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It's a monster mash on this fresh from the grave episode of DEATH BY DVD all about FRANKY AND HIS PALS, directed by Gerald Cormier. What is Franky And His Pals, you ask? Well, let us copy and paste the write up from the official Severinfilms.com website where this movie is available to purchase, because we are to lazy to write something up ourselves and theirs is way better : From the deepest, darkest depths of the shot-on-video vaults… Hidden from view for 30 years… All your favorite movie monsters are back… And they're ready to party like it's 1990! Franky, Drak, Wolfy, Mummy and Humper – the horny hunchback – descend on the tiny mining town of French Gulch in search of lost gold, but it's Halloween Night, and the monsters soon find themselves caught up in the debaucherous festivities of the local townsfolk. Will Franky and His Pals find the gold? Will they learn the ways of love? Will Drak quench his thirst for human blood? Just how explosive is Franky's flatulence? What's that Mad Scientist tinkering on out in his barn? What the hell is a pee-pee? And does any of it really matter? Directed by veteran grindhouse and adult film producer Gerald Cormier (TERROR CIRCUS a.k.a. BARN OF THE NAKED DEAD, 101 ACTS OF LOVE) and seldom-seen beyond the shelves of small-town video shops, this bizarro monster-comedy is finally being resurrected on DVD and is positively exploding with spooky Special Features!And since I copy and pasted all that from Severin, the least I can do is also add the link so you can buy the movie : TAP HERE FOR THE MOVIEDive into the monster mash with your host Harry-Scott Sullivan and kick back and relax with this hoot and an additional hollar of an episode. Check out the official YOUTUBE of Death By DVD and see our brand new program, TRAILER PARK! The greatest movie trailer compilation of all time. Tap here to visit our YOUTUBE or copy and paste the link below : https://www.youtube.com/@DeathByDVDHAVE YOU HEARD DEATH BY DVD GOES TO THE MOVIE? Hear the thrilling tale of your faithful host Harry-Scott Sullivan's adventure to Augusta, Georgia to see the cast and crew premiere of an all new independent horror film called LEFT ONE ALIVE.Hear all three parts, or read the story exclusively at deathbydvd.com. Tap here to learn more, or copy and paste the link belowhttps://deathbydvd.com/goes-to-the-moviesDid you know that you can watch episodes of DEATH BY DVD and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK?The first of its kind, (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE ENDWHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES or copy and paste the link below : https://deathbydvd.com/who-shot-hank ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! On this episode we reach the end of our 2024 celebration of Halloween with THE SOUNDS OF SATAN! The music of Death By DVD and music inspired by Death By DVD will haunt your ears! We discuss 15 years of the sounds of Death By DVD and play you a tremendous track that will make your ears bleed recorded special just for Death By DVD by the brutal band SATANIC HEARSE. Click play and hear it today! Thank you for choosing death, and once more, HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HEAR A SONG FROM SATANIC HEARSE TODAY. Tap here or copy and paste the link below : https://music.apple.com/us/album/satanic-hearse-is-coming/1734361543Check out the official YOUTUBE of Death By DVD and see our brand new program, TRAILER PARK! The greatest movie trailer compilation of all time. Tap here to visit our YOUTUBE or copy and paste the link below : https://www.youtube.com/@DeathByDVDHAVE YOU HEARD DEATH BY DVD GOES TO THE MOVIE? Hear the thrilling tale of your faithful host Harry-Scott Sullivan's adventure to Augusta, Georgia to see the cast and crew premiere of an all new independent horror film called LEFT ONE ALIVE.Hear all three parts, or read the story exclusively at deathbydvd.com. Tap here to learn more, or copy and paste the link belowhttps://deathbydvd.com/goes-to-the-moviesDid you know that you can watch episodes of DEATH BY DVD and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK?The first of its kind, (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE ENDWHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES or copy and paste the link below : https://deathbydvd.com/who-shot-hank ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Seasons Of The Witch : Halloween's Of The Past continues with this episode originally from 2021! This was in fact the 2021 Halloween Special! Frightful Fables To Fear At Night is a collection of thrilling short stories read by Death By DVD's very own host, Harry-Scott Sullivan. Happy Halloween! We hope you have been enjoying these blast from the past episodes highlighting the best of Death By DVD's spooky season celebrations of the past. It's almost Halloween! Be sure to stay tuned for new music from the band SATANIC HEARSE that will be played for you on October 31st here on Death By DVD! HEAR A SONG FROM SATANIC HEARSE TODAY. Tap here or copy and paste the link below : https://music.apple.com/us/album/satanic-hearse-is-coming/1734361543WHAT IS SEASONS OF THE WITCH : HALLOWEEN'S OF THE PAST??? To celebrate the Season Of The Witch, we present to you remastered episodes from our Halloween Vault. Death By DVD has been around since 2009, so we have a lot of Halloween shows chock full of terror and special guests! Stay tuned for the next installment of Seasons Of The Witch, coming soon! NEED MORE DEATH? Check out the official YOUTUBE of Death By DVD and see our brand new program, TRAILER PARK! The greatest movie trailer compilation of all time. Tap here to visit our YOUTUBE or copy and paste the link below : https://www.youtube.com/@DeathByDVDHAVE YOU HEARD DEATH BY DVD GOES TO THE MOVIE? Hear the thrilling tale of your faithful host Harry-Scott Sullivan's adventure to Augusta, Georgia to see the cast and crew premiere of an all new independent horror film called LEFT ONE ALIVE.Hear all three parts, or read the story exclusively at deathbydvd.com. Tap here to learn more, or copy and paste the link belowhttps://deathbydvd.com/goes-to-the-moviesDid you know that you can watch episodes of DEATH BY DVD and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK?The first of its kind, (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE ENDWHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES or copy and paste the link below : https://deathbydvd.com/who-shot-hank ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
The legendary Nick Castle, the original Michael Myers, steps into the spotlight on this special Halloween-themed episode of Pop Culture Weekly. Join me, Kyle McMahon, as Nick opens up about his role as "The Shape" and the incredible journey of the Halloween franchise from an indie flick to a cultural touchstone. Hear firsthand about his cherished memories with producer and co-writer Deborah Hill, his work with John Carpenter, his experiences at horror conventions, and a tantalizing glimpse into the franchise's future. This conversation is a must-listen for fans of the horror genre and those curious about the legacy of Halloween, which continues to captivate audiences with its chilling allure. Switching gears, I also have the pleasure of chatting with Daisy Ridley about her latest project, "Magpie," a gripping Hitchcockian thriller. Daisy shares how her journey in the film industry inspired this tale of isolation and family dynamics, with insights into the creative partnership with writer Tom and the film's talented crew. Discover how the noir ambiance of "Magpie" was brought to life through the collaborative efforts of director Sam Yates, director of photography Laura Bellingham, and production designer Amanda McCarthy. With nods to cinematic influences like Hitchcock and "Silence of the Lambs," this conversation sheds light on the intricacies behind crafting a compelling thriller. Tune in for an episode filled with engaging stories and exclusive insights from Nick Castle and Daisy Ridley.Kyle McMahon's Death, Grief & Other Sh*t We Don't Discuss is now streaming: https://www.deathandgrief.show/Chapter-One-The-Diagnosis-AKA-WTF/---------------Get all the Pop Culture Weekly podcast info you could want including extra content, uncut interviews, photos, videos & transcripts at: https://podcast.popcultureweekly.comWatch celebrity interviews at: https://www.facebook.com/realkylemcmahon/videosor Kyle McMahon YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/officialkylemcmahonRead the latest at http://www.PopCultureWeekly.comFollow Kyle on:Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/realkylemcmahonInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/kmacmusicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@popcultureweeklyWebsite: http://www.kylemcmahon.me
Seasons Of The Witch : Halloween's Of The Past continues with this episode originally from 2022. Filmmaker Hunter Johnson joins Death By DVD for the ultimate deep dive into their art! Learn all about the films Hunter Johnson has directed, written and acted in on this blast from the past episode celebrating Halloween 2024 with some of our greatest hits from the grave, co-hosted by Hunter Johnson themself! There may just be another special guest on this episode, too! You will just have to hit play and find out for yourself. Interested in learning MORE about Hunter? Be sure to visit their website https://lahorror.com/WHAT IS SEASONS OF THE WITCH : HALLOWEEN'S OF THE PAST??? To celebrate the Season Of The Witch, we present to you remastered episodes from our Halloween Vault. Death By DVD has been around since 2009, so we have a lot of Halloween shows chock full of terror and special guests! Stay tuned for the next installment of Seasons Of The Witch, coming soon! NEED MORE DEATH? Check out the official YOUTUBE of Death By DVD and see our brand new program, TRAILER PARK! The greatest movie trailer compilation of all time. Tap here to visit our YOUTUBE or copy and paste the link below : https://www.youtube.com/@DeathByDVDHAVE YOU HEARD DEATH BY DVD GOES TO THE MOVIE? Hear the thrilling tale of your faithful host Harry-Scott Sullivan's adventure to Augusta, Georgia to see the cast and crew premiere of an all new independent horror film called LEFT ONE ALIVE.Hear all three parts, or read the story exclusively at deathbydvd.com. Tap here to learn more, or copy and paste the link belowhttps://deathbydvd.com/goes-to-the-moviesDid you know that you can watch episodes of DEATH BY DVD and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK?The first of its kind, (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE ENDWHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES or copy and paste the link below : https://deathbydvd.com/who-shot-hank ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Seasons Of The Witch : Halloween's Of The Past continues with this episode originally from 2022. Death By DVD is joined by musician THE Linus Fitness-Centre and Justin Oberholtzer of the Watch/Skip+ podcast to discuss the ENTIRE Halloween series, 1978 - 2022, all the while ranking them as well! IT'S SO MUCH MICHAEL MYERS YOU'LL PUKE! This blast from the past is one of the longest episodes in the history of the show and chock full 'o' horror goodness. Celebrate the season of the witch with Death By DVD and hit play on this tale from the crypt today!WHAT IS SEASONS OF THE WITCH : HALLOWEEN'S OF THE PAST??? To celebrate the Season Of The Witch, we present to you remastered episodes from our Halloween Vault. Death By DVD has been around since 2009, so we have a lot of Halloween shows chock full of terror and special guests! Stay tuned for the next installment of Seasons Of The Witch, coming soon! Need more Death? Hear my exclusive interview with underground artist CHRISTOPHER BICKEL and learn more about their work and the film PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT today! Tap here or copy and paste the link belowhttps://listentodeathbydvd.transistor.fm/episodes/death-by-dvd-presents-six-feet-under-the-underground-art-of-christopher-bickelHAVE YOU HEARD DEATH BY DVD GOES TO THE MOVIE? Hear the thrilling tale of your faithful host Harry-Scott Sullivan's adventure to Augusta, Georgia to see the cast and crew premiere of an all new independent horror film called LEFT ONE ALIVE.Hear all three parts, or read the story exclusively at deathbydvd.com. Tap here to learn more, or copy and paste the link belowhttps://deathbydvd.com/goes-to-the-moviesDid you know that you can watch episodes of DEATH BY DVD and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK?The first of its kind, (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE ENDWHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES or copy and paste the link below : https://deathbydvd.com/who-shot-hank ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Vegalogue is a regular podcast from vegetable, potato and onion industry peak body AUSVEG, where we examine the pressing issues and latest developments in our sector.With two distinct seasons, the Northern Territory's vegetable industry has one principal growing window that is ideally placed to meet the needs of Australia's southern states during their winter.Most of the NT's young vegetable industry's output is sent interstate, which has had a big impact on its structure and crops, but the evolution of Northern Territory horticulture has also been touched by the big South East Asian influence on the territory's culture and grower community.AUSVEG's Deborah Hill had a chat with Mariah Maughan, VegNET Regional Development Officer for the Northern Territory, about the opportunities and unique challenges for vegetable production in the NT.Learn more about the project discussed in this episode:VegNET 3.0 (VG21000)Thanks for listening to Vegalogue! You can find out more about AUSVEG and the Australian vegetable industry at ausveg.com.au. Subscribe to our newsletter, or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Tik Tok, or Twitter/X.
