Podcasts about Newfield

Pedro Iniguez is a Mexican-American Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Rhysling Award-nominated horror and science-fiction writer from Los Angeles, California. He is the author of Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future, and Fever Dreams of a Parasite, among others. Forthcoming books include his SFF collection, Echoes and Embers: Speculative Stories, and his debut picture book, The Fib, which are slated for 2025 releases.This story originally appeared in Infinite Constellations, 2023.Narrated by: Mary MurphyMary is a New York based actor/voice-over artist. She loves the world of audio drama and is delighted to be back on board the StarShipSofa. She has performed in theatre, film, TV, animation, radio, and video games. A few of her recent credits include the one-woman play An Evening With Lola Montez, It's A Wonderful Life, a streamed performance of the piece Near Nellie Bly, Divination of The Three for Asheville Fringe, and the audio dramas Frontier Gentleman, Chinook, and Newfield. She can be heard voicing various characters for Disney, GoKidGo, LeapFrog, the Center For New American Media, Audible, and Audimance. She has also been a regular performer on the audio drama series Fireside Mystery Theatre, The NoSleep Podcast, The Wicked Library, To the Manor Borne By Robots, and Campfire Radio Theater. marymurphyonline.comFact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H SturgisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Friday, Taksim playing at the Cornell Store on the Commons, London McDaniel at the Antlers, and Levi Dusseau at 23 North. For your Saturday, a pancake breakfast at the Harford Fire Department, a Chicken BBQ fundraiser at the Freeville Fire Department, Rootstock all afternoon at the Bernie Milton Pavilion! Tru Bleu is at Lucky Hare in Watkins Glen, a Kentucky Derby themed fashion show at the Community School of Music and Arts, and Hiroya Tsukamoto at the Cranberry Coffeehouse in Binghamton. Sunday the Freeville Farmers Market and Modern Western Square Dancing at the Lansing Community Center. Monday, the Harlem Wizards vs. Newfield Teachers basketball game at the Newfield high school gym! Tuesday Femme Frequencies at Deep Dive. Wednesday, both East Hill and Trumansburg farmers markets. Jazz Night at Brookton's Market, Wednesday open mic night at the Nocturnal Cafe, formerly Sacred Root, and the Canaan Jam Session at the Canaan Institute.  Thursday a Mind over Body Movement class at the Newfield Public Library. Next Friday Movie Night, Paddington in Peru at the Newfield Public Library, and Rob Ervin at 23 North. And next Saturday a Newfield community chicken BBQ fundraiser at the Eagles Club. Looking ahead to Saturday, May 31st, Taj [...]

Spring Writes continues with live literary events through the 11th! Thursday afternoon, Grateful Dead Day is at JEMaginations in Center Ithaca, and Ithakaraoke with a live band at Deep Dive. Friday, Newfield Old Home Days Sam’s Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser at the Newfield fire hall, live music with Take Two at 23 North, Night Eagle presents Professor Louie and the Chromatix at the Savage Club in Lansing, and an evening with Shemekia Copeland at the Smith Opera House. For your Saturday, the Better Together event for mental health at Stewart Park, Tote Bag decorating at the Newfield Public Library, Choral Gems of the 20th Century at St. Paul’s, a Spin the Bottle of the Arts at Lot 10, and Little Feat at the State Theatre. Sunday the 11th is the Ithaca Book & Zine Fair at Buffalo Street Books and an Irish Session hosted by Six Mile Craic at Liquid State Brewing. Monday, a Finger Lakes Fiddle Orchestra concert at the First Baptist Church. Tuesday the monthly GreenStar Gigs kick off with SingTrece at GreenStar Co-op and the Newfield Historical Society annual meeting with author Steve Cotton at the Newfield fire station. Wednesday, Jazz Night at Brookton's Market, Wednesday open mic [...]

In this thought-provoking episode of Just Press Record, Matt Zeigler brings together two fascinating individuals - Steve Willison, an HR executive with a passion for martial arts and stoic philosophy, and Mark Newfield, a financial advisor and thought leader. Their conversation reveals striking parallels in their life philosophies, professional approaches, and personal journeys, touching on stoicism, boundaries, the power of curiosity, and the importance of doing good in the world.Main Topics Covered:The many roles we all play in life and how to manage themStoic philosophy as a personal operating systemUnderstanding what's in your control versus what you can only influenceThe power of doing one good thing for one decent human being each dayProgress not perfection - embracing growth over flawlessnessHow our greatest strengths can also be our greatest weaknessesThe superpower of neurodiversity and reframing ADHDThe value of lifelong learning and curiositySetting boundaries and learning when to say "no"The importance of integrity in everything you do

