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This episode of Veteran On the Move features Dr. Karwanna D. Irving, a business coach who helps six-figure entrepreneurs scale to seven figures by securing government contracts. Dr. Irving shares her entrepreneurial journey, from early ventures in video and photography to successfully selling to the U.S. government. She outlines the crucial steps for businesses to become government-contract ready and how to find relevant opportunities. Now dedicated to helping others, Dr. Irving offers a roadmap, including a 5-day course, to unlock multi-million-dollar potential in the government sector. Tune in for actionable insights on tapping into the world's largest buyer. Episode Resources:  Don't Duck the Government Book "Scale Your 6-Figure Business with Government Contracts"  5-Day Challenge  She's Got Goals    About Our Guest Dr. Karwanna D Irving is a transformational speaker, author, and business coach who helps six-figure entrepreneurs scale to seven figures through government contracts. With over two decades of experience, she has empowered more than 6,000 business owners to position themselves to sell to the worlds largest buyerthe U.S. government. A recipient of the 2024 Stevie Awards in Business and the 2025 Enterprising Woman Award, Dr. Irvings impact has been recognized in Success Magazine and by the San Francisco Business Times, which named her firm among the Top 100 Fastest Growing Bay Area Private Companies. As a visionary leader, she is dedicated to bridging the wealth gap by helping 6 Figure Business Owners unlock multi-million-dollar opportunities.   About Our Sponsors Navy Federal Credit Union   Navy Federal Credit Union has made it their mission to help people in the military community. Navy Federal Credit Union is open to all branches of the military, Veterans and their families. They have lots of flexible savings and investing options to help their members reach their financial goals. Don't miss out. The sooner you start building your finances with savings and investing options, the better off they could be in the long run.  At Navy Federal, our members are the mission.      Join the conversation on Facebook! Check out Veteran on the Move on Facebook to connect with our guests and other listeners. A place where you can network with other like-minded veterans who are transitioning to entrepreneurship and get updates on people, programs and resources to help you in YOUR transition to entrepreneurship.   Want to be our next guest? Send us an email at interview@veteranonthemove.com.  Did you love this episode? Leave us a 5-star rating and review!  Download Joe Crane's Top 7 Paths to Freedom or get it on your mobile device. Text VETERAN to 38470. Veteran On the Move podcast has published 500 episodes. Our listeners have the opportunity to hear in-depth interviews conducted by host Joe Crane. The podcast features people, programs, and resources to assist veterans in their transition to entrepreneurship.  As a result, Veteran On the Move has over 7,000,000 verified downloads through Stitcher Radio, SoundCloud, iTunes and RSS Feed Syndication making it one of the most popular Military Entrepreneur Shows on the Internet Today.

In the twenty-third chapter of Anne of the Island, Anne visits the Irvings. Check out my 2024 Holiday Gift Guide here! Listen to The Case of the Greater Gatsby to hear more fiction audio content produced by me. Featuring the vocal talents of Christopher Higgins, Ashley Clements, Sinéad Persaud, and Tia Workman. Executive produced by Ally Bertz Brown, Warren Day, Jane Leach, Shao Chih Kuo, Lisel Perrine, and Justin Waterman. Anne of the Island is the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Support this project on Patreon at www.patreon.com/mkwiles Follow me on instagram at http://www.instagram.com/mkwiles

P.E.I. limits who can own land, and how much. But are the rules being followed? Reporter Kerry Campbell discovered corporations with ties to the Irving family own more than four times what's allowed. This week, we dig into, whose land is this land? 