On this episode we have a real treat for you! A feast of a movie all about flesh eating and despair! It's the classic 1980 exploitation flick Antropophagus by the great Joe D'amato. We get into all the gory details on this episode that will leave you hungry for more! Or at least for a sausage. Maybe even a baby. Hear it now and let the horror into your life! ANTROPOPHAGUS : Originally released October 9th, 1980 "Tourists become stranded on an island and are stalked by a gruesome killer that slaughtered the island's former inhabitants. "Did you know that you can watch episodes of DEATH BY DVD and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
On this episode we drift through the depths of the galaxy looking for planets to destroy, beach ball aliens to fight, the wild concept of phenomenology to ponder, sentient bombs to argue with, and all this while OUT of toilet paper! We're talking about John Carpenters 1974 DARK STAR, written by Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon, writer of Alien and director of Return Of The Living DeadBlast off for an absurd and strange episode! Did you know that you can watch episodes of DEATH BY DVD and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? Don't miss out on WHO SHOT HANK : a special video Q&A available for your viewing displeasure exclusively available on Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE ENDWHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
On this fresh from the grave episode of Death By DVD we bring WHO SHOT HANK back! Who Shot Hank is an all original audio drama about the horrific murder of the original host and co-founder of this very show, Hank The Worlds Greatest. Hank was murdered on new years eve 2021, and following his brutal death the haunting investigation would ROCK THE WORLD! Hear Who Shot Hank, the murder that started it all and parts 1-4 completely re-mastered in fresh and filling STEREO audio. The first 5 chapters of the story, together as ONE full episode. The Who Shot Hank pentalogy brings the horror home to you. Listen now to Death by DVD's all original audio drama. ***WE RECOMMEND LISTENING TO WHO SHOT HANK WITH HEADPHONES ON, TO HEAR EVERY DETAIL***Want to hear more WHO SHOT HANK? Just head to our official website www.deathbydvd.com to hear the stunning conclusion of this murder mystery. Just click the page titled WHO SHOT HANK!Did you know that you can watch episodes of DEATH BY DVD and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? Don't miss out on WHO SHOT HANK : a special video Q&A available for your viewing displeasure exclusively available on Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.com
The first episode of Death By DVD for the year 2024 is here! Have no fear, it's just a "best of" episode! We go through Death by DVD's BEST OF 2023 films on this fresh from the grave episode, awaiting your ear holes, NOW! Click play and make the day with Death! The best films of last year, plus much much more! Be sure to follow DEATH BY DVD on Letterboxd for maximum movies, ALL THE TIME! https://letterboxd.com/deathbydvd/Did you know that you can watch episodes of DEATH BY DVD and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE ENDWHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Well, well, well! We have reached the end of yet another year! This is the end of Death By DVD year 14. The last episode of 2023! Next year we turn 15 years old, and I hope you join us for more horror, more movies, more everything! On this fresh from the grave episode we discuss the last year of Death, share our thanks to the audience, our fans, our friends, and tease all the new ghoulish & dreadful things coming your way in 2024 from Death By DVD.Thank you for joining us, thank you for listening and happy new year!Did you know that you can watch episodes of DEATH BY DVD and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Ho Ho Ho! It's the 2023 Death By DVD holiday special, Charlie Brown! On this swell seasonal episode we discuss James Cameron's 1989 THE ABYSS, in all of its glory! What does The Abyss have to do with the holiday season, you ask? Nothing! Nothing at all! But, The Abyssmas was a fantastic pun we just couldn't abandon, and thus, the 2023 holiday special was born! Hear everything you needed, and didn't need to know about the movie that almost killed half its cast now on this new merry and bright episode of Death By DVD hosted by the shows classic lineup. Happy Holidays, and thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ New Years is on the rise, which is the perfect time for Death By DVD's all original audio drama WHO SHOT HANK The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows original host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK this holiday season, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES Subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comDid you know that you can watch episodes of DEATH BY DVD and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
It's time for something sweet on Death By DVD! Our exploration of Masters Of Horror, a horror anthology series created by Mick Garris in 2005 continues with an installment by none other than Mick Garris himself! CHOCOLATE, episode 5 of season 1 discussed on this new episode. Hear it now : CHOCOLATE aired originally November 25, 2005. "Jamie (Henry Thomas) works in a laboratory that develops flavors for a food company. One day, he begins to suffer a series of hallucinations until he realizes that he's actually living the experiences of a woman in another city as if they were his own."Did you know that you can watch episodes of DEATH BY DVD and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
It's all MASTERS OF HORROR on this episode. We continue our exploration of the first season of the Mick Garris created horror anthology show, Masters Of Horror, originally created in 2005, which ran for two, technically 3 seasons. On this episode we discuss the Dario Argento directed "Jenifer" based on a comic that appears in issue #63 of the famed Creepy Magazine, by Bruce Jones and Bernie Wrightson, teleplay by Steven Weber, who additionally stars. JENIFER :originally broadcast November 18, 2005" While parked in a remote spot, eating lunch with his partner, Detective Frank Spivey saves a disfigured woman named Jenifer from being killed by a deranged homeless man. He feels sorry for Jenifer, and takes her from an insane asylum and brings her home. Frank becomes obsessed with Jenifer, feeling lust and and attraction to her. When he realizes there's more to her, he moves with her to an isolated old cabin in the woods, with tragic consequences. "Did you know that you can watch this episode and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
We continue our exploration into Masters Of Horror, the horror anthology TV series created by Mick Garris in 2005, that features each episode directed by a horror master! We have reached the third episode of the series, directed by Tobe Hooper and written originally by Richard Matheson, written for the screen by Richard C Matheson, titled DANCE OF THE DEAD. Join us now and let the horror into your heart!DANCE OF THE DEADoriginally broadcast November 11th 2005"In the near future when nuclear war has turned much of our world into wasteland, the youth of America have become drug-crazed sociopaths who lawlessly prowl what's left."Did you know that you can watch this episode and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
On this fresh from the grave episode we continue our exploration of the Masters Of Horror series, a horror anthology TV series created by Mick Garris in 2005 that ran for two seasons, featuring some of the greatest horror directors of all time. In fact, some would even call them... MASTERS! On this episode Death By DVD is honored with Kevin Matthews, writer, film critic and podcaster, who hosts the delightful show RAIDERS OF THE PODCAST serving as a guest host on this episode all about MASTERS OF HORROR Episode 2 : DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE, directed by Stuart Gordon, written originally by HP Lovecraft. Hear the horror NOW!DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSEoriginally aired November 4, 2005"A graduate student questions his sanity after he rents a room in an old boarding house which was the residence of a 17th-century witch, and he discovers that the evil forces still roam within the walls."Want to hear more from Kevin? Check out the links below! RAIDERS OF THE PODCAST ON APPLE : https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/raiders-of-the-podcast/id1250657197RAIDERS OF THE PODCAST ON FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/RaidersofthePodcastRAIDERS OF THE PODCAST ON YOUTUBE : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCErkxBO0xds5qd_rhjFgDmAKEVINS BLOG : http://foritismansnumber.blogspot.com/Did you know that you can watch this episode and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
On this episode we kick off a brand new series here at Death By DVD! DEATH BY DVD DOES MASTERS OF HORROR! The entire first season will be discussed, one episode of the show per one episode of Death By DVD! Masters Of Horror was a horror anthology show created by the great Mick Garris and ran from 2005 - 2007. On this inaugural episode Death By DVD is proud to be joined by Chris Newton, a delightful author, musician and podcaster who hosts the show along with Harry-Scott, where we discuss all things MASTERS OF HORROR! Hear the episode now! INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD : original air date October 28th 2005 " When Ellen's car breaks down on a deserted mountain road in the middle of nowhere, she encounters a monster-like man who is intent on killing her. Ellen will not go down without a fight and the game of cat-and-mouse soon shifts as Ellen fights back. "Did you know that you can watch this episode and much much more on the official Patreon of Death By DVD? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
On this episode we give you a free sample of Death By DVD's Patreon, with a Patreon exclusive episode. Get a sweet kiss of summer, with this episode recorded for our 2023 Summer School, all about the infamous 80s movie from Troma, SURF NAZIS MUST DIE! "Sometimes, it's all in the name. On this episode we dive deep into the classic Troma title SURF NAZIS MUST DIE. One of the most legendary exploitation films of all time we go left foot first (Because goofy footing cannot do!) into a movie often looked over because of its title, the company that released it, and that fact that it is PURE exploitation. This film is a gem and we hope you enjoy this UNCUT and UNCENSORED Summer School episode. The following episode is totally uncut and, oh I would say, 97% as close to as what it sounded like the moment we recorded. A little bit of editing was done on this episode and I am sure you can tell where, but it mostly is the entire uncut conversation. I hope you enjoy, thank you for supporting Death By DVD, whooo, SUMMER SCHOOL! Crack a beer and hang ten, it's time for surf nazis must die!"Want more? Support the future of Death By DVD now on Patreon! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
IT'S THE HALLOWEEN HANGOVER 2 : THE RETURN OF THE HANGOVER on this fresh from the grave episode of Death By DVD. Last year we mourned the departure of Halloween with a mighty hangover, where we discussed all the wild and wonderful horror films we watched throughout the month of October. This year, we are back, but with a twist! Harry-Scott, your host with the most, challenged himself to watch 100 horror movies for Halloween, and finished the month with an impressive 112 movies, technically 116 watched, and we discuss every single one of them on this episode! It's the ultimate post Halloween fun. Do you have a Halloween Hangover? Well, then this episode is for you! Listen now!Would you like to WATCH Death By DVD? That's right, you can now WATCH Death by DVD, as well as get early access to episodes, behind the scenes content + more! Become a Patron NOW to the official patreon of DEATH BY DVD to watch this entire episode https://www.patreon.com/deathbydvd ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ subscribe to our newsletter today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
We have got a real Halloween treat for you on this episode. Spooky season is in full effect, so what better time to unveil this lost episode of Death By DVD? Originally recorded October 2022, this episode was completely and totally lost! Immediately after recording this episode, the file was lost and the original file deleted! A year later in September 2023, Harry-Scott found the missing file, which by accident had been placed in the wrong spot, almost certain to never be found. BUT THANKFULLY the episode was found, restored and slightly edited! We wanted to offer you something that was more "uncut" and "raw" compared to most episodes, seeing as this has been lost for an entire year! The following episode was recorded with 9 days left in the month of October 2022, which was a BIG year for Death By DVD when it comes to the Halloween franchise! We hope you enjoy this episode, and when you've finished listening to it, don't forget our other Halloween episodes! Tap here to view the archive of Halloween episodes 2019 - 2023 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Summer is here, and that means it's time for Death By DVD's 2023 Summer Break. What is summer break? Well, you're just gonna have to listen to this episode to find out! And remember, if summer is here that means summer school is just around the corner. What is summer school? Well, partner I hate to say something twice, but...you will just have to listen and find out, so, listen now! Would you like to WATCH Death By DVD? That's right, you can now WATCH Death by DVD, as well as get early access to episodes, behind the scenes content + more! Become a Patron NOW to the official patreon of DEATH BY DVD to watch this entire episode https://www.patreon.com/deathbydvdsubscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
The Video Nasties A-Z With Death By DVD continue and boy is this a NASTY one! Snuff & SS Experiment Camp, discussed on this episode : SNUFF (1975) Directors : Michael Findlay, Simon Nuchtern, Horacio FredrikssonA so-called "snuff" film involving the exploits of a cult leader leading a gang of bikers in a series of supposedly real killings on film.SS EXPERIMENT CAMP (1976)Director : Sergio GarroneSS Experiment Camp is a 1976 Nazi exploitation film directed by Sergio Garrone. The plot concerns non-consensual sexual experimenting with female prisoners of a concentration camp run by Colonel Von Kleiben, a Nazi officer who needs a testicle transplant after being castrated by a Russian girlBe sure to hear ALL the Video Nasty A-Z With Death By DVD episodes! Click here to see them all Would you like to WATCH this episode? That's right, you can now WATCH Death by DVD, as well as get early access to episodes, behind the scenes content + more! Become a Patron NOW to the official patreon of DEATH BY DVD to watch this entire episode https://www.patreon.com/deathbydvdsubscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
