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Tonight at 9PM ET, we will be chatting with Christian Mlotschek, a home meadmaker in Ontario, Canada. Christian is a newish meadmaker, and has jumped in with both feet to make meads. Christian's brewing adventures started in 2022 when he joined the Society for Creative Anachronism. He's  brewed about 40 batches of mead, beer and cider including a few historical meads from various manuscripts. This past year he started competing in both beer and mead. His "Mixed up Mel" melomel won gold at the Ales Open in April '24, and he received a Gold for his Semi-Sweet Wildflower Trad. at Brew Slam in December '24. He did my first commercial collaboration this past November with Counterpoint Brewing in Kitchener allowing him to learning experience on larger equipment, bringing his Battered Ram Buckwheat Braggot to the masses. It was well received and mostly sold out in a short period. His current projects are: a period adjacent tradional mead recipe where he conscripted 8 other brewers in the SCA to help him fill a mead barrel that he purchased from Rosewood Estates Winery in Ontario. shared mead with and taught some local Cubans on his recent trip how to make it with the promise he gets to try their attempts when he goes back next. bench trials of various varietals to do a sampling of source honey and fermented mead, including his local wildflower, fireweed, coriander, meadowfoam, blueberry blossom and Ontario Buckwheat. The future is hopefully contuing to build his library, more competitions and experimental archeology making recipes from various sources and creating period style Brewing equipment to showcase at demos. Join us to chat with Christian and explore meadmaking! To listen live, you can find us on Youtube, Twitch, X (Twitter), and Facebook on the Gotmead Page. On our new platform, chat is part of the podcast! Just comment from wherever you are watching, and we'll see it!! If you'd like to call in, we can get you a link to come on! Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/meadwench YouTube: YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@Gotmead X(Twitter): https://x.com/RealGotMead Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GotMead Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/GotMead Sponsor: Look no further than Honnibrook Craft Meadery in Castle Rock, Colorado, for your go-to destination for wonderful, light, and refreshing mead! We have 20 meads on tap and four seasonal mead slushees.  Go to honnibrook.com for review our tap list, upcoming events and to order online! Crafting excellent mead requires excellent honey. Luckily The Honey Jar is here to help. Since 2005 The Honey Jar has been supplying delicious pure raw honey in easy to handle 12-pound pails to hobbyist brewers around the United States. Visit us at TheHoneyJarHome.com/gotmead If you want to ask your mead making questions, you can call us at 803-443-MEAD (6323) or send us a question via email, or via Twitter @realGotMead and we'll tackle it online! 9PM EDT/6PM PDT (United States) Join us on live chat during the show Upcoming Shows April 22 - Arne Defurne - Clockwork Bee Mead, Antwerp Belgium May 6 - Alen RadoŠević - Fool Moon mead, Transylvania Show links and notes Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Let There Be Session Meads by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events April 9 - Green Mountain Mashers, Essex, VT - Mead Series Part 4: Specialty Meads April 10 - Red, Wine and Brew, Mentor, OH - Mead Tasting with meads from Brothers Drake Meadery - Columbus, OHDutch Creek Meadery - Athens, OHFour Fires Meadery - Maumee, OHFeisty Brood Meadery - Northfield, OH April 10 - Viking Alchemist Meadery, Smyrna, GA - Mead and Mini painting April 11 - Artifice Ales and Mead, Mannheim, PA - Line Dancing! April 11 - St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI - Kyle Brown live music April 12 - Cupka's Bee Good Meadery, Auburn,