Last time we spoke about the beginning of Operation Ichi-Go, the war in the Burma front and the war in New Guinea. Hundreds of thousands of IJA troops stormed countless areas in China. Chiang Kai-Shek was caught somewhat with his pants down, his best men were in Burma, there was little his defenders could do against such raw power. Xuchang fell and soon the Japanese were marching upon Luoyang. Over in Burma the British, Indian, American and Chinese alliance was continuing to both attack and defend. In the north Stilwell led the offensive, while Slim led the defensive in the south. The Chindits fought like lions to defend White City, but ultimately would give up strongholds to seek out new ones. Over in New Guinea the Japanese continued their frantic retreat under heavy pressure from the Australians. As bad as the situation was, the Japanese were in for another nasty surprise in Green Hell. This episode is the invasion of Western New Guinea Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  Last week we saw the effective conclusion of the Eastern New Guinea Campaign. It was a colossal campaign beginning with the Australian defense along the Kokoda Track, then the blood battle of Buna-Gona, the drive upon Lae-Salamaua, the march north upon the Huon Peninsula and Finisterres, and after taking Madang it was finally over. Yet while the book was closing upon Eastern New Guinea, the book on Western New Guinea was just about to be opened.  The pace of the offensive against the Japanese in New Guinea accelerated greatly in the first half of 1944. This was primarily because General MacArthur feared unless he made quick progress he would lose the reins over where the allies would drive upon the Japanese home islands. MacArthur of course sought to advance upon the Philippines, while the Joint Chiefs favored the Navy's central thrust more so. Despite MacArthur's continuous war against his colleagues and superiors and his continuous complaining he lacked support, he had been provided the means to carry out numerous amphibious assaults that could lead to his ultimate goal. MacArthur's operations against New Britain, Saidor, Los Negros and Manus clearly indicated allied superiority over the Japanese in terms of men, ships and airpower. By April of 1944, MacArthur had nearly 750,000 men under his command. His major components were 6 US infantry divisions, one cavalry division, 3 separate regiment combat teams and 3 special brigades. The Australians were gradually being relegated into a secondary role, but could still provide 5 additional divisions and enough separate brigades to form another 2 divisions. General Kenney's air force had grown so large, they could now mount 200 aircraft raids against a variety of targets with little fear of Japanese retaliation. What MacArthur needed was more and more forward airfields so he could hurl fighters and bombers deeper into the Japanese inner perimeter. In a lot of respects, the Japanese position in New Guinea was all but hopeless. Although they still had more than 350,000 troops in the Southwest Pacific area, many were isolated with little chance of receiving reinforcements or supplies. There was also an enormous amount of confusion amongst the various commands, made difficult by enormous distance and the lack of effective naval power. Overall command of Japanese forces as far as Wewak was technically under Lt General Fusataro Tshima, whose HQ was at Manokwari on the Vogelkop Peninsula. It was Tshima who ordered General Adachi to withdraw his 18th Army over to the Hollandia area. Fortunately for MacArthur, Adachi procrastinated heavily, believing a landing would be made at Hansa Bay. All of the heavy bombing by the 5th air force against the coast near Wewak supported his beliefs. Not too long ago we spoke about Operations Reckless and Persecution, the invasion of Hollandia and Aitape. Admiral Barbey had already departed the staging points and rendezvous northwest of Manus Island by April 20th. The large convoys sailed west from the Admiralty Islands until dusk, whence they turned southwest towards Hollandia. Admiral Mitscher's Task Force 58 was providing escort while also launching strikes against Wakde, Sarmi and Sentani airfields on April 21st. Over the next three days the carrier aircraft neutralized the remaining airpower in the Wakde-Sarmi area. Early on the 22nd, the two task forces separated, with the Persecution Task Force heading southeast towards Aitape and the rest, designated Reckless Task Force, proceeded to a point 20 miles offshore between Humboldt and Tanahmerah Bay. Now the allied troops were ready to hit the beaches, but awaiting them was a large concentration of Japanese…however it was mostly a concentration of Japanese personnel rather than combat troops. While initial attention was focussed on the Geelvink Bay area, the 2nd Area Army command was also concerned over the weak condition of the defenses of Hollandia, which lay just east of the 140th meridian in the 8th Area Army zone of responsibility. An order to dispatch an element of the 36th Division to that sector was issued but was quickly revoked on the ground that it would weaken the defenses of Geelvink Bay without appreciably strengthening Hollandia. A large section of the New Guinea coast between Wewak and Sarmi thus remained practically undefended. General Anami promptly dispatched a staff mission to 8th Area Army headquarters at Rabaul to press for reinforcement of the Hollandia area, and a similar recommendation was communicated to Imperial General Headquarters during December. Two battalions of the 6th South Seas Detachment, temporarily stationed on Palau, were dispatched by the High Command. This force arrived in Hollandia on March 4, but numbered only 240 men, since approximately 1000 men, including the detachment commander, had been lost en route to submarine attacks. No other action was taken, however, since both 8th Area Army and 18th Army, after the loss of Finschhafen, were more immediately concerned with checking further enemy penetration of the Dampier Strait region. Thus roughly 10,000 IJA and 1000 IJN personnel were at Hollandia, most support units led by Major-General Kitazono Toyozo and aviation units from General Inada's 6th air division. When Tsihima ordered Adachi over to the Hollandia area and he procrastinated, this prompted the leader of the 2nd Area Army, General Korechika Anami over at Davao to become concerned. Anami sent his chief of staff over to Wewak to convince Adachi to pull out, but when Adachi finally began withdrawing, he only had two regiment on the trail by the time of the American landings against Hollandia and Aitape. Major General Toyozo Kitazono only arrived in the area 10 days before the invasion and for an unexplained reason never officially took command. This is why Tshima's appointed air officers, Inada ended up being thrown the command. Inada only really had 500 effective combat troops, mostly from the 6th South Seas Detachment. These units belonged to General Anami Korechika's 2nd Area Army, which had been transferred recently from Manchuria to oversee the defense of the eastern Dutch East Indies and western New Guinea, and for the projected and later canceled invasion of northern Australia. Random note, I recently made a Youtube short mocking that canceled australian invasion on my youtube channel, it was a wild idea. Thus Anami's command was now formally around the 2nd, 18th and 19th armies. Lt General Kitano Kenzo's 19th Army had been garrisoning Timor, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumbawa, the Banda Sea Islands and some key points in Northwestern New Guinea with their HQ located at Ambon. Lt General Tshima Fusutaro's 2nd Army as I had mentioned was assigned overall defense of Western New Guinea, with Lt General Tagami Hachiro's 36th Division landing at Sarmi and Biak in early March and Lt General Ikeda Shunkichi's 35th Division preparing to come to Manokwari. The 14th Division originally part of the 2nd Army was diverted to defender Palau. Furthermore, to further support  the 2nd Area Army was Vice-Admiral Endo Yoshikazu's 9th Fleet, three southern expeditionary fleets, and the 7th Air Division of Lt General Sudo Einosuke. At Hollandia, the headquarters of Admiral Endo and Generals Kitazono and Inada had arrived at the same time by mid April. Though General Adachi had placed Kitazono in formal command of all units there, the transport commander had no time, as to develop a comprehensive defense plan for Hollandia, thus as I previously mentioned, command really fell onto Inada and Endo. The Japanese would be woefully unprepared for what was to come.  Over at Aitape, meanwhile, there were only a handful of replacements from the 20th Division, along with some naval and support personnel, so the situation looked even wrose for the 1000-man garrison. Preceding the amphibious assaults, Admiral Crutchley's surface fleet was going shell the Tanahmerah Bay area while Admiral Mitscher's carrier planes bombed the waters off the Tanahmerah beaches to explode possible mines, also finishing off the Hollandia airstrips and the remaining aircraft there.  Crutchley's warships picked up their landmarks through the mist as best they could, and at 6sm the roar of 8-inch guns from the heavy cruisers HMAS Australia and HMAS Shropshire shattered the silence of the steaming tropical morning. To this din was added the sharper crack of 5-inch and 4.7-inch weapons from American and Australian destroyers. The fire continued until 6:45, by which time 600 rounds of 8-inch and 1,500 rounds of 5-inch and 4.7-inch ammunition had been expended. As for the aerial strikes, despite the unfavorable weather, Task Force 58 managed to maintain planes on air alert over the Hollandia area since dawn. No enemy aircraft flew up from the Hollandia fields, and the few apparently operational planes sighted on those strips were strafed. In general there were no indications that Japanese defenses or defenders existed in the Tanahmerah Bay area. Task Force 58's scheduled bombing and strafing missions for that region were therefore canceled. Meeting little opposition, LCVP's carrying the first wave of the 19th and 21st Regiment approached Red Beach 2. As the leading wave of LCVP's, approached RED Beach 2, which was obscured by smoke from the naval bombardment, a rocket barrage was laid on the landing area by one Seventh Fleet LCI and two landing craft,, of the 542nd Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment. Machine guns mounted aboard the leading LCVP's kept up a steady fire against the beach. There was no answer from the Japanese, and the only opposition to the landing was scattered small arms and light automatic weapons fire from points far on the flanks of the beach and from a small island in Tanahmerah Bay. This fire was so quickly silenced by supporting destroyers that the assault waves suffered no casualties before reaching shore. Thus tactical surprise was achieved in Tanahmerah Bay, as the Japanese had only a few lookouts in the sector. General Irving's 24th Division successfully landed and the 3rd Battalion, 19th Infantry, quickly secured the northern portion of the beachhead and immediately dispatched patrols east and north to probe suspected enemy positions. The 1st Battalion, following the 3rd ashore, went into an assembly area to act as local reserve and to make ready to aid in unloading supplies at the water's edge if that proved necessary. The 2nd Battalion, 21st Infantry, took the southern half of Red Beach 2 with similar ease. The 3rd Battalion of that regiment quickly followed the 2nd ashore and sent Company I south to look for the trail expected to connect with Red Beach 1 at Dépapré. Simultaneously, LVT's carrying Lt Colonel Thomas Cliffords 1st battalion, 21st Regiment crossed coral barrier reefs on their way to Red Beach 1. Cliffords men landed completely unopposed and would spend an hour trying to locate the road leading to Lake Sentani and her airfields. Clifford left A Company at the beach while the rest trekked it over the  Dépapré-Lake Sentani trail at 8:37am, still encountering no enemy opposition whatsoever.Moving through fire lanes down which no bullets flew and past pillboxes in early stages of construction, the battalion column reached the village of Mariboe at 1047 hours. Only a few scattered enemy rifle shots had been encountered during this march and the village was secured without opposition. Over three miles by trail inland from Dépapré, Mariboe was the 24th Division's first inland objective. It was evident from scattered Japanese equipment in and around Mariboe that the Japanese had recently evacuated the village not long before the 1st Battalion's arrival. Colonel Clifford  halted his men. Since radio communication with the division command post on Red Beach 2 had been lost, he sent messengers back over the tortuous trail to report progress to General Irving. At the same time patrols were sent toward Kantomé, nearly two miles southeast of Mariboe. They reported few signs of enemy activity along the trail beyond Mariboe. Colonel Clifford apparently did not wait to re-establish contact with higher headquarters but, acting on his patrols' reports, ordered the battalion to push on. Encountering little opposition along the main trail, the unit reached Kantomé about noon. When Irving arrived to Red Beach 2 at 9;30am, he found a major logistical problem had formed at his main beachhead. Behind the narrow beach, a wide, impassable swamp was discover, it covered most of the area that the men had planned to use for the bivouac and supply dump area. Thus supplies soon began to pile up on the beach. This was an especially serious circumstance, for the landing plans had called for moving almost all troops and supplies overland from Red Beach 2 to the road inland. Construction of a road between the two beaches was soon found impracticable and when, after a day and a half of hard work, engineers had succeeded in driving a few yards of road into the hills south toward Red Beach 1, the project was discontinued. The small completed stretch did serve some useful purpose. On D-Day two batteries of 105-mm. howitzers were dragged along the road as far as possible to a cramped position on a little ridge immediately south of Red Beach 2. From this site the howitzers could deliver some fire support for troops advancing inland from Red Beach 1, but the direction of this fire was limited by a number of hills nearby. The same stretch of road also provided dispersal space for a few of the many vehicles which had been unloaded at Red Beach 2 on D-Day. Additionally, a limited dispersal area, rendered inaccessible by a small stream and by an arm of the swamp, was discovered at the northern edge of the beach, and ultimately the 542nd Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment constructed a road into this space. Artillery, ashore within an hour after the initial landing, was emplaced there to deliver fire on inland targets. But the fill used to build this road stopped the flow of the little stream which had drained the swamp into Tanahmerah Bay. To prevent a rise in the swamp's water level, a drainage canal was cut directly through the center of the beach. This procedure speeded the outward flow of swamp water, lowered the water level a little, and created a small additional dry area behind the beach, but it did not provide sufficient dry land for dispersal of all the troops and supplies scheduled to land on Red Beach 2. Eventually Irvings men found some dry flat dispersal areas behind the beach, allowing the supply shuttles to continue their work uncongested. Colonel Cliffords battalion would make the main thrust for the division while the remainder of Colonel Charles Lyman's 21st Regiment moved over to Red Beach 1. Colonel Clifford possessed little or no knowledge of the situation to the rear other than the difficulties presented by terrain. Ahead, 10,000 Japanese were thought to be concentrated around the airfields. Jangkena was on flat, swampy ground and was not an easily defensible position. Should the 1st Battalion push on to Dazai, also on flat ground, Japanese troops might outflank the unit, cut its line of communications to Dépapré, and destroy it at leisure. If the Japanese bypassed the battalion they could cut off the advance of the rest of the 21st Infantry at any one of the many defiles over the first two or three miles of the trail inland from Dépapré. Colonel Clifford therefore decided to pull his men back to Kantomé for the night, leaving only outposts along the trail east of that village. Kantomé was located near the foot of the Takari Hills, which he thought would present a serious obstacle to any Japanese flanking maneuvers. It was a fortunate decision, as around midnight elements of the 22nd Airfield Battalion had advanced overland around his 1st battalions outposts, striking at their left flank. Meanwhile, General Heavey's landing craft carrying the leading waves of the 162nd and 186th Regiments, supported by rocket fire and by Rear-Admiral Russell Berkey's cruisers, likewise met no Japanese resistance as they landed General Fuller's troops on the White Beaches. Company A of Colonel Harold Haney's 162nd Regiment rapidly secured Cape Pie while Company I of Colonel Oliver Newman's 186th Regiment secured Cape Tjeweri. With Jautefa Bay in hand, Newman's 3rd Battalion was then landed on White Beach 4 in preparation for an advance towards Leimok Hill and Pim. The first objective, Leimok Hill, lay 1,800 yards northwest of Pim. Part of the battalion secured the hill by 1000, and other elements advanced southward toward Pim. That village and its usable jetty were secured, against light opposition, by 1645, while Suikerbrood Hill, on Jautefa Bay south of Pim, was cleared by 1800. The danger that enemy troops atop dominating heights near Pim might make White Beach 4 untenable was over. The 3rd Battalion then established a night perimeter at Pim, extending its defenses along a trail leading west from that village to the point at which the Pim-Hollandia track joined the main road inland to Lake Sentani, thus securing the roadhead from which movements to inland objectives had to begin. Over at White Beach 1, Haney's 3rd Battalion advanced quickly to take Pancake Hill at around 8am, only meeting sporadic rifle fire. After taking the hill, they began pushing up the shores of Humboldt Bay, encountering no resistance as they advanced upon Jarremoh Hill. It seemed clear to the Americans, the Japanese had been taken by complete surprise, not expecting an amphibious assault against Hollandia so quickly, so they had pulled back to the Sentani Lake Airfield sector. Now further south, Haney's 2nd Battalion were advancing to a track that connected Hollandia with Pim, trying to make contact with the 3rd Battalion over at Jarremoh Hill. Meanwhile Newman's 1st Batallion was advancing upon Leimok Hill. Though the men wanted to keep pushing towards Hollandia during the late afternoon, Fuller decided to dig in for the night while warships and artillery softened up the city. When General Anami over at his HQ in Manado heard of the invasion he immediately ordered the 23rd Air Flotilla of Rear-Admiral Ito Yoshiaki to toss whatever he could against the allied surface ships and force along the beaches. He also ordered the 18th army to break through Aitape to rush over and help the Hollandia garrison and for General Tshima to dispatch a regiment force as well to Hollandia. Thus General Tagami got his 224th regiment together for the advance to Hollandia, expecting to get there for early May, while General Nakai's 20th Division continued to close in on Aitape. Anami also wanted to send the main part of the 36th Division to perform a counterattack in Hollandia's direction as he thought it vitally important to delay the enemy as much as possible so a better defense of Western New Guinea could be organized. Yet General Terauchi Hisaichi of the Southern Army declined his request to do so on the basis a counteroffensive would simply denude the already weakened defenses of Western New Guinea. Meanwhile General Doe's Persecution Task Force was carrying out their landing against Aitape. The landings would be preceded by naval gunfire from Captain Albert Noble's Destroyer force, aerial bombardment from escort carriers of Rear Admiral Ralph Davisons Task Force 78 and from General Kenney's air force. Meeting zero resistance and under the cover of a rocket barrage, the LCPR's landed the men of Colonel Francis Mason's 163rd Regiment by 6:45. Despite the lack of resistance, an immense amount of smoke and poor visibility prevented the troops from landing at Beach Blue, and instead they came ashore at Wapil. Just like at Hollandia, they had achieved tactical surprise at Aitape as the Japanese fled in a panic under naval gunfire. Mason's got his 2nd Battalion to swing west and quickly seize the Waitanan Creek while the 1st battalion was being landed. Then the 2nd Battalion formed a defensive position at the Pro Mission while the 3rd Battalion sent patrols east to establish an outpost near the mouth of the Nigia River. Back over at the beaches, General Doe landed some Australian engineers who began repairing the Tadji Fighter airstrip. The No. 62 Works Wing, Royal Australian Air Force, had come ashore at Blue Beach during the morning and had been able to start work on Tadji Fighter Strip at 1:00pm. Repairs continued throughout the night under floodlights, the lack of Japanese opposition and the urgency of the task prompting General Doe to push the work. Although it had been hoped that the strip would be ready for use on D+1, terrain conditions were such that necessary repairs were not completed on schedule. Thus it was 9:00 on April 24th before the Australian engineers, who had worked without break for almost forty-eight hours, could announce that the airstrip was ready. At 4:30pm, 25 P-40s of No. 78 Wing, RAAF, landed on the field, and the balance of the wing arrived the next day. The ground on which the fighter strip was located was so poorly drained that it was not until April 28th, after steel matting had been placed on the field, that it could be used continuously. The works wing then moved to Tadji Bomber Strip to aid the 872nd and 875th Engineer Aviation Battalions. The latter two units passed to the operational control of Wing Commander William A. C. Dale of the RAAF, who, besides commanding the works wing, was Persecution Task Force Engineer. Extensive repairs were necessary at the bomber strip and that field was not ready for use by fighter and transport planes until May 27th and for bombers until early July. While the engineers worked, Colonel Merle Howe's 127th Regiment also landed, while Mason's man expanded the perimeter further west, securing the incomplete Tadji west airstrip and the mouth of the Raihu River by the end of the day. Simultaneously, Colonel Cliffords men continued their advance from Kantomé to Sabron, whereupon, Fuller finally decided to launch his assault on Hollandia, with Colonel Haney's 2nd and 3rd Battalions rapidly moving down the ridge to seize the abandoned town by 11:15am. To the south, Colonel Newman had his 1st Battalion pursue the fleeing enemy, and in the process rapidly secured Brinkman's Plantation and then repelled a very uncoordinated Japanese counterattackby the 6th South Seas Detachment and General Kitazono's 42nd independent motor car battalion. At 8:00am on the23rd the 1st Battalion left its night positions on Leimok Hill and started out over the main track, passing through the 3rd Battalion. The movement was supported by the 205th and 218th Field Artillery Battalions, set up near Cape Pie, and by aircraft from the carriers of Task Force 58. By 9am the 1st Battalion had reached Brinkman's Plantation, about 2,200 yards by trail southwest of Pim. So far, there had been no opposition. Now Companies A and C parted from the main body to patrol northwest up the Borgonjie River. Proceeding to a fork about 2,000 yards upstream, the two companies repulsed a series of unco-ordinated attacks which were launched against the right flank of the 186th Infantry during the afternoon by a Japanese force estimated at 150. The two companies remained at the stream-branching during the night of 23-24 of April, and on the latter day they moved overland southwest to rejoin the main force on the Pim-Lake Sentani trail. Meanwhile General Inada's aviation personnel already at the Sentani airfield alongside those currently retreating there were cut off from their ration and ammunition supplies which happened to be stored near the coast. Facing the hopeless situation of having to conduct a proper defense of the airfields with less than a week's worth of rations, little small arms and machine gun ammunition, no artillery at all and with two different enemy forces converging upon them, General Inada seized full command and led the weak garrison to retreat towards Genjem. Their rear guard was proved by General Kitazono's troops. During that same afternoon, two platoons of Cliffords Company B, leading the advance from Sabron, safely crossed a small stream but soon found themselves in the middle of a well-concealed Japanese ambush on the east bank. Rifle and heavy machine gun fire made the stream's steep banks untenable, and the forward platoons hurriedly withdrew to the west, leaving four dead men behind. In response to this, Irvings artillery and Admiral Mitscher's carrier aircraft began to bomb and strafe the area, but Cliffords B Company was nonetheless unable to break through. An artillery duel emerged during the night keeping the men of the 1st Battalion wide awake. They were also being supplies with great difficulty via hand-carry over the Dépapré-Lake Sentani trail. Fortunately the 24th Division's plans for the Hollandia operation had taken into consideration many of the potential logistic problems that might be encountered in the Tanahmerah Bay area. The division G-4 Section had made a detailed study which had shown that a full infantry regiment could be supplied by hand-carry from Red Beach 2 over the Dépapré-Lake Sentani trail inland as far as Jangkena. When no road connecting Red Beach 2 with Red Beach 1 had been found, the division moved the main supply point to Dépapré, from which the advance inland would be supported. With this change in plans, the G-4 Section undertook new computations and calculated that the hand-carry distance could be extended to Dazai. This conclusion was based on the assumption that adverse weather conditions would not make the Dépapré-Lake Sentani road nearly impassable. On 23 April heavy rains started to turn the road into a quagmire through which struggling men could scarcely carry their own equipment and food, to say nothing of extra supplies for the leading battalion. By evening on that day logistic support of the 21st Regiment had therefore become a major problem. There was no question but that the regiment would have to be supported by hand-carry, for it was estimated that at least two weeks' hard work by engineers would be required before the road from Dépapré as far as Mariboe could be made passable even for jeeps. But the 1st Battalion had already advanced east of Dazai, beyond which point, according to the G-4 estimates, support by hand-carry would be next to impossible. Because of the logistical issues, General Eichelberger decided to make the Humboldt Bay area the principal task force landing site, allowing the 41st division to drive further inland. On the 24th, Newman's 3rd Battalion passed through the 1st and seized the Koejaboe area, only stopping there until the 2nd battalion came over to reinforce the continued advance. During this action however, most of the Japanese continued their retreat towards Genjem unmolested. Over in the west, Irving ordered Clifford to consolidate his forward positions around Sabron and Dazai as he now realized the continued rapid advance inland was no long possible as a result of their hand-carry logistics scheme and the weather was taking quite a turn for the worse hampering air drops. Back over at Aitape, Mason's troops crossed the Raihu and by midday the 2nd Battalion secured the town. However General Doe was dissatisfied with the pace of the westward advance, and he therefore suggested to Alamo Force that the 163rd's commander, Mason be relieved. This step was approved by General Krueger, although the regimental commander remained in control of his unit until 9 May, only two days before the 163rd Infantry began loading for another operation. For the next few days, the 163rd patrolled further inland and would fall into a heavy engagement at Kamti on the 29th. At the Kapoam villages, about twelve miles up the Raihu, elements of the 3rd Battalion encountered the only signs of organized Japanese resistance found in the Aitape area to 4 May. At one of these villages, Kamti, some outpost troops of the 3rd Battalion were surrounded by an estimated 200 Japanese who made a number of harassing attacks on 28 and 29th. These skirmishes cost the battalion 3 men killed and 2 wounded, while it was estimated that the Japanese lost about 90 killed. On the 25th, Colonel Lymann's two forward battalion resumed their march, heading through some dense jungle being met by sporadic enemy small arm fire. They eventually dug in around the vicinity of Julianadorp. Meanwhile Colonel Newman had his 3rd battalion advancing west along the main road to Nefaar while some LVT's transported his 1st battalion over Lake Sentani to a point on the western shore of Nefaar. Neither force faced much opposition and together would perform some patrolling of the Cyclops Drome during the afternoon. Back over at Aitape, Colonel Howe's 127th Regiment finished their occupation of Tumleo, Seleo and the Ali Islands and now were beginning to send patrols east towards Afua. On the 26th, Colonel Newman had his 1st Battalion seize the Cyclops Drome while his 2nd Battalion took some LVTS to capture the Sentani Drome. Shortly after midday both Battalions rapidly secured the airdromes under light enemy resistance. Despite a serious supply situation, Lyman's 1st and 3rd Battalion resumed the advance, only encountering one enemy bunker at Ebeli Plantation. It had been impossible to drop supplies from the air on April 25 and even hand-carrying had been stopped late in the afternoon by heavy rains which had flooded many small streams. Parts of the Dépapré-Lake Sentani trail were now knee deep in water. The two forward battalions were low on ammunition, and they would have to go on half-rations if the supply situation were not quickly improved. But General Irving was again optimistic about the weather, believing that air supply would be successful on the 26th. Furthermore, he had received information which indicated that the Japanese were evacuating the airfield area. For these reasons he considered that a continuation of the advance would not be unduly hazardous. In ordering the advance, the division commander was knowingly pushing his men far beyond the limit at which they could be supplied by hand-carry. If the airdrop should again fail or if track conditions should not improve, one of the two forward battalions would probably have to be echeloned back along the trail to augment the carrying parties, and the advance would probably have to be halted. Should enemy opposition prove stubborn, the forward battalions might have to withdraw, perhaps as far as Dazai, to replenish their meager supplies of rations and ammunition. General Irving was taking a calculated risk which assumed the success of the airdrop and an absence of determined Japanese opposition. By the afternoon of the 26th, the Hollandia Drome was secured after a successful airdrop at Dazai. After this the objectives of Reckless had been achieved. Mop up operation would continue up until June 6th, as Fuller's 41st Division cleared out Cape Soedja and the Cyclops Mountain. They would end up flushing out Japanese on Hill 1000 and Irving's 24th Division sent out patrols west towards Marneda, Demta Bay and Gemjem. By 6 June the they had all killed 405 Japanese and had taken 64 prisoners in the Genjem-Demta region. Many more Japanese were found dead of starvation or disease along the trails in the same area. During the same time period, Eichelberger's task force would develop Hollandia into a major base from which future operations would be support. In the end casualties for Operation Reckless amounted to 124 deaths, 1057 wounded and 28 missing for the Americans. The Japanese suffered 3300 deaths, 661 captured. On April 30th, 7220 Japanese from Hollandia's garrison would assemble at Genjem where General Inada began a gradual withdrawal in 11 echelons towards Sarmi. By May 7th, all echelons departed Genjem for a very long march through some of the worst terrain in New Guinea. Two-thirds of the garrison reached the Tor River by June. It's estimated 93% of their strength would succumb to the deadly jungles, lack of provisions and rampant cases of malaria. Meanwhile to secure the Tadji airstrips against Japanese attacks from the direction of Wewak, Colonel Howe sent Company C by boat to Nyaparake on April 28th where they set up outposts further inland around Charov and Jalup. By May 4th, further patrolling by the 127th regiment had discovered no trace of organized enemy units, thus Operation Persecution was successfully completed. During the operation 525 Japanese were killed, 25 were captured while the Americans suffered 19 deaths and 40 wounded. That is all for the New Guinea front as we are now traveling over to New Britain. After the Battle of Talasea and the area was secured, Colonel Smith reached the conclusion that the enemy was withdrawing as rapidly as possible to Cape Hoskins. He decided to send patrols to Numundo Plantation. A reconnaissance patrol on March 10th found enemy positions at Bola and Santa Monica Plantation evacuated, but came upon entrenched enemy at Garilli. On 11th Captain Andrew Haldane's Company K left Bitokara with orders to proceed to Numundo on a three-day patrol, a time estimate that was to prove too optimistic. Company K reached Garilli to find it empty of the enemy, but just north of Patanga encountered Japanese small-arms, automatic-weapons and mortar fire. For four days the Marine patrol made slow progress, fighting an enemy who made a stand in the heavy vegetation approximately every 200 yards and then withdrew effectively before the advance guard flankers could close in. On the evening of the 16th the company entered Kilu where the Japanese made their final stand. While the two forces battled, a Marine landing craft appeared offshore and as it approached the beach the enemy diverted what apparently was a 75mm field gun from the ground action to the "naval force". In the boat was Lieutenant Colonel Deakin who had obtained permission from Colonel Smith to transport a section of 81mm mortars to Captain Haldane's assistance. Although the Japanese bracketed the craft, they failed to hit it and the weapons were landed without casualties. Shortly after the heavy mortars began lobbing shells toward the enemy, the Japanese broke contact and the Marines reached Numundo 48 hours later without finding the Terunuma Detachment again. The 1st Battalion also set up an ambush at Garu which was productive of enemy dead and prisoners for awhile. Company I replaced Company K at Numundo and in turn was replaced on 25 March by the 2nd Battalion. Inasmuch as the enemy continued to straggle eastward singly and in small groups with little or no communications, patrols were kept busy returning over and over again to the same villages and plantations in hopes of catching unwary Japanese. Such hopes frequently paid off. On the 30th the 2nd Battalion moved southeast from Numundo to San Remo Plantation, described by one Marine as "a very pleasant place." From that point patrols probed westward to the Kulu River and eastward into the Cape Hoskins area as far as Buluma. Overall the patrols saw 3 men killed with 8 wounded while accounting for 151 Japanese killed and 68 taken prisoner. Meanwhile, Matsuda, Komori and Terunuma;s Detachments all were performing withdrawals. Komori dispatched his force to the rendezvous point in successive echelons. He himself left Didmop with the rear guard, back on February 28th, reaching Augitni via Vakan on March 1st. The following morning he started his hospital patients along the evacuation route and sent a detail of 250 men to Bulawatni to help transport provisions. Yet the Marines at Iboki were becoming increasingly troublesome, though quite unaware that they faced anything more than starving stragglers. When Company A, 1st Marines entered Talawaga on the 5th, Colonel Sato felt the hot breath of pursuit on his neck and moved to the trail fork where he assumed command of the combined force. The next morning the Komori Group resumed its withdrawal in a northwesterly direction along the right prong of the trail fork, while Sato prepared to follow with his command on the 7th. At this point the ways of these two officers parted, and thenceforth each pursued his individual course toward the destiny that awaited him. On the 6th the Komori Group, with Major Tobuse's 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry in the lead, covered 16 km's on the trail running northeast from the fork toward the coast to reach what the Japanese called the "North Road." After the first day on the trail, Komori's progress becomes difficult to follow, owing to his use of place names occurring in no other reports or maps. It was slow and difficult at best, because of rain and mud, and the necessity for wide detours to find fords through deep streams and safe passages through or around extensive swamps. His immediate force numbered about 200, and on March 8th he recorded the Tobuse Battalion a half-day's march ahead. He sighted occasional enemy reconnaissance planes, and on the 12th U.S. landing craft fired upon his men as they attempted to cross the Kuhu River, obliging them to take to the jungle and swamps. The broad Via River stopped his force on the 14th. When improvised rafts refused to float, the major and 15 others swam across. The rest, through weakness or timidity, declined to follow this excellent example, and it took two days and a wide detour inland to get the whole group to the right bank. Then, on the 17th, provisions ran out. Thus the weakening men came by painful stages to Kometto (Eleanora Bay) and the welcome coconuts of Linga Linga Plantation on the 21st. But the wide Kapuluk River posed a formidable obstacle to further progress. They tried first to swim the Kapuluk near its mouth, but 18 men of the 2nd Company were swept away and 12 of them drowned, only the captain reaching the far bank safely. A patrol far upstream failed to find any fording point, so the troops spent the rest of the day building rafts. These managed to stay afloat, but broke apart so frequently that another two days were required for the passage. Then came the real heartbreaker on the 24th: they reached Kou only to find the provisioning post evacuated. On the 25th an officer patrol encountered a U.S. patrol, and once more the group had to detour. On the 26th Komori hired a native to guide him to Numundo Plantation, at the eastern base of the Willaumez Peninsula. But evidently the man had a change of heart, for the major recorded next day that, lacking a guide, "we advanced using a compass." They now entered a region of extensive swamps, intersected by another major obstacle: the two-pronged Kulu river. The column got across this stream on the 27th, but lost five more men in the swift current. The survivors emerged from the swamps on the 29th and followed the river southward. On the 31st Komori made his final diary entry, eloquent in its stark simplicity: "We are very tired and without food." Apparently at this point malaria laid the major low. Ordering his men to continue toward Cape Hoskins, he took refuge in a native village, accompanied only by his executive officer, his orderly and a corporal attached to his headquarters. For lack of further diary entries, obscurity shrouds the last week of his life. Most of the Japanese forces reached Malalia by the end of March, but Marine patrols were becoming increasingly troublesome. On the 11th, elements of the 1st Marines landed at Linga Linga, patrolling further inland. Company E landed at the Kulu River mouth at the base of Willaumez Peninsula. There the Marines encountered 4 enemy stragglers, killing three and taking one prisoner. Then they moved westward to Kandoka, where they were joined by two platoons of Company F, brought over by boat. There they established a roadblock, just in time to catch Sato's rear echelon. Second Lieutenant Richard B. Watkins was in command of the trail block. At 9am Watkins led his group inland from the village over some faint trails which he hoped the Japanese main body might be using. The Marines had proceeded about a mile and a half and were about to cross a stream in a sparsely wooded area when they sighted two Japanese standing with slung rifles, apparently resting. Watkins had about decided to dispose of these when they moved off in a northeasterly direction, followed almost immediately by a large body of their compatriots. Lying where the Japanese could easily have spotted them, the Marines counted the 73 enemy soldiers and noted the equipment cited above. Conspicuous among them was a tall, burly officer being carried on a litter. The Japanese were cutting fresh trail through the jungle, and fortunately were too intent on their work to discover the patrol. They made excruciatingly slow progress, however, and Watkins did not dare to move until the last man had disappeared. He then returned with all speed to Kandoka, sending a runner ahead with his report. At the village he met Major Brush who had come over from Yaluiai with one squad on what he had intended as merely a routine inspection. He promptly radioed his command post to send a rifle platoon and a 60mm mortar section to the scene and ordered Watkins to hold the trail block with one rifle squad, one machine-gun squad and two mortar squads while he himself set off with the rest of the troops available in an effort to overtake the Japanese from the rear. Before his own departure that morning, Watkins had sent a six-man patrol under Sergeant Frank Chliek to an inland village some two miles south of Kandoka, right where the Japanese appeared to be heading. The lieutenant promptly dispatched a native messenger there with a warning; then, when firing broke out in that direction, he surmised, correctly, that Chliek had become engaged and took the remaining rifle squad and hurried to his assistance. He arrived to find the sergeant and his men crouched on high ground by the east-west trail with dead Japanese all around them. The volume of fire was intense, the pattern not at all clear. As it turned out, Chliek had stumbled upon the column somewhere near its head and, taking advantage of his superior position, immediately opened fire. Major Brush's force, which had been closing rapidly, was on the opposite side of the valley at this time; hence, at sound of the first shots, had hastened to the scene and struck the Japanese column's other flank. In order to avoid becoming involved in a fire fight with that group, Watkins ordered Chliek's patrol back to Kandoka and followed with his own squad at a slower pace. Brush caught up with him shortly, whereat a counting of heads showed that, miraculously, the Marines had not sustained a single casualty. Here is the aftermath as Watkins recalls it: “On the following morning I took a 20 man patrol through the battle area. We counted 55 dead including 3 officers. It was quite easy to believe that perhaps 20 more died in scattered positions throughout the dense underbrush. The dead were all within a 100 yard stretch of trail. We encountered 2 more Japanese who had evidently just come upon the scene who were sitting side by side staring dazedly at the destruction and did not even turn their heads when we approached.” The burly officer previously observed on a litter proved to be Colonel Sato. Evidently Sergeant Chliek's patrol had struck the enemy column at precisely the point where he was being carried, for the colonel had only had time to leap to his feet and draw his sword to fight back before the Marines' fire riddled him. Seeing their leader fall, those Japanese farther forward took off in mad flight, while those behind were cut off by the converging of the two patrols. Thus perished one of the few Japanese to deserve much credit for the performance of the 65th Brigade on New Britain. Although the rear echelon attacked by the two patrols comprised less than half of Sato's total force, the group, as such, ceased to exist with the death of the leader who alone had held it together. Units split into components, these into smaller parties, straggling eastward over a variety of trails, often hacking their own way by compass azimuth.  Throughout April, the 17th Division continued their retreat towards Rabaul, managed to repel multiple marine patrol attacks around Cape Hoskins. General Sakai's survivors finally got to Rabaul between April 16th and May 15th, erecting the last bulwark of defense for the South Pacific. On April 6th, the journey of another Japanese commander came to an end. The body of the already deceased Major Komori was captured at the San Remo Plantation by the 2nd Battalion, 5th marines. They came upon the outpost, suddenly face to face with a group of four bedraggled Japanese. It was one of those abrupt encounters that allow little time for reflection or deliberation. The flurry of fire that followed killed three of the enemy and wounded the fourth, who promptly surrendered. Komori had apparently died of malaria along the way.  For the 5th Marines, too, was nearing its journey's end, so far as New Britain was concerned. With promotion of the regimental commander, Lieutenant Colonel Buse took over on an acting basis, and General Smith returned to Cape Gloucester to relieve General Shepherd as Assistant Division Commander. Units attached to the regiment followed, and representatives of the Army's 185th Infantry arrived to inspect positions preparatory to replacing the 5th, just as other 40th Infantry Division elements were doing in the Cape Gloucester area with a view toward relieving the entire 1st Marine Division. Last clash of the campaign occurred onthe 22nd of April, when a 2/5 patrol intercepted a party of Japanese, killing 20, including two officers, and suffering the regiment's last fatality on New Britain. Three days later the whole 185th RCT moved into Talasea and San Remo, and at 1530 command of the area formally passed to the Army. LCM's carrying the 1st and 3rd Battalions back to Borgen Bay cleared Talasea at 1630, followed by those carrying 2/5 from San Remo at 2000. The movement was reported complete at 1930 on the 26th, and men of the 5th learned that the 1st Marines had departed this island of evil memory the previous day and that they would follow as ships became available. Soon they would be relieved by Major-General Isaac Rapp Brush's 40th Division, which took responsibility for Cape Gloucester, Arawe and Talasea by the end of April.  I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. Thus Operation Reckless and Persecution were both successful. Now MacArthur had a strong foothold in Western New Guinea seeing the Japanese continued their frantic retreat wherever allied forces seemed to pop up. Over in New Britain, the Japanese were losing formidable commanders as they too were on the retreat, things were simply disastrous for the empire of the rising sun. 

