Podcasts about merlins

The Pinball Show Episode 173: Trough Jam 2025 Phase 1: Portal, Potter, Merlins, & Tariffs   Hosts: Dennis Kriesel & Zach Meny   - Stern Pinball Production Update - NEW SERIES: Trough Jam 2025 Phase 1 - What's To Come In Phases 2 & 3 - Portal Impressions - Merlin's Arcade Impressions  - Medieval Madness Merlin Edition Impressions  - Cactus Canyon Lyman Sheats Upgrade Kit Impressions - Jersey Jack With That Big Wand Energy - Barrels Of Fun Making Moves - Stern Pinball About To Launch Beast Mode With The Next Keith Elwin Game - Other Pindustry News - Pinball Market Trends™: Tariff Edition - TPNding?! - EXCLUSIVE MEMBERSHIP CONTENT: Diving Deeper Into The Future Of The Pinball Network...Or Lack Thereof?!    EXCLUSIVE CONTENT AND TPS MEMBERSHIP CAN BE FOUND AT Patreon.com/thepinballshow   Remember to purchase your next pinball or arcade machine from Flip N Out Pinball! flipnoutpinball.com zach@flipnoutpinball.com greg@flipnoutpinball.com   Follow, like, and subscribe to The Pinball Show (TPS), the industry's most popular podcast!   email: thepinballshow@gmail.com website: thepinball.network youtube: youtube.com/thepinballshow instagram: @thepinballshowpodcast tik tok: @thepinballshow review: thisweekinpinball.com/the-pinball-show/ store: flipnoutpinball.com membership: patreon.com/thepinballshow  

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In dieser Folge geht es nicht nur um Lindas Heimatland, Merlins babyweiche Haut und was diese vielleicht mit einer Würstchenbude zu tun hat, sondern auch um Missstände im Theater und anderen großen Institutionen. Hier geht's zum Podcast-Tipp der Woche: https://1.ard.de/15Minuten Lass uns gerne eine Bewertung da! Feedback, Freundschaftsbriefe & liebe Grüße an: 1plus1@swr3.de. Eine neue Folge gibt es jeden Mittwoch auf SWR3.de, in der ARD Audiothek und überall, wo es Podcasts gibt. Mehr Infos zum Podcast gibt es auf SWR3.de. 1 plus 1 – Freundschaft auf Zeit ist ein Podcast von SWR3. Produktion: Mit Vergnügen. Produktion: Lina Britt Bajorat und Jo Bischofberger Redaktion: Christina Gissi Winkler, Sandra Herbsthofer und Annamaria Herkt Technische Betreuung: Maximilian Frisch Schnitt & Mix: Sebastian Wellendorf und Maximilian Frisch Sprecher*in: Maximiliane Hecke und in den Teasern Max Richard Leßmann Line Producer: Lisa Golinski und Marc Bürkle Außerdem an diesem Podcast beteiligt: Matze Hielscher, Maxi Stumm und Amelie Kern

August is here and with it we take a look at two different Merlins! Two Merlins, however, who both have interesting ties to UFOlogy. First seen in our second episode as All Night with the Living Geeks, Ambassador Merlyn Merlin II was a mutton-chopped feature of the Alien Highway movie. Frankly, without his efforts we wouldn't have that stretch of Highway 375 named The Alien Highway. Then, we take a look at Colonel Donald Gilbert Carpenter who, under the pen name of Merlin Mesmer Merlino, wrote a book called The Treacherous Time Machine! Oh, did we mention Col. Carpenter also authored a USAF textbook with a chapter on UFOs and aliens? But, best of all, we have a snippet of The Treacherous Time Machine to read for you! This book is so rare that the only copy we could find is in a USAF library in Colorado!! You cannot miss this experience!

August is here and with it we take a look at two different Merlins! Two Merlins, however, who both have interesting ties to UFOlogy. First seen in our second episode as All Night with the Living Geeks, Ambassador Merlyn Merlin II was a mutton-chopped feature of the Alien Highway movie. Frankly, without his efforts we wouldn't have that stretch of Highway 375 named The Alien Highway. Then, we take a look at Colonel Donald Gilbert Carpenter who, under the pen name of Merlin Mesmer Merlino, wrote a book called The Treacherous Time Machine! Oh, did we mention Col. Carpenter also authored a USAF textbook with a chapter on UFOs and aliens? But, best of all, we have a snippet of The Treacherous Time Machine to read for you! This book is so rare that the only copy we could find is in a USAF library in Colorado!! You cannot miss this experience!

Da haben wir uns gegen die Merlins leider die Butter vom Brot nehmen lassen. Kein Grund für Benny und Kumbi sich nicht ihrem Brot-und-Butter-Geschäft zu widmen. Jedoch leben die beiden nicht vom Brot allein und besprechen daher mit Stephan Unkelbach das Restprogramm und die Play-Off-Quali-Chancen. In seinem ersten Besuch im Hotel erzählt unser Athletiktrainer und Star-Brotbäcker Jakov Kosovac über seine Aufgaben im und vieles weitere rund um das Team. Zum Schluss ist klar: Jakov ist mit Laib und Seele Baskets!

Merlin thinks LLMs have raised the bar for voice assistants in general and Siri in particular. Dan and his kid watch the excellent HBO series, Chernobyl. Merlin’s weird, truncated contexts in Things.

I sydvästra England reser sig enorma stenblock mot himlen. Stonehenge - ett mysterium i sten. Än idag står många frågor om det forna monumentet obesvarade. Vem byggde Stonehenge? Varför? Och kanske främst av allt - vad är den sanna historien om Stonehenge, som vilar under de gåtfulla stenarna?Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBWwpY9_3Dc&t=1sKonspirationsteorier - Eftersnack: https://m.facebook.com/groups/konspirationsteorierpodcast/      Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/konspirationsteorier/      Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/konspirationsteorier/       Källor: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SZ1ovvNZXqqgf7md7NUJTZMIfDBSTeC4Ef857_dUIFc/edit?usp=sharing  Mail: viviochaida@gmail.com Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I sydvästra England reser sig enorma stenblock mot himlen. Stonehenge - ett mysterium i sten. Vem byggde Stonehenge och varför?PREMIÄR MÅNDAG 29 JANUARI! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Der SC verliert erneut in Leipzig. Weil Merlin Röhl dabei aber ein unfassbares Solo-Tor raushaut, der SC eine gute zweite Halbzeit spielt und die eigenen Fans die zweite Mannschaft gegen Preußen Münster nach vorne schreien, gibt es trotzdem eine ganze Menge an Themen zu besprechen, unter anderem: - Aktuelle Themen rund um den SC - Das Spiel gegen Leipzig - detaillierte Highlights - Einzelkritik SC-Spieler - Unsere Leihspieler - Frauen, U19 - Ausführlicher Bericht vom Heimspiel der 2. Mannschaft von Felix (@Wertuzi0) - Den 11. Spieltag der Bundesliga - Unseren nächsten Gegner: SV Darmstadt 98 Wir haben unser Spendenmodell umgebaut – und freuen uns über eure Unterstützung! Patreon: https://patreon.com/SpodcastFreiburg Weiterhin funktioniert auch Paypal: https://paypal.me/SpodcastFreiburg Weitere Links:Das SC Freiburg Tippspiel 23/24: https://www.kicktipp.de/spodcast Kommuniziert mit uns auf unserem Discord-Channel: https://discord.gg/s3YjJ66gwU Lust mitzumachen? Feedback? Spenden? Sehr gerne! Kontaktiere uns jederzeit via Social Media oder Mail. Mehr Infos auf https://www.spodcast-freiburg.de Euer Spodcast Team in dieser Folge: Alex (@akoneczny), Mischa (@ZerstreuungFuss), Patrick (@prsc1904), Julian (@nokraut). Sprachnachricht von Felix (@Wertuzi0)

Airfair Teuge! Goof & Goot worden telkens onderbroken door loeiende Merlins en jankende Pratt&Whitneys, maar weten er toch best een mieterse aflevering uit te persen. Luister maar!

Wenn man Bogdan Radosavljevic mit seiner 2,14 m Körpergröße sieht, dann kann man kaum glauben, dass der Serbe schon mal Meister im Tanzen gewesen ist. Okay, das war in der Jugend, aber schon damals war er verdammt lang und dementsprechend war es schwierig, geeignete Tanzpartnerinnen zu finden... Nicht zuletzt durch seine Größe kam er als Jugendlicher dann doch zum Basketball. Boggy, so sein mehr oder weniger Künstlername, kam als Teenager von Serbien nach Deutschland. Ein einziges deutsches Wort konnte er. Welches? Das verrät er im Podcast. Genauso auch, wer ihn auf seinem Weg zur Basketballspitze geholfen hat und warum es zu so vielen Vereinswechseln kam. Dazu macht er klar, warum ein Leben in der Provinz im Vergleich zum Tempo in Metropolen durchaus vorteilhaft sein kann und dass er in der Arena Hohenlohe gerne mal Rindviecher treffen möchte...

Wenn man Bogdan Radosavljevic mit seiner 2,14 m Körpergröße sieht, dann kann man kaum glauben, dass der Serbe schon mal Meister im Tanzen gewesen ist. Okay, das war in der Jugend, aber schon damals war er verdammt lang und dementsprechend war es schwierig, geeignete Tanzpartnerinnen zu finden... Nicht zuletzt durch seine Größe kam er als Jugendlicher dann doch zum Basketball. Boggy, so sein mehr oder weniger Künstlername, kam als Teenager von Serbien nach Deutschland. Ein einziges deutsches Wort konnte er. Welches? Das verrät er im Podcast. Genauso auch, wer ihn auf seinem Weg zur Basketballspitze geholfen hat und warum es ...Du möchtest deinen Podcast auch kostenlos hosten und damit Geld verdienen? Dann schaue auf www.kostenlos-hosten.de und informiere dich. Dort erhältst du alle Informationen zu unseren kostenlosen Podcast-Hosting-Angeboten. kostenlos-hosten.de ist ein Produkt der Podcastbude.Gern unterstützen wir dich bei deiner Podcast-Produktion.

Unseren heutigen Gast, Marcus Lindner, kann man fast schon als Athletik-Urgestein im Deutschen Profi-Basketball bezeichnen. Aktuell ist er leitender Athletiktrainer bei Basketball Bundesligist HAKRO Merlins Crailsheim. Bevor er uns von seinen Aufgaben dort erzählt und auch welche SportTechnologien bei ihnen im Einsatz sind und welche Sicht er auf SportTechnologien im Performance Bereich hat, sprechen wir über seine Anfänge 2006. Eine Zeit, in der Basketballvereine noch keine Athletiktrainer hatten. Er verrät uns, wie er dazu kam, wie sich der Deutsche Basketball seitdem weiterentwickelt hat und welche Zukunft er für den Deutschen Basketball sieht. Außerdem sprechen wir sowohl über seine Zeit im russischen Profi-Basketball als auch seine Berührungspunkte mit der NBA und seine größten Learnings daraus. Aufruf an alle Performance Coaches im Deutschen Profi-Basketball: Am 24. Juni findet erstmals der 1. German Basketball Performance Summit bei den Fraport Skyliners statt. Mit diesem Event wollen wir die deutsche Basketball-Szene zusammenbringen, eine Plattform zum Austauschen und Vernetzen schaffen. Wenn ihr mehr erfahren wollt, schreibt eine Email an fee@feebeyer.com mit dem Stichwort "Basketball Summit".

