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'Good American writers know their job has something to do with interrogating the spiritual poverty of the nation'. Tunes Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - Bob Dylan The Big Stick - Minutemen Hallelujah I'm a Bum - Barbara Dane Works Cited / Further Reading Curtis, Adam. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. BBC, 2011. Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso, 2018. ——. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. Verso, 2018. ——, Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class. Verso, 2018. —— and Jon Weiner. Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. Verso, 2020. Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle. Marxists.org, 1967. Elba, Max. Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. Verso, 2018. Harris, Malcolm. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. Little Brown, 2023. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art. Clarendon Press, 1988. Jameson, Frederic. The Antinomies of Realism. Verso, 2013. Kinzer, Stephen. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. Holt, 2019. Mair, Peter. Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy. Verso, 2013. O'Neill, Tom. Chaos: The Truth Behind the Manson Murders. Penguin, 2019. Panitch, Leo and Gindin, Sam. The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of the American Empire. Verso, 2013. Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day. —, Bleeding Edge. —, The Crying of Lot 49. —, Gravity's Rainbow. —, Inherent Vice. —, Mason & Dixon. —, V. —, Vineland. Sheehan, Helena. Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism. Monthly Review Press, 2019. Steinbeck, John. In Dubious Battle. Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture. University of Chicago Press, 2006. Underwood, Ted. Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change. University of Chicago Press, 2019. Watt, Ian. Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. University of California Press, 2001. Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, Old Street Publishing, 2015.

Samantha goes on a trip to France with her recommendation of the Netflix series Emily in Paris, Indy reflects of the entirety of John Steinbeck's bibliography, including reviews of The Pastures of Heaven, In Dubious Battle, East of Eden, and more, then we get retting for an epic sea voyage with next week's big watch: Moana!  Emily in Paris is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for Netflix. The series stars Lily Collins as aspiring marketing executive Emily Cooper, an American who moves to Paris to provide an American point of view to a French marketing firm. In Paris, she tries to overcome the challenges that arise within her work, love life, and friendships. The series also stars Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Ashley Park, Lucas Bravo, Samuel Arnold, Bruno Gouery, Camille Razat, William Abadie, and Lucien Laviscount.   John Ernst Steinbeck (/ˈstaɪnbɛk/; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception".[2] He has been called "a giant of American letters." During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939)[5] is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. In the first 75 years after it was published, it sold 14 million copies. Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists. I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha & Indy Randhawa

Episode 97 welcomes Stacy Newton. She is a published writer, an actress, and scriptwriter known for Sativa (2020), The Institute (2017), and Crazy Lucky (2018). She was the story editor for Fate's Shadow (2019). She made her first feature film In Dubious Battle (2016) directed by James Franco. She made her first professional acting role as "the Pitt girl" in James Franco's The Institute (2017) directed by Pam Romanowsky.Download and listen as Jimmy IV and Stacy Newton "VIBE" on how believing in yourself, and knowing your center, will keep you aligned to follow your dreams. Learn practical tips and strategies for staying inspired, and achieving success from a place within YOU."Don't wait for the stars to align. Reach up and arrange them the way you want".SHOW LINKS:WebsiteInstagramFacebookApple PodcastStitcherSpotifyAudibleGoogle PodcastsYouTubeGuest Links:Website: Stacy K NewtonInstagram: @skyowriter Movie IMDb: Stacy K Newton Amazon Books: Stacy Newton