It's monkey madness on this fresh from the grave installment of the Video Nasties A-Z With Death By DVD! We've got Night Of The Bloody Apes & Night Of The Demon on this episode. Heads roll, hearts beat, dicks get ripped right the fuck off! It's a bloody good time you won't want to miss. Hear it now! Be sure to hear ALL the Video Nasty A-Z With Death By DVD episodes! Click here to see them all Would you like to WATCH this episode? That's right, you can now WATCH Death by DVD, as well as get early access to episodes, behind the scenes content + more! Become a Patron NOW to the official patreon of DEATH BY DVD to watch this entire epsidode https://www.patreon.com/deathbydvdsubscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
Welcome to the Video Nasties A-Z with Death By DVD. This is where we two by two in alphabetical order discuss each and every Video Nasty and why the movies were banned in the UK. On this episode we discuss MARDI GRAS MASSACRE & NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN aka NIGHTMARES from 1981. Heads roll, hearts are hacked and there is even some sweet shotgun action even the children can appreciate! This episode has a little something for everyone. Whacked out slashers, moody mayhem and so much more. This is a Nasty episode you don't wanna miss, hear it now! Be sure to hear ALL the Video Nasty A-Z With Death By DVD episodes! Click here to see them all Would you like to WATCH this episode? That's right, you can now WATCH Death by DVD, as well as get early access to episodes, behind the scenes content + more! Become a Patron NOW to the official patreon of DEATH BY DVD to watch this entire epsidode https://www.patreon.com/deathbydvdsubscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
The Video Nasties A-Z With Death By DVD return! It has been a whole year since our last installment of the VIDEO NASTIES A-Z April 2 2022 was the last time we got nasty, a real sick episode Video Nasties A-Z With Death By DVD : Island Of Death & The Last House On The Left! NOW we pick up where we left off and kick the dust up with LOVE CAMP 7 & MADHOUSE because ya just can't keep a dead dog down. The classic era hosts of Death By DVD return to get NASTY. CATCH CATCH THE HORROR TAXI! Fall in love with a Video Nasty NOW on this fresh from the grave episode. Would you like to WATCH this episode? That's right, you can now WATCH Death by DVD, as well as get early access to episodes, behind the scenes content + more! Become a Patron NOW to the official patreon of DEATH BY DVD to watch this entire epsidode https://www.patreon.com/deathbydvdsubscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
On this episode we hoist another glass and head to Pina Coladaburg with DOOM GENERATION PODCAST! On the last episode of Death By DVD we left you high and dry. With the help of DOOM GENERATION PODCAST we discussed the 2004 horror Comedy CLUB DREAD by Broken Lizard, BUT we did it as a spoiler free episode! Now, hear the conclusion (maybe?) to the episode. The dirty uncensored version! Become a Patron NOW to the official patreon of DEATH BY DVD to hear this entire epsidode https://www.patreon.com/deathbydvdBe sure to follow Doom Generation Podcast on social media, and check out their website https://www.doomgenerationpod.com/, listen to an episode today! After you finish listening to this one, of course. subscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
It's time for fun in the sun on this hot and sweaty episode! DOOM GENERATION PODCAST joins us in the grave to discuss BROKEN LIZARD'S CLUB DREAD a 2004 horror comedy starring the late grate "wild" Bill Paxton. We discuss a bit about the making of the movie, blood and guts, boobs, machete maniacs and much much more. Join us on pleasure island for this episode that will have you hoisting another glass and heading straight to Pina Coladaburg. And if you think I meant Margaritaville you can go fuck yourself. **NO COCONUTS WERE HARMED IN THE RECORDING OF THIS EPISODE**Want to hear the 2+ hour uncensored version of this episode? Subscribe today to our patreon for exclusive uncensored episodes, videos and more. https://www.patreon.com/deathbydvdBe sure to follow Doom Generation Podcast on social media, and check out their website https://www.doomgenerationpod.com/, listen to an episode today! After you finish listening to this one, of course. subscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
We unleash the dead on this episode! We discuss the cult classic Raiders Of The Living Dead, a 1986 horror movie by (sort of) Samuel M. Sherman. Three different versions of this movie exist, and we talk about every single one of 'em on this episode! It's a horror history course, and it's almost time for class! Director Sam Sherman's company INDEPENDENT-INTERNATIONAL PICTURES CORP purchased an unfinished 80 minute film called DYING DAY from special FX artist Brett Piper, which was re-shot over and over and over until becoming RAIDERS OF THE LIVING DEAD. All three versions of the film are discussed on this episode, which has different versions itself! You can watch this episode in stunning DEATH-O-VISION exclusively on Patreon! It's time to sit back and let Death take over. subscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
This episode is a special one! We have two amazing guests that dropped by Death by DVD to discuss their film. But it isn't just any film! It's the legendary 1990 cult horror film ATTACK OF THE KILLER REFRIGERATOR! We have the creators, writers, directors, the STARS of Attack Of The Killer Refrigerator, Michael Savino and Mark Veau joining us for an absolute bloodbath of an episode. We talk about the original cult classic film AND the upcoming sequel you can be a part of! It's better than leftovers, let me tell ya that! It's time to crack open a cold one and sit back with death for a killer ride that takes you all the way back to the glory days of shot on video horror and beyond! Listen now!!Be sure to check out the home of KILLER FRIDGE & KILLER FRIDGE 2, MediaHouseFilms.com & the Kickstarter to help get this film funded! https://www.mediahousefilms.com/http://kck.st/40tW5hyWanna WATCH this episode? Join us in the graveyard, for just 1 dollar you can watch the video version of this episode exclusively on Patreonclick here to watchsubscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
It's CRONENBERG vs CRONENBERG on this episode! David Cronenberg's CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (2022) and Brandon Cronenberg's INFINITY POOL (2023) discussed on this fresh from the grave episode so good you'll be eating plastic by the end, featuring special guest, writer & critic E.F Contentment.HEAR THE ENTIRE EPISODE COMPLETELY UNCENSORED NOW exclusively on patreonhttps://deathbydvd.com/patreon
It's Saint Patrick's Day and we thought there was no meaner nor greener way of celebrating this celtic holiday than by discussing the biggest meanest and greenest guy to ever exist. GODZILLA! The giant Japanese lizard. March 17th 2023 happens to be the 50th anniversary of the classic GODZILLA VS MEGALON and we are here to celebrate! Grab a beer, Death is near, it's time for the Godzilla Vs Megalon full tilt boogie! We get trashed and party hearty, join us for this inebriation dedication, now!
We go CRUISING on this episode! The infamous, legendary 1980 American Giallo directed by WILLIAM FRIEDKIN is discussed on this fresh from the grave episode of Death By DVD! Join Harry-Scott, THE Linus Fitness-Centre & James Ellis of Weeping Tudor Productions as we dive deep into this film that for 40 years has caused a panic! SYNOPSIS : A psychopath is scouring New York City gay clubs and viciously slaying homosexuals. Detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is ordered to don leather attire, hang at the city's S&M joints and keep an eye out for the killer. But as Steve becomes immersed in club hopping, he begins to identify with the subculture more than he expected. Meanwhile, Steve behaves distantly around his girlfriend, Nancy (Karen Allen), the police force's homophobia becomes apparent and the killer remains at large. Did you know DEATH BY DVD has even MORE episodes about William Friedkin? Hear them all today!Friedkin Crazy : Death By DVD does the work of William Friedkin - To Live And Die In LA & SorcererFriedkin Crazy : Death By DVD does the work of William Friedkin - The Boys In The Band
On this episode we have a real treat for you! What you are about to hear was recorded exclusively for our Patreon, but after being available for only a short while we began to receive messages from our Patrons that this episode should be available for EVERYONE! SO, you can thank our wonderful Patrons for this, because now you can hear the totally uncut, unedited episode all about SKINAMARINK by Kyle Edward Ball in all its glory. This won't happen often, so be sure and join us in the graveyard and become an official member of our Dead Studio Audience today. CLICK HERE to learn more or just visit our website www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows former host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES The Death By DVD SENTINEL remix theme by LINUS FITNESS-CENTRE
Those sleigh bells are jingling, they are ring-ting-tingling! It's time for the DEATH BY DVD 2022 Christmas special! Can you feel the death in the air? The weather outside is frightful and there is nothing more delightful than PAIN! We discuss one of the most iconic "spaghetti" westerns, filled with pain, sorrow, suffering AND SNOW! It's perfect for Christmas. Join Harry-Scott & Linus Fitness-Centre for a fun filled holiday special all about Sergio Corbucci's THE GREAT SILENCEsubscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
In this episode, Deborah Hill and I talk about evoking self love through shadow work, building self confidence, the importance of shifting subconscious beliefs, and letting go of perfectionism and judgements from/for others. She shares daily nervous system rituals that have helped her avoid burn out as a self employed entrepreneur and business owner. We also spend some time discussing how connecting with the heart isn't always a warm & fuzzy experience - that it can be really intense and heavy for energetically sensitive people. I hope this conversation brings you a bit of brightness amidst the darkness of this season. CONNECT WITH DEBORAH:Website: https://www.beautybydesignmn.com/WORK WITH AMANDA: https://amandaleaveck.com/JOIN THE SCIENCE & MAGIC FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2328616680742710 PLANTZILLA (house plant care):https://www.instagram.com/plantzillamn/Our conversation…7:57: intro, upbringing, & current business14:11: stuck in a loop of success & burn out17:20: finding more confidence by shifting subconscious beliefs21:17 - practicing self love by claiming unlovable aspects 30:52 - self love being narcissistic vs as a way to create more compassion for humanity34:27 - grounding, centering, and expanding into presence 37:37 - empathetic heart heaviness and moving through depression45:58- how to create safety in the heart as an empath48:40 - daily rituals for self care to avoid burn out52:41 - dance and movement as a way to release control & evoke mental creativity55:35 - transformation through embodiment57:43 - letting go of perfectionism & judgements from others1:02:02 - how to connect with Deborah for a customized dress
This episode marks the beginning of a new multi-part series on Death By DVD! William Friedkin is an American artist, a writer and director of motion pictures. Though known to most audiences best as the director of The Exorcist, the work of William Friedkin delves deep into the farthest stretches of the mind and soul. Join us as we begin a introspective series examining the work of William Friedkin, beginning with what we boldly suggest are his best films, TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA & SORCERER. Will we feel the same by the end of this? The only way to know for sure is by listening now! subscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comJAMES ELLIS a.k.a WEEPING TUDOR, joining DEATH BY DVD SOON! Until then, why not check out their youtube? You know you want to! TAP HERE FOR WEEPING TUDORHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES
Previews of coming attractions : COMING SOON DEATH BY DVDThe work of WILLIAM FRIEDKIN : A multi part special is coming to DEATH BY DVD this December You may know him best as the director of THE EXORCIST, but William Friedkin is responsible for so much more! Some of the greatest American movies to ever be made. This serves as a teaser for the upcoming freakin awesome Friedkin extravaganza coming this winter to DEATH BY DVDsubscribe today for updates on new episodes, merch discounts and more at www.deathbydvd.comJAMES ELLIS a.k.a WEEPING TUDOR, joining DEATH BY DVD SOON! Until then, why not check out their youtube? You know you want to! TAP HERE FOR WEEPING TUDORHEY, while you're still here.. have you heard...DEATH BY DVD PRESENTS : WHO SHOT HANK? The first of its kind (On this show, at least) an all original narrative audio drama exploring the murder of this shows very host, HANK THE WORLDS GREATEST! Explore WHO SHOT HANK, starting with the MURDER! A Death By DVD New Year Mystery WHO SHOT HANK : PART ONE WHO SHOT HANK : PART TWO WHO SHOT HANK : PART THREE WHO SHOT HANK : PART FOUR WHO SHOT HANK PART 5 : THE BEGINNING OF THE END WHO SHOT HANK PART 6 THE FINALE : EXEUNT OMNES The Death By DVD SENTINEL remix theme by LINUS FITNESS-CENTRE
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Joined by frequent guest Frazer Rice (links to previous eps below), this week I dive into the fascinating backstory of the making-of John Carpenter's 1978 horror flick 'Halloween', a genre-busting/genre-defining/genre-expanding piece of forever in the movie business and in the popular imagination. From its roots in Carpenter's 'Dark Star' to 'Assault on Precinct 13' to the happenstance on-set decisions that resulted in the bizarre mashup of 'Star Trek' into the 'Halloween' cinematic universe and beyond, this unassuming little inexpensive (300K) film has become an iconic bit of film history. In this episode we talk about 'Assault on Precinct 13', Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasance, Deborah Hill, Joe Wolf, Carpenter's soundtracks, P.J. Soles, the role the Hamburger Hamlet played in the history of 'Halloween', the differences between 'artistic horror' films like 'The Shining' and 'Carrie' versus more genre-normal films like 'Halloween', recount the role of the William Shatner Star Trek mask in the film, and MORE. Frazer's appearance on the pod to talk about 'No Time To Die' and Bond futures is here. Frazer and I talked 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' here. Watch 'Halloween' here. Watch Donald Pleasance chew scenery on 'Columbo', as referenced in the episode, here.
