Podcasts about Braddock

America's first Carnegie library is nearing the end of a $21 million renovation, and we got to neb nose all over the 45,000-square-foot space. Hear all about the history of the Braddock Carnegie Library, plus what they've got in store for their own opening day in May. Plus, we're catching you up on big stories from the week: for the first time in a century, city voters won't have any choices on their primary ballots for City Council; the trial began to determine who's responsible for paying settlement money after the 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio; Nippon Steel has upped its offer to buy U.S. Steel, while an activist investor tries to oust the U.S. Steel board and CEO; local health and safety NIOSH workers have been hit by federal layoffs; Steelers legend Cam Heyward laughs off an offer to hang out with QB Aaron Rodgers; Homer City is turning an old coal plant into a natural gas-powered facility to help feed the local power grid; and with the return of street-sweeping season comes new AI tools to issue tickets to anyone who doesn't get their car out of the way. Notes and references from today's show: Braddock Carnegie Library renovations near completion [90.5 WESA] Braddock Carnegie Library capital campaign [BCLA] Check out the “Free for All: The Public Library" screening in Cranberry. [CPL] Test your knowledge of Pittsburgh history and current events. [Hey Pittsburgh] Judge boots off ballot 2 Dems running for Kail-Smith's Pittsburgh council seat [TribLive] Make Your Voice Heard! 2025 Funding Crisis [Pittsburgh Regional Transit] ACT NOW: Stop Catastrophic Service Cuts [Pittsburghers for Public Transit] Nippon, US Steel offer increased investment to Trump officials to close deal [Semafor] President Biden Blocks US Steel Sale to Nippon Steel. What Does This Mean for Pittsburgh? [Hey Pittsburgh] Trial will determine who pays settlement money for Norfolk Southern train derailment [AP] How the Train Derailment Changed East Palestine [City Cast Pittsburgh] The Curious Case of Aaron Rodgers [The Ringer] Cam Heyward on Aaron Rodgers and a darkness retreat [Instagram] Federal HHS layoffs hit NIOSH mine-safety research facility near Pittsburgh [90.5 WESA] Homer City site: Large gas-fired power plant to support data center [TribLive] Three Mile Island Returns, Primanti's Gets Political & How PA Unbanned Pittsburgh Rodeos [City Cast Pittsburgh] Street sweeping resumes in Pittsburgh using cameras, AI to issue parking tickets [KDKA] Learn more about the sponsor of this April 4th episode: History UnErased Become a member of City Cast Pittsburgh at membership.citycast.fm. Want more Pittsburgh news? Sign up for our daily morning Hey Pittsburgh newsletter. We're also on Instagram @CityCastPgh! Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Everyone knows John Fetterman here in Western PA — he was the Democratic mayor of nearby Braddock, rose to lieutenant governor under Tom Wolf, and now he's the commonwealth's senior U.S. Senator — in part, because he rode a progressive blue wave. But these days, the Harvard-educated AmeriCorps alum is increasingly aligned with MAGA Republicans. Ahead of a ticketed event in Pittsburgh this weekend, we're teaming up with City Cast Philly's Matt Katz and Philadelphia Inquirer political reporter Julia Terruso to talk about Fetterman's evolving priorities and what they could mean for us here in Pennsylvania. Fetterman's event will be co-hosted by fellow U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) to promote McCormick's new book about mentorship, “Who Believed in You.” The location is still TBD, possibly because some groups in Pittsburgh are planning to protest. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Free Store, founded in 2012 by Gisele Barreto Fetterman, who is also on the schedule to attend. Former Congressman Conor Lamb, who lost the Democratic primary against Fetterman in 2022, has been a vocal critic of Fetterman's lately. He's holding his own town hall in State College on Saturday with the Centre County Democratic Committee.  Learn more about the sponsors of this March 27th episode: Pittsburgh Opera History UnErased Become a member of City Cast Pittsburgh at membership.citycast.fm. Want more Pittsburgh news?  Sign up for our daily morning Hey Pittsburgh newsletter. We're on Instagram @CityCastPgh. Text or leave us a voicemail at 412-212-8893. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nancy Sue Braddock, Sue to those who knew her best, was a 36 year old from Nashville, TN. She was the mother of 1 and interested in journalism. In early September of 1980, Sue sent a telegram to her daughter saying she was in a hospital and could not pick her up for their planned trip. Sue did not say which hospital. She was never seen again . . . or was she? Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573587053964 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sign up for our newsletter! Provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law made it easier for churches and schools to install solar panels. How will the Trump administration impact the growth of solar in Pennsylvania? A hazardous waste landfill in Westmoreland County has been a thorn in the side of nearby residents for decades. To fight plastic pollution in the Great Lakes, scientists are calling for a more unified effort in the region. Residents living within a mile of a U.S. Steel plant in Braddock, near Pittsburgh, have until March 17 to opt out of a class action settlement over alleged air pollution. Pennsylvania's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources wants forest owners to help fight spongy moths. Conservationists look for Northern flying squirrels in the Poconos. We're independent and non-profit, and we don't get money from WESA, WPSU or any other radio station. So we must turn to you, our listeners, for support. Take action today so we can continue to keep you informed.  Donate today.  Or send us a check to: The Allegheny Front, 67 Bedford Square, Pittsburgh, 15203.  And thanks! 

GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Braddock, Pennsylvania at the home of John Fetterman, who is hosting David McCormick and Salena Zito... CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 #KEYSTONEREPORT: FETTERMAN MCCORMICK AND THE THREE LEGGED PIT BULL. SALENA ZITO, MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE, @DCEXAMINER PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, NEW YORK POST, SALENAZITO.COM 915-930 #LANCASTER REPORT: Eggs dearly expensive and rationed. JIM MCTAGUE, FORMER WASHINGTON EDITOR, BARRONS. @MCTAGUEJ. AUTHOR OF THE "MARTIN AND TWYLA BOUNDARY SERIES." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety 930-945 1/2: #WATERGATE AND ERIC ADAMS. JOHN YOO, CIVITAS INSTITUTE, UT. 945-1000 2/2: #WATERGATE AND ERIC ADAMS. JOHN YOO, CIVITAS INSTITUTE, UT. SECOND HOUR 10-1015 #PACIFICWATCH: TOXIC WASTE AT MALIBU. #VEGASREPORT: VEGAS A'S PROSPER IN SACRAMENTO. @JCBLISS 1015-1030 CALIFORNIA: KAMALA HARRIS OUTFRONT FOR SACRAMENTO IN '26. BILL WHELEN 1030-1045 SPACEX: MONDAY 3 LAUNCH TEST #8. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM 1045-1100 JUNO: MAGMA LAKES OF IO. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 1/4: The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic by Mark L. Clifford (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Troublemaker-Became-Billionaire-Greatest-Dissident/dp/1668027690 Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of a famine that killed tens of millions. In Hong Kong, he hustled and often slept overnight on a table in a clothing factory where he did odd jobs. At twenty-one, he was running a factory. By his mid-twenties, he owned one and was supplying sweaters and shirts to some of the biggest brands in the United States, from Polo to The Limited. His ideas about retail led him to create Giordano in 1981, and with it "fast fashion." A restless entrepreneur, as Giordano prepared to go public, he was thinking about a dining concept that would disrupt Hong Kong's fast-food industry. But then came Tiananmen Square democracy protest and the massacre of 1989. 1115-1130 2/4: The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic by Mark L. Clifford (Author) 1130-1145 3/4: The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic by Mark L. Clifford (Author) 1145-1200 4/4: The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic by Mark L. Clifford (Author) FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 #RUSSIA-CHINA: REVERSE NIXON, HENRY SOKOLSKI, NPEC 1215-1230 ITALY: CARNIVAL IN VENICE. PRAYER FOR THE POPE. LORENZO FIORI. 1230-1245 1/2: JAPAN: HELPFUL LETTER TO THE US AMBASSADOR. GRANT NEWSHAM 1245-100 AM 2/2: JAPAN: HELPFUL LETTER TO THE US AMBASSADOR. GRANT NEWSHAM 1912 Allentown