Hey Fam! It's your favorite couple, Snooks and Lovey, back at it again on the "Married Into Crazy" podcast! This time, we're diving deep into a topic that's not just close to our hearts but also our bank accounts. Want to learn how Drs. Terrell and Karwanna Irving turned their love story into a multimillion-dollar empire? Buckle up because we're about to spill all the tea on "Black Love & Wealth: How The Irvings Turned Marriage into Millions!" In this explosive episode, we're not just sharing our secrets; we're bringing on the power couple, Drs. Terrell and Karwanna Irving, who've been shaking the world, one contract at a time. From content creation in Mexico to securing 6, 7, 8-figure contracts, they're the definition of #MarriageGoals and #WealthGoals combined!  But wait, there's more! Ever caught us bickering? Well, who hasn't? We're getting REAL about working with your spouse without driving each other crazy. Spoiler alert: It involves a lot of "Yes, ma'am" and "You're on my nerve" moments. Trust us; you don't want to miss this. And because we love you, we're dropping gems on how YOU can leverage government contracts to build generational wealth. Think it's impossible? Think again. The Irvings have helped others bag over $20M in contracts. That's right, MILLIONS. And they're here to show you how.  But that's not even the best part. Dream Achiever University? Ever heard of it? If not, you're about to. Imagine getting a degree without being drowned in debt. The Irvings made it possible, and they're sharing all about this game-changer! So, if you're ready to Raise The B.A.R. in your marriage, transform your financial future, and maybe even work alongside your boo without losing your mind, this episode is a must-listen. Hit play and let's dive into the juicy details of love, wealth, and everything in between!  And hey, don't just stop there! Join us in our journey of empowering couples through Couple to Couple Coaching. Ready to skyrocket your relationship and finances? Check out our website and grab some "Married Into Crazy" gear at shop.marriedintocrazy.com – because, let's face it, we're all a little crazy about love.  Let's show the world how married into crazy we really are. Subscribe, share, and let's make waves together!   Get C.R.A.Z.Y. with these links: Visit Dream Achiever University www.dreamachieveruniversity.com Follow The Irvings on their respective social handles: IG: karwannadspeaks / hesgotgoals2  One runs HOT, the other runs Cold - Save your marriage with The Dual Duvet www.thedualduvet.com FREE Marriage Health Toolkit https://www.marriedintocrazy.com/marriagetoolkit-optina “Raise The B.A.R. in your marriage” www.RaiseTheBarMarriage.com Married Into Crazy https://linktr.ee/marriedintocrazy #SnooksAndLovey #MarriedIntoCrazy #BlackLoveAndWealth #Entrepreneurship #GovernmentContracts #EducationAccessibility #DreamAchieverUniversity #Impact CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Intro 2:25 - Welcome Drs. Terrell & Caruana Irving 5:14 - Meeting & Marriage Journey 11:10 - Career Beginnings 17:26 - Daily Conscious Effort 1 8:05 - Goal Setting Strategies 21:40 - Black Love in Community 24:20 - Dream Achievers University Overview 30:37 - Contacting the Irvings 32:54 - Final Thoughts 34:53 - OUTRO

