Podcast appearances and mentions of michael kenney

In this segment, Mark is joined by Michael Kenney with Defined Destinations. They discuss their wonderful trip through Defined Destinations to Greece, the highlights, and where they could be heading next.

In hour 3, Mark is joined by David Strom, an Associate Editor for HotAir.com. They discuss trending political topics as well as the legacy media's continued downfall and broken trust with the public. Mark is then joined by Michael Kenney with Defined Destinations. They discuss their wonderful trip through Defined Destinations to Greece, the highlights, and where they could be heading next. They wrap up the show with the Audio Cut of the Day.

In hour 1 of The Mark Reardon Show, Mark is joined by the Reardon Roundtable that is made up of Jane Dueker, John Lamping, and Jeff Smith. They discuss numerous topics including the new American pope, how President Trump is doing is office, Tishaura Jones' latest comments on why she left the Mayoral office. In hour 2, Sue hosts, "Sue's News" where they discuss the latest trending entertainment news, this day in history, the random fact of the day, and more. In this segment, Mark is then joined by Paul Hall with Common Guy's Film Reviews. They discuss the latest trending movie and show releases. He is then joined by KSDK Sports Director Frank Cusumano who discusses the Cardinals current 5 game win streak and what has worked. He also discusses the Blues painful end to the season, their end of season press conference, St Louis City's lowest attended crowd from this past week, and recent criticism around Jayson Tatum. In hour 3, Mark is joined by David Strom, an Associate Editor for HotAir.com. They discuss trending political topics as well as the legacy media's continued downfall and broken trust with the public. Mark is then joined by Michael Kenney with Defined Destinations. They discuss their wonderful trip through Defined Destinations to Greece, the highlights, and where they could be heading next. They wrap up the show with the Audio Cut of the Day.