Hallo liebe Hüttis! In dieser Folge begrüßen wir euch aus Hamburg. Denn dort wurde diese Folge aufgenommen. Es war ein Fest! Danke an dieser Stelle nochmal für diesen tollen Abend! Nun hört selber, wie unlustig das erste Kapitel war. Tauben wurden abgeschossen und solche Grausamkeiten. Im zweiten Kapitel war viel Quatsch aber auch krasse Entscheidungen wurden getroffen von Harrys Freunden. Insgesamt natürlich alles wieder wie immer bei unseren beiden Chaoten aus Chemnitz. Spaß und Spoiler wird es geben. Aber nun hört selbst. Viel Vergnügen!

In this interview with Dr Francis Young we discuss his monograph (released in March 2022), 'Magic in Merlins' Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain'. We discuss the historical intersection between magic and religion and their simultaneous entanglement with politics.

Mark Olly returns to the Garden to appropriately talk about the Green Man because it's a universal symbol of the Earth's anthropomorphic male defender. But first we discuss the Druids and the historical Merlins. Yes, plural. And the relationship with Joseph of Arimathea and a guy named Jesus. We get into the history involving the Greeks, the Romans, the Celts, the Picts, the Saxons, among others. We don't forget the Holy Grail or the concept of giants. Sword in the stone - check. Lady in the Lake - check. Avalon - check. We also get a lesson on what the Green Man and is not.

Mark Olly returns to the Garden to appropriately talk about the Green Man because it's a universal symbol of the Earth's anthropomorphic male defender. But first we discuss the Druids and the historical Merlins. Yes, plural. And the relationship with Joseph of Arimathea and a guy named Jesus. We get into the history involving the Greeks, the Romans, the Celts, the Picts, the Saxons, among others. We don't forget the Holy Grail or the concept of giants. Sword in the stone - check. Lady in the Lake - check. Avalon - check. We also get a lesson on what the Green Man and is not.

Mark Olly returns to the Garden to appropriately talk about the Green Man because it's a universal symbol of the Earth's anthropomorphic male defender. But first we discuss the Druids and the historical Merlins. Yes, plural. And the relationship with Joseph of Arimathea and a guy named Jesus. We get into the history involving the Greeks, the Romans, the Celts, the Picts, the Saxons, among others. We don't forget the Holy Grail or the concept of giants. Sword in the stone - check. Lady in the Lake - check. Avalon - check. We also get a lesson on what the Green Man and is not.

No one slides into my DMs harder than the Moms who have questions about swaddles and sleep sacks. Do I have to swaddle my newborn? When and how do I drop the swaddle? What sleep sacks should I use? When should I get rid of the sleep sack? Today I'm discussing all of it - from the moment your baby is born until they're a big kid in a crib, I'll walk you through exactly what they should be sleeping in, and when to make each transition!I mentioned lots of products in this episode. My favorite sleep sack brand is Kyte Baby, and most of the other products discussed can be found in my Amazon Storefront (check out Newborn Essentials, Baby Sleep Essentials, and Toddler Sleep Essentials for the full lists).The link I mentioned of the reel which shows you how to properly swaddle your newborn in a muslin is here.It's not too late to give the gift of sleep! Check out my gifting options and make some family in your life very happy this holiday season.Interested in working with Brittany? Check out my one on one services, and for the DIY types, my Common Sense Sleep Courses. Be sure to follow along on Instagram too!

Wer immer da draußen Gandalf auf der Leinwand verfolgt hat (oder, noch besser, bereits in den Büchern), der sieht niemand anderen als Merlin. Selbiges lässt sich über Morpheus aus der Matrix-Trilogie sagen, über Obi Wan aus Star Wars, Dumbledore in den Harry-Potter-Romanen – um nur einige zu nennen, denn diese Liste ist lang und sie wächst beständig. Merlins wiederkehrende Präsenz in der Science-Fiction und Fantasy zeugt von der Bedeutung dieser Figur für die Entwicklung moderner Mythen sowie von der hohen Relevanz in der modernen Popkultur. Er ist die Blaupause zumindest der meisten Zauberer. Musik von Kevin MacLeod. Folge direkt herunterladen

Die Euroleague plant, sich Richtung Dubai zu erweitern. Selbst für den Reformationstag eine kühne Idee. Und sind die Merlins in Crailsheim jetzt entzaubert? Fabi Bleck gibt Einblicke in die aktuelle Lage.

Smaller than a pigeon — but fierce enough to knock one from the air — are the powerful, compact falcons known as Merlins. Climate change is pushing ranges of many birds farther north, but more and more Merlins have been nesting farther south, in towns and cities across the northern United States. Merlins will take over old crow nests, especially in conifer trees, in parks, cemeteries, and neighborhoods.More info and transcript at BirdNote.org. Want more BirdNote? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Sign up for BirdNote+ to get ad-free listening and other perks. BirdNote is a nonprofit. Your tax-deductible gift makes these shows possible.

On today episode of the Wildlife Command Center Podcast Chris Starr talks with Alabama falconer Nick Yashko about his role in the organization Quail Forever, and how he's spent multiple successful seasons flying passage Merlins and Peregrines on snipe and doves in the woods southern woodlands and ag fields of Alabama.  Thank you for listening, please leave us a 5 STAR review on the platform you're listening on!  Get our new Wildlife Command Center Coffee @ https://buywcc.comCheck out our YouTube channel!!  https://www.youtube.com/c/WildlifeCommandCenterFollow us on Facebook, Instagram, & TikTok  @wildlifecommandcenter      Michael Beran @BareHandsBeran  Chris Starr @LoneStarrTrapperWWC Podcast @wildlifecommandcenterpodCheck out our new reality tv show on Animal Planet and streaming on Discovery+ called "Bare Hands Rescue"!! And for immediate awesomeness our Youtube channel has great content as well

Magic Tree House Dark Day in the Deep Sea. One of Merlins secret Missions to find the secret to Happiness. Will the kids escape from he deep sea monster?? kid's book, kid stories, kid sea stories, ocean stories, Magic stories, adventure story, Magic tree house book --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nicole-morehead/support

Comment devenir une meilleure version de soi-même ? Comment faire face au doute ? Comment vivre sereinement sous pression ? Comment réussir ses échecs ?En 2008, je me suis plongé à âme perdue dans le développement personnel, dans la philosophie et la psychologie pour tenter de m'apprendre différemment, essayer de grandir autrement qu'avec les clichés de virilité qui peuvent étouffer quand ils ne sont pas compris. Je vous avoue j'en suis devenu con et dogmatique un temps certain. Car les mots sont beaux mais peuvent sonner creux sans les actes derrière. Bref si un jour on m'avait dit que les réponses à mes questions existentielles me seraient apportées en partie par le monde du rugby, je n'aurais pas mis une pièce. Et pourtant, le sport se doit d'inspirer la société, surtout dans les moments compliqués qu'elle traverse."Une saison en enfer" fait partie de ces livres que tu dévores parce qu'il allie à la fois théories, expériences, philosophie, voyage initiatique et petits exercices pratiques. Un ouvrage qui ose parler, dans un sport très viril, de droit à l'échecs, de remise en question et de vulnérabilité.Dans ce monde incertain où tout va vite et où le paraître est le maître mot pour réussir sa vie, la confiance en soi, le leadership, la réussite ou l'esprit d'équipe passeraient presque aux yeux de certains pour de l'arrogance. Et pourtant, nous avons besoin de s'inspirer de ces personnes que j'appelle des "Merlins l'enchanteur".Christophe Urios et son compère de voyage, Frédéric Rey Millet, nous offrent dans ce livre, comme une madeleine de Proust, un moment de pause, un temps de réflexion, un break pour s'apprendre différemment. Parce qu'être meilleur ne s'arrête jamais, parce que devenir son propre héros demande du courage et un retour sur soi, parce que sans l'autre, nous ne sommes rien, je suis heureux de partager ce moment avec toi, Christophe, pour tenter de comprendre l'homme derrière le coach, derrière le chef d'entreprise.Merci Christophe Urios d'être dans Poulain Raffûte !Ecoutez d'autres épisodes :Jeff Dubois : "Mon envie d'entraîner et ma passion pour ce sport sont toujours présentes""L'art de coacher à la néo-zélandaise" mais pas seulement : Lespinas présente sa vision du rôle de l'entraîneurVous pouvez réagir à cet épisode sur notre page Twitter.Retrouvez tous les podcasts d'Eurosport iciPrésentation : Raphaël Poulain et Arnaud Beurdeley, journaliste au Midi OlympiqueMontage : Antoine Lebreton, journaliste à Eurosport Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Obwohl er in einer Stadt aufgewachsen ist, die jetzt nicht als Basketball-Hochburg gilt, hat Maurice Stuckey eine tolle Karriere hingelegt. Das hat damals schon Michael Jordan gewusst, dass da einer mit viel Talent ist. Wie war das damals mit dem Superstar des Basketballs? Im Frankenland war er sportlich erfolgreich, dann aber im "exotischen" Oldenburg etwas unter dem Radar. Und warum ruft die Mutter mitten im Podcast an? Was macht er denn nach seiner Karriere? Und was hat das alles mit Rindviechern zu tun?

Begegnungen in seiner Karriere mit Superstars und Rindviechern www.talking-basketball.de

Obwohl er in einer Stadt aufgewachsen ist, die jetzt nicht als Basketball-Hochburg gilt, hat Maurice Stuckey eine tolle Karriere hingelegt. Das hat damals schon Michael Jordan gewusst, dass da einer mit viel Talent ist. Wie war das damals mit dem Superstar des Basketballs? Im Frankenland war er sportlich erfolgreich, dann aber im "exotischen" Oldenburg etwas unter dem Radar. Und warum ruft die Mutter mitten im Podcast an? Was macht er denn nach seiner Karriere? Und was hat das alles mit Rindviechern zu tun?

Today we have an amazing episode with as one of his clients calls him "Merlin" because of his special bag of tricks and his ability to be a Trauma Removal Magician. Ray has assisted hundreds of Veterans to work through their readjustment back into society after they have experienced PTSD.  While talking to Ray about being on the show, one of his clients "lee" asked if he could come on to talk about the "magic" he had recieved from Ray. Hearing first hand of the healing that was received and knowledge that using the right resources will really help anyone who has experienced any layer of trauma.  I would enjoy hearing from you if you would like to connect you can find me, Uncle Dave through my website https://www.davidchametzky.com on most social media as David Chametzky (facebook page for Peace, Love and Bring a Bat), twitter as @goofyjaam  or just drop an email: peacelovebringabat@gmail.com   If you are enjoying hearing this and want to support either the podcast OR more importantly Goons for Good please feel free to click on the Patron link and if you like I will give you a shout out and a half hour one on one session of Havening(R) https://patron.podbean.com/PeaceLoveandBringaBat Pink Cans for Cancer http://pinkcans4cancer.org I also want to support those who support me: https://www.thepemc.com - Phoenix Eastern Medicine  www.premierassetsolutions.com - Daniel Capurso, Premier Asset Solutions  Show Sponsor - Drizzled by Hani https://www.facebook.com/DrizzledByHani   (c) 2021 On the Path LLC. All Rights Reserved and Enthusiastically Protected.