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First Week.Based on a post by FinalStand, in 13 parts. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels. I started out the next morning admiring the boarding on the window to the Principal's second story office. The ground and bushes beneath it were pretty trampled up too. That was a good way to start the day. In homeroom, I was talking to Kaelyne again when Princess Brandy announced her entrance and her 'power' over me.‘Hey Vlad,' she greeted me with sugary sweetness. She was working out ways to get me for the whole 'dog not kissing her mouth' thing.‘Hey Skank,' I grinned at her. Her face froze. Taliyah pulled up short.‘What did you say?' Brandy hissed.‘Skank. Are you hard of hearing?' I mused.‘I'm Darius' girl, asshole. You had better accept that right now.'‘Girl? Sure. I imagine that Darius and seven other guys fucking you in all three holes until you are oozing sperm is your ideal dream date,' I chortled.Having the scope of her depravity openly discussed really pissed her off.‘You are jealous,' she sneered. There was a hint of desperation in her voice. I chuckled.‘That's clearly delusional thinking,' I laughed. ‘You look hot, just not enough for me to want to wash my dick in ten other guys' cum. You act like a skank so that is how I will address you, Skank.'She was infuriated. The start of homeroom ended the matter for the moment. The rest of the day was spent with a hundred slights and pin pricks. Darius' crowd would get in jabs from behind as we walked the halls, or projectiles tossed at us during class. We were fine with that. There was no fighting back. The 'niggers' didn't get it.We were scoping out the faces of our enemies and finding blind spots in the school's security camera system. The truth about what happened to the Principal had also gotten out. Mom had already informed us of the series of events, including the spy camera video she took of the entire proceedings.She'd kept up the 'dunce housewife' act even after he whipped out his cock and forced her to suck it, because he was a 'big Black stud', his words recorded for posterity. Finally, he put his hand down her blouse to give her bountiful bosom a good squeeze while shoving his cock past her loudly protesting lips. That was all the excuse Mom needed. She portrayed the frantic housewife really well. We, her family, knew better.She was hamming it up to allay any criminal charges. His pleas for mercy were ignored. It was hard to make out what he was saying after she bashed out half his teeth with his 'African-American Educator of the Year' award. She'd ruptured his scrotum, stabbed his exposed cock repeatedly with a letter opener and cracked half a dozen vertebrae and a dozen ribs.We were pretty sure she'd broken his arms in multiple places, ground up both his hands and shattered his left wrist. She snapped his right leg in two, all the while screaming 'Don't touch me! Don't touch me!' Her last bit of sadism was to toss him out his second story window. The first try, he bounced back, but we were pretty sure he had a concussion.The second try cracked the safety glass. The third time was the charm and down that rapist rat-bastard fell into a modest sized holly bush (ouch!). Mom completed the act by pretending to sob as she crawled into a corner of the office while she dialed 9-1-1. As she gleefully went over the play-by-play for us once home, we knew she was cool about the entire incident, even the groping and forced blowjob.It was Davis County jurisdiction so they were in charge of the investigation. That didn't stop Kingston from sticking their noses in. The Mayor was all about the Principal being a pillar of the community, a Black leader and a church-going man. Then the School's video evidence came out. The Principle had been so full of himself and his immunity, he recorded his attempted violation of my Mom.Did the Negro community accept the obvious? No. This was a racist White lady, from a racist family, framing a good Black man though how she accomplished that was unclear to most of us and undefined by the Black leadership. They claimed that the Principal had yet to give his side of the story. That would take a while. The man had lost most of his teeth and had his jaw wired shut.Both eardrums were ruptured and he could barely see out of his right eye. His left was swollen shut. His nose was pancaked. There was even a rumor that his penis was so badly mauled they had to cut most of it off (which turned out to be true). Big Bob, some deputies (all White) and some Highway Patrol (both colors) raided the Principal's house and found a stockpile of tapes and DVDs depicting previous sexual encounters at school going back almost two decades.Apparently that was nothing more than extra proof of the hateful, bigoted White man framing a decent, hard-working Black man. That any group could be so blinded by their own bigotry that they would embrace such a blatant fiction was appalling to me. At school, the Blacks were indignant and the Whites kept a low profile, as if they'd done something wrong.The one grey cloud in this monsoon of misery was basketball tryouts were on Thursday after school. We picked up consent forms from a furious coach that slathered on the kind of negativity we had come to expect from him and his sick breed. White boys can't jump. White boys can't dunk. White boys can score inside the 'paint'; yep. No racism there (insert maniacal laughter).The Assistant Athletic Director coached the basketball team. He was a short, thin, hyperactive White man and, as we were to learn, a race-hater. He hated White people, or at least White athlete wannabes. More on him later. There were two key developments on my front. First, Alexander informed us he had a side project he couldn't talk about yet.The second thing was that Darius demanded, by way of Brandy, that I took Brandy to an 'after victory' celebration out by the lake Friday night. From 9 p.m. to whenever, I was to sit back and let Brandy be used like a drunk runaway at an outlaw biker rally. Personally, I didn't see how that could be an enjoyable sexual experience.Brandy believed this made her Darius' lady. She certainly embraced the bukkake, sperm baths eagerly. I still chose to ridicule her constantly because I could tell she was having trouble rationalizing her sexual treatment with any style of romance, or affection. She hadn't been honest with me so I was now tormenting her and using her shame to stab at Darius.We could see it in his eyes whenever we mocked his crowd. Darius was plotting out his revenge. His problem was we didn't care what he called us, we didn't care about the teachers he turned against us and we had no spies in our camp, or friends to turn against us. We accepted our social life, for the time being, would be limited to our home.Mom hinted she had a 'plan' in the offing and proved the internet had rendered local belligerence impudent. All our supplies came by parcel delivery from out of town. We wired up a new home security system, engaging a Little Rock private security service instead of putting any faith in the local, Black-run firm. We signed a waiver for the self-install.There were times when we could totally believe that Mom and Uncle Theo were twins. Technically, as the twin born last, Mom was the youngest of the five children. For unspoken reasons, Theo ended up at a military academy for delinquents at fifteen. She only publically saw him three times since then. Once when she broke into his school (and got caught), at his academy graduation and lastly when he finished basic training for the Army.Yet they remained close in ways only multiple birth kids could understand despite the time and distance. It also meant Mom came equipped with (cough) healthy doses of paranoia and vindictiveness. Mom reminded us our battle wasn't limited to the school. We were fighting a secularist religion with a fanatic core.Had Black Americans been fucked over by White America? Yep. That didn't end 150 years ago either. There was Jim Crow legislation after Reconstruction as well as uninvestigated rapes, beatings, whippings, lynching and even being burned alive. All horrors visited on the Black Race by the White Man.Yet it was White men who passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Yes they did, but getting Black people to accept that there were White people who stood with them as equals was impossible. Since 1965, had there been Black councilmen/women, mayors, state legislators, governors, Congressmen/women, Supreme Court Justices and, dare we say, a president?Why yes. Where there Blacks in every aspect of professional life? Damn right there were. Where there Black millionaires? Thousands of them, and even an African-American self-made Billionaire. So exactly what were White Americans supposed to feel guilty about? Crap our parents and grandparents did? Great-grandparents?When was the cut-off date for being held accountable for actions you had no part in? There were poor Black people. There were poor White people and poor Latinos for that matter. As far as my Mom was concerned, racism was racism and it had no exceptions for color, creed, and orientation coming, or going.She'd given the Blacks of Kingston their chance to make things right, to end the cycle of hate. They had declined to rein in their own, so she felt no obligation for her, or her sons, to give obedience to their injustice.There was a pile of evidence that the Principal had done wrong, still Kingston treated him like a hero and martyr. Fuck that noise. Mom didn't want to start some wacked-out guerilla war. She only wanted to punish those responsible for this fucked up situation. Target #1, Darius and by default, Darius' family. That, in turn, was Darius' biggest problem.He didn't realize he was hunting people more than capable of hunting the hunters. We knew he and his supporters were coming for our family, they had tons of advantages and little fear of the four of us (we wouldn't involve Dad since he was in law enforcement and a straight arrow). We weren't aiming for a body count. Our goal was humiliation and breaking their wills to resist.With that accomplished, we could install some truly impartial justice and social order. My family was aided in this quest by the clarity of our enemy's weaknesses. They were proud of their Big Black Cocks and their lack of restraint in using them on whomever they pleased. Basing their Black masculinity on a single bit of mythology rendered them painfully vulnerable to us.They hadn't chosen to base their dominion on anything but their cock and balls. Solidarity, economic output and healthy competitiveness had been tossed aside. The Black community in Kingston accepted Black male predation as the natural course of things. It was revenge for the White Master/Black Slave Girl depredations that happened during Slavery. Did they humble White men by fucking their moms, sisters, wives and daughters? Yeah.That disregard for social bonds and femininity meant Black women were under the same dominion, though they lied to themselves about it and the Black men comforted them in that lie. Black Mammas let their boys run around like dogs then were aghast when their husbands did the same thing. Big Black Cocks were eroding the basis for trust in this town.If BBC wanted a woman, he stuck the cock in and that woman became his cock-slave. Had the woman started out resisting? That didn't matter because now they needed that cock to get her through the week. That was the score. The truth Mom laid out was confirmed by a week of school. How were we going to defeat the BBC menace?Mom just smiled and said she had a 'Secret Weapon' to go along with her battle plan. We took that assurance into Thursday's basketball team tryouts. We rocked. We had the talent and the skills. That didn't matter to the Assistant Coach. He had six Black players returning from last year's team.There was one White guy whose Mom was throwing gobs of new equipment the team's way, so he was on board. That left five spots to fill the twelve man roster. Up against us was one ambitious White junior, seven Black juniors and one Black female senior. Apparently she'd been denied a spot on last year's team based on gender alone and was still pissed about it.The Ass Coach immediately set his sights on five of the Black juniors that fit the profile, Black top (that's outdoor courts that used asphalt) experience, tall, lanky and a willingness to dunk on a moment's notice. Our scrimmages were stupid and biased. The Black players could elbow, trip and punch us without repercussions. Mikhail almost got booted for threatening to toss the next blatant fouler into the bleachers.We caught a break when Ass Coach got called away with a phone call which he couldn't understand because his 'chosen ones' wouldn't shut up and even attempt to be quietly considerate. I had an idea to create our own scrimmage team, but I had a problem. The two Black guys and one White guy not getting on the team sucked. I needed two of the other Black players.I chose an alliance. I went to the angry, dispirited female player and made my offer. We would challenge the current team and, if we beat them, we made a pact that all of us made the team, or none of us did. I could see her weighing screwing me over. The whole school knew Darius was gunning for me and my brothers. She shook my hand. We needed a fifth.The girl, Kaja Woodrow, went over to her cousin, one of the players from last year's team. He didn't want to join us. He had a guaranteed spot and he could blow it by joining his crazy female cousin and the three most hated White boys in school. Kaja threatened to bring their grandmother into this mess. I think that threat plus a strong sense of fair play changed his mind.We were good. Shaquille, Kaja's cousin, knew it. Everyone knew it. He was shorter than us, around 5' 10'. His ball-handling skills were phenomenal, he was a fairly accurate shooter and would happily pass the ball if someone was in a better court possession instead of taking a risky shot.Passing the ball was key and not an art form shared by the rest of his current teammates. With Shaquille on our side, we put our proposal before the Ass Coach. He denied us, but we were ready for that. Our team took to physically and verbally mocking and denigrating the manhood of the current roster. They took our bait.After a quick warm-up, we made our move. Everything worked in our favor. High School courts aren't black top. The courts are wider and there is no turning around at mid-court. You added to that our opponents were ball-hogs and suffered from terminal 'dunk-itis'. Mikhail made the 'paint' his bailiwick (bally-wick?).Dunk attempt after dunk attempt were brutally rejected by him. By their logic, my brothers and I would also keep the ball for ourselves. We passed like crazy. This was doubly painful for them because the White boys and Kaja could nail a jump shot from maybe 18 to 20 feet out, no problem. Shaquille would race behind their screen, catch a pass on the leap and dunk unopposed.Our squad was making their squad and the Ass Coach look like idiots. The All-Black squad didn't regroup and create a new plan. No. We were belittling them. First came the fouls. When that wasn't enough to stop us from outscoring them, they brought out on the egregious fouls and still the Ass Coach did nothing.Finally, after the fifteenth time Kaja humiliated the player supposed to be guarding her with a quick feint-step and a basket, he ran her over. He didn't shove her. He threw a powerful shoulder into her chest and followed up by stepping on her stomach. He smiled. His buddies laughed. Mikhail walked over and broke his jaw.Remember, Mikhail was a big, strong, skilled fighter and had a temper. That message hadn't filtered through the mind of the All-Black squad. They rushed him. Their center took a piston kick to the gut (he had pathetic reflexes) and his closest buddy succumbed to a leg sweep. The Ass Coach went apoplectic. Shaquille rallied to Mikhail and Kaja while we went to our gym bags.Out came the two recording devices (it is the freaking Information Age, you morons). Thanks to the internet, we uploaded the files and then we took the damning evidence to Ass Coach. He and most of his team were in deep shit. Their blatant fouls counted as assault in the real world. Mikhail wasn't in trouble. The dumbass who attacked Kaja was standing over the woman he assaulted when my brother intervened.We also promised to show this video to every school on our schedule for the year as well as any and every athletic authority we could think of. Grudgingly he offered we three Samsonovs a place on the roster. We insisted on all five of our squad. He insisted he would never put a girl on the team.I put my arm around his scrawny shoulders and forcefully walked him away for a private chat. I reminded him keeping Kaja off the team solely because she was female was discrimination. My brothers didn't like discrimination. My Mom really didn't like discrimination.Did he want my Mom to come to school and explain to him how much she disliked it? Kaja was on the team. Ass Coach announced the new roster and promptly uplifted our spirits by declaring this season would be a disaster because we had a girl and four White guys on the team. The next day, she and Shaquille received ten kinds of trouble from their racial compatriots.Mikhail gave Kaja a 'First Alert' bracelet and cautioned her to wear it at all times. It was a testimonial to how screwed up this environment was she put it on without question. Shaquille ended up eating lunch with us as well. The razzing was bad enough. The cracks his former friends were making about Kaja made him want to commit violence on their persons.Shaquille found out what comradery was all about as classes let out that first Friday afternoon. Eight big bucks ambushed him as he prepared to walk home, he lived about a mile way. Recall what I said about identifying our tormentors? We figured out who the 'shot-callers' were so when they started texting their plan around, the Samsonovs began taking counter-measures.Darius was the Capo. Since we had a 'home' game tonight, he couldn't attend to this errand personally, nor could his football-playing associates. He had plenty of non-jock lieutenants to command. In turn, those bozos had the rank and file big and average-sized thugs to follow his orders. This wasn't an army. It was a loose vigilante herd.They also were kind enough to joke about their target when they thought we weren't around. We had to keep out of sight until the eight made a move on Shaquille. We hadn't warned our 'buddy' out of concern he might not want to keep his role as bait. We waited for the shoving to end and the desperate grappling to begin before intervening.We had to film them committing their crime to make our crime non-criminal, if you can understand that reasoning. We should have thanked Darius for giving us his eight best 'B-grade' boys to annihilate. Seven of them went down super-quick. The eighth bolted. We couldn't maintain our legal smoke screen if we ran him down.Instead, we settled for stomping the fuck out of the seven we had. Keeping them on their feet was the key. Kicking a man when he's down looks suspect. Shaquille joined in the 'fun'. Our victims pleaded, cursed, threatened and cried like little babies yet we still beat them raw and bloody.Their superior numbers and initiating the conflict pretty much allowed us to do anything we wanted to them, short of murder. Was this a White racist beat-down? You could look at it that way except for the first minute of the video showed eight Black kids surrounding and shoving around another Black kid.Once we vacated the trashing, I leveled with Shaquille about our actions, we had known what was coming his way, used him to give us an excuse to kick ass; and he was pissed with us. After a few minutes, he shook his head, snorted and agreed while we were total bastards, there had been no other way for that encounter to play out that left the four of us in a better position.Those seven guys would be in no shape to bother him or Kaja for a week, or two, and the message of the pummeling those seven went through would reverberate throughout the school.I touched base with Big Bob, who was attending the game, so that Darius and Brandy could see me being a 'good boy' thus foolishly playing my part in their deceptive scheme. That was living proof the worst deceptions was self-deceptions. Come on now, my brothers and I had beat up seven of Darius' flunkies and now they thought I was cowed enough to be led like a calf to the slaughter?(Football Follies)There was only one unexpected event on that nightmare first date. The score of 42-3 made sense. Darius was an epic running-back with all the natural talent and ambition to make the NFL. The rest of the team was pretty good as well and more than enough to manhandle the mixed race team opposing them.The coach running up the score was par for the course as far as unsportsmanlike conduct went. By now, nil human compassion was what we expected from that crowd. They behaved like brutal thugs. The other team was suitably battered, broken and sullen. Every underhanded blow, discourtesy and disrespect our team exhibited reinforced my sense of my brothers' righteousness.A tractor-trailer sized 'Humble Pie' was coming down the pipeline for those assholes and it was so well deserved. 'Our' team even had the gall to molest the other team's cheerleaders before they could exit the arena. A few dust-ups occurred when fathers and boyfriends of the attacked ladies tried to save their womenfolk. Their coach appealed to our coach.Coach's look said it all; 'to the victors go the spoils'. Big Bob's deputies moved in. It took all of five seconds to see whose side the Black deputies were on. They gleefully aided the monsters struggling with the White men whose sole crime was wanting to get their women out with their virtues intact. All of these shenanigans were anticipated by Mom and us.Three members of the defense managed to steal one terrified White cheerleader away from her side of the field. The boyfriend who tried to get to her was held back by a Black deputy. They would have been home-free except for one thing, my Dad's height and instincts. He spotted the trouble and headed those three off. First they blustered. Dad was unfazed.Next they decided two would block Dad while the third dragged the girl away. They didn't know Dad. The second they put hands on him, out came his collapsible baton. He swung it up and into one antagonists' elbow. Trust me, that hurts. Of greater importance, no one saw it coming. Dad got in a blow to the other guy before he knew why the first guy was cursing in pain.Then Dad fell on the third football player. My favorite lawman was finished talking. He shoved a thumb into the bastard's left eye, trust me; that hurts too. I can also assure you it is horribly distracting. Dad corralled the panicked girl and brought her back to her boyfriend, and the deputy who was arresting him. The White boy was freaking out and the Black officer was gloating.I had never been the recipient of what came next, but I'd heard Dad's family talk about it and witnessed it a few times from a distance, like tonight. Dad, as Senior Deputy, asked the 'plain' Deputy to release the boy. The Deputy said something disrespectful to Dad. My Father grabbed the man's right wrist faster than a rattlesnake. I could almost feel those wrist bones grinding painfully together.Dad, like all the men in our family, was big and bulky, not fat. We packed muscle mass upon muscle mass and I knew that Black man wasn't getting his wrist back until Dad decided to release him. Dad leaned in and whispered a few things to the Deputy. The Black man spat back then nearly crumpled over in pain as my Father ratcheted up the pressure, until the crying man acquiesced.The girl and her boyfriend beat their feet out of there. Dad escorted the rebellious Deputy to a quiet corner to have a chat. That shithead immediately went for the racist angle, White cop picking on rambunctious Black youths. Dad replied that if he ever saw anything like what he saw that night again, he wasn't going to report the deputy, he was going to arrest him on the spot for facilitating an attempted sexual assault.The Deputy made one more stab at the racist smear, proving he had never bother to get to know my Father. Dad's comeback was simple. If the deputy called him a racist one more time, he would bring the Black officer up on State and Federal Hate Crime statutes, creating a racial charged work environment.The Fed would be a 'swing and a miss'. It was the 'Blacks can't be racist' bullshit. The State of Arkansas on the other hand; Dad, Big Bob and the White Deputies would gladly grease the wheels of justice. Nik Samsonov had a flawless 23 year record in law enforcement. All of that was of no surprise.Dad had never come out and said there was a racial divide in the Sheriff's office, but it was clear to us that to a man, the Black Deputies kept the Black power structure in town abreast of all the goings on at the county law enforcement level. Until our arrival, the Black elite had their eyes set on litigating themselves into the office of Sheriff.A man of Dad's background and caliber sort of curtailed those hopes and dreams. This was another reason for them to support Darius and his efforts were to make Dad look bad and even shame him into leaving. Fat chance of that happening. No, none of that was surprising to me. What caught me somewhat off-guard was;‘Why do you hate me?' Brandy asked me out of the blue. We were driving to the lake party site when she finally opened up.‘You've never given me a reason to do anything but hate you,' I replied after some thought.‘That's not so,' she protested. My first thought was to laugh in her face.‘Did it ever occur to you I didn't want to be in a relationship with you either? Did it occur to you that you could have been honest about this and I would have understood? Did you consider my feelings at all before you fed me into Darius' world?' I proffered up my questions.‘You wanted to date me,' she rebutted. ‘I saw the way you looked at me on the deck last Sunday.'‘Nope,' I shook my head. ‘I thought you looked 'hot'. I never wanted to date you. Had my mind ever planned to wander that way, your attitude shut that down pretty quick.'Oh really?' she remained confident in her sex appeal. ‘If you behave tonight, I'll give you a blowjob when you drop me off at home. I'm really good.'‘No thanks,' I shrugged. ‘However Darius and his crowd rate your talent at fellatio is not something I consider reliable. If I want a blowjob, I'll get a pro whom I'm sure is disease-free.'‘You are being such a bastard,' she pouted angrily. I didn't care. ‘You are just jealous.'‘And you are little more than three nameless orifices in a gangbang,' I snorted. ‘If that's what floats your boat; good for you. I prefer to date a girl who doesn't need an orgy to feel erotic and desirable. My problem isn't with how you express your sexuality, Brandy.'‘You deceived me and you don't regret it in the slightest. That's my problem with you.'We rode for a while in silence. Brandy couldn't let the matter rest until I acknowledged she was right; and she was the foxy babe I could never have because my melanin levels weren't high enough.‘You wouldn't have understood Darius and me,' she spouted with certainty.‘Why?'‘What? Why what?' she asked.‘Why would you assume I wouldn't understand you wanting to date the star running back?' I explained.‘He's Black,' she stated.‘So? I don't care about Black and White. Hell, I have cousins who are Native Alaskans, that's Indians to you people,' I responded. ‘The few people of color I did know before coming here were my neighbors and nice people.'‘Liar,' she smirked. ‘White men always get upset when strong, Black men take their women.'‘You are not my woman, so there was never anything to take. Until you and Darius decided to fuck with me and my brothers, we didn't care,' I answered.‘We are not your limp-wristed rich boys, or your rednecks. You both exhibited a painful level of prejudice so here we are.'‘Well; you can watch the party but you can't come down,' she tried a different angle. ‘Darius may send you on a beer-run later.'‘That ain't going to happen,' I chortled.‘You had better do what he says,' she threatened. I gave another amused snort. I drove us to the bottom of the parking lot near the lakeshore. Brandy got out, tried to give me a salacious look. I yawned. There were two other pseudo-boyfriends on the scene and a passel of empty cars most likely belonging to the football crowd.I had taken into account that my family's resistance and Dad's actions had earned me some serious retribution in their minds. That was all part of our strategy. I cut off my headlights then backed my car toward the road. I waited for ten seconds then Alexander appeared at the passenger door of the Mustang.‘Hey Vlad,' he teased me. ‘How are things going on your 'date'?'‘As expected,' I chuckled. I put on the emergency brake and popped the trunk. Five minutes later, Alexander had taken Mom's car and split. I was in a dark maroon ski-mask, the same colored hoody and exercise pants (I already had on Black shoes and socks), night vision goggles and video camera with a really excellent audio system that would allow me to negate things like cricket noises.Dark red and maroon were better than black, or grey, in hiding at night. I was virtually invisible in the darkness. After checking the wireless hook-up, I found my pre-scouted spot to watch and record the festivities. Thirty-two Black football players, ten Black girls and seventeen White girls filled the stage.First came the drinking and pawing. Then came the rough-housing and the screams of the few White girls who were only now realizing they weren't on a 'date' in the classic sense. Then came the orgy. For the Black athletes who didn't bring dates, it didn't matter.Every White girl had three holes, take your pick. Beers, whisky, Red Bulls and Viagra where the diet of choice. The last pleas for mercy were smothered so that only the moaning, groaning and the slapping of hands on flesh and flesh on flesh remained.After an hour, two of the White chicks were fucked up emotionally and mentally. Their obvious distress didn't elicited concern from anyone else in that crowd. They had been turned into Big Black Cock-slaves. The football players gleefully took pictures of their victims and partners in various sex acts.Even for the girls who didn't want to participate, this was a license to shame. After the latest rounds of ejaculations, Darius gathered up some of his niggers and sent them to the parking lot; to find me already departed (my car not being there). The two other White boys hadn't a clue where I had gone.That was their misfortune. They were dragged back down to the lake for Darius to interrogate. Their so-called girlfriends taunted them and added to their degradation. Since BBC's are never homosexually-inclined; the team decided to ass-rape those two saps (yeah, right). Did I pity them?A little, but barring retardation, what did they expect the likely outcome of events to be? Now those two could bask in their home-erotic fantasies while convincing themselves they weren't really gay. Darius and crew didn't view White people as human beings, Whites were subhuman, so the Blacks could do anything to them because sub-humans didn't deserve respect, or have rights.I filmed it all and I wasn't alone in my voyeurism. Undoubtedly, this was blackmail for Darius to use in the future. He also decided to up his game in dealing with me. A Black Deputy Sheriff showed up and began calling my name and looking for me, shining his flashlight around.He was pretending to be helpful, encouraging me to come out, so he could take me home. For fifteen minutes I switched my attention between his futile and false efforts and the (non-)rapes going on at the lakeshore camping grounds.The Deputy eventually made his way down to Darius's area. The two chatted a bit, deciding I really had abandoned Brandy, then the cop partook in some of the party favors, ending his sexcapade with Brandy swallowing his load. He even declared it was partial vengeance against Big Bob (the niggahs laughed) and my Dad (since Brandy was theoretically my date).The festivities died down after the second run at an orgy yet Darius was unsatisfied. First came the throwing of all the ladies into the cool lake waters despite their pleading screams. Then they tossed the two devastated White boys in. After some splashing around and some serious begging and pleading through chattering teeth, they let them out of the water so they could dry off on whatever was handy.The wasted girlfriends of the two boys poured their false dates into their cars and drove away to the chorus of slights and general mockery. Darius had Brandy give me a call (actually Alexander) and requested I (he) come pick her up. I (he) said he would be there in forty-five (lie).Darius' trap was simple but effective. He and four of his linemen would be waiting in a sedan parked at the far, upper-hand corner of the parking lot out of sight. Brandy would wait down on one of the bench-tables in the camping ground for me to arrive. Whether I honked my horn, or got out for her, Darius's team planned to roll down on me, block my car and deliver some well-deserved and overly-delayed vengeance.Once again, Darius was behind in the game. We knew his resources and mindset, he believed he could get away with anything, he would always win and he could intimidate anyone he chose to. From my perspective, Alexander hadn't walked the nearly ten miles from school to get here. I secured my gear, put on my helmet, uncovered my motorcycle and rolled it quietly over to Brandy.‘Here,' I surprised her as I stepped out of the darkness to hand her a motorcycle helmet. ‘Put this on.'‘Vlad,' she squeaked. ‘I thought you had left me.' She was also fiddling with her phone.‘If you make that call, I'll leave you here,' I threatened.‘Leave me here and my Daddy will make you pay,' she countered.‘Brandy, try to think for once,' I taunted her. ‘If I didn't leave, what have I been doing all night?' I let that thought sit there, but she wasn't approaching understanding. ‘I filmed this entire party from start to finish. I'm not the one in serious trouble.'Her fingers hesitantly stopped playing with the phone. I pushed the helmet her way again. She set her phone aside to put it on, allowing me to snatch it up. She hadn't called Darius yet. I pocketed the device then cut it off once she could no longer see it.‘Hey, give me that back,' Brandy insisted.‘You didn't call Darius so I'm not going to toss it into the lake,' I informed her.‘I'll return it to you when I drop you off,' I added. That seemed to mollify her, that and the belief I'd be running into Darius soon. No such luck for her. Mom had spent some of her youth around this place and there were several hiking/biking tracks that also led out of the park the lake was situated in.I lied to Brandy, telling her I had to pick up one more thing. That allowed me to push my motorbike far enough away to put a copse of bushes between me and Darius.‘Get on,' I told her as I mounted and started the engine. She hesitated so I started rolling away. I let her jump on and off we went. Brandy held on tight.Some of her death grip was from the dangerous route I was taking to exit this place. I knew part of it was also the combination of fears that she'd disappointed Darius and I would tell, show, her dad what had happened tonight. I was counting on Option A. I wouldn't tell Big Bob the truth until it suited us Samsonovs. What Brandy suffered for her numerous lies wasn't my concern.‘Here we are,' I told her when I stopped in her driveway. She got off, clearly sore and worn out from her duties as a sperm trough. She gave me the helmet back then held out her hand.‘Oh yeah, phone,' I nodded. I hurled it across her yard. ‘You can find it in the morning. After all, I would hate to run across any of your friends on the way home.'‘Bastard,' she snarled. I could see the clever spark in her eyes. ‘I still owe you a blowjob. You held up your end of the bargain.' She would have succeeded in looking incredibly sexy except she'd already leaked fluids and semen from her over-used holes all over the back of my seat and I had the vivid memories of all the guys who had already made her swallow a gallon of cum.‘No thanks,' I shook my head. ‘One of us needs to keep their self-respect and it sure isn't going to be you. Night-night,' and off I went. My call woke up Big Bob. I let him know I'd dropped off his daughter on his doorstep. I didn't want her to find her phone quite yet. 'Us' triplets had already scouted out an overgrown old timber trail I could use to skirt the Sheriff's speed trap and the blind turn in the road the Kingston cops always used.By my estimation, as I walked up my back steps, Darius was just figuring out I'd missed my forty-five minute arrival time and had called Brandy; and received no response because her phone was turned off in a darkened yard. He'd go looking around the camp site on the off chance her phone battery had run out of juice. No Brandy. As planned, I called Mom telling her I was home safe and Darius was probably hideously pissed at the moment.She told me she'd be home in a few minutes. She had a few things she needed to clean up first. It wasn't until later Mom clued us into her part of the plan. Darius' older brother had been a drug conduit in the county and Brandy's dad put him away for seven years. That was why Darius was going after Brandy in such a bad way.Worse for Big Bob, his wife (a taller, more lush, mature model of Brandy) ran off with a Black Senior Sheriff's Deputy, the man Dad replaced. Apparently he'd been porking the old lady behind Bob's back then been caught joking about it. Brandy had been dating Darius and Big Bob had her break it off, so they were sneaking around behind his back as well.If underhanded was how Darius wanted to play it, so be it. The damage had already been dealt by his older brother. Mom got in touch with Uncle Theo. Uncle Theo knew all kinds of disreputable people and not just drug cartel members, mercenaries, arms dealers and other assorted killers. He also knew information brokers.It didn't take too much money, or effort, on Theo's part, to let the DEA know that Darius' Mom was involved in her elder son's illegal enterprise. First, she went through Darius' parent's trash finding containers that could be used to house cocaine that had his mom and dad's fingerprints all over them.Theo would send her some 'contraband' for Mom to place in those containers. Then she'd sneak into the family home and plant/hide the evidence. Then Theo would have some fool in Mexico send her some trinkets, three or four deliveries would do.Then he'd send a few kilos of cocaine that Theo would ‘acquire' and let the DEA swarm in. Mom would also plant evidence to implicate two of Kingston's police officers; to tarnish the whole department in the DEA's eyes. That would lead to a Federal investigation because everyone knew the Black community lied to protect their own.They would be claiming the Black Man couldn't find justice in the White Man's court system. They would blame the 'White Man' and this time they'd be right; and not even know they were right. They always blamed their problems on the White Man. They did lie and discriminate against White people so often that their knee-jerk reaction would ring hollow to anyone who truly mattered.Furthermore, this wasn't the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department who was bending over backwards to undo centuries of judicial failures were Blacks were concerned. It was the DEA and they were a bit more color-blind concerning matters of illegal drugs.They had the pipeline, previous deliveries, drugs arriving in the mail and drugs stashed in their house. Darius' family had a history of doing this very thing. The DEA wasn't go

Today we have a special guest with Kadie Isaac who is interviewed by Mark (Jeff is away).  Kadie is a long time member of the Society for Creative Anachronism and tells us all about this great organization, what she loves about it and her plans to travel to Pennsic

Worship service given June 16, 2024 Prayer by Bill Licea-Kane, Worship Associate https://firstparish.info/ First Parish A liberal religious community, welcoming to all First gathered 1739 Sometimes we've tried so hard that we've given up trying and even when the possibility is there, we no longer trust it to be real. How do we find faith to try again? During the summer our Zoom-only worship is led each week by a member of our congregation. Jo Guthrie is a curious thinker and professional program manager, as well as a participant and leader in community theatre and the Society of Creative Anachronism. After a childhood of eclectic and erratic religious practice, she has been a member of First Parish since 2012, singing in the choir and previously serving as a Worship Associate and on the Music Committee. In her spare moments she enjoys a variety of crafting, gardening, decorating and creating spreadsheets. Offering and Giving First The Giving First program donates 50% of the non-pledge offering each month to a charitable organization that we feel is consistent with Unitarian Universalist principles. The program began in November 2009, and First Parish has donated over $200,000 to more than 70 organizations. For June, July and August 2024, the Giving First recipients are the ArCs Cluster, a local refugee support group, and the Immigrant Learning Center, a not-for-profit organization in Malden, MA. The remaining half of your offering supports the life and work of this Parish. The remaining half of the offering supports the life and work of this Parish. To donate using your smartphone, you may text “fpuu offering” to 73256. Then follow the directions in the texts you receive.

