Podcasts about John Jakes

It's about time we started making a Planet of the Apes around here! This week, David Sims returns to discuss John Jakes' terrific novelization of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. The violence is more brutal, the oppression more topical, and the setting more tropical! (That last one is a lie).  Check out David's work at The Atlantic! : https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-sims/ Check out Blank Check with Griffin and David: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blank-check-with-griffin-david/id981330533 Subscribe to our Patreon!: patreon.com/authorizedpod Follow us on Twitter: Twitter.com/authorizedpod Instagram: instagram.com/authorizedpod Next Thursday on Authorized: John Cribbs Battles for the Planet of the Apes --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/authorizedpod/support

It's about time we started making a Planet of the Apes around here! This week, David Sims returns to discuss John Jakes' terrific novelization of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. The violence is more brutal, the oppression more topical, and the setting more tropical! (That last one is a lie).  Check out David's work at The Atlantic! : https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-sims/ Check out Blank Check with Griffin and David: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blank-check-with-griffin-david/id981330533 Subscribe to our Patreon!: patreon.com/authorizedpod Follow us on Twitter: Twitter.com/authorizedpod Instagram: instagram.com/authorizedpod Next Thursday on Authorized: John Cribbs Battles for the Planet of the Apes --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/authorizedpod/support

Join us on a fascinating journey through time as we explore Bruce Miller's 44-year career in entertainment reporting, filled with on-set experiences from some of the most iconic TV shows and movies. This includes all of the various spinoffs of "Star Trek," the penultimate episode of "M*A*S*H" and beloved sitcoms such as "Cheers," "Frasier," "The Big Bang Theory" and "The Office." We also dive into the realm of TV set design, with stories from the sets of popular shows like "Grey's Anatomy," "The West Wing" and "Parks and Recreation." We also share a few stories about the 1982 film "Annie," which was shot on the campus of Monmouth University, which co-host Terry Lipshetz attended in the 1990s, and the 1978 film "Ice Castles," which included Bruce as one of the many extras. Contact us! We want to hear from you! Email questions to podcasts@lee.net and we'll answer your question on a future episode! About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Adobe Premiere and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Welcome everyone to another episode of Streamed & Screened, an entertainment podcast about movies and TV from Lee Enterprises. I'm Terry Lipshetz, senior producer at Lee and your co-host of a program with Bruce Miller, who we've pulled out of a time capsule this week from reporting. He's been doing entertainment reporting forever with the Sioux City Journal. But he's been everywhere. And we wanted to do a special episode. We are coming up on 44 years, 44 years. Can you believe that? But you know what? I thought it would be fun to talk about something that people always ask me about, which is do you get to actually go to the sets of these things? Do you get to talk to the movie stars? Oh, you're just making all that up, aren't you? Now, after this many years, you can't make it up because it's just too difficult to think about. Wait a minute. Didn't I use that line before? I can't use that line again. You need to have that one on one contact. And that's the thing I think has been the biggest joy of covering entertainment, is actually getting to meet people that you maybe admired at some point or you like their work or you think that they're different than their public persona. So yeah, that's been a really cool thing. And early on in 1980 was the first trip I took to the West Coast for pilot season, whatever you might want to call the new shows. And one of the things that's very common is they'll take you to the sets of various shows so you get a chance to watch them film things. You get a chance to walk around the set and look at all of that kind of fun stuff. You get to interview the actors. It is a really kind of head turning situation the first time you do it. I have been on the set of every Star Trek series except the first one, and I have sat in every captain's chair, which is interesting because all aren't comfortable. I've gotten to see, you know, some big back in the day they were mini series. They weren't limited series, but I've been on the sets of those. I was on the set of The Thorn Birds, which was like a it looked like a working sheep ranch in Australia, but it was actually in California and we had dinner on the porch of the of De Gaeta, which was the name of the the ranch and with the stars. And one of the stars, Rachel Ward, was really upset because one of the producers said that she was in she was a nine in looks and at three and acting up and she got all upset and started walking away from the set of this. And all you could think about is they're not done filming this thing and she's bailing because she doesn't like what the producer said. And they immediately ran after her and tried to smooth over this problem. And it was all happening before our eyes. Well, we were there to have dinner and watch him. She or sheep. So interesting kind of factor there. We went to Charleston for the filming of North and South, if you remember, that was the miniseries. John Jakes had a series of books and it was about the Civil War times and Patrick Swayze was one of the stars. Kirstie Alley was another star, and that we were there for several days and they had dinner with them every night. And they were very, very fun because they would tell you things that you you know, you didn't really it never came out any other way. But they said they had given everybody on the on the miniseries a whole name. So they were different kinds of POWs in this show. Okay. So Patrick Swayze, he because he was a dancer, was called Ho Down, and they went through the whole cast and told us all their different names. And they didn't like Lesley-Ann down who was one of the stars of it. And I said, well, what's what's her whole name? And they said, You got to go over and ask her herself, and she'll tell you what her whole name is. So we went over to Lesley-Ann down and I said, Well, now they said, Everybody has a whole name. What's your whole name? And she says, I'm a whole show. That's a kind of that's a stuff you don't get when you're just normally doing an interview over Zoom, or if you're calling somebody on the phone. But it's very fun to be in that environment and you see them shooting scenes and they'll do it over and over and you think, Wow, they're not never going to finish this thing because it's it's taking so long. And I was fortunate that I was at the last day of MASH. MASH did a big movie for their final episode, but that was not the final episode they shot. They did the episode before that on on the 20th lot. And it was about buried in a time capsule. And they were there and they they did it once and they said, Yeah, we got to do it again. We got to do it again. And so they did it again and the the guy said after that, that was good. That's it. That's the end of MASH. Thank you. And the actors all kind of fell into each other's arms and were crying. And I mean, it was a real emotional moving time and they had huge media coverage. I remember standing near Maria Shriver, who was covering it for NBC, and they said to us, You can take anything you want from the set when you leave. And I happened to be standing in the in the shower. And so I have a bar of soap from MASH. That's my memento from that. But it was it's it's that was such a momentous kind of thing. And even now, when you see it in reruns, it's like, wow, I can't believe I was there when they ended MASH. I sent you a bit of a list of shows that I was kind of interested in, and MASH is on my list because for me as a child, it was one of the first big shows I remember watching now. It started when the show started. I wasn't even born yet, but as it progressed, a great but as it progressed, I grew up watching it either in real time, but also we would see the reruns. My parents would just have the show on. So I remember watching mostly the later episodes, but what a big deal it was on TV to watch that final episode, that movie episode. It was. It was huge. It's up until recently was one of the the most still one of the most watched all time shows ever. You know, often I'll just happen to mention that I was on the set of MASH and you can't believe how this smokes out. People who are just hardcore MASH viewers. Yeah, that show early on when they started putting out DVDs of full seasons of of TV shows, it's one of the first shows that I bought on DVD because it was Watch it all. Yeah, I've I've watched every episode of MASH. Yeah, I love that show. See And for me, it's it's very hard to go back and watch them again. I don't think I'd ever buy a box set. I have box sets, but I, I don't watch them. Yeah, but it's also a little different for you too, because you're watching so much. Well, you're always looking at the next thing you've got to see, just to see, you know, what's happening, what's new, what's next. But yeah, and there there are fun little things. I was on the set of Gray's Anatomy and they had a party there. And in the operating room, they had this body on, you know, on an operating table. And it looked bloody. But what it was, was it was salsa inside the stomach and you could use, you know, there were chips all around it. So that was how they were serving the chips. It's just goofy things like that that happened. If you remember, E.R., E.R. had it looked like a really bad hospital. It looked like the last place you'd want to go because it looked so kind of worn down and everything. And they actually had a an el station outside the thing where they would use it for exteriors. But it basically was George Clooney's basketball court. And you could see where they would play basketball out there when they weren't shooting or weren't doing anything. But inside the the actual operating slash exam room, slash whatever hospital, you could see really great equipment. And what happened was after the show became a success, a lot of these providers would just send them the equipment so that then it was accurate, but it was like state of the art stuff. So that I'm sure that if you went to your own local hospital, you say, Well, now don't you have the XR 732, which they used in E.R. and the Thecable? No, we can't afford that. That's like 5 hours. I think it would be one of those things where people would ask for it or whatever. But it had really great equipment in there. And they said everything was as accurate as they could possibly be. They had a lot of advisors who are medical people who would tell them exactly how to hold things, how to do certain procedures. So they got really pretty good at it. And a lot of times when you have people who are playing doctors on TV, they are expected. A lot of times if somebody collapses on an airplane or whatever, well, come on, you know what to do. And they said it's very intimidating because people expect you to be that doctor, but you're not. But they do. They do learn a few things that might be helpful if they ever need it. So, yeah. And hospital shows are really it's a they're cheap because you can put everybody in scrubs. Oh yeah. And you have a lot of rooms that can be remade to look like another room because aren't all patient rooms the same? They're also. Yeah. And so, but they did have hallways and stuff in terms of something that was real big, like that. West Wing really did have those hallways where they did the walk and talks and they had the Oval Office. The Oval Office was cool to see. There were a lot of fun things. And then if you look closely, one of the the coolest places that I had where we could check out things, Parks and Rec. And I did see a little Sebastian, by the way, I met little Sebastian, the the miniature donkey hockey so thrilled. It was like, you have to see it. There is no star bigger than this. And he was cute. And I somehow I got my picture taken with him, so I was cute. Cool. But if you go inside that city hall, they have pictures and the pictures of past like councilmen, whatever, are people from their staff. So it was fun working on a show. You can easily get a relative's picture on the wall. And theirs was also one of those kind of sets where you walk around it and you felt like you were actually in a building. That's crazy. It's interesting you mentioned with the West Wing because it is a show where there's I mean, it's a Aaron Sorkin, right? So it's a lot of conversation. It's a lot of dialog. So I could only imagine the set being huge for a sense of just you have to do one continuous shot, even if you're just like spiraling through hallways, back and forth and weaving. They make sure that the walls are removable. So if they have to have a camera come in, they can or they shoot them through things. I mean, it's it's very fascinating to watch those kind of shows being put together because it's a different procedure than maybe if you saw a three camera show where you're sitting in the audience, you're just watching things happen. If you watch a show long enough, especially a show that's been on for a very long time, you'll see changes to the set. And I'm not necessarily talking about, you know, they just updated here and there or swap furniture. But sometimes when a show starts working on a shoestring budget, they don't know if it's going to get picked up beyond the pilot. They don't know if it's going to get picked up after season one. And then all of a sudden it's around for eight years and they really start changing up the set. Have you ever gone back to a set that you hit maybe early on during a season one and then you go back a few years later and you're like, Whoa, what has happened here? This is totally different. Sometimes they will shoot on that on an existing set. There have been a lot of shows that because they weren't they didn't want to save money. They didn't want to, you know, so they'll full house. They believe they use that set for a number of different things. So there are ones that they will go back and then when they start their own run they may upgraded or change things. But there is this kind of fear that if you have success and then you change the look, you could be inviting, you know, disaster or Mary Tyler Moore had that because remember how she had that apartment that was supposedly, you know, this whatever, Minneapolis apartment. And then they decided to move her to another place downtown that looked a little more cosmopolitan and whatnot. And they were freaked that if they did move it from one place to another, the show would would suddenly lose its charm. So they made sure to make a big point of her taking her big AM from the old place and putting it in a place of honor, in the new place. But yeah, they don't want to toy with that. But if you do have success, they will upgrade. You know, a lot of times look closely at countertops and kitchens. Yep. Because it's a faux painting that they do that looks like granite. And in granite it's painting. But if they have success, they may get real granite the next time they come around. So if they upgrade this head so it has to be reinforced a little bit. Not too long ago before they ended, I was on the set of This is US, and they had that old house, you know, that the house that they used for the things when the characters were kids. Yeah. Oh my God. It was like walking back into my childhood because they had all of these things that I remembered, the TV sets that were old and yeah, even the kitchen counter where I think wasn't a crockpot that caused a problem and yep, yeah, it was all they had. No crockpot, no crockpot. We don't have that, that kind of, you know. And the Goldbergs, I was on the set of that and it's filled with toys and crap that are, are unique to that era that they do watch it because if you're there visiting they don't want you