Podcasts about MacGyver

This week on the Toy Power Podcast; Trent does a quick recap of the first three episodes of the Lego Masters - Grand Masters Of The Galaxy, with some behind the scenes insight & over-all fun from those episodes. Then both Frank & Trent speak to another TV show they are both present on: Cards & Collectables TV - now with a June 22nd air release date! Then its straight into the News - & wow, we have a lot to cover indeed! New Transformers Lego announcements, Megatron controversy, MASK doing awesome Mask things; plus another sub-category to the Four Horsemen's awesome Toyline, in the form of Infinite Legions!! Neca dropping the ball on the Wednesday sculpts, but great things are happening in the Predator Universe! Biker Mice From Mars are kicking butt & eating Hot Dogs; plus Marvel Legends ports the ol' Marvel Vs Capcom Games into plastic! Fantastic 4 Movie Figures & Popcorn Buckets, Sherella - with origin story, but kind of overshadowed by Mondo's 200X HeMan fig! Some confusion around Beastman & lots of Joy for more TMNT. SDCC exclusive announcements from TMNT & Street Fighter too. Shoutouts becomes its own segment & we finally have a date for our Milestone Episode 400 - Sat June 21st - so mark those calendars for a LIVE Video Recording! Enjoy!Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Full episodes available at www.peoplenottitles.comLeslie Grandy is a CEO advisor, and product executive who guides companies, teams, and business leaders to expand their creative capacity to innovate for customers, accelerate growth, transform operations, and maintain relevance in a fast-changing world. From a successful career in the film industry in Los Angeles as a member of the Directors Guild of America to becoming an executive at iconic brands such as Amazon, Discovery, T-Mobile, Best Buy, and Apple, Leslie has built and led teams from the ground up and pioneered multiple first-to-market products, including co-authoring a patent for the earliest digital media subscription services that Intel acquired. In multiple corporate roles, She has guided internal innovation teams as an IDEO-trained leader in Design Thinking.Leslie currently coaches and mentors leaders through the advisory firm she founded, The Product Guild, the University of Michigan College of Engineering's Center for Entrepreneurship, and the University of Washington Foster School of Business. Leslie co-created and serves as the Lead Executive in Residence in the Product Management Leadership Accelerator of the Foster School's Executive Education program.Introduction to the Podcast (00:00:00)Discussion of Leslie's Book (00:01:40)Book Structure and Interviews (00:03:07Common Threads Among Interviewees (00:05:08)Attributes for Creative Velocity (00:06:15)Equanimity and Emotional Control (00:08:15)Personal Story on Equanimity (00:10:12)MacGyver as a Creative Metaphor (00:12:29)Constraints as Catalysts for Creativity (00:15:05)Combining Existing Ideas (00:17:16)AI as a Creative Catalyst (00:19:26)Understanding Customers Through AI (00:22:39)The Value of Analogies (00:23:20)Creative Bravery (00:27:01)Embracing Mistakes (00:32:11)Understanding Flow State (00:34:54)The Role of Sleep (00:37:44)The Power of Play (00:42:12)The Importance of Storytelling (00:45:22)Marinating Ideas (00:45:36)Value of Ideas (00:47:01)Early Failure (00:48:15)Team Exercises in Creativity (00:49:34)Judgment and Creativity (00:50:14)AI in Problem Solving (00:51:10)Building Team Trust (00:53:40)Book Release Celebration (00:54:31)Impact of the Book (00:55:08)People, Not Titles podcast is hosted by Steve Kaempf and is dedicated to lifting up professionals in the real estate and business community. Our inspiration is to highlight success principles of our colleagues.Our Success Series covers principles of success to help your thrive!www.peoplenottitles.comIG - https://www.instagram.com/peoplenotti...FB - https://www.facebook.com/peoplenottitlesTwitter - https://twitter.com/sjkaempfSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1uu5kTv...

Bernard Laurendeau built Ethiopia's first licensed payment system operator, advised the Prime Minister's office on job creation, and now operates from Tokyo helping Japanese billions find their way into African markets. But he has a contrarian message: Africa needs to stop chasing sexy tech and focus on boring infrastructure first.In this conversation, we explore:Why he respects unknown Lagos entrepreneurs more than Mark ZuckerbergHow Ethiopia needs 10,000 new jobs daily to avoid catastropheWhy aid has been "market disrupting" for African developmentThe difference between being a cultural chameleon and having real cultural intelligenceHis journey from management consultant to fintech CEO and backWhy African entrepreneurs are the "Indiana Jones and MacGyvers" of businessBernard shares candid insights about building in hostile environments, the importance of patient capital, and why African leaders need to become more comfortable with power. His unique perspective as someone who's navigated Ethiopian, French, American, and Japanese business cultures offers invaluable lessons for anyone interested in emerging markets.

This week on the Toy Power Podcast; we have another segment of The Team! This round pitting not one; not two, but THREE different Villain Sub-Groups against each other in a plight to crown the perfect Character that lines up with the A-Team Format. BUT, there are some ground rules! We must pick ensure a Villain is represented from each sub-group! Who are these Sub-groups you ask?!? Well its the Thundercats, Silverhawks & TigerSharks - representing Land, Air & Sea respectively. A really fun discussion that has some quite diverse choices indeed!! Then we pivot across to another Galaxy, Far, Far Away. Andor Season 2 has wrapped, & we have a fairly healthy discussion about what made this series so enjoyable. All this & more, Enjoy!Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Toniiight, Sam & Jeff look back on MacGyver season 5! Enjoy the annual Mac music mix; our silliest moments montage; Par Search sing-off judging; 2025 Listener Hall of Fame ceremony, and more! "Darn you, Making Fun of MacGyver! I just hate the way you talk me into everything!"