The Kingdom of Lochac is a regional branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism.  They're celebrating their Autumn Coronation this weekend in Christchurch. 

Part 2: DunDraCon 47: February 17, 2024 Gaming Convention. SCA- Society for Creative Ananchronism: in which participants in protective  body armor compete in combat, individual tournaments inspired by forms of historical combat, and tournament combat practiced in medieval Europe. Page 12: Blackened Armor Podcast cover art by Rodney Holmes with Vecteezy. Michael Combs: Website   Music: February (mumblemix) this track is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commerical 3.0 Unported License.   https://blocsonic.com/releases/track/bscomp0007-disc-1-6-calendar-girl-february-mumblemix http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/   Heroes of Science Fiction and Fantasy covers heroes of movies, television, comics, and books, interviews, and commentary. Sci-Fi Talk. doc@heroesofsciencefictionandfantasy.com. Text 510-610-8944. www.heroesofsciencefictionandfantasy.com  

On today's show: the province is creating a dedicated agency to tackle mental health and addictions. We hear what a family physician on Blood Tribe First Nation thinks about the move; the battle continues between engineers and software engineers. The group representing Canada's engineering profession gives their opinion on Bill 7; hear ye, hear ye! The new King and Queen of the kingdom of Avacal joins us in studio. We hear all about the world created by the Society for Creative Anachronism.

The episode emphasizes how understanding our innate human drives and dispositions is critical, as awareness allows us to work with them constructively. In particular, humans have a "tribe drive" - an instinct to cooperate and identify with groups, even strangers. Figuring out the signals that activate this drive is an important mission. David Samson talks about the concept of tribalism and the role it plays in human behavior. He discusses the idea of evolutionary mismatch, where humans are evolved for a different environment than the one they currently live in. This episode explains that tribes are intersubjective belief networks that signal coalitionary alliances to bootstrap trust among strangers. Moreover, it explores the power of tribal signals, such as symbols, language, music, and ideology, in creating a sense of belonging and identity. Additionally, the episode emphasizes the importance of being conscious of our identity stack and the proportion of abstract tribes (e.g., political tribes) versus face-to-face community tribes in order to navigate the challenges of tribalism in the modern world.David R. SamsonDavid R. Samson, Ph.D., is reshaping our understanding of human evolution. As an associate professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Toronto, he investigates the major behavioral and physiological transitions that shaped our species. Bridging diverse fields from primatology to sleep science, his interdisciplinary research has been featured internationally by the BBC, Time, The New York Times, The Smithsonian, CBC, NPR, and National Geographic.Samson is the author of the groundbreaking book "Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good." He provides profound insights into how our primal tribal wiring can be harnessed as a force for unity, not division.Beyond academia, Samson pursues medieval martial arts as a distinguished member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. This gives him first-hand experience in channeling our innate tribal instincts.With his evolutionary expertise and diverse passions, Samson is illuminating new paths to overcome division and channel our tribal nature for the greater good.Key Takeaways:The concept of evolutionary mismatch is introduced, highlighting how humans are adapted for a different environment than the one we currently live in.The power of tribal signals in building trust among strangers is explored, with examples such as secret Masonic signals and sports jerseys.The importance of face-to-face interactions and belonging to smaller, local communities is emphasized as a way to combat the negative effects of tribalism.The Roseto mystery is discussed, where a small town in Pennsylvania had significantly lower rates of heart disease and other diseases of affluence due to their strong social network.The idea of an "identity stack" is introduced, encouraging individuals to be conscious of the proportion of abstract tribes (such as political affiliations) versus face-to-face community tribes they identify with.The concept of coalitions and symbolic connections is explored, including religion, sports, and brands as examples of tribal signals.Key Topics of this Podcast:00:04:27 - Evolutionary anthropology shapes personal perspectives.00:09:09 - Understanding our tribal past and present.00:17:26 - Evolutionary mismatch causes societal challenges.00:21:29 - Tribal signals build trust and identity.00:26:20 - Flexibility in identity and belonging.00:31:06 - Identity is shaped by tribes.00:34:43 - Importance of face-to-face interaction.00:40:07 - The power of intentional community.00:44:51 - Social connection is essential.00:50:09 - Importance of strong social connections.00:55:44 - Building community improves well-being.01:02:37 - Building a community is powerful.01:03:25 - Community is essential for well-being.Connect with David Samson:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primalprimate?s=20 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primalprimatologist/?hl=en Website: https://davidrsamson.com/ Connect with This Anthro Life:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisanthrolife/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisanthrolife LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/this-anthro-life-podcast/ This Anthro Life website: https://www.thisanthrolife.org/ Substack blog: https://thisanthrolife.substack.comThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5168968/advertisement

EPISODE 1503: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of OUR TRIBAL FUTURE, David Samson, about how to channel our foundational human instincts into a force for good DAVID R. SAMSON is an associate professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Toronto. An interdisciplinary scholar investigating major behavioral and physiological transitions in human evolution, he has worked with a range of primate species and studied sleep in different types of human societies. Samson's research has been internationally profiled in venues such as BBC, Time, the New York Times, The Smithsonian, CBC, NPR, and National Geographic. He is the author of Our Tribal Future. In his spare time, Samson is a practitioner of a medieval martial art in the Society of Creative Anachronism. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ongoing popularity of entertainment like Skyrim, Renaissance faires, "Lord of the Rings" and Dungeons & Dragons speaks to an extremely interesting facet of the human psyche. Specifically: we seem to like anything that lets us escape into fantasies of going medieval on someone's butt. Nowhere is this more apparent than within the organization known as the Society for Creative Anachronism (a.k.a. SCA). SCA devotées are dedicated to the preservation and advancement of all things middle-aged, including (but not limited to) costuming, food, weaponry and customs. And they delight in getting their swords n' sandals on as often as they can get away with it. Not only is our venerable co-host Saint a longtime SCA veteran, but so is our guest today, Chuck "Volk the Gray" Preston. So join us as we make our way back in time to the age of lords, ladies and leather, and peel back the red, velvet curtain on a truly fascinating hobby.

Stephanie Devito interviews Denise Hall, a soap maker, and discovers how the craft of soap making is so much more than skills, but connections to something more, connection to people and ability to solve domestic problems that today global companies control. “Soap cleanses, but detergent destroys." Stephanie Devito is a Writer & Theater Professional dedicated to storytelling of all kinds. As a Community Producer for the NJ Folk Festival, Stephanie set out to share the talents of her community in the Society for Creative Anachronism. A recreational, historical reenactment club, participants of the SCA engage in a variety of arts and sciences from the medieval era. Being part of such an industrious, and creative group has encouraged Stephanie to discover the history behind our everyday objects and consider how even the simplest of things have lived extraordinary lives. Denise Hall is a stay at home mom of two with a deep need to create. She cares about the planet and what she and her family consumes. Denise finds inspiration for her products in her daily life, especially when it comes to caring for the needs of her skin in pregnancy or in Winter. For more information about the New Jersey Folk Festival 2023 please visit our website at: https://www.njfolkfest.org/ or join us on our social media pages linked below! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/njfolkfest/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NJFolkFestival/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/njfolkfest

While we've been busy with our lives, little did we know that a shadowy group of people, living among us, have been busy carving up North America and other parts of the world into Medieval Kingdoms and Baronies.  Welcome to the amazing world of the Society for Creative Anachronism, an organization that boasts thousands of members and endeavors to celebrate and accurately represent what life would have been like from the 600's to the 1600's.   Martin sits down with Arik Mendelevitz, whose college thesis was on swordplay during the Italian Rennaissance.  A deep interest in the Middle Ages and Renaissance brought Arik into SCA, which has large re-enactments around the world and even locally in Illinois, er the Middle Kingdom.  Arik has been a member of SCA for over 15 years and lifts the curtain for those of us who are curious about these organization.  This ain't your average Ren-Fair. Support the showWe are always grateful to have you listening to STRUNG OUT. If you like what you are hearing, please reach out to Martin at www.MartinMcCormack.com. There you can see his music, his art and his writings. We deeply appreciate your financial support as well. This link will bring you to Buy Me A Coffee.

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Mark * Shirley Topics: * What would you do if you came downstairs and all of my clothes and my glasses were on the floor in a heap in a puddle of water? * Aphasia: What doesn't it mean? * Dr. Icecreamwala * https://www.icecreamderm.com/ * Eternal Champion - I Am The Hammer * https://eternalchampion.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-hammer * Teen Censorship (what to restrict, if anything?) * SCA stuff: social skills in the SCA, thrown weapons, and winter camping! Microtopics: * EEG, EKG and ECG. * Dogs and video games. * Kingdom: Two Crowns. * Whoops, I'm Dead! * Borker and Starina. * Waking up in the morning and telling your wife "and we're back!" * Sleeping with the Shirley-cicle. * When your wife turns into a puddle of water and you have to get a hot water bottle shaped like your wife to sleep with every night. * Hedge witches. * An Alex Mack situation. * Turning yourself into a goo accidentally vs. on purpose. * A dog athletic enough to pee on your glasses while you're wearing them. * Figuring out what muscle to flex to telepathically communicate as a glass of water. * Believing things you see written in an authoritative voice. * The kind of movies Bruce Willis has been making lately. * Aphasia vs. Primary Progressive Aphasia. * The four primary modalities of human language. * Figuring out how to hang out with someone you can't talk to. * Decoupling the word "yes" from its literal meaning. * Apraxia of speech. * Thanking colonialism for this moment of delight. * Serving your patients their prescription in a waffle cone. * Flying to the Bay Area to get some light dermatology done. * The battle-starved riders of Tarsul. * The demon priests of ill Nitaar. * Nolan Bushnell receiving feedback about the name Atari. * The God Blade. * Fist-pumpin', sword-swingin' heavy metal. * A good source of lore. * Cosmologies where god is a species. * Drinking his blood to see what happens. * Heavy metal bands fronted by blacksmiths. * Wanting your teenager to feel safe listening to fascist heavy metal in front of you so that you can talk to them about it. * Installing a web filter so that your child doesn't accidentally stumble into gross abusive porn. * Opinions about parent-child relationships from someone who was once a child. * Heavy metal bands who write music about white nationalism vs. heavy metal bands who are just white nationalist without writing about it. * Deliberately not separating the art from the artist so you get the extra enjoyment out of musicians who are cool people. * Videos of common household items being crushed under the wheels of a car. * Videos of people building things in the woods. * Devil's toothpaste. * Reacting to the sugar tax by angrily boycotting soda. * The Society for Creative Anachronism kicking you out if you dress up as a time traveler from the future or a 1950s greaser. * The SCA re-enacting the before-times, when morning zoo radio didn't exist yet. * Apex Nerds. * Geniuses above petty squabbling. * A better system of chilling out. * Going into the woods with your friend who likes building stuff in the woods and watching him build stuff in the woods. * Movies set in the 80s that have absolutely nothing from the 70s in them because everybody threw all that shit away on January 1st, 1980. * Handing out arm rings to your sworn men. * Instituting a buddy system where you buy each other awards. * Happy baby cow.

Emotions are a universal part of the human experience, but the specific ways we express them are mediated through language. For example, English uses the one word “love” for several distinct feelings: familial love, romantic love, platonic love, and loving things (I love this ice cream!), whereas Spanish distinguishes lexically between the less intense querer and the stronger amar. Conversely, many Austronesian languages use the same word for the concepts that English would split as “fear” and “surprise”, while many Nakh-Daghestani (Northeast Caucasian) languages use the same word for the cluster that English splits into “fear”, “anxiety”, and “grief”.  In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about the layers of language that are involved in emotions, from how emotion words form different clusters of related meaning in different language families to how the way your face shape changes when you smile affects the pitch of your voice. We also talk about how our understanding of how to talk about emotion changes throughout history and our lifespan, and how bilingual people feel differently about emotional words in their different languages. Read the transcript here: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/703741238379151360/transcript-episode-75-emotions Announcements:  Thank you so much for celebrating our 6th anniversary with us! We appreciated all the love and support on social media, and it was great to see you recommending us to other language fans. Thank you to anyone who made an irl recommendation of the podcast, we appreciate you too!  In this month's bonus episode we get enthusiastic about stylized Oldey Timey English! We talk about contexts in which pseudo-archaic forms get used, from Gretchen's recent experience with names and titles in a 1492 papal election roleplaying game, to how the language handbook of the Society of Creative Anachronism balances modern-day desires for gender-neutral language with creating historic-feeling titles, and a 1949 academic article cataloguing business names in the New York City phonebook that began with "ye".  Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 60+ other bonus episodes, as well as access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds. www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm Here are the links mentioned in the episode: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/703740969788522496/episode-75-love-and-fury-at-the-linguistics-of

Let's face it, if you are an independent musician, you know that the pandemic only added to what was already a difficult profession.  However, when no one could go to any concerts, suddenly the big venues, festivals and yes, labels were feeling some of the pain.  And interestingly enough, there were those who, like workers who realized that they didn't have to work for the man, decided that they didn't have to commute to see their favorite bands.  They could bring bands to them.   Especially in the already hard-hit parts of the Midwest, where venues were closing and licensing agents were making sure they closed, the idea of a private concert, with professional sound, lighting, stage and set up could not only be achievable, it could attract similarly minded people who want the intimacy of a private concert, without the hassle of the large festival prices and people. Enter Nate Kula and his wife Susan.  Having a band of their own, Rogue Wave, they started building a concert venue outside of the town of Williamsburg, Iowa.  This mini-concert venue is larger than a typical house concert and smaller than a typical community festival.  Combining the best of both worlds, along with a professional setup, the Kula's with their Raven Wolf Productions are starting to attract national acts and a regional following of their own.  Aside from on part of the podcast where Martin and Nate geek out on the Society for the Creative Anachronism, you get a "how-to" primer on putting together your own venue.  This may be the best way of saving live independent music in America. Support the show

If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you will love StarPodLog!Read along with your personal issue from your collection or for free here:https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-043/mode/2up Lou, Max, and Rich reminisce what it was like to collect trading cards when they were kids.Subscribe to the MyMegoLike YouTube channel to hear more nonsense:https://youtube.com/channelTony Barletta and Rodney Rodis discuss the Popeye musical.Shocking Jon gives us the lowdown on Scanners. Follow him on the Shocking Things podcast! https://anchor.fm/shockingthingsBurt Bruce provides info on Altered States!Mark Newbold talks about the accomplishments of Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back producer Gary Kurtz. Check out Fanthatracks!https://www.fanthatracks.com/FLynn Hendrix presents the professional wrestling highlights of 1981. Follow him on his I Know You Hear Me podcast at: https://open.spotify.com/show/5t3zFOxxozmIjzttKnIDMECliff Easley and Aubrey Stephens tell us about the Society for Creative Anachronism and, the fantastic convention that celebrates the SCA- ShadowCon!Find out more:https://www.sca.org/https://www.shadowcon.info/Steve Younis and Michael Bailey discuss the impact that Superman made on comic books in the 1940s. Find the Superman Homepage on YouTube! https://youtube.com/c/SupermanHomepageVideosPlus: The Hulk, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, and more on this episode of StarPodLog!Would you like a Star Wars StarPodLog patch?Send $3 in a SASE to:StarPodLog Patch Offer700 Church StreetStudio 204Nashville, TN 37203Don't forget to join our StarPodLog Facebook group:https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=469912916856743&ref=content_filterLove Starlog magazine?Join the Facebook group:https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=303578380105395&ref=content_filterDo you love Horror and Cult Classic movies? Then check out the Shocking Things podcast. We highly recommend it!https://anchor.fm/shockingthingsInto vintage toys?Go to https://mymegolike.com/Subscribe to MyMegoLike on YouTube:https://youtube.com/channel/UCUWpjD_d4j7snO5ZYe5OUugalso subscribe to Doctor Durant's Santum:https://youtube.com/channel/UCRhm5EdND8m8QJngozkbH-wand join the Mego Like Facebook Group:https://m.facebook.com/groups/533274100662813/Did you ever wonder what KISS would sound like if they continued to record and release music that had that Love Gun era sound? Look no further than Klassik '78!https://www.klassik78.com/Suscribe to our YouTube Channel “StarPodLog and StarPodTrek”:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgE_kNBWqnvTPAQODKZA1UgMusic used with permission by Checkpoint Charley. Find us on Twitter and Instagram: @StarPodLog Reddit: u/StarPodTrek Visit us on Blogger at https://starpodlogpodcast.blogspot.com/ or iTunes or Spotify or wherever you listen to fine podcasts!If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file hereDownload (right click, save as)

Diana is: a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, a prolific author, and was also at the forefront of paganism in California as it developed in the 60's & 70's. Listen in on how the Oakland firestorm of 1991 was no match for the magic her community created. 

Diana is: a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, a prolific author, and was also at the forefront of paganism in California as it developed in the 60's & 70's. Listen in on how the Oakland firestorm of 1991 was no match for the magic her community created. 

What ho! Ti's time for another episode of the Babble Merchants. JanJan and Ty babble on about the mad medieval times. Welcome our very noble guest, Sir Tiberius from the SCA (Society of Creative Anachronism) as he tells tales of epic battle and how YOU can experience the Middle Ages in our modern-day world.

