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This week on HOPE is Here Greg talks about the floods that come along in our life. These floods can come in many different forms and cause devastating effects. But where is God in all of it? Has he forsaken you? Is He helping? Let's look at what the Bible says about it. Help us Bring HOPE and Encouragement to Others Texting the word GIVE to 833-713-1591 Website https://www.hopeisheretoday.org/donate Shopping on Amazon, select HOPE is Here as your favorite charity (EIN: 83-0522555) Login through this link > https://smile.amazon.com/ch/83-0522555
Welcome back 2 the podcast! On this episode, I was joined once again by Greg, president of University of Sussex Sci-Fi & Horror Society, this time 2 talk about Coming 2 America, the sequel 2 1988's Coming to America. Apparently, this film is coming 2 Amazon Prime next month in that other universe, but it came out in December in our universe! How do the characters and the comedy compare 2 the first film? What crazy tangents do the 2 of us go on? Listen and find out! SHOW NOTES: 4:00 - I'm surprised I didn't say 2 Fast 2 Serious. 6:05 - Check out the Delayed Replay episode on Bob's Burgers: The Movie. 6:15 - Check out The Intergalactic Peace Coalition Podcast. 19:30 - Check out the Delayed Replay episodes on Escape Room 2 and Spiral: From the Book of Saw. 22:45 - Here Greg is mentioning the band from the first movie. 26:15 - Check out The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard episode. 36:15 - Check out Trust Your Doctor: A Doctor Who Podcast. 36:25 - Check out the Jungle Cruise episode for Dylan's exact wording. 43:20 - Check out Hello from the Magic Tavern. The episode I'm referring to is one of the 1989 episodes from season 3. 47:30 - You can watch all of The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald on YouTube. 55:00 - I keep saying "king" and "queen" when I mean "prince" and "princess." 57:45 - Grievous is Padme meme on Reddit. 58:00 - Here's the "Hello there" meme with Artoo as Grievous on Know Your Meme. 1:00:30 - I was referring to this limited edition Renegade Squadron PSP I remembered seeing on TV. University of Sussex Sci-Fi & Horror Society: Discord | Facebook
It is with great pleasure that in this episode I have the privilege to interview Greg Nardi. Greg Nardi is the owner of Ashtanga Yoga Worldwide where he teaches a Mysore program almost daily as well as an internationally renowned teacher of workshops in yoga practice and theory. Greg’s classes and workshops draw on his experience in the oral tradition of yoga that he participated in on numerous trips to study in Mysore, India and with teachers in N. America and Europe, his years of practice, and his ongoing self-study of academic research in contemporary and traditional yoga. Visit Greg online here. Here Greg weighs in on his thoughts about Yoga, the COVID-19 pandemic and the future of teaching yoga. We hope you enjoy!
It’s almost 1 p.m. on a Saturday, I’m alone, all in the world is exceptionally well, and I’m drunk. Here you will continue with our First Annual Natrona Heights Drunkin Punkin Festival. Here we drink Southern Tier Pumking (8.6% abv, amber, depth and complexity like whoa) and Dogfishead Punkin Ale (7.0% abv, brown, depth and complexity like okay-fine). Here Greg will teach you about music. (Please note: If you are a musician and listening to this, your head might implode or explode given the confidence with which Greg “teaches” Jen about various aspects of music theory and performance. Gregory Del Duca is to music what Donald Trump is to…just about anything…but certainly geo-politics.) Here Tilly (…the Basset Hound with righteous ass-balls and a cavernous neck-gina…) will interrupt in the most amusing and endearing manner. Here we ask, “How do you say the word YOLK?” (With or without a distinct “L” involved?” And for that matter, how about FOLK?) Here we play the following tunes: “Nasty Boys” by Janet Jackson “The Great Pumpkin Waltz” by Vince Guaraldi Trio “In the Heights (Opening)” by the cast/band of In the Heights “La Grange” by ZZ Top Here we present, “Drunkin Punkin (Part 2),” enjoy!
Hey there, D2Dreeps. Are you ready for a marathon of Chirdon…a…Chirdonathon? Sure you are. I promise. Here we (…Greg, Heather, Chris, Jeff, […Ralph, Johnnie too…]…) sample a variety of Wigle spirits. Here Greg guides a tasting. A tad inebriated, but still a sturdy guide. (Likely if you read that immediately previous phrase too quickly, you processed, “study guide,” but that’s not what it says. Look again. Yep. Sturdy.) Guide. Here we learn about the origins of this quartet. Like the Beatles, but without all the fame and musical talent, though Jeffrey can fart the Star Spangled Banner if you give him enough cheap Canadian bacon. Here we talk about the Atari 2600 game, “E.T. The Extraterrestrial,” (…redundant much, Spielberg…) and Steve, the bird who sounds like perhaps your chair is squeaking. (Don’t worry, your chair isn’t squeaking. That’s Steve. [Actually, what the hell do I know? Your chair may very well be squeaking. Annoying, innit? But so is Steve. Not annoying…squeaking. And that might annoy you. It shouldn’t though…really he’s kinda cute. Oh hell, Steve will be, particularly near the beginning of the podcast, at least one thing squeaking in your ear. That I know. End of paragraph.]) Here we discuss the things that made and make us…and, if we’re being entirely honest, will continue to make us…drink. Here we end the podcast with no closing music given time constraints and the fact that the Greg typing this post is currently too damn drunk to figure shit out. (So why is he trying to post this right now?) Good question, ask that drunk asshole. (Which is me.) So ask me. (But I won’t answer, so don’t ask.) K? K We present to you, “Shaler Rollin’ (Chirdonathon, pt 1).” ShAT. Shaler Area Titans. Yeah. The acronym is ShAT.