(Deep Dive begins at 43:35) "Every underdog has his day." Join your favorite TransAtlantic podcasting crew – Ian and BFF of the BFE from The Scuttlebutt Podcast (Megs, B-Tech Kev & Liam are off training for their next big fight) – as we step into the ring for grit, determination, and Depression-era boxing in Cinderella Man (2005). We're swapping a grimy Edinburgh flat for Madison Square Garden and diving into our 267th episode as we discuss: How Russell Crowe delivers a knockout performance as James J. Braddock. Renée Zellweger's role as the supportive yet strong Mae Braddock – does she get enough credit? Does Paul Giamatti steal the show as the passionate manager, Joe Gould? The realism of the boxing sequences – do they hold up in 2024? Is it fair to call this film a boxing film or is it something else? Who is the biggest villain of the movie: the Great Depression, Promoter James Johnston, Max Baer, or the system keeping Braddock down? Could this be Ron Howard's most underrated film? We talk about hockey's Four Nations tournament and why sports make the best narratives.  Whether Cinderella Man is the Best Film Ever. Catch so much more of Hermes Auslander on The Scuttlebutt Podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-scuttlebutt-podcast/id1503504933 (Apple) or https://open.spotify.com/show/2n9CNB9X6QXnmvn78HBEoJ?si=1bf26c4a13cd4234 (Spotify) Become a Patron of this podcast and support the BFE at https://www.patreon.com/BFE. We are extremely thankful to our following Patrons for their most generous support: Juleen from It Goes Down In The PM Hermes Auslander James DeGuzman Synthia Shai Bergerfroind Andy Dickson Chris Pedersen Duane Smith (Duane Smith!) Randal Silva Nate The Great Rev Bruce Cheezy (with a fish on a bike) Richard Ryan Kuketz Dirk Diggler Stew from the Stew World Order podcast NorfolkDomus John Humphrey's Right Foot Timmy Tim Tim Aashrey Ariannah Who Loves BFE The Most Buy some BFE merch at https://my-store-b4e4d4.creator-spring.com/. Massive thanks to Lex Van Den Berghe for the use of Mistake by Luckydog. Catch more from Lex's new band, The Maids of Honor, at https://soundcloud.com/themaidsofhonor. Also, massive thanks to Moonlight Social for our age game theme song. You can catch more from them at https://www.moonlightsocialmusic.com/.

"Do you know someone who is stuck in the past? We can get so locked into our past that we are absent in our present and have no vision for our future." --Pastor Mike Braddock +++++++ Join us for church this Sunday. For service times and meeting location please visit https://transformtlh.com/

Daniel Boone Indian Scout 1948-08-16 General Braddock Meets Boone

In this episode with Dr Sharon Chan-Braddock, we dive deep into corticosteroid injections. We discuss: How corticosteroid injections workHow long corticosteroid injections lastHow has has the use of corticosteroid injections changed over timeUse of local anesthetics with corticosteriod useWhen we should be using corticosteroid injectionsRepeated corticosteroid injectionsDr Sharon Chan-Braddock is a highly experienced Musculoskeletal Medicine clinical academic and Advanced Practice physiotherapist, with many years of diverse experience of MSK across clinical, academic, education and quality agenda areas regionally and nationally. In 2024, Sharon became the first physiotherapist in the UK, and internationally, to gain dual SOMM Fellowship and MACP Membership, which is a recognition of meeting consultant level of practice and International MSK standards of practice set by IFOMPT.If you like the podcast, it would mean the world if you're happy to leave us a rating or a review. It really helps!Our host is @James_Armstrong_Physio

Josh Darrow talks all things Miami with legendary Canes fan Holmes Braddock, who like the University of Miami celebrates his 100th birthday this year. Holmes discusses how he arrived at UM after World War II, his time managing the student union and recruiting students, his memories of Mark Light Field and the Orange Bowl, his favorite Canes players and coaches, his role in desegregating Miami-Dade schools, and his lucky jacket that has witnessed all five of UM's football national championships.

The tables are turned and Matt Bowles is interviewed about purposeful travel, social justice & his digital nomad life. _____________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show's Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ In this special episode, The Maverick Show host Matt Bowles is interviewed by Brittany Braddock in an episode that originally aired on the Manifest Travel podcast. Matt starts off explaining how he co-founded Maverick Investor Group as a fully remote real estate brokerage and later became a digital nomad. He reflects on his travel intentions, the synergy between travel and human rights, and how he builds community as he travels. Matt also talks about the art of podcasting and how he has refined the craft of interviewing. He then explains how his company, Maverick Investor Group, empowers you to buy “turnkey” rental properties in the best U.S. markets from anywhere. Matt reflects on building the company with a location-independent infrastructure and running it remotely for over 17 years. He then gives tips on creating immersive local travel experiences. Matt also emphasizes the importance of learning about the places we travel, and gives some tips on how we can all be more conscious travelers. Finally, he reflects on ways to create stability, productivity and harmony in the digital nomad life. FULL SHOW NOTES WITH DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED ARE AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that's not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn  See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally.  You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Join us for a compelling conversation with Mayor Delia Lennon-Winstead of Braddock and Mayor Cletus Lee of North Braddock as they share their perspectives on the proposed merger between U. S. Steel and Nippon Steel. These passionate community leaders discuss the importance of U. S. Steel as the backbone of the Mon Valley, the economic and environmental benefits of the merger, and their vision for a thriving future. With heartfelt stories and strong arguments, they shine a light on the stakes for their towns and the broader region.

From Hyde Park on Hudson to Deadpool and Wolverine ... from the corridors around Studio 60 to the streets of Braddock, Pennsylvania ... we bid farewell to 2024 with one last look back at some of the most (and least) memorable things we discussed this year. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/585-fifth-annual-118912478

In this episode we sat down with the creator of 8103 and the 904 Pop Up, Mark Braddock, at his store for an incredible conversation. We discussed everything from working with major celebrities like Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller to creating one of the biggest community events in Jacksonville, FL. We also talked about all the trials and tribulations he faced while creating his brand, 8103 Clothing. Tons of free game and motivation in this one that you don't want to miss. Follow 8103 and the 904 Pop Up on social media @8103clothing & @904popup

Join Pastor Mike as he unpacks the profound meaning of baptism in "Made New For More." Discover why baptism isn't just a ritual, but a powerful declaration of faith and transformation. Through biblical examples and personal stories, learn how baptism represents death to our old life and resurrection to new life in Christ. Whether you're curious about baptism or seeking to understand its significance deeper, this message reveals how we're made new in Christ's example, name, and for His fame. +++++++ Join us for church this Sunday. For service times and meeting location please visit https://transformtlh.com/

For over 50 years, documentary filmmaker Tony Buba has chronicled the decline - but also the people, places, and everyday poetry - of his hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Recently we watched his best-known film, LIGHTNING OVER BRADDOCK: A RUSTBOWL FANTASY (1988), and fell in love with it. Today, we're pleased to welcome Buba on the show to discuss the full scope of his career, including such films as SWEET SAL (1979), BETTY'S CORNER CAFE (1976), J. ROY: NEW AND USED FURNITURE (1974), and more. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/115813173 Our episode on LIGHTNING OVER BRADDOCK - https://soundcloud.com/michael-and-us/549-end-of-the-iron-cafe We recommend this comprehensive Blu-Ray collection of Tony Buba's work - https://kinolorber.com/product/lightning-over-braddock-and-collected-shorts-the-films-of-tony-buba-blu-ray Watch SWEET SAL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiuT9Zei81c Watch J. ROY: NEW AND USED FURNITURE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wef3Zqq9qTw&t=208s&ab_channel=AlphaRomero Watch THE BARBER OF NEW KENSINGTON - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyLyJ2f9278&t=2s&ab_channel=braddockfilms Learn more about Tony Buba - https://braddockfilms.com/

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future. Novelist and comic book writer Alex Segura joins our host for a romp where the original five X-Men from the past time travel to the present from the past and the future X-Men from the future are also in the present and they want the past X-Men to go back to the past. Confused yet? Well strap in friend do we take you for a ride this week as we study X-Men 12 (from September, 2013). Also in this episode: what if it's a fireman calendar but it's just Magneto for each month Cyclops always puts Magik on his teams because he HATES getting his jets shot out of the sky and it happens ALL THE TIME Eva Bell is NOT an X-Man from the future the Zen koan of Xorn is Magneto is Xorn one of the best twists in comic history Angel exists in this comic but literally everyone forgot he was there What does any of this mean for Alex's marriage? Tune in to find out! Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, which The New York Times called “wittily original” and named an Editor's Choice. NPR described the novel as “masterful,” and it received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. Secret Identity was also listed as one of the Best Mysteries of the Year by NPR, Kirkus, Booklist, the South Florida Sun Sentinel and more, and was nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Hardcover, the Lefty and Barry Awards for Best Novel, the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, and won the LA Times Book Prize in the Mystery/Thriller category. His next novel, the YA Spider-Verse adventure Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow is out now from Disney Books/Marvel Press. Marvel fans will know his voluminous work on Star Wars comics and the wildly acclaimed by me Spider Society series. You can find more of Alex on his Substack or on social media at Instagram, Blue Sky or Threads. More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

This week our feature is Dr. Glenn F. Williams. On Saturday, November 2nd, 2024, Dr. Williams presented a lecture on his new book Dunmore's War at the Braddock's Road Preservation Association Annual Seminar in Ligonier, PA. He is introduced in this clip by BRPA Vice President Dr. David Preston. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

We look at how some leaders in the battleground state of Pennsylvania are fighting for the approval of a deal for a Japanese company to purchase US Steel Corporation. That's despite strong opposition from the unions and both presidential candidates.(Picture: Edgar Thompson Plant in Braddock, PA. Credit: Getty Images/Washington Post)Presented and produced by Monica Miller

Tonight we're chatting with director Jim Towns. Towns is a Pittsburgh-born / LA-based writer, filmmaker and artist. His feature films include Prometheus Triumphant, STIFF, House of Bad, End Times, Killer Ex and the upcoming The Possession of Anne (on streaming Nov. 2nd). His books include Bloodsucker City, Whiskey Stories and Braddock's Falls; he's currently in post on his black and white arthouse feature drama Mandromeda, and is about to shoot his next film, The Stickfighter.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.