swiping something because you like a Rubik's cube that you happen to see on a TV show and they will have things marked off or taped off. So you can't walk there if you try or a guard will be standing there. The Big Bang Theory has a comic book, right? And that had real comic books that were expensive. And they did have you could not touch anything. And there you could have your picture taken in there, but you couldn't look at the comic books or, you know, touch any of the statues that they had and all the crap that was in their their apartment. That was real stuff. And but you could I did sit in Sheldon's seat, you know, don't sit in my seat. Oh, and it was cool. It was big. But to see that they had, you know, if you lifted the cushions up, I didn't do this so don't. But they, I think they used it. There was an episode where they actually did put stuff down below and so everything isn't as it seems. There are ways to kind of cheat it so that then if they need to do something like if somebody was to emerge from the bottom of the couch, they would have a hole built and they could pop up from that. So there are things like the Frazier, the the chair that the dad sat in was it looked horrible on TV and you thought, Oh, my God. And it wasn't it wasn't when you saw it in person, they just added duct tape to the outside of it. And the cushions were really comfortable. John Mahoney, who played the dad, said it was like he loved just sitting there because he didn't have to do anything in the chair. But then Frazier also had this artwork that was original. It was not a duplicate or a facsimile of anything. It was real art, and they did not bring it out until the night of shooting, so that when they had an audience there, somebody would hand carry that Kahului bowl or vase or whatever it might be and put it on the set. And then as soon as they were done shooting, they would remove it and put it somewhere else. But they did not leave them out there just in case, because how would you replace it? You couldn't. That's fascinating, because I've always watched, you know, like I watch Frazier and I watch Big Bang Theory in those types of shows I would watch is like, wow, these are really good sets, especially with Big Bang Theory, because they're geeks and they've got all the toys and the other comic book type things, and I don't collect comic books. I never really got into them. But I know what a comic book looks like in when they hold them up on the show. I'm thinking like, Wow, that's that's a really good reproduction, but it's not a real thing. It's there. And I'm sure a lot of the people who work on the show are hardcore geeks like that, and they figure when the show ends, somebody's going to have to get that. I don't know, you know, unless they're just on loan. But I don't think they would be. I think they actually go and buy those. Yeah, but yeah. And so you usually ask the people, now when the show ends, what are you going to take, What do you want? And it's not necessarily the stuff you think Kaley Cuoco from that show had. There was a picture that she said she always stared at and she wanted that because she remembers that's what she'd look at whenever she was sitting in a seat. She was talking to somebody. It was and it was a big nothing picture. It was not something. You go, Oh my God, it's Spider-Man 1952 now. It wasn't anything like that. So there are things that mean something to them but don't necessarily mean anything to the show. I know that there were things on Friends that, you know, were iconic and certain people did get those, but boy, they still talk about it. Now, you say yeah, that she that Jennifer she got that and I'm still mad about it and you know, do they even put it in their house somewhere? Probably not. Yeah. I think somebody took the door or from the set of Seinfeld because it was it was so iconic, you know, like, like Kramer flying through the door. And I don't know who it was. It might it maybe it was Jerry. But I thought one of the big actors walked away with that. Did you ever make it to the set of Everybody Loves Raymond? But any chance I did. I did. They did. But it was like a just a regular house. Did you get to at least sit on the the couch that was covered in or zip zipped up in plastic? Yeah, well, but, you know, I was on Roseanne's couch, too, in case. Oh, yeah, Yeah. Usually they'll let you sit there so that then you can feel like you were at the show or you were part of this show or whatever. And you meander around the sets and you look at things and you see things that you don't see when you're watching, you know, And there and I'm not naming names because but there are actors who don't memorize their lines. And so they'll stash them and they'll have things like there might be magazines on the table, and if you open up the magazine, you might find a script in there that's crazy. So they would you know, they would act like they were reading a magazine when they were actually reading the scripts. Now, in recent years, some of these shows were done not not any big show that you know, but some of these cable ish shows, if you will, they would shoot three episodes in a week. And it was impossible for for the actors to memorize those scripts. So they had huge, big screen TVs like like they were teleprompters that would be behind the characters so they could just read the lines off them. And that's fun to see because you go, Oh, I thought they had to memorize all this stuff. Maybe I could be an actor. I, you know, I would worry about that. But yeah, so it it varies from where you go on the Disney campus, if you will. A lot of those Disney Afternoon shows that you'd watch on the Disney Channel or wherever were nearby each other. And it all got to be real good friends with each other. You know, they all knew Miley Cyrus. They all knew the Jonas Brothers. They all and they hang out together. They were actually friends and did things together. And it's it's amazing to see now, you know, when some of them moved on to other roles and other things, how what part that played for some it was for worse and for some it was better. I was with the Zack and Cody kids, the Sprouse kids deal and I'm blanking, but they took me back to their their dressing room and they show me where they actually studied with a tutor. You know, they have to have so many hours a day with a tutor if you're using a kid and they can only work so many hours a day. Though one of the boys said, you know, truthfully were able to, I think as actors were about a four. We're not that good, but we're trying to make money to get our college people. And so, you know, we buy into this. We see what this is all about. We know and they are far more sophisticated than you think on these kids shows. These are not kids who are, you know, just throwing it out there and wanting to be stars. Some are. They're just because it's a job. Yeah, I the money and both the Sprouse boys did go to college. Now one ended up on Riverdale and they're both working in the business now but it was never the goal that that was that's kind of a byproduct that they still get to work. And I always remember Demi Lovato telling me about kids today. I said, you know what don't they realize about being a young actor on a TV show? And she said they think it's all about the purse. I said, What? And she said, They think that you can have a really expensive purse and they don't realize what you're giving up or what you have to do. And it's not all about the purse. And I thought, well, that that was a very kind of fascinating way to kind of size it all up, because I think fans look at these things and they think it's much more glamorous than it is. It's not sets. Are you doing these huge warehouses, kind of barn facilities where mice can easily be running around? There's not a hesitation there. There's a huge craft services table, but you don't know whose touch that food or where that food's been, you know? So, I mean, there are a lot of things that don't make it seem like, Oh my God, here comes Greta Garbo and Clark Gable walking down the street. Not at all like that. It really is a factory. Yeah, Factory of entertainment. Yeah. And a lot of those Disney ish Nickelodeon, Nick Junior kind of shows to that. Not I'm not saying that the sets don't look good, but you see a lot more artificial grass on the shows, which clearly isn't crass. The production value isn't necessarily is as high as you would expect either. And they would talk about how there's a Disney style at all. But you know, where they have to do kind of those broad gestures and everything. And some of the kids really thought that that was wrong, that they didn't want to do that. And you can see where now they've shifted with some of these shows that they aren't as kind of obvious. Maybe that's a term for, but they are a little more adult and they talk about themes that are more contemporary than they did back in the day. Any shows you've been on because you mentioned Star Trek, some of those shows, especially the SCI fi shows, where there might be a lot of green screens and and other things. Any any one in particular that we watch on TV that looks like, Wow, that is impressive. You know, there's the deck of the enterprise, but you're on the set and you're like, what is this? What is this? This is the most unimpressive thing I've ever seen. Oh, well, Star Trek, The Next Generation. I mean, they had like an area that was basically every planet they visited. So it had parks and things and they just redressed it and put up a different. Yeah. So that that was what you're talking about. The Orville. Do you ever remember the Orville was on Fox for a while? No, I don't. I think it's still going to be honest with me. It was Boeing, but I'm I'm not going to vouch for that. But they had an actual ship that you walked on. You walked through the whole hallways. It seemed like it was the real deal. And that's because Seth Macfarlane, who was producing it, was able to, you know, say, I want the real thing. Okay. And you saw the costumes that were just bizarre. I got to shoot the guns that they they had. And it was like you were actually if it was a an amusement park, that's what it would be like. It was cool. But first of all, a lot of those ones, boy, they cheat a lot of stuff. You know, Star Trek was a real key one. And if you looked at the Paramount that you would say, Well, I think I've seen this place before. What I watch sometimes you'll see buildings that they love to do schools, and it's just the outside of the of the paramount lot. Yeah. Executives place and you go well that's there's no school like that but they'll dress it up and make it seem like it is another one that was like shot at a place. Scrubs okay. Scrubs was in a used to be a hospital and they just took it over and, you know, and there was a bet that they had going on that if anybody would spend time in the in the morgue, they would pay them extra. If they would go do that. But because it had been a hospital, they constantly had people coming in and acting like, I need help, I'm bleeding, can you help me? And they'd have to turn them away and say, no, this is this is not a real hospital. It's a movie set of these. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One's like that. The office was shot in a warehouse kind of situation with offices. It was real offices. So when you see them all sitting around like that, that's how it was. And you could walk around all of their desks, look at everything, and they said that their computers did work and they would do like one did Christmas cards. Mm hmm. Well, they were because they had to be on the set. You couldn't leave. You had to be there. Well, other scenes were shot because you're Mr. Right. Right. You're an actor, but you are also background. So they would do stuff like that or they'd chat to each other on their their screens and act like they were working. Sir, there was the warehouse that was attached to it, and this was out in some industrial area, you know, outside of Los Angeles. It wasn't, you know, there was a fence up and all of that. But the the, the storage area or the loading dock was actually filled with paper. Wow. Yeah. Cool to see. Very cool. You know, And yes, I do have a name, plaque that says I'm assistant to the assistant regional manager or whatever. But yeah, very fun because that I think those kinds of shows make it feel like you actually are. There is a lot of the ones where you're sitting in seats and they will do that If you happen to go to California and you want to see a show shot, there will be tickets available to the public. Now, usually if you go to Universal Studios, they have a ticket box or a counter or whatever that they will let you know which ones are available. Things like game shows have a lot of availability, so you could probably go to prices, right, and sit in the audience. You won't necessarily get picked, but you could go watch something like that. A sitcom could be a little more difficult because they have different nights that they shoot and they will suck up X number of tickets just to hand out. Or if they're really bad, they will hire people to sit in the seats and laugh. Yeah, well, and they say that they used to have prisoners that would come and sit at the. Oh, jeez. 0i1 thing I did meet was paid laughs. Or did you know that they have people who are paid to laugh? Well, I knew there was laugh tracks, but I didn't know there was paid laughs. And these were some of those series that do not have an audience. But the kids need to know when to hold for a laugh. And we had like five or six people honest to God, this was the strangest thing I've ever seen sitting at a table, and they would get her. Her? Oh, well, oh, different kinds of laughs. And then the directors say, Okay, tone it down a little bit here. We don't need that much. And it would it would help the actors learn how to react to this crazy this thing. But yeah, and they would like read they be reading the newspaper. Well, they're laughing or knitting or doing something else. But it was a job and I had paid laughter. I want that. I want to be somebody who's paid to laugh. Can you get me the gig? I'm there with my luck, though I'd be on the the absolute least funny show you can think of. Like, okay, we need you to laugh right now. Oh, my God. And that's the way it is. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting to see how success changes people, because the first year of friends, nobody knew who they were. And they were very they were more nervous than I was to interview them. And we had, they had given us mugs that said friends on it, you know, those big latte mugs or whatever. Right. Right. And they were so thrilled that the name of the show that they were on was on a mug that they started grabbing up as many as they could. So they at least had a set of them. So here you see these big stars who, you know, went on to make what, millions of dollars serve this series, swiping mugs that were supposed to be swag that was given away to the media. And then when they had the last episode of Friends, we went to this set and they would not let us get down on the set. Isn't that all? They don't have taken anything or didn't want us touching anything. We could not talk one on one with the actors and the boys. It wasn't like it was covered or anything. It was just that's how the world had changed. These were big stars that did not. Unless it was cleared, you were not able to talk to them. And. Yeah, sorry, I don't have time for Bruce Miller. No, I'm not doing some low class person like Iowa. I'm speaking as the one from Iowa. Yes, I believe we have somebody who's serving coffee over here who's from Iowa to talk to him now. One of those kind of. Yeah, but it's for me, it's a fascinating thing to look at the sets and just see stuff close up, how they dress that and how they add all those things has really changed. In the old days, it was very kind of minimal. You wouldn't see much on the counters and stuff and now, boy, they pack this and to make sure that it matches, you know, the others, they'll shoot pictures and everything and make sure that every box is where it needs. And I went to how I met your mother or father, Both mother and father, but father. And it was such a mess on that set. It was like last year, this last year. And I thought, how would you keep track of all that stuff? Because it's just it's like litter, basically. But they, you know, they keep an eye on it. I was on the set of How I Met Your Mother just before it ended, and we were in the bar and I'm not sure what the bar. Claire MacLaren's Yeah, what it is, okay. Gloria Bar set. And we were sitting at the table where the, the group usually sits and Neil Patrick Harris had carved his initials on the table and then he and it had plus D be his husband's name, David Burtka, and drew a heart around it. And I thought that was really cool and the picture of that. But, you know, a little a little thing that you probably didn't know when you were watching it on on TV. Yeah. Because you would never see that. No, it wouldn't show. What's interesting to me too, is because all these shows generally have like real life exterior shots. Right? And I remember taking a trip to Boston and taking a walk to the Bull and Finch Tavern, which is where they shot the exterior shots for Cheers. And the bar inside was kind of used loosely to inspire the look of the real bar. And I remember how cool it was like, Whoa, you know, here's the sign. And at this point, too, they had put up a sign that said Cheers, you know, downstairs because they wanted you to to recognize it. And and they had the seafood restaurant was there, too, that you can walk into. But I remember walking down the steps to cheers and then opening the door. And then how unimpressed I was, because this is just this tiny little, you know, like eight seater of a bar. It's not anything impressive at all. And the real thing was huge. Really huge. Yeah. And it did work. So if you were there visiting, they could make you a drink. Do you know, was there alcohol in them or was it. Well, if there were if they're shooting, you couldn't have alcohol. But when you're there there's out there with alcohol. And I remember sitting in one of the booths that were on the side with the actors, you know, it was funny about Cheers. They sure didn't have faith in that when it started. Right? They did room. They did a room interview where you'd go in the room with the actors and they had just had five actors in the room with one reporter. And you're thinking, well, normally you'd kind of wouldn't you try to maximize size your exposure? Right? And I think we're just trying to blow it off. And then we went to a party on the set of it and we got to sit on Norm's stool and, you know, walk around and look at everything. And it had changed. It had really changed. Once success hit again, you never know what's happened there, but Cheers is fun. But yeah, if you go to the bar, the Cheers bar in Boston, it's not the same. No, no, definitely not any. Any other stories? I have one to share. Once we're ready to wrap, let's come on out. All right. I'm just going on. You got to shut me up. Okay, So I was sort of on the set of the movie. Annie. Do you remember Annie from 1982? Annie. Annie. Dust until come now. Tomorrow. Were you one of the authors? I know. So I went to college at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, and in the University. It's on it's kind of in this old neighborhood in West Long Branch, in the centerpiece of the campus is, I believe now they call it Shadow Lawn Mansion. They used to call it Wilson Hall. They use the mansion as Daddy Warbucks mansion in the movie. So they shot almost the entire movie on location at my college. And I remember taking, you know, before I before I decided on where I was going to go. And you take those campus visits and they bring you on tours and the big selling point at Monmouth at the time and probably still is, was this is where we filmed Danny in the hall, which is Wilson Hall when I was there. It's where the president's office is. It's where the registrar is. There's some classrooms in there, too, is always very cool. You would get a class because they didn't have a ton of classrooms in that building because a lot of them it's a lot of very small rooms. But you would you would go in there and occasionally have a class and it was very cool to have a class there. They would have receptions for, you know, honors students there. I worked in my freshman year. I was tutoring foreign language students who were they were struggling in English and I was helping tutor them. And the tutoring center was in the basement of Wilson Hall. And you would walk on the floor and you could sense there was something hollow beneath it. And it was because the big pool, if you remember the scene, was the pool in Annie. That's where the pool, the pools in the basement of Wilson Hall. But they had covered it over and converted into two classroom space. So yeah, so it was, it was very, very neat. And there is a scene, I think it's early in the movie when they're first bringing Annie to the mansion and you see the car turn down into the gates. But it's one of those scenes where if you look very closely, you could see the dorms across the street, but you wouldn't know it If you're watching the movie. You just see some building in the background. But it's like, oh, there is. There's the dorms, which is crazy. They ask anything, Well, where did you start seeing Hard Knock Life at some point? I did not know, but I did watch. I did actually watch the movie after I went to school there because I it wasn't high on my list of movies to see as a as a child, it didn't quite appeal to me. But once I got there, I watched it. It was it was fun to watch and then see the different locations and think, Oh, LA, you know, I've been there. I had to I had to register for my sophomore year there and I had to go pay a late book fee or something there. And yeah, that was crazy. So that's where we kind of relate to these things, is that we can find the real place that was used and go, What was that for? I know. And if you ever go on the Universal Tour or the Warner Brothers tour, anything, recycle these things all the time. So I, you know, like you, when I was in college, I was in a movie. They needed extras and they said, if you come, you know, maybe you'll get on camera, maybe you won't. It was Ice Castles, Ice Castles with Lin, Holly Johnson and Robby Benson, and it was about a figure skater who lost her sight. And we were supposed to be in the audience watching her. When you realize, Oh my God, she's blind. She can't see where she's skating. And then. Right. And Robby Benson comes out to greet her and everything. Well, I happened to have a camera with me because it you know, if you're not with the camera, are you anybody you need a camera. All, all situations. And these were not cell phone days. This was back in the days of a camera. And so they were they were thrilled that I had my camera there. And if you watch for a millisecond, you will see that I am in the movie Ice Castles because I happen to have a camera and it's me holding my camera. It captured that moment when they discover that she's blind. Wow. Is that not real? But there's my movie. Yeah, well, I don't think we can top anything else now that we know. Now we've done it. It's done it. Okay, well, we're going to do another episode like this sometime because this is fun. I enjoy story time with Bruce. Well, if anybody has shows that they're interested in or want to know about, if they want to drop us a line, we'll be glad to put them on a list and then we'll talk about them. Because like I say, 47 years I've been just about everywhere that you could go unless there was some ban put on people. And no, you can't talk to those people. And maybe I'll tell you my Zendaya story some oh, I want to hear that one. So you can you can reach out those podcasts at least dot net. I check the email regularly and I will screen those emails and we will get back you and talk about it in a later episode. That sounds great. All right, everyone. Well, thanks again for listening to this episode of Streamed & Screened.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 871, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: rhythm and booze 1: His beach bum anthem "Margaritaville" made its Top 40 debut in 1977. Jimmy Buffett. 2: This 1958 hit by The Champs with a liquor as its title has been covered by numerous artists. "Tequila". 3: "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" is a classic song by this First Lady of Country Music. Loretta Lynn. 4: This country legend recorded the hits "Fifteen Beers" and "Take This Job and Shove It". Johnny Paycheck. 5: Willie Nelson often begins his live shows with his 1979 hit about this alcoholic "River". "Whiskey River". Round 2. Category: 5-letter capitals 1: 12 avenues radiate from Place Charles de Gaulle in this city. Paris. 2: Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a and El Giza. Cairo. 3: The ancient Greeks called this Jordanian capital Philadelphia. Amman. 4: In 1809 one of the first revolts for independence in Latin America broke out in this Ecuadoran capital. Quito. 5: Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port. Hanoi. Round 3. Category: a heavenly category 1: A Lerner and Lowe song lyric goes, "Thank heaven for" these people, "they grow up in the most delightful way". little girls. 2: The Indian game moksha-patamu (heaven and hell) gave us this Milton Bradley game that has its ups and downs. Chutes and Ladders. 3: The John Jakes novel "Heaven and Hell" takes place directly following this war. the Civil War. 4: In Genesis 1, God gave the name Heaven to this, from the Latin for "support". the firmament. 5: The final movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy, this film starred Hiep Thi Le and Tommy Lee Jones. Heaven and Earth. Round 4. Category: "bril"-liant! 1: A rapid chaotic beating of the heart muscles in a nonsynchronous way. fibrillation. 2: 1964buildingblocksfor a wackyWarholwork. Brillo. 3: A crude cart used to carry the condemned to the guillotine during the French Revolution. a tumbril. 4: Miles Franklin was only a teenager when she penned this bestseller about growing up in Australia's outback. My Brilliant Career. 5: 12-letter word for an oily men's hair cream to keep hair in place and make it look glossy. brilliantine. Round 5. Category: warner bros. cartoons 1: "Carnivorous vulgaris" is one of this Roadrunner-chasing rascal's "scientific" names. the (Wile E.) Coyote. 2: This "scent-imental" skunk was named after Charles Boyer's character in the film "Algiers". Pepé Le Pew. 3: This "fastest mouse" made his debut in 1953's "Cat-Tails for Two". Speedy Gonzales. 4: This "roughest, toughest he-man hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande" could never beat Bugs Bunny. Yosemite Sam. 5: This animal is the symbol of the new Warner Bros. network. Michigan J. Frog. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 871, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: rhythm and booze 1: His beach bum anthem "Margaritaville" made its Top 40 debut in 1977. Jimmy Buffett. 2: This 1958 hit by The Champs with a liquor as its title has been covered by numerous artists. "Tequila". 3: "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" is a classic song by this First Lady of Country Music. Loretta Lynn. 4: This country legend recorded the hits "Fifteen Beers" and "Take This Job and Shove It". Johnny Paycheck. 5: Willie Nelson often begins his live shows with his 1979 hit about this alcoholic "River". "Whiskey River". Round 2. Category: 5-letter capitals 1: 12 avenues radiate from Place Charles de Gaulle in this city. Paris. 2: Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a and El Giza. Cairo. 3: The ancient Greeks called this Jordanian capital Philadelphia. Amman. 4: In 1809 one of the first revolts for independence in Latin America broke out in this Ecuadoran capital. Quito. 5: Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port. Hanoi. Round 3. Category: a heavenly category 1: A Lerner and Lowe song lyric goes, "Thank heaven for" these people, "they grow up in the most delightful way". little girls. 2: The Indian game moksha-patamu (heaven and hell) gave us this Milton Bradley game that has its ups and downs. Chutes and Ladders. 3: The John Jakes novel "Heaven and Hell" takes place directly following this war. the Civil War. 4: In Genesis 1, God gave the name Heaven to this, from the Latin for "support". the firmament. 5: The final movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy, this film starred Hiep Thi Le and Tommy Lee Jones. Heaven and Earth. Round 4. Category: "bril"-liant! 1: A rapid chaotic beating of the heart muscles in a nonsynchronous way. fibrillation. 2: 1964buildingblocksfor a wackyWarholwork. Brillo. 3: A crude cart used to carry the condemned to the guillotine during the French Revolution. a tumbril. 4: Miles Franklin was only a teenager when she penned this bestseller about growing up in Australia's outback. My Brilliant Career. 5: 12-letter word for an oily men's hair cream to keep hair in place and make it look glossy. brilliantine. Round 5. Category: warner bros. cartoons 1: "Carnivorous vulgaris" is one of this Roadrunner-chasing rascal's "scientific" names. the (Wile E.) Coyote. 2: This "scent-imental" skunk was named after Charles Boyer's character in the film "Algiers". Pepé Le Pew. 3: This "fastest mouse" made his debut in 1953's "Cat-Tails for Two". Speedy Gonzales. 4: This "roughest, toughest he-man hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande" could never beat Bugs Bunny. Yosemite Sam. 5: This animal is the symbol of the new Warner Bros. network. Michigan J. Frog. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 871, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: rhythm and booze 1: His beach bum anthem "Margaritaville" made its Top 40 debut in 1977. Jimmy Buffett. 2: This 1958 hit by The Champs with a liquor as its title has been covered by numerous artists. "Tequila". 3: "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" is a classic song by this First Lady of Country Music. Loretta Lynn. 4: This country legend recorded the hits "Fifteen Beers" and "Take This Job and Shove It". Johnny Paycheck. 5: Willie Nelson often begins his live shows with his 1979 hit about this alcoholic "River". "Whiskey River". Round 2. Category: 5-letter capitals 1: 12 avenues radiate from Place Charles de Gaulle in this city. Paris. 2: Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a and El Giza. Cairo. 3: The ancient Greeks called this Jordanian capital Philadelphia. Amman. 4: In 1809 one of the first revolts for independence in Latin America broke out in this Ecuadoran capital. Quito. 5: Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port. Hanoi. Round 3. Category: a heavenly category 1: A Lerner and Lowe song lyric goes, "Thank heaven for" these people, "they grow up in the most delightful way". little girls. 2: The Indian game moksha-patamu (heaven and hell) gave us this Milton Bradley game that has its ups and downs. Chutes and Ladders. 3: The John Jakes novel "Heaven and Hell" takes place directly following this war. the Civil War. 4: In Genesis 1, God gave the name Heaven to this, from the Latin for "support". the firmament. 5: The final movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy, this film starred Hiep Thi Le and Tommy Lee Jones. Heaven and Earth. Round 4. Category: "bril"-liant! 1: A rapid chaotic beating of the heart muscles in a nonsynchronous way. fibrillation. 2: 1964buildingblocksfor a wackyWarholwork. Brillo. 3: A crude cart used to carry the condemned to the guillotine during the French Revolution. a tumbril. 4: Miles Franklin was only a teenager when she penned this bestseller about growing up in Australia's outback. My Brilliant Career. 5: 12-letter word for an oily men's hair cream to keep hair in place and make it look glossy. brilliantine. Round 5. Category: warner bros. cartoons 1: "Carnivorous vulgaris" is one of this Roadrunner-chasing rascal's "scientific" names. the (Wile E.) Coyote. 2: This "scent-imental" skunk was named after Charles Boyer's character in the film "Algiers". Pepé Le Pew. 3: This "fastest mouse" made his debut in 1953's "Cat-Tails for Two". Speedy Gonzales. 4: This "roughest, toughest he-man hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande" could never beat Bugs Bunny. Yosemite Sam. 5: This animal is the symbol of the new Warner Bros. network. Michigan J. Frog. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