Episode Notes Join us we dive into the mind of Multi-Award Winning Actor John Savage. He'll take us on his journey from "The Deer Hunter" along "The Thin Red Line" and finally meeting "Eye to Eye". ————————————————— This episode is sponsored by Deadly Grounds Coffee "Its good to get a little Deadly" https://deadlygroundscoffee.com ————————————————— Check out Toking with the Dead Episode 1 https://vimeo.com/ondemand/twtde1 Buy awesome Merchandise! https://www.stilltoking.com/ https://teespring.com/stores/still-toking-with ————————————— Follow John https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001698/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Savage_(actor) https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/170548%7C0/John-Savage... https://twitter.com/realjohnsavage?lang=en https://www.instagram.com/realjohnsavage/?hl=en ————————————————— Follow Still Toking With and their friends! https://smartpa.ge/5zv1 https://thedorkeningpodcastnetwork.com/ ————————————— Produced by Leo Pond and The Dorkening Podcast Network https://TheDorkening.com Facebook.com/TheDorkening Youtube.com/TheDorkening Twitter.com/TheDorkening Dead Dork Radio https://live365.com/station/Dead-Dork-Radio-a68071 Check out Green Matters: https://www.facebook.com/GreenMattersMiddleboro/ https://www.facebook.com/OctoberCoast S.J.NETWORK https://www.facebook.com/groups/1238342836320187 https://www.facebook.com/bhbpr https://www.overthemoonappearance.com/ http://www.starconsult.biz/ John Savage has appeared in more than 200 feature films, short films, recurring roles in television series and guest appearances in episodes of television series. One of Savage's first notable roles is as Claude Bukowski in the 1979 film Hair.[4][5] His first major film role was as Steven Pushkov in the multiple Oscar-winning 1978 film The Deer Hunter.[6] He also had a lead role in the 1979 film The Onion Field.[7]   Savage discussing Hair at Sofia International Film Festival, March 2017 In the late 1970s, he performed in the Broadway production of David Mamet's play American Buffalo.[8] In 1991, he starred in Italian director Lucio Fulci's final film Door to Silence.[9] He then had a brief role in the 1998 war film The Thin Red Line,[10] portrayed Captain Ransom in the two part episode Equinox of the television series Star Trek: Voyager in 1999,[11] and appeared in the recurring role of Donald Lydecker in the first and second seasons of the 2000 television series Dark Angel.[12] Savage appeared in the recurring role of Henry Scudder in the HBO television series Carnivàle between 2003 and 2005.[13] He appeared in unrelated roles in two of the series in the Law & Order franchise: the 2004 Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Conscience" as a man who put his wife in a permanent coma, and the 2005 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Quarry" as a child molester on death row for murdering one of his victims.[14] Savage starred in the 2015 horror film Tales of Halloween,[15] the 2017 film In Dubious Battle,[16] and on the 2017 continuation of the television show Twin Peaks.[17] In 2017, Savage spoke at a tribute honoring director Richard Donner, held by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[18] In 2018, he appeared on the television show Goliath.[19] In the same year, Savage lent his voice to a monologue on the title track of the album This Town by Steve Smith of Dirty Vegas.[20] In 2019 Savage played the role of The Narrator in fantasy crime drama Karma[citation needed] from award-winning filmmaker Bizhan Tong, having collaborated with him earlier that year. They would once again collaborate on the international pandemic thriller Lockdown Find out more at https://still-toking-with.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

We are continuing our Elm Street series with A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge! We discuss Freddy's powers, bullies, homophobia, dreams, pool parties, being gay in Hollywood, jerk directors, & more! Plus, In Dubious Battle, Hamsters, Selena Gomez, Jesus, whales…   A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge is a 1985 American supernatural slasher film[3] directed by Jack Sholder and written by David Chaskin. It stars Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, and Robert Rusler. It is the second installment in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The film follows Jesse Walsh, a teenager who begins having recurring nightmares about Freddy Krueger after moving into the former home of Nancy Thompson from the first film.   A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) Full Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1523JCH8Utw&ab_channel=ScaryMovies   Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iqNVyjwLFA&ab_channel=RottenTomatoesClassicTrailers   Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3pXybSKggA&ab_channel=Scream%2CQueen%21MyNightmareOnElmStreet

(4/13/2022) Actress Lola Sultan joined Mike and co-host - actor Logan Allen on Ep.122. Lola currently stars as of Alex Sanders opposite Abbie Cornish, Patrick Muldoon, William Baldwin and Tim Rozon in 'Dakota' a dog friendly family adventure currently playing in select theaters and will be available on digital platforms May. Lola is well known for her role as 'Holly' -  the lead role - starring opposite Logan Allen, Patrick Muldoon and Kevin Sorbo in 'Bernie the Dolphin' and the sequel - 'Bernie the Dolphin 2' - Both distributed and well received in over 100 countries. Lola Sultan has consistently booked roles that have her working alongside some of Hollywood's biggest stars. In 2016, she appeared as ‘Lola in ‘In Dubious Battle ‘opposite Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston, Zach Braff, Selena Gomez, Josh Hutcherson, Ashley Greene, Tom Wilkinson, Jeremy Irvine, William Baldwin and the late Sam Sheppard. Directed James Franco, this amazing film is based on a 1936 novel by John Steinbeck. A multifaceted talent, Lola has been in great demand for her modeling, which has seen her appear in numerous campaigns for high end luxury children's fashion brands. When she is not on set Lola loves to travel, swim, read, write, socialize with her friends and watch movies. Fluent in French, Lola is studying at the prestigious Le Lycee Français de Los Angeles. Enjoy the podcast.