“Master Payne” Fifield is a multidimensional renaissance character. A member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Payne (as he likes to be called) is one of the instructors at Jeff McBride's “Magic and Mystery School” in Las Vegas. He is also a regular performer at the “Moisture Festival” and other medieval fests throughout the greater northwest. As his website says, “Seattle's Premier Prestidigitator.” But many magicians who attend MAGIC Live! know him as the master of the PowerPoint with his clever and witty presentations at their events. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Join Scott as he chats with Payne about acquiring his name “Master Payne” as well as how he came to the attention of Stan Allen for MAGIC Live! with his PowerPoint Presentations. He also has a lot to say about working at outdoor festivals in the great northwest. He scatters a lot of advice throughout this episode that many of us will benefit from in our own presentations. He also talks about the importance of scripting and how public speaking is different from talking during your performance. Download this podcast in an MP3 file by Clicking Here and then right click to save the file. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed by Clicking Here. You can download or listen to the podcast through Stitcher by Clicking Here or through FeedPress by Clicking Here or through Tunein.com by Clicking Here or through iHeart Radio by Clicking Here..If you have a Spotify account, then you can also hear us through that app, too. You can also listen through your Amazon Alexa and Google Home devices. Remember, you can download it through the iTunes store, too. See the preview page by Clicking Here

When you close your eyes and picture a blacksmith, you're probably already seeing Matt. He's a bear of a blacksmith who makes our biggest anvil look small. Matt's a sharer. He takes the forge on the road for demonstrations at festivals, conferences, even corporate events. He usually has a handful of apprentices. Matt apprenticed at a traditional blacksmith shop at This Is The Place Heritage Park when he was 17 years old, and he's been heavily involved in the steel industry ever since. He has been teaching classes at the University of Utah Continuing Education program for several years. As a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Matt can often be seen towering over people on the battle field, wearing 80 pounds of armor and swinging a two-handed great sword. Matt is the master of the local SCA blacksmiths guild and quite a few re-enactors get their first experience with medieval blacksmithing from Matt. Matt is happily married to his high school sweetheart and is the proud father of 4 children. http://wasatchforge.com/

Chat Gang's own Ulf_Paints joins Mephisto to talk about SCA Battles and fighting people for real. They talk about the overlap between unit combat in historic combat sports and Warhammer as well as many other Age of Sigmar adjacent topics before ending the show discussing their mutual love of Palladium Books' Rifts RPG setting. To learn more about The Society for Creative Anachronism check out their website: https://www.sca.org/ If you like Mephisto's content, consider becoming one of his Mortarchs on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mrmephisto Want to support Mephisto and also own a piece of AOS RantCast? Consider buying some merch! https://teespring.com/stores/mephmerch​​ Join Chat Gang and be part of the show live! AOS RantCast is Broadcasted live on Twitch each Thursday at https://www.twitch.tv/mr_mephisto

Welcome to the "Spark The Conversation" Podcast where we get to know individuals around Pulte Financial Services, what makes them unique and the collection of experiences they bring to our organization.  This month we're talking with Rachel Weatherly.  You may know Rachel as a Tax Research Specialist, but did you know this about Rachel?   Rachel has an identical twin sister and comes from a long line of Colorado natives She saw her first Star Wars movie at the age of 7 with her sister and dad and is fan to this day There were 18 students in her graduating high school class Rachel majored in Communication with minors in History and Political Science at the University of Northern Colorado Just took a trip to Florida in May with her 11 year old son named Alexander Rachel has a lot of hobbies and keeps bees and chickens She belongs to a medieval recreation society called the Society of Creative Anachronism where she's learning to blow glass and archery In addition to blowing glass and archery, Rachel creates tumblers, does wood working, photography, crochets and enjoys reading She is currently reading Memoir of a Holocaust survivor and The Adventures of Tom Stranger

WAK! continues to learn about other LARP's. Today we're talking with someone from the SCA, the progenitor of most LARPs. Tristram walks us through the culture, and some of the evolution of the Society for Creative Anachronism. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wak-podcast/support

Geoff (making a one-off Ludology return) and Gil chat with Al Leonardi, designer of the legendary picture-book game Ace of Aces, and a legion of spinoffs using the same brilliant first-person system. SHOW NOTES 4m19s: Richthofen's War  8m18s: If you're interested about Ace of Ace's mathematical underpinnings, and its true nature as a hex-grid game, here's Geoff's article. 9m52s: There were two Star Wars games Al worked on: Star Wars: Starfighter Battle Book, and Star Wars Lightsaber Dueling (which was based on Lost Worlds, which we discuss later in the episode). Also: Dragonriders of Pern: The Book Game, Bounty Hunter: Shootout at the Saloon, and Ace of Aces: Wingleader. 11m11s: The Immelman turn, in World War I, was a difficult maneuver that allowed a skilled pilot to turn their aircraft around quickly. In modern aerobatics, it now refers to a type of half-loop. 16m58s: "Ditto sheets," known in the UK as a "Banda machine," refers to a method of print duplication used for much of the 20th century, and very popular in American schools at the time. People of a certain age will recall paper quizzes with a distinctive blue ink on the paper. 22m16s: Two more aerial maneuvers: the wingover, and the snap roll. 25m32s: Lost Worlds 27m48s: The Society for Creative Anachronism. 39m15s: TransAmerica, Ticket To Ride

TCW Podcast Episode 142 - Ultima: Exodus to Akalabeth   In this episode we look at the legendary series of Ultima!  We look at the lead up inspiration, and influences that led to the creation of Ultima.  This episode ties in heavily with our look at Origin Systems.  In this we use the creation of Ultima as a microcosm of the development of the PC industry.  The plight of the bedroom coder.  Wanting to make cool games, finding themselves thrust into a wider PC game world, and the eventual whirlwind of having publishers involved.  We mainly focus on how the creation of the games mirrors Richard's growth as a game designer and eventually perfecting the base formula with Ultima III.   TCW 038 - Origin Story: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/origin-story-1489274251/ TCW 117 - Wing Commander: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/wing-commander-1593278423/ Introduction to the Society of Creative Anachronism : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=046bs9DY7QY Escape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM2tb0-9uyg Download Akalabeth: https://www.gog.com/game/akalabeth_world_of_doom Apple II - Akalabeth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKAlDUu7zko Apple II - Ultima I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrQFzWO4pYo Apple II - Lemonade Stand:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dUbDDmXp2I Trailer for Time Bandits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioocIR0gHQ Apple II - Ultima II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts-zYdjDyAI TCW 039 - On-Line Systems: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/on-line-systems/ TCW 040 - Sierra On-Line: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/sierra-on-line/ TCW 114 - The Wizards of Sir-Tech: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-wizards-of-sir-tech/ TCW 115 - The Return of the Sdraziw of Sir-Tech: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-return-of-the-sdraziw-of-sir-tech/ Apple II - Ultima III: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FvHQI2qSKQ   New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!   TCW Email: feedback@theycreateworlds.com  Twitter: @tcwpodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theycreateworlds Alex's Video Game History Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com Alex's book is available for preorder and should be released through CRC Press in December 2019: http://bit.ly/TCWBOOK1     Intro Music: Josh Woodward - Airplane Mode -  Music - "Airplane Mode" by Josh Woodward. Free download:http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode  Outro Music: RolemMusic - Bacterial Love - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/Pop_Singles_Compilation_2014/01_rolemusic_-_bacterial_love    Copyright: Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

You can have a shovel or a leather mug, but you can't have both. This week we determine whether 'tis nobler to White Savior into a recently semi-decolonized country and insist on capitalism, or to get shitty about the relative authenticity of other people's costumes. It's the Peace Corps, where the germ of an idea John F. Kennedy kind of swiped from Hubert H. Humphrey yielded a pipeline of deeply unqualified, overwhelmingly white college graduates into areas of the world we decided needed Help because they didn't look enough like the suburbs of Buffalo, NY. Compared to that, it seems like the Society for Creative Anachronism — picture guys sparring with fake swords even when it's not the Renaissance Festival — would be a shoo-in for this week's best club. It's closer than you think. Buckle in! This one's almost a third as long as Avengers: Endgame. But it's got way more shitty JFK impressions in it!

I need a longer break than I anticipated, so in order to keep giving you new content, I’m releasing a handful of interviews in their uncut form. Donya started getting sexual attention very young because her body developed early. As a teenager and adult, she has experienced a wide range of relationship styles and partners. After having a child and settling into the closest thing to commitment outside of marriage, she received a breast cancer diagnosis. Donya is a 46-year-old cisgender female who describes herself as white, bisexual, monogamous, and in a committed relationship.   Bookmark moments:  4:48 - Donya shares her first memory of sexual pleasure, finding a book of erotica at age 9 or 10 and feeling aroused in a new way—both physically and mentally, at the same time. 7:58 - Sex was not discussed in the home; her parents divorced and her mother remarried a closed-off man. She finds her mom’s secret copy of “The Joy of Sex” at some point. 14:40 - Donya talks about being both busty and a dancer and receiving sexual attention from an early teen age. It’s an early experience of power and pleasure—especially at youth group. Dry humping becomes a favorite activity. 24:51 - Sex itself is fairly disappointing early on; Donya learns to exercise the power dynamic between using the appeal she has to get attention and wanting to go slow to actually find pleasure. 29:00 - Donya finally experiences a lover who is devoted to her pleasure. As part of the Society for Creative Anachronism, she tries to navigate the community’s culture of non-monogamy. 37:23 - Donya talks about the end of her primary poly relationship: yes, you can be poly and still cheat. 39:19 - Donya shares how she came out as bisexual and began to experiment, up to the point of marrying a “Santa Cruz lesbian” and seeing the inside of man-bashing culture. 50:19 - Donya catches us up on her current long-term monogamous male partner, with whom she has a child. They’ve been together 8 years and have a fully committed life; at first neither want to mess with marriage again, but it’s now on the table. 58:04 - Childbearing (and specifically vaginal birth) impacts her sexuality. So does being a mother to a young child, and the parenting style choices they make. 1:05:28 - Donya experiences a series of illnesses, and is diagnosed with breast cancer. She and her partner go through periods of separation. They’ve gotten therapy and are currently together. 1:08:22 - She talks about the details of her breast cancer journey. She feels like her body let her down, and fears bad sex in forced menopause.   The Lowdown (1:13:52)   Patreon:   All Good Girls Talk About Sex audio extras are FREE!  They can be accessed at www.patreon.com/goodgirlstalkaboutsex.  I've done this because not everyone has the means to pay for access, and I know this additional material can be deeply important for some listeners. But creating this show isn't free, so if you’d like to support the work I do, I am grateful for your contributions at www.patreon.com/goodgirlstalkaboutsex.   BE PART OF THE SHOW: Rate this pod: Leave a rating and review at RateThisPodcast.com/goodgirls   Have a question or comment - Leave a voicemail for Leah at 720-GOOD-SEX (720-466-3739) - this is a voicemail-only line, so I promise you won't have to talk to someone in person!   Be a guest on the show - I'd love to talk with you! Fill out the form at www.leahcarey.com/guest   FOLLOW LEAH: Instagram - www.instagram.com/goodgirlstalk YouTube - www.youtube.com/goodgirlstalk Leah's website - www.leahcarey.com Podcast website - www.goodgirlstalk.com   WORK WITH LEAH: Learn about coaching with Leah - www.leahcarey.com/coaching   Join a PJ Party for Grown Ups - www.leahcarey.com/pjparty   EPISODE CREDITS: Host / Producer – Leah Carey (email) Audio Editor – Gretchen Kilby Administrative Support - Lara O'Connor, Maria Franco Transcript creation – Jan Acielo Music – Nazar Rybak  

So, I did it! My first conversation! Lots of talk about making medieval clothing with an expert. Not only is Mistress Aleydis a clothing Laurel, she also has a doctorate in the subject. "Kläderna och människan i medeltidens Sverige och Norge" av Eva Andersson 2006 https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/2077/16894/5/gupea_2077_16894_5.pdf (Clothing and the individual in Mediaeval Sweden and Norway, summery in English p. 324) Links and sources mentioned: Eva's historical costuming blog http://evashistoricalcostumes.blogspot.com/ Eva Andersson Pinterest page https://pin.it/7sDri8Z Instagram Frualeydis https://www.instagram.com/frualeydis/ "Tudor Gabled Hoods: A closer look" on Youtube https://youtu.be/ppBXVvp1AkQ "How to sew with a metal thimble" on Youtube https://youtu.be/gkAlOprpD5E Want to learn more about the Society of Creative Anachronism? Go to https://www.sca.org/ Want to contact me? creativeconvers@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/creativeconvers/message

Transcript [00:00:05] Greetings. My name is Anna Troy, but in the Society of Creative Anachronism, I´m known as the Honorable Lady Anna de Byxe. Welcome to Conversations with Creative Anachronists, where you can talk about your passions within the SCA. Do you miss those spontaneous conversations one can have at an Event. You sit down next to somebody, they're making something interesting and you have no idea what they're doing. So, you ask and after a while, not only have you got a new friend, but you've learned a whole new craft. I miss that kind of conversation. So I thought, why not start a podcast? I'm a member of the Shire of Gyllengran, in the Principality of Nordmark, in the kingdom of Drachenwald and I've been playing this game on and off since the mid 90s. Outside of the SCA, I work as a librarian up in northern Sweden. My ambition is to put out at least one episode a month. Thank you for listening to this episode of Conversations with Creative Anachronists. Would you like to join me in a conversation? Or do you have any questions? You can use the voice message function in Anchor. You can email me at creativeconvers@gmail.com One word ends with an "s" at Gmail dot com, or you can message me via the Facebook page. Until next time, bye for now. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/creativeconvers/message

Kleerfyre talks about his involvement with The Society of Creative Anachronism in which they recreate a Medieval kingdom with Knights, Peasants, and even Kings. Learn how to live the old fashioned way with SCA.  Thanks for listening! Email: hnkexp@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/hnkexp YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJc7YBCdAsyHZ3CDKEBNZ7w Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-319015 Thanks for Listening! Join the HnK Gaming Lounge for the latest on the HnK podcast as well as general video game talk and good people to game with.  You can find this podcast on any of your favorite podcast listening apps Crunk Knight by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400044 Artist: http://incompetech.com/  

Spam Spam Spam Humbug will be, for the next several weeks, doing a complete read-through of Andrea Contato’s Through the Moongate. This week covers Richard Garriott’s involvement with the Society for Creative Anachronism and some of the other influential members of the group in the Austin area; a few well-known Ultima personalities show up in this one! The development of Ultima 1 is also covered. Subscribe: Anchor | iTunes | Google Play | Spotify | TuneIn | Stitcher | Join Us on Discord Full show notes at spamspamspamhumbug.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ssshpodcast/message

Our Full Rein Sweepstakes winner Elizabeth Kopras shares her passion recreating Medieval European culture and the role her horses play in the performances. As a member of the Society of Creative Anachronism, Elizabeth teaches her horses, including her rescue horse Magic, everything from jousting and armored combat to medieval equestrian games. This episode highlights all the training and the nutrition it takes for Magic and all her other horses to be successful. Guests and Links - Medieval “Magic” Link to Sound File for Sight Impaired:  Click Here Host:  Lisa Wysocky, Author and Clinician Guest: Elizabeth Kopras Guest:  Dr. Anna Pesta, Nutritionist, Equine Technical Solutions Visit: You can take part in a feed trial, to learn more about that, just go to Purina.

Our Full Rein Sweepstakes winner Elizabeth Kopras shares her passion recreating Medieval European culture and the role her horses play in the performances. As a member of the Society of Creative Anachronism, Elizabeth teaches her horses, including her rescue horse Magic, everything from jousting and armored combat to medieval equestrian games. This episode highlights all the training and the nutrition it takes for Magic and all her other horses to be successful.Guests and Links - Medieval “Magic”Link to Sound File for Sight Impaired: Click HereHost: Lisa Wysocky, Author and ClinicianGuest: Elizabeth KoprasGuest: Dr. Anna Pesta, Nutritionist, Equine Technical SolutionsVisit: You can take part in a feed trial, to learn more about that, just go to Purina.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=87421)

Stephanie Quick, misogyny, Ufology, New Age, paraweird, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Robert Anton Wilson, Carlos Castaneda, sexual harassment, stalking, David Emory, sex magick, Allen Greenfield, Jacques Vallee, Diana Walsh-Pasulka, Society for Creative Anachronism, Playboy, Hustler, Larry Flynt, Hugh Hefner, Chester the Molester, cons   Resources Mentioned on the Show; Resources for Learning about Misogyny in the Paraweird:   Occultism With a Side of Salt podcast episode “Why Women Leave The Occult” - very worthwhile, frank discussion on this topic with lots of overlap on issues in the paraweird community.   “Sorceror's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Cataneda” by Amy Wallace   Author, Speaker and “Bind Trump” magician Michael M. Hughes   A Path With Heart: Sex, Eros and Mystical Union with the Divine featuring WHAM   Sex Magic Interview with Allen Greenfield   The Paranormally Erotic: My Story   An Example of Misogyny on the Mysterious Universe podcast   Energy Predation and Emotional Manipulation at a Tibetan Meditation Centre Some Woman Produced and Woman Positive ParaWeird Content: Caludroncast - paranormal meets true crime with hosts of color Two Witches Podcast - psychic questing in the Pacific Northwest Six Degrees of John Keel - one stop shop for paraweirdness viewed thru a rigorous yet Keelian lens   The Q Files - all things paraweird from a queer perspective. They cover unusual topics, too.   Crimelines - woman produced true crime. The white host has been featuring cases of missing and murdered Indigenous woman and girls monthly, including research on issues of history, cultural sensitivity, and economic/legal issues.    Shattered Reality podcast - host Fahrusha interviews a number of women with an emphasis on academic research.   Anomaly Archives - their recent fundraising streamathon had a number of women presenters, check for past/future monthly live streams on various topics including neglected women researchers such as Eugenia Macer-Story   The Church of Mabus Radio Show - Jeffrey Prichett has consistently featured women as guests on this long running festival of weirdness! Check the voluminous archives for inspiration. Long-time cohost Professor WHAM is a woman, experiencer, academic, and esotericist - and author of “Mysterious Beauty: Living with the Paranormal in the Hudson Valley”.   Paranormal Researcher Allison Jornlin - her You tube channel on women in the paranormal focuses on the founding mothers of paranormal research.    Parallax Views with J.G. Michaels consistently interviews women as guests on all topics - from retired scream queens, to academics, journalists, activists, and more! No token women here.    