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We speak today with someone whose work is credited with preventing 400,000 cases of blindness and saving as many as 1 million deaths per year. Dr. Alfred Sommer has earned this place in global history. He discovered that Vitamin A deficiency reduces immune responsiveness and resistance to infectious diseases such as diarrhea and measles. He proved that vaccination for smallpox as late as six days after infection can prevent the disease. He demonstrated the effectiveness of a simple and effective tool for monitoring the nutritional health of children at high risk of dying from malnutrition, and he identified an early accurate predictor of optic nerve damage, signaling when to start Glaucoma therapy. About Alfred Sommer Al Sommer is a professor of epidemiology, ophthalmology and international health at Johns Hopkins University, and is dean emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine. His research focuses on child survival and blindness prevention strategies on micronutrient interventions and on the interface between public health and clinical medicine. For his contributions to global health, he has received many awards including the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medicine, the Danone International Prize for Nutrition, among others. Interview Summary You've done groundbreaking work on Vitamin A that has saved many millions of lives in developing countries. Could you relive some of the steps you took in this discovery process? And, can you explain the problems caused by Vitamin A deficiency? What we knew for years was that if you made animals or children (we had observational data from back in the late 1800s-early 1900s) Vitamin A deficient, then they develop a sequence of issues. And we were forever focused on the eye. The earliest manifestation is a child can't see after sunset. They suffer from what's called night blindness. More severe deficiency causes keratinization--a cornification of the outside of the conjunctiva of the eye (the white part of the eye) and then ultimately of the cornea (the clear part where you actually see through). With severe deficiency then that cornea can ulcerate and melt and entirely disappear, and you lose the eye within the course of a few minutes. What we now know, and we didn't know when I first got into this game, was that in fact, the eye signs are not the earliest manifestations. The earliest manifestations, in fact, are so prosaic, that people hadn't identified them with Vitamin A deficiency. The earliest manifestations are a diminution in the immune responsiveness, which means that children at risk--when they are infected with diarrhea or pneumonia or measles--have much less ability to fight off the infection, and therefore they have a much more severe clinical response, and a much higher mortality rate. When you started the work on this issue, what was the extent of the problem and where in the world was it as its most severe? The earliest studies--probably because that's where the clinicians were attuned--were actually from Europe and Japan by what would be at the turn of the 1900s. By the time I got involved, because an agency in New York that was starting a blindness prevention program thought it might be an important issue, was in the early 1970s. And that was primarily on the basis of a very informal survey that was undertaken at WHO's bequest back in the '50s by three giants in nutrition and ophthalmology. Don MacLaren, Oman, and Esposito basically broke up the world, they each visited about five countries, talked to pediatricians and ophthalmologists and asked about seeing these eye conditions because that's what people are focused on and that they tend to see it in the hospital. And often they were told yes we do in the diarrheal ward or the malnutrition ward see children who have either problems with night blindness or more critically have actually gone blind because of melting of their cornea. So there was a feeling that in the developing world, broadly, there were manifestations of deficiency. But nobody really knew how great the extent was, where it was most severe, who were the children who got it, and why did some children get it and other children did not get it, and what could be done about it. And that's when I entered the picture and was asked for some assistance. Being someone who always asks questions before they dive in, I said, well, do we have any sense of how severe it is and where one might find it? And at the time I was a resident in ophthalmology so I couldn't go very far away from Baltimore. So we picked first one country, El Salvador, then Haiti, where we actually conducted a randomized survey in the rural areas looking for the disease. We looked at where we would find it, how severe it was to develop manifestations that became WHO criteria, how frequently or how prevalent were these various manifestations to qualify a Vitamin A deficiency as a "public health problem." And we looked at the registries and the hospitals to see what they had recorded. And those showed that in fact, it was much more extensive in those two countries than anybody had previously thought. And that led me to write a manual for WHO on what are the ocular manifestations of Vitamin A deficiency, how to diagnose them, what are the criteria for a public health problem, and methodologically, how to go about carrying out a simple, representative survey in the population. So that would have been the early 1970s. That led me again to say, well, it looks pretty prevalent in these two places we've looked. Now we need to know more about why some children get another it and other children don't get it. And, why some are more severe than others and what can we do about it? This led me to put in a proposal that got funded and that I moved to Indonesia for three years where there was reasonable hospital-based evidence that there was a severe problem. And I then depicted it all the questions I would like to have answered before one can go about mounting some sort of an intervention program. So the first step was to document the extent of the problem. What was the next step? So when we went to Indonesia, we carried out three critical studies. One of them was essentially to examine everybody who came to the hospital with the eye size because that's what we were focused on historically. That's what Vitamin A deficiency was all about. Primarily because that was unique to Vitamin A deficiency. So I studied everybody that came in. We also carried out studies where we followed 6,000 children in six villages, examining them every three months for 18 months. That study was conducted with the thesis: why do some children get severe Vitamin A deficiency and some children living in the same village don't. And then the third major study was a countrywide survey to document for Indonesia where the disease was most prevalent, and how severe might it be. Now some of those studies yielded data that we hadn't anticipated. So the one in which I examined all the children coming into the hospital--a lot of them came in for night blindness. That was simple. Our recommendation, which had been established by the World Health Organization on a committee that I sat on only a couple of years previously, was that could be treated with oral large dose Vitamin A. But a child who had more severe disease or early ulcers or keratinization of the cornea, they needed an emergency intra-muscular, water miscible Vitamin A injections. Now the problem with that nobody made water miscible Vitamin A. Vitamin A is an oil-soluble Vitamin, and around the world, you could find injectable Vitamin A, but it was all in oil. And one of the things we had discovered in reviewing the literature for this WHO technical committee, a couple of years previously, is that in rat experiments, if you inject a dose of oil miscible Vitamin A subcutaneously or intramuscularly in a rat or in a child, you don't impact the Vitamin A status at all. It just sits there like a lump. So sitting in a WHO room, we came up with the recommendation, based upon animal experiments, that really if you want it to be absorbed rapidly, that intramuscular injection has to be a water-miscible preparation. That would be like homogenized milk. That is that the fat is dispersed within the quart of milk; it doesn't come up to the top as cream. I get to Indonesia, the first child presents with actually a corneal ulcer. So that's a real emergency. I turned to my Indonesian colleagues, and I say get me some water miscible Vitamin A for injection. They looked at me like I was crazy, which I was because they had none. In fact, nobody had any, despite the WHO recommendation. Nobody had told the pharmaceutical industry to prepare injectable water miscible Vitamin A. So I was stuck initially without a recommended treatment. I knew that if I injected the oil miscible Vitamin A intra-muscularly, it wasn't going to have any impact. But I did remember some animal experiments in which when they gave the oily Vitamin eight to rats by mouth, it actually worked pretty quickly. So I got the injectable water miscible Vitamin A, sucked it up into a syringe, took off the needle and then squirted into the children's mouth. Right after doing that first child, I then telexed colleagues at Roche and asked them if they would produce some water miscible injectable Vitamin A. And of course, they were happy to do it. But, they said it's going to be three or four months by the time they formulate it, do toxicity testing, get permission from the Indonesian government and licensed to import it. So I was treating every child that came in for the next three or four months with this oil miscible old injectable stuff but putting it into their mouth instead of injecting it. And they seem to respond very rapidly. When I eventually got the ward a miscible injectable version, I decided, you know, giving this old stuff orally seems to work very well. Let's set up a randomized trial in which half the children who presented with corneal ulcers were given the old fashioned oil-miscible Vitamin A by mouth, and the other half were randomized to get the new water-miscible Vitamin A by injection. And the end of two months, we had done about 60 or 70 children, and their biochemical response and the clinical response was absolutely identical. Now, why this was critical? It took 5 to 10 years to convince my colleagues. Nobody else ever replicated this trial or attempted to replicate the trial. But nobody wanted to take away the injectable water-miscible Vitamin A, even though it was very hard to get. It took five to 10 years. Originally, I argued enough that we could get as an asterisk "if you don't have water-miscible Vitamin A for injection, give oil Vitamin A by mouth." Took five to 10 years before we could get them to move that up as the primary recommendation because it's so much safer. Anybody can do it. You don't need a healthcare worker to inject it. And that, therefore, paved the way for what became these large scale programs for distributing high-dose Vitamin A supplementation, because you did not have to do it by injection. You could do it by mouth by simply giving a small capsule or an equal amount on a spoon. So let's talk about the large scale expansion of the work you did. Because one challenge, of course, in making the initial public health discoveries of scaling things up so that they can work for hundreds, thousands or millions of people. So how did you address this issue? So yeah, I was again very fortunate. The head of UNICEF, while I was doing this work, was Jim Grant, probably the most effective UNICEF director general there was. The person who is his chief medical advisor was following my work on Vitamin A and would periodically ask me to come into the office in New York and brief Jim on what we were doing, and what we were finding. So I had a colleague who is in charge of the largest agency that had to do with the health of children who is interested in seeing whether or not this, in fact, was necessary, and whether or not it was effective. I also knew Nakajima at WHO, and he too got interested in whether or not this would be effective. I have to say that put me well-placed, to try and make the argument. I'm not sure it would have flown if it remained totally focused on blindness because there weren't a lot of global health champions who are interested in spending money and resources on preventing blindness. But it was soon after that I made this unexpected insight from that original study, where we were following new 6,000 children. Children who had early mild Vitamin A deficiency (just night blindness, the earliest ophthalmic clinical manifestation) were dying at much higher rates than the children who had no eye signs at all and had slightly better Vitamin A status. So that led us to do several randomized trials that demonstrated, convincingly, that distributing Vitamin A large dose capsules reduced the childhood mortality by about a third. Now again, nobody believed that either early on. So we had to replicate it. We got other people to replicate it. By 1992, and I think it was critical--there were still people arguing on both sides. Nobody actually had negative data, they just couldn't believe that 2 cents worth of Vitamin A could reduce child mortality by a third. So in 1992, these commentaries are still going back and forth. People are still debating. And I said this is ridiculous already. We already had six or seven randomized trials, and these are trials with 20,000 children. These are expensive, difficult to do trials and in four different countries. And so I called a meeting at the Rockefeller Retreat in Bellagio. In those days you could only have about 20-22 people. These were people who have been involved in these trials, people who were experts in child survival. And to make a long story short, we said we're just going to answer two questions: is Vitamin A deficiency bad for children, and if we improve their Vitamin A status with these large dose supplements, which have essentially no side effects whatsoever, will we reduce childhood mortality? And after going through all the data over the entire week, on Friday morning, everyone agreed that yes it would. And I said, okay. And I went to a side room, I wrote up a paragraph that said these are our conclusions from reviewing the data in detail collectively. Got everyone to sign it in blood and then asked everybody at the meeting when they went back home, because this was an international meeting, if they would publish their perspective of the results of this meeting in the favorite medical journals. So I published one in the Lancet, somebody published one in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, somebody published one in the Medical Journal of South Africa. And so within a few months, people who were respected in the child survival and nutrition pediatric area sort of swamped the medical literature with agreeing that in fact, this was an important potential program that could be effective. One of my concerns had always been would the right children get the supplement or only the healthier children get it, but it turned out in these trials that of course, they got it pretty right pretty well across the board. That led Jim Grant and Nakajima to host a major meeting to inaugurate the supplementation. UNICEF and I would go to Congress every year, a particularly a very supportive at that time House Committee on Hunger, and report what the research has shown. And we would talk about the implications for child survival if we could, in fact, get out this distribution. So, Congress would allocate funds each year for these programs. And very importantly, the Canadians took a very, and still retain, a leadership role in making these Vitamin A supplements available to countries. And these are now given out in over 50 countries around the world, probably reaching maybe about 60 or 70% of the children who need it. But again, what made it move forward was first being able to demonstrate that this impact on child survival. And this was back in the 80s and 90s when child