Resetting the Coordinates is the first anthology/reader of performance art of Aotearoa New Zealand. It invites the reader into its lively, 50-year critical survey of Aotearoa's globally unique performance art scene. It includes 18 chapters by researchers that explore the post-object and performance art of the late 1960s to the rich vein of Māori and Pacific performance art from the early 1990s. It discusses the work of Jim Allen, Phil Dadson, Peter Roche and Linda Buis, performance art initiatives in post-earthquake Christchurch and queer performance art, among many other topics. Beth caught up with Professor of Visual Art at the Auckland University of Technology, Dr Christopher Braddock, about Resetting the Coordinates.

Dan and Jay are joined by Jeremy Braddock for what is almost an accidental episode of Comedy on Vinyl! Jeremy's new book on The Firesign...

Rhydon welcome's his fellow Insight Partners' colleague, Sam Braddock to the show as they discuss how Sam found his way to North Carolina all the way from California. The two discuss the day to day life of an Account Executive in the Commercial realm of HVAC and the changing technologies of modern equipment. Sam also discusses how he has developed and grown as a sales professional over the years and how he approaches building positive relationships with his customers.   #HVAC #HVACR #COMMERCIAL #INSIGHTPARTNERS #INSIGHTEQUIPMENT #INSIGHTPARTS #AAON #BOSCH #MANUFACTURERSREP #PARTS #EQUIPMENT #BUSINESS #PERSONALGROWTH #SALES

GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Pennsylvania with Salena Zito commenting on the maverick and compelling Senator John Fetterman of Braddock, PA. 1912 Breaker Boys Pennsylvania CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 #KeystoneReport: John Fetterman just didn't care to go to Chicago. Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.com 915-930 #PacificWatch: #VegasReport: The Sphere brings in $1 million a day. @JCBliss 930-945 #SmallBusinessAmerica: The Fed and small business. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer 945-1000 #SmallBusinessAmerica: Boomers sell to Millennials. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer SECOND HOUR 10-1015 #CALIFORNIA: Gavin Newsom left off the stage at Chicago, why? Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution 1015-1030 #KURSK: Another nuclear power plant in a war zone. Henry Sokolski, NPEC 1030-1045 #SCOTUS: On "price-gouging" home mortgage "subsidizing" and other micromanagement tools. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution 1045-1100 #SCOTUS: Both parties and candidates fail on entitlements. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 5/8: The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War by James Shapiro (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Playbook-Theater-Democracy-Making-Culture-ebook/dp/B0CGTQFQ8H From 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or nearly one in four) Americans, two-thirds of whom had never seen a play before. At its helm was an unassuming theater professor, Hallie Flanagan. It employed, at its peak, over twelve thousand struggling artists, some of whom, like Orson Welles and Arthur Miller, would soon be famous, but most of whom were just ordinary people eager to work again at their craft. It was the product of a moment when the arts, no less than industry and agriculture, were thought to be vital to the health of the republic, bringing Shakespeare to the public, alongside modern plays that confronted the pressing issues of the day—from slum housing and public health to racism and the rising threat of fascism. The Playbook takes us through some of its most remarkable productions, including a groundbreaking Black production of Macbeth in Harlem and an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's anti-fascist novel It Can't Happen Here that opened simultaneously in 18 cities, underscoring the Federal Theatre's incredible range and vitality. But this once thriving Works Progress Administration relief program did not survive and has left little trace. For the Federal Theatre was the first New Deal project to be attacked and ended on the grounds that it promoted "un-American" activity, sowing the seeds not only for the McCarthyism of the 1950s but also for our own era of merciless polarization. It was targeted by the first House Un-American Activities Committee, and its demise was a turning point in American cultural life—for, as Shapiro brilliantly argues, "the health of democracy and theater, twin born in ancient Greece, have always been mutually dependent." A defining legacy of this culture war was how the strategies used to undermine and ultimately destroy the Federal Theatre were assembled by a charismatic and cunning congressman from East Texas, the now largely forgotten Martin Dies, who in doing so pioneered the right-wing political playbook now so prevalent that it seems eternal. 1115-1130 6/8: The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War Kindle Edition by James Shapiro (Author) 1130-1145 7/8: The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War Kindle Edition by James Shapiro (Author) 1145-1200 8/8: The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War Kindle Edition by James Shapiro (Author) FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 LANCASTER REPORT: zDiscounts: Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety 1215-1230 #ITALY: Overtourism. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation 1230-1245 #NASA: Starliner's fate. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com 1245-100 am MOON: China strikes water. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

Season 2: Episode 4 Dr. Freda Barnett-Braddock on Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), Respect, and Mentors
 Summary: Dr. Freda Barnett-Braddock discusses the importance of social and emotional learning (SEL) in education. She shares her personal background and how her family inspired her to pursue a career in education. Dr. B. explains that SEL helps students develop skills to handle emotions, build positive relationships, take responsibility for their decisions, and face challenges. She emphasizes that SEL is not only important for students but for the entire school culture, including teachers, staff, and administrators. 
 Dr. B. also highlights the benefits of SEL, such as improved academic performance, better emotional regulation, enhanced social skills, and the creation of a positive school climate. In this conversation, she discusses the importance of empathy, social and emotional learning, and mentorship in education. Dr. B. shares her own experiences of being mentored by Shantell Cooley, the impact it had on her life, and about her role as the founding dean of the College of Education at Columbia Southern University. The conversation concludes with a message of gratitude and encouragement for teachers and educators.
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social and emotional learning, education, students, teachers, school culture, emotional well-being, relationships, responsibility, challenges, academic performance, emotional regulation, social skills, positive school climate, empathy, social and emotional learning, mentorship, education, kindness, understanding, challenges, Shantell Cooley, College of Education, Columbia Southern University, programs, success, gratitude, encouragement 
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Tony Buba chronicled the decline of his hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania in a series of acclaimed documentaries that elevated him to national notoriety. But in the extraordinary documentary/fiction hybrid LIGHTNING OVER BRADDOCK: A RUST BOWL FANTASY (1988), he asks what it means when his success is tied to so many people's poverty.Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tony Buba chronicled the decline of his hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania in a series of acclaimed documentaries that elevated him to national notoriety. But in the extraordinary documentary/fiction hybrid LIGHTNING OVER BRADDOCK: A RUST BOWL FANTASY (1988), he asks what it means when his success is tied to so many people's poverty. Tony Buba's films are hard to find on streaming, so why not just get this Blu-Ray? You'll be glad you did - https://kinolorber.com/product/lightning-over-braddock-and-collected-shorts-the-films-of-tony-buba-blu-ray Elon Musk's Eldon Ring tweet - https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1528955104463814656

"I say all of my work comes from pain. I think it's really important to figure out the things that hurt and then work towards making it hurt less for the next person." - Gisele FettermanGiselle Fetterman is a Brazilian born activist, philanthropist, and non profit executive. When her husband, John Fetterman, was a mayor and then lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania, she was the first lady of Braddock and the second lady of the Commonwealth. Her husband is now a U. S. senator. Giselle has helped found several nonprofit organizations that focus on the needs of lower income families. She's also an advocate for diversity and inclusion, pushing Congress to take a more humane and compassionate approach to immigration. Giselle is kind and courageous, she is empathetic and effective, and she is passionate and persuasive.In this conversation we talk about Gisele's childhood journey from Rio de Janeiro to America, what brings her joy, her experience of becoming a firefighter at age 40, and her commitment to helping others through her work. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shannonwatts.substack.com/subscribe

Former president Donald Trump held a rally in Harrisburg and people in attendance say they're concerned about immigration. Extreme heat that took a toll on some people at the rally is expected to continue through  tomorrow. The union representing nearly 2,500 technical service employees at Penn State has a new four-year contract. Nearly 70 people are alleging they were sexually abused as children while housed in detention centers in Pennsylvania -- including facilities in Perry, Adams and Northumberland counties. Pennsylvania's junior U.S. Senator is recovering from COVID-19. John Fetterman says he was at his home in Braddock, recovering and missed the day's votes in the Senate. Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After the French refused the young George Washington's request that they leave the Ohio Country, Washington took a greater force and tried again. It did not go well. The next year, the British sent a still larger force under General Edward Braddock to expel the French by force. Did Braddock succeed? Listen, and Jacob and James will let you know!