Welcome to another exciting episode of "Dishing with Stephanies Dish." In this episode, I am joined by my fellow travel enthusiast, Michael Kenney from Defined Destinations, as we dive into the world of adventurous group travel. Fresh from their trips to Croatia and Asia, they're setting their sights on a new journey to Sicily, Italy. Whether you're a seasoned traveler or a wanderlust-driven explorer, you'll discover the unique experiences that Sicily promises, from breathtaking historic cities to mesmerizing volcanoes and, of course, delectable Italian cuisine. Join Stephanie and the Michaels for a delightful conversation about the joys of traveling with a group, the thrill of meeting new people, and the authentic charm that awaits in Sicily. Whether you're considering joining their next adventure or simply living vicariously through their tales, this episode offers a captivating glimpse into the magic of defined destinations. Let the journey begin!Stephanie Hansen:Hello, everybody. Welcome to the podcast, Dishing with Stephanie's Dish. I hope you're doing great today. I am here with my friend, Michael Kenney, and Michael and I have been traveling together a couple years now. Right, Michael?Michael Kenney:Yeah. We've had, two trips under our belt. So it's, a trip to Croatia and, just recently that Cambodia Vietnam trip. So we've been we've been putting some miles down, Stephanie.Stephanie Hansen:I actually actually was somewhere last night and ran into someone from our trip, and we were comparing our bracelets from when we met the Buddhist monk because both of us still have ours on. Yes.Michael Kenney:Mine, like, just kinda fell apart.Stephanie Hansen:It was such a Oh,Michael Kenney:I woke up in the sun.Stephanie Hansen:Trip. Yes. I'm I'm gonna keep it on as long as I can. It was such a life changing trip. Asia was somewhere that I'd always wanted to go and really didn't have the confidence to do it by myself. So you gave me confidence. Going with other people gave me confidence, and we ended up having such a great time. Pretty good.Stephanie Hansen:I have had another great trip with you. We went to Croatia, and that was an awesome trip. We were on kind of like an exclusive private yacht with, Stan, our tour guide, who was probably one of the best tour guides ever.Michael Kenney:For sure.Stephanie Hansen:And you're going back there to Croatia this summer, aren't you?Michael Kenney:Yeah. Personally, I'm not. I'm gonna have somebody else. I'm a little envious because, yeah, that that trip was straight out of a dream. And, you and your, listeners, followers, they were so much fun.Stephanie Hansen:So Yeah. We did have a good time.Michael Kenney:Yeah. It was great.Stephanie Hansen:So I wanted to podcast with you because people ask me all the time about these trips and, like, how it works and what we do and, you know, like, are you, like, checking people's passports? I'm like, no. Silly. I'm not. But we have a trip coming up to Sicily, a taste of Sicily, which you have so sweetly on your your background there. That's smart. October 14 through the twenty second. And our final payments, I think, are due in June. So we're kind of in the hunt for getting everybody signed up and confirmed.And I wanted to talk with you. I've been to Italy a lot, actually, but I've never been to Sicily. So I'm excited about what that area is gonna be like and you've been. So I thought, alright. Let's just talk a little bit about this and get to know a little bit about how these trips work. So, I like to do trips with people because I like to travel with others. And people always ask me, well, are they food trips? Yes. They are food.Like, we eat food. We enjoy food. We talk about food, but it isn't, like, exclusively a food trip. We know that when you're going to some of these historic destinations that you also wanna see some of the beautiful sites. So we try to mix in some food things like special tastings, special wine events, or special dinners, but we also wanna give you some time to explore the region on your own so that you can go to the restaurants that really appeal to you. And, you know, when you're going with the group, sometimes it's not easy to go to some of these really exclusive special places because you have a larger group. Our group on a trip like this would be, what, would you say, like, less than, like, 26 probably?Michael Kenney:Yeah. It this group size will be anywhere from 20 to 30 maximum on this trip. So it's a real nice, you know, size group for sure.Stephanie Hansen:And you've been to Sicily before. When was the last time you went?Michael Kenney:I was with a group two years ago in Sicily. So I've been there three other times. So just most recently, just two years ago.Stephanie Hansen:And you and I like, I kinda gave you my short list of places. And you asked me about Sicily, and I was like, oh, well, I don't know. I've never really thought about that. And you were like, oh my gosh. It's one of your favorite places in Italy. So tell me what it is that you love about Sicily in particular.Michael Kenney:Yeah. No. That that that's a great question. You already mentioned you've been to Italy several times, and we get a lot of people that have been to Italy. And they're like, alright. I've already done that. Or maybe you haven't, you know, seen the the Colosseum and Venice and things like that. Sicily is is Italian, but it's an island in the middle of the Mediterranean.Michael Kenney:So it's just it's it's it's similar, but it's different. I think everything is elevated. Their food, their sites. I mean, the history has a whole Greek, northern the Arabs. It's a Spanish influence in Normans. They've all kinda come to this island in the middle of the the Mediterranean and put, like, their best foods, their their best everything. And it's kinda mixes and makes a Sicilian dish, which is really cool. So it's it's similar, yes, with their pastas and things like that in Mainland Europe, but it's it's a different notch.Michael Kenney:I think it's above, regular standard Italian food. It's just the flavors, the the spices, everything like that is just it's so good. And that's just the food side of it. And then, of course, I already mentioned with with the Greeks in the Spanish and the Normans, they have their own architectures that they brought, a mix of different languages. So you really feel like you're in a whole another country. It says in Italy, but the Sicilians say we're Sicilian first, then we're Italian.Stephanie Hansen:That's funny.Michael Kenney:So it's it's really so different, of an experience on that end. And I even have, a couple of friends going on this trip, and they've never been to Europe before. And they're saying, hey. We're we're gonna join you on this trip because it sounds lovely, but we've never been to Europe. We've never seen the Colosseum, things like that. Like, is this a good trip for us to take? I go, for sure it is. I mean, you don't have these, you know, the Leaning Tower Of Pisa, but once you get get to these places, you'll say, oh my gosh. I mean, a church that's, a thousand years old, or the little villages that are, you know, 500 years old and just oozing with this with charm.So you're really, having this real great Italian Sicilian experience, but maybe not knowing the sites, but it'll kinda resonate even better when you come back and tell your stories. It's just a beautiful, beautiful trip.Stephanie Hansen:And I think, you know, I've been to Rome. I've been to a lot of the little Italian islands on sailing trips with my husband. And we've been to Naples. We've been to Venice. We've been all over, really. And each of Italy has its own uniqueness, but the islands themselves are just something different because you really did get a lot of influences of people coming through and the trading that happened. And they also weren't as involved in the wars because they were sort of moving to the mainland. So you get a lot of different preservation possibilities, and the culture just held up because they weren't impacted by the wars in the same way.Michael Kenney:Exactly. And I think even early on, Sicilians were were very poor as well. So a lot of things just really, held. So they didn't, you know, knock down buildings and build new skyscrapers, things like that. It's like you're being, on the set of The Godfather, which was filmed there too, part of it at least. And, it was, like, set in time, and you're going there and just really experiencing the the feel, the taste, the smell, even you could call, like, the grit of, like, Palermo. I mean, it has this edge to it in a sense, like, this is a real living city. It sound like all spruced up to be perfect, like, on a set, but that's what makes it so so fantastic.It it's it's real. And I don't think you always get that experience that you're in in Central Rome, and they they, you know, it's all beautiful up. Again Palermo and all these cities that will visit are extremely beautiful but it has it's just a different edge to it and every group that I've ever been there with Stephanie if they've come back and said wow this is a dream. Not just the food, the sites, the experiences, the people. The people are real. They're they're fabulous. So it's it's a real real, just an amazing immersion, if you will, to Sicily.Stephanie Hansen:One of the things that people ask me about too, and I'll be honest with you. I'm not really, like, someone that you would think of as a group traveler. I like a certain amount of, alone time. I don't love to have every single thing coordinated for me. My husband, as you know, is a big adventurer and explorer. He's always the first one to do anything crazy on these trips. But it having a group is it's so nice when it's a smaller group like this because you do get to meet new people. You do get to create a community amongst your travelers.And I'll tell you, my friend Laurie Bargini that went on our Asia trip with us, she was very she's a big traveler too, and she was like, I don't know about this group thing. I was like, just give it a try. Like, Asia's a good one to test it out because it's probably a destination you wouldn't go alone. And she signed up right away for Sicily. She was like, I loved the group elements because when I wanted to, I had a group of friends and it was fun and we could hang out together and do fun things, but also when I wanted to be alone, I could do that too. It she thought it added a whole another layer to the travel experience than you just get either with you and your spouse or you and your friends because you have this whole other dynamic of people that for the most part is pretty great.Michael Kenney:Yeah. I know. And I and that's great. And Laurie was great. I'm glad she signed up because on the flight back from Asia, she sat next to me on the flight, and that's a seventeen hour flight. And if she wants to go back, then that that that's great.Stephanie Hansen:Yeah. It's good. Well, you know she talked to you the whole time probably.Michael Kenney:No. I tried to again, maybe it's like the group element. You know, have time on, time off. So I'm glad that was brought up. And I've been doing group tours for twenty eight years now, which I I I can't believe. And I I first started getting into tourism because I wanted to see sites. I'm like, I know I can't pay for it, so I need to be a tour guide and and going from that. I didn't realize the whole experience and having shared experiences with others was gonna be my highlight.And to this day, that's my favorite part is going to meet people that I've never met before and going having these shared experiences with. And and sometimes, you know, you build friends for a lifetime off of that.Michael Kinney:I think especially our last group too, we we really, built that with several of the the travelers, which is great. So and I so if you're hesitant, like, well, I'd like to this trip sounds great or any of our trips, but I am kind of worried about that. We really try to balance all our tours out. It's it's it's imperative that we have that balance of, some of the group time to have these, shared experiences to leisure time so that you can go and have your own adventures. And that is so crucial to all of our trips. That's why our hotels, and we can talk about that later, are centrally located. So once we go out and do, say, our city tour, our our our food tour in Palermo and walking around, you'll have, like, the remainder of the day to go explore on your own or some of those new friends that you met. Maybe you can go out and have a glass of wine with them.But again, it's all about that balance. And we each and every itinerary that we put together, we really work on making sure we have that balance in in the trips itself. Because I think that is the success of it. So we don't pack the days all day long on, like, seeing this, this, and this. We give you the nice highlights, and we'll have some other fun inclusions. But again, each place that we go to centrally located hotels, we have that free time too. So you can do your own thing or jump on with a group that you've met and have cocktails, Aperol spritzes in the main, Piazza later on. So it it's so fun, but it it really comes back.You register for a trip, but you don't know you're gonna meet some great people. And at at the end of the trip, it's typically these, these people and these, shared experiences come back, and that's where the meaning of the the trip comes in. It's so it's it's so much fun to see them build together.Stephanie Hansen:On each of the trips that I've done with you, we've had solo travelersMichael Kenney:Mhmm.Stephanie Hansen:Which I think people are like, oh, you know, I don't know. I don't have a partner to go with or my friend can't go. And that to me has also been super fun, like the solo travelers and the friends that they've made. And, like, one of the gals I saw from our Asia trip, I saw our friend Annie last night, and she was a solo traveler. Ended up pairing up with Laurie in a room and sharing, actually, actually, which a lot of solo travelers don't wanna share. I get that. But in this case, they both did, and they are like fast friends.Michael Kenney:That I mean, that's that's so much fun to see that. First off, if, you know, we all have it like your maybe your husband or wife or friend they don't want to go but you're like interested in this trip. We get that on all of our trips and we specifically specifically have, several single rooms set aside for those, adventure traveler seekers to have that. So you can pick your own room and go as a single or maybe you want us to to pair you up. We can do that too and get you in contact with another solo traveler like lorian annie did and that typically works out really well too but it's it's I think the like minded people looking for adventures you'll never feel like you're by yourself on any of our trips So, like, oh, I'm a third wheel. Never ever ever. And sometimes that's the best way to travel because you don't have to make sure your traveling partner is having a great time. You only can worry about yourself.Hey. I'm gonna have a great time. And, you know, all of our trip travelers that I've I've ever heard from, they've had a great time going solo, and they meet these like minded people. And, again, all of a sudden, they have friends for a lifetime, like, you know, Lori and Annie did. So if you're you're even thinking about it, like, I'm solo and I'm a little skeptical about going by myself, give us a call. Send us an email. We we can get you your own, room, single, room. They are filling up quick, though.We have a few left, or we can pair you up with somebody too to share that single supplement. But, again, you'll never feel like a third wheel with any of our tours. And this, in addition, just works really, really well for single travelers, and you'll meet some probably good friends on it.Stephanie Hansen:Yeah. And, also, like, ladies, some of you I know, like, getting coming out of relationships or divorce, you wanna do something unique. I have someone in my family who are shall remain nameless, who's gonna be joining us, who wanted to get back to Europe, but she's just not in a relationship status that would work for that as the way she thought it was gonna be. So I was like, come with us. Like, we're gonna have a ball. There's men. There's women. You know, my husband has come on some trips, but others, he hasn't.And Mhmm. It's just there's a great mix of people.Michael Kenney:Yeah. No. It it it it's great. Now this isn't a singles trip, but maybe you can find Giuseppe at the local cafe. You never know. So you never know. So anyway, yeah, it it works great for whatever status you are in life, single, you know, whatever. It these really, really work really nice.And sometimes, like, my brother came, and we shared a room on our the last trip, and he just wanted to kind of have a experience and get away from, you know, what's going on in life over here and just do a reset. And he came back and said, I'm really recharged. And he's kinda like going into he's retired, and he wants to do something else in his, you know, second part of his life. And he he's going after something right now because he he was able to kinda just disconnect Yeah. And then just take it all in and then kinda come back and, like, let's go. So regardless from relationships to job hunting or whatever, sometimes these trips are great. Even if you go solo, that could even be better.Stephanie Hansen:Yeah. Just to get a reset.Can you give us, like, without, like, going into all the detail, like, a high level, not day by day, but just, like, what are the towns we're gonna visit? What are because we're gonna be in, I think, three different areas.Michael Kenney:Yeah. Correct. So if you if you go on our, at definedestinations.com and look at, taste of Sicily Twenty Twenty Five, you can find the day by day, itinerary on that, and you'll get to be able to see through it. But again, it reads like a brochure, and you go through each item. And everything that we mentioned on that, it's, it is included. But the neat thing is we go from the North to the South and then all the way over to the, the East side of the island. So you're really having a great feel for the entire island itself. And, we have three nights in Palermo, and then we have one night in Agrigento, which is at the very southern on the beach, our hotel's right on the beach.You can walk right down there. And even October mid October is a great time to go too because the temperatures are, like, mid seventies, so it's super comfortable. And the water temperature is still pretty nice if you want to jump in. And then we have three nights in Siracoosa. So we we have these, like, kind of, hub and spoke places that we we do our adventures from the but we always come back to our centrally located place. So, anyway, we'll we'll find the Palermo. We have a connection. If you do our included flights, there's no, direct flights from from Minneapolis into Sicily.So we have a connection, on that.Stephanie Hansen:And let me just touch on that because some people want to work with the travel agent to have all of the flight things arranged for them, and that is an option with you. But you also do have options where people can meet you at the destination. So, like, for me, we have a lot of miles that we're always trying to burn up. Yeah. So for us, we book our own airfare so that we can use our miles, and then we sometimes add a few days on at the end, or we might even go to a different destination. With your group travel plans, both of those options are available to people.Michael Kenney:A %. I'm glad you asked that too because, yes, there's people that have miles or if they only wanna stay exclusively with Delta or United or whatever, that's fine. Our trips truly begin and end at at the hotels. With that, we do offer an included group package you can jump on, but the whole group will not be on that flight for sure. It's just an option to do that. And my my team can also, get you, flights separate from that too if you wanted to come early like you said, Stephanie, or stay light. Hey. I wanna go see the Colosseum on this trip.Great. My team can put a pre tour, post tour package together if you want to do that. Or even if you don't want any of our help, that's fine. You can just book our land only. You'll be able to see our group flight numbers on there too so you can kinda coordinate that. But the great thing is that both, airports, in Palermo we fly into, and then we fly out of Catania. They're close to both, towns, so you can easily take an Uber. So it's really pretty easy to get to and from, and that's where the, the the the tour start from.So if you're hesitant, hey. I need to book the group air. Don't worry about that. You don't have to do that by any means. We're happy to help you, on all the other aspects too to to get the airfare, with that. So, yep, we fly into Palermo. We'll settle into our our our three, our centrally located hotel, which is fabulous. Again, remind me that we need to touch on the the hotels too a little bit.Stephanie Hansen:Yep.Michael Kenney:But it's right in the center. We'll do a food tour of one of the local markets. Again, like you mentioned, maybe we have some guests on the trip that could care less about food or wine tastings. It's just a a piece of of our trip. So even if you're, a modest food lover or you only like cornflakes, there's gonna be some fun things to do on this as well. And we find that, you learn a lot about the culture through the food. Yeah. That's the reason we we do part of that too.So it'll be fun regardless. You're going through the markets. You're learning about the foods. Things like that. We go to, the the Cathedral Of Monreali, which, hey. We're seeing another church. We typically don't always do that, but this is really specific. This church is beautiful.It's got, it's it's a massive church built in the twelfth century, and they're famous for all its mosaics. The whole interior, the churches, all these fine mosaics they did almost a thousand years ago. It's unreal. So it's beautiful that we'll be doing that. We'll go to Cefalu, a little, seaside village, which is outside of Palermo a little ways. Maybe you've seen White Lotus. Part of that was filmed there or all parts of the, that, season two was filmed in Sicily. So we'll have a lot of White Lotus moments, as well on that, which which will be a lot of fun.And then from there, we'll be driving after our three nights in, in Palermo. We'll be heading south, crossing the entire, island itself. Absolutely beautiful. Even our coach rides, which aren't a lot, that they're just stunning. And and enjoying the countryside is absolutely beautiful. And we'll be going to that's where Agrigento is, and it feels like you're being stuck in Greece. Like, wow. There's all these Greek ruins, you know, two, three thousand years old.It's like, this is unbelievable. They have some of the better Greek ruins even outside of Athens, which is amazing. So walking through Agrigento, experiencing that, seeing that during the sunset, it's it's it's magical. I use that word a lot, but I think the whole trip really is. And then we we we settle into our hotel right on the beach, which is lovely. And then from there, we'll be going over to Siracusa, which is one of my favorite places ever. My first time I went to Sicily, we didn't go there. And I went back and I said, how do we skip that the first time? Siracoosa is, it's unbelievable.And you've agreed too. We we're staying right in they called it Ortega. That's like the old city of Siracusa. And we're staying right inside the city wall. So our bus will drop our private bus for our group will drop us off, and then we have to walk about ten minutes to our hotel, which is on a small little alleyway. And we'll talk about that later on. But it's a great location that we'll be doing, having different experiences, seeing all the the ruins, walking around at night. It's just beautiful.And from there, we'll be out we'll also be going to see Mount Etna, which is still an active volcano. We'll be on the sides of it. It's unbelievable. All of a sudden, you feel like you're being transported onto the moon. You see the vents and things like that. It's beautiful. And they grow some amazing wines there too on the slopes of it, and we'll be tasting some of those.Stephanie Hansen:That's so cool.Michael Kenney:Yeah. It's it's it's it really is pretty cool, because of that that rich soil just offers great Sicilian wines and the dry and the the elevation. So it it culminates to be really, really good. So, work on your Sicilian, reds. They're they're quite good.Stephanie Hansen:It will be exciting. Yeah.Michael Kenney:No. It it it's great. So I mean, it's it's seven, nights, a nine day trip, in Sicily. You'll have a real good flavor of the city, of all the areas that we visit. So it's it's quite nice. And if you go on the, the website, you'll see all the the inclusions as well. So we include mostly everything that we've talked about. There's really, we don't include all the meals because we want some experiences, for yourself too to go out and go, hey.Michael Kenney:We're gonna go to this little restaurant or whatever. Mhmm. And we have a local guide with us the entire time that will really help, talk about the history, and, you know, what's going on with the people itself, but then just pointing out great restaurants and other little experiences you can doStephanie Hansen:during the free And that's I love that because when we go to some of these places, like, I think I told you my husband is, he's kind of an you know, he's in venture. He always wants to do his own thing. So if we land in a place, he's like, okay. We're gonna take off. We're gonna go do this. We're gonna do that. And, you know, we try to balance, like, doing the group things with also him having his best life and doing some unique, food experiences just on our own. So every everybody gets a little bit of everything.It's a real delightful mix. You've been to Sicily. Now I think this will be, you said, your third time, fourth time?Michael Kenney:Fourth time.Stephanie Hansen:I'm so impressed that you're coming.Michael Kenney:Yeah. I'd well, I can't miss with your groups too. I can't go on all our trips, but this is definitely one I I, notched away because I think, part of me still is in Sicily. There's there's just something about it, and you can't you know, I've been to other parts of Italy plenty of times, and I feel like I'm an Italian, but, there's just something with Sicily. Maybe I meant I meant the grit. I've talked about that. It feels like a real city, real sites, real food, just from the the different markets, the fish markets is just everything seems really authentic.Stephanie Hansen:I love it.Michael Kenney:That's what I really, really love, and I think the guests do too. I'm I'm just envisioning myself walking and through Palermo with my last group, and there was, like, there was music being played in the streets, and people are sitting down and having glasses of wine. There was no festival going on. It was just this this zest for life thatStephanie Hansen:Yeah. The Italians just in general, they stay up late. They eat late. So they have, like, a happy hour kind of at, like, six to seven, and then they go home and get ready to go out for the dinner time in a lot of cases. So they spend a lot of time outdoors, and they like to do it when it's not in the blazing hot sun. So things really there's a great nightlife. People are, out and about into all hours of the evening, which is fun. So I'm just super excited.So if people wanna join us, you said I mean, I know we've got some rooms booked already. Yeah. So are there some rooms left if people wanna book, and what is the timeline that they should be doing that, and how do they do it?Michael Kenney:Yeah. That's a great question. So I said we have about we can handle maximum of 30 people. So we have about seven rooms up, so about 14 people. So if someone calls and say, well, will this be booked up by next week? It probably won't be, but I always tell people, go ahead, put your deposit down, hold the seat on the trip itself. And you just have to go to definedestinations.com. You can book everything right then then and there. It's super simple process.You just put your your information in. You don't need a valid passport right now to to enter that in. But you just go ahead and you fill that out, put your deposit down, at least then you'll you'll have a, a seat held for you. Then you can work on if you wanna get your own air fryer or if you wanna stay earlier, you know, stay after later on the trip itself. You you can do that all right there as well. So it's pretty simple.Stephanie Hansen:And then once you're booked and we know who's coming, we usually try to have a call to kinda give everybody the particulars of that trip. Sometimes depending on our time frame, we try to get together in person. I wasn't able for the last one because I had so many things coming, and I'm not sure what'll happen with this one because I've got the cookbook coming out, in September. But one way or another, we will see each other's faces, and we will get on that plane, and we will arrive together and have a blast. So I'm looking forward to it, and we've got other trips planned. I know we're trying to book another Croatia trip possibly for the following year for the fall and something in the spring. So if you guys have any destinations you wanna check out with me, let me know. I'm always looking for new places to go. You just went to the Galapagos. It sounded like it was amazing.Michael Kenney:Yeah. It that that was, fabulous. I was just doing a site inspection because we're looking about having groups go to the Galapagos and the Amazon, and it it was it was unreal. I loved it. Completely different experience from going to, to going to Sicily. Well, that's great. There's so many experiences to have on our on the world, and we only have so much time to be able to do those. So you gotta kinda hit that hierarchy of, you know, what's what's important.For anybody that's just thinking about it or if this is the first time you've ever even heard of Sicily, please take a look at this because it is really a magical trip, and we have so many fun inclusions. Our hotel locations are in the city center. I wanted to mention that, not, just because we're on tiny little streets. So you mentioned, like, the the nightlife. It's we're not on a bustling street where all the cars are going by. It's like you feel like you're a local. You'll go out the door, and there's mama Rosita across the street, you know, cutting herStephanie Hansen:Yeah. Sitting outside. Yes.Michael Kenney:That's the experience we want, not just on this trip, all of our trips. We want you to feel like you're kind of a, a local for even three nights when we're there, so you'll know where the the nearest bakery is and, the restaurants. And I think you'll have that on this trip. I it's it's reallyStephanie Hansen:I love it.Michael Kenney:Something else with all our hotels. You'll absolutely love that. We know exactly where to stay, and sometimes that's overwhelming when you're looking at doing a trip in your own, like, where should I go? What should I where should I stay? Like, it's overwhelming. We want this to be just book the trip. We're gonna be taking care of all the highlights for you.Stephanie Hansen:Pack your bags and come along. Yes.Michael Kenney:Exactly. So that's that's what's really important to us. And IStephanie Hansen:think I'm looking forward to it. It's gonna be awesome. I'm gonna release this podcast, not this Friday, but next Friday. So k. Between now and then, you guys, I hope you get your seats booked, and I hope to see you on this amazing trip. Thanks, Michael.Michael Kenney:Wonderful. Thanks, Michael.Stephanie Hansen:It was awesome. It's defined destinations. You can find them at defineddestinations.com. Taste of Italy is right on the front page. Click that, and you can see all the itinerary of the whole trip. And we're gonna have a great time.Michael Kenney:Taste of Sicily.Stephanie Hansen:Yes. The tasteMichael Kenney:of Sicily.Stephanie Hansen:Oh, what did I call it? What did I say? Taste ofMichael Kenney:Italy. We have one of those too. Oh, okay. The Sicily one.Stephanie Hansen:Taste of Sicily specifically. Yes. And then if you like Italy, you can go back because there are a lot of places to go back to. Amalfi Coast is great, but it's different. And, like, I there I've been to a lot of different places in Italy, and they're all a little bit different. And I like them all for different reasons. So I'm really excited to explore Sicily.Michael Kenney:Yep. It's gonna be great. Well, thanks so much for the time.Stephanie Hansen:Yeah. We'll talk soon.Michael Kenney:Yep.Stephanie Hansen:Bye. Bye bye.Stephanie's Dish Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stephaniehansen.