On Friday, London McDaniel at the Antlers. Sona Jobarteh at Cornell’s Bailey Hall. And Yam Yam with Metasequoia at Deep Dive. All weekend, the Addams Family School Edition at Newfield High School! For your Saturday, the Ithaca Farmers Market at Triphammer Marketplace, Frank Raponi and Peter Glanville at Grist Iron Brewing Company, Jennie Lowe Stearns at South Hill Cider, a Joni Mitchell Tribute Show at Deep Dive, and the 41st Annual Cornell Fashion Collective spring runway show at Barton Hall. A pancake breakfast at the Trumansburg Fire Department Sunday morning to benefit the Peter Kahn Memorial Scholarship, Honky Tonk Sunday with the Deep Dive Barn Haulers at Deep Dive, and Modern Western Square Dancing at the Lansing Community Center. Monday, Joshua Hatcher and Greg Evans at the Downstairs. Tuesday, Dead Dive Happy Hour at Deep Dive, TC Tuesday at Atlas Bowl, and a Folk at the Farmhouse unplugged Beatles tribute at Grist Iron Brewing. Next Wednesday, an author visit with Amanda Jaros Champion at the Newfield Public Library, Jazz Night at Brookton's Market, Wednesday open mic night at the Nocturnal Cafe, formerly Sacred Root, and the Canaan Jam Session at the Canaan Institute.  Thursday, a Puzzle Contest at the Newfield [...]

A lot's riding on the Government as it opens the country up to more offshore investment. Representatives of more than 100 foreign entities are in Auckland to eye up potential opportunities at the Infrastructure Investment Summit. The Government's hoping for more project funding and public-private partnerships. Chief Executive with infrastructure investor Morrison, Paul Newfield told Mike Hosking New Zealand needs to be painted as a great place to invest. He says the Government needs to present a multi-decade pipeline, a vision for what infrastructure could be, and a commitment to maintain work over successive governments. Meanwhile, Australian investor Plenary's already confirmed to BusinessDesk it intends to bid on the first stage of the multibillion-dollar Northland Expressway. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us a textVet Life Reimagined podcast guest, Amy Newfield, MS, CVT, VTS (ECC) shares her journey from a passionate animal-loving child to a leading veterinary technician. Amy's relentless curiosity and determination propelled her through various roles, from general practice to emergency medicine and even teaching. She'll share struggles and triumphs, including her candid insights on career obstacles for veterinary technicians, the importance of effective leadership, and the significance of continuous education. We discuss valuable lessons on navigating the veterinary profession and find motivation to pursue your own career aspirations, whether you're new to vet med or an experienced professional. Resources:Episode on YouTubeAmy's Website & Online CE, Vet Team TrainingOops, I Became a Manager bookOops, My Team is Toxic bookOops, I Colored Outside the Lines coloring bookSupport the showMore Vet Life Reimagined?

Thursday Richie stearns and Friends at South Hill Cider and Taksim at Brookton’s Market, then Ithakaraoke with a live band at Deep Dive. Friday afternoon a Newfield Community Blood Drive at the Newfield fire hall. London McDaniel at the Antlers, Laura Holmes and Jumbletron at Brookton’s Market. Ugly Sweater Karaoke at Liquid State Brewing, and Phestivus IV with Nectar and Bob Roberts Calamity at Deep Dive. For your Saturday, Ghost Train at the American Legion, Bob Keefe & the Surf Renegades at Cedarwood Tavern, Jennie Lowe Stearns at South Hill Cider, and Jimkata at Deep Dive. Sunday, Bob Keefe and the Surf Renegades Surfin’ with Santa at Liquid State Brewing, the Ithaca Concert Band holiday concert at the Whalen Center at Ithaca College, the OXtet with Plan Z at Deep Dive, plus modern western square dancing at the Lansing Community Center! Tuesday, a holiday food market at Press Bay in Downtown Ithaca, and Femme Frequencies at Deep Dive. Wednesday open mic night at Sacred Root, and a Canaan Jam Session at the Canaan Institute. Thursday, Jazz Thursdays with Free Tradicals and Dave Davies at South Hill Cider, and Ithakaraoke with a live band at Deep Dive. Next Friday, Rose and [...]

Friday’s a Rose and the Bros album release show at South Hill Cider. London McDaniel plays at the Antlers, and Austin Macrae & Tim Ball are at Hopshire Farm. This is the first of two weekends of the Greater Ithaca Art Trail! More info at arttrail.com. And all weekend, the first of three weekends of the Friends of the Library Book Sale on Esty Street. Saturday afternoon is Hopshire Farm’s first Oktoberfest, and the Covered Bridge Fall Festival at the Newfield fire station. There’s a Matt O’Brian Escape Pod Duo happy hour at Deep Dive, and later on Blaque Dynamite. Sunday, a Dryden Fire and Ambulance Open House from 11-2. A traditional Irish music session at Liquid State. Honky Tonk Sunday at Deep Dive features Jackson Cavalier, and there’s Modern Western Square Dancing at the Lansing Community Center. Jazz Mondays at South Hill Cider Monday at 5:30 features the Hey Rubes with the Dave Davies Rhythmmakers. Wednesday, open mic night at Sacred Root Kava Lounge, and the Canaan Jam Session at the Canaan Institute. Thursday, Good Dog plays the community concert series at South Hill Cider, and Karaoke with a live band at Deep Dive. On Friday, Max Childs at [...]