Do we actually live like the Biblical representation we claim? This is week 7 of our series Summer on the Mount. +++++++ Find more information at our website: https://transformtlh.com/

In the second episode of Series 1, Kurt delves into the 2015 pressure cooker, The Invitation. Part awkward dinner party, part reverse home invasion, part cultish terror, The Invitation challenges us to consider the psychology of grief and how to remain polite... even if we suspect our hosts want us dead.In this episode, I am joined by Mary Wild, who is kind enough to come back after Episode 100, in which she helps review all the films I cover in this first series. I am also joined by my brother Eric Braddock, who is just as big a horror fan as I am.Mary Wild is the creator of the Projections lecture series, applying psychoanalysis to film interpretation. She contributes to the Evolution of Horror podcast and posts exclusive content at patreon.com/marywild. You can also find her as @psycstar on Twitter and Instagram.Eric Braddock (@ericbraddock) is a Senior Artist at Notorious Studios. He is also my brother. We spent many years in our family home watching scary movies and pretending not to be scared by Pennywise or Zelda from Pet Sematary. He is also the only one that can match my skill in Mega Man 2.

Many Democrats saw John Fetterman as a progressive beacon: a Rust Belt Bernie Sanders who—with his shaved head, his hoodie, and the Zip Code of Braddock, Pennsylvania—could rally working-class white voters to the Democratic Party. But at least on one issue, Fetterman is veering away from the left of his party, and even from centrists like Majority Leader Chuck Schumer: Israel's war in Gaza. Fetterman has taken a line that is not just sympathetic to Israel after the October 7th attack by Hamas; he seems to justify the civilian death toll Israel has inflicted on Gaza. “When you have that kind of an evil, or that kind of a movement that came out of a society,” he told Benjamin Wallace-Wells, “whether it was Nazi Germany or imperial Japan or the Confederacy here in the South, that kind of movement has to be destroyed. . . . that's why Atlanta had to burn.” Wallace-Wells shares excerpts from his interviews with Fetterman in a conversation with David Remnick, and they discuss how Fetterman's support for Israel is driving a wedge among Pennsylvania voters, who will be critical to the outcome of the Presidential election.

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Many Democrats saw John Fetterman as a progressive beacon: a Rust Belt Bernie Sanders who – with his shaved head, his hoodie, and the zip code of Braddock, Pennsylvania – could rally working-class white voters to the Democratic Party. But at least on one issue, Fetterman is veering away from the left of his party, and even from centrists like Majority Leader Chuck Schumer: Israel's war in Gaza. Fetterman has taken a line that is not just sympathetic to Israel after the October 7th attack by Hamas; he seems to justify the civilian death toll Israel has inflicted on Gaza.  “When you have that kind of an evil, or that kind of a movement that came out of a society,” he told Benjamin Wallace-Wells, “whether it was Nazi Germany or imperial Japan or the Confederacy here in the South, that kind of movement has to be destroyed. . . . that's why Atlanta had to burn.” Wallace-Wells shares excerpts from his interviews with Fetterman in a conversation with David Remnick, and they discuss how Fetterman's support for Israel is driving a wedge among Pennsylvania voters, who will be critical to the outcome of the Presidential election. John Fetterman's War was published in the June 24, 2024, issue.

228 - The Golden Bat or Ogon batto Movie Discussion with Brad Braddock Steven is joined by author Brad Braddock to discuss 1966's The Golden Bat! Brad has written numerous books including "House of Ygor", and "Memoirs of Murder: A Prequel to the 1932 Classic White Zombie". Please go to Amazon.com to purchase his books! Please send feedback to DieCastMoviePodcast@gmail.com or leave us a message on our Facebook page. Thanks for listening!

Opening this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art is the first wholistic survey of artist and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier, who was just named as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2024. Frazier was born in the industrial down of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and travels to working class communities around the country using her art as a form of social documentary, from Flint, to Pittsburgh, to Baltimore. LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity is on view at MoMA from May 12 to September 7, and Frazier joins us to preview her exhibition.