I not only give a bit of a book review on John Jakes' North and South trilogy, but I discuss the similarities between the behavior of the people describe in this historical fiction, and the behavior of Americans today.

A reading from the 1965 short story, The Girl in the Gem, by John Jakes in honor of The Day of Might! as proclaimed by The Skull, mascot of Goodman Games' Tales of the Magician's Skull. The Skull's decree on YouTube https://youtu.be/sVU2thKYUVk The official announcement text from Goodman Games is copied below because they said it better than I could. "Sharpen your blades and hone your daggers — the Day of Might is finally here! Fans of sword-and-sorcery, heed the Skull's decree! After sorting through the myriad strange folkways and seemingly-pointless holidays celebrated in the mortal realms, the Skull has reinstated his own day of celebration — the Day of Might. Henceforth, the anniversary of the day in which the Skull first revealed himself to the modern world, October 23rd, will forever be known as the Day of Might — and mighty indeed will be that day, so sayeth the Skull. No esoteric formulae, fake beards, or roasted bird torsos are required for this day of days, only a proper reverence for sword-and-sorcery fiction! So join with the Skull and his many adherents over the lands to celebrate the genre of mighty thews, flashing swords, and sinister supernatural forces. Bang a gong, light a candle, crack open some two-fisted adventure and reflect on all the many ways in which sword-and-sorcery is the genre that can easily beat up all the other genres, take their lunch money, and spend the proceeds on horns of mead and sacks of uncut wine. Hey, that sounds like the start of a new tradition!" Here at the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast I couldn't agree more so I offer up this reading to The Skull and to fans of sword and sorcery everywhere! Musical transition and ending theme by TJ Drennon. You can contact me through my Google Voice Number for US callers: (540) 445-1145, using Speakpipe for international callers: https://www.speakpipe.com/NerdsRPGVarietyCast through the podcast's email at nerdsrpgvarietycast 'at' gmail 'dot' com or find me on a variety of discords including the Audio Dungeon Discord. Home page for this show https://nerdsrpgvarietycast.carrd.co/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason376/message

