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In the previous episode we heard how some rationally-designed therapies work on almost any cancer with the right molecular signature. Tumour-agnostic medications could be godsend for patients with rare cancers which have classically been overlooked by drug developers, and those with advanced cancers of unknown origin. 15,000 such patients have undergone comprehensive genome profiling of their tumours through the organisation, Omico. In this podcast, Omico's founder explains that while the majority have received recommendations about matched therapies, clinical trials are typically the only way to enable access. Professor David Thomas discusses why Australia's Health Technology Assessment process appears to be so conservative and how the market price of next-generation oncotherapies might be brought down by changes across the local ecosystem. Guest Prof David Thomas FRACP PhD (Director, Centre for Molecular Oncology UNSW; Founder and Chief of Science, Omico)  Professor Thomas or Omico have received grants, consultancies or research support from Roche, Astra Zeneca, Pfizer, Eisai, Illumina, Beigene , Elevation Oncology, RedX Pharmaceuticals, SunPharma , Bayer, George Clinical, Novotech , Merck Sharpe and Dohme, Boehringer Ingelheim, Hummingbird, Microba , BioTessellate , PMV Pharma, Australian Unity and Foundation Medicine. ProductionProduced by Mic Cavazzini DPhil. Music licenced from Epidemic Sound includes  ‘Multicolor' and ‘Pulse Voyage' by Chill Cole. ‘Impulsing', ‘the City of Hope' ‘Over Again', and ‘Going Undercover' by Borrtex provided courtesy of FreeMusicArchive. Image by Guido Mieth licenced through Getty Images.  Editorial feedback kindly provided by RACP physicians Simeon Wong, Stephen Bacchi. Thanks also to Kym Bramich and Arnika Martus on staff with Omico and RACP respectively.  Please visit the Pomegranate Health web page for a transcript and supporting references.Login to MyCPD to record listening and reading as a prefilled learning activity. Subscribe to new episode email alerts or search for ‘Pomegranate Health' in Apple Podcasts, Spotify,Castbox or any podcasting app.

The genomic understanding of cancer has transformed a tissue-based classification model that had been dominant for 150 years or more. The last three decades have seen highly targeted therapies developed at blistering pace, and unprecedented improvements in patient outcomes. To date, these advances have been focused on more common cancers. The financing model for drug development means that rare cancers get overlooked, given the small pool of potential buyers relative to the costs and risks of investment. However, the molecular targets characterised in more common cancers are often found in cancers of a different histotype. As such, precision therapies will sometimes have tissue-agnostic efficacy and offer a lifeline for patients with neglected diseases or cancers of unknown origin. Professor David Thomas has founded an NGO called Omico to enable such patients to undergo profiling for hundreds of potential molecular targets. In this interview he explains the rationale for the most promising pan cancer therapies, and in the next episode we discuss changes to the regulatory and funding model required to sustain this screening program. Guest Prof David Thomas FRACP PhD (Director, Centre for Molecular Oncology UNSW; Founder and Chief of Science, Omico) Professor Thomas or Omico have received grants, consultancies or research support from Roche, Astra Zeneca, Pfizer, Eisai, Illumina, Beigene , Elevation Oncology, RedX Pharmaceuticals, SunPharma , Bayer, George Clinical, Novotech , Merck Sharpe and Dohme, Boehringer Ingelheim, Hummingbird, Microba , BioTessellate , PMV Pharma, Australian Unity and Foundation Medicine. ProductionProduced by Mic Cavazzini DPhil. Music licenced from Epidemic Sound includes ‘the Orchard' by Jakob Ahlbom, ‘Dusty Electronics' and ‘Pulse Voyage' by Chill Cole, ‘Tam' by LJ Kruzer, ‘See you soon' and ‘Going Undercover' by Borrtex. Image by filo licenced through Getty Images. Editorial feedback was kindly provided by RACP physicians Nichola Ball, Stephen Bacchi, Aafreen Khalid, Simeon Wong, Maansi Arora and Aidan Tan.Please visit the Pomegranate Health web page for a transcript and supporting references.Login to MyCPD to record listening and reading as a prefilled learning activity. Subscribe to new episode email alerts or search for ‘Pomegranate Health' in Apple Podcasts, Spotify,Castbox or any podcasting app.

Kev and Rob don their fake antennae and pose as local yokels as they spend twelve months trapped on a primitive planet watching "Fully Dilated". They then explore other times our Starfleet crews have hidden in plain sight, disguised as members of an alien world, including "The Enterprise Incident" (TOS), "In the Flesh" (VOY), "First Contact" (TNG) and "Face of the Enemy" (TNG).LD 5×07 Fully DilatedSubspace Radio #11: In love with an alien (LD 3×07 “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”) with Jason SnellTNG 5×25 The Inner LightTNG 5×26 Time's ArrowDS9 5×01 Apocalypse RisingSubspace Radio #58: Into the belly of the beast (DIS 5×09 Lagrange Point)DS9 2×19 Blood OathTOS 3×02 The Enterprise IncidentVOY 5×04 In the FleshTNG 4×15 First ContactBebe NeuwirthCarolyn SeymourTNG 6×14 Face Of The EnemyDS9 3×05 Second Skin(00:00) - Episode 69: Going undercover (LD 5×07 Fully Dilated) (01:22) - LD 5×07 Fully Dilated (12:25) - Going undercover (13:51) - TOS 3×02 The Enterprise Incident (21:26) - VOY 5×04 In the Flesh (33:19) - TNG 4×15 First Contact (36:22) - TNG 6×14 Face Of The Enemy Music: Distänt Mind, Brigitte Handley

Eric Smith & Paul Jones are back from the holidays with a special podcast only version of the show! The guys are joined by long time NBA ref, former undercover cop, Bob Delaney! They go over some of his first memories when it was announced Toronto got an expansion team. What was his first memory of Toronto? The guys then get into some of his stories from refereeing in the NBA, how going undercover helped Bob's career, and deal with PTSD. The show closes with Eric & Paul pitching the roles they would play in Bob's movie! All that and much more! The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliate.

- Air Canada's cheapest tickets on some routes will no longer include carry-on baggage. Jim is joined by Gabor Lukacs - Air Passenger Rights Advocate - What does Jim need to know about winter tires? Lorraine Summerfeld, columnist at driving.ca , has answers- TTC deploys plainclothes inspectors to fight fare evasion: ‘We have to let people know we're serious'. Jim interviews Stuart Green - TTC Spokesperson, and takes your calls

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Scot Thomasson worked at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives for over two decades. We talked to him about violent crimes, gun safety, myths about the Bureau, and what it's like to work dangerous assignments for the ATF.Check out Safe Gun Lock here: https://www.safegunlock.com/Support your local book stores! Buy Rocky Mountain High by Dan and Scot Thomasson here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/rocky-mountain-high-jack-lang/10198537?ean=9781456756833Buy Straw Man by Dan and Scot Thomasson here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/straw-men-dan-k-thomasson/9673146?ean=9781504985901Support The Murder Sheet by buying a t-shirt here: https://www.murdersheetshop.com/Send tips to murdersheet@gmail.com.The Murder Sheet is a production of Mystery Sheet LLC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Anything Goes with James English Ep 451 Going Undercover as an Illegal Immigrant - Former Marine Lee West Tells His Story You can contact James on his social media platforms http://instagram.com/jamesenglish2 http://twitter.com/jamesenglish0

Mike and Jesse start the pod by discussing the NBA Finals (4:39). Then, they call GameStop to see what their process is like for buying sports cards (12:38). Later, they are joined by Alex LLansó from Clever Cuban Cards to talk more about GameStop, the card market, and content creation (22:20). Finally, they answer your mailbag questions (1:15:53). Hosts: Mike Gioseffi and Jesse Gibson Guest: Alex LLansó Associate Producer: Carlos Chiriboga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To coincide with the launch of my true crime book ‘Decoy' I've updated and reissued this podcast featuring a rare and exclusive interview with Chris Gould.In the 1970s, the city of Bristol was terrorised by a man nicknamed ‘The Clifton Rapist.' The stranger-attacker assaulted seven women over a two-year period.PC Chris Gould suggested a daring honeytrap: Avon and Somerset Police should set up an innovative undercover sting, using young rookie police officers as decoys to catch him.This was a monumental gamble, putting the lives of their youngest, least-experienced female officers on the line.But 12 women volunteered.As the weeks passed, with no further attacks, commanders made an even more innovative move. And Chris's career was never the same again.How was the predator caught and justice achieved? Chris has never spoken in this detail before.+++ Grab your copy of Decoy here in the UK: https://tinyurl.com/fd759pmh ++++++ Or here in the USA: https://tinyurl.com/yethzdum +++Haven't subscribed yet? Just hit: robertmurphy.substack.comNB: This is a reissue of a podcast episode first released in November 2023 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit robertmurphy.substack.com/subscribe

Our guest on this episode is Paul Morgan-Bentley, head of investigations at The Times newspaper, who has just scooped Investigation of the Year at the Press Awards for undercover reporting that exposed the force-fitting of British Gas meters in the homes of vulnerable people. In our conversation, Paul explains how he reported this story, why he thinks undercover reporting is so important and offers advice for early career journalists on door-knocking…and converting work experience into proper jobs. J-Lab is a podcast by the Civic Journalism Lab at Newcastle University.

