Podcasts about Hogfather

“This hand is mine now.”It's time to tackle the original Big, Bad Wolf, Fenrir!Other topics include the under-examined tragedy of Fenrir's backstory, a collection of no longer perplexing paradoxes, the foot guy, super cool natural phenomena that may have inspired the legend of Fenrir's sons, and a satisfying conclusion of the DJ Interrupts the Show to Talk About the Time Wolves Sieged Paris bit. Spoilers for Hogfather, SMITE, Puss and Boots: The Last Wish, and The Amazing Maurice and His Educated RodentsContent Warning: This episode contains mentions of and conversations about death, violence against animals, dismemberment, animal attack, child death, infant mortality, and hunting. Join us for MuseMas NOW on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/musesofmythologyAbout UsMuses of Mythology was created and co-hosted by Darien and DJ Smartt.Our music is Athens Festival by Martin Haene. Our cover art is by Audrey Miller. Find her on Instagram @bombshellnutshellartLove the podcast? Support us on Patreon and get instant access to bloopers, outtakes, and bonus episodes! Patreon.com/musesofmythologyTell us what you like most about the show by leaving us a review at Lovethepodcast.com/musesofmythologyFind us @MusesOfMyth on Instagram. Find all of our episodes and episode transcripts at MusesOfMythology.com----------------------- Support the show

"HO HO HO." PJ and Andy meet to celebrate Hogswatch with gerbils, eggnog, and a fine festive Pratchett, with more mergings of sociology and fantasy. Albert and Death have frank discussions about childhood and income inequality amongst celebrations on fiction and belief, as f-frightening Teatime stalks the disc. An extra special episode and a happy Hogswatch to you all. Have you enjoyed Hogfather or Jingo for the first time? Send us a 4 minute clip talking about your experience and we'll publish it next episode. I've Never Read Discworld is available on Bluesky, Facebook and YouTube @discworldgnu And be sure to check out check out some more of our wares: PJ Hart's 'Country Rogues' (BBC iPlayer) feat. James Martin https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022d39 PJ Hart's 'The Divil's Own' (BBC Sounds/Illumination podcast) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yhg4 Andy's Coastlines After Dark https://books2read.com/coastlinesafterdark And youtube channel @andrewluke

In Episode 88 Ste sits down with Charles Mayfield, founder of Farrow Skincare, to discuss the benefits of using lard in skincare, the most common misconceptions about pigs, and the importance of understanding the food you put on your skin! Charles shares his journey from the paleo diet to regenerative farming and highlights the nutritional and environmental implications of our food choices, the corruption in the skin care industry and why he's made it his mission to help spread the message of lard and natural skin care as an alternative to chemicals and botox. Expect to hear Charle's opinion on plant-based movement and its impact on health, environment and skincare, the alarming similarities between the food and skincare industries, the dangers posed by toxic ingredients, the impact of skincare pressures on youth, particularly young girls, and the psychological effects of modern beauty standards. Radical Health Radio is produced by Heart & Soil, a beef organ supplements company helping hundreds of thousands of people achieve radical health. Heart & Soil was founded by Dr. Paul Saladino, a double board certified MD and founder of the animal-based eating philosophy. Visit Heartandsoil.co to reclaim your birthright to radical health with the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet.  

Unfortunately some scheduling issues pushed back our recording of #Pratchat80, and unfortunately we aren't going to be able to bring you that discussion of Making Money until until October. But it has been a very long time since we talked about Going Postal, so Ben thought you might like a recap to tide you over - plus a discussion of some of his favourite Discworld book covers, prompted by subscriber Ian! We'd love to hear about your favourite covers, from any of the various editions of Pratchett's works! Let us know about them using the hashtag #Pratchat79A on social media, or get in touch via email or our subscriber Discord. You can find various covers of the Discworld books via the L-Space wiki, or via the Internet Speculative Fiction Database at isfdb.org. For the isfdb, make sure you choose “Fiction Titles” below the search box when searching for a specific book, then scroll down to the bottom of the list of editions and click the link which says “View all covers for [Book Title]”. Note that not all the covers Ben mentions are at those two sources; we've linked to other sources below where necessary. Ben mentions these favourite covers: The original cover for The Colour of Magic by Alan Smith Pratchett's own original cover for The Carpet People (the image isn't as small as Ben remembered) The new Penguin paperback designs by Leo Nickolls, incorporating Paul Kidby's artwork, especially Moving Pictures. (The link is to the L-Space page Ben put together for these editions, which also gives you handy links to all the books in the wiki.) Paul Kidby's covers for the first UK editions, in particular Night Watch, Going Postal and The Science of Discworld, plus the back cover of the original hardcover edition of The Last Hero Josh Kirby's covers for Eric (the original large format edition), Small Gods, and especially Reaper Man The cover for the graphic novel adaptation of Small Gods by Ray Friesen The Penguin 25th Anniversary edition of Hogfather, with art by BoomArtwork The American hardcover edition of Raising Steam, with art by Justin Gerard The Mai Més Catalan editions with covers by Marina Vidal, especially Equal Rites and The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents We discussed Going Postal way back in 2020, in #Pratchat38, “Moisten to Steal”, with guests Nicholas J Johnson and Lawrence Leung. We'll be back in October with #Pratchat80 discussing Making Money with guest Stephanie Convery.

Hello, friends new and old! Dianna Gunn joined me for this last week of Pride Month, and we had such a great talk! We talked all about her books, the Moonshadow Rising Duology, books that have inspired her writing, and books she's enjoyed over the years. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did! Dianna's Books Moonshadow's Guardian: https://mybook.to/moonshadowsguardian Moonshadow's Champion: https://mybook.to/moonshadows-champion Dianna's Other Links: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeknightwritersvirtualeve8181 Newsletter: https://businessforauthors.com/weeknight-writers Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/weeknightwriters Author Website: https://authordiannagunn.com/ Twitter: https://authordiannagunn.com/ Book Recommendations Old Kingdom Series by Garth Nix: https://garthnix.com/books/the-old-kingdom/ Assassins/Accidental Matchmakers and Monsters/Incidental Wedding Guests https://www.jeneric-designs.ca/books-and-timeline/universal-book-links/#TGoW The Furyck Saga (6 book series) Kindle Edition (amazon.com) The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett I hope you had a great pride month, and I hope next month and the ones after that are amazing as well! If you know anyone who would enjoy this podcast, please share with them! I appreciate the support more than you know! Until next time, friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pickybookworm/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pickybookworm/support

We're kicking off Pride this year with none other than my good friend Jay Wolf! Jay reads a snippet about their best worst boys, Egan and Petrel before we get to talking about their newest book as M. Daniel McDowell, The Shepherd in Shadow, which releases June 28th!   Things we mention in this episode:   Valerie Valdes The Gormenghast series, by Mervyn Peake Inkfort Press Self-Publishing Derby Bringer of the Scourge, by M. Daniel McDowell Glen Cook Fritz Leiber Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser The Colour of Magic and Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett Beating Hearts & Battle Axes New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo M.E. Morgan X-Men ‘97 Forged in Fire Jay's socials and M. Daniel McDowell's socials

Our Monstrous Regiment episode still isn't quite ready, so we've had to push it to April. In the meantime, Ben gets nerdy about some recent Discworld and Pratchett news about books and roleplaying games. A few brief notes: “50 Years of Terry Pratchett” was actually announced in November 2021, marking fifty years since the publication of The Carpet People in 1971. (In Ben's defence, those early pandemic years all blur into one.) It kicked off with a new print and audiobook edition of that book; the new audio version was read by David Tennant! The new Discworld audiobooks and paperbacks from Penguin were published between 2022 and 2023, though the audiobook of Hogfather was released early for Christmas 2021, using the same artwork as the 25th anniversary paperback edition. For more on the books released as part of 50th anniversary celebrations, see the L-Space wiki “50 Years of Terry” article. You can check out the cover design for the new edition of The Last Hero on the Gollancz website. The new paperback edition of Eric was published on 23 February 2023. The new audiobook, read by Colin Morgan, had been previously released with the other Wizards books on 7 July 2022. The Collector's Library edition of Dodger can be seen in the terrypratchett.com announcement. You can see the “Forty Years of Discworld” logo at terrypratchett.com. The “Year of Discworld” was announced on the day of the fortieth anniversary, promising “more on that soon”. Both the terrypratchett.com announcement and Modiphius announcement for Terry Pratchett's Discworld: Adventure in Ankh-Morpork include links to Modiphius' fan survey (it's a Google form). Modiphius also has a mailing list you can sign up to for more news. Ben forgot to mention this, but Modiphius' license is for Discworld “tabletop games”, including board games. No news on those yet, though! We'll be back with #Pratchat76, our proper Monstrous Regiment episode on 8 April. Then in May we'll be reading “Hollywood Chickens” (which you can find in A Blink of the Screen) and “From the Horse's Mouth” (from A Stroke of the Pen, or in earlier form as “Johnno, The Talking Horse” in The Time Traveling Caveman and Other Stories) with guest Laura Jean McKay. Send in your questions about those stories via email, or using the hashtag #Pratchat77 on social media.