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to another exciting episode of "Dishing with Stephanies Dish." In this episode, I am joined by my fellow travel enthusiast, Michael Kenney from Defined Destinations, as we dive into the world of adventurous group travel. Fresh from their trips to Croatia and Asia, they're setting their sights on a new journey to Sicily, Italy. Whether you're a seasoned traveler or a wanderlust-driven explorer, you'll discover the unique experiences that Sicily promises, from breathtaking historic cities to mesmerizing volcanoes and, of course, delectable Italian cuisine. Join Stephanie and the Michaels for a delightful conversation about the joys of traveling with a group, the thrill of meeting new people, and the authentic charm that awaits in Sicily. Whether you're considering joining their next adventure or simply living vicariously through their tales, this episode offers a captivating glimpse into the magic of defined destinations. Let the journey begin!Stephanie Hansen:Hello, everybody. Welcome to the podcast, Dishing with Stephanie's Dish. I hope you're doing great today. I am here with my friend, Michael Kenney, and Michael and I have been traveling together a couple years now. Right, Michael?Michael Kenney:Yeah. We've had, two trips under our belt. So it's, a trip to Croatia and, just recently that Cambodia Vietnam trip. So we've been we've been putting some miles down, Stephanie.Stephanie Hansen:I actually actually was somewhere last night and ran into someone from our trip, and we were comparing our bracelets from when we met the Buddhist monk because both of us still have ours on. Yes.Michael Kenney:Mine, like, just kinda fell apart.Stephanie Hansen:It was such a Oh,Michael Kenney:I woke up in the sun.Stephanie Hansen:Trip. Yes. I'm I'm gonna keep it on as long as I can. It was such a life changing trip. Asia was somewhere that I'd always wanted to go and really didn't have the confidence to do it by myself. So you gave me confidence. Going with other people gave me confidence, and we ended up having such a great time. Pretty good.Stephanie Hansen:I have had another great trip with you. We went to Croatia, and that was an awesome trip. We were on kind of like an exclusive private yacht with, Stan, our tour guide, who was probably one of the best tour guides ever.Michael Kenney:For sure.Stephanie Hansen:And you're going back there to Croatia this summer, aren't you?Michael Kenney:Yeah. Personally, I'm not. I'm gonna have somebody else. I'm a little envious because, yeah, that that trip was straight out of a dream. And, you and your, listeners, followers, they were so much fun.Stephanie Hansen:So Yeah. We did have a good time.Michael Kenney:Yeah. It was great.Stephanie Hansen:So I wanted to podcast with you because people ask me all the time about these trips and, like, how it works and what we do and, you know, like, are you, like, checking people's passports? I'm like, no. Silly. I'm not. But we have a trip coming up to Sicily, a taste of Sicily, which you have so sweetly on your your background there. That's smart. October 14 through the twenty second. And our final payments, I think, are due in June. So we're kind of in the hunt for getting everybody signed up and confirmed.And I wanted to talk with you. I've been to Italy a lot, actually, but I've never been to Sicily. So I'm excited about what that area is gonna be like and you've been. So I thought, alright. Let's just talk a little bit about this and get to know a little bit about how these trips work. So, I like to do trips with people because I like to travel with others. And people always ask me, well, are they food trips? Yes. They are food.Like, we eat food. We enjoy food. We talk about food, but it isn't, like, exclusively a food trip. We know that when you're going to some of these historic destinations that you also wanna see some of the beautiful sites. So we try to mix in some food things like special tastings, special wine events, or special dinners, but we also wanna give you some time to explore the region on your own so that you can go to the restaurants that really appeal to you. And, you know, when you're going with the group, sometimes it's not easy to go to some of these really exclusive special places because you have a larger group. Our group on a trip like this would be, what, would you say, like, less than, like, 26 probably?Michael Kenney:Yeah. It this group size will be anywhere from 20 to 30 maximum on this trip. So it's a real nice, you know, size group for sure.Stephanie Hansen:And you've been to Sicily before. When was the last time you went?Michael Kenney:I was with a group two years ago in Sicily. So I've been there three other times. So just most recently, just two years ago.Stephanie Hansen:And you and I like, I kinda gave you my short list of places. And you asked me about Sicily, and I was like, oh, well, I don't know. I've never really thought about that. And you were like, oh my gosh. It's one of your favorite places in Italy. So tell me what it is that you love about Sicily in particular.Michael Kenney:Yeah. No. That that that's a great question. You already mentioned you've been to Italy several times, and we get a lot of people that have been to Italy. And they're like, alright. I've already done that. Or maybe you haven't, you know, seen the the Colosseum and Venice and things like that. Sicily is is Italian, but it's an island in the middle of the Mediterranean.Michael Kenney:So it's just it's it's it's similar, but it's different. I think everything is elevated. Their food, their sites. I mean, the history has a whole Greek, northern the Arabs. It's a Spanish influence in Normans. They've all kinda come to this island in the middle of the the Mediterranean and put, like, their best foods, their their best everything. And it's kinda mixes and makes a Sicilian dish, which is really cool. So it's it's similar, yes, with their pastas and things like that in Mainland Europe, but it's it's a different notch.Michael Kenney:I think it's above, regular standard Italian food. It's just the flavors, the the spices, everything like that is just it's so good. And that's just the food side of it. And then, of course, I already mentioned with with the Greeks in the Spanish and the Normans, they have their own architectures that they brought, a mix of different languages. So you really feel like you're in a whole another country. It says in Italy, but the Sicilians say we're Sicilian first, then we're Italian.Stephanie Hansen:That's funny.Michael Kenney:So it's it's really so different, of an experience on that end. And I even have, a couple of friends going on this trip, and they've never been to Europe before. And they're saying, hey. We're we're gonna join you on this trip because it sounds lovely, but we've never been to Europe. We've never seen the Colosseum, things like that. Like, is this a good trip for us to take? I go, for sure it is. I mean, you don't have these, you know, the Leaning Tower Of Pisa, but once you get get to these places, you'll say, oh my gosh. I mean, a church that's, a thousand years old, or the little villages that are, you know, 500 years old and just oozing with this with charm.So you're really, having this real great Italian Sicilian experience, but maybe not knowing the sites, but it'll kinda resonate even better when you come back and tell your stories. It's just a beautiful, beautiful trip.Stephanie Hansen:And I think, you know, I've been to Rome. I've been to a lot of the little Italian islands on sailing trips with my husband. And we've been to Naples. We've been to Venice. We've been all over, really. And each of Italy has its own uniqueness, but the islands themselves are just something different because you really did get a lot of influences of people coming through and the trading that happened. And they also weren't as involved in the wars because they were sort of moving to the mainland. So you get a lot of different preservation possibilities, and the culture just held up because they weren't impacted by the wars in the same way.Michael Kenney:Exactly. And I think even early on, Sicilians were were very poor as well. So a lot of things just really, held. So they didn't, you know, knock down buildings and build new skyscrapers, things like that. It's like you're being, on the set of The Godfather, which was filmed there too, part of it at least. And, it was, like, set in time, and you're going there and just really experiencing the the feel, the taste, the smell, even you could call, like, the grit of, like, Palermo. I mean, it has this edge to it in a sense, like, this is a real living city. It sound like all spruced up to be perfect, like, on a set, but that's what makes it so so fantastic.It it's it's real. And I don't think you always get that experience that you're in in Central Rome, and they they, you know, it's all beautiful up. Again Palermo and all these cities that will visit are extremely beautiful but it has it's just a different edge to it and every group that I've ever been there with Stephanie if they've come back and said wow this is a dream. Not just the food, the sites, the experiences, the people. The people are real. They're they're fabulous. So it's it's a real real, just an amazing immersion, if you will, to Sicily.Stephanie Hansen:One of the things that people ask me about too, and I'll be honest with you. I'm not really, like, someone that you would think of as a group traveler. I like a certain amount of, alone time. I don't love to have every single thing coordinated for me. My husband, as you know, is a big adventurer and explorer. He's always the first one to do anything crazy on these trips. But it having a group is it's so nice when it's a smaller group like this because you do get to meet new people. You do get to create a community amongst your travelers.And I'll tell you, my friend Laurie Bargini that went on our Asia trip with us, she was very she's a big traveler too, and she was like, I don't know about this group thing. I was like, just give it a try. Like, Asia's a good one to test it out because it's probably a destination you wouldn't go alone. And she signed up right away for Sicily. She was like, I loved the group elements because when I wanted to, I had a group of friends and it was fun and we could hang out together and do fun things, but also when I wanted to be alone, I could do that too. It she thought it added a whole another layer to the travel experience than you just get either with you and your spouse or you and your friends because you have this whole other dynamic of people that for the most part is pretty great.Michael Kenney:Yeah. I know. And I and that's great. And Laurie was great. I'm glad she signed up because on the flight back from Asia, she sat next to me on the flight, and that's a seventeen hour flight. And if she wants to go back, then that that that's great.Stephanie Hansen:Yeah. It's good. Well, you know she talked to you the whole time probably.Michael Kenney:No. I tried to again, maybe it's like the group element. You know, have time on, time off. So I'm glad that was brought up. And I've been doing group tours for twenty eight years now, which I I I can't believe. And I I first started getting into tourism because I wanted to see sites. I'm like, I know I can't pay for it, so I need to be a tour guide and and going from that. I didn't realize the whole experience and having shared experiences with others was gonna be my highlight.And to this day, that's my favorite part is going to meet people that I've never met before and going having these shared experiences with. And and sometimes, you know, you build friends for a lifetime off of that.Michael Kinney:I think especially our last group too, we we really, built that with several of the the travelers, which is great. So and I so if you're hesitant, like, well, I'd like to this trip sounds great or any of our trips, but I am kind of worried about that. We really try to balance all our tours out. It's it's it's imperative that we have that balance of, some of the group time to have these, shared experiences to leisure time so that you can go and have your own adventures. And that is so crucial to all of our trips. That's why our hotels, and we can talk about that later, are centrally located. So once we go out and do, say, our city tour, our our our food tour in Palermo and walking around, you'll have, like, the remainder of the day to go explore on your own or some of those new friends that you met. Maybe you can go out and have a glass of wine with them.But again, it's all about that balance. And we each and every itinerary that we put together, we really work on making sure we have that balance in in the trips itself. Because I think that is the success of it. So we don't pack the days all day long on, like, seeing this, this, and this. We give you the nice highlights, and we'll have some other fun inclusions. But again, each place that we go to centrally located hotels, we have that free time too. So you can do your own thing or jump on with a group that you've met and have cocktails, Aperol spritzes in the main, Piazza later on. So it it's so fun, but it it really comes back.You register for a trip, but you don't know you're gonna meet some great people. And at at the end of the trip, it's typically these, these people and these, shared experiences come back, and that's where the meaning of the the trip comes in. It's so it's it's so much fun to see them build together.Stephanie Hansen:On each of the trips that I've done with you, we've had solo travelersMichael Kenney:Mhmm.Stephanie Hansen:Which I think people are like, oh, you know, I don't know. I don't have a partner to go with or my friend can't go. And that to me has also been super fun, like the solo travelers and the friends that they've made. And, like, one of the gals I saw from our Asia trip, I saw our friend Annie last night, and she was a solo traveler. Ended up pairing up with Laurie in a room and sharing, actually, actually, which a lot of solo travelers don't wanna share. I get that. But in this case, they both did, and they are like fast friends.Michael Kenney:That I mean, that's that's so much fun to see that. First off, if, you know, we all have it like your maybe your husband or wife or friend they don't want to go but you're like interested in this trip. We get that on all of our trips and we specifically specifically have, several single rooms set aside for those, adventure traveler seekers to have that. So you can pick your own room and go as a single or maybe you want us to to pair you up. We can do that too and get you in contact with another solo traveler like lorian annie did and that typically works out really well too but it's it's I think the like minded people looking for adventures you'll never feel like you're by yourself on any of our trips So, like, oh, I'm a third wheel. Never ever ever. And sometimes that's the best way to travel because you don't have to make sure your traveling partner is having a great time. You only can worry about yourself.Hey. I'm gonna have a great time. And, you know, all of our trip travelers that I've I've ever heard from, they've had a great time going solo, and they meet these like minded people. And, again, all of a sudden, they have friends for a lifetime, like, you know, Lori and Annie did. So if you're you're even thinking about it, like, I'm solo and I'm a little skeptical about going by myself, give us a call. Send us an email. We we can get you your own, room, single, room. They are filling up quick, though.We have a few left, or we can pair you up with somebody too to share that single supplement. But, again, you'll never feel like a third wheel with any of our tours. And this, in addition, just works really, really well for single travelers, and you'll meet some probably good friends on it.Stephanie Hansen:Yeah. And, also, like, ladies, some of you I know, like, getting coming out of relationships or divorce, you wanna do something unique. I have someone in my family who are shall remain nameless, who's gonna be joining us, who wanted to get back to Europe, but she's just not in a relationship status that would work for that as the way she thought it was gonna be. So I was like, come with us. Like, we're gonna have a ball. There's men. There's women. You know, my husband has come on some trips, but others, he hasn't.And Mhmm. It's just there's a great mix of people.Michael Kenney:Yeah. No. It it it it's great. Now this isn't a singles trip, but maybe you can find Giuseppe at the local cafe. You never know. So you never know. So anyway, yeah, it it works great for whatever status you are in life, single, you know, whatever. It these really, really work really nice.And sometimes, like, my brother came, and we shared a room on our the last trip, and he just wanted to kind of have a experience and get away from, you know, what's going on in life over here and just do a reset. And he came back and said, I'm really recharged. And he's kinda like going into he's retired, and he wants to do something else in his, you know, second part of his life. And he he's going after something right now because he he was able to kinda just disconnect Yeah. And then just take it all in and then kinda come back and, like, let's go. So regardless from relationships to job hunting or whatever, sometimes these trips are great. Even if you go solo, that could even be better.Stephanie Hansen:Yeah. Just to get a reset.Can you give us, like, without, like, going into all the detail, like, a high level, not day by day, but just, like, what are the towns we're gonna visit? What are because we're gonna be in, I think, three different areas.Michael Kenney:Yeah. Correct. So if you if you go on our, at definedestinations.com and look at, taste of Sicily Twenty Twenty Five, you can find the day by day, itinerary on that, and you'll get to be able to see through it. But again, it reads like a brochure, and you go through each item. And everything that we mentioned on that, it's, it is included. But the neat thing is we go from the North to the South and then all the way over to the, the East side of the island. So you're really having a great feel for the entire island itself. And, we have three nights in Palermo, and then we have one night in Agrigento, which is at the very southern on the beach, our hotel's right on the beach.You can walk right down there. And even October mid October is a great time to go too because the temperatures are, like, mid seventies, so it's super comfortable. And the water temperature is still pretty nice if you want to jump in. And then we have three nights in Siracoosa. So we we have these, like, kind of, hub and spoke places that we we do our adventures from the but we always come back to our centrally located place. So, anyway, we'll we'll find the Palermo. We have a connection. If you do our included flights, there's no, direct flights from from Minneapolis into Sicily.So we have a connection, on that.Stephanie Hansen:And let me just touch on that because some people want to work with the travel agent to have all of the flight things arranged for them, and that is an option with you. But you also do have options where people can meet you at the destination. So, like, for me, we have a lot of miles that we're always trying to burn up. Yeah. So for us, we book our own airfare so that we can use our miles, and then we sometimes add a few days on at the end, or we might even go to a different destination. With your group travel plans, both of those options are available to people.Michael Kenney:A %. I'm glad you asked that too because, yes, there's people that have miles or if they only wanna stay exclusively with Delta or United or whatever, that's fine. Our trips truly begin and end at at the hotels. With that, we do offer an included group package you can jump on, but the whole group will not be on that flight for sure. It's just an option to do that. And my my team can also, get you, flights separate from that too if you wanted to come early like you said, Stephanie, or stay light. Hey. I wanna go see the Colosseum on this trip.Great. My team can put a pre tour, post tour package together if you want to do that. Or even if you don't want any of our help, that's fine. You can just book our land only. You'll be able to see our group flight numbers on there too so you can kinda coordinate that. But the great thing is that both, airports, in Palermo we fly into, and then we fly out of Catania. They're close to both, towns, so you can easily take an Uber. So it's really pretty easy to get to and from, and that's where the, the the the tour start from.So if you're hesitant, hey. I need to book the group air. Don't worry about that. You don't have to do that by any means. We're happy to help you, on all the other aspects too to to get the airfare, with that. So, yep, we fly into Palermo. We'll settle into our our our three, our centrally located hotel, which is fabulous. Again, remind me that we need to touch on the the hotels too a little bit.Stephanie Hansen:Yep.Michael Kenney:But it's right in the center. We'll do a food tour of one of the local markets. Again, like you mentioned, maybe we have some guests on the trip that could care less about food or wine tastings. It's just a a piece of of our trip. So even if you're, a modest food lover or you only like cornflakes, there's gonna be some fun things to do on this as well. And we find that, you learn a lot about the culture through the food. Yeah. That's the reason we we do part of that too.So it'll be fun regardless. You're going through the markets. You're learning about the foods. Things like that. We go to, the the Cathedral Of Monreali, which, hey. We're seeing another church. We typically don't always do that, but this is really specific. This church is beautiful.It's got, it's it's a massive church built in the twelfth century, and they're famous for all its mosaics. The whole interior, the churches, all these fine mosaics they did almost a thousand years ago. It's unreal. So it's beautiful that we'll be doing that. We'll go to Cefalu, a little, seaside village, which is outside of Palermo a little ways. Maybe you've seen White Lotus. Part of that was filmed there or all parts of the, that, season two was filmed in Sicily. So we'll have a lot of White Lotus moments, as well on that, which which will be a lot of fun.And then from there, we'll be driving after our three nights in, in Palermo. We'll be heading south, crossing the entire, island itself. Absolutely beautiful. Even our coach rides, which aren't a lot, that they're just stunning. And and enjoying the countryside is absolutely beautiful. And we'll be going to that's where Agrigento is, and it feels like you're being stuck in Greece. Like, wow. There's all these Greek ruins, you know, two, three thousand years old.It's like, this is unbelievable. They have some of the better Greek ruins even outside of Athens, which is amazing. So walking through Agrigento, experiencing that, seeing that during the sunset, it's it's it's magical. I use that word a lot, but I think the whole trip really is. And then we we we settle into our hotel right on the beach, which is lovely. And then from there, we'll be going over to Siracusa, which is one of my favorite places ever. My first time I went to Sicily, we didn't go there. And I went back and I said, how do we skip that the first time? Siracoosa is, it's unbelievable.And you've agreed too. We we're staying right in they called it Ortega. That's like the old city of Siracusa. And we're staying right inside the city wall. So our bus will drop our private bus for our group will drop us off, and then we have to walk about ten minutes to our hotel, which is on a small little alleyway. And we'll talk about that later on. But it's a great location that we'll be doing, having different experiences, seeing all the the ruins, walking around at night. It's just beautiful.And from there, we'll be out we'll also be going to see Mount Etna, which is still an active volcano. We'll be on the sides of it. It's unbelievable. All of a sudden, you feel like you're being transported onto the moon. You see the vents and things like that. It's beautiful. And they grow some amazing wines there too on the slopes of it, and we'll be tasting some of those.Stephanie Hansen:That's so cool.Michael Kenney:Yeah. It's it's it's it really is pretty cool, because of that that rich soil just offers great Sicilian wines and the dry and the the elevation. So it it culminates to be really, really good. So, work on your Sicilian, reds. They're they're quite good.Stephanie Hansen:It will be exciting. Yeah.Michael Kenney:No. It it it's great. So I mean, it's it's seven, nights, a nine day trip, in Sicily. You'll have a real good flavor of the city, of all the areas that we visit. So it's it's quite nice. And if you go on the, the website, you'll see all the the inclusions as well. So we include mostly everything that we've talked about. There's really, we don't include all the meals because we want some experiences, for yourself too to go out and go, hey.Michael Kenney:We're gonna go to this little restaurant or whatever. Mhmm. And we have a local guide with us the entire time that will really help, talk about the history, and, you know, what's going on with the people itself, but then just pointing out great restaurants and other little experiences you can doStephanie Hansen:during the free And that's I love that because when we go to some of these places, like, I think I told you my husband is, he's kind of an you know, he's in venture. He always wants to do his own thing. So if we land in a place, he's like, okay. We're gonna take off. We're gonna go do this. We're gonna do that. And, you know, we try to balance, like, doing the group things with also him having his best life and doing some unique, food experiences just on our own. So every everybody gets a little bit of everything.It's a real delightful mix. You've been to Sicily. Now I think this will be, you said, your third time, fourth time?Michael Kenney:Fourth time.Stephanie Hansen:I'm so impressed that you're coming.Michael Kenney:Yeah. I'd well, I can't miss with your groups too. I can't go on all our trips, but this is definitely one I I, notched away because I think, part of me still is in Sicily. There's there's just something about it, and you can't you know, I've been to other parts of Italy plenty of times, and I feel like I'm an Italian, but, there's just something with Sicily. Maybe I meant I meant the grit. I've talked about that. It feels like a real city, real sites, real food, just from the the different markets, the fish markets is just everything seems really authentic.Stephanie Hansen:I love it.Michael Kenney:That's what I really, really love, and I think the guests do too. I'm I'm just envisioning myself walking and through Palermo with my last group, and there was, like, there was music being played in the streets, and people are sitting down and having glasses of wine. There was no festival going on. It was just this this zest for life thatStephanie Hansen:Yeah. The Italians just in general, they stay up late. They eat late. So they have, like, a happy hour kind of at, like, six to seven, and then they go home and get ready to go out for the dinner time in a lot of cases. So they spend a lot of time outdoors, and they like to do it when it's not in the blazing hot sun. So things really there's a great nightlife. People are, out and about into all hours of the evening, which is fun. So I'm just super excited.So if people wanna join us, you said I mean, I know we've got some rooms booked already. Yeah. So are there some rooms left if people wanna book, and what is the timeline that they should be doing that, and how do they do it?Michael Kenney:Yeah. That's a great question. So I said we have about we can handle maximum of 30 people. So we have about seven rooms up, so about 14 people. So if someone calls and say, well, will this be booked up by next week? It probably won't be, but I always tell people, go ahead, put your deposit down, hold the seat on the trip itself. And you just have to go to definedestinations.com. You can book everything right then then and there. It's super simple process.You just put your your information in. You don't need a valid passport right now to to enter that in. But you just go ahead and you fill that out, put your deposit down, at least then you'll you'll have a, a seat held for you. Then you can work on if you wanna get your own air fryer or if you wanna stay earlier, you know, stay after later on the trip itself. You you can do that all right there as well. So it's pretty simple.Stephanie Hansen:And then once you're booked and we know who's coming, we usually try to have a call to kinda give everybody the particulars of that trip. Sometimes depending on our time frame, we try to get together in person. I wasn't able for the last one because I had so many things coming, and I'm not sure what'll happen with this one because I've got the cookbook coming out, in September. But one way or another, we will see each other's faces, and we will get on that plane, and we will arrive together and have a blast. So I'm looking forward to it, and we've got other trips planned. I know we're trying to book another Croatia trip possibly for the following year for the fall and something in the spring. So if you guys have any destinations you wanna check out with me, let me know. I'm always looking for new places to go. You just went to the Galapagos. It sounded like it was amazing.Michael Kenney:Yeah. It that that was, fabulous. I was just doing a site inspection because we're looking about having groups go to the Galapagos and the Amazon, and it it was it was unreal. I loved it. Completely different experience from going to, to going to Sicily. Well, that's great. There's so many experiences to have on our on the world, and we only have so much time to be able to do those. So you gotta kinda hit that hierarchy of, you know, what's what's important.For anybody that's just thinking about it or if this is the first time you've ever even heard of Sicily, please take a look at this because it is really a magical trip, and we have so many fun inclusions. Our hotel locations are in the city center. I wanted to mention that, not, just because we're on tiny little streets. So you mentioned, like, the the nightlife. It's we're not on a bustling street where all the cars are going by. It's like you feel like you're a local. You'll go out the door, and there's mama Rosita across the street, you know, cutting herStephanie Hansen:Yeah. Sitting outside. Yes.Michael Kenney:That's the experience we want, not just on this trip, all of our trips. We want you to feel like you're kind of a, a local for even three nights when we're there, so you'll know where the the nearest bakery is and, the restaurants. And I think you'll have that on this trip. I it's it's reallyStephanie Hansen:I love it.Michael Kenney:Something else with all our hotels. You'll absolutely love that. We know exactly where to stay, and sometimes that's overwhelming when you're looking at doing a trip in your own, like, where should I go? What should I where should I stay? Like, it's overwhelming. We want this to be just book the trip. We're gonna be taking care of all the highlights for you.Stephanie Hansen:Pack your bags and come along. Yes.Michael Kenney:Exactly. So that's that's what's really important to us. And IStephanie Hansen:think I'm looking forward to it. It's gonna be awesome. I'm gonna release this podcast, not this Friday, but next Friday. So k. Between now and then, you guys, I hope you get your seats booked, and I hope to see you on this amazing trip. Thanks, Michael.Michael Kenney:Wonderful. Thanks, Michael.Stephanie Hansen:It was awesome. It's defined destinations. You can find them at defineddestinations.com. Taste of Italy is right on the front page. Click that, and you can see all the itinerary of the whole trip. And we're gonna have a great time.Michael Kenney:Taste of Sicily.Stephanie Hansen:Yes. The tasteMichael Kenney:of Sicily.Stephanie Hansen:Oh, what did I call it? What did I say? Taste ofMichael Kenney:Italy. We have one of those too. Oh, okay. The Sicily one.Stephanie Hansen:Taste of Sicily specifically. Yes. And then if you like Italy, you can go back because there are a lot of places to go back to. Amalfi Coast is great, but it's different. And, like, I there I've been to a lot of different places in Italy, and they're all a little bit different. And I like them all for different reasons. So I'm really excited to explore Sicily.Michael Kenney:Yep. It's gonna be great. Well, thanks so much for the time.Stephanie Hansen:Yeah. We'll talk soon.Michael Kenney:Yep.Stephanie Hansen:Bye. Bye bye.Stephanie's Dish Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stephaniehansen.substack.com/subscribe