Having risen to the status of international newspaper sensation, The Dalby Spook, or Gef the talking mongoose to those that knew him, was now poised to meet some of the world's most infamous psychical researchers. Unfortunately, Gef was as shy amongst company as he was talkative to the Irvings. Yet still the story of Gef persisted until eventually, his name ended up associated with a debate that took place in the highest office of the land. SOURCES Josiffe, Christopher (2017) Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose. Strange Attractor Press, London, UK. Price, Harry & Lambert, R.S. (1936) The Haunting of Cashen's Gap. Unknown Press. Fodor, Nandor (1964) Between Two Worlds. Parker Publishing Co. London, UK. Carrington, Hereward & Fodor, Nandor (1953) The Story of the Poltergeist Down the Centuries. Rider, London, UK. The Muswellbrook Chronicle (1932) Strange Doings on Isle of Man. The Muswellbrook Chronicle, Tues, 3 May 1932, p1. Sydney, Australia The Isle of Man Examiner (1932) Dalby Sensation. The Isle of Man Examiner, Fri, February 19, 1932. Isle of Man. Peel City Guardian And Chronicle (1932) The Dorlish Cashen Buggane. Peel City Guardian And Chronicle. Sat, February 20, 1932. Isle of Man. Josiffe, Christopher (2014) British Voodoo: the Black art of Rollo Ahmed. Fortean Times, July 2014. London, UK. Josiffe, Christopher (2014) British Voodoo: the Black art of Rollo Ahmed. Fortean Times, August 2014. London, UK. Harris, Melvin (1982) The Mongoose That Talked. The Unexplained, Vol. 9, Issue 97. Orbis Publishing Ltd. London, UK. Harris, Melvin (1982) Lost For Words. The Unexplained, Vol. 9, Issue 98. Orbis Publishing Ltd. London, UK. Isle of Man Times (1936) Manxland's 1000 Year Old Custom Once Again Observed. Isle of Man Times, Sat Jul 11, 1936. Isle of Man. Isle of Man Times (1936) Personal. Isle of Man Times, Sat Jul 11, 1936. Isle of Man. Isle of Man Times (1936) Mr Rollo ahmed. Isle of Man Times, Tues Jul 14, 1936. Isle of Man. Daily Herald (1936) BBC Editors Slander Action. Daily Herald, Thurs Nov 5 1936. London, UK. The Times (1936) Law Report, Nov. 4. The Times, Thurs Nov 5 1936. London, UK. The Times (1936) Law Report, Nov. 5. The Times, Fri Nov 6 1936. London, UK. The Times (1936) Law Report, Nov. 6. The Times, Sat Nov 7 1936. London, UK. The Isle of Man Examiner (1947) Talking Mongoose Killed. The Isle of Man Examiner, Fri February 21, 1947. Isle of Man. ------- This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp, check out betterhelp.com/darkhistories to get 10% off your first month.   Also sponsored by Factor, America's No.1 Ready to eat meal delivery service. Check out factormeals.com/darkhistories50 for 50% off using code darkhistories50. ------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at contact@darkhistories.com or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