20 years ago, I had the benefit of going to a session to learn about becoming a greater Insurance Agency entrepreneur. The session was conducted was John Jakes and talked about identifying your weakest link every quarter and letting them move on back to the marketplace. Now he worked with organizations of over 25 people […] The post Episode 166: Your Weakest Link first appeared on Unstoppable Profit Podcast | Hosted by Mike Stromsoe. The post Episode 166: Your Weakest Link appeared first on Unstoppable Profit Podcast | Hosted by Mike Stromsoe.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 289, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Go Old West, Young Man 1: Fort Bonneville in this "Cowboy State" was "Fort Nonsense" to scoffing trappers. Wyoming. 2: Wells, Fargo and Company opened in this California city in 1852 to offer miners express and banking services. San Francisco. 3: "Cowpuncher" was a term for a cowboy; this "puncher" was a preacher. a Bible puncher. 4: Thomas Moran's artwork helped influence Congress to make this America's first national park. Yellowstone. 5: A cowboy who "cut a man down" shot him; if he "cut the dust", he did this. taking a drink. Round 2. Category: Directional Diversions 1: Steinbeck shows sadness in Salinas:" blank of Eden". East. 2: 1948 Pulitzer winner for Michener:"Tales of the blank Pacific". South. 3: Percy Bysshe Shelley:"Ode to the blank Wind". West. 4: Shared title of 2 tales, one by John Jakes and one by Elizabeth Gaskell:" blank and blank ". North and South. 5: Robert Frost's 1914 collection:" blank of Boston". North. Round 3. Category: Russian Cities 1: This city is home to St. Basil's Cathedral and Red Square. Moscow. 2: Novosibirsk and Omsk are the 2 main cities in this large, cold Russian region. Siberia. 3: In 1712 the capital of Russia was moved to this city later named Leningrad. St. Petersburg. 4: The ancestral mother city of the Russian people is this capital of neighboring Ukraine. Kiev. 5: Grozny is the capital city of this region that has waged a struggle for independence since the mid-1990s. Chechnya. Round 4. Category: The "Naked" Truth 1: A Leslie Nielsen comedy. The Naked Gun. 2: Unaided vision. Naked eye. 3: In other words, "dollar bill nude". Buck naked. 4: Boisterous beatnik Burroughs' book. "Naked Lunch". 5: Goya's girl. "The Naked Maja". Round 5. Category: "C" Me 1: An evil prayer appealing for harm to come to another. Curse. 2: Adjective meaning curved inward, like the inside of a circle or sphere. concave. 3: A structure for venting gas or smoke. Chimney. 4: The state of sexual abstinence. Celibacy. 5: This Christian church is headed by The Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt. the Coptic Church. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