In hour 1 of The Mark Reardon Show, Mark discusses the radical left's takes on the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mark is then joined by Paul Mauro, a Fox News Contributor, retired NYPD inspector, attorney, and the founder of OpsDesk.org. They discuss the latest on the arrest of the NYC assassin, the Daniel Penny trial results, and more. He then discusses whether or not the system failed Jordan Neely who was killed by Daniel Penny after making violent threats on a New York subway. In hour 2, Sue hosts, "Sue's News" where she discusses today's music anniversaries, the random fact of the day, and more. Mark is then joined by Tim Fitch, a former St. Louis County Police Chief and former St. Louis County Councilman. He shares his reaction to the arrest of the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and to the NOT guilty verdict in the Daniel Penny subway trial. He is then joined by Michael Kenney with Defined Destinations. They discuss Mark's upcoming trip next year to Greece and how you can join him. In hour 3, Mark is joined by Jimmy Faila, the host of "FOX Across America" which airs on 97.1 FM Talk in the 6p hour. Jimmy previews FOX Nation's first ever "Night of Comedy" and more. He is then joined by Cindy O'Laughlin, the incoming Missouri Senate President. They debate on multiple subjects including state Supreme Court judges running for election and marijuana legality in Missouri. They wrap up the show with the Audio Cut of the Day.

