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Today's broadcast is C1E94 for Theme Thursday, April 24th, 2025 (Switch 2 pre-order day.....take 2......we hope!). Today's broadcast is a celebration of the music from the various mainline installments of the Jackbox Party Pack – the greatest "social lubricant" in the history of video games - and the longest run-time [quote] "ordinary" Channel 1 episode in Nerd Noise Radio history, So, buckle up for nearly 2 ½ hours of the sweet sweet sounds which have made family gatherings and other social events so survivable!     Tracklist!     Track # / Party Pack # / Track Name / Minigame / Composer(s) / Timestamp     B1) Intro - 00:00:00     01) PP04 - Lobby - Monster Seeking Monster - Andy Poland - 00:05:16     02) PP01 - Theme - You Don't Know Jack 2015 - Andy Poland - 00:08:13     03) PP07 - Presentation 3 - Talking Points - Brian Chard - 00:10:15     04) PP04 - Final Round Reveal - Survive the Internet - Brian Chard - 00:12:37     05) PP03 - Artwork Creation - Tee K.O. - Brian Chard - 00:14:16     06) PP04 - Gameplay Music 1 - Bracketeering - Brian Chard - 00:16:32     07) PP10 - Are We Not Birds? - Dodo Re Mi - Nate Sandberg - 00:20:28     08) PP01 - Background Loop - Drawful - Andy Poland - 00:22:55     09) PP02 - Lobby - Earwax - Andy Poland - 00:24:43     10) PP02 - Draw Music A - Bidiots - Randy Sly - 00:28:22     11) PP03 - List of the Dead Songs - Trivia Murder Party - Randy Sly - 00:29:26     12) PP08 - Draw - Weapons Drawn - Elise Wattman - 00:31:19     13) PP04 - Round 1 Draw 1 - Civic Doodle - Andy Poland - 00:33:55     14) PP01 - Main Theme - Drawful - Andy Poland - 00:37:02     15) PP03 - Timer Music 2 - Fakin' It - Andy Poland - 00:38:46     16) PP07 - Write - Talking Points - Brian Chard - 00:41:16     17) PP03 - Slogan Creation - Tee K.O. - Brian Chard - 00:43:27     18) PP04 - Final Round Twist - Survive the Internet - Brian Chard - 00:45:47     19) PP05 - Rap Loop 14 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 00:47:48     20) PP05 - Rap Loop 15 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 00:48:49     21) PP06 - Background 1 - Joke Boat - Andy Poland - 00:49:48     22) PP08 - Deliberation 7 - The Poll Mine - Brian Chard - 00:54:19     23) PP08 - Vote 2 - Drawful Animate - Andy Poland - 00:56:06     24) PP05 - Gameplay 6 - Zeeple Dome - Brian Chard - 00:58:11     25) PP03 - Theme - Tee K.O. - Brian Chard - 01:00:41     26) PP07 - Emergency - The Devils and the Details - Brian Chard - 01:03:53     27) PP04 - Question Music 1 - Fibbage 3 - Andy Poland - 01:04:27     28) PP05 - Write Loop 1 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 01:05:20     29) PP10 - Serious Business Chat - Fixy Text - Kelly Shuda - 01:08:20     30) PP06 - Background 2 - Joke Boat - Andy Poland - 01:10:25     31) PP09 - Final Round - Fibbage 4 - Andy Poland - 01:12:25     32) PP04 - Final Round Write - Survive the Internet - Brian Chard - 01:15:33     33) PP02 - Choose Music B - Earwax - Andy Poland - 01:16:59     34) PP06 - Deliberation Room - Push the Button - Andy Poland - 01:18:40     35) PP05 - Rap Loop 11 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 01:21:17     36) PP01 - Background Loop 1 - Word Spud - Andy Poland - 01:21:46     37) PP01 - Background Loop 4 - Lie Swatter - Andy Poland - 01:22:19     38) PP01 - Background Loop 5 - Lie Swatter - Andy Poland - 01:23:45     39) PP01 - Background Loop 2 - Word Spud - Andy Poland - 01:25:11     40) PP05 - Lobby - Split the Room - Brian Chard - 01:26:17     41) PP02 - Draw Music B - Bidiots - Randy Sly - 01:29:02     42) PP08 - Question Series 1 - The Wheel of Enormous Proportions - Andy Poland - 01:30:29     43) PP10 - Lobby 2 - Dodo Re Mi - Nate Sandberg - 01:34:12     44) PP05 - Final Round - Split the Room - Brian Chard - 01:36:05     45) PP03 - Round 3 Write - Quiplash 2 - Andy Poland - 01:38:17     46) PP07 - Friday - The Devils and the Details - Brian Chard - 01:42:16     47) PP05 - Draw Final - Patently Stupid - Andy Poland - 01:44:28     48) PP01 - Lobby Theme - Lie Swatter - Andy Poland - 01:46:22     49) PP02 - Bid Loop B - Bidiots - Randy Sly - 01:48:02     50) PP01 - Main Question - Fibbage XL - Andy Poland - 01:50:02     51) PP05 - Write Loop 2 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 01:50:46     52) PP06 - Slotting 2 - Role Models - Brian Chard - 01:51:45     53) PP09 - Write 1 - Roomerang - Brian Chard - 01:54:33     54) PP04 - Chat Music 2 - Monster Seeking Monster - Andy Poland - 01:56:35     55) PP05 - Credits (feat. Simeon Norfleet Sr.) - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 01:58:05     56) PP04 - Choose Music 1 - Fibbage 3 - Andy Poland - 02:00:10     57) PP08 - Draw 2 - Drawful Animate - Andy Poland - 02:00:50     58) PP05 - Write Loop 3 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 02:03:57     59) PP08 - Composition 3 - Job Job - Brian Chard - 02:06:50     60) PP01 - Choose Music - Drawful - Andy Poland - 02:08:22     61) PP10 - Main Question 3 - Timejinx - Elise Wattman - 02:10:26     62) PP02 - Background B - Bomb Corp - Andy Poland - 02:13:07     63) PP10 - Flirty Write 1 - Fixy Text - Kelly Shuda - 02:15:03     64) PP10 - Main Question 1 - Timejinx - Elise Wattman - 02:16:06     65) PP09 - Round 2 Scoreboard 2 - Quixort - Nate Sandberg - 02:18:54     66) PP08 - Unused Idea 2 - The Wheel of Enormous Proportions - Andy Poland - 02:19:45     67) PP09 - Appraisal Reveal - Junktopia - Elise Wattman - 02:22:14     68) PP07 - Lobby - The Devils and the Details - Brian Chard - 02:24:08     69) PP04 - Credits - Fibbage 3 - Andy Poland - 02:27:18     B1) Outro - 02:29:54        Music Block Runtime: 02:24:40 / Total Episode Runtime: 02:40:16    ----------------------------------------------------------------------     The promised basic nerdy stats:     Tracks by Party Pack:     PP01 - 10  PP02 - 6  PP03 - 6  PP04 - 10  PP05 - 11  PP06 - 4  PP07 - 5  PP08 - 7  PP09 - 4  PP10 - 6     Tracks by Composer:     Andy Poland - 38  Brian Chard - 18  Randy Sly - 4  Elise Wattman - 4  Nate Sandberg - 3  Kelly Shuda - 2  Simeon Norfleet Sr (feat) - 1     JBPP Minigames NOT featured in this episode:     PP02 - Quiplash XL - Andy Poland  PP03 - Guesspionage - Brian Chard  PP05 - YDKJ: Full Stream - Andy Poland  PP06 - Trivia Murder Party 2 - Andy Poland  PP06 - Dictionarium - Brian Chard (w/ Andy Poland)  PP07 - Quiplash 3 - Andy Poland  PP07 - Blather ‘Round - Randy Sly and Andy Poland  PP09 - Nonsensory - Andy Poland  PP10 - Hypnotorious - Andy Poland  PP10 - Tee K.O. 2 - Brian Chard     (Note: I wish I'd made it a requirement on myself to feature at least one track from each minigame….alas. But hey, if that's 10 minigames excluded, the simple math is that means that's 40 minigames INCLUDED - why am I hearing echoes of the old “four out of five dentists recommend trident gum” commercials?)    Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.    Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Workstation Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (running Fedora COSMIC Linux), a 2017-spec DIY gaming PC (running Bazzite Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS Linux). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!    You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.    Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:     https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio    Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here:    nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.    Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at     https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/    We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/    Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:     Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.    Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.    Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com    You can also follow us on Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at  And we are also now on TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible!     But frankly, probably the absolute best way you can connect with us is on our new Discord Channel: "Nerd Noise Radio – Channel D", which includes various sub-channels for all sorts of different types of connection and conversation:     https://discord.gg/GUWdaXUw    Thanks for listening! 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In episode 1844, Miles and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by musician and host of Hood Politics, Propaganda, to discuss… Here Come The Regrets…, The Hershey Movie Is Even Worse Than You Think and more! Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) on tariff strategy: "Whose throat do I get to choke if this proves to be wrong?" Hershey Chocolate Movie Set With ‘Mean Girls’ Director, Finn Wittrock and Alexandra Daddario to Star (EXCLUSIVE) ‘The Studio’ Gets Closer to Real Life: Hershey Chocolate Movie in the Works with Finn Wittrock and Alexandra Daddario Hershey’s Once Violently Suppressed a Strike by Chocolate Workers The Milton Hershey School: Making Dreams Come True Hershey profits benefit a boarding school that spends lavishly on its low-income students. But that investment comes with strings attached — leaving some students behind and others mired in debt. 'Chocolate Trust' book raises questions about Milton Hershey School and education of students Milton’s Bittersweet Legacy: Unsavory Scandals Former Milton Hershey School House Parent accused of sexually abusing minor LISTEN: Passion Project by Propaganda ft. Blu (OUT THIS FRIDAY!) WATCH: The Daily Zeitgeist on Youtube! L.A. Wildfire Relief: Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dom and D back for another week with Everyone Needs an Aquarius. They discuss: 1:30 Sean Kingston and his mom guilt of wire fraud 14:17 Amerie's New Music sounds refreshing 21:33 Demi Blanco's false 911 call that ends in the death of Young Scooter 37:16 The real owners of Zeus Network 52:33 Anthony Edwards pays all of his child support up in a lump sum 1:06:38 Trump accidently deports man to El Salvador and they can't get him back Subscribe to the Everyone Needs an Aquarius Patreon https://bit.ly/3tXnnCz  Go cop your candles from Dom at www.saint-angeles.com/candles and use the promo code: Aquarius Email the show at straightolc@gmail.com           Follow SOLC Network online Instagram: https://bit.ly/39VL542                                    Twitter: https://bit.ly/39aL395                                     Facebook: https://bit.ly/3sQn7je                            To Listen to the podcast Podbean https://bit.ly/3t7SDJH                                YouTube http://bit.ly/3ouZqJU                                Spotify http://spoti.fi/3pwZZnJ                                Apple http://apple.co/39rwjD1                                                         IHeartRadio http://ihr.fm/2L0A2y 

