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At the Book And Film Globe podcast, we rarely take a particular political stance–with the exception of campaigning to keep movie theaters open during COVID and decrying all kinds of censorship. We'll be encouraging you to read books, watch movies, and enjoy streaming TV as the nuclear winter hits. Culture marches on.Therefore, it's with complete neutrality that we report that Donald Trump has taking charge of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, along with taking charge of America, The Gulf of America, and, to some extent, the rest of the world. Neal Pollack welcomes Michael Washburn to discuss the cultural implications of Trump taking over the Kennedy Center. Michael says "there are other voices out there in America" that have not had the opportunity to appear at the Kennedy Center. Neal is unsure about what those voices might be. "What is a Donald Trump-run cultural center going to look like?" he wonders. We'll spend the next four years trying to unravel the answer for that question.It's not that mysterious, on the other hand, what the MCU is going to look like the next four years. It will look exactly the same as it always has, and will continue to make hundreds of millions of dollars a movie no matter how inconsistent the narrative or the quality of its movies. Neal and Stephen Garrett don't make any claim that 'Captain America: Brave New World.' This "very non film-festival movie" kicks off the MCU's 2025. Neal wonders why they changed the name from "New World Order" to "Brave New World." "Oh no," he says. "You might make Donald Rumsfeld's ghost mad.""This is a new movie and there's a brave new hero," Stephen says. We guess that's technically true, though as Neal points out, it's really a stealth sequel to a 2008 Hulk movie that happens to feature a new Captain America. Anthony Mackie is actually kind of a dour new hero, and the movie continually moves away from potentially interesting storylines to focus on Harrison Ford turning into a Red Hulk. Spoiler alert, it's in every trailer and on every poster. And it features a villain who has a cauliflower head.Enjoy the podcast!

The Book and Film Globe podcast returns this week with another fantastic episode. The world of American politics may be roiling, but we continue to cover the culture, because politics is downstream from culture, or something along those lines.First, we travel north of the border, where Canadian literary society is in crisis after the Nobel Prize-winning writer Alice Munro finds herself posthumously embroiled in a terrible scandal. She essentially attempted to cover up the alleged sexual abuse of her own daughter. Host Neal Pollack and contributor Michael Washburn in no way condone Munro's actions, but they wonder why the literary world is so quick to pass judgment on someone who, when she died a couple of months ago, they hailed as the greatest short-story writer of all time. What are we actually doing here? The BFG podcast wants us all to slow our roll.Stephen Garrett stops by to talk to Neal about the lousy space-race comedy 'Fly Me To The Moon,' though he balks when Neal refers to co-star Channing Tatum as a "himbo." It is highly unlikely that the government would have been able to set up a fake moon landing in an empty hangar on the site of the Apollo 11 launch. Neal spends a lot of time pointing out the outfits of Scarlett Johansson and her assistant, which is a real problem when you're talking about a movie about the moon landing. What a turkey.However, we do recommend 'Longlegs,' or at least Pablo Gallaga does. Neal gets scared easily at movies, and Pablo tells him that Longlegs is, in fact scary. But it's scary in the way that 'Zodiac' is scary. Neal does not find Zodiac scary. Look, who knows, this is a horror movie. Pablo likes it. It's a huge hit. And we're on top of things here at BFG.Enjoy this episode!

In this episode, HBW chats with Michael Washburn, principal at Washburn Consulting, on how producers of single-use packaging subject to extended producer responsibility laws rolling out in Oregon, Colorado and California next year can tackle the tedious work of collecting data on packaging materials.

In this episode, HBW chats with Michael Washburn, principal at Washburn Consulting, on how producers of single-use packaging subject to extended producer responsibility laws rolling out in Oregon, Colorado and California next year can tackle the tedious work of collecting data on packaging materials.

In this week's episode, we invite our friend Michael Washburn to help us decide which Neil Young related album should go on our list: Deja Vu or On The Beach.

It's an excellent and thoughtful podcast this week. Host Neal Pollack welcomes Sharyn Vane and Michael Washburn to discuss their recent articles about questionable attitudes toward Israel and Jewish people in general in the literary world. Sharyn discusses the cancellation of actor Brett Gelman's recent book tour, tying it to how progressives don't want to approach the Israel-Hamas conflict with anything even close to nuance. Michael, who wrote about a South African writer returning a prestigious literary medal in protest of the German government's support of Israel, says that antisemitism on the left is a real problem. Neal is just concerned about anti-Jewish sentiment in general among writers, who have, at least in his lifetime, been strong allies of the Jewish people. That calculus has clearly changed, and we will continue to cover this change on Book and Film Globe.We will also continue to cover lesbian road-trip crime movies if they make any more, which they probably won't. Regardless, Stephen Garrett is here so he and Neal can be two straight guys talking about lesbian road-trip crime movies. Stephen makes the interesting point that 'Love Lies Bleeding' and 'Drive Away Dolls' both take place in the past, because only in the past would gay female relationships be an issue that would create any kind of dramatic tension. They both praise Katy O'Brien's magnetic performance in Love Lies Bleeding, and Neal liked the ironic ending, but Stephen found the movie too self-satisfied and didn't really admire the empty artistic flourishes.'Drive Away Dolls' from Ethan Coen, on the other hand, is the kind of embarrassing lesbian movie "grandpa" would make, Stephen says, though, like Neal, he found the central relationship sweet and Margaret Qualley's lead performance really compelling. Both these movies suffer from script problems and relevance problems, though they're relevant enough for us to talk about.Enjoy our show, which is always relevant!