Eric O'Neill was a 27-year-old FBI surveillance operative when he first heard the name Robert Hanssen. It was the assignment of a lifetime: go undercover to bring down a mole that had been feeding secrets to the Russian government for more than two decades. O'Neill takes Lindsay behind the scenes of the operation that changed his life and led to the capture of one of the most notorious spies in American history. His book of the account is called Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

"If anyone is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." Mark 8:38 — Listen to the Greg Laurie Podcast Become a Harvest PartnerSupport the show: https://harvest.org/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin was once known as Joe Lane. Joseph Lane had a beard and shaggy hair as an undercover agent during the precipice of the meth boom in Texas. His time in narcotics enforcement influenced his career and was the subject of his new book, "The Point. Dawn of the Texas Meth War."

This episode of the Next Up podcast features the core production team of NextGen Network. Marlon, Kalista, and Jamie discuss their backgrounds and how they met sharing their experiences working at GameStop, their love for video games, the Internship program at their church, and their career journeys in the film and production industry. The conversation also touches on topics such as human trafficking, the process of upgrading the podcast setup, passion for their work and their commitment to providing high-quality content, the importance of being genuine and trustworthy and why it's important to have direct and honest communication. They also explore the qualities of a good leader and the importance of empowering and surrounding oneself with talented individuals. The conversation delves into future plans and the desire to make a positive impact through storytelling and community upliftment. =========================== Connect with us! =========================== IG: https://www.instagram.com/nxtgen_network/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/nextuptalkshow/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/nxtgenmarlon/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/NxtGenNetwork365 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nxtgen.network Media Kit: https://nxtgennetwork.serveddigizine.com/link/861493/ Served Digizine December 2024 Issue: https://nxtgennetwork.serveddigizine.com/link/473009/ ============================================ Subscribe and Listen to the Next Up Podcast HERE:

The amazing life of undercover agent Frederick L. Gleffe is a nonstop series of adventures inside three of our nation's law enforcement agencies.  His sometimes surreal, always perilous cases include breaking up a black market arms ring at a Special Forces armory and running an ongoing ‘sting' during the Miami “Cocaine Wars” in the 80s, selling everything from high-tech weapons to rare animals.  Heroes Behind HeadlinesExecutive Producer Ralph PezzulloProduced & Engineered by Mike DawsonMusic provided by ExtremeMusic.com

Ever wonder about the ethical challenges of undercover investigations and how they parallel the world of politics? Do the powerful always fall prey to corruption? My good friend and undercover investigator, Thomas Hampson joins me to navigate these murky waters and also shed light on the new House Speaker, Mike Johnson. Tom and I explore how power, pride, and money can blur moral lines, often leading to a decay that mirrors some of the political landscapes we see today.We then shift our focus to examine society's growing desensitization towards pornography and its shocking marketing towards children. It's an uncomfortable truth many would rather ignore. As we dissect the proposed bill against book banning, we question whether the so-called "Experts" with advanced degrees in education qualify them to deem what's appropriate for children's reading. Join us as we offer practical wisdom, cultural insights, and some eye-opening revelations about our society today.Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II.Please send donations to support our work to:John Paul II Renewal Center902 S Randall RoadSTE C #296St. Charles, IL. 60174Support the show     Don't forget to sign up for our Newsletter!!  JPll Renewal Center email listFor more information please go to our website: jp2renew.orgSupport the show

You think you know Jim Clemente, former FBI Supervisory Criminal Behavior Profiler, and former New York City prosecutor. But did you know about the many times Jim went undercover? Lisa sure didn't! Join us as Jim takes us deep into his undercover work in some places you will not believe! Follow him all over Manhattan and the Boroughs as he tries to take down bank robbers, extortionists, international spies, and some of the toughest people on Wall Street, all the while donning disguises and alternative identities that will make your jaw drop. #Undercover #FBI #Profiler #TrueCrime #Podcast #RealCrimeProfile #RobertDowneyJr #NewYorkStockExchange #SkidRow #DiamondDistrict #Brooklyn #Manhattan #NewYorkCityFollow us and continue the conversationOn Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/realcrimeprofile/?hl=enOn Twitterhttps://twitter.com/realcrimeprofilOn Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/realcrimeprofile/>>>>>>>>> SUPPORT OUR OTHER SHOWS

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with journalist and investigator Amanda Moore, about spending over a year undercover within the broader MAGA movement and the outright fascist and white supremacist currents and activists she found firmly embedded within it. During our discussion we speak on the role of conspiracy theories... Read Full Article

Matson and Tawni Browning talk about what it was like for Matt to go undercover as a white supremacist for 25 years to take down hate groups. Check out their new book "The Hate Next Door" here: https://www.powells.com/book/hate-next-door-undercover-within-the-new-face-of-white-supremacy-9781728276625This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5189985/advertisement