I caught up with local businessman Gary Miller, who has some great stories about his time on movie sets and on-screen experiences! Gary has been on-set like Avengers: End Game, 42, Murder Chose Me, First Man, Sully, In Dubious Battle, and more! With actors like Harrison Ford, Queen Latifah, Robert Duvall, Jennifer Lawrence, and Will Farrell! The directing differences of Clint Eastwood, Brian Helgeland, and Ang Lee. Good stuff – interesting life – great guy! Listen to all my conversations: During the Break podcast on Apple and all podcast platforms! www.dayfirepodcast.com www.marketingmixradio.com If you enjoyed this episode please share it with your friends, and check out the website duringthebreakpodcast.com Please consider supporting the podCast by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/duringthebreakpodcast This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Since 1931, the California Book Awards have honored the exceptional literary merit of California writers and publishers. Each year a select jury considers hundreds of books from around the state in search of the very best in literary achievement. This year, we will be saluting the winners virtually. The California Book Awards have often been on the vanguard, honoring previously unknown authors who go on to garner national acclaim. John Steinbeck received three gold medals—for Tortilla Flat in 1935, In Dubious Battle in 1936 and The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. Award winners in recent years include Adam Johnson, Jared Diamond, Karen Fowler, Kay Ryan, Bill Vollman, Joyce Maynard, Andrew Sean Greer, Yiyun Li, Adrienne Rich, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Rodriguez, Michael Chabon, Philip Levine, Rebecca Solnit, Galen Rowell, Jonathan Lethem, Peter Orner and Kevin Starr. Join us for this special celebratory event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back. We hope you're staying healthy.This week the Nerds invited Dev-i-Boy on again. He'll be joining us for the next while.First up is a discussion about Indiana Jones 5. Can Indy swing himself back into relevance for a new generation? Not if COVID-19 has anything to say about it. Indiana Jones 5 has been pushed back again due to the pandemic. The Nerds are hoping Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf doesn't make another appearance as Indy's son, but we'd be ok with him appearing as a cannibal tribesman. This of course leads into a discussion on Disney's other properties, including the notorious Pirates of the Caribbean and Jungle Cruise. This looks like a rough year for Disney.Dev-i-Boy has heard that Russians are behind everyone's favourite YouTube channel, Five Minute Crafts. In a story reminiscent of bad Cold War fiction, Russian propaganda is slipped into innocuous seeming YouTube videos. Now we just need a team of teenagers to sneak into the secret Russian video studio lab and uncover their plot.Activision has pulled off a major win in court against the maker of the Humvee. Modern warfare needs modern weapons, and the US courts have ruled in favour of realism over licensing fees. Finally, DJ and Dev-i-Boy can't handle the knowledge. An Australian lizard joins the tiny group of reptiles that both lay eggs and give live birth. This revelation is too much for them to handle though, so we move on to the games of the week.Professor and DJ play Generation Zero, a game about Swedish battle mechs and robot dogs that want to kill you. It's buggy, but generally a good experience. Dev-i played LoZ: Wind Waker again but breaks into a new dimension in VR Chat. Of course, he picked an anime girl avatar. Of course.On to the usual shoutouts and remembrances, and DJ refuses to wrap up the show by performing Waterloo. Maybe next week.Stay safe, and we'll see you all next week.Indiana Jones 5 -https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/indiana-jones-2022/YouTube viral video debunked - https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/how-to-cook-that-creator-ann-reardon-is-debunking-viral-youtube-videos.html/ Call of Duty lawsuit win -https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/call-duty-wins-first-amendment-victory-use-humvees-1287882A lizard can now lay eggs and give live birth -https://theconversation.com/this-lizard-lays-eggs-and-gives-live-birth-we-think-its-undergoing-a-major-evolutionary-transition-133630 - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.15409 Games PlayedProfessor– Generation Zero - https://store.steampowered.com/app/704270/Generation_Zero/Rating : 5/5DJ– Generation Zero - https://store.steampowered.com/app/704270/Generation_Zero/Rating : 4.5/5Dev-i-Boy - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_WakerRating – 5/5- VR Chat - https://store.steampowered.com/app/438100/VRChat/Rating – 3/5Other topics discussedIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones series.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Kingdom_of_the_Crystal_SkullThe timeline of the Indiana Jones films is the chronological order of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones and the film series.- https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_of_filmsTransformers film series (Transformers is a series of American science fiction action films based on the Transformers franchise which began in the 1980s. Michael Bay has directed the first five films.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_(film_series)Harrison Ford survives plane crash - https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/14/news/harrison-ford-plane-mishap/index.htmlDisney’s Artemis Fowl Official Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl2r3Fwxz_oJungle Cruise (The Jungle Cruise is a river boat attraction located in Adventureland at many Disney Parks worldwide, namely Disneyland, Magic Kingdom,Tokyo Disneyland and Hong Kong Disneyland. For years, Walt Disney Pictures had been toying with the idea of turning the Jungle Cruise into a full-length action adventure motion picture, which it would be loosely inspired by the theme park attraction of the same name.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_CruiseBruckheimer is very frank about how he almost passed on the project, which is based on the famous Disney theme park ride.