In which the Mister and Monsters join me in reviewing NANDOR FODOR AND THE TALKING MONGOOSE (2023) which is to buy/rent on Prime Video.  Written and directed by Adam Sigal, the film tells the story of famed paranormal psychologist debunker, Nandor Fodor (Simon Pegg) travels to the Isle of Man to meet with the Irvings about their talking mongoose, Gef (voiced by Neil Gaiman - yes that Neil Gaiman).  The story is loosely based on a story covered in the British tabloids in the late 1930s.  Good performances and great production values unfortunately don't save the film.  The film clocks in at 1 h 36 m and is rated PG-13.  Please note there are SPOILERS in this review. Opening intro music: GOAT by Wayne Jones, courtesy of YouTube Audio Library --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jokagoge/support

In 1931 the Irvings started hearing scratches in the wall. At first they put it down to rodents or maybe a dog, but one night they heard something that sounded like a baby babbling in the attic. The creature in the walls revealed itself as Gef, the spirit of a mongoose/weasel, able to shape shift, split the atom and speak.  Gef continues to captivate the imagination and remains a mystery to this day.  Sources include:  https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gef-the-talking-mongoose-true-story-nandor-fodor https://www.weirdhistorian.com/things-said-about-the-talking-mongoose-of-the-isle-of-man/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gef https://hyperallergic.com/411197/uncanny-images-from-an-investigation-into-the-case-of-gef-a-talking-mongoose/ https://creativity.fandom.com/wiki/Gef_the_Mongoose ____________ All rights reserved (c) 2023 Ghost Stories in the Sunlight.  Please rate, review, subscribe and really enjoy life. We appreciate it.  CONTACT US:  Email: GSITSpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: fb.me/GSITSpodcast Twitter/X: @GSITSpodcast Instagram: @ghoststoriesinthesunlight "Always remember to leave a light on." - Booris, Podcast Ghost 

Hello everyone. Tonight we talk about the incredible story of Gef or Jeff the talking mongoose from the Isle of Man. We get a little sidetracked about F1 racing "Dad joke". What happened to the Irvings, did they really have a talking mongoose or was it something else? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-larsen3/support

In this epidsode of the Grand Parade Matt catches Martin up on all of things that have and have not been happening at city hall over the summer. The two talk about last week's council meeting where Shawn Cleary tried to make the housing crisis worse, and Dave Reage's lack of answers on tap pay. All that and more in this week's episode

During the mid-1930s, the British and overseas newspapers were filled with extraordinary tales of Gef, a creature referred to as a "talking mongoose" or "man-weasel," which was said to have appeared in the home of the Irvings, a farming family residing in a remote area of the Isle of Man. According to reports, the creature was capable of speaking in various languages, singing, stealing objects from nearby farms, and eavesdropping on local individuals.Despite the presence of written reports, magazine articles, books, several photographs, fur samples, paw prints, extensive correspondence, and eyewitness accounts, there is still no real agreement on what precisely happened to the Irving family. Was it a hoax? An extreme case of shared psychosis? A poltergeist? The result of an animal being possessed by an evil spirit? This case was so unique it attracted Nandor Fodor and Harry Price as they tried to figure out what was really going on.There are many theories - which on is true?Let find out more about this story and see if we can come to a conclusion.What do you think is the truth?Consider supporting our work by buying us a "cup of coffee" https://www.buymeacoffee.com/anneandrenataORbecome a Grand Poobah Patreon supporter, and join our inner circle of craziness!https://www.patreon.com/anneandrenataJoin us on our Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/TrueHauntingsPodcastP.S. If you want more Anne and Renata - catch our PODCAST - Diary of a Ghost Hunter on all the best streaming platforms to find out what our life as female ghost hunters is really like (no Bullsh*t).NOW we also have SERIOUSLY WEIRD on our YouTube Channel just because we LOVE story telling and who doesn't love a seriously weird spooky story!Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel as we are wanting to get more views and engagement and check out our travel videos Frightfully Good MisadventuresAlso Follow Anne and Renata:Facebook: @AnneAndRenataInstagram: @AnneAndRenataYouTube: @AnneAndRenataTikTok: @AnneAndRenata#anneandrenata #ghosts #hauntings #paranormalpodcast #frightfullygood #Gefthetalkingmongoose #Gef #thetalkingmongoose #frightfullygoodadventures #seriouslyweird #dairyofaghosthunter #aussieghosthunters #paranormal #ghosts #plotergeist #isleofmanghosts #haunteduk #haunts #storyofGef Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Die Literaturagenten gehen an Pfingsten Skifahren und sprechen mit John Irving über seinen neuen Roman "Der letzte Sessellift". David Wagner empfiehlt einen Roman, der komplett ohne Dialoge auskommt. Und wir lernen von Medusa, wie Männer sich allein durch Blicke versteinern lassen.

Kann ein Sessellift so spannend sein, dass man um ihn herum einen Roman schreibt? John Irving kann das! 1.100 Seiten dick ist „Der letzte Sessellift“ von John Irving, den schon kurz nach Erscheinen viele Rezensenten für das Opus Magnum des amerikanisch-kanadischen Kultautors halten. Ob es auch sein letztes großes Buch sein könnte und warum es sich zu lesen lohnt, erfahrt Ihr in der zweiten Folge unseres Literatur-Podcasts „Auslese“. Homophobie, Sex, kleine Männer und starke Frauen, die Mutter-Sohn-Beziehung, Suche nach dem Vater, aber auch der Vietnamkrieg, Aids und die Trump-Wahl: „Der letzte Sessellift“, der größtenteils im Schnee von Colorado spielt, liest sich wie ein Best of der wichtigsten Irving-Themen. Es erzählt 80 Jahre aus einem ungewöhnlichen Leben des Adam Brewster in einer ungewöhnlichen Familie voller skurriler, liebenswerter Typen.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adam Brewster wächst mit seiner Mutter, ihrer Partnerin und einem transsexuellen Stiefvater auf. Er will seinen biologischen Vater kennenlernen und reist nach Aspen, dem Ort seiner Zeugung. Irvings vielleicht letzter Roman ist Familiengeschichte, Gesellschafts- und Liebesroman in einem, und dann gibt es auch noch Gespenster. Nichts für „Irving-Anfänger“, für seine Fans ein Fest! Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Anna-Nina Kroll und Peter Torberg Diogenes Verlag, 1088 Seiten, 36 Euro ISBN 978-3-257-07222-8

On this week's episode, Neal and Chandler jump right into things with a brief chat about private land ownership and why the world's richest people are snatching up land all over North America. They also chat about the new climate risk scale for housing in Canada, fixed interest rates and when/if they're going to come down, our current generation's high expectation of living standards, and the boys revisit the Metaverse again, Neal claims it's not dead! Tune in now. Show notes: 00:00 - Introduction 00:30 - Irvings are the 6th largest private landowner in the USA?! 5:30 - Breaking down the $15 minimum wage in Nova Scotia 11:30 - Climate risks scale on housing 16:00 - What is REAL messenger 20:30 - Will the fixed rates come down? 33:30 - KPOTW - Boxabl 37:30 - High expectations for living conditions in Canada 47:55 - What's going on in the Metaverse these days? 59:50 - Nova Scotia Government purchases unfinished hotel for long term care facility CHECK OUT OUR PATREON: www.patreon.com/masterkeyspodcast The Master Keys Podcast is hosted by Neal Andreino and Chandler Haliburton, two top real estate agents in Nova Scotia, Canada. Neal and Chandler have each built sizable portfolios of investment properties and leverage their expertise to inform their clients as well as viewers. The podcast covers all things real estate from the first steps as a beginner all the way to expert skills for experienced investors. Please contact us with any questions or suggestions at contact@staxtv.ca FIND US ON INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/masterkeyspodcast/?hl=en TIKTOK - https://www.tiktok.com/@masterkeyspodcast? FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/Master-Keys-Podcast-110495988057336/ FIND NEAL ON: INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/remaxneal/?hl=en LINKEDIN - https://ca.linkedin.com/in/neal-andreino-90854b102 FIND CHANDLER ON: INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/tchandh/?hl=en LINKEDIN - https://ca.linkedin.com/in/t-chandler-haliburton-40a88468

For almost a century, the Irving family has run New Brunswick like a personal fiefdom. They own the newspapers, the industry, and, according to some, even the government. So how does a single family come to so thoroughly dominate an entire province? And what happens when that family starts to fracture and split apart at the seams?Featured in this episode: Bruce Livesey (Thieves of Bay Street).To learn more:“Are the Irvings Canada's biggest corporate welfare bums?” by Bruce Livesey in National ObserverIrving vs. Irving: Canada's Feuding Billionaires and the Stories They Won't Tell by Jacques Poitras“Irving family's fortunate son explains how he fell into a dark depression, and rose again” by Erin Anderssen” in The Globe and MailAdditional music:I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: J Lang, Morusque“A List of Ways to Die” by Lee Rosevere, “Easy Life” by Lee Rosevere, and “Androids Always Escape” by Chris Zabriskie, adapted.Sponsors: Douglas, Athletic Greens Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

En travl søndag aften med to kampe fra NBA blev krydret med et blockbuster trade. Kyrie Irving ville væk og der gik ikke længe så fik han sin vilje. Dallas Mavericks bliver det nye hjem og da det ramte studiet var overraskelsen til at få øje på. Derfor var det også oplagt at tale om netop det trade i hvad der blev en "Emergency Pod".