Behold the minisode! Today we're diving into the Library of What Could Have Been, as we talk about two books that we never actually got for Changeling: Book of Glamour and Keys to the Kingdom. Long-promised, partly written, and much desired, the complete guide to fae magic and the globetrotting metaplot adventures lingered in the dreams of 2e players even after the old World of Darkness had been detonated. Presumably some of the material made it into the 20th anniversary edition; the signs remain unclear. Nevertheless, we managed to scrape together some tidbits and information to talk about, so for those of you who didn't live through the slowly suffocated hopes of these books, we're here to give you the story. (And yes, Kithbook: Boggans was the third of the cancelled triad, but at least we got an unofficial, and much later an official, version of it. To be addressed in future episodes!) As always, share your own thoughts via: Discord: https://discord.me/ctp Email: podcast@changelingthepodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082973960699 Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@ChangelingPod Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/changelingthepodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChangelingThePodcast your hosts Josh Hillerup (any pronoun) dreams bittersweetly about the lost Art of Érablesse, the maple-themed magic of Canadian changelings. Pooka G (any pronoun/they) found a piece of the Triumph Casque's Key in a Dumpster behind the local Denny's. "It's the hope that's important. Big part of belief, hope. Give people jam today and they'll just sit and eat it. Jam tomorrow, now—that'll keep them going forever." —Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Remember, we welcome comments, questions and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com Season 5 - Episode 1  ----more---- Mark: Welcome back to The Wonder, Science Based Paganism. I'm your host, Mark, Yucca: And I'm Yucca. Mark: and today we are talking about what happens after the frenzy of the holiday season. I know for a lot of people it's kind of a relief because it's very stressful and anxiety provoking, but for others the holidays really are kind of a haven in the midst of winter, and when they end there's sort of a letdown of No more parties, no more decoration, no more booze and sugar, you know, all that kind of stuff. And it's hard because it's the coldest, darkest time of the year. Yucca: Right. Mark: So, we're going to talk about that today. Yucca: Yeah. As you were saying that, I was thinking of that feeling that you get when your body, when you've had a bunch of adrenaline in your body, and then it fades, and all of a sudden you're like, oh, Mark: Yeah. Welcome to, welcome to cortisol. Yucca: yeah, now my arms are heavy, now what do I do? Right. Mark: Yeah. I Really resonate with that right now because my work has been extremely busy. I wasn't able to take time, um, in the last two weeks of December. So, really been sprinting and there is that sort of sense now here in, you know, we're recording this on December 30th. On the Saturday, and I, so I get these three days, and I'm in this mode of what do I do? What do I do? What do I do? Because I've been so doing for so long, right? Yucca: Yeah. So I guess this is really a good opportunity to talk about the Well, transitions in general, but especially transition out of the holidays, and also the in between time. We'll come back to this in a minute, but the in between holidays, because at least those of us who follow the Wheel of the Year, we have a lot more holidays than most people do, but there's still these big chunks of time that we're in between, and what do we do during that in between? Bye. Period. I think it's a really potent, powerful time period, but in a very different way than holidays are. Mark: Yes, I agree. And then that leads us into, well, okay, well, when you're not celebrating, because you can't I mean, well, at Yucca: day is a celebration in some ways, but Mark: one level, we can be and hopefully are celebrating all the time because there's a lot to celebrate. But in the times that are between the peaks of that, how do we, how do we live as pagans every day? Yucca: Right. Mark: How do we, how do we enact that in our behavior? How do we choose it in our focus? And are what we pay attention to, um, so we'll be talking about that too. Yucca: Yeah. Yeah, I'm really happy that this is coming out on the first of the year. Seems like a good welcome to 2024 kind of thing. Mark: It does. 2024. Can you believe it? Yucca: It no. Mark: No. No. Yucca: time, it feels like a sci fi Year. Does not feel like a real, Mark: That's Yucca: we're actually here. Mark: Yeah. 2024 by Arthur C. Clarke. Yucca: starting with the transitioning out we still have our solstice celebration decorations up, but in the next few days, those are gonna start coming down, and it's gonna be, we still have a lot of wintry things out. So. Because at just the time of year we just like having our wintry things, because that's what's going on, but it's not going to be that solstice, right? It's not that, or Christmas, or whatever it is that it that folks are doing, it's not going to be that anymore. And so there's always kind of a, like a bitter sweetness to taking those things down. Mm Mark: It leaves a void in your home and in your sense of the specialness of the time. My Partner Nemea really gets a lot of psychological benefit out of the Yule tree, the solstice tree. And so we will still keep it up for another couple of weeks. Which means that we always miss the window for the Yucca: Pick up. Mark: company coming to pick it up. Which means I have to chop it into little pieces and fit it into a yard waste bin. But and I keep the trunk for next year's Yule Log, so I have to do some chopping anyway. But You know, this is a moment where the hoopla is fading, and then you're left with, well, we're back to school, we're back to work, and it's gray and cold, Yucca: And this particular year, it's fast since New Year's is happening on a Monday. Everybody's back on a Tuesday. If it was in the middle of the week, then usually things wouldn't start until the next week. But it's like, boom, here we go. Mark: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, one of the, one of the jokes that I've always made because my birthday is January 3rd is that my birthday is always the day you go back to work. It's, you know, it's always, it's like, okay, the party's over and now it's time to celebrate me. Right. And it's like, well, we're sick of parties and we're sick of sweets and we're sick of booze. And we're, it's like, we don't want to get together in gatherings. We've been doing that for three weeks. Yucca: And I'm guessing as a kid, even though you're not a December birthday, you still probably got the let's just, this is your, this is your birthday present and your Christmas present all wrapped up to Mark: You know, honestly, I don't remember that happening. Um, yeah, I don't know. I don't know.  Yucca: And I know a lot of December babies who complain about that. Mark: yeah. Well, I mean, one of the things that's frustrating about it, of course, is that it would be nice to have a holiday some other time through the year because I'm kind of sick of parties and booze and sweets and presents and all that kind of stuff.  Yucca: Yeah. Mark: you know, and I actually have had half birthday parties a couple of times. On July 3rd. Yeah, so it's like, okay, I'm 46 and a half now. Time to have a party. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: so, anyway, let's talk a little bit about that, that transition, that, that kind of coming down off the peak. Because that's a real thing. I mean, it's a neurochemical thing. It's not just, it's not just something you can necessarily talk yourself out of because there is a change in modality from go, go, go, gotta be festive, gotta be festive, to okay, I have to be able to focus for work now. I have to, you know, I have to take the kids to school all those kinds of sort of more mundane things that get you rooted back into the groove of your, your routine life. Yucca: Mm hmm. Yeah. I think there's potential in when you, because those things are all things that are things you really actually have to do. There's a physical component to those things. And there's an opportunity to take a moment just to be aware of what you're doing as you're doing that. And there's a moment right there for that intention of recognizing, okay, I'm taking down the tree. Right? Or, I'm getting back in the car, first, first day back in the car in the whole year. Just gonna take a few seconds to close my eyes and think about what this means and be conscious of the transition. Mark: Mm hmm. And because it's a Because it's a shift from the out of routine nature of the previous few weeks, it gives you an opportunity to look at your established routine and decide whether that's really what you like. I mean, there are things you don't have a choice about, you do have to take the kids to school, you do have to do grocery shopping and all that kind of stuff, but maybe there are other things in your life that are habitual that you don't necessarily want to continue, or things that you want to add, Yucca: Right? And that's, we talk a lot about how COVID has shaped and changed the world. I think that's one of the places where it really did so many people. It was like an extended period of out of the norm, and several months, years, rockiness of going back to the routine, but getting to go, is this the routine that I want? And for a lot of people, the very, very loud no, Mark: Yeah, Yucca: And not that we're necessarily able to make all the changes that we would like to, but it gave us the opportunity to be aware that it could be different. Mark: well, and the biggest example of that, I think, is that in order to conduct business at all, many businesses had to go to remote Yucca: Mm Mark: And when they went to remote work, workers found they liked it. They didn't like the expense and the time loss and the stress of a commute. They didn't, they, they'd much rather work at home if not full time than certainly part time. And now employers are sort of strong arming many workers to get them back into the office, and the workers are balking. You know. There are tech workers that have moved out of California to small towns in the Midwest, and they're like, I'm not coming to the office, folks. I'm just, I'm not doing it. I mean, I'll, I'll fly in a couple of times a year for some kind of key thing that needs to happen. But, you know, on a daily basis, everything I do is over the wire anyway. So, leave me alone. Let me do my job. Yucca: I have to say, as someone who's pretty rural, to get into town is about an hour for us. So I love it. It makes there's so many things. I have a doctor's appointment coming up this week that I don't, that I don't need. It's just a consultation, right? They don't need to actually take any vitals. So I'm not going to drive anywhere. They're not going to drive anywhere. We're just going to hop on the computer for a minute. Boom. Mark: Yeah, telemedicine is a big deal, and especially for people living in rural areas. The advent of telemedicine is a huge step up in the quality of their care. So, yeah, it's a good thing. Yucca: And education, Mark: Mm hmm. Yucca: There's so much stuff, you know, I provide it that way, my kids get it, where we can be rural and have access to people all over the world. So, anyways, that's our tangent from returning to normal life. Mark: tangent number one for this episode. Yeah, I mean, we get to reconsider what kind of life do we want to have within the constraints of the things we don't have a choice about. And that is, honestly, That's, that's the definition of freedom, really, you know. Freedom isn't absolute, I can do whatever I want. Freedom is, there are things that are out of my control that are constraints that I'm going to have to meet like having to eat, stuff like that. And then there are other things that I have choices about, and that's where you have liberty. That's where you get to make decisions. Yucca: Well, and if we go with that, you have choices on how you do the required things. Right? So, just using the, you have to eat, well, okay, but I get to choose what, and when, and, you know, all those sorts of things Mark: Mm hmm. Yucca: does a, that element is a choice, right? And we can do that with everything in our lives, Mark: Yes. Although Yucca: well, there's, again, there's certain things we do not have control over as individuals, right? Mark: what I was going to say is that when you're in a family situation and you have kids that you're making decisions for, that's another constraint because it's like, you might not want to eat until nine o'clock at night, but if their bedtime is seven, then you need to make sure that they're fed. They're just things you don't have a choice about, right?  Yucca: But how do you respond Mark: yes. Yucca: to the fact that you have these people who are dependent and they have needs? How do you, how do you then respond, right? While still meeting those needs? You get to, as a parent, you don't have to do it a certain way because grandma did it that way. Mark: Oh, Yucca: You get to, you get to, you know, and there's lots of things grandma did that was awesome and other things grandma did that, oh my goodness, let's, let's not even talk about them, but you get to look at that and say, how does this work for my life? And how does this work for theirs? And get to make those choices, Mark: it's a good time for reflection, the beginning of the year. We talked about that last week some. Just to be really clear, you know, this is my life, it's my artwork, and I'm gonna do what I can within the constraints of what I've got. You know, if I've got a 2x4 canvas, I can't paint a 6x8 painting. That's the nature of the thing. But you still have an awful lot of choices about what you put on that canvas. Um, so, so yeah that's, that's a place to start is feeling some agency. I think that one of the things about the post holiday letdown can often be feeling like you're sort of getting back into the harness and having less choices and, you know, less opportunity to just be happy and celebrate and stuff. And that isn't entirely true. It's just that you have to do it within the constraints of what your life demands of you on a daily basis. So, let's talk a little bit about that. Dark time that we're coming into. I mean, it's not so dark. The light is, well, it is dark, but the light Yucca: depends on where you, yeah, it depends on your environment. I mean, I can certainly notice that the days are getting longer, but there's, there Still really, really short right now. Mark: Yes. And where I am, it's, Yucca: we're going into the coldest time of the year. Even though it's not going to be the darkest, it's the coldest, most bitter, windiest, you know, it really is going to be true winter. Mark: hmm, hmm. Yeah. Here I'm very pleased to report from California that we're getting a lot of rain. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: But that means that it's overcast and gray and we get tule fog in the morning on the mornings when it gets down around freezing. And it's It's, it's rarely bitter because when it does freeze, it's usually because it's clear. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: And so the heat is radiated away from the earth and not been reflected back by clouds. But the, the, the time still feels cold and you know, you, you kind of have to bundle up and, and the days are still very, very short. Yucca: Mm hmm. And the shadow's long. That's the other thing that I always think about this time of year. Even when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, The shadows are just still long. Mark: they are. Yeah. Yucca: Yeah. So, and we're going to talk more about this time of year, especially in a few weeks we'll talk slog, right? Mark: Slug. Yucca: But you also have the stretches of time period between holidays in general, right? And some, some holidays get more attention than others. sOme of them kind of, and this depends on each person individually but some of them just sort of get, you just sort of glide over them more easily than Mark: Mm hmm. Mm Yucca: I mean, I guess that for most, most people there's a few really big ones that we can pretty consistent throughout the whole community. The winter solstice, hollows. Those are usually pretty big ones. On the other side of the year, what would you think? May? Mark: Yeah, Yucca: and maybe the equinox? But the other ones kinda Those are ones that sort of fall between the cracks sometimes. Mark: Well, the overculture, the mainstream culture, doesn't have corollary holidays at those times. And so we don't get, we don't get the help of there being a day to take off or a set of themes like the Easter bunny and chocolate eggs or, Yucca: Although May, we don't really get that either, but I think there's just such the still the powerful image of the maple and flowers Mark: right, Yucca: That's, that's still kind of hanging on there. Mark: Yeah, um, and another, another tradition that's really embraced in the pagan community is Morris dancing, the season for which starts on May Day where they dance up the sun and then it ends on the autumnal equinox when they dance down the sun. And in some cases, I mean, I've seen people that, I've seen reports of Morris teams that are now like dancing down the sun on the winter solstice, which I think is also very cool, but,  dancing around wearing bells in the snow takes a particular kind of character, I think, not one that I have. Yucca: Right. And again, depends on your climate, right? A lot of that happening in, you know, southern Britain, they don't, yeah, they might get some snow, but it doesn't stick around the way you might have snow in, say, Wisconsin. Right. Yeah. It's very different places. Mark: So we settle into our lives again and start doing the things. And I guess this is what brings us to This idea of being a pagan every day, Yucca: Mm hmm. Mm Mark: right? Even when you're not, you know, putting on your, your fancy rags and, you know, going out to a, a celebration on at the beginning of February or at the spring equinox or whatever it is, Yucca: hmm. Mark: you know, there's, there's a way of being aware of what's going on around us in the natural world and a way of looking for the beauty and the opportunities to celebrate and to be happy that. thAt characterizes a pagan life, I think, and it's always a work in progress, but I've certainly found that, especially since my pagan practice became atheopaganism, explicitly, um, I just, I have more happiness now, because, because I'm, I'm making it, I'm choosing it. And of course we have so much grim, dire, dystopian talk in our mainstream culture. I think it's really beneficial to teach yourself, you know, to get wowed by flowers and the shapes of clouds and, Yucca: hmm. Mark: you know, the, the color of the sunset and, You know, that, that new picture from from the James Webb Telescope and, you know, all those. Just cool, cool things. The conjunction of Jupiter and the Moon, you know, pretty fantastic. Yucca: Yeah, and that isn't something that is a switch you can flip. It's not where you can just say, I am going to be a more joyful, happy, grateful person. It's something that you practice and become by doing. And that's where the daily practice really comes in. Mark: Yeah, it's a muscle. You have to, you have to exercise it, and it will become stronger over time. Yucca: Right. Mark: And a daily practice for me is really important, and I don't have a super elaborate daily practice, but it's still something that I go back to every day. And it just reminds me, okay, I am, I'm on a pagan path, I'm revealing the natural world, I'm connected with all this, and this is the lens that I turn on the world. This is, this is how I understand things. And that helps me. Yucca: Yeah. And what that practice is can and will look different for every person and for different points throughout our lives. Mark: Yes. Yucca: I'm guessing that your daily practice is different than it was 10 years ago, than it was 20 years ago, probably even different than it was 5. There's probably some core elements, but there's things that change. Throughout whatever's happening in your life, what are the things you need? And, you know, maybe there are things that really do work. There are certain things that work and we come back to. And then things that become more important at different points.  Mark: And what's lovely about neopaganism is that you are not prescribed rituals, you can design rituals that fit with yourself and your current needs and your own creative aesthetic and what the, the freedom in that. And the, the precision with which a practice can address your personal needs is really amazing. Yucca: hmm. Mark: is. And you can try lots of different stuff until you find something that goes, Ooh, that's really good. I want to do that every day.  Yucca: And there is not shame at all in trying out research. Something that you didn't completely invent, right? If you find something that somebody says, Hey, this is a way to do it, you do this, this, and this, and you try that out, and you do that, and kind of dedicate yourself to being consistent with it for a several week process, or however long you decide is what works for you there's value in that. You don't, because one of the things in neopaganism is sometimes it can be a little Overwhelming for people. It kind of just seems like this free for, oh, whatever works for you, whatever works for you. Sometimes people are like, yeah, but I don't know what works for me. I need a starting point, something. Yeah. And that's not, that's not necessarily a bad thing. That's just where somebody is at that moment. And, and then they get to know themselves better as they go through this process. And that's something that we can come back to, right? Yeah. Mark: Mm hmm. Yucca: adding new things in, and you don't have to know from the get go exactly what's going to be the right fit for you. Mark: No. Yucca: You change over time. Mark: And, and. At least in the naturalistic pagan pathways that we talk about here, um, you can do it any way you want that works for you, that's fine, but you can also be inspired by other sources in other traditions, which doesn't mean stealing them, Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: but it means being inspired by them because there are a lot of things that are so called ritual technologies. Yucca: Mm Mark: That are very powerful. And, I mean, lighting candles, right? I mean, people light candles all over the world for a lot of different reasons in sacred contexts. So you're not stealing anything from anyone by lighting a candle or burning incense or, you know, that kind of stuff. But it can still be, you know, very evocative and powerful for you. You've talked about, um, the Simmerpot at your house, Yucca. And that's, I mean, that's a ritual practice, right? It's something that you do in order to create scents in the home that reflect your seasonal aesthetic and, you know, and that's another reminder of, oh, oh, it's spring, Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: you know, oh, the, the, the smell changed. Mama changed the smell. So, we're in a different time now. Yucca: And they're old enough now that sometimes they get to be involved in the choice. Mark: Oh, Yucca: they're real little, it just happens. But as they get a little bit older, it's, hey! What do you think? Which one today? What do you mean both? Okay, let's try both. That's almost always the answer. I don't know if that'll go, but sure, let's try it. So yeah. Mark: In yeah. Terry PR in the, the BBC production of the Terry Pratchett Novel Hog Father, which is the only holiday movie that I have to watch every year. Yucca: We read the Hogfather every year. Mark: Do you? Yeah, yeah. There's this wonderful line by one of the, the wizards at the the University of Uns, the unseen University of on Mor Pork, where he says, let's just take everything and mix it up and see what happens. And that's, that sounds very much like a five year old choosing what sense to put in a pot. Yucca: Yes. Mark: Don't wanna, you don't wanna miss out on anything, right? Yucca: Right. And so, you know, I try to be good first. Knowing that the everything in might be an option, you know, I limit it down to two or three options to begin with, but they still, it's still gonna be all of them. And if you ask multiple kids at the same time, they, out of principle, will choose the opposite of the other ones. Mark: Ah, okay. Individuation. It's a thing. Huh. Yucca: it was, I wish I had like a, you know, a save button in real life so I could go back and check what would happen if you did. Ask them independently, right? Like in games where you can be like, what if I chose the other dialogue? What would have happened? I wish we could do that in real life. So,  Mark: daily practices. They can be a lot of different things. I mean, a daily practice can be going for a walk in your neighborhood. Yucca: Mm Mark: You know, for a half an hour every day and just looking at what's happening in the gardens or in the shop windows, or, you know, if you're in a big, dense, urbanized city you know, just what's going on with traffic right now you know, what, what are the clouds doing are there, are there wildlife around, are there birds that are, that are around that you don't necessarily see at other times of the year that, That function of paying attention. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: And particularly paying attention to look for reasons to be happy is a learned skill, like, like Yucca was saying, and it sure improves your life. Yucca: Right, Mark: You know, one of the things that, that I have a really hard time with the Abrahamic religions about is that they don't seem to put much focus on being happy. Yucca: right. At least not the mainstream ones. I think we could say that they're definitely bran you, you could make that argument for Sufism or Quakers or, you know, there's branches that do bring that in, um, but not as a, that's not really the theme on the, on the big scale. Mark: no well, anyway, Yucca: That's a, another conversation about the whys behind that and Mark: Yeah, and it's not our subject. Yucca: the, Mark: You, you can find another podcast to learn about, you know, what they're going for and what, what their goals are.  Yucca: Context for why it developed that way? Which is fascinating, but I personally don't know enough to actually really comment on that. I can say my guesses on, well, I listened to that, you know, that one podcast, and they said this and that, and that made sense to me, but that's not actually my field. So. Mark: Yep, very helpful when you know what you don't know. Which is, of course, one of the, the banes of the internet is that certain people are authorities on everything. You know, the Dunning Kruger, uh, syndrome, uh, Yucca: ways, right? The less you know, the more you think you do, and the more you know, the less you think you do. Mark: the less you think you do and the less certain you are about any of your conclusions. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: Which is why evidence is a good thing. But, just for us, I mean, Yucca: And this whole process that we've been sorting out over, over hundreds of years to try and get closer in and spiral closer and closer into truth. It's pretty great. Mark: it is. Yucca: I'm a big Mark: It is. And it spins out lots of things that are almost certainly true. There, there are things that are nailed down pretty well in terms of the way the universe works, and the way particular organisms operate, and, and that kind of thing. Now, at any given moment, there is an opportunity for some Contrary evidence to come along that shows that we don't completely understand them yet. But the fact that you're in New Mexico and I'm in California and we're talking now Yucca: Feels face to face. Mark: yes, and we can broadcast this for people all over the world to listen to is a reflection of the fact that we've gotten pretty good at predictable stuff in many ways. Yucca: hmm. Mark: Yeah, Yucca: And in other places, we've, we've got a long way to go, but. We've got a process to, a process to be able to approach it with. Mark: Yeah, to get there. Yucca: so, and when we talk about a daily practice, that's a process too. It may not necessarily be the scientific method, but you can actually bring a lot of that into your own life and that can be really helpful. Right, just some of those, the, Your observation and testing and all of that, but having the process is really the first step Mark: Yeah. And when you think about it, a lot of what people call a grimoire or a book of shadows, you know, those are great romantic names Yucca: for your lab book, for your field book, Mark: Exactly. That's, that's, that's exactly what it is. It's like, okay, I did this this time. It felt like this. This is what I would change. This is what I would keep. Onward we go. Yucca: right? And sometimes they even have very specific rules that you're supposed to follow, like writing in pen and, you know, all the things and dating it. Yeah, some, depending on what lab you're in, there's some. The rules can be pretty intense for how you do your notebook. Mark: Really? Yucca: Well, because they, well, again, depending on what the lab is, but you can later use that as evidence for patent disputes and all of that kind of stuff. Mark: I see. Yeah, that makes sense. You don't want that stuff written in pencil. Yucca: Yeah, so there's rules and now there's a lot of them have gone digital. But there's very specific rules about how you do it and even. So, one place that I worked, I had to have the supervisor initial when I crossed something out. They had to initial that it was like a second, a witness, basically, that you were crossing out in the notebook. So, Mark: Yeah. Yucca: Yeah, Mark: Yeah, like with a contract. If you cross something out you have to initial it. Yucca: yeah. But, the, when you're doing your Book of Shadow or something like that, you can come up with your own fun rules that you can do for whatever practical reason, but also Just because it makes it feel kind of special and, and, you know. Mark: Yeah. Have a special pen. There's a member of the Atheopagan Society Council who is a fanatic about fountain pens. Yucca: Ooh. Mark: And she has all these amazing fountain pens and ink, including Ultraviolet, sensitive, invisible ink. Yucca: Ooh. Mark: Isn't that cool? Yucca: like Mark: You have to shine a UV flashlight on it in order to read it, but the pages look completely blank otherwise. I mean, and there's, you know, there's all these wonderful inks like oxblood ink and, you know, all this stuff, which isn't actually made, isn't actually made from oxblood, it's just that color. Yucca: Oh, okay. It's gonna say the DM in me immediately thinks of using that pen for a secret message that you have to give the players and they can't decipher it until you give them the right the right prop or something. Mark: Yeah, yeah like a wand that glows UV, Yucca: Yeah. Mark: Something like that. That would be really cool. Yucca: You just come up with some fantasy sounding name for it instead of UV, though. Mark: Right. Yucca: Yes. Mark: Well, we used to have ultravision and infravision in Dungeons Dragons. That got turned into darkvision, which is a catch all. Covers You know, so instead of seeing a heat imprint, um, or, you know, seeing at far distance because the ultraviolet is more penetrating you just have this one magical thing that just lets you see stuff that's further away. Yucca: Yeah, you just explain it in different ways, but it makes the The rolling work, the stats work easier. Mark: It does. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm not going to talk about Shadow Dark. I really am not. We were talking before the thing, I got a new role playing game that I participated in the Kickstarter for, and it's, it looks really wonderful, and it's very simple. Very simple, modern mechanics, but a real old school kind of feel. So, that's all I'm going to say about Shadow Dark. Yucca: All right, um, well maybe that's one of those activities to do in the long stretches between holidays. Mark: Yes. If it's going to be dark, you might as well be in a dungeon. Yucca: right, yep, well this was great. Any other thoughts for the, for the new year, for our different topics today, of kind of the letdown from the holidays between. Holidays and daily practice. Mark: I, I guess the one thing that I would reinforce is to experiment, you know, really ask, ask uncomfortable questions about the routines in your life that don't serve you, and experiment with different ways to make that feel better, um, and that's, that And a daily practice, to me, really helps. The daily practice should not feel like a burden. Remember, the practice is for you, you're not for the practice. It's, it's not like, you know, it's not like Yucca: There's not some god that you're trying to please. Mark: right, or some religious institution. So this is all about you identifying. What helps you to live what feels like an optimized life. Because you know what? When people are happy, they spread it around. They, when people are happy, they empower other people. They Yucca: Just feel good to be around. Mark: yes, they feel good to be around. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: And that's something we can all aspire to, I think. So yeah, this has been great, Yucca. Thank you so much for the conversation and Happy New Year! Yucca: Happy New Year, everyone!   