In this segment of The Mark Reardon Show, Mark is joined by Michael Kenney with Defined Destinations. They discuss Mark's upcoming trip next year to Greece and how you can join him.

In hour 2 of The Mark Reardon Show, Sue hosts, "Sue's News" where she discusses today's music anniversaries, the random fact of the day, and more. Mark is then joined by Tim Fitch, a former St. Louis County Police Chief and former St. Louis County Councilman. He shares his reaction to the arrest of the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and to the NOT guilty verdict in the Daniel Penny subway trial. He is then joined by Michael Kenney with Defined Destinations. They discuss Mark's upcoming trip next year to Greece and how you can join him.

Curtis Mitch with Ignatius Press tells us about the “Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: Old and New Testament.” Now available! Michael Kenney with the Pro-Life Partners Foundation shares his reaction and Curtis Mitch with Ignatius Press tells us about the “Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: Old and New Testament.” Now available! Michael Kenney with the Pro-Life Partners Foundation shares his reaction and expectations of another Trump presidency..

Curtis Mitch with Ignatius Press tells us about the “Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: Old and New Testament.” Now available! Michael Kenney with the Pro-Life Partners Foundation shares his reaction and Curtis Mitch with Ignatius Press tells us about the “Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: Old and New Testament.” Now available! Michael Kenney with the Pro-Life Partners Foundation shares his reaction and expectations of another Trump presidency.

In hour 1 of The Mark Reardon Show, Mark discusses the latest Hollywood star to share why he is voting for Donald Trump. They then discuss the quote that could decide the election. They are then joined by Kurt Bahr and Rick Stream, the Republican Election Directors for St. Charles and St. Louis Counties. Today is the first day for in-person no-excuse absentee balloting. What do voters need to know? When will those votes be counted? Can you attest to the safety of the voting process? Bahr and Stream share everything you need to know. Mark is then joined by Dennis Newberry, the Mayor of Lake Ozark. He's supporting Amendment 5 on the November ballot which would allow the state gambling commission to issue an additional gambling boat license to operate an excursion gambling boat on the Osage River. In hour 2, Mark is joined by Michael Kenney with Defined Destinations to preview his upcoming group trip to Greece. Sue then hosts, "Sue's News" where she discusses mob violence in St Louis back in the 1970's and 80's as well as the nearing of Daylight Savings time. Mark is then joined by John Murawski, with Real Clear Politics. He discusses his recent New York Times piece titled, "University of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI. What Went Wrong?". In hour 3, Mark is joined by Asra Nomani, a Senior Fellow at the Independent Women's Network. She discusses the continued shift in opinions of Donald Trump and more. Mark is then joined by Missouri Congresswoman Ann Wagner who discusses the upcoming election. They wrap up the show with the Audio Cut of the Day.

In this segment of The Mark Reardon Show, Mark is joined by Michael Kenney with Defined Destinations to preview his upcoming group trip to Greece. Sue then hosts, "Sue's News" where she discusses mob violence in St Louis back in the 1970's and 80's as well as the nearing of Daylight Savings time. Mark is then joined by John Murawski, with Real Clear Politics. He discusses his recent New York Times piece titled, "University of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI. What Went Wrong?"

In this segment of The Mark Reardon Show, Mark is joined by Michael Kenney with Defined Destinations. They discuss Mark's upcoming trip next year to Greece that you can be a part of. Sue then hosts, "Sue's News".

We welcome back Michael Kenney of the Pro-Life Partners Foundation to discuss a new video series to better spread the Pro-Life message. How can this series help to change hearts and minds? Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.   Show Notes Pro Life Partners Foundation American Pro-Life Movement | Videos What to Say When: The Complete New Guide to Discussing Abortion What to Say When 2: Your Proven Guide in the New Abortion Landscape - How to Discuss, Clarify, and Question Abortion in a Hostile Culture | Shawn Carney Speaking for the Unborn: 30-Second Pro-Life Rebuttals to Pro-Choice Arguments Speaking for the Unborn (Dr. Steven A. Christie) 01/19/22 What's a Pro-Lifer to Do? (Shawn Carney) 9/11/24 Rethinking Our Words and Images (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 9/20/24 'Republicans need to match': Anti-abortion groups roll out new messaging The Way Forward After Dobbs by Ryan T. Anderson | Articles | First Things Ryan Anderson: The Pro-Life Movement Needs to Shift to Promoting Chastity and Marriage| National Catholic Register Note About the Spiritual Experience Connected with Medjugorje | Vatican.va iCatholic Mobile The Station of the Cross Merchandise - Use Coupon Code 14STATIONS for 10% off | Catholic to the Max Read Fr. McTeigue's Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

Today is the Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola. Welcome to a Brain Wrinkling Wednesday with Fr. Tom Koys.  Today he speaks with guest Michael Kenney, president of Pro-Life Partners Foundation.     St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

We continue from Acton University, discussing the foundations of America with John Pinheiro, the theology of work with Scott Rae, and the anniversary of Dobbs with Michael Kenney.

We continue from Acton University, discussing the foundations of America with John Pinheiro, the theology of work with Scott Rae, and the anniversary of Dobbs with Michael Kenney.

June 25th, 2024 - We welcome Michael Kenney to break down where things stand two years after Roe's overturn. Then we're joined again by Michael Verlander with Mary Verlander to discuss the importance of music in culture. TheStationOfTheCross.com/ACT  

Guest Host Marcus Peter and Dr. John Cavadini discuss the history of Marian devotion, and Michael Kenney has the details on an upcoming pro-life webinar.

Guest Host Marcus Peter and Dr. John Cavadini discuss the history of Marian devotion, and Michael Kenney has the details on an upcoming pro-life webinar.

EWTN's Doug Keck promotes special programming coming up on the network. Teresa's Fact Check Friday segment. Michael Kenney from the Pro-Life Partners Foundation promotes a new pro-life ad campaign. Episode: https://audio.avemariaradio.net/2024/05/cc_20240503_2.mp3 Podcast: https://avemariaradio.net/program/catholic-connection/