Get ready for an episode packed with legal loopholes, fake comas, and an ill-advised wedding! This week, Kalvin and Chris break down Arrested Development Season 3, Episode 10, Fakin' It, where the Bluth family prepares for trial in the most chaotic way possible—featuring a mock court presided over by none other than Judge Reinhold. Meanwhile, Buster's accidental overdose lands him in the perfect situation: a guilt-free, hospital-sponsored nap. Plus, George Michael and Maeby take role-playing a little too far, leading to some unintended family drama. Mock trial with J. Reinhold? Franklin's bold new fashion statement? We're covering it all—so tune in and let's break it down! -----------------------------------------------------------------Follow us on Twitter and Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@Magic3TVPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out all of our sweet merch at the Magic Number is 3 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Merch Store ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠And learn more about The Magic Number is 3 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Here⁠

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There are many people who are carrying hurts we never know about. Be kind. 

Jamie & Leigh caught up with these two incredible young women as they come to the end of their year representing the city. They also put them through a round of Fakin', Bacon, On-This-Day-kin.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Happy Friday, Conspiracy Players. Have you thought of A.I. in the last few days? Have you maybe even used it in one form or another? If your answer is no, that might just put you in the minority crowd. From the small things, such as how every day tasks are becoming exponentially obsolete, to the big and darker picture, with implications of a landslide into technological dystopia—we discuss it all on this episode with none other than returning champion, Ryan Dean of Dangerous World Podcast. The seductive nature of Artificial Intelligence and the large language models that dictate the algorithms of modern life…but at what digital sacrifice does this convenience come? Join in on the conversation that ranges from the Scurge of TikTok to the future (or maybe present?) dive into a simulated reality; followed by a spiraling discussion of various current events and typical conspiracy talk. As always, thank you so much for joining us and being the Player you are; please like, subscribe, comment, or share with anyone who might wanna hear the good word. Check out all of Ryan's awesome content by clicking on the link below. We'll catch you next time! https://t.co/UL9qPc0CyV Conspiracy PlayTime Stickers- https://ko-fi.com/s/0842215ef6

The very silly and completely unnecessary game that is a staple of a Wednesday morning.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dane Simpson joined Jamie & Leigh for Fakin', Bacon, On-This-Day-kin, and everyone got weirdly sidetracked!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome back to the Illegal Opinions Podcast! The Podcast For People That Don't Like Podcasts! New episodes every Monday on your favorite streaming service.

Overnight News, 2. What Turns You On? 3. Making A Quick Buck! 4. Fakin' It Till We Make It! 5. Wheely Windback Wednesday, 6. The Colonel's Lodge!!   The ONLY way to wake up in Adelaide is with your best brekkie mates Tom & Callum on Fresh 92.7 Keep up to date on our socials.                                                                                  Instagram - @fresh927                                                                                              Facebook - Fresh 92.7See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Overnight News, 2. What Turns You On? 3. Making A Quick Buck! 4. Fakin' It Till We Make It! 5. Wheely Windback Wednesday, 6. The Colonel's Lodge!!   The ONLY way to wake up in Adelaide is with your best brekkie mates Tom & Callum on Fresh 92.7 Keep up to date on our socials.                                                                                  Instagram - @fresh927                                                                                              Facebook - Fresh 92.7See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on DMT, Sam and Jack talk about performing comedy, childhood memories and more - Don't Miss This Podcasr!

En el programa de hoy hemos hecho una larga sección de imperdibles. Desde discursos de Flick hasta la experiencia de vivir una clase de Llados. También hemos vuelto a tener las aventuras de Víctor en Tailandia, la previa de San Juan y todo lo que ha acontecido en el mundo del motor y del Wrestling. Además de sancionar a Iván Martinez, con Héctor Morcillo, Oriol Manrique y Víctor Martín desde Tailandia. Presentado por Ferran Jaime.

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[Únete a la Comunidad y Recibe Contenido que NO comparto en abierto: https://www.hombrealfa.top/comunidad/ ] *¿Qué aprenderás en este episodio?: 1) Mi opinión sobre los "coaches". 2) Vendehumismo, hacerse rico fácil y la "libertad financiera" 3) La burbuja del emprendimiento en la manosfera. 4) Por qué esa "necesidad" de desempoderar a los hombres. 5) Cómo la Red Pill explica las críticas y los ataques a la manosfera. En el Episodio de hoy comparto mi opinión honesta y sin filtros sobre un artículo que habla sobre los gurús, pseudogurús y vendehumos dentro de la manosfera. [Únete a la Comunidad y Recibe Contenido que NO comparto en abierto: https://www.hombrealfa.top/comunidad/ ] Además concluyo el episodio con un enfoque Red Pill que explica el por qué de ciertos ataques a la manosfera o sus distintos creadores de contenido. ¡Suscríbete y dale like si te aporta!

Our favourite Wagga-based name-dropping international comedy superstar swings by the studio to chat about his hectic schedule, his hilarious dad Bow, and to play another round of "Fakin', Bacon, Or On-This-Day-kin"! Catch up with all Dane's stuff at his website, or his Facebook page.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Is Disney using bots to astroturf social media platforms like Twitter/X? It's VERY plausible, given the financial pressure the company is currently under and the fact that they've been busted in the past before... ➡️ Tip Jar and Fan Support: http://ClownfishSupport.com ➡️ Official Merch Store: http://ShopClownfish.com ➡️ Official Website: http://ClownfishTV.com ➡️ Audio Edition: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qJc5C6OkQkaZnGCeuVOD1 ➡️ Gaming News: https://open.spotify.com/show/0A7VIqE3r5MQkFgL9nifNc Additional Context: Disney, with its kingdom of content ranging from Marvel to Star Wars, has always had a lot to gain from positive social media buzz. There have been past accusations and instances across various industries where companies were caught or suspected of using bots to artificially inflate engagement or positive sentiment online. These digital minions can like, share, retweet, or even generate content, creating a mirage of widespread enthusiasm or support. While Disney has never been officially proven to engage in such practices, the entertainment behemoth has certainly faced its share of scrutiny over how it manages its public image and engages with audiences online. No castle is impervious to the siege of financial realities. Disney, like many other entertainment giants, has faced significant financial pressures, especially in the wake of global challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic. These pressures have been compounded by the need to constantly feed the content beast for platforms like Disney+, compete with a legion of streaming services, and ensure blockbuster returns on cinematic investments. In such a high-stakes environment, the temptation to employ unconventional strategies to ensure success could be higher. The role of social media in shaping public opinion, driving moviegoer enthusiasm, and influencing streaming subscriptions cannot be overstated. Positive trends on platforms like Twitter/X can translate into real-world success, driving ticket sales, subscriptions, and overall brand positivity. In this digital arena, perception often becomes reality, making the battleground of social media a key front for corporate strategy. While the theory that Disney might be using bots to create an artificial sense of popularity or drown out criticism is plausible, especially given the financial and competitive pressures it faces, plausibility isn't the same as proof. The digital footprint of bots can be sophisticated and difficult to trace definitively back to a source, especially one as scrutinized and sophisticated as Disney. Moreover, Disney's sprawling empire and legion of genuine fans mean that any artificial efforts could be both unnecessary and risky, given the potential for backlash if such tactics were uncovered. About Us: Clownfish TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary channel that covers Entertainment and Tech from a consumer's point of view. We talk about Gaming, Comics, Anime, TV, Movies, Animation and more. Hosted by Kneon and Geeky Sparkles. Disclaimer: This series is produced by Clownfish Studios and WebReef Media, and is part of ClownfishTV.com. Opinions expressed by our contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of our guests, affiliates, sponsors, or advertisers. ClownfishTV.com is an unofficial news source and has no connection to any company that we may cover. This channel and website and the content made available through this site are for educational, entertainment and informational purposes only. These so-called “fair uses” are permitted even if the use of the work would otherwise be infringing. #Disney #SocialMedia #Twitter #Marvel #StarWars #News #Commentary #Reaction #Podcast #Comedy #Entertainment #Hollywood #PopCulture #Tech

