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LETHAL MULLET PODCAST #327 - ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976) No demands. No negotiation. Just siege. At 3:03am, the phones go dead, the lights go out, and a decommissioned police station becomes the Alamo. This week we're breaking down John Carpenter's lean, mean, $100k masterpiece that proved you don't need money, you need nerve. It's Rio Bravo meets Night of the Living Dead, with a synth score that invented dread. In This Episode: The Film: Assault on Precinct 13 - 1976 - Written, Directed, Scored and Edited by John Carpenter. 91 minutes. Made for $100k in 20 days. Starring Austin Stoker as Lt. Ethan Bishop, Darwin Joston as Napoleon Wilson, Laurie Zimmer as Leigh, and Henry Brandon. What We Cover: Why Carpenter originally called it THE ANDERSON ALAMO and wrote it in 8 days as "John T. Chance" - John Wayne's character in Rio Bravo The ice cream truck scene - how killing little Kathy changed the MPAA forever and almost got the film an X rating How to make $100k look like a million: Panavision anamorphic 2.39:1 projected on a bedsheet, real Venice cop shop locations, and a cast of USC mates and neighbours The siege mechanics - silenced rifles, no demands, faceless gang, and the most isolated precinct in LA "Got a smoke?" - Wilson, Leigh, and why Napoleon Wilson steals the whole movie The score - written in 3 days, drums + synth + electric piano. The blueprint for Halloween Why it bombed in the US in November '76 and then exploded at the 1977 London Film Festival Original vs 2005 Remake - why explaining the gang ruins the whole point Lean, mean, and 91 minutes of a guy in a tan uniform who really should not be in charge. The ultimate single-location siege movie. Without it, no Die Hard. Directed by: John Carpenter Music by: John Carpenter Influences: Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo + Romero's Night of the Living Dead Fun fact: Tony Burton (Duke from Rocky) got cast because he'd actually done time. Where to Watch: Prime & Blu-ray from Shout! Factory. Talk to us: What's your favourite Carpenter deep cut? The Fog? Prince of Darkness? They Live? DM us @thelethalmullet - best Bishop vs Wilson takes get read out next week. #JohnCarpenter #AssaultOnPrecinct13 #LethalMulletPodcast #CultFilm #70sHorror #SiegeMovie #AustinStoker #DarwinJoston

Open the oversized lava lamp and unleash some evil on episode 232 of The Horror Stans Podcast! For this one we are getting into John Carpenter's 1987 horror cult classic Prince of Darkness! Listen as we discuss the creepy atmosphere, awesome as usual John Carpenter score, Alice Cooper and his killer bike, Donald Pleasent fighting the devil instead of Michael Myers, the wild ending, and whether this is one of Carpenter's most underrated movies! We hope you enjoy!Please give us 5 stars! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐@horrorstanspodcast

The Munich Beer Riot of 1844 was a reaction to the price of beer set by the Bavarian government. The Lager Beer Riot took place in Chicago in 1855, and was a response to municipal policies put in place by mayor Levi Boone that targeted the city’s Catholic and immigrant populations. Research: Alberts, Brian. “‘Streets as Stages’ — The Munich Beer Riots of 1844.” Good Beer Hunting. https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2020/7/13/streets-as-stages-the-munich-beer-riots-of-1844 "Bavaria." Britannica Library, Encyclopædia Britannica, 16 Mar. 2026. libraries.state.ma.us/login?eburl=https%3A%2F%2Flibrary.eb.com&ebtarget=%2Flevels%2Freferencecenter%2Farticle%2FBavaria%2F13830&ebboatid=9265928. Accessed 3 Sep. 2026. Britannica Editors. "Oktoberfest". Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Apr. 2026, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Oktoberfest. Accessed 2 September 2026. Carpenter, Kim Newak. “‘Sechs Kreuzer sind genug fuer ein Bier!’: The Munich beer riot of 1844: Social protest and public disorder in mid-19th century Bavaria.” A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History. 1998. Durica, Paul. “‘A Montstrous Doctrine’ - Chicago’s Lager Beer Riot.” Mash Tun. https://mashtunjournal.org/texts/lagerriot Einhorn, Robin. “Lager Beer Riot.” Encyclopedia of Chicago. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/703.html Engels, Frederick. “Beer Riots in Bavaria.” The Northern Star, No. 341, May 25, 1844, p. 6. Grossman, Ron. “Chicago’s Lager Beer Riot proved immigrants’ power.” Chicago Tribune. 9/25/2015. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2015/09/25/chicagos-lager-beer-riot-proved-immigrants-power/ "Ludwig I, King of Bavaria." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, vol. 34, Gale, 2014. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631010137/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=df1b49ec. Accessed 2 Sept. 2026 Magelssen, Scott. “The 1855 Lager Beer Riot Dodgeball Reenactment and Beer Tasting.” Theatre Journal, DECEMBER 2015, Vol. 67, No. 4, Possible Worlds (DECEMBER2015). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24582647 New York Herald, European Edition. “1889: Beer Crisis in Bavaria.” 9/19/1889. Reprinted In the New York Times 9/18/2014. https://archive.nytimes.com/iht-retrospective.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/1889-beer-crisis-in-bavaria/ Renner, Richard Wilson. “In Perfect Ferment: Chicago, the Know-Nothings, and the Riot for Lager.” Chicago History V, no. 3 (1976): 161-170. WBEZ Chicago. Morning Shift. “Fest looks at the history of the Lager Beer Riot.” 4/24/2015. https://www.wbez.org/morning-shift/2015/04/24/fest-looks-at-the-history-of-the-lager-beer-riot. Weiss, Jana. “A Lager Beer Revolution: The History of Beer and German American Immigration.” Life & Letters. University of Texas at Austin. Originally published in Not Even Past. 9/19/2023. https://lifeandletters.la.utexas.edu/2023/09/a-lager-beer-revolution-the-history-of-beer-and-german-american-immigration/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Bass After Dark — inch for inch and pound for pound, the best show in fishing — is back for another lively, and LIVE, episode. Don't miss Ken Duke, Brian the Carpenter, and our three mystery panelists (spoiler alert: it's Dr. Terry Battisti, Mark Lassagne, and Byron Velvick) as we tackle the question: What was the most important bass tournament of all time?