To start, Greg is obsessed with the Game of Thrones theme and opening sequence. It makes him want to quit everything and travel the country as a permanent fixture on the Renaissance Festival circuit. Perhaps as one of the dudes who viciously roasts passersby from high atop a wooden wall whilst they attempt to throw rotten tomatoes at him. Here Greg copies a “Pumpkin Snap,” from House of 1000 Beers. It’s a beer cocktail consisting of: Southern Tier Pumking, Crabbies alcoholic ginger beer, spiced rum, and bitters with a rimmed beer goblet. (Coarse brown sugar, cinnamon, and ginger, if you please.) Here Greg creates a “Kentucky Pumpkin Pie” using Kentucky Pumpkin Barrel Ale, Wild Turkey Spiced, Crabbies, and spiced’n’boozy not-so-simple syrup. (If you want the specific recipe, just ask. As a general note, these are all very similar to recent beer cocktails I posted on the Cocktails, etc. page.) Here we meet two new gym characters. 1. Oxygen deprived Cro Magnon Sub Zero/Scorpion/Bane Heavyweight Champion of the Psych Ward. (Don’t look this motherfucker in the eyes…as they are void but for the apparent visions of murder and dismemberment.) 2. The pig-tailed age-ambiguous selfie-obsessed look-at-me stripper-in-training. (You really don’t want to look this one in the eyes either. But watch out for flying fitness bands. Oy.) Here we meet Jenny Defreitas, who is not real. Well, there might be a Jenny Defreitas out there in the world. Likely hundreds. However, the Jenny Defreitas who has popped up on many a Facebook page of Shaler-graduate and Shaler-graduate-adjacent people, who inspired a memorial wall after having allegedly died in a factory fire in her knock-off cologne and sunglasses business, and who now is a real life person (…it’s my wife, people…); THAT Jenny Defretas is a fun little internal joke that somehow catfished more people than I could have imagined. It is now clear how Ponzi schemes, rich Nigerian princes in need of your social security and bank account numbers, and actual catishing work. First, people (…for the most part. Yes, MOST part…) don’t actually read beyond headlines. Second, we are all, or at least a vast majority of us are, likely to accept anything from a person or people or outlet that we like or trust…regardless of their history of smartassery, asshattery, or other shenanigans and shades of bullshit. One more time…Jenny Defreitas is not real. However, you should find her her on Facebook and also her memorial site. For a good laugh. Or not. Comedy and wit are a personal, subjective thing. It’s our cup of tea…it might not be yours. Give ‘er a shot though. We end this whole thing with a lovely piece from the Decemberists from their release, “The Hazards of Love.” Oh, and please use the floaty Amazon thing over there to the right and above. Yep, there in the corner. If you shop on Amazon and use THAT link, you’ll also support D2D and our endeavor to be more polished, professional, and purposeful. (Bug off, I like alliteration.)
On today’s episode of the D2D Pod, Greg and Jen enjoy Wigle Organic Wapsie Valley Corn Bourbon. Remember, people, bourbon does not need to come from Kentucky, it just needs to be mostly corn…and this stuff is amazing because the distillers used heirloom Wapsie Valley maize, colorful and earthy with the wonderful sweetness recognizable in corn-heavy mash bills. Here Greg recalls two stories. First, an overwhelmed, church-dressed, and eventually sweat-soaked Dad and his three children attempted to make their way through the grocery store. Greg had the pleasure of inadvertently following the family through Giant Eagle given serendipity and similar shopping lists. The moral of this tale: Make sure you’ve established ground rules and a game plan when shopping with your children. And a secondary lesson: A cookie is a considerably less attractive motivator for a young person than is attention and control. Next, Greg encountered a cute older couple vacuuming their car at the Get Go…a cute older couple with something disturbing not far below the surface. The moral of this tale: If your spouse takes a nasty tumble while you’re cleaning the car, immediately put the vacuum down and attend to him/her. And a secondary, albeit trite yet slightly modified lesson: Be careful when judging a book by it’s cover. We present to you, “#PutTheVacuumDown.”
Improvising guitarist and composer Greg Segal is one of the most consistently exciting musicians in the underground and DIY scene today. In this program Greg holds nothing back in an intensely articulate discussion of his early influences, the nature and practice of improvisation and even divulges some of the secrets of his signature guitar style. Here Greg offers a riveting self-portrait of an uncompromising artist with the highest standards of personal excellence as he discusses his earliest musical experiences, his seminal work with Paper Bag and his current work as one of the premier solo, progressive musicians on the planet. This program contains no musical examples but those can easily be found by clicking the “Sound Clips” link at Greg’s website (http://www.gregsegal.com/). Better yet, interested listeners are encouraged to contact Greg directly through the website and purchase recordings from his vast and amazing catalog. This program produced by Eric Wallack & Greg Segal