One pop-culture phenomenon blots out the sun over Arrakis this week, and Stephen Garrett joins Neal Pollack on the podcast to talk about Denis Villennueve's 'Dune 2'. Not surprisingly, Stephen likes 'Dune 2' much more than Neal does, though Neal grudgingly admits that you're not going to get a better adaptation of Frank Herbert's 'Dune' novels than this. It is a monumental achievement of pop culture and is the best sci-fi epic of our time. That doesn't mean it's not pretentious and boring in places. Neal likes Léa Seydoux's cameo as a witch-spy, and Austin Butler as a charismatically weird bald antagonist. Stephen makes apologies for Timothée Chalamet's stiff performance, Neal has no time for that. Regardless, the spice is flowing, the worms are zooming through the sand, the interstellar political intrigues are intriguing.Bonus: Neal complains at great length about the eating habits of the woman who sat next to him at the Alamo Drafthouse during his screening!Finally this week, Michael Washburn enters the podcast dome to school Neal on the historical realities behind the excellent FX miniseries remake of Shōgun, currently running. The series, to its credit, doesn't shy away from some of the more ethnocentric aspects of feudal Japanese culture, and paints both its Asian and Western protagonists as complicated and flawed. For straightforward historical drama, you don't get much better than this. It's an epic saga of the world on the brink of modernity, and it's well worth your hours.Enjoy the podcast!

Some weeks on the podcast, we discuss things that we love. Other weeks, we discuss things that we do not love, and this is one of those not-love weeks.First, Michael Washburn does not love the way SAG-AFTRA is trying to run cover for Alec Baldwin in the shooting case on the set of the movie 'Rust.' New Mexico brought new charges against Baldwin last week, and Michael breaks down the nature of the charges and the nature of how the Hollywood elite is trying to protect one of its own in one of the most tragic on-set disasters in Hollywood history.Matthew Ehrlich does love, or at least likes, the new 'True Detective' series 'Night Country,' but host Neal Pollack pretty much disagrees with him, as does the rest of the Internet. But Matthew has found himself drawn in by Jodie Foster's performance and by the puzzlebox nature of the show. He's on Reddit discussing Easter eggs with fellow obsessives, and maybe you will be too after listening to his take on the show.No one is on Reddit discussing 'Argylle,' least of all Stephen Garrett, who just despised the Matthew Vaughn action-spy comedy, which he found "exhausting," and he has no interest in spending any more time with that "damn expressionless cat in a backpack." Don't worry, Stephen, the cultural drought of January and early February is almost over. Movies and TV will get good again soon, and we'll be here soon enough to talk about things we love.Hope you love our show!

Grab a paddle and get out on the Ohio River with us this week, as we float along for a great conversation with Morgan Atkinson, director of the new documentary, "This is the Ohio: Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Beautiful River" (https://www.facebook.com/thisistheohio); David Wicks with River City Paddle Sports (https://rivercitypaddlesports.org/) and Ohio River Way (https://www.ohioriverway.org/); and Michael Washburn, Executive Director of the Kentucky Waterways Alliance (https://www.kwalliance.org/). Your host, Justin Mog, navigates these pleasant waters to give you a preview of the upcoming premiere screening, reception and panel discussion for “This Is The Ohio” coming up on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at Louisville's Main Library (301 York St), with the Reception from 5–6pm, the Film screening starting at 6pm, and a Panel Discussion from 7:15-7:45pm. Kentucky Waterways Alliance is proud to co-host the premiere of esteemed filmmaker Morgan Atkinson's latest documentary, “This is the Ohio: Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Beautiful River.” In the one-hour film, Atkinson travels the 981-mile river—from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois—uncovering revealing perspectives and looking at the river in a new and provocative way. This is the Ohio will open the eyes of people who thought they knew the Ohio as well as those who have never considered its importance. The event will feature filmmaker Morgan Atkinson and Louisville's House Rep. in DC, Morgan McGarvey, who is chair of the Ohio River Congressional Caucus and will give the opening remarks. The evening will conclude with a panel discussion about the Ohio River moderated by KWA's Susan Griffin Ward. The panelists will be Deborah Bilitski, Dr. Nancy Theiss, Dr. Perry Thomas and Frances Menone. Join KWA, Neighborhood House, UofL's Envirome Institute, and the Ohio River Way for a reception prior to the screening at 5pm, which will also include an Ohio River art installation by KWA artist-in-residence, Al Gorman, and a Ripple Effects Photography Contest display. This is a free event, but registration is requested at https://www.lfpl.org/register. Learn more and support the film at https://www.gofundme.com/f/bringing-the-ohio-river-to-life The purpose of the documentary is to begin or continue the discussion about the future of the Ohio River. Three initiatives to achieve this engagement are: 1) Working with ORBA and the National Wildlife Federation - Restoring the Ohio River: A Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity (https://www.nwf.org/ohioriver#:~:text=The%20National%20Wildlife%20Federation%20is%20helping%20craft%20a%20regional%20restoration,and%20promote%20strong%20local%20economies.) 2) Working with the Ohio River Way and the National Park Service on the Rivertown Review Toolkit (https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/river-town-review-toolkit.htm#:~:text=This%20River%20Town%20Review%20Toolkit,bolster%20your%20local%20tourism%20economy.). 3) Metro Louisville, KIPDA and Envirome working to update the 1996 Ohio River Corridor Master Plan (https://louisville.edu/cepm/westlou/louisville-wide/ohio-river-master-plan-1996/) to make it a regional plan. As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW! Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

This week's BFG podcast is a feast for the brain. Michael Washburn engages host Neal Pollack in a discussion of Sandra Newman's provocative and "very raunchy" novel 'Julia', a brilliant and extended riff of the world of Oceania in George Orwell's '1984.' Neal somewhat wondered what Newman was getting at, but Michael found her extension of the world extremely compelling and disturbing, a fresh warning about the dangers of totalitarianism. BFG book club recommends it!'Napoleon' has finally arrived in theaters, and Stephen Garrett stops by to talk with Neal about the ultimate dad movie. They both really enjoyed the battles of Austerlitz and Waterloo and some of Joaquin Phoenix's campier lines. Stephen would like to see more of the charisma that made Bonaparte so beloved to the French people. Totally fair. But Neal will brook no criticism of Ridley Scott's Napoleon, the movie of the year if not even close to the best movie of the year.'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,' the Hunger Games prequel, took both Neal and contributor Sara Stewart by surprise. They both enjoyed the gritty early days of Panem vibe, both appreciated the good-quality country-style music, and found the performances persuasive. There's a reason it's a hit, though the love story is unconvincing and the act 3 coda goes on a bit too long. Still very much worth watching, just as the show is very much worth listening to.Enjoy!

