Podcast appearances and mentions of john mcbride

Writer to discuss 'walking memoir' in Beacon Craig Mod's first book tour across America has so far been a resounding success, much to the confusion of bookstore owners. "All the bookstore people have been freaked out," he said a few days after his stop in San Francisco had a line all the way down the street an hour before the event began. "Booking this tour has been difficult, because in their experience, if they don't recognize the name of the author, they're going to get seven people." Mod will finish up his tour promoting Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir at Binnacle Books in Beacon on June 6, in conversation with Beacon resident Sam Anderson, a reporter for The New York Times Magazine. Although this is his first title for a major publisher, Mod has built a following with his lavishly designed, self-published books, online newsletters, photography and travel writing about Japan. "I have absolutely no sense of who's out there reading my stuff since I'm kind of alone and isolated on the other side of the world," he said. "People are shaking as they bring me books to sign. It's bizarre, but everyone has been so sweet." Mod grew up in a Northeast town that was slowly being hollowed out with drugs and violence in the wake of local factories closing. Once he graduated high school, he knew he needed to get as far away as possible. With scholarships, homestays and the exchange rate at the turn of the millennium, Tokyo was the cheapest option at the time. Mod found in Japan what he'd been missing back in America. "There was an overwhelming shock of seeing people being taken care of by a greater whole," he said. After buying a used camera, Mod fell into two of the central tenets of his work: photography and exploring Japan on foot. He began with long, late-night walks throughout Tokyo. "I'd be in this kind of romantic haze of listening to all these lives and these families functioning," he said. "Tokyo is so transparent. If you walk in certain neighborhoods, you just hear everything." He befriended John McBride, an older Westerner with an encyclopedic knowledge of local history. Accompanying McBride on walks led to Mod making longer journeys across the county on his own. Things Become Other Things recounts in words and photographs one walk in 2021, during the pandemic, when he traced the historic 300-mile Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes across the Kii peninsula south of Kyoto, with McBride emailing him historic details along the way. "Most of the inns I stayed at, I was the only one there," Mod recalled. "It felt like the end of the world." The desolate landscape of the Kii peninsula reminded Mod of his hometown, both filled with poverty, loneliness, trash-strewn yards and hostile dogs. But Japan's safety net and tight-knit society means that the people Mod encounters don't fall through the cracks. Central to this is yoyū, which is often translated to mean "breathing room." In Things Become Other Things, Mod defines it as "the excess provided when surrounded by a generous abundance. It can be applied to hearts, wallets, Sunday afternoons and more." Mod said he began to truly understand the term when he started walking with McBride. "It's the space in your heart to be able to accept someone or something else without being stressed out by it," said Mod. "John is a person of essentially infinite yoyū. "As the political climate has changed in America, it feels increasingly like folks are being pressed against the wall," Mod said. "Political decisions are being made from this lack of openness or empathy. It emphasized what it meant to feel yoyū in the Japanese countryside. It's hard for folks who don't live in a place that has that to imagine what it feels like to look around at everyone you pass by, and know that if some medical calamity hits them, they can't fall that far." Binnacle Books is located at 321 Main St. in Beacon. The event begins at 7 p.m.

In episode 11 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with AI expert Steve Manuel to explore the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—a framework that enhances how models interact with their environments. They break down why context-awareness is crucial for machine learning and how MCP is transforming open source AI.

Part two of our conversation with Blackbird Studio and Blackbird Academy founder/director John McBride.

From live sound to studio recording, John McBride has probably done every job in pro audio at least twice. He's a non-stop bundle of energy with an unwavering love for every aspect of music and the creative process. In this two-part interview, we cover everything from his roots in music and production to his dedication to helping shape the next generation of music and recording.

In episode 2 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Avi Press, Founder & CEO of Scarf. Together they explore the evolving definition of "open source" in the context of AI and the future of technology. They also examine broader issues surrounding licensing, business models in open source, and the challenges associated with both.

In this inaugural episode of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride embark on a technical and philosophical exploration of the current state of open-source AI. John shares his hands-on experience with building large-scale data pipelines and integrating AI to create meaningful insights for developers. The discussion revolves around the balance between innovation, data privacy, and the growing power of large tech companies in the AI space. They also touch on the open-source community's challenges, including licensing issues and the role of foundations in supporting AI projects.

His resume is as stellar as he is humble and pragmatic: Toto, Don Henley, Neil Young, The Mavericks, Miles Davis, and so many more. He's also one of the funniest guys in the biz. We got together at his Surf Shack studio to talk about pretty much whatever came up.  

In tonight's programme:We hear from the 'Manx Missile' himself, Sir Mark Cavendish, on his special homecoming event on Island this weekThe 'curtain raiser' ahead of the new Manx football season - the Eric Fletcher Charity Shield - is upon us! We hear from the Ayre United and Rushen United managers ahead of the tieFC Isle of Man's boss and his side will be hoping for better fortunes in the NWCFL Premier Division this weekendThis weekend sees the 2024 Manx Grand Prix get started! The event's organisers tell us about plans to secure the longer term future of the eventAnd after a positive campaign domestically and off-Island last time out, Ramsey RUFC explain their hopes and ambitions for the upcoming new seasonRob Pritchard is joined by Sir Mark Cavendish, Nick Hurt, Andrew Moody, Paul Jones, John McBride and Matthew Meechan

Robert Trusko is a well recognized musician, composer, engineer, and producer in Dallas, TX. Through his musicianship, Robert has performed across the world with notable artists including Aloe Blacc, Robert Randolph, Eric McFadden (Parliament Funkadelic), Greg Spero, Robert “Sput” Searight, RC Williams, Cleon Edwards (Erykah Badu), Jaguar Wright (The Roots, Jay-Z), Doug Wimbish (Living Colour, Sugar Hill Records, Lauryn Hill), Black Ice (Def Poetry Jam), and Danny Gotlieb (Pat Metheny). As an educator, Robert Trusko also served for several years as an Interim Professor of Ableton Live at the University of North Texas. Trusko also performs and MD's for the band 2LOT, which has collaborated with Steve Jordan (John Mayer, Rolling Stones), John McBride, Aloe Blacc, Ry-X, Moonhooch, and Greg Spero. In 2023 Trusko released his EP “First Light” which is available on all streaming platforms. Follow Robert Trusko Below:  www.truskomusic.com www.instagram.com/rtrusko https://my.community.com/trusko SPONSORED BY MAGIC MIND: Magic Mind is a productivity drink. It gives you all the mental clarity and focus you need without the anxiety of chugging coffee or any other energy products out there that are bad for you. One shot gives you the perfect combo of nootropics, adaptogens, functional mushrooms, and matcha. Use discount code ABLETON20 for 20% off at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.magicmind.com⁠/ableton⁠⁠ Join the newsletter to get free Ableton content + early episode access: ⁠⁠⁠www.liveproducersonline.com/newsletter⁠⁠

In this episode we get to know John McBride. John is a producer, engineer, live sound engineer and owner of Blackbird Studio in Nashville, TN. He is also the CEO of Blackbird Academy-where students can learn the art of audio engineering. John is a collector and lover of all things related to audio production and record production.