ATTENDEES Psalm One, Keith Rollins, Daniel Olney AGENDA New Business Discuss some additional 2023 superlatives.  Discuss projects of the year 25-1. DA LIST 1. Maps by Kenny Segal & billy woods 2. Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love? By Kara Jackson 3. From Whence It Came by YUNGMORPHEUS 4. Real B*tches Don't Die! by Kari Faux 5. Ritual by Stik Figa x The Expert 6. Raven by Kelela  7. Sleepingdogs-I'm Fakin' My Own Death Just to Get Some Rest 8. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips by Armand Hammer  9. Glorious Game by Black Thought x El Michels Affair 10. The Greater Wings by Julie Byrne  11. He Left Nothing For The Swim Back by SKECH185 12. Sorry I Haven't Called by Vagabond  13.House of Disorder by Nosaj x Steel Tipped Dove 14.The Great Escape-Larry June x Alchemist   15. Through and Through by Baby Rose  16.BRAP by Estee Nack x V Don 17.Chung Shui II by Chung 18.The Fish That Saved Portland by Televangel x Milc 19.Rich by Homeboy Sandman 20. Jaguar II by Victoria Monet 21. Space Heavy by King Krule  22. Incorruptible Saints by Sleep Sinatra x Televangel  23. Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering by Open Mike Eagle  24. Heavy Heavy by Young Fathers 25. Sundial by Noname

In episode 32 of "Behind the Likes" podcast, hosts Winter and Chy discuss trending topics including the recent Grammy awards, the concept of being exposed, and the impact of being haters.