In this debut episode of "Do Beautiful Things®," host Jenny Lawson, President, and CEO of Keep America Beautiful®, sits down with recycling expert Dr. Michael Washburn to kick off the "Recycling Reality Check®" series. Michael is a senior policy advisor and consultant with Keep America Beautiful. The episode explores crucial topics such as recycling myths, the importance of recycling plastics, and the economic and environmental impact of recycling efforts. Listeners will gain valuable insights into recycling behavior, the recycling process, and practical tips for making a difference in their communities. The episode also features a special segment where Jenny is joined by her mother, Sally, who asks common recycling questions, allowing Lawson to debunk myths and provide clear answers to help listeners make informed recycling choices in their daily lives.

Another kick ass mid week reboot with Michael Washburn of Sky Trash! Don't let the package fool you.  Michael Washburn, or should I say, Officer Washburn, Retired US Army Ranger may not be large and imposing, but this guy has been there and done that! Coming to civilian skydiving later in life after a military freefall career that left him less than thrilled with the sport, it was a chance meeting with a guy named "Noah" who flew "wing suits" that drove him to chase a new dream.  Years later, as the team captain of "Sky Trash" wing suit team, he's got a humble outlook, but big dreams, and when it comes to chasing them, you can most certainly see the "Ranger"! Join us on this edition of Lunatic Fringe.

Another recap episode for you this week folks as I try to wrangle guest schedules! This week we're looking back at which live shows my guests wish they could have seen. Winterland? The Fillmore? The True Confessions tour with Bob? The Superbowl half time show? The Gainesville homecoming show on the 30th anniversary tour... There are so many to choose from and some of my guests picked the same shows for similar reasons!In order, the people answering the questions are; Dallas Heliker, Gwen Jones, Nic Apostoleris, Janet Lovell, Megan Volpert, Dan Spiess, Corey Morrissette, Katie Moulton, Michael Washburn, Ivan Anderson, Tommy Edwin, Dan Durkin, Django Bayless, and.... me!The Tom Petty Project is a proud member of The Deep Dive Podcast Network, which you can find on Twitter: https://twitter.com/deepdivepodnetDon't forget to follow me on social media, like, subscribe, and please, leave a rating if you like the show:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thetompettyprojectTwitter: https://twitter.com/TomPettyProjectInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetompettyproject/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6BLRWuuAR43zHpNKIirOwAll music, including the theme song, provided by my very best friend Randy Woods. Check him out at https://www.randywoodsband.com/Logo provided Ed Booth, who you can find here: https://edboothart.com/The Tom Petty Project is not affiliated with the Tom Petty estate in any way and when you're looking for Tom's music, please visit the official YouTube channel first and go to tompetty.com for official merchandise.A last very special thanks to Paul Zollo. Without his book, Conversations with Tom Petty, this podcast wouldn't be nearly as much fun to research.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-tom-petty-project. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Neal Pollack is all-in on streaming TV this week. He welcomes Michael Washburn to the BFG Podcast to discuss four new short films by Wes Anderson that adapt classic, if lesser-known, Roald Dahl short stories. Michael is less sold on Anderson's cinematic style, but he admits that these short Netflix films really do justice to Dahl's work. Both he and Neal are happy that this 20th Century humorist is getting such broad play, beyond Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The Roald Dahl cinematic universe is very much alive in Wes Anderson's hands.Reservation Dogs, the Native American comedy, has recently finished its run on FX and Hulu. Omar Gallaga appears to sing its praises and its nuanced portrayal of Native American life and of life in Oklahoma in general. It's also a seedbed of talent. Future Oscar winner Lily Gladstone plays a prominent supporting role as the imprisoned mother of one of our main "shitass" teens in the show, and it's clear that she's going to be a huge star. Omar is envious of Neal, who hasn't seen too much Reservation Dogs, and is going to spend the next few months immersing himself in the show.Neal is already immersing himself in Gen V, the college-age spinoff of The Boys R-rated superhero universe. Gen V has all the gore and sex and degeneracy of The Boys, but also some genuine anger at how our educational institutions have failed and abused its young people. That undertone lifts Gen V above the usual superhero fare, and we praise it highly here at the BFG Podcast.Enjoy this week's show!

This week's podcast is alive and well! Host Neal Pollack welcomes Michael Washburn to talk about everyone's favorite 90s dorm-room novelist, Milan Kundera. But Kundera was about far more than a 30-year-old undergraduate vogue, Washburn argues. He was a perennial Nobel Prize candidate whose best works laughed in the face of totalitarian oppression and showed a deep warmth and humanity. He understood the human condition as well as any writer has, and was a legitimate heir to Franz Kafka, but without Kafka's austerity. We bid him a fond goodbye.On a lesson serious note, 'Mission: Impossible–Dead Reckoning, Part One' is here. Stephen Garrett and Neal both hate the overwrought, nonsensical AI-oriented plot, and Tom Cruise's over-publicized motorcycle stunt doesn't impress Stephen. But there are some fun action set pieces they both like, and Neal is maybe a little over-enthusiastic about Cruise's many beautiful platonic female co-stars. But that's just par for the course in this ridiculous but fun summer action extravaganza that no one is taking particularly seriously.And no one is taking the new season of 'The Witcher' seriously at all. Scott Gold joins the The Witcher's disappointed fanbase in lamenting the overwrought politics storyline and the lack of monsters for Henry Cavill to fight. And once Cavill leaves the cast for season 4, The Witcher is going to vanish into the pop-culture mists pretty fast. Unlike this podcast, which covers the cultural waterfront now and forever. Enjoy!