Pam and Anna interviewed three former teachers who are all unschooling parents and members of the Living Joyfully Network. Erika Ellis, Jen Hollis, and Michelle Kren shared their experiences becoming teachers as well as their thought processes as they chose unschooling for their own families. They talked about their changing views of education and how their roles as teachers helped shape their ideas of parenting. It was a fascinating window into a very common phenomenon – teachers becoming unschoolers! We hope the conversation sparks some insights for you. Watch the video on YouTube. THINGS WE MENTION IN THIS EPISODE We invite you to join us in the Living Joyfully Network, a warm and welcoming online community of like-hearted parents. It's a non-judgmental space where you can steep in these unconventional ideas around parenting, relationships, and learning, and explore what they might look like day-to-day in your uniquely wonderful family. We offer a free month trial so you can see if it's a good fit for you. Click here to join us. Sign up to our mailing list on Substack to receive our email newsletters as well as new articles about learning, parenting, and so much more! Check out our website, livingjoyfully.ca for more information about exploring unschooling and navigating relationships. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT PAM: Hello everyone, I am Pam Laricchia from Living Joyfully and today I’m joined by my co-hosts Erika Ellis and Anna Brown, as well as our guests Michelle Kren and Jen Hollis. Hello to you all. So, today’s episode is a panel style featuring teachers who became unschoolers. And Erika is joining Michelle and Jen as we explore aspects of their journey and reflect on this very interesting perspective. So, I’m very much looking forward to our conversation. Anna, would you like to get us started? ANNA: I would. So, first, thanks for joining us. I’m kind of excited about this one. I think it’ll be an interesting conversation because it is actually really wild how many teachers turned unschoolers I’ve met over the course of these last 25 years. And it makes sense, right? Because teachers deeply know what’s happening in education. They’re passionate about it. It’s something that’s important to them. So, it really makes sense. But I can’t wait to hear about each of your unique journeys. So, this first question will just be, tell us briefly about your journey to becoming a teacher. What drew you to the field? How did it unfold for you? What did that part look like? And I’m going to start, Erika, with you and then we’ll kind of move around to the rest. ERIKA: I’m excited about this too. It’s something that honestly at this point I don’t think about that often, but I also have met a lot of teachers. And so, yeah, it’s just very curious. I was only a teacher in public school for two years before I had children. When I left school, I was planning to be in film production, which I did for several years. But that field out in LA is mostly project by project. And when we were thinking about having children, it seemed a little bit risky for both me and my husband to be finding job by job what we were going to do next. And so, I was looking for things that I could do that would be more steady and just know what I was going to get paid for the year, basically. And so, that was kind of where I started. But many years before that, as a kid, I wanted to be a teacher because I loved school. I loved being a student. I loved curriculum. I loved tests. I just loved everything about it. And so, it wasn’t far from my mind as a possibility of something that I could do. But then, of course, as we grow, we learn and change our minds about things. And so, I hadn’t thought about it until I was really just looking for some more stability. And the way my mind works is like I’m a scanner. I am interested in many, many things. And so, there were always things I could pull from, like I was in film production, but my undergrad was in biopsychology. So, I was like, I can teach science. I could do different options. And so, when I was thinking about a stable job, something I would be able to do in the area where I was, I thought about getting a teaching credential and teaching high school science. And that whole process was actually really easy for me. It seemed like a good fit as far as the pay is pretty good. The union in LA for teachers is really great. And so, I got good benefits. And it just drew me in that this would be good for our family financially. And I just, I love learning. I love science. I love kids. There were lots of things that I was like, this is gonna be great. But I never knew how long I would stick with it because I also envisioned myself being a stay-at-home mom. I really wanted to devote myself to really focusing on connection with my kids. And so, since we knew we were planning on starting our family, I didn’t know what the whole journey would look like. And so, I told my husband, Josh, that from the start, you've got to be ready for this to last two years or 50 years. I just don’t know. And I have figured out the math. It’s going to work either way. But is that fine with you? If I put all this effort into it and then I walk away from it, is that gonna freak you out? And he’s like, no, we always figure it out. I definitely went into it not sure how the whole process was going to go. But there were things I loved about it. I loved the topics, I taught integrated science. So that’s a little bit of biology and a little bit of physics and a little bit of chemistry and a little bit of earth science. And so, that was very fun. And the kids, of course, were amazing. And I don’t have to get into all of the details of what happened later. But I just, I definitely learned a lot about, what even, what is this? I started questioning things a lot more than I did when I was a student in school, because I could really see the whole picture of what we’re asking of these kids. And I definitely started to change my mind about how much I loved school at that point. ANNA: Yeah, oh my goodness, I can totally imagine that. So Michelle, let’s go to you next. And then we’ll go to you, Jenna. MICHELLE: Okay, it’s funny that Erika got about two years of teaching in because that’s the same amount of time of teaching that I got in. Like her, I did want to be a teacher for forever since probably about second grade. I loved my teacher. I loved to play school and everything. And I was pretty good at performing in school. I loved to babysit. I loved kids. So it just kind of made sense. So, I worked well in school so that I could get a scholarship so I could go to college so I could be a teacher. Go on the path, do the things. And I really felt like I wanted to help kids at a foundational level, that I wanted to be in on the ground floor because I felt like as students got older and if they weren’t supported in the early years, that the problems just kept compounding. And that whene they got to high school, you have this kid that’s hated school for all these years, it felt like they’re doomed now. So I really wanted to be in on the ground floor. I did my student teaching in second grade and enjoyed that experience. I actually, in one of my phases, got to be in a classroom that was first and second grade. It was kind of nice to have the youngers and the olders just to have that little bit of a different dynamic where it’s not so based on age. There’s a little bit more flexibility in that. I got married right out of college and moved to where my husband was and I couldn’t quite get a job right away. So I did substitute teaching, which I enjoyed. I enjoyed the flexibility. I enjoyed the variety of it. Like, I don’t know what grade I’m going to be in today and what the kids are going to be like and all of that. I liked coming with a teacher bag of some books I liked if we had a few extra minutes to read to them before recess or whatever. I liked that part. But then I did end up, once we moved again, working in a small Hebrew academy. That's where I taught for two years. The only availability was to teach fifth grade my first year. And then it was fifth and sixth grade my second year. And so that’s what I did, which was really interesting because the fourth grade teacher, as I was coming in, I was thinking, oh, she’ll be able to mentor me and help me. She’s got so much experience and she can help me, give wisdom to me. She told me, oh, this class was the best class. You’re going to love it. These kids, they’re all great students and everything. And they were, they were great. But then we had a couple other students get added to the mix very shortly after. And that just kind of threw everything upside down. And I’m trying to adapt for all the different needs of all the different children and everything like that. It was quite challenging, I just felt a lot of burden or pressure, just trying to rack my brain on how can I meet the needs of this kid? And this kid and this kid. This kid can read college level and this kid can read like second grade. And how am I supposed to meet the needs of all these kids? So, yeah, that’s kind of my journey to becoming a teacher. ANNA: Okay, thank you. Jenna. JEN: When I think about this question, it’s sort of like, where do I begin? Do I take it all back to my early childhood years? Which, you know, always looking forward, things don’t tend to make sense. So I find it really interesting that we as parents and teachers get so fixated on the child’s future. When you look back at anyone’s life, could anyone really say that? Yes, I knew that I wanted to be this and my path was this clean sequence of events. And so when I think about my path into becoming a teacher, I actually didn’t want to become a teacher. I never really thought about it. I actually wanted to be a chef at one point. And as I was going about my experience, I realized, well, that was probably going to require me to work late at night. And I’m just not a night owl. I’m early to bed, early to wake. And then so, the kinds of conversations as you’re getting towards that back end of your high school years, all the adults in your world are starting to ask those questions. What’s the plan for after school? And so, of course, I had to have a plan. I was like, OK, being a chef wasn’t going to quite work for me. And I think I must have just plucked it out of thin air. What if I explore being a teacher? Once I made that decision, I really committed to my studies and ended up doing really well. I got into uni, started my degree as a primary school teacher. And when I did my first prac, I ended up coming home from that thinking, I don’t know about this. All of the teachers just seemed really unhappy. And for me, it was like, if I’m going to do anything, it’s got to be something that’s meaningful. And then I’m going to enjoy it because we spend so much of our time at work. That was a non-negotiable for me. Anyway, I was having a conversation with my mom saying, I’m not sure about this. It just doesn’t seem like anyone’s happy in this industry. And at the time I was working in a sales company. I was just doing some telemarketing and I saw these salespeople going out and selling. I think it was an alarm system door to door. And I thought that was a really great other option. I really was looking at it, I really don’t want to do this. That seems like a really good idea could start to generate some decent money. And my mom was like, absolutely not. You have worked way too hard to get here. Choose another degree. And I’m like, okay. And so then I moved into early childhood and I absolutely loved that degree. And the difference was I found primary school teaching was all about subjects, whereas an early childhood degree was focused on the whole child. And so I really, really loved that study. And so as I’m going about it and I started to do my work placements, I didn’t absolutely love working in the industry, but I loved the study of the whole child. And so then I did my final year of uni and ended up going to the Cook Islands for a whole month to do my final prac, which is pretty cool. I came back, got a job in an early childhood center, which, you know, again, it was okay. I really loved connecting with the parents, really loved connecting with the children. But that didn’t last very long because I discovered that I wasn’t being paid properly. So then I approached the owners of the center and they validated. Yes, you haven’t been paid correctly. And please don’t tell the other staff. And that was my red flag to go, okay, here’s my resignation. And of course, I let my friends know who I was working with that you might just want to tune into whether you’re being paid correctly. And so down that path was letting the parents know, they were all really upset that I was leaving and I was upset to be leaving them. But what came about was that one of those parents was a teacher. She was actually an assistant principal at her school and she was going on maternity leave towards the end of that year. And I was saying to her that, I’m just going to go and do some casual teaching back in the primary school system. And she’s like, oh, you know what, actually, would you like a job? And so one thing led to another and I ended up starting that position towards the end of the year. And I absolutely loved it. I loved the structure. I loved the conditions, compared to the early childhood conditions of work. It just was like a breath of fresh air. I had two hours a week of planning time as opposed to working 10 hours a day needing to work out when I was going to do any of the planning. On top of that, better pay and all the rest of it. And so I really loved the structure of it. And so for the next sort of four years, I really dived into that world. And because I was based in a really small school, I got all these amazing opportunities. I became the reading recovery teacher. So we really got to understand the mechanics of reading or what I thought were the mechanics of reading as it was being delivered to me. And I was also in class at the same time. So I had a class that I was responsible for and I was doing reading recovery, which was a massive load. I literally felt like I jumped in the deep end and learnt so much in such a short period of time. But as my husband and I, we got married, and we started to think about a family, we ended up having our first child. And I had every intention of going back to teaching because like I said, I loved my job. But as time went on and it got closer to that point, I was just like, I can’t leave my baby. I can’t leave my baby to be raised by someone else while I go back into a profession that demands so much of my time and energy. And I just couldn’t see the possibility. It was like, how could I be the teacher that I was before I had children as well as be the mum that I wanted to be? And so at that time, my husband had his own business and it just made financial sense as well for me to be at home, for me to help out with the admin and really prioritize raising our family. That’s basically where my teaching journey started to taper off. I always had this idea that I was going to go back. But as time went on and I started to experience life as a parent, teaching just didn’t make sense to me anymore. It didn’t make sense. I have complete admiration for those teachers out there that are doing both because it’s such a demanding job. Personally, and I am a person who likes to do well at everything that I do. And I just knew that for me, that was not going to happen. I do believe I probably would have ended up sacrificing my family big time to be that teacher who I really wanted to be. But when I think about the time that I did spend in teaching, I was really focused on engagement. How can I really engage these students? And I think a lot of that came from my own childhood experience of being in school and feeling completely disengaged, feeling like I was more interested in watching human behavior than what the teacher was delivering. It’s just interesting when you do reflect back at your own journey, so much of it makes sense when you’re looking back. But this whole idea of being able to look into the future and have it all figured out, it kind of makes me think like, gosh, we put so much pressure on ourselves as teachers and parents to have these children’s lives figured out when they have so much to teach us. But yeah, I’ll stop there. Otherwise I can talk forever. ANNA: No, no, I appreciate it. And I think you’re right, we have this idea that we can control and have this linear path. And yeah, it just doesn’t work that way. But gosh, do we see the connections when we look back and how it’s gotten us here? So I just appreciate all those stories. So amazing. PAM: And I’m just super excited now to take the next step because you’ve been looking back and putting the story together for yourselves. So it will be very interesting to hear how you then came to decide to unschool your own kids. And do you feel that it was easier to make that choice because of your teaching background or did that make it more difficult? And also curious to know about whether you had a lot of pressure from external voices, like friends and family who were also in education. I feel like they kind of come in bunches too sometimes. So I think this will be very interesting to hear. And Michelle, would you like to start this one? MICHELLE: Sure. So for me, I feel like the decision to unschool my kids was a very organic unfolding type of thing. My husband and I have five children. Right now, their ages are from 19 to 10. And so basically, I was having a child every two years. And so as my first two were approaching school age, the bond that I had with my children. I essentially didn’t want to give them up. And so while I can’t really remember the conversations about, are we going to homeschool our kids or not? But I remember it just unfolding. People around us are homeschooling. So that feels like, okay, we’re not alone. There are other families doing this. And also the fact that my first two sons both taught themselves to read at very young ages. So the oldest was four, and his brother was two. And it was kind of like a party joke, not a party joke, like party trick. Oh, look at my two year old reading. People would do that, and ask, do you know this word? Do you know this word? And because it was so baffling, like, are you kidding me? So, with your first two children teaching themselves to read, which that’s why we go to school, right? To learn to read and write. So if that part’s already taken care of, then what’s my kid going to do in a school anyways? I wanted to learn alongside my children. I saw them learning already. And to me, you’re learning all the time. You’re learning from all sorts of things, and ways. You are learning how to be in relationship with people as a family. That was always something when I was having another baby, I couldn’t imagine all the other siblings having to go off to school right now and not be able to be with the new baby. I did start with a curriculum for my oldest just because I thought, well, let’s try that. It was like a unit studies thing. And I liked that it was every six days because you are always rotating. It wasn’t like Monday through Friday, right? So because it was six days, it was always rotating and that helped it feel like you were never behind. So, I liked that aspect about it. And because I’m a learner, I love to learn. I’m a very curious person. I was looking into different people’s homeschool things and philosophies and things like that. So I came across some different people like Julie Bogart. She’s been in homeschooling for a really long time. And she is very open to unschooling and has talked about it, doing a little bit of it herself with her five kids and such. Sally Clarkson is another person that I had looked to and then I found Pam back in those early days. So I’ve been listening to the podcast for a really long time and actually reached out to a guest that was on the podcast, Amy Martinez. She and I are friends now and have been for numerous years. I looked, it was 2019 that I reached out to her for the first time because she had five kids and she was further down the road. And that’s one of the things that I think is so beautiful about this community and homeschooling in general is just the helping. It’s the education, but it’s also the parenting. It’s the whole picture, right? Unschooling is learning without school and pretending like school doesn’t exist and things like that. As far as it being easier or harder though, I was kind of torn on which I thought. It’s a good question. I just, I’m not quite sure if I think it’s easier or harder. I think that my instinctual ideas about learning fit really nicely with unschooling, and things not being arbitrary. I really did not like that about school, you have to learn this because you’re this grade and you’re this age and all of that. That was something that did not sit well with me. And so, I wanted a lot of time to not feel hurried and rushed. I had these school experiences. I had my own growing up in school. I had teaching in school. I had all these different experiences. I kind of got a little smattering of each of the different types. And so then it was like, well, I get to pick which one I think is best out of all of these because I tried them all. I did also approach it as like, this is an experiment too. We are taking this one step at a time and if something’s not working at some point, we can pivot, we can try something else. So, just organically making our way to let’s keep learning the things that are in front of us, the things that we’re interested in. I think about my five different kids and just what they’ve been interested in over the years. I couldn’t just, oh, yeah, we’re learning this science curriculum. And I just didn’t want to go that way. PAM: Oh, that’s beautiful, Michelle. I love that piece, too, you know, that, like you said, that it’s not like a forever decision that you can keep trying things and keep learning. You said you’ve always been interested in learning yourself and figuring these things out. And the point about, especially with a large number of kids, the number of interests that I’m sure would weave through, continue to weave through your home is super numerous. So yeah, to try and fit that all into some sort of curriculum-y schedule, I can imagine would be very difficult. Erika, would you like to go next? ERIKA: I feel like in one way, my teaching journey is completely separate from my own unschooling journey. But certainly, it must have informed it, but I view my unschooling journey as really just me listening to my kid, my oldest, and it kind of naturally flowing from our relationship that was growing as he was growing. When he was a little kid, he was kind of scared of other little kids. And I also saw that he was, he was slow to speak. I just could see these things that I’m like, this could be a problem for someone in a school setting. But to me, it didn’t seem to be a problem. I could see him learning and communicating and all these things. But I could see if his behavior at school was similar to his behavior on the playground. It could be a problem in school. He’s running away from other kids. He doesn’t want to do what anyone else is doing. He’s very specific about what he wants to do and very clear about it. But, and also just so sensitive. And so I was just putting together this image in my mind of what that would look like for this little guy to be in a school setting. And it just didn’t feel good to me. And so that really was my reason for looking into other options. And I did find project-based homeschooling first. Which could work. But any kind of adult-imposed ideas just have never been okay with either of my children, really. And so in order to really facilitate them learning about things, it had to be their decision of what the thing was going to be. And so it made me think about something I’ve heard about teaching, which is that teachers are kind of like taking away the most fun part of learning when they pick the curriculum and plan all the activities. So, if an individual child is choosing what to learn and how to learn it, there’s so much more that they can get out of it than if somebody comes in with that already pre-planned. And plus, as teachers, we know that part’s also really fun. It’s our most fun part. And the kids aren’t getting to do that. We’re just coming and putting it on them. And so I really thought a lot about that. I had heard that somewhere and it made sense to me. And so I do think it probably was slightly easier to choose unschooling given my teaching background, just because I had become aware. I had the rosy view of what I could imagine school was like kind of eliminated over my experience as a ninth grade teacher. I was in a title one school in LA. It was great. We had such a nice atmosphere as far as a real safe place for kids. And the teachers seemed to all be there for the right reasons. And it had a nice, I don’t know, it was a nice community. And at the same time, I was like, these kids don’t need to learn earth science right now. This is literally the last thing they need and they’re not interested in it. And so I just felt horrible giving them anything in addition to what they were already carrying, the loads that they were carrying, taking care of their younger siblings, working jobs. They were like 15 years old, but they had to work because their family needs that additional support. So they were already, in my opinion, it seemed like they were already young adults having to shoulder so much responsibility. And it just felt ridiculous for me to say, and now do this homework because this is the most important thing. I just couldn’t do it. And so I saw teachers who really did in their core believe that this was the most important thing. And for them, that worked, they could do it. And I couldn’t do it. I just couldn’t make myself believe it, just based on what I had heard about, what my kids would tell me about, what was going on at home and what was going on in the neighborhoods. And it just didn’t feel right to me. And so I ended up never giving homework. It was always just review what we did in class, you know? So then for those few students whose parents were like, I know you have homework, they could do something. But for the kids who were overwhelmed already, I was not going to be a person who would add to that for them. And so I do think having that experience made me question it a little bit more. And then definitely as I started diving into unschooling and learning more about that, then I started really looking back to my own experience as a kid in school and questioning all that had happened as well. Because I did love it. And you know, in some ways, and in some ways, it was terrifying. All the things because you’re in this kind of super controlled environment, lots of rules, lots of expectations, and I wanted to not get in trouble and all of that. So all of those kind of things, I started reflecting on later. I don’t really remember pressure from external voices at all. But I’m kind of immune to that, for the most part, just personality wise, like I’m going to do the things I want to do. But yeah, I think people probably looked at my decision as like, well, she knows what she’s doing. So they assume that’s the best choice. It’s been interesting for sure. PAM: I can feel like you having that teacher’s experience is kind of one thing that can show people when you make the choice to teach your own kids, that you tick a little box for their acceptance versus the how on earth are you going to learn how to do that? You’re not a teacher. So Jen, how about you? What’s your experience? JEN: Homeschooling was never on my radar. I don’t even think I really even thought about it, probably because no one around me was doing it. And for the most part, with my eldest son school was a pretty good fit. And then, like I said, I didn’t really think about homeschooling as such. But as my second son came into the world, and I watched how he learnt from the world around him, I started to question how school was going to work for him. He’s pretty much like what Erika was saying, he really is quite immune to other people’s ideas for him. He just pretty much runs his own show. He was a very hands-on learner as well. And so I could just see, I think I intuitively knew that it wouldn't work. I just wasn’t sure how school was going to work out for him. Anyway, we just kind of went about raising our kids the way that we knew how. They started off in an early childhood setting. So, they actually joined the prep program that was part of the private school that we had decided to send them to. And that was quite beautiful. The teachers that had both my eldest son and my second son were amazing. They were very whole child focused, very play based as well. But then as my second son was starting prep, I started to notice even things in prep started to change. There was less focus on the play side of things, and things started to become a lot more structured. But thankfully, I had an amazing teacher that was in that space. And she was very much relationship based, she really put a lot of focus in connecting with the children. And so that was a really beautiful experience for Hayes. I often would talk to her about how I’m really concerned about how Hayes is going to go moving forward into this more structured approach to learning. But like I said, we just sort of continue down that pathway that we knew. And as he went into kindergarten, he actually had the same teacher that my eldest son had. And she was an amazing teacher in that she was very academic, like you could just see that