It's Episode 90 and we're bringing you a two-fisted 1970s WW2 paperback series called Sgt. Hawk by Patrick Clay. Also, Tom hits the road hunting for books in Alabama while Eric checks out new books from Justin Marriott and Robert Deis. Also, Robert Silverberg, John Jakes, William W. Johnstone, Warren Murphy and disaster fiction! Listen on any podcast app, paperbackwarrior.com or download directly here: https://bit.ly/3fAbCrz

SANGO BY JOHN JAKES

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Kaytee and Meredith are back into their routine after some guests and a big shake-up, and we’re excited to be here! You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us: moving and the big changes it brings, a #bookstagram challenge. Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. This week is going to feel a little different for a number of reasons. Take a listen to hear about 2 books Kaytee read recently and then we’ll talk about what’s happening with Meredith’s reading life. We’ll move on to a short Slow But Steady update from each of us, with a funny update from a couple listeners. For our deep dive this week, we are checking out the eleventh category of the #readerstatus side of the Currently Reading Challenge, books by authors from other countries. We have a lot of great authors here and we know you’ll have a bunch to add to our list! Finally, this week, we are Bellying Up to the Book Bar with listener Jami Dabbs. She loves “stories well-told with characters you can sink your teeth into” and we think we’ve got some great recs for her. As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . . 2:35 - Currently Reading Challenge 3:55 - Book People in Austin, TX 4:36 - Fabled Book Shop in Waco, TX 5:08 - Texas Book Festival 5:33 - #book10gram challenge with @howjessreads 5:38 - Jessica Howard on Episode 3 of Season 2 9:36 - After the Flood by Kassandra Montag 13:32 - The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger 13:40- Episode 31 of Ten Things to Tell You 15:41 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty 18:09 - A Better Man by Louise Penny 29:23 - Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny 29:33 - Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan 31:38 - Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry 31:59 - Anne of Avonlea by LM Montgomery 32:02 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 33:05 - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 33:13 - A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 33:14 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 34:11 - Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast 34:25 - Harry Potter series by JK Rowling 35:37 - Currently Reading Challenge 36:18 - Murmur of Bees by Sophia Segovia 36:44 - Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 37:20 - Chocolat by Joanne Harris 38:10 - A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle 38:36 - Frederick Backman (Beartown, A Man Called Ove, etc) 38:54 - Stieg Larsson Millennium Series (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) 39:14 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah, We Should All Be Feminists, etc) 39:29 - Abraham Verghese - Cutting for Stone 39:33 - Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner, And The Mountains Echoed 39:57 - Alexander McCall Smith - The Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency 40:26 - John Boyne - The Heart’s Invisible Furies 40:54 - Junot Diaz - The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 41:06 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude 41:11 - Jose Saramago - Blindness 41:30 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas 41:31 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 41:32 - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 41:35 - Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, etc) 41:36 - Charles Dickens (Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, etc) 42:44 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 42:47 - Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys 42:51 - We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter 42:53 - The Dry by Jane Harper 42:54 - Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand 42:56 - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet 43:01 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 43:03 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling 43:56 - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 44:04 - The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley 44:20 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend 44:38 - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 45:46 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 44:49 - The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes 44:55 - The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak 45:36 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 45:52 - A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams 46:27 - Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke 46:39 - The Current by Tim Johnston 47:07 - The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 47:33 - North and South by John Jakes 47:56 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 48:08 - East of Eden by John Steinbeck 48:43 - Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson 48:50 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson 49:10 - All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage 49:26 - The Snowman by Jo Nesbo

Eine schöne Geschichte von L. Sprague de Camp, eine schwache von Lin Carter, und die jetzt endgültig letzte Geschichte um Brak den Barbaren von John Jakes, versprochen.