Today on the podcast, we have a Luxurious Hair Battle between Skunk and our guest Chris Farrell. Chris is a maker of sharp shabby things (blade smith) and was featured on the TV show “Forged in Fire” where he won his episode in season 1. In addition to Chris' talents, he is also known around the Austin music scene as a talented drummer. His work can be heard with groups such as A Good Rogering, Quartershackle, and Jeremiah Houston. Currently, Chris is the owner/operator of Fearghal Blades (est. 2011). He was born in Wichita Falls, Texas and raised in Staten Island, New York. Chris' interest in blade-smithing was fostered in his youth through time spent at Renaissance faires, the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism – an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe – Wikipedia), as well as an avid passion for martial arts. He was interviewed by cracked.com writer, Robert Evans, as a weapons expert for the article: 6 Things Movies Get Wrong About Swords (An Inside Look). https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1238-6-things-movies-get-wrong-about-swords-an-inside-look.html --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

GameEnthus Podcast ep422: Outside Interests or Tooth Games   This week Ross Thompson (@AlmostKirk) from TheOp and Kingdom-Con  joins Mike (@AssaultSuit), Tiny (@Tiny415) and Aaron (@Ind1fference) to talk about:  Usaopoly, Kingdom Con, Rising Games, Hues & Cues, Telestrations Upside Drawn, Society for Creative Anachronism, Larping, Twilight Imperium, Super Size 2: Holy Chicken, Mega Sg, Hallmark Con, PS5, Xbox Series X, Bugsnax, Polymega, Extra Life, Metal Gear Solid 2, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Video Game History Foundation, Muriel Tramis, Elite, Mafia Definitive Edition, Cloud City, Ohanami, The Deadlies, Cartographers, Illusion, Octo Dice, Abandon All Artichokes, Duffers, The Transcontinental, Creature Comforts, Knot Dice, Pumpkin Jack, Crash 4, Resident Evil 7, Resident Evil HD Remaster, Wingspan, Mario 64, Treasure Stack, Shards of Infinity, Dead Rising, Batman Begins, Among Us, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and more.            If you like the show please leave us an itunes, Google, Youtube, Stitcher or Spotify review, a tweet, an email or a voicemail (202-573-7686).   Show Length: 144 minutes  Direct Download (click on 3 dots to download)      Show Links Follow Ross @AlmostKirk Usaopoly Kingdom-Con Team GameEnthus' Extra Life Page   New videos GameEnthus.com   Youtube.com/user/GameEnthus      Community Info Gary Leavor's Memorial Extra Life Page Major Linux and Crew's Notcho Podcast Kiaun's Show The Analog Circle Podcast Gary and Dan's Show TheGamesMenRPG Open Forum Radio SingleSimulcast  Rap Godz theblacktop.tv   Breaks Ross' Intro - 1m1s Ross' anecdotes - 15m50s Aaron's anecdotes - 28m28s Mike's anecdotes - 39m46s Tiny's anecdotes - 1h04s ...a tangent - 1h30m Games Mike played - 1h39m Games Aaron played - 1h43m Games Tiny played - 2h07m Outro - 2h16m Music EPMD - Sowhatchusayin instrumental Common - Come Close instrumental Del The Funke Homosapien - If You Must instrumental Gangstarr - U know my steez instrumental Scarface - G-Code instrumental De La Soul - Stakes is High instrumental Prodigy - Keep It Thoro instrumental        

Need some more podcasts on your list? Castologists are on it! This week Liz finds the funny in life’s blah with The Hilarious World of Depression, Nick looks at the slimy belly of the Sydney underworld with No Gangsters in Paradise, and Zane gets down to some olde worlde music with The Knowne World Bardcast. As always, after all that, the Castologist review the podcasts they recommended last week.Liz Recommends - The Hilarious World of Depressionhttps://www.hilariousworld.org/aboutA show about clinical depression...with laughs? Well, yeah. Depression is an incredibly common and isolating disease experienced by millions, yet often stigmatized by society. The Hilarious World of Depression is a series of frank, moving, and, yes, funny conversations with top comedians who have dealt with this disease, hosted by veteran humorist and public radio host John Moe. Join guests such as Maria Bamford, Paul F. Tompkins, Andy Richter, and Jen Kirkman to learn how they’ve dealt with depression and managed to laugh along the way.The Hilarious World of Depression is not medical treatment and should not be seen as a substitute for therapy or medication. But it is a chance to gain some insight, have a few laughs, and realize that people with depression are not alone and that together, we can all feel a bit betterFor both: any eps that look good.https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-hilarious-world-of-depression/id1181589175Nick Recommends - No Gangsters in ParadiseAt the turn of the millennium, Western Sydney was a terrifying gangland. At the heart of the frenzy was the Darwiche-Razzak family conflict – a Romeo-and-Juliet style tragedy complicated by honour codes, politics and drive-by shootings. Journalist Mahmood Fazal draws on his own experiences as a gang member to tell the inside story of Sydney’s Lebanese gang wars, to pinpoint why young Muslims just like him commit their lives to violence.Fazal delves into the city’s cultural divide, the special police task force that dealt with the conflict, and what life is really like behind bars. Tough questions emerge from the investigation: Why did these young people re-enact in Australia the experience of a Middle-Eastern war they never knew and which their parents hoped to leave behind? What role did prejudice play in the police’s response to the conflict? And how did Eddie Darwiche get his hands on ten rocket launchers?For both: From the starthttps://www.audible.com.au/pd/No-Gangsters-in-Paradise-Audiobook/B07Y8NG6LPZane Recommends - The Knowne World Bardcasthttps://knowneworldbardcast.comThe Knowne World Bardcast is a podcast for the populace of the Knowne World of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Our purpose is to unite bards, minstrels, musicians, storytellers and all other performing artists in the SCA and to provide a digital archive of the songs and stories of Scadian life as well as introducing bards of previous and current generations to the Knowne World at Large. The KWB is not directly affiliated with or endorsed by the Society for Creative Anachronism and is a an independent production of DeepNerd Media. Your host and curator is Lord Gideon ap Stephen of the Barony of Hawkwood, apprentice to Mistress Rosalind Jehanne and Master Dunstan Le Herryngmonger.For Both: The Choir Episode... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to episode 81! In this episode, I have the honor of interviewing Deacon Mir Plemmons. Chaplain Mir Plemmons is a brand-new Deacon in the Ecumenical Catholic Communion and a Novice of the Order of Ecumenical Franciscans. He has been a Franciscan for 28 years and has served as a chaplain for 34 years. He and his wife live *almost* far enough from Seattle to enjoy the natural terrain Washington has to offer, and he teaches high school special education. He does disaster mental health as a Field Traumatologist. He has extensively taught socio-emotional skills. He is a writer and an editor and serves and advocates for Intersex, QUILTBAG+, and Science Fiction & Fantasy Fandom. He volunteers extensively in multiple organizations including, but not limited to, the Society for Creative Anachronism, Civil Air Patrol, and Okanogan Fire Protection District 12. He tries hard to pay attention to his wife’s reminders to get enough self-care and rest to at least not be a bad example… Links: Convergent Streams: The Premier ISM Magazine. The Royal Manticoran Navy: The Official Honor Harrington Fan Association. The Society for Creative Anachronism. STARFLEET International. Our Lady of Fatima Chapel (Richmond, VA). This podcast is hosted by Bishop David Oliver Kling and produced by The Community of Saint George - a Young Rite jurisdiction.  

Today I have the very charismatic Hector Reyes chatting with me today! (@KeichiOkami) We talk about all of there super awesome games that Hector has been playing and running. On our Spotlights from the Void we have two organizations! The first is: The Society for Creative Anachronism (https://www.sca.org/resources/) If you ever wanted to get into history and learn about the arts from way back when, the SCA will let you do that. They host events where everyone feels like they are experiencing the Renaissance, every dresses in time appropriate clothing and discuss arts and sciences and just general history of the times. They have also been working to make it an incredibly diverse and welcoming space for everyone. So now would be as good of a time than ever to check them out! Our next spotlight is going to be Color of Change. Color of Change is one the largest online Racial Justice organizations. They organize to help fight injustice, primarily for marginalized communites across the nation. Supporting them means that they can better communicate and better organize petitions and rallies to make sure those voices are heard! If you want to know more definitely check their website! https://colorofchange.org/about/ And speaking of Color of Change they are one of the organizations that we are running a monthly fundraiser for! For the month of August I am partnering with Difficulty Class to run a fundraiser for two great organizations. Color of Change and Black Table Arts! We are sticking with shirts again! There are two different shirts and each one goes to a different fund. The First shirt has their very awesome logo on it and will be going to Color of Change https://inktothepeople.com/shouting-for-change And the Second one is their go to phrase "Read the Table" and this one will be going to Black Table Art, which is is an organization that directly supports Black Artists! They provide workshops and help create spaces to help Black artists thrive and get their work out there. If you want more information definitely check out their website! https://www.blacktablearts.com/ Here is that Fundraiser here! https://inktothepeople.com/shouting-for-black-artists If you want to see more of Hectors work (which you know you do) check out his twitter and Instagram! https://twitter.com/KeichiOkami https://www.instagram.com/keichiokami/ Follow the Podcast on twitter @ShoutinginPlace there will be updates to the fundraisers and all the cool announcements and people that have been on the podcast. For now, take care of each other, take care of yourselves, see you next time. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/shoutinginplace/message

This week Star and Bunny discuss the unexplained death of a 17 year old boy. Kurt McFall was an adventurous somewhat nerdy boy who liked computers (big thing in 1984) and also was a member of the Society of Creative Anachronism, a group that liked to relive Medieval Times with creating and wearing armor and weilding swords. Kurt was also interested in Paganism and his father along with others believe his death is connected to the occult. Star and Bunny discuss the day leading up to his death, the manner as to how he was found and the strange bits of info that just ass confusion to this 30+ year old case. So grab your deer hoof knife & stone and feather necklace and join us for some speculation about the unexplained death of Kurt McFall. Listener discretion is advised

What was intended to be a breakdown of the Ethiopia and Secret Societies pack quickly becomes something even better. Maybe. IDK. You be the judge. It's our first three-parter, folks! Our first MEGASODE.   On this episode, we discuss how the game has changed from Civ 2 to Civ 6, military positioning, opening strategies, Apocalypse Mode and Soothsayers, the meta love for Simon Bolivar VS the meta hate for Tamar, how to deal with barbarians, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, The Society for Creative Anachronism, Rome, and spearmen. We talk about spearmen far too much. Anyway. Parts 2 and 3 coming soon! Thanks to Pendin for giving me his time not only today but tomorrow as well! Part 2 will be a deep dive into The Persona Pack and Ethiopia. Part 3 will cover the Secret Societies game mode, the Diplomatic Quarter, and the associated balance changes also released with the update. Enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/d-connor-mcvey/support

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Welcome back to Letters to Yesterday, a podcast of messages to the past. Here we read letters from our listeners to their past selves, sharing advice and guidance. Hopefully we’ll inspire each other. Thank you again to everyone who left us a review and everyone who’s listened so far. Today’s letter comes from Catherine Lundoff. Catherine is an award-winning writer, editor and publisher from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her books include Silver Moon, Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories and Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic. She is the editor of Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space), as well as several other anthologies, and a wide array of fiction in multiple genres. In addition, she is also the publisher at Queen of Swords Press, a small press specializing in fiction from out of this world. www.catherinelundoff.net     Dear Me That Was: I am looking at a picture of you on your senior field trip, the one where you went with your class to take yearbook pictures outside Lincoln Center. You’re trying to look tough and bored, but really you look tired and tense. You’re leaning on the guy that you’re seeing in secret because high school is complicated and yours is a bit more complicated than a lot of others, for its time. It’s a group picture and most of your classmates aren’t looking at the camera. Some are watching each other or something beyond the photographer that I can’t remember now or just plain staring off into space. Most look the way you do, tired, bored and unhappy. I remember why you felt that way. You’re a scholarship student at a high school where you are genteelly poor but most of your classmates have families much better off than yours, you’re under lots of pressure to keep your grades up, you’ve got an alcoholic parent waiting for you at home, you’ve got a secret not-quite boyfriend with his own baggage and you’ve got an all weekend/every weekend job as a cashier at a local supermarket. And, of course, you’re the yearbook editor and you’re trying to maintain your status as 3rd or 4th (depending on the day) in line for being valedictorian because that’s what you were told colleges would look for. It is a lot. And I’d tell that it won’t always be like this, but that would be a lie and as a rule, I don’t lie to anyone, and certainly not to you. What it will be is training and conditioning for the years to come. You will find things that you love and that you love doing and you will learn to juggle what needs to be done with what you really want to do. You will learn to compartmentalize, to tune out and focus. A lot of this will be amazingly useful. Some of it, on the other hand, will be bad for you and you’ll spend years figuring out the difference. But you’ll do it. And that’s when the adventures will begin, all of them, including things you never imagined would happen. Not the you in this picture, anyway. Wait, that’s not true. The adventures start long before then, it’s just that you won’t always recognize them as such. You’re going to go off to college in a different state and create a whole new you, one that goes from hippy to New Wave in two semesters. You’ll find your people, start playing D&D and discover science fiction and fantasy. You’re going to do everything from joining the Society for Creative Anachronism to doing performance art in St. Louis. Why? Because it’s the 1980s and it’s part of you trying out things that your friends like to do to see if you like them too. Did I mention that you’ll have friends? Lots of friends, although it will take a while to be able to pick out the ones worth keeping. And lovers. You feel like no one is ever going to really love you now, but it’s not true. It isn’t even true for you right now, me in this picture, but sometimes, it’s hard to recognize that. Oh, and by the way, some of that unresolved emotional turmoil? You’re bisexual or queer or whatever you want to call it, but definitely not straight. Figuring that out is going to be messy and huge, but you’ll be a lot happier once you realize it’s a good thing. And all the baggage that you carried through high school, all the coping skills and dependencies you developed to keep yourself going, all the while ignoring a lot of what you wanted and what you needed, will fall apart and you’ll need to rebuild them, modify them, change them so they work for you. That last year, that photo, that field trip? That’s part of you figuring some of it out. That’s you with your friends and the clothes you bought with your own job, your own money. That’s also you standing around with a bunch of other bored teens posing for a picture in front of one of the great cultural landmarks of New York City. You’re kind of a mess now, but you’ve got the building blocks for a future you’re going to want. So the number one thing I want to tell you is: hang in there. It’s a total cliché, but that doesn’t make it wrong. Roll your eyes all you like. You’ll be doing that a lot anyway. Eventually, you’re going to find more people who get your sense of humor so you might as well start now.  You’re not crazy, not really. And the second thing is that you need to read. Read a bunch. The day will come when you’re going to sit down at a computer (yes, you. They get easier to use than the one that codes in binary that they’re trying to get you to learn right now.) and you’re going to write stories. You’re going to draw on all the things you’ve imagined and some of the things you’ve done and you’re going to make stories that people like to read. Some of them will even find those stories pretty life changing, but that will come later. Learn to get lost in your imagination now, the way you always have when home and school got to be too much to handle, when you needed a shield or an escape. Do that until it gets easier. Finally, believe people when you don’t have a good reason to doubt them. Believe them when they tell you that you’re worth loving, that you write good stories, that you do some good in the world and that you should stick around. It’s hard to realize now, but those people care and they want your way forward to get easier. Try to let people in when you can. Follow the path through the woods, the one that goes through the wardrobe or under hill. Ride the eagle, fight the battles, learn the true names of things, ride with Eowyn.  Above all, try to be honorable and brave when you can. Open the door and step forward…   P.S. Thank you to Les Hayden for the use of their song Ophelia. Thank you to everyone who has submitted wonderful letters. If you’d like to write a letter, we’d love to read it. You can submit letters to Letters To Yes, that’s Y E S at gmail. The letter should be between 1000 and 2000 words and can be on any topic. What did you need to hear a year ago? Ten years ago? You can also join on us facebook and twitter at letterstoyes. Letters to Yesterday is Produced by Leslie J. Anderson. Stay safe out there.  

Tread Perilously closes out "Tread Safely" month with a case file from the Special Review Unit -- the best episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ever aired, "Identity." When Manhattan SVU detectives are called to the scene of a man who fell off a building, they discover his junk has been bitten off. Since the man was a member of a local gang, this appears to be a pretty simple case. But once Detectives Stabler and Benson dig a little deeper, they discover nothing can be simple in case involving twins, a sex therapist, and the world's worst behavioral science experiment. Special Review Unit Captain Charlie Wright joins Justin and Erik as they discuss one of the finest hours of television ever committed to film. Justin and Charlie agree on it containing a "V.C. Andrews" energy. Justin explains the the Society for Creative Anachronism. Charlie clarifies Sister Peg's role and gets hyped for the upcoming Stabler-focused Law & Order series. Justin tries to understand why anyone would run away from Christopher Meloni. A Star Trek discussion breaks out. Erik recalls when Stabler had a tough time dealing with teenage suspects and the team discovers Munch is a proponent of rights for graffiti artists.