We're overwhelmed with holiday spirit and we're releasing this Babetreon episode on the main feed! *Please note that unlike our main feed, this episode is explicit.The sibling squabbling is at an all-time high as Grace tries to force Madeleine to enjoy a Christmas film. Happy Hogswatch!

Our yearly Christmas special has descended — a mix of experimental and off-the-shelf holiday music to lift the spirit. This festive season is extremely off. Images of joy alternate with scenes of terror on our screens and in our thoughts. We hope that this Christmas is a moment not to look away but to gaze inward. Music not only soothes but also nurtures perseverance. Or as Death says, explaining the nature of belief in Hogfather (2006) — “You need to believe things that aren't true. How else they can become?” This year's mix is collaged by Scrying the Landscape's Hannah Pezzack and Elina Tapio, together with Rubber's own The Social Lover. @hannah-pezzack @elinatapio @the-social-lover Tracklist: Christine Sonntag & Ton Lebbink- Advent Biosphere - Rotation Fairy Pilots - I Dream Of Mighty Spirits Oorbeek - Stillenacht X Ray Pop - Christmas Bong Atom Tm - Weißes Rauschen (Erster Teil) Coil - Christmas Is Now Drawing Near Culturcide - Depressed Christmas Wojchech Rusin - Salvation Dylan Henner - Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence The Social Lover - Spiking the punch Rev A.W. Nix - Death May Be Your Christmas Gift Electric Sewer Age - Moon's Milk (Waning) Xela - Of The Light And Of The Stars Suicide - Hey Lord The Jon Matthy Quartet - Misery And Suffering Forever Hematic Sunsets - Der Im Keller Ginji Ito - Hokori Darake No Christmas Tree The Craving For Wine NEY - Ein Einsamer Vogel 'Belief' As According To Death Saskia - Sloopy Mondlane - Solstice Ntski - Treesong Ghadelia Tazartes - Assassins 2 Marcel - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Ambrosial - Spinning Around