- https://web.archive.org/web/20080102184110/http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/425/425848p1.htmlPirates of the Caribbean 6th movie- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_(film_series)#Sixth_film How to Cook That (Youtube channel by Ann Reardon)- https://www.youtube.com/user/howtocookthat/videosDebunking Fake Videos & WHO'S behind 5-min crafts? | How To Cook That Ann Reardon- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvqa8dsBtno Lonelygirl15 (lonelygirl15, the first of many shows within the fictional LG15 Universe, tells the ongoing story of a group of young adults fighting against a mysterious secret society called, The Order.)- https://www.youtube.com/user/lonelygirl15Sex-workers - idubbbz complains by iDubbbzTV- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQLzOuwDu_8Elsagate (neologism referring to the controversy surrounding videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids that are categorized as "child-friendly", but which contain themes that are inappropriate for children.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElsagateThe FTC action against YouTube and Google- https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2019/11/youtube-channel-owners-your-content-directed-children Why Youtube doesn’t make any profit - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/4-reasons-youtube-still-doesnt-make-a-profit/ The Simpson – Lionel Hutz vs 10 high priced lawyers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3hhAH4mlQk Donald Trump Violated First Amendment by Blocking Critics on Twitter- https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/donald-trump-violated-first-amendment-twitter-blocking-1203542245/ Temperature-dependent sex determination (a type of environmental sex determination in which the temperatures experienced during embryonic/larval development determine the sex of the offspring.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature-dependent_sex_determinationDogs (Dogs are autonomous robotic quadrupeds, equipped with a series of lethal weapons.)- https://black-mirror.fandom.com/wiki/DogsBoston Dynamics : Spot - https://robots.ieee.org/robots/spotmini/Japanese students hold graduation ceremony in Minecraft amid school cancellation- https://soranews24.com/2020/03/15/japanese-students-hold-graduation-ceremony-in-minecraft-amid-school-cancellation/Katie Bouman: The woman behind the first black hole image- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47891902 Systers (founded by Anita Borg, is an international electronic mailing list for technical women in computing.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystersThe Eleventh Hour (The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery is an illustrated children's book by Graeme Base.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eleventh_Hour_(children%27s_book)Hareraiser (video game released in 1984 in the UK in two parts: Prelude and Finale, comedian and computer game historian Stuart Ashen described and showed the game play, and called it "quite possibly the worst video game ever.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HareraiserAnimalia (an animated children's television series based on the 1986 picture book of the same name by illustrator Graeme Base.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalia_(TV_series) The story behind Jackie Chan’s stunt in Police Story which involved slides several stories down a pole strung with lights, electricity arcing around him as he crashes through multiple panes of glass into a shop stall.- https://observer.com/2019/01/how-jackie-chan-police-story-stunts-changed-movies/Jackie Chan further explains the stunt in Police Story- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZEVz1V-X4w Waterloo ("Waterloo" is the first single from the Swedish pop group ABBA's second album, Waterloo and their first under the Epic and Atlantic labels.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_(ABBA_song) That’s Not COVID (TNC Podcast)- https://thatsnotcanon.com/thatsnotcovidpodcast Shout Outs 5 April 2020 - Shirley Douglas, actress and mother of Kiefer Sutherland dies at 86 - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shirley-douglas-dead-actress-mother-kiefer-sutherland-was-86-1288624Shirley Douglas, an actress in films directed by Stanley Kubrick and David Cronenberg and the mother of actor Kiefer Sutherland. Douglas appeared in Kubrick's Lolita (1962) and Cronenberg's Dead Ringers (1988) and in other movies including Shadow Dancing (1988) and Wind at My Back (1996). In 2003, for her contributions to the performing arts, she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. Sutherland announced his mother's death on Twitter, saying "My mother was an extraordinary woman who led an extraordinary life," Sutherland wrote. "Sadly she had been battling for her health for quite some time and we, as a family, knew this day was coming. To any families who have lost loved ones unexpectedly to the coronavirus, my heart breaks for you. Please stay safe." She died of complications surrounding pneumonia at the age of 86 in Toronto,Ontario. His son noted her passing was not related to COVID-19. 5 April 2020 – Anime ending this week 10 years ago according to Japanese netizens - https://soranews24.com/2020/04/05/whered-the-time-go-top-anime-series-that-finished-ten-years-ago-ranked-by-japanese-netizens/Here’s the top ten of this decade-old anime! Which ones have you watched recently?10. Kuroshitsuji II9. Durarara!!8. A Certain Scientific Railgun7. Nodame Cantabile Finale6. HeartCatch PreCure!5. Fullmetal Alchemist4. K-On!!3. Inuyasha: The Final Act2. Animal Detective Kiruminzoo1. Hidamari Sketch×☆☆☆6 April 2020 - ‘Jaws’ actress Lee Fierro dead at 91 from coronavirus complications - https://nypost.com/2020/04/06/jaws-actress-lee-fierro-dead-at-91-with-coronavirus-complications/Lee Fierro, best known as Alex Kintner’s mom in Steven Spielberg’s 1975 shark attack classic “Jaws,” In her iconic scene from “Jaws,” an enraged Fierro confronts Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) and slaps him in the face. “I just found out that a girl got killed here last week and you knew, you knew there was a shark out there. You knew it was dangerous, but you let people go swimming anyway,” her character says, sobbing. “You knew all those things and still my boy is dead now, and there’s nothing you can do about it. My boy is dead.” Fierro reportedly had "objected to the profanity" of the scene's dialogue as originally drafted, and the director, Steven Spielberg, wanted dialogue that accorded with Fierro's "everywoman looks," so the scene's dialogue was rewritten the day before it was filmed. Fierro went on to reprise