survival was something that was on the top of the international health agenda. And everyone had these various programs from growth monitoring onward to improve child survival and reduce child mortality. So it hit at the right time on an issue that everybody was concerned about. I was fortunate to have engaged two critically influential people, the director generals of UNICEF and WHO, who followed the work through the research phase and saw the results come out positive repeatedly, and then bringing everything together and getting a general consensus as this was an important thing to do. So it's, in some ways, it was a very fortuitous series of events that came together, made this program move forward on a global scale. Once you made the discovery that supplementation could have such profound effects, I'm imagining that whether these programs got implemented within countries had a lot to do with political issues. And things like that that go beyond science. Is that true? And how did you navigate those things? Yeah. Now that's of course true. One of the advantages and one of the hang-ups at the same time was every country wanted to have its own randomized trial. And people did raise the issue of, is it ethical to do any more of these randomized trials after you've done of one, two or three and every one of them gives you a 35% reduction in mortality. How can you randomize children to a placebo? And the argument I could make early on, well, if we don't do this trial, the country is not going to launch a program, a nationwide program. And when we do the trial, at least half the children again get Vitamin A, the other half who survive are going to get Vitamin A at the end of the trial, since we're it ethically compelled to do that. And hopefully, it'll cause the country to change policy. By the time we had seven or eight trials, I couldn't even live with that argument anymore. And that's why we had the Bellagio meeting. And I just said, we have to do this. And then, of course, I would go and visit with the Minister of Health in dozens of countries, one by one, sometimes regional meetings to present the data and talk about the impact having their particular country, given their infant mortality rates, and child survival rates. And it wasn't too slow of a process once we had gotten through that Bellagio brief and WHO and UNICEF jumped on. One of the critical things I remember was making a visit to East Africa for an entirely different reason to set up some other studies, and I had a stop in Nairobi. And the person who picked me up at the airport happened to be the regional advisor for nutrition. And as he's driving me into Nairobi, he tells me that they just got a directive from Jim Grant that every one of the country offices for UNICEF needed to build Vitamin A supplementation into the budget for the coming year. So part of the political process that helped was visiting with Ministries of Health, talking to the Ministers and showing them the data in a relatively straight-forward, simplified fashion, because they've got a million other things to do it and not necessarily epidemiologists. But the other one was having UNICEF behind us where Jim Grant tells a regional office to direct the countries to put it Vitamin A into their programming for the coming year. So again, it was a constellation of things that came together. Some of it science and a lot of it was personal. Produced by Deborah Hill, Duke World Food Policy Center
Ever heard the term supertasters? Have you wondered why some people love broccoli, and others find it very unpleasant? Is family upbringing the answer to this? Or, is there a biological basis for this and for other taste preferences? The leading voice on these issues is Dr. Linda Bartoshuk. About Linda Bartoshuk Linda Bartoshuk is the Bushnell Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Linda's research focuses on why taste can be so variable, the fascinating biology in play and what the implications might be for human health and well being. Interview Summary So some years ago you and I were colleagues at Yale University, and we met up to discuss our mutual interest in food preferences and human eating patterns. I remember the meeting like it just happened yesterday because you pulled out a little strip of paper, you explained that there was some harmless chemical on it and you asked me to put it on my tongue. Then you asked me then what I experienced. So after I said "Yuck!" you proceeded with uncanny accuracy to tell me what foods I like and don't like. And we didn't know each other that well! It was amazing because there were things that you said I liked, like ice cream and sweet things. Well, that's easy because most people like those things. But then you went and told me a bunch of stuff I don't like, and I was amazed by how accurate you were just based on my reaction to that chemical. So how can a reaction to such a chemical be used to predict what people like and don't? Well, I remember that meeting very well too, and I have to admit, part of it was luck. You can't always get it that accurately. But, what I gave you to taste was a piece of paper that had PROP (n-6-propulthiouracil) crystals impregnated in it. And PROP crystals are our way of testing for a particular gene, and that gene codes your ability to taste certain bitter. Now there are 25 different bitter genes, but this code's one of them. So when I tasted that strip and it was so unpleasant, what does that say? I mean not about me, but about people in general. If they experience that chemical in different ways? Well, first of all, there are tasters and nontasters of that chemical. If you have either one or both dominant genes, you're a taster. If you have two recessive genes, you're a nontaster. If you're a taster, you already are getting more intense, bitter sensations from a lot of different compounds. But that paper test gives me an approximate test of something else: whether you're a supertaster. Now supertasters are more than just this one gene. They also tell me how many tastes buds you've got. The more you've got, the more intense things taste. So a taster who also has a lot of taste buds is a supertaster. And that's what you were. So how many people in the population are tasters, nontaster, or supertasters, and what does it mean for foods they might find pleasant or not? Well, super tasting varies around the world and the United States. We probably have a very high incidence, relatively, of nontasters. So supertasters make maybe 15% of the population. Well, what's fun is that women are more likely than men to be supertasters and it varies by race. Caucasians are the least likely to be supertasters and everywhere else in the world people are more likely to be supertasters. If you're a supertaster, then what does that mean in terms of the way you experience different foods? If you're a supertaster, everything tastes more intense. That's the first thing that's important. And, bitter things are differentially more intense. So this means there are a lot of foods you're really not going to like. One of the fun things that we've learned about supertasting though is that it's related to how much pleasure you get from food. If you're a supertaster, you get more pleasure from the things you really like. That is your favorite food is hedonically more powerful if you're a supertaster. So does that mean that such a person would be satisfied with less of that food because they're deriving more pleasure from it? Or does it mean they might eat more of it than usual? You know, you can do the argument either way, and we don't really know. But we do know that if you're a supertaster, you're going to get more pleasure from certain things. But there will also be a lot of foods you don't like as much. Bitter greens, you know, there are certain bitter compounds in salad greens that are awful. Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, these are things that are quite different to supertasters. I'm assuming that it has implications for the quality of a person's diet. If somebody is, finds unpleasant foods that deliver a lot of nutrition. It really does. And what this means is that it's nice to know if you're a supertaster, because you can be careful about it. You can take a look at foods and be sure you're getting enough that really are highly nutritious. Supertasters tend not to eat quite so many vegetables. And that can be a risk factor for things like colon cancer. On the other hand, supertasters having an advantage for something like head and neck cancer because they don't smoke and drink as much. You've done some fascinating work on the relationship between damage to taste and weight gain. Can you tell us more about this? Well, we discovered that accidentally. And it was quite a shock. It turns out that when you damage taste, we now know that it releases inhibition in your brain on your ability to perceive fat. Then, what happens is that fat sensations get more intense, and, unfortunately, high-fat foods become more palatable. So over time, even if your taste damage occurred from ear infections when you were a baby, by the time you're in your thirties, you have a pretty good chance of weighing more. So are ear infections the primary way that tastes gets damaged? It's a common one because the taste nerve that carries information from the front of the tongue goes right behind the eardrum. And in a middle ear infection, the pathogens damage the nerve. But head injury can also damage it. Simple dental procedures like getting a novocaine injection for filling lower teeth could damage taste. But the big actor is really viruses. Even a simple common cold can damage taste. Why does this affect taste for fat as compared to other things that might be in the diet? You know, we're not sure. It probably relates to the fact that fats are coded as texture--we feel fats in our mouths. They're oily, thick. That's mediated by the trigeminal nerve, and that seems to be a nerve that particularly is closely related to the taste nerve in the brain. You damage taste, and normally taste inhibits the trigeminal nerve, you damage tastes and the trigeminal nerve starts producing stronger sensations. You've discovered some interesting things from work on fruit plants release to your taste research. Can you explain more about that? Yeah, this is great fun. It turns out that a lot of the fruit we eat is very sweet. We think we're tasting sugar in the fruit. But in some fruits like oranges and strawberries and peaches, a part of what you're tasting is sugar, and a part of what you're tasting is the volatiles. The compounds in fruit that give it its aroma--it's smell--those compounds when you put the food in your mouth go up the back of your mouth into your nose. It's called retronasal olfaction, and it goes to the same part of the brain that gets taste. Some volatiles enhance sweetness. What implications does that have for what people eat? Well, let's take a strawberry. Strawberries as you probably know vary in sweetness. You bite into one, and it's delicious, and another one is not so sweet. Well, it turns out one of the main variables are those volatiles. So if we could make sure that we're marketing strawberries that have a lot of volatiles that enhance sweet, you will not need any sugar. Now, the advantage of that is we not only can enjoy them in strawberries, but you can take the volatiles out of the strawberry and put it in any food, and if that food has any sugar in, it will get sweeter. Many scientists would do the kind of work you do would publish it in academic journals and they'd be satisfied with that. But you're not, you're interested in what all this might mean for human health and well being. And you started to interact with people in agriculture about how foods might be bred differently, are grown differently. Can you tell us more about that? Well, one of the advantages of being at a big school like the University of Florida is that it's got an Ag school. And I have colleagues just down the road in horticulture and they want plants and fruits and vegetables to taste better. Well if you're going to test them, you have to test taste. And that got me involved. And the next thing you know, we're really thinking a lot about what we could do to make these vegetables taste better and be healthier. And all of this can be done with fancy mathematical models--so it can be a lot of fun to work on. We can, by crossbreeding the right fruits, produce fruits that are both healthy and taste good. And the hope is that if the produce tastes better, maybe people will eat more of the ones that are healthy. Is there enough known about how nutrition and taste go together in these ways? So let's say you, you breed broccoli to have fewer of the compounds that make some people find it bitter. What would happen to nutrition? And if you produce fruits to have an optimal taste profile, what would happen to the nutrition? Do you think those things are linked positively or might one suffer if the other is being bred into foods? You know, we're not really sure. One thing--look at the supermarket tomato. Everybody knows these tomatoes leave a lot to be desired. Well, part of the reason is they were bred for shipping characteristics so that they'd ship well and pack easy. That's not a good thing to do if you want to keep tastes intact. So what happened over time is that taste got worse, and shipping got better. Did they have to be related that way? I hope not. We hope that if we can figure out the genetics of the fruit that really tastes good, why couldn't we have both the taste good and the important nutritional characteristics? I don't see any reason why they have to be negatively correlated. You'd think there would be a ready market for foods like these because of people if one store sells apples or strawberries that taste especially good and the other one doesn't, you'd think that there would be pressure within the system to breed things that have better taste. You know you would, but unfortunately, it doesn't always work like that. For example, it's the breeders that have to decide what they're going to plant and they're going to plant what's going to sell. In the case of tomatoes, they were paid by the pound for the tomato instead of its sensory properties. What you have to do is work the whole system. You have to get people talking to each other, to try to figure out where are you have to exert change to improve things at the end product--which is the people are going to eat them. Do you think there could come a time when a farmer bases his or her productivity not on how many pounds of foods are produced per acre, but how much taste or how much nutrition? Why not? We've got to ask for it, and if we ask for it and put pressure on it as consumers, maybe we can have some influence. By the way, I wanted to tell you something else rather exciting that came out of the volatile work. You know, the way these volatiles work is they bypass taste and they go straight up the olfactory system into the brain where taste is. This means they can be useful with patients that have taste problems. If you damage your taste nerve and we want to make things sweeter to you, we can't do it with your taste nerve. But if we add the right volatiles to your food, we could bypass the damaged taste and go to your brain and change the sweet message there. Turns out this is working on human patients, and I'm very happy about that. Produced by Deborah Hill, Duke World Food Policy Center