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For those who haven't heard the announcement I just posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a multi-episode look at the Byrds in 1966-69 and the birth of country rock. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a half-hour bonus episode, on "With a Little Help From My Friends" by Joe Cocker. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources No Mixcloud at this time as there are too many Byrds songs in the first chunk, but I will try to put together a multi-part Mixcloud when all the episodes for this song are up. My main source for the Byrds is Timeless Flight Revisited by Johnny Rogan, I also used Chris Hillman's autobiography, the 331/3 books on The Notorious Byrd Brothers and The Gilded Palace of Sin, I used Barney Hoskyns' Hotel California and John Einarson's Desperadoes as general background on Californian country-rock, Calling Me Hone, Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock by Bob Kealing for information on Parsons, and Requiem For The Timeless Vol 2 by Johnny Rogan for information about the post-Byrds careers of many members. Information on Gary Usher comes from The California Sound by Stephen McParland. And this three-CD set is a reasonable way of getting most of the Byrds' important recordings. The International Submarine Band's only album can be bought from Bandcamp. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before we begin, a brief warning – this episode contains brief mentions of suicide, alcoholism, abortion, and heroin addiction, and a brief excerpt of chanting of a Nazi slogan. If you find those subjects upsetting, you may want to read the transcript rather than listen. As we heard in the last part, in October 1967 Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman fired David Crosby from the Byrds. It was only many years later, in a conversation with the group's ex-manager Jim Dickson, that Crosby realised that they didn't actually have a legal right to fire him -- the Byrds had no partnership agreement, and according to Dickson given that the original group had been Crosby, McGuinn, and Gene Clark, it would have been possible for Crosby and McGuinn to fire Hillman, but not for McGuinn and Hillman to fire Crosby. But Crosby was unaware of this at the time, and accepted a pay-off, with which he bought a boat and sailed to Florida, where saw a Canadian singer-songwriter performing live: [Excerpt: Joni Mitchell, "Both Sides Now (live Ann Arbor, MI, 27/10/67)"] We'll find out what happened when David Crosby brought Joni Mitchell back to California in a future story... With Crosby gone, the group had a major problem. They were known for two things -- their jangly twelve-string guitar and their soaring harmonies. They still had the twelve-string, even in their new slimmed-down trio format, but they only had two of their four vocalists -- and while McGuinn had sung lead on most of their hits, the sound of the Byrds' harmony had been defined by Crosby on the high harmonies and Gene Clark's baritone. There was an obvious solution available, of course, and they took it. Gene Clark had quit the Byrds in large part because of his conflicts with David Crosby, and had remained friendly with the others. Clark's solo album had featured Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke, and had been produced by Gary Usher who was now producing the Byrds' records, and it had been a flop and he was at a loose end. After recording the Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers album, Clark had started work with Curt Boettcher, a singer-songwriter-producer who had produced hits for Tommy Roe and the Association, and who was currently working with Gary Usher. Boettcher produced two tracks for Clark, but they went unreleased: [Excerpt: Gene Clark, "Only Colombe"] That had been intended as the start of sessions for an album, but Clark had been dropped by Columbia rather than getting to record a second album. He had put together a touring band with guitarist Clarence White, bass player John York, and session drummer "Fast" Eddie Hoh, but hadn't played many gigs, and while he'd been demoing songs for a possible second solo album he didn't have a record deal to use them on. Chisa Records, a label co-owned by Larry Spector, Peter Fonda, and Hugh Masekela, had put out some promo copies of one track, "Yesterday, Am I Right", but hadn't released it properly: [Excerpt: Gene Clark, "Yesterday, Am I Right"] Clark, like the Byrds, had left Dickson and Tickner's management organisation and signed with Larry Spector, and Spector was wanting to make the most of his artists -- and things were very different for the Byrds now. Clark had had three main problems with being in the Byrds -- ego clashes with David Crosby, the stresses of being a pop star with a screaming teenage fanbase, and his fear of flying. Clark had really wanted to have the same kind of role in the Byrds that Brian Wilson had with the Beach Boys -- appear on the records, write songs, do TV appearances, maybe play local club gigs, but not go on tour playing to screaming fans. But now David Crosby was out of the group and there were no screaming fans any more -- the Byrds weren't having the kind of pop hits they'd had a few years earlier and were now playing to the hippie audience. Clark promised that with everything else being different, he could cope with the idea of flying -- if necessary he'd just take tranquilisers or get so drunk he passed out. So Gene Clark rejoined the Byrds. According to some sources he sang on their next single, "Goin' Back," though I don't hear his voice in the mix: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Goin' Back"] According to McGuinn, Clark was also an uncredited co-writer on one song on the album they were recording, "Get to You". But before sessions had gone very far, the group went on tour. They appeared on the Smothers Brothers TV show, miming their new single and "Mr. Spaceman", and Clark seemed in good spirits, but on the tour of the Midwest that followed, according to their road manager of the time, Clark was terrified, singing flat and playing badly, and his guitar and vocal mic were left out of the mix. And then it came time to get on a plane, and Clark's old fears came back, and he refused to fly from Minneapolis to New York with the rest of the group, instead getting a train back to LA. And that was the end of Clark's second stint in the Byrds. For the moment, the Byrds decided they were going to continue as a trio on stage and a duo in the studio -- though Michael Clarke did make an occasional return to the sessions as they progressed. But of course, McGuinn and Hillman couldn't record an album entirely by themselves. They did have several tracks in a semi-completed state still featuring Crosby, but they needed people to fill his vocal and instrumental roles on the remaining tracks. For the vocals, Usher brought in his friend and collaborator Curt Boettcher, with whom he was also working at the time in a band called Sagittarius: [Excerpt: Sagittarius, "Another Time"] Boettcher was a skilled harmony vocalist -- according to Usher, he was one of the few vocal arrangers that Brian Wilson looked up to, and Jerry Yester had said of the Modern Folk Quartet that “the only vocals that competed with us back then was Curt Boettcher's group” -- and he was more than capable of filling Crosby's vocal gap, but there was never any real camaraderie between him and the Byrds. He particularly disliked McGuinn, who he said "was just such a poker face. He never let you know where you stood. There was never any lightness," and he said of the sessions as a whole "I was really thrilled to be working with The Byrds, and, at the same time, I was glad when it was all over. There was just no fun, and they were such weird guys to work with. They really freaked me out!" Someone else who Usher brought in, who seems to have made a better impression, was Red Rhodes: [Excerpt: Red Rhodes, "Red's Ride"] Rhodes was a pedal steel player, and one of the few people to make a career on the instrument outside pure country music, which is the genre with which the instrument is usually identified. Rhodes was a country player, but he was the country pedal steel player of choice for musicians from the pop and folk-rock worlds. He worked with Usher and Boettcher on albums by Sagittarius and the Millennium, and played on records by Cass Elliot, Carole King, the Beach Boys, and the Carpenters, among many others -- though he would be best known for his longstanding association with Michael Nesmith of the Monkees, playing on most of Nesmith's recordings from 1968 through 1992. Someone else who was associated with the Monkees was Moog player Paul Beaver, who we talked about in the episode on "Hey Jude", and who had recently played on the Monkees' Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd album: [Excerpt: The Monkees, "Star Collector"] And the fourth person brought in to help the group out was someone who was already familiar to them. Clarence White was, like Red Rhodes, from the country world -- he'd started out in a bluegrass group called the Kentucky Colonels: [Excerpt: The Kentucky Colonels, "Clinch Mountain Backstep"] But White had gone electric and formed one of the first country-rock bands, a group named Nashville West, as well as becoming a popular session player. He had already played on a couple of tracks on Younger Than Yesterday, as well as playing with Hillman and Michael Clarke on Gene Clark's album with the Gosdin Brothers and being part of Clark's touring band with John York and "Fast" Eddie Hoh. The album that the group put together with these session players was a triumph of sequencing and production. Usher had recently been keen on the idea of crossfading tracks into each other, as the Beatles had on Sgt Pepper, and had done the same on the two Chad and Jeremy albums he produced. By clever crossfading and mixing, Usher managed to create something that had the feel of being a continuous piece, despite being the product of several very different creative minds, with Usher's pop sensibility and arrangement ideas being the glue that held everything together. McGuinn was interested in sonic experimentation. He, more than any of the others, seems to have been the one who was most pushing for them to use the Moog, and he continued his interest in science fiction, with a song, "Space Odyssey", inspired by the Arthur C. Clarke short story "The Sentinel", which was also the inspiration for the then-forthcoming film 2001: A Space Odyssey: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Space Odyssey"] Then there was Chris Hillman, who was coming up with country material like "Old John Robertson": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Old John Robertson"] And finally there was David Crosby. Even though he'd been fired from the group, both McGuinn and Hillman didn't see any problem with using the songs he had already contributed. Three of the album's eleven songs are compositions that are primarily by Crosby, though they're all co-credited to either Hillman or both Hillman and McGuinn. Two of those songs are largely unchanged from Crosby's original vision, just finished off by the rest of the group after his departure, but one song is rather different: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Draft Morning"] "Draft Morning" was a song that was important to Crosby, and was about his -- and the group's -- feelings about the draft and the ongoing Vietnam War. It was a song that had meant a lot to him, and he'd been part of the recording for the backing track. But when it came to doing the final vocals, McGuinn and Hillman had a problem -- they couldn't remember all the words to the song, and obviously there was no way they were going to get Crosby to give them the original lyrics. So they rewrote it, coming up with new lyrics where they couldn't remember the originals: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Draft Morning"] But there was one other contribution to the track that was very distinctively the work of Usher. Gary Usher had a predilection at this point for putting musique concrete sections in otherwise straightforward pop songs. He'd done it with "Fakin' It" by Simon and Garfunkel, on which he did uncredited production work, and did it so often that it became something of a signature of records on Columbia in 1967 and 68, even being copied by his friend Jim Guercio on "Susan" by the Buckinghams. Usher had done this, in particular, on the first two singles by Sagittarius, his project with Curt Boettcher. In particular, the second Sagittarius single, "Hotel Indiscreet", had had a very jarring section (and a warning here, this contains some brief chanting of a Nazi slogan): [Excerpt: Sagittarius, "Hotel Indiscreet"] That was the work of a comedy group that Usher had discovered and signed to Columbia. The Firesign Theatre were so named because, like Usher, they were all interested in astrology, and they were all "fire signs".  Usher was working on their first album, Waiting For The Electrician or Someone Like Him, at the same time as he was working on the Byrds album: [Excerpt: The Firesign Theatre, "W.C. Fields Forever"] And he decided to bring in the Firesigns to contribute to "Draft Morning": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Draft Morning"] Crosby was, understandably, apoplectic when he heard the released version of "Draft Morning". As far as Hillman and McGuinn were concerned, it was always a Byrds song, and just because Crosby had left the band didn't mean they couldn't use material he'd written for the Byrds. Crosby took a different view, saying later "It was one of the sleaziest things they ever did. I had an entire song finished. They just casually rewrote it and decided to take half the credit. How's that? Without even asking me. I had a finished song, entirely mine. I left. They did the song anyway. They rewrote it and put it in their names. And mine was better. They just took it because they didn't have enough songs." What didn't help was that the publicity around the album, titled The Notorious Byrd Brothers minimised Crosby's contributions. Crosby is on five of the eleven tracks -- as he said later, "I'm all over that album, they just didn't give me credit. I played, I sang, I wrote, I even played bass on one track, and they tried to make out that I wasn't even on it, that they could be that good without me." But the album, like earlier Byrds albums, didn't have credits saying who played what, and the cover only featured McGuinn, Hillman, and Michael Clarke in the photo -- along with a horse, which Crosby took as another insult, as representing him. Though as McGuinn said, "If we had intended to do that, we would have turned the horse around". Even though Michael Clarke was featured on the cover, and even owned the horse that took Crosby's place, by the time the album came out he too had been fired. Unlike Crosby, he went quietly and didn't even ask for any money. According to McGuinn, he was increasingly uninterested in being in the band -- suffering from depression, and missing the teenage girls who had been the group's fans a year or two earlier. He gladly stopped being a Byrd, and went off to work in a hotel instead. In his place came Hillman's cousin, Kevin Kelley, fresh out of a band called the Rising Sons: [Excerpt: The Rising Sons, "Take a Giant Step"] We've mentioned the Rising Sons briefly in some previous episodes, but they were one of the earliest LA folk-rock bands, and had been tipped to go on to greater things -- and indeed, many of them did, though not as part of the Rising Sons. Jesse Lee Kincaid, the least well-known of the band, only went on to release a couple of singles and never had much success, but his songs were picked up by other acts -- his "Baby You Come Rollin' 'Cross My Mind" was a minor hit for the Peppermint Trolley Company: [Excerpt: The Peppermint Trolley Company, "Baby You Come Rollin' 'Cross My Mind"] And Harry Nilsson recorded Kincaid's "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune": [Excerpt: Harry Nilsson, "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune"] But Kincaid was the least successful of the band members, and most of the other members are going to come up in future episodes of the podcast -- bass player Gary Marker played for a while with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, lead singer Taj Mahal is one of the most respected blues singers of the last sixty years, original drummer Ed Cassidy went on to form the progressive rock band Spirit, and lead guitarist Ry Cooder went on to become one of the most important guitarists in rock music. Kelley had been the last to join the Rising Sons, replacing Cassidy but he was in the band by the time they released their one single, a version of Rev. Gary Davis' "Candy Man" produced by Terry Melcher, with Kincaid on lead vocals: [Excerpt: The Rising Sons, "Candy Man"] That hadn't been a success, and the group's attempt at a follow-up, the Goffin and King song "Take a Giant Step", which we heard earlier, was blocked from release by Columbia as being too druggy -- though there were no complaints when the Monkees released their version as the B-side to "Last Train to Clarksville". The Rising Sons, despite being hugely popular as a live act, fell apart without ever releasing a second single. According to Marker, Mahal realised that he would be better off as a solo artist, but also Columbia didn't know how to market a white group with a Black lead vocalist (leading to Kincaid singing lead on their one released single, and producer Terry Melcher trying to get Mahal to sing more like a white singer on "Take a Giant Step"), and some in the band thought that Terry Melcher was deliberately trying to sink their career because they refused to sign to his publishing company. After the band split up, Marker and Kelley had formed a band called Fusion, which Byrds biographer Johnny Rogan describes as being a jazz-fusion band, presumably because of their name. Listening to the one album the group recorded, it is in fact more blues-rock, very like the music Marker made with the Rising Sons and Captain Beefheart. But Kelley's not on that album, because before it was recorded he was approached by his cousin Chris Hillman and asked to join the Byrds. At the time, Fusion were doing so badly that Kelley had to work a day job in a clothes shop, so he was eager to join a band with a string of hits who were just about to conclude a lucrative renegotiation of their record contract -- a renegotiation which may have played a part in McGuinn and Hillman firing Crosby and Clarke, as they were now the only members on the new contracts. The choice of Kelley made a lot of sense. He was mostly just chosen because he was someone they knew and they needed a drummer in a hurry -- they needed someone new to promote The Notorious Byrd Brothers and didn't have time to go through a laborious process of audtioning, and so just choosing Hillman's cousin made sense, but Kelley also had a very strong, high voice, and so he could fill in the harmony parts that Crosby had sung, stopping the new power-trio version of the band from being *too* thin-sounding in comparison to the five-man band they'd been not that much earlier. The Notorious Byrd Brothers was not a commercial success -- it didn't even make the top forty in the US, though it did in the UK -- to the presumed chagrin of Columbia, who'd just paid a substantial amount of money for this band who were getting less successful by the day. But it was, though, a gigantic critical success, and is generally regarded as the group's creative pinnacle. Robert Christgau, for example, talked about how LA rather than San Francisco was where the truly interesting music was coming from, and gave guarded praise to Captain Beefheart, Van Dyke Parks, and the Fifth Dimension (the vocal group, not the Byrds album) but talked about three albums as being truly great -- the Beach Boys' Wild Honey, Love's Forever Changes, and The Notorious Byrd Brothers. (He also, incidentally, talked about how the two songs that Crosby's new discovery Joni Mitchell had contributed to a Judy Collins album were much better than most folk music, and how he could hardly wait for her first album to come out). And that, more or less, was the critical consensus about The Notorious Byrd Brothers -- that it was, in Christgau's words "simply the best album the Byrds have ever recorded" and that "Gone are the weak--usually folky--tracks that have always flawed their work." McGuinn, though, thought that the album wasn't yet what he wanted. He had become particularly excited by the potentials of the Moog synthesiser -- an instrument that Gary Usher also loved -- during the recording of the album, and had spent a lot of time experimenting with it, coming up with tracks like the then-unreleased "Moog Raga": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Moog Raga"] And McGuinn had a concept for the next Byrds album -- a concept he was very excited about. It was going to be nothing less than a grand sweeping history of American popular music. It was going to be a double album -- the new contract said that they should deliver two albums a year to Columbia, so a double album made sense -- and it would start with Appalachian folk music, go through country, jazz, and R&B, through the folk-rock music the Byrds had previously been known for, and into Moog experimentation. But to do this, the Byrds needed a keyboard player. Not only would a keyboard player help them fill out their thin onstage sound, if they got a jazz keyboardist, then they could cover the jazz material in McGuinn's concept album idea as well. So they went out and looked for a jazz piano player, and happily Larry Spector was managing one. Or at least, Larry Spector was managing someone who *said* he was a jazz pianist. But Gram Parsons said he was a lot of things... [Excerpt: Gram Parsons, "Brass Buttons (1965 version)"] Gram Parsons was someone who had come from a background of unimaginable privilege. His maternal grandfather was the owner of a Florida citrus fruit and real-estate empire so big that his mansion was right in the centre of what was then Florida's biggest theme park -- built on land he owned. As a teenager, Parsons had had a whole wing of his parents' house to himself, and had had servants to look after his every need, and as an adult he had a trust fund that paid him a hundred thousand dollars a year -- which in 1968 dollars would be equivalent to a little under nine hundred thousand in today's money. Two events in his childhood had profoundly shaped the life of young Gram. The first was in February 1956, when he went to see a new singer who he'd heard on the radio, and who according to the local newspaper had just recorded a new song called "Heartburn Motel".  