In this week's episode, I take a look at the movies and streaming shows I watched in Winter and Spring 2025. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebook versions of my anthologies at my Payhip store: JUNE25 The coupon code is valid through June 17, 2025. So if you need a new ebook this summer, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates   Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 252 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is May 23rd, 2025, and today we are looking at the movies and streaming shows I watched in Winter and Spring 2025. We missed doing an episode last week for the simple reason that the day before I wanted to record, we had a bad thunderstorm that knocked down large portions of my fence, so my recording time was instead spent on emergency fence repair. However, the situation is under control, so hopefully we'll be back to weekly episodes for the immediate future. And now before we get to our main topics, let's have Coupon of the Week and then a progress update on my current writing projects.   So first up, Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebook version of all my short story anthologies at my Payhip store and that is JUNE25. As always, the coupon code and links will be available in the show notes. This coupon code is valid through June the 17th, 2025, so if you need a new ebook for this summer, we have got you covered.   And now an update on my current writing projects. Ghost in the Corruption is finished. It is publishing right now. In fact, I paused the publishing process to record this and so by the time this episode goes live, hopefully Ghost in the Corruption should be available at all ebook stores. My next main project now that Ghost in the Corruption is done will be Shield of Power and as of this recording I am 15,000 words into it. My secondary projects will be Stealth and Spells Online: Final Quest and I'm 97,000 words into that, so hopefully that will come out very shortly after Shield of Power and I'll also be starting Ghost in the Siege, the final book in the Ghost Armor series as another secondary project and I'm currently zero words into that. So that is where I'm at with my current writing projects.   In audiobook news, Ghost in the Assembly (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) is now out and should be available at all the usual audiobook stores so you can listen to that if you are traveling for the summer. Recording of Shield of Battle (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills) is underway soon. I believe he's starting it this week, so hopefully we will have another audiobook in the Shield War series for you before too much longer. So that's where I'm at with my current writing projects.   00:02:17 Main Topic: Winter/Spring 2025 Movie Roundup   And now let's move on, without any further ado, to our main topic. Summer is almost upon us, which means it's time for my Winter/Spring 2025 Movie Roundup. As usual, the movies and streaming shows are listed in order for my least favorite to my most favorite. The grades are based upon my own thoughts and opinions and are therefore wholly subjective. With all of that said, let's get to the movies and our first entry is MacGruber, which came out in 2010 and in all honesty, this might be objectively the worst movie I have ever seen. The Saturday Night Live MacGruber sketches are a parody of the old MacGyver action show from the ‘80s. And so the movie is essentially the sketch stretched out to make a parody of an ‘80s action movie. It is aggressively dumb and crude. Its only redeeming feature is that the movie knows it's quite stupid and so leans into the stupidity hard. I'll say this in its favor, MacGruber has no pretensions that is a good movie and does not take itself seriously and then runs away hard with that fact. For that he gets a plus, but nothing else. Overall grade: F+   Next up is Down Periscope, which came out in 1996. Now the fundamental question of any movie is the one Russell Crowe shouted at the audience in Gladiator: “Are you not entertained?” Sadly, I was not entertained with Down Periscope. This wanted to be a parody of Cold War era submarine thrillers like The Hunt for Red October, I say wanted because it didn't really succeed. Kelsey Grammer plays Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dodge, an unorthodox US Navy officer who wants command of his own nuclear sub, but he's alienated a few admirals, which is not traditionally a path to career advancement in the military. Dodge gets his chance in a Navy wargame where he has to command a diesel sub against nuclear subs. Sometimes parodies are so good that they become an example of the thing they are parodying (Hot Fuzz and Star Trek: Lower Decks are excellent examples of this phenomenon). The trouble is that the movie takes itself too seriously and just isn't all that funny. A few funny bits, true, but not enough of them. In the end, this was dumb funny but didn't resonate with me the way other dumb funny movies like Dodgeball and Tropic Thunder did. Overall grade: D   Next up is Deadpool and Wolverine, which came out in 2024. Unlike Down Periscope, I was entertained with this movie, though both movies reside on the dumb funny spectrum. Deadpool and Wolverine is basically one long meta in-joke/love letter for the last 30 years of superhero movies. If you've seen enough of those movies, you'll find those movies funny, if occasionally rather tasteless. If you haven't seen enough of those movies, Deadpool and Wolverine will just be incomprehensible. The plot is that Wade Wilson AKA Deadpool gets pulled into some Marvel style multiverse nonsense. To save his universe from destruction, he needs to recruit a Wolverine since in his universe, Wolverine died heroically.   In the process, Deadpool stumbles across the worst Wolverine in the multiverse. Together they have to overcome their mutual dislike and attempt to save Deadpool's universe from destruction at the hands of a rogue branch of the Time Variance Authority. This means the movie can bring in a lot of cameos from past Marvel films. Hugh Jackman's performance really carries the movie on its back. Like I said, this movie is essentially one very long Marvel in-joke. I thought it was funny. I definitely think it can't stand on its own without having seen a sufficient number of the other Marvel movies. Overall grade: C   Our next movie is the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which came out in 2024. This is very loosely (with an emphasis on “very”) based on Operation Postmaster during World War II, when British Special Forces seized some Italian ships that had been supplying parts for German U-boats. It was entertaining to watch but it couldn't quite make up its mind tonally if it was a war thriller or a heist movie about Western desperados recruited into a crew. It kind of tried to do both at the same time, which killed the momentum. Like, the first parts of the movie where the protagonists take out a Nazi patrol boat and then free a prisoner from a base were good thriller stuff, but then the plot fused with the heist stuff and really slowed down through the middle forty percent or so. It was also oddly stylized with a lot of spaghetti western-style music that seemed out of place and some stuff just didn't make sense, like at the end after pulling off the mission, the protagonists were all arrested. That just seems bizarre since if anything, Winston Churchill and a lot of the British wartime leadership were enthusiastic about special operations and probably had too much confidence in the effectiveness of covert operations. So I did enjoy watching this, but I can see why it didn't make a lot of money at the box office. Overall Grade: C   Next up is The Gorge, which came out in 2025. This was a peculiar mix of science fiction, romance, and horror. For the romance part, perhaps shooting zombies together is a good idea for a first date. Before I dig into the movie, a brief rant. In one scene, a character is using a chainsaw with no protective gear whatsoever and she's not fighting zombies or anything in a situation where she has to pick up a chainsaw without preparing first. She's trimming branches to pass time. If you're using a chainsaw, at a minimum you want protective eyewear and headphones. Ideally you'd want chainsaw pants as well to reduce the chance of serious injury if you slip and swing the saw into your leg. Since I became a homeowner, I've used a chainsaw a number of times and believe me, you definitely want good eye and ear protection. This has been your public safety announcement for this movie review.   Anyway, loner former sniper Levi is approached by a high ranking intelligence officer giving him a mysterious job. He needs to guard a tower overlooking a mysterious mist-filled gorge for one year. On the other side of the gorge is another tower, guarded by an elite Lithuanian sniper named Drasa. Like Levi, Drasa has a fair bit of emotional damage and they're officially forbidden to communicate. However, they're both lonely and they soon start communicating over the gorge using telescopes and whiteboard messages. Eventually Levi gets emotionally close enough to Drasa to rig a zipline to cross the gorge and speak with her in person.   Unfortunately, it turns out the gorge is full of twisted creatures that storm out and attack and the job of the two snipers is to keep them contained. If Levi and Drasa want to save their lives, they'll need to unravel the dark secret within the gorge. This movie was interesting and I enjoyed watching it, but it falls apart if you think about it too much (or at all). Like the chainsaw thing I ranted about above. The entire movie runs on that sort of logic. That said, I appreciate how the filmmakers were trying something new instead of something like Deadpool and Wolverine. Additionally, this was an Apple+ movie and it's interesting how Apple's approach to streaming is to just make a whole bunch of random stuff that's totally distinct, from Ted Lasso to Mythic Quest to Severance to The Gorge. It's like, “we have more money than most countries, so we're going to make Ted Lasso because we feel like it.” Then again, Apple+ is apparently losing a billion dollars every year, so maybe they'll eventually change their minds about that approach. Overall Grade: B-   Next up is Click, which came out in 2006. Cross It's a Wonderful Life with A Christmas Carol and the comedic style of Adam Sandler and you end up with Click. Basically Sandler plays Michael Newman, a workaholic architect with a demanding boss and increasingly strained relationship with his wife and children due to his workload. In a fit of exasperation with his situation, he goes to Bed Bath and Beyond, where he encounters an eccentric employee named Morty (played entertainingly by Christopher Walken). Morty gives him a remote control that lets him fast forward through time, which Michael then uses to skip the boring and tedious parts of his life, but he overuses the remote and goes too far into the future and sees the disastrous results of his current life choices. Definitely a story used in A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life but effectively told and I was entertained (rather on the crude side, though). Overall Grade: B- Next up is Mr. Deeds, which came out in 2002. This was actually one of Adam Sandler's better movies, in my opinion. It was a remake of the ‘30s movie Mr. Deeds Goes To Town. In this new version, Sandler plays Longfellow Deeds, a popular pizzeria owner in a small New Hampshire town. Unbeknownst to Deeds, his uncle is the owner of a major media mega corporation and when he dies, Deeds is his legal heir. When the company's CEO and chief lawyer arrive at the pizzeria to inform him of this fact, Deeds goes to New York and soon finds himself involved in the CEO's sinister machinations. Yet he happens to rescue an attractive woman from a mugger, but there is more to her than meets the eye. The movie was funny and not as crude, well, not quite as crude as some of Sandler's other stuff. It had good story structure and several great lines, my favorite of which was “he was weak and cowardly and wore far too much cologne.”   Sandler's movies, in a strange way, are often very medieval. Like various medieval fables had a savvy peasant outwitting pompous lords, greedy merchants, and corrupt clergymen. The best Adam Sandler protagonist tends to be a good natured everyman who defeats the modern equivalent of medieval authority figures- evil CEOs, arrogant star athletes, sinister bureaucrats and so forth. Overall Grade: B     Next up is House of David, which came out in 2025 and this is basically the story of King David from the Bible told in the format of an epic fantasy TV series. Like if someone wanted to do an epic fantasy series about Conan the Barbarian, it could follow the same stylistic format as this show. And of course Conan and David followed a similar path from adventurer to king. Anyway, if one were to pick a part of the Bible from which to make a movie or TV series, the story of David would be an excellent choice because David's life was so dramatic that it would hardly require any embellishments in the adaptation. The story is in the Books of First and Second Samuel. King Saul is ruling over the Israelites around 1000 BC or so, but has grown arrogant. Consequently, God instructs the prophet Samuel to inform Saul that the kingdom will be taken away from him and given to another. God then dispatches Samuel to anoint David as the new king of Israel. David is a humble shepherd but then enters Saul's service and undertakes feats of daring, starting with defeating the giant Goliath and leading Saul's troops to victory and battle against Israel's numerous enemies. (The Iron Age Middle East was even less peaceful than it is now.) Eventually, Saul's paranoia and madness gets the best of him and he turns on David, who flees into exile. After Saul and his sons are killed in battle with the Philistines. David returns and becomes the acknowledged king after a short civil war with Saul's surviving sons and followers.   If Saul's fatal flaw was his arrogance of pride, David's seems to have been women. While the story of David and Bathsheba is well known, David nonetheless had eight wives (most of them at the same time) and an unknown but undoubtedly large number of concubines. Naturally David's children from his various wives and concubines did not get along and David was almost deposed due to the conflicts between his children. Unlike Saul and later David's son Solomon, David was willing to repent when a prophet of God informed him of wrongdoing and to be fair to David, monogamy was generally not practiced among Early Iron Age Middle Eastern monarchies and dynastic struggles between brothers from different mothers to seize their father's kingdoms were quite common, but enough historical digression.   Back to the show, which covered David's life up to the death of Goliath. I thought it was quite well done. Good performances, good cinematography, excellent battles, good set design and costuming, and a strong soundtrack. All the actors were good, but I really think the standout performances were Stephen Lang as Samuel, Ali Sulaman is King Saul, Ayelet Zurer as Saul's wife Queen Ahinoam, and Davood Ghadami as David's jerkish (but exasperated and well-intentioned) eldest brother Eliab. Martyn Ford just looks extremely formidable as Goliath. You definitely believe no one in their right mind want to fight this guy.   Making fiction of any kind based on sacred religious texts is often tricky because no matter what you do, someone's going to get mad at you. The show has an extensive disclaimer at the beginning of each episode saying that it is fiction inspired by the Bible. That said, House of David doesn't really alter or deviate from the Biblical account, though it expands upon some things for the sake of storytelling. Queen Ahinoam is only mentioned once in the Bible as the wife of Saul, but she has an expanded role in the show and is shown as the one who essentially introduces Saul to the Witch of Endor. Goliath also gets backstory as one of the “Anakim,” a race of giants that lived in Canaan in ancient times, which is something that is only mentioned in passing in the Old Testament. Overall, I enjoyed the show and I hope it gets a second season.   