she knew her content. But the piece that was missing was that connection piece. I felt like there was this big focus on academics, but it didn’t land because she did not have that connection with the children, she didn’t have children herself. I can appreciate that when you have gone through the system, and you go on to uni, and you do really well at uni, and it becomes all about the academics. And so that was a real missing piece. And so I started to see Hayes not gelling with that classroom environment. But again, just continuing on with what we knew, it wasn’t a big problem. But it was sort of then that I was starting to question things. And then as he went into year one, Blair, my third son, had started prep. And again, I started to see this change in the system where they were taking primary school trained teachers and putting them into prep. It was like they were shifting towards even more structure. And so, and then what I started to see too, was this whole diagnosis approach, like, we need to get these kids diagnosed early, get them connecting with the right services, so that we can basically get rid of those problems that get in the way of our approach to teaching, so we can get better results. And so at that time, I’d actually had my fourth son. I had just had my fourth son. And I remember having the interview with Blair’s prep teacher. And she was suggesting that I needed to take Blair to go and see an OT, an occupational therapist. And I’m like, freaking out thinking, Oh my God, what have I missed? I’m just seeing this beautiful child. And she is seeing this child who can’t sit still on the carpet for a session. And me just having had my fourth child, just feeling really overwhelmed, self doubt through the roof. And thankful, thankfully, as I was going through that experience, I lent into really focusing on my child instead of what I was being told. And I just started to, to really ground in that. But at the same time, we just continued to do what we were doing, because it still didn’t enter my mind. It wasn’t until Hayes, my second son, was moving into year two. And he had the most amazing teacher, as well as he was in a class of all of his friends. But I just started to see this light dim in him. And at the same time, Blair was in kindergarten, and he would pretty much cry every day. The anxiety was through the roof. And I had this new baby. I had this baby, I had Blair in kindergarten, who was really struggling. And then Hayes in year two, who had all the conditions right, amazing teacher, friends, but was just completely unhappy. That’s when I started to really look at other options, more so for Hayes, because I felt like back then, Blair was just kind of, I had this idea that he just needs to get used to the whole school thing. Anyway, so then come towards the end of year two for Hayes, I thought, okay, let’s try the Steiner school. So we did that for a little bit, which was a massive ask, because it was like half an hour there, half an hour back. So it’s two hours of driving every day. And at that stage, my youngest was only two. And then I started to see that that was still sort of the same thing. It was a different idea, but it was still an idea that was placed upon a child. And so then I started to explore the homeschooling route. And as I was exploring that, I came across the Living Joyfully podcast. And it just spoke so deeply to my heart that I just couldn’t look away. I listened to so many episodes. When something just really resonates with you, that it’s like, it just, you feel this whole weight lifted from your shoulders because it just feels so right. And so that’s what gave me the courage to really jump into homeschooling because I knew which direction I wanted to head. And as far as being a teacher, does it help, did it help me or did it make things harder? It was kind of a little bit of both. It helped in terms of other people outside of my family going, oh yeah, that makes sense. You’re a teacher because they’re naturally thinking I’m doing school at home. And I often say to people, if I had those kinds of children who really resonated with that approach, that would make my job so much easier. Like, okay guys, let’s sit down and we’re going to do x, you know, I could do that really well, but that’s not why I moved to homeschooling. I could see that environment did not work. It did not work for most of my children. And I could see that it did not work for a lot of children. And so, it took a lot of courage to go down this route because I didn’t know anyone who was doing it. I started to discover more families who were homeschooling, but very rarely did I come across a family that was unschooling. And so I kind of felt like I was doing something naughty. Like I should have still been trying to do school at home. But for me, I’m like, if I was going to do that, my kids would be at school where all the other kids are because they loved the social aspect of school. But so far as whether it was easier or harder, it was kind of a little bit of both. It was easy because I had the insights from my teaching experience. I also had the insights as a parent. I could see how the system was changing. I could see how it was moving from this really play-based approach, which I feel like even when I think about my own schooling experience, a lot of that was still play-based. And now I could see this shift towards more structure and more control. And we’ve got to box children in and identify all of these problems that really are not a problem if you have the right environment. As far as the pressures were concerned, I didn’t really have that outside of my family and friends. And I think that kind of blindsided me a little bit because I thought my immediate family would really appreciate it, like, oh, okay, she’s got all the skills in the world. She’s a teacher. I had been diving deep into the world of personal development and I feel like I’m an awesome parent. And so it makes sense that I’m going to have my kids at home with me and we live life together. But that was not the case. My family found it really hard to understand and appreciate my decision purely because they couldn’t see outside of their own world of how that could be possible. And so as I became more and more grounded in myself and I started to unpack a lot of my own, I guess, my own conflicts with this way of doing things, it just became kind of irrelevant. I just was able to then build that stronger shell where I had compassion for other people’s ideas without feeling like I had to take them on. So yeah, I hope that answers that question. PAM: Yeah. Yeah, I think that’s brilliant. It really does. And I mean, it’s underneath all of your answers. It is so much of our work to do, right? Our own processing, there’s the word, processing our own experiences. Even you had talked specifically about that too, Erika, like looking back at our schooling now with this new lens. And because I feel like I did that too, kind of paint it over to make it a positive experience for myself while I was going through it. It’s like, oh yeah, rah, rah, I can do this, blah, blah, blah. And looking back, it’s like, oh, I put up with a lot of shit without even really realizing it at the time. So yeah, that’s very interesting. ANNA: I was kind of struck too by your story, Jenna. So you’re talking before kindergarten, this kind of pre-program, they’re already making it this more structured academic. And we really see that here in the US too. It’s just earlier and earlier and earlier. Whereas I feel like back in the day, there wasn’t any of that until so much later. It was kind of fourth grade things kicked in. And so you had this time of really just learning about yourself and how to be around other people and all of those things. And we really have lost that. So I thought that was interesting. But yeah, I just love how each of you brought those insights from that time, but also just listening to your kids and seeing who is in front of you and listening to your heart. Because I really feel like all of you had, there’s just this call to be with your kids, this is so important. So I think that was really beautiful. JEN: I was just going to say, on that note, Anna, we’ve also needed to appreciate that with this more structured approach that the education system is still moving towards, we need to understand the pressure that that puts on teachers. ANNA: Yeah, absolutely. JEN: There is no space for relationships. There is no space for connection. And so I appreciate where the system is trying to move towards, but it just puts so much pressure on so many layers within that, that it ends up just extracting all of the good pieces from the teaching profession. That again, like when anyone is in a stressful environment, no one is going to benefit from that. And we see that time and time again, that teachers are under incredible stress, incredible pressure. ANNA: Well, that whole system, right? I feel like that whole system is having this pressure of, we need these outcomes, so we’re going to put pressure on this system. But when you drill down to the individuals there, I mean, every teacher I know, again, has the biggest heart, right? They’re there because they love kids. They love learning themselves. They want to be a part of something, like you said, Michelle, these foundational pieces of like, if we can reach these kids. And so there’s just, there is so much heart there, but you see this incredible pressure coming from wherever, governments, larger community, whatever that puts such pressure that makes it this boiling point. And I think it’s the kids who suffer and really the teachers too in those systems. It’s so hard. Okay. So my question is, it's similar to what we’ve been talking about, but can you share any mindset shifts that have happened on your unschooling journey? Maybe shifts away from schoolish ideas or the way you thought it might be. And I think we’re all, we talk about this a lot on the network, we’re all learning all the time, but just some of those shifts for you that have been like, oh, I thought it was going to be this way, but really, my kids have shown me another way. So I will go to Erika first. ERIKA: Yes. I mean, there’s been so many, but I feel like one of the biggest things I had taken away from all of my schooling was that there is a right way for everything, one right way, at least a better path compared to a worse path or, different ideas like that. And so I think that left me as an adult kind of trying to figure out what’s the best way to do this and what’s the right way to do this. What’s the best way, there’s got to be a correct way for me to parent and there’s got to be a right, best way for my kids to do X, Y, Z. And so that has been gigantic for my mindset to realize that there’s not a right way and that we can’t know. I think we’re promised a lot in school that if you do these things, you’ll get a good outcome. And now I know that’s not true. And so I feel like that has taken a lot of pressure off of all of our individual decisions. It’s opened my eyes to the great lives that people are having that I would have judged as not a good life back when I was in school because they didn’t do it right, or I don’t know, it wasn't prestigious enough or something like that. And so I would say that’s probably the biggest mindset shift. I also feel like I had kind of an immature view of the expectations of school being like making sense or being easy when I was younger, that now I don’t feel like that at all. I understand deeply now that people are different. Back when I was in school, I had a lot of empathy and really cared about how other people were feeling and doing, but it didn’t make sense to me why they wouldn’t just do it though. Like, why don’t you just do the work and then it will be okay and you’ll stop getting yelled at and you’ll stop being in trouble and you’ll get good grades. I couldn’t quite wrap my head around that this is harder for some people than it is for others or that we have different strengths. And so that is something that I am so grateful that I know now, just how different people are and how different everyone’s experience of every single thing is from everyone else. It’s been interesting if I ever do have a chance to talk with someone from my school days, how different our memories are of the same things. Something that stuck with me forever that shook me to my core at that time. I’ve had people be like, oh, I don’t remember that that happened. So really even back then everyone was having a completely different experience. But I didn’t recognize that at that time, of course, because I was young. And so that’s something that as a parent, I think, and as an unschooler on this journey in particular, I think I’ve had a lot of space to dive into really questioning those things. And I’m so grateful. ANNA: Yes, those are big ones! Okay, Jenna, I’ll go to you next. JEN: Yeah, with mindset shifts, it’s almost hard to pinpoint what exactly they were once you’ve made the mindset shift, right? Sort of like, oh, what was my mindset like back then? And I think one of the biggest ones was moving from this mechanistic kind of approach to raising children. And when I say mechanistic, I’m referring to if you’ve, well, I know you beautiful ladies have read it, because that’s how I discovered it. Alison Gopnik’s book, “The Gardener and the Carpenter.” This whole carpenter approach where you are trying to mold or build something specific. And so you’re making decisions based on, if I do this thing, then I’m going to get this outcome. What that shifted to was really this gardener approach, which is really interesting, because we’re now as a family, we’re now going down the road of regenerative agriculture, so everything that I’m learning about regenerative agriculture, I’m looking at it through the lens of unschooling. And it’s really this whole idea of understanding the nature of things, understanding, what it really takes, it needs to start with observation, right? You need to really take that step back and see the child in front of you, which is really impossible to do when you have that mechanistic kind of approach, that carpenter approach where you’re trying to mold them into something specific. I don’t believe that children are this blank slate for us to just do with what we like. I believe that every individual is their own person. And like Erika demonstrated, two people can have the same kind of experience, but they experience it very differently. And so really moving towards this gardener approach, it’s all about creating the conditions that allows the nature of that thing to really bloom. We see it in schools, the kinds of conditions that we create in the education system, how it really stifles a lot of children. I know you’ve spoken about it, Anna, that you work with a lot of adults who are in their forties, fifties, and are really just learning about themselves now because they’ve kind of lived this surface level life where they’ve done all the right things. They’ve followed the directions that well-intentioned people have been kind of steering them on, but feel out of alignment with the life that they’re living. And so I think for me, one of the biggest blessings, and even though I would have my mom back in a heartbeat, losing my mom at such a young age helped me to see the depth of life. I started to question everything when that took place, that I started to really understand. I started to dive deep into what the meaning of life was. And so through going on this unschooling journey, like I said, I felt so called to it that I couldn’t not do it. And that was really the birthplace of me making decisions from my heart and appreciating that children know how to do that best. They really know how to follow that inner voice within them. And from my perspective, coming from that really mechanistic approach to living life to this gardener approach has allowed me to see the magic that unfolds as we are living life. Why would we want to set outcomes for other people? It just makes zero sense to me now that, like Erika said, I just feel so grateful that I have come across this way of living life, because there is just so much more connection. There’s so much more depth to the way we’re living our lives that no amount of planning could ever create that. And it’s just like, why would I want to? There’s just so much magic that comes from being in the present moment and following what we’re drawn to in any given moment that, to me, curriculum just makes zero sense. And particularly in this day and age where the world is changing so rapidly, I always say to parents, like, what are we actually planning for? What are we planning for when, I think I heard a statistic like by 2030, 85% of the jobs that will be around in 2030 don’t even exist. And it’s like, what are we planning for people? Whereas by really following what a child is interested in and being so in tune and present with where they’re at in that particular time, not worrying about what their reading ability is, or their writing ability is, or do they know how to do this, or how to solve this mathematical equation. I'm seeing this now, with my youngest. I’ve really been on this pathway pretty much from the get go with him. And just seeing all of these skills just naturally organically evolve has been really beautiful. And he’s not, if he was to go into a school environment, which he has entertained and played with that idea, because this pathway is not about whether you go to school or not. It is so much more about what is that, what are those conditions that are really going to allow this child to be more of who they already are. And so he has gone back into the school system. And it just doesn’t make any sense, because it’s just this surface level stuff, filling this worksheet. And I actually showed Leeton a couple of months ago, he was doing something, he was playing a computer game, and he needed to work out which V-Buck bundle he was going to purchase. And watching him navigate that, it was just like, oh my goodness. And then I, as a teacher, documented what that looks like, pen and paper form. And then I said, mate, what you just did then, that’s what that looks like at school. It doesn’t make sense whatsoever that just filling in a worksheet is going to bring about that depth that you get when you learn things in context. And so I think, from a parenting perspective, does it make sense to just know how to do something on a worksheet? Or does it make sense being able to solve problems as you’re encountering the problems in everyday life? And I think really every parent would agree that’s way more meaningful than filling in, showing that you know how to solve this mathematical problem through this teacher method that the teacher has delivered. And even my eldest son, who has been at school for the most time, and did pretty well at school, then started his electrical trade, had to do an early entry exam where they had to do a numeracy and a mathematical one. And he even said, he’s like, mom, I’ll be lucky if I got, he was kind of being smart about it. He’s like, I’d be lucky if I got zero. I’ve learned all of these things, but do you think I could remember how to do it? And it’s like, yeah, mate, because when we don’t learn things in context, we don’t grow the depth. And going back to what I was saying with the gardener and the carpenter, now understanding more about regenerative agriculture, it’s about what’s happening beneath the surface that drives what happens above the surface. And so that’s where my mindset has shifted probably the most is understanding that when we learn things in context, we’re actively learning them. We’re growing those roots that allow us to then take those concepts and apply them in all different contexts. And so, I often talk about this whole idea of, well, most people in my world drive a car, but I guarantee hardly any of them know how the engine works. Like we know how to drive a car, but we don’t need to know all of the intricacies of how the engine works to actually be able to drive that car. What I feel education is trying to do, it’s trying to really teach all of the intricate pieces, whether they’re related or relevant to what the learner is interested in or not. And so I just feel like we lose, we lose the context, right? ANNA: We lose that context. JEN: Yeah. We really do lose the context and we get bogged down in all of this detail. But when you think about how we learned to walk and talk, no one sat there and said, right, okay, now you’re going to put this leg forward. We didn’t explicitly teach that. And somehow we get this idea that once we hit the age of five and even earlier now, everything needs to be explicitly taught. And it’s like, no, everything is implicitly taught. And this is the thing about even going back to the creatures. Even going back to that gardener and carpenter approach. When we’re taking a carpenter approach and we think about how we want our children to be, but the beautiful thing is we don’t need to do anything to our children. We just need to be it ourselves. And we see it, we see it in our children. They’ll do something. And I’m like, oh man, I used to do that like early in my parenting days. And I’m like, oh man, that’s coming back to bite me in the bum now. They learn so much more unconsciously than what they do consciously. But yeah, I feel like I’ve gone off on a bit of a tangent there. ANNA: That’s okay. I really appreciate it. Because all of those things are wrapped together, right? All those ideas and all those are the shifts that this journey teaches us. That is part of our implicit learning, right? Of just being able to be there and be a part of it. So yeah, I love that. But I’ll go to you, Michelle, and see what your thoughts are about that. MICHELLE: So as I was listening to her, I was thinking about how a lot of my thoughts and chewing on these questions were similar. Like the gardener situation, I’ve been thinking about children, my children in particular, whether it’s about flowers or animals, the environment mattering very much. And so for example, different flowers, obviously they need different environments to thrive. With animals, I view it in a sense of how much is the school environment asking a tiger to swim or, I don’t know how well tigers swim actually, but okay, have the fish climb the tree, right? Yeah. That I think that’s what school is actually doing in a lot of senses is trying to take a child who, if left to the beauty of exploring the world in the safety of their home with their parents and family, that they would be able to thrive and blossom. It makes me upset that so many children get labeled in certain negative ways that they think something’s wrong with them, instead of recognizing that it’s the adults that are trying to fit them into a particular box that is never going to work for them. Even as an adult, they might struggle and as an adult, still trying to fit into that box and everything. So I don’t know if this mindset shift per se, but something that does bother me is the use of the word behind. I feel like it’s not a helpful term to say that a child is behind. Behind who? Behind what? That’s not helpful for the child. It might be helpful in your system and such. But if the whole idea is to nurture and teach children and help them to learn and enjoy learning, critical thinking, all the things that schools want to put out as, oh, we’re helping them to be critical thinkers and things like that. But then the way that you’re going about instructing them doesn’t work. It doesn’t fit together because you want them to conform. And I just think that, well, I wrote down, it’s sad to have kids jumping through hoops. I know from my own experience of being a child and wanting to get good grades. That was so important to me was getting those good grades. And I felt like as I got older, I didn’t learn anything. I just was really good at regurgitation. And then I got the golden stars and everything for that. But as far as my actual understanding of things, the way I view things now is mastery and enjoyment are available to us. So to learn something because you want to be able to do a thing, that’s the reason why you learn. So when people, teachers, parents, whatever, want kids to learn by a certain age, learn how to read by a certain age, it’s for their purposes. It’s not for the child to be able to enjoy what comes from being able to read. All five of my children taught themselves to read at different ages in different ways, but they were just in an environment with their parents, their extended family. There’s so much around us that how can you not in a sense take it in. You’re just going to be able to eventually understand. It clicks at different times. One day you couldn’t as an 11 year old you just haven’t gotten it yet. And then all of a sudden, you’re reading big long sentences. And we have so many homeschooling, unschooling stories of this. It just really makes me sad for kids that are stuck in the system that have those labels. But also the fact of just kids being focused on grades, what comes from that, whether the teachers or the adults realize it or not, is the question, will it be on the test? And so then, if it’s not on the test, I don’t care about it. Why would I spend my mental energy? I could be doing other things with my life. It makes the learning not enjoyable. You’re just regurgitating and missing all of the beauty and wonder of being able to learn about anything you want. I mean, the world that we live in now, as far as the access that we have to the information and school is like a fake world. It’s an imitation. I remember when I was in third grade, my teacher set up a whole big portion of the room that was a store. And we had a cash register and we could buy things. But at the end of the day, that’s fake money. That’s, it’s not real money. It’s not real world learning about, budgeting or whatever. I feel like because of who I am that all these mindset shifts may have happened just naturally anyways, but definitely being on the unschooling journey. I don’t even know how to end that sentence, but yeah it's part of it. ANNA: But just tuning in with your kids. You just really brought those things that were deep inside of you to the surface. Because I think that’s the beauty of our kids just really showing us these things that I think we have inherently known. But a lot of us that went through that system, it’s kind of been pushed down. And something you said reminded me, do you, Pam, do you remember Animal School? I’m going to try to find it. It’s an old video. I feel like it’s probably been 15 or 20 years. Maybe it’s still out there, but it’s this exact thing about what you’re talking about. And it just brings you to tears. The fish is at school and he has to stay out because he doesn’t know how to climb the tree, but the monkey gets to go climb the tree and then he has to stop that to learn how to swim. And, oh my gosh, recognizing that these environments don’t mean anything. And I think that’s what I love about when people start questioning is because we just don’t question it, right? We don’t question, does this make the most sense? Is this the easiest way or the best way or the most efficient way even to learn about something? And so I think it’s cool when you open that up, because again, I think so many people in that environment, they want that. And they have a lot of constraints around what that can look like. And so when we have the privilege and the ability to be able to try different things. For kids to really guide their own learning, find their ways. It can be really beautiful. PAM: Yeah. And I think for me, through this whole conversation, really what shines for me as one of the big differences is, and you alluded to it, Michelle, is the, how in the system we come to put value on learning that happens there over all the other learning. Why can't I learn while I do this other thing that I love, at which I'm learning a ton. So for me, I feel like you’ve been able to see within your lives and within the system, just the huge difference in how one just defines learning and the fact that, okay, not even define how we value, that idea that there is learning that is more valuable. There’s learning more valuable to the system for the system’s reasons, but not to the individual, right? Things that are important to them in the moment are just beautiful learning experiences. Well, thank you all so much for joining us. It’s been such an interesting conversation. I have loved how much you guys have thought about this and processed it, and I really appreciate you sharing with us. And we invite everyone listening to join us in the Living Joyfully Network to continue the conversation with all of us. It is a warm and welcoming online community of like-hearted parents. It’s a nonjudgmental space where you can explore these more unconventional ideas about learning and parenting and these wonderful gardener and carpenter metaphors, and what they just can look like day to day in your family, because as Erika said, people are different. Your family’s different from our family’s. Your child’s different from a sibling or from another family’s child, but that doesn’t mean we have to twist these ideas, right? They fit for individuals, for people, just as the human beings they are. Anyway, your first month is free so that you can get a sense of whether the community is a good fit for you, and we are very excited to welcome you. To learn more and join us, just follow the link in the show notes or go to livingjoyfully.ca and choose Network in the menu up top. Wishing everyone a lovely day. Thanks so much, everyone. Thank you. We appreciate you joining us.