Hi folks. Technical difficulties and scheduling have prevented me from recording episode one for season eight, so I have compiled the first Twelve answers to my first quick fire question. It's interesting that there were so many different answers to what I imagined would be a pretty straight arm wrestle between Damn The Torpedoes, Wallflowers, and Full Moon Fever! But that's the beauty of Tom's cataloguel; there's something for everyone!In order, the people answering the questions are; Dallas Heliker, Gwen Jones, Nic Apostoleris, Janet Lovell, Jeff Slate, Megan Volpert, Dan Spiess, Corey Morrissette, Katie Moulton, Michael Washburn, Ivan Anderson, and.... me!If you are able to donate financially to humanitarian aid relief efforts in Ukraine, the Red Cross is coordinating a large-scale effort which you can contribute to by visiting their website here: https://donate.redcross.ca/page/100227/donate/1The Tom Petty Project is a proud member of The Deep Dive Podcast Network, which you can find on Twitter: https://twitter.com/deepdivepodnetDon't forget to follow me on social media, like, subscribe, and please, leave a rating if you like the show:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thetompettyprojectTwitter: https://twitter.com/TomPettyProjectInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetompettyproject/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6BLRWuuAR43zHpNKIirOwAll music, including the theme song, provided by my very best friend Randy Woods. Check him out at https://www.randywoodsband.com/Logo provided Ed Booth, who you can find here: https://edboothart.com/The Tom Petty Project is not affiliated with the Tom Petty estate in any way and when you're looking for Tom's music, please visit the official YouTube channel first and go to tompetty.com for official merchandise.A last very special thanks to Paul Zollo. Without his book, Conversations with Tom Petty, this podcast wouldn't be nearly as much fun to research.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-tom-petty-project. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BFG delivers another great podcast episode this week. Host Neal Pollack welcomes guest Michael Washburn to discuss the curious recent decision by The Criterion Channel to edit out a sequence featuring a racial slur from the 1971 Oscar-winning film, 'The French Connection.' Neal ties this decision into recent efforts to bowdlerize popular classic works of British fiction. And Michael points out that the film deploys that language to show that the main character, Popeye Doyle, is flawed, to say the least. They both agree that there's really no way to apply consistent standards of what's culturally acceptable across all films at all times. A really strange and ultimately cowardly act by Criterion, which, as the standard bearer of film culture, should know better.No one will ever be censoring 'Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.' Brave film critic JP Guinn went to see this film, which he found harmless and more in the gee-whiz spirit of the old Transformers cartoons. If you like to see robots beating each other up, he says, you will enjoy Rise of the Beasts. We also find out that as a child, JP alphabetized his Star Wars figures.Meanwhile, over on Max, Matthew Ehrlich endured the premiere of 'The Idol,' the controversial new show from Sam Levinson, creator of 'Euphoria.' Matthew's main criticisms are as follows: the show is not fun to watch and Lily-Rose Depp, while beautiful, doesn't exude superstar charisma like Lady Gaga or Madonna. Also, Vanity Fair reporters don't just wander onto a celebrity's estate, so the show gets its pilot's central conflict all wrong. Also, Matthew takes extreme issue with the main character's name, "Jocelyn." "Why not just call her Agnes?" he asks. Why not, indeed?Enjoy the show!

An interesting mix of topics and points of view highlights this week's episode of the BFG podcast. Host Neal Pollack welcomes Sharyn Vane to talk about the somewhat sinister trend of conservative legislators and legislatures trying to defund libraries. Sharyn says this is an extension of the movement to keep kids away from sexualized literature, particularly literature about transgendered culture and politics. But public libraries are a non-ideological good that provide multiple public services to people of all ages, politics, and walks of life. Surprise surprise, we are against defunding them.We're also against the idea that people should ban or refuse to screen the films of Woody Allen. But the Cannes Film Festival has decided to do just that with Allen's latest film, Coup de Chance, which he shot in Paris, starring a cast entirely of French actors. Michael Washburn stops in to say "we're seeing a lack of moral courage on the part of the festival's organizers." Neal and Michael discuss the modern films of Woody Allen, but the politics of his lingering abuse scandal, however exonerated he might be, continue to hover over his career. Maybe Book and Film Globe will host a screening of the movie when they get the chance!Finally, it's time for Stephen Garrett to appear, reviewing the movie of the week, Ari Aster's 'Beau Is Afraid,' a deeply bizarre psychological comedy about maternal obsession, neurosis, and anxiety, starring Joaquin Phoenix. Stephen admires Ari Aster's "original vision," but says "it just doesn't gel". Neal calls it the "ultimate Jewish theater kid with mommy issues movie." If you want to see Ari Aster's id on the screen, this is the movie for you. It is not the movie for us, particularly.Enjoy our show.