What's interesting, from a larger perspective, is to see how the wheel of history keeps turning. In the 1950s and the 1960s, Biblical epics were a major film genre. The 10 Commandments and Ben Hur with Charlton Heston are probably the ones best remembered today. Eventually, the genre just sort of ran out of gas, much the way superhero movies were in vogue for about 20 years and began running out of steam around 2023 or so. Like, I enjoyed Thunderbolts (which we're going to talk about in a little bit), but it's not going to make a billion dollars the way Marvel stuff often did in the 2010s. The wheel just keeps turning and perhaps has come back around to the popularity of Biblical epics once more. Overall Grade: A   Next up is Chef, which came out in 2014. I actually saw this back in 2021, but I watched it again recently to refresh my memory and here are my thoughts. I quite liked it. It's about a chef named Carl Casper, who's increasingly unhappy with his work after he gets fired over a Twitter war with a writer who criticized his cooking. Carl is out of options and so he starts a food truck and has to both rediscover his love of cooking and reconnect with his ex-wife and 10-year-old son. In Storytelling: How to Write a Novel (my book about writing), I talked about different kinds of conflict. Carl's conflict is an excellent example of an entirely internal conflict. The critic is an external enemy, but he's basically the inciting incident.   Carl's real enemy is his own internal conflict about art versus commerce and a strained relationship with his son. I recommend the movie. It was rated R for bad language, but there's no nudity or explicit sexual content and honestly, if you've ever worked in a restaurant kitchen or a warehouse, you've heard much worse in terms of language. The movie also has an extremely valuable lesson: stay off social media when you're angry. Overall Grade: A     Next up is Thunderbolts, which came out in 2025 and I thought this was pretty good, both very dark and yet with quite a lot of humor to balance the darkness. Former assassin Yelena Belova has been working as a mercenary for the sinister director of the CIA, Valentina de Fontaine (now there's a villain name if there ever was one). Yelena has grown disillusioned with her life and career and is suffering from increasing depression since she never really dealt with the death of her sister. Valentina promises her one last job, only for Yelena to realize that Valentina decided to dispose of all her freelance contractors at once, which includes US Agent and Ghost (previously seen in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Antman and the Wasp). In the process of escaping Valentina's trap, Yelena stumbles across a mysterious man who identifies himself as Bob, who has no memory of how he got there, but shows increasingly unusual abilities. Yelena wants to deal with Valentina's betrayal, but it turns out one of Valentina's science projects has gotten out of control and is threatening the world. The movie was well constructed enough that it didn't rely too heavily on previous Marvel continuity. It was there, but you probably wouldn't be lost without it. It almost feels like Marvel looked at the stuff they did the last couple of years and said, okay, a lot of this didn't work, but makes great raw material for new things. It helped that the central conflict was in the end, very human and about the characters, not stopping a generic villain from getting a generic doomsday device. Overall Grade: A   Next up is The Hound of the Baskervilles, which came out in 1988. This is a movie length episode of The Return of Sherlock Holmes television series, which had Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson. The plot deals with Sir Henry Baskerville, the American heir to an English manor set in the Windswept moors of Dartmoor. Apparently there's an ancestral curse laid over the Baskerville estate that manifests in the form of a spectral hound. Local rumors hold that the previous holder of the manor, Sir Charles Baskerville, was killed by the ghostly hound and many of the local people fear it. The local physician, Dr. Mortimer, is so worried about the hound that he comes to Sherlock Holmes for help. Holmes, of course, is skeptical of any supernatural explanation and soon becomes worried that an extremely subtle and sinister murderer is stalking Sir Henry.   Jeremy Brett's version of Holmes is, in my opinion, the best portrayal of the character and Edward Hardwicke's version of Watson is a calm, reliable man of action who sensibly takes a very large revolver with him when going into danger. Definitely worth watching, Overall grade: A   Next up is Sonic the Hedgehog 3, which came out in 2024. The 2020s have been a downer of a decade in many ways, but on the plus side, between Super Mario Brothers and Sonic the Hedgehog, people have finally figured out how to make good video game movies, so we've got that going for us. Sonic 3 was an excellent kids movie, as were the first two in the trilogy. In this one Sonic is living with Knuckles and Tails under the care of their human friends Tom and Maddy, but then a dark secret emerges. The government has been keeping a Superpowered hedgehog named Shadow in stasis and Shadow has broken out. It's up to Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails to save the day.   Meanwhile, Dr. Robotnik is in a funk after his defeat at Sonic's hands in the last movie, but then his long lost grandfather, Gerald Robotnik returns seeking the younger Dr. Robotnik's help in his own sinister plans. Keanu Reeves was great as Shadow (think John Wick if he was a superpowered space hedgehog in a kid's movie). Jim Carrey famously said he would retire from acting unless a golden script came along and apparently that golden script was playing Dr. Ivo Robotnik and his evil grandfather Gerald. To be fair, both the Robotniks were hilarious.   It is amusing that Sonic only exists because in the 1990s, Sega wanted a flagship video game character that won't get them sued by either Nintendo or Disney. It is also amusing that the overall message of the Sonic movies seems to be not to trust the government. Overall Grade: A   Next up is Paddington in Peru, which came out in 2024. This is also an excellent kids' movie. In this installment, Paddington has settled into London with the Brown family and officially become a UK citizen. However, he receives a letter from Peru that his Aunt Lucy has mysteriously disappeared into the jungle. Distraught, Paddington and the Browns set off for Peru at once. Adventures ensue involving mysterious lost treasure, a crazy boat captain, and an order of singing nuns who might not quite be what they appear. Anyway, it's a good kids' movie. I think Paddington 2 was only slightly better because Hugh Grant as the chief villain, crazy actor Phoenix Buchanan, was one of those lightning in the bottle things like Heath Ledger as the Joker in the Dark Knight. Overall Grade: A   Now for the two best things I saw in Winter/Spring 2025. The first of them is Andor Season Two, which came out in 2025. Star Wars kind of has an age range the way Marvel stuff does now. What do I mean by that? In the Marvel comics and some of the TV series like Jessica Jones, they get into some really dark and heavy stuff, very mature themes. The MCU movies can have some darkness to them, but not as much because they're aiming at sort of escapist adventures for the general audience. Then there are kid shows like Spidey and Friends that a relative of mine just loved when he was three. You wouldn't at all feel comfortable showing a 3-year-old Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but Spidey and Friends is just fine.   Star Wars now kind of has that age range to its stuff and there's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes you want to see a dark meditation upon human nature. Sometimes you need something kid friendly to occupy the kids you're babysitting and sometimes you just want to relax and watch Mando and Baby Yoda mow down some space pirates or something. All that said, Andor Season Two is some of the darkest and the best stuff that Star Wars has ever done. It successfully shifts genres from Escapist Pulp Space Fantasy to a gritty Political/Espionage Thriller. We in the audience know that the emperor is a Sith Lord who can use Evil Space Magic and wants to make himself immortal, but that fact is totally irrelevant to the characters. Even though some of the characters are high ranking in their respective organizations, this is essentially a “ground's eye” view of the Rebellion and life under the Empire.   In some ways, this is like Star Wars' version of Wolf Hall (which we're going to talk about shortly), in that we know how it ends already, but the dramatic tension comes from the harrowing emotional journey the characters undertake on the way to their inevitable destinations. Cassian Andor is now working for the nascent Rebellion under the direction of ruthless spymaster Luthen Rael. Mon Mothma is in the Imperial Senate, covertly funneling money to the Rebellion and realizing just how much the Rebellion will require of her before the end. Syril Karn, the ineffective corporate cop from Season One, has fallen in love with the ruthless secret police supervisor Dedra Meero, but he's unaware that Director Krennic has ordered Meero to manufacture a false flag incident on the planet Gorman so the planet can be strip-mined for resources to build the Death Star and Dedra has decided to use Syril to help accomplish it. All the actors do amazing jobs with their roles. Seriously, this series as actors really should get at least one Emmy. Speaking of Director Krennic, Ben Mendelson returns as Orson Krennic, who is one of my favorite least favorite characters, if you get my drift. Krennic is the oily, treacherous middle manager we've all had to deal with or work for at some point in our lives, and Mendelson plays him excellently. He's a great villain, the sort who is ruthless to his underlings and thinks he can manipulate his superiors right up until Darth Vader starts telekinetically choking him. By contrast, the villain Major Partagaz (played by Anton Lesser) is the middle manager we wish we all had - stern but entirely fair, reasonable, and prizes efficiency and good work while despising office drama. Unfortunately, he works for the Empire's secret police, so all those good qualities are in the service of evil and therefore come to naught. Finally, Episode Eight is one of the most astonishing episodes of TV I've ever seen. It successfully captures the horror of an episode of mass violence and simultaneously has several character arcs reach their tumultuous climax and manages to be shockingly graphic without showing in a lot of actual blood. Andor was originally supposed to be five seasons, but then Peak Streaming collapsed, and so the remaining four seasons were compressed down to one. I think that was actually to the show's benefit because it generates some amazing tension and there's not a wasted moment. Overall Grade: A+   Now for the second of my two favorite things I saw, and that would be Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, which came out in 2024, but I actually saw it in 2025. This is a dramatization of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall novels about the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, who is King Henry VIII's chief lieutenant during the key years of the English Reformation. The first series came out in 2015, but the nine year gap between this and between the second series and the first series actually works quite well since Thomas Cromwell looks like he ages nine years in a single year (which may be what actually happened given how stressful working for someone like Henry VIII must have been). Anyway, in The Mirror and the Light, Cromwell has successfully arranged the downfall and execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry's previous queen. Though Cromwell is haunted by his actions, Henry still needs a queen to give him a male heir, so he marries Jane Seymour. Cromwell must navigate the deadly politics of the Tudor Court while trying to push his Protestant views of religion, serve his capricious master Henry, fend off rivals for the King's favor, and keep his own head attached to his shoulders in the process. Since Cromwell's mental state is deteriorating due to guilt over Anne's death and the downfall of his former master Cardinal Wolsey and Henry's a fickle and dangerous master at the best of times, this is an enterprise that is doomed to fail. Of course, if you're at all familiar with the history of Henry's reign and the English reformation, you know that Cromwell's story does not have a happy ending. Rather, Wolf Hall is a tragedy about a talented man who didn't walk away from his power until it was too late and he was trapped. Anyway, in my opinion, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light was just excellent. All the performances were superb. Mark Rylance is great as Cromwell and has some excellent “WTF/I'm SO screwed” expressions as Cromwell's situation grows worse and worse. Bernard Hill played the Duke of Norfolk in the first series, but sadly died before Series Two, so Timothy Spall steps in and he does an excellent job of channeling Hill's portrayal of the Duke as an ambitious, crude-humored thug.   Damien Lewis is amazing as Henry VIII and his performance captures Henry's mixture of charisma, extreme vindictiveness, and astonishing self-absorption. The real Henry was known for being extremely charming even to the end of his life, but the charm was mixed with a volcanic temper that worsened as Henry aged and may have been exacerbated by a severe head injury. Lewis's performance can shift from that charm to the deadly fury in a heartbeat. The show rather cleverly portrays Henry's growing obesity and deteriorating health by having Lewis wear a lot of big puffy coats and limp with an impressively regal walking stick.   Overall, I would say this and Andor were the best thing I saw in Winter/Spring 2025. I wouldn't say that Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is an accurate historical reputation. In real life, Cromwell was rather more thuggish and grasping (though far more competent than his rivals and his master) and of necessity the plot simplifies historical events, but it's just a superb historical drama. Overall Grade: A+ As a final note, I should say that of all the 2024 and 2025 movies mentioned here, the only one that actually saw in the theater was Thunderbolts, and I hadn't actually planned to see it in theaters, but a family member unexpectedly bought tickets for it, so I went along. Which I suppose is the movie industry's biggest problem right now. The home viewing experience is often vastly superior to going to the theater. The theater has the big screen and snacks, but at home you can have a pretty nice setup and you can pause whatever you want, go to the bathroom, and you can get snacks for much more cheaply. That's just much more comfortable than the movie theater.   Additionally, going to the theater has the same serious problem as booking a flight in that you're an enclosed space with complete strangers for several hours, which means you're potentially in a trust fall with idiots. All it takes is one person behaving badly or trying to bring their fake service dog to ruin or even cancel a flight, and the theater experience has much of the same problem, especially since the standards for acceptable public behavior have dropped so much from a combination of widespread smartphone adoption and COVID. The difference between the movie industry and the airline industry is that if you absolutely have to get from New York to Los Angeles in a single day, you have no choice but to book a flight and hope for the best. But if you want to see a movie and are willing to exercise some patience, you just have to wait a few months for it to turn up on streaming. I'm not sure how the movie industry can battle that, but sadly, it is much easier to identify problems than to solve them.   So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes at https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe, stay healthy, and see you all next week.