her role in 1987’s subpar “Jaws: The Revenge” opposite Michael Caine. She died from COVID-19 at the age of 91. Remembrances6 April 1520 – Raphael - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome, much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. He died from fever at the age of 37 in Rome, Papal States.6 April 1944 - Rose O'Neill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_O%27NeillRose Cecil O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She built a successful career as a magazine and book illustrator and, at a young age, became the best-known and highest- paid female commercial illustrator in the United States. O' Neill earned a fortune and international fame by creating the Kewpie, the most widely known cartoon character until Mickey Mouse. Her Kewpie cartoons, which made their debut in a 1909 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, were later manufactured as bisque dolls in 1912 by J. D. Kestner, a German toy company, followed by composition material and celluloid versions. The dolls were wildly popular in the early twentieth century and are considered to be one of the first mass-marketed toys in the United States. Their name, "Kewpie", derives from Cupid, the Roman god of love. According to O'Neill, she became obsessed with the idea of the cherubic characters, to the point that she had dreams about them: "I thought about the Kewpies so much that I had a dream about them where they were all doing acrobatic pranks on the coverlet of my bed. One sat in my hand." She described them as "a sort of little round fairy whose one idea is to teach people to be merry and kind at the same time". O'Neill also wrote several novels and books of poetry, and was active in the women's suffrage movement. She was for a time the highest-paid female illustrator in the world upon the success of the Kewpie dolls. She died from heart failure at the age of 69 in Springfield, Missouri. 6 April 2003 - Anita Borg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg American computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. In 1997, Borg founded the Institute for Women and Technology (now the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology). Two important goals behind the founding of the organization were to increase the representation of women in technical fields and to enable the creation of more technology by women. The Institute was created to be an experimental R&D organization focusing on increasing the impact of women on technology and increasing the impact of technology on the world's women. It ran a variety of programs to increase the role of technology, build the pipeline of technical women, and ensure that women's voices affected technological developments. Borg passionately believed in working for greater representation of technical women. Her goal was to have 50% representation for women in computing by 2020. She strove for technical fields to be places where women would be equally represented at all levels of the pipeline, and where women could impact, and benefit from, technology. She died from a brain tumour at the age of 54 in Sonoma, California. Famous Birthdays6 April 1958 - Graeme Base - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_BaseAuthor and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book, Animalia published in 1986, and third book The Eleventh Hour which was released in 1989. He worked in advertising for two years and then began illustrating children's books, gradually moving to authoring them as well. His first book, My Grandma lived in Gooligulch, was accepted by the first publisher he sent it to. He was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. 6 April 1975 - Zach Braff - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_BraffAmerican actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his role as J. D. on the television series Scrubs, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2005 and for three Golden Globe Awards from 2005 to 2007. He starred in The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy, In Dubious Battle, and has done voice-work for Chicken Little, Oz the Great and Powerful, and the Netflix series Bojack Horseman. In 2004, Braff made his directorial debut with Garden State, which he also wrote, starred in, and compiled the soundtrack album for. He shot the film in his home state of New Jersey for a budget of $2.5 million. The film made over $35 million at the box office and was praised by critics, leading it to gain a cult following. He won numerous awards for his directing work and also won the Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album in 2005. Braff directed his second film, Wish I Was Here, which he partially funded with a Kickstarter campaign. He was born in South Orange, New Jersey. 7 April 1954 - Jackie Chan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_ChanChan Kong-sang, known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kongese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, stuntman, and singer. He is known in the cinematic world for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts, which he typically performs himself. He has trained in Wushu or Kung Fu and Hapkido, and has been acting since the 1960s, appearing in over 150 films. Chan is one of the most recognisable and influential cinematic personalities in the world, gaining a widespread following in both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and has received stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has been referenced in various pop songs, cartoons, and video games. He is an operatically trained vocalist and is also a Cantopop and Mandopop star, having released a number of albums and sung many of the theme songs for the films in which he has starred. He is also a globally known philanthropist and has been named as one of the top 10 most charitable celebrities by Forbes magazine. In 2004, film scholar Andrew Willis stated that Chan was "perhaps" the "most recognised star in the world". In 2015, Forbes estimated his net worth to be $350 million, and as of 2016, he was the second-highest paid actor in the world. He was born in Victoria Peak. 7 April 1964 - Russell Crowe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_CroweRussell Ira Crowe actor, film producer and musician. Although a New Zealand citizen, he has lived most of his life in Australia. He came to international attention for his role as the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the