Parsons had tried to persuade his friends that this new singer was about to become a big star -- one of his friends had said "I'll wait til he becomes famous!" As it turned out, the day Parsons and the couple of friends he did manage to persuade to go with him saw Elvis Presley was also the day that "Heartbreak Hotel" entered the Billboard charts at number sixty-eight. But even at this point, Elvis was an obvious star and the headliner of the show. Young Gram was enthralled -- but in retrospect he was more impressed by the other acts he saw on the bill. That was an all-star line-up of country musicians, including Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, and especially the Louvin Brothers, arguably the greatest country music vocal duo of all time: [Excerpt: The Louvin Brothers, "The Christian Life"] Young Gram remained mostly a fan of rockabilly music rather than country, and would remain so for another decade or so, but a seed had been planted. The other event, much more tragic, was the death of his father. Both Parsons' parents were functioning alcoholics, and both by all accounts were unfaithful to each other, and their marriage was starting to break down. Gram's father was also, by many accounts, dealing with what we would now call post-traumatic stress disorder from his time serving in the second world war. On December the twenty-third 1958, Gram's father died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Everyone involved seems sure it was suicide, but it was officially recorded as natural causes because of the family's wealth and prominence in the local community. Gram's Christmas present from his parents that year was a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and according to some stories I've read his father had left a last message on a tape in the recorder, but by the time the authorities got to hear it, it had been erased apart from the phrase "I love you, Gram." After that Gram's mother's drinking got even worse, but in most ways his life still seemed charmed, and the descriptions of him as a teenager are about what you'd expect from someone who was troubled, with a predisposition to addiction, but who was also unbelievably wealthy, good-looking, charming, and talented. And the talent was definitely there. One thing everyone is agreed on is that from a very young age Gram Parsons took his music seriously and was determined to make a career as a musician. Keith Richards later said of him "Of the musicians I know personally (although Otis Redding, who I didn't know, fits this too), the two who had an attitude towards music that was the same as mine were Gram Parsons and John Lennon. And that was: whatever bag the business wants to put you in is immaterial; that's just a selling point, a tool that makes it easier. You're going to get chowed into this pocket or that pocket because it makes it easier for them to make charts up and figure out who's selling. But Gram and John were really pure musicians. All they liked was music, and then they got thrown into the game." That's not the impression many other people have of Parsons, who is almost uniformly described as an incessant self-promoter, and who from his teens onwards would regularly plant fake stories about himself in the local press, usually some variant of him having been signed to RCA records. Most people seem to think that image was more important to him than anything. In his teens, he started playing in a series of garage bands around Florida and Georgia, the two states in which he was brought up. One of his early bands was largely created by poaching the rhythm section who were then playing with Kent Lavoie, who later became famous as Lobo and had hits like "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo". Lavoie apparently held a grudge -- decades later he would still say that Parsons couldn't sing or play or write. Another musician on the scene with whom Parsons associated was Bobby Braddock, who would later go on to co-write songs like "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" for Tammy Wynette, and the song "He Stopped Loving Her Today", often considered the greatest country song ever written, for George Jones: [Excerpt: George Jones, "He Stopped Loving Her Today"] Jones would soon become one of Parsons' musical idols, but at this time he was still more interested in being Elvis or Little Richard. We're lucky enough to have a 1962 live recording of one of his garage bands, the Legends -- the band that featured the bass player and drummer he'd poached from Lobo. They made an appearance on a local TV show and a friend with a tape recorder recorded it off the TV and decades later posted it online. Of the four songs in that performance, two are R&B covers -- Little Richard's "Rip It Up" and Ray Charles' "What'd I Say?", and a third is the old Western Swing classic "Guitar Boogie Shuffle". But the interesting thing about the version of "Rip it Up" is that it's sung in an Everly Brothers style harmony, and the fourth song is a recording of the Everlys' "Let It Be Me". The Everlys were, of course, hugely influenced by the Louvin Brothers, who had so impressed young Gram six years earlier, and in this performance you can hear for the first time the hints of the style that Parsons would make his own a few years later: [Excerpt: Gram Parsons and the Legends, "Let it Be Me"] Incidentally, the other guitarist in the Legends, Jim Stafford, also went on to a successful musical career, having a top five hit in the seventies with "Spiders & Snakes": [Excerpt: Jim Stafford, "Spiders & Snakes"] Soon after that TV performance though, like many musicians of his generation, Parsons decided to give up on rock and roll, and instead to join a folk group. The group he joined, The Shilos, were a trio who were particularly influenced by the Journeymen, John Phillips' folk group before he formed the Mamas and the Papas, which we talked about in the episode on "San Francisco". At various times the group expanded with the addition of some female singers, trying to capture something of the sound of the New Chrisy Minstrels. In 1964, with the band members still in school, the Shilos decided to make a trip to Greenwich Village and see if they could make the big time as folk-music stars. They met up with John Phillips, and Parsons stayed with John and Michelle Phillips in their home in New York -- this was around the time the two of them were writing "California Dreamin'". Phillips got the Shilos an audition with Albert Grossman, who seemed eager to sign them until he realised they were still schoolchildren just on a break. The group were, though, impressive enough that he was interested, and we have some recordings of them from a year later which show that they were surprisingly good for a bunch of teenagers: [Excerpt: The Shilos, "The Bells of Rhymney"] Other than Phillips, the other major connection that Parsons made in New York was the folk singer Fred Neil, who we've talked about occasionally before. Neil was one of the great songwriters of the Greenwich Village scene, and many of his songs became successful for others -- his "Dolphins" was recorded by Tim Buckley, most famously his "Everybody's Talkin'" was a hit for Harry Nilsson, and he wrote "Another Side of This Life" which became something of a standard -- it was recorded by the Animals and the Lovin' Spoonful, and Jefferson Airplane, as well as recording the song, included it in their regular setlists, including at Monterey: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "The Other Side of This Life (live at Monterey)"] According to at least one biographer, though, Neil had another, more pernicious, influence on Parsons -- he may well have been the one who introduced Parsons to heroin, though several of Parsons' friends from the time said he wasn't yet using hard drugs. By spring 1965, Parsons was starting to rethink his commitment to folk music, particularly after "Mr. Tambourine Man" became a hit. He talked with the other members about their need to embrace the changes in music that Dylan and the Byrds were bringing about, but at the same time he was still interested enough in acoustic music that when he was given the job of arranging the music for his high school graduation, the group he booked were the Dillards. That graduation day was another day that would change Parsons' life -- as it was the day his mother died, of alcohol-induced liver failure. Parsons was meant to go on to Harvard, but first he went back to Greenwich Village for the summer, where he hung out with Fred Neil and Dave Van Ronk (and started using heroin regularly). He went to see the Beatles at Shea Stadium, and he was neighbours with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay -- the three of them talked about forming a band together before Stills moved West. And on a brief trip back home to Florida between Greenwich Village and Harvard, Parsons spoke with his old friend Jim Stafford, who made a suggestion to him -- instead of trying to do folk music, which was clearly falling out of fashion, why not try to do *country* music but with long hair like the Beatles? He could be a country Beatle. It would be an interesting gimmick. Parsons was only at Harvard for one semester before flunking out, but it was there that he was fully reintroduced to country music, and in particular to three artists who would influence him more than any others. He'd already been vaguely aware of Buck Owens, whose "Act Naturally" had recently been covered by the Beatles: [Excerpt: Buck Owens, "Act Naturally"] But it was at Harvard that he gained a deeper appreciation of Owens. Owens was the biggest star of what had become known as the Bakersfield Sound, a style of country music that emphasised a stripped-down electric band lineup with Telecaster guitars, a heavy drumbeat, and a clean sound. It came from the same honky-tonk and Western Swing roots as the rockabilly music that Parsons had grown up on, and it appealed to him instinctively.  In particular, Parsons was fascinated by the fact that Owens' latest album had a cover version of a Drifters song on it -- and then he got even more interested when Ray Charles put out his third album of country songs and included a version of Owens' "Together Again": [Excerpt: Ray Charles, "Together Again"] This suggested to Parsons that country music and the R&B he'd been playing previously might not quite be so far apart as he'd thought. At Harvard, Parsons was also introduced to the work of another Bakersfield musician, who like Owens was produced by Ken Nelson, who also produced the Louvin Brothers' records, and who we heard about in previous episodes as he produced Gene Vincent and Wanda Jackson. Merle Haggard had only had one big hit at the time, "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers": [Excerpt: Merle Haggard, "(My Friends are Gonna Be) Strangers"] But he was about to start a huge run of country hits that would see every single he released for the next twelve years make the country top ten, most of them making number one. Haggard would be one of the biggest stars in country music, but he was also to be arguably the country musician with the biggest influence on rock music since Johnny Cash, and his songs would soon start to be covered by everyone from the Grateful Dead to the Everly Brothers to the Beach Boys. And the third artist that Parsons was introduced to was someone who, in most popular narratives of country music, is set up in opposition to Haggard and Owens, because they were representatives of the Bakersfield Sound while he was the epitome of the Nashville Sound to which the Bakersfield Sound is placed in opposition, George Jones. But of course anyone with ears will notice huge similarities in the vocal styles of Jones, Haggard, and Owens: [Excerpt: George Jones, "The Race is On"] Owens, Haggard, and Jones are all somewhat outside the scope of this series, but are seriously important musicians in country music. I would urge anyone who's interested in them to check out Tyler Mahan Coe's podcast Cocaine and Rhinestones, season one of which has episodes on Haggard and Owens, as well as on the Louvin Brothers who I also mentioned earlier, and season two of which is entirely devoted to Jones. When he dropped out of Harvard after one semester, Parsons was still mostly under the thrall of the Greenwich Village folkies -- there's a recording of him made over Christmas 1965 that includes his version of "Another Side of This Life": [Excerpt: Gram Parsons, "Another Side of This Life"] But he was encouraged to go further in the country direction by John Nuese (and I hope that's the correct pronunciation – I haven't been able to find any recordings mentioning his name), who had introduced him to this music and who also played guitar. Parsons, Neuse, bass player Ian Dunlop and drummer Mickey Gauvin formed a band that was originally called Gram Parsons and the Like. They soon changed their name though, inspired by an Our Gang short in which the gang became a band: [Excerpt: Our Gang, "Mike Fright"] Shortening the name slightly, they became the International Submarine Band. Parsons rented them a house in New York, and they got a contract with Goldstar Records, and released a couple of singles. The first of them, "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming" was a cover of the theme to a comedy film that came out around that time, and is not especially interesting: [Excerpt: The International Submarine Band, "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming"] The second single is more interesting. "Sum Up Broke" is a song by Parsons and Neuse, and shows a lot of influence from the Byrds: [Excerpt: The international Submarine Band, "Sum Up Broke"] While in New York with the International Submarine Band, Parsons made another friend in the music business. Barry Tashian was the lead singer of a band called the Remains, who had put out a couple of singles: [Excerpt: The Remains, "Why Do I Cry?"] The Remains are now best known for having been on the bill on the Beatles' last ever tour, including playing as support on their last ever show at Candlestick Park, but they split up before their first album came out. After spending most of 1966 in New York, Parsons decided that he needed to move the International Submarine Band out to LA. There were two reasons for this. The first was his friend Brandon DeWilde, an actor who had been a child star in the fifties -- it's him at the end of Shane -- who was thinking of pursuing a musical career. DeWilde was still making TV appearances, but he was also a singer -- John Nuese said that DeWilde sang harmony with Parsons better than anyone except Emmylou Harris -- and he had recorded some demos with the International Submarine Band backing him, like this version of Buck Owens' "Together Again": [Excerpt: Brandon DeWilde, "Together Again"] DeWilde had told Parsons he could get the group some work in films. DeWilde made good on that promise to an extent -- he got the group a cameo in The Trip, a film we've talked about in several other episodes, which was being directed by Roger Corman, the director who worked a lot with David Crosby's father, and was coming out from American International Pictures, the company that put out the beach party films -- but while the group were filmed performing one of their own songs, in the final film their music was overdubbed by the Electric Flag. The Trip starred Peter Fonda, another member of the circle of people around David Crosby, and another son of privilege, who at this point was better known for being Henry Fonda's son than for his own film appearances. Like DeWilde, Fonda wanted to become a pop star, and he had been impressed by Parsons, and asked if he could record Parsons' song "November Nights". Parsons agreed, and the result was released on Chisa Records, the label we talked about earlier that had put out promos of Gene Clark, in a performance produced by Hugh Masekela: [Excerpt: Peter Fonda, "November Nights"] The other reason the group moved West though was that Parsons had fallen in love with David Crosby's girlfriend, Nancy Ross, who soon became pregnant with his daughter -- much to Parsons' disappointment, she refused to have an abortion. Parsons bought the International Submarine Band a house in LA to rehearse in, and moved in separately with Nancy. The group started playing all the hottest clubs around LA, supporting bands like Love and the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, but they weren't sounding great, partly because Parsons was more interested in hanging round with celebrities than rehearsing -- the rest of the band had to work for a living, and so took their live performances more seriously than he did, while he was spending time catching up with his old folk friends like John Phillips and Fred Neil, as well as getting deeper into drugs and, like seemingly every musician in 1967, Scientology, though he only dabbled in the latter. The group were also, though, starting to split along musical lines. Dunlop and Gauvin wanted to play R&B and garage rock, while Parsons and Nuese wanted to play country music. And there was a third issue -- which record label should they go with? There were two labels interested in them, neither of them particularly appealing. The offer that Dunlop in particular wanted to go with was from, of all people, Jay Ward Records: [Excerpt: A Salute to Moosylvania] Jay Ward was the producer and writer of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Peabody & Sherman, Dudley Do-Right and other cartoons, and had set up a record company, which as far as I've been able to tell had only released one record, and that five years earlier (we just heard a snippet of it). But in the mid-sixties several cartoon companies were getting into the record business -- we'll hear more about that when we get to song 186 -- and Ward's company apparently wanted to sign the International Submarine Band, and were basically offering to throw money at them. Parsons, on the other hand, wanted to go with Lee Hazlewood International. This was a new label set up by someone we've only talked about in passing, but who was very influential on the LA music scene, Lee Hazlewood. Hazlewood had got his start producing country hits like Sanford Clark's "The Fool": [Excerpt: Sanford Clark, "The Fool"] He'd then moved on to collaborating with Lester Sill, producing a series of hits for Duane Eddy, whose unique guitar sound Hazlewood helped come up with: [Excerpt: Duane Eddy, "Rebel Rouser"] After splitting off from Sill, who had gone off to work with Phil Spector, who had been learning some production techniques from Hazlewood, Hazlewood had gone to work for Reprise records, where he had a career in a rather odd niche, producing hit records for the children of Rat Pack stars. He'd produced Dino, Desi, and Billy, who consisted of future Beach Boys sideman Billy Hinsche plus Desi Arnaz Jr and Dean Martin Jr: [Excerpt: Dino, Desi, and Billy, "I'm a Fool"] He'd also produced Dean Martin's daughter Deana: [Excerpt: Deana Martin, "Baby I See You"] and rather more successfully he'd written and produced a series of hits for Nancy Sinatra, starting with "These Boots are Made for Walkin'": [Excerpt: Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots are Made for Walkin'"] Hazlewood had also moved into singing himself. He'd released a few tracks on his own, but his career as a performer hadn't really kicked into gear until he'd started writing duets for Nancy Sinatra. She apparently fell in love with his demos and insisted on having him sing them with her in the studio, and so the two made a series of collaborations like the magnificently bizarre "Some Velvet Morning": [Excerpt: Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, "Some Velvet Morning"] Hazlewood is now considered something of a cult artist, thanks largely to a string of magnificent orchestral country-pop solo albums he recorded, but at this point he was one of the hottest people in the music industry. He wasn't offering to produce the International Submarine Band himself -- that was going to be his partner, Suzi Jane Hokom -- but Parsons thought it was better to sign for less money to a label that was run by someone with a decade-long string of massive hit records than for more money to a label that had put out one record about a cartoon moose. So the group split up. Dunlop and Gauvin went off to form another band, with Barry Tashian -- and legend has it that one of the first times Gram Parsons visited the Byrds in the studio, he mentioned the name of that band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and that was the inspiration for the Byrds titling their album The Notorious Byrd Brothers. Parsons and Nuese, on the other hand, formed a new lineup of The International Submarine Band, with bass player Chris Ethridge, drummer John Corneal, who Parsons had first played with in The Legends, and guitarist Bob Buchanan, a former member of the New Christy Minstrels who Parsons had been performing with as a duo after they'd met through Fred Neil. The International Submarine Band recorded an album, Safe At Home, which is now often called the first country-rock album -- though as we've said so often, there's no first anything. That album was a mixture of cover versions of songs by people like Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard: [Excerpt: The International Submarine Band, "I Must Be Somebody Else You've Known"] And Parsons originals, like "Do You Know How It Feels To Be Lonesome?", which he cowrote with Barry Goldberg of the Electric Flag: [Excerpt: The International Submarine Band, "Do You Know How It Feels To Be Lonesome?"] But the recording didn't go smoothly. In particular, Corneal realised he'd been hoodwinked. Parsons had told him, when persuading him to move West, that he'd be able to sing on the record and that some of his songs would be used. But while the record was credited to The International Submarine Band, everyone involved agrees that it was actually a Gram Parsons solo album by any other name -- he was in charge, he wouldn't let other members' songs on the record, and he didn't let Corneal sing as he'd promised. And then, before the album could be released, he was off. The Byrds wanted a jazz keyboard player, and Parsons could fake being one long enough to get the gig. The Byrds had got rid of one rich kid with a giant ego who wanted to take control of everything and thought his undeniable talent excused his attempts at dominating the group, and replaced him with another one -- who also happened to be signed to another record label. We'll see how well that worked out for them in two weeks' time.  