Hondo Carpenter, a Las Vegas Raiders writer for Sports Illustrated, joined Sports Talk. Carpenter praised first-year head coach Klint Kubiak for creating a new culture in Las Vegas. Carpenter also shared his thoughts on the Raiders' quarterback situation, TE Brock Bowers' return, and Las Vegas' young defense.

Steve and Jeff discussed the Saints' long-awaited return to the Superdome for the team's 2026 home opener. The guys broke down the loss of Saints LT Kelvin Banks Jr. and explained how New Orleans should adjust with backup Asim Richards. Hondo Carpenter, a Las Vegas Raiders writer for Sports Illustrated, joined Sports Talk. Carpenter praised first-year head coach Klint Kubiak for creating a new culture in Las Vegas. Carpenter also shared his thoughts on the Raiders' quarterback situation, TE Brock Bowers' return, and Las Vegas' young defense.

Kicking off our House of Carpenter series, we head to the far-flung future of 1997, where Manhattan is a walled-off maximum security prison and Air Force One has just gone down inside it. John Carpenter's 1981 cult classic follows his Halloween breakout by moving from horror into dystopian action, with Kurt Russell's Snake Plissken bringing a Western gunslinger's swagger, a synth score you'll be humming for days, and Isaac Hayes as the Duke of New York. It's also a showcase of low-budget ingenuity, from a real night shoot on Liberty Island to a "computer" glider sequence built with neon tape, black light, and physical models. Join Darren, Tristan, and John as they get their gliders ready and ask whether Snake still has the goods 45 years later.

THREE MORE DAYS 'TIL HALLOWEEN—AND SILVER SHAMROCK HAS A DEADLY SURPRISE! Sign up here: https://bit.ly/reel-rejects. Get a $10 bonus after completing your first offer. Get rewarded with Freecash. Play games, complete offers, and earn rewards along the way. Brands pay Freecash to connect with people who engage with their games and apps, and Freecash shares part of that value with you. Freecash is a rewards platform, not a replacement for your income. Rewards depend on the offers you complete and results vary by user. Jackie Bonsignore & Jon Maturan watch Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) for the first time in this full movie reaction and review! The Reel Rejects continue their Road to Halloween: The Game with the franchise's bold standalone sequel—the infamous Halloween movie without Michael Myers. Jackie & Jon react to the unforgettable Silver Shamrock jingle, the skull, witch and pumpkin masks, the horrifying mask demonstration, Conal Cochran's mysterious factory, his mechanical enforcers, and Tom Atkins' frantic “Stop it!” ending! Halloween III: Season of the Witch Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:   / thereelrejects   Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (It, Fright Night Part 2), Halloween III stars Tom Atkins as Dr. Daniel Challis (The Fog, Escape from New York), Stacey Nelkin as Ellie Grimbridge (Yellowbeard, Get Crazy), Dan O'Herlihy as Conal Cochran (RoboCop, The Last Starfighter), Nancy Kyes as Linda Challis (Halloween, The Fog), and Dick Warlock as the Assassin (Halloween II, Escape from New York). Jackie & Jon discuss why Michael Myers wasn't included, John Carpenter and Debra Hill's anthology concept, the Carpenter and Alan Howarth score, the Stonehenge conspiracy, the film's shocking finale, and how Season of the Witch became an '80s cult-horror favorite. Follow Jackie Bonsignore: https://www.instagram.com/jackiebonsignore/ Follow Jon Maturan: https://www.instagram.com/jonmaturan/?hl=en Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike, Kait and guest CK Carpenter catch up and bring some of their Kickstarter books from their giant “To Read Piles” to discuss. Then dive a little deeper into the KS platform and talk about more comics they may never get a chance to read!Kickstarters mentioned on this episode:My Neighbor Necromancer - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dillgilbertson/my-neighbor-necromancer-1-4Islands in the Sky: A People's History of Hurricane Helene - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/appalachiacomics/appalachia-comics-projectWickerson: Tales from the Grove - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dereklaufman/wickerson-tales-from-the-groveDaystar - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/secondatbest/daystar-and-trial-errorMALAYA: Filipino Anticolonial Dark Fantasy - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/santelmo/malaya-filipino-anticolonial-dark-fantasy-issue-1-43pgsThe Arc Fall by Owen D. Pomeroy - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/averyhillpublishing/the-arc-fall-by-owen-d-pomeryLouise Sprouse Stole My Heart - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thekylestarks/louise-sprouse-stole-my-heartMalloch the Damned - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deathline/malloch3Pigeon Peep's Little Crew & Friends: The Fledgling Flight - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1023382472/pigeon-peeps-little-crew-and-friends-be-part-of-the-comicTimestamps:00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics00:01:54 - My Neighbor Necromancer #1-300:09:01 - Islands in the Sky: A People's History of Hurricane Helene00:19:23 - Wickerson: Tales from the Grove00:24:54 - Discord Picks00:25:14 - Inglorious X-Force #2-1000:29:43 - Daystar00:33:51 - MALAYA: Filipino Anticolonial Dark Fantasy #100:37:21 - Kickstarter comics and ads00:48:55 - Kickstarter comics we're psyched for01:01:27 - WrapPanel: Mike Rapin, KaitlamphereGuest: CK CarpenterProducer: Mike RapinPost Production & Social Media: Kait Lamphere, Daniel MartinezProoflistener: Daniel MartinezEditor: Zander Riggs Music provided by Infinity Shred. Find them on Bandcamp.IRCB Avatars by @ICELEVELIRCB Logo by Kyle RoseSupport us on Patreon to get access to our Patreon-only series: IRCB Movie Club, Saga of Saga, Giant Days of Our Lives, A Better Batmobile, and more! patreon.com/ircbpodcastBuy a copy of our anniversary zine Totally Not A Cult: https://ircbpodcast.com/shop/p/totally-not-a-cult-zine-1Email: ircbpodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @ircbpodcastInstagram: @ircbpodcastDiscord: discordapp.com/invite/E8JUB9sReddit: ireadcomicbooks.reddit.comIRCB GoodreadsMerch: ircbpodcast.com/shop

They Call Me Carpenter is a thought-provoking exploration of Upton Sinclair's reflections on faith, morality, and social justice. This work delves into the struggles of the human spirit in the face of societal challenges, a theme that remains relevant today as we navigate issues of inequality and ethical responsibility. Sinclair's poignant narrative encourages listeners to reflect on the impact of their beliefs and actions, making it a timeless piece that resonates with contemporary audiences seeking meaning in a complex world. Engaging with this audiobook offers a chance to ponder the enduring questions of purpose and the role of individuals in shaping society.

Cultists, it's time once again for some Spooky Season bonus episodes! And in the spirit season we're going to be putting David Gordon Green's Halloween trilogy on the Exam Table. Halloween 2018 is both a direct sequel to Carpenter's original film as well as a reboot of the Franchise. Please join us for the Dissection.  #halloween, #halloween2018, #h40, #halloweenmovie, #michalemyers, #lauriestrode, #theshape, #halloweenkills, #halloweenends, #davidegordongreen, #johncarpenter, #jamieleecurtis, #dannymcbride, #judygreer, #nickcastle, #andimatichak, #thenighthecamehome, #michalemyersmask, #slashermovies, #truecrimepodcast, Dissection Topic https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502407/?ref_=ext_shr  https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07JDXGRGK?ref_=atv_dp_share_cu_r  Unholy Sacrament  Melted Casio Keys - Hazy IPA -Tiny Giants Brewing https://untp.beer/PKXPL  Dark Tidings: October Episodes The Devil's Backbone (del Toro, '01) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256009/?ref_=ext_shr  Halloween Kills (Green, '21) Bonus Episode https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10665338/?ref_=ext_shr  Donnie Darko (Kelly, '01) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/?ref_=ext_shr  Halloween Ends (Green, '22) Bonus Episode https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10665342/?ref_=ext_shr 

Episode 163: This week, Kyle Van Pelt talks with Megan Carpenter, CEO and Co-Founder at Ficomm Partners. Megan entered the industry through a college internship and started her own marketing consultancy at 29 before co-founding Ficomm with Jason Lahita. She has since refocused the firm exclusively on RIAs, working as an embedded growth partner that pairs marketing strategy with advisor coaching. Kyle and Megan explore what Ficomm's research reveals about the path from referral to hired advisor. Megan shares why the wealthiest investors turned out to be the least referral-reliant segment surveyed, and how younger investors now use four or more touchpoints before reaching out. They discuss the "referral-only" website approach, why the prospect experience begins long before the first meeting, and how advisors can create content that fits them and still reach clients where they are. Megan also examines AI discovery and why she sees marketing becoming a leadership responsibility. In this episode: (00:00) - Intro (02:08) - Megan's money moment (04:26) - How Ficomm evolved from PR firm to embedded growth partner (08:15) - Finding your niche as your business evolves (13:45) - What research reveals about how investors find advisors (19:10) - Building trust after the referral (21:29) - Does the "referral-only" website still work? (25:22) - The overlooked opportunity in serving the mass affluent (26:46) - Starting the client experience before the first meeting (30:32) - Creating content that fits you and your ideal clients (34:58) - How AI tools are changing advisor discovery (39:01) - Megan's outlook on the future of the wealth management industry (41:32) - Megan's Milemarker Minute Key Takeaways Referrals get you on the list, not the client. Megan's research suggests prospects often investigate an advisor before ever making contact. Your website and content need to reinforce the recommendation and demonstrate whom you understand and serve. Define your ideal client, but leave room to evolve. Early-stage businesses often need to work with the clients they can attract. The goal is to build around shared values, strong relationships, and the people you can genuinely serve well, then narrow your focus as the business matures. The prospect experience is part of the client experience. Nearly three-quarters of investors surveyed chose an advisor who demonstrated an understanding of their specific needs. Show that understanding in your messaging and first touchpoints, not just after the engagement letter is signed. Build a growth engine that fits who you are. Match your clients' preferred channels with your team's strengths. Megan uses conversations and speaking engagements as source material that her team repurposes, without requiring her to become an active personal social media publisher. Quotes "Referrals really get you onto the list, but don't necessarily get you the client. What's changed is not necessarily the value of the referral, but what happens immediately following the referral." ~ Megan Carpenter "Contrary to what the industry thinks, the wealthiest investors are actually the least referral-reliant segment that we surveyed." ~ Megan Carpenter "All AI is really doing is collapsing the gap between being findable and being worth finding." ~ Megan Carpenter “The firms that win will have marketing at the leadership table, not in a support role.” ~ Megan Carpenter Links  Megan Carpenter on LinkedIn Ficomm Partners The New Growth Equation Jason Lahita Goldman Sachs BlackRock Absolute Engagement Julie Littlechild Michael Kitces James Conole Beautiful Chaos by Jessica Urlichs Harry Potter Connect with our hosts Milemarker.co Kyle on LinkedIn Jud on LinkedIn Subscribe and stay in touch Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube

This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE. The monsters are tactile, weird and genuinely disgusting, and Cregger lets them stay disgusting instead of cutting away. Hays and Ryan Holladay's score does the synth-pulse thing that Carpenter invented, but the intelligence is in the placement. Synopsis: A hapless courier tasked with delivering a package to a remote hospital. He soon finds himself caught in the middle of an outbreak and must fight through hordes of mutated creatures to survive. DREW TAYLOR is a reporter for The Wrap. He has written for The New York Times, Vulture, Vanity Fair, The Playlist, and Collider. He also wrote The Art of Onward, which gives an inside look at the making of the 2020 Pixar film. The book is available to purchase here. He also co-hosts a weekly podcast about animation called Fine Tooning, which is available on all podcast platforms. Twitter: @drewtailored Instagram: @drewtailored Podcast: Light the Fuse One Heat Minute Productions WEBSITE: oneheatminute.com TWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute & @OHMPods MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/en-au/stores/one-heat-minute-productions Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bass After Dark — inch for inch and pound for pound, the best show in fishing — is back for another lively, and LIVE, episode. Don't miss Brian the Carpenter, Epic Eric, and our mystery panelists (spoiler alert: it's a loaded panel of Charlie Hartley, Bryan New, Bryan Schmitt, Joe Raymond, Rob Jordan, and Lee Livesay) in a special episode where we ask the timely question: What is the one bait you MUST have tied on this fall?

They Live is a timeless science fiction, dystopian piece of media criticism. Director John Carpenter argues the film is a documentary, and he says what we're all thinking, using alien overlords to reveal the real-world villains of Mass Media, Big Corporations, and the Surveillance state. All of Carpenter's nightmares have only increased since the 1988 release, with the rise of Flock cameras, media conglomerates taking over the communication world, and the advertising business infiltrating every waking minute of our lives.

Send us Fan MailHost Jacqui Lents launches Season 5 of Jacqui Just Chatters with guest Kim Gottlieb-Walker, a UCLA-trained photographer whose career includes stills for John Carpenter's Halloween and work as a production photographer on Family Ties and Cheers. Kim recalls working with Jamie Lee Curtis and Carpenter. Learn about the unit still photographer's role as both promotional image-maker and on-set historian. Kim shares stories about photographing Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley. Listen as Kim introduces her debut novel, Lenswoman in Love, a second-chance romance inspired by her life as a photographer in 1960s–70s. Info/links from guest or topic:www.Lenswoman.com www.KimGottliebWalker.com www.TheRenaissanceWoman.nethttps://kimgottliebwalker.substack.com/https://www.instagram.com/kimgottliebwalker/ Do you have a story idea or thoughts about the episode? Connect with Jacqui at the following.www.JacquiLents.comFB: Jacqui Lents AuthorIG: @JacquiLents Music used for this episode includes –Ratatouille's Kitchen - Carmen María and Edu EspinalfoundAlways – NesralityGlamor Shot -  DT_MooreBaranggay Malawag - u_tur3t0h0lo

Danny's pick to wrap up our DEAD OF SUMMER triple feature is the John Carpenter classic, THE FOG. In this episode, we meet the vengeful zombie pirate, Captain William Blake, and his undead crew of the Elizabeth Dane. We uncover all 10 monster reveals, chat John Carpenter's original vision and the reshoots that followed, compare Carpenter's storytelling with another horror master, sing Goo Goo Dolls parody songs, and even discuss what's up with Jesus' last name. So hitch a ride with Tom Atkins and head over to Antonio Bay because this fog's rolling in. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTubeFor bonus content and commentaries, check out our PatreonFollow the show on Instagram, TikTok, and FacebookWant to support the show and save 20% on Fangoria? Visit Fangoria and enter PROMO CODE: HOWIMETYOURMONSTER at checkout!Looking for How I Met Your Monster merch? Check out TeePublic for shirts, stickers, mugs, and more!Questions and comments: howimetyourmonsterpodcast@gmail.com

As we mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the speaker reflects on the impact of that fateful day on our collective memory and psyche. It's fascinating how people can recall the smallest details of what they were doing on 9/11, but often struggle to remember what they did the day before. This episode delves into the complexities of memory and how our experiences shape our understanding of the world.The speaker shares their personal story of being in uniform on 9/11, preparing to address an ROTC class when the attacks occurred. They recall the initial confusion and the sense of vulnerability that came with it. The conversation also touches on the theme of nostalgia and how it can distort our perception of the past. The speaker wonders if we're better or worse off 25 years later, and whether the sacrifices made in the name of security have truly improved our lives.The discussion also explores the concept of patriotism and nationalism, and how they've become increasingly intertwined in modern politics. The speaker shares their thoughts on the current state of politics and the need for accountability in government. They also discuss the importance of critical thinking and media literacy in navigating the complexities of the modern world.Terry Wayne Carpenter, a Denver author, joins the conversation to talk about his latest book, The Basket Weaver. This novel explores the themes of control, trauma, and recovery through the story of a young man growing up in a high-control religious community. The book delves into the complexities of language and how it can be used to manipulate and control individuals. The speaker and Terry discuss the importance of storytelling and how it can be a powerful tool for healing and connection.If you're interested in exploring these themes and hearing more about Terry's book, tune in to the full episode to hear the speaker's personal story, their thoughts on the current state of politics, and Terry's insights on the power of storytelling.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bass After Dark — inch for inch and pound for pound, the best show in fishing — is back for another lively, and LIVE, episode. Don't miss Ken Duke, Brian the Carpenter, and our three mystery panelists (spoiler alert: it's Eric Allee, Dr. Terry Battisti, and Matt Pangrac) as we tackle the question: Who's on the Mt. Rushmore of tournament bass fishing?

Greg and Dan talk about Christ's humanity.   Episode 1356 Greg's new book: Inspired Imperfection Dan's new book: Confident Humility Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: askgregboyd@gmail.com Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org  

Ooof. Today is full, with Brad Keithley from Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets on in hour one with the Weekly Top 3. this weeks topics: "Incentives" are just another name for state spending; headlines can be hugely misleading; a big step in the right direction. Then in hour two we'll chat with Ben Carpenter the host of OversightLIVE about the continuous mess that is our upcoming election and what we should be focused on for the coming 6-7 week.