historical film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which Crowe won an Academy Award, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, an Empire Award, and a London Film Critics Circle Award for best actor, along with ten other nominations in the same category. Crowe's other award-winning performances include portrayals of tobacco firm whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand in the drama film The Insider, and John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind. Crowe's other films include, L.A. Confidential, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Cinderella Man, 3:10 to Yuma, American Gangster, State of Play, Robin Hood, Les Misérables, Man of Steel, Noah, and The Nice Guys. In 2015, Crowe made his directorial debut with The Water Diviner, in which he also starred. Crowe's work has earned him several accolades during his career, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, one BAFTA and one Academy Award out of three consecutive nominations (1999, 2000, and 2001). Crowe has also been the co-owner of the National Rugby League (NRL) team South Sydney Rabbitohs since 2006. He was born in Wellington. Events of Interest 6 April 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-modern-olympic-gamesOn April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, King Georgios I of Greece and a crowd of 60,000 spectators welcomed athletes from 13 nations to the international competition. In Athens, 280 participants from 13 nations competed in 43 events, covering track-and-field, swimming, gymnastics, cycling, wrestling, weightlifting, fencing, shooting, and tennis. All the competitors were men, and a few of the entrants were tourists who stumbled upon the Games and could sign up. The track-and-field events were held at the Panathenaic Stadium, which was originally built in 330 B.C. and restored for the 1896 Games. Americans won nine out of 12 of these events. The 1896 Olympics also featured the first marathon competition, which followed the 25-mile route run by a Greek soldier who brought news of a victory over the Persians from Marathon to Athens in 490 B.C. In 1924, the marathon was standardized at 26 miles and 385 yards. Appropriately, a Greek, Spyridon Louis, won the first marathon at the 1896 Athens Games.6 April 1909 - Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pearys-expedition-reaches-north-poleOn April 6, 1909, American explorer Robert Peary accomplishes a long elusive dream, when he, assistant Matthew Henson and four Eskimos reach what they determine to be the North Pole. Decades after Peary’s death, however, navigational errors in his travel log surfaced, placing the expedition in all probability a few miles short of its goal. In 1908, the pair travelled to Ellesmere Island by ship and in 1909 raced across hundreds of miles of ice to reach what they calculated as latitude 90 degrees north on April 6, 1909. Although their achievement was widely acclaimed, Dr. Frederick A. Cook challenged their distinction of being the first to reach the North Pole. A former associate of Peary, Cook claimed he had already reached the pole by dogsled the previous year. A major controversy followed, and in 1911 the U.S. Congress formally recognized Peary’s claim. In recent years, further studies of the conflicting claims suggest that neither expedition reached the exact North Pole, but that Peary and Henson came far closer, falling perhaps 30 miles short. On May 3, 1952, U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher of Oklahoma stepped out of a plane and walked to the precise location of the North Pole, the first person to undisputedly do so.6 April 1917 - Americans declares war on Germany - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/america-enters-world-war-iTwo days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I. Apart from an Anglophile element urging early support for the British and an anti-Tsarist element sympathising with Germany's war against Russia, US public opinion reflected that of the president: the sentiment for neutrality was particularly strong among Irish Americans, German Americans, and Scandinavian Americans, as well as among church leaders and among women in general. On the other hand, even before World War I had broken out, American opinion had been overall more negative toward Germany than toward any other country in Europe. Over time, especially after reports of atrocities in Belgium in 1914 and following the sinking of the passenger liner RMS Lusitania in 1915, American citizens increasingly came to see Germany as the aggressor in Europe. While the country was at peace, American banks made huge loans to Britain and France, which were used mainly to buy munitions, raw materials, and food from across the Atlantic. Wilson made minimal preparations for a land war but he did authorise a major ship-building program for the United States Navy. The president was narrowly re-elected in 1916 on an anti-war ticket.6 April 1974 - The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career. - https://www.mylifetime.com/she-did-that/april-6-1974-abba-won-the-eurovision-song-contest-for-waterloo-launching-their-international-careerSongwriters and musicians Ulvaeus and Andersson first met in 1966. However, it was in 1969 when the seeds of the soon-to-be Swedish supergroup were planted when Björn met his fiancée, Fältskog, and Benny met his fiancée, Lyngstad. Ulvaeus and Andersson knew how to write contagious pop hits. However, Fältskog and Lyngstad’s beautiful harmonies were integral to the global chart-topping ABBA sound. After “Waterloo” won the 19th edition of the Eurovision song competition, the winning tune reached the No. 1 spot on the UK chart and became a top ten hit in the US on the Billboard Hot 100. “Waterloo” sold six million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time.Follow us on Facebook - Page - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/ - Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/440485136816406/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamated Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrS iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094 RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rssInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/nerds_amalgamated/General Enquiries Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comRate & Review us on Podchaser - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/nerds-amalgamated-623195