Michael Washburn is our guest to talk about his book Tom Petty's Southern Accents, part of the 33 1/3 series published by Bloomsbury Academic.Tom Petty's album Southern Accents was released on this month back in 1985. This is my personal favorite Petty album but this book isn't one that praises everything about this particular Petty recording. It's an honest assessment of the music, which Michael says is "a mix of classic rock songs mixed with nearly unlistenable 80s music".Michael also gets into Petty's use of the iconography of the American Confederacy, something Petty soon came to regret. But Michael also says Southern Accents is an important album for Petty; a pivot point in his career. I ask Michael about that and his examination of how the record both grew out of and reinforced enduring but flawed assumptions about Southern culture and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. We also get into the songs recorded during the album sessions but left off, our favorite deep track from the album and more.Purchase a copy of Tom Petty's Southern Accents through Bloomsbury HERE Listen to all of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Southern Accents album HERE Find out what Michael Washburn's personal alternate tracklisting of Southern Accents is HEREContact Michael Washburn at michael.a.washburn@gmail.comVisit the Booked On Rock Website HEREWatch exclusive video segments from the Booked On Rock podcast HERE Follow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich:FACEBOOK TWITTER INSTAGRAM TIKTOK Support Your Local Bookstore! Find your nearest independent bookstore HERE Contact The Booked On Rock Podcast: thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.com The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” by Crowander https://www.crowander.com / “Last Train North” by TrackTribe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALNf7YM2pEGJvIHf1zxftA

In this week's fascinating edition of the BFG Podcast, host Neal Pollack welcomes Michael Washburn to talk about the recent "sensitivity" rewriting of Roald Dahl's novels. Among the things no longer acceptable: mentioning that a character likes to read Joseph Conrad, saying that women work as cashiers, and talking disparagingly about people who wear wigs. We join the universal chorus of the people who disdain this development, and hope it ends soon, though it probably won't. Neal and Michael break it down in full.At last, Cocaine Bear has arrived in theaters. Stephen Garrett and Neal acknowledge that it has some narrative flaws and characters that are thinner than the ozone layer. But at the same time, there is a bear who does cocaine, and rowdy, pulpy movies are back live. So even if Cocaine Bear isn't great, which it isn't, this is the world that Cocaine Bear made and it's more fun than the world was before Cocaine Bear.But while Cocaine Bear is super-gory, it's not sexy, and that's because there's no longer sex in movies. In fact, kids online are calling for the return to the Hays Code, when movies were called Pillow Talk and could only vaguely imply that sex even existed. Why is this new Puritarianism happening? Neal talks to Jake Harris to figure it all out.What a great show, enjoy!

Hey folks! Another bonus episode for ya today. It's the latest in the "10 questions with..." series and this week it's not just another author, but another musician! What song is Michael gonna play with the Heartbreakers? Well, he threw me a little curveball! Don't worry though, I threw one right back when I asked him which song he'd pick to give to a casual or non-Petty fan! Hope you enjoy!If you are able to donate financially to humanitarian aid relief efforts in Ukraine, the Red Cross is coordinating a large-scale effort which you can contribute to by visiting their website here: https://donate.redcross.ca/page/100227/donate/1The Tom Petty Project is a proud member of The Deep Dive Podcast Network, which you can find on Twitter: https://twitter.com/deepdivepodnetDon't forget to follow me on social media, like, subscribe, and please, leave a rating if you like the show:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thetompettyprojectTwitter: https://twitter.com/TomPettyProjectInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetompettyproject/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6BLRWuuAR43zHpNKIirOwAll music, including the theme song, provided by my very best friend Randy Woods. Check him out at https://www.randywoodsband.com/Logo provided Ed Booth, who you can find here: https://edboothart.com/The Tom Petty Project is not affiliated with the Tom Petty estate in any way and when you're looking for Tom's music, please visit the official YouTube channel first and go to tompetty.com for official merchandise.A last very special thanks to Paul Zollo. Without his book, Conversations with Tom Petty, this podcast wouldn't be nearly as much fun to research.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-tom-petty-project. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's episode is another guest interview and another author and fan. This time I'm chatting with the fiercely brilliant Michael Washburn, who tackled this season's album, Southern Accents, in his 2019 book in the 33 1/3rd series. The book talks about the songs on the album and the story behind how it came together, it talks about Tom's transition from Southern gentleman to Southern Californian, and critically, it also talks about the failure of the album both in artistic and social contexts. This latter subject of the book was the one I was most interested in talking to Michael about, as it most certainly made me reconsider how I'd been thinking about the messages, both conscious and subconscious, that Tom delivered through this album and the subsequent tour, particularly the use of the confederate flag and iconography. But don't worry folks, Michael is a passionate fan of Tom Petty's and his book handles this complicated subject matter honestly but with respect and a perspective. This is not a hatchet job, no matter what certain book review titles may have had you believe!You can find the book, on Amazon, here: https://amzn.to/3YuoweE but as Michael says in the episode, please consider ordering the book through your local independent bookseller.If you are able to donate financially to humanitarian aid relief efforts in Ukraine, the Red Cross is coordinating a large-scale effort which you can contribute to by visiting their website here: https://donate.redcross.ca/page/100227/donate/1The Tom Petty Project is a proud member of The Deep Dive Podcast Network, which you can find on Twitter: https://twitter.com/deepdivepodnetDon't forget to follow me on social media, like, subscribe, and please, leave a rating if you like the show:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thetompettyprojectTwitter: https://twitter.com/TomPettyProjectInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetompettyproject/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6BLRWuuAR43zHpNKIirOwAll music, including the theme song, provided by my very best friend Randy Woods. Check him out at https://www.randywoodsband.com/Logo provided Ed Booth, who you can find here: https://edboothart.com/The Tom Petty Project is not affiliated with the Tom Petty estate in any way and when you're looking for Tom's music, please visit the official YouTube channel first and go to tompetty.com for official merchandise.A last very special thanks to Paul Zollo. Without his book, Conversations with Tom Petty, this podcast wouldn't be nearly as much fun to research.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-tom-petty-project. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode, we explore the compelling and complicated masterpiece from Paul Simon, Graceland. Our first ever five-time guest, Michael Washburn, joins us to talk about the "slipper hero" that is Paul Simon, Apartheid, appropriation, poetic lyrics, and the 1986 album of the year.