Kyrie Irving will … mal wieder … getradet werden. Was bedeutet das für die Nets? Wer könnte ihn realistisch per Trade holen? Die Lakers, Mavs, Suns oder Clippers? Was bedeutet das für Kevin Durant? All das und mehr bespricht diese (mehr …) The post RAPID REACTION: Kyrie Irvings Trade-Forderung first appeared on Got Nexxt – Der NBA und Basketball Podcast.

Jon ger en uppdatering om USA:s midterm election där obehagligt många extremt okvalificerade kandidater ser ut att ligga bra till. För vad som känns som den hundrade veckan i rad misslyckas Kanye West med att hålla sig undan tidningsrubrikerna genom att påstå att han nu, efter att ha dumpats av Adidas, vet hur det känns att ha ett knä i nacken (ugh). Sen pratar vi NBA-stjärnan Kyrie Irving som nyligen hamnat i hetluften efter att ha länkat till en grovt antisemitisk film. Och Jon avslöjar att han brukade bära en kufi. Är det en återkomst av hotep-kulturen vi ser? (Googla hotep om ni inte vet vad det är). Stötta oss på Patreon för regelbundna bonusavsnitt + mer! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Veckans recensioner: Cher som magnetröntgensmusik, kaxiga grundvattensspecialister, östgötare, introt till Dogges nionde platta, mordlystna djur, grön/röd/gul curry och militärer som går runt i uniform privat.

Buckle up because it's about to get weird, before Doctor Dolittle there was the Irving Family. In September 1931, the Irving family, consisting of James, Margaret, and a 13-year-old daughter named Voirrey, claimed they heard persistent scratching, rustling, and vocal noises behind their farmhouse's wooden wall panels that variously resembled a ferret, a dog, or a baby. According to the Irvings, a creature named Gef introduced itself and told them it was a mongoose born in New Delhi, India, in 1852. According to Voirrey, Gef was the size of a small rat with yellowish fur and a large bushy tail. The Irvings say that Gef communicated to them that he was "an extra extra clever mongoose", an "Earthbound spirit" and "a ghost in the form of a mongoose" and once said, "I am a freak. I have hands and I have feet, and if you saw me you'd faint, you'd be petrified, mummified, turned into stone or a pillar of salt!" The Irvings made various claims about Gef: he supposedly guarded their house and informed them of the approach of guests or any unfamiliar dog. They said that if someone had forgotten to put out the fire at night, Gef would go down and stop the stove. The Irvings claimed Gef would also wake people up when they overslept, and whenever mice got into the house, Gef supposedly assumed the role of the cat, although he preferred to scare them rather than kill them. The Irvings say they gave Gef biscuits, chocolates, and bananas, and food was left for him in a saucer suspended from the ceiling which he took when he thought no one was watching. The Irvings claimed the mongoose regularly accompanied them on trips to the market, but always stayed on the other side of the hedges, chatting incessantly. Season 1 of The Creepshow Chronicles podcast, episode 100 is in 2 weeks! Season 2 will begin on October 3rd just in time for the spooky season! For 5 weeks in between we will still be releasing bonus content on our social media. If you'd like to follow us you can find all of our socials and information on our linktree @thecreepshowchronicles. Stay creepy, byeeeeeeee Sources: https://hyperallergic.com/411197/uncanny-images-from-an-investigation-into-the-case-of-gef-a-talking-mongoose/ https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71816/strange-story-gef-talking-mongoose https://medium.com/illumination/the-bizarre-case-of-gef-the-talking-mongoose-df4c69131755

In a world of the never-ending Kyrie Irving soap opera, I decided to dedicate a show to Kyrie's antics on and off the court. From the earth being flat to his delusional $200 million dollar contract extension request to the Brooklyn Nets - a team that he has missed 40% of his games.  Kyrie is now threatening to leave by not picking up his nearly $37 million dollar player contract. Plus I cover the disrespect of Steph Curry by Skip Bayless and wrap up the 2022 NBA season. 

In a world of the never-ending Kyrie Irving soap opera, I decided to dedicate a show to Kyrie's antics on and off the court. From the earth being flat to his delusional $200 million dollar contract extension request to the Brooklyn Nets - a team that he has missed 40% of his games.  Kyrie is now threatening to leave by not picking up his nearly $37 million dollar player contract. Plus I cover the disrespect of Steph Curry by Skip Bayless and wrap up the 2022 NBA season. 

This week we are joined by CEO of Cronk Nutrients, Cortland Cronk. We discuss corruption of the telecommunications industry in Canada, the ways Irving Oil has a strangle hold on the Provincial Economy in New Brunswick, and more drama coming out of the Real Estate industry in Nova Scotia. Additionally we talk how someone navigates a business during a recession. Connect with Cronk Nutrients https://www.cronknutrients.com/ https://www.instagram.com/cronknutrients/ Intro - 00:00 Telecommunication Duopoly - 8:44 Real Estate talk - 18:42 What are the Irvings doing? - 40:38 The Potential of St. John and Pierre Poilievre - 44:46 Twitter, Elon musk, and Johnny Depp - 57:10 Final thoughts - 1:07:09

Christina Nordhager gästar och avslöjar allt om Björn Ulvaeus skilsmässa, Messiah utser årets Let's Dance-vinnare redan nu och John hittar ett mord som är Palmemordets identiska tvilling.

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Monty & Jake are talking BYU Football and getting you ready for Friday Night in Logan as the #13 Ranked BYU Cougars go to Utah State on a Friday Night hoping to get to 5-0! The guys talk about the biggest issues in the game for BYU and how the Cougars will handle their first road game of the season. Kyrie Irving and his vaccination status continue to be the talk of the NBA! Kyrie Irving will NOT be able to play games or practice in New York City or San Francisco because of vaccine mandates for indoor events. Irvings stands to lose $400,000 a game, and 44 games total! $17.6 Million dollars all together! Should Kyrie Irving get vaccinated, or should he stand his ground? Was it Bill Belichick or was it Tom Brady? Who was more responsible for the success of the New England Patriots during their dynasty? Bill Belichick and Tom Brady will face off in New England, as the Tampa Bay Bucs travel to Gillette Stadium to take on the New England Patriots in one of the highlight games of the season ...so who was more responsible for their success together? Monty has an update on his deck situation, as well as the bed situation ...as well as the sleeping situation! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok: TheMontyShow & SLCSuperCars Traeger Smoker: https://amzn.to/3y7lpeF Barlean's Total Omega - Orange: https://amzn.to/3kC3F6v Ghost Protein -Nutter Butter! https://amzn.to/3jk9czl Amino Energy Drink Cherry: https://amzn.to/2XT38FF Rockstar Recovery: https://amzn.to/2WgUQa4 One Bars: https://amzn.to/3D9wQGv

Folge 324: Tobi ist mal wieder am Start, um mit mir über Bucks-Nets und Clippers-Jazz zu sprechen. Wir analysieren, wie Bucks die Nets im zweiten Heimspiel schlagen und die Serie ausgleichen konnten. Spielt Milwaukee tatsächlich bedeutend besser, oder profitieren sie eher von den Ausfällen Hardens und Irvings? Ab 00:31:20 diskutieren wir, wieso LA die Jazz in Spiel drei plötzlich dominieren konnte und was wir davon für die restliche Serie mitnehmen. All das und mehr in einer Stunde Pod! Supporten könnt ihr hier: https://steadyhq.com/jedentagnba Link zum Angebot von Bearformance: www.bearformance.com [Rabattcode: JedenTagNBA] Intro von ST. Outro von Macroform. Grafiken von D. Krout. Wenn's euch gefällt, abonniert, lasst gerne eine Bewertung da und helft so anderen NBA-Nerds den Pod zu finden. Fragen, Anregungen und Kritik bitte via Facebook, Instagram, an jedentagnba@gmail.com oder @JedenTagNBA auf Twitter. Folge direkt herunterladen

The Boston Celtics Friday night got their 1st win over the Brooklyn Nets this season returning to Boston facing an 0-2 defecit looking to avoid and 0-3 defecit to the Brooklyn Nets and now the series is the Nets 2 the Celtics 1 going into Sundays Game 4. The Celtics win 125-119 as Jayson Tatum led the Celtics scoring 50 points outscoring Nets leading score James Harden who had 41. Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving combined for 55 points (Durant 39, Irving 16) in what was Irvings 1st game back in Boston with fans allowed inside the TD Garden. While Tristan Thompson, Marcus Smart and Evan Fournier combined for 59 points (17 Fournier, 19 Thompson, 23 Smart). The win featured the Nets coming out and quickly going up 19-4 making Celtics fans think the team was in for a blowout before a timeout called by head coach Brad Stevens allowed the Celtics to get their heads right and Tatum finally took over. So this sets up a huge game Sunday night where if the Celtics win the series is tied and will guarantee a game 6 in the series while a Nets win means they can eliminate the Celtics when the series shifts back to Brooklyn. Meanwhile during game 3 another thing everyone was looking to keep an eye on was the behavior of the Boston Celtics fans and how they would treat Kyrie Irving. As this was the 1st game that the Nets PG would play in Boston with fans in attendance since he opted to break the promise he made to Celtics fans a few years ago when he said he intended to resign with Boston. Of course Kyrie Irving made things more interesting with his comments of fans in Boston being racists and saying he hoped the fans could keep it clean without any racial comments dealt his way. So what about the reaction towards Kyrie did fans pass in their 1st test since his remarks what could happen Sunday night when the TD Garden will be at full capacity. We will discuss with Milke Dynon (@MikeDynon on Twitter) of Redsarmy.com