We continue our miniseries on the 1980s movies distributed by Miramax Films, with a look at the films released in 1988. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   On this episode, we finally continue with the next part of our look back at the 1980s movies distributed by Miramax Films, specifically looking at 1988.   But before we get there, I must issue another mea culpa. In our episode on the 1987 movies from Miramax, I mentioned that a Kiefer Sutherland movie called Crazy Moon never played in another theatre after its disastrous one week Oscar qualifying run in Los Angeles in December 1987.   I was wrong.   While doing research on this episode, I found one New York City playdate for the film, in early February 1988. It grossed a very dismal $3200 at the 545 seat Festival Theatre during its first weekend, and would be gone after seven days.   Sorry for the misinformation.   1988 would be a watershed year for the company, as one of the movies they acquired for distribution would change the course of documentary filmmaking as we knew it, and another would give a much beloved actor his first Academy Award nomination while giving the company its first Oscar win.   But before we get to those two movies, there's a whole bunch of others to talk about first.   Of the twelve movies Miramax would release in 1988, only four were from America. The rest would be a from a mixture of mostly Anglo-Saxon countries like the UK, Canada, France and Sweden, although there would be one Spanish film in there.   Their first release of the new year, Le Grand Chemin, told the story of a timid nine-year-old boy from Paris who spends one summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother has lodged the boy with her friend and her friend's husband while Mom has another baby. The boy makes friends with a slightly older girl next door, and learns about life from her.   Richard Bohringer, who plays the friend's husband, and Anémone, who plays the pregnant mother, both won Cesars, the French equivalent to the Oscars, in their respective lead categories, and the film would be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film of 1987 by the National Board of Review. Miramax, who had picked up the film at Cannes several months earlier, waited until January 22nd, 1988, to release it in America, first at the Paris Theatre in midtown Manhattan, where it would gross a very impressive $41k in its first three days. In its second week, it would drop less than 25% of its opening weekend audience, bringing in another $31k. But shortly after that, the expected Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film did not come, and business on the film slowed to a trickle. But it kept chugging on, and by the time the film finished its run in early June, it had grossed $541k.   A week later, on January 29th, Miramax would open another French film, Light Years. An animated science fiction film written and directed by René Laloux, best known for directing the 1973 animated head trip film Fantastic Planet, Light Years was the story of an evil force from a thousand years in the future who begins to destroy an idyllic paradise where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.   In its first three days at two screens in Los Angeles and five screens in the San Francisco Bay Area, Light Years would gross a decent $48,665. Miramax would print a self-congratulating ad in that week's Variety touting the film's success, and thanking Isaac Asimov, who helped to write the English translation, and many of the actors who lent their vocal talents to the new dub, including Glenn Close, Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Grey, Christopher Plummer, and Penn and Teller. Yes, Teller speaks. The ad was a message to both the theatre operators and the major players in the industry. Miramax was here. Get used to it.   But that ad may have been a bit premature.   While the film would do well in major markets during its initial week in theatres, audience interest would drop outside of its opening week in big cities, and be practically non-existent in college towns and other smaller cities. Its final box office total would be just over $370k.   March 18th saw the release of a truly unique film.    Imagine a film directed by Robert Altman and Bruce Beresford and Jean-Luc Godard and Derek Jarman and Franc Roddam and Nicolas Roeg and Ken Russell and Charles Sturridge and Julien Temple. Imagine a film that starred Beverly D'Angelo, Bridget Fonda in her first movie, Julie Hagerty, Buck Henry, Elizabeth Hurley and John Hurt and Theresa Russell and Tilda Swinton. Imagine a film that brought together ten of the most eclectic filmmakers in the world doing four to fourteen minute short films featuring the arias of some of the most famous and beloved operas ever written, often taken out of their original context and placed into strange new places. Like, for example, the aria for Verdi's Rigoletto set at the kitschy Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, where a movie producer is cheating on his wife while she is in a nearby room with a hunky man who is not her husband. Imagine that there's almost no dialogue in the film. Just the arias to set the moments.   That is Aria.   If you are unfamiliar with opera in general, and these arias specifically, that's not a problem. When I saw the film at the Nickelodeon Theatre in Santa Cruz in June 1988, I knew some Wagner, some Puccini, and some Verdi, through other movies that used the music as punctuation for a scene. I think the first time I had heard Nessun Dorma was in The Killing Fields. Vesti La Giubba in The Untouchables. But this would be the first time I would hear these arias as they were meant to be performed, even if they were out of context within their original stories. Certainly, Wagner didn't intend the aria from Tristan und Isolde to be used to highlight a suicide pact between a young couple killing themselves in a Las Vegas hotel bathroom.   Aria definitely split critics when it premiered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, when it competed for the festival's main prize, the Palme D'Or. Roger Ebert would call it the first MTV opera and felt the filmmakers were poking fun at their own styles, while Leonard Maltin felt most of the endeavor was a waste of time. In the review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin would also make a reference to MTV but not in a positive way, and would note the two best parts of the film were the photo montage that is seen over the end credits, and the clever licensing of Chuck Jones's classic Bugs Bunny cartoon What's Opera, Doc, to play with the film, at least during its New York run. In the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper chose one of its music critics to review the film. They too would compare the film to MTV, but also to Fantasia, neither reference meant to be positive.   It's easy to see what might have attracted Harvey Weinstein to acquire the film.   Nudity.   And lots of it.   Including from a 21 year old Hurley, and a 22 year old Fonda.   Open at the 420 seat Ridgemont Theatre in Seattle on March 18th, 1988, Aria would gross a respectable $10,600. It would be the second highest grossing theatre in the city, only behind The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which grossed $16,600 in its fifth week at the 850 seat Cinerama Theatre, which was and still is the single best theatre in Seattle. It would continue to do well in Seattle, but it would not open until April 15th in Los Angeles and May 20th in New York City.   But despite some decent notices and the presence of some big name directors, Aria would stiff at the box office, grossing just $1.03m after seven months in theatres.   As we discussed on our previous episode, there was a Dennis Hopper movie called Riders on the Storm that supposedly opened in November 1987, but didn't. It did open in theatres in May of 1988, and now we're here to talk about it.   Riders on the Storm would open in eleven theatres in the New York City area on May 7th, including three theatres in Manhattan. Since Miramax did not screen the film for critics before release, never a good sign, the first reviews wouldn't show up until the following day, since the critics would actually have to go see the film with a regular audience. Vincent Canby's review for the New York Times would arrive first, and surprisingly, he didn't completely hate the film. But audiences didn't care. In its first weekend in New York City, Riders on the Storm would gross an anemic $25k. The following Friday, Miramax would open the film at two theatres in Baltimore, four theatres in Fort Worth TX (but surprisingly none in Dallas), one theatre in Los Angeles and one theatre in Springfield OH, while continuing on only one screen in New York. No reported grosses from Fort Worth, LA or Springfield, but the New York theatre reported ticket sales of $3k for the weekend, a 57% drop from its previous week, while the two in Baltimore combined for $5k.   There would be more single playdates for a few months. Tampa the same week as New York. Atlanta, Charlotte, Des Moines and Memphis in late May. Cincinnati in late June. Boston, Calgary, Ottawa and Philadelphia in early July. Greenville SC in late August. Evansville IL, Ithaca NY and San Francisco in early September. Chicago in late September. It just kept popping up in random places for months, always a one week playdate before heading off to the next location. And in all that time, Miramax never reported grosses. What little numbers we do have is from the theatres that Variety was tracking, and those numbers totaled up to less than $30k.   Another mostly lost and forgotten Miramax release from 1988 is Caribe, a Canadian production that shot in Belize about an amateur illegal arms trader to Central American terrorists who must go on the run after a deal goes down bad, because who wants to see a Canadian movie about an amateur illegal arms trader to Canadian terrorists who must go on the run in the Canadian tundra after a deal goes down bad?   Kara Glover would play Helen, the arms dealer, and John Savage as Jeff, a British intelligence agent who helps Helen.   Caribe would first open in Detroit on May 20th, 1988. Can you guess what I'm going to say next?   Yep.   No reported grosses, no theatres playing the film tracked by Variety.   The following week, Caribe opens in the San Francisco Bay Area, at the 300 seat United Artists Theatre in San Francisco, and three theatres in the South Bay. While Miramax once again did not report grosses, the combined gross for the four theatres, according to Variety, was a weak $3,700. Compare that to Aria, which was playing at the Opera Plaza Cinemas in its third week in San Francisco, in an auditorium 40% smaller than the United Artist, grossing $5,300 on its own.   On June 3rd, Caribe would open at the AMC Fountain Square 14 in Nashville. One show only on Friday and Saturday at 11:45pm. Miramax did not report grosses. Probably because people we going to see Willie Tyler and Lester at Zanie's down the street.   And again, it kept cycling around the country, one or two new playdates in each city it played in. Philadelphia in mid-June. Indianapolis in mid-July. Jersey City in late August. Always for one week, grosses never reported.   Miramax's first Swedish release of the year was called Mio, but this was truly an international production. The $4m film was co-produced by Swedish, Norwegian and Russian production companies, directed by a Russian, adapted from a Swedish book by an American screenwriter, scored by one of the members of ABBA, and starring actors from England, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States.   Mio tells the story of a boy from Stockholm who travels to an otherworldly fantasy realm and frees the land from an evil knight's oppression. What makes this movie memorable today is that Mio's best friend is played by none other than Christian Bale, in his very first film.   The movie was shot in Moscow, Stockholm, the Crimea, Scotland, and outside Pripyat in the Northern part of what is now Ukraine, between March and July 1986. In fact, the cast and crew were shooting outside Pripyat on April 26th, when they got the call they needed to evacuate the area. It would be hours later when they would discover there had been a reactor core meltdown at the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. They would have to scramble to shoot in other locations away from Ukraine for a month, and when they were finally allowed to return, the area they were shooting in deemed to have not been adversely affected by the worst nuclear power plant accident in human history,, Geiger counters would be placed all over the sets, and every meal served by craft services would need to be read to make sure it wasn't contaminated.   After premiering at the Moscow Film Festival in July 1987 and the Norwegian Film Festival in August, Mio would open in Sweden on October 16th, 1987. The local critics would tear the film apart. They hated that the filmmakers had Anglicized the movie with British actors like Christopher Lee, Susannah York, Christian Bale and Nicholas Pickard, an eleven year old boy also making his film debut. They also hated how the filmmakers adapted the novel by the legendary Astrid Lindgren, whose Pippi Longstocking novels made her and her works world famous. Overall, they hated pretty much everything about it outside of Christopher Lee's performance and the production's design in the fantasy world.   