In this edition of the BFG podcast–now with vastly improved sound quality!–host Neal Pollack welcomes the well-read Michael Washburn to discuss the work and legacy of the novelist Russell Banks, who died recently at the age of 82. Michael and Neal have nothing but praise for Banks's two best-known novels, Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter, both of which became popular and critically-acclaimed movies. But they also recommend you check out his novel Continental Drift, and Michael has special affection for Banks's short stories, which so accurately describe the struggles of working-class New Hampshire residents. They aren't so keen on his later works, when Banks drifted away from what he knows best, but he still leaves behind a literary legacy worth celebrating.Aubrey Plaza is just getting started with her legacy, and Neal welcomes Rachel Llewellyn to talk about Plaza's new indie film 'Emily the Criminal,' now streaming on Netflix. Neal loves the show's gritty crime-drama feel, which resembles breaking bad, and praises Plaza's nuanced performance, which carries the movie above the usual genre fare. Rachel also mentions Plaza's work in Black Bear, Neal talks about her in Ingrid Goes West, and it's probably pretty certain that The White Lotus comes up at some point. It's not as though Aubrey Plaza is some sort of hidden gem, she's quite famous at this point, but her cultural footprint will certainly only grow from here.Rachel sticks around to talk about 'The Rig,' a new eco-sci-fi thriller series now airing on Amazon Prime. She praises the way the show tackles difficult issues with subtlety, and then occasionally it sounds like an extended Facebook thread argument about climate change. But creator David MacPherson grew up around Scottish oil workers, so he understands their politics and their point of view on the world much better than the average script writer would. A very tense ocean thriller that does not, according to Rachel, feature The Loch Ness Monster.

We go high and we go low on this edition of the BFG Podcast. Let's start with contributor Michael Washburn, in to discuss his "nuanced" take on Annie Ernaux, the French writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year. Washburn praises Ernaux's spare, deeply-personal, highly-emotional novels. But he also wonders if she might be more emblematic of a certain style of French writing than an actual master herself. He has high words for other French writers who take a broader, more global perspective. Host Neal Pollack says "what about Michel Houllebecq"? But he's about as likely to win a Nobel Prize as Jordan Peterson is. C'est bon!Our brows remain elevated with a discussion of 'Decision To Leave,' a new romantic thriller/film noir homage from Korean director Park Chan-Wook. Contributor Omar Gallaga and editor Neal Pollack marvel at the film's shifting perspectives, unique camera angles, and moral ambiguity, while also making sure to let us know that the movie isn't boring. There are chase scenes and murders. A highly-recommended film for us, and a possible Oscar contender.You can't say the same thing about 'Ticket to Paradise,' and 'Black Adam,' the two big hits of last weekend. Critic Sara Stewart saw 'Ticket to Paradise' and "laughed exactly once." That's not very many times. And it's about the same number of times that Pollack laughed during 'Black Adam.' 'Ticket' does not take full advantage of its stars, George Clooney and Julia Roberts, while 'Black Adam' takes FULL advantage of The Rock. If you want to see The Rock bulge out of a Spandex suit, this is your dream movie. Also, Hawkman is in it, for all you Hawkman fans. It won't win any awards except for maybe the odd Razzie. But it will make a lot of money.Enjoy the show!

In this week's BFG podcast, contributor Matthew Ehrlich makes a vaunted return to the proceedings with a savage denunciation of ‘Blonde‘, the brutal and unpleasant Marilyn Monroe biopic now taking up space on Netflix. It features not one, but two abortion scenes from the point of view of Marilyn Monroe's vagina. If that sounds fun, then Blonde is the nearly three-hour movie for you!Sharyn Vane and Michael Washburn join host Neal Pollack next to discuss trends in censorship. Sharyn is very disturbed by the recent trend of people emailing bomb threats to public libraries. Michael doesn't condone that, but points out that the threats haven't led to any actual bombings. Yet. He finds himself more concerned that defenders of free speech seem committed to defending books with trendy and “woke” points of view, but classics like To Kill A Mockingbird don't inspire the same passion. Neal, as is his tendency, straddles the middle path and agrees with both of them. A great discussion.Then Matthew Ehrlich returns to talk to Neal about ‘Bros,' the Billy Eichner gay romantic comedy that definitely doesn't owe its lack of success at the box office to homophobia. Matthew (and his boyfriend) found the central relationship flat. Neal found Eichner's character whiny and self-pitying, though he liked some of the pop-culture parodies.

Editors' Picks:Rich: Matt Continetti's magazine piece "The Woke and the Restless"Charlie: Dan's Creedence Clearwater Revival post, "The Most American Band," and Michael Washburn's magazine piece "Tales of the Jazz Age, and of Our Own"Jack: Dan's LOTR take "Is Rings of Power Moving Too Fast or Too Slowly?"Jim: Charlie's piece "Politico: Reality Keeps Getting in the Way of Biden's Rhetoric"Light Items:Rich: Getting his driver's license renewedCharlie: The Jaguars's victoryJack: Digging into Buckley anthologiesJim: Fall beers

In this week's episode, we look at our final album of season 2, Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run. Our friend, and record fourth time guest, Michael Washburn, joins us to discuss The Boss. Our independent record store of the week is Louisville, Kentucky's own Underground Sounds.