On Thursday, the Yardvarks play Six Mile Creek Vineyard, and Alexander Fals and Hayley Davis are at South Hill Cider Friday, the Analogue Sons for the Golden Hour Music Series at South Hill Cider. DJ Gourd happy hour at Deep Dive, London McDaniel plays at the Antlers, Iris Dement at the Hangar Theatre, and Max Childs with Eli Flynn and the Everymen at Deep Dive. It’s the second of two weekends of In the Fire aerialist and fire performance at the Cherry Arts with shows through Sunday! And the 42nd Apple Harvest Festival runs through Sunday on and around the Ithaca Commons in Downtown Ithaca. Saturday afternoon, a Fall Harvest Festival at Bright Leaf Vineyard and the Finger Lakes Crossword Competition at Boynton Middle School. Sonic Vortex is playing a benefit concert at the Museum of the Earth, and Divine Sweater is at Deep Dive. Sunday, a Zero Waste Ithaca Community Potluck, the Buena Vista Sunday Club features Fabi and Friends at Damiani Wine Cellars, cupcake decorating at the Newfield History Center, and Modern Western Square Dancing at the Lansing Community Center. Jazz Mondays at South Hill Cider Monday at 5:30 features Djug Django.  Tuesday, poetry night at the Newfield [...]

Amy Newfield joins us to discuss how to deal with demanding clients. She shares the reasons clients can be demanding, how we contribute to the problem, and most importantly what we can do in situations where clients become highly upset or demanding. Learn more about Amy Newfield: https://www.vetteamtraining.com/  Download 20 Free Ways to Market Your Vet Rehab Practice: https://onlinepethealth.com/freeways/ Bookmark the Vet Rehab Summit 2025: https://vetrehabsummit.com/ Learn more about CuraCore: https://curacore.org/vet/  To learn about Onlinepethealth, watch a free webinar, or join any of our Facebook groups, click here: https://onlinepethealth.com/podcast

Mark 7:31-37Then [Jesus] returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hands on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and he put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is “Be opened.” And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. They were astounded beyond measure, saying, “He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.” I spent some time, a week ago Friday, wandering around the art museum at Newfield's, here in Indianapolis.Among so many other things, there is an exhibit there called “The Message is The Medium.” It was closed, for some reason, but there was at least one piece of that exhibit outside of its confines and closed doors. This piece of contemporary art is called “Who's Your Tree?,” and it was created by a Korean artist named Nan June Paik. It consists of 34 old TVs, that flash seemingly random images of things that are quintessentially Indiana … images of the Indiana State House, the Indy 500, other pieces from Hoosier artists and, of course basketballs.I can't say I was all that moved or impressed by that one, so I kept looking and found some other artwork that seemed to fit the “Message is the Medium” bill. Like this one, called “Outside the Coal Mine” by a Black artist from Alabama, named Thornton Dial. It's a mess of artificial flowers, cloth, metal, wire, canvas scraps, found wood, paint can lids, industrial sealing compound, and enamel … on canvas. A quotation by the artist, about the piece, said, “I only want materials that have been used by people, the works of the United States, that have did people some good.”It's not pretty. It looks like a mess, on purpose. “Outside the Coal Mine.” The message is the medium.But my favorite was a photograph of a work in progress … a piece of performance art, actually … called “Borrando la Frontera,” by a Mexican artist named Ana Teresa Fernandez. In 2011, Fernandez set up shop along the border wall that separates Tijuana from San Diego, and she started painting the border wall with a pale blue color matching the sky behind it, which had the effect of making the wall seem to actually disappear. The artist means to encourage people to ask better questions about the geographic and political boundaries that separate us.“The Message is the Medium.”All if this made me wonder about today's Gospel … and what in the world might Jesus be up to, if we pay close attention to, or focus particularly on, the “media” he chose that day: the laying on of hands, I mean; the fingers and the ears; the spit and the tongue, even; the sigh of deep breathing, and the sound of his words.All of it's incarnational, right? It is something much more than performance art, for sure. And it's bodily. Physical. Tactile. And a little messy and gross and unsettling and beautiful. And I'll come back to this in a minute, if you don't mind.Because there's something else going on in this morning's Gospel. And that's the curiosity about why Jesus tells people, as he does often in the Gospels, not to tell others about what they've seen him do or what they've heard him say. It's a long-disputed, curious quandary theologians have mused about for ages, called the “Messianic Secret.” Why does Jesus, over and over again, order his followers – like he does this morning – not to tell others about the miracles they've witnessed? Some think Jesus didn't want the attention, “because his hour had not yet come;” that the timing wasn't right. Some suggest “his hour hadn't come,” because he wasn't ready to face the cross and his own crucifixion, just yet. And who could blame a guy for that?I decided a couple of years ago that Jesus didn't want people crowing about his miraculous healings, at every turn, because he knew not everyone gets the miraculous healing they long for, and bragging about your own can come off as prideful, selfish, and insensitive, in the wrong circles.And this week I wondered about yet another reason Jesus may have told the people who watched this healing happen to keep their mouths shut, to keep his “Messianic Secret,” to themselves. I wonder if the reason for that … if the message, today … is in the medium. I wonder if that message is in the hands, the fingers, the ears, the spit, the tongue, the breath of his deep sigh of what he's up to.What if Jesus told his followers not to tell anyone about what they'd just seen, because he wanted them to go and do something about it, instead?And maybe he meant spit and tongues and fingers and ears. I don't know. (I kind of hope not, to be honest.)But maybe the message in his medium was, somehow: “Get your hands dirty, people.” Maybe he meant get close, come near, be open, and not so afraid ... or so shy … or so timid. Maybe he meant don't leave this all – or only – up to Jesus. Maybe he was calling for more than “thoughts and prayers” and more than all of our best intentions, too. Maybe he was calling for some of our blood, some of our sweat, some of our tears, some of our sacrifice, more often than we're inclined to offer them up for the good of the cause … for the sake of the Gospel … on behalf of our neighbor.Maybe the message we send about the faith we claim is in the medium of our lives – in what we're willing to give up and give away, perhaps. (Is it generous and sacrificial, like Jesus asks us to be?)Maybe the message we send about the faith we claim is in the medium of our lives – in if or how we're willing to love and serve our neighbor. (Does our definition of “neighbor” include the least, the last, the lost – and not just those who live next door? And how do they know that we love them?)Maybe the message we send about the faith we claim is in the medium of our lives – in how and why we cast our votes. (Do we do that with our own interests in mind or do we consider the needs and interests of others, too?)All of this seems to be what James calls us to, just the same, when he suggests that a faith without works is dead. It's something St. Augustine was after when he proposed we “Preach the Gospel at all times.” And that we “use words if necessary.”The message of our faith is, indeed, in the medium of our lives. It's in the physical, tangible, tactile, visible, measurable ways we love, serve, give, comfort, care for, and elevate the lives of those who need it most.It's in the money we share. It's in the sacrifices we make. It's in the time we offer. It's in the love we prioritize and proclaim – not merely with thoughts and prayers or even in worship on Sunday morning. It's in the loving actions those thoughts, prayers, and this worship bring to life … to others… and for the sake of the world, in Jesus' name.Amen