This week, in the first of two Christmas episodes, host Dr. Stephen B. Platt is joined by special guests Dr. Ellin Sears and Katrina Johnston as they review 'Terry Pratchett's Hogfather'. Listen in as they discuss Death, Discworld, and David Jason. Music from filmmusic.io "Nouvelle Noel" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Beth O'Leary is a Sunday Times bestselling author whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. Her debut, The Flatshare, sold over a million copies and changed her life completely. Her second novel, The Switch, has been optioned for film by Amblin Partners, Steven Spielberg's production company. The Road Trip, Beth's third novel, went straight to No.4 in the Sunday Times Top Ten on hardback publication.Beth writes her books in the Hampshire countryside with a very badly behaved GoldenRetriever for company. If she's not at her desk, you'll usually find her curled upsomewhere with a book, a cup of tea and several woolly jumpers (whatever the weather).Her fifth novel, The Wake Up Call, is out now. Join the Two Lit Chicks Book Club on FacebookPoetry books mentioned in introafter-words by Charlotte PearlGirl Made of Glass by Shelby LeighMarketing by Shelby on YouTubeSupport Julia by buying her booksOrder Shooters here.Order Chasing the Light, Julia's sequel to Shooters, here.Pre-Order Camera Shy here.Keep in touchWe love our listeners, and we want to hear from you. Please leave a review on one of our podcast platforms and chat with us on social media:Twitter: @twolitchicksInstagram: @two_lit_chicksTikTok: @two_lit_chicksEmail: hello@twolitchicks.orgThank you so much for listening.Listeners, we love you.Two Lit Chicks Podcast is recorded and produced by Your Voice HereFor a free 30-minute consultation with Jeremy about podcasting get in touch with the code TLCLOVE.Support the show

Our twelfth season is all y'all! We're taking your choices for what we should watch and discuss. You provide the ingredients, we cook the meal. You set the course, we steer the underwater canoe. This time we follow the lead of scholar and fellow movie-lover Maria Hearing, and thus enter into the mind of the brilliant, late Terry Pratchett, with the mini-series Hogfather (2006).  Also it's not too late to give us a suggestion! This is a rolling admissions sort of thing!

If anyone in America is deserving of the illustrious title of HogFather, it's Jesse Griffiths. He's a hunter, fisherman, cook and co-owner of Dai Due Butcher Shop & Supper Club and New School of Traditional Cookery in Austin Texas. He's also the author of the Afield, A Chef's Guide To Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish, as well as his most recent publication, The Hog Book, A Chef's Guide To Hunting, Preparing, and Cooking Wild Pigs.  The Hog Book is one of the best species-specific how-to-hunt-and-cook books that we've got in our library. Even if, like us, you live in a place without a feral hog population, you want to own this book. It's incredible, and we hope, just the beginning in a long line of books to come.  Jesse is a dynamic dude and gets up to a lot more than just hunting and cooking hogs, but as the leading voice on utilizing wild pigs for food — and not just a voice, he utilizes them extensively on the menu at his restaurant Dai Due — he's quickly become the hunting world's reference for turning this otherwise deleterious non-native species into excellent table fare.  When it comes to the management of these fecund mammals, Jesse is quick to point out that eating them is unlikely to ever be a total solution. They reproduce far too rapidly, are far too intelligent, and just too well integrated into the landscape to eradicate, but.. eating them does provide us with an excellent source of quality wild protein, provides hunting opportunities to those trying to find an inroad into the world of hunting, and shifts the focus from purely adversarial to something more appreciative. Or at least slightly more amicable anyway.  One of the things we love about his book is that rather than just giving a set of recipes, he keys the recipes out based on the size and sex of the hog you've got. Big old boars eat a lot differently than pregnant sows, which are really different than younger piglets. Something we'll get into in this interview. We also wanted to mention that, as someone who — like Daniel — started hunting later in life, it's incredible to see how he has impacted hunting culture here in the US. It's a reminder of the rapidly changing hunting demographic and that you don't have to have grown up hunting in order to develop the skills and culinary craft to feed yourself and educate the public. In fact, we think we've only just begun to see the legacy that Jesse is going to leave in the American hunting community. So, it's our pleasure to have Jesse Griffiths on the podcast — especially given that this is one of our final episodes. From the start, it was our goal to curate conversations with important players in wild food culture, and he certainly qualifies. We're proud to have him in our lineup. If you haven't seen it already, go back to Season 2 of the WildFed TV show on MyOutdoorTV.com to see the episode we made with him in Texas.  And seriously, get the Hog Book. You won't regret it! View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/171

The pilgrims make their way to the Sacrifice Kingdom, where MJ sacrifices their innocence and learns that the Hogfather is not actually a hog.Links:Subscribe to our Patreon or buy us a coffee.Cangue on Wikipedia.Episode artwork is a photograph of a man in a cangue, photographed by John Thomson.Follow Caoimhe, MJ and this podcast on Twitter and follow MJ on Instagram, and check out Caoimhe's website.

This time around, to close out our fourth (4th!) season, it's my pleasure to welcome Aimee Ogden (@aimeeogden@wandering.shop) to the show! Aimee reads from her delightful trunked YA novel, Starstruck, which leads us into a lovely conversation about lesbian radishes, the exhausting nature of submitting work, and short fiction magazines we love.   Things we mention this episode:   Aimee Kuzenski's episode Network Effect, by Martha Wells Gregory A. Wilson Beauty heart (watermelon) radish Cat Valente Tamora Pierce The Wings of Fire series, by Tui T. Sutherland Redwall series, by Brian Jacques Diggers, Guards! Guards!, Hogfather, and The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett “The Cold Calculations,” by Aimee Ogden Be the Serpent Sarah Gailey's Personal Canons Cookbook Skies of Wonder, Skies of Danger, edited by John Appel, Mary Agner, and Jo Miles Mary Robinette Kowal F&SF Clarkesworld Ann Leckie Analog Translunar Traveler's Lounge Friends Journal QSFF issue Emergent Properties, by Aimee Ogden “A Love Letter Written at the Heat Death of the Universe,” by Aimee Ogden The Deadlands Shimmer Fireside Augur Local Star, by Aimee Ogden “Flower Daughter, Soil Seed,” by Eugenia Triantafyllou “Sturgeon Moon Jam,” by Jennifer Hudak The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, by Stephanie Burgis Everything Everywhere All At Once My Neighbor Totoro Aimee's website   Join us again next month, when our guests for the start of season 5 will be Malka Older and Suzan Palumbo!  

Your hosts get festive in their discussion of The Hogfather. They do cave and end up calling “Hogswatch” plain ol' christmas a few times. They talk about Death and the weirdly specific “skeletons impersonating Santa Claus” genre as a whole. They also talk about belief as a magic system, Susan's character growth and increased badassery, and how absolutely chilling the villain Mr. Teatime is. This episode also features a “Words are Weird” segment about boogeymen (no, it is not related to the dance move).This episode sure would have made more sense in December, huh? Oh well.Thanks to the following musicians for the use of their songs:- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”- Josh Woodward for the use of “Electric Sunrise”Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Join me for this unprecedented holiday special where I discuss Terry Pratchett's, Hogfather.

Josh is back to talk some more about Hogfather (1996) and its connections to Christmas traditions, covering the history of the Tooth Fairy and Hogswatch, the relationship between Father Christmas and Father Time, and the relationship between Christmas and the modern fantasy tradition, paying particular attention to works by Charles Dickens, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, as well as films like The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

To wrap up the first year of Is This Just Fantasy, Duncan and Geordie make their first journey to the late great Sir Terry Pratchett's seasonal parody: Hogfather. The fellas reflect of their love for Sir Terry's depiction of Death as a character, as well as one of the best speeches in his canon. Duncan denies that the book is a parody of the Nightmare Before Christmas, Geordie can't say the word anthropormorphisation, and the fellas perform their first reading (and Geordie enjoys playing with the voice modulator).It's the perfect book to end the year: with a thesis statement on why fantasies are more than just fun; they're a vital part of being human.

Join the OAMR crew as we talk about The Hogfather #classic #xmas   #movies #reviews #christmas #christmasmovies #holidays  #discworld       Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OAMR-1122730... Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSy8... Email:  oamoviereviews@gmail.com

It's my distinct pleasure, for this, our post-NaNo episode, to welcome C.L. Clark (@C_L_Clark) to the show! Cherea reads a pair of excerpts from their trunked novel, The Bitch of Maradon, which leads us into a great conversation about formal and informal writing education, interrogating our biases, and how awkward it can be to revisit our old writing in the context of actually reading it out loud. Cherea also shares the story of her journey from NaNoWriMo to publication for their amazing novel, The Unbroken.   Things we mention this episode:   The Unbroken, by C.L. Clark Héctor's episode My episode with Sharon Hsu George Carlin NaNoWriMo Brandon Sanderson Scrivener Podcastle Frodo it is done dot gif #DVPit Just Like Home episode The Faithless, by C.L. Clark Writers of the Future Tor.com “Sisyphus,” by C.L. Clark Queers Destroy SF Seanan McGuire Lockie Hunter Steering the Craft, by Ursula K. Le Guin Wonderbook, by Jeff Vandermeer The Expanse, by James S.A. Corey The Godkiller, by Hannah Kaner Small Gods and Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett Cherae's website and insta Maslowe's Hierarchy of Needs The Skeleton War “SFF's Big Fat Problem,” by R.K. Duncan   Join us next month, when I'll be talking to Annalee Newitz and Juliet Kemp, plus our annual awards roundup!