Watchers        Zany lies amid clutter on the floor beneath the dining room windows hugging her bandaged arm. She huffs loudly enough to reach the front porch where Mom and Aunt Vi imbibe scotch. Vi still isn't used to afternoon drinking. They can't hear Zany over the Krebbs' crying baby on the other side of the duplex wall. Stupid baby. Plus Zany's little sister overhead dancing to the transistor radio, rattling the light fixture dangling from the ceiling.        The fingertips on Zany's bandaged arm are cold and maybe even blue. This is slightly alarming. She considers running to Mom but knows better. Take the damn thing off then, Mom will say.        There's nothing wrong with Zany's arm, but that isn't the point. At breakfast, without preamble, she wound an Ace bandage from her palm to her armpit. The family no longer asks what she's up to. Last week during Ed Sullivan she sat at her TV tray dripping candle wax over her fist. Aunt Vi blinked with every splat, but Mom only said: “If you get that on my rug I'll take you across my knee. I don't care how old you are.” Zany is thirteen.        Week before, Zany taped a string of two-inch penny nails around her throat at the kitchen table where Dad rewired one of Mom's salvaged lamps. “Why don't you do that in your room?”  Dad didn't like sharing his workspace. Zany shrugged and the nail tips jabbed her collarbones.  She could have done it in her room, but doing the thing wasn't the point. It was having someone watch that mattered. If no one watched, who would believe she could endure that much discomfort?        Nobody is watching now, so Zany grips a dining table leg and pulls it toward her, or tries to. It's hard to budge through Mom's junk piles, plus the weight of the extra leaf Dad inserted when Aunt Vi and Cousin Lester moved in after their apartment collapsed. Aunt Vi brought cans of flowery air freshener to hide the hoard smell—rotten food and cat piss. They don't own a cat.  Lester, sixteen, bought a box of rubble-rescued books.        “You better be setting the table!” Mom calls through the screen.        Zany hates Mom's manly haircut and has said so. “It's Gig's turn!”        Overhead, Gig stomps the floor in the bedroom they now share. Aunt Vi got Zany's attic where Mom's hoard had been disallowed, but it's begun trickling up. “No, it's not!” Gig's transistor blares louder.        “Zany!” Mom calls. “I swear to God! And close those drapes!”        Mom can't stand looking at the neighbor's wall she could reach across and touch, but Zany craves fresh air, as fresh as Pittsburgh air can be. Plus, she likes counting the yellow bricks Andy Warhol surely counted when this was his childhood home, the dining room his make-shift sickroom when he suffered St. Vitus Dance. Zany is certain his bed would have been right here by the window where he could see a hint of sky if he cricked his neck just right. She lies in his echo and imagines the day she'll appear at his Factory door in New York City and say: “I used to live in your house.” Andy will enfold her in his translucent arms before ushering her inside, not to act in his films or screen print his designs, but to be his equal. Partner, even. Zany just has to determine her own art form. It sure won't be cutting fruit cans into flowers like Warhol's mother did for chump change.        Zany's legs start the herky-jerky Vitus dance as if she's running toward that Factory dream. Her pelvis and hips quake. The one free arm. The back of her head jitters against the floor. It's a familiar thrum even Aunt Vi and Lester are accustomed to now. Mom yells: “Stop that racket!” She mutters to Vi: “We never should have bought this place.”       A kitchen timer dings and Aunt Vi comes in to disarm it. Her cooking is better than Mom's, and Vi wears an apron and dime store lipstick while she does it. Fresh peas instead of canned. Real mashed potatoes instead of instant. Vi is a better housekeeper, too, organizing Mom's trash into four-foot piles that line the walls. Every day Mom trolls back alleys and neighbors' garbage in dingy clothes that make her look like a hobo. That's what the kids say:  Your mom looks like a hobo. She pulls a rickety cart and loads it with moldy linens, rolled-up rugs, dented wastebaskets. Zany wonders if Dad regrets marrying the wrong sister. She knows he regrets not having a son, a boy who could have been Lester if Dad had a different heart. Instead, Dad got Lester on at the blast furnace, because “No one sleeps under my roof for free.” Who needs a high school diploma?        In the kitchen, Aunt Vi lets out one of her sobs. She only does that in private after Mom's third scolding: “He's dead, Vi. Crying won't bring him back.”        Zany misses Uncle Mo, too. His pocketful of peppermints. The trick coin he always plucked from Zany's ear. The last time Zany's family visited, she walked through their decrepit Franklin Arms apartment with its spongy floors and clanking pipes, but no maze of debris to negotiate. No cat piss smell or sister blaring the radio. She found Lester in his room at a child's desk he'd outgrown, doughy boy that he then was, doing homework without being nagged.  Astounding. His room was spartan, plenty of space for a second bed if Zany asked Aunt Vi sweetly enough. But no. Zany couldn't abandon Andy in his Dawson Street sickbed. Lester's only wall decoration was a world map strung with red yarn radiating from Pittsburgh to France, China, the South Pole. She wanted to ask why those destinations, but didn't, entranced as she was by all that fresh-aired openness, plus his feverishly scribbling hand.       Now, Aunt Vi leans in the dining room dabbing her face with a dishtowel. She's aged a decade since moving here and it isn't all due to grief. She targets Zany on the floor. “Everything all right in here?”        Zany has stopped breathing. Her eyes are glazed and her tongue lolls from her mouth.  She's getting better at playing dead.        “All right then.” Aunt Vi is getting better at not reacting. The screen door slams behind her.        Zany pulls in her tongue and inhales. She starts counting bricks again until Aunt Vi calls: “There they are!” as she does every workday.        Zany pictures Dad and Lester padding up Dawson. Wet hair slicked back because they shower off the stench before coming home. Zany appreciates that. Their boots scrape the steps to the porch where Aunt Vi will take their lunchpails. And there she is coming through the door and dashing to rinse their thermoses at the kitchen sink. Mom will stay put and pour Dad a finger of scotch.        Lester bangs inside and pauses in the dining room entryway. He's leaner now on account of the physical labor. Taller too. He eyes Zany's bandaged arm, not with Aunt Vi's alarm, but with the kind of baffled wonder Zany has always been after. Their eyes meet and it's the same look he gave her the day she walked backward all the way to the Eliza Number Two—not  because Dad and Lester worked there, but because it was lunchtime, and a gaggle of men would  be eating beneath that pin oak by the furnace entrance. And there they were, her father among them, not easy to see having to crane her neck as Zany picked her way over the railroad tracks.        “What the hell is she doing?” said Tom Folsom. Zany recognized her neighbor's voice.  “She's off her nut,” said another worker.       Zany twisted fully around to see if her father would defend her, but he was already hustling back to the furnace.        “Something's not right with that girl,” said Folsom.        “Nothing wrong with her,” said Lester from beneath a different tree where he ate his cheese sandwich alone.        Folsom spit in the grass. “Shut up, fairy boy.”        Lester wasn't a fairy boy, Zany knew.        Today, leaning in the dining room, Lester looks as if he can see inside Zany's skull to the conjured Factory room she and Andy will one day share: walls scrubbed clean and painted white.  Her drawings or paintings lining the walls in tidy rows. Maybe sculptures aligned on shelves. Or mobiles overhead spinning in the breeze. Lester nods at her fantasy as if it's a good one. He has his own escapism. Zany knows that too, and she looks away first so her eyes won't let him know that she knows.        Lester heads to the cellar where he spends most of his time. Mom partitioned off the back corner for him with clothesline and a bed sheet. Installed an army cot and gooseneck lamp on a crate. Andy Warhol holed up in the cellar when he was a kid developing film in a jerry-rigged darkroom. Zany constructed one from an oversized cardboard box she wedged into that shadowy space beneath the stairs. She cut a closable door in the box and regularly folds herself inside to catalogue her achievements in a notebook. Stood barefoot on a hot tar patch on Frazier Street for seventy-two seconds. Mr. Braddock called me a dolt, but I said: You're the dolt!        From below, the sound of Lester falling onto his cot followed by a sigh so deep Zany's lungs exhale, too. Whatever dreams he had got buried under apartment rubble along with Uncle Mo.       Outside, Dad has taken Aunt Vi's creaky rocker. “He's a strange one,” he says about Lester. “What's he up to down there?”        Mom says, “Who the hell knows?”        Zany clamps her unbandaged hand over her mouth to keep that knowledge from spilling.  She saw what he was up to the day she was tucked in her box and forgot time until footsteps pounded the stairs above her. She peeked through the peephole she'd punched into her cardboard door as Lester peeled off his shirt, his pants. He left on his boxers and socks. Didn't bother to draw his sheet curtain, just plopped on the cot and lit a cigarette. His smoking still surprised her. The boy he once was was also buried under rubble. Zany regretted not making her presence known, but then it was too late with Lester in his underwear, and all. Plus, she was captivated by his fingers pulling the cigarette to his lips. The little smoke rings he sent up to the floor joists. She wondered if he was dreaming of China or the South Pole, or just sitting quietly at his too-small desk back in his apartment inhaling all that fresh air. Finally, he snubbed out the cigarette in an empty tuna can. Zany hoped he would roll over for sleep, but he slid a much-abused magazine from beneath his pillow and turned pages. Even in the scant light Zany made out the naked lady on the cover. Zany's heart thudded, even more so when Lester's hand slipped beneath his waistband and started moving up and down, up and down. She told her eyes to close but they wouldn't, both entranced and nauseated by what she shouldn't be seeing. She knew what he was up to, having done her own exploring when she had her own room. She'd conjure Andy Warhol's face and mouth and delicate hands—because those rumors weren't true. They just weren't. Harder to explore in the bed she now shared with Gig. Stupid Aunt Vi, and stupid collapsed Franklin Arms.       What Lester was up to looked angry. Violent, even. A jittery burn galloped beneath Zany's skin and she bit her lip, drawing blood. But she couldn't look away from Lester's furious hand, his eyes ogling that magazine until they squeezed shut and his mouth pressed into a grimace that did not look like joy. The magazine collapsed onto his chest and his belly shuddered. Only then did Zany close her eyes as the burn leaked through her skin. When Lester's snores came, she tiptoed upstairs to collapse on Andy's echo. She caught Lester seven more times, if caught is the right word, lying in wait as she was, hoping to see, hoping not to.  “You better be setting the table!” Mom yells now from the porch.        Zany grunts and makes her way to the kitchen where Aunt Vi pulls a roast from the oven.  Zany heaves a stack of plates to the dining room and deals them out like playing cards.  “Don't break my dishes!” Mom calls. I hate your hair, Zany wants to say.  There is a crash, but it's not dishes. It comes from overhead where Gig screams.  Thumping on the stairs as she thunders down, transistor in hand. “Zany!”  Gig rushes into the dining room, ponytail swaying, eyes landing on her sister. “He's been shot!”        Zany's mind hurtles back two months to when Martin Luther King was killed. Riots erupted in Pittsburgh's Black neighborhoods: The Hill District and Homewood and Manchester.  “Who?” Zany says, conjuring possibilities: LBJ, Sidney Portier. But to Zany, it's much worse.        “Andy Warhol!”        Zany counts this as the meanest lie Gig's ever told. “He was not.”        “Yes, he was!” Gig turns up the radio and the announcer confirms it: a crazed woman shot Warhol in his Factory.       Aunt Vi comes at Zany with her arms wide, because she understands loss. “Oh, honey.”  Zany bats her hands away. “It's not true.”        Vi backs into Mom's hoard. “Is he dead?”        Gig says: “They don't know.”        Zany can't stomach the smug look on Gig's face, as if she holds Andy's life or death between her teeth. Zany wants to slap that look off, so she does.        Gig screams.        “What the hell's going on in there?” Mom calls.        “Zany hit me!” Gig says at the very moment Aunt Vi says: “Andy Warhol's been shot!”  “No he wasn't!” Zany says again, wanting to slap them both.        Mom and Dad hustle inside where Gig cups her reddening cheek and bawls louder.  “It's nothing,” Mom says at the sight of her sniveling daughter, but Dad enfolds Gig in his arms. “There, there.”        “Don't coddle that child,” says Mom, and for once Zany agrees.        “Now, Mae.” Dad cups the back of Gig's head and there's a different look on her face.  Triumph, maybe.        Pounding on the shared duplex wall, Evie Krebbs, who never could shush that wailing baby. “Andy Warhol's been shot!” she calls to them. “Did you all hear?”        “We heard,” Mom answers as the baby cries louder, and so does Gig, who won't be upstaged. Mom says: “That's the price of fame I guess.”        “Being shot?” says Aunt Vi.        “Put yourself in the public eye and anything's liable to happen. Lotta kooks in this world.”       The neighbor kids' chant sounds in Zany's head: Your mother's a hobo.        “I'd rather be shot than a hobo,” says Zany.        Mom's head snaps back. “What the hell's that supposed to mean?”        Zany doesn't fully know what she means, or maybe she does.        Dad says, “Turn up the radio and see if he's dead.”        Zany doesn't want to know the answer, and to keep him alive she runs to the basement where Andy will always be a sickly boy developing film. Never mind Lester in his bed sending smoke rings up to the floor joists. Never mind her family still jabbering overhead.       Zany dashes to her cardboard box and closes the door, her body shaking, but not from any disease. Andy can't be dead. He just can't, because if he is Zany will never make it to New York. Will never pound on his Factory door. She will never be famous enough for someone to shoot.        She doesn't know she's sobbing until Lester's voice drifts over. “Zany?”        It's hard to speak with that hand gripping her throat and her father overhead still babbling: “Turn it up, Gig.” All Zany eeks out is a sob.        Lester's skinny voice slips through that slit in her door. “Zany?”        The grip loosens and Zany puts her eye to the peephole.        There he is, Lester, on his narrow cot in the windowless cellar where he now lives. He slides his hand into his waistband and he tilts his head toward her. “Are you watching?”  Zany's breathing settles, and the overhead voices disappear taking with them the possibility of Andy's death. Her eyes widens so she can take it all in, the violent strokes, his contorting face, because she won't look away from Lester's pain, or hers.  Finally, she answers him: “Yes.” 