In this episode Clint sits down with with local businessman Gary Miller, who has some great stories about his time on movie sets and on screen experiences! They talk about movies Gary has been on-set like Avengers: End Game, 42, Murder Chose Me, First Man, Sully, In Dubious Battle, and more! Gary shares his stories about actors like Harrison Ford, Queen Latifah, Robert Duvall, Jennifer Lawrence, and Will Farrell! The directing differences of Clint Eastwood, Brian Helgeland, and Ang Lee. Lots of stories, laughs, and surprises! If you enjoyed this episode please share it with your friends, and check out the website duringthebreakpodcast.com Please consider supporting the podast by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/duringthebreakpodcast This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

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Who cares about inflation?  You probably don’t even notice it. If you’re an American.  A percentage or two a year is slow acting; like rust on stainless steel.  Merchandisers had to re-sticker the stuff on supermarket shelves two or three times a day in Brazil.  Inflation was over one thousand percent in the eighties. That’s right.  Clack-clack-clack went their price guns.  All day and all-night long no matter. They were slapping new price stickers over others a few hours old whenever I shopped. Making cash was just the start of the problem for store owners.  Retailers had to get daily revenue out of the worthless Brazilian money into something stable.  Hi I am Dr. Scott Brown and I am the co-founder of the Rhodes Society.  That was when I lived in Salvador de Bahia and Aracaju.  The black market for stable currency was fierce.  Exchanging my dollars for Brazilian money was a harrowing experience. I remember being picked up by armed escorts on motor bikes for transport to illegal bankers who would buy my dollars.  Once there they stood facing the door with machine guns while we transacted.  I saw piles and piles of Euros, Pounds and Greenbacks in strange rooms, in strange buildings in strange parts of the city.  It was insane. Where did all the cash come from?   The same black-market currency exchange system serviced retailers nightly.  Households were less nimble.  The salaried middle class had their net worth creamed.  And I don’t ever want to go through it again.   According to professor Crack in his essential pocketbook How to Ace Your Business Finance Class that you should own by now, inflation is the change in the price of some real good or service.  He directs readers to an interesting take on inflation and investing in the classic paperback, The Intelligent Investor by long deceased Columbia professor Benjamin Graham. This is the same book that inspired a nineteen-year-old Warren Buffett to greatness as Graham’s underling.  Graham recognized that stock prices and inflation are not correlated.  Furthermore, he knew that inflation was so difficult to forecast as to be perhaps unpredictable.  As such he warned his readers to disregard inflation hedging.  You’ll understand why in a second. Inflation increases the cost of living but not corporate profits.  Since inflation does not impact the earnings rate on capital investment Graham explains that stock prices do not rise with inflation. Unit costs of public utilities in electricity and gas don’t rise as fast as the consumer price index due to government regulation.  These firms may have a stronger strategic position during periods of high inflation.  But inflation increases the cost of corporate borrowing because it is imbedded in the interest rate.  However, utility companies are entitled by law to charge rates that guarantee an adequate return on invested capital.  Graham says that this protects utility company shareholders.  He warns investors to ignore inflation in stock investing and futures trading.  Today, in New Zealand MIT trained professor Crack explains that inflation can be confusing for his students. He walks through the common thinking errors.  The Bureau of Labor Statistics, also called the BLS tracks inflation of consumer prices. You would think that calculating inflation would be simple.  Apparently, it takes a room full of PHDs for the BLS to pull it off.  The result of all this think tank level Keynesian brain power is the dissemination of several consumer price index series for different uses.  The rate of inflation is calculated from the consumer price index.  A big mistake among finance students when learning to discount cash flows is adding inflation to the discount rate.  If a bank offers a three percent return to savers this is the nominal rate. If inflation is one percent the real return to the saver is shaved down to two percent.  The three percent return must compensate you not just for waiting but also for the degradation of your investment from inflation.  See now? Ignore inflation hedging.  Incidentally, waiting is another way to say time preference. If rates are highly volatile or if you invest in long term bonds you face additional interest rate risk. Professor Crack points out that when interest rates are artificially depressed as they have been in the aftermath of the big short, that the nominal rate won’t even compensate you for inflation. Naïve savers ended up losing money in certificates of deposit during this period.  There is also liquidity risk to deal with if you are buying bonds. This worsens when no ready and willing buyers will help you sell out before maturity.   New Zealand housing is expensive where doctor Crack lives.  A typical house in Dunedin was about eighty thousand twenty-five years ago.  Today the average house costs three hundred thousand.  Not surprising for a nice country that scores third on the Mercer Quality of Living Survey.  This calculates to a five-point four percent rate of inflation.  At that rate the average house will cost over a million in another twenty-five years.  We can use the same concept to determine whether salaries professors at the University of Puerto Rico earn make us better or worse off than twenty-five years ago.  Puerto Rico has been through a twenty-year depression that ended in bankruptcy and a category five hurricane named Maria.  My sixty-five thousand dollar a year salary was frozen a decade ago, but inflation was not. This sets the stage for the disconnect.  Assessing real estate prices for inflation looks like discounting and compounding but it is not.  Again, the discount rate already has inflation embedded.  Do not add inflation to the interest rate when discounting or compounding.  Nominal futures cash flows are discounted at the nominal interest rate. Exceptions to this rule are rare.  Professor Crack gives us a chilling warning about inflation.  Savers who excessively fear the investment and stuff their money under a mattress suffer a “terribly biting impact” on earnings.  What’s in this for you?  Always sweep your cash into the money market in your savings, checking, and trading accounts to combat inflation.  Go order Benjamin Graham’s investment classic The Intelligent Investor from Amazon today.  And if you have not already done so go to Rhodes Society dot org if you want to get on our training list.   And hey, by the way.  Here is another cool read.  It’s a story portraying the American communist movement by John Steinbeck from the thirties. The book is In Dubious Battle.  It will needle your memory of the last podcast episode on the king of slobs, Karl Marx. Steinbeck was a journalist by trade.  Hence, you will get a fresh perspective on the dark forces that led to McCarthyism. Book List: Graham, Benjamin. 200?. The Intelligent Investor. Steinbeck, John. 1936. In Dubious Battle. The Big Short