Do you take your Mother’s photo off the wall before you choke the bishop? Author & Podcaster Joe Loya has had life experiences that most of us can only imagine: marching all the bank tellers into the vault to steal huge wads of cash, a 14 month, 30 bank crime spree -  but somehow, he’s never experienced true intimacy. A chance encounter teaches him how important human connection is…and that single night sustains him through solitary confinement (Can you relate? I bet you can). Folx, don’t forget to open your eyes - and watch out for Santa Claus! #ChasingHeaven #PillowFight #FlipTheScript   Song: ‘Love Crime‘ (Siouxsie Sioux & Brian Reitzell)   ANNOUNCING the Brand New Bawdy Storytelling *Livestream*!    Show date: Saturday 4/18/20 Showtime:   • 7 PM PST •  8 PM MT 9 PM CT 10 PM EST Midnight GMT-3 3 AM GMT 4 AM GMT+1 5 AM GMT+2 6:30 AM GMT+3:30   Capacity is limited, so get your tickets NOW at https://bit.ly/BawdyLivestream   Make sure you’re notified of all upcoming Livestreams by signing up at https://bawdystorytelling.com/subscribe   Want more Joe Loya?   The Man Who Outgrew his Prison Cell (book) https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Outgrew-Prison-Cell/dp/0060508930   The Bank Robber Diaries (podcast) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-score-bank-robber-diaries/id1483260185   BRAND NEW: Our Patreon supporters now receive - in addition to ad-free episodes of the podcast - rewards like our brand new behind-the-scenes Storycoaching series for $10/month patrons, a weekly story Video from a live show for our $30/month fans, and more stories are on the way. Thanks so much for your support during this catastrophic loss of show revenue, friends! www.Patreon.com/Bawdy   Episode Links: MyGirlFund.com : Sometimes it’s hard to meet sexual partners in real life, and porn doesn’t offer you that erotic intimacy that you’re looking for. MyGirlFund allows you to form virtual relationships with sexy, amazing women - you can meet, message, share photos and videos, and cam with those women in private. It’s a safe, private and discreet adult community and You can join mygirlfund.com for free. And right now for a limited time you can become a lifetime premium member for less than $5 when you visit mygirlfund.com/dixie  That means that as a fan of the Bawdy Storytelling podcast, you can get discounted credits and bonus interaction features for life when you go to MyGirlFund.com/Dixie JUST ADDED: To support people who are trying to make ends meet from home during Quarantine, MyGirlFund is giving a $50 bonus to all women who sign up during April and reach $500 in contributions!       The live shows kept Bawdy Storytelling going..and now they’re gone. Wanna make sure the podcast continues, that I can pay my tech team and that I don’t end up living under a bridge? Here are ways to help:   Venmo: Venmo.com/BawdyStorytelling.com Paypal: BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com Zelle: BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com And of course Patreon: Bawdy would not exist right now without Patreon. Bawdy’s future is dependent on Patreon. Bawdy Storytelling has always been listener supported, but right now, it’s our everything - and backing us on Patreon ensures our podcast can continue during this difficult time. Who knows, maybe we can even grow into an online show for you and your friends, wherever you are! For our Patreon supporters, we’ve recently added: Behind-the-scenes on the Bawdy story coaching process, start to finish! Post-story interviews with the storyteller! Ad-free episodes, Patron only conversation streams, private or group storycoaching sessions with Dixie - hell, even your own personal live Bawdy Storytelling show when we can gather together again. And NOW, if you support Bawdy at the $10/month & up level, you get free Livestream tickets!  Want to ensure that Bawdy make it through the Apocalypse?  Join us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Bawdy Purchasing Bawdy Merchandise is another way to Help: Bawdy Storytelling offers a new line of fragrance & lube for your favorite podcast fan: #BawdyGotMeLaid perfume, Bawdy Butter, hair & bawdy oil, #BawdyGotMeLube & more. It’s at BawdyStorytelling.com/Merchandise #BestGiftEver Want a Bawdy Buttplug? Email me, let’s make that happen!   New Virtual storytelling workshop: Enroll in my new online storytelling workshop… we can work together on your story, wherever you are! From a story for the stage or an engaging adventure relayed your friends on FaceTime, that feeling of connection is more important than ever right now. Plus working on a story is one of the most healing, empowering things you can do as we face an uncertain future. I’d love to help you make your tale a thing of beauty. Contact me at dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com & let’s work together.   Check out our Bawdy Storytelling Fiends and Fans group on Facebook - it’s a place to discuss the podcast’s stories with the storytellers, and share thoughts with your fellow listeners - and help Dixie make the podcast even better. It’s at https://www.facebook.com/groups/360169851578316/ oh, and finally: I want people to hear YOU on the Bawdy podcast! Make a recording and send it to me - and attach it to an email or share it via Google Drive with bawdystorytelling@gmail.com (this podcast is about stories, so we’d love to hear YOURS) Upcoming Bawdy Storytelling LIVE Events:   Wanna see Bawdy’s first Livestream? It’s a way to be part of Bawdy wherever you are. Subscribe to our email list & find out where we’re going before anyone else: https://bawdystorytelling.com/subscribe   Bawdy Storytelling’s live events are postponed until our Shelter-in-Place is lifted, or the pandemic subsides. Till then, listen to the podcast, enjoy videos on Patreon, and feel free to check in with me at Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com And get more Info on our live events - and Tickets for upcoming shows - at  https://bawdystorytelling.com/#liveshows-section   Thank you to the Team that makes this podcast possible! Team Bawdy is: Podcast Producer: Marty Garcia Sound Engineer: David Grosof Archivist / Video: Joe Moore & Bawdy Creator & Podcast Host Dixie De La Tour & Thank you to Pleasure Podcasts - we’re proud to be part of this sex-positive podcast collective!  Santa True, the Storytelling Santa: http://santatrue.com/ Society for Creative Anachronism: https://www.sca.org/ The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: https://www.thesisters.org/   Hash House Harriers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_House_Harriers https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/hashers-running-around-the-world/index.html   Want more Bawdy? www.BawdyStorytelling.com Follow us on Twitter: @Bawdy On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling/ Like us at www.Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling Join us on FetLife: https://fetlife.com/groups/46341 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Bawdy Watch us on YouTube at http://bit.ly/BawdyTV Find out about upcoming podcast episodes–and if we’re coming to your city! – at www.BawdyStorytelling.com/subscribe

Find out what's up with Dragonfly Comics & Collectibles, the fun new comics store in White House, TN. Dragon Con's Tony Barletta joins us to talk about George Perez's Wonder Woman. ShadowCon's Sir Duke Kane helps conclude our overview of The Hobbit. Plus, the latest news in the geek world and our upcoming cons!https://lowemill.art/events/lowe-mill-comic-convention/var/ri-1.l-L1/https://www.clarksvillecon.com/ClarksvilleCon/Welcome.htmlhttps://dragonflycomics.com/https://m.facebook.com/OnARollPodcast/https://www.samanthagillogly.com/https://www.sca.org/https://www.shadowcon.info/http://comics.dragoncon.org/Topics: sci-fi, fantasyTags:Comic BooksWonder WomanHobbitJ.R.R. TolkeinGeorge PerezSCASociety of Creative AnachronismPublication date-Stardate 2020.02.21Find us on FB at https://www.facebook.com/groups/starpodlog/ and https://www.facebook.com/nayr.kavura.3Find us on Twitter and InstaGram@StarPodLogIf you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file hereDownload (right click, save as)

Welcome back. Today we introduce the concept of living history in the context we do it and compare it to the other similar and different medieval themed hobbies out there. Groups and resources mentioned in the episode below: Todd's Group: The Company of the Black Spear (https://www.facebook.com/thecompanyoftheblackspear) Ari's Website: The Turnip of Terror (https://TheTurnipOfTerror.com/) “The Boats”: Dana Point CA (http://fieldtrips.oceaninstitute.org/fieldtrips#filter=.maritime-field-trip) Days of Knights: Lancaster, OH (https://thedaysofknights.com) The Society for Creative Anachronism aka The SCA (https://www.sca.org) Regia Anglorum (https://regia.org) Outremere Society (http://outremersociety.org) Markland Medieval Mercenary Militia (http://www.markland.org) Dagorhir Battle Games (https://dagorhir.com) Renaissance Pleasure Faire, Irwindale CA (https://renfair.com/socal) Kansas City Renaissance Festival (http://www.kcrenfest.com) Medieval Swordsman Guild (https://www.kcsword.org) Battle of the Nations (http://botn.info/en) Dekovan Concord (https://chivalricfighting.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/dekoven-concord-revision-2.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3-4kPrfjIVLiH-iaWiJNHzIJr99nfvf2TF0HLP30LmnPrGqdIAJJGBQgM) Pursuing the Knightly Arts: (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDel2Bxg6LBT2zEaXJdjovw)

In this interview I talk with Richard Harris of Barony Of The Osprey a local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism, representing Mobile and Baldwin Counties in Alabama. We talk about the organization the various things they do in the world of Medieval recreation, such as games, fighter practice, and events. Recorded at Marx Library - University of South Alabama at the "Exploring The Art Of Gaming" event on Campus. For more info visit: http://www.baronyosprey.org Want to help support our channel and also get added benefits? Then why not become a Patron today? www.patreon.com/SciFiction

Actor, fight coordinator, and Society for Creative Anachronism combat veteran, Jesse Durant, joins Steven to talk about medieval and Renaissance combat in connection with the Shakespearean canon. Support the show by picking up official Don't Quill the Messenger merchandise at www.dontquillthepodcast.com Presented by the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship. Learn more at www.shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org Don't Quill the Messenger is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. For more great podcasts visit www.dragonwagonradio.com

Raised in L.A by his grandfather who instilled in him his Jewish faith, Riley was a multi sport athlete who gravitated to boxing. His passion for the sport took him from the comfort of his Hancock Park neighborhood to train at gyms around L.A, eventually settling at Broadway Gym in South Central where he trained under Bill Slayton. The combination of being a straight A student and the first rate education on the L.A streets caught the attention of Robert "Puggy" Zeichick, one half of a Jewish-Italian bookmaking team. Riley started doing pick-ups and quickly graduated to felonious capers. After a stint in juvenile reform school, Riley resumed his gambling association, which had grown to working for Matthew "Matty the Horse" Ianniello. He balanced his bookmaking business with his travels as an employee for TWA. Briefly, Riley settled on University studies in Germany, but returned to LA full time after capitalizing on the tech boom of the 90s in part by day trading stocks and then creating software that he licensed to Washington Mutual Bank, a company he worked for, which allowed him a solid foundational understanding of banking regulations, that he took with him into his online gaming ventures. Jessica is the self-proclaimed podcast guru and Publicity Manager for Rare Bird. In addition to Rare Bird, Jessica works closely with the Society for Creative Anachronism, an international not-for-profit volunteer organization devoted to the research and re-creation of pre–seventeenth century skills, arts, combat, culture, and employing knowledge of history to enrich the lives of participants through events, demonstrations, and other educational presentations and activities. Jessica has a BA in English from the University of La Verne.

The Critics discuss the Armored Combat League, Live-Action Role-Playing, and the Society for Creative Anachronism. They sit down with up-and-coming ACL knight, Skyler Chew, who is a member of the Phoenix Blood Eagles Chapter and get into the strategy, weaponry, and effort that goes into participating in an activity like this.Thanks for listening!PLEASE SUBSCRIBE & RATE THIS EPISODE!Skyler Chew:Facebook - www.facebook.com/skyler.chewInstagram - @chew9190Phoenix Blood EaglesWebsite - www.blood-eagles.comFacebook - www.facebook.com/ACLBloodEaglesInstagram - @acl_phxArmored Combat LeagueACL Facebook Group - Click Here!Critics Anonymous:INSTAGRAM:Critics Anonymous - @criticsanonymouspodcastCaleb - @calebkilianRobert - @the_turd88TWITTER:Caleb - @calebkilianRobert - @RobbieRobIIICritics Anonymous is produced and edited by Caleb Kilian.

In this episode we discuss Legacy of Dragonholt, Battle Ball, and the new source book for Starfinder, Alien Archive 3. We review Games Workshop’s new line of paints called Contrast Paints. We discuss the Society for Creative Anachronism. We cover the books Jack and the Geniuses, The Return of the King, Forest of the Ancients, Secrets of the Tau, The Adventurer’s Guide Series, The Uncle Albert series, and A Really Short History of Nearly Everything. We end by reviewing the television shows of Doctor Who, She-Ra, The Colour of Magic, and The Dark Crystal. Intro and Outro music is by melodysheep, licensed under creative commons share-alike license. Support his educational music and videos at www.symphonyofscience.com.

Stacy and I talked with Cameron about the SCA or Society for Creative Anachronism.   The SCA is an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe with a modern twist and minus the bad stuff.   Really fun 30 minute show.

#10: The year is 1906, and someone read Jefferies' AFTER LONDON and was inspired. New York City is dead, long live Doom the Forbidden. This is what happens when only members of the Society for Creative Anachronism survive the Apocalypse.  Come for our favorite villain yet, stay for me going on for TOO LONG about NYC geography.  Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.

Have you ever wanted to live out your medieval life dreams in a safe and modern way? This is exactly what today's guest, Jamie Unrau, does with the Society for Creative Anachronism. Today, we're talking about this cool, geeky hobby, their gender identity and journey, and the intersection of both. Jamie is a film PA, indie game developer, writer, active member of the SCA, and all around geeky person. They were assisgned male at birth (AMAB), transitioned to female in 2007, and now identifies as non-binary/genderfluid. The Society for Creative Anachronism is a modern medieval world that celebrates all the good parts of the time period and reimagining the bad. Women have a proper place in society, men are chivilrous, and gender expression is a-okay. Jamie has created their non-binary Ancient Greek persona, Appa Apopolitarchopolis in line with the SCA's regulations. Jamie also shares they they used to believe that women were the more priviledged gender and how their worldview completely changed when they transitioned. They talk about how the SCA is changing to embrace gender diversity and invite you to join their openly queer clan. Do you want to join the SCA? (You're totally not alone, Amanda does, too!) How do you approach gender identity? You can find Jamie Online (https://unrau.me) Learn more about the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc (https://www.sca.org/). If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please check out some of our others! Geek Interview: Feminism and Gender with Dr. Sol Haring (https://geekherring.com/2019/04/26/episode-28-geek-interview-feminism-and-gender-with-sol-haring/) Geek Girl Reviews: The Mask You Live In (Exploring Toxic Masculinity) (https://geekherring.com/2019/04/12/episode-26-geek-girl-reviews-the-mask-you-live-in-exploring-toxic-masculinity/) Geeking Out About Robin Hobb: Fantasy That Represents – LGBTQ+, Gender Roles, Classism, + More (https://geekherring.com/2019/03/08/episode-21-geeking-out-about-robin-hobb-fantasy-that-represents/) Love Geek Herring, please hop over to iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/geek-herring/id1438271357?mt=2) and leave us a review! Join us on Discord (https://geekherring.com/discord)! Geek out with Geek Herring Online (https://www.geekherring.com) / Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/geekherring) / Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/geekherring) / Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/geekherring) / Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/geekherring)! Geekily yours, Amanda & Monika Special Guest: Jamie Unrau.

People with a passion for the groups and organizations they participate in will talk about why they do what they do and how other people can get involved. Daryl Hinderer was hooked once he played the sport of pickleball and credits it with changing his life. The game is designed for players as young as 9 or as old as 90. Gloria Macht joined the Society for Creative Anachronism 15 years ago. The SCA is a historical education group that studies, researches and recreates the Medieval World. Scott Gibbs, vice president of the Durango Railroad Historical Society, with other members restores freight cars and shares the history of the rails. For more information or to sign up for emails about upcoming sessions, email durangodiaries@durangoherald.com

This episode of Tulsa Talks is brought to you by the Tulsa Regional Chamber.Today, Majeste Pearson is in the studio to talk about the many ups and downs of a career in music — even at the tender age of 22.Then, city editor Morgan Phillips discovers the next best thing to owning a time machine in a positively medieval edition of What the What?!So let’s talk, Tulsa.That’s musician Majeste Pearson, or Majeste Amour, as she’s known on social media. The singing sensation appeared on TV screens nationally last summer as a competitor on the Fox reality series “The Four: Battle for Stardom.” During Season two of the show, singers challenging each other for a recording deal and the right to be mentored by celebrity panelists Sean “Diddy” Combs, Meghan Trainor and DJ Khaled. And though she was eliminated before the finale, the powerhouse of a performer gained national attention.Here in Tulsa, though, we also know Majeste as the daughter of Bishop Carlton Pearson, the prominent evangelist turned divisive spiritual leader. Later, I talk with Majeste about what it’s like to have a Netflix film made about your family. But first, Majeste shares the unexpected lessons she learned during her stint on reality TV.Majeste Pearson grew up in the church, which was an early experience that forever connected her with music. Her father Carlton Pearson was the influential leader of the 5,000-member Higher Dimensions church, an evangelist whose spiritual mentor was Oral Roberts himself. But in 2006, Pearson has a theological transformation. He was deemed a heretic for his new belief in universal salvation and he lost his church. It’s dramatic stuff, but for Majeste’s family, that’s just life.Majeste’s next musical performance is actually this weekend — here she is, discussing Tulsa Sings!, during which she and three other finalists will sing with the Signature Symphony. It’s basically The Four: Tulsa Edition.When we come back, Majeste talks about what’s next. But now, Morgan Phillips takes up arms and swears her fealty for the Barony of Northkeep.More about the Society for Creative Anachronism and the Barony of Northkeep.After her experience in the national spotlight, Majeste Pearson has her musical goals set on new priorities and horizons. Let’s finish that conversation.You can follow Majeste on Instagram, @majesteamour, or by visiting majesteamour.com. Majeste will join the other Tulsa Sings! Finalists Samuel Briggs, Dennis Crookedacre and Molly Crookedacre in concerts on Friday, April 5 and Saturday, April 6, at the VanTrease PACE. Visit signaturesymphony.org for more information.Thanks so much for Listening to Tulsa Talks! If you enjoyed this episode, tell a friend about the show, and leave us a rating or review on iTunes, Google Play and Spotify.Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, @TulsaPeople, or head to our home on the web, TulsaPeople.com/podcast. There, you’ll find show notes and more info about our guests and topics. Every episode, we play you out with some local music. And we’re double Majestic, because this is Majeste Pearson’s single, “Passion.”

Becca's guest, Ross Thompson is the Marketing Manager at the OP, formerly USAopoly, founder of Kingdom-Con, a Table-Top Gaming Convention in San Diego, and active member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Ross and Becca discuss marketing in gaming, social media's role, and of course SCA. Seriously nerdy stuff.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we talk with three long-time members of the Society for Creative Anachronism, or SCA. SCA is a large organization that promotes history, making, reenactment, DIY, learning and teaching about lifestyles and artifacts from 500-1500 years ago! The members of SCA are way more than just cosplayers, they are DIYers, they are innovators, they are educators and historians...all while having fun, socializing and making new friendships. www.Ansteorra.org www.SCA.org Luminnovation is sponsored by: www.Berdoll.com and www.Puzzometry.com. Theme music by: TheHoagman@gmail.com

321 Lay-On! goes back in time with Karen to talk about The Society for Creative Anachronism or SCA! Karen shares her passion and extensive knowledge of this fun and creative pass time! SCA is an international living history group with the aim of studying and recreating mainly Medieval European cultures and their histories before the 17th century. For more information or to find a local event visit www.sca.org Connect with us at www.321layonpodcast.com Part of Next Level Nerd Podcast Network www.nextlevelnerd.com "Industrious Ferret" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  

Welcome to episode 68 (no, you didn’t miss episode 67, we’ll explain), our episode for July of 2018. Yes, I said July. Yes, I know what day it is. Don’t worry about it, as the great Jeff Goldblum once said, … Continue reading →

In Episode 74, “Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 1,” Flourish and Elizabeth answer a pile of listener letters from the past few months. Some touch on recent episodes, from more observations about fan tourism to critique of the discussion on alternate universe fic. Others pose new questions, on topics including the Society for Creative Anachronism, aging into or out of fandom, fic-searching and tagging methods, how to make fandom friends, and ways to  help your family understand why fandom is so important to you.

Usually when we sit down to talk with someone I have a general idea of the questions I want to ask or the points I want to touch on. Obviously not every minute of every episode is planned out (they don't call us the Kings of Tangents for nothing) (also no one calls us that) but inevitably some unplanned topics or questions always tend to come up as we dive in and get talking. This week, while talking with Amber Dionne about , I think we may have set a record for "Most questions asked that we didn't know we were going to ask". In other words, talking with Amber about the SCA was absolutely fascinating and every topic we discussed birthed an insatiable hunger to learn more about it. Check out the episode and you'll see what I'm getting at. Enjoy! -Jr.