In Episode 3, Season 2 – David and Mark-Eugene explore the “joys” of auditioning and reflect on how valuable a guide would've been when they were starting out. That's where JJ's Audition Adventure comes in—a delightful children's book by Atlanta-based actor and educator Javier Vazquez Jr. Inspired by his own path in the industry, the book follows young JJ as he prepares for his first self-taped audition with the help of his Tío Rolando, offering practical tips and lessons in confidence along the way. The conversation is moderated by Denise Santos, acclaimed actress and founder of Latinas in Media Atlanta. Known for her role in the Emmy-winning NFL Super Bowl LVII commercial Run With It and appearances on The Resident and MacGyver, Denise leads a heartfelt discussion on creativity, representation, and helping the next generation take the stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Tuesday, everyone! If you are a fan of Marvel, or Star Trek, or just good Sci-Fi, then you are going to love this week's guest— I'm talking with my new friend Terry Matalas! Terry broke out when he created the TV adaptation of 12 Monkeys. He has gone on to write and direct the last two seasons of Star Trek: Picard, he did a season of MacGyver, and he's currently finishing Vision Quest and an animated adaptation of Magic: The Gathering. Terry has his hands in so many amazing projects and I love to see it because he is truly the nicest, most appreciative guy. Be sure to stick around for the Hindsight this week, where my producer Jeph and I talk about some upcoming appearances and get into some fan questions from the Mail Sack! Biff's Question Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwY5o2fsG7Y Send me an email thesackhoffshow@gmail.com Produced by Rabbit Grin Productions Mail Sack Song by Nicolas @producer_sniffles Join us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/thesackhoffshow