In this episode, Jessey chats with South Summit about their new single 'River Days', their EP 'Merlins' and spending time in the studio.Follow South Summit on IG & FBFollow Life on Music on IG & FBFollow Jessey Napa on IG & FB

Remus Lupin ist der erste Werwolf, der einen Orden des Merlins erhält. Absolut verdient, denn er gibt immer sein Bestes und kämpft für das Gute - aber wieso hat er sich nie bei Harry gemeldet? Und kann man wirklich rechtfertigen, dass er seine Frau und sein ungeborenes Kind im Stich lässt? Du magst Harry Potter und möchtest mehr über die Figuren und Personen des Potter Universums wissen? Du willst Anregungen für Diskussionen haben und Charaktere durchleuchten und analysieren? Dann bist du bei uns genau richtig. Mit viel Spaß und Leidenschaft widmen wir uns den von JKR geschaffenen Charakteren der Harry Potter Büchern. Jeden Mittwoch gibt es eine neue Folge zu einem Harry Potter Charakter. Instragram: https://www.instagram.com/schokofroesche_podcast/

Merlins, small falcons, used to be found only in northern N.H.. They have been expanding their breeding range south across New England over the past several decades.

If you were to distill the story of King Arthur and the Knights of Camelot down to its essence, you might alight on three nouns: Sword Stone Table. That's the title of a new collection of Arthurian retellings, edited by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington, that imagines the legends of yore in a London coffee shop, a dystopian Mexico City, Anishinaabe country, and even on Mars. Krishna and Jenn Northington join the podcast to talk about the Arthurs, Merlins, Guineveres, Lancelots, Morgans, and more who populate the once and future land of our imagination.Go beyond the episode:Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices, edited by Swapna Krishna and Jenn NorthingtonReacquaint yourself with the magic of Mary Stewart's Merlin TrilogyEven the BBC wants to know: King Arthur and Camelot—Why the cultural fascination?The boy king is no stranger to television, but “good adaptations of the King Arthur myth to screen are far out-numbered by the unsuccessful ones”A good one from the Arthur extended universe: The Green KnightTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes!Music featured from Strobotone (“Medieval Theme 02”), courtesy of the Free Music Archive. Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you were to distill the story of King Arthur and the Knights of Camelot down to its essence, you might alight on three nouns: Sword Stone Table. That's the title of a new collection of Arthurian retellings, edited by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington, that imagines the legends of yore in a London coffee shop, a dystopian Mexico City, Anishinaabe country, and even on Mars. Krishna and Jenn Northington join the podcast to talk about the Arthurs, Merlins, Guineveres, Lancelots, Morgans, and more who populate the once and future land of our imagination.Go beyond the episode:Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices, edited by Swapna Krishna and Jenn NorthingtonReacquaint yourself with the magic of Mary Stewart's Merlin TrilogyEven the BBC wants to know: King Arthur and Camelot—Why the cultural fascination?The boy king is no stranger to television, but “good adaptations of the King Arthur myth to screen are far out-numbered by the unsuccessful ones”A good one from the Arthur extended universe: The Green KnightTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes!Music featured from Strobotone (“Medieval Theme 02”), courtesy of the Free Music Archive. Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  This episode is about striated caracaras, or rather, one man's obsession with them.  The man in question is Jonathan Meiburg who is a musician, author and bird lover.  In 1833, a young Charles Darwin was astonished by a strange animal he met in the Falkland Islands: a handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcon that was “tame and inquisitive,” “quarrelsome and passionate,” and so insatiably curious that it stole hats, compasses, and other valuables from the crew of the Beagle. Darwin met many unusual creatures in his five-year voyage, but no others showed an interest in studying him—and he wondered why these birds were confined to islands at the tip of South America, sensing a larger story. But he set this mystery aside, and never returned to it. Almost two hundred years later, Meiburg picks up where Darwin left off. These rare and unusual birds—now called striated caracaras—still exist, and A Most Remarkable Creature reveals the wild and fascinating story of their history, origins, and possible futures in a series of travels throughout South America, from the fog-bound coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the tropical forests of Guyana. Along the way, Meiburg draws us into the life and work of W.H. Hudson, a Victorian writer and naturalist who championed caracaras as unsung wonders of the natural world, and takes us to falconry parks in England, where captive caracaras perform incredible feats of memory, problem-solving, and friendship. A Most Remarkable Creature is much more than a book about birds: it's a quest for moments of first contact between humans and animals, science and religion, and the mismatched continents Europeans mistakenly called the New World.  In 1997, Jonathan Meiburg received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel to remote communities around the world, a year-long journey that sparked his enduring fascination with islands, birds, and the deep history of the living world. Since then, he's written reviews, features, and interviews for print and online publications including The Believer, Talkhouse, and The Appendix on subjects ranging from a hidden exhibit hall at the American Museum of Natural History to the last long-form interview with author Peter Matthiessen. But he's best known as the leader of the band Shearwater and as a member of Sub Pop recording artists Loma, whose albums and performances have often been praised by NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Pitchfork. His unique career between the sciences and the arts makes him an ideal guide for a journey that takes in the deep history and landscapes of an entire continent, from the lush forests of Guyana to the windswept Falkland Islands. He lives in central Texas. “Caracaras are not like other birds, or even other birds of prey. Curious, wide-ranging, gregarious, and intelligent, the ten species of caracara are a scientific puzzle that has intrigued biologists since the days of Darwin. And this book — as curious, wide-ranging, gregarious, and intelligent as its subject — is not like any other book that I have encountered.” Charles C. Mann, author of 1491.  Image credit: Bryan C. Parker Summary of the episode 1:00 What are Caracaras? 3:00 Falklands from Tierra del Fuego. 5:25: Bird life in the Falklands per Darwin. Striated caracaras. 8:30 Black-browed albatrosses.  140,000 birds sitting on their nests in the summertime.  Royal and Wandering albatrosses. 10:00 Jonathan imitates bird sounds. 12:00 Antarctica used to be warm before the Cretaceous extinction. The ancestors of falcons lived there and came to North America later on.  Greatest diversity of the various falcon species are in North America. 13:00 True falcons-- what are they? 14:00 Specialist versus generalist approach to life. 15:00 Are Caracaras intelligent? Ten species of Caracaras.  Only one is endangered: Striated Caracaras.  Why are they only in the Falklands? This is what Darwin asked. Jonathan has a theory about why Striated Caracaras are stuck in the Falkland Islands. 20:00 Who was William Henry Hudson? The book has both these characters? What did Darwin think about the function of music? 24:00 Guyana trip to look for tropical caracaras.  About the red-throated caracaras.  They nest in bromeliads, sometimes 200 feet off the forest floors.  Feed on wasp combs, litter their nest with millipedes (pest control?) 27:00 Genetically, falcons are closest to parrots.  Not hawks and eagles. 28:00 The Guadalupe caracara.  30:00 Flamingoes on Andes Mountains 33:00 The future of striated caracaras.  

Al Ross, warmly known as "Mr. Merlin" amongst his peers, has long been a pioneer in the sport of falconry. Growing up without the knowledge or access to information later falconers would enjoy, he discovered and learned much of what he's now recognized for developing, almost entirely from studying the raptors in the wild themselves. From being the first to make a game hawk out of a Harris's Hawk, to "outer-mewing" Merlins season after season, to showing the world new things that these capable little falcons were able to do... Even those who have known Al Ross from the beginning still have a hard time keeping up!

In der 2. Folge findet das alljährliche Tournier in Camelot statt, dass auch den „gefährlichen“ (?) Valiant anlockt. Morganas und Arthurs Beziehung ist noch fragwürdig, genauso wie Merlins und Gwens. Luna und Sophie machen sich mal wieder über gefühlt alles lustig und erzählen euch ein paar interessante facts über Schlangen und Schwerter im Mittelalter. Viel Spaß

Top story is New Mutants #17. Also fossilized doodoo water, a Batman choose your own adventure, and the council of Merlins. Pull List (with spoiler time stamps): 00:11:42 – Reckless: Friend of the Devil 00:22:02 – Harley Quinn #2 00:29:07 … Continue reading →

As promised at the end of the last episode, Sneople at the Movies features returning guest Madeline Shier this week to talk Arthurian adaptations! They pick up where they left off last episode with Quest for Camelot now that everyone’s seen it, discuss BBC Merlin and everything THAT entails, and wrap up with discussing both King Arthur (2004) and what drew them all to Arthurian legends in the first place. They very eagerly agree that a specific book re-imagining rules very hard, and it may not be one you expect! They also pick their fighters out of a list of Merlins and Arthurs - can you match Matty and Helena’s perfect predictions?

Ex-Basketballprofi Alexander Rüeck spricht im Interview mit Max und David über seine basketballerischen Anfänge, die Entwicklung des Basketball-Standorts Crailsheim, seine lange Pro A Laufbahn, unterschiedliche Trainertypen, Tipps an Jugendspieler, die Lehren des Sports für die Karriere nach dem Basketball und vielen mehr.

