describe reading one of his novels is that it is like looking into one of those 10x mirrors that you find in hotel bathrooms. You see everything in excruciating detail. Much closer up than you really want to. And because there are these rotating perspectives and you’re seeing people’s individual take on shared events, as well as the nuances of their dyadic relationship with every other individual, the overall effect is this holistic psychological portrait of this family dynamic. The reason that this is useful is that because, speaking personally, I have only ever seen one family close up in anything like that kind of resolution. That is my own. And because I don’t have anything to compare them to, I don’t know what’s fucked up in a way that’s fucked up for everyone and therefore is inevitable, or what’s fucked up in a way that’s unique to my family and therefore is not inevitable. Franzen’s massive novels make it feel like I’ve finally gotten close enough to another family unit to scrutinize what’s happening. And what’s my conclusion? Well, it’s worth providing the caveat that these books are super long for a reason—and any summary of their “insights” necessarily glosses over all that critical detail. If that detail wasn’t necessary, then J Franz could’ve just tweeted the insight then moved on with life. But at any rate, my summary is this: in these stories, there is nothing any of the characters can do at any point to unfuck their own situation. There is no decision they can make that will lead them to a not fucked up relationship. Their choices are only ever between Fucked-Up-A and Fucked-Up-B. It’s not really a happy notion (in the essay collection mentioned above, Franzen self-identifies as a “pessimistic realist”). But in accepting—or at least appreciating—that the choice is between two suboptimal paths, it frees you from the tyranny of the optimal.So if you really want to get into the theme of romantically frustrated millennials, here’s the real issue! Because we’re given so much power to “optimize” our own lives (e.g., through sourcing potential mates via Tinder), we’re constantly put under pressure to end up on a path that feels optimal. If it feels like we’re not getting the best case scenario, then we say f**k that path and look for another. So it matters a lot what we think the “best” option is. If it’s “totally perfect all the time” then we’re going to inadvertently cause ourself to end up in the “totally fucked up always” camp by seeking something that doesn’t exist and asking of our loved ones something they cannot give. Anyway. I really enjoyed these Franzen novels. I’m going to read his “Twenty-Seventh City” next, though I’m in no particular hurry. Also, “Crossroads” when it comes out in paperback.TelevisionNewsroomA three-season show starring Jeff Daniels written by Aaron Sorkin, mentioned above, who wrote The West Wing. I’ve heard some people say it’s better than West Wing, which is probably incorrect because even if it’s pound-for-pound as good The West Wing maintained that excellence for 10+ seasons. Whereas The West Wing is a show about the political process in the White House (particularly its interaction with the press room), the Newsroom looks at a foil of that process—the production and dissemination of network cable news critiquing the political process from an external perspective. In a way, the show was prescient in the themes it deals with: Who decides on the facts? Who chooses what gets air time? How do you balance differing perspectives on the same underlying issue? These are the questions of our age. And though we’re used to dealing with them in the context of Trump & Twitter et al, Newsroom looks at a time that goes up until moments before all that, the cusp of the social media era. My only note here is be careful. The show is so watchable. I couldn’t stop once I started. I was powerless to watch all three seasons. But I have no self control. Maybe you do.30 RockNever watched. Now I have. It was fun!After Life, Season 3 (Netflix)I’d describe Season 1 and 2 of After Life as a perfect show, at least for what it was trying to be. Season 3 is definitely solid, but probably it’s best that the show wraps up here. Part of the magic of this show is that its scope is so small. One English dude. Sad little English town. Lost his wife to cancer. Wants to kill himself. Doesn’t, just to see what happens. His strategy for dealing with the darkness: laughter. And because the scope so well-constrained, I think Gervais really nails it.The show also accords with this theory I have about comedy. Essentially, the reason why comedy is hard as a comedian is that you’re telling people that you’re about to be funny. They expect to laugh, because laughter is the promise. Therefore, you have to overcome this expectation to earn their laughter. Laughter in this situation is costly.But in daily life, laughter is cheap! We laugh all the time, often at pretty much nothing. The difference is in expectation. So a comedian or a comedy show has to be really, really good in order to come off as funny. But shows or performances which are supposed to be for some other non-comedic purpose, any comedy that gets incorporated is much more likely to land. The expectations are lower. This theory suggests that the best (or at least the easiest) way to be funny is to come to people on non-comedic grounds. Gervais does this in After Life by starting from the insanely, heart-wrenchingly tragic premise of losing his wife, the only person he really loved and who gave his life meaning. Now his life is devoid of love and meaning and happiness, and he and everyone around him knows it. That’s the least funny premise of all time. Which just makes the show all that funnier, once he begins to uncover genuinely hilarious material.Ozark, Season 4 (Netflix)The thing I love about Ozark is that it was most popular circa Spring 2020, during the beginning of the pandemic. It was sufficiently dark and gruesome to resonate with our collective sensibilities at the time. It’s like Tiger King in that way. It was a lens onto the society’s consciousness. But it’s not like Tiger King in that under no circumstances should they have made a second season. This season of Ozark is still great.Reacher (Amazon Prime)I love Tom Cruise movies. But I’d argue that his three worst movies of all time were: Jack Reacher 1, Jack Reacher 2, and Knight & Day. Maybe honorary mention to the third M:I. He was a terrible Jack Reacher! Why? It’s simple. Tom Cruise is like four-foot-eight. And Jack Reacher is supposed to be a six-foot-eleven brick shithouse. Also, Tom Cruise is a talker. Jacker Reacher is not a talker!! This new guy, Alan Ritchson, is the two things Tom Cruise could never be: large and terse. So the show is worth watching just because this guy is so fascinatingly shaped. But more than that, the show rectified the sins of Tom Cruise. Is it the best of all possible action shows? No, it is not. But it very well may be the best of all possible adaptions of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher. And that’s a lot more than Tom Cruise can say.Jeen-Yuhs (Netflix)Highly recommend. This isn’t a normal documentary. Basically, there was this dude who quit his job to start following Kanye around with a camera before he was famous. The guy was basically like “I know this Kanye guy is going places” and so became a part of his entourage and so where was there for all these crazy moments early in Kanye’s career. And so it’s a rare opportunity to see the process of one of the most creative artists of our generation (it’s an accurate label, whatever else you want to say about the guy) before he was acknowledged as such. Inventing Anna (Netflix)I put off watching this for a long time. I thought it looked super annoying. I was totally wrong! It was astonishingly good. Like, so good that you find yourself wondering throughout how someone created something that’s this compelling. Definitely watch it if you’re looking for a great binge.MoviesThe AlpinistI won’t say anything about this other than it was really good. I went into it with no expectations other than that (thanks to my mate Tristan for the recommendation) and was heavily rewarded. Enjoy!Apocalypse NowFF Coppola’s cinematic adaption of Heart of Darkness set in war-torn Vietnam. Extended essay coming soon.“Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one.”UnforgivenThis film is considered the “directorial masterpiece” of Clint Eastwood. At least that’s what Amazon Prime’s blurb tells me. But I think it’s accurate! If you know me, you know that I love Westerns (particularly Western novels; I’ll watch / read anything with a cowboy). And this is one of the highest quality ones I’ve come across. The narrative structure is pristine. The central motif of the movie of is how hard it is to actually pull the trigger of a gun to kill someone. All of which builds to a point where that is the crucial consideration at stake. This is another instance where no character’s choice is between the outcomes of “good” and “bad”. Every possible outcome is a bad one, even when they’re all just trying to do the right thing. But by the end, they only thing they achieved are different levels of bad.Taylor Tomlinson’s “Look at You” specialI’d peg her as my choice for the comedic voice of my specific stratum of millennial-hood (she was born in 1993, which is an important year for humanity because it was the one I was born in). Her new special is out. If you want to talk about themes of “Fucked Up A” versus “Fucked Up B” she’s got you covered—and with a higher density of laughs than other content mentioned here. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit codykommers.substack.com/subscribe

IELTS SPEAKING PART 01 - EPISODE 11

Polyglots

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2022 17:22

Q&A talking BOOKS & TV

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61. Arie Kaplan on Writing for Kids in Games, Books, TV, and More!

Creative Writing Life

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2022 61:55

Justin and Paul spoke with Arie Kaplan on writing for kids in games, books, tv, and more! Arie Kaplan is the author of more than two dozen books, including "LEGO Star Wars: Face Off," "LEGO Star Wars: The Official Stormtrooper Training Manual," "The Jurassic Park Little Golden Book," "Swashbuckling Scoundrels: Pirates in Fact and Fiction," and the award-winning "From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books." He has also written several graphic novels, including "Speed Racer: Chronicles of the Racer," "Shadow Guy and Gamma Gal: Heroes Unite," "The Penguins of Madagascar: Penguins on a Mission," and "The New Kid from Planet Glorf." In addition to his career as an author, Arie is a screenwriter for television, video games, comic books, and transmedia. Links from Arie: 1) I'm currently writing the scripts for a mobile game called "eQuoo: The Next Generation: Lodestar," which is out now from PsycApps. Here's a link to the "eQuoo" page of my website. On that page, you can see an "eQuoo" game trailer, a poster, and some info about the core concepts behind the game: https://www.ariekaplan.com/game-writing/equoo-the-next-generation-lodestar/ 2) Recently, I wrote a freelance episode of the Netflix animated series "Charlie's Colorforms City." The episode, titled "Charlie and Little Bo Peep," is streaming now. For more info - including a clip from the episode - check out this link: http://www.ariekaplan.com/television-writing/charlies-colorforms-city/ 3) Here's the "Game Writing" section of my website, where you can see highlights from my career as a game writer (aka screenwriter for video games): http://www.ariekaplan.com/game-writing/ 4) Here's the link to the "Television Writing" section of my site, where you can see some highlights from my career as a television comedy writer (e.g. my work as a staff writer on the late, lamented TV series "TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest"): http://www.ariekaplan.com/television-writing/ 5) Here's my Amazon Author Page, where you can see some of the books (and graphic novels) I've written over the years: https://www.amazon.com/author/ariekaplan 6) Here's the link to the "Humor, Fiction, & Essay" page of my site: http://www.ariekaplan.com/humor-fiction-and-essays/

My January Favorites, books, tv shows, music and more!

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2022 23:04

Hi friends! Thank you so much for being here! There were to many favorites this past month, that I decided to make a quick episode about it! Let me know if you watched, listen any of my recommendations so we can fan girl about it!!

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New Year's Eve/Children's Books/TV The Guys Have Watched

This Is Happening with Mark Zito and Ryan Sampson

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2021 52:30

Mark and Ryan talk about New Year's Eve, children's books they've written (seriously) and television they've watched.

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2021 recap: Lessons learned in 2021, best books, TV shows and purchases of the year + 2022 plans!