Send us a textJim Hambel (https://x.com/JPEileenstrong) shares his MacGyver-like approach to building comprehensive physical education programs with limited budgets and resources. Drawing from his years of PE teaching experience, he demonstrates how creativity, partnerships, and resourcefulness can compensate for minimal funding.• Utilizing relationships with sports organizations like USTA, Bowler's Ed, and PHIT America to secure free equipment and professional coaching• Implementing bowling instruction as a pathway to teaching physical literacy, accuracy, and transferable skills• Reaching out to local businesses to enhance PE curriculum through volunteer partnerships• Applying for educational grants and using social media to discover new resources and teaching ideas• Adapting instruction to work in unconventional spaces like third-floor gyms and hallways• Emphasizing that student engagement comes from teacher creativity rather than expensive equipment Let me know what you think,Dave Join me on Substack where I share PE tips, games and strategies.***New FREE Video Course!!!***Become a guest on the show: podcast signup formFREE E-Book on setting up your PE programMy website: https://www.supersizedphysed.comGet my book: High Fives and Empowering Lives: A Physical Educator's Quest for ExcellencePaperback or download: HEREWebsite for the book: https://www.teacherchefhockeyplayerbook.com/

In today's episode, Dr. Mark Costes checks in from Roatan, Honduras, during the final day of the Smile Outreach International mission trip. Joined by Laura Kolar, Executive Director of SOI, and Dr. Winston Feng, the team reflects on a monumental week of service where they treated over 500 patients. They dive into the challenges and triumphs of dental care in remote areas, from bloody cleanings to MacGyver-style extractions with limited tools.  Laura shares her inspiring journey into nonprofit work, from humble beginnings in Uganda to helping build SOI from the ground up. Winston discusses how mission work influences his approach to dental practice and the unique bonds formed on these trips. This heartfelt episode is a behind-the-scenes look at the power of global dental outreach and the community it creates. EPISODE RESOURCES https://www.truedentalsuccess.com Dental Success Network Subscribe to The Dentalpreneur Podcast

Warum verzögert sich der Weltuntergang um 1 Tag und warum benötigt man beim ADAC Passierschein a38? Wie entkommt man aus der Sahara wenn man eine Panne hat und wie sehr beschäftigen uns die aktuellen Nachrichten? Ist eine Musical Folge eine gute Idee und was ist das Eierparadoxon? Wie werden Mitarbeiterinnen bei Hooters belohnt und feiern wir mit den Thunderbolts die Wiederauferstehung des MCU? Das volle Paket ZDP!

La banque RTL2 - Alexandra de Betteville vers Rouen gagne 50 000 euros ! - Julia de Bourgogne vers Reims gagne 400 €. L'info du matin - Grégory Ascher et Justine Salmon ont partagé un conseil Feng Shui pour mieux dormir : évitez de placer votre lit avec les pieds dirigés vers la porte. En Chine, cette configuration est appelée "le lit de la mort". Le winner du jour - Un Québécois a reçu une contravention pour téléphone au volant alors qu'il était simplement à la commande d'un Drive McDonald's. - À Landerneau, le maire a interdit la vente de boissons aux Schtroumpfs samedi prochain ! Le flashback de janvier 1987 - Arrivée de "MacGyver" sur Antenne 2, avec le héros le plus débrouillard des séries américaines. - Le 5 janvier 1987, début de "La roue de la fortune" sur TF1. Les savoirs inutiles - En 2007, les troupes militaires suisses ont accidentellement envahi le Liechtenstein... par erreur. Une invasion aussi brève qu'inoffensive. 3 choses à savoir sur l'Eurovision Qu'est-ce qu'on fait ? - Samedi, c'est la nuit européenne des musées. De nombreux musées ouvriront gratuitement leurs portes en France et en Europe jusqu'à minuit. - À Bordeaux, ce soir, place à des courses de chaises de bureau sur la placette de Munich pour la 3ᵉ édition de cet événement décalé. Le jeu surprise - Sébastien d'Auvers-sur-Oise vers Paris gagne un séjour de 2 nuits pour 2 personnes au Moulin de Fourges avec Weekendesk. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Ever ridden an escalator backwards… on a suitcase? Hilary Saxton did - and lived to tell the tale (with bruises and a killer story). In this week’s episode of Bounce Back Better, she unpacks why slowing down isn't just helpful, it's essential. Between dodging rogue escalators and carrying a handbag that could rival MacGyver’s toolkit, Hilary realised something big: life on autopilot is not a flex. This episode is your invitation to pause on purpose - and why it could be the reset your brain’s been begging for. You’ll discover:✅ What science says about breath and decision-making✅ Why being busy is not the same as being productive✅ The five types of pauses you need in your life right now✅ How to break the cycle of auto-react and start making clear, conscious choices✅ And how a suitcase, a phone call, and a fabulous dress led to an epiphany at the top of an escalator Whether you’re racing through your to-do list or feeling like you’ve lost the plot mid-sandwich, this one’s your permission slip to hit the brakes and get back to you.