Colabora Con Biblioteca Del Metal: En Twitter - https://twitter.com/Anarkometal72 Y Donanos Unas Propinas En BAT. Para Seguir Con El Proyecto De la Biblioteca Mas Grande Del Metal. Muchisimas Gracias. La Tienda De Biblioteca Del Metal: Encontraras, Ropa, Accesorios,Decoracion, Ect... Todo Relacionado Al Podcats Biblioteca Del Metal Y Al Mundo Del Heavy Metal. Descubrela!!!!!! Ideal Para Llevarte O Regalar Productos Del Podcats De Ivoox. (Por Tiempo Limitado) https://teespring.com/es/stores/biblioteca-del-metal-1 Iron Maiden es una banda británica de heavy metal fundada en 1975 por el bajista Steve Harris. Es considerada una de las bandas más importantes de todos los tiempos en este género. Ha vendido más de 100 millones de discos en todo el mundo, a pesar de haber contado con poco apoyo de la radio y la televisión comercial durante la mayor parte de su carrera. Sin embargo, la banda basó su éxito en llegar directamente a los aficionados, grabando discos de alta calidad y realizando destacadas actuaciones en vivo.​​ La agrupación ha obtenido diversos reconocimientos a lo largo de su carrera, como el Premio Ivor Novello en la categoría de «Logro Internacional» en 2002. En 2005 fueron incluidos en el Hollywood's RockWalk en Sunset Boulevard, Los Ángeles. En 2009 fue ganadora del premio «Mejor Performance en Vivo» en los BRIT Awards, el premio musical más importante del Reino Unido. En el año 2011 también obtuvieron un Grammy, en la categoría de «Mejor interpretación de Metal», por la canción «El Dorado».​Además, ha ganado el premio de mejor banda metal británica del año en varias ocasiones, en los Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards,​ entre otros reconocimientos. Durante sus más de 40 años de trayectoria, Iron Maiden ha sido identificada gráficamente por su famosa mascota «Eddie the Head», un personaje antropomórfico que ha aparecido en la gran mayoría de las portadas de sus álbumes y sencillos, así como en sus presentaciones en vivo. Tras varias audiciones y cambios en su formación, ésta finalmente se consolidó con el vocalista Paul Di'Anno, los guitarristas Dave Murray y Dennis Stratton y el batería Clive Burr, siempre bajo el liderazgo del bajista y principal compositor Steve Harris. Luego de muchas giras por todo el Reino Unido, en 1979 la banda publicó un EP llamado The Soundhouse Tapes, y en 1980, su álbum debut homónimo, el cual llegó al cuarto puesto de las listas británicas, sin mediar promoción masiva alguna. Ese mismo año, Stratton fue reemplazado por el guitarrista Adrian Smith, con quien publicaron el álbum Killers (1981).​ Luego, y tras la salida de Di Anno, ese mismo año, el cantante Bruce Dickinson entró para ocupar el puesto de vocalista para el álbum The Number of the Beast de 1982, el cual llegó al número uno de las listas británicas, marcando el inicio de una serie de lanzamientos de impacto.​ Para el año 1983 la banda lanzó el álbum Piece of Mind, que contaba como novedad con la salida del batería Clive Burr y la entrada de Nicko McBrain en su reemplazo. A partir de allí, se consolidó la alineación más exitosa que ha tenido la agrupación, la cual ha realizado numerosas giras y álbumes. Iron Maiden ha grabado 16 álbumes de estudio y es considerada una de las bandas más influyentes no solo para el heavy metal y sus respectivos subgéneros, sino también para diversas agrupaciones de rock, e incluso artistas de otros estilos.​​​​ La historia de Iron Maiden parte en el año 1971, cuando Steve Harris, inspirado en bandas como Wishbone Ash, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Genesis, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, The Who y Deep Purple, entre otras, adquirió un bajo Fender Precision Bass por unas 40 libras esterlinas, y tras dejar atrás la opción de la batería, para la cual no contaba con el espacio suficiente.​ Inicialmente Harris también tuvo la ilusión de ser jugador de fútbol del West Ham,​ sin embargo, comenzó a dedicar todos sus esfuerzos a su otra gran pasión, la música. Esto condujo a la formación de una agrupación musical que llamó Gypsy's Kiss en 1972, cuyo primer concierto fue en el mítico local Cart & Horses en Maryland Point, Stratford.​ Tras unos cuantos conciertos bajo el nombre de Gypsy´s Kiss, Harris decidió crear el proyecto Smiler, cuyos miembros tenían algunos años más que él, lo que le sirvió para acumular experiencia.​ Pese a ello, Harris deseaba plasmar sus inquietudes como compositor en mayor grado, y el resto de la banda se encargaba de rechazar sus composiciones por considerarlas «muy complicadas».​ Esto hizo que el bajista renunciara a Smiler y se propusiera formar una nueva agrupación donde tuviera el mando de la composición.​ De este modo, Harris fundó Iron Maiden el día de Navidad de 1975.​ El grupo estaba compuesto por Dave Sullivan y Terry Rance en las guitarras, Ron “Rebel” Matthews en la batería, Steve Harris en el bajo y Paul Day en la voz. Harris tenía la idea de emular el sonido de Wishbone Ash en cuanto al concepto de guitarras gemelas. Las primeras sesiones de grabación de la banda dieron como resultado composiciones que trascendieron en la carrera de Iron Maiden como «Transylvania», «Wrathchild» o «Innocent Exile».​ El 1 de mayo de 1976 tuvo lugar el primer concierto de la banda en el Cart & Horses, un pub muy popular del East End de Londres.​ Empezó a correr la voz y los seguidores de la banda empezaron a crecer con cada presentación.​ Harris decidió el nombre de la banda al ver un instrumento de tortura en la película El hombre de la máscara de hierro.​ Se trataba de un ataúd de metal conocido como doncella de hierro, con docenas de clavos oxidados en su interior, donde las víctimas eran introducidas hasta que morían desangradas.​ Sin embargo, en medio de una presentación en el Cart & Horses en Stratford, informaron a Harris que ya existía otra banda con el mismo nombre. De común acuerdo, los músicos decidieron no darle importancia al asunto y siguieron adelante con el nombre y con la banda.​ El vocalista Paul Day al poco tiempo fue sustituido por el cantante anterior (específicamente de la era Smiler), Dennis Wilcock, que si bien no podía igualar el registro de Day, lo suplía con su presencia escénica.​ Wilcock a su vez recomendó a un talentoso guitarrista llamado Dave Murray, quien era admirador al igual que Harris de las bandas Wishbone Ash, Fleetwood Mac, Free, Genesis, UFO, Deep Purple y Jimi Hendrix. A su vez, Murray admiraba lo que estaba haciendo Iron Maiden en sus diversas presentaciones en Londres.​ La idea de integrar a Dave Murray era la de formar una banda con seis miembros y tres guitarristas. En 1976, el apogeo comercial del punk era bastante fuerte a diferencia de la escena del rock,​ que venía de capa caída, por lo que los ingresos monetarios para la banda eran muy bajos a pesar del gran éxito a nivel underground y de seguidores que estaban teniendo. Ese fue justamente el motivo de la salida de Dave Sullivan y Terry Rance, ya que cada uno de ellos había contraído matrimonio y debían mantener a sus respectivas familias, por lo que se ve imposibilitada la idea de las tres guitarras junto a Dave Murray, quien había congeniado de buena forma con Steve Harris.​ Por intermedio del cantante Dennis Wilcock, reingresó Bob "Bob Sawyer" Angelo (Bob ya había estado un muy corto tiempo con Iron Maiden) como el segundo guitarrista. Dennis Wilcock se caracterizaba por tener una personalidad muy frontal, polémica, manipuladora y egocéntrica, por lo que comenzó a imponer sus gustos personales y decidió despedir al batería Ron “Rebel” Matthews, al propio reingresado Bob "Bob Sawyer" Angelo y a Dave Murray.​ Este hecho generó una enorme presión en Steve Harris, quien tras meditar la dificultad de encontrar un nuevo cantante, finalmente optó por acceder a los caprichos de Wilcock sacando a Murray de la banda, en lo que él mismo define en el documental Early Days como una actitud personal totalmente estúpida de su parte.​ En 1977 Terry Wapram se integró a la banda en la guitarra, junto al excéntrico Barry Graham Purkis, más conocido como Thunderstick en la batería, proveniente de la banda Samson.​ Harris decidió integrar a un tecladista llamado Tony Moore, y finalmente en la primavera de 1977, el mismo Dennis Wilcock decidió retirarse intempestivamente de la banda tras un concierto. El norte de la agrupación oscilaba entre la gran cantidad de seguidores y los cambios que siguieron, ya que Steve Harris decidió prescindir de Moore y Thunderstick. El músico siguió insistiendo en conformar una agrupación sólida y contactó de nuevo con el batería Doug Sampson (quien había tocado con él en la era Smiler) y con el guitarrista Dave Murray, que terminó reemplazando a Terry Wapram. De esta forma, Murray se reintegró a Iron Maiden, agrupación conformada hasta ese momento solo por Steve Harris y Doug Sampson. A pesar de las adversidades, el trío de músicos siguió firme en su propósito.​ Un compañero de Doug Sampson recomendó al cantante Paul Di'Anno, quien para entonces se encontraba en una banda llamada Bird of Prey. Di'Anno fue del gusto inmediato de Steve Harris, quien lo integró a Iron Maiden en 1977.​ El grupo funcionó durante un tiempo con un solo guitarrista, compensando con el bajo las partes de la segunda guitarra en canciones como «Iron Maiden». Durante ese tiempo, casi la totalidad de las ganancias de la agrupación eran invertidas en escenografía, como por ejemplo la famosa máscara ubicada detrás de la batería de Doug Sampson, una versión primigenia de la mascota Eddie the Head.​​ Fueron tiempos difíciles para Harris y sus compañeros; eran los años del punk que explotaba por las calles de Londres, con bandas como los Sex Pistols que gozaban del favoritismo de las masas. Incluso algunas disqueras le sugirieron a Harris que cambiara la imagen de su grupo, que se cortasen el pelo y que adaptaran su música a los tiempos que corrían.​​ Sin embargo, el bajista tenía una idea muy clara de cómo quería que fuera su grupo y el tipo de música que quería tocar. Se refirió a este hecho de la siguiente manera: «No podría haber comenzado una banda de punk... eso estaría en contra de mi religión».​ Di'Anno, por su parte, comentó en aquellos tiempos: «Compositores que alguna vez estuvieron en Fairport Convention están ahora con The Clash, solo viven alterando sus gustos para mantenerse acorde a los tiempos. No veo la razón de eso. Debes mantenerte en la música que te gusta, ser fiel». Harris vio la necesidad de contratar a otro guitarrista para seguir evolucionando, y fue así como pasaron esporádicamente por la banda acompañando a Dave Murray los guitarristas Paul Todd, Tony Parsons y Mad Mac. Fueron varias las anécdotas que cuenta Steve Harris alrededor de esta época y estos tres músicos, como por ejemplo, el caso de Paul Todd, que siendo un gran guitarrista se veía impedido para ensayar por su novia, o Mad Mac, que siempre llevaba a su perro a los ensayos, y que partió muy entusiasta, pero tenía una extraña bipolaridad anímica que tras unos meses le impidió seguir en la banda.​ Como las giras por Gran Bretaña ya eran bastante extensas, la banda adquirió un camión al que transformaron para acarrear los equipos y también para poder dormir durante estas, y le llamaron «La Diosa Verde» por su color verde oscuro.​ Fue en este contexto en el que en 1978 Paul, Doug, Steve y Dave grabaron el EP The Soundhouse Tapes en los estudios Spaceward en Cambridge, incluso durmiendo en el suelo de la casa de una enfermera que había conocido Paul Di'Anno, ya que el vehículo no los resguardaba totalmente del frío.​ Después de haber vendido una gran cantidad de copias, quisieron llevarse a casa la cinta original para agregar más temas a la grabación, pero cuando fueron a retirarla se enteraron de que el master había sido borrado, quedando solo el cartucho QIC, que es lo que al final resultó como The Soundhouse Tapes.​ Por aquel tiempo, conocieron a Neal Kay, un DJ de rock que era dueño del primer local de heavy metal de Londres, el Bandwagon.​ El primer encuentro entre Neal y Steve Harris fue muy especial, ya que el mismo Kay reconoce no haber sido muy amable con Steve cuando este le entregó el demo para que lo escuchara.​ Sin embargo, cuando se dio el tiempo de oírlo quedó realmente asombrado e impactado por la fuerza de la agrupación, algo que, en sus propias palabras, no le había sucedido antes con ninguna otra banda.​ Al tiempo, composiciones como «Iron Maiden» o «Prowler» se pondrían a la cabeza de la lista de canciones del Bandwagon. La popularidad de la banda empezó a crecer tras el lanzamiento del disco, y tal como cuenta el mismo Neal Kay, los fanáticos del rock y del heavy metal se rindieron a los pies de Iron Maiden en toda Inglaterra.​ Poco tiempo después inició la asociación con el mánager Rod Smallwood, quien escuchó las canciones de la banda sorprendiéndose gratamente e invitándolos a un par de conciertos en el Windsor Castle en Harrow Road y en el Swan en Hammersmith.​ Sin embargo, la calidad del grupo, la presencia contestataria y la respuesta que generaba en la audiencia de la época (que incluso ya era bastante más fuerte que el de las propias bandas punk de moda e imperantes), les trajo algunos problemas en algunos locales en los que se les prohibió tocar por la algarabía que generaban. Pero los problemas vendrían en especial a manos de Paul Di'Anno, de hecho la segunda vez que Rod Smallwood se dispuso a ver a la banda en vivo, Paul había sido arrestado por la policía, teniendo que ser el mismo Steve Harris quien asumiera el rol de cantante (además de bajista) por esa noche, con un Iron Maiden conformado como un power trio.​ Rod Smallwood, lejos de desilusionarse, quedó impactado por la actitud de Steve y Dave sobre el escenario.​ A partir de ese momento, Rod decidió asumir el rol de mánager de la banda. En este contexto, la discográfica EMI ofreció un contrato al grupo, después de haber visto un par de «shows electrizantes» como contaran los mismos John Darnley, Martin Haxby y Brian Sheperd de EMI Records, en especial Darnley, encargado de la parte rock del sello, y que incluso se hizo admirador de la agrupación.​ La idea era ficharlos para la grabación de tres discos. Paradójicamente, el ritmo vertiginoso que llevaba la banda le pasó factura a Doug Sampson, quien decidió retirarse. Paralelamente al retiro de Doug se integró el guitarrista Dennis Stratton, justo antes de la grabación del primer álbum, y es el mismo Stratton justamente quien lleva a Clive Burr para reemplazar a Doug Sampson en la batería, quedando de este modo lista la agrupación que plasmaría la siguiente grabación.​ Smallwood logró que Brian Shepherd, presidente del sello discográfico EMI, presenciara el histórico concierto de la banda en el Club Marquee en 1979, el cual calificó de «electrizante»,​ y una semana más tarde, Iron Maiden firmaba contrato con la mencionada compañía discográfica, tras superar en la consideración de los ejecutivos a otra banda representativa del NWOBHM, Def Leppard.​ En diciembre de 1979, la banda grabó su primer larga duración, Iron Maiden, con Paul Di'Anno en la voz, Steve Harris en bajo y coros, Dave Murray en guitarra, Clive Burr en batería y Dennis Stratton en guitarra y coros, celebrando además la edición del primer sencillo oficial Running Free, que rápidamente escalaba las listas británicas hasta posicionarse en el puesto treinta y cuatro.​ El 14 de abril de 1980 la banda publicó oficialmente el esperado primer álbum de estudio, titulado Iron Maiden. Si bien recibió excelentes críticas por parte de los medios especializados,​ para Steve Harris no llegó al nivel que hubiera deseado, ya que consideró que el productor discográfico Will Malone no trabajó lo suficiente en el sonido.​​ A pesar de la inconformidad de Harris, el disco alcanzó la cuarta posición en las lista británicas, y para celebrarlo la banda retornó al Ruskin Arms, uno de los locales que los vio nacer, para hacer otro recordado e histórico concierto.​ Después del primer álbum, el grupo empieza a girar abriendo los shows para la gira europea de Kiss de 1980;al finalizar la gira al final del año, el guitarrista Dennis Stratton, que ingresara en la séptima alineación del grupo, abandonó la formación debido a diferencias musicales. En su reemplazo ingresó Adrian Smith, amigo personal de Dave Murray que anteriormente había rechazado unirse ya que estaba cómodo con su banda Urchin,​ que además estaba teniendo cierto éxito a nivel local.​ El 2 de febrero de 1981 la banda publicó su segundo trabajo discográfico, titulado Killers. El productor discográfico fue Martin Birch, que había trabajado con grupos como Deep Purple, Black Sabbath y Fleetwood Mac (teniendo en su haber la producción de discos clásicos como Machine Head y Heaven and Hell de los mencionados respectivamente).​ Al escuchar el material del grupo, Birch le preguntó a Steve Harris por qué no lo habían llamado para el primer disco. La respuesta fue: «Pensamos que eras demasiado famoso para decir que sí».​ Comparado con el primer disco, si bien quizás no produjo el impacto del anterior, Killers es mucho más acabado en cuanto a sonido.​ En febrero de ese mismo año, la banda se embarcó en su primera gran gira mundial. En Europa compartieron escenarios con la agrupación estadounidense Kiss.​ La banda llegó por primera vez a los Estados Unidos, donde tocó junto a Scorpions, Judas Priest, 38 Special y Rainbow.​ Su primera gira por Japón y, junto a ésta, la grabación del álbum en directo Maiden Japan, el 23 de mayo de 1981, le valió al grupo la conquista de su primer disco de oro. No obstante, el ascenso de la banda no frenó los cambios que se producirían al interior de la misma. Paul Di'Anno fue expulsado de la agrupación debido a su estilo de vida de excesos con el alcohol y las drogas, que lo tenían física y psicológicamente desgastado. Di'Anno había sido detenido por la policía en varias ocasiones debido a sus abusos, abandonando a la agrupación en momentos claves. Esto motivó a Steve Harris a tomar la decisión de no contar más con él como vocalista.​ Tras su ausencia, cantantes como Terry Slesser hicieron pruebas para la banda, pero fue finalmente Bruce Dickinson, (otro ex-Samson), quien llegó el mismo año para ocupar el puesto.​ Cuando la idea de incluir a Dickinson fue propuesta por Steve al mánager Rod Smallwood, este inicialmente se mostró reticente, debido a un problema que él había tenido en el pasado con la banda Samson. Sin embargo, Harris convenció a Rod para que fueran a ver a Bruce en un show de Samson, en el mítico Reading Festival en Inglaterra. Tras ver en directo la calidad de Dickinson, como vocalista y como frontman, ambos se convencieron y decidieron ofrecerle el puesto de cantante en Iron Maiden. De esta manera, contactaron con él para que se presentase a una audición, y justo cuando interpretó la canción «Remember Tomorrow» le anunciaron su contratación. Aunque inicialmente el cantante tuvo algunas dudas, la propuesta de Iron Maiden era bastante tentadora, al tratarse de una banda ya fichada por la gigante EMI Music y que se encontraba girando por toda Europa, Estados Unidos y Asia. Después de meditarlo por varios días, aceptó. El primer concierto de Dickinson con Iron Maiden fue el 26 de octubre de 1981 en Bolonia, Italia.​​ La consagración definitiva de Iron Maiden alrededor del mundo llegó con su tercer álbum de estudio, The Number of the Beast, publicado el 29 de marzo de 1982.​ La gira promocional del disco fue titulada The Beast On The Road, comenzando en Inglaterra para culminar diez meses más tarde en Japón, siendo su segunda visita a este país. Con el sencillo «Run to the Hills», Iron Maiden llegó hasta el número 7​ en el Top 40 británico. Pero fue en plena gira, y mientras su autobús se quedaba varado en la carretera, que la banda se enteró que el álbum había pasado a encabezar las listas británicas.​ Sin embargo, la temática del disco y su portada, en la que se mostraba a Eddie manejando al demonio como a una marioneta, generaron controversia en algunos sectores religiosos en los Estados Unidos.​ Precisamente estos últimos se manifestaron frente a las puertas de uno de sus conciertos acusándolos de apología del satanismo, básicamente por la canción «The Number of the Beast», que fue la que desencadenó todas las acusaciones.​ Los medios oficiales o de difusión masiva le dieron la espalda a la banda, en una especie de censura velada, sin embargo, esto no impidió que comenzaran a ser un fenómeno de voz en voz, y hasta romper récords de audiencia en los Estados Unidos, a pesar de que los medios nunca se hicieron eco de este fenómeno.​ No fue así en cambio con bandas como Quiet Riot, Judas Priest, Twisted Sister, o Mötley Crüe, que sí contaron con un importante apoyo mediático y comercial en La Unión.​ Por ese entonces se produjo un cambio más en la formación de la agrupación. Clive Burr abandonó la banda por problemas personales y una cierta incapacidad de seguir con el ascendente ritmo y éxito de la banda, y en su lugar fue reemplazado por el exbatería de la banda francesa Trust, Nicko McBrain, dejando constancia de sus cualidades como instrumentista, a la vez que añadió una nueva dimensión al sonido de la banda.​ El 16 de mayo de 1983 fue publicado un nuevo álbum de estudio, titulado Piece of Mind.​​ Con este disco consiguieron discos de platino y oro en varios países. En junio de ese mismo año lanzaron la gira World Piece Tour, que los llevó a presentarse como cabeza de cartel en el Rock Pop Festival de Westfalenhalle en Dortmund (Alemania), compartiendo el escenario con Scorpions, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot y Michael Schenker Group en diciembre de 1983.​ El 3 de septiembre de 1984 fue lanzado al mercado el quinto álbum de la banda, titulado Powerslave. El disco comienza con la canción «Aces High», seguida de «2 Minutes to Midnight», basada en el Reloj del Apocalipsis de la Universidad de Chicago que da cuenta simbólicamente del tiempo restante para la guerra nuclear y el fin de la civilización, cuyo tiempo «récord» de cercanía fue dos minutos para la medianoche en 1953.​ Powerslave finaliza con la canción «Rime of the Ancient Mariner», basada en el poema del mismo nombre de Samuel Taylor Coleridge.​ The World Slavery Tour, gira que abarcó 23 países y constó de 191 conciertos en 331 días, se realizó en soporte de Powerslave. La gira concluyó en los Estados Unidos con récords de audiencia a pesar de la prácticamente nula difusión en los medios masivos, lo cual es mencionado incluso por el propio Bruce Dickinson en el concierto del Live After Death grabado en el Long Beach Arena de California.​ Con el lanzamiento de Powerslave en 1984, América del Sur los recibió con notable éxito durante el festival Rock in Rio que se realizó en Brasil en Jacarepaguá, en la zona oeste de Río de Janeiro en 1985, en un histórico concierto que también contó con la participación de bandas como Queen, Scorpions, Ozzy Osbourne, George Benson, Yes y AC/DC.​​ Durante el transcurso de la gira The World Slavery Tour fue grabado en el Long Beach Arena en California el álbum en directo Live After Death. La portada del disco incluyó una cita de Howard Phillips Lovecraft, escritor de cuentos de terror con estilo y forma de metaficción.​ El álbum comienza con el discurso que el primer ministro Sir Winston Churchill pronunció como aliento al pueblo británico ante la inminencia del bombardeo a Londres por parte del ejército Alemán nazi durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial,​ a modo de introducción para la canción «Aces High».​ El 29 de junio de 1986 fue publicado el sexto álbum de estudio de Iron Maiden, Somewhere in Time, en el que la banda implementó el uso de sintetizadores como complemento, con un sonido que claramente apuntaba a lo progresivo.​ El disco fue un éxito a nivel mundial, impulsado especialmente por el sencillo "Wasted Years". Sin embargo, no incluyó créditos de escritura de Dickinson, cuyo material fue rechazado por el resto de la banda.​ El guitarrista Adrian Smith demostró creatividad compositiva en esta etapa,​ aportando las letras de las canciones "Wasted Years", "Sea of Madness" y "Stranger in a Strange Land", siendo esta última escogida como el segundo sencillo del álbum. En marzo de 1988 la banda publicó el sencillo promocional «Can I Play With Madness», que alcanzó la tercera posición en el Reino Unido. El sencillo vino acompañado de un clip de vídeo, dirigido por el cineasta británico Julian Doyle y protagonizado por el actor y comediante Graham Chapman, fallecido poco tiempo después del lanzamiento del clip.​ El séptimo álbum de la banda, un disco conceptual basado en la obra El séptimo hijo de Orson Scott Card, fue publicado el 11 de abril de 1988. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son se convirtió en el primer álbum de Iron Maiden en el que se incluyeron teclados, tocados por Harris y Smith, a diferencia de las guitarras sintetizadas utilizadas en el anterior disco.​ En esta oportunidad, las ideas de Dickinson fueron aceptadas y el cantante tuvo créditos de composición en las canciones «Moonchild», «Can I Play with Madness», «The Evil That Men Do» y «Only the Good Die Young». Seventh Son se convirtió en el segundo álbum de Iron Maiden en alcanzar la primera posición en las listas de éxitos del Reino Unido, aunque solamente logró la certificación de disco de oro en los Estados Unidos, en contraste con los cuatro álbumes anteriores.​ El disco fue acompañado de una gran gira promocional así como de una escenografía y juegos de luces. La gira incluyó gran parte de Europa y de los Estados Unidos. Una de las presentaciones más recordadas de esta gira ocurrió en el festival Monsters of Rock, celebrado el 20 de agosto de 1988, en el que la banda fue por primera vez cabeza de cartel y en el que compartieron escenario con Kiss, Guns N' Roses, Megadeth, David Lee Roth y Helloween. El festival convocó a más de cien mil espectadores,​ pero se vio empañado por la muerte de dos aficionados durante la actuación de Guns N' Roses, por lo que la edición del año siguiente fue cancelada.​​ La gira concluyó con varios conciertos en el Reino Unido en noviembre y diciembre de 1988, con los conciertos en el NEC Arena de Birmingham grabados para un vídeo en directo, titulado Maiden England.​ Durante la gira, el técnico de Harris, Michael Kenney, se encargó de tocar los teclados en vivo. Kenney ha actuado como teclista en vivo de la banda desde entonces, también tocando en los cuatro álbumes siguientes antes de que Harris se convirtiera en el único teclista de estudio del grupo desde el año 2000 con Brave New World.​ A mediados de 1989 trascendió la noticia de que Adrian Smith pondría en marcha la creación de una agrupación musical, algo que venía madurando desde hacía tiempo y que varias veces debió postergar por las obligaciones que supone ser miembro de Iron Maiden. Así, Smith lanzó el álbum Silver and Gold con la banda ASAP, la que integró con unos viejos amigos y donde él mismo se hizo cargo de la voz.​ Bruce Dickinson también puso en marcha su proyecto personal y lanzó el álbum Tattooed Millionaire, proyecto que se aleja del sonido tradicional de Iron Maiden.​ Tras una sólida carrera en grupo de muchos años, la agrupación empezaba a dar señales de deseos individuales. A inicios de 1990, año marcado por la anunciada ausencia de Maiden de los escenarios y en el que celebraba sus primeros diez años como estrella de la compañía discográfica EMI, Adrian Smith dejaba la banda en plena planificación del siguiente álbum, que incluso contaría con un tema de su autoría.​ Según cuenta el mismo Harris, si esta decisión de Smith se hubiese presentado en otra época, probablemente no se hubiera llevado a cabo en buenos términos, sin embargo, la separación se realizó en términos completamente amistosos y la banda dejó en libertad a su guitarrista.​ De esta manera, la formación clásica había llegado a su fin. Sin embargo, a los siete días se dio a conocer a Janick Gers como reemplazo de Smith. Gers había trabajado con Dickinson como guitarrista en el álbum Tattooed Millionaire y con bandas como White Spirit y Gillan.