Busy Blooming

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2021 36:47

Ep. 34: It's the last episode of 2021! Tess and Alexis sit down to reflect on the year including lessons learned, favourite books and TV shows, best purchases, all that Busy Blooming has accomplished + read through the community's submissions. FOLLOW US - Busy Blooming Instagram - Busy Blooming Website - Follow Tess (@tessbarclayy) - Follow Alexis (@alexisr) THINGS MENTIONED - Clear mugs from Amazon - Aritzia coat - Lululemon align leggings - Book: Colleen Hoover: It ends with Us - Book: Normal people

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2021 recap: Lessons learned in 2021, best books, TV shows and purchases of the year + 2022 plans!

Busy Blooming

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2021 36:47

Ep. 34: It's the last episode of 2021! Tess and Alexis sit down to reflect on the year including lessons learned, favourite books and TV shows, best purchases, all that Busy Blooming has accomplished + read through the community's submissions. FOLLOW US - Busy Blooming Instagram - Busy Blooming Website - Follow Tess (@tessbarclayy) - Follow Alexis (@alexisr) THINGS MENTIONED - Clear mugs from Amazon - Aritzia coat - Lululemon align leggings - Book: Colleen Hoover: It ends with Us - Book: Normal people

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Books/TV: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2021 67:00

We are back with another segment in our Harry Potter series. This week we are discussing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire! We will talk about our favorite characters, favorite parts, parts that bothered us, and more. We also will touch base on top books in the charts, our go to TV shows of the moment, and what we are currently reading.

Top Songs, Books, TV Shows and Movies for Learning English

Learn English with Bob the Canadian

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2021 9:09

The results are in! In this English lesson I will give you the information you've been waiting for. In last week's lesson I asked everyone to submit their favourite song, book, tv show, and movie for learning English.The results were very cool, and in this video I will share them with you. You'll find out what the top 3 songs are for learning English right now. I tell you about the top 3 books (and book series) for learning English. I'll share the results from the survey about the top 5 TV shows that English learners are watching, and I'll talk about the top 4 movies!Stay tuned for a great English lesson with lots of valuable information for English learners!Note: This is the audio portion of a Youtube English lesson which you can watch right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS0_X-TswJ8 or find by searching Youtube for, "Songs, Books, TV Shows, and Movies"Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian)

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Comfort Media: Books, TV, Movies

Read It or List It

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2021 32:48

Phoebe and Ashley talk about everything in this episode from rewatches of their favorite shows, other podcasts, their Book Boyfriend Origin stories and more!

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Japan Biz Books, TV + B2B Consulting | Politics + Culture Insights | CEO Ruth Jarman

Seeking Sustainability LIVE (SSL)

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2021 62:17

Ruth Marie Jarman is CEO of Jarman International consulting business in Tokyo, Japan. She has great insights into Japanese business culture and advice for living and working in Japan. https://youtu.be/-JUBkqGPrpc (Watch the video here.) **Support JJWalsh + Member Extras ** ~HAPPS~ https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmoydEVVSWhIWWt2OWwwT29IazVlRmVPVEdHUXxBQ3Jtc0tudi0yRDJtVTNhZkdDWTZIdFFHUnVGRlI1VUJnVVhIb0ljVlBmMi15aWRRTjdxRkNxRzZFcm9nc3o1dUV4RHk0V3g0YlVfTkp3UFQwSmZ6V29mdXluT1FURVpHVFplUnE0WGNxb1ZROEdJSkY2eEUzTQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fhapps.tv%2Finvite%2F%40JJWalsh%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B (https://happs.tv/invite/@JJWalsh) ~BuyMeACoffee~ https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbldMazlyZjZlN0M3OFh6cDJKeVBvZXZVLVk0UXxBQ3Jtc0tuZWRoUFFQdVJUdU9TZDZ6TUNEbHU3azJNak0yNTlfbWFURlExTk9zRENKOFpza3d2SDBJT21nSzliSlFYYXNQU0dRZVNlT2IwaHhSNGotSEVsbmFOb0pZb1NTbm02YkdKQkVfV1BqaUY1NDhvRk5HZw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buymeacoffee.com%2Fjjwalsh%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jjwalsh) ~Patreon~ https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa29WZ2pLTHBqd2x5djJCQUZvS1Z0WjJHTlBpZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttR2k3LVFRd0QtTU5ZSWVsNnJLYzlxT2hzbjc4Vm82bEpOUXlBSnRPNENYdndHWVB6Wkh0MXJCM3hON1d1a29aSkRoQW1kVzZmNncyOXFGMVdvSHRPNkNOWTg3dWZ4cDNUTWtQbGdtTkU1WWFaU2JwYw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Fjjwalsh%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B (https://www.patreon.com/jjwalsh) JOIN the support team on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbjRdeieOLGes008y_I9y5Q/join (YouTube Memberships ) SoundCloud sourced BGM thanks to Hikosaemon Support this podcast

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BONUS EPISODE: how we consume & perceive different forms of media (books, TV, movies, live theatre)

The Lavender Menace

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2021 38:55

Extra content from episode 3 that we cut out to limit the ever-lengthening minutes of each podcast episode we record. Renaissance is a television defender, Sunny believes in book supremacy, and we love to argue!

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Is Star Wars Detours Finally Dropping PLUS Books, TV and Collectables News

[BETA] Spark of Rebellion, A Star Wars Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2021 53:00

June, July and August will be good months for SW reading as wave two of The High Republic launches, a new Wedge Black Series helmet is coming, are lightsabers real, is Star Wars Detours finally releasing and we're off to Ilum for the Random Spotlight. This is Spark of Rebellion, the weekly Star Wars podcast for casual fans and veterans alike. We are your hosts, Garry and Mark and every single Saturday we release a brand new episode bringing you Star Wars news, reviews & discussion, our famous "top threes" and of course, the random spotlight, where we highlight a character, place, ship, object or something else peculiar from a galaxy far, far away. Get merch and other goodies! For exclusive content, laptop stickers, merchandise, guest opportunities and even producer credit on the show, head to our Patreon page at www.Patreon.com/SparkOfRebellion and tell all of your Star Wars loving friends that the show is available to listen to, completely free anywhere that you can find podcasts. Join us on social to chat Star Wars And for more Spark of Rebellion, head to https://instagram.com/SparkOfRebellionShow (https://instagram.com/SparkOfRebellionShow) for behind the scenes of the show and to interact with us every single day. Also, let's talk Star Wars over on Twitter too! https://twitter.com/rebellion_spark (https://twitter.com/rebellion_spark) Now, go explore and may the Force be with you... always! This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

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Is Star Wars Detours Finally Dropping PLUS Books, TV and Collectables News

Spark of Rebellion, A Star Wars Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2021 51:00

June, July and August will be good months for SW reading as wave two of The High Republic launches, a new Wedge Black Series helmet is coming, are lightsabers real, is Star Wars Detours finally releasing and we're off to Ilum for the Random Spotlight. This is Spark of Rebellion, the weekly Star Wars podcast for casual fans and veterans alike. We are your hosts, Garry and Mark and every single Saturday we release a brand new episode bringing you Star Wars news, reviews & discussion, our famous "top threes" and of course, the random spotlight, where we highlight a character, place, ship, object or something else peculiar from a galaxy far, far away. Get merch and other goodies! For exclusive content, laptop stickers, merchandise, guest opportunities and even producer credit on the show, head to our Patreon page at www.Patreon.com/SparkOfRebellion and tell all of your Star Wars loving friends that the show is available to listen to, completely free anywhere that you can find podcasts. Join us on social to chat Star Wars And for more Spark of Rebellion, head to https://instagram.com/SparkOfRebellionShow (https://instagram.com/SparkOfRebellionShow) for behind the scenes of the show and to interact with us every single day. Also, let's talk Star Wars over on Twitter too! https://twitter.com/rebellion_spark (https://twitter.com/rebellion_spark) Now, go explore and may the Force be with you... always! This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Support this podcast

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Off the Rails #7: Our Most Underrated Books, TV Shows and more

Off the Record

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2021 40:32

Imogen and Madeline are back to break down their most underrated books and TV shows, following last week's episode on their most overrated choices.

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Off the Rails #6: Our Most Overrated Books, TV Shows and more

Off the Record

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2021 43:38

Imogen and Madeline return to break down their most controversial opinions, including which books and TV shows they think are most overrated and what they've been reading and listening to this week.

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Neil Jordan on his Books, TV Shows and Of Course Movies

Screentime with John Fardy

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2021 58:17

This week on Screentime John Fardy chats to Neil Jordan about his long movie-making career as well as his new novel ‘The Ballad of Lord Edward and Citizen Small’. Mark Ryall reviews ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ as well as ‘Yes Day’. Plus Fiachna O’Braonáin of the Houthouse flowers chats about his favourite movie.

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Books & TV: Iconic TV Actors - Mariska Hargitay

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2021 59:00

Megs & Kristin are back with a new episode of Books & TV. This week we are continuing our new series of iconic actors and actresses with a TV queen... Mariska Hargitay. Many know her from her 20 years on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, but she has done so much more. We are here to break it down for you. Also, we will talk about top books from the New York Times Bestsellers list, television shows we are watching, and more.

Books/TV: Best of 2020

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2021 60:00

Megs & Kristin are back with the best of 2020 in books and Television. We will break down top charts, fan favorites, and our personal favorites in books and television in 2020. See if your favorites made the cut!

Time Travel Through Books, TV & Movies

Kidliterate

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2021 23:45

Whether it's through an old attic, a mysterious tree house, or a speeding Delorian, the idea of traveling through time to another era makes for great storytelling. Inspired by a new television series that hooked us recently, we look at time travel as a genre: from why we love it to how different authors handle it. We offer some book, TV and movie suggestions for other fans of time travel and, of course, we also share what we're reading and what YOU've been reading lately.

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2020 The Year in Horror - Movies, Books & TV

Monster Men

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2021 64:06

2020 was a pretty terrible year, for all the reasons you already know about. However, there was a bright spot, and it came from one of the darkest places… the horror genre. 2020 brought us an amazing array of horror movies. There was something for everyone. And let’s not forget all the great books and TV shows, while we’re at it. So, sit back and join the Monster Men as we review the year in horror that was 2020. Movies discussed include: The Wolf of Snow Hollow, The Invisible Man, The Color Out of Space, The Lodge, Come To Daddy, Anything For Jackson, Possessor, Hunter, Hunter, The Dark And The Wicked, Freaky, 1BR, Hosts, The Owners, His House, Impetigore, VFW, The Hunt, Sea Fever, The Rental, Sputnik, The Hunt and more. Books include Crossroads by Laurel Hightower, The Plumbers by Terry M. West, Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare, Until Summer Comes Around by Glenn Rolfe, My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, Meathead 2 by Steve Barnard, The Pale White by Chad Lutzke's and more.

The best of physics in books, TV and film in 2020 - Physics World Stories Podcast

Physics World Stories Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2020 62:01

Looking back at some of the year’s most memorable books and media

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Books & TV: High School Required Reading

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2020 59:00

Megs & Kristin are back with an all new Books & TV episode. Today's main topic: High school required reading. We will discuss the best and the worst from those high school days of teachers assigning books to read throughout the school year. What has changed? Why are some now banned or challenged in some schools? We will also cover book charts, new releases, entertainment news, and more.