ONSLAUGHT Ending Explained (SPOILER'D) — Adam Wingard's KPG Universe Grows*SPOILERS AHEAD (even in the description) Adam Wingard and his long-standing writing partner Simon Barrett's new film Onslaught is a return to their indie roots back in the day when they made VHS 2, You're Next, and The Guest. After making Death Note and two Godzilla movies, Wingard wanted final cut and expression of his singular, tonal chaos aesthetic. Cupcake (Jose) and WillDaBeast (Mike) deep dive the movie, its gorgeous cast - Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens, Rebecca Hall, and Drew Starky - and if this is WINGARD-worthy or just for the die-hards. The Boyz dig into Dan Stevens' "Peter Sellers"-esque performance, ALL the Carpenter nods (this is "The Guest" meets "Assault on Precinct 13" with a dash of "The Terminator"). The discussion of plot details and secrets reveal why this plays as a spiritual sequel to The Guest and You're Next, while actually being a direct entry in Wingard and Barrett's shared KPG universe (yes, the same KPG from The Guest, You're Next, VHS/2, and Blair Witch).GET KINKY AND KRAZY WITH WATCH SKIP PLUS!- - - - - - - - - -WE ARE WATCH SKIP PLUS!***Original Theme music: Linus Fitness-Center ⁠ (click the link in our bio for more information on LFC)FOLLOW/LIKE/SUBSCRIBE/REVIEW/LOVEEmail us: ⁠WatchSkipPlus@gmail.com⁠Be kind. Be open. Be vulnerable. That's where the art is.

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In this episode of Jason The Movienauts, the John Carpenter team tackles one of Carpenter'ss most enduring films: They Live. Jason, Paul, and Shawn discuss why the movie's deliberately cheap-looking B-movie aesthetic, Roddy Piper's unlikely leading-man performance, and Carpenter's straightforward filmmaking make it so effective. They explore Piper's chemistry with Keith David, the film's iconic alley fight, its bizarre alien designs, and the hidden meanings revealed by the famous sunglasses. The conversation then turns to the movie's deeper themes: consumerism, Reagan-era politics, class inequality, propaganda, conformity, and the disturbing ways They Live continues to resonate decades later. #TheyLive #JohnCarpenter #RoddyPiper #KeithDavid #MoviePodcast #FilmPodcast #HorrorPodcast #80sMovies #ScienceFiction #CultMovies #CultCinema #MovieDiscussion #FilmDiscussion #HorrorMovies #SciFiMovies 00:00:00 — Why They Live Might Be Carpenter's Best00:13:00 — Roddy Piper: The Perfect Everyman00:29:00 — The Iconic Fight & What It Really Means00:42:00 — The Homeless Heroes & the Politics of They Live00:55:00 — Why They Live Feels More Relevant Than Ever01:15:00 — Final Ratings: Is They Live a 5-Star Movie?

Adam Wingard & Simon Barrett reunite for a Terminator-meets-Carpenter slasher. Spoiler-free verdict inside.Cupcake (Jose) and Mike (WillDaBeast) dive spoiler-free into Onslaught, the long-awaited reunion of director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett whose previous films - The Guest, You're Next, Netflix's Death Note, and Blair Witch - are both beloved and polarizing. Shot on a $20 million budget back in New Mexico (same stomping grounds as The Guest), Onslaught follows a trio of unstoppable, Terminator-style killers unleashed on a small town, with Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens, Reginald VelJohnson, and Rebecca Hall caught in the crossfire.A return to Wingard's indie roots after directing Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong, pic homages the heck out of the seminal films by John Carpenter (Halloween, The Fog, and especially Assault on Precinct 13) as well a healthy dose of James Cameron (circa Terminator and Terminator: Judgment Day; even Hicks....Michael Biehn...makes an appearance). But will Cupcake (who is dying to marry Adam Wingard) and diehard Wingard fans be satisfied by this "spiritual" sequel that lives in the universe of The Guest? Or is this "seen it/done that", mid-Wingard (if that is even such a thing)?Come back for our SPOILER'D episode where we dig into the ending, the kills, and the universal connection that links this film with nearly all other "Barrett-Wingard" movies. - - - - - - - - - -WE ARE WATCH SKIP PLUS!***Original Theme music: Linus Fitness-Center (click the link in our bio for more information on LFC)FOLLOW/LIKE/SUBSCRIBE/REVIEW/LOVEEmail us: WatchSkipPlus@gmail.comBe kind. Be open. Be vulnerable. That's where the art is.───────────────────────────────SOCIAL MEDIA: FB: https://www.facebook.com/watchskippluspodIG: https://www.instagram.com/watchskipplus/X: https://twitter.com/watchskipplusCHECK OUT THESE PODCASTS! 