Obelisk och Olympia press gav ut böcker ingen annan vågade röra. Några blev odödliga klassiker. Gabriella Håkansson berättar den vilda historien om Parisförlagen som förändrade litteraturhistorien.  ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Först publicerad 2017. William S Burroughs, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Henry Miller och James Joyce: alla har de en sak gemensamt de har publicerat sig på ett obskyrt litet förlag i Paris, som under 1950-talet gav ut engelskspråkig litteratur i små gröna pocketböcker i serien Travellers Companion. Bakom den gemytliga rubriken dolde sig all den litteratur som inga andra förlag i Europa eller USA ville ta i med tång, av rädsla för att bli stämda. Allt började med att den brittiske dandyn Jack Kahane 1914 trampade på en landmina i Ypern (Ieper) i Belgien och entledigades från sin krigstjänstgöring. Under konvalescensen träffade han sin fru, fransyskan Marcelle Girodias, flyttade till Paris och började skriva böcker. Kahanes produktion var medelmåttig och innehöll lite för många erotiska anspelningar för att de engelska biblioteken skulle känna sig bekväma, så böckerna plockades bort och han fick dåligt rykte. Samtidigt började romanerna efterfrågas i bokhandeln. Kahane fick en insikt. Minsta inslag av erotik och den mest mediokra bok börjar sälja. I USA och England rådde fortfarande ålderdomliga censurlagar som satte stopp för allt som uppfattades som moraliskt eller erotiskt utmanande, men i Frankrike var situationen en annan, och nu hade Kahane fått en affärsidé. Han registrerade en fransk firma under namnet Obelisk Press och hyrde sunkig kontorslokal på vänstra stranden, nu gällde det bara att hitta sexuellt frispråkiga författare. Det var lättare sagt än gjort. I slutet av 20-talet kontaktar Kahane Sylvia Beach på bokhandeln Shakespeare & Co och får henne att förmedla kontakt med James Joyce, som några år tidigare gjort skandalsuccé på hennes förlag med den frispråkiga Ulysses. Hade Joyce möjligen något mer som kunde publiceras? Det hade han. Experimentboken Haveth Childers Everywhere blev Kahanes första framgångsrika publikation, snabbt åtföljd av Radcliffe Halls lesbiska roman Ensamhetens brunn, som precis blivit förbjuden i England. Även D H Lawrences indragna Lady Chatterleys älskare lades till på utgivningslistan, och nu rullade det på. Kahane fick snabbt rykte om sig att ge ut sånt som ingen annan vågade publicera, och snart köade folk utanför kontoret. Först ut var en helt okänd författare som hette Henry Miller och hade skrivit en bok med en titel som lät som något som handlade om cancer. Det var Kräftans vändkrets. Snart hade även hans vänner Anaïs Nin och Lawrence Durrell fått manus antagna och Kahane var på banan, men när Kräftans vändkrets efter många turer väl skulle ut, ja, då hade Kahane slut på pengar. Ett mönster som skulle komma att upprepa sig. Anaïs Nin visade handlingskraft och finansierade via sin psykoanalytiker Otto Rank trycket av både Millers och Durrells böcker. Som en gentjänst betalade sedan Durrell tryckningen av hennes bok Incest. Sedan hann inte Kahane ge ut mer. Han dog oväntat 1939 vid bara 52-års ålder. Och med det kunde allt ha tagit slut. Det gjorde det inte. Hans 27-årige son Maurice Girodias hade hjälpt pappa på förlaget sedan han var liten, och när andra världskriget var över bestämde han sig för att blåsa liv i verksamheten igen. Nu skulle kampen för den sexuella frispråkigheten stegras ytterligare. Han började med att byta förlagsnamn till Olympia Press och kontaktade sedan faderns gamla författare för att sondera terrängen. Miller skickar in Plexus men sedan var det stopp, så Girodias låter översätta alla franska erotiska böcker han hittar; Genet, Apollinaire, de Sade, Bataille, Queaneau, Reage men det räcker inte, läsarna går inte igång på litterär erotika, de vill ha hederlig porr som kan läsas med vänsterhanden. Girodias gör nu ett genidrag. Han kontaktar klicken kring avantagardetidskriften Merlin som som var de som hade översatt de franska erotiska böckerna, och frågar om de kan tänka sig att börja skriva pornografi istället. Naturligtvis under pseudonym, och gärna med lite kinky inslag. På så vis skulle de kunna finansiera sin tidskrift. Det vill de gärna. Merlin består av ett gäng jazzdansande, amfetaminsnortande utlänningar av båda könen, ledda av författaren Alexander Trocchi och finansierade av amerikanskan Jane Lougee. Kvinnor som män tar sig an uppgiften med förtjusning, och nu börjar Olympia Press glanstid. Merlin flyttar in på kontoret och redaktionen blir förlagets hårda kärna av redaktörer, sekreterare, korrekturläsare och allmänna hangaroaunds. Ur tryckpressarna spottas heta titlar som Tender was my flesh och The Loins of Amon. Olympia Press billiga gröna pocketböcker förses med myndigheternas varning att de inte får säljas i England eller USA, och sprids sedan till turister, matroser, soldater och pornografer som smugglar dem över gränserna en masse. Inkomsterna flödar, men Girodias är ännu värre än sin far vad gäller det ekonomiska. Han vägrar skriva kontrakt och betalar ut royalties lite när det passar. Författarna får köa utanför hans kontor när han är på gott humör, och hoppas på det bästa. Inte heller för han bok över hur många utgåvor han trycker. Ibland ger han ut en censurerad version för bokhandeln, och en annan för illegal spridning. Allt detta fungerar till en början väl med Merlins glada pornografer, men det går inte med riktiga författare som J.P. Donleavy och Vladimir Nabokov. De rasar och drar honom inför rätta. Inte heller går det att betala skatt med vänsterhanden. Bara några år in på det nya äventyret är Maurice Girodias skuldsatt, belånad och åtalad för såväl brott mot obscenitetslagarna som obetalda royalties. Och så här håller det på. Mygel, skulder, porr, åtal allt i en eskalerande spiral, tills Girodias mot slutet av sextiotalet tröttnar på myndigheternas hetsjakt och författarnas pengatjat, och flyttar till USA för att starta ett amerikanskt Olympia Press. Där går det ännu sämre. Valerie Solanas, som författaren heter, går tre kvarter bort och skjuter Andy Warhol istället. Förläggaren som hela sitt liv bekämpat censuren verkar ha grävt sin egen grav. Den nya tidens libertiner behövde inte längre hans förlag, och när han 1968 struntar i att publicera en av sina nya författare som det är bestämt, så går hon upp på kontoret för att skjuta honom. Girodias är inte på plats och Valerie Solanas, som författaren heter, går tre kvarter bort och skjuter Andy Warhol istället. Girodias är inte sen att utnyttja publiciteten och får snabbt iväg SCUM-manifestet till tryck, det blir hans sista viktiga utgivning, innan allt går utför i ett träsk av hårdporr, scientologi och boxningsböcker. Hans livshistoria kan låta tragisk, men den ledde faktiskt fram till en av 1900-talets stora landvinningar: avskaffandet av censuren. De många och långa rättsprocesserna Girodias drogs inför och tappert utkämpade blev prejudicerande, och satte stopp för en puritanism som präglat bokbranschen i flera hundra år. Vi har familjen Kahane/Girodias att tacka för den frihet litteraturen åtnjuter idag. Och för att banbrytande böcker som Millers Kräftans vändkrets, Burroughs Den nakna lunchen, Trocchis Young Adam och Nabokovs Lolita överhuvudtaget kom i tryck. Och de gröna pocketböckerna som på 50-talet kostade några kronor när de kom ut, betingar idag skyhöga priser på den antikvariska marknaden. Samlarna dammsuger gamla lumplådor och porraffärer för att hitta kvarglömda Olympia Press, och granskar sedan böckernas omslag med lupp för att avgöra vilken utgåva det kan röra sig om. Finns påklistrade prislappar, myndighetsstämplar och korrekta tryckorter där, kan de ha stött på en äkta förstautgåva. Är det någon av klassikerna, som till exempel Lolita kan de räkna med att vara 100 000 kronor rikare. Maurice Girodias dör utblottad och bitter 1990 och begravs på Père-Lachaisekyrkogården i Paris. På hans gravsten låter brodern Eric Kahane gravera Une journée sur la Terre. En dag på jorden. Gabriella Håkansson, författare Litteratur John de St Jorre Venus Bound. The Erotick Voyage of the Olympia Press and its Writers, Random House, 1994. A Life in Pieces. Reflections on Alexander Trocchi. Edited by Alan Campbell & Tim Niel, Rebel Inc, 1977. Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller. A Private Correspondance. Edited by George Wickes, Faber&Faber, 1962. Sylvia Beach Shakespeare and Company, översättning ERik Andersson, Ellerström, 2008. Ett urval av berömda Olympia Press-titlar från Parisåren: Samuel Beckett Watt (1953) Henry Miller Plexus (1953) D.A.F. de Sade 120 Days of Sodom (1953) Jean Genet The Thief's Journal (1953) Pauline Reage The Story of O (1954) Vladimir Nabokov Lolita (1955) J.P. Donleavy The Ginger Man (1955) Jean Cocteau The White Paper (1957) William S. Burroughs The Naked Lunch (1959) Lawrence Durrell The Black Book (1959) Raymond Queneau Zazie dans la Métro (1959)

Paranormal enthusiasts Graham Casino (@intellegint), Stu Donut (@necrobranson), and Lawrence Lawhead (@charlesraustin) discuss Merlins, skeleton keys, and a possible demonic possession before taking a call from listener Brian Peebles (@necrobranson). Full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46095982

Paranormal enthusiasts Graham Casino (@intellegint), Stu Donut (@necrobranson), and Lawrence Lawhead (@charlesraustin) discuss Merlins, skeleton keys, and a possible demonic possession before taking a call from listener Brian Peebles (@necrobranson). Full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46095982

Paranormal enthusiasts Graham Casino (@intellegint), Stu Donut (@necrobranson), and Lawrence Lawhead (@charlesraustin) discuss Merlins, skeleton keys, and a possible demonic possession before taking a call from listener Brian Peebles (@necrobranson). Full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46095982

Paranormal enthusiasts Graham Casino (@intellegint), Stu Donut (@necrobranson), and Lawrence Lawhead (@charlesraustin) discuss Merlins, skeleton keys, and a possible demonic possession before taking a call from listener Brian Peebles (@necrobranson). Full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46095982

Gastgeber Florian von Stackelberg spricht über aktuelle Themen im deutschen Basketball. Dieses Mal zu Gast: Martin Romig, Geschäftsführer der HAKRO Merlins Crailsheim. Er spricht über den aktuellen Erfolg, die Besonderheit des Standortes und über eine mögliche neue Halle.

„Merlins Träne“ ist der wahre Kuss der Alpen In einer geheimen Séance haben der Zauberer Merlin und die Alpenhexe Gisberta eine feurig scharfe Sosse kreiert, die nicht ganz ohne Grund „Merlins Träne“ heisst. Lange wurde probiert und verworfen bis auf der Basis von Knoblauch und Amarillo-Chilis eine ganz besondere Sosse entstand, die von Kennern das … Continue reading "Der Zauberer Merlin und die Alpenhexe Gisberta haben „Merlins Träne“ entdeckt"

Heute sind wir sportlich unterwegs! Nein, es geht nicht um Fußball, da würden wahrscheinlich viele Deutsche als Erstes dran denken, es geht um Basketball. Wir sprechen heute mit Martin Romig, Geschäftsführer der HAKRO Merlins Crailsheim, über den Mehrwert einer professionellen Sportmannschaft für eine ländliche Region und wie das Rekrutieren von Basketballspielern aus den USA funktioniert. Für mehr Informationen besuche gerne unsere Website https://www.hohenlohe.plus/ oder schreibe uns eine Email an info@hohenlohe.plus Moderation: Silas Fürstenberger von Fürstenberger - Audio-Visuelles Storytelling

„Der Träger wird zum Markenbotschafter seines Unternehmens und wir halten uns dezent im Hintergrund...“Das sagt Jochen Schmidt, Teamleiter Qualität, Werte & Nachhaltigkeit bei HAKRO, einem der nachhaltigsten Anbieter von Corporate Fashion. Mit Michael Fischer spricht er unter anderem über die Herausforderungen auf dem Weg zum nachhaltigsten Textilunternehmen der Welt, über die in der Marke klar definierte Vertriebsstrategie und darüber, wie es eigentlich dazu kam, dass es Turnschuhe “Made in Crailsheim” heute nur noch in Japan zu kaufen gibt. All das und mehr in der neuen Episode von 120 bpm – dem Podcast von Fischer and Friends. 