AYO! Welcome back to the Luck Management Podcast! Today, we bring back the man, the myth, the legend, Mr. John Mcbride! We go full circle on this part 2 episode exploring The Luck Management Lifestyle and catching up right where we left off. This man is the epitome of hard work and determination. No matter what John does in life, he will succeed as he is driven by faith, doing the right thing, and taking on challenges every single day. Today we delve into his life, his work ethic, faith as a staple in his success, and how he plans to grow/seize opportunities in the luck management lifestyle. These types of conversations are the ones that make life special, they go by in an instant and you know you could go on for hours. We were graced by the presence of Reid Ljungholm for the Reid Option! it has been too long but wow, he always brings incredible energy to the show. It is amazing to have the guys back together and get ready for all the content coming out of ND vs. USC weekend! Enjoy this episode and keep living the LML!!Support the showInstagram: @the_luckmanagementpodcastApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1637190216Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4JsxM55BY6tRlGzJCiUnvzKeep living The Luck Management Lifestyle!All Episodes are presented and brought to you by CharmND. CharmND is a lucky charm business providing memories, nostalgia, and pieces of Notre Dame to hold in your hand! Check us out on Instagram @charm_ND & @CharmNDShop on Etsy for your piece of Notre Dame.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Dr Kevin Donnelly AM is one of Australia's leading conservative public intellectuals and cultural warriors. Since first warning about the dangers of political correctness in 1992, Kevin has engaged in the battle of ideas against the cultural-left's long march through the institutions. In June 2016, Kevin received an Order of Australia for significant service to education as a researcher and author, to national curriculum development, and to professional organisations. https://kevindonnelly.com.au/ Twitter: @ESIaustralia GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Brent Hancock is a director of the Newcastle & Port Stephens Game Fish Club Ltd. He has owned and operated Tackle World Port Stephens for over 10 years, which is the city's prime fishing tackle retailer. GUEST 3 OVERVIEW: John McBride grew up in an active Labor Party family. He gave up on the ALP after Keating's last term, which was too woke for him. John joined the Democratic Labour Party in the early 2000s, a party which were at least ideologically opposed to the cultural Marxists. He worked for a few years as a Parliamentary Advisor in the Victorian Legislative Council for a DLP member. More recently, John ran as a candidate for the Freedom Party for the federal Senate in 2022 to support Damien Richardson's candidacy to be above the line on the ballot.

The centenary year of the Manx Grand Prix came to a close this month, but despite some pulsating race, all has not been well in the eyes of fans of the event Criticism has risen again from some supporters about how the races were carried out - so what do the organisers make of these comments? We put the concerns of some to Chair of the Manx Motor Cycle Club, John McBride

GUEST HOST: Jeremy Beck filling in for Dean Mackin. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: John McBride grew up in an active Labor Party family. He gave up on the ALP after Keating's last term, which was too woke for him. John joined the Democratic Labour Party in the early 2000s, a party which were at least ideologically opposed to the cultural Marxists. He worked for a few years as a Parliamentary Advisor in the Victorian Legislative Council for a DLP member. More recently, John McBride ran 2nd on the ticket with Damien Richardson at the federal election, running as independents. John also ran for the Freedom Party at the state election for Western Metro at the last minute because the original candidate dropped out. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Raymond Smith is a singer songwriter from Tamworth NSW who only started learning to sing and strum a guitar in his early 30's and at 35 started singing in pubs and clubs mainly as a solo artist playing along with backing tracks. He's written  several country/Christian/pop songs over the years mostly about life, family and  experiences. He released his first song ever last year called "We The People" and this year he's released Crazy Enough, God Given Human Rights, All Lives Matter followed by  "No To The Voice" and also "Don't Let Cash Die" hopefully to be cleared for release very  soon. Raymond Smith also hopes to release his debut album "Ray Of Hope" in September 2023. GUEST 3 OVERVIEW: Professor Ian Brighthope is a retired medical practitioner with over 40 years of experience. He graduated in Agricultural Science in 1965. For the next three years he was involved in teaching and research. In 1969 he entered medical school at the University of New South Wales and following three pre- clinical years, completed his clinical studies at Monash University in Victoria, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1974. https://ianbrighthope.substack.com/

Ahead of the start of the 100th year for the Manx Grand Prix, the chair of the organisers, John McBride of the Manx Motor Cycle Club, discusses what's in store for fans and competitors in this landmark year as well as scrutiny surrounding the current format of the event and its future

This is the second part of our thought-provoking chat with legendary audio engineer and studio owner John McBride.

Legendary engineer and studio owner John McBride shares a wealth of knowledge about producing, mixing, songwriting, drum miking, and much more. Stay tuned for part 2!

AYO! Welcome back to the Luck Management Podcast! Luck Management 47 is in the books & we have a long-anticipated and awaited guest on, Notre Dame 2023 MSA (Accounting) Graduate John McBride. My good friend & teammate/opponent on the basketball court sits down to explore The Luck Management Lifestyle! This conversation was awesome, at times it was hilarious, and at times it was insightful. 2 guys catching up and coming in with some hot takes, some interesting viewpoints on the world, and vibes to take you on a fun ride. We are greeted by our very own Reid for the Reid Option which was, as always, a banger to close out the show. These are the types of episodes that show you why Notre Dame is so special! Check it out on Spotify & Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts and Keep Living the Luck Management Lifestyle! Support the showInstagram: @the_luckmanagementpodcastApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1637190216Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4JsxM55BY6tRlGzJCiUnvzKeep living The Luck Management Lifestyle!All Episodes are presented and brought to you by CharmND. CharmND is a lucky charm business providing memories, nostalgia, and pieces of Notre Dame to hold in your hand! Check us out on Instagram @charm_ND & @CharmNDShop on Etsy for your piece of Notre Dame.

Ep. 137 - John McBride of Blackbird Studio!

My guest is Engineer/Mixer, Studio Owner, and Live FOH Engineer John McBride, who many know as the man behind Blackbird Studios. John has worked with his wife, Martina McBride, Stevie Nicks, Dave Stewart, Take 6, Joss Stone, and Greta Van Fleet, to name a few.  In this episode, we discuss Wichita, Kansas Joe Walsh Parents Musical Tastes The 10 Best Years of Music  Piano Lessons Save The Music Dissecting Music The Next Lennon and McCartney Chemistry Major Getting Laughed at By The Bank Starting a Sound Company Always Learning Parents House Collateral Selling to Clare Brothers Having No Debt Positive Attitude  James Brown to Metallica RATT and the Birth of KYFO Small World of Touring Moving to Nashville Garth Brooks The Golden Rule Building Blackbird Studios Richard Dodd Vance Powell Rolf Zweep Mark Rubel Luck in Business Gretch Round Badge Inside Blackbird Trina Shoemaker Matt's Rant: Investing in Yourself! Links and Show Notes Inside Blackbird Blackbird Studio Blackbird Academy Blackbird Rentals Credits Guest: John McBride Host: Matt Boudreau Engineer: Matt Boudreau Producer: Matt Boudreau Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau  WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell  Announcer: Chuck Smith

On today's show we discuss the weekends protest in Melbourne. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Around 60,000 individuals simultaneously seeing his Livestream, Rukshan was perceived by a man in greetings vis who hollered that Rukshan was the explanation they descended. The group applauded him while individuals from online scheme Telegram stations selected him as head of the development. At this point, there is no report about the capture of Real Rukshan. Nonetheless, he is the objective of the police among the protestors. He is designated on the grounds that he is viewed as the justification behind individuals conflicting with lockdown and antibodies. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: John McBride grew up in an active Labor Party family. He gave up on the ALP after Keating's last term, which was too woke for him. John joined the Democratic Labour Party in the early 2000s, a party which were at least ideologically opposed to the cultural Marxists. He worked for a few years as a Parliamentary Advisor in the Victorian Legislative Council for a DLP member. More recently, John ran as a candidate for the Freedom Party for the federal Senate in 2022 to support Damien Richardson's candidacy to be above the line on the ballot.