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Episode 306- Big Brother’s Eye on Guns Also Available OnSearchable Podcast Transcript Gun Lawyer — Episode Transcript Page – 1 – of 15 Gun Lawyer — Episode 306 Transcript SUMMARY KEYWORDS Gun laws, Second Amendment, Ninth Circuit, California law, Surveillance, FFL, Self defense, Firearm storage, Heller decision, New Jersey, Guillotine, Weapon definition, Propaganda, CDC data, Gun training SPEAKERS Evan Nappen, Teddy Nappen, Speaker 2 Evan Nappen 00:18 I’m Evan Nappen. Teddy Nappen 00:20 and I’m Teddy Nappen. Evan Nappen 00:21 and welcome to Gun Lawyer. Teddy, welcome back, you new father, you. And I’m the new grandfather. Teddy Nappen 00:29 Yes, I know, and don’t worry, all is good. Just sleep is for the weak. Evan Nappen 00:34 Ah, right, exactly, exactly. Oh my! And how is beautiful, Aliyana, doing? That cute little peanut that she is. Teddy Nappen 00:45 Aliyana is doing quite well. She is. Evan Nappen 00:47 And your lovely wife? How is she? Teddy Nappen 00:50 She’s doing also well. It’s definitely one of those moments when you see your wife holding your newborn child. Definitely that kind of spark. Oh yeah, very special, Evan Nappen 01:01 Oh yeah, very special, special. Teddy Nappen 01:02 Yeah, but they’re both doing quite well, and I’m eternally blessed for that. Page – 2 – of 15 Evan Nappen 01:08 That’s right. And we got the baby to the range. She did great on her first shooting experience there. Teddy Nappen 01:15 I know we took out. Evan Nappen 01:17 She got her CCARE. She’s good. She took out a Charter Arms .22. The trick was the range officer allowed us to just put up balloons to make it easier. It worked. Evan Nappen 01:19 She took out a Charter Arms .22. The trick was the range officer allowed us to just put up balloons to make it easier, and it worked. Evan Nappen 01:28 It was good. It was good. We start them young in the Nappen family. You know, you have to give one day of birth, and then you’re at the range. Teddy Nappen 01:40 There’s two things. Evan Nappen 01:41 Training begins. Teddy Nappen 01:42 The two things Aliyana will grow up with having. Number one, I want to teach her to be a critical thinker, and number two, all I can show her for self-defense. Everything I can for her to be a critical thinker. Evan Nappen 01:56 That’s right. And you do that for all kids. It’s a way of not being a victim, not being a victim. Critical thinking and knowing how to defend yourself – two very important things. Well, I’ve got to tell you, the Ninth Circuit in California had a very interesting decision. The reason I want to discuss it is, I believe this decision may give us hints as to what may be coming in New Jersey and other places. As we see the power of the newly, relatively speaking, empowered Second Amendment crushing gun laws that are literally over a century old, the anti-Second Amendment crowd, the Second Amendment oppressors, are, of course, looking for avenues to oppress our rights, and they have to work within this new framework. This decision out of the Ninth Circuit, I find of great concern because of its potential to possibly be utilized as a mechanism and tactic for the anti-Second Amendment Left. And what happened in the Ninth Circuit is an Appellate Decision, after the trial court in the Ninth, and what it did was leave in place California’s 24/7 gun store surveillance law. Page – 3 – of 15 Evan Nappen 03:31 Now you may say, okay, well that’s just gun stores. Yes, but it’s very easy to expand this, and I’m going to show you why this should be of great concern. So, let’s take a look at what happened in the Ninth Circuit with California law, and then I’m going to discuss where I think the gun rights oppressors may see an opening for shenanigans. We’ve got to be prepared and recognize that this could be a potential area of penetration where they will probably strike and try to oppress us. So, California, requires licensed dealers to video record and audio record. By the way, interior video and audio, and retain all the recordings for at least one year. Now I’m getting this, by the way, from a great article in AmmoLand by one of our favorite authors, John Crump, and it’s called “Ninth Circuit Leaves California’s 24/7 Gun Store Surveillance Law in place”. (https://www.ammoland.com/2026/08/ninth-circuit-leaves-californias-24-7-gun-store-surveillance-law-in-place/?utm_source=Ammoland+Subscribers&utm_campaign=fb0c8bc3fc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6f6fac3eaa-fb0c8bc3fc-21268623) Evan Nappen 05:02 The article discusses how a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld California’s controversial gun store monitoring law by a two-to-one margin. Now, the case is Richards v. Newsom. No shock that the defendant is Governor Newsom. And what happened in this case was brick and mortar FFLs, two home-based FFLs, gun rights groups, including GOA, GOC, CRPA, and SAF, and individual patrons of the shop, were all plaintiffs in this action. They challenged California’s law, which was enacted in 2024, that requires every California FFL to operate a 24/7 digital video system that also records audio inside the premises. Cameras must cover entries and exits, display areas, points of sale, and clearly identify people, and run at least 15 frames per second. They have to store footage for one year. In addition, dealers must post a conspicuous warning that says, in all bold, THESE PREMISES ARE UNDER VIDEO AND AUDIO SURVEILLANCE. YOUR IMAGE AND CONVERSATIONS MAY BE RECORDED.” Evan Nappen 06:49 At the District Court level, the level below the Appellate level, the law was found constitutional, and the plaintiffs then appealed to the Appeal Court in the ninth, which came out with this decision. It was a three-judge panel, and it was Judge (Lucy H.) Koh, Judge (Ana) de Alba, which were both appointed by Biden, and a Trump appointee, Judge Kenneth Lee. In this case, one of the claims they made was that this violates the Fourth Amendment. That’s the constitutional protection against illegal search and seizure, and the panel rejected the claim, saying that the dealers’ recordings are not themselves a Government search. There is no physical intrusion by the State, citing another case of Jones, and no government acquisition of data, citing two other cases of Carpenter and Chatrie. Dealers are not transformed into state actors by merely being required to keep cameras. Wow, let that sink in. And, of course, the two Biden judges rejected Judge Lee’s inspection theory on three grounds. And that is that the law doesn’t authorize inspections, though there are other penal code provisions that do, and that even if it did, the statute is facially valid under New York versus Burger because it limits who may inspect and what may be inspected. Page – 4 – of 15 Evan Nappen 08:45 The plaintiffs also claim that the law violated the Fifth Amendment takings clause. The Court said no good to that one as well. The majority, again, the two Biden appointees, said it’s not a physical taking. Dealers own and install the equipment, and the Government doesn’t occupy the premises. hey claimed it’s not a regulatory taking. That dealers in this heavily-regulated industry have reduced investment-backed expectations, and the alleged compliance costs, by the way, of $17,000, without a before and after value comparison, do not suffice. And the character of the action is a “public-safety regulation, not a physical invasion”. he Court also rejected the First Amendment claims, where the judge held that overbreadth fails because the statute doesn’t punish or regulate speech. The anonymity claim failed because one, no one must identify themselves, even though cameras must be positioned to identify customers easily. And the Association claim fails because membership is not compulsory, and it shot it all down. hen the majority also declined to adopt the dissent, you know, the good guys’ dissent of the right to receive and exchange information. They rejected that theory, claiming the plaintiffs didn’t raise it, and cited other cases that involved actual prohibitions. So, this is incredible. The one dissenting Judge Lee would have also held that inspection scheme violates the Fourth Amendment as applied to FFLs. There’s no time or place limits. So, agents could theoretically enter home at any hour to check the system, and they left the audio and visual surveillance requirement in place. Evan Nappen 11:08 Now this is California, granted, and this is, of course, on dealers. However, what are the requirements, constitutionally speaking, when it comes to firearm storage, and we’ll argue regulation? You see, we have heard rumors and things have been printed that one of the things that New Jersey is going to pass, particularly in response to the finding of unconstitutionality of both the assault firearm ban and the magazine ban is something having to do with storage. Well, I’m thinking that it probably isn’t simply going to be focused on storage, but may in fact try to utilize a visual and audio surveillance requirement as well, and place that upon anybody that possesses so-called assault firearms magazines, maybe even all guns. Who knows how far they’ll take it? Evan Nappen 12:20 If we take a step back and we look at the Heller decision, in (District of Columbia v.) Heller, the Supreme Court ruled, of course, that requiring lawfully-owned firearms in a home to be kept unloaded and disassembled, or bound by a trigger lock is a violation of the Second Amendment. The Heller Court found that this storage requirement was unconstitutional because it rendered firearms inoperable and prevented individuals from using them for immediate self-defense in the home. Scalia, when he wrote the majority opinion, said the Second Amendment protects the right to keep a working firearm ready for core lawful purpose of self-defense. Now, of course, if it’s surveillance, surveillance does not stop you from keeping the gun ready for lawful purpose of self-defense. t’s simply a surveillance and “security requirement”. Evan Nappen 13:36 Further, the court in Heller noted that the ruling did not cast out on certain other traditional regulations, stating that laws regulating the storage of firearms to prevent accidents under specific or different regulatory contexts were not necessarily invalidated by Heller. Scalia, when he wrote the Heller decisions, suggested that the Court’s analysis did not “suggest the invalidity of laws regulating storage Page – 5 – of 15 of firearms to prevent accidents”. When he talked about that distinguishing feature. He was drawing a sharp legal line. The Court did not say that all storage laws are unconstitutional. Instead, it distinguished between complete baseline disabling of a gun versus conditional safety rules. And you know how the Second Amendment oppressors always try to exploit to the max anything they’re given in any way, and this is an opening that I expect they’re going to attempt to. Evan Nappen 15:01 Let’s take a further look and elaborate. So, for example, the absence of a self-defense exception. ow, the fundamental flaw in the District of Columbia storage law was that it was an absolute 24/7 mandate. Well, in terms of the DC code, a firearm had to be unloaded and bound by a trigger lock, even if an intruder was actively breaking into the home. Now, Heller struck that absolute mandate down, but what Heller preserved was storage regulations that maintain a flexibility enough to allow a person to access and use their weapon dynamically when facing an immediate threat. So, it might still be able to require lock boxes that can instantly be opened. Let’s say with a fingerprint or something like that. This may be a direction they’ll go. Evan Nappen 16:11 There’s a distinguishing between immediate control and unattended storage. The lower courts heavily relied upon in the Heller quote to uphold secure storage and child access prevention, and New Jersey in fact has a law that says you can’t allow a minor to access a loaded firearm. But the crucial legal distinction is whether the gun is currently in use or whether it’s sitting unattended. One of the distinctions is the on-person distinction. In challenges that followed Heller, courts ruled that laws requiring guns to be locked up only when not under direct personal control of the owner are constitutional. So, they’re going to be exploiting that. f you’re awake and carrying a firearm or have it on your nightstand while home, that’s within your immediate control. But if you leave the house, if you well, if you leave the house and you go to sleep, and the children are present. The state has a valid interest in regulating the unattended storage to prevent an accidental discharge or theft. Teddy Nappen 17:30 So, my question would be, when it comes to, if they were trying to regulate, let’s say they force everyone to have, okay, you need to have X amount of storage. You need to have a safe in requiring of that. Could there be you’re putting the undue burden of saying, well, now you’re adding essentially a poll tax to a right? Evan Nappen 17:50 That may be one of the arguments about that. I’m not sure how that’ll play out. It’s interesting. Well, and the third thing to keep in mind in Scalia’s reference to “different regulatory contexts”, it means that certain storage laws can be tailored to high-risk environments and specific populations, and they’re historically and legally permissible. So, for example, commercial and public contexts, the Government can mandate strict storage requirements for commercial gun dealers, and California has completely exploited that. You know, usually to prevent like smash and grab robberies or public housing, military barracks, government workplaces, stuff like that. Then there’s preventing vulnerable access. And that’s laws specifically punishing gun owners if a child or legally prohibited person, like a convicted felon, can Page – 6 – of 15 gain access to an unsecured firearm and causes harm are widely considered valid under Heller. So, these do not ban self-defense. They penalize essentially negligence. Evan Nappen 19:04 This is the playing field that we’re going to see the antis try to exploit. And now you can combine that with possibly requiring 24/7 surveillance to the degree that it could be applied to an individual, even in their home. Because remember you had home-based dealers as well that were part of this that were trying to raise these claims. Now, granted, this is the Ninth Circuit’s view of it. New Jersey, frankly, has often taken a strong view when it comes to Fourth Amendment protections. But who knows whether their desire to have Second Amendment oppression will overcome their desire to have Fourth Amendment protection? We’ve got to be aware of this. Teddy Nappen 19:56 I would take it a step further, Dad. Now say, you need to have an AI program required for your camera, and now that AI can calculate and determine firearms, where they’re going, who has them, how many you have, and no longer need it. We’re always worried about Universal Background Check as the way of the national registration. Imagine an AI in every home, and it determines each firearm. There’s your national registration, and now they have their list to come collect them. Evan Nappen 20:26 And then it could be viewed at any time. You could see these things happen. I mean, it’s just outrageous the implications. This is very scary stuff when you combine the potential of a surveillance requirement and mandating alarm systems in a home. Cameras, audio, lighting-all these different things. To what degree can the Government extend its power in the name of public safety? Given what is apparently allowed and disallowed by way of Heller and subsequent courts’ rulings and determinations over those things. So, I see this as a new battlefield, a new front that we’re most likely going to have to be very much vigilant about and wary. I also can see this type of California law, at a minimum, applying to New Jersey dealers. At a minimum imposing and trying to create because New Jersey often follows California for their extreme gun rights oppression, and California often follows New Jersey for what they do. They work often hand in hand, and its extension to citizens is something we need to be very concerned about. Hey, Teddy. What do you have of interest in Press Checks? You had mentioned something that I thought was kind of fascinating, and it reminded me of the French Revolution. What is that you need to tell us about this? Teddy Nappen 22:24 As you know, Press Checks are always free, and this comes from the Capitol Police as they had to arrest. Evan Nappen 22:26 The Capitol in Washington D.C. Page – 7 – of 15 Teddy Nappen 22:34 Yeah. United States Capitol Police seized a guillotine, shot a man, and arrested him for carrying a dangerous weapon, for being in possession of a guillotine. (https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/uscp-arrests-driver-guillotine-truckbed) Evan Nappen 22:48 Oh, a guillotine. How did he possess it? Teddy Nappen 22:51 In the back of his pickup truck. Evan Nappen 22:53 So, he’s driving around with the guillotine on the back of his pickup truck. Was he going to use it in a theatrical play or movie, or was he going to use it to make political speech, or did he actually want to start chopping heads? Teddy Nappen 23:09 There was no clarification, but he was just pulled over. There was this giant guillotine on the back of the truck. Evan Nappen 23:16 Could have been a Halloween display in advance. I mean, I don’t know. Well, you know, it’s an interesting kind of weird to say a guillotine is a weapon unless it’s being utilized as a weapon. I mean, what do, you know? What are you gonna say to somebody? You know, give me your wallet, or I’m gonna cut off your head. I mean, what? I don’t really see how. It’s not like it fires a projectile. It’s not like it’s easily carried in one’s pocket. How is it gonna qualify as a weapon unless it is somehow intentionally used as a weapon? Teddy Nappen 23:55 Here’s the problem, though, for the law. From what I was able to pull on DC. They have to prove that he’s able to carry the guillotine in order to charge him with that. Evan Nappen 24:09 Well, I guess it’s a vehicle-mounted weapon. I don’t know. But it’s not a weapon. It’s not firing anything. It’s not projecting anything. It’s harmless unless you actually get somebody to stick their head in it. Other than that, you know, it’s as much a weapon as somebody’s shoe is a weapon. You could take off your shoe and start beating somebody in the head. Now your shoe is a weapon, right? Otherwise, shoes just aren’t weapons. I don’t necessarily see how. If I was handling that case, I would immediately bring a motion that this doesn’t qualify as a weapon. Now, I don’t practice in D.C. So, I don’t know how broad their description of weapons are. But if we were to look at New Jersey, the best they could claim is that it falls under the “other weapons” section of N.J.S. 2C:39-5d. But even with that, the definition of weapon under New Jersey, I don’t even think it’s fitting it unless there’s some allegation that fits it under NJ’s definition of weapon and meets all the elements of it. Page – 8 – of 15 Teddy Nappen 25:33 I want to go a step further and just have someone drive a truck with like an electric chair on the back. Then have another one where he’s driving with the car, and it has the torture device that was used to stretch people. I’m just curious to like what does the extent of where do they can where do the line drawn is it just because it has a blade? Evan Nappen 26:03 Well, here’s where it gets odd, and it’s an interesting thing. Because New Jersey’s definition of weapon, which you’ll find under N.J.S. 2C:39-1r. says that a weapon means anything readily capable of lethal use or inflicting serious bodily injury. However, there are so many things out there. I mean, a kitchen knife, a chainsaw, a hammer, a golf club. I mean, it never ends because anything is readily capable of it. But you still have to fit into New Jersey’s other weapons. Because even before we go there, the term “weapon” under New Jersey law includes, but is not limited to firearms, even though not loaded or lacking a clip. They say a clip. Can you imagine this? I mean, magazine, but okay, or other component to render them immediately operable. Components which can be readily assembled into a weapon. I always hate a definition that tries to define it by using the term itself. That’s frickin’ useless. And then Teddy Nappen 27:30 Definition. Evan Nappen 27:30 And then, gravity knives, switchblade knives, daggers, dirks, stilettos, or other dangerous knives, billies, blackjacks, bludgeons, metal knuckles, sandclubs, slingshots, cesti, or similar leather bands studded with metal filings or razor blades embedded in wood. Well, that sure gives you a lot of great ideas. At least I give it credit there. But anyway, and stun guns or any weapon or other device which projects, releases, or emits tear gas or other substance intended to produce temporary physical comfort, discomfort, or permanent injury through being vaporized or otherwise dispensed into the air. But if you notice, all these things that they’re putting in this category of weapons require a person to use them in a way that an individual would be targeted for being struck or hit or cut. Evan Nappen 28:37 Whereas, a guillotine would require the person themselves putting their head into the guillotine, or being forced to put their head in a guillotine, and that seems like a bit of a challenge to still fit it under the definition of weapon. But even if it did fit under, just for argument’s sake, of being arguably a weapon because it’s capable of that lethal use, you’d have to say. But the definition of weapon isn’t the prohibition in New Jersey law. The prohibition for weapon you’ll find in the weapons prohibition statute, which is the 2C:39-5d. “Other weapons”. And 2C:39-5d. says other weapons. Any person who knowingly has in his possession any other weapon under circumstances not manifestly appropriate for such lawful uses as it may have is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree. It’s felony level offense, and it carries a year and a half max in State Prison. Evan Nappen 30:02 So, what would be circumstances not manifestly appropriate for such lawful uses as it may have? f you’re riding around with the guillotine, let’s say, for political speech purposes, which could be legit, or Page – 9 – of 15 you’re transporting it for making a movie, let’s say, or using it in a play or in a magic show. Okay, because there are magician guillotines. I personally have one called the Arm Chopper, where you do a whole routine where you get a volunteer, and you chop carrots with it. Then you put their arm in it, and it’s a whole fun thing. Of course, it doesn’t chop the person’s arm; it magically does not, and everything’s fine. en there’s another one. A guillotine version, magician, where when you chop it, it’s rigged so that the arm looks like it’s falling into the bag below, but of course it isn’t. Yet you can still lock it in place to cut carrots and demonstrate its effectiveness before you do the trick, you know. But there’s a legitimate, lawful purpose – a magician’s prop. Maybe you are into it for decorative purposes, for craftsmanship purposes. I mean. Teddy Nappen 30:03 You’re trying out a new thing. Teddy Nappen 30:03 You’re trying out a new Gallagher routine with watermelons. Evan Nappen 30:03 I don’t know, but this is intriguing to say the least. I’ve done a lot in almost 40 years of practicing this area of law, but I will have to say that I’ve yet to have anybody charged with possession of a guillotine as a weapon. But I’m ready to defend it; should it be necessary. But there you go. That’s a crazy, interesting story, Teddy. Thanks. Evan Nappen 30:03 Hey, I want to talk about our good friends at WeShoot. WeShoot is a range in Lakewood, New Jersey. That is a range where Teddy and I both shoot, and my family shoots, and my brother shoots. We love it. WeShoot is an awesome resource right there in Central Jersey, easily accessible right off the Parkway. You’ll love it at WeShoot. If you haven’t checked out WeShoot, you really need to. It is a great place, a special place. They have a fantastic state-of-the-art range, a great pro shop with awesome toys, and they can set you up whether you’re a beginner or advanced shooter. They can get you the right equipment, the right gear, the best ammo, best guns, right there at WeShoot, and the best people. They will help you and guide you so that you make the right choices for what your needs are. You need to go to WeShoot, try it out. You’ll see what I’m saying. Evan Nappen 30:03 You can check WeShoot out at weshootusa.com. They have a great website, beautiful photography. They pride themselves on their great photography. They have all kinds of great courses, not just courses, so you can get your CCARE and other certifications that you may need, and other courses for getting permits from even other states, but advanced training and other types of fun shoots and very Important advanced training, and if you are brand new, they can start you off right by learning the basics and beginning with proper instructions so that you don’t become a GOFU. It’s very important training and having a place to shoot. It’s critical in New Jersey, and WeShoot can give it all to you. So check out WeShoot at weshootusa.com. Page – 10 – of 15 Evan Nappen 30:03 Let me also shamelessly promote my book New Jersey Gun Law, the Bible of New Jersey Gun Law, used by, well, everybody that needs a gun law book. They’re using it, and you need to have one so that you don’t become a GOFU. I’ve taken great pains to explain the insane matrix called New Jersey gun law. It’s done in only five over 500 pages, but don’t let that intimidate you. It’s 120 topics all broken down in question and answer, so that you can even you can get an understanding of New Jersey’s insanity and so that you can protect yourself and stay legal. Go to evannappen.com, evannappen.com, and get your copy today. Evan Nappen 30:32 And, of course, we’re all very excited about the Federal Relief From Disabilities Program being reinvigorated by the Trump administration and the DOJ. It’s been 33 years since I’ve been able to help people regain their Second Amendment rights that may have federal disqualifiers. If you’d like to get a free evaluation of whether you qualify and what it can do for you, and what you need to know as its interplay with other states and Jersey law, and to see what it can do for you, go to evannappen.com, and you can fill out our little contact form there for getting federal relief. And if you need state relief, we do rights restoration, including New Jersey expungements, and getting rid of other disqualifiers that may be in your past, whether it’s old restraining orders or other things that create bars to the exercise of your Second Amendment rights. Go to evannappen.com and learn about those things. And feel free to get in contact with me. I’ll be happy to speak with you, or someone from my team will be happy to help you with your issues. And let me also mention that Teddy has other Press Checks. I’m sure. What else do you have? Teddy Nappen 36:34 This is the famous double Press Checks. I could not pass this one up. When I saw this article, I was shocked, and then reminded that the vast majority of the Left can’t be funny. If you go back to maybe the ’90s, and you’d have. Teddy Nappen 36:54 You laugh at them all the time, though, Teddy. Teddy Nappen 36:56 Yeah, we laugh at them. They try to be funny, and they try to joke on us. But they just come off as boring because comedy was always about pushing the envelope. The all-time favorite movies of comedy, like Blazing Saddles, or even like George Carlin’s bit, “Seven Things You Can’t Say on Television”. George Carlin. Evan Nappen 37:17 George Carlin. I saw him live twice. Yeah. Teddy Nappen 37:20 And you have, you know, Nick DePaolo, Norm Macdonald, people who would their whole idea was to push the envelope. Funniest man alive, Richard Pryor. These are all the ideas, and then comes to the Marxist Left. This is, you know, we’ve got to give it to The Trace, who decided to give them free Page – 11 – of 15 advertising. They decided to make a musical pushing to repeal the Second Amendment. (https://www.thetrace.org/2026/08/good-guy-with-a-gun-musical-interview/) Evan Nappen 37:48 Oh my God! A gun oppression musical. Teddy Nappen 37:53 A musical called “Good Guy with a Gun”. That is their comparison. Evan Nappen 37:57 That’s about as wokey as you can get. A musical doing this. Teddy Nappen 38:02 It’s gay. It’s really gay. Evan Nappen 38:05 Oh my G-d! Teddy Nappen 38:07 And going through this. By the way, you can go on Spotify. You go wherever they have the song list. You can listen to it if you want to. Evan Nappen 38:16 Oh, that’s it. I want to listen to anti-Second Amendment songs. Teddy Nappen 38:20 Yeah. Songs, yes. Evan Nappen 38:23 What are they trying to do this like the other play? What was it that going after or mocking Mormons? Teddy Nappen 38:30 Yeah, the Book of Mormon. It was. Evan Nappen 38:31 There you go. Right. This is the Left’s one of their tools of pushing their agenda is doing. Yeah, I know, real, Teddy Nappen 38:40 Real, real stunning and brave to mock Mormons and going after the Second Amendment. Now, do one on Sharia law and see how that goes. Evan Nappen 38:51 Oh yeah, right. Yeah, that’ll go over big. Sure. Yeah, that’ll be the yeah. Page – 12 – of 15 Teddy Nappen 38:57 Or what is the Chinese play where it’s China before communism, where Chinese have actually sent agents to attack their bus, and do stuff like that. But here. Evan Nappen 39:10 That’s really edgy. Teddy Nappen 39:12 Yeah, no kidding. Evan Nappen 39:13 You know, not this stuff. That’s just you know agenda driven with just another potential way of somehow getting their effed up message implanted. Teddy Nappen 39:27 Yeah. So, they got a bunch of F tier celebrities who wanted to show their virtue signal. They took a pay cut, so they would do this play out of Los Angeles, of course. It is a theatrical concept, billing it as the Book of Mormon for the NRA. The action satire swells on the day the Second Amendment is wiped away, and the numbers reminiscent to Les Misérables begins with the right winger singing, “The day that we’ve always feared the liberals have come to take our guns away. Then comes a brief monolog from a Cockney woman spiles into mania. They came in the night. They took the little ones, the Glocks, the small handguns you keep under your pillow. It was invasion of basement of ant and basement and antics violated antiques violated. Evan Nappen 40:15 Well, they think it’s really hilarious that they’re going to come for the little ones, the handguns”, and then build up from that. That’s so funny, Teddy. It’s just so funny the way they crush our rights. Teddy Nappen 40:29 Well, you have this. It’s the screeching Left who still believe in going after the little ones. Just look at Lindsey Clancy. But anyways. The whole and going I love how they like say this famous actor from “This Is Us” and this other lady from “Orange is the New Black” and the way there and George voice the voice of God was George on Seinfeld. Okay, cool. The whole plot is the character gets a magic gun that turns people conservative. His daughter gets a magic megaphone that turns people liberal, and the antics ensue. In the end, they go into the whole article about the whole point is to dispel the myth of the good guy with the gun. Evan Nappen 41:11 Oh, the myth of the good guy with the gun. Like all these folks that have made a difference in stopping crime, criminals, terrorism that are average citizens, that no longer want to be victims but have chosen to be defenders. And not just defenders of themselves, but defenders of others. As a matter of fact, Teddy, this goofy crap by them on the play, but weren’t you telling me about that very fact? About the difference being made by people that try to stop, for example, mass shootings? What were you telling Page – 13 – of 15 me about that? Let’s talk about good guy with a gun. What have we learned about good guys with a gun? Teddy Nappen 42:02 So, the CDC again have added the data showing that it’s two. Evan Nappen 42:06 And this is their data from the CDC? Teddy Nappen 42:08 Up to 2 million self-defense uses of a firearm. Self-defense uses. That doesn’t even mean pull the trigger. Defensive uses of a firearm. Evan Nappen 42:18 Right. Just the mere presence of a firearm. Teddy Nappen 42:19 So, if it saves one life . . . how about 2 million? Two million lives saved! That is from the CDC’s website. Also the fact that they are now including the FBI reports showing mass shootings. Now they’re showing civilian intervention and stopping the bad guy. Evan Nappen 42:35 You mean, good guys with a gun, or good guys no longer wanting or agreeing to be victims, and good guys making a difference, right? Teddy Nappen 42:47 Yeah. This is something to where they are. This is a logical fallacy right here. It’s called false premise. They’re starting with a false premise, believing that there’s never any good guy with a gun. Even though we can clearly debunk that immediately just by that argument. But going into this whole insanity of the play, I want to remind you all. This is what they’re about. This is what they try to do through propaganda, and yeah, it’s in the gayest way possible. And I’ll take the citizen vigilante that’ll probably sell out more than this play out of. Evan Nappen 43:21 Well, that’s the crazy thing because movies and other things that were not necessarily designed to be propaganda, but that have the message of individuals who fight back. I mean, you can look at “Red Dawn”, which is still considered a classic today, and what was that? Individuals fighting back. You can look at virtually the entire genre of westerns is the individual who fights back. I mean, that’s what we’re really about. Teddy Nappen 43:55 The funniest scene I ever saw for this as a pro gun argument was in the movie “Death Proof”. It’s rated as one of the worst for Quentin Tarantino. I happen to like it. Page – 14 – of 15 Evan Nappen 44:07 I enjoyed Death Proof. I like the music, too. Teddy Nappen 44:07 Oh yeah, it was good there. Just seeing Kurt Russell play a weird twisted serial. Evan Nappen 44:16 Oh my G-d, yeah, did he ever. Teddy Nappen 44:17 There’s one scene where it’s the four girls are sitting on the table. They’re having a discussion. That’s what Quinn Tarantino always does: is having table conversations. The one girl says, “You still carry a gun? Why do you do that? And it’s like, “Why not?” And goes into that whole argument of where, like, “Why you don’t you know you can risk that? You know what I want? I want to carry my gun. I want to go where I’m able to go. I want to be able to defend myself, and she makes and hits home every argument. Where then they say, “What about pepper spray? I don’t want to give them a rash. I want to put them down. Like that’s the whole. Like they’re trying to be satirical. They’re going to be showing it. Evan Nappen 44:55 Big spoiler is that’s what she uses. Yeah, saves the. Teddy Nappen 45:00 hoots it. Shoots at Kurt Russell to get him to go away to save the girls. So, it’s one of those demonstrations. But even I’ll even give it another way, just satirical. Always Sonny did the exact thing where you have two both sides, ones for pro, ones against, and the anti side is like it’s so easy to get a gun. Both of them get denied their background checks immediately. Then they try, and then immediately try to go to a gun show, and they’re trying to do under the table. And the gun dealer’s like, “No, I’m not going to do that. And finally, they try to do a deal to buy it from an illegal alley, and that falls through, and to the point where they’re arguing. They see like, wow, it really is hard to get a gun. Then we realize, and it’s satirical because they show it in a way. This one here in the whole article, they’re trying to like joke on the liberals by she shops at Trader Joe’s. If you’re using a bazooka on one side and a squirt on the other, it’s you’re not both sizing it very easily. Evan Nappen 46:00 Right. Well, that’s not their goal, but that is really interesting. But I don’t think that play will be coming to a playhouse nearby anytime soon. And if it is, it’ll be a financial failure. Teddy Nappen 46:12 Remember, this is the Left’s game, though. Do you remember when they did Julius Caesar? They dressed him as Donald Trump. This was in 2017. In the play where he’s killed. In the play where he’s violently stabbed to death. Evan Nappen 46:15 No, gee, what were they trying to say there? I wonder. Page – 15 – of 15 Teddy Nappen 46:31 Yeah, exactly. And then you have the New Yorker here trying to say, it’s hardly bears the point that art is not life. I love how they play that game every time. Oh, really? Okay. Now cast Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling as Black Panther for in Wakanda. Then tell me it’s not that. No big deal. I love how they always bring that up when it comes to oh art takes that. Cut to the musical of assassins that they had to cancel after the first attempted assassination. Evan Nappen 47:06 Yeah. Teddy Nappen 47:06 Where it’s a musical about Evan Nappen 47:08 Yeah. This is part of their M.O., and it’s disgusting. Well, Teddy, thanks for bringing that to our attention, so we know what play we’re going to never get a playbill for or see. Now, I’ve got to tell you about this week’s GOFU. You know the GOFU is Gun Owner Fuck Up. It’s where gun owners make mistakes that can cost them their freedom, their firearm rights. It cost them a lot of money, and you get to learn for free, so you don’t become a GOFU. And this week’s GOFU is really basic. Some of you listening may say, “Really, seriously?” I’m telling you, why am I talking about this? Because my friends, I get the phone calls. I get the phone calls from the GOFUers. I get those calls. Evan Nappen 48:01 This week’s GOFU is real simple. Practice your draw. Know your firearm. Okay, simple. Practice drawing and firing if you’re carrying. Practice reholstering. Practice it with an empty firearm. Make sure you are proficient in how to handle your specific firearm and know your gun. Know how it operates. You know, some guns have manual safeties. Some guns do not. Know your gun. Know how to use it. Practice and train. Not just on shooting. Not just on hitting the target. But practice on understanding the function of your gun – the loading, the unloading, how to absolutely know it’s empty. How to work your gun and how to draw your gun. How to holster and unholster your gun. Make sure you’ve practiced that with a safe, empty firearm. That you’ve had the right training. That you’re doing it properly, and that you are proficient in that. Because if you’re not and you have a problem, if you have an A.D., if you have some issue, you’ll become the next GOFU, and I don’t want to see that. Evan Nappen 49:35 This is Evan Nappen and Teddy Nappen reminding you that gun laws do not protect honest citizens from criminals. They protect criminals from honest citizens. Speaker 2 49:48 Gun Lawyer is a CounterThink Media production. The music used in this broadcast was managed by Cosmo Music, New York, New York. Reach us by emailing Evan@gun.lawyer. The information and opinions in this broadcast do not constitute legal advice. Consult a licensed attorney in your state. Downloadable PDF TranscriptGun Lawyer S5 E306_transcript About The HostEvan Nappen, Esq.Known as “America's Gun Lawyer,” Evan Nappen is above all a tireless defender of justice. Author of eight bestselling books and countless articles on firearms, knives, and weapons history and the law, a certified Firearms Instructor, and avid weapons collector and historian with a vast collection that spans almost five decades — it's no wonder he's become the trusted, go-to expert for local, industry and national media outlets. Regularly called on by radio, television and online news media for his commentary and expertise on breaking news Evan has appeared countless shows including Fox News – Judge Jeanine, CNN – Lou Dobbs, Court TV, Real Talk on WOR, It's Your Call with Lyn Doyle, Tom Gresham's Gun Talk, and Cam & Company/NRA News. As a creative arts consultant, he also lends his weapons law and historical expertise to an elite, discerning cadre of movie and television producers and directors, and novelists. He also provides expert testimony and consultations for defense attorneys across America. 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The fog is rolling in… and so are the problemsOn this episode of Say What's Reel, we're diving into The Fog (2005), the supernatural horror remake of John Carpenter's 1980 classic.Tom Welling, Selma Blair, and Maggie Grace find themselves trapped as a mysterious fog rolls into a small island town — bringing with it the vengeful spirits of sailors who were betrayed and murdered over a century ago.But does this remake live up to Carpenter's original, or should this fog have never rolled in?