This week on the Toy Power Podcast; we shine light on quite an old property; that is The Shadow! From its origins in Pulp Comic Format to the Hollywood Film in 1994 staring Alec Baldwin. That Film was classified big enough to spawn a corresponding Toyline from Kenner. Trent unpacks what was great, and what was left in the dark, around this neat property. Then we switch gears, and have a FULL-ON Spoiler lead discussion around the new Marvel Film that is: Thunderbolts - or New Avengers?!? We run though how each character played their part; the tone of the film & what we all overall thought of it too. Keen to hear from your thoughts on this Film too!Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Toniiight, MacGyver has a near-death experience, where he is reunited with his grandfather and his long-deceased parents, and Sam & Jeff LOVE it! But, can it pry an ultra-rare 10-mullet score from their grubby mits? Plus, the guys conduct a surprisingly effective seance to speak with the spirit of Grandpa Harry (RIP). This is a must-listen episode of MFOM!

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We delve into some prime late 20th century nonsense when we watch a two-part episode of MacGyver, wherein our mulleted hero is conked on the head and wakes up in Camelot, uncovers an assassination plot against King Arthur, trades tips with Merlin, rescue a fair maiden, and does battle against Queen Morganna. Starring Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Time Winters, Christopher Collet, Christopher Neame, Robin Strasser, and Colm Meany. Written by John Considine. Directed by Michael Vejar. This is a preview of the latest episode of our series Hollywood Avalon. To hear the entire episode, join the Mary Versus the Movies patreon for $3/month to hear this and the entire series Hollywood Avalon: https://www.patreon.com/maryvsmovies. 

Toniiight, as a juror in an intense murder trial, Macgyver breaks out to investigate the case on his own. Will Sam, Jeff, and special Patreon guest host Simon reach a unanimous verdict on this one? Plus, it's the debut of our new game show, The MacGyver 5! And whoa, Simon can speak with birds?! There's one surprise after another... don't miss it!

This week on the Toy Power Podcast; we welcome back Nick Greenslade; to assist us to break-down all things Star Wars related. Kicking things off, with his opinion of who he would have chosen as the candidates for the SW Villains side of things on: The Team.... Then without missing a beat; we take the next challenge of carefully selecting another round of The Team for the Star Wars Heroes campaign - keeping them tightly contained to the Original Kenner releases as our choices. Leader, Muscle, Specialist, Wheelman & an Iconic Vehicle. Then continuing the Star Wars themed banter, we discuss more of the visual announcements coming from SW Celebration & what the future of Star Wars might be... A fun healthy round table chat with fantastic knowledge & true passion from Nick! This Is The Way!Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest Huascar Matos is a paralegal professional and the new president of the International Practice Management Association (IPMA). He has a varied background including a degree in Spanish and time in the fashion and art industry. After an unusual and unexpected path, he has found himself as a director of paralegals at the firm of Foley & Lardner.  It's an exciting time for the IPMA as members consider international expansion, the “elephant in the room” of artificial intelligence, and the evolution of a constantly changing profession. AI may shake up the game, but Matos reminds us the legal profession is never static, enduring the shift from paper to e-discovering, the addition of computer capabilities, and other technologies.  Paralegals, Matos says, will adjust and adapt as they always have. Being part of an organization such as IPMA helps paralegals understand new trends and learn new skills. Robots are not going to take over your job, but AI could help you do it better.  Hear about Matos' own career path and the advice he has for those new to the profession. Stepping up, volunteering for new duties, and learning as you go will build your career and get you noticed. Don't put yourself in a box. Be a “legal MacGyver.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest Huascar Matos is a paralegal professional and the new president of the International Practice Management Association (IPMA). He has a varied background including a degree in Spanish and time in the fashion and art industry. After an unusual and unexpected path, he has found himself as a director of paralegals at the firm of Foley & Lardner.  It's an exciting time for the IPMA as members consider international expansion, the “elephant in the room” of artificial intelligence, and the evolution of a constantly changing profession. AI may shake up the game, but Matos reminds us the legal profession is never static, enduring the shift from paper to e-discovering, the addition of computer capabilities, and other technologies.  Paralegals, Matos says, will adjust and adapt as they always have. Being part of an organization such as IPMA helps paralegals understand new trends and learn new skills. Robots are not going to take over your job, but AI could help you do it better.  Hear about Matos' own career path and the advice he has for those new to the profession. Stepping up, volunteering for new duties, and learning as you go will build your career and get you noticed. Don't put yourself in a box. Be a “legal MacGyver.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam Howard is the winner of four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects and has been nominated a total of nine times for his VFX work on multiple Star Trek series. He originally trained in his home town of Melbourne Australia as a graphic designer, illustrator and animator, using very traditional artist tools. His passion for visual effects in film and television led him to be one of the first digital artists on the planet creating groundbreaking digital effects and animation for ABC-TV Melbourne and AAV Studios. He moved to Los Angeles in 1990 getting his dream jobs of working as lead animator and compositor on Star Trek: The Next Generation and MacGyver, and a few years later working as a senior artist at George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic (ILM).​Adam has worked on over 145 feature films including Titanic, Birdman, Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest, Mission Impossible 3, Rush Hour 3, Jarhead, Cliffhanger, The Sandlot, The River Wild, Pee Wee's Big Holiday, War of the Worlds, Star Trek: First Contact, The Day After Tomorrow, Van Helsing, Coneheads, The Hurricane Heist, Tower Heist, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 1 & 2, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Island, Peter Pan, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, and Bram Stokers Dracula.​He also created visual effects and animation for TV series including Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Will & Grace, That 70's Show and the iconic opening title chalkboards for The Simpsons. He was senior VFX Supervisor for the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride experience at Universal Studios Orlando, Tokyo and Los Angeles. Adam is also a fine artist creating custom painted portraits which are available by commission on his website www.adam howard.art. In addition to his VFX and fine art work, Adam is also Manager to award winning actress and screenwriter Lorenne Clarke. Adam recently completed work as VFX Supervisor for M. Night Shyamalan's TV series SERVANT and season 4 of EVIL on CBS.Connect with Adam:➡️ Instagram: @adamhoward_officialwww.adamhoward.arthttps://www.adamhoward.art/visualeffectsAbout The Lot1 Podcast ✨The Lot1 Podcast is designed for anyone who is interested in or working in filmmaking. Whether you're just starting out or a seasoned veteran, we hope you gain the knowledge you need to improve your craft, achieve your filmmaking goals, or simply get an understanding and appreciation for the roles and duties of your peers and colleagues.Follow Us! ⤵️Instagram & TikTok: @thelot1podcasthttps://www.instagram.com/thelot1podcast/?hl=enhttps://www.tiktok.com/@thelot1podcast–Hosted byDeji Bankole (@deji_bankole)Christopher Henley (@henley_son)Produced byMina VazirianEdited byChristopher Henleyhttps://linktr.ee/thelot1podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While there are some cool cool news items to talk too, there's also a certain Celebration taking place in Japan right now... As such we bring on a Star Wars expert Nick G who takes us through all latest Black Series and TVC goodness. Closer to home, we recap our local (and the best) Adelaide Comic and Toy Fair with it's April 2025 edition. Huge thanks as always to Brett and Sarah for their amazing work! Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join hosts Carter McKenzie and co-host Kerri McAllister for an exciting episode of the Hunt Lift Eat Podcast, featuring outdoorsman, survival expert, author, and educator Kevin Estela. Dive into Kevin's journey from a high school history teacher to a renowned survival instructor, sharing his passion for bushcraft, survival skills, and the great outdoors. From his early inspirations like Rambo and MacGyver to teaching at prestigious survival schools, Kevin discusses how his love for nature and teaching has shaped his career. Hear personal stories, including adopting his rescue cat Randy and designing knives with top craftsmen. Kevin also shares insights on his teaching philosophy, the importance of a white belt mentality, and his mission to inspire others through his books and the Estella Wilderness Education Fund. Whether you're a hunter, angler, or outdoor enthusiast, this episode is packed with wisdom, practical tips, and a heartfelt dedication to preserving outdoor skills for future generations. Don't miss Kevin's upcoming book, Beyond the Field, set to release on April 22, 2025. Tune in for an inspiring conversation that's sure to fuel your next adventure!Follow Kevin Estella:Website: www.kevinestela.com@estelawilded on Twitter/X and InstagramLinks & Resources:101 Survival Skills by Kevin Estella (Available on Audible and in print)Estella Wilderness Education FundHunt Lift Eat App for team membersSubscribe & Listen:Available on all major podcast platforms. Follow Hunt Lift Eat for weekly episodes on hunting, fitness, and outdoor living.As always, we appreciate the hell out of you guys. See you next week!Give us a follow on YouTube @huntlifteatofficial and be sure to subscribe so that you do not miss an episode!Please drop a follow on IG @thehuntlifteatpodcast and @huntlifteatofficialDrop us rating and review on Apple & Spotify!