Eric Kaufmann is a political scientist and professor known for his research on demography, nationalism, and cultural identity. Kaufmann has written extensively on topics like white identity politics and the rise of populism. He has written several books on these topics, including Whiteshift and The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America.For the Sake of Argument podcast: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jakenewfield Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4k9DDGJz02ibpUpervM5EY Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/for-the-sake-of-argument/id1567749546 Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeNewfield

Brian Trent is the award-winning author of the sci-fi thrillers Redspace Rising and Ten Thousand Thunders, and more than a hundred short stories appearing in the world's top fiction markets, including in the New York Times' bestselling Black Tide Rising series, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, Escape Pod, Pseudopod, Galaxy's Edge, and numerous year's best anthologies. Trent lives in Connecticut. His website and blog are at www.briantrent.com.This story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2020.Narrated by: Mary MurphyMary is a New York based actor/voice-over artist. She loves the world of audio drama and is delighted to be back on board the StarShipSofa. She has performed in theatre, film, TV, animation, radio, and video games. A few of her recent credits include the one-woman play An Evening With Lola Montez, It's A Wonderful Life, a streamed performance of the piece Near Nellie Bly, Divination of The Three for Asheville Fringe, and the audio dramas Frontier Gentleman, Chinook, and Newfield. She can be heard voicing various characters for Disney, GoKidGo, LeapFrog, the Center For New American Media, Audible, and Audimance. She has also been a regular performer on the audio drama series Fireside Mystery Theatre, The NoSleep Podcast, The Wicked Library, To the Manor Borne By Robots, and Campfire Radio Theater. marymurphyonline.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here’s the 14850 Happenings events calendar for the weekend of August 24th! For your Saturday, Motherwort is at Lucky Hare Brewing and Tru Bleu is at Lansing Harbor this afternoon. London McDaniel plays dinner music at the Antlers. Black Rose Burning with Three Women, Homie Discount, and Shrouded Prey are at Angry Mom Records, and Lez Zeppelin is at Deep Dive. Sunday, the Freeville Farmers Market at the Freeville Elementary School and Ithaca Farmers Market at Steamboat Landing, and the Punk Rock Happy Hour at Deep Dive. Common Railers play Music in the Hollow on Tuesday at the Ellis Hollow Community Center. There’s a Southern Old Time String Band Jam Session at Deep Dive. Wednesday, Rev Ezra at Mill Park in Newfield, Hans Condor with Mill Bastards and Chippy Bevy on the third floor of the Community School of Music and Arts, open mic night at Sacred Root Kava Lounge, and the Canaan Jam Session at the Canaan Institute. Galactic Wednesday late night at Deep Dive. On Thursday, Tall Poppy String Band at South Hill Cider, City Limits at Lucas Vineyards, the Diana Leigh Quartet at Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Tenzin Chopak is at Danby Food and Drink, and the [...]