Entering its sixth year, the 2 Guys 5 Movies podcast presents the latest episode of the Quick Cage, where Frank watches Nic Cage movies so you don't have to. This week's episode focuses on Cage's 2025 maybe-kinda-sorta supernatural thriller The Carpenter's Son and the praiseworthy 2026 Prime series Spider-Noir. 

In this episode, Brian welcomes two guests with remarkable Bigfoot encounters that span decades and stretch from the mountains of North Carolina to the swamps of Connecticut.First, North Carolina truck driver Dwayne shares a startling daylight sighting along Highway 18 near Kings Creek School. Traveling the familiar two-lane road in late April roughly two years ago, Dwayne watched an estimated eight-foot-tall, black, powerfully built creature cross the highway directly in front of him. In only five or six enormous strides, it covered the road, stepped over a roughly three-foot guardrail without breaking pace, and disappeared into the thick woods on the opposite side. The encounter sent Dwayne searching through local Bigfoot reports, Appalachian folklore, and stories passed down through families around the Linville Gorge, Watauga County, and the surrounding North Carolina mountains.That search leads Brian into the historical record and an old newspaper story Dwayne remembered as dating to 1888. While investigating the claim, Brian uncovers a verified December 14, 1877, account from the Charlotte Daily Observer, reprinted from the Statesville Landmark, describing a mysterious “Wild Man” reportedly seen prospecting in the Globe Valley near Blowing Rock. Witnesses described a hairy figure beating its chest and retreating toward a cave, offering a fascinating glimpse into Appalachian wild-man traditions decades before the term “Bigfoot” entered the American vocabulary.Brian also examines how seriously these nineteenth-century reports should be taken in an era when sensational newspaper stories and outright hoaxes were common. From there, the conversation explores Daniel Boone's famous late-life story of encountering and killing what he reportedly called a “Yahoo,” the heavily publicized 1978 and 1979 sightings of the creature known as “Nobby” near Carpenter's Knob, and a much more recent 911 report from 2010.Then Brian welcomes Steve, now living in North Carolina, who takes the story back to 1986 and one of the closest encounters ever shared on the show. While stationed at a submarine facility in Connecticut, Steve went squirrel hunting before daylight in the Assetunk Swamp. As morning arrived, he heard something moving through the woods and initially assumed it was a deer. Instead, an enormous hairy figure stepped across the trail less than thirty feet away. Steve estimates the creature stood at least nine feet tall, with dark skin, heavy hair, and a surprisingly human-looking face. Rather than immediately retreating, Steve moved closer, eventually getting within roughly fifteen feet before the creature looked down at him and exploded through the woods with enough force to sound, in his words, like a bulldozer.When Steve circled ahead and unknowingly cut off its path, the encounter changed. The creature unleashed a deep growl powerful enough that Steve says he could feel it throughout his body. Armed only with a sixteen-gauge double-barrel shotgun, he decided it was time to back away.Steve continued hunting the area afterward without another direct confrontation, but his experiences did not end in Connecticut.Since returning to North Carolina, he describes unexplained tree movements, possible vocalizations, strange nighttime sounds, unusual activity around his property, and other incidents that have kept him interested in the mystery. His approach, however, remains skeptical. Steve prefers going into the woods without assuming Bigfoot is responsible for every unexplained sound or broken branch, looking instead for evidence and conventional explanations first.Brian and Steve also discuss one of the biggest divisions within modern Bigfoot research: whether these creatures are undiscovered biological animals or something far stranger. Both remain skeptical of claims involving portals, cloaking, interdimensional travel, and extraterrestrial connections without physical evidence to support them. The conversation turns to the continuing absence of a confirmed body or scientifically accepted DNA sample, and the frustration that comes from decades of extraordinary eyewitness testimony without the definitive physical evidence needed to settle the question.From an eight-foot figure crossing a North Carolina highway in broad daylight to a nine-foot creature standing only yards from a hunter in a Connecticut swamp, this episode connects modern encounters with more than a century of Appalachian stories about wild men, hairy giants, and unexplained creatures lurking just beyond the tree line.Email BrianJoin Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.Have you had a Bigfoot encounter, Sasquatch sighting, Dogman experience, or other cryptid or paranormal encounter? We'd love to hear your story. Email brian@paranormalworldproductions.com to be featured on a future episode of Sasquatch Odyssey.Sasquatch Odyssey is a leading Bigfoot and cryptid podcast exploring real encounters, field research, and scientific analysis of the Sasquatch phenomenon.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss an episode.

Bass After Dark — inch for inch and pound for pound, the best show in fishing — is back for another lively, and LIVE, episode. Don't miss Ken Duke, Brian the Carpenter, and our three mystery panelists (spoiler alert: it's Dr. Terry Battisti, Mike Davis, and Epic Eric) as we tackle the question: What are the biggest what-ifs in bass history?

How do you balance marriage, children, work, and everything else life throws at you? What should you know about someone before you say, “I do”? Pastor Ron is joined by his son Chaz for a real conversation about dating, young marriage, parenting, sacrifice, and building a strong relationship in the middle of a busy life. From choosing the right person to navigating the pressures that come after the wedding, they share practical lessons every young adult and couple needs to hear. This installment of Ron + Hope: Unfiltered is real, raw, relevant, and one you won't want to miss!S5E26 (#224) Are there any topics you'd like us to discuss?Do you have any questions you'd like us to answer?Send them to unfiltered@ronandhope.com.Follow Ron Carpenter at https://www.instagram.com/ron.carpenter/Follow Hope Carpenter at https://www.instagram.com/pastorhope.carpenter/Subscribe to Ron's YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/user/pastorroncarpenterSubscribe to Hope's YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1TUxyS_-elLEOORZ2YiunA Website:http://www.ronandhope.com #RonCarpenter#HopeCarpenter#UnfilteredPodcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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The ThingHosts: Clark Coffey & Cullen McFaterIn this episode, Clark Coffey and Cullen McFater discuss the classic John Carpenter horror The Thing! The two talk about the film's writing, practical effects, score, Carpenter's direction, and everything else to discuss!Subscribe to Soldiers of Cinema for honest, wide-ranging conversations on film, from cult favorites to award-winners - with two filmmakers, decades apart.TrailerDirector: John CarpenterStarring:Kurt RussellWilford BrimleyKeith DavidSocials:FacebookTwitterInstagram

Gary Williams opens a two hour Monday edition of 5 Clubs with a full postscript on the PGA TOUR season, starting with Scottie Scheffler's three shot win over Viktor Hovland at the Tour Championship, a result that closes out a FedExCup playoff run in which Scheffler won two of three postseason events. Gary breaks down the round shot by shot and puts the win in the context of Scheffler's last five seasons, then plays comments from Scheffler and Hovland on the win. The weekly winners segment covers Joe Dean's victory at the British Masters, Ruoning Yin's win at the FM Championship on the LPGA Tour, and Steven Alker's back-to-back PGA Tour Champions wins. Jaime Diaz joins Gary to discuss where Scheffler's FedExCup accomplishments rank against Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, the PGA Tour's move to a 120 player, four event championship series starting in 2028, and the lasting impact of LIV Golf's disruption on the tour and its players. Diaz also reflects on Tim Finchem's commissionership following news of his Alzheimer's diagnosis and his family's charitable donation through the PGA Tour.Josh Carpenter of the Sports Business Journal joins Gary to go deeper on the PGA Tour's 2028 restructuring, including sponsor interest in the new championship series, the future of the BMW Championship in Chicago, and Brian Rolapp's approach to the tour's media rights negotiations. Carpenter also discusses reporting on LIV Golf's staff reductions and a possible bankruptcy filing, along with the outlook for the DP World Tour and the PGA Tour's international series.Angela Stanford, captain of the United States Solheim Cup team, closes out the show with a preview of next week's matches in the Netherlands, covering her pairing strategy for Nelly Korda, the makeup of her roster, and how the team is preparing for a true road environment against Europe.5 Clubs airs Monday - Wednesday at 8 AM ET on Golf Channel & SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio.0:00 Recapping the Weekend Winners4:15 Reviewing the TOUR Championship6:45 Scottie's Greatness17:05 Jaime Diaz59:25 Josh Carpenter 1:14:15 Angela Stanford FOLLOW 5 Clubs: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/5clubsgolf/X: https://x.com/5ClubsGolf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/5ClubsGolf/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@5clubsgolf

Filming THE THING meant spending weeks in sub-zero temps in Stewart, British Columbia — and a bus crash that nearly killed the cast and crew before the shoot even began. In Part 3 of our deep dive, we cover the brutal Canadian location shoot, Carpenter's script rewrites happening in real time, the practical explosions built by effects coordinator Roy Arbogast, as well as the strange, difficult collaboration with legendary composer Ennio Morricone on the film's minimalist score. Want the full story without the wait? CinemaShock+ members get extended, ad-free episodes that combine every part into one seamless listen — plus bonus content you won't hear anywhere else. Join at cinemashock.net/plus. CINEMA SHOCK ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Andy Lancaster | asotirov | Benjamin Turpin | Benjamin Yates | Capiapoa | courtland ashley | curtcake5k | Dick Jones | Elton Novara | Interzone78 | Jackson_Baker | JoeyP | John sweet bussy Greaney | KDurden | Lucy Lawson | MagicBloat | mcdudely | Nate Izod | Princess Krishna Kali | RockGokd | shadowcut | Tim G | triplr1478 Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy. This episode was written, produced and edited by Gary Horne & Justin Bishop. Image: "Portrait of John Carpenter.jpg" by Kyle Cassidy, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified from original. This derivative work is also licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. For episode archives, merch, show notes, and more, visit cinemashock.net