This year we're reviving an old tradition; the Final Draft Xmas Gift Guide. Got a hard to buy for person in your life? Hoping a slightly sardonic radio segment has the answers? You're in luck then because this year we are selecting the perfect book to give to your loved ones. How do we know what to pick? The Final Draft team has trolled* the research searching for probing psychological insights into who we are and what we want. The last few years has really changed us, sometimes in ways we weren't expecting. So based on deeply insightful data and a meme about the ways we wear our masks, here are our picks for Xmas with different Covid personality types... (Hopefully there's a banner directing you to reliable data about Covid-19 somewhere around because this is satire!) For The Person Who Believes in the Science ‘Hogfather' by Terry Pratchett The Hogfather is the Discworld's Santa, or as Pratchett would probably explain it; the manifestation of belief made corporeal. When a mysterious group of celestial bureaucrats known as the Auditors of Reality decide that the Hogfather must die it's up to DEATH to save the day. As DEATH's Granddaughter races to the Tooth Fairies realm to stop the plot, DEATH dons a festive red suit and fake beard to make sure that children do not awake to no presents on Hogswatch. I chose Terry Pratchett for the Believes in Science crowd because at its heart Hogfather, like so many of Pratchett's works, explores the nature of belief and its power to unite us. For The Person Who Denies the Science ‘A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens  I'm not entirely certain this book needs an introduction but here goes; A curmudgeonly old money lender discovers the heart of Xmas after being visited by the ghost of his old business partner and the anthropomorphised spirits of Xmas. I chose it for the deniers of science because it's a tangibly, intangible example of someone changing their mind in the face of evidence. It's Xmas, we can only hope… For The Person Who Doesn't Understand the Science ‘Nothing Lasts Forever' by Roderick Thorp Nothing Lasts Forever is the story of NYPD Detective Joe Leland flying out to LA on Xmas Eve to visit his daughter. As he waits for his daughter's work Xmas party to end the building she works in is overtaken by terrorists. The terrorists are protesting the big corporations corrupt dealings and attempting to siphon off the profits of said corruption. Joe's not having any of it and goes in wearing no shoes and armed only with his service revolver. He proceeds to kill a whole lot of terrorists and foils their plan only to see his daughter die as the lead terrorist drags her off the building with him. If this is sounding all too familiar, that's because Nothing Lasts Forever is the novel which was later adapted into the greatest Xmas film of all time (arguably, by other people, not me) Die Hard. I chose this for the Doesn't Understand the Science crowd because much like them, our hero Joe Leland doesn't fulling understand what's going on and despite his best intentions his actions lead to a fair amount of damage and heartache. For The Person Who Believes in Magic ‘A Merry Little Meet Cute' by Julie Murphy Full disclosure, I have not read this book. The synopsis sounds fun though; with an adult movie star being cast in a family Xmas movie opposite her childhood crush (a former boy band star).  The title literally has ‘Meet Cute' in it. A meet cute is a literary trope where the two main characters are thrown together in a way where the reader knows they will end up together even though they are oblivious, even hostile to each other. Really any meet cute set at Xmas will do because you know this is going to be a fairly preposterous story of two people getting together (and staying together) in a way that's not particularly realistic. Perfect for the Believes in Magic crowd because you know what sometimes you really just want to hold on to the beautiful lie. *No, we mean trolled. Not trawled.

Join us as we do a sherry tasting and discuss the philosophy of discworld and Terry Pratchets the Hogfather.Merry christmasHappy holidaysHappy hogswatchWhatever you celebrate this holiday season we wish you the best.

Dr Nadav Prawer joins Josh for the first part on 1996's Hogfather, examining Susan's character development, her contrasts to Teatime, the nature of justice, the power of belief, falling angels, rising apes, Kierkegaardian existentialism, lies to children and the possible psychological (and legal!) ramifications of believing in the tooth fairy.* *All jingling bell sounds in the background are indicative of cats, not the encroachment of any Verruca Gnomes. I hope...  Contact: unseenacademicalspod@gmail.com Support: patreon.com/unseenacademicals

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On today's podcast we disccuss the books that frightened us the most with Unmask Alice author, Rick Emerson. Unmask Alice is a look into the story behind the notorius Go Ask Alice, and Jay's Journal books. We get into, Hose of Leaves, Hogfather, Lord of the Flies, The Shinning, and many more (including of course, Go Ask Alice). Oh, and we hate on the band, YES for some reason. Seriously, great episode. Sue from War on Women co-hosts. 

Thanks for joining us! This week is a bit of a breather: we're talking about ten books that inspire us for Changeling: the Dreaming. The show notes are therefore pretty straightforward, as we'll just have the list below with a few notes. (You are encouraged to find, borrow, or purchase these books at a library or bookstore, for we will not be linking to a certain bookselling megacorp on this post.) In a more general sense, we're opening a conversation here about media as inspiration; we anticipate talking about another stack of books in the future, but also graphic novels, television, film, even artwork. Given that the game is to some extent about inspiration and story, it seems fitting to think about more than just "books about faeries." How can players and STs get the most out of the media they encounter for their games? What qualifies as a narrative that has something to do with Glamour and Banality, or the other themes of the game? Things to consider for future iterations of this series of episodes... (Also, we threw in three honorable mentions at the end, because stopping at ten books just wasn't going to happen.) the list Emma Bull, War for the Oaks — Blurb: "Eddi McCandry sings rock and roll. But her boyfriend just dumped her, her band just broke up, and life could hardly be worse. Then, walking home through downtown Minneapolis on a dark night, she finds herself drafted into an invisible war between the faerie folk. Now, more than her own survival is at risk—and her own preferences, musical and personal, are very much beside the point." There was some talk long ago about adapting it for film (to the point that a low-budget trailer got made), but alas, it has not yet come to be...John Crowley, Little, Big; or, the Fairies' Parliament — A truly magnificent 25th anniversary edition just came out...which actually makes it a 40th anniversary edition, so how's that for a publishing delay? But anyway, even though that version is frighteningly expensive, you can at least get a sense for the book by reading the first couple chapters here: https://littlebig25.com/.Charles de Lint, The Wild Wood — Blurb: "A young artist returns to her cabin in the deep woods of Canada to concentrate on her illustrations. But somehow, strange and beautiful creatures are slipping into her drawings and sketches. The world of Faerie is reaching out to her for help--and she may be its last chance for survival." See an example of the Brian Froud art paired with this book below (used for the cover, in fact).Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town — This one is freely available for download, presumably because Doctorow is a big proponent of Creative Commons and whatnot: https://craphound.com/category/someone/Joanne M. Harris, Honeycomb — Author's website with some Q&A and other information: http://www.joanne-harris.co.uk/honeycomb/Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere — Multimedia moment: Neverwhere was actually a TV series first, some of which you can watch for free because some kind soul has put it online (start with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKlsXquUKdA). So technically the novel is a novelization, and we might cover this again for when we talk about TV... but then, it's also been made into a stage play, and a radio drama, and a graphic novel. Many options for your media-consumer pleasure. Seanan McGuire, the October Daye series — Author's website: https://seananmcguire.com/toby.php; you can check out her other series as well here.Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (and many other Discworld novels besides) — Another one with a TV adaptation, featuring Ian Richardson and Michelle Dockery (of Downton Abbey fame), which you can fairly easily watch online as well (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoWifSyA9NQ). Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories — A brief excerpt: "So Iff the water genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Stream of Stories, and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the Ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each coloured strand represented and contained a single tale. Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead, but alive."Bill Watterson, any or all of the Calvin and Hobbes books — It almost seems a travesty to direct you to an internet version of the comic, but if you haven't come across the strip before, allowances must be made... you can read some of the old daily strips at https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes. ... your hosts Josh Hillerup (any pronoun) keeps finding library cards between the cushions, in their pockets, on buses, on trains, behind other people's ears... something mysterious is clearly afoot. Pooka G (any pronoun/they) once ate 38 pages of Finnegan's Wake, binding and all, to see what would happen, and woke up two days later drenched with absinthe in the doorway of a downtown Tarrytown taxidermy shop. ... "Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic." —Carl Sagan (psst! email us at podcast@changelingthepodcast.com if you want) (and join our Discord at https://discord.gg/SAryjXGm5j !) (support us on Patreon for additional treats at https://www.patreon.com/changelingthepodcast!)

Host Chester Moore brings on "The Hogfather," a hog-obsessed hunter who sheds light on hog hunting mysteries and touches on a unique feral hog phenomenon he discovered happening in Southeast Texas.

Hogfather was a 2006 Sky One adapatation of the Terry Pratchett novel of the same name. An ominous figure steps in to replace the missing Hogfather. Can Hogswatch and the Hogfather be saved? Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at britishinvaders@gmail.com, and you can find us on the […]

Terry Pratchett was prolific, beloved, and a bestseller many times over and yet neither of us had read anything of his. Well we corrected that this week by reading "Hogfather," book 20 in Pratchett's comic fantasy series Discworld. We discuss the humor and meaning behind this work and discuss Pratchett's impressive output and quality. Highly recommend from both of us. Enjoy! Contact Us: Instagram @therewillbbooks Twitter @therewillbbooks Email willbebooks@gmail.com Goodreads: Therewillbebooks ko-fi.com/therewillbbooks patreon.com/therewillbbooks

Hogfather was a 2006 Sky One adapatation of the Terry Pratchett novel of the same name. When the Hogfather is in danger, who will step in to deliver the Hogswatch presents? Please send us your comments, questions, requests and complaints. You can reach us at britishinvaders@gmail.com, and you can find us on the British Invaders […]

Send your questions and comments to unseenacademicalspod@gmail.com  I know the book's called Hogfather not Hogswatch!