Here's the 14850 Happenings events calendar for the weekend of August 8th! The LionsGate Family Campout music festival in Wilseyville runs today through Sunday. This evening local author Dan Kopcow is doing a reading at the Tompkins County Public Library! Tru Bleu is at Ithaca Beer, SingTrece and Stone Cold Miracle are at the Bernie Milton Pavilion, Tailor Made is at Myers Park in Lansing, and Radio London is at Six Mile Creek Vineyard. For your Friday, the 32nd annual Ithaca Artist Market is at the farmers market pavilion at Steamboat Landing from noon to 7:30! Free admission with loads of local artists' work on display and for sale, music from the East Hill Jazz Group and more, food and local drinks available, and a sunset cruise. Friday evening, a Harry Bodine happy hour show at Deep Dive, Ariel Arbisser at Hopshire Farm, John Krieg at Garrett's Brewing, and Movies in the Park, "Migration," at Stewart Park. In case of another rain-out, that free movie heads to Cinemapolis. Friday's live music at the BoatYard Grill featuring Group du Jour was postponed to Saturday evening! Also Saturday, a Disco Dance Party with DJ Proper Philth at Lucky Hare Brewing and Bob Roberts Calamity at O'Malley's Lakeside. For your Sunday, the Caroline Farm Festival all afternoon at the Brooktondale Community Center. Buena Vista Sunday Club featuring Fabi and Friends at Damiani Wine Cellars. A traditional Irish session at Liquid State. Then Honky Tonk Sunday featuring Eliza Thorn is at Deep Dive. Terrapin Station plays Music in the Hollow on Tuesday at the Ellis Hollow Community Center. Wednesday, a square dance with caller Mark Faris at Mill Park in Newfield. Next Thursday, Immortal Jellyfish at Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Bad Alibi is at Myers Park in Lansing, and The Small Kings & Terrapin Station are at the Bernie Milton Pavilion. Friday, Grant Peeples with Maddy Walsh at Finger Lakes Cider House, Betty's Ghost at the BoatYard Grill, Cooper Scotti at Garrett's Brewing, and Movies in the Park features "Men in Black." And next Saturday, Madd Daddy is at the Antlers! Lots more details and more 14850 Happenings at 14850.com. Subscribe to the Ithaca Minute in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Play, TuneIn, Stitcher, or via RSS feed, follow 14850.com on Facebook and Twitter, or subscribe to the 14850 Magazine Daily newsletter.

Here's the 14850 Happenings events calendar for the weekend of July 18th! The 32nd annual GrassRoots Festival runs through Sunday with lots of great music, and you can still buy tickets at the gate! If you're not heading to GrassRoots, Thursday evening features Off the Rails at Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Kevin Ludwig at Lucas Vineyards, Back Talk at Myers Park, and Movies at the Station with Hotel Transylvania at the Cayuga Heights Fire Department. There's no music on the Ithaca Commons this week. Friday evening Liam Lawson is at Garrett's Brewing in Trumansburg. Right Turn Clyde can't make it but there's still music at the Boatyard Grill. Jorge T. Cuevas and the Caribe Jazz Band on the Cornell Arts Quad, and a Moon Landing Open Night at Cornell's Fuertes Observatory. Saturday from 11-3 a 75th anniversary party at the Slaterville Volunteer Fire Department in Slaterville Springs. The Sweats at Lucky Hare Brewing. Live music with the GillMuir Girls at the H&E in Burdett. And Almost Queen at del Lago Resort and Casino in Waterloo. For your Sunday, the Ithaca Farmers Market and Freeville Farmers Market are in full swing. Saturdays with Cisco at Garrett's Brewing. Ariel Arbisser next Tuesday for Music in the Hollow at Ellis Hollow Community Center! Wednesday, Tim Ball and Mark Bickford at Mill Park in Newfield. Thursday, Nautie Nights features the JR Rich Band at Lucas Vineyards, Dark Wine at Six Mile Creek, Iron Horse is at Myers Park in Lansing, and Freight with Mike Powell & Echosound on the Bernie Milton Pavilion. Next Friday, the Diana Leigh Quartet at Garrett's Brewing, Higher Ground at the BoatYard Grill, and don't miss the Gunpoets on Cornell's Arts Quad. Lots more details and more 14850 Happenings at 14850.com. Subscribe to the Ithaca Minute in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Play, TuneIn, Stitcher, or via RSS feed, follow 14850.com on Facebook and Twitter, or subscribe to the 14850 Magazine Daily newsletter.