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Well, this could be awkward: when we last featured a story on the podcast a year ago, it also focused on parasocial relationships and included masturbation! This time around, we are again in deft hands. Marie Manilla's short story “Watchers”, set in 1968 Pittsburgh with both the steel mills and Andy Warhol as vital elements, is replete with narrative and thematic echoes that satisfy and leave us wanting more at the same time. Tune in for this lively discussion which touches on budding creative and identity-based aspirations, celebrity, performance art, pain in public and private, and much more. Give it a listen -- you know you want to! (Remember you can read or listen to the full story first, as there are spoilers! Just scroll down the page for the episode on our website.)   (We also welcome editor Lisa Zerkle to the table for her first show!) At the table: Kathleen Volk Miller, Marion Wrenn, Lisa Zerkle, Jason Schneiderman, Dagne Forrest   Listen to the story Watchers in its entirety (separate from podcast reading)   Parasocial relationships https://mashable.com/article/parasocial-relationships-definition-meaning   Andy Warhol's childhood home in Pittsburgh (the setting of this story) http://www.warhola.com/warholahouse.html   “History” article about Andy Warhol's shooting by Valerie Solanas https://www.history.com/news/andy-warhol-shot-valerie-solanas-the-factory    I Shot Andy Warhol, 1996 film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Shot_Andy_Warhol      ** Fun Fact 1: the original poster for the 1996 film hangs in Jason's apartment.   ** Fun Fact 2: the actor who portrayed Valerie Solanas in “I Shot Andy Warhol”, Lili Taylor, is married to three-time PBQ-published author Nick Flynn.   Nick Flynn's author page on PBQ http://pbqmag.org/tag/nick-flynn/   Dangerous Art: The Weapons of Performance Artist Chris Burden https://www.theartstory.org/blog/dangerous-art-the-weapons-of-performance-artist-chris-burden/ In her fiction and essays, West Virginia writer Marie Manilla delights in presenting fuller, perhaps unexpected, portraits of Appalachians, especially those who live in urban areas. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Marie's books include The Patron Saint of Ugly, Shrapnel, and Still Life with Plums: Short Stories. She lives in Huntington, her hometown, with her Pittsburgh-born husband, Don.   Instagram and Facebook: @MarieManilla, Author website    Watchers        Zany lies amid clutter on the floor beneath the dining room windows hugging her bandaged arm. She huffs loudly enough to reach the front porch where Mom and Aunt Vi imbibe scotch. Vi still isn't used to afternoon drinking. They can't hear Zany over the Krebbs' crying baby on the other side of the duplex wall. Stupid baby. Plus Zany's little sister overhead dancing to the transistor radio, rattling the light fixture dangling from the ceiling.        The fingertips on Zany's bandaged arm are cold and maybe even blue. This is slightly alarming. She considers running to Mom but knows better. Take the damn thing off then, Mom will say.        There's nothing wrong with Zany's arm, but that isn't the point. At breakfast, without preamble, she wound an Ace bandage from her palm to her armpit. The family no longer asks what she's up to. Last week during Ed Sullivan she sat at her TV tray dripping candle wax over her fist. Aunt Vi blinked with every splat, but Mom only said: “If you get that on my rug I'll take you across my knee. I don't care how old you are.” Zany is thirteen.        Week before, Zany taped a string of two-inch penny nails around her throat at the kitchen table where Dad rewired one of Mom's salvaged lamps. “Why don't you do that in your room?”  Dad didn't like sharing his workspace. Zany shrugged and the nail tips jabbed her collarbones.  She could have done it in her room, but doing the thing wasn't the point. It was having someone watch that mattered. If no one watched, who would believe she could endure that much discomfort?        Nobody is watching now, so Zany grips a dining table leg and pulls it toward her, or tries to. It's hard to budge through Mom's junk piles, plus the weight of the extra leaf Dad inserted when Aunt Vi and Cousin Lester moved in after their apartment collapsed. Aunt Vi brought cans of flowery air freshener to hide the hoard smell—rotten food and cat piss. They don't own a cat.  Lester, sixteen, bought a box of rubble-rescued books.        “You better be setting the table!” Mom calls through the screen.        Zany hates Mom's manly haircut and has said so. “It's Gig's turn!”        Overhead, Gig stomps the floor in the bedroom they now share. Aunt Vi got Zany's attic where Mom's hoard had been disallowed, but it's begun trickling up. “No, it's not!” Gig's transistor blares louder.        “Zany!” Mom calls. “I swear to God! And close those drapes!”        Mom can't stand looking at the neighbor's wall she could reach across and touch, but Zany craves fresh air, as fresh as Pittsburgh air can be. Plus, she likes counting the yellow bricks Andy Warhol surely counted when this was his childhood home, the dining room his make-shift sickroom when he suffered St. Vitus Dance. Zany is certain his bed would have been right here by the window where he could see a hint of sky if he cricked his neck just right. She lies in his echo and imagines the day she'll appear at his Factory door in New York City and say: “I used to live in your house.” Andy will enfold her in his translucent arms before ushering her inside, not to act in his films or screen print his designs, but to be his equal. Partner, even. Zany just has to determine her own art form. It sure won't be cutting fruit cans into flowers like Warhol's mother did for chump change.        Zany's legs start the herky-jerky Vitus dance as if she's running toward that Factory dream. Her pelvis and hips quake. The one free arm. The back of her head jitters against the floor. It's a familiar thrum even Aunt Vi and Lester are accustomed to now. Mom yells: “Stop that racket!” She mutters to Vi: “We never should have bought this place.”       A kitchen timer dings and Aunt Vi comes in to disarm it. Her cooking is better than Mom's, and Vi wears an apron and dime store lipstick while she does it. Fresh peas instead of canned. Real mashed potatoes instead of instant. Vi is a better housekeeper, too, organizing Mom's trash into four-foot piles that line the walls. Every day Mom trolls back alleys and neighbors' garbage in dingy clothes that make her look like a hobo. That's what the kids say:  Your mom looks like a hobo. She pulls a rickety cart and loads it with moldy linens, rolled-up rugs, dented wastebaskets. Zany wonders if Dad regrets marrying the wrong sister. She knows he regrets not having a son, a boy who could have been Lester if Dad had a different heart. Instead, Dad got Lester on at the blast furnace, because “No one sleeps under my roof for free.” Who needs a high school diploma?        In the kitchen, Aunt Vi lets out one of her sobs. She only does that in private after Mom's third scolding: “He's dead, Vi. Crying won't bring him back.”        Zany misses Uncle Mo, too. His pocketful of peppermints. The trick coin he always plucked from Zany's ear. The last time Zany's family visited, she walked through their decrepit Franklin Arms apartment with its spongy floors and clanking pipes, but no maze of debris to negotiate. No cat piss smell or sister blaring the radio. She found Lester in his room at a child's desk he'd outgrown, doughy boy that he then was, doing homework without being nagged.  Astounding. His room was spartan, plenty of space for a second bed if Zany asked Aunt Vi sweetly enough. But no. Zany couldn't abandon Andy in his Dawson Street sickbed. Lester's only wall decoration was a world map strung with red yarn radiating from Pittsburgh to France, China, the South Pole. She wanted to ask why those destinations, but didn't, entranced as she was by all that fresh-aired openness, plus his feverishly scribbling hand.       Now, Aunt Vi leans in the dining room dabbing her face with a dishtowel. She's aged a decade since moving here and it isn't all due to grief. She targets Zany on the floor. “Everything all right in here?”        Zany has stopped breathing. Her eyes are glazed and her tongue lolls from her mouth.  She's getting better at playing dead.        “All right then.” Aunt Vi is getting better at not reacting. The screen door slams behind her.        Zany pulls in her tongue and inhales. She starts counting bricks again until Aunt Vi calls: “There they are!” as she does every workday.        Zany pictures Dad and Lester padding up Dawson. Wet hair slicked back because they shower off the stench before coming home. Zany appreciates that. Their boots scrape the steps to the porch where Aunt Vi will take their lunchpails. And there she is coming through the door and dashing to rinse their thermoses at the kitchen sink. Mom will stay put and pour Dad a finger of scotch.        Lester bangs inside and pauses in the dining room entryway. He's leaner now on account of the physical labor. Taller too. He eyes Zany's bandaged arm, not with Aunt Vi's alarm, but with the kind of baffled wonder Zany has always been after. Their eyes meet and it's the same look he gave her the day she walked backward all the way to the Eliza Number Two—not  because Dad and Lester worked there, but because it was lunchtime, and a gaggle of men would  be eating beneath that pin oak by the furnace entrance. And there they were, her father among them, not easy to see having to crane her neck as Zany picked her way over the railroad tracks.        “What the hell is she doing?” said Tom Folsom. Zany recognized her neighbor's voice.  “She's off her nut,” said another worker.       Zany twisted fully around to see if her father would defend her, but he was already hustling back to the furnace.        “Something's not right with that girl,” said Folsom.        “Nothing wrong with her,” said Lester from beneath a different tree where he ate his cheese sandwich alone.        Folsom spit in the grass. “Shut up, fairy boy.”        Lester wasn't a fairy boy, Zany knew.        Today, leaning in the dining room, Lester looks as if he can see inside Zany's skull to the conjured Factory room she and Andy will one day share: walls scrubbed clean and painted white.  Her drawings or paintings lining the walls in tidy rows. Maybe sculptures aligned on shelves. Or mobiles overhead spinning in the breeze. Lester nods at her fantasy as if it's a good one. He has his own escapism. Zany knows that too, and she looks away first so her eyes won't let him know that she knows.        Lester heads to the cellar where he spends most of his time. Mom partitioned off the back corner for him with clothesline and a bed sheet. Installed an army cot and gooseneck lamp on a crate. Andy Warhol holed up in the cellar when he was a kid developing film in a jerry-rigged darkroom. Zany constructed one from an oversized cardboard box she wedged into that shadowy space beneath the stairs. She cut a closable door in the box and regularly folds herself inside to catalogue her achievements in a notebook. Stood barefoot on a hot tar patch on Frazier Street for seventy-two seconds. Mr. Braddock called me a dolt, but I said: You're the dolt!        From below, the sound of Lester falling onto his cot followed by a sigh so deep Zany's lungs exhale, too. Whatever dreams he had got buried under apartment rubble along with Uncle Mo.       Outside, Dad has taken Aunt Vi's creaky rocker. “He's a strange one,” he says about Lester. “What's he up to down there?”        Mom says, “Who the hell knows?”        Zany clamps her unbandaged hand over her mouth to keep that knowledge from spilling.  She saw what he was up to the day she was tucked in her box and forgot time until footsteps pounded the stairs above her. She peeked through the peephole she'd punched into her cardboard door as Lester peeled off his shirt, his pants. He left on his boxers and socks. Didn't bother to draw his sheet curtain, just plopped on the cot and lit a cigarette. His smoking still surprised her. The boy he once was was also buried under rubble. Zany regretted not making her presence known, but then it was too late with Lester in his underwear, and all. Plus, she was captivated by his fingers pulling the cigarette to his lips. The little smoke rings he sent up to the floor joists. She wondered if he was dreaming of China or the South Pole, or just sitting quietly at his too-small desk back in his apartment inhaling all that fresh air. Finally, he snubbed out the cigarette in an empty tuna can. Zany hoped he would roll over for sleep, but he slid a much-abused magazine from beneath his pillow and turned pages. Even in the scant light Zany made out the naked lady on the cover. Zany's heart thudded, even more so when Lester's hand slipped beneath his waistband and started moving up and down, up and down. She told her eyes to close but they wouldn't, both entranced and nauseated by what she shouldn't be seeing. She knew what he was up to, having done her own exploring when she had her own room. She'd conjure Andy Warhol's face and mouth and delicate hands—because those rumors weren't true. They just weren't. Harder to explore in the bed she now shared with Gig. Stupid Aunt Vi, and stupid collapsed Franklin Arms.       What Lester was up to looked angry. Violent, even. A jittery burn galloped beneath Zany's skin and she bit her lip, drawing blood. But she couldn't look away from Lester's furious hand, his eyes ogling that magazine until they squeezed shut and his mouth pressed into a grimace that did not look like joy. The magazine collapsed onto his chest and his belly shuddered. Only then did Zany close her eyes as the burn leaked through her skin. When Lester's snores came, she tiptoed upstairs to collapse on Andy's echo. She caught Lester seven more times, if caught is the right word, lying in wait as she was, hoping to see, hoping not to.  “You better be setting the table!” Mom yells now from the porch.        Zany grunts and makes her way to the kitchen where Aunt Vi pulls a roast from the oven.  Zany heaves a stack of plates to the dining room and deals them out like playing cards.  “Don't break my dishes!” Mom calls. I hate your hair, Zany wants to say.  There is a crash, but it's not dishes. It comes from overhead where Gig screams.  Thumping on the stairs as she thunders down, transistor in hand. “Zany!”  Gig rushes into the dining room, ponytail swaying, eyes landing on her sister. “He's been shot!”        Zany's mind hurtles back two months to when Martin Luther King was killed. Riots erupted in Pittsburgh's Black neighborhoods: The Hill District and Homewood and Manchester.  “Who?” Zany says, conjuring possibilities: LBJ, Sidney Portier. But to Zany, it's much worse.        “Andy Warhol!”        Zany counts this as the meanest lie Gig's ever told. “He was not.”        “Yes, he was!” Gig turns up the radio and the announcer confirms it: a crazed woman shot Warhol in his Factory.       Aunt Vi comes at Zany with her arms wide, because she understands loss. “Oh, honey.”  Zany bats her hands away. “It's not true.”        Vi backs into Mom's hoard. “Is he dead?”        Gig says: “They don't know.”        Zany can't stomach the smug look on Gig's face, as if she holds Andy's life or death between her teeth. Zany wants to slap that look off, so she does.        Gig screams.        “What the hell's going on in there?” Mom calls.        “Zany hit me!” Gig says at the very moment Aunt Vi says: “Andy Warhol's been shot!”  “No he wasn't!” Zany says again, wanting to slap them both.        Mom and Dad hustle inside where Gig cups her reddening cheek and bawls louder.  “It's nothing,” Mom says at the sight of her sniveling daughter, but Dad enfolds Gig in his arms. “There, there.”        “Don't coddle that child,” says Mom, and for once Zany agrees.        “Now, Mae.” Dad cups the back of Gig's head and there's a different look on her face.  Triumph, maybe.        Pounding on the shared duplex wall, Evie Krebbs, who never could shush that wailing baby. “Andy Warhol's been shot!” she calls to them. “Did you all hear?”        “We heard,” Mom answers as the baby cries louder, and so does Gig, who won't be upstaged. Mom says: “That's the price of fame I guess.”        “Being shot?” says Aunt Vi.        “Put yourself in the public eye and anything's liable to happen. Lotta kooks in this world.”       The neighbor kids' chant sounds in Zany's head: Your mother's a hobo.        “I'd rather be shot than a hobo,” says Zany.        Mom's head snaps back. “What the hell's that supposed to mean?”        Zany doesn't fully know what she means, or maybe she does.        Dad says, “Turn up the radio and see if he's dead.”        Zany doesn't want to know the answer, and to keep him alive she runs to the basement where Andy will always be a sickly boy developing film. Never mind Lester in his bed sending smoke rings up to the floor joists. Never mind her family still jabbering overhead.       Zany dashes to her cardboard box and closes the door, her body shaking, but not from any disease. Andy can't be dead. He just can't, because if he is Zany will never make it to New York. Will never pound on his Factory door. She will never be famous enough for someone to shoot.        She doesn't know she's sobbing until Lester's voice drifts over. “Zany?”        It's hard to speak with that hand gripping her throat and her father overhead still babbling: “Turn it up, Gig.” All Zany eeks out is a sob.        Lester's skinny voice slips through that slit in her door. “Zany?”        The grip loosens and Zany puts her eye to the peephole.        There he is, Lester, on his narrow cot in the windowless cellar where he now lives. He slides his hand into his waistband and he tilts his head toward her. “Are you watching?”  Zany's breathing settles, and the overhead voices disappear taking with them the possibility of Andy's death. Her eyes widens so she can take it all in, the violent strokes, his contorting face, because she won't look away from Lester's pain, or hers.  Finally, she answers him: “Yes.” 