Episode 40: A few of my favourite things - quotes, books, TV and food

Generation Now

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2020 21:26

Sharing a few of my favourite things with my absolute favourite people. I'm chatting with you about what I love in hopes you will love it too! Here is what I talk about:Hopeless by Colleen Hoover (Amazon link: https://amzn.to/364bRoS)Untamed by Glennon Doyle (Amazon link: https://amzn.to/3jWMYAj)Rachet on NetflixShameless of Crave/HBOPad Thai kit: https://amzn.to/3erHooiStarbucks order: Chai tea latte make with oat milk, add pumpkin syrup (I usually do two pumps)Once you're done the episode, join the #generationnow community by following @generationnowpodcast on Instagram or @generationnowpodcast on TikTok. Questions, comments, concerns? Email generationnowpodcast@gmail.com.Also, I will love you forever if you take a screenshot and post this episode to your Instagram stories - make sure to tag me!If you love this episode, make sure to check out these ones next:Episode 39: Food and hotel influencing, travel, social media strategy and starting your day off right with Courtney ToddEpisode 38: Mental health, social media and the importance of authenticity with Melanie TrottierEpisode 30: Influencers, podcasts and starting your own business with Bailey StanworthEpisode 29: Graphic design, freelancing and living in NYC with Emma McGoldrickOh yeah - I kinda did a vlog thing that you can find on YouTube by searching "Generation Now" (https://bit.ly/3dCgxEu). Intro music: Coffee by LiQWYD https://soundcloud.com/liqwyd; Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0; Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/coffee-liqwyd; Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/y3ksZqtAfI0

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Books & TV: Fall Television Premieres

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2020 58:00

Megan & Kristin are back with an all new episode of Books & TV. Today we will be discussing fall television premieres. All your favorite returning shows and all the new ones premiering this fall! Also touching base on book charts, television shows of the moment, and more.

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Books, TV, and Movies

For(4)Teens

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2020 47:04

What's up guys, we have a true staple episode for any self-respecting podcast coming at you today. If you need book recommendations or want to hear our thoughts on the most recent reality TV shows, you know what to do. Listen to this episode! Sorry for the scatterbrained conversation flow, we were in the mood for a more laid back episode. Hope you enjoy! Follow @for_4_teens on Instagram and look at our website https://forfourteens.weebly.com to learn more about this podcast. Mwah goodbye! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Books & TV: Non-Fiction Books

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2020 57:00

Megs & Kristin are back with a new episode of Books & TV! This weeks focus is Non-Fiction Books! What are your favorites? What makes a good Non-Fiction novel? Plus we will talk about the book charts, TV favorites, and more.

Books & TV: Vampire, Werewolf, and Zombie TV Shows

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2020 59:00

Megs & Kristin are back with an all new episode of Books & TV. Today's episode is all about television shows focused on werewolves, vampires, and zombies. We will talk about the best and worst of this fantasy TV, as well as touch base on book charts, our TV show recommendations, and more.

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BOOK & TV: Book Series

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 59:00

Megs & Kristin are back with another episode of Books & TV. This weeks main topic are book series! Which ones are popular and why? What are our favorites? What makes some series more popular than others? Also touching base on book charts and television updates!

Series 3 - Episode 4 on Books, Tv, Film and Livin La Vida Lockdown!

Mate.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2020 59:01

So a lot has changed since our last episode. We are now mid way through week 4 of lockdown during a global pandemic - but hey, even though we're apart we're going to be bringing you the best of mate. as usual and hopefully add a little cheer to your week!True to form and with even more time on our hands, this weeks episode features a collection of everything we've been enjoying throughout lockdown. We share our must-read books, binge worthy series, favourite films and magazine articles. We've also got some great foodie tips and recommendations. We also share how we're both adapting to our new solitary lifestyle. Now, more than ever, we would love to hear from you, so please share with us your lockdown stories and send us any questions you may have for the both of us. We would love to answer them during the next episode.If you have an Ask Mate question then please email us: mate.podcast@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @mate.podcast Follow us on Twitter: @mate_podcast Join our Facebook Group: Mate.Podcast

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Books & TV: Shows with Horrible Endings

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2020 60:00

Megs & Kristin are back with a new episode of Books & TV. This week the main topic is shows that had terrible endings and deserved better! We've taken a poll from listeners and we have all the info! We will also touch base on best selling book charts, popular tv shows, book recommendations and update on our book club!

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Our Favorite Books, TV Shows, and Podcasts

Along The Way Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2020 31:24

Our Favorite Books, TV Shows, and Podcasts Books: The Last House Guest: https://www.amazon.com/The-Last-House-Guest/dp/B07L3BDB3H/ref=sr_1_2?crid=9B92YGKWBNZA&dchild=1&keywords=the+last+house+guest&qid=1585159893&sprefix=the+last+hosue+guest%2Caps%2C155&sr=8-2 The Proposal: https://www.amazon.com/Proposal-Jasmine-Guillory-ebook/dp/B0782YRL2G/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3HLSJFT3183S&dchild=1&keywords=the+proposal&qid=1585159876&sprefix=the+proposal%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-3 Reese Witherspoon’s Book List: https://hello-sunshine.com/book-club Libby: https://help.libbyapp.com/index.htm# Zero to One: https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/B00M284NY2/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=zero+to+one&qid=1585160016&s=audible&sr=1-1 Extreme Ownership: https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs/dp/B015TM0RM4/ref=sr_1_2?crid=39FKIPHA1619Y&dchild=1&keywords=jocko+willink&qid=1585160096&s=audible&sprefix=jo%2Caudible%2C181&sr=1-2 Podcasts: Work Party by Jaclyn Johnson The Tim Ferris Show Life is Short with Justin Long The Monday Morning Podcast by Bill Burr TV Shows: Shark Tank The Blacklist How To Get Away With Murder The Office Episodes Dexter This Is Us A Million Little Things Sebastian Maniscalco Stand Up The Chef Show Along the way email: alongthewaypod@gmail.com Along the way Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2220818411568321/ Along the way Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/alongthewaypodcast/ Along the Way Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alongthewaypod/ Showtime Media Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/showtimemediamgmt/ Kait Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaitlinmackenziee/ Mitch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iammitchelllouis/ Mitch LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitch-schoenman-a02003140/ Kait YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMXWNkN4LiaP5Traxag9vCA?view_as=subscriber --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Books/TV: Crime Shows - The Obsession with Crime

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2020 60:00

Megs & Kristin are back with an in depth talk on the obsession with crime shows. We will discuss all the best shows and why they seem to do well. Also touching on docu-style shows and more. We also will discuss book charts, tv recommendations and more.

#6 - Laura and Jonathan - Movies, Books, TV, and Video Games

Jonathan Beckett's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2020 30:19

The first Wednesday show! Talking to Laura about the "Birds of Prey" movie, the "Dr Stone" manga, a wonderful TV comedy called "Friday Night Dinner", and a number of video games - among them "Resident Evil", "My Time in Portia", and "Fortnite".

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Books/TV: Monumental Book Characters

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2020 60:00

Megan & Kristin are back with another episode of books and TV. This week we are dissecting your favorite book characters. Who was your most favorite book character you've ever read? Most monumental impact on you? We dissect all aspects of great book characters and share some of our listeners favorites. Also touching base on current TV obsessions, New York Times Bestsellers lists and book club updates.

25. Comedy writer Joel Morris (part 2) on how to be funny - books, TV, films, podcasts. Has swearing

We'd Like A Word

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2020 19:21

Award-winning comedy writer Joel Morris reveals to presenters Paul Waters & Stevyn Colgan how he writes funny - (contains swearing) - the script for the Paddington films; the adult Ladybird books (with Jason Hazeley) like The Hangover, The Husband & The Hipster; the Rule of Three podcast which analyses comedy; co-writer of Philomena Cunk and Radio 4's 'Addendum' and Viz comic and the Framley Examiner. And he’s also a musician with a wheen of albums under his belt. Gah! He does everything, the talented so-and-so. He even has branded Great Big Owl podcast company trays. Much harder for visitors to pocket than branded mugs. This episode is in 3 parts. If you start on part 1, it should flow seamlessly along for your listening delight. We'd Like A Word is a podcast and radio show from authors Paul Waters and Stevyn Colgan. We talk with writers, readers, celebrities, talkers, poets about books, songs, lyrics, speeches, scripts, fiction and non-fiction. We go out on various radio platforms at least once a fortnight and every other Thursday on podcast. Our website is www.wedlikeaword.com - which is where you'll find information about Paul and Steve and our guests - and details of the radio stations that carry We'd Like A Word. We're also on Twitter @wedlikeaword and Facebook @wedlikeaword and our email is wedlikeaword@gmail.com - and yes, we are slightly embarrassed by the missing apostrophes. We like to hear from you - your thoughts, ideas, guest or book suggestions. Perhaps you'd like to come on We'd Like A Word in person, to chat, review, meet writers or read out passages from books. . .

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24. Comedy writer Joel Morris (part 3) on how to be funny - books, TV, films, podcasts. Has swearing

We'd Like A Word

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2020 25:37

Award-winning comedy writer Joel Morris reveals to presenters Paul Waters & Stevyn Colgan how he writes funny - (contains swearing) - the script for the Paddington films; the adult Ladybird books (with Jason Hazeley) like The Hangover, The Husband & The Hipster; the Rule of Three podcast which analyses comedy; co-writer of Philomena Cunk and Radio 4's 'Addendum' and Viz comic and the Framley Examiner. And he’s also a musician with a wheen of albums under his belt. Gah! He does everything, the talented so-and-so. He even has branded Great Big Owl podcast company trays. Much harder for visitors to pocket than branded mugs. This episode is in 3 parts. If you start on part 1, it should flow seamlessly along for your listening delight. We'd Like A Word is a podcast and radio show from authors Paul Waters and Stevyn Colgan. We talk with writers, readers, celebrities, talkers, poets about books, songs, lyrics, speeches, scripts, fiction and non-fiction. We go out on various radio platforms at least once a fortnight and every other Thursday on podcast. Our website is www.wedlikeaword.com - which is where you'll find information about Paul and Steve and our guests - and details of the radio stations that carry We'd Like A Word. We're also on Twitter @wedlikeaword and Facebook @wedlikeaword and our email is wedlikeaword@gmail.com - and yes, we are slightly embarrassed by the missing apostrophes. We like to hear from you - your thoughts, ideas, guest or book suggestions. Perhaps you'd like to come on We'd Like A Word in person, to chat, review, meet writers or read out passages from books. . .