When Mary Jo pulled a fast one on Suzanne - switching out their pearl necklaces (one fake, the other real) - we knew what we had to do. First, we rubbed our teeth on our pearls, naturally, and then we set off on a greater task – a Google rabbit hole about counterfeits, fakes, and forgeries. How common is ist? What are people counterfeiting most? Why does it matter? Then we'll talk about some specific cases that fooled a whole lot of folks. We'll wrap up with a game of "spot the fake." 

Singles Going Around- Brickbats (There's No Home Like Now)Faces- "Stay With Me"Solomon Burke- "Home In Your Heart"The Beach Boys- "Cotton Fields/San Miguel"David Lee Roth- "California Girls"Led Zeppelin- "Wearing and Tearing"The Ramones- "Surfin Bird"Otis Redding- "Satisfaction"Moving Sidewalks- "No Good To Cry"Jimi Hendrix Experience- "Killing Floor"Pixies- "Bone Machine"The Beatles- "Helter Skelter"Simon & Garfunkel- "Fakin' It"Bob Dylan- "Million Miles"The White Stripes- "One More Cup Of Coffee"Captain Beefheart- "Suction Prints (Instrumental Demo)"Nirvana- "Aneurysm"13th Floor Elevators- "May The Circle Remain Unbroken"Led Zeppelin- "Nobody's Fault But Mine"The Rolling Stones- "You Gotta Move"