On today's show John McBride discusses the Victorian Liberal MPs' vote to expel Moira Deeming. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Jim Ball is an Australian radio personality, formerly broadcasting with the 2GB and 2UE networks in Sydney. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: John McBride grew up in an active Labor Party family. He gave up on the ALP after Keating's last term, which was too woke for him. John joined the Democratic Labour Party in the early 2000s, a party which were at least ideologically opposed to the cultural Marxists. He worked for a few years as a Parliamentary Advisor in the Victorian Legislative Council for a DLP member. More recently, John ran as a candidate for the Freedom Party for the federal Senate in 2022 to support Damien Richardson's candidacy to be above the line on the ballot.

On today's show we discuss injecting rooms, and Liberals to plough ahead with Moria Deeming expulsion vote, despite warning of ‘messy legal dispute' and Political Response to the Budget. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Greg Cheesman began his career in television production on his 19th birthday with a very junior position at the ABC. After 6 years he moved to Channel 7 for a short stint and from there moved on to become one of Melbourne's busiest freelance sound designers and engineers. After twenty years of audio production in television, film and radio he decided to branch out to become a successful real estate agent and auctioneer in bayside Melbourne as well as running his audio production business. It was all going well until COVID hit and both his income streams were made illegal. Forced into unemployment for the first time in his life, Greg stepped up his lifelong interest in politics and began heavily campaigning against the state government and created the hashtag #SackDanAndrews. A family man, former business owner, a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, public speaker, professional Santa and political campaigner, Greg stands by his beliefs of honesty, integrity and personal responsibility as well as standing up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: John McBride grew up in an active Labor Party family. He gave up on the ALP after Keating's last term, which was too woke for him. John joined the Democratic Labour Party in the early 2000s, a party which were at least ideologically opposed to the cultural Marxists. He worked for a few years as a Parliamentary Advisor in the Victorian Legislative Council for a DLP member. More recently, John ran as a candidate for the Freedom Party for the federal Senate in 2022 to support Damien Richardson's candidacy to be above the line on the ballot. 

GUEST OVERVIEW: John McBride grew up in an active Labor Party family. He gave up on the ALP after Keating's last term, which was too woke for him. John joined the Democratic Labour Party in the early 2000s, a party which were at least ideologically opposed to the cultural Marxists. He worked for a few years as a Parliamentary Advisor in the Victorian Legislative Council for a DLP member. More recently, John ran as a candidate for the Freedom Party for the federal Senate in 2022 to support Damien Richardson's candidacy to be above the line on the ballot.

On today's show we discuss with Stuart Ballantyne building on flood plains and climate scam debacle, and John McBride about where the origin of the climate change catastrophe comes from. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Stuart Ballantyne is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. He has a long list of awards including the ICHCA Annual Award 1996, Sea trade Award 1997 (London), Cruise and Ferry Award 2003 (London), AUSMEPA Marine Environment Award 2006 (Sydney) and the Institute of Export – Export Hero of the Year 2008 (Australia). Stuart holds a Master of Philosophy (Naval Architecture) from Strathclyde University, Scotland, and was awarded an honorary doctorate in science from Strathclyde in 2014 for his services to the maritime Industry. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: John McBride grew up in an active Labor Party family. He gave up on the ALP after Keating's last term, which was too woke for him. John joined the Democratic Labour Party in the early 2000s, a party which were at least ideologically opposed to the cultural Marxists. He worked for a few years as a Parliamentary Advisor in the Victorian Legislative Council for a DLP member. More recently, John ran as a candidate for the Freedom Party for the federal Senate in 2022 to support Damien Richardson's candidacy to be above the line on the ballot. 

The El Vecino founder, John McBride has learned from three generations of restaurateurs, but the legacy may end with him. The fourth-generation leader descends from El Fenix founder Miguel Martinez. His story and how he ended up in East Dallas.By the way: They have some of the best Tex-Mex in the area? Don't believe us? Go check them out! 469.802.6060 718 N. BUCKNER BLVD, SUITE 108 | DALLAS, TEXAS 75218Connect with us! Instagram - Facebook www.visiteastdallas.comPartner with us! connect@visiteastdallas.com

Congratulations to Ireland, who secured a deserved Grand Slam against England at on St Patrick's day weekend - we can only imagine how the party must have been! This week, the Rugby Paper Podcast reviews Saturday's fixtures and the tournament as a whole. To do so, the guys have the ideal special guest - Ollie Little and the full house of columnists in Nick Cain, Brendan Gallagher and Chris Hewett are joined by a member of the Irish rugby hall of fame, Willie John McBride. 

In this episode of the Fifth Estate Podcast, I'm joined by John McBride to have a discussion on the state of the state of Victoria, offer a few election predictions, and have a general chat about politics.

This week on the PiXL Drone show we talked to John Mcbride from Autel. We get into the new V3 features, discuss remote ID, and and talk about other Autel releases! Autel: https://www.autelrobotics.com/

We're back to discuss a film that went under the radar this year, The Cursed!  It's a great 1800's werewolf film with interesting and original lore that has become one of our favorite horror films of 2022. Why is John McBride the best protagonist of 2022? What exactly is the Beast of Gevaudan? What's with randomly showing WWI scenes? Why aren't more people talking about this film? And would this movie have benefitted from practical werewolf effects instead of CGI? We talk about all that and more here!  Follow us!  Instagram: @SantaMiraAfterDark  Twitter: @SantaMiraADPod

In tonight's programme - The Manx Grand Prix returns this weekend, we hear from the organisers as well as 2019's double champion about the prospect of the racing festival returning; in football, a tough test awaits FC Isle of Man this weekend as they will begin a busy run of four away games in ten days; in athletics, ahead of the finale of the No Rest For The Wicked Series tonight, we hear about how the competition has been unfolding over the past week Rob Pritchard is joined by John McBride, Nathan Harrison, Chris Bass and Dave Griffiths

Watch full video explanation on YouTube Follow on me Instagram Summary/Synopsis : In rural 20th-century France, a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger - and exorcise some of his own demons in the process. Copyright Disclaimer : Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

Tonight, on Gruesome Magazine episode 334, the Grue-Crew review THE CURSED (2022, HULU). Doc Rotten from Horror News Radio, Jeff Mohr from Decades of Horror: The Classic Era, Crystal Cleveland, the Livin6Dead6irl from Decades of Horror: 1980s, Lead News Writer at Gruesome Magazine Dave Dreher, and award-winning filmmaker Christopher G. Moore share their thoughts about this week's frightening collection of streaming horror films. Warning: possible spoilers after the initial impressions! THE CURSED (2022, HULU) In rural 19th-century France, a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger - and exorcise some of his own demons in the process. Available Streaming on HULU Beginning July 18, 2022 Director: Sean Ellis Writer: Sean Ellis Cast: Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran, Nigel Betts, Stuart Bowman FOLLOW: Gruesome Magazine Website http://gruesomemagazine.com YouTube Channel (Subscribe Today!) https://youtube.com/c/gruesomemagazine Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gruesomemagazine/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HorrorNewsRadioOfficial/ Doc, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DocRottenHNR Crystal, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/living6dead6irl Crystal, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livin6dead6irl/ Jeff, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeffmohr9 Dave, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drehershouseofhorrors