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26. Comedy writer Joel Morris (part 1) on how to be funny - books, TV, films, podcasts. Has swearing

We'd Like A Word

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2020 24:06

Award-winning comedy writer Joel Morris reveals to presenters Paul Waters & Stevyn Colgan how he writes funny - (contains swearing) - the script for the Paddington films; the adult Ladybird books (with Jason Hazeley) like The Hangover, The Husband & The Hipster; the Rule of Three podcast which analyses comedy; co-writer of Philomena Cunk and Radio 4's 'Addendum' and Viz comic and the Framley Examiner. And he’s also a musician with a wheen of albums under his belt. Gah! He does everything, the talented so-and-so. He even has branded Great Big Owl podcast company trays. Much harder for visitors to pocket than branded mugs. This episode is in 3 parts. If you start on part 1, it should flow seamlessly along for your listening delight. We'd Like A Word is a podcast and radio show from authors Paul Waters and Stevyn Colgan. We talk with writers, readers, celebrities, talkers, poets about books, songs, lyrics, speeches, scripts, fiction and non-fiction. We go out on various radio platforms at least once a fortnight and every other Thursday on podcast. Our website is www.wedlikeaword.com - which is where you'll find information about Paul and Steve and our guests - and details of the radio stations that carry We'd Like A Word. We're also on Twitter @wedlikeaword and Facebook @wedlikeaword and our email is wedlikeaword@gmail.com - and yes, we are slightly embarrassed by the missing apostrophes. We like to hear from you - your thoughts, ideas, guest or book suggestions. Perhaps you'd like to come on We'd Like A Word in person, to chat, review, meet writers or read out passages from books. . .

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Year End Extravaganza Part 1: The Best of 2019 in Movies, Books, TV, and Podcasts

Marketing Geeks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2019 65:50

Ep #87 – Welcome to the Marketing Geeks’ Year End Extravaganza (Part 1 of 2). This is the first part of our special salute to 2019 where your hosts, Justin Womack and Andros Sturgeon, break down what we loved in 2019 including our favorite movies, TV, books, apps, and media. This is a full geek conversation that goes heavy into media. In the upcoming part two segment, we will reveal our favorite podcast episodes of 2019, our top business lessons learned, and, of course, predictions for 2020, and beyond… A Few of Our Top Recommendations of 2019 in Books, Movies, TV, and even Andros’ Spotify Playlist: Top Business Books: “Atomic Habits” by James Clear: https://rcl.ink/TQo “Building a Storybrand” by Donald Miller: https://rcl.ink/TQG Andros Sturgeon’s Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0QBXUDFP0XWEkhAjP1mNiR?si=e7ud0WNKRGSIt7M9tkFZJw Top Movies: “Joker:” https://rcl.ink/TQ9 “Knives Out:” https://rcl.ink/TcA "Under the Silver Lake:" https://rcl.ink/Tcw "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood:" https://rcl.ink/Tcx Top TV: “Dark” – Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80100172 “The Handmaid’s Tale” – Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/the-handmaids-tale-565d8976-9d26-4e63-866c-40f8a137ce5f Top Podcasts: Justin's picks: The Driven Entrepreneur Podcast with Matt Brauning Beyond 7 Figures with Charles Gaudet Andros' picks: Conspiracyland by Yahoo News Top Apps and Software AppSumo: https://rcl.ink/Tcb Please do us a favor and subscribe, rate and leave a written review. We would really appreciate a written review from listeners that are getting value from the show. Thank you. Connect & message the Marketing Geeks on LinkedIn: Justin Womack: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinwomack1/ Andros Sturgeon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/androssturgeon If you would like to support the show with a donation, please find the link below and submit a contribution. https://anchor.fm/marketing-geeks/support Donating $0.99 per month will get a featured shout out on the show. Donating $4.99 per month will get the shout out plus access to all past and future webinar recordings. Donating $9.99 per month, you get all the recordings PLUS a private group coaching call once a month for one hour with the Marketing Geeks. Want to be a guest on the Marketing Geeks Podcast or suggest someone? Please email us at info@marketinggeekspodcast.com Visit our website www.MarketingGeeksPodcast.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app · Trainual: Trainual is a software that helps you document what you do, so you can easily delegate and train others. https://trainual.com/freemonth/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/marketing-geeks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/marketing-geeks/support

The Best of 2019: Books, TV, Movies, and More

LARB Radio Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2019 60:29

It's a LARB Holiday Season tradition! Kate, Daya, and Eric review all that they read, watched, attended, and gossiped about to select their favorites from the past year. The result is a broad, eclectic array. Indeed, the first work chosen is by an author who died in 1996. Many more surprises ensue. A few of our picks are by authors or directors that we interviewed over the past year. Most, however, were not previously discussed on the show. No matter, every selection sparks a spirited discussion. As Eric warns in the introduction, "no one chose only one thing in any category." So, get out your notepads and prepare for an avalanche of excellence. Check out all of our recommendations here.

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The Best of 2019: Books, TV, Movies, and More

LA Review of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2019 60:37

It's a LARB Holiday Season tradition! Kate, Daya, and Eric review all that they read, watched, attended, and gossiped about to select their favorites from the past year. The result is a broad, eclectic array. Indeed, the first work chosen is by an author who died in 1996. Many more surprises ensue. A few of our picks are by authors or directors that we interviewed over the past year. Most, however, were not previously discussed on the show. No matter, every selection sparks a spirited discussion. As Eric warns in the introduction, "no one chose only one thing in any category." So, get out your notepads and prepare for an avalanche of excellence.

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The CrossFit Inguz Podcast E29 - A Few of our Favorite Things (Podcasts, Books, TV, Movies, etc.)

The CrossFit Inguz Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2019 52:17

On episode 29 of the CrossFit Inguz podcast Renee and Andrew discuss a few of their favorite content resources and go-to sources of information. These include different podcasts, books, movies, documentaries, and social media sites that we go to for education, inspiration...or just for fun. The resources cover a wide variety of topics including business, fitness, nutrition, health, and entertainment. We hope you find this list helpful. At the top of the episode we continue our segment of community shout-outs AND answer a few listener questions that we solicited a few weeks back.

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Episode #16 - Books, TV, Films...are they all getting too time-consuming?

Speaking Generally

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2019 59:26

Big book trilogies, eight season-long tv series, movies that require you to see twenty films to see the whole story. Is everything getting too long and bloated in an impatient world? Should art get to the point quicker to save us time? We debate the merits of short vs. long storytelling, getting to the point...and of course, the new Sonic the Hedgehog trailer!

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Books/TV: Game of Thrones & A Song of Ice and Fire

Serious Series of Utmost Importance: The Series

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2019 88:40

For the first time on the internet, someone has the courage - nay, the audacity - to put some Game of Thrones themed content out there. We talk about the show, the book series in general, the differences and the stuff that was cut that probably shouldn't have been. Also, as you expect, we make a detour into talking about The Venture Bros and David Bowie. Featuring Franklin!

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Recapping 2018 in books, tv, movies, podcasts, insta-accounts, etc.

Is It Teen Enough For You Now

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2019 76:21

We each give a rundown of the things we enjoyed most in 2018 and it's a ridiculously long list. Lindsey: The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater, I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak, Cardboard Kingdom (various authors), Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, Runaways by Brian K. Vaughn and Adrian Alphana, Saga vol. 8 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples, As the Crow Flies (by Melanie Gillman?), The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez, The Hazelwood by Melissa Albert, Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali, Ladycastle by Delilah S. Dawson, The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the best burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding, Leah on the Offbeat AND Simon vs. the Homosapiens Agenda by Becky Albertali, The Lady's Guide to Piracy and Petticoats by Mackenzi Lee, Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour, Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen, Blanca and Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore, and Archenemies by Marissa Meyer. Nate: Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson, Check, Please by Ngozi Ukazi, and the film Captain Ron (really?) Kim: Silver Spoon by Hiromu Arakawa, Monstress Vol. 3 by Marjorie Liu, My Brother's Husband by Gengorah Tagame, #NotYourPrincess (edited) by Charleyboy, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee, Laid-back Camp by Afro, and Crush by Svetlana Chmakova Molly: The Photogrpaher by Didier Lefèvre, Emmanuel Guibert, and Frédéric Lemercier, The Damkeeper by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi, Witchboy by Molly Ostertag, My Brother's Husband by Gengorah Tagame, The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater, My Hearbeat by Garret Freyman-Weyr, Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma, What if it's Us by Becky Albertali and Adam Silvera, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. Cash Money: Dopesick by Beth Macy. Television shows: Curious Creations of Christine McConnell, American Gods, Killing Eve, Brooklyn 99, Superstore, The Good Place, Big Mouth, Billions, Adam Ruins Everything, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sharp Objects, Nanette by Hannah Gadsby, CNN's 70s, 80s, and 90s documentaries, To All The Boys I've Loved Before, Brainchild. Podcasts: Binge Mode, Ologies. YouTube Channels: New Rock Stars. Instagram Celebrities: Celeste Barber and Donte Colley. Bands: Blood Orange and The Wiggles. Nathan: Less by Andrew Sean Greer, Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse, the podcast Shelf-Involved.

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The Best of 2018: Books, TV, Movies, and More

LARB Radio Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2018 40:04

We end the year with a special treat as hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf reveal their Best of 2018 selections. Eric, Daya, and Kate go high and also low with their favorite books, films, TV shows, podcasts (present company excluded), art shows, and one category so scandalous it's best kept a secret (for now). So, All Hail King Paimon and the Combahee River Collective; as well as authors Azareen Van Der Vliet and Rebecca Makkai, the two previous guests who made the list! Please enjoy our look back at the year that was; and make sure to catch Eric, Daya, and Kate's sage advice for 2019 at the end of the show.

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The Best of 2018: Books, TV, Movies, and More

LA Review of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2018 40:09

We end the year with a special treat as hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf reveal their Best of 2018 selections. Eric, Daya, and Kate go high and also low with their favorite books, films, TV shows, podcasts (present company excluded), art shows, and one category so scandalous it's best kept a secret (for now). So, All Hail King Paimon and the Combahee River Collective; as well as authors Azareen Van Der Vliet and Rebecca Makkai, the two previous guests who made the list! Please enjoy our look back at the year that was; and make sure to catch Eric, Daya, and Kate's sage advice for 2019 at the end of the show.

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How do Books, TV & Media Affect Your Energy, Vibration & Consciousness

Exploring the Mystical Side of Life

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2018 21:07

Do books, TV, and other media affect your consciousness and your energetic system? How can you know if this is this happening to you? Are we getting vibrational upgrades when we read certain books? What does that feel like? How to know if it is happening to you. Language is a form of magic. Books and language can induce a trance state. Hear how a book by Deepak Chopra had this affect on Linda, and how other synchronicities began showing up for her. How does the world reflect what is inside of us? How do our beliefs get projected out to the world, and affect our perception of what is real? How do our beliefs get reflected in our experiences? The placebo effect is changing! Is the power to heal ourselves increasing? http://dreamcatcherreality.com/power-heal/ The I Ching; How this book 'speaks' to Michelle, and even has a sense of humor! We hope you enjoy Exploring the Mystical Side of Life! Visit us on YouTube and Facebook. Visit Linda at https://thoughtchange.com

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Can you date someone who doesn't like the same books, TV shows or music as you?

The Hook Up

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2018 27:30

If you're a big music lover, or a movie buff, how do you deal when your partner doesn't share your taste? Is it a dealbreaker for you? You'll hear from relationships therapist Amanda Lambros on how you can reconcile your differences and Junkee music writer Jared Richards on when he dated someone who's cultural tastes just didn't match.