Bienvenidos al capítulo 15 de No Te Lo Quería Decir, dedicado a uno de los personajes más ingeniosos y resolutivos de la televisión del siglo XX, Angus MacGyver. www.ntlqd.com Contacto info@ntlqd.com

It may seem like you were just watching some of these shows yesterday, but they are now, somehow, forty years old. Today, we look back on the TV shows of 1985, a year that gave us some of the very best of the decade. They include several beloved animated classics, a few era-defining sitcoms, and one of the biggest action-adventure shows of the decade.  Extended episode covering 8 additional shows: Patreon.com/80s  

On Navigating Cancer TOGETHER, join Talaya Dendy as she welcomes Jennie 'AdrenaJen' Milton (author, snow kiter, and resilience coach). Jennie shares her inspiring family journey with her brother's three-time cancer survival and her struggles overcoming depression and brain aneurysms. Discover her 'MacGyver mindset' for tackling life's challenges and learn about her children's book, 'Gale and the Red Kite of Courage,' offering hope to families facing childhood cancer through resilience and the joy of kite flying.Tune in to hear Jennie's captivating life story. This episode is packed with actionable insights and heartfelt inspiration for anyone facing adversity, especially those supporting loved ones through cancer.

Some leaders use duct tape to hold their teams, their goals, and their sanity together. The problem? Duct tape doesn't fix—it just hides what's broken underneath. In this episode, Bethany Rees introduces the Leadership Survival Kit—a sneak peek into a powerful framework designed to nourish every part of your leadership: your mindset, your relationships, your actions, and your accountability. Whether you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or like you've been MacGyver-ing your way through leadership with surface-level solutions, this episode will get you thinking deeper, leading smarter, and laughing along the way. You'll learn: Why duct tape doesn't work (even if it's silver and satisfying) The 4 parts of your leadership body: Head, Heart, Hands, and Guts The essential tools that nourish each area—like identity, purpose, communication, systems, and stewardship Real-life leadership scenarios and which tool to use when Plus, don't miss the signature “pour” decision moment and a Bible-based reminder to build your leadership on the rock, not the roll.

We love checking in with the ongoing conservation projects around the country, and today we're heading to Waiheke Island. 

Toniiight, a group of disgruntled former steelworkers demand a ransom by kidnapping the daughter of the corporate executive responsible for the closure of their mill, and MacGyver gets involved! Plus, Sam, Jeff, and special Patreon guest host Harry from Arizona discuss the hot new angle for the podcast: skull reconstruction!

This week on the Toy Power Podcast; we are once again missing Master Frank; but have Special Guest: Chris Canini back in the studio with the usual "Get To Know You Questions". A great insight into what Chris's passions are! Then, without missing a beat,he as brought in a fantastic assortment of Figures, to promote just how awesome the new Jada Street Fighter Toys are!! From M. Bison to Dhalsim (and many more), we annalise just what this Toyline is doing, what it may do in the future & how it compares to older versions of the same figures. Then we move over to latest scores; including more amazing gems from Jada; (courtesy of Chris again); this time in the form of Mega-Man! Another in hand assortment of toys for us all to review on the show. We continue to promote around the room, who has recently scored what, & believe me, there are some exciting items we cover!! For more on Chris Canini, be sure to check out his Instagram pages: @DarkLightCollector @DarkLightTurtleLairSupport the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're back to share with you the 9th episode of Mullets and Memories!  Enjoy!NOTE: Mullets and Memories was recorded between September 2016 and July 2018.Find our 2023 & 2024 Summer Series from Episodes 207-211 & 240-245Find The Airwolf Years from Episodes 96 - 189Find The Knight Rider Years from Episodes 1 - 95-----Mullets and Memories Theme Composed by: Greg KleinThe 80's Years Logo Design by: Luke LarssonFollow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/the80syearsInstagram: @the80syearsThreads: @the80syearsBluesky: @the80syearsTikTok: @the80syearsEmail us: letusblowyourmind@gmail.comCall our Hotline: (207) 835-1954

From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #073, part 5 George W. Melville was the MacGyver of his day, seemingly creating something out of nothing when the situation called for it. As an engineer he was unsurpassed. He was one of only a few survivors of the ill-fated attempt to reach the North Pole by the ship Jeannette, captained by George DeLong. He then went back to recover the bodies of those who had been left behind. He has a statue at the Naval Yard and was twice painted by Thomas Eakins. 