This week we discuss the new horror film The Cursed... In rural 19th-century France, a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger - and exorcise some of his own demons in the process. Youtube Short Review -  https://youtu.be/TluOAVNiyZ8  

Today I sit down and chat with John McBride, senior software engineer at VMware. We begin by talking about John's address at KubeCon, “Risks of Single Maintainer Dependencies and How to Mitigate Those Risks.” We discuss the definition of security and then John identifies some of the other non-security risks posed by single maintainer dependency. We talk a little bit about mitigating the risks and about building trust and community around single maintainer projects. We conclude our time by speculating on the extinction of single maintainer dependencies. Highlights: John introduces himself and talks about his interest in mitigating the risks of single maintainer dependencies (00:55) We have a conversation about the definition of security (4:54) John talks about the other, non-security risks of single maintainer dependency (10:00) We discuss how to mitigate the risks of single maintainer dependency (12:04) John talks about building trust and building community around single maintainer projects (16:48) John answers my question “Do you think being a single maintainer is ultimately an anti-pattern, a non best practice?” (23:56) Links:John Twitter: @johncodezzz Company: https://www.vmware.com

In this episode of The Fifth Estate podcast, I am talking to Damien Richardson, and his running mate, John McBride.We talk about the establishment media pushing the status quo, to the detriment of Australians.Damien's recent facebook video at the Shrine for ANZAC Day.And more...You can show your support Damien and John at the following places:Damien's website: https://damienrichardson.com.au/Damien Richardson for the Senate on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/damienrichardsonforthesenateTeam Damo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/504152648005752/

In this episode of the Fifth Estate podcast, I have a chat to John McBride, Damien Richardson's running mate for the Senate.We chat about all sorts of things, some relevant to Victoria at the state level, and discuss their key points.To find out more about John and Damien, follow the links below:Damien's website: https://damienrichardson.com.au/Damien Richardson for the Senate on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/damienrichardsonforthesenate

Ulven kommer i denne skumle thriller, der udspiller sig i slutningen af 1800-tallet. En lille landsby bliver mål for en grum forbandelse og det bliver op til den tilrejsende patolog John McBride at opklare en række mystiske dødsfald. http://www.ikassenshow.dk/2022/04/i-kassen-845-cursed-2021.html

Plot: In rural 19th-century France, a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger - and exorcise some of his own demons in the process. Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/reelchaseleeFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/reelreviewswithchaseleeYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Shabootnik75 Chase's Other Review Location: Dallas Movie Screenings: http://www.dallasmoviescreenings.com Podcast: Reel Me In: A Movie Podcast - streaming on: Anchor, Apple, Spotify, Castbox, iHeartradio, and more --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reelmein-a-movie-podcast/message

You'll get the pleasure, and quickly, of understanding why my Podcast begins and ends with a legendary Philly voice. John McBride has called a countless array of Sports, Music and Local Events (as well as Radio and Voiceover) throughout the Philadelphia Region. In addition to John's exceptional voice, it's also John's technical expertise (you have to listen to JMcB's classic stories of maximizing opportunity with preparation.) Take nothing for granted and always be prepared to seize the moment. I've had the privilege of having John McBride "call me home" multiple times from premiere Philadelphia running events (Broad Street Run and Philadelphia Marathon just to name two signature Philly events.) Before this Podcast interview, John taught me about preparedness by guiding through my first Public Address Announcer job covering High School Basketball. I'm smart enough to know that (and thanks to John McBride) that you never leave home without "Pen and Paper" and no... having your phone to type may not be good enough (listen to the Mummer's 2022 story, as these practices NEVER go out of style.) Speaking of in- style, John McBride's classic voice, humor, and sense of community make this conversation a blast for me. Today, I get to call home... my friend... John McBride. Here are other ways to find John McBride- as John is definitely worth a read too! https://www.publicaddressannouncer.org/being-prepared-to-be-prepared/ Bird2562@aol.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-mcbridevo/ https://www.instagram.com/jmcbride_225/

Since 2015, more than 750 refugees from all over the world have relocated to Tallahassee. Settlement in their new home was made possible by International Rescue Committee Tallahassee. To talk about it are: Committee Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator Karen Duncan; Committee Site Manager Leann Halsey; and John McBride, an agency volunteer whose local rental property is now the home for a family from Afghanistan.

Elijah John McBride + Cole Kellam + Cade Kellam joined me in-person inside Deep Search Studios. We talked about their trip to bless the body with worship and record music in nature. They love the Lord and we all loved to have this conversation! Clips in Intro -Kellam Worship - All I Need (You Satisfy) | -Elijah John McBride - By The Beach | Live Recordings: -(Unnamed Unreleased Track) - Elijah John McBride | -Lilies - Cade Kellam | -Through the Storm - Cade Kellam | -Like a Child - Cade/Cole Kellam | Connect + Support  Elijah John McBride - https://www.instagram.com/elijahjohnmcbride/ Cole Kellam - https://www.instagram.com/colekellam_34/ Cade Kellam - https://www.instagram.com/cade_kellam/ One Big Family https://www.onebigfamilytour.com/ Theme music by Montell Fish (Song: Orion) / Episode produced by Adam Harney with Deep Search Studios

Whelp, it finally happened. We mistakenly read different versions of "The Clue of the Tapping Heels". Regardless of the (many and insane) divergences, both feature garage-fulls of titian-furred cats, midnight tapping, tap dancing, morse code taps, and a Tony-Award winning off-off -off Broadway production of "The Tapping Heels".  Join us as we discuss the two different iterations of this book, recap how chickens work, reveal how not to dismantle a bomb, and reminisce about our long-lost love John McBride. Nancy stars in a show, Karen is a weaver, and Kelly is waiting for pumpkin season.  Rated 8 out of 12 cans of tuna.