Steve & Izzy continue Nic-August Cage, the month dedicated to the greatest living actor, as they discuss 2025's "The Carpenter's Son" starring Nicolas Cage, FKA Twigs, Noah Jupe & more!!! What are our upcoming vacation plans? Why is Jason our religious movie expert? Is Grindr the high ground?!? Let's find out!!! So kick back, grab a few brews, resurrect the Lazarus Locust, and enjoy!!! This episode is proudly sponsored by Untidy Venus, your one-stop shop for incredible art & gift ideas at UntidyVenus.Etsy.com and be sure to follow her on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & Patreon at @UntidyVenus for all of her awesomeness!!! Try it today!!! Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.twitter.com/eilfmovies⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.facebook.com/eilfmovies⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Etsy - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.untidyvenus.etsy.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TeePublic - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.teepublic.com/user/untidyvenus⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a recent decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that law enforcement's use of a geofence warrant, which collected identity and location data from mobile phone users, violated the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. Professor Orin S. Kerr of Stanford University unpacks the decision in Chatrie v. United States and explores what it means for the future of the Fourth Amendment, privacy, and government surveillance in the digital age. Julie Silverbrook, chief content and learning officer at the National Constitution Center, moderates.    Resources  Orin S. Kerr, “The Fourth Amendment After Chatrie,” Stanford Law Working Paper Series (Aug 12, 2026)  Orin S. Kerr, The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World (2025)  The Fourth Amendment, National Constitution Center  Chatrie v. United States (2026)  Case v. Montana (2026)  Carpenter v. United States (2018)  Riley v. California (2014)  United States v. Knotts (1983)  United States v. Leon (1984)  Mapp v. Ohio (1961)    Stay Connected and Learn More  Stay connected with We the People—follow, rate, and review the show wherever you listen.  Questions or comments? Email podcast@constitutioncenter.org.  Follow @ConstitutionCtr on social media and sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate.  Support our important work by making a donation today.  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Donate 

The Cardinals are too painful so Doug wants to start with the golf. Don't worry about the dossier, it's just a road map. A+ grade for the BMW at Bellerive over the weekend. Best fans in golf. Rory blowing up on 17. Audio of Gary Woodland poking fun at his topped drive on 9. Hey, there's Jake Knapp in a golf cart. Audio of Frank talking with Jim Nantz about St. Louis's showing for the BMW. Marty Tesla over here messing with the lights. Doug and Iggy may scrap today on ATMA. A frog covered in scat.There's no place you'd rather be than Spirit Halloween or Swing Around Fun Town during the stretch run of a golf tournament. A debacle in Philadelphia. Gotta get O'Brien out of there. Audio of Marmol talking about the decision to leave Riley O'Brien in there in the 9th. Dobbins and Pallante going down. Doug vs. The Audience. We deserve the UFL and MLS. Home of the Chiefs. Freese, Adams, Eckstein, and Carpenter at the Bananas. Wyndham Clark's likability. Audio of Scottie Scheffler talking about dealing with hand, foot, and mouth. Ballwin Beer Bitch checking in with us. Cougar SZN at Bananas games. Doug almost lost a finger yesterday to a mole trap. It's throbbing.Joined by voice of the Blues, Chris Kerber. Some news over the weekend regarding NHL expanding into Texas. Houston or Austin? How would expansion affect the Blues? Market size playing into expansion plans. Hockey in the south.Dressing up like a gerbil. Are Tim & Doug both furries? Mr. Lix has called in for his 25 minute call. Holding the Kevin Chappell caller from last week accountable. Tired of thinking about Kevin Chappell. Are we not gonna talk about trenching? Holding the local newsmen accountable for glazing the course. Flash mobs on the tee box. Zendaya as James Bond? CYC moms. TALK SOCCER!! No one is safe today, especially local mothers. Tolls. Flag guy in the Supporter's Section. Uncle Butter's shuttle.Mesmerized by Shaboozey. College Football almost back. Somebody's already got all the bowl game matchups laid out so that's good. Audio of Eli Drinkwitz talking about Ahmad Hardy's status for the season opener. Drink wants two weeks of full practice out of Hardy. Yes, you can ride clydesdales.It's darkest before dawn. Audio of the Philadelphia call of Scwarber's game-winner. Friend of the program, Hunter Brody was fired up. Chasing that Baez 2+ HR game on Friday. Scotch with The Colonel. My office for the evening. Belly button ranch dippings. George Wendt. A delicious consolation prize.Homerun Pujols, World Series, baby. A text grab bag. Swinging on glitter balls. Kacey Musgraves. The ones who know know all too well. Today's a great day to log off for a little bit. Celebrate Doug's mangled finger. Martin's Austrian friend, Flo. The merch tent was sold out over the weekend. Someone is reporting.... Allegedly a woman ran across the 17th fairway and got herself carried out of Bellerive. Where was the sex swing?A guy climbed the fence in the big cat exhibit at the zoo. Monday Makeout theme. Design Aire Heating & Cooling EMOTD.Foster The People. What a bop. Tickling the ivory at Menard's.MGMT. Need a little joy before The Strode Program starts at 11. Cardinal playoff chances took a big dip after that sweep. Cardinal fan fiction about bring Miles Mikolas back. At least maybe JJ Wetherholt could still win the NL ROY. Did Iggy put a $100 bet on Sal Stewart for ROY.People are wanting validation of Iggy's $100 ROY bet. We want our vig. Tommy Pham in a social media spat with the Reds Dane Myers. Don't call us blokes. Doug hasn't had the BBL surgery yet.And the winner of the EMOTD is...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

(00:00-25:00) The Cardinals are too painful so Doug wants to start with the golf. Don't worry about the dossier, it's just a road map. A+ grade for the BMW at Bellerive over the weekend. Best fans in golf. Rory blowing up on 17. Audio of Gary Woodland poking fun at his topped drive on 9. Hey, there's Jake Knapp in a golf cart. Audio of Frank talking with Jim Nantz about St. Louis's showing for the BMW. Marty Tesla over here messing with the lights. Doug and Iggy may scrap today on ATMA. A frog covered in scat.(25:08-1:06:27) There's no place you'd rather be than Spirit Halloween or Swing Around Fun Town during the stretch run of a golf tournament. A debacle in Philadelphia. Gotta get O'Brien out of there. Audio of Marmol talking about the decision to leave Riley O'Brien in there in the 9th. Dobbins and Pallante going down. Doug vs. The Audience. We deserve the UFL and MLS. Home of the Chiefs. Freese, Adams, Eckstein, and Carpenter at the Bananas. Wyndham Clark's likability. Audio of Scottie Scheffler talking about dealing with hand, foot, and mouth. Ballwin Beer Bitch checking in with us. Cougar SZN at Bananas games. Doug almost lost a finger yesterday to a mole trap. It's throbbing.(1:06:37-1:18:10) Joined by voice of the Blues, Chris Kerber. Some news over the weekend regarding NHL expanding into Texas. Houston or Austin? How would expansion affect the Blues? Market size playing into expansion plans. Hockey in the south.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

John Carpenter, Escape from New York, Escape from LA, Debra Hill and her overlooked legacy, Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi, New York City and its circumstances when Escape was being conceived, 1977 NYC blackouts, Watergate and its influence on Escape, the 1970s burnout the Left felt, Escape as closer to a 1970s parapolitical thriller than an 80s action film, Donald Pleasance's president, the president vs the Duke of New York, where does Snake Plissken rank among iconic action heroes?, Snake as a deconstruction of action heroes, Snake vs. Jack Burton, Escape's stellar cast, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Van Cleef, Clint Eastwood and the Dollars trilogy, the Escape films as Westerns, the iconic landmarks used by Carpenter, Escape's emphasis on landmarks related to finance, why B movies work better for social commentary, John Carpenter as one of the most politically subversive filmmakers of his era.Music by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

(00:00-8:07) Shrub sitch on Jackson's mic. Doubled edged sword. Jackson has a question for the cyclists out there. Why don't they stop at stop signs. The Idaho Stop. Rupturing your saddle.(8:15-16:10) Design Aire Heating & Cooling EMOTD(16:20-33:45) Carpen, Carpen, Carpenter. Martin joins us on the phone lines from Bellerive. TMA is the new Bababooey. Martin made a new Austrian friend named Flo. Life on a shuttle bus. Uncle Butter is driving a BMW shuttle and is playing TMA for the patrons. We're gonna thaw Doug out and come back.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How bout that Raiders and Texas game? Thanks, Reds. One of strangest 9th innings Doug's seen in a while. Would you consider listening to the game watching it? Dany Myers just giving one back to us. Daddy likey very much. Some audio from the wild 9th inning. Topic tapas when Tim leaves later today. A tingy gong. Are The Ting Tings dating? The stats when a Cardinal starter faces guys a third time through are startling. Sharing a revolving door with a stranger. Clippin' coupons. Erin in LIngerie is on the line. We were boring her so she called in to entertain. Erin's going out to Bellerive today. Penny slots. Inviting Jackson to a match at Old Hickory.Gonna be hard to top the Erin In Lingerie call. Jackson doesn't play well at Old Hickory. Hammerin' penny slots. A tier 2 radio show. Audio from the Cincinnati Reds chatterbox reacting live to the Reds debacle. Audio of the Reds call of the 9th inning error.That's Not My Name. Put $100 on the Cardinals to make the playoffs and you'll be rewarded with $700. Coming up on the penultimate home stand. Gorman homered and struck out for Memphis yesterday. Give us a Bananas breakdown. Doug's ice cream addiction. Colonel gonna be in town all weekend. Golden Circus Circus pompadour. Doug doesn't like bathroom attendants. Salad fingers is a grinder.Mexico Honey. You don't get the name Marty Monogamy for nothing. Got your best gal. People yelling TMA during Martin's 2Fox live shots. Drops of the Week. Hunter Brody. Tim's Instagram. Mt. Rushmore of TMA crawl in a hole and die moments. Take us down memory lane.Happy Birthday Kenny Rogers. And Iggy bedded her. Sassy Jackson on a Friday. Oli Marmol talking about getting a W in a wild one in Cinci. Playing with house money down the stretch. Hoping that last home stand means something in September.They're on the course at Bellerive for round 2. Mt. Rushmore of bad first date foods. Audio of Rory talking with Martin after his round yesterday. Martin's gonna call in around 10. Club Imperial. Barney at SoCo Mall. Can you ride a clydesdale?Shrub sitch on Jackson's mic. Doubled edged sword. Jackson has a question for the cyclists out there. Why don't they stop at stop signs. The Idaho Stop. Rupturing your saddle.Design Aire Heating & Cooling EMOTDCarpen, Carpen, Carpenter. Martin joins us on the phone lines from Bellerive. TMA is the new Bababooey. Martin made a new Austrian friend named Flo. Life on a shuttle bus. Uncle Butter is driving a BMW shuttle and is playing TMA for the patrons. We're gonna thaw Doug out and come back.Afternoon Delight. Audio of Justin Thomas talking about the differences in Bellerive from 2018 to now. Newsmen love the movie Anchorman. The Anthony Bourdain movie. Audio of Michael Kay calling the Yankees three run inning and offensive orgy. Can we hear that again? The Three Stooges. Randy Sam Elliott.Doug's going through the stages of frostbite. He's no longer lucid. Jackson vs The St. Louis cyclist community. Seatbelts and helmets.And the winner of the EMOTD is...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The ancients didn't just fear death — they weaponized it, leaving behind curses in hieroglyphics meant to haunt anyone brave enough to look.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CursesCarvedInStoneREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3cfn27cpFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: They say grief lingers in the house where children were murdered… but so does something colder, crueler — and far more dangerous. (The Horror of Waupun, Wisconsin) *** In the haunted heart of Edinburgh, there's a pub where the drinks are strong and the screams are stronger. (The Spirits of Banshee Labyrinth) *** The last person to see Virginia alive passed a polygraph — but his wife said he didn't come home until hours later. (The Vanishing of Virginia Carpenter) *** Asteroids, alien civilizations, even cosmic plagues — the real terror isn't what we can see in the sky… it's what we can't. (Space Threats to Earth) *** It started with flirtation, turned into an affair, and ended with a gunshot echoing through the cold night air in a Walgreen's parking lot. (Three Shots In The Night) *** They carved their warnings into stone 4,000 years ago — and now, after centuries of silence, the hieroglyphic curses of the dead are being read aloud once again. But in doing so, are we inviting doom and destruction? (Hieroglyphic Curses)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Short Fictional Story, “Breath of Anubis”00:11:21.779 = Show Open00:13:18.068 = Hieroglyphic Curses00:25:27.966 = The Vanishing of Virginia Carpenter ***00:32:11.146 = Space Threats To Earth00:36:45.704 = Spirits of the Banshee Labyrinth00:42:07.498 = Three Shots In The Night ***00:47:55.685 = Horror of Waupun, Wisconsin00:58:32.140 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:Haunted Rockford YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedRockfordEventsBOOK: “Dark Skies” by Daniel Deudney: https://amzn.to/3XFWUF6Fictional story at the beginning of this episode, “Breath of Anubis” by ChatterGhost“Space Threats to Earth”: https://anomalien.com/threats-from-outer-space-might-be-fueling-conspiracy-theories/“Three Shots In The Night”: https://the-line-up.com/murder-of-emmett-corrigan“Hieroglyphic Curses”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40000520,https://ng.opera.news/ng/en/culture/6aaa5bcd19c53ffa60ffc337d5742fce, https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/ancient-egypt-tomb-saqqara-priest-16826821, https://www.rom.on.ca/en/learning/activities-resources/online-activities/ancient-egypt/religion/tomb-inscriptions-curses, https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/tomb-curses-ancient-egypt-magical-incantations-dead-003228, https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2020/08/06/debunking-the-curse-of-the-pharaohs/, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Execration-Texts, https://www.businessinsider.com/egypt-saqqara-tombs-mummy-curses-2020-11, https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/the-curse-of-the-curse-of-the-pharaoh,https://blog.nms.ac.uk/2017/06/23/ancient-egyptian-tomb-warnings-curses-and-ghosts/,https://listverse.com/2023/06/08/10-creepy-curses-hidden-in-hieroglyphics“The Horror of Waupun, Wisconsin: https://www.hauntedrockford.com/shadows-of-a-murder/“Spirits of the Banshee Labyrinth”: https://moonmausoleum.com/haunted-spirits-at-the-banshee-labyrinth-pub/“The Vanishing of Virginia Carpenter” by Troy Taylor (used with permission): https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdzcaez9(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: April 01, 2025Weird Darkness explores ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic curses, the 1948 disappearance of Virginia Carpenter, asteroid and alien threats from space, Edinburgh's haunted Banshee Labyrinth, the Walgreens murder of Emmett Corrigan, and the 1865 Wisconsin ax killings linked to the restless dead of Waupun.It opens with curses carved into ancient Egyptian tombs, from the 4,000-year-old Execration Texts to warnings left by Harkhuf, Ankhtifi, Khentika Ikhekhi, Hezi, Sarenput I, Ankhmahor, Senenmut, and Pharaoh Amenhotep. These hieroglyphic threats promised strangulation, mutilation, divine judgment, destroyed families, and even attacks by crocodiles and serpents against anyone who violated the dead.From there, 21-year-old Virginia Carpenter vanishes after arriving in Denton, Texas, on June 1, 1948, to attend the Texas State College for Women. Taxi driver Edgar Ray “Jack” Zachary said he left her outside Brackenridge Hall with two unidentified men beside a cream-colored convertible, but Carpenter never checked in, and later leads—including a possible Arkansas sighting and a 1998 burial-site tip—failed to solve the case.Next, the danger moves into space with asteroid 2024 YR4, theories about weaponized asteroid-deflection technology, Cixin Liu's “dark forest” view of hostile alien civilizations, and Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe's idea that viruses could arrive from space. The episode also traces fears of catastrophe from the sky back to the ancient Cosmic Hunt tradition and the Sámi story of an arrow striking the pole star.The episode then descends beneath Edinburgh's Old Town into The Banshee Labyrinth, a rock and metal pub built partly inside the South Bridge vaults. Reports include a screaming banshee in a gray dress, the ghost of a child named Molly who disappeared in 1814, the mischievous Ole Jock in the women's restroom, and unexplained cold spots, moving glasses, and shadows inside the historic underground chambers.From Edinburgh, the story shifts to Meridian, Idaho, where attorney Emmett Corrigan's affair with paralegal Kandi Hall ended in three gunshots outside a Walgreens on March 11, 2011. Kandi's husband, Rob Hall, survived a gunshot wound to the head, Corrigan died from wounds to the heart and skull, and Hall was convicted of second-degree murder in 2012 and sentenced to 30 years in prison.The episode closes with the December 3, 1865 murders of three children at Anton and Amelia Koch's farm near Burlington, Wisconsin, where hired man Peter Frahm was convicted after bloody footprints, blood on his boots, and a stolen coin pouch tied him to the ax killings. Frahm died by hanging in the Wisconsin State Penitentiary in Waupun on March 21, 1871, and reports of whispers, cold presences, apparitions of children, and a darker shadow have since attached themselves to both the old Koch property and the unmarked graves of the State Prison Cemetery.LIKE WHAT YOU'RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! 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