In this very special episode, Dr's J amd Santhosh discuss actual travel medicine and global health with students and faculty from their alma mater! Along the way, they cover carmen sandiego, choosing a medical travel destination , mobile clinics, navigating state department advisories, Mexican healthcare, class disparity, Indian Healthcare and pay as you go model, personal medical records, Belizean single payer healthcare with limited access, pharmaceutical differences, working professionally with somebodys uncle, Macgyver moments in medicine, cultural sensitivity when treating abroad, take home lessons from medical travel and more! So sit back and relax as we cover the globe to discuss international health!Special Thanks to Maria Nuno, Daniela Maciel, Claire Stepan and Dr Ken Kessler*due to technical difficulties, our bantering intro was lost, which while tragic just means you pick up the episode straight from the introduction of our guests Supporting us monthly has all sorts of perks! You get ad free episodes, bonus musical parody, behind the scenes conversations not available to regular folks and more!! Your support helps us to pay for more guest interviews, better equipment, and behind the scenes people who know what they are doing! https://plus.acast.com/s/travelmedicinepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the Toy Power Podcast; we are missing Frank in the studio; but have Special Guest: Chris Canini join us to help us breakdown a mountain of News & Announcements; mainly from the WonderCon Event! With a little bit of house-keeping aside, its impossible for us to ignore the recent Tariffs that is going to affect our Collecting passions. Mondo are up first with a beautiful array of Soft Vinyl items; 1/6th & 1/12th figures that has us drooling! McFarlane seem to have laid all their cards on the table; in an absolutely enormous slide-show of up-coming releases, in many different formats & sub-categories! Jada continuing to impress, not only with their awesome Street Fighter line; but their Mega-Man offers too! A heap of Marvel Legends that span across Movies, TV shows & Comicbooks too! Then rounding out, we shout out our wish-list of items we will be hunting for, at the upcoming Adelaide Comic & Toy Fair on the following weekend!! For more on Chris Canini, be sure to check out his Instagram pages: @DarkLightCollector @DarkLightTurtleLairSupport the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're back to share with you the 8th episode of Mullets and Memories!  Enjoy!NOTE: Mullets and Memories was recorded between September 2016 and July 2018.Find our 2023 & 2024 Summer Series from Episodes 207-211 & 240-245Find The Airwolf Years from Episodes 96 - 189Find The Knight Rider Years from Episodes 1 - 95-----Mullets and Memories Theme Composed by: Greg KleinThe 80's Years Logo Design by: Luke LarssonFollow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/the80syearsInstagram: @the80syearsThreads: @the80syearsBluesky: @the80syearsTikTok: @the80syearsEmail us: letusblowyourmind@gmail.comCall our Hotline: (207) 835-1954

In this episode of SHE MD, hosts Mary Alice Haney and Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi welcome Kate Bond, an actress best known for her roles in Chicago Med, Good Trouble, and the reboot of MacGyver. For over a decade, Kate silently struggled with endometriosis, a chronic condition that affects millions of women but is notoriously difficult to diagnose. Her story highlights the frustrations many women face in the healthcare system when dealing with this condition and getting dismissed by most doctors. Kate and the hosts explore the challenges of her diagnosis, the impact on daily life, and the knowledge you need to be your own health advocate.Access more information about the podcast and additional expert health tips by visiting SHE MD Podcast and Ovii. Sponsors: One Skin: Visit OneSkin.co/SHEMD and use code SHEMD at checkout for 15% off your first purchasePurely Elizabeth: Visit purelyelizabeth.com and use code SHEMD at checkout for 20% off. Purely Elizabeth. Taste the ObsessionSaks.com: Shop Saks.coCymbiotika: Go to Cymbiotikia.com/SHEMD for 20% off your order + free shipping today.Zoe: As a ZOE member, you'll get an at home test kit and personalized nutrition program to help make smarter food choices that support your gut. That's ZOE.com and use code SHEMD10 to get 10% off your membership.Momentous: Go to livemomentous.com and try it today for 20% off with code SHEMD, and start living on purpose.iRestore: Reverse hair loss with @irestorelaser and get $625 off with code shemd at https://www.irestorelaser.com/SHEMD! #irestorepodKATE BOND'S TAKEAWAYS:Endometriosis symptoms often include severe pelvic pain, painful periods, and gastrointestinal issues that can significantly impact daily life and work.Proper diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis often require finding a doctor who listens, shows empathy, and is curious about solving the patient's health puzzle.Suppression therapy after endometriosis surgery is crucial for long-term management and prevention of symptom recurrence.Proactive health screenings, including genetic testing and colonoscopies, are important for early detection of related health issues, especially for those with endometriosis.Some endometriosis treatment includes laparoscopic surgery with an experienced surgeon who can diagnose and treat endometriosis; hormonal suppression, like progesterone IUDs, often helps manage symptoms; Dietary changes may be necessary to address related GI issues like SIBO.IN THIS EPISODE: (00:00) Intro(03:25) Kate Bond's endometriosis diagnosis journey(04:50) Dr. Aliabadi explains endometriosis in detail(09:52) Kate describes severe endometriosis symptoms(21:15) Endometriosis impacts career and life(24:50) Treatment options for endometriosis explained(29:08) SIBO and endometriosis connection discussed(33:54) Importance of early colonoscopy screening(42:35) Life improvements after endometriosis treatment(45:02) Endometriosis impact on family planningRESOURCES:Kate Bond's InstagramGUEST BIOGRAPHY:Kate Bond grew up in an A-frame house at the end of a long dirt road in rural Georgia. She is an actress whose credits include Chicago Med, Good Trouble, and the reboot of MacGyver. She's a passionate unionist and serves on the board of directors of the Los Angeles local of SAG-AFTRA. Her story isn't just about making it in the entertainment industry—it's about breaking through barriers, both systemic and personal, and redefining what success looks like when life throws you curveballs. For over a decade, Kate silently struggled with endometriosis, a chronic condition that affects millions of women but is notoriously difficult to diagnose. Like so many others, she was dismissed by doctors, told that her pain was “normal,” and forced to keep pushing forward—because when you're trying to build a career in Hollywood, there's no calling in sick.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on the Toy Power Podcast, we take a look at a Galaxy Far, Far Away; and select the most wretched hive of scum & villainy - in order for another installment of The Team! Yes, this round is focused on the Villains from the Original Kenner Star Wars Toyline Universe. Leader, Muscle, Specialist, Wheelman and an Iconic Vehicle; are all needed to be voted on, and then locked in! Then we turn the tide, one quarter way through the year already!..... We take a look at what Movies are slated to be released at the Box Office this year! What has us excited, what are we staying clear of, and how good does the Toxic Crusaders Trailer look!! All this and more; enjoy!!Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Toniiight, an eccentric woman, leads MacGyver on a wild adventure to save a priceless violin and its virtuoso owner. Plus, "MacGyver" himself calls Sam and Jeff for an unforgettable, world-exclusive interview! You won't wanna miss this!

Yes, there is news to talk too - some of it huge. Like a certain huge dragon. Huge fundraisers. Huge SDCC ecto-glow announcement. Two huge properties join forces (gotta build 'em all). One huge Shredder (bro lifts). But bigger than ALL of those, is the unexpected parcel of absolute joy sent by our favourite Canadian, the one and only Colin Betts. This has to be seen (heard?) to be believed. In spite of some truely awful postage costs, comes so many gifts filled with attention to detail, insight, humor and most importantly, love. Colin - a huge thank you!Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Toniiight, MacGyver gets involved when a corporate spy steals prototype sonar equipment by seducing the Phoenix Foundation engineer who designed it. Is this a proper way to celebrate Women's History Month? Jeff and Sam discuss. Plus, Jeff takes his crack at "Opposites Attract," while Sam realizes the person Paula Abdul is singing to is a real jerk!

We are a couple of members down today so yes, it's a Lisa episode. Scot and Frank take the wheel to look at a new Origins reveal, some Latest Scores (where Scot goes BIG) but mainly wax on/off about the finale of Cobra Kai. Did they stick the landing or sweep the leg? How was Anthony Mackie's first solo run as Captain America? Hoe tough is it to integrate two cats into the same space? All these un-expected questions and more await! Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.