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Ep. 9: Books, TV, And Movies, Oh My!

Book, Line, & Sinker

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2018 26:45

Join Iona, Misty, and Brittany as they talk about their favorite movies and TV shows adapted from books! Subscribe on iTunes, YouTube, and Google Play.

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03/15/2018: Best of the A.P.E.X Hour (Part 2)

APEX Hour at SUU

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2018 52:33

[00:00:03] Hey everyone. This is Lynn Vartan and you're listening to the apex hour on SUU's Thunder ninety one point one in this show you get more personal time with the guests who visit Southern Utah University from all over. Learning more about their stories and opinions beyond their presentations on stage. We will also give you some new music to listen to and hope to turn you on to new genres. You can find us here every Thursday at 3:00 p.m. on the web at suu.edu/apex or email us at suuapex@icloud.com. But for now. Welcome to this week's show here Thunder ninety one point one [00:00:50] Hi everyone. So this is Lynn Vartan and I am still in Los Angeles so that means this is another best of show. It's actually spring break on campus. But never fear. I have some clips for you. We're going to start with Emily Graslie the great scientist and YouTube sensation who was on campus in February. Listen in. Here you go. [00:01:11] I Want to start by kind of spending this first bit talking about how you came to be who you are today which is such a great story and I know you talked a little bit about it earlier but if you could kind of give us another version of that painter turned scientist story. I would love to hear it. Yeah. So I won't go into all of the details but essentially I was studying landscape painting at the University of Montana in Missoula. [00:01:37] I enrolled in 2007 and for the first about three years that I was there was really heavily focused on landscape painting as my as my source of inspiration and what I was going to do my senior thesis project on for my BFA. And it wasn't until I learned about the campus Zoological Museum which is known as the Philip Allwright Zoological Museum that I really started to turn my attention toward why these museums exist why these research collections are a part of a campus like that who they serve what their role is and then how I could become involved in. So essentially I turned my last semester of college into an internship where I could draw the specimens within the collection and then just gradually became more and more involved in the day to day operations of the museum learning about how the specimens were cataloged and organized but also how how he obtained them you know what research projects they were associated with. And then I was volunteering the preparation lab to actually help process and prepare some of these specimens for the research collection which was a pretty interesting experience going from you know just landscape painting to you know dissecting roadkill for Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks. Did it ever gross you out because I mean I know some people I mean you came from a painting background so maybe it's the cause I know you also grew up on a farm or near farmland that did it ever. Gross You Out. I think it's just been more of a morbid fascination more than anything. Especially when you know a lot of the gross out factor associated with things like specimen preparation. It's more of like a cultural stigma than it is like a natural thing so. [00:03:26] So what we've learned through the program that I do now my YouTube show the brain scoop is actually the younger the viewers are the less biased they have toward these sort of things. It's more of like a cultural and societal pressure that we put on kids girls especially once they're past the age of 8 or 9 to really enforce that gross factor. Don't touch that or that's nasty. Like a lot of the natural inquisitiveness is kind of stifled and so you know once I started learning about the value of these research collections and how I could contribute to growing them and making having a small role in a significant scientific discovery it just. I mean yes sometimes it smells kind of bad and you're dealing with like gross hydrogen peroxide and dealings overkilled but if you can get a sight all those things get really interesting. Yeah. I mean did you did you learn the process. I mean I didn't mean to initially start talking about dissection so much but I'm kind of fascinated by it as the day goes on. Did you have to learn like the exact procedures because it's very tough. I mean that's very step by step right. Or mean how did all that knowledge come. Did somebody show you. Did you read it. Yeah. So so I started volunteering in this museum after I did my internship. I graduated from college and I kept volunteering in the museum and it was a friend of mine who introduced me to the collection who was actually one of the first people to help train me in specimen preparation. [00:04:57] And it happened because the day she showed me to this research collection which I should also clarify. This museum does not have public exhibits purely behind the scenes 24000 specimens mostly northern Rocky Mount Rocky Mountain mammals and birds and and so there was a number of Montana natural heritage projects and Fish and Wildlife projects that they would collect about your specimens and then deposit them in this museum for preparation and volunteers who were part of the wildlife bio programs or the ecology programs at the University Montana would help prepare them. And so she was one of these volunteers in the prep lab and she brought me in. We walked into the prep lab and she handed me this Ziploc bag that had like a soggy mouse in it. The mouse the mouse story the mouse story with the label this informational label about where it was collected when what time of year what the habitat was like the sex of the animal. And this was all part of a larger study looking at the distribution of rodents across western Montana to see at what point of elevation they were occurring. And if that that point of elevation was changing were they going higher you know due to climate change impacting the average median average temperatures of the northern Rocky Mountains. Anyway she hands me this this western jumping mouse Zappa’s princeps is the scientific name and she she asked Do you want to prepare this. And I said Oh no. you know me I deal with paint brushes like this is not my thing. And she's like No I’ll teach you how to do it. [00:06:32] She's like you know did you ever take homework in middle school and I was like yeah she's like you know you do a sewing project where you stitch things together. And I was like yeah she's a guest the same thing. And I was like that remains to be seen but OK. But she walked me through the process of making the first incision and separating the skin from the muscle tissue and removing the bones in a specific order. And you know after about 30 minutes I had I had skin this mammal and had the body separated from the rest of it from the tide. And then you create a little armature out of cotton and wire and a little small dowel and essentially put that back inside of the body and then you pin it onto a board. And it's it's called a study skin. So it's not meant to look like a live taxidermy animal like it was in life but it now it's a research specimen and that to me the most important part of that whole process was that I got to sign my name on the label for this specimen as a source of accountability mostly of a scientist in the future was going to look at this mouse and be like this thing is prepared really weird who's responsible for this. Emily Graslie no Christian name but to me it was almost like I guess I felt a stronger sense of gratification signing my name on that mouse than I ever had signing my name on a piece of artwork. No way. Fascinate was it. It was overwhelming. And I think it's because I mean the seemingly inconsequential mouse was going to be part of a larger history is going to be bigger than myself. [00:08:00] It's part of a research project that's been going on for decades. You know I contributed to science and it wasn't just this whole like kind of existential moment for me where I was like art you seems so selfish and self you know interested and yet here was the way I felt like I could make some kind of tiny positive contribution to my community I could be a part of the history of western Montana. And this all you know from a dead man. And it was really an it came from a Ziploc bag and I came from a Ziploc bag you know and it was really a moment of revelation for me because I went home that night and I didn't tell anybody what I had done. I I I don't think I talked to any my friends for a week because I thought for sure I was so like a sociopath like sociopath or something like a psychopath. Like what kind of person is so fascinated in like taking an animal inside out. And so I really didn't want to talk about it for a long time and started just you know continuing to volunteer in the museum and becoming more and more interested in it. And that's partially why I started documenting the process is almost like seeking validation from anybody. Right. Like my friends or family and they're like Emily that's weird like you don't want to see your dead animal pictures on our Facebook and so instead I started posting them on tumblr and which was a blog site. [00:09:18] I don't know if people still use tumblr today but I had started a blog after that documenting not just the preparation process but a lot of the artwork I was creating in the museum and some of the other projects we were doing and I found an online community like I found a digital community of other museum volunteers or other art majors who wanted to find their own museum collection to volunteer or even people who were you know amateur taxidermists who wanted to help bring some of these animals back to life. And so I built up a following of about 10000 people who started regularly reading my blog about the museum and eventually that that blog helped to develop the web series that I have now with the Field Museum in Chicago. Yeah that is amazing that that moment that you discuss with the changeover and feeling about putting your name on it. Do you does find it to be an artistic project process or do you feel that it's different than the artistic process. Well I would say creating study skins. It helps if you have a background in art. I think you know if you ask any or look at any of the volunteers or interns that we have at the Field Museum specifically a number of them have backgrounds in our. And I think a lot of that has to do with hand eye coordination right. Attention to detail. I ended up teaching or being the teacher for the vertebrate Ostalgie class for graduate students at the University of Montana for a semester because as an art major you're taught to hone your observation skills. [00:10:43] And so when you're teaching graduate archaeology students how to differentiate certain kinds of animal bones whether they're trying to identify them from a faunal assemblage of you know a native tribe that lived in that area 10000 years ago or if it's sometimes we would work with the Montana crime lab and the police department and they would find a Barebone or someone would bring them a limb bone and they find in the middle of the woods and sometimes these hikers would think like I think this is a human arm or did this belong to a child or something and so they take it to our comparative collection and I got to work with the Montana crime lab to as of like a forensic geologist to help them identify where this animal was coming from and we never had a human. It was always like a ham bone. Yeah a bear bone or something like that but I was able to do that because of my background in art and being able to understand that you know morphological differences or the shape or the size differences between different vertebrate species. That's amazing. That's fascinating. I love it. Ok cool. So you got to kind of be like a forensic scientist in a way also like a sleuth. Yeah kind of. You know I was mostly just a facilitator. I was working with the curator of the museum at the time Dave Dyer who was you know really had the background in mythology and asked geology but he taught me a lot. And you know it was really fun to look at some of these cases and he would put out quizzes and you know kind of test your knowledge. It was a really fun game but it was also you know had important educational implications to it as well. That's so interesting. [00:12:14] I know that also in the dissection of animals used to be a requirement in a lot of school programs and then sort of went away and maybe is how do you feel about that being in schools now do you think that's a really important part of the science pedagogy. Well I think it depends on the learner. Ultimately it depends on who it is you're working with as a student. I know from myself personally had I had more opportunities to do more hands on learning experience experiments when I was in middle and high school. I might have felt a little bit more empowered to think that oh science is something that I can do or I can use my observational skills in this way whereas in my educational background growing up in rapid city South Dakota you know we just a lot of it just immediately went to like standardized tests. Right. And now you know naming diagrams and really took a lot of the creativity out of it. From my perspective so I think there's a true value in getting kids to be hands on especially when it comes to things like that. Gross out stigma sort of thing like if you can perpetuate a culture of curiosity and inquisitiveness rather than one that is just wanting to you know make things from the natural world seem as though there are other foreign or alien or bad or gross or weird you know anything that just fosters the the genuine question asking and answering seeking motivations behind it I think is worth supporting. All right well that's a little bit about your back story. [00:13:47] We're going to take a little musical break and when we come back we'll talk a little more about brain scoop with the awesome Web show that you have and also your work at the field museum. So you know me on the show I like to introduce you to different music. The first song we're going to listen to is called Eye to Eye. And it's by Jordan Rakei on the album Wildflower and you are listening to KSUU thunder ninety one point one. I'd like to turn our discussion to the brain scoop. Can you tell us a little bit about how it got started. I know you talked this morning but just for anybody who's listening to just a quick bit of how it kind of got started and then the transfer over to Chicago. [00:18:34] Yes so after I started this blog where I was posting kind of our day to day work on and on about the Zoological Museum at the University of Montana I ended up meeting this man named Hank Green and he's probably best known for being half of the YouTube series vlogbrothers he and his brother John Green are they've been making videos on YouTube for well over ten years now and Super fame. Yeah yeah. I mean it's kind of ridiculous to try and summarize like everything they do because they're such important roles and like the Internet education and just like positive support network community online. But anyway Hank happened to live in Missoula Montana where I was living at the same time. And we ended up getting connected because he was launching a new educational series called Crash Course and they were doing a video about the vertebrate skeleton. So it made a lot of sense for him to come. Actually he reached out to see if he could come film it in the collection. I was volunteering it and I was over the moon are so excited. And so that's how I met Hank and he and I kind of talked on and off over a couple of months and eventually he came back to the museum in sort of long story short I gave him a tour of the collection which he uploaded on there Vlogbrothers channel. You can still watch it today. It's called. Oh she what is that video called thoughts from dead animals. That's what it's called. It's the thoughts from places they do the series called thoughts from places and this was thoughts from the museum so he called it thoughts from dead animals. But anyway you know the response to it was so overwhelming it's nothing like I've ever seen. [00:20:04] I mean in a couple of days it had been watched a quarter of a million times and the overwhelming majority of comments on the video were just like you know we want to see more of Emily and we want to see more the museum and you should give her only her own channel and so just a couple days later he he emailed me and I'll never forget getting that email because he just basically said well people like this would you want to me would you want to have your own YouTube channel I'd help you get it started and I was completely blown away because at that time you know I was recently unemployed like didn't really wasn't the right thing wasn't going super well for me and I would just kind of trying to get into like a Masters museum studies program and figure out what I wanted to do and this was a I thought a great opportunity. I had no expectation for what would happen with it. Had you ever been on the radio or TV or performed. I mean I know you play the violin but had you ever done any of that kind of thing like been on my before. Well not not to that degree no. I mean I took children's theatre you know and I did some drama performances in high school but I was also like a nerdy kid with a mouthful of braces so act like I'd mostly like ran the lights because I couldn't enunciate on stage at all. [00:21:23] And I had done some promo video stuff from the museum but like never really was coached in it you know and and so Hank came to me and he's like wow you know all you can work with one of our producers Michael Aranda and we'll get you started with some basic equipment but then he left the country for a month to go on tour with his brother John to promote the fault in our stars so that John's Young Adult author and so Hank just kind of left me and Michael and left us to our own devices and when he got back like our channel had just blown up. That's amazing. To what do you attribute. I mean you're so comfortable and so charismatic onscreen. I mean is it just the passion for your subject is it just the curiosity to what do you attribute it. Well I would say the passion and the curiosity certainly but like that has to be fostered and just the vote of confidence from somebody like Hank Green. Like someone who has done this who has been doing this who has like founded in established educational programs that had millions of subscribers and he and his brother were then and are still now some of the best known names in like online education for that person to just email you after knowing you for a week and say like I think you'd be good at this and just knowing that they probably don't tell other people that everyday. Yeah it was like you know. AFT I'm a big Hamilton fan now but it's sort of one of those things where you like I'm not throwing away my shot and I just decided like I don't know what this is going to go but I know I'm not going to take just half ass. So we went I just gave it my all and and just kind of went for it. [00:23:03] It sounds like you are that way as a person though. I mean when you do something you go all in. Like you're not just going to