Smaller than a pigeon — but fierce enough to knock one from the air — are the powerful, compact falcons known as Merlins. Climate change is pushing ranges of many birds farther north, but more and more Merlins have been nesting farther south, in towns and cities across the northern United States

Tænd op i pejsen, stop snaden og læn dig tilbage i din mest slidte lænestol, for nu blænder Hjørnet op for vores Top 25 Fantasyfilm. Gode fantasyfilm handler altid om en rejse, så hvad var mere passende, end at vi skulle ud på en lang rejse, for at optage denne episode? Vi blev nemlig inviteret til Fantasyfestival i Esbjerg, hvor vi optog episoden live. Festivalen var neturligvis corona-ramt, så det eneste fysisk tilstedeværende publikum var festivalens arrangører og inviterede fantasygæster, men til gengæld var de et virkelig tændt og engageret publikum. Oven i hatten blev hele molevitten streamet live på Facebook, så fantasynørder over hele landet kunne følge med online undervejs. Det var intet mindre end en fest og hvor ville vi ønske, at vi kunne komme tilbage og gøre det hvert år. Men nu skal det hele ikke gå op i gummisværd og letantændelige troldmandsparykker, for det er jo seriøs business det her. Vi udnævner trods alt de Top 25 bedste fantasyfilm og det er et stort ansvar. Hjørnets egen fantasymand Jannik var selvskrevet til episoden, men derudover er vi faktisk ikke så stærke i fantasyfilm. Derfor tilkaldte vi også den største og gladeste fantasynørd vi kender, fantasyforfatteren Merlin P. Mann. Og ja, han hedder Merlin og nej, det er ikke for sjov.  Jannik og Merlin leverede vanen tro hver deres lange liste med fantasyfilm rangeret efter en blanding af personlige og filmhistoriske kvaliteter. Hjørnelister skal først og fremmest være personlige, og det er især denne Top 25-liste blevet. Janniks brutto-liste var på 48 film og Merlins var på 34. Sammensmeltet i vores store, sorte gryde af algoritmer fik vi en meget varieret og overraskende Top 25 ud af løjerne. Rigtig god fornøjelse! Med venlig hilsen, Jannik, Merlin & Casper P.s. Individuelle og samlet liste vil blive afsløret på tekst en uges tid efter udgivelsen af episoden.

Discussion about a recent visit to a fossil hunting hotspot, a serious wasp nest attack, some of the difficulties and the etiquette of public land hunting, tree stand safety and more! 

Drager & Daimoner fejrer afsnit nummer 30 med nok engang at trække i de røde paladin kutter og begive sig ind i Cursed-land. Afsnittet står i Nimue og Merlins tegn, og det er ikke kedeligt, når far og datter møder hinanden. Vi lærer lidt mere om Merlins baggrund hvad hans forhold var til Nimues mor, hvordan magi fungerer i Cursed-land… og tager tager vi på en boys night out med Arthur og Gawain. Og hvem er Festa and Moreii nu? Alt det og meget mere i dette afsnit af Drager & Daimoner. Dagens musik er leveret af Michael Kamen fra soundtracket til Kevin Reynolds Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves fra 1991.

Drager & Daimoner er tilbage efter en tvungen pause og vi fortsætter, hvor vi slap i Cursed-land, når vi kaster os ud i tredje afsnit af Cursed, Alone. Sidst vi forlod Cursed havde Arthur pakket Nimue væk på et kloster og stjålet the sword of power. Hvad er Arthurs plan? Hvor pissed blir Nimue, når hun vågner? Hvad er Merlins barregning? Få svarene på disse spørgsmål og mød Igraine, i dette afsnit af Drager & Daimoner. Dagens musik er leveret af Jerry Goldsmith fra scoret til Jerry Zuckers First Knight fra 1995.