Here's the 14850 Happenings events calendar for the weekend of July 12th! Friday evening the Probables play South Hill Cider, Erin and the Backwoods Blues Project at Hopshire Farm, Virgil Cain at the BoatYard Grill, Stacey & the Copy Cats at Garrett's Brewing, and the I-Bop Jazz Septet featuring Bill Easley on the Cornell Arts Quad. A Saturday afternoon stand-up science comedy show featuring Ben Miller at Deep Dive. Kitestring plays Brewer's at 6, and Whiskey Tango Sideshow is at Deep Dive at 9. For your Sunday, a puppet show with Tom Knight at the Foundation of Light at 2, and a traditional Irish music session at Liquid State at 3. GrassRoots Culture Camp runs Sunday through Wednesday! Jazz Monday with MAQ at South Hill Cider on Monday evening. Wednesday, the Yardvarks at Mill Park in Newfield. Off the Rails play at Six Mile Creek Vineyard on Thursday, and Kevin Ludwig is at Lucas Vineyard. It's a week off for the Downtown Ithaca concert series because the GrassRoots Festival runs the 18th-21st! And next Friday, Liam Lawson is at Garrett's Brewing, Right Turn at the BoatYard Grill, and Jorge T. Cuevas and the Caribe Jazz Allstars on the Cornell Arts Quad. Lots more details and more 14850 Happenings at 14850.com. Subscribe to the Ithaca Minute in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Play, TuneIn, Stitcher, or via RSS feed, follow 14850.com on Facebook and Twitter, or subscribe to the 14850 Magazine Daily newsletter.

Here's the 14850 Happenings events calendar for the weekend of July 5th! Happy hour with GoGone at Deep Dive, Dirty Blanket at South Hill Cider, Major Big Time Band at the BoatYard Grill, Brennan Bates at Garrett's Brewing, SingTrece & Stone Cold Miracle on the Cornell Arts Quad, and the Living Room with the 86ers tonight at the Range. Saturday, the Diana Leigh Quartet at Buttonwood Grove WInery, the Sunset Music Series with DJ Mike Judah at Atwater Vineyard, Low Indigos at O'Malley's Lakeside, and Sine Caster at the Range. For your Sunday, the Freeville Farmers Market midday, the DJ Cookout at Deep Dive from noon to late night, and a Young Jewish Adults potluck picnic at East Shore Park at 1. Jazz Monday with MAQ at South Hill Cider on Monday evening. Wednesday, Cast Iron Cowboys at Mill Park in Newfield. Thursday, Betty's Ghost at Lucas Vineyards, Richman and the Poorboys at Six Mile Creek Vineyard, and NEO Project at the Bernie Milton Pavilion. Next Friday, Virgil Cain at the BoatYard Grill and Stacey & the Copy Cats at Garrett's Brewing in Trumansburg. Don't forget GrassRoot Culture Camp starts Sunday the 14th, and the GrassRoots Festival runs the 18th-21st! Lots more details and more 14850 Happenings at 14850.com. Subscribe to the Ithaca Minute in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Play, TuneIn, Stitcher, or via RSS feed, follow 14850.com on Facebook and Twitter, or subscribe to the 14850 Magazine Daily newsletter.

Conflict is an unavoidable part of life, and can have serious repercussions to a working environment or client relationships. Amy Newfield joins us to share advice on conflict resolution and how we can better equip ourselves to manage disagreements and challenges through open, honest, and kind conversation. Learn more about Amy Newfield: https://www.vetteamtraining.com/amy-newfield Learn more about The Vet Rehab Summit: https://vetrehabsummit.com/ Learn more about CuraCore: https://curacore.org/vet/ To learn about Onlinepethealth, watch a free webinar, or join any of our Facebook groups, click here: https://onlinepethealth.com/podcast

Hello and welcome to the second episode of “The Cat Walker Hour.” I recorded this live interview in April 2024 at the VNCA Conference with very special guests Harold Davis, Amy Newfield and Leslie Wereszczak - a powerhouse trio of experience and international fame! The Cat Walker Hour is a light-hearted but serious session that I hope will empower and inspire listeners to navigate the challenges and opportunities we encounter in our careers. In a time where it feels like we're exposed to a lot of negativity in the world, this is a feel-good celebration of who we are and what we do.  The VNCA conference is one of my favourite events of the year and it's always a great crew of people. I should explain that what you're hearing at the start of this episode is me, dancing my way down the stairs in the main hall, getting the delegates clapping and grooving for some pre-show, end of conference fun. You'll also hear the superstar trio literally running onto the stage, high tenning everyone in the front row on the way. Once the superstar guests are settled in with a glass of Prosecco and a question from me, I hand the interview over to the audience for an interactive Q&A session. The interview that unfolded was pure magic and such a beautiful high note upon which to end an amazing conference.  Thank you as always to Trish Farry for envisioning this concept, to the superstar guests for being so candid and generous, and to the amazing VNCA Conference 2024 delegates for driving the interview. I hope you enjoy listening.  If you want to see The Cat Walker Hour live, make sure you're following me on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn where I'll share the details of any upcoming events. If you're planning a conference or event and are thinking about having The Cat Walker Hour on the program then head over to my website catwalkermediation.com. You can download my speaker kit there and reach out to me directly.  This episode was brought to you by ⁠⁠Vetoquinol⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Vet Complaints Support⁠⁠. 