Part two of my review of In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck.

John Steinbeck takes on class war in his wonderful novel In Dubious Battle.

In Dubious Battle (2016) An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.

In Dubious Battle (2016) An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.

Creepy is as creepy does and director Gore Verbinski has a new psychological thriller opening this week called "A Cure for Wellness." So Neil Rosen, Bill McCuddy and Bill Bregoli tell you what they think of this ultra-creepy movie. And Bill Bregoli has exclusive audio of what Dale DeHaan, Jason Isaacs and Gore Verbinski told him about their experiences making the film - hint, there are eels in it. Then there's "In Dubious Battle" which is based on John Steinbeck's novel and stars James Franco (of course), Vincent D'Onofrio and Selena Gomez (really!). And finally there's the coming-of-age story "The Edge of Seventeen" which stars Hailee Steinfled and Woody Harrelson. It may be about teenagers but somehow it managed to move all of us old guys. Something anyone can relate to and it's all right here.

In this episode, we check in with some old friends in T2 Trainspotting, watch two women continuously switch lives (and punch each other) in Catfight, support the apple picking union in In Dubious Battle, and watch so many seductive glances in My Cousin Rachel.

Conversation #107, recorded on June 6th 2014. Nat Wolff is an actor and musician. He got his start with THE NAKED BROTHERS BAND. He's since appeared in the films NEW YEARS EVE, ADMISSION, THE INTERN, IN DUBIOUS BATTLE and PALO ALTO. He appeared here to promote his film THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. Hail Satire! is hosted and produced by Vic Shuttee.

John Steinbeck's fifth novel, In Dubious Battle, marks a radical shift in the author's work while serving as an interesting precursor to The Grapes of Wrath. Essentially concerned with the labor struggles of exploited fruit pickers, the novel illustrates the emergence of Steinbeck's social consciousness and further exemplifies some of the core themes he would later become remembered for. Special thanks to Patrick for the selection! Follow @Infin8Gestation on Twitter • Visit InfiniteGestation.com Show Notes & Links In Dubious Battle John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath Eugene Debbs Pascal "Pat" Covici Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters Working Days: The Journals of the Grapes of Wrath Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Sam's book reference) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Yoknapatawpha County (the unpronounceable county)