volunteer in a museum and bide your time you're going to try to organize the collection. And I mean that kind of. Go get it. This must also be intrinsically and you I do have a lot of grit and that was definitely the case with me and my art program like you know you're supposed to start working on your senior thesis painting before your spring semester right. And and I was already conceptualizing what I wanted to do like the summer before my senior year. And so you know I've just always I've just always had a lot of pride in being a hard worker. Like when I was in high school I got my first job when I was 14 and so I've always worked hard at and I've always put in the hours. But to me like that's what's so gratifying about it is knowing that you really have done your best and put your best foot forward. And so working on a YouTube channel that had an audience that had potential that was going to help me bring this museum that I'd already spent two years trying to bring to the public just like I'm going to go for it. I love it. That's awesome. So now it went before and before I get to Chicago. [00:24:17] For anybody who may be listening and not familiar with the brain scoop how would you describe how would you describe the brain scoop in like two sentences if you had to the brain scoop is an educational YouTube channel that aims to share the behind the scenes work in collections and research with anybody with the world so perfect. Yeah that's great. Well and of course for those of you who may be interested and not familiar with it just google it and you can find tons and tons of videos in a wide variety of different types of subjects and different angles different locations and we can get into that too. So now the brains group is how's the back brain scoop is housed in Chicago in the field museum and tell me about what life is like there. Yes we've been doing the brain scoop for a couple of months before we started to receive quite a bit of media attention. So we'd been written about by NPR Scientific American. There was like a no in a blog from now geographic like is it incredible for me. And eventually we gain the attention of the Field Museum in Chicago and I got invited out to kind of do some videos with them and after a couple of days they just sat me down in this conference room and basically I said like we'd like to bring you on board here and bring your channel with you. And that was amazing to me as someone who just aspired to work in a museum someday in any capacity to have this new position created for me. I mean I have the job title now as chief curiosity correspondent. So that was an amazing experience and so we brought the brain scoop to the Field Museum in July of 2013 and I've been there ever since so about four and a half years now. That's so cool yeah. [00:26:04] What's a typical day in the life like for you. Well to be honest the typical day is not that exciting because you don't believe it. Well it's a lot of like there's so much planning involved and there's so much like production timelines and scheduling and like there is quite a bit of paperwork and budgeting and you know that kind of back and stuff. But but the really special days are when we get to go out in the field or when we get to interview scientists and so just a couple of weeks ago we ended up filming in Berlin Germany at the Museum of Natural History there. And so it was three months of planning and organizing and everything. But once we're there I mean I got to you know got to see one of the best most iconic fossils of all time the Archaeopteryx specimen which is most of the famous most of the transitional species between birds and dinosaurs like it is wow a famous fossil. I got to be in the historic bird collection at the museum there and the museum for Netter kinda was established in 1814 so this museum is over 200 years old and has endured two world wars so isn't it one of the oldest. It must be it's one of the oldest collections. Yeah and certainly you know the building itself was built in the 1980s. But a day like that is just like you're looking at specimens and a collection that are simultaneously Lake scientifically important but also the witnesses to history like the whole eastern wing of this building was completely destroyed by allied bombing in 1945. [00:27:39] And so you're standing in a reconstructed wing of this institution and just thinking about those decades and centuries of history. I mean those are the kind of moments that are really live for and it doesn't matter that I had to spend three months of like paperwork and figuring out import permits for camera equipment or whatever else like you know once you're there you really try to appreciate those moments. Sounds pretty magical. It's it's pretty cool. Well it's time for another musical break. The next piece that I'd like to show you is a piece called Nomada and that's by Kaleema and it's on the album Nomada. And you are listening to the apex hour on Thunder ninety one point one Suu welcome back. This is Lynn Vartan and you're listening to the apex hour here on KSUU you thunder ninety one point one. Today's show is a best of show that bit that you were just listening to was from February and that was when we had the awesome scientist and YouTube sensation and founder of the coolest YouTube channel Brain Scoop Emily Graslie was here with us in February talking about her life and all of her awesome activities and travels. But now we're going to turn our attention to the outdoors. SUU is outdoors nation. And so in the studio. Also in February I was joined with Bridget Eastep and Kevin Koontz talking about all the awesome possibilities that we have here on campus for students faculty staff and community members that have to do with the outdoors. Have a listen. And I want to rejoin our conversation talking about our cool partnership program that's called semester in the park. [00:33:02] So Kevin I think you're going to tell us about that this semester in the parks program. It's again pretty unique to Southern Utah University. I like to think of it as kind of a study abroad but rather than going abroad the students get to live at Bryce Canyon. They get to work at one of the resorts close to there and during the course of the semester they're able to visit all of our surrounding parks and monuments and different public lands. And they have a course load that kind of incorporates the theme the themes of public lands and preservation conservation stewardship and just kind of kind of honing those outdoor skills altogether. It's 15 credit. So it's an entire. I mean as we said it's semester in the park. So how does that work in terms of their normal course start. So you said it's like a study abroad. So does it do they just kind of take that semester. And this is that semester. So it sort of replaces a semester in a way. Yeah. All of the classes are taken like I said as a cohort to all the students have all the same classes together. And yet they spent the whole semester with that group of students and kind of visiting these different amazing places but it's really fun because the professors actually come to you and you have a classroom in Bryce Canyon right off the room. That's amazing. [00:34:36] And from there a lot of the professors are like OK let's go out into the parking and look at the different aspects that the park offers to learn about the content in the courses and they stay where exactly they stay at Ruby’s in which is just right outside the entrance to Bryce Canyon there and they also work right. And it's part of the it's part of the course load really as as the. There's the hospitality kind of portion of that and the students earn a certificate in interdisciplinary Park studies. Oh that's great. So what's an example of the kind of work that they're doing. I mean they're there waiting tables or they're doing it. It does depend on really the student and the experience that they bring in. But again most of the students end up working in hospitality. That's the fancy way of saying you get trained out of bed. Ah I'm doing those pieces of it. But Beason is really also dedicated to the learning experience. So one they do need that work to be done and part of the reason this experience works is because we're able to help them with the shoulder season. So we provide those workers to do the hospitality work that they need to do. But on top of that they're like OK let's give you some experience with guiding tours or you know we've had students that have had hospitality backgrounds so they end up. She also spoke French so that helped. But she also says she ended up working at the front desk. Now there are different things you can do within it but most of them end up changing a lot of that. Yeah. And then how often how many hours a day are they in class. How long is a typical day in this semester in the park parks students of typical days you wake up normal time. [00:36:33] And then you go to work and you work in the morning. OK you get a break and then you go to class in the afternoon and the classes have a different class focus each day. So you'll have English one day and then you'll have suddenly a top floor the next day you'll have criminal justice the next day you'll have Americans in the outdoors the next day and then every other weekend you have to feel blab time with those courses and you'll go and visit Lake Mead or Gold Butte or Zion or great bass bass. So you really get to know the different parks within it but you don't just visit them because you're looking at it through those different lenses and trying to understand the parks like. All right. How does criminal justice help conserve this park. And then how do how in American and the outdoors are really looking out like what's the value of the parks to our society and how can the parks offer that experience to the visitors in the best way. And what's the visitor experience and how are those visitors managed. A lot of the same kind of challenges that Superintendent Jeff Brady spoke about today during his presentation and how the faculty for semester in the parks comes from. Specifically the faculty in the outdoor education area or is it across the boards across the board. So in 2018 in the fall of Laura Walker from English we have Samwell as from Buyology we have Kelly Akunin from outdoor recreation. We have Brian Burton from criminal justice. And then we have Ann Smith also from Alto recreation and then I get help with the field trips. [00:38:14] Cool. And then they cut to weekends there. There were there exploring and learning and then and do they. Is there free time said. I mean do they come back into town. Do you know how they handle the rest of their time I'm just it. It does become again downtime. Well I guess the best way is safe downtime for them to have wives. Right. Which when you're doing an emergency master. Right. Is really appreciated. And it's just time to do your homework to catch up with friends to take the time that you need to make sure that you're rejuvenated and healthy. It's one of the parks likes to do the fun things that are out there. Yeah. Yeah. Such a cool concept. And this this concept we've been doing this for how long. Two years two years. We're going to be offering our third year and it's each fall semesters or just the fall fall or fall semester only. Yep. And again if you my favorite way to do things on the web is just to google it. So if you Google actually use mastering the parks it will take you to that home page and applications are due mid March. So again have been accepted yes. Now's the time right. This is the time to be looking if you're interested in this. I mean totally go check it out. It's only our Kappus 15 students to be able to give the experience that we want to you. So we do need people to actually apply. [00:39:35] But on time so that we can make sure that we get the best cohort possible. Right. So if you're out there and you're feeling super passionate about it get on it right away. Google semester in the parks. See you and take a look at the application. But time is running out it seems like you're probably getting pretty close to having that locked down. So that's such a cool program and I think probably the maybe the only one there maybe something similar but not to this extent. I mean this is just such a special opportunity to have a study abroad but yet also nearby. But yet in a completely different environment in Bryce Canyon. So and earn a certificate in a single semester which is also kind of unique. That's great. And how do you guys feel about it. Some of the topics that we were talking about today do you have any comments on. We were talking about conservation preservation. Do you have any suggestions or thoughts about anything that students or our listeners and I think we should be aware of that we should be doing or advice that you have that you'd like to impart. Oh Bridgette don't talk about the sustainability. Oh yep. Actually you does have a sustainability miner and we've just worked with a group of faculty to rework it but it is a unique lens. And I guess the way that I look at majors and minors is it gives you a perspective to interact with the world. [00:41:04] Some of them you just dedicate to your profession but otherwise you can take the sustainability minor add it to the major that you're doing and just see the world through a different lens. And so you'll be looking at and asking the questions is like how can we help our society be sustainable. And in that it's not just I guess the scarcity part of it but it's being sustainable in here and really being like a healthy society and that is going to be looking at the ways that we use energy the ways that we interact with the outdoors the ways that we build things and utilize resources so that it's not just for our generation but for future generations as well. That's amazing that we have that as well. All right. I'm going to play one last song and then we're going to come back with what is fast turning into everybody's favorite part of the radio show which is asking you guys about what's turning you on right now. Books TV movies all that kind of stuff getting into the nitty gritty and getting some inspiration for our listeners. But before we do that I have one last song and this one is not Valentine related but it's maybe Olympics related. I've been watching a lot of the winter of Olympics and this is a group that I mentioned last week called Grand tapestry that I think is really interesting from their album titled Grand tapestry. And this song is called Champion. And once again you were listening to the APEX hour on Thunder ninety one point one KSUU. [00:47:05] Well welcome back. This is Lynn Vartan you're listening to the apex hour here on KSUU Thunder ninety one point one. That song that you just heard is olympic inspired it's called Champion by grand tapestry on the album Grand tapestry. [00:47:22] We have just a few minutes left here for the Apex Hour this week and we're going to do the thing that everybody seems to be loving which is what's turning you on this week. Some to start with you. Bridget what's turning you on and it couldn't be books movies TV podcasts. What's something you'd like to share that you're really excited about. Well I am going to say that the book that has gotten me to think the most in the last six months is Florence Williams the nature effects and in that I get to talk about my soapbox because it's all about how the outdoors is good for people. Our brains are wired for it. It makes you a better thinker. It makes your body work better it helps you create social bonds it helps you create meaning for your life and so it actually takes the time to go through the research and tell the stories that we all need to be connected to the natural world. And can you tell us the title and author of that book again. Yep it's Florence Williams and that's the nature facts. You were not the first time I've heard of this thing this week. And stay tuned. We may be researching trying to get her out to see you as an apex future speaker. So let's fingers crossed for that. But I also have to say that I really my passion in this world is to connect people to the outdoors and especially for learning and I really have seen it time and time again. [00:48:51] If you're a stressed out student in the library take the time walk around a beautiful campus because we have a park for our campus so I can guarantee you that your brain is going to work better and you're going to be able to focus and and actually enjoy what you're doing and just being stressed out. Midterms are coming up so everybody get outside and take a look around. That's great. Great advice. Thank you Kevin. How about you. What's inspiring you right now. I've been reading glory land by Shelton Johnson. The story of a buffalo soldier who serves in Yosemite National Park before the Park Service existed in the parks were kind of being overseen by the cavalry and kind of regulated that way. So it's a it's a very interesting perspective on early early park maintenance so to speak. That's amazing. Tell us the name and the title and author of the title is Gloryland and author Shelton Johnson. And again another sort of Apex plug right. This has been one that's come down the pike as a suggestion for future events so we may see what we can do to find these people on campus. Well that is so cool. Do you have any final words or any final things you'd like to promote or announce. There are so many great opportunities here and Su you know students often get bogged down with classwork. They feel like oh I wanna go on a trip I just don't have time or I want to go to the park. I just can't get away from this project or this paper or his presentation that I'm working on. [00:50:30] You got you got to make the time really you gotta make the time to do the things that you want to do otherwise you'll never find it. And all up the ante for that is one of the reasons that actually you has the program especially the outdoor ads put in is for people to actually say I want to learn and then you fill in the blank and you create a project to do it and the outer edge projects are the ones that I love so much because it's people that really want to learn or do something and then they figure out how to do it. So we have people that are one of my favorites as he builds a new and in that he wanted to learn woodworking skills so that he could go out and be a better theater teacher. Perfect in it so there's projects like that. And so I think that you find what you want to do and you can turn it into your project. Get that requirement out of the way by doing something that you love while I love it. Thank you guys so much for your time today. I really appreciate getting to know everything we have to offer here for us. Yeah. And so you heard it all if you want to even think from going camping come down and check out the Outdoor Center here in the Sharwan Smith Center right across in the welcome center or if you want to look at class offerings online or get involved with the internship program or semester in the parks. Get busy with your Google and find out ways to get outside and experience our awesome landscape. [00:51:58] Well that wraps up another show for us here at the apex hour on KSUU thunder ninety one point one. That was a best of show you heard past moments from February of 2018 because we are on spring break and I am in Los Angeles saying hello and looking forward to getting back in the studio for more action to come. Thanks for listening until next week. This is Lynn Vartan saying goodbye from the apex hour here on Thunder ninety one point one.