Was it worth bro? Dude faked heart attacks 20 times just to skip out on a cheap restaurant bill... now he's going to do real time.

Spencer and Madison shoved themselves into one coffin this week to talk about faking it baby! We've got an obituary for an ox and one for a real smoke show! Don't worry, we've also got some dumb.ass.criminalllllls!Come see us live on tour: obitchuarypodcast.comJoin our Patreon: Patreon.com/cultliterNew episodes come out every Thursday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers.Follow along online: @obitchuarypod on Twitter & Instagram @obitchuarypodcast on TikTokCheck out Spencer's other podcast Cult Liter wherever you're listening!Write to us: obitpod@gmail.comSpencer Henry & Madison ReyesPO Box 18149 Long Beach, CA 90807Get a cameo from us: https://www.cameo.com/obitchuarypodcastSources:https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1656/alice-lee-longworthhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/754491487/?article=d73ba3fc-58e9-4e19-aab3-c3056398345a&terms=cigarettehttps://www.newspapers.com/image/760778011/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/video-shows-atlanta-nail-salon-employees-staff-ignore-robbers-demands-rcna93213https://thecrimewire.com/multifarious/Fred-Demara-The-Great-Imposterhttps://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/09/obituaries/ferdinand-waldo-demara-60-an-impostor-in-varied-fields.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Waldo_Demarahttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/585515/how-presumed-dead-lawrence-bader-invented-new-lifehttps://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries/what-happened-to-lawrence-joseph-bader-aka-john-fritz-johnson/https://www.dailydot.com/news/graveyard-flower-thief-caught-by-apple-airtag/https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/missing/what-happened-to-zion-foster-family-seeks-justice-for-her-disappearancehttps://www.marieclaire.com.au/olivia-newton-john-boyfriend-missinghttps://nypost.com/2022/08/08/the-mystery-surrounding-olivia-newton-johns-ex-patrick-mcdermott/https://www.history.com/news/spy-double-agent-death-hoax-world-war-2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnVotB6eOLchttps://medium.com/the-crime-scene/the-disappearance-of-lawrence-joseph-bader-74bce923acbbhttps://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30148022https://www.rd.com/list/people-faked-own-deaths/https://nypost.com/2023/06/14/belgian-dad-david-baerten-faked-his-death-then-shows-up-at-funeral-in-helicopter/https://allthatsinteresting.com/david-baertenSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week the guys discuss Apple Vision Pro, moving out, Across the Spiderverse, Apex Legends, Fast X, bacon, The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, and so much more! – http://linktree.com/thegmgpod – All of our links can be found on the LinkTree link including our audio podcast (Apple, Spotify, etc.), YouTube, Twitch streaming channels, Discord, Patreon, GMG Merchandise, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and E-Mail. – Listen as Lucas, Patrick, Marc, and Ronnie also talk about video games, TV, movies, sports, but most importantly, life...the greatest and most difficult game of all. And you shouldn't go at it alone, so we are gonna do it with you on this fine morning.

Singles Going Around- Mimosa Tree BluesThe Byrds- "It's No Use"Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs- "Little Red Riding Hood"Tony Joe White- "Whompt Out On You"The Monkees- "Daily Nightly"Joe South- "Hush"Elvis- "The Power of My Love"Simon & Garfunkel- "Fakin' It"Percy Sledge- "Take The Time To Know Her"Tommy McClain- "Before I Grow Too Old"The Animals- "Talking About You"Sonny & Cher- "I Look For You"Booker T & The MG's- "Sunny"The Beatles- "We Can Work It Out"Elmore James- "It Hurts Me Too"Bobby Charles- "Goodnight Irene"Lazy Lester- "Strange Things Happen"Neil Diamond- "Brother Love's Traveling Salvtion Show"Vanilla Fudge- "You Keep Me Hangin' On" (QT Edit)*All songs taken from the original Lp's and 45 rpm records.

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Hey Favsssss, Sooooo. In this episode, I reflect on one past and one present event where I felt like I was fakin' It? Aht, we not doing that. Not staying true to myself these days just doesn't feel right. And for all my people going through a tough time.....we gone make it :) Visuals for recent guest episode: https://youtu.be/8hAHhEHt2uw  IG: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkyQv5lg4Uv/?igshid=YWJhMjlhZTc= Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@growingnflowingpod?_t=8aqT1xneCWE&_r=1 Leave me a voice note: https://anchor.fm/growing--flowing/message  Business inquiries: brandygregorycollabs@gmail.com  Talk again real soon. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/growing--flowing/message

From the creative team behind His Royal Fakin Highness comes "That Vampire Show," a fiction podcast about fandom, friendship, and one killer vampire.  That Vampire Show follows Kat Wright, high school senior and avid fan fiction writer, as she wins a contest for her favorite TV show. But, when the prize includes a trip to set, she and the creator of the show find themselves on a collision course that will change the course of the fandom forever.  Listen to the entire first season of That Vampire Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, our website, and all podcast apps now. 

In this episode, the guys discuss flakin' out on meetups and being husband and wife material. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Ben, Travis, and Fernando bring you this week's news in politics, diving deeper into the 9 million dollar sexual assault lawsuit against Matt Schlapp, George Santos doubling down with the lies, Sinema / Manchin and a bunch of CEO at a secret World Economic Forum events in Davos, We question: "Is National Sales tax a fairer option for Americans?", new polling data comparing Biden, Trump, and DeSantis reveals surprising conclusion and MORE!