Imagine working for a company that serves more than 5 billion meals worldwide every year. Balancing what people like to eat with corporate goals of promoting health, sustainability, and fair labor practices. Such is the work of The Leading Voices in Food guest Cheryl Queen, vice president of communication and corporate affairs, of Compass Group North America. About Cheryl Queen Cheryl Queen, vice president of communication and corporate affairs, of Compass Group North America. Compass Group is the largest food and support services company in North America with 2017 annual revenue of more than $17 million and 265,000 employees. Cheryl is deeply involved in food and farming issues. She served as chairman of the Board of advisors for the Center for Environmental Farming Systems. She is a member of the Farm Foundation Roundtable; serves on the board of directors with the Global Animal Partnership; serves on the board of directors of the Fair Food Standards Council; and was recognized for her work in helping craft a code of conduct for suppliers and an agreement to pay farm workers a premium with the Cesar Estrada Chavez award. Cheryl, thank you so much for joining us. Interview Summary Let's begin with putting the work of the Compass Group in some kind of a context. So the Compass Group is an enormous global enterprise. Can you explain a bit more about what this work is? Sure. So when people ask me what Compass Group does, I often try to make it very personal by saying anytime that you are not eating in your own kitchen or dining room, you might be dining with us, and you wouldn't even have any reason to realize that. Compass Group North America has 28 different companies under that big Compass Group umbrella. And we feed people in every sort of setting you can imagine from schools, colleges, and universities to corporate dining to wonderful like sports and entertainment venues, cultural museums and performing arts centers, hospitals, senior dining, any place you can imagine having a meal outside your home. That's what we do. How can a company of this size with this buying power, for example, affect food systems and food policies? Well, you know, we realized that we actually have enormous power because of the volume that we purchase, and because of the number of guests we serve every day. In North America alone we serve more than I think nine point 8 million meals a day. So what an enormous opportunity to impact the choices that people have and that all begins as a supply chain, you know, of what you purchased and how you purchase that drives them to that end goal of offering our guests healthy, nutritious, better for you, choices every day. To give us some concrete examples of that, could it affect the welfare of the animals that are being raised or the nutrition of the foods or how to? How do you specifically think about that supply chain being affected by the buying power? Well, it absolutely affects each one of those that you named and I'll start with farm animal welfare, because we've had the opportunity to lead in some change in that space, and try to move to a system that allows farm animals to experience better health and a healthier life and we believe that translates to our guest. And there's that sort of bigger piece that's important to some people about the life that the animal has while they're here on this earth. It's that sentient being. So we started with cage-free eggs and making our purchase of cage-free shell eggs important throughout our whole supply chain. The power of Compass Group is that our purchases are so large, Kelly, that when we go all in, and we say we're going to make this purchase impact all of all these 28 companies it's pretty significant. We moved all of our shell egg purchases to cage-free. We're now in the process of making what's truthfully a much larger change. And that's to making our liquid eggs cage free for instance. It is challenging work all across the way, but we think it's important, you know, our guests have become informed and engaged consumers who want to know where their food comes from and that starts at that, you know, local farm level and that whole movement that we've seen in the last 10, 15 years. For a lot of our guests that piece around farm animal welfare is very important. That's what drives a lot of that change. You were mentioning that your guests have an interest in knowing more about really the story of their food, if you will. Where it comes from, how the animals might be treated, the vitality of the farmers, who are growing the food and things like that. How do you communicate that to your guests when you have such an enormous scope of operations? Yeah. It's interesting. We're working very hard right now on a particularly telling that story of farm workers with the Coalition of Immokalee workers, and it's finding, you know, all those points along the way. Starting with our own employees, we employ 265,000 people. That's a really big group of people who have an engagement with this and helping them understand that story both for their own personal use and in communicating with our guests, sharing that information and then talking to our guests about it. And it's, you know, all those ways you can communicate it, with signage and a cafe. It's through videos, through websites. It's through use of technology of saying this is what we're doing, we think it's important to you, and we want to share that message with you of why we're doing it. Maybe you never thought about who harvests those winter tomatoes in Florida that you're eating, the conditions under which that happens and these enormous changes that have been made in the field through our work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. But we think once you know that it will drive further appreciation of your food, how that whole system work. We find that, but a lot of guests really do, and they feel good about their engagement with us. So, it's an important story to tell, and we're always trying to find that unique creative way that engages our guests. Could you talk a little bit more detail about the farmworker issues and how you were engaged with that? I would love to because this has been for me personally the most fulfilling work I think I've done in my career. Ten, 12 years ago when we started thinking of like sustainable agriculture, I think like most organizations and most consumers we thought about the farmer and local farms and, but for some reason, we never thought beyond the farmer into the actual farm worker. And when we, when the Coalition of Immokalee workers reached out to us and engaged us in a conversation, it was very, and I think it would be eye-opening to most people today to understand some of the issues in agriculture that farm workers and harvesters faces. Most of them are migrant workers. They traveled from farm to farm. Are the growing seasons change? They are very vulnerable for the most part, in that space, they often most often are not from the US. English is not their first language, so they're vulnerable to be taken advantage of. For women, in particular, there is oftentimes sexual harassment and sexual assault. And it's, I think it would be surprising. In Immokalee, which is where the winter tomatoes are grown, the Department of Justice called it Ground Zero for modern day slavery. And the first time I heard modern-day slavery, I thought, well, you know, that's, that's quite an accusation, and I'm sure conditions are hard, but that's, that's unbelievable. But actually, some people were, being by any definition in slaved and there have been, I think eight or nine successfully prosecuted federal cases of modern-day slavery where people who are serving time in federal prison. So what this whole piece of the Coalition of Immokalee farmworkers did was say, let's change that system. It doesn't have to be this way. And they used the power of consumers to help drive that change so that a number of fast food companies, grocery stores that, that we'd be all be familiar with, and companies such as ours signed a code of conduct that said to growers: if you grow tomatoes for us, we expect them to be done under these conditions where it involves safety and training and education. And made it a healthier and smarter work environment for the workers. And also to pay them a penny a pound for tomatoes grown for us, which may sound so small to us, but for farm workers could be a 63 percent pay increase. The success of that model has been extraordinary. It's been recognized by the United Nations, by the White House, by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights by the James Beard Foundation because it has changed that whole model for worker engagement and work in the agricultural fields. And, it's now moving beyond tomatoes and Florida to other crops in other locations across the US and expanding. And we're incredibly proud of the work that we've done with the Coalition. And it is a story that is very moving and engages across our organization particularly for our chefs who now visit Immokalee, who've come to know the worker and understand the issue and create recipes that give them an opportunity to tell the story. You've been involved on the cutting edge of a number some very important issues. So let's see if you could provide us your crystal ball for the last question. I'd like to ask, what do you see as some of the key issues going forward with, with farming, with food systems and with a company like Compass Group? What do you think the future will bring? Well, I think there's so much more work to be done. When we talk about a food system that is essentially broken in lots of different ways, and I think there are organizations and people who are making differences in this space. You know, I think that we have to move from more intensive farming, both for the environment and for our own health and for the health of land and farmers and farming communities. And so there's a fellow in Georgia--Bluffton, Georgia named will Harris, who is the owner of White Oak Pastures and he does the most amazing work in this space. And I think it's someone like that who can be a role model to other farmers who want to work in more sustainable practices. One of the things that I often hear when we talk about the food system is that we have a whole generation who didn't learn to cook at home. And I look at people like Matthew Wadiac of Blue Apron and other subscription type services who are, who have created a fun and engaging way to let people learn how to cook and have the confidence of producing a great meal at home. That's delicious. That takes about 30 minutes. It doesn't require every gadget. It doesn't require a chef-approved kitchen. But they have confidence and appreciation now in being able to cook for themselves. And that's important. I look at people like Josh Tetrick of JustFoods who's now, who had this idea to apply the innovation and the technology of Silicon Valley to provide healthy and accessible and affordable food for everyone. So he started improbably with a mayonnaise product, just Mayo that eliminated eggs, the basis of mayonnaise but he's used pea protein in its place, and he's now growing his line of products, including one just egg. It makes absolutely delicious scrambled eggs, French toast, anywhere you'd use the liquid egg, but it's all made from plants. No animals. Allowing us to put more focus in that plant-based diet, which I think we all recognize this healthier. There's Dr. Uma Valeti who is a Mayo Clinic-trained cardiologist who saw firsthand the impact that that typical American diet is having on his patients. So a true entrepreneur at heart, I think as well as a physician, he founded this company called Memphis Meat in 2015, and it's about making be more sustainable in delicious, but eliminating the impact of meat production on the environment and providing a healthier choice. All of these points of light along the way are going to be at the forefront of making a change in the food system and making it easier for companies like Compass Group to continue to be at the forefront in bringing these opportunities to our guests. Produced by Deborah Hill, Duke World Food Policy Center
Did you know that most church land holdings are not located in high-priced cities? Instead, they're in countless rural locations from Maine to California, with land deeded over in wills by former parishioners or purchased over the years by church leaders. Today's guest on The Leading Voices in Food series is Nurya Love Parish, who is animated by the idea that from a religious perspective, land is part of creation and needs to be managed with wisdom. About Nurya Love Parish Nurya Love Parish is an episcopal priest and Co-founder and executive director of Plainsong Farm, a farm and ministry outside Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the author of Resurrection Matters: Church Renewal for Creation's Sake, and has played a seminal role in framing and advancing the Christian Food Movement. Interview Summary How did Plainsong Farm begin and what purposes does the farm serve? Plainsong Farm is, to give some geographic context, about 20 minutes north of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It includes 12 acres, two houses, two barns (only one of which is usable at present, but the other one we are going to get to be able to use for events eventually). We have about an acre and a half under cultivation. We feed over just over 100 families in the growing season. That just kind of gives you the farm context, but there's so much more to it than that because our purposes are not only to grow food for people, but also to grow people for God. And the farm itself began as a response to a call from God. It is on property that my husband and I were living on at the time. It is a long story that is in my book about how this property transitioned from being the place where I lived, to the place where I serve God in ministry in addition to growing food for people. We seek to renew Christian discipleship through community-focused agriculture. We are looking to grow a generation of leaders that is articulate about the connections between faith and food and climate and health. We want to enable churches to grow their sacraments in a way that is sustainable and regenerative for the earth. And we have a week program that's in cooperation with Honorary Growers' Guild, which is another faith and food ministry. It's important to us to foster health in our community by providing vegetables that we grow on the farm to people that buy them through the CSA community supported agriculture program and also to our neighbors through food pantry partnerships. But I think one of the biggest reasons that I'm here today is the Christian Food Movement work that we've been doing and particularly the conversation around faith lands that we helped to catalyze. First, what does it mean to grow people for God? Oh my gosh. Well, that's something that we spend a lifetime trying to understand. What it means to me to grow people for God is to provide them with a place to understand that they are human and they are of one with the soil humus. To recognize that all of us have a place in creation, and that we belong to that larger life that we didn't create and that we do not sustain. And somehow, to have the humility that goes along with being human that so often after the industrial revolution, we've kind of forgotten. We seem to think that we can manage Earth and climate change is definitely proving to us that we need to be more realistic about humanity's place in the globe. And wise, in how we take our place and ensure that there is still a place for future generations. So how are you able to accomplish that through your work? What does that look like? So we do a few different programs that help people to have that immersive experience. One of our programs is called Sabbath on the Farm and it's an outdoor worship experience. When I say an outdoor worship experience, you need to imagine people sitting on hay bales around it would be a campfire, except usually we're doing this in the summer. So it's daylight really late in Michigan and there isn't usually a fire there. It is a time of worship that includes silence just to be outside, to breathe, to recenter yourself in nature and recognize that you are a created being, just as all that you see around you is a created being. Another program that we have is the way that we do our heirloom wheat program. I should say Honorary Farm and Mill in California started this ministry and that is a heirloom wheat for communion bread. So it's planted in community, harvested in community. The way that we approach it is also through the lens of using this as a meditation on scripture. So there's a place