Miramax most likely picked it up trying to emulate the success of The Neverending Story, which had opened to great success in most of the world in 1984. So it might seem kinda odd that when they would open the now titled The Land of Faraway in theatres, they wouldn't go wide but instead open it on one screen in Atlanta GA on June 10th, 1988. And, once again, Miramax did not report grosses, and Variety did not track Atlanta theatres that week. Two weeks later, they would open the film in Miami. How many theatres? Can't tell you. Miramax did not report grosses, and Variety was not tracking any of the theatres in Miami playing the film. But hey, Bull Durham did pretty good in Miami that week.   The film would next open in theatres in Los Angeles. This time, Miramax bought a quarter page ad in the Los Angeles Times on opening day to let people know the film existed. So we know it was playing on 18 screens that weekend. And, once again, Miramax did not report grosses for the film. But on the two screens it played on that Variety was tracking, the combined gross was just $2,500.   There'd be other playdates. Kansas City and Minneapolis in mid-September. Vancouver, BC in early October. Palm Beach FL in mid October. Calgary AB and Fort Lauderdale in late October. Phoenix in mid November. And never once did Miramax report any grosses for it.   One week after Mio, Miramax would release a comedy called Going Undercover.   Now, if you listened to our March 2021 episode on Some Kind of Wonderful, you may remember be mentioning Lea Thompson taking the role of Amanda Jones in that film, a role she had turned down twice before, the week after Howard the Duck opened, because she was afraid she'd never get cast in a movie again. And while Some Kind of Wonderful wasn't as big a film as you'd expect from a John Hughes production, Thompson did indeed continue to work, and is still working to this day.   So if you were looking at a newspaper ad in several cities in June 1988 and saw her latest movie and wonder why she went back to making weird little movies.   She hadn't.   This was a movie she had made just before Back to the Future, in August and September 1984.   Originally titled Yellow Pages, the film starred film legend Jean Simmons as Maxine, a rich woman who has hired Chris Lemmon's private investigator Henry Brilliant to protect her stepdaughter Marigold during her trip to Copenhagen.   The director, James Clarke, had written the script specifically for Lemmon, tailoring his role to mimic various roles played by his famous father, Jack Lemmon, over the decades, and for Simmons. But Thompson was just one of a number of young actresses they looked at before making their casting choice.   Half of the $6m budget would come from a first-time British film producer, while the other half from a group of Danish investors wanting to lure more Hollywood productions to their area.   The shoot would be plagued by a number of problems. The shoot in Los Angeles coincided with the final days of the 1984 Summer Olympics, which would cut out using some of the best and most regularly used locations in the city, and a long-lasting heat wave that would make outdoor shoots unbearable for cast and crew. When they arrived in Copenhagen at the end of August, Denmark was going through an unusually heavy storm front that hung around for weeks.   Clarke would spend several months editing the film, longer than usual for a smaller production like this, but he in part was waiting to see how Back to the Future would do at the box office. If the film was a hit, and his leading actress was a major part of that, it could make it easier to sell his film to a distributor.   Or that was line of thinking.   Of course, Back to the Future was a hit, and Thompson received much praise for her comedic work on the film.   But that didn't make it any easier to sell his film.   The producer would set the first screenings for the film at the February 1986 American Film Market in Santa Monica, which caters not only to foreign distributors looking to acquire American movies for their markets, but helps independent filmmakers get their movies seen by American distributors.   As these screenings were for buyers by invitation only, there would be no reviews from the screenings, but one could guess that no one would hear about the film again until Miramax bought the American distribution rights to it in March 1988 tells us that maybe those screenings didn't go so well.   The film would get retitled Going Undercover, and would open in single screen playdates in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Dallas, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, St. Louis and Tampa on June 17th. And as I've said too many times already, no reported grosses from Miramax, and only one theatre playing the film was being tracked by Variety, with Going Undercover earning $3,000 during its one week at the Century City 14 in Los Angeles.   In the June 22nd, 1988 issue of Variety, there was an article about Miramax securing a $25m line of credit in order to start producing their own films. Going Undercover is mentioned in the article about being one of Miramax's releases, without noting it had just been released that week or how well it did or did not do.   The Thin Blue Line would be Miramax's first non-music based documentary, and one that would truly change how documentaries were made.   Errol Morris had already made two bizarre but entertaining documentaries in the late 70s and early 80s. Gates of Heaven was shot in 1977, about a man who operated a failing pet cemetery in Northern California's Napa Valley. When Morris told his famous German filmmaking supporter Werner Herzog about the film, Herzog vowed to eat one of the shoes he was wearing that day if Morris could actually complete the film and have it shown in a public theatre. In April 1979, just before the documentary had its world premiere at UC Theatre in Berkeley, where Morris had studied philosophy, Herzog would spend the morning at Chez Pannise, the creators of the California Cuisine cooking style, boiling his shoes for five hours in garlic, herbs and stock. This event itself would be commemorated in a documentary short called, naturally, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, by Les Blank, which is a must watch on its own.   Because of the success of Gates of Heaven, Morris was able to quickly find financing for his next film, Nub City, which was originally supposed to be about the number of Vernon, Florida's citizens who have “accidentally” cut off their limbs, in order to collect the insurance money. But after several of those citizens threatened to kill Morris, and one of them tried to run down his cinematographer with their truck, Morris would rework the documentary, dropping the limb angle, no pun intended, and focus on the numerous eccentric people in the town. It would premiere at the 1981 New York Film Festival, and become a hit, for a documentary, when it was released in theatres in 1982.   But it would take Morris another six years after completing Vernon, Florida, to make another film. Part of it was having trouble lining up full funding to work on his next proposed movie, about James Grigson, a Texas forensic psychiatrist whose was nicknamed Doctor Death for being an expert witness for the prosecution in death penalty cases in Texas. Morris had gotten seed money for the documentary from PBS and the Endowment for Public Arts, but there was little else coming in while he worked on the film. In fact, Morris would get a PI license in New York and work cases for two years, using every penny he earned that wasn't going towards living expenses to keep the film afloat.   One of Morris's major problems for the film was that Grigson would not sit on camera for an interview, but would meet with Morris face to face to talk about the cases. During that meeting, the good doctor suggested to the filmmaker that he should research the killers he helped put away. And during that research, Morris would come across the case of one Randall Dale Adams, who was convicted of killing Dallas police officer Robert Wood in 1976, even though another man, David Harris, was the police's initial suspect. For two years, Morris would fly back and forth between New York City and Texas, talking to and filming interviews with Adams and more than two hundred other people connected to the shooting and the trial. Morris had become convinced Adams was indeed innocent, and dropped the idea about Dr. Grigson to solely focus on the Robert Wood murder.   After showing the producers of PBS's American Playhouse some of the footage he had put together of the new direction of the film, they kicked in more funds so that Morris could shoot some re-enactment sequences outside New York City, as well as commission composer Phillip Glass to create a score for the film once it was completed. Documentaries at that time did not regularly use re-enactments, but Morris felt it was important to show how different personal accounts of the same moment can be misinterpreted or misremembered or outright manipulated to suppress the truth.   After the film completed its post-production in March 1988, The Thin Blue Line would have its world premiere at the San Francisco Film Festival on March 18th, and word quickly spread Morris had something truly unique and special on his hands. The critic for Variety would note in the very first paragraph of his write up that the film employed “strikingly original formal devices to pull together diverse interviews, film clips, photo collages, and” and this is where it broke ground, “recreations of the crime from many points of view.”   Miramax would put together a full court press in order to get the rights to the film, which was announced during the opening days of the 1988 Cannes Film Festival in early May. An early hint on how the company was going to sell the film was by calling it a “non-fiction feature” instead of a documentary.   Miramax would send Morris out on a cross-country press tour in the weeks leading up to the film's August 26th opening date, but Morris, like many documentary filmmakers, was not used to being in the spotlight themselves, and was not as articulate about talking up his movies as the more seasoned directors and actors who've been on the promotion circuit for a while. After one interview, Harvey Weinstein would send Errol Morris a note.   “Heard your NPR interview and you were boring.”   Harvey would offer up several suggestions to help the filmmaker, including hyping the movie up as a real life mystery thriller rather than a documentary, and using shorter and clearer sentences when answering a question.   It was a clear gamble to release The Thin Blue Line in the final week of summer, and the film would need a lot of good will to stand out.   And it would get it.   The New York Times was so enthralled with the film, it would not only run a review from Janet Maslin, who would heap great praise on the film, but would also run a lengthy interview with Errol Morris right next to the review. The quarter page ad in the New York Times, several pages back, would tout positive quotes from Roger Ebert, J. Hoberman, who had left The Village Voice for the then-new Premiere Magazine, Peter Travers, writing for People Magazine instead of Rolling Stone, and critics from the San Francisco Chronicle and, interestingly enough, the Dallas Morning News. The top of the ad was tagged with an intriguing tease: solving this mystery is going to be murder, with a second tag line underneath the key art and title, which called the film “a new kind of movie mystery.” Of the 15 New York area-based film critics for local newspapers, television and national magazines, 14 of them gave favorable reviews, while 1, Stephen Schiff of Vanity Fair, was ambivalent about it. Not one critic gave it a bad review.   New York audiences were hooked.   Opening in the 240 seat main house at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, the movie grossed $30,945 its first three days. In its second weekend, the gross at the Lincoln Plaza would jump to $31k, and adding another $27,500 from its two theatre opening in Los Angeles and $15,800 from a single DC theatre that week. Third week in New York was a still good $21k, but the second week in Los Angeles fell to $10,500 and DC to $10k. And that's how it rolled out for several months, mostly single screen bookings in major cities not called Los Angeles or New York City, racking up some of the best reviews Miramax would receive to date, but never breaking out much outside the major cities. When it looked like Santa Cruz wasn't going to play the film, I drove to San Francisco to see it, just as my friends and I had for the opening day of Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ in mid-August. That's 75 miles each way, plus parking in San Francisco, just to see a movie. That's when you know you no longer just like movies but have developed a serious case of cinephilea. So when The Nickelodeon did open the film in late November, I did something I had never done with any documentary before.   I went and saw it again.   Second time around, I was still pissed off at the outrageous injustice heaped upon Randall Dale Adams for nothing more than being with and trusting the wrong person at the wrong time. But, thankfully, things would turn around for Adams in the coming weeks. On December 1st, it was reported that David Harris had recanted his testimony at Adams' trial, admitting he was alone when Officer Wood stopped his car. And on March 1st, 1989, after more than 15,000 people had signed the film's petition to revisit the decision, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Adams's conviction “based largely” on facts presented in the film.   The film would also find itself in several more controversies.   