In dieser Episode widmen wir uns einem faszinierenden Gespräch über John Irvings neues Werk, das sich um die komplexe Identitätssuche eines bisexuellen Jugendlichen in Vermont in den 50er Jahren dreht. Der junge William Dean Jr. wächst auf und lernt durch die verschiedenen Rollen, die er und seine Umgebung spielen, die schwierige Kunst der Selbsterkenntnis. Immer wieder wird er mit der Tatsache konfrontiert, dass die Menschen um ihn herum – einschließlich seiner geheimnisvollen Bibliothekarin Miss Frost – oft eine ganz andere Rolle spielen, als er erwartet. William ist der Sohn eines vermissten GIs und einer Souffleuse. Sein Leben im Kleinstdtattheater ist geprägt von den düsteren Dramen großer Autoren wie Shakespeare und Ibsen, die nicht nur seine Sicht auf die Welt, sondern auch seine Familienverhältnisse in ein neues Licht rücken. Durch die Theaterkunst taucht William in eine Welt ein, die ihn sowohl verunsichert als auch fesselt, während er den inneren Konflikt ergründet, der aus seiner eigenen Sexualität und den komplexen Beziehungen zu seinen Mitmenschen erwächst. Das Buch skizziert nicht nur Williams Suche nach dem Verständnis seiner eigenen Identität, sondern auch nach seinem verschollenen Vater. Seine Reise führt ihn durch verschiedene Städte, von New York über San Francisco bis hin zu Hamburg und Wien. Dabei reflektiert er nicht nur über den Schmerz und die Entbehrungen, die ihm die Gesellschaft und seine Umgebung auferlegen, sondern auch über die Freude und die tiefen Gefühle, die er für gleichgeschlechtliche und auch für weibliche Figuren empfindet. Im Gespräch wird auch deutlich, wie sehr die Diskriminierung von Homosexualität in den USA damals ausgeprägt war und wie William unter den Auswirkungen der Aids-Krise leidet, die viele seiner Freunde und Weggefährten beschäftigt. Es entsteht ein starkes Bild davon, wie es war, als die Gesellschaft sich noch nicht offen mit diesen Themen auseinandergesetzt hatte. Trotz der Herausforderungen, die die Charaktere durchleben, vermittelt Irving eine Botschaft der Hoffnung und der Annehmlichkeit, dass nicht alles perfekt sein muss, um lebenswert zu sein. Wir geht dabei um weit mehr als nur eine persönliche Geschichte. Es ist ein Aufruf zur Offenheit und zur Überwindung gesellschaftlicher Tabus. Anstatt mit einem moralischen Finger zu zeigen, fordert Irving dazu auf, Verständnis füreinander zu zeigen und die innere Unruhe offen zu besprechen. Seine Erzählweise weckt nicht nur Empathie für die Protagonisten, sondern reflektiert auch eigene Unsicherheiten und das Streben nach Normalität in einer toleranten Gesellschaft. Insgesamt ist das Werk ein berührendes Plädoyer für die Vielfalt menschlicher Erfahrungen und eine Einladung, sich auf die eigenen inneren Konflikte einzulassen. Die Figuren wachsen dem Leser ans Herz und machen die Lektüre zu einer eindringlichen Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen von Identität und Zugehörigkeit – ein absolutes Muss für jeden Literaturinteressierten.

In dieser Episode widmen wir uns einem faszinierenden Gespräch über John Irvings neues Werk, das sich um die komplexe Identitätssuche eines bisexuellen Jugendlichen in Vermont in den 50er Jahren dreht. Der junge William Dean Jr. wächst auf und lernt durch die verschiedenen Rollen, die er und seine Umgebung spielen, die schwierige Kunst der Selbsterkenntnis. Immer wieder wird er mit der Tatsache konfrontiert, dass die Menschen um ihn herum – einschließlich seiner geheimnisvollen Bibliothekarin Miss Frost – oft eine ganz andere Rolle spielen, als er erwartet. William ist der Sohn eines vermissten GIs und einer Souffleuse. Sein Leben im Kleinstdtattheater ist geprägt von den düsteren Dramen großer Autoren wie Shakespeare und Ibsen, die nicht nur seine Sicht auf die Welt, sondern auch seine Familienverhältnisse in ein neues Licht rücken. Durch die Theaterkunst taucht William in eine Welt ein, die ihn sowohl verunsichert als auch fesselt, während er den inneren Konflikt ergründet, der aus seiner eigenen Sexualität und den komplexen Beziehungen zu seinen Mitmenschen erwächst. Das Buch skizziert nicht nur Williams Suche nach dem Verständnis seiner eigenen Identität, sondern auch nach seinem verschollenen Vater. Seine Reise führt ihn durch verschiedene Städte, von New York über San Francisco bis hin zu Hamburg und Wien. Dabei reflektiert er nicht nur über den Schmerz und die Entbehrungen, die ihm die Gesellschaft und seine Umgebung auferlegen, sondern auch über die Freude und die tiefen Gefühle, die er für gleichgeschlechtliche und auch für weibliche Figuren empfindet. Im Gespräch wird auch deutlich, wie sehr die Diskriminierung von Homosexualität in den USA damals ausgeprägt war und wie William unter den Auswirkungen der Aids-Krise leidet, die viele seiner Freunde und Weggefährten beschäftigt. Es entsteht ein starkes Bild davon, wie es war, als die Gesellschaft sich noch nicht offen mit diesen Themen auseinandergesetzt hatte. Trotz der Herausforderungen, die die Charaktere durchleben, vermittelt Irving eine Botschaft der Hoffnung und der Annehmlichkeit, dass nicht alles perfekt sein muss, um lebenswert zu sein. Wir geht dabei um weit mehr als nur eine persönliche Geschichte. Es ist ein Aufruf zur Offenheit und zur Überwindung gesellschaftlicher Tabus. Anstatt mit einem moralischen Finger zu zeigen, fordert Irving dazu auf, Verständnis füreinander zu zeigen und die innere Unruhe offen zu besprechen. Seine Erzählweise weckt nicht nur Empathie für die Protagonisten, sondern reflektiert auch eigene Unsicherheiten und das Streben nach Normalität in einer toleranten Gesellschaft. Insgesamt ist das Werk ein berührendes Plädoyer für die Vielfalt menschlicher Erfahrungen und eine Einladung, sich auf die eigenen inneren Konflikte einzulassen. Die Figuren wachsen dem Leser ans Herz und machen die Lektüre zu einer eindringlichen Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen von Identität und Zugehörigkeit – ein absolutes Muss für jeden Literaturinteressierten.

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On this episode I sit down with fellow Libra and Irvings' very own rapper Skippa2times. We discuss  his brand Stoner Trap The Brand, him being a brand ambassador of Wavii Babii LLC, and his own style of rap which he calls Stoner Trap Music.

In September of 1931, the Irving family, James, Margaret and their 13-year-old daughter Voirrey, began hearing a persistent scratching, rustling, and animal-like noises behind the walls of their farmhouse located on the Isle of Man. It didn't take long for a creature to introduce himself as Gef, and inform them that he was an "extra extra clever" mongoose from India that was born in 1852. He soon became part of the family and would tell them if they had a guest arriving soon, would turn the fire out in the stove at night if they forgot, or even wake those that had overslept in the morning. The Irvings would put bananas, chocolates and biscuits in a saucer that was suspended from the ceiling that Gef would take when no one was looking. The story of Gef became very popular in the press, where many journalists tried to catch a glimpse of him, and in 1935, several psychic investigators and paranormal researchers investigated the case of Gef. In the end, not a single one saw or even heard Gef, which led them to believe that he was the result of a hoax perpetuated by the daughter, with the family assisting in it. There were also some who believed that Gef might be a ghost or poltergeist that was haunting the family.Join us on episode 109 to hear more about the peculiar case of Gef, the talking mongoose! Sources: The Mental Floss, wikipedia, fandom.com, gefmongoose.blogspot.com, burialsandbeyond.com ###Follow Us:https://www.paranormalpunchers.comhttps://twitter.com/ppunchershttps://instagram.com/paranormalpunchershttps://www.facebook.com/paranormalpunchersSupport the Show:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/paranormal-punchershttps://www.patreon.com/paranormalpunchers

Patrick Bet-David has a virtual sit-down former soldier and author Nicholas Irving. In this interview they talk about the role of a sniper and Irvings personal experience in war. Check out his book here: https://amzn.to/3jHUoJb Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/gfB7tiHph3E --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/valuetainment/support

Q : WHY DOES KYRIE IRVING PREFER DYLAN CARLSON OUT OF TUNE?A: HE BELIEVES IN A FLAT EARTH I was thinking about a book that would combine the best of my brain with that of Peter Vecsey, but after careful reconsideration, I might have to settle for a pamphlet. Or a PDF.

Valdis Valters ar Andri Buli šajā epizodē nesaprot kā beisbolista kartiņu var pārdot pa 5.2 milj. dolāru. Šodienas tēmas: - Bļugeram NHL meistarstiķis; - Zlatans Ibrahimovičš lauž rekordus 39 gadu vecumā; - Hosē Guardiola - 50; - ''Toure De Trump'' velobrauciens; - Irvings nopircis māju Džordža Flojda ģimenei; - Dveinam Veidam drosmīgs Instagram posts ar sievu; - Vladimiram Putinam iespaidīga pazemes ledus halle; - Mikija Mentla debitanta kartiņu pārdod par 5.2 miljoniem dolāru; - #TautasNagla

Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag ist die Geschichte des Homer Wells, der in einem Waisenhaus groß wird und dort lernt, dass die Wege des Lebens nicht nur im Licht verlaufen … Sprecher ist Gerhard Luhofer

Ligasvepet gör comeback, Johansson pudlar, Lillards flirt med Curry, årets frilla i NBA, Hardens heta nätter när de andra har camp, Westbrooks Wizzards, Solveig i 8D och LeBrons passivt aggressiva bemötande av Irvings käftande. Välkomna ner på Baslinjen!

In this episode of Kit's Myths and Mysteries, host Kit Crumb looks into a mystery that he compares to the most bizarre yet to date, Where did Billy Go?

Season 6, Episode 5 If you aspire to be something - say, an entrepreneur - it's good to study people who excel at it. Donald Savoie's latest book, "Thanks For The Business", introduces us to the region's most conspicuously successful entrepreneurs - K.C. Irving and his son Arthur, the driving forces behind the growth of Irving Oil. As Atlantic Canada's most authoritative observer of economic development, Dr. Savoie talks with Costas Halavrezos about how the Irvings' relentless attention to detail, new opportunities, and customer service, as well as their refusal to recoil from the challenges of larger competitors and federal policies which favour Central Canada, can be a template for how to succeed in a region which so many label as "disadvantaged". They also discuss the existential challenge faced by a petrochemical company in the era of dramatic evidence of climate change.

Fifteen years ago, journalist and author Gordon Pitts wrote “The Codfathers”, a book about regional business tycoons like the Irvings, McCains and Sobeys. He's back now with “Unicorn in the Woods”, a book about the region's tech titans. The story revolves around the creation and eventual sale of cybersecurity firm Q1 Labs and social media monitoring company Radian6. Gordon joins Mark Leger to talk about his page-turner, a compelling story about the founders, and how they grew globally competitive companies out of Saint John and Fredericton and influenced a generation of tech entrepreneurs across the Atlantic region.

Atlantic Canadians see the Irvings as a regional economic powerhouse. But since the family's beginnings in northern New Brunswick in the 19th century, they have never seen themselves that way. K.C. was a “David”, not a “Goliath” - a tenacious entrepreneur who built a network of gas and service stations in the depression and an oil refinery in a competitive global environment. This is a subject of Donald Savoie's new book on Irving Oil, “Thanks for the Business” and he joins Mark Leger to talk about it. They talk a little politics too, with the results of the N.B. election fresh in their minds. The Irving book chat starts at around the 25-minute mark.

In the fourth of five “Home Office” conversations with party leaders, Huddle editor Mark Leger speaks with NDP leader Mackenzie Thomason about working in the hotel industry and what it teaches him about paying New Brunswickers adequately for the work they do. Mackenzie also talks about the dangers of concentrated corporate power and how he does door-to-door campaigning in a safe, respectful way for voters.

Språklärarna Emil och Sofi lyssnar på dansaren Tony Irvings svenska och pratar om vokaler och konsonanter, obetonade och betonade stavelser samt satsmelodi. Vad är det som gör att han låter som han låter? Är hans svenska “tillräckligt bra”? Lyxen att ha engelska som modersmål i Sverige är att man kan varva svenska och engelska och […] Inlägget Hur är Tony Irvings svenska? dök först upp på LYS förlag.