Episode 100: The FBI in Books, TV, and Movies - 10 More Clichés and Misconceptions

FBI Retired Case File Review

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2018 87:09

I’m celebrating 100 episodes of FBI Retired Case File Review with a special crime fiction show exploring clichés and misconceptions about the FBI in books, TV, and movies. What most people know about the FBI comes from popular culture. This list features what writers of novels, scripts, and screenplays sometimes get wrong about the Bureau and FBI agents. This is my second list. In Episode 50, I also wrote about this topic. Both lists were created for those who read and watch crime fiction about the FBI, write crime fiction and thrillers about the FBI, and who have always wanted to join the FBI. Why should you care if entertainment media gets things wrong about the FBI in books, TV, and movies? Why does it matter if films and novels occasionally contain false information about the FBI? Get The Free FBI Reading Resource! Join my FBI Retired Case File Review Reader Team to receive the FBI reading resource and get monthly updates about the FBI in books, TV and movies here. My co-host for this episode is retired agent Bobby Chacon. We have both “been there” and “done that.” As you may recall, Bobby was my co-host in Episode 50, and in Episode 8, I interviewed him about working Jamaican drug gang cases and leading the FBI dive team. I should be clear that as an author of FBI crime fiction I understand the use of creative license. I’m also aware that many of the clichés and misconceptions presented here are intentionally written into books, scripts, and screenplays due to time constraints and the need to create well-paced scenes and fully developed characters. These shortcuts are needed, at times, to tell a story in an entertaining way. Nevertheless, it’s also important to know how things really work. So, here are 10 more clichés and misconceptions about the FBI: #1 The FBI recruits only former police, military officers, attorneys, and accountants. Actually, candidates for the special agent position come from a vast variety of backgrounds. Some worked everyday jobs, such as teachers, nurses, sales managers, linguists, cyber/computer specialists, pilots, and engineers before joining the FBI. Others were in pre-FBI positions that you would never imagine, such as dentist, medical doctors, and scientists with Ph.Ds. Let me also add a note about age requirements. Although the qualifying age to join the FBI is 23, the average agent is 30 years old and has worked a managerial-level job for several years prior to receiving an appointment. The mandatory retirement age for GS 1811 series federal law enforcement officers is 57. Of course, an agent can receive a limited extension if his or her continued service is in the public's interest. However, most agents retire from the FBI in their early 50's to start post-FBI-retirement positions while they're still marketable (ageism exists, even for FBI agents). Some TV shows cast actors that are too young or too old for the role of an FBI agent. #2 Female FBI agents wear low, cut tight-fitting clothes. TV shows like Quantico overemphasize the physical attributes of the actresses portraying female agents. In the real world, all agents wear attire appropriate for the specific work environment. Female FBI characters are also often depicted as single and childless, when in fact, most female agents, like their male counterparts, have families. It can be done. But like any other high-pressure position, it requires support to navigate the long days with unpredictable hours and out-of-town travel. #3 One agent can handle an entire investigation by his/herself. Actually, it takes a team to work a major investigation. In books, TV, and movies, one composite character might be created to portray the roles of several agents. Often, writers don’t have the time to develop multiple characters, so they create a character to represent all the players. But during a major investigation in the field, help with surveillances, searches, arrests, monitor wiretaps, transcribe tapes, is needed, and the entire squad or offices gets involved. #4 Undercover agents run their cases. UCAs play an important role in FBI cases, but the case agent is responsible for the case. It might help to look at the UCA as a contract player and the case agent as the casting agent, director, and producer for the investigation. Also, an agent can’t simply raise their hand and be placed in a long-term undercover role. Intensive training and role-playing seminars determine an agent’s suitability. Pre and post evaluations are mandatory. #5 Agents jet around the world in private jets to conduct investigations. Many investigations require that requests for investigation known as “leads” be sent to FBI offices throughout the country. A request is assigned to a “lead” agent who interviews witnesses, conducts surveillances, or obtains documents on behalf of agents assigned to other offices. If an agent is able to articulate that the interview or investigation must be conducted by him or her and is authorized to travel, in most cases, the agent is flying out on a commercial flight and in the economy section. There are important exceptions. The FBI does own and lease planes for immediate deployment to respond to crisis events all over the world. #6 FBI can actively conduct investigations all over the world. If an FBI agent wants to interview a witness or subject in a foreign country, he or she must first submit an official request through the Department of Justice to obtain host country clearance. In many situations, the agent is not authorized to conduct the interview. Instead, with assistance from the FBI's foreign-based Legal Attachés, a list of questions is provided to the foreign country’s law enforcement officials who then conduct the interview and report back to the FBI. The exception is when the crimes or attacks against Americans fall under Extraterritorial Jurisdiction. In the mid-1980s, Congress passed laws authorizing the FBI to investigate hostage-taking and kidnappings of Americans and terrorist acts against U.S. citizens or national interests overseas. Agents assigned overseas investigations still work with that foreign nation’s law enforcement and security personnel, in concert with the U.S. Embassy and the Ambassador. However, FBI jurisdiction doesn’t extend to non-terrorism related homicides, robberies, rapes, and muggings of Americans—these are usually handled by local authorities. In these instances, the FBI can offer investigative or forensics assistance if asked and if appropriate. #7 An FBI forensic examiner does it all, even makes arrests. A forensic examiner is not a one-stop shop. Unlike on TV, each examiner at the FBI Laboratory has a specialty, whether it be DNA, hair and fibers, fingerprints or blood splatter analysis. Another thing that TV shows and books get wrong is chain of custody and evidence preservation. It’s not enough to pick up an item at a crime scene and drop it into a baggie or tissue pulled from the agent's pants pocket. Requirements are stringent. Evidence must be preserved and sealed in special evidence bags and the handling and custody of the evidence documented. If the chain is broken, the evidence may not be acceptable to be entered as evidence in court. The most frequently recognized misconception is that DNA and other forensic evidence is always present and can be analyzed quickly. This unrealistic expectation based on TV shows is known as the “CSI effect” and has seriously impacted what jurors expect during trials. #8 Being an FBI bomb tech is a dangerous job. What most people know about bomb techs is from movies like the Hurt Locker. In real life, hand entry, where a tech actually places his hands on an unexploded IED or suspicious package, is no longer or rarely done. Back in the old days before robots and bomb suits, a bomb tech lacked proper safety equipment and being a bomb tech was a dangerous job. Nowadays, a bomb tech’s primary role is to respond to calls about suspicious packages, and remote equipment is used examine and render safe possible explosive devices. Bomb techs also process post-blast bombing crime scenes. #9 FBI agents investigate murders. Yes, but only under special circumstances. Usually, if the FBI is investigating a murder case, there is another crime, a federal violation also in play. Such as a hate crime, where the homicide violated the victim's constitutional and civil rights, or when a teller or security guard is murdered during the robbery of a federally insured bank, or the victim is killed during a kidnapping where the victim was taken across state lines. The FBI authorization to investigate a murder is most clear under the following circumstances; when the homicide occurs on federal property or an Indian reservation, and under Special Maritime or Territorial Jurisdiction, when the murder occurs onboard a U.S. Navy or U.S. Merchant Marine ship in international waters or on U.S. military bases worldwide. During state and local murder investigations, an “Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution” or UFAP warrant can be issued, and the Bureau can enter the case. Technically, however, the investigation of the actual murder is not the Bureau’s task, just the apprehension of the interstate fugitive suspect and the murder suspect once located and arrested is tried in state court. #10 Bad guys are plotting to enact revenge against the FBI agents who put them behind bars. A frequent storyline for books, TV shows, and movies is where the bad guy sets up elaborate crimes and plays mind games to get back at or lure in the agent who was responsible for him spending years in jail. Now, this is something the FBI is very cautious about. An agent will receive a transfer if there is any expressed threat to him/her or their loved ones. This scenario is a great cliché for thrillers and works for well for the genre. However, in most cases, it's the opposite. Based on the respect and courtesy shown to them during the investigation, bad guys often call agents from jail and after they've served their time just to keep in touch. The following are links to newspaper articles about the ways the Bureau works with writers to get it things right about the FBI in books, TV, and movies: FBI Website: How can screenwriters, authors, and producers seeking authenticity work with the FBI? BuzzFeed News 10/9/2017: Inside The FBI's Half-Secret Relationship With Hollywood Business Insider 8/22/2016: 11 things Hollywood gets wrong about being an FBI agent — and one thing it gets right