Despite being named The Best Documentary of the Year by a number of critics groups, the Documentary Branch of the  Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences would not nominate the film, due in large part to the numerous reenactments presented throughout the film. Filmmaker Michael Apted, a member of the Directors Branch of the Academy, noted that the failure to acknowledge The Thin Blue Line was “one of the most outrageous things in the modern history of the Academy,” while Roger Ebert added the slight was “the worst non-nomination of the year.” Despite the lack of a nomination, Errol Morris would attend the Oscars ceremony in March 1989, as a protest for his film being snubbed.   Morris would also, several months after Adams' release, find himself being sued by Adams, but not because of how he was portrayed in the film. During the making of the film, Morris had Adams sign a contract giving Morris the exclusive right to tell Adams's story, and Adams wanted, essentially, the right to tell his own story now that he was a free man. Morris and Adams would settle out of court, and Adams would regain his life rights.   Once the movie was played out in theatres, it had grossed $1.2m, which on the surface sounds like not a whole lot of money. Adjusted for inflation, that would only be $3.08m. But even unadjusted for inflation, it's still one of the 100 highest grossing documentaries of the past forty years. And it is one of just a handful of documentaries to become a part of the National Film Registry, for being a culturally, historically or aesthetically significant film.”   Adams would live a quiet life after his release, working as an anti-death penalty advocate and marrying the sister of one of the death row inmates he was helping to exonerate. He would pass away from a brain tumor in October 2010 at a courthouse in Ohio not half an hour from where he was born and still lived, but he would so disappear from the spotlight after the movie was released that his passing wasn't even reported until June 2011.   Errol Morris would become one of the most celebrated documentarians of his generation, finally getting nominated for, and winning, an Oscar in 2003, for The Fog of War, about the life and times of Robert McNamara, Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War era. The Fog of War would also be added to the National Film Registry in 2019. Morris would become only the third documentarian, after D.A. Pennebaker and Les Blank, to have two films on the Registry.   In 1973, the senseless killings of five members of the Alday family in Donalsonville GA made international headlines. Four years later, Canadian documentarian Tex Fuller made an award-winning documentary about the case, called Murder One. For years, Fuller shopped around a screenplay telling the same story, but it would take nearly a decade for it to finally be sold, in part because Fuller was insistent that he also be the director. A small Canadian production company would fund the $1m CAD production, which would star Henry Thomas of E.T. fame as the fifteen year old narrator of the story, Billy Isaacs.   The shoot began in early October 1987 outside Toronto, but after a week of shooting, Fuller was fired, and was replaced by Graeme Campbell, a young and energetic filmmaker for whom Murder One would be his fourth movie directing gig of the year. Details are sketchy as to why Fuller was fired, but Thomas and his mother Carolyn would voice concerns with the producers about the new direction the film was taking under its new director.   The film would premiere in Canada in May 1988. When the film did well up North, Miramax took notice and purchased the American distribution rights.   Murder One would first open in America on two screens in Los Angeles on September 9th, 1988. Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times noted that while the film itself wasn't very good, that it still sprung from the disturbing insight about the crazy reasons people cross of what should be impassable moral lines.   “No movie studio could have invented it!,” screamed the tagline on the poster and newspaper key art. “No writer could have imagined it! Because what happened that night became the most controversial in American history.”   That would draw limited interest from filmgoers in Tinseltown. The two theatres would gross a combined $7k in its first three days. Not great but far better than several other recent Miramax releases in the area.   Two weeks later, on September 23rd, Miramax would book Murder One into 20 theatres in the New York City metro region, as well as in Akron, Atlanta, Charlotte, Indianpolis, Nashville, and Tampa-St. Petersburg. In New York, the film would actually get some good reviews from the Times and the Post as well as Peter Travers of People Magazine, but once again, Miramax would not report grosses for the film. Variety would note the combined gross for the film in New York City was only $25k.   In early October, the film would fall out of Variety's internal list of the 50 Top Grossing Films within the twenty markets they regularly tracked, with a final gross of just $87k. One market that Miramax deliberately did not book the film was anywhere near southwest Georgia, where the murders took place. The closest theatre that did play the film was more than 200 miles away.   Miramax would finish 1988 with two releases.   The first was Dakota, which would mark star Lou Diamond Phillips first time as a producer. He would star as a troubled teenager who takes a job on a Texas horse ranch to help pay of his debts, who becomes a sorta big brother to the ranch owner's young son, who has recently lost a leg to cancer, as he also falls for the rancher's daughter.   When the $1.1m budgeted film began production in Texas in June 1987, Phillips had already made La Bamba and Stand and Deliver, but neither had yet to be released into theatres. By the time filming ended five weeks later, La Bamba had just opened, and Phillips was on his way to becoming a star.   The main producers wanted director Fred Holmes to get the film through post-production as quickly as possible, to get it into theatres in the early part of 1988 to capitalize on the newfound success of their young star.    But that wouldn't happen.   Holmes wouldn't have the film ready until the end of February 1988, which was deemed acceptable because of the impending release of Stand and Deliver. In fact, the producers would schedule their first distributor screening of the film on March 14th, the Monday after Stand and Delivered opened, in the hopes that good box office for the film and good notices for Phillips would translate to higher distributor interest in their film, which sorta worked. None of the major studios would show for the screening, but a number of Indies would, including Miramax. Phillips would not attend the screening, as he was on location in New Mexico shooting Young Guns.   I can't find any reason why Miramax waited nearly nine months after they acquired Dakota to get it into theatres. It certainly wasn't Oscar bait, and screen availability would be scarce during the busy holiday movie season, which would see a number of popular, high profile releases like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ernest Saves Christmas, The Naked Gun, Rain Man, Scrooged, Tequila Sunrise, Twins and Working Girl. Which might explain why, when Miramax released the film into 18 theatres in the New York City area on December 2nd, they could only get three screens in all of Manhattan, the best being the nice but hardly first-rate Embassy 4 at Broadway and 47th. Or of the 22 screens in Los Angeles opening the film the same day, the best would be the tiny Westwood 4 next to UCLA or the Paramount in Hollywood, whose best days were back in the Eisenhower administration.   And, yet again, Miramax did not report grosses, and none of the theatres playing the film was tracked by Variety that week. The film would be gone after just one week. The Paramount, which would open Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on the 14th, opted to instead play a double feature of Clara's Heart, with Whoopi Goldberg and Neil Patrick Harris, and the River Phoenix drama Running on Empty, even though neither film had been much of a hit.   Miramax's last film of the year would be the one that changed everything for them.   Pelle the Conquerer.   Adapted from a 1910 Danish book and directed by Billie August, whose previous film Twist and Shout had been released by Miramax in 1986, Pelle the Conquerer would be the first Danish or Swedish movie to star Max von Sydow in almost 15 years, having spent most of the 70s and 80s in Hollywood and London starring in a number of major movies including The Exorcist, Three Days of the Condor, Flash Gordon,Conan the Barbarian, Never Say Never Again, and David Lynch's Dune. But because von Sydow would be making his return to his native cinema, August was able to secure $4.5m to make the film, one of the highest budgeted Scandinavian films to be made to date.   In the late 1850s, an elderly emigrant Lasse and his son Pelle leave their home in Sweden after the death of the boy's mother, wanting to build a new life on the Danish island of Bornholm. Lasse finds it difficult to find work, given his age and his son's youth. The pair are forced to work at a large farm, where they are generally mistreated by the managers for being foreigners. The father falls into depression and alcoholism, the young boy befriends one of the bastard children of the farm owner as well as another Swedish farm worker, who dreams of conquering the world.   For the title character of Pelle, Billie August saw more than 3,000 Swedish boys before deciding to cast 11 year old Pelle Hvenegaard, who, like many boys in Sweden, had been named for the character he was now going to play on screen.   After six months of filming in the summer and fall of 1986, Billie August would finish editing Pelle the Conquerer in time for it to make its intended Christmas Day 1987 release date in Denmark and Sweden, where the film would be one of the biggest releases in either country for the entire decade. It would make its debut outside Scandinavia at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1988, where it had been invited to compete for the Palme D'Or. It would compete against a number of talented filmmakers who had come with some of the best films they would ever make, including Clint Eastwood with Bird, Claire Denis' Chocolat, István Szabó's Hanussen, Vincent Ward's The Navigator, and A Short Film About Killing, an expanded movie version of the fifth episode in Krzysztof Kieślowski's masterful miniseries Dekalog. Pelle would conquer them all, taking home the top prize from one of cinema's most revered film festivals.   Reviews for the film out of Cannes were almost universally excellent. Vincent Canby, the lead film critic for the New York Times for nearly twenty years by this point, wouldn't file his review until the end of the festival, in which he pointed out that a number of people at the festival were scandalized von Sydow had not also won the award for Best Actor.   Having previously worked with the company on his previous film's American release, August felt that Miramax would have what it took to make the film a success in the States.   Their first moves would be to schedule the film for a late December release, while securing a slot at that September's New York Film Festival. And once again, the critical consensus was highly positive, with only a small sampling of distractors.   The film would open first on two screens at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, December 21st, following by exclusive engagements in nine other cities including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC, on the 23rd. But the opening week numbers weren't very good, just $46k from ten screens. And you can't really blame the film's two hour and forty-five minute running time. Little Dorrit, the two-part, four hour adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, had been out nine weeks at this point and was still making nearly 50% more per screen.   But after the new year, when more and more awards were hurled the film's way, including the National Board of Review naming it one of the best foreign films of the year and the Golden Globes awarding it their Best Foreign Language trophy, ticket sales would pick up.   Well, for a foreign film.   The week after the Motion Picture Academy awarded Pelle their award for Best Foreign Language Film, business for the film would pick up 35%, and a third of its $2m American gross would come after that win.   One of the things that surprised me while doing the research for this episode was learning that Max von Sydow had never been nominated for an Oscar until he was nominated for Best Actor for Pelle the Conquerer. You look at his credits over the years, and it's just mind blowing. The Seventh Seal. Wild Strawberries. The Virgin Spring. The Greatest Story Ever Told. The Emigrants. The Exorcist. The Three Days of the Condor. Surely there was one performance amongst those that deserved recognition.   I hate to keep going back to A24, but there's something about a company's first Oscar win that sends that company into the next level. A24 didn't really become A24 until 2016, when three of their movies won Oscars, including Brie Larson for Best Actress in Room. And Miramax didn't really become the Miramax we knew and once loved until its win for Pelle.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon, when Episode 117, the fifth and final part of our miniseries on Miramax Films, is released.     Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