Today @donoteat01, @aliceavizandum, and @oldmananders0n talk about railroading in the age of loneliness: the MMA railroad, and one-man crews. here are the slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdtQi6TEcjs listen to trashfuture: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/ listen to @donoteat01 on Grubstakers talking about the Irvings: https://soundcloud.com/grubstakers/episode-89-the-irving-family-feat-donoteat

Gef (/ˈdʒɛf/ JEF), also referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook, was the name given to an allegedly talking mongoose which was claimed to inhabit a farmhouse owned by the Irving family. The Irvings' farm was located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. The story was given extensive coverage by the tabloid press in Britain in the early 1930s. The Irvings' claims gained the attention of parapsychologists and ghost hunters, such as Harry Price, Hereward Carrington, and Nandor Fodor. Some investigators of the era as well as contemporary critics have concluded that Voirrey Irving used ventriloquism and family collusion to perpetuate the hoax. This description was taken from Wikipedia. For more information visit the page. This series is written by Henry Cooke and produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann. Original music and sound design by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

The Bodega Babiez are back, recapping the weeks music, PapiJohnson, Steven, & Irvings time at NYCC. They talk about Summer Walkers album, Kylie and Travis Scott, dangling earrings on men, Strippers, and much more... Make sure to subscribe

For almost a century, the Irving family has run New Brunswick like a personal fiefdom. They own the newspapers, the industry, and, according to some, even the government. So how does a single family come to so thoroughly dominate an entire province? And what happens when that family starts to fracture and split apart at the seams? Featured in this episode: Bruce Livesey (Thieves of Bay Street). To learn more: “Are the Irvings Canada's biggest corporate welfare bums?” by Bruce Livesey in National Observer Irving vs. Irving: Canada's Feuding Billionaires and the Stories They Won't Tell by Jacques Poitras “Irving family's fortunate son explains how he fell into a dark depression, and rose again” by Erin Anderssen” in The Globe and Mail This show was brought to you by our patrons. Please consider becoming a monthly supporter.  This episode is sponsored by Freshbooks and Leesa.  Additional music: I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: J Lang, Morusque “A List of Ways to Die” by Lee Rosevere, “Easy Life” by Lee Rosevere, and “Androids Always Escape” by Chris Zabriskie, adapted.

This episode has some Epstein death discussion at the start but it is mainly focused on one of the richest Canadian families, the Irvings. We're joined by YouTuber donoteat who helps guide us through understanding the chillingly medieval power held over the eastern seaboard of Canada by these secretive old money oil canucks. American listeners will get to learn that there is a kleptocracy known as New Brunswick right on the border with the US state of Maine. If there's editing problems with the ep sorry I gotta sleep tweet at our twitter account and I'll fix it tomorrow. donoteat can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/donoteat01 https://twitter.com/donoteat1

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The Ezra Levant Show (July 16, 2019) — Furthermore, as Blacklock's goes on to report, LeBlanc had already promised he wouldn’t deal with the Irvings if he were in cabinet. There's more, as I'll tell you TONIGHT. GUEST Keean Bexte

Pour one out for Margaret Wente: she's leaving the Globe. The Irvings tighten their grip on New Brunswick news, and some Toronto councillors are learning not to cross Warren Kinsella. Sean Craig co-hosts. This episode is brought to you by our listeners. Please consider becoming a monthly supporter.  Support CANADALAND: http://canadalandshow.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the days that Danny Ainge has been waiting for has finally come. February 7th the day of the NBA Trade Deadline for the 2018/2019 season. The reason for this day being so big for Danny Ainge and the Boston Celtics. They now know whether or not they would get a chance to make an offer to trade for New Orleans Pelicans Superstar big man Anthony Davis. All season long the Celtics and several other teams have been watching to see how the season of the New Orleans Pelicans would go as the the reports were if the Pelicans didnt make a deep run in the playoffs Davis would inform the team he would not resign with them and ask to be traded. The top 2 teams many felt would be ready to make and offer to trade for Davis if that happened were the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. Well just last week after falling to the 13th spot in the Western Conference Anthony Davis officially made it known he would not resign with the team and would look for a trade instead. So it has been 10 days since the requests was made and now the deadline is gone and no more trades will be allowed this season so where do we stand. Is Davis still with the Pelicans meaning come June the Celtics will be able to try and make an offer to bring him to Boston or have the Pelicans dealt him before the Celtics could get involved. What is the latest on Kyrie Irving and his future with the Celtics? Some reports have said Irvings status with the team could determine if Davis is even willing to consider the Celtics so is Irving having 2nd thoughts? What about the Celtics bench did Danny Ainge do anything to help that issue knowing many feel the bench was this teams achillies heel? What about the other top teams in the league did anyone improve or get worse we will let you know all the trades that were made and let you hear what the experts are saying. We will be joined by Josue Pavon (@Joe_Sway on twitter), Sam Eggert (samweggert on twitter) and Rich Conte (@richconte on twitter)

Welcome to Season 10 of The View Up Here. And here we go... New Brunswick heads to the polls on September 24th to elect a new Provincial Government. The 39th general election has five parties in contention, but only two are considered to have a chance to lead the next Legislature. At dissolution, the Liberal Party led by Premier Brian Gallant held 25 seats out of 49, the slimmest of majorities. The Progressive Conservative party led by Blaine Higgs, a former 20-plus year employee of Irving Oil, is the only other party that can possibly win a majority by any estimate. The spectre of a minority result is a real possibility, bringing three other parties and their leaders into the main picture. David Coon leads the New Brunswick Green Party sitting as the only MLA for them and has consistently spoken out against the hegemony in place for decades. Kris Austin leads the New Brunswick People's Alliance, a populist party less than a decade old that threatens to steal PC votes more than anything else. Jennifer McKenzie leads the New Brunswick New Democratic Party, which has not elected an MLA to Fredericton since 2005. The issues of the campaign are not new by any measure, nor are they lessening. Net migration out of the province, an aging population, shrinking tax base and narrowing of economic power. Promises abound regarding promised spending on health care and economic stimulation from all but the PCs who have chosen their lead issue to be... Carbon Tax. PC Leader Higgs has pledged to join the court case with Ontario and Saskatchewan against the national carbon emissions plan. What else is not new, for decades, is the power of the Irving family. Oil & Gas, Forestry and Media are three sectors under complete Irving control. A private empire, the Irvings own the largest oil refinery in Canada and dictate their will no matter who is in power. So who is for New Brunswickers and who is for the Irvings? TVUH takes a look.

Wealth for Good Introducing Bob Manning and Owens MacFadyen Group Today's Boiling Point guest says there are three ways you can make a positive impact; you can give of our time, you can share your experience, or you can give of your resources or money. Bob Manning gave us his time and nuggets of experience in this week's episode. Bob has over 20 years of business experience, working in multi-national, national and regional organizations. He has held executive-level business planning, operations and marketing positions in the information technology sector, and consulted to and helped manage start-up companies in Atlantic Canada. Throughout his career, Bob has achieved success by helping organizations deal with the challenges of growth, through the application of disciplined planning and effective management.  This positive businessman was upset over a recent Globe and Mail article that seemed to skewer Saint John, New Brunswick and one of its most successful business families, the Irvings. The article seemed to say that the region would have been better off without the billionaire family and also “picked a scab” by writing a very negative outlook for New Brunswick. Bob knows that New Brunswick has its challenges, but he sees a ton of positives as well. In response to the Globe and Mail, Bob penned his own article asking for the region to start ignoring the negative rhetoric and start supporting the positive stories. Bob is currently working as a Wealth Advisor with Owens MacFadyen Group. The company has a vision of building capacity within a community that embraces a pioneering spirit, is passionate about excellence and the realization of maximum potential, and has the courage to commit to legacy building. Bob's clientele consist of successful entrepreneurs, senior executives and professionals with the aim of setting them up to achieve personal and community goals.   In this episode We hear Bob's thoughts on the Globe and Mail article about Saint John. Bob tells us why and how his opinion differs with the Globe and Mail. Greg tells us about a similar article he penned regarding supporting the positive stories of Atlantic Canada. We hear about Owen MacFadyen Group and how they differ from larger financial services companies. Bob explains why tailored financial management works better than a “cookie cutter” solution. We hear about Bob's past life as an executive in the tech sector. We discuss how your ability to give back to a community is tied to how much money you can contribute. Bob tells us why he favors small, repeatable gains rather than high risk/high reward investing. Dave remembers how his investing in high-risk ventures didn't work out so well and sees the importance of sound wealth advice so that we can do the things that we are really passionate about. Greg thinks about critics of the function of capitalism and how they don't think of the opportunity for people who are impact driven and that the accumulation of wealth is not necessarily selfish.   Links - Owens MacFayden Group Website - Owen MacFayden on Linked In - Bob Manning on Linked In - Globe and Mail Article on New Brunswick and the Irvings - Bob Manning's response - Greg's article on NB, The Millennial Dream Province - The Millennial Dream   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Irving Family of New Brunswick own more land than anyone in the world except for royalty and the Pope. How do they use their media monopoly to further their interests? What happens to those who try to compete with them? Author Jacques Poitras, media activist Tracy Glynn, web videographer Charles Theriault and Green Party MLA David Coon discuss the Irvings, recorded live at St.Thomas University. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Irvings are secretive billionaires who have a monopoly on New Brunswick's news media. Journalist Jacques Poitras, authour of Irving vs Irving, describes how the family subtly suppresses criticism and destroys competitors. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dessutom hör vi Christian Hedlund göra den bästa Tony Irving imitationen någonsin! Han delar med sig av sina imitationsknep. Jan Johansen berättar hur han kom ur sitt missbruk och spelar sin schlagerlåt Se på mig. Arja Saijonmaa pratar om sitt förhållande till bastu och till Irvings sångkunskaper. Vi har också den nya programpunkten Fråga Tony där han delar med sig av sina livsråd till de som är villrådiga! Med sidekick Linnea Wikblad. Producent Anna IVemark Medverkande: Jan Johansen, Monica Lidén, Christer Hedlund, Arja Saijonmaa.

For more information check out my podcast page. Http:www.neil-irving.podomatic.com Or follow me on Http:www.twitter.com/neil_dj_irving 1.Jessie Ware - No To Love (George Fitzgerald Mix) 2.Fred Everything - Circles Part Two 3.Tapesh - Generation (Hot Since 82 Mix) 4.Playmode - Let Me Feel (Original Mix) 5.Lee Walker - The Deep Stuff (Martijn Mix) 6.Ejeca - Give Me Up 7.Shadow Child - The Verdict PT2 All of the mixes are for promotional use only

This month's podcast is the start of the new "Producer Power Mix" feature. First up is a mix of Producer and DJ Ant Brook's tracks. http://antbrooks.com/ 1.Ray Foxx Ft Lovelle - LA Musica (The Trumpeter) 2.Georgie Porgie - Life goes on (2011 Bootleg) 3.D Ramirez & Richard Dinsdale - Mash up ya ego 4.Mark Stacey - Say What 5.Brian loui john - Let your soul fly free (Amesz Mix) 6.Federico Epis - She always tries 7.Danny Quattro - Bella Starr (Dean Newton) 8.Umek - System of rules ***Producer Power Mix*** 1.Ant Brooks - Soleil 2.Axwell - I found you (Ant Brooks Mix) 3.Wildchild - Renegade Master (Ant Brooks Mix) 4.Phil Fudner - Shake It (Ant Brooks Mix) 5.Michael Woods - Bullet (Ant Brooks Mix) All mixes are for promotional use only. Follow me on twitter @neil_dj_irving