William Butler Yeats - Easter,1916 - The Poetry That Inspired Things Fall Apart   Hi, I'm Christy Shriver, and we're here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us.    And I'm Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast.  We have just wrapped up our four part series on Chinua Achebe and his groundbreaking book Things Fall Apart.   Generally, between books, we take a moment to look at a poem or a shorter piece that in some way connects to the longer piece we have been discussing. This week and next week, we want to discuss W. B Yeats, the Irish poet who wrote the poem “The Second Coming” from which Achebe took the title of his book.  Christy, what can you tell us about this poet, beyond the fact that he won the Nobel prize for literature in 1923?  Should we really like him?  Bottom line- is he boring for those of us who aren't poetry heads?      HA!! Well, as you know- I'm always trying to pitch the idea that poetry is for everyone- you don't have to be a melodramatic person all caught up in their feels to find value in poetry.  It's a tough sell, and every year when I get new kids in class- I have the arduous task of making this case.  In fact, school starts for me tomorrow- if you're listening to this in real time, we are recording this in the fall of 2021 and school is starting back for us this week- and even though I am teaching all American Literature this year- this year- from AP all the way to regular English and all the levels in Between- I'm starting with the Irish poet William Butler Yeats- and actually this poem that we're talking about today.  The reason I'm doing it- for one thing- Yeats is on my mind- but the bigger reason is because this poem is an occasional poem- an occasional poem is where you are moved by an occasion and this occasion provokes feelings that need to be recorded.  My students are coming back to school after being locked in their homes- some of them have not been out in a year and a house.  The first thing we are going to do is write an occasional poem, and we're going to model it after Yeats.  If you're a teacher and interested in this assignment, it's on our website, but otherwise, my point is- Yeats was a guy who knew how to say things that we feel and here he conveys strong emotions about the identy politics of his day- something we all know a little bit about these days.  But Yeats has become popular because he knows how to express things people understand and identify with. The Coen brothers were inspired by him in their movie “No Country for Old Men” .  He's shows up in episodes of Cheer's, the band the Smith's have alluded to him and even Joe Biden in a foreign policy speech has alluded to the very poem we're talking about today.  But to answer your question, yeah, if we should like him- that's always difficult to say.   Honestly, he's from an era that's long gone and from a part of the world, that's different than for many of his readers.  He's also  little difficult to dissect because he loves symbols.    Those were a lot of disclaimers there.      BUT, if you do get into him, there are a lot of people that actually enjoy his work- not just poetry heads.  You'll  see him on a lot of those brainy quotes.    I guess that's true.  I actually just saw a meme on LinkedIn that quoted him.      So, because Yeats has such a large body of work and is so complicated, we're going to spend this week talking about him and the poem “Easter, 1916” then next week we'll move to the poem Achebe uses for his book title, “The Second Coming”.  It's harder to understand than the one we're doing today.  It's slightly apocalyptic and so complex, but don't think it doesn't have intrigue- Yeats had a complicated romantic life in general that we'll talk about some today, but ultimately it resulted in a strange but successful marriage with a woman, named George,  who besides having the interesting ability to dictate messages from the other side, as in ghosts and stuff- was 18 when they met, btw-he was 46.  So there you go…stay tune…    Ha- okay!  I can see how that age gap might turn some heads, especially at the turn of the 20th century.  So, can we expect symbols and philosophy?    That's some of it.  But also, his body of work is so large; it's complicated; it has a lot of variety.  He started out talking about all the myths and beauty of his home country.  But he didn't stay there.  His work is romantic; it's political; it's spiritual- he didn't just write poems either, he wrote plays- but in all things the one thing that is true in all of it is that - his work is Irish- there is so much magic and mystery embedded in this history and culture of Ireland- those of us who don't share the heritage of leprechauns, fairies, and magic are at a disadvantage by never having visited the amazing end of the rainbow we call Ireland.    I know that's a sore subject with you.  To get personal for a minute, Christy and I have gone with students on EF or Education First on several trips to Europe over the last few years.  In 2020, we had a trip planned with students from here in the Memphis area to tour Ireland and Scotland.  We were finally going to go but, of course, Covid struck the world, and that got cancelled.  Ireland is still on the bucket list, hopefully we'll get lucky soon to be able to discover for ourselves the beauty and the mystery of the place- but until then, we will live vicariously through Yeats, U2 and most recently- The Derry Girls- Yes, I'm not ashamed to admit we watch and love that show.       It is a fun show- and really contextualizes in some very funny ways this ethnic challenges Ireland faces.  Poor James Maguire, one of the characters on the show is English- born- but has to attend an all girls school for his safety- due to his accent.  Their making fun, but we all know, of course, that racial tensions and identity politics can get ugly in a hurry.  Anyway, getting to Achebe, and Yeats, it's really not surprising to me that Yeats caught Achebe's attention.  And in many ways has a lot in common with Chinua Achebe.    Well, they are from two very different places in the world, how do you mean?    Well, first of all, and this is a big one- both men were men between two cultures- and this is something those of us outside of Great Britain or even Europe don't always have in the forefront of our minds.  The Irish and the English are NOT the same people group.  The Irish are descended from the Celts; The English are Anglo-Saxon.  The Irish, like the Igbo, had a different language for centuries and in Yeats day when he visited the country side- it was the heart language of many of the country people.  The Irish are Catholic; the English are Protestant.  But the Irish are also animistic in many ways, especially the country people, and it was this culture that enchanted Yeats as a child, as did the animism of the Igbo for Achebe. Of course, the largest similarity between these two men are their lived experiences with colonialism.  Yeats lived through the Irish Independence, as did Achebe through the Nigerian one.  Both experienced the violence of transition and post-colonialism.      Again something a lot of the world forgets about.  We think of colonialism in terms of Africa, Asia and the Americas, but the English efforts to colonize Ireland date to the 1500s, so we are talking about a long term antagonism and complicated history.    And William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin,  Ireland in 1865 in an English protestant household to a promising middle class lawyer.  So, you can already see the set up for a front row to political conflict.    1865, for Americans means the Civil War, but for those in Ireland, there was another horrific crisis.  Just like the stable crop in Nigeria is the yam; the staple crop of Ireland was the potato, and in 1845 a strain of white mold hit the potato crop and a great famine broke out.  Literally millions died of starvation and millions of others were forced to take their chances crossing the ocean and fleeing to America.  Besides just the natural catastrophe of the agricultural disaster, an even worse problem was the British government's reaction to it.  There was a lot of prejudice in England towards the Irish, which we talked a little bit about when we talked about Frankenstein and Mary Shelley, but basically the government basically did too little to feed a starving population.  In fact, a lot of absentee English landowners- and who those guys were were basically were the hedge-fund owners of their day, those guys went so far as to still export Irish food supplies and evict poor tenant farmers who couldn't pay their rents.  So, beyond being a natural disaster, the natural disaster brought out the worst in many people and so as these things often do- natural crisis turned political.  Many more Irish, even Protestant ones, who otherwise may not have been political people, began to see the importance of Self Rule in Ireland- Many who called Ireland home whether they were ethnically Irish or ethnically English began to strongly support political changes that would be costly.    And that of course is Yeat's family's case- except with a twist.  Yeat's father, decided when Yeat's was two that he was going to leave Dublin and move to London to attend art school.       At first pass feels slightly irresponsible.     I think his wife thought so.  William's mother, whose family was rich and from the countryside- was not a fan of urban London bohemian poor person life. In fact, she couldn't deal with it and broke down emotionally.  