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Stuart Ramsay has just returned from spending a month undercover in the jungle of Myanmar where an often forgotten civil war still rages. He tells us about how he got into the country and the dangers he faced as a reporter when he got there. The arrival of Threads is the latest seismic shock in a year of chaos for the major social platforms. We ask what social media users want now and explore the business models platforms must adopt to provide it. Guests: Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent, Sky News; Dave Lee, US Technology Columnist, Bloomberg; Elaine Moore, Deputy Editor, FT Lex; Christopher Barrie, Lecturer in Computational Psychology, University of Edinburgh Presenter: Ros Atkins Producer: Simon Richardson

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In this eye-opening episode of "Prime Time with Alex Stein," Alex and Sara Gonzales discuss their undercover experience at a so-called "family-friendly" Pride rally, exposing the truth behind the scenes of what was easily available to children. Should Pride events be adult-only? Joining them afterward is special guest Jacob Chansley, widely known as the "QAnon Shaman" for his distinctive outfit and actions on January 6, to give us shocking revelations about the motivations and beliefs of those involved in the Capitol riot. The show concludes with Alex and the team reacting to the viral clip of the day.

Matt Cooper joins Tim today as they dive deeper into the mind space of an undercover operator. We intentionally go to the darkest corners of the globe to rescue children from trafficking. They are the places no one else would go but a lot of what our operators see are things that no one should ever have to witness, let alone experience.  Tim reflects back on his experiences when he was first sent to undercover school, something he never sought to do. There isn't anything inherent in police officers that makes them good undercover operators. They must be trained to respond quickly and do whatever it takes to really play the role and dig into a trafficking ring. Tim and Matt share how that can really mess with a person.  Going undercover is a massive responsibility to take on board, and it also takes a huge mental and emotional toll on our operators. Matt and Tim talk about how they both deal with the after-effects of an operation and why coming home to their families is often a brutal reminder of everything they have just witnessed.  O.U.R. has rescued hundreds of kids in Haiti, most of whom were made victims by the horrific earthquake in 2010. Tim tells the story of a little girl who was forced into trafficking after losing her family. She never believed that anyone would come to her rescue but exactly 8 years later, we walked through that door and brought hope where there was no hope.  This work is never done and Operation Underground Railroad needs your help to rescue as many children as possible. To help us carry out more operations, please head to ourrescue.org/give-now and thanks for listening.   In The Trenches Podcast: - Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/in-the-trenches/id1682836532 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0b7lKGYKVG192vcRE88mwp - Website: https://www.ourrescue.org/podcast   Shop the O.U.R. merch worn in this episode: - Tim and Matt's Snapback Cap: https://store.ourrescue.org/products/our-rescue-snapback - Tim's T-shirt: https://store.ourrescue.org/products/the-hidden-war-tee - Matt's T-shirt: https://store.ourrescue.org/products/freedomflaggreentee   Want to get more involved with Operation Underground Railroad? - Website: https://www.ourrescue.org/ - Donate: https://www.ourrescue.org/give-now - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourrescue/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourrescue - Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/ourrescue - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/operation-underground-railroad/ - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ourrescue   Please note that while we strive to present accurate and up-to-date information, we may occasionally make errors or present facts that are not entirely precise. We encourage our listeners to do their own research and fact-checking, and we cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies.   #colombia #children #abuse #humantraffickingstories #undergroundrailroad #podcast #awareness #ourrescue #timballardSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tim and Matt Cooper talk today about coming face to face with human traffickers over the years and how they don't necessarily look like the stereotypical creep you'd imagine.  One of the challenging aspects of this line of work, and a reason why child exploitation and human trafficking are so prevalent, is that there is no profile for a paedophile. You can't easily identify who they could be because a lot of the time, they look like your friend, your neighbour, your pastor or your teacher.  Tim and Matt talk about the shocking fact that a lot of the “successful” human trafficking networks have a female who takes care of the victims. These women have usually worked in the sex industry themselves and they use their knowledge to turn it on other victims of trafficking. This is another reason why female undercover operatives are so vital because they are able to build trust with the female perpetrators more so than men.   Reflecting on an operation where the perpetrator was acting strange, trying to determine if Tim was an undercover agent, Tim shares how frightening it is to see the lengths people will go to in order to engage in this sickening behaviour.  Tim shares a sobering warning that some of what we are seeing pushed today in political and social movements is actually trying to normalize sexually deviant behavior with children. He talks about the policies that are being proposed and enacted are the exact policies the paedophiles have been pushing for half a century. Let this be a further urge to parents, grandparents and carers that it's time to wake up and not allow our children to be caught in the child trap.    This work is never done and Operation Underground Railroad needs your help to rescue as many children as possible. To help us carry out more operations, please head to ourrescue.org/give-now and thanks for listening.   In The Trenches Podcast: - Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/in-the-trenches/id1682836532 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0b7lKGYKVG192vcRE88mwp - Website: https://www.ourrescue.org/podcast   Shop the O.U.R. merch worn in this episode: Matt's hat: https://store.ourrescue.org/products/...     Want to get more involved with Operation Underground Railroad? - Website: https://www.ourrescue.org/ - Donate: https://www.ourrescue.org/give-now - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourrescue/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourrescue - Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/ourrescue - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/operation-underground-railroad/ - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ourrescue   Please note that while we strive to present accurate and up-to-date information, we may occasionally make errors or present facts that are not entirely precise. We encourage our listeners to do their own research and fact-checking, and we cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies.   #colombia #children #abuse #humantraffickingstories #undergroundrailroad #podcast #awareness #ourrescue #timballardSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In part two of their conversation with deradicalized extremist and former Canadian government operative, Mubin Shaikh, Lola and Meagan dig into Mubin's meet-cute with his now-wife (who was not Muslim when they met), how little she knew about his extremism, why 9/11 was the turning point in his radical beliefs, and his deeper exploration into Islamic texts and interpretations. They discuss how he reached out to the Canadian government after a former acquaintance was arrested for a bomb plot, going undercover to disrupt a terrorist plot by the Toronto 18, the intervention work he's done, and how his work has impacted him emotionally. To learn more about Mubin's work, visit Parents4Peace.org or call 1-844-49-PEACE Trust Me is brought to you by BetterHelp! Visit BetterHelp.com/trust to get 10% off your first month! Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 29 million drivers who trust Progressive! Got your own story about cults, extreme belief, or abuse of power? Leave a voicemail or text us at 347-86-TRUST (347-868-7878) OR shoot us an email at TrustMePod@gmail.com CHECK OUT OUR MERCH!! bit.ly/trustmemerch INSTAGRAM: @TrustMePodcast @oohlalola @meaganelizabeth11 TWITTER: @TrustMeCultPod @ohlalola @baberahamhicks TIKTOK: @TrustMeCultPodcast