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, MD of Rubber Cheese.Download our free ebook The Ultimate Guide to Doubling Your Visitor NumbersIf you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcastIf you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this episode.Competition ends October 31st 2020. The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references:johnnylyle.co.uk/about-branding/ Transcription:Kelly Molson:Welcome to Skip the Queue. A podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. Each episode, I speak with industry experts from the attractions world. These chats are fun, informative, and hopefully always interesting. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the YouTube channels by searching Skip the Queue.Kelly Molson:In today's episode, I speak with Johnny Lyle, a Marketing and Digital Director for the attractions industries. Johnny advises Sundown Adventureland, and Audley End Miniature Railway. And in the past, he's worked with the BeWILDerwood, won a coveted DBA gold award, and Drum Grand Prix for the best marketing launch. We discuss how he's advised attractions about digital marketing throughout lockdown, and what lies ahead for attractions in the UK.Kelly Molson:Johnny, welcome to the podcast. It's so lovely to have you on today.Johnny Lyle:Well, thank you for having me.Kelly Molson:So we were introduced quite early on in lockdown weren't we by a mutual friend of ours, lovely Rachel. And I think for me, that's been one of the really great things about this situation. Always looking at the positives. I've been able to talk to some really interesting and really fun people because everyone's had a little bit more time to give up, but we don't know each other that well. So what I'd like to do at the beginning of any of our podcast interviews is just do a little icebreaker round. Now you haven't been able to prepare any answers for this, so you don't know what's coming. You look worried.Johnny Lyle:Yeah, I am.Kelly Molson:Don't be. Right. Okay. So first question. Do you prefer books or podcasts?Johnny Lyle:Books. As you can see on the video with about how many books I'm surrounded by.Kelly Molson:There's something about the smell isn't there for me. That's what does it for me. I've never been a big fan of a Kindle. I like to have that kind of paper feeling and that smell.Johnny Lyle:Most of my readings is on a Kindle now, to be honest, but these are the books that I can't part with. So I've read every one in here and these are the ones I won't part with. There's lots more I read, but these are only the ones my favorites.Kelly Molson:Good, we'll come to that later because I've got a question about a book for you. What is the worst job that you've ever had?Johnny Lyle:When I was at university I was temping and I did two. One of them was delivering for a soft drinks company into pubs at four o'clock in the morning, five o'clock in the morning. And the other one was genuinely working at a tip, picking up the rubbish, that had blown up onto the fence around the outside. So the job site was Womble as a litter picker in a rubbish tip.Kelly Molson:Actually Womble.Johnny Lyle:Which was actually very well paid because no one wanted to do it, allowed me to buy a car in my first year of university. So it was good.Kelly Molson:A means to an end. It was a good job. Final icebreaker question. This is my favorite question. So can you tell me something that's true to you that almost nobody agrees with you on? So what is your unpopular opinion?Johnny Lyle:That Oxford United are worthy winners in tomorrow's and Monday's playoffs and should have always been in the championship or the premiership.Kelly Molson:I feel like this is controversial.Johnny Lyle:It's not controversial for me. It's an absolute fact.Kelly Molson:Thank you for sharing. We'll leave that there.Johnny Lyle:But depending on when this goes out, I might already have been proved wrong, I don't know, if we lose the playoff.Kelly Molson:Okay. You are a marketing specialist working in the attraction sector. How long have you been working in the industry and what's a typical project for you?Johnny Lyle:So officially, the first project I did started about 2007. At the time I was running a brand consultancy, and I had just lost my father and was offered a project to work in house with a client for a period of time for a company called Treehouse Company, getting ready. They had a new product called The Bothy Lodge Company and they wanted to take it to IPO. So I went in a acting Market Director for a few months to get them ready for that. Treehouse company had a contract to build a tree house adventure play place over in Norfolk, which at the time was going to be called Kingswater, which ultimately became BeWILDerwood.Kelly Molson:Great. Yeah, that went well.Johnny Lyle:So I met my now very, very good friend, Simon Egan, who I still work with because we've now got a company together, CAPCo where we build great big adventure, play things. We've done Castle Howard, and Culzean, and Lowther Castle, and Fort Douglas and places like that. So we started that and it just took off our plan was to have 35,000 visitors a year in the first year. And we got 12,000 in the second week.Kelly Molson:Gosh.Johnny Lyle:And then it just went ballistic. It was just total overnight success it won a THEA as the Best Children's Attraction in the worldish at the time. It won DBA gold, it won the Drum Grand Prix for Best Marketing Launch.Johnny Lyle:It just cleaned up it won everything. A Treehouse Company won tons as well that year actually as well. So it was quite good. And then from that, just more and more people asked me whether I would get involved with them. And eventually, I left the design agency, my own design agency and sold it to my partners, so I could focus more on this.Kelly Molson:Nice.Johnny Lyle:So probably eight years full time now in doing this.Kelly Molson:So as an agency owner myself, you've got a coveted DBA award.Johnny Lyle:Yeah. And it was the first time we'd ever entered that. And it was the same year as the launch of the MINI. So we were up there with... And the Beijing Olympics won, I think at the same time as well, or was that when we won the THEA? So it was a good year.Kelly Molson:Nice. So it's eight years that you've been working as a Consultant. What kind of things do you get involved in now? How do you advise attractions?Johnny Lyle:There's two sort of typical... Sure you'd expect me to say there's nothing typical, but there's two types of work. The first one is when an attraction's failing or something's gone wrong. A couple of years ago, I had two in succession where the digital agency had built the website and left it blocked from Google as they launched it, and cost them all of their web traffic. And so I went into find out what was wrong and sort it out. And then the second is when they want a new way of thinking. So it might be reviewing their internal team. It might be to reposition the attraction. So the one near South of Walden that you know well is Audley End Miniature Railway. So we moved that from being a minute railway, the old miniature railway enthusiastic would go to, into being a family attraction where young families would go.Johnny Lyle:And in doing so, again, grew it from 50,000 to 110,000 a year in profitability. So those are the sorts of things, but I guess the main part of it is I don't want to be the one necessarily going in and actually doing the work. I'd much rather if there was already an in house team there and they needed training, or upskilling or help with some rethinking really more than anything. I'm certainly not trying to go in and replace anyone. I don't want their jobs. I'm not a threat to them. In theory, I should only ever be an asset to them.Kelly Molson:So how has it been for you throughout this period? Attractions have been closed, it's been really difficult. You talked a little bit there about a typical project for you, taking the visitor numbers from 50,000 up to a 100,000 plus. At the moment, that's really challenging. We've got attractions that have got capped to capacity. They can only take so many people through the doors and that's if some of them can open and they're able to open within the restrictions that we've currently have in terms of people's safety. So how has it been for you during lockdown? What have you been able to help them with and advise them with?Johnny Lyle:The main thing for me was continuing to communicate. Is actually keep talking, try and keep front of mind because with everyone, loads of people just furloughed all their marketing stuff almost overnight. So that made it really difficult because there weren't people that do the work. So it's been trying to keep a low level of communication without certainly not whining, keeping positive, keeping sort of say, "We're really looking forward to having you back when we can." And making sure that they could see that you were taking every step to protect them going forward. And it's still a fun place to look forward to coming back to. But it was a real challenge because almost everyone switched off. I think everyone went into total rabbit in the headlights, no one knew what to do.Johnny Lyle:So certainly the attractions I worked with, they just went very, very quiet. There was big stress in terms of choosing when to close. And I think with the ones I worked with the most closely, they closed early, they actually went a bit early and got really, really good feedback from their customers for it in both cases, in the two I worked very closely with. So now it's a case of making sure you don't go back too early, and don't suddenly aim for as big a capacity as you could possibly get away with because I just don't think people are going to feel safe.Kelly Molson:Yeah, I think you're right actually. And that's similar conversations that we've been having with our clients is they need to be ready, and they need to make sure that they've worked through the procedures and they need to make sure that it is safe, and welcoming, and a happy place for people to be back out. So I think you're totally right about people not rushing into reopen, it's the right way to approach it. We've had similar conversations with the clients that we work for in terms of trying to keep that conversation going, even while you're closed. If you can't be open and have people there still be part of that conversation, did you speak to any clients around virtual tours or producing content that people could use at home as well?Johnny Lyle:We did a lot of that. Sundown Adventureland it was a peaceful old attraction. They produced a lot things for kids to do at home. So there's lots of coloring, lots of little puzzles and all sorts of bits. And we did one behind the scenes tour about how one of the rides was actually made for those who were interested. And that went really well. And I think that was one of my lessons I think was be generous, give stuff away because it will come back. You'll be rewarded by being generous. Don't be grabby at all. I think there was people charging for some of these downloads at one point and that very, very quickly got stopped. So the ones I worked with didn't do masses because they're not particularly big attractions. They're like up to 300,000ish that tends to be where I work. So they didn't do masses because they don't necessarily have really, really distant appeal. They're still relatively local markets. So it was a balance between keeping them on board, and not talking to them too much again on the nerves.Kelly Molson:Yeah. It's a fine line, isn't it? Because, like you say, a lot of the teams were furloughed and they're running a really scale back skeleton team. You want to help, but you don't want to be imposing. You don't want to be a burden or an annoyance to them at any point as well.Johnny Lyle:But the big opportunity that I think we did take was it was a fabulous opportunity. The other guy Blink, there was that little story about Pepsi and Coke in the Cola Wars. Was it was a brilliant opportunity to really work on your SEO and really work on your content of your site. So I did a lot of that, a lot of groundwork and a lot of work on Google Business, looking at local links and citations and getting that groundwork in that will come back when people start searching again for what to do. And that was, I've loved that that's been brilliant and I'm quite looking forward to seeing what the results of some of those are going to be.Kelly Molson:Yeah, that's nice, isn't it? Like you say, put the groundwork in while you were closed. If you could focus on some of those things, getting all your ducks in a row, as they say.Johnny Lyle:Yeah.Kelly Molson:You're going to be in a better place for when you open. The weekend is approaching where attractions, if they can and are able to open safely, they will be. What's the current mood like with some of your attractions as they start to plan that opening?Johnny Lyle:Nervous, I think. And I think nervous for their teams as well because they're very close to their teams. They want to make sure they're not putting their own teams at risk, but the business model is going to be completely different. The critical bit in the first few weeks is going to be TripAdvisor reviews and Facebook reviews. What people say, because they're going to make or break attractions, I think in the next few weeks. And if people have gone into... They're going to allow too many people in and people don't feel safe, they're not going to be afraid to tell other people.Johnny Lyle:And I think then you will destroy the whole of the rest of your year, if you try and take too many. If you go much above 30% capacity, 40% capacity by the summer, then I think you really are taking a massive risk. And the next big one I think is going to be most attractions, have an indoor Christmas experience. If you get it wrong now you're not going to have any form of indoor Christmas experience either. You've got to get it right. You've got to not take too much or try and take too much now because otherwise I think you could lose everything.Kelly Molson:Gosh, it is quite frightening to think about that, isn't it? Christmas at the moment seems like really far away, but obviously we know that a lot of the Christmas campaigns start to be planned now...Johnny Lyle:Yeah.Kelly Molson:..If not just before now. And things like Halloween and those kind of activities too start to be planned. It's just really difficult even with a capacity of 30%, like you say, that's been set, we still don't really know if they're going to achieve that. What we've seen recently, which has been brilliant is the overwhelming demand for zoos and outdoor activities.Johnny Lyle:Yeah.Kelly Molson:We're not sure that we're going to get the same surgence for indoor attractions, and that's the big challenge for them I think at the moment.Johnny Lyle:No, people are still definitely more nervous about indoor, aren't they? There's no doubt about that. The problem is though, I think for a lot of attractions. Their business model's got to change because if you think a lot of attractions, summer can be 30%, 40% of turnover. Christmas can again be 25, 30% of turnover. If you could only operate on 30, 40% capacity on your biggest months, then your business model means you're already going to do 40% of your annual turnover potentially. So you've got to be able to get through until at the earliest next summer I think before we could be back to any form of normality.Kelly Molson:So what kind of things have you been advising your clients that they can do now, and then they can continue to do for the future? Because the bigger question is what is the future for attractions? And at the moment, that's a really tough question to ask because I think that most of us sitting here, we don't know what the next two weeks will bring, let alone where the next two months will bring. But what are your thoughts on what attractions can do now to start boostering their marketing? Have you been looking at advising your clients about what they can do now and for the next few months?Johnny Lyle:I think the main thing is trying to welcome people back, trying to make sure that it is fun. It's more about having fun than them thinking they're at risk. If they're walking into an attraction, looking over their shoulder thinking, "Oh, I wonder if he's got it. I wonder if they've got it." Then they're not going to come back. So the main one I've been rabbiting on about all the time is making sure that your staff are smiling because that smile first ask questions later has always been something I've tried to work to. And I think if you don't make it a fun place to be first and foremost, people won't come back. Other than that, it's hunker down and make sure you try, and keep your costs to an absolute minimum and maximize the fun and try and survive. I know that sounds incredibly negative, unless you've really done the math, I think it's going to be an incredibly tough period for most attractions.Johnny Lyle:Particularly, the ones who are highly geared. So the ones who borrowed money, big money in the last few years, and they're dependent on the numbers. Like the Merlins of this world, who they are going to find it very, very tough. Because I know people will go back, I know they're open and that you can walk around the grounds now. They're going to be operating on tiny capacities, aren't they?Kelly Molson:Yeah, I guess that's something that we've been talking a little bit about the last couple of weeks at the studio actually, maximizing the revenue from the visitors that can come through your doors. How