Here's the 14850 Happenings events calendar for the weekend of June 21st! This evening the Ageless Jazz Band at Hopshire Farm Brewery, City Limits at the BoatYard Grill, and Chickenwire Parachute at Scale House Brewery in Hector. The 86ers are playing at Garrett's in Trumansburg tonight, and Bob Roberts Calamity Band is at Cedarwood Event Venue. And a free preview Ithaca Reggae Fest show at Stewart Park. The Hangar Theatre's mainstage production Ride the Cyclone runs through Saturday the 29th. The Little Red Wagon Festival all afternoon Saturday at the Cedarwood Event Venue, and music all afternoon at the Ithaca Reggae Fest at Stewart Park. There's a Saturday late-night show featuring Double Tiger at Deep Dive. For your Sunday, the Freeville Farmers Market midday, and Sundays with Cisco at Garrett's Brewing. Tuesday, a Southern Old Time String Band Jam Session at Deep Dive. And Kommuna Lux brings their Odesa Urban Folk music tour to Ithaca with a Benefit for Ukraine at the First Unitarian Society. Wednesday, the Yardvarks kick off the Mill Park Music Series in Newfield. London McDaniel is at Salt Point Brewing. For your Thursday, Jamorick at Lucas Vineyards, the Yardvarks are at Six Mile Creek Winery, Ariel Arbisser and Destiny La Vibe at the Bernie Milton Pavilion, and a free screening of Attica followed by a panel discussion at Cinemapolis. And next Friday, the Comb Down at South Hill Cider, Group du Jour at the BoatYard Grill, the Junior Rich Band at Garrett's Brewing, and the free summer concert series on Cornell's Arts Quad kicks off with Paa Kow. Lots more details and more 14850 Happenings at 14850.com. Subscribe to the Ithaca Minute in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Play, TuneIn, Stitcher, or via RSS feed, follow 14850.com on Facebook and Twitter, or subscribe to the 14850 Magazine Daily newsletter.

Brett brings on Jake Newfield to talk about his new YouTube show, For the Sake of Argument. We learn a bit about Jake's story and his views on life, religion, politics, and the emotional understanding we desperately need in this world as we as humans pursue truth. ► Brett Johnson Show Instagram:   / thebrettjohnsonshow   ► Brett Johnson Show Facebook:   / the-brett-johnson-show-100086202897738   ► Criminal Thoughts Podcast:    / @criminalthoughtspodcast   ► Brett's Twitter: https://www.x.com/gollumfun Follow more of Brett: https://www.thebrettjohnsonshow.com Watch Brett Johnson on Lex Friedman:    • Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercr...   Watch Brett Johnson on the Jordan B Peterson Podcast:    • Dr. Peterson Interviews Former U.S. M...   ABOUT BRETT Brett Johnson. Former U.S. Most Wanted Cybercriminal. Now Good Guy. The United States Secret Service called Mr. Johnson "The Original Internet Godfather" for his role in refining modern financial cybercrime. Or to put it another way: Brett was convicted of 39 felonies, placed on the U.S. Most Wanted List, escaped from prison, and… he built the first organized cybercrime community, Shadowcrew was a precursor to today's darknet and darknet markets, and it laid the foundation for the way modern cybercrime channels operate today. Johnson was sentenced to 90 months in Federal Prison. End of story? Not hardly. Brett found redemption through his sister, his wife Michele, and finally the FBI. He was given the chance to turn his life around. He took it. Today, Brett is considered one of the leading authorities on cybercrime, identity theft, and cybersecurity on the planet. He works hard to protect businesses and consumers from the type of person he used to be.

A conversation with Veronica Olalla Love, the CEO of Newfield Network who shares her deep insights into the field of ontological coaching, a practice focused on understanding and improving how individuals show up in life. This approach emphasizes the importance of observing how one sees the world, which can unlock a host of possibilities and lead to profound self-exploration and transformation.Veronica discusses the holistic integration of somatics in coaching, which considers the body not just as a physical entity but as a repository of experiences, impacting how we engage with the world and ourselves. Olalla highlights the origins of Newfield Network, rooted in her family's experiences of political turmoil and displacement, which profoundly shapes their commitment to addressing human suffering and promoting wellness through coaching. This background informs Newfield's ethos of deep transformational learning and developing new ways of being that contribute to a fulfilling life. The episode is rich with discussions about the power of linguistic and emotional reorientation in coaching, advocating for a shift from action-oriented to being-oriented practices.