True Crime Tuesdays with Nancy Hixt Mr. Big operations are a Canadian police technique used to secure confessions from murder suspects, which are now presumptively inadmissible in court Guest: Nancy Hixt, Senior Crime Reporter for Global News and Host of “Crime Beat” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

T-coy the Decoy has spent the last three years going undercover to catch online child predators. From her own experience with sexual abuse, she has made it her mission to speak out and do the frontline work to protect our children from danger. Do you know how your child spends their time online? Are you aware of the tactics predators are using to gain access to minors? Today I welcome undercover agent T-coy the Decoy to the podcast. In this episode, T-coy walks us through how she poses as children online to catch pedophiles. We discuss disturbing facts about this rampant problem and resources you can explore for learning more. Step up and listen to this episode now: our children depend on it.  In This Episode, You'll Learn:The Behavior of Online Child PredatorsWhat Work as an Online Child Decoy for Predators Is LikeHow We Can Better Protect Children from Predators Find More of Tcoy the Decoy Here:https://www.youtube.com/@TCoyTheDecoyhttps://rumble.com/user/TCoyTheDecoy Full Episode Timestamps:0:01:09 How Big A Problem is Sex Traffickers and Abusers?0:04:22 How Long Has T-coy Been A Decoy for Child Predators and How Many Have They Caught?0:10:07 The Psychology of a Child Predator0:12:57 T-coy Was Groomed By A Sexual Abuser As a Child0:19:23 Why Did T-coy Realize Her Relationship With A Much Older Woman When She Was A Teen Was Wrong?0:23:14 T-Coy Explains How They Decoy As Children Online and Catch Predators0:30:12 Catching Sex Predators and Taking Them to Court0:37:46 How Can Parents Better Protect Their Kids?0:51:10 How Can You Help Fight Against Sex Trafficking and Child Abusers?0:57:07 How to Find T-coy the Decoy and Other Resources

On this special behind-the-scenes episode of Crime Beat, Global news senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt gives you an exclusive look at specialized investigative tactics often used to push cases forward – from someone who knows what it's like to lead a double life. Contact: Twitter: @nancyhixt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NancyHixtCrimeBeat/ Email: nancy.hixt@globalnews.ca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Insects - pollinators, major carnivores, herbivores and recyclers. They sustain our diet. Most animals eat insects. Our food relies on insects. The ecology of the world has evolved around insects. Yet they are in crisis, the situation is dire. We speak to Matt Shardlow, the Chief Executive of Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust, and Dr George McGavin, television presenter and author, whose recent book “The Hidden World” offers a fascinating insight to how insects sustain life on earth today and will shape our lives tomorrow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Investigative Journalist Ian Halperin joined the guys on the "Hollywood Raw podcast with Dax Holt and Adam Glyn" to talk about his years going undercover to break some massive stories.  The New York Times best-selling author opened up about penning books about Michael Jackson, Brangelina, Curt Cobain, and The Kardashians and how he was able to infiltrate their camps. This journalist will stop at nothing to bring the biggest stories to the masses. His tales of going undercover will shock you - Love him or hate him, you'll enjoy this episode.  Green Chef is now owned by HelloFresh, and with a wider array of meal plans to choose from, there's something for everyone! We love switching between the brands, and now our listeners can enjoy both brands at a discount! Just go to greenchef.com/raw60 and use code "raw60" to get 60% off plus free shipping! Don't miss a thing! Follow Hollywood Raw on Insta, Facebook, and Twitter. Dax Holt - Insta / Twitter Adam Glyn - Insta / Twitter A Hurrdat Media Production. Hurrdat Media is a digital media and commercial video production company based in Omaha, NE. Find more podcasts on the Hurrdat Media Network and learn more about our other services today on HurrdatMedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A growing number of blind and partially sighted people from Arab countries are travelling long distances to clinics claiming they stop or even reverse sight loss. Partially sighted journalist Ramadan Younis has gone undercover to expose the truth. Watch the 'Blind Faith' documentary here, BBC iPlayer - Blind Faith

Mother of two and grandmother of four, Diane Halfman is a consultant, trainer, and host of the podcast Live Your SPAlife, which teaches people how to "seek power always." She is also a former police officer who worked undercover as a prostitute to hunt down a serial killer. She found that the skills she learned from 10 years on the job, much of it "in character," translated into lessons she could share with business leaders looking to move through crises, manage boundaries, and not second-guess themselves. "I learned, particularly undercover, about having to trust myself in stressful situations to be able to make quicker decisions, to really be able to move through stress no matter what's going on. These are the exact skills that our leaders need," she said. Diane also found that her success in police work came from a strong habit of listening to the guidance God was giving her to go along with her police training. "We've got to listen enough to where, you know, that intuition comes," she said. "That was really helpful in police work; that in trusting myself, I am trusting God that whatever happens I am going to make the right decision, that I am going to help people stay safe, I am going to keep myself safe, I'm going to come home to my two daughters." Diane is a great example of gentle strength and I'm sure you will enjoy hearing her share some of her stories in this week's episode of Chiseled.

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp! Give online therapy a try at http://betterhelp.com/DROPOUTS and get on your way to being your best self. This week the boys are joined by Danny Berk and Reckless Ben aka the CULT INFILTRATORS… yes you heard that right! The guys dive deep into the cults they infiltrated and spied on including Scientology and the Twelve Tribes, how they created their own religion, AND how they got CAUGHT! But don't worry they also tell us about how they're going to continue the series. You won't want to miss this! Get our merch here! shopdropouts.com Follow Danny! https://instagram.com/danny_berk?igshid=NDk5N2NlZjQ= https://m.youtube.com/@UCDEeGdNQvkJa7EXNHCk-84w Follow Ben! https://instagram.com/recklessbenschneider?igshid=NDk5N2NlZjQ= https://m.youtube.com/@UC_UE7maDDe8OqqC8-TtXaKg Keep up with us! Zach: https://www.instagram.com/zachjustice/ Indiana: https://www.instagram.com/indiana/ Jared: https://www.instagram.com/jarebearmusic/ DM us with your questions, ideas, and videos! https://www.instagram.com/dropoutspod/ Subscribe to our Highlights Channel! https://www.youtube.com/@dropoutshighlights/featured