Her depression got to the point that she became bedridden and basically droped out of the picture until her untimely death.  So, we have children, who, like many of us, are dropped into multiple cultures and are displaced.  We have little William, his brother Jack, and two sisters who are basically living in household where their parents hated each other.  They also, for the most part, lived in poverty, but they had this wealthy side of the family who lived well but far away in Ireland, in a town called Sligo.  During the school year, Yeats lived this impoverished life in a London slum where he was the Irish poor kid, but in the summer he would go to his grandparents fancy house in Sligo, this nice town on the coast.  However, Sligo is a Catholic area, so even though he can identify with the people in this community because he's from the same countyr, he's not from the same ethnic or religious group.   He's the Protestant outsider kid from London.    Except he's not even really protestant either is he.        No, he really isn't- and I guess that's the Bohemian art side of this father.      His father did not believe in Christianity, which as we know, in that time period was a majority view.    And I guess that's what made the folklore and animism of the Irish culture so attractive to little William.  In Sligo, he learned about Irish folklore- which is something I don't know a whole lot about, except that it's magical- literally.  And we know he loved all this because he wrote about later in life.  He talked about people he knew growing up that taught him about magic and ghosts and would swear they had seen fairies.  He gathered these stories in his head and used them as inspiration for his early writing career.    Well, like we talked about last week, lots of people all around the world are animistic, so is it possible that the cultural tradition of the people in Ireland, also in some ways connects to several beliefs of the Igbo.      I think that's likely fair to say.  Irish mythology certainly has a pantheon of gods, and ancestors also play a role in all of that.  Yeats was definitely an animist as we'll talk about next week with a serious piece “The Second coming”, but his career started here with these fanciful stories.  One famous poem called, “The Stolen Child” is based on this idea that sometimes fairies steal human children, and it seems thatYeats likely really did believe in fairies.  He kind of reminds me a little bit of William Blake, in fact, a lot of Yeat's stuff reminds me of William Blake, especially the spiritual stuff.      And I want to be careful here not to get into the weeds here, but one time someone asked him if he really did believe in fairies, to which he responded something to this gist of- well, none of us really know what we do and don't believe until we're put to the test- and in fact, our behaviors say more about what we believe than what we tell people whether we realize it or not- which is kind of an interesting response.      I guess he's wanting to say, all of us believe in things we won't own?  We claim to not believe in ghosts until we step into a haunted house and then no matter what we say, we run out like crazy people away from them.      I think it's something like that.   W. H. Auden when he wrote a poem eulogizing Yeats referenced this part of him as his silliness- but says it this way, “you were silly like us” and though it's strange to believe in fairies- and maybe silly- Yeats is kind of honest about his strangeness or silliness.       And is that what people like about him?  Do you think Part of the reason he could feel the strangeness of things so deeply has to do with this multi-cultural upbringing?  Being, to use Achebe's words living at a crossroads of cultures.    I do, just like Achebe.  And he definitely feels for the birth of his nation-- and that's the poem we're going to talk about today, “Easter, 1916” but before we go there, there's another part of him that has fascinated the world- another strangeness.  Yeats had a strange fascination with this woman named Maud Gonne.      Who is she?    I would say, Maud Gonne is what Brittney Spears might call a Femme Fatale.     Oh dear, Brittney Spears makes an Irish appearance!       I think Yeats would have like Britney, actually.  But anyway, the story goes that Yeats writes a poetry book.  It gets published and actually becomes pretty popular.  One person who noticed it was a woman named, Maud Gonne.  She was independently wealthy- very rich in fact, young, beautiful, well educated and an extremely aggressive Pro-Ireland political activitist and actress.  Like Yeats, she was from Ireland, but Anglo-Irish- so not ethnically Irish, but from Ireland.  I know that gets confusing.  After Yeat's book came out, she went to see him in London, and he immediately fell in love with her.  They hung out for the 9 days she was there in London- and apparently that was enough to inspire a 45 year infatuation.  He was going to be in love with her for most of his life.  He proposed to her more times than I can find out- exactly-  I've heard numbers like 18 times- she rejected him every single time.  He wrote love poem after love poem for her. He wrotes plays for her to act in.      Sounds a little bit like Petrarch and Laura- he seemed to enjoy unrequited love- the impossible woman.     Yeah- except it gets weirder.  Yeats, was absolutely convinced Maud was this virginal innocent rose.  Even after birthing two children with a married French journalist, sadly one child died.  The other, however, did not, Iseult.  Anyway, Yeats- in the face of insurmountable evidence- believed Maud was virginal until finally she told him the truth years later that the child was actually hers.    How did that go over?     Well, at first he quit writing poetry about her, but then he did what most men would do who can't get over their femme fatale even after 45 years.    Oh, and what is that?    He waited until the Iseult turned 22, and then tried to talk her into marrying him.    By her, do you mean the daughter?  Or did he try to get the daughter to talk her mother to marry him.      Oh no, you were right the first time.  He proposed to the daughter- and she seriously considered it.      Well, there you are.  I'm assuming she looked like her mother.    You assume correctly. She looked uncanningly like her mother did at that age.      Nice.  So, are we to assume it's a physical obsession that lasted all those years?    Part of it, I guess.  I'm sure, it would be a fascinating psychological study, if people do stuff like that.  He definitely was enamoured with Maud Gonne's beauty, but they also connected spiritually.  They both shared a lot of these animistic beliefs, not fairies, but connecting with the other world and things like that.  But, one other thing that really attracted him to her was her politics.  She was a extremely vocal spokesperson for the Irish homeland- something Yeats believed in too.  He wasn't as big of an advocate as she was because she was for violence and he was against that, but she had real conviction.  She gave speeches, organized protests, did a lot of the things we seen political activitists do today- all of this was to overthrow British rule.     Well, let me add that in the late 1890s, this would have been very progressive.  Gender stereotypes were deeply entrenched during this time period, especially in Ireland.  It's unusual for a man of this period to find this kind of independence so irresistibly attractive.      I agree, but Yeats is one of those men that is attracted to strong women- Maud Gonne and her daughter weren't the only ones.  He had a very deep and personal relationship  with another woman named Olivia Shakespear, who actually was in love with him and whom he blew off. He also was besties with another powerful Irish nationalist woman named Lady Augusta Gregory. She actually worked with him on an important project to help create an Irish theater, and even supported him financially.      Anyway, the reason I bring all this up besides the fact that it's just kind of interesting, is that the poem Easter, 1916 is a political poem, but it's deeply personal as well.  Yeats did that sort of thing a lot- he would take a world event and make it personal.  The poem “Easter, 1916” is considered the most powerful political poem every written in the English language- of course that's always arguable.  But it is powerful.  But it also connects personally.         In 1903 Maud Gonne- the ultimate unattainable woman- actually marries someone else- ending for a time Yeat's continual marriage proposals.  She marries an Irish revolutionary named Major John MacBride.      And not long after this, political chaos is breaking out all over the world. Tell us about it, Garry.     Well, just in terms of Ireland, after the potato famine- which I cannot overemphasize how serious that is, we have what has been called The Land Wars.  To oversimply, in the 1800s rural tenant farmers were starving, they couldn't pay their rents, they got evicted by rich often absentee landlords, and then violence erupts.  By this time, concessions were being made and many tenants were buying their own property.  The Irish were making progress towards a better life, but it's a mess.  Many were still leaving for America; many were still convinced they needed their own country.  The country is totally divided.  In 1914, Britain finally approves Home Rule, which means that Ireland won't be independent, but will rule itself.  