Are you "Fakin" it or "Faithin" It? James 2:14-26 Dr. David Wilson // Senior Pastor 11/02/2022

JANET VARNEY BIOJanet Varney is an Emmy-Nominated actor, comedian, writer and producer. In the animation world, she's the award-winning voice of Korra on Nickelodeon's (now on Netflix) The Legend of Korra. On Hulu, she can be seen fighting dark forces opposite John C. McGinley in Stan Against Evil and as the entitled Becca on FXX's You're the Worst. She also created, wrote, produced and starred in the critically-acclaimed IFC online series Fortune Rookie. For the past 8 years, JV has hosted her podcast The JV Club with Janet Varney, where she interviews celebrities about their awkward teenage years. JV can also be heard as the AI "Sorry" on the improvised sci-fi comedy podcast Voyage to the Stars. On the development and production side, Janet co-created, co-wrote and co-produced Neil's Puppet Dreams, a series featuring Neil Patrick Harris and his puppet-filled dreams. She is co-founder/creative director/producer of one of the largest and most acclaimed comedy festivals in North America, SF Sketchfest: the San Francisco Comedy Festival, now in its 20th year.DANTE BASCO BIODante Basco was first introduced in Steve Spielberg's fairytale movie Hook, as "Rufio", the leader of the Lost Boys. Recently, Dante starred in Newline's Take the Lead, opposite Antonio Banderas, and starred in a pilot for Touchstone/ABC, The Chang Family Saves the World, written and produced by John Ridley and directed by Paris Barclay. He is also the new voice of Disney's animated series American Dragon: Jake Long, as well as the voice of villain Prince Zuko in Nickelodeon'sAvatar: The Last Airbender. Dante has also starred in his share of feature films: Biker Boyz (with Laurence Fishburne, Kid Rock and Derek Luke), Naked Brown Men (which he co-produced and stars in with his brothers), Extreme Days, But I'm a Cheerleader (with Natasha Lyonne, Cathy Moriarty and Clea Duvall), The Debut, Fakin' Da Funk (with Pam Greer and Tatiana Ali), Rave, and Showtime's critically acclaimed Riot - just to name a few. Dante has also appeared on Entourage, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Nash Bridges, Touched by an Angel, Providence, Hanging with Mr. Cooper, Moesha, and The Proud Family Dante recently made his directorial debut at SXSW with Fabulous Filipino Brothers.Avatar: Braving the Elementshttps://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-avatar-braving-the-elemen-83488502/

Have you ever dreamt of being a travel journalist with a swanky magazine that would fly you around the globe to document your exploits? Poppy, our novel's heroine, did! She even achieved her lofty goal but found herself unfulfilled by her life. When she considers the last time she was truly happy, Alex, Poppy's former travel buddy, enters our story. While these two went to the same college and are from the same Ohio town, they couldn't be more different. Thanks to a chatty photographer, Alex and Poppy's adventure to Croatia was the “most beautiful and worst trip.” Because their trip to Croatia was pivotal, we joined them by sipping a hearty red from the Croatian Istria region: a 2019 Teran by the winemaker Fakin. It presents notes of blackberry, black cherry, gunpowder and black pepper and once sipped becomes tart and mineral forward. Croatia has been cultivating grapes for 2,500 years, so they have learned what grapes each of the four regions, Slavonia, Danube, Dalmatia, and Istria, grow best. Croatia is just beginning to share what they have learned with the world. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/readingbetweenthewines/support

From 2006 What a pleasure talking to the man behind great satire and action like American Flagg, Time 2, The Shadow, The Blackhawks, and Cody Starbuck .You'll hear about his current projects like BITE CLUB, BLADE, GUY GARDNER, JLA CLASSIFIED, along with a look back at his work on STAR WARS , BLACK KISS, AMERICAN CENTURY , his television work on THE FLASH, VIPER, and MUTANT X .We'll discuss Chaykin's view of Television, from the shows he loves to what Hollywood is looking for from writers these days. Between us, we'll throw in enough obscure ancient pop culture references that would make Dennis Miller call his grandfather to confirm.As a lifelong fan of his writing and art, Howard is my kind of people.

The coaches are back! Of course, Rich forgot but this is 4 years people! Thank you for the support. Was this the best slap ever recorded (01:18). The new Batman got Mike bumping Nirvana this week (11:18). Rich's YT Misery this week: Netflix's John Wayne Gacy Tapes (19:40). Mike feels FedEx owes him some bread after his most recent purchase (42:30). Rich can only rap in the shower (49:25). With Much More!!!

ORRA has special guest who is also his Queen Letta to discuss the importance behind having unwavering Faith in The Most High.The Network of Awareness Podcast is exposing the legacy of lies so that you the listener can better understand the TRUTH! Download at https://networkofawareness.com or any streaming App! ✊

ORRA has special guest who is also his Queen Letta to discuss the importance behind having unwavering Faith in The Most High.The Network of Awareness Podcast is exposing the legacy of lies so that you the listener can better understand the TRUTH! Download at https://networkofawareness.com or any streaming App! ✊

Time to gear up for an announcement from the mothership, cadets, with -- depending on who you believe -- either handful of goodies or Santa's own infinite bag of holding full of tech! All that as well as rumors, shareholders, Samsung cheating again, Fitbit feels the burn, and much more! https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/04/purported-ming-chi-kuo-tweet-rounds-up-familiar-iphone-se-predictions https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/04/purported-ming-chi-kuo-tweet-rounds-up-familiar-iphone-se-predictions https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/02/samsung-is-throttling-the-performance-of-over-10000-apps https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/04/samsung-says-a-fix-for-the-app-throttling-issue-on-galaxy-s22-is-coming https://threatpost.com/samsung-shattered-encryption-on-100m-phones/178606/ https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/04/apple-developing-new-apple-studio-display-with-7k-resolution https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/04/new-apple-mac-studio-may-fit-in-between-mac-mini-and-mac-pro https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/05/sideloading-is-a-malware-danger-apple-tells-us-lawmakers https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/04/apple-sets-april-11-for-corporate-return-to-work https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/03/apple-dropping-mask-mandates-for-corporate-retail-employees https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/01/apple-to-increase-covid-testing-requirements-for-vaccinated-retail-staff https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/04/shareholders-approve-apple-civil-rights-audit-tim-cooks-99m-pay-package https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/03/samsung-developing-improved-brighter-oled-display-after-apple-rejects-older-tech https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/04/apple-teams-up-with-google-mozilla-microsoft-to-improve-browser-interoperability https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/04/new-dropbox-update-brings-support-for-m1-macs https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/03/apple-resumes-today-at-apple-with-lady-gaga-remix-event https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/02/amazon-closing-all-of-its-brick-and-mortar-bookstores-and-4-star-locations https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/02/apple-maps-enables-accident-and-hazard-reporting-in-france https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/04/apple-maps-now-shows-crimea-as-part-of-ukraine https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/01/apple-tv-secures-series-adaptation-of-1927-film-metropolis https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/02/28/long-time-apple-reporter-jim-dalrymple-retires-after-almost-30-years-of-work https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22960011/farewell-from-dieter-bohn https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/03/lawmakers-press-fbi-apple-to-provide-information-on-use-of-pegasus-spyware https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/04/disney-confirms-lower-cost-ad-supported-tier-launching-late-2022 https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/02/epic-games-acquires-bandcamp-to-create-fair-platforms-for-creators https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/03/03/dell-xps-15-grading-on-a-curve https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mavis-beacon-teaches-typing-real-b2026853.html https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/02/googles-fitbit-recalls-17-million-ionic-smartwatches-over-burn-hazard https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/03/wanton-in-app-purchases-spending-costs-alberta-father-thousands-of-dollars https://www.engadget.com/youtube-to-pay-podcasters-to-make-videos-213026101.html

Today we chat with Erica Katz all about her new novel Fake, why you might not know if you're looking at a real work of art at a museum, private jets, the wealth disparity in New York, and the book she was reading that made her stop writing because of her insane book envy. We … Continue reading Ep. 158 Fakin’ It With Erica Katz

On this episode, we hear from a man who prefers blondes a bit too much, a woman with a partner who likes the wrong kind of fun and games,  and a girlfriend whose mortifying embarrassment led to a mortal lie.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to Times Will Tell, the weekly podcast from The Times of Israel. We're taking a deep dive today into Israel's kosher certification system, as the government undertakes the first step in overhauling the industry. The new plan, unveiled in July by religious affairs minister Matan Kahana, would presumably end the monopoly of the chief rabbinate and local rabbinates as the only bodies that can issue kosher certificates, which costs businesses upwards of $2 million a year, and allow for other private kosher certification agencies. This long-awaited privatization of the kosher certification industry follows a path paved by the religious Zionist Tzohar organization, which launched its own kosher certification agency in 2018. They took over for a grassroots group that first entered the industry years before, aiming to break the rabbinate's grip on what can be considered kosher. You'll hear from several people involved in this industry, including Rabbi David Stav, chairman of Tzohar; Tzvi Maller, the American-born owner of Crave, a restaurant in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market that grappled with a fakin' bacon issue; Itzik Kadosh, a pastry chef and owner of a beloved Jerusalem cafe who fought the rabbinate over turning his croissants into triangles; Yittie Lawson, who runs Tacos Luis, a Mexican restaurant down the block from Kadosh; Dan Male, who runs Jerusalem's Angelica, a fine chef restaurant whose customers won't stand for anything other than the rabbinate's stamp of approval and Leon Avigad, who owns and operates the Brown Hotel chain in Israel, Greece and Europe and just wants his kosher supervisors to tell him what to do and how to do it. It's a wacky world of kosher laws and these people live it, every day. Times Will Tell podcasts are available for download on iTunes, TuneIn, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, PlayerFM or wherever you get your podcasts. IMAGE: Crave Jerusalem's 'facon' duck bacon on its Black Forest Special (Courtesy Crave) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ever came across some TD (trash dick)? In this episode we talk about our encounters with TD, if we would stay in a relationship with a person who has TD and what we did in the moment. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/messysituations/message