Episode Notes Happy New Year! We hope you all have a kickass 2022. In a special episode, we discuss one of Poppy's favourite Discworld books Hogfather. The Discworld books are receiving new audiobook versions and we believe that this is the first one to be released. It is read by Sian Clifford, Bill Nighy (doing the footnotes), and, Peter Serafinowicz (as DEATH). We had a great time chatting about it. The Blurb: 'Twas the night before Hogswatch and all through the house...something was missing. The stockings are hanging ready, the sherry and pies are waiting by the fireplace - but where is the jolly fat man with his sack? It's not right to find Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho - but someone's got to bring the little kiddies their presents. Or else they might stop believing. Belief is important in Discworld, particularly on the last night of the year when the time is turning. If the real man in the red suit isn't found by morning, there won't be a morning. Ever again... The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Hogfather is the fourth book in the Death series; a festive feast of darkness (but with jolly robots and tinsel too). As always you can reach us with any comments or suggestions by emailing audiobookishpod@gmail.com or contacting us on social media at Audiobookishpod Thanks for listening we will be back soon with season 3! Support Audiobookish by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/audiobookish Find out more at https://audiobookish.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-8a93af for 40% off for 4 months, and support Audiobookish.

Brycen and Zechariah discuss the BBC adaptation of Sir Terry Pratchet's "Hogfather"

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners, Part 16: By Which It May Be Judged, published by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Followup to: Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project Humans need fantasy to be human. "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—" Yes. As practice. You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice. Mercy. Duty. That sort of thing. "They're not the same at all!" You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. - Susan and Death, in Hogfather by Terry Pratchett Suppose three people find a pie - that is, three people exactly simultaneously spot a pie which has been exogenously generated in unclaimed territory. Zaire wants the entire pie; Yancy thinks that 1/3 each is fair; and Xannon thinks that fair would be taking into equal account everyone's ideas about what is "fair". I myself would say unhesitatingly that a third of the pie each, is fair. "Fairness", as an ethical concept, can get a lot more complicated in more elaborate contexts. But in this simple context, a lot of other things that "fairness" could depend on, like work inputs, have been eliminated or made constant. Assuming no relevant conditions other than those already stated, "fairness" simplifies to the mathematical procedure of splitting the pie into equal parts; and when this logical function is run over physical reality, it outputs "1/3 for Zaire, 1/3 for Yancy, 1/3 for Xannon". Or to put it another way - just like we get "If Oswald hadn't shot Kennedy, nobody else would've" by running a logical function over a true causal model - similarly, we can get the hypothetical 'fair' situation, whether or not it actually happens, by running the physical starting scenario through a logical function that describes what a 'fair' outcome would look like: So am I (as Zaire would claim) just assuming-by-authority that I get to have everything my way, since I'm not defining 'fairness' the way Zaire wants to define it? No more than mathematicians are flatly ordering everyone to assume-without-proof that two different numbers can't have the same successor. For fairness to be what everyone thinks is "fair" would be entirely circular, structurally isomorphic to "Fzeem is what everyone thinks is fzeem"... or like trying to define the counting numbers as "whatever anyone thinks is a number". It only even looks coherent because everyone secretly already has a mental picture of "numbers" - because their brain already navigated to the referent. But something akin to axioms is needed to talk about "numbers, as opposed to something else" in the first place. Even an inchoate mental image of "0, 1, 2, ..." implies the axioms no less than a formal statement - we can extract the axioms back out by asking questions about this rough mental image. Similarly, the intuition that fairness has something to do with dividing up the pie equally, plays a role akin to secretly already having "0, 1, 2, ..." in mind as the subject of mathematical conversation. You need axioms, not as assumptions that aren't justified, but as pointers to what the heck the conversation is supposed to be about. Multiple philosophers have suggested that this stance seems similar to "rigid designation", i.e., when I say 'fair' it intrinsically, rigidly refers to something-to-do-with-equal-division. I confess I don't see it that way myself - if somebody thinks of Euclidean geometry when you utter the sound "num-berz" they're not doing anything false, they're associating the sound to a different logical thingy. It's not about words with intrinsically rigid referential power, it's that the words are window dressing on the underlying entities. I want to talk about a particular lo...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners, Part 15: Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project, published by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Followup to: Logical Pinpointing, Causal Reference Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. - Death, in Hogfather by Terry Pratchett Meditation: So far we've talked about two kinds of meaningfulness and two ways that sentences can refer; a way of comparing to physical things found by following pinned-down causal links, and logical validity by comparison to models pinned-down by axioms. Is there anything else that can be meaningfully talked about? Where would you find justice, or mercy? Suppose that I pointed at a couple of piles of apples on a table, a pile of two apples and a pile of three apples. And lo, I said: "If we took the number of apples in each pile, and multiplied those numbers together, we'd get six." Nowhere in the physical universe is that 'six' written - there's nowhere in the laws of physics where you'll find a floating six. Even on the table itself there's only five apples, and apples aren't fundamental. Or to put it another way: Take the apples and grind them down to the finest powder and sieve them through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of sixness, one molecule of multiplication. Nor can the statement be true as a matter of pure math, comparing to some Platonic six within a mathematical model, because we could physically take one apple off the table and make the statement false, and you can't do that with math. This question doesn't feel like it should be very hard. And indeed the answer is not very difficult, but it is worth spelling out; because cases like "justice" or "mercy" will turn out to proceed in a similar fashion. Navigating to the six requires a mixture of physical and logical reference. This case begins with a physical reference, when we navigate to the physical apples on the table by talking about the cause of our apple-seeing experiences: Next we have to call the stuff on the table 'apples'. But how, oh how can we do this, when grinding the universe and running it through a sieve will reveal not a single particle of appleness? This part was covered at some length in the Reductionism sequence. Standard physics uses the same fundamental theory to describe the flight of a Boeing 747 airplane, and collisions in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Nuclei and airplanes alike, according to our understanding, are obeying special relativity, quantum mechanics, and chromodynamics. We also use entirely different models to understand the aerodynamics of a 747 and a collision between gold nuclei in the RHIC. A computer modeling the aerodynamics of a 747 may not contain a single token, a single bit of RAM, that represents a quark. (Or a quantum field, really; but you get the idea.) So is the 747 made of something other than quarks? And is the statement "this 747 has wings" meaningless or false? No, we're just modeling the 747 with representational elements that do not have a one-to-one correspondence with individual quarks. Similarly with apples. To compare a mental image of high-level apple-objects to physical reality, for it to be true under a correspondence theory of truth, doesn't require that apples be fundamental in physical law. A single discrete element of fundamental physics is not the only thing that a statement can ever be compared-to. We just need truth conditions that categorize the low-level states of the universe, so that different low-level physical states are inside or outside the mental image of "some apples on the table" or alternatively "a kitten on the table". Now we can draw a correspondence from our image of discrete high-level apple objects, to reality. Next we ne...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners, Part 15: Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project, published by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Followup to: Logical Pinpointing, Causal Reference Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. - Death, in Hogfather by Terry Pratchett Meditation: So far we've talked about two kinds of meaningfulness and two ways that sentences can refer; a way of comparing to physical things found by following pinned-down causal links, and logical validity by comparison to models pinned-down by axioms. Is there anything else that can be meaningfully talked about? Where would you find justice, or mercy? Suppose that I pointed at a couple of piles of apples on a table, a pile of two apples and a pile of three apples. And lo, I said: "If we took the number of apples in each pile, and multiplied those numbers together, we'd get six." Nowhere in the physical universe is that 'six' written - there's nowhere in the laws of physics where you'll find a floating six. Even on the table itself there's only five apples, and apples aren't fundamental. Or to put it another way: Take the apples and grind them down to the finest powder and sieve them through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of sixness, one molecule of multiplication. Nor can the statement be true as a matter of pure math, comparing to some Platonic six within a mathematical model, because we could physically take one apple off the table and make the statement false, and you can't do that with math. This question doesn't feel like it should be very hard. And indeed the answer is not very difficult, but it is worth spelling out; because cases like "justice" or "mercy" will turn out to proceed in a similar fashion. Navigating to the six requires a mixture of physical and logical reference. This case begins with a physical reference, when we navigate to the physical apples on the table by talking about the cause of our apple-seeing experiences: Next we have to call the stuff on the table 'apples'. But how, oh how can we do this, when grinding the universe and running it through a sieve will reveal not a single particle of appleness? This part was covered at some length in the Reductionism sequence. Standard physics uses the same fundamental theory to describe the flight of a Boeing 747 airplane, and collisions in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Nuclei and airplanes alike, according to our understanding, are obeying special relativity, quantum mechanics, and chromodynamics. We also use entirely different models to understand the aerodynamics of a 747 and a collision between gold nuclei in the RHIC. A computer modeling the aerodynamics of a 747 may not contain a single token, a single bit of RAM, that represents a quark. (Or a quantum field, really; but you get the idea.) So is the 747 made of something other than quarks? And is the statement "this 747 has wings" meaningless or false? No, we're just modeling the 747 with representational elements that do not have a one-to-one correspondence with individual quarks. Similarly with apples. To compare a mental image of high-level apple-objects to physical reality, for it to be true under a correspondence theory of truth, doesn't require that apples be fundamental in physical law. A single discrete element of fundamental physics is not the only thing that a statement can ever be compared-to. We just need truth conditions that categorize the low-level states of the universe, so that different low-level physical states are inside or outside the mental image of "some apples on the table" or alternatively "a kitten on the table". Now we can draw a correspondence from our image of discrete high-level apple objects, to reality. Next we ne...