Amanda and Jenn discuss horror westerns, adventure novels, books in translation, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Upon a Burning Throne by Ashok K. Banker, and Extraordinary Birds by Sandy Stark-McGinnis. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher.   Questions 1. Hello! My friend is about to have her 2nd baby, and I’m putting together a postpartum care package for her. Obviously I need to include books! Pregnancy brain and a toddler running around have made it hard for her to concentrate on anything substantial for very long, so I’m looking for quick reads that she can dip in and out of (graphic novels, poetry, short story collections, etc.). She loves cooking, especially with the food she grows herself, and anything nature-related. I’ve already got Lumberjanes, Misfit City, and Relish on my list, as well as Mary Oliver and Walt Whitman (if I can find something of his she hasn’t read). Thank you so very much for any suggestions! -Sarah   2. I absolutely loved a Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. I also read Rules of Civility. I love books with great character development set around historical events or spanning a long time with cultural or historical significance. Some of my favorite authors are Margaret Mitchell, John Jakes, Fredrik Backman and Michael Chabon. Please recommend some books or authors that can grab me like these authors. Thanks Helen   3. First of all, I love listening to the Podcast, I discovered it a couple weeks ago and have since then gotten caught up, I literally was listening for probably 10 hours a day! You guys are all super amazing and I love hearing what you will all choose for the different rec’s. Here is mine: I recently rediscovered my love of adventure books. Growing up my favorite adventure books/movies were Jurassic Park, Jumanji, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Congo and Indiana Jones. As an adult I am having trouble finding good quality adventure books. Are there any that would read like an Indiana Jones movie? I recently read The Anomaly by: Michael Rutger which has a similar concept and I did enjoy it. I am also currently reading Sandstorm by: James Rollins which is what got me thinking that I need more adventure books in my life. I want to be an archaeologist in another life, and since that is not an option I would love to read more archaeology books. I hope you can help me find some! -Alexis   4. Hello! I am an avid reader, but I sometimes think I’m not great at gauging my own tastes in books. My favorite books tend to be when the prose, themes, plot all feel intentionally aligned by the author to form a perfectly crafted present to a reader. Some of my favorite reads that fall into this category are The Vegetarian, The Song of Achilles, Freshwater, The Poet X, and Tin Man. I prefer standalone novels, but any genre/age range recommendations are welcome. I am also open to any suggestions to bump up books that are on my already very large Goodreads tbr. Thanks for the help! -Danielle   5. I would like to read some amazing books in translation. I’m really into science fiction, but it doesn’t have to be science fiction. I just want something totally gripping from another culture and language. Probably my all-time number one favorite book in translation is The Man with Compound Eyes by Ming-yi Wu (though they usually write his name as Wu Ming-yi). Some other favorite books in translation are: April Witch by Majgull Axelsson, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katrina Bivald, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, The Great Passage by Shion Miura, The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, The Three Body Problem & The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, One Hundred Years of Solitude & Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. [Does the Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley count?] Some books in translation that didn’t thrill me include: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (actually I haven’t liked anything by him but I can’t remember the other ones I’ve read), The Inferno by Dante Alighieri (though I feel the translation I read might have been subpar), The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami, The Girl Who Loneliness by Kyung-Sook Shin, Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, HWJN by Ibraheem Abbas, Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea, and Target in the Night by Ricardo Piglia. I want books that help me understand people, so I do want an internal world in my books. But they don’t have to be exclusively internal. I like action and plot as well. Of course, beautiful prose is always great but not necessary. Think the Martian Chronicles- lots of societal commentary done in a beautiful way. I don’t need any European books, but I won’t say no if you think it’s amazing. I’d rather expand my reading though and get somewhere new in my reading life. I think I’ve done little to no reading of African writers in translation, and the books that I’ve read set in Africa have been mostly in Nigeria and Egypt. I love short stories too and am open to anthologies. I also would prefer to read female authors!!! Thanks so much! You guys are awesome!!! I’m new to Get Booked and Book Riot but I am so thrilled to have found you guys!! PS: I just download about 8 books from World Book Day on Amazon! -Teresa   6. I’ve really loved reading Shout and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Solo by Kwame Alexander and Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo. I want to read something in this same vein – novels written in verse. Not sure if you’ve answered this before but please help! -Holly   7. My little book club (Ogden Lit and Libations) is celebrating three years this October. While discussing a good creepy read to pick along with picks for a couple of other months, we realized we had yet to read a western novel. We’ve already picked all our other books for this year, so we want a combined genre pick for October. We’re looking for a western horror or horror western that will keep us reading and that has great discussion potential. Our general guidelines are to pick backlist (but we will go new for a fabulous read) that aren’t extremely popular due to an impending movie or TV show (again, fabulous will override this) that are around 400 pages (less is fine, more than 500 requires the book be outstanding). Thank you! Looking forward to hearing your recs! -Amanda   Books Discussed The Unsettlers by Mark Sundeen When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott Time Salvager by Wesley Chu Labyrinth by Kate Mosse Insurrecto by Gina Apostol (tw genocide) Tentacle by Rita Indiana, translated by Achy Obejas (tw: sexual assault, homophobia, slurs) August by Romina Paula, translated by Jennifer Croft Future Fiction, edited by Bill Campbell Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai Blood Water Paint by Joy McCollough (tw: rape, suicidal ideation) Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Kaytee and Meredith are back in your earbuds for some more great book chat this week! You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us: Meredith’s Little Free Library update and Kaytee’s piano lesson reading. Next, we discuss our current reads for the week: there’s a lot of interesting non-fiction in this week’s selections, as well as a number of titles that friends and family had pressed into our hands a few episodes ago! For our deep dive this week, we are focusing on book ratings. What does 1-star mean to you and what does 5-star mean to you? We also take an unexpected detour into the bookstagram world and the way that “bookstagrammers” follow-up on their book posts. As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we’d like to press into every reader’s hands. We’ve got a title that has Amazon all confused and one that serves as a companion to a previous book press. As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!  .  .  .  .  .  1:09 - Lost Boy by Christina Henry 1:46 - Episode 19 with Meredith’s brother Scott 6:33 - Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley 9:33 - Episode 29 with Anna Hithersay 9:35 - White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo 13:11 - The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson 16:20 - Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl 17:28 - Currently Reading Challenge for 2019! 17:57 - Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain 20:14 - Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain 21:00 - Big Nate: In A Class By Himself by Lincoln Peirce 23:27 - A Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindburgh 32:51 - The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton 34:28 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides 34:31 - He Said/She Said by Erin Kelly 43:10 - North and South by John Jakes 43:15 - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 47:46 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 48:18 - The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*  

On Episode 41 of the Spybrary Spy Podcast we serve up a recorded Spybrary panel discussion from Spycon 2018. On the panel, host Shane Whaley was joined by authors Mike Brady (Into the Shadows) and C.G.Faulkner (The Edge of Reality.) The Michael Brady File Lieutenant Colonel Michael Brady, USA, (RET), earned his MS in Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University in Washington, DC in 2003. His classified thesis focused on the current and emerging issues confronting China and Taiwan and Taiwan’s ability to retain sovereignty into the future. He has performed a wide variety of tactical and strategic intelligence functions including long-range surveillance, interrogation, intelligence analysis, collection management, emergency operations, and intelligence production. He served as the Director, Presidential Emergency Operations Center in the White House from January 2001 until July 2002 under President George W. Bush. LTC Brady is a 1990 graduate of The Citadel, Marine Corps Command and General Staff College, Joint Forces Staff College, US Army Airborne School and US Army Ranger School. His areas of expertise and research include threats to the homeland, intelligence collection systems and programs, intelligence analysis, and intelligence support to national policy making. The C.G.Faulkner File C.G. Faulkner has been writing stories since childhood. He has, so far, published a Western Trilogy about Captain Tom Fortner; as well as a Spy Trilogy about Tom’s descendant, C.I.A. Agent Jeff Fortner. He has published a story for younger readers, ‘The Adventures of the Home for Supper Kids’, and now ‘The Unexpected-Tales of Mystery and Suspense’. Other stories are being written for future publication. Mr. Faulkner lives on a small farm in Georgia with his wife and children. In addition to writing, he enjoys reading, (His favorite authors are Bernard Cornwell, John Jakes, Jeff Shaara, Elmore Leonard and Ian Fleming, among others) studying history and genealogy, watching classic movies and television, doing farmwork, helping his wife homeschool their children, and the great outdoors. We riff all over the place on this along with audience participation. Some of the topics we cover included: How authors with full time jobs find time to write. How Mike and CG research locations for their books. Who are their literary heroes Which writer inspired Mike Brady to join the Intelligence Services. What makes a great fictional spy character Shane shares what kind of spy fiction he doesn't enjoy What the audience are reading right now Does the government/military have to approve Mike Brady's novels before publication And Much More including CG Faulkner's interrogation in the Quick Fire Round.

Jack and Geoff are back to dive into a far-reaching discussion of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, both the film and its novelization.   Perhaps the most provocative of all the Apes sequels, Conquest boldly and unabashedly tackles issues like racial politics, slavery, political revolution  and the police state, not to mention the fates of poor Rover and Tabby (RIP)!  We'll also be talking a lot about Armando, sexy chimps, the crazy life of MacDonald actor Hari Rhodes, Roddy McDowall's crowning achievement, emperor moths, the strength of John Jakes' novelization and some of our biggest Ape News yet.  So grab some kerosene and a machine gun and let's get this revolution started! 