11-7-17 We're back with another edition of Making Modern Mead. And we're headed back to Australia, to talk with Steve Kirby, owner of Stone Dog Meadery  in Yarra, New South Wales, Australia. Steve is a braggot monster, and makes a lot of them. Steve started brewing in 1990, and his first attempt at fermenting was a plum wine made in his parents’ laundry and he's been brewing ever since. Along the way he has been mentored by champion amateur and commercial brewers, been awarded both gold and silver medals in NSW state competitions and gold in the 2014 National homebrew championship (mead category) as well as having one of his beers showcased in that year’s gala dinner. He's been brewing mead for 5 years now after first being introduced to it through the Society for Creative Anachronism, and is a bear for braggots. He's making a lot of braggot for his meadery, Stone Dog, in Australia. Join us for GotMead Live Chat, on Skype, live during the broadcast!! You can join us here: https://join.skype.com/sOgoU06hcV7s during the show, and we'll pass along questions to the guest, and answer your questions! Join us 9PM ET tonight! (8PM CT/7PM MT/6PM PT) Want to join the conversation, give us a call!! 803-443-MEAD (6323), or Skype us at meadwench (please friend me first and say you're a listener, I get tons of Skype spam), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. If you want us to tackle your mead making questions, you can send us a question and we'll tackle it online! Bring your questions and your mead, and let's talk mead! You can call us at 803-443-MEAD (6323), or Skype us at meadwench (please friend me first and say you're a listener, I get tons of Skype spam), or tweet to @gotmeadnow. This player will show the most recent show, and when we're live, will play the live feed. If you are calling in, please turn off the player sound, so we don't get feedback. Click here to see a playable list of all our episodes! Show links and notes Radical Brewing: Recipes, Tales and World-Altering Meditations in a Glass by Steve Mosher Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles by Ray Daniels Sheperd's Delight Malt The Flavor Bible The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff Upcoming Events November 8 - Bos Meadery - Willie Jones and his Dime Store Posse November 9 - Honeymoon Mead and Cider - Belly Dancing! November 10 - Bos Meadery - Compact Deluxe, Help Desk, and HellMuff November 11 - Superstition Meadery - Berry White Day! Got an event you’d like us to mention on GotMead Live? Send us an email at gotmeadlive@gotmead.com and tell us about it!

SubjectACT presenter Karolina talks with Bart Beswick and Benjamin Thompson, members of the Society of Creative Anachronism about their hobby. SubjectACT is 2XX FM's prime time local current affairs community radio program. Covering everything from politics and education to arts and entertainment. Image sourced from Wikimedia commons.

Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions was originally serialized in 1953 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction--eight years later a revised and expanded version of the tale would see print in hardcover from Doubleday, followed by an Avon paperback in 1962. It has remained sporadically in print ever since, largely overshadowed by Anderson’s more famous science fiction works. Although Anderson was best known during the first half of his writing career as a science fiction author, Three Hearts and Three Lions and his following fantasy work The Broken Sword (1954) had a strong impact on knowledgeable fans and fellow writers, perhaps most clearly with Michael Moorcock’s adoption and reinterpretation of the cosmic struggle between Law and Chaos in the Elric of Melniboné stories, which began appearing in 1961. It’s interesting to speculate how much of himself Anderson put into Holger Carlsen, the hero of Three Hearts and Three Lions--they are both Danish-Americans, trained in science and engineering, and apparently wholly rational and pragmatic. Holger rises to adventure though, rediscovering and embracing his true identity as Ogier the Dane, paladin of Charlemagne and one the great heroes of medieval European literature. In a similar vein, perhaps Anderson’s romantic side led him to become a founding member of both the Society for Creative Anachronism and the Swordsmen and Sorceror's Guild of America. Throughout its publishing history Three Hearts and Three Lions never had an iconic cover, and the Appendix N-era 1978 Berkley Medallion paperback is no exception, featuring a serviceable cover by Wayne Barlowe, who would later become more well-known for his anatomically realistic depictions of fantastic creatures and truly alien life. That Three Hearts and Three Lions is one of the most significant influences on early Dungeons & Dragons is undeniable. For example, Gary Gygax specifically cites the book in the listing for the “True Troll” in the “Fantasy Supplement” to Chainmail (1971), although a full description of the Andersonian troll (and the nixie) would have to wait for the original Dungeons & Dragons (1974) box set. The original 1974 rules would also feature the most famous borrowing from Three Hearts and Three Lions, the Law vs. Chaos alignment system, although perhaps filtered through Michael Moorcock’s interpretation in the Elric books. Certain Lawful fighters could elect to achieve Holger Carlsen-esque paladin status with the publication of the first D&D supplement, Greyhawk (1975). Paladins would evolve into their quintessential D&D form as a fighter sub-class in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook (1978) The troll and the nixie would receive much more detailed write-ups in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual (1977), with the Swanmay finally making her first D&D appearance in the Monster Manual II (1983). A close reading of Three Hearts and Three Lions and the various early Dungeons & Dragons would undoubtedly reveal more direct influences on the game as we know it today.

In this interview, David Aiken talks about his juggling career, branding, interjecting comedy into real life, and a great story that involves him on the Barenaked Ladies Ships & Dip Cruise! David Aiken, AKA the Checkerboard Guy is an award-winning interactive comedy juggler from the Great White North! Performing for corporate events, cruise lines, and at other various venues, David has traveled the world with his act including North America, Austrailia, Europe, and Asia, and even learned to perform his act in Japanese since he was invited back there so often. He’s performed for clients such as Air Canada, Honda, the Canadian Football League, The National Hockey League, and even had the opportunity to perform for Canada’s Prime Minister. Royal Caribbean International says that David is "A wacky crazy man that will keep you laughing! and a delight to work with!"     Success Quote: Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world. — Goldie Hawn     Failure Moment Missing a flight to India because he didn't look at the time correctly. He showed up at 2:00 PM instead of 2:00 AM.     Branding and His Checkerboard Guy Persona • How he evolved into his persona. • How he uses "trading cards" in his marketing efforts. • Living his persona on stage and off stage. • How his branding helps him generate "celebrity." • When people want you specifically, that's the beginning of celebrity.     Biggest Professional Challenge Slowing down and not yelling during his show.     Worked Best for His Business Going out and being awesome, doing good shows, and exceeding expectations.   Fun Story from the Road Hear about how he met and befriended the Barenaked Ladies, got to perform on some of their Ships & Dip Cruises, and took a huge group Barenaked photo with the Barenaked Ladies.     Other Topics Covered • Impostor syndrome. • Using comedy in life to break down barriers. • Talks about the support he had from his mother who put him on a bus at 14 years old to go to a juggling convention for a few days. It was a different world. • Being a juggler/jester in the Society for Creative Anachronism. • You become the average of the five people you spend the most time around. • Working as the usher at his own shows helps him to interact and get to know his audience from the get go. • Working in Japan and learning Japanese so he could perform his show in their language…and ask for his now wife's hand in marriage. • Always trying to interject humor and find "places to play." • Making mistakes and learning from them. • Growing as a creative person. • GGoL: Generous Gifts of Love • Strategic thanking and marketing.     Parting Advice Have fun! If you're not having fun, you're doing the wrong thing!     Recommended books and resources: Note: Many of the links in this section are affiliate links, meaning we earn a small portion of any sales. If you're enjoying our podcast and decide to purchase one of the recommended resources or books, please consider using our affiliate links to help support the work we're doing here at the Successful Performercast. Thanks!   Resource: Scrivener — a powerful content-generation tool for writers.     Books: Negotiating Higher Performance Fees by Michael Ammar The Comic Toolbox by John Vorhaus Start with Why by Simon Sinek     Where can we find David Aiken? www.thecheckerboardguy.com Stories from the Pitch Podcast Another side of Lindsay Benner's Story about Shitman, as told by Pete Sweet. Twitter @checkerboardguy | Facebook

Whoa! Get ready for some awesome! For this episode Na'La from Shakra joins the YIP Crew in studio! We all learn about the oud, Tammy shares her secret for happy feet (super sweet dance shoes, that's what!), Mary shares some Na'La-approved music and there's more giggling than usual! (I know....scary!!!)Download Episode 57Or Listen Here: On This Episode:Tammy's sweet dance sneakers!DIY/Bellydance on a Budget (tribe.net) - "Glue?"E6000Shira.net tribe (tribe.net) - "Is It Good for Business?"Hipmix.net - Dilara's Diary - "Hi, I'm Dilara Sultan, and I don't approve of this message"Shira.net tribe (tribe.net) - "Forgiving bad dancers and teachers?"Princess Farhana (blog) - "Dancing Through Pain and Physical Limitation, Part Two"R.I.C.E. So You Think You Can Dance - Janelle IssisSadie - Awesome video of Sadie being awesome!Deep Roots DanceLavaSaritaJill ParkerLuciterraValley of the Jolly Green GiantCues and TattoosUdjat Beats & Belly DancingShula Azhar Belly Dance DivasTribal SolsticeTjardaGeisha MothSakura Tribal (blog) - "Mishaps and Mayhem!"  The oudPlanet of the Ood (Doctor Who) The oud - legend of the creation Dobby (Harry Potter)Melanie Moore - "Cracks" solo from So You Think You Can DanceFreestylersEllie GouldingBassnectar Na'La on FacebookOffice Space Milton (red stapler)Heather Stants (Urban Tribal Dance Company)Amy Sigil - UNMATADonna MejiaMira BetzTjarda and The Uzume Dance Company Sera SolsticeCarolena NericcioGothic Bellydance - RevelationsShakra's Industrial Strength Dance Workout DVDThe Daily ShowClip of TURKU featuring the Ghawazee Dancers (did you spot Olivia Kissel?)Domba!ShakraSCA - Society for Creative AnachronismSuhailaRusted Root Never give up! Never surrender!Around Town:There is not an Around Town on this episode, however you can Join our Email List and find out everything currently going on!Oud Music:1. "Oud Taksim" by The Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club of Zanzibar2. "Oud Taqsim" by Kara Nomadica3. "Taksim" by John Berberian 4. "Azziza" by John BerberianEnd credits: "Siseler" by John BerberianFeatured Artists:First set:1. "Cracks" by Freestylers (Flux Pavilion remix) - Amazon or 2. "Lights" by Ellie Golding (Bassnectar remix) - Amazon or 3. "Timestretch" by Bassnectar - Amazon or Second set: All songs by Rusted Root - Amazon or Song 1: "Agbadza" (off the album Rusted Root)Songs 2/3:  "Drum Trip" and "Back to the Earth" (off the album When I Woke)Additional Music:Artist: Solace - Amazon or Album: Gorgon DaysSongs: Full Blown Stutter, Blind in One EyeAlbum: NagariSongs: Coveting Bes, Bain of Desire, Sorrow & Veil, Serpent's Kiss, Strange Flesh, Death in Sin, End of ReligionArtist: Shiva in Exile - Amazon or Album: NourSongs: We're All One

Michael Cramer is an actor, a teacher, a writer and a filmmaker. He has a Ph.D. in Theatre from the city University of New York. He currently teaches in the Media and Communication Arts department at City College of New York and in the Speech and Theatre department of the Borough of Manhattan Community College. For the last thirty years, on weekends, he been known as Valgard Stonecleaver, a knight errant in the Society for Creative Anachronism. The SCA is a medieval re-creation group. They dress in medieval garb and hold tournaments and feasts as part of a big medieval fantasy. In the SCA Valgard is a count and a viscount, a bard, and a herald. He has been a king and a prince, which in the SCA are temporary positions which one wins in a tournament. Michael has written a book about the SCA titled "Medieval Fantasy as Performance: The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages." **************************** Follow me on Facebook for great Reading Specials, updates, and fun conversations www.Facebook.com/ToeReader **************************** Rob Anthony's music is played often here on Achieve Radio and I hope that if you like his music you will take a minute and vote for him. Here is a note from Rob: "If you think I'm worthy of a vote for "People's Choice Artist Award" for the WAMI awards show being held at the PAC in Appleton WI Monday April 12th I'd truly appreciate it. Please vote for Rob Anthony of the Northeast Quadrant of Wisconsin. I'd be honored to get your vote and truly grateful if you passed this along". People's Choice www.wamimusic.com Voting for the People's Choice Awards will take place until March 22nd. On March 24th, the top 3 finalists in each quadrant will be posted on the website. The winners for each quadrant will be announced at the Award Show on April 12th. *************************** www.IntuitiveEyes.com To get a great Intuitive Psychic Phone Reading, Class Schedules for upcoming classes now up. www.GypsyToeReadings.com To find more info on Toe Readings, Classes or the new workbook coming out soon. www.PsyArk.com For Great leather crafted items made by us. Also herbs, altar supplies, jewelry, classes & more.

Michael Cramer is an actor, a teacher, a writer and a filmmaker. He has a Ph.D. in Theatre from the city University of New York. He currently teaches in the Media and Communication Arts department at City College of New York and in the Speech and Theatre department of the Borough of Manhattan Community College. For the last thirty years, on weekends, he been known as Valgard Stonecleaver, a knight errant in the Society for Creative Anachronism. The SCA is a medieval re-creation group. They dress in medieval garb and hold tournaments and feasts as part of a big medieval fantasy. In the SCA Valgard is a count and a viscount, a bard, and a herald. He has been a king and a prince, which in the SCA are temporary positions which one wins in a tournament. Michael has written a book about the SCA titled "Medieval Fantasy as Performance: The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages." **************************** Follow me on Facebook for great Reading Specials, updates, and fun conversations www.Facebook.com/ToeReader **************************** Rob Anthony's music is played often here on Achieve Radio and I hope that if you like his music you will take a minute and vote for him. Here is a note from Rob: "If you think I'm worthy of a vote for "People's Choice Artist Award" for the WAMI awards show being held at the PAC in Appleton WI Monday April 12th I'd truly appreciate it. Please vote for Rob Anthony of the Northeast Quadrant of Wisconsin. I'd be honored to get your vote and truly grateful if you passed this along". People's Choice www.wamimusic.com Voting for the People's Choice Awards will take place until March 22nd. On March 24th, the top 3 finalists in each quadrant will be posted on the website. The winners for each quadrant will be announced at the Award Show on April 12th. *************************** www.IntuitiveEyes.com To get a great Intuitive Psychic Phone Reading, Class Schedules for upcoming classes now up. www.GypsyToeReadings.com To find more info on Toe Readings, Classes or the new workbook coming out soon. www.PsyArk.com For Great leather crafted items made by us. Also herbs, altar supplies, jewelry, classes & more.

The Society for Creative Anachronism is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization incorporated in 1968. They are an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe. Theirr "Known World" consists of 19 kingdoms, with over 30,000 members residing in countries around the world. Within the SCA, Dan is known as Grimmund Blackwing. He is the current Baron of Windhaven, and a Companion of the order of the Pelican. **************************** Great Holiday gift give away starts soon! Get great gifts for the Holidays by listening to Opening Your Intuitive Eyes Radio Show. Win by sending me a postcard. Details mentioned each week. Daily drawings! Lots of great gifts under $75 to win. Check out www.IntuitiveEyes.com soon for list of gifts. ************************* Follow me on Facebook to win more great Holiday gift give aways www.Facebook.com/ToeReader Check out my website for great readings done by phone at www.IntuitiveEyes.com Also check out www.PsyArk.com for unique leather crafted gifts handmade just for you.

The Society for Creative Anachronism is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization incorporated in 1968. They are an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe. Theirr "Known World" consists of 19 kingdoms, with over 30,000 members residing in countries around the world. Within the SCA, Dan is known as Grimmund Blackwing. He is the current Baron of Windhaven, and a Companion of the order of the Pelican. **************************** Great Holiday gift give away starts soon! Get great gifts for the Holidays by listening to Opening Your Intuitive Eyes Radio Show. Win by sending me a postcard. Details mentioned each week. Daily drawings! Lots of great gifts under $75 to win. Check out www.IntuitiveEyes.com soon for list of gifts. ************************* Follow me on Facebook to win more great Holiday gift give aways www.Facebook.com/ToeReader Check out my website for great readings done by phone at www.IntuitiveEyes.com Also check out www.PsyArk.com for unique leather crafted gifts handmade just for you.