Join us for a festive chat about Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, another installation in his incredible Discworld series. We talk about belief, the horror of childrens' imaginations, and - of course - what the cat would think of everything. Happy Hogswatch, all!Content WarningsnaSocial MediaWebsite: https://teachingmycattoread.wordpress.com/Email: teachingmycattoread@gmail.comGoodread: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/130760733-teachmycat2read-podcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/teachmycat2read/Twitter: https://twitter.com/teachmycat2read?s=09Tumblr: https://teachingmycattoread.tumblr.comYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFXi9LNQv8SBQt8ilgTZXtQSupport the show (https://ko-fi.com/teachingmycattoread)

"Comrade Death" Today we talk about The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett and we love this book, Sir Terry Pratchett has two more fans now. Listen to hear Sydney talk more about bathrooms and for Delaney's eerie memory of the tv show Arthur. Sorry about the sound issues, if Death were here he'd give good wifi to all the people. What is your non-romance Christmas novel? Let us know at bookcultpodcast@gmail.com or on instagram and twitter @bookcultpodcast--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bookcult/support

Hogfather is a fun Death book, a great Susan book, and Ana's favorite. And to help us celebrate the Glorious 25th of May in style, we're joined by TV's thrice published author and president of the One Shot Podcast Network, James D'Amato. Check out his new book premiering today, which we utterly failed to ask him about during the podcast, the Ultimate Worldbuilding Guide!Check us out on twitter at @atuin_podHelp us keep the lights on via our Patreon!Follow individual hosts at @urizenxvii, @The_Miannai, and @JustenwritesWe can also be found at www.compleatdiscography.pageOur art is by the indomitable Jess who can be found at @angryartist113Music is by Incompetech and used under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license.Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4457-take-a-chanceFuzzball Parade by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5044-fuzzball-paradeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Navah Hopkins talks with Jason Barnard about conversion rate optimization Navah Hopkins is the Director of Paid Media at Justuno, and has been involved in the digital marketing industry since 2008. She's a serial entrepreneur, SEO/SEM philosopher, content strategist, and a frequent contributor to SEJ, SEMrush, and WordStream blogs/webinars. Conversion Rate Optimization is fun when you consider the story of how your customer found you, what their motivations are and what they value. Navah explains color theory, how to enhance your on-page copy for CRO, the psychology behind upsell offers, and what makes the conversion process tick. She has some of the most delightful and fascinating analogies to explain some key concepts. A PPC Sith – referencing Star Wars - meaning being open to change and evolve, by taking a pragmatic approach to be successful and master the force, or in this case – your audience. You'll also get a brilliant explanation of how to look at your customer journey, with the movie Hogfather used as the analogy. What you'll learn from Navah Hopkins 00:00 Navah Hopkins with Jason Barnard01:00 Navah's Brand SERP02:42 Conversion Rate Optimization Made Fun04:31 Colour Theory for On-Page CRO10:12 Using “You” in your copywriting for better CRO14:09 The psychology of upsell offers in On-Page CRO15:59 CRO as more than just a means to justify PPC cost18:26 The philosophy behind the PPC Sith20:45 Finding the balance for tweaking PPC campaigns24:10 The customer's journey from search to conversion28:49 What do the upcoming third-party cookie changes mean for the future of e-commerce?31:17 Managing your email list34:04 The value of sympathy in CRO Subscribe to the podcast Subscribe here >> This episode was recorded live on video April 13th 2021 Recorded live at Kalicube Tuesdays (Digital Marketing Livestream Event Series). Watch the video now >>

Navah Hopkins talks with Jason Barnard about conversion rate optimization Navah Hopkins is the Director of Paid Media at Justuno, and has been involved in the digital marketing industry since 2008. She's a serial entrepreneur, SEO/SEM philosopher, content strategist, and a frequent contributor to SEJ, SEMrush, and WordStream blogs/webinars. Conversion Rate Optimization is fun when you consider the story of how your customer found you, what their motivations are and what they value. Navah explains color theory, how to enhance your on-page copy for CRO, the psychology behind upsell offers, and what makes the conversion process tick. She has some of the most delightful and fascinating analogies to explain some key concepts. A PPC Sith – referencing Star Wars - meaning being open to change and evolve, by taking a pragmatic approach to be successful and master the force, or in this case – your audience. You'll also get a brilliant explanation of how to look at your customer journey, with the movie Hogfather used as the analogy. What you'll learn from Navah Hopkins 00:00 Navah Hopkins with Jason Barnard01:00 Navah's Brand SERP02:42 Conversion Rate Optimization Made Fun04:31 Colour Theory for On-Page CRO10:12 Using “You” in your copywriting for better CRO14:09 The psychology of upsell offers in On-Page CRO15:59 CRO as more than just a means to justify PPC cost18:26 The philosophy behind the PPC Sith20:45 Finding the balance for tweaking PPC campaigns24:10 The customer's journey from search to conversion28:49 What do the upcoming third-party cookie changes mean for the future of e-commerce?31:17 Managing your email list34:04 The value of sympathy in CRO Subscribe to the podcast Subscribe here >> This episode was recorded live on video April 13th 2021 Recorded live at Kalicube Tuesdays (Digital Marketing Livestream Event Series). Watch the video now >>

In Episode 37, I talk about the past week and the theme of "Be The Light", and speak with interview guest "Papa", from the Bearded Villains of Chicago, the Hogfather, and creator of Patch Hogs

Fake Christmas comes to Fake Earth. (with special guest Brian Lynch.)

This week, Josh and Dietrich build a playlist around the demented holiday classic A Nightmare Before Christmas. Despite being a bit of a grouch about Christmas, Josh has always enjoyed the skewed gothic comedy of this tale of Halloween trying to steal the holidays, and recommends the Terry Pratchett classic Hogfather along side the anarchic glee of Gremlins. Dietrich talks about the ability of children to "embrace the weird", and looks to A Series of Unfortunate Events as a natural companion with the dark humor, style, and joyful mayhem. Josh wraps the discussion up with a brilliant masterpiece of a novel from Clive Barker, and finally, they both rave about the short-lived comedy Pushing Daisies. Next week, the pair will tackle the task of recommending the next great story for those who either love Harry Potter, or find the author problematic and want a different path to take. You can send questions or comments to playlistquestions@gmail.com.

And we're done with season three. After watching "A Hog Day Afternoon Pt.2" Jake and Josh can finally get the time traveling, rehydrating monkey off their back. They also talk about The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time and how best to assemble a silver monkey. Website: MorphinGrid.tumblr.com, Email: littleidiots.morphingrid@gmail.com, Twitter: @morphingrid, Facebook: facebook.com/themorphingrid.

This is it! The penultimate episode of season three! Jake and Josh watch "A Hog Day Afternoon Pt.1" and talk about the alien rangers being jerks, Aisha's veterinary history, and who this cool new girl Tanya might be. Website: MorphinGrid.tumblr.com, Email: littleidiots.morphingrid@gmail.com, Twitter: @morphingrid, Facebook: facebook.com/themorphingrid.

Producer and actor Craig Conway sits down for a filmmaking chin wag with director Giles Alderson. Craig talks in depth about how we can create a new ethic for creatives. How the Filmmaking and Producing system in the UK needs changing and reforming so that cast and crews share the revenue not just the execs who are making a world of inflated money. They talk about working with 'star names' and do they make a difference to the box office? Craig talks about making his psychological horror film Broken directed by Sean Robert Smith, working at NuBoyana studios on Hellboy with director Neil Marshal who he has worked with 4 times and soon to be 5! and new horror film Mara. Which took TEN years to make! How to survive in the business you need to find people around you who have transparency and trust. Finding the right people to work with. The right source of investment and making films with a social responsibility and be bold and say no if it doesn't feel right. There is always a way to make your film. Craig has starred in TV and films including: Our Friends in the North, Dog Soldiers, Vera Drake, The Decent, Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, Doomsday, Romans 12:20, The Tournament, Devil's Playground, Four, 7 Lives, Airbourne, Final Score, Hellboy and Mara. He has produced the films Devil's Playground, Four, Estranged, Giantland, Gatecrash, South of Hopestreet and Broken Mara Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=zfkBx9PproA Broken Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7eWn2TqXZY Buy/Watch Broken https://www.amazon.co.uk/Broken-DVD-Morjana-Alaoui/dp/B06WGV53RS RAINDANCE - The Raindance 15 Second Horror competition returns for 2018! Submit the shortest, scariest film you can make and get your chance to have your film played at Raindance 2019 plus a free Raindance membership. AND, everyone who enters the competition will receive 10% off any Raindance course worldwide. To enter, just tweet a link to the film, tag @Raindance and use the hashtag #15SecondHorror.  Link:  http://bit.ly/15SecHorror INDIE FILM SHOUT OUTS Sam Benjamin's The Few Dark Future IndieGoGo https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-few-dark-future-a-web-series#/ Fabulous Fridays Screening Club bit.ly/2OJZtng Neil Jonhson's Drone footage https://www.shutterstock.com/video/search?contributor=Morphius+Film WATCH World of Darkness https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07BS35KQ2?pf_rd_p=855cdcfd-05d9-474f-b84d-8286a3530ba1&pf_rd_r=G5Q5NNQZR9PRZNQ4ME5D Follow US on Twitter @filmmakerspod  @Food4ThoughtDoc @gilesalderson  @35mmdop @Cjamesdirect @FangedUpFilm @thedaremovie Part of the www.podfixnetwork.com