​​ El álbum No Prayer for the Dying debutó el 1 de octubre de 1990 en las listas británicas en el puesto número dos. En el disco fue incluida "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter", única canción de Iron Maiden hasta la fecha que pudo encabezar la lista UK Singles Chart.​ Fue grabada originalmente por la banda de Dickinson para la banda sonora de la película de terror A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. La canción fue prohibida por la BBC debido a su provocativa letra y sólo se proyectó un clip en vivo de 90 segundos en el programa Top of the Pops.​ Después de dos años, la banda se embarcó en una nueva gira titulada No Prayer On The Road. Sin embargo, la gira debió terminar antes de lo planeado, cancelándose las visitas a Japón y Australia debido al comienzo de la Guerra del Golfo. Finalmente la gira finalizó en Salt Lake City, Utah en marzo de 1991.​ En mayo de 1992 fue publicado un nuevo álbum de Iron Maiden, Fear of the Dark.​ Se convirtió en el primer álbum de estudio cuya portada no fue dibujada por Derek Riggs, pues sus ideas no coincidían con lo que quería la banda en este disco. El arte de portada fue diseñado por Melvyn Grant.​ Fear of the Dark le dio a la banda otro número uno en las listas británicas.​ Una multitudinaria gira mundial, llamada Fear of the Dark Tour, se inició el día 5 de junio de 1992 y la inauguración oficial fue en Reikiavik.​ Luego la banda se trasladó a los Estados Unidos y Canadá, prosiguiendo su itinerario por América Latina, destacándose un gran escándalo a nivel gubernamental y eclesiástico en Chile, en donde fueron censurados por las autoridades de forma encubierta, generando un escándalo en dicho país y la desazón de miles de admiradores, muchos de los cuales incluso realizaron marchas por el centro de Santiago en señal de protesta.​ La fecha que no pudo realizarse en Chile fue reemplazada por Uruguay en la Estación General Artigas, una estación de trenes abandonada.​ En dicho lugar, la banda quedó fascinada con la arquitectura de la misma (típica inglesa del siglo XIX), y entre máquinas y vagones de este origen y antigüedad se realizó una sesión fotográfica, que no ha visto la luz, salvo una foto en el aeropuerto (al llegar a territorio uruguayo) en el libreto que acompaña al doble álbum en directo A Real Live/Dead One.​ Concluido el tramo sudamericano, Iron Maiden se dirigió a Europa, donde actuó en muchos países y nuevamente fue cabeza de cartel en el Festival Monsters of Rock, que tuvo lugar en el circuito de Donington Park, el sábado 22 de agosto de 1992, ante miles de espectadores. La presentación de este festival, en el que Adrian Smith retornó brevemente a la formación de la banda durante la canción "Running Free", fue grabada y recopilada en el álbum en vivo Live at Donington.​ El siguiente tramo de la gira los llevó a Australia, Nueva Zelanda, Corea, Taiwán, Indonesia, India y Japón con siete presentaciones en Nagoya, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Osaka (con dos presentaciones), Yokohama y Tokio.​ En 1993, Dickinson dejó la banda para continuar con su carrera en solitario, pero aceptó quedarse para una gira de despedida y dos álbumes en vivo.​ El primero, A Real Live One, contenía canciones de 1986 a 1992, y fue lanzado en marzo de 1993. El segundo, A Real Dead One, contenía canciones de 1980 a 1984, y fue lanzado después de que Dickinson dejara la banda. La gira no fue una buena experiencia para la agrupación y Steve Harris afirmó que Dickinson sólo puso su mayor esfuerzo en espectáculos de alto perfil, y que en varios conciertos parecía simplemente murmurar al micrófono.​​ Dickinson se encargó de desmentir estas declaraciones, afirmando que le era imposible estar al cien por ciento si el ambiente no era el adecuado, argumentado además que la noticia de su salida había impedido cualquier posibilidad de un buen ambiente durante la gira.​ El 28 de agosto de 1993 se realizó un pequeño concierto de despedida de Dickinson, el cual fue filmado por la BBC bajo el nombre de Raising Hell. El ilusionista Simon Drake se encargó de presentar el espectáculo.​ La despedida entre la banda y el vocalista fue caballerosa en un principio. Apenas algún comentario posterior de Steve Harris deja traslucir la incomodidad: "Supuestamente, hacía mucho que no se sentía bien con nosotros, estaba cansado y creativamente desmoralizado, lo cual es muy raro porque jamás nos dijo nada. Si se sentía así, entonces tendría que haberse ido antes y yo mismo le habría aconsejado que se fuera".​ Sin embargo, posteriormente Dickinson comenzó a argumentar sus diferencias respecto a sus excompañeros en algunos medios de comunicación, en especial en relación a Steve Harris, a quien calificaba como demasiado "tradicional".​ Antes de la despedida de Dickinson, Iron Maiden comenzó a escuchar a distintos candidatos a reemplazarlo, entre estos Andre Matos​ y Doogie White.​ Steve Harris argumentó que el sucesor de Dickinson debía ser preferentemente de nacionalidad inglesa. Finalmente, la balanza se inclinó por Blaze Bayley, cantante del grupo Wolfsbane, que ya había acompañado a Iron Maiden en una gira en 1990.​​ Como ya había ocurrido en el pasado, a la hora de los cambios en su alineación, Iron Maiden consideró la amistad y empatía para tomar una decisión.​ Para el nuevo álbum, la banda no sólo presentó a un nuevo cantante, sino también a un nuevo productor. Desde 1981, cada álbum de estudio de Iron Maiden había sido producido o coproducido por Martin Birch.​ Pero ahora, ya retirado, Steve decidió hacerse cargo de la producción junto a Nigel Green, quien había sido ingeniero en los álbumes Killers y The Number of the Beast, y en la actualidad productor de su propio sello discográfico.​ Finalmente, después de un año de trabajo, en octubre de 1995 fue lanzado el disco The X Factor previo inicio de la gira The X Factour que los llevó por primera vez a Sudáfrica e Israel.​​ La gira también abarcó el Este de Europa (Rumania, Bulgaria, Eslovenia, Hungría, Polonia y la República Checa); Europa Occidental, Estados Unidos, México, Canadá, Japón y Sudamérica.​ La salida de Bruce Dickinson afectó a la recepción del nuevo álbum, sin embargo, el trabajo llegó al Top 8 de las listas británicas.​ En este álbum, las canciones son más largas y oscuras, abandonando en gran parte el sonido que caracterizó a la banda en la década de 1980.​ Ese enfoque siniestro y oscuro del álbum muy probablemente era el reflejo del difícil momento emocional y personal de Steve Harris en aquellos años, pues atravesaba por el divorcio de su esposa y la muerte de su padre.​ El arte de portada también representó un cambio. En ella se puede ver a Eddie mientras está siendo diseccionado. El trabajo de la portada y del libreto interno fueron obra de Hugh Syme, quien previamente había trabajado en discos como Moving Pictures, Roll the Bones o Counterparts de Rush y Countdown to Extinction y Youthanasia de Megadeth.​ En 1996 vio la luz Best of the Beast, primer disco recopilatorio oficial presentado por la banda, en dos versiones: un disco sencillo de 16 canciones y un disco doble de 27 canciones. Se incluyó además la canción inédita "Virus", grabada durante las sesiones del último disco de estudio.​ Durante 1997, durante el auge de los videojuegos de consolas de 32 bits y de PC, Iron Maiden encargó a la empresa inglesa Virtual Studio la realización de un juego basado en su mascota, Eddie, y con canciones del grupo como banda sonora. Inicialmente su nombre sería Melt y contaría con versiones para PC y para PlayStation. Después de varios retrasos, y aunque se llegó a hacer una reserva a través del club de fanes oficial del grupo, el juego fue cancelado debido a la baja calidad del mismo.​ En 1998 fue lanzado el álbum de estudio Virtual XI, bajo un concepto mucho más clásico, a diferencia de la oscuridad plasmada en el álbum anterior. El disco no tuvo una recepción muy cálida, alcanzando apenas la posición número 16 en las listas británicas, la posición más baja de un disco de la banda en toda su carrera.​ Mientras la banda gestaba este álbum, fue retomada la idea del lanzamiento de un videojuego. Encargaron a la compañía de desarrollo multimedia Synthetic Dimensions la creación de un videojuego basado en el arte gráfico que ha venido acompañando al grupo a lo largo de su carrera y que tuviera como protagonista a Eddie. El videojuego fue titulado Ed Hunter, y se publicó en 1999 acompañado de un disco recopilatorio de 20 canciones escogidos por los fanáticos en la web oficial de Iron Maiden.​ Debido a la escasa popularidad obtenida con Virtual XI, Iron Maiden empezó a sufrir de una menor convocatoria de público en sus conciertos, y el desempeño de Blaze en vivo no era el mejor cuando debía interpretar canciones clásicas de la banda.​ Esto causó inconformidad entre muchos seguidores de la banda e, incluso, en el interior de la misma.​ Tras el concierto de Maiden en Buenos Aires, Argentina, el 12 de diciembre de 1998, con el que concluyó la gira Virtual XI World Tour, se dio por terminada la participación de Blaze en la banda y le fue notificado su despido. Sin embargo, la noticia no se hizo pública en ese momento.​ El año de 1999 inició con muchas especulaciones y rumores que hablaban de una supuesta salida de Blaze y se comentaban posibles reemplazos, entre los que se mencionó a Michael Kiske, anterior cantante de Helloween, que ya había sonado como reemplazo de Dickinson antes de reclutar a Blaze Bailey.​ Sin embargo, en el mes de febrero se anunció el retorno de Bruce Dickinson, generado por el deseo recíproco de ambas partes y tras una conversación de Dickinson con Rod Smallwood. Smallwood lo veía como una gran posibilidad para Iron Maiden, pero pensaba que Steve Harris no estaría muy convencido, pues tras la salida de Bruce la relación de Steve con el vocalista no había sido la mejor.​ Bruce propuso también el regreso de Adrian Smith, quien en ese momento era uno de los guitarristas de su banda solista y con el que grabó los exitosos álbumes Accident of Birth (1997)​ y Chemical Wedding (1998).​ La banda decidió además conservar a Janick Gers en su formación, creando así un trío en las guitarras.​ Ese mismo año la banda lanzó su videojuego Ed Hunter, y como promoción, se realizó una modesta gira titulada The Ed Hunter Tour, con alrededor de 30 fechas en Norteamérica y Europa. Una vez culminada la gira, el grupo se volcó de lleno en la preparación del que sería su duodécimo disco, titulado Brave New World. El trabajo, publicado el 29 de mayo del año 2000, alcanzó la séptima posición en las listas británicas y la primera en varios países del mundo, retomando además el sonido característico de la agrupación.​ La esperada gira mundial de presentación del álbum incluyó algunos países de América del Sur como Chile, Brasil y Argentina. Para poner fin a la gira se registró un nuevo disco en vivo titulado Rock in Rio (2002) grabado durante el festival Rock in Rio en su tercera edición, ante 250.000 personas. En esta gira, Iron Maiden interpretó después de muchos años la canción "Run to the Hills" en los conciertos de Río de Janeiro y Santiago de Chile.​ Ese mismo año también se lanzó Eddie's Archive, una caja recopilatoria de seis discos compactos que contiene los conciertos Beast Over Hammersmith y The BBC Archives y un recopilatorio de Lados B titulado Best of the B'Sides.​ En 2003, Iron Maiden publicó un nuevo álbum de estudio, Dance of Death.​ El primer sencillo del disco, titulado "Wildest Dreams", fue presentado meses antes en la gira por Europa y Estados Unidos llamada Give Me Ed... Til I'm Dead, que comenzó en la ciudad española de La Coruña.​ Acto seguido, se lanzó un segundo sencillo, titulado "Rainmaker", que incluye una versión orquestal de la canción que da título al álbum, "Dance of Death".​ Nuevamente la banda se embarcó en una gira mundial que culminó en Japón y que produjo un nuevo álbum en vivo, titulado Death on the Road. Melvyn Grant, autor de la portada del disco Fear of the Dark, fue el artista elegido para realizar la portada del directo, tras el rechazo de Derek Riggs debido a la presión a la que fue sometido.​ Como decisión, el artista no quiso realizar más portadas de Eddie para Iron Maiden, aunque sí creó una versión femenina de la mascota para el disco del grupo tributo compuesto íntegramente por mujeres, The Iron Maidens.​ Culminada la gira, fue lanzado un EP llamado No More Lies, con cuatro canciones y una muñequera de obsequio.​ En noviembre de 2004 fue publicado un DVD doble titulado The Early Days, que presenta grabaciones inéditas de los primeros años, desde Iron Maiden hasta Piece of Mind. En el DVD también se incluyó un documental con la participación de varios músicos que integraron la banda entre 1972 y 1983. En 2005 se realizó una gira que abarcó Europa y parte de América a modo de promoción, en la que solo se interpretaron temas de los cuatro primeros discos.​ En agosto de 2006, Iron Maiden publicó su decimocuarto álbum de estudio, titulado A Matter of Life and Death, siendo la guerra y la religión las principales temáticas abordadas.​ El disco fue un éxito comercial y de crítica, otorgándole a la banda su primer top 10 en la lista estadounidense Billboard 200 y recibiendo el premio al mejor álbum del año entregado por la revista Classic Rock. Siguió una gira de apoyo, durante la cual tocaron el álbum en su totalidad, algo que la banda jamás había llevado a cabo, obteniendo un respuesta que fue mixta.​ En noviembre de 2006, Iron Maiden y Rod Smallwood anunciaron la finalización de un vínculo de 27 años con Sanctuary Music y el comienzo de una nueva empresa llamada Phantom Music Management. Sin embargo, no se hicieron cambios significativos. Un mes después, la banda grabó una sesión en directo en los estudios Abbey Road. Su ejecución se presentó en un episodio del programa Live from Abbey Road, junto con sesiones de Natasha Bedingfield y Gipsy Kings en marzo de 2007 en Channel 4 y en junio del mismo año a través de Sundance Channel.​ La segunda parte de la gira A Matter of Life and Death, que tuvo lugar en 2007, fue apodada A Matter of the Beast para celebrar el 25º aniversario del álbum The Number of the Beast e incluyó apariciones en varios festivales importantes de todo el mundo.​ La gira comenzó en el Medio Oriente con la primera presentación de la banda en Dubái, después de la cual tocaron ante más de 30 000 personas en el Bangalore Palace Grounds, marcando el primer concierto de cualquier banda importante de heavy metal en el subcontinente indio.​ La agrupación tocó una serie de fechas europeas, incluyendo una aparición en Download Festival, su cuarta presentación en Donington Park, ante aproximadamente 80.000 personas. El 24 de junio terminaron la gira con una actuación en la Academia Brixton de Londres a beneficio del fondo benéfico The Clive Burr MS, con el objetivo de recaudar fondos para el tratamiento de la esclerosis múltiple, enfermedad que venía aquejando durante varios años al anterior batería de Iron Maiden.​ El 5 de septiembre de 2007, la banda anunció una nueva gira llamada Somewhere Back in Time World Tour, en la que presentaron un setlist conformado por canciones clásicas de la agrupación, haciendo énfasis en la época de Powerslave. La primera parte de la gira, que dio inicio en Bombay el 1 de febrero de 2008, consistió de 24 conciertos en 21 ciudades. La agrupación se transportó en un avión Boeing 747-400, pilotado por el propio Bruce Dickinson y bautizado Ed Force One.​ Tocaron por primera vez en Costa Rica y Colombia.​ La gira condujo al lanzamiento de un nuevo álbum recopilatorio, titulado Somewhere Back in Time, que incluía una selección de temas desde el álbum debut de 1980 hasta Seventh Son of a Seventh Son de 1988, así como varias versiones en vivo de Live After Death.​ La gira mundial Somewhere Back in Time continuó con dos etapas más en los Estados Unidos y Europa en el verano de 2008, durante las cuales la banda utilizó un escenario más amplio, incluyendo otros elementos del espectáculo original Live After Death.​ La última parte de la gira tuvo lugar entre febrero y marzo de 2009, nuevamente con el Ed Force One como medio de transporte. La manga final llevó a la banda a presentarse por primera vez en Perú y en Ecuador, y a regresar a Venezuela y a Nueva Zelanda después de 17 años, así como a Costa Rica ante 17.000 personas.​ La agrupación también tocó otro concierto en la India (el tercero en el país en un lapso de 2 años) en el festival Rock in India ante una multitud de 20 000 personas. La gira finalizó en Florida el 2 de abril. En general, la gira tuvo una asistencia de más de dos millones de personas en todo el mundo.​ En la edición del año 2009 de los Premios BRIT, Iron Maiden ganó el premio en la categoría de mejor banda británica en vivo. Votada por el público, la banda ganó por una victoria aplastante.​ El 20 de enero de 2009, la banda anunció que el 21 de abril de 2009 estrenaría un largometraje documental en algunos cines. Iron Maiden: Flight 666 se filmó durante la primera parte de la gira mundial Somewhere Back in Time entre febrero y marzo de 2008. Fue coproducido por Banger Productions y distribuido en cines por Arts Alliance Media y EMI. La película fue publicada en formatos Blu-ray, DVD y CD en mayo y junio, encabezando las listas de éxitos en 22 países.​ The Final Frontier, decimoquinto álbum de estudio de Iron Maiden, fue publicado el 16 de agosto de 2010, alcanzando la primera posición en las listas de éxitos de 28 países.​ Aunque Steve Harris había afirmando anteriormente que la banda sólo publicaría quince álbumes de estudio, los mismos miembros de la banda se encargaron de negar esa afirmación después de la publicación del disco.​ La gira soporte del álbum llevó a la banda a presentar 98 espectáculos a nivel mundial ante unos dos millones de personas, incluyendo primeras visitas a Singapur, Indonesia y Corea del Sur.​ El sencillo "El Dorado" ganó un premio en la categoría mejor interpretación de metal en la gala de los Premios Grammy, celebrados el 13 de febrero de 2011. La banda ya había sido nominada dos veces en esta categoría, con "Fear of the Dark" en 1994 y "The Wicker Man" en 2001.​ El 15 de marzo se anunció una nueva recopilación, titulada From Fear to Eternity. La fecha original de lanzamiento se fijó el 23 de mayo, pero posteriormente se retrasó hasta el 6 de junio. El doble disco cubre el periodo 1990-2010 (los ocho álbumes de estudio más recientes de la banda), y, como en Somewhere Back in Time, se incluyeron versiones en vivo con Bruce Dickinson en lugar de grabaciones originales que incluían a otros vocalistas, en este caso Blaze Bayley.​ En un comunicado de prensa, Rod Smallwood reveló que Iron Maiden publicaría un nuevo concierto en DVD en 2011, filmado en Santiago de Chile y Buenos Aires, durante la gira mundial The Final Frontier. El 17 de enero de 2012, la banda anunció que la nueva versión, titulada En Vivo! y basada en imágenes del concierto de Chile, estaría disponible en todo el mundo en CD, LP, DVD y Blu-ray el 26 de marzo, excepto en los Estados Unidos y Canadá (donde se lanzó el 27 de marzo). Además de las imágenes del concierto, el video incluye un documental de 88 minutos de duración, titulado Behind The Beast, que contiene entrevistas con la banda y su equipo.​​ En diciembre de 2012, la versión de "Blood Brothers" de En Vivo! fue nominada para un premio Grammy a la mejor interpretación de metal.​ El 15 de febrero de 2012, la banda anunció el Maiden England World Tour 2012-14, conmemorando la reedición del vídeo Maiden England de 1988.​ La gira comenzó en Norteamérica en el verano de 2012 y fue seguida por otras fechas en 2013 y 2014, que incluyeron la quinta actuación de la banda en Donington Park, su primer concierto en el recién construido estadio nacional de Estocolmo, su regreso al festival Rock in Rio en Brasil y su debut en Paraguay.​ En agosto de 2012, Steve Harris declaró que el vídeo de Maiden England se volvería a publicar en 2013, con una fecha de lanzamiento posterior fijada para el 25 de marzo de 2013 en formatos de DVD, CD y LP bajo el título Maiden England '88.​ El 13 de marzo de 2013 se anunció la muerte del exbatería Clive Burr a los 56 años.​​ En el año 2001 Clive fue diagnosticado con esclerosis múltiple, enfermedad que le abocó a quedar postrado en una silla de ruedas.​ El bajista Steve Harris declaró al respecto: "Era una persona maravillosa y un batería increíble que hizo una valiosa contribución al grupo en sus inicios, cuando comenzábamos a tocar".​ La noticia fue anunciada en la página oficial de la banda. Dickinson afirmó que conoció a Burr cuando este dejaba Samson en diciembre de 1982. Cuando le diagnosticaron esclerosis múltiple en 2001, sus ex compañeros en Iron Maiden crearon la fundación Clive Burr MS Trust con el fin de ayudarle a recaudar dinero para poder costearse la vida. El grupo también dio varios conciertos en honor de Burr cuando este se encontraba con problemas para financiar su casa, según indicó la BBC.​ Después de cinco años del lanzamiento de The Final Frontier, Iron Maiden publicó un nuevo álbum de estudio llamado The Book of Souls, el 4 de septiembre de 2015.​ Junto al álbum se lanzó el sencillo "Speed of Light". The Book of Souls es el álbum de más duración en la historia de la banda, superando a The Final Frontier, y también contiene la canción más larga de Iron Maiden hasta la fecha, titulada "Empire of the Clouds", compuesta por Bruce Dickinson y basada en el desastre aéreo del dirigible británico R.101.​ El álbum inicialmente iba a lanzarse entre abril y mayo, pero tuvieron que atrasar su fecha de lanzamiento debido al cáncer de garganta que afectó al vocalista Bruce Dickinson.​ El álbum fue bien recibido por la crítica y por los fanáticos, y llegó a ser número 1 en 24 países a pocas semanas desde su lanzamiento, obteniendo la certificación de disco de oro en el Reino Unido con 110.000 copias vendidas y debutando en el puesto 4 del Billboard 200.​ En febrero de 2016, la banda se embarcó en la gira The Book of Souls World Tour, tocando en 35 países de América del Norte y del Sur, Asia, Australasia, África y Europa, incluyendo sus primeras presentaciones en China, El Salvador y Lituania y su esperado regreso a Costa Rica en el Estadio Ricardo Saprissa.​ Al igual que en las giras Somewhere Back in Time de 2008-09 y The Final Frontier de 2010-11, el grupo viajó en un avión a medida, pilotado por Dickinson y apodado Ed Force One, aunque utilizaron un avión jumbo Boeing 747-400. La banda completó la gira en 2017 con otros espectáculos europeos y norteamericanos.​ El viernes 11 de marzo de 2016, la banda realizó su octava presentación en Chile, siendo teloneados por The Raven Age y Anthrax. Al día siguiente, en la mañana del 12 de marzo, después de dar su concierto, la banda estaba por viajar en su avión Ed Force One para dar sus conciertos en Argentina. Sin embargo, vivieron un lamentable accidente con su avión Ed Force One en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Santiago.​Los resultados del imprevisto fueron dos de los motores de la aeronave completamente dañados, dos trabajadores heridos y hospitalizados y la gira de la banda por Sudamérica fue puesta en duda. Fueron los propios miembros de la banda quienes confirmaron que, a pesar del accidente, continuarían con sus conciertos en Argentina. El avión fue reparado nueve días después de lo sucedido y nuevamente volaron para seguir con sus conciertos en todo el mundo.​ El 20 de septiembre de 2017 se anunció el lanzamiento de un nuevo álbum en directo, The Book of Souls: Live Chapter. Grabado a lo largo de la mencionada gira, fue lanzado el 17 de noviembre de 2017.​ En el verano de 2016, la agrupación lanzó un juego para móviles llamado Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast y un juego de pinball con el mismo nombre en 2018.​ Como soporte del juego, la banda se embarcó en una nueva gira mundial, titulada Legacy of the Beast World Tour, iniciando en territorio europeo en 2018, llegando a América en 2019. En Chile, la banda tocó dos fechas consecutivas, algo que nunca había hecho en ese país.​ El 23 de septiembre de 2019, la banda anunció una presentación en el Belsonic Festival en Belfast y en Donington Park en Inglaterra, ambos en 2020​, sin embargo, dichas presentaciones fueron suspendidas debido a la Pandemia de COVID-19. El Legacy of the Best World Tour está programado para continuar el 5 de junio del 2021 con 18 presentaciones en Europa. Adicionalmente la banda está tentativamente programada para el Rock en Río de septiembre de 2021. Iron Maiden ocupó el vigésimo cuarto puesto en el ranking de los "100 mejores artistas de hard rock de la historia" de VH1, la cuarta posición en la lista de las "10 mejores bandas de heavy metal de todos los tiempos" de MTV y el tercer puesto en el "Top 20 de las mejores bandas de metal" de VH1 Classic. La banda también ganó el Premio Ivor Novello por sus logros internacionales en 2002​ y se incorporó al Hollywood RockWalk durante una gira por los Estados Unidos en 2005.​ Iron Maiden utiliza con frecuencia el eslogan "Up the Irons" en las notas de sus discos, y la frase también puede verse en varias camisetas con licencia oficial de la banda. Es una paráfrasis de "Up the Hammers", la frase que hace referencia al club de fútbol londinense West Ham United, del que es aficionado su fundador Steve Harris.​ La mascota de Iron Maiden, Eddie the Head, acompaña la gran mayoría de portadas de los álbumes y sus espectáculos en directo. Originalmente era una máscara de papel maché incorporada en el telón de fondo de los recitales, que rociaba sangre falsa durante sus presentaciones. Con el paso del tiempo fue modificado por el dibujante Derek Riggs, quien se encargó de darle vida hasta 1992, momento en el que la banda comenzó a utilizar obras de muchos otros artistas, incluyendo a Melvyn Grant.​ Eddie también aparece en los videojuegos Ed Hunter y Legacy of the Beast, y en otros artículos relacionados con la banda. En 2008 fue galardonado con el "Icon Award" en el Metal Hammer Golden Gods, mientras que Gibson.com lo describe como "el icono de metal más reconocible del mundo y uno de los más versátiles".​ El logo de Iron Maiden ha adornado todos los lanzamientos de la banda desde su debut, el EP The Soundhouse Tapes de 1979. El tipo de letra tiene su origen en el diseño del cartel de Vic Fair para la película de ciencia ficción de 1976, The Man Who Fell to Earth,​ también utilizada por el músico Gordon Giltrap, aunque Steve Harris afirma que la diseñó él mismo, utilizando sus habilidades como dibujante de arquitectura. La canción "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" (de la película Monty Python's Life of Brian) es un elemento básico en sus conciertos y es reproducida al final de los mismos.​ En mayo de 2019, la banda presentó una demanda de 2 millones de dólares contra la empresa de videojuegos 3D Realms por infringir su marca a través del lanzamiento previsto de un juego llamado Ion Maiden, que, según la banda, "es casi idéntico a la marca Iron Maiden en apariencia, sonido e impresión comercial general". Acusaron además a 3D Realms de causar "confusión entre los consumidores" al representar un icono de cráneo similar a la mascota de la banda, Eddie, además de las similitudes con el juego Legacy of the Beast de la propia banda.​​ Según la revista Guitar World, la música de Iron Maiden ha "influido en generaciones de nuevos grupos de metal, desde leyendas como Metallica hasta estrellas emergentes como Avenged Sevenfold".​ El batería de Metallica, Lars Ulrich, afirmó que "siempre ha tenido una increíble cantidad de respeto y admiración por Iron Maiden".​ Kerry King, guitarrista de Slayer, declaró que "significaban mucho para él en sus primeros días" y Scott Ian de Anthrax confirmó que "tuvieron un gran impacto en su vida".​ M. Shadows de Avenged Sevenfold afirmó que Iron Maiden "son, con diferencia, la mejor banda en directo del mundo y su música es atemporal", mientras que el cantante de Trivium, Matt Heafy, aseguró que "sin Iron Maiden, Trivium seguramente no existiría".​ El líder de Sli