Celtic Lughnasadh and another story from our Scottish Shanachie, Duncan We've been away for nearly 6 weeks now. Unbelievably, with all of the ups and downs that life throws at you, we're still here! We're back - and to make up for our absence we bring you the biggest Celtic Myth Podshow Special ever - again!! It's just over an hour and a half long! If you like to listen to the show while commuting, it might be an idea to split it up into two halves. If you stop just after our visit to see Duncan, you'll be all set for the story in the last half. The Lughnasadh show has six wonderful pieces of music, a dreamy story, a poem and a beautifully sung version of that poem. We've also got a section about the festival of Lughnasadh from The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. McCulloch. Full show notes, details and Contributor pages over at our main Website at http://celticmythpodshow.com/autumn Running Order: Intro 0:41 News & Views 2:05 At the Edge of the Cornish Sea by David Helfand 3:11 Lughnasadh from Religion of the Ancient Celts 6:12 Middleton Moor by Kiss the Mistress 15:19 Autumn by Francis Ledwidge 21:40 Black Dog of Loneliness by Orient XPress 23:31 The Shadow of Old Dreams by Andy Guthrie 28:07 Rowan & Bracken by Odd's Bodkin 33:01 Nami's Trees by Keith Wilson 37:18 Autumn by Linda Ballew 1:11:06 Listener Feedback - Deb 1:13:28 Celtic Language Podcasts, Pt.1 1:15:20 Scottish Gaelic 1:15:43 Welsh 1:18:20 Cornish 1:20:05 Lughnasadh Dance by Damh the Bard 1:21:36 Celtic Language Podcasts, Pt.2 1:26:40 Irish Gaelic 1:26:56 Breton 1:30:10 Well Below the Valley by Omnia 1:31:36 Outtakes 1:36:42 We hope you enjoy it! Gary & Ruthie x x Released: 19th Sep 2009, 1hr 40m We love hearing from you! Email garyandruth@celticmythpodshow.com, or call us using Speakpipe News & Views We say hello to all of our online friends, especially those on Facebook and Twitter and send out a huge welcome to the new people joining us from Myspace. Welcome all! We inform our listeners about the wonderful video interview with Ruthie taken by our friend, Paul Newman (catch up with Paul on Bandcamp). Paul has had a recent bereavement and we send our love out to him.   At the Edge of the Cornish Sea by David Helfand David Helfand composes and performs original and traditional music on Celtic Harp, mandocello, guitar, keyboards and percussion. Many of David's compositions were born through improvisation and drawn on the inspiration found in the power of music from many wondrous cultures. "As I returned from my maiden voyage from the land of Britain full of awe, unspeakable joy and deep reservoirs of inspiration, slowly the music started to speak. From the high craggy cliffs where the ruins of Tintagel castle lay overlooking the dark waters off Cornwall's shore, to the ancient majestic ruins of Glastonbury Abbey and the dark mysteries of the Tower of London, the swirling maze of the city's streets and the magic of the standing stones on Salisbury Plain, I swam deep in the waters of imagination. Shortly after returning home and embarking on creating "At the Edge of the Cornish Sea", I soon shared with the world, dark grief and immense sadness as the two towers crumbled to the earth creating its deep grave of shattered lives and dreams. What once seemed important became insignificant against the dark clouds of sorrow." You can find out more about David on his website or on our Contributor Page.   Lughnasadh Scant records remain of the ancient Celtic religion, beyond some eleventh- and twelfth-century written material from the Irish Celts and the great Welsh document Mabinogion. This classic study by a distinguished scholar, first published in 1911, builds not only upon the valuable hints supplied by the surviving texts but also upon the still-extant folk customs derived from the rituals of the old cults. A masterly and extremely readable survey, it offers a reconstruction of the essentials of Celtic paganism. The Celt is portrayed as a seeker after God who links himself by strong ties to the unseen, eagerly attempting to conquer the unknown by religious rite and magic art. The earliest aspect of Celtic religion lies in the culture of nature spirits and of life manifested in nature, and this book offers fascinating glimpses into primitive forms of worship, depicting Celtic rites centred on rivers and wells, trees and plants, and animals. The Druids maintained an optimistic view of the afterlife, and the author presents the subject from the comparative point of view, drawing upon evidence from Celtic burial mounds to elaborate upon ancient beliefs and customs related to the culture of the dead, including rites of rebirth and transmigration. Unabridged republication of the edition published by Constable and Company Limited, 1911. Project Gutenberg With gratitude for music provided by Anne Roos   Middleton Moor by Kiss the Mistress Kiss The Mistress was formed 18 months ago and in that time has moved from folk club floor spots to main act bookings. Their debut CD About Time, released on the 20th March 2009 is already receiving rave reviews and their CD launch at the famous Cambridge Folk Club a fantastic night, attended and enjoyed greatly by an appreciative audience who had traveled from across the Eastern region to attend. You can find out more details about Kiss The Mistress on their website or on their Contributor Page on our website.   Autumn by Francis Ledwidge Francis Ledwidge, the Irish nationalist and poet, was born in Slane on 19 August 1887 the son of a poor labourer. Leaving school at the age of 14 he worked in various manual labour positions while developing a love for and honing his own poetical talents. It was in 1911 that Ledwidge first received notable recognition for his poetry. Having sent a collection of his poems to well-known author Lord Dunsany he received a favourable response, Dunsany assuming the role of mentor to Ledwidge, introducing him to the Dublin literary scene. Although possessing moderate Irish nationalist views Ledwidge nevertheless signed up with the British Army - the Irish Volunteers in October 1914 - to serve in France and Flanders during World War One, on the basis that it was unreasonable to expect others to fight for the freedoms that he would later enjoy. Despite his initial reluctance to enlist he nevertheless argued that his service with the British during World War One was in no way incompatible with his nationalist views: rather, he believed he was furthering the cause of Irish independence from Britain. Archive.org   Black Dog of Loneliness by Orient XPress Orient Xpress is a transCaucasian Indie Guitar band with Azeri passion, Irish soul, Essex Blag, Polish spirit, and a whole heap of loveliness. The sort of band that a 15yo crazy will love but his mum will too (from their Myspace page). You can find out more about Orient Xpress on their Contributor Page.   The Shadow of Old Dreams by Andy Guthrie We are incredibly privileged to have Andy as a Contributor to the show. He tells stories that are alive in his family today and that have come down through the ages. He says: The old Legends are a passion and a Joy, and the writings of Fiona Macleod are inspiration, in all I do. I have been a Head gardener of 31 years for large house, and sill working, I see the years come and go from spring to winner, and love it all. I retell the old stories. You can read more about Andy on his Myspace page or on our Contributor Page.   Rowan & Bracken by Odd's Bodkin Odd's Bodkin is a trio comprised of Kenny Klein, Anna Klein, and Stephanie Rosalyn Mitchell, performing Celtic-Gypsy-Pagan-Sea Shanty music at ren faires, Pagan events, and other venues. Their music ranges from serious to whacky, and their shows are a bit unpredictable. Original and Traditional British Isles, Celtic, and Gypsy music, Sea Shanties, Ballads and Weird Songs. Our new CD is available now on our other website, on this site, or at the Southern California Renaissance Faire and our other tour venues. You can find out more about Odd's Bodkin on their website or our Contributor Page.   Nami's Trees by Keith Wilson Keith’s spiritual and musical paths seemed to somehow converge in Ireland, the homeland of his pre-revolutionary war American ancestors. Several of his previous band’s most memorable performance experiences, in which the audience connection could only be described as magical, took place in Dublin. He will return to Dublin for his first solo acoustic performance (as Saint Narcissus) at Eamonn Doran’s on August 14, 2009. In the intervening years, Keith has re-discovered his Celtic roots in Ireland as well as his new-found spiritual roots in their ancient Christian practices. Through immersion in research of many things Celtic, his writing continues to be heavily informed, inspired, and influenced by the world of Celtic myth and reality. You can find out more details about Keith on his Contributor Page on our website.   Autumn by Linda (Mum) Ballew Ruthie's Mum sent us a beautifully sung version of Francis Ledwidge's poem Autumn in a superb coincidence for the season. We are so very proud of her version and hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Linda spends her time helping others with a type of healing called 'Laughter Yoga'. You can find out more about this form of healing at the laughjoyfully.com website. She tells us that times are USA 6am, UK 11am - twenty minutes or so - US 1 712-423-3900 , Uk 001 712-432-2900 pin for both - 607 1292 # only Long Distance charges may apply. 365 days a year plus special occasions upon request. Birthdays, anniversaries, rites of passage, pagan and Christian rites - no charge but notice is needed for preparation. August SHE'LL come at dusky first of day, White over yellow harvest's song. Upon her dewy rainbow way She shall be beautiful and strong. The lidless eye of noon shall spray Tan on her ankles in the hay, Shall kiss her brown the whole day long. I'll know her in the windrows, tall Above the crickets of the hay. I'll know her when her odd eyes fall, One May-blue, one November-grey. I'll watch her from the red barn wall Take down her rusty scythe, and call, And I will follow her away.   Listener Feedback from Deb in Kentucky We read a wonderful message from Deb from the Hudson Valley, NY.   Celtic Language Podcasts 1 - Scottish Gaelic One Minute Gaelic One Minute Gaelic provides an introduction to basic Gaelic. With this course you will not become fluent, but you will acquire a range of useful expressions which you can use while on a trip to a Gaelic-speaking part of Scotland. Your efforts are guaranteed to make a good impression on people you meet. The phrases included in this course have been specially chosen to help the learner make fast progress on the basics of Gaelic, with each new episode building on previously-learned knowledge. You can find the podcast on iTunes, catch it with this Feed, or from the Radio Lingua website, Radio Lingua.   Gaelcast Welcome to Gaelcast, where programs filled with news, interviews, stories, music and more in Scottish Gaelic and English will be podcast every other week. Gaelcast was founded by three people who have been involved in journalism, technology and Gaelic-language activities in the United States for many years: Mike MacKay, Ed Bradshaw and William (Liam) Cassidy. Mike and Liam, who have learned Gaelic, often may be heard as foreign commentators on BBC Radio nan Gaidheal in Scotland. Liam and Ed also are involved in music, performing in the band known as Na Maragan. Our aim is to produce audio programs that will be interest Gaelic speakers learners and native speakers wherever they may be in the wide world. You can find the podcast on iTunes, catch it with this Feed, or from the Gaelcast website.   Letter to Gaelic Learners Letter to Gaelic Learners is informative, educational and interesting. A special programme, in the form of a 'letter', specifically aimed at Gaelic learners who already haver some knowledge of the language. The text and audio file for Roddy Maclean's "Letter to Gaelic Learners" is available here each Friday afternoon. Listen while you read by clicking the listen icon on the Alba website. You can find the podcast on iTunes, catch it with this Feed, or from the Alba website.   Little Letter to Gaelic Learners Little Letter to Gaelic Learners is a simple letter for established Gaelic learners. Roddy Maclean has created this letter for learners who have progressed beyond basic learning, but find the Litir do Luchd-ionnsachaidh (Letter to Gaelic Learners) too advanced. Accompanying text is available in both English and Gaelic. Listen while you read by clicking the listen icon on the Alba website. You can find the podcast on iTunes, catch it with this Feed, or from the Alba website.   - Welsh Learn Welsh Podcast A podcast to help people learn to speak the Welsh language in a fun and simple way. The Learn Welsh podcast is designed tgo teach you conversdational Welsh that will help you to underestand other Weklsh speakers and to be understood yourself. You can find the podcast on iTunes, catch it with this Feed, or from the Learn Welsh Podcast website.   Say Something in Welsh (Southern) SaySomethingInWelsh is a new, simpler and faster way to learn Welsh. You don’t need to read or write or do any revision – you just start speaking normally and naturally from the very beginning. But we don’t expect you to take our word for it! You can find the podcast on iTunes, or from the Say Something in Welsh website.   Say Something in Welsh (Northern) SaySomethingInWelsh is a new, simpler and faster way to learn Welsh. You don’t need to read or write or do any revision – you just start speaking normally and naturally from the very beginning. But we don’t expect you to take our word for it! You can find the podcast on iTunes, or from the Say Something in Welsh website.   - Cornish Radio an Gernewegva Podkast yn Kernewek gans Mathew Clark. A podcast in the Cornish language. You can find the podcast on iTunes, or from the Radio an Gernewegva website.   Lughnasadh Dance by Damh the Bard Damh is a modern-day Bard whose spirituality, and love of folk tradition, is expressed through his music, storytelling and poetry. Drawing on the Bardic traditions his performances are both entertaining and educational, weaving a tapestry of myth, peace, and anthems that speak directly to the heart, but never without a good splash of humour. Listen to this amazing song, originally written and performed by Gwydion Pendderwen. He released his first album, Songs for the Old Religion, in 1975, followed by a book of his music and lyrics titled Wheel of the Year in 1979. His second album, The Faery Shaman, was released in 1982. Both albums and the songbook were well-received by the Pagan community; the songbook included many songs which became classics within the community, and the two albums have since been collected as a two-CD set titled The Music of Gwydion, available from Serpentine Music. Gwydion also served for a time as a court bard to the West Kingdom of the Society for Creative Anachronism. You can find Damh's music on iTunes, or from his website, Pagan Music. He is also the voice behind Druidcast, the official podcast of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD, for short) - modern day Druids. You can find Druidcast here and find out more about OBOD here. You can find out more details about Damh on his Contributor Page on our website.   Celtic Language Podcasts 2 - Irish Gaelic One Minute Irish One Minute Irish provides an introduction to basic Irish, or Gaeilge. With this course you will not become fluent, but you will acquire a range of useful expressions which you can use while on a trip to an Gaelic-speaking area of Ireland. Your efforts are guaranteed to make a good impression on people you meet. The phrases included in this course have been specially chosen to help the learner make fast progress on the basics of Irish, with each new episode building on previously-learned knowledge. You can find the podcast on iTunes, catch it with this Feed, or from the Radio Lingua website, Radio Lingua.   Rí - Rá Weekly Irish lessons for kids or beginners in a fun and easy to learn format. Brought to you by the creators of ri-ra.ie, online and interactive irish lessons for kids. Sadly, we could only find three episodes of this fine show. You can find the podcast on iTunes, or with the Feed address, or from the Rí - Rá website.   Blás Is é atá sa phodchraoladh seo ná míreanna ó chláracha Gaeilge BBC Raidió Uladh. Is é Blas príomhchlár Gaeilge an stáisiún, a chraoltar Luan, Máirt, Déardaoin agus Aoine á chur I láthair ag Lynette Fay, Tomaí Ó Conghaile is Brian Mullen. I rith Chraobhann Iomána agus Peile na hÉireann, tugann an clár An Domhnach Mór deis do lucht tacaíochta agus díograise na gcluichí a dtuairimí féin a nochtadh ina leith. Rogha míreanna ó na cláracha seo ar fad atá sa phodchraoladh. Bain sult as! You can find the podcast on iTunes, or with the Feed address, or from the Blás website.   An tImeall The original Irish language podcast begun in July 2005. You can find the podcast on iTunes, or with the Feed address, or from the An tImeall website.   Lá Irish language news and politics podcast. You can find the podcast on iTunes, or from the Lá website.   An Líonra Sóisialta Irish language news and politics podcast. You can find the podcast on iTunes, or catch the Feed, or from the An Líonra Sóisialta website.   - Breton Keleier ar gwia A tech podcast in the breton language. You can find the podcast on iTunes, or catch the Feed, or from the Keleier ar gwiad website.   RCF Rivages: Buhez Activities and culture in the Breton language. You can find the podcast on iTunes, or catch the Feed, or from the Keleier ar gwiad website.   Well Below the Valley by Omnia With eight CDs and a DVD to their name, OMNIA is one of the pioneers of the "PaganFolk" movement in Europe and has harvested international acclaim on many Pagan, Folk, Medieval, Gothic and Fantasy festivals, as well as in many theatres. OMNIA's sound is a mix of the deep earthy tones of Luka Aubri-Krieger's didgeridoo, the incomparable harp, hurdy-gurdy and bodhran playing of Jennifer Evans-van der Harten, the unmistakable "DADGAD" guitar-groove of Joe Hennon, the flutes, bouzouki, drums, and ironic dialogue of front man Steve "Sic" Evans-van der Harten and the deep tribal drumbeats of Mich Rozek. All of this is entwined and bound by haunting and powerful vocals singing in English, Gaelic, Breton, Latin, Finnish, German and Hindi... You can find out more details about Omnia on their Contributor Page on our website.   Get EXTRA content in the Celtic Myth Podshow App for iOS, Android & Windows Contact Us: You can leave us a message by using the Speakpipe Email us at: garyandruth@celticmythpodshow.com. Facebook fan-page http://www.facebook.com/CelticMythPodshow, Twitter (@CelticMythShow) or Snapchat (@garyandruth), Pinterest (celticmythshow) or Instagram (celticmythshow)   Help Spread the Word: Please also consider leaving us a rating, a review and subscribing in iTunes or 'Liking' our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/CelticMythPodshow as it helps let people discover our show - thank you :) If you've enjoyed the show, would you mind sharing it on Twitter please? Click here to post a tweet! Ways to subscribe to the Celtic Myth Podshow: Click here to subscribe via iTunes Click here to subscribe via RSS Click here to subscribe via Stitcher Special Thanks Tavola Rustica, for selections from all albums used during the Nami's Trees story. See the Contributor Page for details.   For incidental music: Diane Arkenstone The Secret Garden. See the Contributor Page for details. Kim Robertson, Angels in Disguise. See the Contributor Page for more details. Jigger, Time Ticks Away. See the Contributor Page for more details.   For our Theme Music: The Skylark and Haghole, the brilliant Culann's Hounds. See their Contributor page for details. Additional Sources OBOD And, of course, the Awen - inspiration and imagination!   Extra Special Thanks for Unrestricted Access to Wonderful Music (in Alphabetic order) Anne Roos Extra Special thanks go for permission to use any of her masterful music to Anne Roos. You can find out more about Anne on her website or on her Contributor page. 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Kevin Skinner Extra Special thanks go for permission to use any of his superb music to Kevin Skinner. You can find out more about Kevin on his website or on his Contributor page. Phil Thornton Extra Special Thanks go for permission to use any of his astounding ambient music to the Sonic Sorcerer himself, Phil Thornton. You can find out more about Phil on his website or on his Contributor Page. S.J. Tucker Extra Special thanks go to Sooj for her permission to use any of her superb music. You can find out more about Sooj on her website or on her Contributor page. Spiral Dance Extra Special thanks go for permission to use Adrienne and the band to use any of their music in the show. You can find out more about Spiral Dance on their website or on their Contributor page. SaveWe finish off by wishing you 'Hwyl Fawr', which is Welsh for 'Goodbye and have fun'!     Save Save Save Save Save Save Save Save Save Save

Two Radio DJs, each from a different part of the country and having traveled a different career path, describe the trends which are forcing commercial radio to change from what it once was into what it is yet to become.Kelly Lockhart (website) started his DJ career in Key Largo Florida, when fresh out of the military and has worked at radio stations in Atlanta, Tallahassee and Chattanooga. He is a feature writer for The Chattanooga Pulse newspaper, is an award-winning advertising copywriter, is the lead guitarist for the popular 70's style rock band Moccasin Bend, and for two decades worked in radio and television both on the air and behind the scenes.Shannon Presley (website) is currently an on-air personality and webmaster for the #1 radio station in south central Kentucky: The Beaver--WBVR. She is also a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, is a Board Member for the Glasgow Highland Games, and helps with 18th century events at Mansker's Station.Kelly talks about the downside of voice tracking and worries that traditional radio is dying. Satellite radio, he says, will have its day in the sun but podcasting will replace them both. This final dominance of podcasting will come when podcasts become commonly available in cars, because the drive time commute is the key. He does emphasize that radio can save itself if it does the right thing. This is the thing that Oprah and Howard Stern both do.Shannon is less worried about radio's future. She does not see satellite radio as a threat to ground-based radio because ground-based is local and gives listeners a local connection to things like bad weather. She also describes the good side of voice tracking; and even insists that people do like to hear some local commercials because that lets them know about concerts and special events, as well as sales and bargains.Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the May 28, 2008 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 68 minutes]Shannon also talks about topics unrelated to radio such as: digital photography, PDAs, historical research for reenactments of frontier life, shopping on eBay, advancements in the medical field such as diabetes, identity theft, the government overstepping people's rights, and recalls when owning a VIC-20 computer made you Hot Snot.

The first podcast is out. Yeah! It's only 12 minutes, but it's a beginning. :-) This episode introduces you to the Society for Creative Anachronism. It's beginning, a bit of it's chapter structure, and how Cherie and I found out about the SCA. Society for Creative Anachronism website: http://www.sca.org/ The novel "Ariel" that mentions the SCA several times: http://sfreader.com/Home/BookReview/tabid/55/Default.aspx?book=230 Sunday Morning News Segment about the SCA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vljdsfphks

In A.D. 1966, a young man mundanely knowne as Frederick Hollander attends a Medieval theme party in Berkeley, California... witnessing the birth of the Society for Creative Anachronism.

Aspire Episode 26: May 13, 2007 Historic Reenactments and Encampment Design. The Society of Creative Anachronism. Pennsic War Military Encampments. How do they compare to history? We want to know. Listener Feedback at aspire@szilverwolf.com or 813-249-9222 Copyright © 2007 Szilverwolf LLC

Aspire Episode 26: May 13, 2007 Historic Reenactments and Encampment Design. The Society of Creative Anachronism. Pennsic War Military Encampments. How do they compare to history? We want to know. Listener Feedback at aspire@szilverwolf.com or 813-249-9222 Copyright © 2007 Szilverwolf LLC