En guise de bonus à l'épisode #12, revisitons encore une fois Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, mais cette fois-ci en se penchant sur la novélisation Cornelius and Zira - Ep #13 spécial novélisation - Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Le but de l'épisode n'est pas de raconter de nouveau tout le film, mais de revenir sur ce que peut apporter la lecture de la version novélisée de La Conquête de la Planète des Singes en plus du visionnage du film. On va revenir sur les principales différences et les ajouts les plus importants (je vous ai laissé quand même quelques petites choses à découvrir, pour ceux qui souhaiterait le lire!) Alors, je ne le dis pas pendant l'enregistrement, mais ce livre a été écrit par John Jakes et a été réédité récemment par Titan Books. Durant les épisodes, je cite les podcasts ou les épisodes suivants = L'extrait de [Perspectives & Frustrations] (https://soundcloud.com/intelligenceetfrustration) est issu de [l'épisode 18 de P&F] (https://podcloud.fr/podcast/podcast-perspectives/episode/p-and-f-number-18-retour-sur-les-predictions-de-ray-kurzweil) qui revient sur les predictions de Ray Kurzweil exprimées dans le documentaire The Singularity Is Near. [La Diagonale du Vide] (https://podcloud.fr/podcast/diagonale-du-vide) [Cornelius and Zira - Ep #12 part1 - Conquest of the Planet of the Apes] (http://docteur-zaius.lepodcast.fr/cornelius-and-zira-ep-number-12-part1-conquest-of-the-planet-of-the-apes) [Cornelius and Zira - Ep #12 part2 - Conquest of the Planet of the Apes] (http://docteur-zaius.lepodcast.fr/cornelius-and-zira-ep-number-12-part2-conquest-of-the-planet-of-the-apes) [Cornelius and Zira - Ep #12 part3 - Conquest of the Planet of the Apes] (http://docteur-zaius.lepodcast.fr/cornelius-and-zira-ep-number-12-part3-conquest-of-the-planet-of-the-apes) [L'épisode de 24FPS consacré à War for the Planet of the Apes] (https://djpod.com/24fps/24fps-113-la-planete-des-singes-suprematie-feat-docteur-zaius) Ne soyez pas timides et n'hésitez pas à sortir de votre ghetto et nous envoyer des commentaires de la page FB du podcast ou sur le compte Twitter du podcast ou même par e-mail corneliusandzirapodcast(at)gmail(dot)com ! Quant aux autres épisodes de Cornelius & Zira, ils sont disponibles sur podCloud, iTunes et même [YouTube] (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ejaZPIN2Gt4qWVhdAag9A) – et plus particulièrement les épisodes consacrés à la saga POTA. Bonne fêtes de fin d'année et à bientôt les spartiates !!!

On this date in 1820, Maine was admitted to the Union. Here are some things you may not have known about the 23rd state. The first inhabitants of what would become Maine was a loose confederacy of Algonquin-speaking people, called the Wabanaki. The first European contact came about 800 years ago when Norwegians arrived on the coast. The Norwegians didn’t settle in the area, but returned over the next few centuries to trade and collect timber. A 10th-century Norwegian coin was discovered during 1954 archeological dig in the state. The first European settlers came in 1604. In 1652, what is now Maine was made part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It remained part of Massachusetts, separated by New Hampshire, until it was made a state in 1820. The original capital of Maine was Portland, but it was moved to the more centrally located Augusta in 1832. Maine has many geographic and demographic oddities. It’s the only state to border only one other state. It’s the easternmost state. It’s the state that is located closest to Africa. It’s the site of the only sovereignty dispute over land between the United States and Canada. It’s the least densely populated state east of the Mississippi River. 83 percent of the state is covered by forest, the highest percentage in the country. It has the highest percentage of non-Hispanic whites of any state at 94.4 percent. It also has the highest percentage of French Americans, and the highest percentage of French speakers in the U.S. Today’s question: What was the name of the fictional Maine town in which the TV show “Murder, She Wrote” was set?   Today is International Day Against Police Brutality; World Consumer Rights Day; National Day in Hungary; and Constitution Day in Belarus. It’s unofficially National Peanut Lovers Day. It’s the birthday of former U.S. President Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767; musician Phil Lesh, who is 77; and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is 84. Because our topic happened before 1960, we’ll spin the wheel to pick a year at random. This week in 1982, the top song in the U.S. was “I Love Rock ’n Roll” by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. The No. 1 movie was “Richard Prior: Live on the Sunset Strip,” while the novel “North and South” by John Jakes topped the New York Times Bestsellers list.  Weekly question: Pluto was originally the pet dog of which Disney character? Submit your answer at triviapeople.com/test and we’ll add the name of the person with the first correct answer to our winner’s wall … at triviapeople.com. We'll have the correct answer on Friday’s episode.   Links Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or our website. Also, if you’re enjoying the show, please consider supporting it through Patreon.com Please rate the show on iTunes by clicking here. Subscribe on iOS: http://apple.co/1H2paH9  Subscribe on Android: http://bit.ly/2bQnk3m  Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_15 https://www.checkiday.com/3/15/2017 http://www.biography.com/people/groups/born-on-march-15 http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/numberonesongs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_1982_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Fiction_Best_Sellers_of_1982

Wir beginnen unseren Podcast mit Terra Fantasy 1 und den Abenteuern von Brak, dem Barbaren, wie sie John Jakes aufgeschrieben hat.

With apologies to John Jakes, we are reading Elizabeth Gaskell's  chapters 2–3, with many thanks to our reader, . Book talk begins at 15 minutes. If the iTunes feed ever goes down, please head over to the . February Giveaway You have until February 28th to win a copy of Crochet Wraps Every Which Way by Joanna Johnson (). December winner was Lisa P. is still available (and free!). If you have recipes to add, please . Grounded ALL eight of the Grounded sock patterns—are now in ! . To keep on top of new socks, shawls, and sock puppet theater (you heard me)join the (very infrequently used)! . . . . | | | — current subscriber book, Charles Dickens' (not so) and the first chunk of is (it'll be a bit between chunks—looong book).   Literary Links of Interest for this chapter: I thought you might want to see these pix again. Margaret mentions The New Forest which is located in the counties of Hampshire and Dorset, between the major cities of Christchurch to the west and Southampton to the east. You can see why Margaret would have liked it. Our Sponsors:   Crafty News: Arlin's / Lost Geek's pattern info: 100% of sales of during the month of January and February 2014 will go to relief efforts of , , and . Funds will be directed to local Red Cross and local evacuation sites. Thank you for supporting the victims of Indonesia natural disasters. Podcaster Throwdown Not a knitter? Don't have time to make a hat? will be equal to 1 hat contributed to their chosen team. All monies raised through this initiative will help us to ship the 2,000+ hats that we hope are received through this campaign. $5 ships 16 hats to a center in need. New KALs happening right now. . General News: TELLY! Tony Awards We have our first Audioboo! The will tell you why knitting and crocheting and doodling is good for your brain, take a look. There's a new for CraftLit! If you want to subscribe to support the show, you can or . Same content, either way. Want a button?  

331--Sorry Mister Jakes! With apologies to John Jakes, we are reading Elizabeth Gaskell's , chapter 1, with many thanks to our reader, . Book talk begins at 16 minutes. If the iTunes feed ever goes down, please head over to the . February Giveaway You have until February 28th to win a copy of Crochet Wraps Every Which Wayby Joanna Johnson. December winner was Lisa P. is still available (and free!). If you have recipes to add, please . Grounded ALL eight of the—are now in ! . To keep on top of new socks, shawls, and sock puppet theater (you heard me)join the (very infrequently used) ! . . . . | | | — current subscriber book, Charles Dickens' (not so) and the first chunk of is (it'll be a bit between chunks—looong book).   Literary Links of Interest for this chapter: Margaret mentions The New Forest which is located in the counties of Hampshire and Dorset, between the major cities of Christchurch to the west and Southampton to the east. You can see why Margaret would have liked it. Our Sponsors:   Crafty News: Podcaster Throwdown Not a knitter? Don't have time to make a hat? will be equal to 1 hat contributed to their chosen team. All monies raised through this initiative will help us to ship the 2,000+ hats that we hope are received through this campaign. $5 ships 16 hats to a center in need. New KALs happening right now. . General News: I'll be presenting this Sunday at 10am Eastern at the The has been going great guns. To find out why knitting and crocheting and doodling is good for your brain, take a look. There's a new for CraftLit! Scary Mary Zentagling Now in the , many audiobooks with benefits which were originally available only to : , , , , and .   is also there. If you want to subscribe to support the show, you can or . Same content, either way. Want a button?

loves . He doesn’t talk about it enough for me, but we learn that he read that John Jakes series with The Bastard when he was a child. He is a walking hilarity. His website is not available so here’s his . You get a chance to see him do standup, you do that… he’s a silly, funny man. Enjoy. DONATE folks… I’m working over here. or NOTES: (the holy grail of golf movies) Credits:Live Audio by Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his own Apps are available with the bonus contest:  or 

John Jakes, auhtor of the "North and South" Trilogy.

John Jakes, auhtor of the "North and South" Trilogy.

John Jakes, auhtor of the "North and South" Trilogy.

John Jakes, author of the North and South Trilogy. CWTR Episode #912 (Season 9, Show 12) Show#249

John Jakes, auhtor of the "North and South" Trilogy.