8/22/2023 - Join us as we invite Michael Kenny, President of The Pro-Life Partners Foundation to speak on his story on how he has fought for the rights of the unborn for more than 40 years. Be sure to check out The Pro-Life Partners Foundation at: https://prolifepartnersfoundation.org/

Join hosts Karen Garnett and Brett Attebery as they give a quick recap of highlights of the June 24th one-year-Dobbs anniversary celebrations last weekend – Brett in Washington, D.C., at the National Celebrate Life Day & Gala events and Karen in St. Charles, Missouri at the 2023 Pro-Life Women's Conference – and as Brett welcomes guest Michael Kenney, President of Pro-Life Partners Foundation, for a thoughtful conversation about strategies to create more unity and effective collaboration in the pro-life movement in our post-Roe landscape. Watch and share!

We wrap up our broadcast from Acton University talking with Charlie Self about spirit-empowered Churches and Marvin Olasky about compassionate conservatism. Also, Michael Kenney previews this weekend's Celebrate Life day. We talk the meaning of Race with Ismael Hernandez, and Kevin Vallier discusses Catholic integralism.

We welcome back Michael Kenney of the Pro-Life Partners Foundation to continue the discussion of Pro-Life victories since the overturning of Roe v Wade. A great victory was won last year, but why does he not believe that's enough? How should we answer the question, "What more do you want?"   Pro Life Partners Foundation Joe Biden Loses Case to Force Christian Doctors to Do Abortions - LifeNews.com National Celebrate Life Day 2023 National Celebrate Life Gala Jill Biden Will Promote Abortion as Health Care to Mark One Year Anniversary of Dobbs - LifeNews.com THE DOBBS DECISION AND THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THE PRO-LIFE CAUSE Equal Justice for All, Except the Unborn - OSV Talks Pro-Life Movement Should Follow Its North Star: Equal Protection | National Review Read Fr. McTeigue's Written Works! Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

Guest Host Marcus Peter talks with Dr. Monica Miller and Michael Kenney about updates on the pro-life front and with Dr. Matthew Ramage about evolution and the Bible.

Al and Peggy Stanton discuss the “Priestly Prayer” that Jesus offers in John chapter 17, and Michael Kenney lets you know about a new webinar this weekend exploring the future of the Pro-Life movement with Professor Robert George. We discuss bearing the Fruit of Conversion with Fr. Robert Spitzer.

Hour 3: Missouri State Senator Mary Elizabeth Coleman joins Mark Reardon to discuss the implications of Kim Gardner's resignation and what the focus will be on as the session wraps up before Mark welcomes Missouri State Representative Steve Butz to hear his thoughts as well! Then, Rick Neiner, Mark's longtime friend, and Michael Kenney, head of Defined Destinations, call in to share a story on navigation problems during Mark's recent trip. Later, Mark brings you the Audio Cut of the Day!  

Hour 3: Michael Kenney, with Defined Destinations, joins Mark Reardon to discuss their upcoming trip to Spain with you! Then, Jim Cryns, author of the new book "Talk to Me: Profiles on News Talkers and Media Leaders from the Top 50 Markets" joins the Mark Reardon Show to discuss it, and more! Later, Matt Pauley, Host of KMOX'S Sports Open Line, discusses his upcoming trip to San Diego next week to cover Major League Baseball's Winter Meetings. Mark also brings you the Audio Cut of the Day!

Michael McClymond gives us a Catholic view of Universalism. Michael Kenney has some final thoughts on the eve of the election and Jeremy Christiansen shares his journey from Mormonism to the Catholic Church.

Michael Kenney continues our discussion on Proposal 3 and we dive into the Gospel of John with Anthony Esolen. On this Feast of St Luke, we open up Luke's Gospel with Fr. Pablo Gadenz.

Father Koys joins us once again to wrinkle your brains loyal listeners.  To help him with that, he is joined by former guest and friend, Michael Kenney and mainly, they discuss the Catholic Morals we have today, as well as take a look back into Catholic History in order to understand some of these, by looking back into the year 1870.  https://ststanschurch.org/

Michael Kenney was only 14 when abortion became legal in the United States. Since then he became a lawyer and expert in constitutional law. Sharing the history of abortion in America, Michael describes how the evil of abortion is unconstitutional as well as contrary to natural law.

Michael Kenney was only 14 when abortion became legal in the United States. Since then he became a lawyer and expert in constitutional law. Sharing the history of abortion in America, Michael describes how the evil of abortion is unconstitutional as well as contrary to natural law.

Hour 3: Co-founder and president of Good Council Homes joins Mark Reardon to discuss Sen. Warren's allegations against crisis pregnancy centers. Then, Brian Katrel, PGA Radio host, joins to break dow LIV competing against the PGA. Later, Michael Kenney, with Defined Destinations, joins Mark to share more information on the upcoming lister trip (more information can be found here: https://www.defineddestinations.com/spain-2023) before Mark shares the Audio Cut of the Day!

We welcome back Michael Kenney of the Pro-Life Partners Foundation to discuss the future of the Pro-Life movement in light of the pending Supreme Court decision. If Roe is overturned, is the job done? What Have Popes and the Vatican Said About Catholic Politicians, Abortion, and Holy Communion? Catholic Bishops Back Decision to Deny Nancy Pelosi Communion: She Must Repent The Pope Excommunicates the Mafia, Finally Amazing Image of Unborn Baby at 18 Weeks is Called the Photograph of the Century

After more connection problems with setting up the show and with music playing at the beginning, we apologize for the inconveniences but Father Koys joins us via the phone line this time.  He starts out discussing some of the things and events that have happened within the Pro-Life Community, in particular the Supreme Courts recent decision to overturn abortion rights.  To help Father Koys talk about this, he has on the other line with him, Michael Kenney, from the Pro-Life Partners.  This discussion once again relates to and tackles looking at the morals we have in life that Father Koys has brought up before.  For more information, please visit: https://ststanschurch.org/   https://www.prolifepartnersfoundation.org/

On this the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception we welcome Michael Kenney, President of the new Pro-Life Partners Foundation for an update on the Dobbs case before the Supreme Court. Pro-Life Partners Foundation From the First Moment of Her Conception Takeaways from Oral Arguments on Dobbs Doctor Slams Sotomayor 3 Scenarios of How Scotus Might Rule  

Coming off the highs of Seventh Son of a Seventh Son ("7Soa7S"), the band has its first lineup change in 8 years, since the album Piece of Mind. Guitarist extraordinaire Adrian Smith left the band and was replaced by Jancik Gers. Ed and Stu struggle to pronounce his name properly because they are stupid Americans, and they have way too much information about the Rolling Stones Mobile Recording Studio which was used to record the album in a barn on Steve Harris' property. The album received mixed reviews, but the momentum of 7Soa7S still propelled the album to hit #2 in the UK, spending 14 weeks on the charts. It also managed to hit #17 in the US.  Side A Tailgunner Holy Smoke No Prayer for the Dying Public Enema Number One Fates Warning Album Personnel Bruce Dickinson - vox Dave Murray - guitars Janick Gers - guitars Steve Harris - bass guitar Nick McBrain - drums Michael Kenney - keyboards * * * If you are enjoying the show, join us on the Maiden Voyage Patreon to support what we're doing! Patrons are our best friends! Like, Rate, Subscribe and Review the Maiden Voyage Podcast. We're desperate for your approval! Send questions, comments and praise to MaidenVoyagePodcast@gmail.com Follow Maiden Voyage on Instagram and Twitter. Follow Stu and Ed on Twitter. Check out Stu's other podcast, Vintage RPG, and follow Vintage RPG on Instagram for an in-depth dive into the art & history of tabletop roleplaying games, and check out unwinnable.com for the best cultural commentary around. The Maiden Voyage illustration is by Shafer Brown. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram. Maiden Voyage is a Hamfisted Production and is researched and edited by Ed Coleman. Theme music composed by Sam Retzer, under license from SmartSound. This podcast is a labor of love based on decades of devoted fandom. We strongly encourage listeners to buy Iron Maiden's albums or listen to them using your favorite streaming music service to support these heavy metal legends. To check out the cover art for the band's albums and singles, visit the band's excellent website.

How do abortion, pornography, and morality relate to personal finances? Michael Kenney, co-author of the book “In God We Trust - Morally Responsible Investing”, joins Trending with Timmerie. Morally responsible investing matters! You’ll hear about the crossover between corporate America and the sexual agenda and why socialism damages your ability to morally invest in your future. Also discussed: dating and gender ideology. Listen to more episodes at www.RadioTrending.com Booking Timmerie to speak in 2020 https://www.radiotrending.com/booktimmerie Buy: In God We Trust - Morally Responsible Investing https://www.amazon.com/God-We-Trust-Responsible-Investing-ebook/dp/B07KKKM9SK Special Guest: Michael Kenney.

October 7, 2019 We take a look at Climate Change as a National Security issue, dig into the Iran/US tensions, and discuss the growing threat of White Nationalist Terrorism. Our guest is Dr. Michael Kenney. He is a professor at GSPIA who discusses his new paper released today, What is to be Done about al-Muhajiroun Containing the Emigrants in a Democratic Society. This paper was prepared for the Commission for Countering Extremism in London, UK. Produced by: Adam Diedrich and Kelsey Brennan Hosted by: Keara Sanderson

Schmitty & Drew come to you from beautiful Salzburg, Austria. The guys talk with Michael Kenney, Founder of Defined Destinations, Peter, local tour guide, and fellow BeerCast travelers. Links https://www.defineddestinations.com/ Photos Listen and Share Like Minnesota BeerCast on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/MinnesotaBeerCast/ Follow Minnesota BeerCast on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mn_beercast/ Follow @MN_BeerCast on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/MN_BeerCast Listen to the Minnesota BeerCast every Friday, […]

In this weeks episode John Morrison talks to Dr. Michael Kenney about his book The Islamic State in Britain:Radicalisation and Resilience in an Activist Network. Based on extensive ethnographic research this book gives a fascinating insight into al-Muhajiroun and their leadership and rank and file membership. Thanks to our sponsors at IB Tauris all Talking Terror listeners can get a 35% discount on all Middle-East and Politics books from www.bloomsbury.com. Just use the discount code TALKINGIBT19 at checkout. Also be sure to check out the new MSc in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. This programme will be offered full-time (1 year) and part-time (2 years) from September 2019 in our central London campus. For more information check out this linkhttps://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/postgraduate/law/terrorism-and-counter-terrorism-studies/ For all updates on Talking Terror be sure to follow us on Twitter @terror_podcast and @morrison_jf

Drew & Schmitty are joined by FINNEGANS, Bad Weather, and Michael Kenney from Defined Destinations. Learn about Dark Week, a treasure hunt dark cream ale, and how to come with the Minnesota BeerCast to Munich for Oktoberfest! Links https://www.defineddestinations.com/oktoberfest-munich-salzburg https://finnegans.org/beer/dark-week/ https://www.facebook.com/events/2468705763169718/ http://www.badweatherbrewery.com/ https://www.facebook.com/events/2244237995788581/ Photos

Drew & Schmitty are joined by Finnegans, Bad Weather, and Michael Kenney from Defined Destinations who runs down the itinerary for our amazing listener trip to Munich - Cheers!

Drew & Schmitty are joined by Finnegans, Bad Weather, and Michael Kenney from Defined Destinations who runs down the itinerary for our amazing listener trip to Munich - Cheers!

You’ve heard endless ways to improve your customer experience…   But how do you improve your alliance partner’s experience?   Michael Kenney is the Vice President of Strategy & Corp Development-Cloud at Ingram Micro where he is incredibly focused on his “why.”  Part of why he goes to work everyday is to provide Ingram Micro’s partners with a truly excellent partnership experience.   We caught up with Michael at the Microsoft Inspire Conference to talk about Ingram Micro’s “why”, how to build a phenomenal partner experience, and the future of his company.

This episode is sponsored by IA Path - Unlocking Your Adjusting Superpowers. Go to https://iapath.com Talking with Steve Gordon is inspiring. He struggled with education as a child yet built a successful career in insurance even though he is still young and rising. He did this with grit and by focusing on his strengths and by having a mentor who believed in him and gave him a chance. Now, Steve is looking to give back, with a charity to help other children get experience and confidence. There is definitely a sensai vibe when talking to Steve. CONNECT WITH STEVE GORDON: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-gordon-b1904924/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mifbadvisoryllp Charity (Twitter): https://twitter.com/CharityMSH Charity Homepage: http://makingsomethinghappen.org/ MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:"Practice makes permanent""Specialize, but don't be a specialist" Nigel Walsh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelwalsh/ RIskGenius & Chris Cheatham: http://www.riskgenius.com/ BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY STEVE: The Go-Giver by Bob Burg: https://amzn.to/2lEeW8b The Broker Boys by Michael Kenney: https://amzn.to/2MtF5ly Eubank: The Autobiography by Chris Eubank: https://amzn.to/2MxY0vp SUBSCRIBE AT: Buzzsprout RSS: https://goo.gl/5K4X3Q Google Play: https://goo.gl/WMAvW4 iTunes: https://goo.gl/7SqwvP Overcast: https://goo.gl/8b4cbD Spotify: https://goo.gl/niAbGN Stitcher: https://goo.gl/DmE7Mi YouTube: https://goo.gl/1Turar

Jonny Athletic pays us an in studio visit to lay the landscape of all things Timberwolves and Vikings. Lou Nanne also stops by the station and talks all things Wild hockey. Michael Kenney from defined destinations talks all things Hawaii Trip!

Jonny Athletic pays us an in studio visit to lay the landscape of all things Timberwolves and Vikings. Lou Nanne also stops by the station and talks all things Wild hockey. Michael Kenney from defined destinations talks all things Hawaii Trip!

Paul Huth, editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution, interviews author Michael Kenney about his article, "Structure and Performance in a Violent Extremist Network: The Small World Solution." Kenney discusses the research methods, challenges in the process, and future studies. 

The Amateur Traveler talks to Michael Kenney about traveling to Normandy in France. Michael talks about at least two different invasions associated with this region of France. The oldest was the Norman invasion of England which left from Normandy and is documented in the 224 foot long Bayeux Tapestry which is exhibited in a museum in Bayeux. The more recent was the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Michael describes visiting the invasion beaches (codenamed Juno, Gold, Omaha, Utah, and Sword), the cemeteries, and the village of Sainte-Mère-Église which was the first French Village liberated. Michael also talks about visiting the medieval fortress and monastery.

The Amateur Traveler talks to Michael Kenney about traveling to Normandy in France. Michael talks about at least two different invasions associated with this region of France. The oldest was the Norman invasion of England which left from Normandy and is documented in the 224 foot long Bayeux Tapestry which is exhibited in a museum in Bayeux. The more recent was the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Michael describes visiting the invasion beaches (codenamed Juno, Gold, Omaha, Utah, and Sword), the cemeteries, and the village of Sainte-Mère-Église which was the first French Village liberated. Michael also talks about visiting the medieval fortress and monastery.

The Amateur Traveler talks to Michael Kenney about traveling to Normandy in France. Michael talks about at least two different invasions associated with this region of France. The oldest was the Norman invasion of England which left from Normandy and is documented in the 224 foot long Bayeux Tapestry which is exhibited in a museum in Bayeux. The more recent was the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Michael describes visiting the invasion beaches (codenamed Juno, Gold, Omaha, Utah, and Sword), the cemeteries, and the village of Sainte-Mère-Église which was the first French Village liberated. Michael also talks about visiting the medieval fortress and monastery.

The Amateur Traveler talks to Michael Kenney about traveling to Normandy in France. Michael talks about at least two different invasions associated with this region of France. The oldest was the Norman invasion of England which left from Normandy and is documented in the 224 foot long Bayeux Tapestry which is exhibited in a museum in Bayeux. The more recent was the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Michael describes visiting the invasion beaches (codenamed Juno, Gold, Omaha, Utah, and Sword), the cemeteries, and the village of Sainte-Mère-Église which was the first French Village liberated. Michael also talks about visiting the medieval fortress and monastery.