Wekk Main – Ep 64 – 2017 Books, TV, Movies, & Games

Podcast – Wekk Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2017

Katy, Kellie, Mandy, and Kevin review the top 6 things they are excited for in 2017. We each picked a topic and none of us (except for Kellie) stuck with our original six. Enjoy! See a second post with the codex and links for everything we mentioned in this podcast (especially the 18 million books… Continue reading Wekk Main – Ep 64 – 2017 Books, TV, Movies, & Games

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Episode 050: The FBI in Books, TV and Movies - 10 Clichés and Misconceptions

FBI Retired Case File Review

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2017 56:45

I’m excited to be celebrating my 50th episode of FBI Retired Case File Review this week, along with the success of my crime novel Pay To Play. While producing and hosting my true crime – crime fiction podcast over the last year, I’ve conducted interviews with my retired FBI agent colleagues about the high-profiled cases they worked while on the job. And during almost every interview one of us comments about some aspect of the case or an investigative method that had been portrayed in books, TV and movies as a cliché or inaccurately. I noted at least ten (10) misconceptions about the FBI that were repeatedly discussed. Just as some attorneys don’t read or watch legal dramas and some doctors avoid medical shows and novels, for this special episode I’m joined by retired agent Bobby Chacon, a technical advisor for the TV show Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders for a lively discussion about why some FBI agents might not be reading that bestselling book series or watching that popular show depicting the FBI. Most people will never meet a FBI agent. The only connections they have with the FBI are the ones they make through books, TV, and movies, along with, of course the news. So, what if those portrayals are clichés or aren’t accurate? Does it really matter?

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Episode 34: Happy Brithday, Kiristy Swanson (Books/TV/Movie Adaptations)

Unabashedly Obsessed

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2017

Episode 34: Happy Brithday, Kiristy Swanson (Books/TV/Movie Adaptations) Hey, everyone! Happy 2017! You know what’s great? When they take your favorite book/TV show/movie and turn it into a really good book/TV show/movie. You know what’s not great? When they turn it into a bad one. Today we talk about the good, the bad, and the … Continue reading Episode 34: Happy Brithday, Kiristy Swanson (Books/TV/Movie Adaptations)

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Episode 34: Happy Brithday, Kiristy Swanson (Books/TV/Movie Adaptations)

Unabashedly Obsessed

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2017

Episode 34: Happy Brithday, Kiristy Swanson (Books/TV/Movie Adaptations) Hey, everyone! Happy 2017! You know what’s great? When they take your favorite book/TV show/movie and turn it into a really good book/TV show/movie. You know what’s not great? When they turn it into a bad one. Today we talk about the good, the bad, and the … Continue reading Episode 34: Happy Brithday, Kiristy Swanson (Books/TV/Movie Adaptations)

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911: Star Wars Books, TV, and More: The Year in Review

Star Wars 7x7 | Star Wars News, Interviews, and More!

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2016 13:38

For our final episode of the year, we're looking back at the year that was for the expanded Star Wars canon, including TV, books, and comics. Punch it! ***We’re listener supported! Go to http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to donate to the Star Wars 7x7 podcast, and you’ll get some fabulous rewards for your pledge.*** Check out SW7x7.com for full Star Wars 7x7 show notes and links, and to comment on any of the content of this episode! If you like what you've heard, please leave us a rating or review on iTunes or Stitcher, which will also help more people discover this Star Wars podcast. Don't forget to join the Star Wars 7x7 fun on Facebook at Facebook.com/SW7x7, and follow the breaking news Twitter feed at Twitter.com/SW7x7Podcast. We're also on Pinterest and Instagram as "SW7x7" too, and we'd love to connect with you there!

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TLS #147: May Favorites – New Favorite Shoes, Books, TV Shows & French Trends

The Lively Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2016 20:27

Today’s May Favorites episode includes the fiction book that I can’t stop listening to, the TV show that inspires me every time I watch, and some items I’ve picked on my travels. In addition, I’m also sharing the popular fashion trends that I’ve noticed from women in France, Portugal, and London. This episode is perfect […] The post TLS #147: May Favorites – New Favorite Shoes, Books, TV Shows & French Trends appeared first on Jess Lively.

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Writing Thriller Books, TV, and Film with Drew Chapman

Creative Writing Career

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2016 34:49

Drew Chapman is published through Simon & Schuster, wrote on Disney's Pocahontas, Legends on TV, and has a new novel titled

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PodQuest 74 – Comic Books, TV, and Attack on Titan Part 2

PodQuest

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2015

This week on PodQuest it's just Chris and Walnut so we talk about comic books and TV for the majority of the episode. Walnut also went to see part 2 of Attack on Titan live action. Of course we still round everything out with some of the more interesting news from the week. The post PodQuest 74 – Comic Books, TV, and Attack on Titan Part 2 first appeared on One-Quest.com.

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PodQuest 74 – Comic Books, TV, and Attack on Titan Part 2

PodQuest

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2015

This week on PodQuest it's just Chris and Walnut so we talk about comic books and TV for the majority of the episode. Walnut also went to see part 2 of Attack on Titan live action. Of course we still round everything out with some of the more interesting news from the week.

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PodQuest 74 - Comic Books, TV, and Attack on Titan Part 2

One-Quest

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2015 122:14

This week on PodQuest it's just Chris and Walnut so we talk about comic books and TV for the majority of the episode. Walnut also went to see part 2 of Attack on Titan live action. Of course we still round everything out with some of the more interesting news from the week.

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04/14/2011 Thursday 5:00-5:30 PM EST

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2011 30:06

Join us as we incoherently ramble about things as they pass through our feeble minds. We are going to give something new a try. There is SO much in the current state of our world that is negative that very little positive is recognized. We have decided to try our best to bring our listeners positive stories, heroic efforts, news of good deeds, etc. in an attempt to shed some light on the positive things going on around us. No need to worry. We will still attempt to be funny and nothing will stop us from our Incoherent Ramblings!

04/14/2011 Thursday 5:00-5:30 PM EST

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2011 30:06

Join us as we incoherently ramble about things as they pass through our feeble minds. We are going to give something new a try. There is SO much in the current state of our world that is negative that very little positive is recognized. We have decided to try our best to bring our listeners positive stories, heroic efforts, news of good deeds, etc. in an attempt to shed some light on the positive things going on around us. No need to worry. We will still attempt to be funny and nothing will stop us from our Incoherent Ramblings!

3/17/2011 Thursday 5:30-6:00 PM EST

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2011 28:45

Join us as we incoherently ramble about things as they pass through our feeble minds. We are going to give something new a try. There is SO much in the current state of our world that is negative that very little positive is recognized. We have decided to try our best to bring our listeners positive stories, heroic efforts, news of good deeds, etc. in an attempt to shed some light on the positive things going on around us. No need to worry. We will still attempt to be funny and nothing will stop us from our Incoherent Ramblings!

3/17/2011 Thursday 5:30-6:00 PM EST

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2011 28:45

Join us as we incoherently ramble about things as they pass through our feeble minds. We are going to give something new a try. There is SO much in the current state of our world that is negative that very little positive is recognized. We have decided to try our best to bring our listeners positive stories, heroic efforts, news of good deeds, etc. in an attempt to shed some light on the positive things going on around us. No need to worry. We will still attempt to be funny and nothing will stop us from our Incoherent Ramblings!