are you looking at the retail environment that you've got on site? Most attractions are opening and offering booking time slots. So that's something that we've been talking to our clients about. Can they book food slots while they're there? Can they book a slot in the retail environment so that they feel safer, but also you're driving them to maybe while they're there just capture as much revenue from them as you possibly can. At that point. I don't know if that's something that you've been talking to your clients about as well?Johnny Lyle:Not much, but I did a big Zoom the other day with about 10 attractions, the CAPco clients, we spoke to a lot of them. And one really interesting one was Bean who runs Chobham Adventure Farm, he's a real innovator. So they're doing it on time slots, two or three hour time slots can't remember. But each of the people who are booking are being allocated a table within the place as well. They're doing full food service, it's still you walk up and you get your food, but there's obviously social distancing within the queuing because food is a really important part of their offer. But they're also offering the ability for people to upgrade. It's a bit [inaudible 00:18:02], but you can actually choose which table you want for a little bit extra.Kelly Molson:Okay.Johnny Lyle:So you can get a table in one of the better areas.Johnny Lyle:I think there's a real danger though that attractions are... If you're caught profiteering. If you're caught putting prices up, if you're caught doing anything like that, then again that will come back and haunt you. It'll come back in reviews. And we've seen that on Amazon, actually, Amazon have kicked off a lot of suppliers who were profiteering who were doing the 500 pound toilet roll trick or whatever. If they're doing it, then TripAdvisor, Facebook, they're going to do it just from your reviews. So I think it's about trying to increase the well time, so that people will eat. Retail is going to be really difficult because all the advice has come from the government and that has come from fan and all the other bodies has said, don't direct people out through your shop.Johnny Lyle:So retail in attractions is going to be very hard hit. But I think what we've looked at is more pop ups is to make more other small places around the park. So actually you can go and get an ice cream; you can go and get a drink; you can go and get a slushee; you can go and buy a memento somewhere else. So it's not all in one big retail environment.Kelly Molson:Right, so you're not funneling people through that area. I guess, it's hard to swallow because we do obviously have to consider that a lot of us are going to be... This is a difficult time for so many people and we're going to be struggling in time in terms of what money we actually have coming in. So not everybody's going to have the same amount of free money that they had to spend previously, isn't it? And you need to get that marketing... you need to get it really right. It has to be really sympathetic and empathetic.Johnny Lyle:Yeah. But a lot of people have been furloughed remember, and being on full pay or 80% pay sitting at home, doing nothing with almost no outgoing. So all the research again showed a different view, did a lot of research, and ALVA did a lot of research. All of that research said in the sentiment surveys that people weren't expecting to be discounted, they were quite happy to come back and pay full price. And I think we've seen that already again with the zoos. I know we have with Cotswold Wildlife Park as well, even at some of the bits the attractions are closed. They're actually still quite happy to come in and pay, which is really encouraging. I guess at this stage, it's probably the very loyal customers who are coming back first and some of the others will be more choosy.Johnny Lyle:I've seen a lot of talk on Facebook again from customers saying, "It's too early for us yet. We're still shielding." Or, "Little Doris is not well enough. We don't want to take that risk." So if you make it, so it's a great place to be for your regular customers and try and live off that, and work with them and make sure they have a great time. Then the others will come back. I'm sure.Kelly Molson:Yeah. So big question. And I know it's probably one that can't be answered, but what do you think that the future looks like for attractions in the UK?Johnny Lyle:I think it's going to be tough. I think there'll be some weeding out. I think there's going to be a big unemployment hit, which is going to be harder for attractions because whilst people are on furlough, they're not being laid off by companies and we're already seeing it in the Northwest. There's some adjustment, Airbus are laying people off. I think Derby, Rolls-Royce are laying people off. There's going to be layoffs in some quite big numbers around. So that's going to hit the economy very hard and it's still a discretionary spend. So you just got to make sure that we deliver great value and great fun and an escape. The advantage we've got this year is that less people are going to be traveling overseas. So more people are going to be staycationing and enjoying what's around them.Johnny Lyle:But I don't think I've got any specific longterm thoughts yet. We've just got to see how this emerges as we come out. But I think the weaker ones will really struggle. We've already seen it in our football. I know you like your football as well, but Wigan are going out of business and there's going to be others like that, aren't there? And football is a bit of a mess in lots of ways. So I think the attraction because it's again, a discretionary spend. It's something that people do for fun is going to be challenged.Kelly Molson:Yeah. Yeah. You mentioned football. I might as well get it out in the open about being a Tottenham fan, which-Johnny Lyle:I knew that.Kelly Molson:... has its pros and cons. Similarly, Lee and I have both got... we have season tickets and we have no idea when we're going to go back and we have no idea how that's going to work or.Johnny Lyle:Yeah. If you take some of the bigger attractions, one of my favorite attractions I've ever been to is Puy du Fou in France, incredible. No rides, but all shows. It's got 10 different shows. It's the most incredible attraction I've ever been to. And then you've got there's the one Kynren up in Newcastle, or North East, which I've been to as well, which grew from Puy du Fou. On the big evening show at Puy du Fou it only runs about 50 nights a year or so. They've got 14,000 people in a stand, all right next to each other, sitting next to each other and 2000 people in the cast, how are they going to run that? It can't run unless you can fill it because it can't possibly be profitable. It's going to be so difficult for them.Johnny Lyle:And they're going to have to adjust their business model. They're either going to have to build massive temporary stands to allow that many people to sit there, but be twice as far apart, or they're going to say, "Well, we're outside anyway. So it'll probably be okay." There's really obviously really major adjustments to come. And I think one of the other ones, again, I know I mentioned Merlin before. If you take the big rides, the really big thrill rides. A lot of the time on those rides is spent in the pre-show is the queuing section, and the pre-show evolved because they were trying to make it so you weren't really queuing you were actually enjoying the pre-show. You were being warmed up, ready for the ride. Most of those are indoors. A lot of those are going to have to be removed.Johnny Lyle:So if all you're going to do is walk straight onto the front a long social distance queue and then walk and get onto the ride without as much as the pre-show, it's just not going to be as much fun. You're not going to have be warmed up in the same way. So you're not going to be having the same level expectation about that ride. So that will be quite different, I think again.Kelly Molson:Yep. So opening up, but still it's a long journey, a long road ahead for many of the attractions and the way that they're set up. And lots of changes that's going to need to be made.Johnny Lyle:I sound like I'm being really negative and I don't mean to be, but I'm trying to be pragmatic and think of what you can do. So much of that is still come back to the welcome. It's got to be about the welcome, and make sure that the ones you can get and the ones who are, that you just absolutely welcome them with open arms and make them feel safe and loved. And as though they're going to have a great day, help them have a great day. Because that's what going out to these places is like, is it has to be about having a great day?Kelly Molson:So when I spoke to Ben, he talked a lot about the front of house, and actually it's the front of house team that really make that experience. And we know that, we know that if you arrive somewhere and it feels magical because the people are magical. That's the start of the fun, isn't it?Johnny Lyle:Yeah.Kelly Molson:So I completely, I completely hear where you're coming from and it's a difficult question. We just don't know what's coming next, but you're right. If you are able to bring back people, make them feel as welcome and as happy, they're in the best place in the world. What at the moment, what's the biggest challenge that you have with your role at the moment? And how do you think that you'll overcome it?Johnny Lyle:I think my biggest challenge is being 54. It's being a Digital Marketing Specialist at 54. A lot of people assume it's a young person's game. And so at the moment, I'm still lucky enough to be taken seriously by people with it because I've got a track record. But I think as I get another few years on, are you going to want a 60 year old to come in and look at your digital marketing? And I don't know whether people will. So it's a completely personal thing and I think that's going to be difficult. So I think I've got to evolve more into leading and training than actually doing, but I'm interested enough to keep seeing what matters and what's changing, but I guess that's going to get harder and harder. You're lucky. You're really young.Kelly Molson:Not that young, but yeah, it's not that long. You haven't got many years on me. You'd be surprised. I hear what you're saying though. I look at that and think, "Well, I run a digital agency now, but I'm 42. Again, what will I be when I'm 50. Will I be running the digital age? I don't know." I guess that's the same kind of perception.Johnny Lyle:I've been talking about that a lot with my family, to be honest. And it's one, I've always got some form of side hustle going. I've always got some online business that I'm running somewhere or that I'm trialing. And I guess it's have another go at some of them and see where they emerge, but really continue to focus on, I think more to do more towards training and leadership and overviewing than actually doing. Because with one of my clients, I still actually do all the work. I still write all the content and produce all the social media stuff. Which is brilliant because it keeps you very, very close so that you can see what works, and you can measure what works. But I can't see myself being able to do that or wanting to do that and another five years, to be honest.Kelly Molson:So one of the things that are at the beginning of the podcast, I said, we were introduced by a mutual friend. This has been one of the positives that I can take from this period is that I've had time, and people who have been generous to give me their time to chat and just to meet really interesting people. What's the biggest surprise that you've had over the last few months and why?Johnny Lyle:Well, you asked me a question earlier about, what's my unpopular opinion. And I almost used this one then. And I think it's how nice the weather is when there's no planes flying and there's no cars on the road because I just can't believe the two are unrelated. If we chucking pollution into the top of the sky with planes, then we're going to make clouds and we're not going to have nice weather. I'll say that now instead of you chucking that outside, but nevermind. But the traffic has picked right back up again. And I think I was surprised. I was really nervous at first about taking this forced time off. Because I've never really done it before.Johnny Lyle:And I was nervous about what the future held and work and the like. Actually, I just relaxed into it really quickly and I thoroughly enjoyed it. And I've baked a load of bread and I've made a load of lovely food and we've walked the entire Werl coastline, and poor dog is exhausted from it. And just actually enjoyed a slower pace of life that I've genuinely never had since I started my first business at 23.Kelly Molson:Yeah. It's nice. It's been again, that's definitely a plus reconnecting a little bit more with nature and just taking that time that we've been... I guess we have to say that we've been gifted it just to slow things down a little bit.Johnny Lyle:Yeah. I've mostly sat down at my desk, nearly every day still. So I didn't completely get out of the habit of it, but I very rarely worked beyond three o'clock and by three o'clock, "Oh, gin and tonic." And sit out in the garden, put my feet up and read my book. It's sweet.Kelly Molson:Delightful. Okay book. Well, that brings us onto our last question. So we like to ask our guests, if they have a book that they would recommend that's helped shaped your career.Johnny Lyle:I'm going to cheat. I can't narrow it down to one. So I'm going nar... I'm going to narrow it down to-Kelly Molson:You're going to do two aren't you? Three? You're killing me.Johnny Lyle:Right three. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey. I read it probably 20 years ago for the first time. The live, love leave a legacy that bit about making sure you think about what you leave behind was critical. It changed everything about the way I thought that's the first one. The second one, which is directly related to be honest, is Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom. Which shows the effect of what you're saying, and what you're doing has on other people. And makes you much more conscious of the impact you can have consciously, or subconsciously really does make you moderate your behavior. Because I'm prone to be a loud mouth know all. And I've really learned to think about what I'm saying because of that.Johnny Lyle:And then the third one, which is absolutely brilliant everyone should read it is called Fish! by Stephen Lundin, which is about the guys who work in Seattle fish market. And it's all about choose your attitude. You absolutely undoubtedly choose your attitude. You decide what you want to be when you get into work. That was fantastic. Then again, in my design agency days, we put a whole staff through a training session on that. We did a whole day training session just with that one book and film. And they all have had a massive positive impact on me as well as about 10,000 other books. Those are the three that I could narrow it down to.Kelly Molson:Great. I mean great choices, but also you guys are blowing my book budget because what we do is we offer people the chance to win the book. But now it's books. Ben had two books as well, you're killing me. Okay.Johnny Lyle:Sorry.Kelly Molson:If you'd like to win a copy of Johnny's books, then if you head over to our Twitter account, which is Skip the Queue, and you retweet this episode announcement with the comment "I want Johnny's books.", Then you'll be in with a chance of winning them. Them, "Ah." Better get my Amazon order in now.Johnny Lyle:Our daughter runs a coffee shop in Nottingham. And she has just started getting into it. "I wanted to develop myself. I want to get better." And so I sent her a copy of the Fish! Book as one to start with. And she was totally and utterly blown away with it and is now buying copies of it herself for all her staff, and actually running a training session with all her staff. Just to go through that because it had such an impact on her.Kelly Molson:No, well, that's a good sign of a book, isn't it? I think we've done that a few times where books have had a real moment with us. And we've given copies of them to our clients, or we've given copies of them to people that have referred or things like that. So that's a real testament to a good book.Johnny Lyle:Well, I'm second hand on Amazon, they're only a few pence then you pay £2.80 delivery. It's got to be worth it. You don't even need to buy them new, buy the secondhand recycle them. Get books-Kelly Molson:I'm happy with second hand books, it's what you might all be getting listeners.Johnny Lyle:Yeah. Don't buy new, buy second hands. There's no point in wasting more paper printing new ones when there's loads of old copies of about.Kelly Molson:Johnny, thank you so much for being on the podcast today. It's been really real pleasure to have you on. Lots of changes come in. It'll be interesting to see what the next few months look like. Maybe we can catch up again after Christmas and see where we're all at.Johnny Lyle:Yeah. Christmas is going to be the big one, isn't it? Let's see what state everyone's in when we get to Christmas. And then smile our way through Christmas and then have a brilliant next year. I think we've got to write this year off and then have a brilliant one next year.Kelly Molson:2021's the one.Johnny Lyle:Yeah, it is.Kelly Molson:All right. Thanks Johnny.Johnny Lyle:Thanks Kelly.Kelly Molson:Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website rubbercheese.com/podcast.