where Jesus says in the Bible, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it does not have a life. And we take literal grains of wheat and they go on the ground. And then you see, after winter--because we do wheat in the winter in Michigan--so you put your grain in the ground, you think how is this ever gonna work? Winter comes and it could be covered by snow and ice, you think is anything alive there? And then in spring it comes back up again, green and, and you realize--it just happens to be right around Easter--and it's a visual witness for the amazing work that God can do. Where it looks like everything is dead and gone, and there is life there that is invisible to the naked eye. And then months pass and the meditation that we have is around the Kingdom of God, where Jesus has this teaching, that the Kingdom of God is like a harvest. That is the grain grows. The person doesn't understand why, but when the time is right, they go in with their sickle. And we go in with our sickles and hand harvested this wheat. And it was a moment again of seeing these ancient scriptures are from an agricultural context. And they teach us something about humans and our right place that we've lost touch with when we're not in that agricultural context anymore. And my hope is that we, we can open people's eyes through the sacraments, and then also open people's eyes to their and in their community that we belong to each other and we belong to creation. And that invites us to ask questions about how food is then shared, how is food grown, how is food shared? Because these are agricultural experiences that we're having in the context of faith. So Nurya, you have so much involvement in these intersections between food and faith and you named and cataloged the Christian Food Movement and were behind the initial Faithlands Conference. Could you tell us a little bit more about these initiatives and why do they matter? Well, when I sat down today I said I was astonished that I was here. In 2014, I sat in my basement and thought, I know that there is work being done by people from a Christian faith perspective around sustainable agriculture, justice and equity and health for all. And I know this work is being done, but I know it's not visible. That moment in 2014 was inspired by Nigel Savage who founded Hazon and a speech that he had given at Jewish theological seminary earlier in the year where he said, if you type in Jewish food movement into Google, you get lots of hits. Like 80,000 hits. You type Christian food movement, you won't find many. And that speaks to...in his context, he was saying we've really come a long way. And as a Christian I read his words and I knew he was right, because I had been looking for a Christian movement. I hadn't been finding one. And so in 2014 I sat down and decided to can make what I know about a little bit more visible. It started as a little pdf guide and then it was a little bit bigger of a pdf guide. And then I asked people to send me some money if they thought it should be a website. And they did send me money, and it became a website. And now there's about 300 books, resources, and organizations. And again, I know it is the tip of the iceberg. At the same time that I was starting this website and trying to catalog all of these things and then share news about them as people sent me news, was also when we were starting the farm. So the Christian Food Movement site really kind of got put on this back burner. I was starting a nonprofit. I knew this Christian Food Movement was going to be a part of what we did, but it wasn't the front burner of what I had to do to get the farm off the ground--because we were a bootstrapped nonprofit. And so, now that Christian Food Movement work is coming back into the foreground and I'm starting to realize how many people have engaged in it without me even recognizing that it was growing. Just kind of like that wheat under the ground in the winter that you don't see. And there's a lot of life at this intersection that was totally invisible 10 years ago. So what are some pillars or tenants of a Christian Food Movement? What is it moving towards? Well, the cornerstones that I put at the top of the website when I made it-because that's what I was seeing across all of the projects are as follows: Discipleship - because it's very much grounded in this understanding that we don't fully understand our life on earth, but Jesus can show us something about life on earth that I know I we and I need to learn. So discipleship is a core tenet of it. Sustainability, which by now it probably would be called regeneration, but four years ago it was sustainability. This recognition that we need to live ecologically on this planet with a recognition that for generations to come, we need health for creation. So discipleship and sustainability. Health is a very important principle across many of these ministries. People are seeking bodily health and spiritual health as one in the same and recognizing in Christian scripture we're taught that our body is a temple for the Holy Spirit. And so how do we treat our bodies? And I am still on this journey. How do we treat our bodies? And how do we ensure health for all? Because all people have that within. So, health would be another one. And then justice. The recognition that there we inherit systems of inequity that we did not create, and that we do not want to support. And God did not create these systems of inequity either. And God does not desire an inequity among all of God's people. So how do we make justice is another question that guides the Christian Food Movement that I'm aware of. So how do people get involved in this Christian Food Movement and what actions do they take on the ground as a result? It's a really good question because there is such a continuum of what would you call a Christian Food Movement. The pantry in the church that I serve could be considered a part of the Christian Food Movement. The people that volunteer for it wouldn't probably consider themselves that way. They would just say they're doing what Jesus tells you to do: feed the hungry. And yet they're doing it as disciples. They're intentional about having healthy food on the shelves. They're doing it because they want poor people to have equal access. So it's a justice ministry. And I think the one piece--they'll probably listen to this--one piece that I'm looking to talk about with them more is how does this make sense ecologically? But there are so many food pantries in Christian churches across the country and you could say all of them. Similarly, all the gardens, you know, you could say all of them. But what I find most intriguing is the stuff that is showing up that is worship-based and food centered. So there are farm churches, there's one here in Raleigh, Durham. There are garden churches. There are dinner churches and some people are having their core experience of Christian faith and discipleship around agriculture in some fashion. Now, what is that going to become? I do not know. And yet I think it's the leading edge of something that we should all be very curious about. Is the Faithlands Conference part of that work, and essentially what is that and what came out of it? I would love to know that too! The Faithlands Conference began with this recognition that there are some factors at play in the wider culture that were not yet in dialogue with one another. One of those factors is the reality that I'm a white mainline Protestant, semi-Protestant as an Episcopalian. And when I look across the landscape of my denomination, I recognize that the ways that we do church now are not economically sustainable into the future. I noticed the same things with my compatriots along other mainline traditions. What is unsustainable about it, if you could dive into it? Sure. Well, the average age in the Episcopal church is 60. And that's not to say there are not wonderful dynamic young leaders in the Episcopal church, and there are new ministries that are springing up in the Episcopal church. But we have the historic moment where the things that we used to do don't work the way they used to anymore. And young adults are not excited about the things that we did that worked in 1955. And so what that looks like where I live, which is sem- rural Michigan, is it looks like futures of possibly closing churches. So for example, a church that is 45 minutes away from me closed not long ago. 10 acres across the street from an elementary school, with probably not a whole acre that would be cultivated. I'm not sure that any of it would be cultivatable in terms of agriculture, but it would be a great ecological demonstration site. That isn't in the imagination of the church leadership. And so the Faithlands conference existed to bring together religious leaders and land trust and land access professionals, primarily those who are seeking access to land for new and beginning farmers. Because as we know in the food world, access to land and access to capital are the two greatest barriers for anyone who is seeking to start a new farm. And in the church world, I know we have land, we have capital. What we don't have are young people and imagination. Did just say that out loud? We have more imagination than we give ourselves credit for, I should say, and than I just gave us credit for, but we don't tend to. We are too risk averse in the church because we are way too focused on preserving what we've inherited. And forgetting that what we have inherited, that is the most important, is the spirit of God and the spirit of God is always leading us beyond what our comfort zone is. I was curious what came out of the Faithlands Conference, but I think that could tie maybe a little bit to the issue of how to spark creativity when you're in a restricted environment of attempting to be sustainable as an organization? That's a great question. So let me answer it by going back to Plainsong Farm and the Faithlands conference. When we brought together people, and it was not just Christians, it was a multifaith it gathering...it was funded through Greenhorns, which is an organization for new and beginning farmers. And it brought together a combination of land access professionals and religious leaders across traditions. And one of the things that I realized in that context was that Plainsong Farm is really a demonstration project for what is possible in the future of religiously held land. When we began it, there was land and I had a little capital. We had this 10 acres and I had $15,000 and my partners in this ministry, Mike and Beth and the Edwardsons, they felt called to start a farm that was somehow connected to the church. They were both under 30 when we started. They didn't have land. They didn't have access to capital. And when we began, which happened with me giving them $15,000 and the key to my house. I thought to myself, well, if the only thing that comes out of this is that a young and beginning farmer begins a farm in the state of Michigan--where we also see the average age of farmers being in the sixties--that would be a good thing. And I hope even just that happens. And just that did happen. Plus more. And what I've found in the intersection of these sustainable agriculture, religious leadership lanes is we need more demonstration projects. And so my aim is to simply to sustain the one that we have to have it influence other people to also recognize that they can do likewise. That it's really scary. That there are a lot of headwinds and that you can still persevere and find yourself being interviewed by the Duke World Food Policy Center! Which when I put myself in that basement and said, I wonder if I can come up with some things about the Christian food movement, was certainly not anything I anticipated. In the context of your successes, how do you think the Christian Food Movement can address the question of how do you move away from a very charitable model of food distribution, which doesn't necessarily address systematic issues? What is the Christian food movements answer for that? Oh, well, first I would say I didn't begin the Christian Food Movement. I just, I just named it and tried to give it wholesome conversations. So I don't speak on behalf of a movement, I speak for myself. And I would say that it's by experimenting and learning from people that aren't necessarily disciples of Jesus. There are a lot of people doing work in this world, trying to seek justice and equity. And part of my call as a Christian is to seek wisdom and to seek knowledge and to seek understanding. And I know that there's a lot I have to learn from people that are not necessarily working in my lane. Having said that, I also would say there's a lot of wisdom in religious traditions and my hope is that as we have more conversation at these intersections. The wisdom of our faith traditions can be brought to bear. And the humility that is supposed to be the fruit of a religious life can be brought to bear on these larger questions that we continue to face as a country and as a global citizenship. What do you feel for the churches that are able to the spark of creativity to be able to pilot a solution? What would you say are the features or characteristics of those churches? What differentiates those that are really willing to step out and be in an early innovator? Well, here's a theological answer for you. They are churches that actually have faith in the resurrection. What would you say are the unique gifts and contributions of your faith or faith based communities on this broad foods to food systems work as we drive towards a more equitable system. What does that element of faith really add? Oh, I have a good answer for this. Sorry. Feel free to. We'll have to edit that out. It's not a problem because I wrote that one down and I was like, I like that. Totally didn't refer to any of these. Okay. I think as faith communities, we have this capacity. We have a theoretical capacity for a holistic approach and it's theoretical because we don't always live into our call. But faith communities are where we ask really big questions. That's what faith community is there for. What is good, what is evil, what is life, what is death? And so theoretically faith communities are where we should be able to say, is this way that we're eating truly benefiting the humanity of the future? Is this good? Is this evil? My colleague Justin Fast reminds me, scripture teaches us not just to feed the hungry but it to satisfy the hungry with good things. That is a quote. And so we have to ask, well, what are good things and what does it mean to be satisfied? And how am I hungry? I am still hungry spiritually and I will be and I will be hungry physically too. That's part of my human experience. So I would say too often religious people are uncritical handmaidens to contemporary society. And our unique gift is to be a community that asks really big questions. And, is radically willing to dare and to risk because that's what faith calls you to do. Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something which is a Cornell West quote. And we need that in the dialogue and in the conversation. Produced by Deborah Hill, Duke World Food Policy Center