This highlight reel is a collection of short snippets from the conversations that occurred in season 3. Each voice is from a different conversation and are unrelated to one another. The following is the list of the guests and episodes that are featured in the reel (ordered as they are heard):1. Michael Barone and The Upcoming Election 2.  Inviting One's Adversaries to Break Bread with Philippa Hughes 3. The Freedom Trucker's Convoy and The Emergencies Act with The Honorable Tony Clement4. Going Undercover with Robert Eringer 5. The Hidden History of Big Brother in America with Thom Hartmann 6. Censorship and Misinformation in Society with Parnian Soheili 7. Gun Violence Solutions with Cassandra Crifasi, PhD8. The Uvalde School Shooting with Robert Allen (Part 2)9. The White House Press Coverage & President Biden's Comments with Carl Cannon10. Ukrainian-Russian Tensions with David Andelman11. The Russo-Ukrainian War with John O'Loughlin, PhDMusic: Price of Freedom

Check out our Crawlspace subscription service where we have a bonus show and ad-free episodes! https://crawlspace.supportingcast.fm/ Use promo code, "Crawlspace" for your first month FREE! Check out our Missing subscription service where we have a bonus show and ad-free episodes! https://missing.supportingcast.fm/ Use promo code, "Missing" for your first month FREE! Welcome to Crawlspace. In this episode Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna speak with former federal agent and author John Madinger about his new book Going Under. John tells us some wild stories of his undercover work. YOU GUYS! We are going to be at OBSESSED FEST IN COLUMBUS OHIO, SEPT. 30 - OCT. 2ND!! FOR MORE INFO AND TO PURCHASE PASSES, GO TO: https://www.obsessednetwork.com/obsessed-fest We are delighted to be sponsored in part by the fantastic free to download mobile puzzle game, BEST FIENDS! Get $5 worth of in-game rewards when you reach level 5! Check out John's book at: https://www.amazon.com/Going-Under-Kidnapping-Murder-Undercover-ebook/dp/B0BDFD3Z9F John's site: https://johnmadinger.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod  Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast  Follow us on Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound  Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Join the Crawlspace Discussion Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/talkcrawlspace/ Crawlspace Media is part of the Glassbox Media Network. Check them out here: https://glassboxmedia.com/ Go to https://smile.amazon.com/ to connect your existing Amazon account to donate to PI's For the Missing. Follow Private Investigations For the Missing https://investigationsforthemissing.org/ http://piftm.org/donate https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/ https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/20 Hour 3   1:00 PFF's Ben Brown 20:30 Adam Levine wants to name his kid after his mistress 35:00 Video of Eli Manning going undercover

Matty Stu is a hilarious comedian based in Austin Texas. A Navy Veteran Matty has a unique perspective and view on life. We discuss his military experience as well as his undying love for the people of Japan. We dive into how there is a double standard of beauty expectations when it comes to men and the penis. Why is Will Smith not a star anymore? Would life as a Mormon in the little house on the prairie be easier? We discuss going undercover with Scientology and Evan's jaded past with Scientology. Tom Cruise gives off proud dad vibes and John Travolta will have the best charcuterie board after forcing you to give him a massage. Enjoy! Check out Matty Stu's hilarious podcast with fellow comedian Niko Jordan "The Captain's Dogs" 

Alex Schuman, host of Puppy Kingpin, spoke to Deborah Howard, the president of CAPS, the Companion Animal Protection Society, and an undercover investigator who goes by the pseudonym Pete Paxton. In this bonus episode, they discuss the patterns they see breeders using to skirt laws, why the USDA falls short, and Deborah and Pete defend their use of undercover videos to expose what's happening on the ground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alicia was not buying what Chase was selling and this time she decided to take matters into her own hands and find out the truth.  With a few stealthy undercover moves and a visit to his ex-wife, she finds out everything...and then some!Thank you to our special guest Shayna for joining us. You can follow her on Instagram at @ShaynaWeberBand or her business page @RebelMinx_And, if you want to also follow her fabulous and very talented husband, you can do that at @AlexBandDO YOU HAVE YOUR OWN STORY TO SHARE? EMAIL US at ExWivesUndercover@gmail.comLIKE THE PODCAST? If so, please give us a 5-star rating and help us spread the word and protect other women from falling victim to these types of men.VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.ExWivesUndercover.comFollow Ex-Wives UndercoverInstagram: https://bit.ly/3sMY949Facebook: http://bit.ly/365dZxfPrivate FB Group: https://rb.gy/nufn9eTikTok: https://rb.gy/6zw1mySupport the show

The Monster Manual describes Cambions as “the offspring of a fiend (usually a succubus or incubus) and a humanoid (usually a human). Cambions inherit aspects of both parents, but their horns, leathery wings, and sinewy tails are hallmarks of their otherworldly parentage.”We are joined by Anthony Rapp.Anthony is a lifelong geek and actor, who now has the great fortune of living his best geek and actor life by appearing as Commander Paul Stamets in Star Trek Discovery. He also has enjoyed a resurgence of DnD love, having played as a kid, but not again until the middle of 2020, thanks to COVID-mandated Zoom sessions. He can be found on Twitter at @albinokid.Check Out Our Sponsors!Start Playing: find a gaming table today at StartPlaying.GamesWarrstories:Smoke, Steel and Sharpened Fangs campaign https://startplaying.games/adventure/62decda76e943140b20d64adGet a $10 Credit on StartPlaying.Games! https://startplaying.games/referral/ckaipkuw001akbopk4jimaqd2MUSIC"A Truly Powerful Force" by NC Music"Capital City" by Stephane Lorello"Touch the Darkness" by Kai Engel"Darkest Child" by Kevin Macleod"Going Undercover" by Borrtex"The Show Must Be Go" by Kevin MacleodKill Every Monster is a 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast. In each episode, we are joined by a guest to discuss the lore, mechanics, and story potential of classic D&D creatures. We debate tactics for maximizing these creatures in your game, and we ask the ever-important question: are they really a monster?Send us your questions for a future mailbag episode!COMMUNITYDiscordTikTokTwitterRedditInstagramFacebookSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/kill-every-monster/exclusive-content

After wildlife filmmaker Malaika Vaz stumbled upon manta ray poaching near her home in India, she disguised herself as a fish trader to find out who was behind the plot—a dicey proposition as she pursues traffickers in India, China, and Nepal. Want more? Check out Malaika and Nitye's production company, Untamed Planet. There, you can see films about big cats, pandemics, and, of course, manta ray trafficking. Also explore:  Curious how these animals stole Malaika's heart? Take a look at Nat Geo Wild's The Social Lives of Manta Rays. For subscribers: Believe it or not, manta rays have their own distinct social circles. Learn more in our article about manta ray friendships. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the No More Late Fees podcast Jackie and Danielle are joined by Olivia and Maddy from the 30 Going on 13 podcast. Before our episode drops later this week we wanted to you our wonderful audience a chance to get to know them with some fun games. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nomorelatefees/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nomorelatefees/support No More Late Fees BioLinks 30 Going On 13 : Spotify --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nomorelatefees/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nomorelatefees/support

Today's episode with Robert Eringer focuses on his past experiences going undercover for several organizations. Robert, first, describes his encounter with the KKK. This account originates in the United Kingdom but took Robert State side to South Carolina to pursue the story. Robert then discloses an occurrence in Europe while partnering with former CIA Director of Operations Clair George. Soon after, Robert explains the details regarding his existence being questioned in case that was presented by the Supreme Court. Finally, a covert account with the FBI is explained where Robert lured a turned Soviet Agent to be apprehended by the authorities in Europe. I hope you enjoy!Rate and subscribe if you enjoyed the content and follow 'overcoming_the_divide'  on Instagram!Robert Eringer is an author, investigative journalist and private sector counter-intelligence operative. Robert has specialized in infiltrating extremist groups. This has included Neo-Nazis, Violent Anarchists and the KKK. In 1993, Robert embarked on a ten year undercover operation for the FBI intelligence, some of these experiences are laid out in his 2008 book Ruse. Through 2002-2007, Robert created the first intelligence service for Prince Albert of Monaco. Robert currently writes for the Santa Barbara news under The Investigator column, released every Sunday. About thirty years ago, a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court (Liberty Lobby v. Jack Anderson) questioned Robert Eringer's existence. Music: Coma-Media (intro)                 WinkingFoxMusic (outro)Recorded:  4/5/22

We chat with Ken Croke and Dave Wedge all about their riveting new book Riding With Evil: Taking Down The Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang. Ken talks to us about having the luck of the Irish, going undercover, how it affected his family, having to lie nonstop and remember those lies, and the fears of getting … Continue reading Going Undercover With Ken Croke And Dave Wedge

The life of a federal agent can be exciting, but it is also very dangerous. Todd speaks with Larry Forletta about his illustrious career in law enforcement and gets some personal safety tips along the way.Produced by The Host With The Most, LLC