Happy 4th of July from BFG to you! Why not celebrate America's birthday by listening to America's best pop-culture podcast? That's what we're doing, on repeat, all day.New BFG contributor Kaveh Jalinous breaks in to talk about the controversy surrounding a lesbian kiss in Pixar's ‘Lightyear.' Host Neal Pollack points out that the right is using this as another plank in its war against sexualizing children. Young Kaveh says it doesn't bother him at all, but isn't fond of the movie. It's closer in content and quality to a streaming show on Disney+, he concludes. And also, the last major Pixar theatrical release was Toy Story 4. This is a spinoff of the Toy Story franchise. Meanwhile, Pixar has released Soul and Turning Red, both far superior movies, for streaming services. So Lightyear's misfire has much more to do with that than a gay kiss.Michael Washburn comes by to talk to Neal about ‘Lost Illusions,' the award-winning French adaptation of the Honoré de Balzac novel. Neal compares the corrupt media circus that the film and novel depict to the Gawker empire. Michael agrees somewhat, but believes that it's a warning shot and a reminder about the corrupt media at large. Both agree that it's a sumptuous, exciting, fun, and satirical period piece, with not one wasted scene or one false note. Check it out.Finally, the hardworking Rachel Llewellyn appears to talk about everything that's appearing on your streaming services in June. In the widest-ranging conversation in BFG podcast history, they talk about Stranger Things, Jane Austen, Virgin River, various Hollywood Chrises, What We Do In The Shadows, House Party, and more. Oh beautiful for spacious skies, it's the BFG podcast!

Mike Washburn, an experienced real estate developer, purchased the regional rights to EXIT of the Carolinas in 2000.  This is a wonderful story of one of the early pioneers with the EXIT brand, taking North and South Carolina from nothing to a strong region with some very effective and tenured franchises.  It is an honor to hear Mike's story of pioneering spirit and tenacity.  We owe homage to pioneers like Mike.

In this week's exciting BFG podcast, editor Neal Pollack welcomes in Michael Washburn, and together they take the bold stance that banning Russian authors is bad. Washburn points out, in the fact of a recent attempt to cancel a Dostoyevsky course, that Dostoyevsky himself was an anti-authoritarian who risked his life and career to oppose censorship. We know which side he'd be on today.Our contributor Lani Gonzalez comes on over to graciously listen to Neal rant for 20 minutes about the greatness of ‘Abbott Elementary‘, an ABC school sitcom. Both express some skepticism over the “fake documentary” format but really enjoy the show's depiction of the lives of teachers, in a time when teachers face a lot of political pressure from all sides.The most incisive cultural commentary anywhere, plus cool music. What more could you want from a podcast? Nothing, we say!

In this week's groundbreaking edition of the BFG Week in Review Podcast, editor Neal Pollack welcomes Michael Washburn to discuss why, 100 years after its publication, ‘Ulysses‘ still generates controversy. Then Neal and Michael discover they both participated in the same Bloomsday reading of ‘Ulysses' in 2001. In Philadelphia. It's a small, small world.Adam Hirschfelder, our Taylor Sheridan correspondent, pops by to give his assessment of ‘1883‘, the historical extension of the ‘Yellowstone' extended universe. Neal and Adam agree that the Western is back, and that Sheridan is tapping into something primal and popular in American taste. Adam also has lots of praise for the star-making turn of Isabel May, who plays the season's heroine.Stephen Garrett heeds the signal and joins Neal to talk about ‘The Batman,' which he praises for its atmospherics and semi-fresh take on the Caped Crusader, though he does think it's too long. Neal is not so hot for this Batman. He prefers dumb, fun Batman. To each their Bat-own, we say.See you next week, same BFG time, same BFG channel.

Elizabeth has a great conversation with long-time Meat For Tea contributor, author Michael Washburn, covering philosophies on writing, exacting use of language, and much more! Check out Michael's books The Uprooted and Other Stories, When We're Grownups and Stranger, Stranger. https://www.amazon.com/Uprooted-Other-Stories-Michael-Washburn/dp/1949180131/ https://www.amazon.com/When-Were-Grownups-Michael-Washburn/dp/1951214536/ https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Short-Stories-Michael-Washburn/dp/1951896378/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/meatforteacast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/meatforteacast/support

On November 24, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving, a man walks into the terminal at Portland International Airport. Giving his name as Dan Cooper, he pays with cash for a seat on a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 jet scheduled to make the quick flight from Portland up to Seattle.Thus begins one of the strangest and most fascinating crimes in American history, a crime that remains unsolved til this day.In this special edition of Reading the Globe, AudioHopper presents “The D.B. Cooper Mystery at 50.”Michael Washburn takes us deep into a true crime thriller in which a pseudonymous man extorted $200,000 in ransom and parachuted into thin air over southwestern Washington State. He was never conclusively spotted again, dead or alive. After interviewing nearly 1000 suspects over 30 years, the crime remains, according to New York magazine, “the only skyjacking in the world that has gone unsolved.”In this special feature featuring archival audio, much of the record is corrected, including the legend that “Cooper” left nothing behind. In fact, he did—his clip-on tie (and tie pin), among other items. The author also makes a powerful case that the skyjacker may have been Canadian.Was he eaten? Where's the parachute? How did a young boy find $3000 of the ransom money? Why are some of the possible subjects buying cars with cash and making death-bed confessions? What the hell happened?At 50, the case still fascinates all true-crime junkies. Washburn, an expert on the case, presents a reasoned analysis of every possible known subject and presents a compelling case for one of them being the skyjacker. It's the perfect holiday listen.