"When life hands you a lemon aircraft...just add four Merlins!" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bryan-pearce/message

El escolta de la selección de Chile y nuevo jugador del EWE Oldenburg alemán, Sebastián Herrera, llega a CIUDAD BASKET para conversar sobre la temporada que acaba de cerrar, una que sirvió de catapulta para su despegue en la Primera División de Alemania. El joven de 22 años repasó altos y bajos de su estadía en los Merlins de Crailsheam, modesto equipo con el que se convirtió en el primer chileno en disputar la Bundesliga. Ahora le espera un nuevo reto, el cual afronta con expectativas de seguir escalando hasta alcanzar su próximo objetivo: jugar Euroliga. ¡Escúchalo analizar su año, su faceta de líder, su nuevo desafío y la actualidad del baloncesto en su país!

Time to get extreme, baby! In this episode, we look at Michael Bay's best and worst.Let's start with the good news. We begin with THE ROCK, that somehow still holds up. We talk the gravitas of Ed Harris, the cute James Bond references, gay hairdressers (of course), and whether not Nicolas Cage works in an action movie.Then we move to Mike's pain, TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT. Will Mike survive this, or does he just shut it down like he did with 6 UNDERGROUND? Join us as we talk nostalgia, loud noises, and hot Merlins.Follow us on TwitterLook at the pretty pictures on InstagramDonate to the show and get rewards on Patreon!Email us and tell us we're wrong at directedbypod@gmail.com

So much Disney Plus News flying around! We get the latest in the world of Star Wars, NEW NATIONAL TREASURE! Of course, the headliner, Sword in the Stone, is it everything you remember? Is there enough magic in Merlins wand to hold up 57 years later? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/disneyplusus/message

The Metaphysical Theater Podcast on Anchor The Metaphysical Theater: John Tvrz Johntvrz.com 'metaphysics-in-action'  The Act of Being as God is being now. Theory of Acting. the theatrical performance is in fact stage to the 'theatre of the world.' And this metaphysical theater within myself is open. The world of the stage, of roles, Metaphysical Theater is upon the electronic virtual wind. Name blows in secret, invisibly traveling to you now. The Metaphysical Theatre provides us with an apt metaphor for a discourse on what has traditionally been the subject matter of metaphysics. The point of metaphysics in both the metaphysical theatre and in life, the act which presences "that-which-is" remains elusive. The performance which To speak of as if it were controlled by a prior presence (ideal or otherwise) something and not the thing itself. The metaphysical notion. Philosophy, then, reveals itself to be What I am suggesting, however, is that by re-interpreting these notions as elements of a theatre, Even by complete spiritual revision of all notions is my mind over-ridden by Christ It is the metaphysical theatre metaphor which makes this discourse on being as a living breathing performance possible. Imitation of God pleases God, even if he knows you ate upon the state in mortal costume of flesh and bone blood and love, fear and Hate, wisdom and sweet holy words to proceed out of my mouth. It not only enables us to construct an ontology of presence But it does this as a product of a metaphysics that moves beyond presence itself. And our winding scenes lead back to God the face in the mirror before you. A conceit is a kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way. Often, conceits are extended metaphors that dominate an entire passage or poem. Metaphysical poet John Donne was known for his conceits (often called metaphysical conceits)met·a·phys·ic the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. abstract theory with no basis in reality. "his concept of society as an organic entity is, for market liberals, simply meta Metaphysics is philosophical: it's about explaining the fundamental nature of the world and what it means as humans to inhabit it. Spirituality, on the other hand, is experiential and has more to do with spiritual practices and the development and discovery of the self. The metaphysical theater here now within myself expressed out upon this stage is the unification of the quantum fields of the serial multiverses.

Der Autor und Lesekünstler Stefan Gemmel hat uns im Podcast besucht und erzählt nicht nur von seinen Weltrekorden, sondern auch von seinem neuen Buch „Lucas und der Zauberschatten“. Daraus liest er auch etwas vor - es wird spannend! Viel Spaß beim Hören! Eigentlich muss Lucas nur eine gemeine Mutprobe bestehen, zu der er herausgefordert wurde. Als ihn jedoch ein seltsamer alter Mann aufhält, gerät er in einen Strudel aus unglaublichen Ereignissen! Der Mann behauptet, ein Magier zu sein, und stellt sich ihm als Schüler Merlins vor. Lucas soll ihm helfen, einen uralten Fluch zu brechen, und muss dafür zurück ins Camelot der Zeit König Artus' reisen. Das klingt viel zu verrückt, um wahr zu sein … Aber wenn doch etwas an der Geschichte dran ist? Das Buch und Hörbuch gibt's hier und in jeder Buchhandlung: http://bit.ly/LucasZauberschatten Und schau doch mal bei YouTube vorbei, denn dort zeigt dir ab dem 20.03. der Illustrator Timo Grubing, wie du einen Ritter zeichnen kannst. Hier geht's zum YouTube-Kanal: http://bit.ly/YouTubeBuchstabenBande Und bei Instagram findest du noch viel mehr Infos und Bilder zu deinen Lieblingshelden: http://bit.ly/InstagramBuchstabenBande Wenn du Fragen und Anregungen hast, dann schick uns gerne eine Mail an podcast@luebbe.de

Squirrel hawking, Merlins in the Southeast, finding and getting access to hunting land where public lands are scarce, and monitoring loads of falcons in the remote Nevada Desert!? Episode 4 of the Falconry Told Podcast has it all! Nick Yashko is relatively new to the sport of falconry, 22 years old with 3 seasons under his belt, but he’s already experienced his fair share of adventure and his perspective is great to have this early on in our podcast season. Enjoy!

Joe Wilcken has been flying Merlins for the past 5 years, he is also a founder and co-host of the famous Utah Merlin Meet. Joe joins us for an in-depth exploration of Merlins, Merlin falconry, and Merlin falconry the way he does it. In this podcast, hosted by Zane Muhlestein and I, we learn about Joe’s trapping, training, and hunting with Merlins, as well as brief examinations of Merlin history, taxonomy, and basic husbandry.

Episode 107 Merlins Rest We're in Minneapolis, Minnesota at Merlins Rest, a fantastic neighborhood pub.The taste of this episode is whiskey, or whisky depending on what you’re drinking. Either way it’s good.We learn about this neighborhood bar, and also Andrea’s unique genealogical discovery about a lost Irish relative.Musical Credits: Good Day by Alex (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: DonnieOzone Now We're Talkin' by Jeris (c) copyright 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: lrockhq This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

In a continuation of last week's conversation, Jon and Mark discuss a better love story than Twilight, Mark makes a joke, Jon hacks a University and they complain about various people and things.

After the lunacy of last week's live episode, the Empire Podcast settles down this week, with an actual knight, and R&B royalty. First, Ben Travis has an audience with the wondrous Mary J. Blige, chatting about her new Netflix show, The Umbrella Academy, and much, much more. Then Chris Hewitt chats to not one, but two Merlins, as The Kid Who Would Be King stars, Sir Patrick Stewart and Angus Imrie, drop by the podbooth. We feel we should warn you - there is more discussion of @SirPatStew nudity in this than your average podcast interview. Either side of those, Chris is joined by Helen O'Hara, Nick de Semlyen, and James Dyer for much discussion of the week's movie news. They also run their eye over The Kid Who Would Be King and A Private War, and finally answer the question that has been gripping us all for years: who is the best Hollywood Chris - Hemsworth, Evans, Pratt, or Pine? The answer might surprise you. It won't.

We start the 6th series with Merlin presenting his first show of 2015

Merlin presents the Litha Show 2015

Merlins are "ariel sprites" says writer Paul Evans, but they also kill skylarks in a rather gruesome manner as we hear in this specially commissioned dark seasonal tale. Tweet of the Day has captivated the Radio 4 audience with its daily 90 seconds of birdsong. But what of the listener to this avian chorus? In this new series of Tweet of the Day, we bring to the airwaves the conversational voices of those who listen to and are inspired by birds. Building on the previous series, a more informal approach to learning alongside a renewed emphasis on encounter with nature and reflection in our relationship with the natural world. Producer: Sarah Blunt Photographer: David Gibbon.

A lot happened in the realm of Major League Rugby this past week with multiple signings from the front office to the playing field. Some Austin news, some NOLA news, some Houston news. Plus the guys review USA Selects v Samoa and Merlins v OBNYC.

This week the guys discuss updates to the Striker's roster, Austin Elite Rugby breaking ground on a stadium complex, the Merlins v Arrows match in Colorado, and they spend a few minutes thinking about all they've done wrong during the corrections segment.

"Det er ikke nødvendigvis gavnligt for idéens udvikling, den kreative proces eller det dejligt flydende sprog og den lækre dialog, at man sidder og tænker plotpunkter og hakker af i forhold til de regler man nu har læst sig til i McKee eller hvad ved ved jeg" Merlin P. Mann er primært børne- og ungdomsforfatter, bl.a til de populære bøger i Taynikma-serien, lavet sammen med tegner Jan Kjær. De sidste år har manuskripter til film i udvikling dog fyldt en del i hans liv, efter han tog den et-årige master class på Filmskolen. hvorfor vi kommer lidt ind på aktantmodeller og synopser i denne snak. Men som Merlin siger: "Hvis der VAR en model, så var der ikke noget at lave for nogen af os. Så kunne vi sætte en abe med en kæmpestor skrivemaskine til, at lave al den fiktion vi har brug for i denne verden". Udover at kigge nærmere på Merlins skriveproces, prøver vi også at identificere hvad det er der gør, at nogen skriver, mens andre primært snakker om at skrive.

Take a trip to Merlin's in Fantasyland as we travel back in time and marvel at Disneyland's magic shops. Mousetalgia welcomes Disneyland magic shop cast member Steve Simmons to the show to talk about working his way up in the parks from janitorial to magic shop magician! Relive the gimmicks, the gag gifts, and the mystifying magic as Steve tells us all about the sales techniques and tricks of the trade behind Disneyland's beloved magic shops in 1969. Steve also talks about the grand opening of the Haunted Mansion, and the famous "Yippie" invasion at Disneyland which he witnessed in person. Also - Jeff and Kristen talk about their Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade finds from 1934, the team talks Disney shopping - and more.

Risky Business / Bad Data for Bad Water / How Safe is Your Lipstick? / / Navy Personnel Claim Radiation Sickness From Fukushima / Life in Chernobyl and Fukushima / BirdNote® -- Peregrines and Merlins and Gyrfalcons

Risky Business / Bad Data for Bad Water / How Safe is Your Lipstick? / / Navy Personnel Claim Radiation Sickness From Fukushima / Life in Chernobyl and Fukushima / BirdNote® -- Peregrines and Merlins and Gyrfalcons

Risky Business / Bad Data for Bad Water / How Safe is Your Lipstick? / / Navy Personnel Claim Radiation Sickness From Fukushima / Life in Chernobyl and Fukushima / BirdNote® -- Peregrines and Merlins and Gyrfalcons

Risky Business / Bad Data for Bad Water / How Safe is Your Lipstick? / / Navy Personnel Claim Radiation Sickness From Fukushima / Life in Chernobyl and Fukushima / BirdNote® -- Peregrines and Merlins and Gyrfalcons

Risky Business / Bad Data for Bad Water / How Safe is Your Lipstick? / / Navy Personnel Claim Radiation Sickness From Fukushima / Life in Chernobyl and Fukushima / BirdNote® -- Peregrines and Merlins and Gyrfalcons

Plenty of comics nerdery from The Incomparable's "House of M" episode.

Plenty of comics nerdery from The Incomparable’s “House of M” episode.

Quarta puntata di Merli's Pants, il podcast per chi non si rassegna alla fine della saga Potteriana. In questa puntata si parla come si incanta, si canta e si va ad Azkaban!

Merlin Pants, il podcast per chi non si rassegna alla fine della saga potteriana!Terza puntata, in pieno clima festivo, per celebrare con il Ritratto della Signora Black e con Kreacher. Si parla delle tradizioni natalizie nel Potterverse, si chiacchiera con Bellatrix Lestrange di Fastidious, si ascolta il Wizard Rock e si ascoltano le parole di JKR.  

Seconda puntata di Merlin's Pants, il podcast per chi non si rassegna alla fine della saga!In questo episodio incontriamo Violetta Wood, apprendista di Madame Malkin, parliamo Serpentese, leggiamo fanfiction e ci avventuriamo nell'oscura scienza delle Bacchette.Kreacher e il Ritratto della Signora Black vi danno il benvenuto tra le mura di Grimmauld Place numero 12 per una mezzora di chiacchiere sul Potterverse! 

Spiele-Podcast Nr. 32: Schatten über Camelot und Merlins Macht - Wir gegen das Spiel