This seems great, except World War 1 breaks out and home rule doesn't get implemented.      And Yeats is not really on team Radical- like Maud Gonne is.  Maud Gonne wants complete independence and an Irish state.  Yeats is for Ireland, but he believes England will keep faith; Home Rule will be a reality and no one else really needs to die over this.  His, like many Irish people, was a middle of the road, ready for compromise kind of attitude.  He wants reconciliation between the people groups, which makes sense if you think about his upbringing.      But here's the complication with World War 1- what are the Irish supposed to do?  They want to rule themselves, they've been promised they are going to be given this opportunity with Home Rule, but now they've been told, we'll we get around to doing that later.  We have a bigger problem and we can't deal with this right now.  Oh and by the way, we need you to send your young men to fight.  The Irish are in an  existential double-bind.  Now they find themselves having to decide do that fight FOR the British against the Germans or do they run the risk of Germany winning?   Many Irish chose to fight with the British.  Now think about what does this mean?  Christy, you have strong feelings about World War 1- what do you think?    I really do- I hate WW1- it was just the worst.  It means trenches, poisonous gas, trench foot, it means awful political propaganda.  It means little children as young as 14 lying about the age and people knowing they were lying about their age and dying in those awful trenches for reasons they couldn't even tell you.  It means everything awful.    Ha!  True- tell us how you really feel.    Well, it's so sad.  Anyway, I guess for the Irish, it means, if they fight for the British, they earn the right for some sort of independence.  Yeats believed, and I use his words, the British may still “keep faith.”      Well, that brings us to the year 1916.  The year has been going on for a while now.  In Ireland there were basically two political parties- one for fighting for the British, another against.  There was an Irish Militia= the Volunteers- of this group- there were the National Volunteers and then the Irish Volunteers.  You can probably guess which one was for supporting the war and which one was more interested in creating a free state of Ireland.      I'm going to say the Irish Volunteers.    Yep, and I hope this isn't hard to follow- but here's what happened- we have two groups of people.  During the week of Easter 1916, we have many of the Irish Volunteers making the decision that they were going to take the opportunity that the British were distracted by the war and declare independence.  They picked Easter because of the idea of Jesus Rising again, the Irish rising again, so around 1600 go downtown, stage a rebellion, take over a bunch of buildings most prominently the Post Office and declare that Ireland is now a Republic.  The British, of course, respond by bringing in troops.  It gets violent, 485 are killed- half of those civilians.  1800 are taken to prison in Britain.  It's a big riot. For the most part, most Irish people don't support this movement.  However, the British make a terrible political mistake.  They choose to execute 16 of the leaders of the rebellion.  This caught everyone by surprise and outraged the people of Ireland.    Yeats was in the group.  It wasn't that he thought what the rebels did was right, but he understood their frustration, and the English owed them some sympathy.     Exactly, and the irony is not lost on anyone that during this same week over in Hulluch, where they were fighting the Germans, the Germans had just released an extremely deadly poisonous gas attach on an Irish division of Volunteers and 442 had died just from the gas poisoning on the first day of the attack alone.    And here's the personal connection, one of the men executed by the British for being a leader in the rebellion was Maud Gonne's husband, McBride.    Yeats is very moved by everything.  He's moved by the rebellion and he's devastasted by the response of the British in executing the rebel leaders. He says this in a letter to Lady Gregory, “I had no idea that any public even could so deeply move me,” He was not even in Ireland at the time.  He further told her later, “I am very despondent about the future.  At the moment, I feel that all the work of years has been overturned, all the bringing together of classes, all the freeing of Irish literature and criticism of politics.”  In the poem, which we're getting ready to read, he talks about four of the rebels specifically.  A couple of them he liked.  He hated McBride, not just because Maude Gonne had married him, but because he physically beat her and her daughter and since they were Catholic she couldn't divorce him.  McBride was a horrible person, but he knew him.  Dublin was a small town, and everyone knew everyone involved.  When Yeat's writes at the end of the poem that  all has changed- changed utterly.  He means exactly that.  There is no going back to the way we were thinking before.          Yes- the Irish war for independence starts in 1919 and by December 6, 1921, there is a free Irish state.     The poem was not published until 1920, so that's halfway between the war years, I guess.  It helped unify the Irish into wanting independence- he was famous.  He also made what happened in Dublin personal to everyone.  What's interesting about the poem is that it doesn't necessarily make the people who were executed holy martyrs- he even wonders if it was worth their lives.  What it did was, kind of say, well, maybe they were too fanatical, maybe they should have done it, maybe they shouldn't, but that's in the past now.  Now, I'm going to wear Green- and we all know that's the color representing Ireland, the Emerald Island.    Let's read the poem.  We'll read it stanza by stanza, and then we'll make some more comments at the end.    I have met them at close of day     Coming with vivid faces  From counter or desk among grey     Eighteenth-century houses.  I have passed with a nod of the head     Or polite meaningless words,     Or have lingered awhile and said     Polite meaningless words,  And thought before I had done     Of a mocking tale or a gibe     To please a companion  Around the fire at the club,     Being certain that they and I     But lived where motley is worn:     All changed, changed utterly:     A terrible beauty is born.      First thing to notice is that it's in the first person.  I- have met them.  These people- these were people I knew before the war.  For the most part, I didn't even care a lot about these people, “I have passed with a nod of the head or polite meaningless words”.  He points out that he had even made fun of them, “thought before I had done of a mocking tale or a gibe…at the club”- maybe he had thought they were just the crazy radical people they sat around drinking laughing at the less educated types.  Notice that he throws in the word “motley”- that's the outfit court jesters wore, the fools- they were clowns until- all changed, changed utterly- a terrible beauty is born.    And it is that phrase, “terrible beauty that people love so much”.  It's an oxymoron.  What happened was terrible- the rebellion was terrible- but they were doing it for something beautiful.  Their ideals were honest.  There death is giving life to something that is important to all of us- they were proven to be right.     but the actors in this comedy are going to transform into players in a tragedy as we move through the stanzas.  Let's read the second one,    That woman's days were spent     In ignorant good-will,  Her nights in argument  Until her voice grew shrill.  What voice more sweet than hers     When, young and beautiful,     She rode to harriers?  This man had kept a school     And rode our wingèd horse;     This other his helper and friend     Was coming into his force;  He might have won fame in the end,     So sensitive his nature seemed,     So daring and sweet his thought.  This other man I had dreamed  A drunken, vainglorious lout.  He had done most bitter wrong  To some who are near my heart,     Yet I number him in the song;  He, too, has resigned his part  In the casual comedy;  He, too, has been changed in his turn,     Transformed utterly:  A terrible beauty is born.    So in this stanza, he describes four people.  Four people he knew.  I do want to point out that these four people are not the four most important people in the rebellion.  They aren't the most significant rebels.  He picks them because they were personal friends.  “That woman”     “That woman”- Constance  Markievicz- wasn't executed, but she was from Sligo- where we went to play as a child in the summer.  She was his childhood friend.  She also was a really good human.  She was rich and born to privilege.  She actually was the first woman ever elected to parliament, and later the first woman in Europe to ever have a cabinet position.  So, she was important, but by the time she died she had given away her entire fortune and died in a ward, among the poor where she wanted to be”.  She was arrested, but was not executed during the uprising.      Then we have   “This man”- Patrick Pearse- was executed.  He was a fellow poet and a huge ring leader.  Yeats says he rode that winged horse- that's Pegasus the pure white horse with the wings .    “This other his helper and friend is a reference to” Thomas McDonagh- Pearse and McDonagh started a school together and were teachers in Dublin.  Yeats had been a guest lecturer for them many times.  He respected how they were building a generation of Irish thinkers.    “This other man”- John McBride- an abusive person – he was a drunken, vainglorius lout who had done most bitter wrong to some who are near my heart- but he still includes him here in his little list of actors.  He calls what they were involved with a “casual comedy”.  But is it funny?  Of course not.  It got serious really quickly.    Well, what I see, with the possible exception of McBride- these were good sincere people that were targeted by the British- not a bunch of thugs.    I think so- and that takes us to the third stanza- it's a little more philosophical and abstract.       Hearts with one purpose alone     Through summer and winter seem     Enchanted to a stone  To trouble the living stream.  The horse that comes from the road,     The rider, the birds that range     From cloud to tumbling cloud,     Minute by minute they change;     A shadow of cloud on the stream     Changes minute by minute;     A horse-hoof slides on the brim,     And a horse plashes within it;     The long-legged moor-hens dive,     And hens to moor-cocks call;     Minute by minute they live:     The stone's in the midst of all.    This stanza is harder to follow, Christy.    True, one of the things that is so hard about Yeats, and we're going to talk about this way more next week with the poem “The Second Coming” is that he holds symbols in such high regard.  He thinks of them as way more interesting than just one thing representing something else.  So, when we see something here, like we do in this poem that looks like it might be a symbol, we have to think of it more deeply because that's how Yeats's thinks of it.    So, what is a symbol and how do we know if something IS a symbol or not?    That's a great question.  I tell students all the time, something might be a symbol for something else if it looks out of place.  If something that shouldn't be so important is given more importance than it regularly deserves.  Here's an example, if I'm an elegant model, and everything I wear is extremely expensive, in the latest fashion, all that stuff, and I show up to an event, and I wear this very tattered and old looking bracelet around my arm-  you know- that must be a symbol.  You wouldn't be wearing it if it weren't.  You ask about it, and you find out it belonged a relative who had passed away or something like that- and all of a sudden it makes sense.  Things like that.    So, in this stanza, it starts out like we would expect- all the hearts of the people he'd been talking about have one purpose and then this purpose is connected to a stone- and not just connected he uses the word “enchanted to a stone”- what the heck does that mean/. Well, to you or me who aren't Irish- it may mean nothing.  But if you're Irish,  you likely know that one of the names of Ireland is the Island of the Stone of Destiny.  You may also know that in Irish folklore the Stone of Destiny was one of the four sacred talismans of the goddess Dana and all the kings of Ireland  were crowned upon this inauguration stone and their destiny was tied in with the magical powers of the stone.  And if you really know your folklore, as Yeats did and often referenced in a lot of other poetry, you may also know that this stone is enchanted but sometimes fatal.      Okay- so if the stone is symbolizing Ireland, what does this stanza mean?    Well, that's the thing about ambiguous writing- you have to decide what you think, and people don't agree.  What we know for sure, is we see this image of something that stays the same- a rock- if we take it to mean a symbol of Ireland, then he's making a statement about his homeland.  It's something that survives- but as things change like the living stream- it can be fatal too.  To be Irish is to have a heritage, for all of its beauty and magic, is not always safe- the stone troubled the living stream.      But then again, this is just my interpretation.  Some people thing the stone represents the coldness and the stream represents Ireland, so don't be afraid to read it and make your own ideas.  That's what poetry is all about- words bringing emotions to the surface and meaning different things to different people.    The last stanza is left cryptic in some ways because it writes out people's names again very specifically, but there's a lot of other images that can be difficult.  Let's read it and finish out.      Too long a sacrifice  Can make a stone of the heart.     O when may it suffice?  That is Heaven's part, our part     To murmur name upon name,     As a mother names her child     When sleep at last has come     On limbs that had run wild.     What is it but nightfall?  No, no, not night but death;     Was it needless death after all?  For England may keep faith     For all that is done and said.     We know their dream; enough  To know they dreamed and are dead;     And what if excess of love     Bewildered them till they died?     I write it out in a verse—  MacDonagh and MacBride     And Connolly and Pearse  Now and in time to be,  Wherever green is worn,  Are changed, changed utterly:     A terrible beauty is born.    So, here we see all of a sudden all these rhetorical questions.  He's asking the obvious question of is something like this worth it?  Is it justified?  Are there things we shouldn't do, even if the cause is noble?  He literally askes, “Was it needless death after all?”  He asks the obvious political question- England may have kept her end of the deal.       Did they love too much?      Then he kind of ends by immortalizing these names.  Kind of like saying, well, it's too late to know now.  We will never know because the sacrifice is made.  They will be immortalized.     Just so you know, Maude Gonne hated the poem.  The poem was first pubished just for friends- so she got an early copy.  She said this, “Easter 1916, No, I don't like your poem.  It isn't worthy of you and above all it isn't worthy of the subject- though it reflects your present state of mind perhaps, it isn't quite sincere enough for you who have studied philosophy and know something of history know quite that that sacrifice has never yet turned a heart to stone though it has immortalized many and through it alone mankind can rise to God.  You recognize this in the line which was the original inspiration of your poem, ‘a terrible beauty is born' but you let your present mood mar and confuse it till even some of the verses become unintelligible to many”. She went on and on but then got to the part about her husband to which she said, “as for my husband he has entered eternity by the great door of sacrifice which Christ opened and has therefore atoned for all”.  You can tell she felt free to share her mind.     Ha! Well, most of the world disagrees with her and has found it worthy.    I do want to come around to just a couple more interesting quirks before we leave it.  If you were to gray out all the words and just look at the form- Yeats deliberately wrote the poem to look like a column but a broken one- it's skinny, the lines are short and fractured.  If you were to put this poem next to a picture of the shelled building on Sackville Street where the riot occurred, it would like kind of similar.  The poem is to be the monument that outlives the photograph of the scene the most of us will never see.    And he did that on purpose.    Yep- that's why Poets write in verse- they can do stuff like that which you can't do in a story.    Also, another point to notice- he signs and dates the poem, but the date is weird.  It's not the date of the Rising, instead it's September 25, 1916 presumably the date he finished writing it. But the date of the uprising is encoded in the lines.  There are four stanzas- the fourth month- April- the first and and third stanza have 16 line (the year) the second and forth have 24 – the dates.  It's a strange way to date a poem, but the date of the event is embedded the the structure.  Then we have the  date at the end.    And so we have to ask, Garry, what happened on that date?    Well, I'm assuming you are meaning WW1- that date overlaps with the horrific Battle of the Somme. In that battle alone, the British lost almost 500,000 young lives many of them Irish.   I guess it's a final irony.  Why did Yeats included the date when he usually didn't date his poems?    Maybe as a way of reminding his readers, and here we are. It's not over yet.  A terrible beauty has been born- I have written a monument for those who dreamed of a new Ireland- but this new Ireland will have to negotiate a new modern world order- it will not be a casual comedy- and no matter where you fall on the spectrum of identity politics- we will all remember and wear Green.    And of course- all of this during Holy Week of Easter, 1916- nothing could be more ironic.  Thanks for listening.  I hope you enjoyed learning. Little of the history of Ireland as it is personalized for us by the great William Butler Yeats.  This episode we looked at his most famous political poem, next week we will look at the poem that inspired the title for “Things fall Apart”.  We look forward to it and hope you do too.    As always, text this episode to a friend, spread the word about the podcast on your own social media, and help us grow.                                                    

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