Tressa has the honor and absolute delight to sit down and chat with the generous, community-minded, and kind-hearted husband and wife duo, Troy and Theodora Polamalu. Steelers fans and yinzers around the world will be well-acquainted with Troy's work as a Strong Safety for our Steelers' defense for 12 years, earning 2 Super Bowls and a spot in the Hall of Fame. Troy and Theodora are philanthropists who deeply care about those in need and are here to talk about community, giving back, and The Resilience Bowl, which will benefit the Neighborhood Resilience Project. Trust us, you don't want to miss this episode! The Resilience Bowl The Resilience Bowl is coming to Acrisure Stadium on May 21st, 2024! Together we can make an impact and support the work of the Neighborhood Resilience Project. The Resilience Bowl is brought to you by the Neighborhood Resilience Project and Troy and Theodora Polamalu with generous support from Citrone 33 and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The mission of the Neighborhood Resilience Project is to create resilient healing and healthy communities. One block at a time.  The Resilience Bowl Hosted by Troy & Theodora Polamalu May 21, 2024 | Acrisure Stadium 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Celebrity Flag Football Game | Kickoff @ 7:00 p.m. The Troy and Theodora Polamalu Foundation https://www.yinzaregood.com/ Instagram: @yinzaregood Facebook: @YinzAreGood Have a story of GENEROSITY or KINDNESS to share with us? Email us at yinzaregood@gmail.com To request a KINDNESS CRATE drop off at your business or school, email us at yinzaregood@gmail.com

Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, recently expressed his strong dissent towards the contemporary idea of 'squatters' rights' in a late-week interview, with no clandestine implications, but a clear divergence from his party's standard perspective. Fetterman critically questioned the idea of assigning rights to squatters during his discussion with Jon Levine from the New York Post. In his words, 'Squatters have no rights,' going on to fundamentally ask, 'How can you possibly argue that this is anything but an outright legal violation?' He was keen on making it clear that he does not adhere to the growing 'woke' culture within his political space. Further expressing his standpoint, Fetterman emphasized, 'I am not woke,' delineating a commitment to a more practical course, even if that meant steering against the typical currents of his party. Consequently, he bore testament to a history of rebuffing such movements, tracing back to his mayoral tenure in the quaint Pennsylvanian town of Braddock. His statements unveiled a transparent yet distinct principle, indeed out of sync with prevailing liberal views, but a sincere token of his political perspective. The basis of Fetterman's argument was propelled by the hypothetical scenario he proposed, about a property owner going away for a month-long trip. He took an issue with the paradoxical scenario that if an unknown person broke into the house during this time, they could potentially assert some form of rights to the property. In his view, this level of absurdity was tantamount to a situation where a person's car gets stolen, only for the thief to accrue some entitlements after keeping the car for a month. He reflected on his own disbelief, empathizing with those who might find such incidences incredulous. To him, the instance was not just a mere lack of sense, but also a highly disconcerting factor. He exemplified this by reiterating, 'This is crazy,' equally perplexed and disappointed by the prevailing loopholes being misused. Fetterman went further to criticize the Democratic party's policies, which he perceives as lenient towards criminal activities. His objection was not aimed at causing unrest within party lines, but instead, he echoed a sentiment that may resonate with many. He targeted a significant aspect of crime management, where his party's leniency was linked to unnecessary and tragic incidents such as the death of NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller. The fallout of such a policy, Fetterman argued, resulted in a devastating tragedy that unfolded in late March in Queens. Detective Jonathan Diller, a devoted husband, father, and an asset to the law enforcement with three years of committed service on the force, met an untimely demise during a routine traffic stop. While undertaking normal policing duties, Detective Diller was fired upon by the passenger of a pulled-over car, leading to grievous injuries. Fetterman connected this heartbreaking incident directly to the consequences of soft-on-crime policies, stressing on the need for reforms in this arena. The alleged shooter was identified as 34-year-old Guy Rivera, who was seated in the passenger section of the car when the fatal incident unfolded. Rivera didn't have a crime-free past, boasting 21 previous encounters with the law. This tragic event reignited the discourse on crime policies, as Rivera was just released from prison the previous year. Rivera's crime history is well-recorded, with former sentence for criminal possession of a controlled substance that resulted in him serving a five-year term until his release in 2021. He also served prison time from 2011 to 2014 for a first-degree assault charge. Fetterman used Rivera's extensive crime history as a case to critique the current crime policy. Fetterman's stance resonated with those pushing for stricter punishments for heinous crimes. Referring to Detective Diller's alleged killer, Fetterman believed that if convicted, the convict 'should spend the rest of his life and in prison, and never have an opportunity to get out.' His idea goes beyond simple punitive measures, hinting towards rehabilitation through indefinite confinement. Overall, Senator John Fetterman's recent candid interview has triggered significant food for thought among a variety of demographics. His clear stance against squatter's rights and a refreshing deviance from party rhetoric on crime policies underlines the nuances within the broader Democratic party. Indeed, Fetterman's views may not echo across the entire party. However, it provides valuable insights into the spectrum of opinions within any political organization, revealing the existence of different shades of a perceived color. Brexit his conservative-leaning stance with a gentle edge, Fetterman's perspectives put forth an intriguing blend of voices within the Democratic party. From the deconstruction of ‘squatter's rights,' to the endorsement for harsher crime penalities, Fetterman juxtaposes an alternative vision within his Democrat identity. It's an account that neither completely disowns party perspectives, nor complies fully with them, but one that hints at the importance of constructive criticism and diverse discourses in furthering effective legal reforms. 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We're juggling businesses, raising families, and trying to squeeze in a moment of sanity now and then. But how do we truly be present – not just physically there, but mentally and emotionally connected – when there are a million things pulling us in different directions? That's what we're diving into today on Lessons on How to 'Not Fade Away. I'm talking to Caleb, a dad of four who runs a successful health franchise called Genesis Back & Neck, all while making his family a top priority. He's got some eye-opening stories and practical advice about the importance of shared memories, the dangers of the 'scroll' generation, and leaving a legacy of love that goes beyond our lifetime. If you're a parentpreneur ready to live with intention and leave those regrets behind, this is the episode for you!

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Coming up on the Men at the Movies podcast, we close out our Band of Brothers series with episode 10, Points. By now, you know that the only way forward is through walking shoulder to shoulder with other men. You have to consent to this process, volunteer to jump in their foxholes. These men went from Toccoa to England to France and finally to Germany because they went through the process of being called, and chosen, and finally faithful. And they became heroes along the way. Join me as we discover God's truth in their story. About Conrad Conrad is a grateful husband of 10 years to a bright and truth-telling bride, Samantha. He is a father of two beautifully strong and joyful daughters, Sienna and Crimson. And also is father to a rowdy and radical son named Braddock. He serves as the Discipleship Coordinator at Wild at Heart Ministries and is a co-producer of the Become Good Soil Podcast. He loves coffee, sunshine, camping, brotherhood, whiskey, concerts with Samantha, exercise, hunting, writing, coaching, beer, his counselor, Jesus, football, ice baths and burritos....not in that order. Trailer for Band of Brothers Questions Who are the men who can call you at 2AM? Who can call you at 2AM to jump in their foxhole? How is your initiation a voluntary process? How is masculinity bestowed in your world? Where have you felt like you might not come back? What does it mean to choose your chosenness? What have your foxhole moments been? What would it be like to be told, “You've done enough.”? Where have you been faithful? What history do you want to make? Check out our YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@menatthemovies) for bonus content. To dive into this content even more, visit our website: www.menatthemovies.com/podcast. You will find resources mentioned on the podcast, plus quotes and themes discussed. Find us on the socials: YouTube: www.youtube.com/@menatthemovies Facebook: www.facebook.com/menatthemovies Instagram: www.instagram.com/menatthemovies/ TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@menatthemovies Twitter: twitter.com/_menatthemovies If you would like to support our work (and get some behind-the-scenes perks), visit our Patreon page (www.patreon.com/menatthemovies). Get invites to livestreams, bonus episodes, even free merch. If you'd like to do a one-time contribution (a cameo appearance), visit www.menatthemovies.com/investors. Edited and mixed by Grayson Foster (graysonfoster.com) Logo and episode templates by Ian Johnston (ianhjohnston.com) Audio quotes performed by Britt Mooney, Paul McDonald, and Tim Willard, taken from Epic (written by John Eldredge) and Song of Albion (written by Stephen Lawhead). Southerly Change performed by Zane Dickinson, used under license from Shutterstock Links: MATM website: www.menatthemovies.com/podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@menatthemovies Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/50DiGvjrHatOFUfHc0H2wQ Apple pods: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/men-at-the-movies-podcast/id1543799477 Google pods: podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy80ODMwNThjL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/menatthemovies/message

In part 2 of their discussion, Sarah and Nicole talk about the powerful impact that one small voice can have when you are willing to say hard things, the “gift of going second,” the responsibility of healing, and the sacred space that survivors have found in Nicole's weekly e-course, UNLEASH. An advocate, activist, and survivor of child sexual abuse, Nicole Braddock Bromley is the founder of https://www.iamonevoice.org/ and the founder and Executive Director of https://www.onevoice4freedom.org/. Learn more about UNLEASH, her 8-week course and online cohort for survivors of sexual abuse, at https://www.iamonevoice.org/unleash.