Hisham Moharram describes himself as an agripreneur and an environmental and social justice activist. His life's goal is to establish a local food economy and to show people that we can produce food with environmental stewardship and faith-based agribusiness at the core. About Dr. Hisham Moharram Moharram holds a bachelor's degree in international agriculture and agricultural mechanization, a master's degree in horticulture and a Ph.D. in plant breeding, although he earned his degree, is that US universities. He was born in Egypt and work there conducting agricultural genetic engineering research and on medicinal plant botanical products in the early 2000's. He took a position at Rutgers University and worked on natural plant products and international agricultural development. In 2007 he made the conscious decision to use his scientific knowledge and experience in international agricultural development consulting in a way that would directly benefit people and the planet. From this decision came The Good Tree Project, an organic farm in Ocean County, New Jersey. What is The Good Tree Farm project and why did you get started with it? Okay. So The Good Tree Farm project is going be what I will work on from now until I am long gone. It is to me the combining of everything that has passed in my life to date so that I can do my best in the years that remain to one please my maker, and put what he gave me to the benefit of people and planet. Simply put it is an ambitious project. It will not be completed in my lifetime. It will probably go on and on as far as trying to "get done" for many generations because it's about people and planet, and there's a lot of work to do and a lot of places the objectives of The Good Tree Farm project need to be met. What are those objectives of The Good Tree Farm project? I look at our society today, and you can almost take it across the world regardless of level of development or culture, there is a drastically increasing inequity in societies. And collectively, a as a species, a human beings are--despite the detractors and the deniers--having such an impact on the ecosystem that this a spaceship called planet earth is an actual peril. And in Islam, the teachings of our Prophet Mohammed include a saying where he likened those who would sit by and watch while somebody did severe damage to two groups riding in a ship in the middle of the ocean. The group that has water is on the upper deck. The group that doesn't have water, fresh water, is on the lower deck. So not out of ill intent and greed, but out of one thing to be less troublesome, someone had the bright idea of saying, let's just make a hole beneath us and we can get all the water we want. And the Prophet said, if they let them be and they made that hole, the ship would sink and everybody would peril. So we have to stop those who for ill intent or misguided good intent would do such damage that everybody is going to go down with the ship. We're at that point, in my opinion, as a species with respect to this planet and all the other species that are on it. We have both a responsibility and an incredible power over the system and that's part of what we will be judged upon as that's what Islam teaches us. And we are messing up pretty badly. So those of us that can say or do something need to, because on the day of judgment we will be asked why we did not. I'm simply trying to have an answer. The Good Tree Farm project is an organic farm, what are the activities you're engaged in to sort of turn the tide? So I actually am trying to address a number of things with this project and it's all about finding the right strategic partners in each potential location. But ultimately what you're looking at is the most precious resource we have, which is the human mind. So if you take a community and you look at those in that community that are underachieving their potential, their God-given-potential, you look at the reasons why, and you should as a community or a governance governance body or what have you, attempt to address that so that these human beings can now get a little closer to fulfilling their potential. It's better for everybody. We have homelessness, we have runaway teenagers, we have substance abuse issues. We have people who either mistakenly got caught up in the system or made mistakes and went into correctional facilities and come out and they can't find jobs and they're not accepted. Sometimes with justified concerns on the part of the general public. But we have racial inequities. We have a system in place that is not by accident. It's by design over many, many decades, maybe even centuries. And there's a power structure and a wealth structure that's very deliberate, but it's putting a lot of people at grave risk and its cheating society out of the potential of all those individuals. So I'm looking at the youth, for example, who don't find a space for themselves in the economy or in their church or mosque or in their society. They're still human beings that can innovate to such an extent, but they don't get the opportunities. They're not part of perhaps the right class of society, so they don't get the breaks early. They don't get the incubation type of assistance from family members or their status or whatever. So it may be young girl in the slums of Nairobi, but she could be the next Einstein. We just don't know that. We may never know that because she will never get the chances to explore that potential. So with respect to entrepreneurship, with respect to understanding their role in protecting the environment, understanding their role in being better citizens and engage with the issues and what means they have to affect policy and bring into office better policy makers. These are issues that need a third space for those categories of people to have open, honest discussions, explore their potential, start healing and see what they can do. I can't address things in engineering because I'm not an engineer, but I'm a plant biologist and that's my field. So within my field I'm trying to through The Good Tree Projectt, basically bring together people who want to do impact investment locally with those demographics in their own community that need a helping hand on the farm. We can provide the housing, we can provide the incubator, we can provide a business opportunities we can provide-through that locally owned agribusiness--a means by which they can begin to strengthen the local food system of their home town where they grew up. Instead of everybody succumbing to the corporate model where you are simply a mobile labor and they'll, even if it's at a desk at a terminal, you still laboring for somebody and they'll take you across the world where they need you and when they don't need you, you get the pink slip. You've painted a very dark and complex picture of the issues that we're dealing with right now. But obviously an exciting aspect is the focus on youth and there's sort of a renewal available there. Could talk a little bit more about the how of how do you engage this youth in a meaningful way that is building their minds and what is the sort of new agripreneur as a result? So if you look at it, take it from the 1980's through to the late 2020s. Okay. That kind of decade of age bracket. My perception from just studying things and following a news reports and analysis of socioeconomic issues is that there is a large number of folks in that age bracket who either are underemployed, unemployed, or not finding themselves. Wondering whether the high cost of a university degree is really worth it anymore. And they don't know what to do with themselves as far as having a good life, enjoying it, but also feeling like they are fulfilling themselves and their potential. Within my focus I'm hoping to help someone who may be interested in starting a business growing insects. Of course they would have to be not afraid of insects. Why would one grow insects? Because there is a market for beneficial insects. There is growing interest in organic farming in the US and internationally. Well, one of the mainstays of organic farming is not spraying so the harmful insects--harmful in our view because they eat our crops, but they have their place in the ecosystem--we want to control their population. Organic agriculture does. But we don't want to destroy them. So if you wanted to take the agricultural chemical companies approach you with nuke everybody. But if you're going to do the balanced approach of live and let live, but control them so that they don't eat you out of business, then you will employ things like beneficial insects. They keep the population in check, but they don't wipe them out completely. Now you're starting organic farmer. Where are you going to buy your lacewings? Where are you going to buy your praying mantises, your lady bugs. And they're grown. They're reared by people who have businesses where people who have a love and a passion for entomology and insects and aren't afraid of bugs would basically develop a business. They rear these bugs for resale and they make a lot of money. That's a simple example. Take beehive's. Lots of interest in the declining population of bee colonies across the country. And the impact of, again, industrial chemicals used in agriculture. Someone who is really interested in that can develop different honey products because depending on the season, depending on the crop that they go to harvest pollen and nectar from the honey will have different flavors. It will even have some of the medicinal properties of the crop that they fed on. So you literally have different honey products. You can also include things like beeswax, pollen, propolis. You can raise the bees themselves to sell them to people who are starting up or adding to their beehive business. So again, it's an aspect where someone who's not afraid to bees and who knows how to handle them, can study and learn, can develop a business that they can take anywhere in the world with them. Just like the raising of beneficial insects. You take any other aspect of the diversified plan for a local agribusiness and there is going to be someone with a chemistry or biology or in some cases even physics, engineering, because we're talking about using shipping containers for year round production in a shipping container greenhouses. Making mobile homes for those farm agripreneurs, where they can literally haul their home from one location to another. We're starting another farm. The whole team can be relocated to help set it up. And their homes are there with them because they just got trucked over in shipping containers. Your goal at The Good Tree Project is to empower these faith-based communities and faith-based private schools in underserved communities by providing access to affordable organic produce and these apprenticeship opportunities related to food justice. Could you unpack the food justice piece that a little bit more and why that matters for your work? Yes. So food justice for me has to do with being able to afford high quality food and having access to it as far as just the logistics and the convenience. So when you look at where vulnerable, populations that don't have access to healthy food as easily or cannot afford it because they're not making the kind of income that can sustain purchasing from Whole Foods or whatever. Typically they are in what was a few years called food deserts or places where there aren't a grocery stores that bring in fresh food. They don't have necessarily an active farmer's market. They're not near farming communities. So the children or the youth of those communities, often many of them, if they're a faith, people of faith, communities of faith would have a Catholic school, but would have a Muslim school, would have a Jewish school, would have whatever it's affiliated with their faith. None of them get tax dollars because they're faith based. The schools that are public get tax dollars. They get lunches. They get access to a government funded access to a farm, produce that's local. Private schools don't do that, Can't. They can't access it. A lot of those locations also, if someone wanted to go to a farmer's market to buy for his or her family fresh produce, they'd have to drive very far. And often they work two or three jobs and they have one car and it breaks down a lot. So going to a distant farmer's market is a gamble. So again, how we got to get the food to them. So basically what I'm thinking is, okay, so a lot of these communities are disempowered also in the sense that they do not own property. That's another aspect of our country's history where minorities, racial or otherwise, were disempowered by making sure that they either don't or lose access to ownership of land. Whereas you look at the big churches in America, often they're white, they own a lot of land. That's one of the biggest land owners in America: churches. But the inner city black churches don't. The mosques don't. The Hindu temples don't. Owning land is something that these faith groups are new. They're still in their infancy in developing perhaps. But if you get these faith groups to be part owners of farms, if you get their faith based schools to be part owners, you can now also empower their own youth. Typically you'll have a few percentage points of the youth that are really interested and serious to make a go of it. That's often the case. So, but if you have a community with 5,000 youth, because there are 40,000 people in that demographic, you can easily find the number you want to go help and learn and then bring the produce back to their church or the mosque or their school and sell it for a profit that they share with the farm. Now the youth has learned and they brought the food back at affordable prices to their own community. It seems like a key challenge is if you want to get into farming, you need the access to the lands. So that's the key. Yes. And I've been this year in particular, I've been visiting communities to basically try and put together these strategic partnerships. Every single prayer place the key issue is we can't afford it. The farms are too expensive and the people saying that are the people who want to be involved in running a project. So basically a strategic partnership is like this: You're not a farmer, but you're an academician with a good job and you have a desire to put some of your income towards impact investment. You're not giving it away, you're investing it, but you want it to make a difference. Not simply bring you profit back to your bank account, but make a difference in people's lives. You want both, but you're moderating your desire for cash profit. So you put that together with the youth that want to own land. Now they both own the land. One is getting a return when the venture turns a profit, the others are learning and working hard because they've got a vested interest in the business succeeding. That's how they're going to make their career. So they've helped each other and they're co-owners of their own land locally. It hasn't gone outside the community in terms of ownership. What do you feel like has been your greatest success so far and your greatest learning experience? So I think that the greatest success I can point to is that I'm finding it not difficult to bring together the strategic partners in almost every community I've visited. Takes about a week. And I'm driving lots of places, meeting lots of people. Thinking and asking and talking and eventually you find in this community these are the right strategic partners. But the challenge has been to be able to access enough of their communities to convince those who have impact investment potential to go ahead and begin pulling their financial resources to empower their youth. The only way I can think of starting the ball rolling in that second challenging area is we're putting up our own real estate ownership in New Jersey as a collateral in every place that we go to. When they invest, they'll be investing to be part owners of an existing farm and their investment will go towards buying a second farm where they reside. So now they become owners in multiple locations. So five years down the line when we've got five farms, we've got share owners, part owners from five different communities in all of the five farms. It's a security issue. But it gets people who have $5,000 and are hesitant more encouraged to say Yeah, I'll go in and you. You put five of those at $25,000. You got $125,000. You can put a good down payment on a good piece of property. At the Duke World Food Policy Center we're trying to play a bridging role and it sounds like you have invested in being a matchmaker and all on all levels of what you're trying to do. So this has to be a lot more people because I cannot keep on trying to do it all. I'm reasonably successful. But for this to really achieve its potential, we need a lot more people jumping on board to do this. Produced by Deborah Hill, Duke World Food Policy Center
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