In our latest bonus episode, we sit down with our friend Michael Washburn to discuss one of the great 90's albums, August and Everything After by the Counting Crows. Join us for a conversation about this album's strengths, weaknesses, and longevity. Is this an all-time great album, or just a good 90's album? Is it timeless, or perpetually stuck in the coffee-house rock of 1991-1996? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this week's excellent edition of the Book and Film Globe Week in Review, editor Neal Pollack reveals the sad unspoken truth behind his “rivalry” with the writer Dave Eggers. He also welcomes Sharyn Vane, live from the parking lot of a Chicago pizza joint, to talk about the new literary thriller ‘Such A Quiet Place.' Then Neal and Sharyn continue their endless debate over censorship in the book industry as they break down the controversy at the Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators.Michael Washburn drops into the Clubhouse to discuss Dave Eggers' new short story ‘The Museum of Rain,' and also to memorialize the Dutch crime journalism Peter de Vries, shot and killed in Amsterdam two weeks ago.Then we pivot into film, as Jake Harris comes on to talk about the marketing horrors of the new ‘Space Jam' movie and also the old ‘Space Jam‘ movie, ending with the startling revelation that Space Jam basically exists to sell us stuff.Stephen Garrett appears, only slightly jet-lagged from his visit to the Cannes Film Festival, where he underwent many spit tests and sat in crowded auditoriums, as the world's most glamorous film festival returned. While it was no 2019, where Parasite and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood premiered on the same day, this was still a worthy and memorable entry in Cannes history. Stephen had fun, the new Wes Anderson movie is just OK.Then Neal and Stephen break down the Black Widow movie, which featured a lot of helicopters flying into buildings. Finally, Neal rants about ‘Loki' and suddenly realizes that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is just a ploy to get people to buy comic books. “Everything is a comic book…” Neal says, “Joanna Hogg's ‘The Souvenir' is a comic book.' OK, old man. Enjoy the show!

Introducing Reading the Globe, a new original weekly podcast produced by AudioHopper. Every Thursday, host Michael Washburn summarizes, synthesizes and criticizes the week's most important and fascinating stories. This week, Reading the Globe considers:The crackdown on press freedom in Hong Kong. As reported in the Economist's new issue of June 19, 2021, the so-called national security law that China forced on Hong Kong a year ago has led to one of the most aggressive crackdowns on press freedom in living memory. Police have arrested Ryan Law, editor of the Apple Daily newspaper, and conducted a massive raid on the publication's offices.The law school of the University of Illinois at Chicago has taken the step of dropping the name of John Marshall, the fourth SCOTUS chief justice. The reason for this step has to do with Marshall's problematic record on slavery and his ownership of slaves, but history is always more complex than some would like it to be. San Francisco's crime problem is due, at least according to another editorial, to San Francisco's district attorney Chesa Boudin largely refused to go after petty crimes like shoplifting. This refusal is in keeping with the spirit of a 2014 proposition that made thefts of property worth under $950 a misdemeanor in California. The result? A shoplifting epidemic that led to the closing of 17 Walgreens stores around the city in the past half decade.The Wall Street Journal features a lengthy cover story about French president Emmanuel Macron's aggressive enforcement of a national law regarding laicité, or the official secularism of the French polity. Eric Adams' strong performance in Tuesday's Democratic primary for New York City mayor reveals a city much more concerned with law and order than many expected from the progressive metropolis. On Tuesday, June 22, the New York Post ran a front-page story endorsing Adams in the primary, who got 31% of the vote.Finally, an article in the New York Daily News on Wednesday, June 23, 2021, details how, after having expressed concerns about the challenge that Netflix poses to cinemas, Steven Spielberg's production firm, Amblin Partners, will work with Netflix to develop feature films.

In our 14th episode, co-hosts Micajah and Rob invite friend-of-the-pod Michael Washburn to help referee their most tense debate yet. Is Van Morrison's greatest album Astral Weeks or Moondance? As always, don't forget to check out our independent record store of the week, Lakeland, Florida's Jesse Carl Vinyl. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Michael Washburn, author of Southern Accents, joins us to talk about Tom Petty's career defining album, Wildflowers. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Michael Washburn's lockdown was a little different than most. Just a week into the first lockdown of March 2020, he was already 5 days into his chemotherapy treatment. It was a struggle for him to even walk a lap around his hospital wing. By November of 2020, he was back crushing workouts in the Invictus San Diego location. Hear his incredible story of resilience and persistence and how he used fitness to push himself to get stronger in every way.

Two years ago our guest Deedee Cummings decided she wanted to introduce a book festival to the city of Louisville, an event found in many other large cities but missing here. She and her team spent those two years planning and scheduling an event all about books and reading only to have 2020 happen, a terrible, no good, very bad year that has served as a wet blanket for most kinds of fun. Deedee was, of course, disappointed, but she was not deterred. The first annual Louisville Book Festival will take place October 23 and 24 virtually including a session with headliner Tomi Adeyemi, the New York Times bestselling writer of the Young Adult fantasy novel, Children of Blood and Bone. Cumming's book festival has a unique mission statement: Literacy is a basic human right. She has worked to build an event that will bring both a reading culture and connection to the city as well as inspire children to dream. When you talk to Cummings, you realize that most of her adult life has been spent building up to something big. She has been a social worker and lawyer, and is currently a therapist, an author of children's books, and the CEO of Make a Way Media, a company that promotes reading in all kinds of unique ways. Deedee tells us why a lack of books that feature brown faces or stories was the inspiration for the Louisville Book Festival, how a book festival can be a life-changing event, and what themes unite all the children's books she has written. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keane 2- Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald J. Sobol 3- Blackout by John Rocco 4- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 5- Fahrenheit 451 by Kurt Vonnegut 6- The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas 7- Kayla: A Modern-Day Princess by Deedee Cummings 8- In the Nick of Time by Deedee Cummings 9- What We Found in the Corn Maze and How it Saved a Dragon by Henry Clark 10- Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi 11- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo 12- The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate 13- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 14- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi 15- Tom Petty's Southern Accents by Michael Washburn