This month, Aaron pays a visit to Dan Weed's sugarhouse, located just over the hill from the Arnot Forest. Dan wears many hats, as owner and operator of Schoolyard Sugarbush in Newfield, NY, along with his wife Holly, as a CDL equipment dealer, and as President of the New York Maple Producers' Association. Learn more about Schoolyard Sugarbush: https://www.schoolyardsugarbush.org/ Learn more about the NYSMPA: https://nysmaple.com/ Episode Produced by Ailis Clyne. Music - Long and Low Cloud, Funk and Flash, both by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

“Going to the Mat” star Andy Lawrence joins Will and Sabrina as he takes a trip down memory lane about the film, growing up in the spotlight and more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christopher Newfield, Director of Research at the Independent Social Research Foundation in London and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Newfield is a leading scholar of Critical University Studies. He has recently published two books on the metrics of higher education: Metrics that Matter: Counting What's Really Important to College Students (2023) and The Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification (2022). In addition, Newfield wrote a trilogy of books on the university as an intellectual and social institution: Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880–1980 (2003); Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class (2008); and The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them (2016). He will give a talk titled: “Jobs and Universities: A Tale of Two Futures” on Thursday, March 7 at the University of Oregon as the Oregon Humanities Center's 2023–2024 Cressman Lecturer.

Here's the Ithaca Minute for December 13th. A teenager from Waverly died at the scene of a crash on West Danby Road in Newfield on Tuesday afternoon that left Route 34 closed for hours, and another teen, from Spencer, was airlifted to the hospital for treatment of serious injuries, according to a statement from the New York State Police. 17-year-old Peyton C. Shaw, was a passenger in a Toyota Yaris that rear-ended a Jeep Patriot that had “stopped for another vehicle that was in front of it making a turn” when both vehicles were being driven northbound on West Danby Road near Piper Road shortly before 1pm on Tuesday. The Waverly High School senior was pronounced dead at the scene. According to the State Police, after the Yaris hit the stopped Jeep, the vehicle “then went into on-coming traffic and was struck by a Cadillac CT6.” The driver of the Yaris, 18-year-old Dale T. Beeman of Spencer, was transported by Guthrie Air to Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre “to be treated for serious injuries,” the police said. The drivers of the other two vehicles were evaluated by EMS at the scene. A flurry of highway closure alerts on Tuesday morning from the 511NY system, which sends text messages or e-mails to subscribers when roads in their area are closed, was due to a glitch, says the New York State Office of Information Technology Services. And a fire early Sunday morning in the kitchen and living room areas of a home on Black Oak Road in the Town of Enfield left "significant damage" to the structure and displaced a resident, according to the Enfield Volunteer Fire Company. Subscribe to the Ithaca Minute in iTunes or Google Play, RadioPublic, TuneIn, Stitcher, or via RSS feed, follow 14850.com on Facebook and Twitter, or subscribe to the 14850 Magazine Daily newsletter.

Main fiction: "Nice For What?" by Dominica PhetteplaceDominica Phetteplace writes fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in Ecotone, Copper Nickel, PANK, The Los Angeles Review, Zyzzyva, Wigleaf, Best Microfiction and The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her honors include two Pushcart Prizes, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Steinbeck Fellowship and support from MacDowell, Tin House and Djerassi.This story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/Aug 2019.Narrated by: Mary MurphyMary is a New York based actor/voice-over artist. She loves the world of audio drama and is delighted to be back on board the StarShipSofa. She has performed in theatre, film, TV, animation, radio, and video games. A few of her recent credits include the one-woman play An Evening With Lola Montez, It's a Wonderful Life, a streamed performance of the piece Near Nellie Bly, Divination of The Three for Asheville Fringe, and the audio dramas Frontier Gentleman, Chinook, and Newfield. She can be heard voicing various characters for Disney, GoKidGo, LeapFrog, the Center For New American Media, Audible, and Audimance. She has also been a regular performer on the audio drama series Fireside Mystery Theatre, The NoSleep Podcast, The Wicked Library, To the Manor Borne By Robots, and Campfire Radio Theater. marymurphyonline.comFact: Looking Back At genre History by Amy H SturgisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

RKelly's lawsuits and clout chasing denying bitches. Tasha K has been paying prison guards for information leading the US Federal prison system as well as her controversial ass being sued. Well, she said she ain't got no money in the bank…so I guess celebrities can keep coming for her cause they ain't getting nothing so she's still ‘gon speak her mind with her truth

“We've got to use veterinary technicians. And here's what happens – I feel so good getting to help a pet owner and increase that pet owner-animal bond, and my veterinarian can go do doctor things! If you utilize your technicians more, you get to be a doctor more.” This episode is sponsored in part by Meow Cat Lounge, Doobert.com, and Maddie's Fund. In today's show, Stacy chats with Amy Newfiled, Certified Veterinary Technician (CVT), Veterinary Technician Specialist (VTS) in Emergency & Critical Care, author, and owner of the educational platform Veterinary Team Training. In this episode, Stacy and Amy talk about the field of veterinary medicine, and how the role of veterinary technicians in particular has grown and evolved since the 1990s. They talk about the key differences between veterinary technicians, specialists, and assistants, and what the general public should keep in mind when taking their animals to their veterinary care provider. They also discuss the many challenges veterinarians and practices are facing today, including the worst staffing shortages – from veterinarians to veterinary technicians, to front desk support – that Amy has seen in her career. They also talk about the capabilities of veterinary technicians, and the opportunities available to veterinarians who fully utilize their teams. Amy talks about her books in the Oops Management Series, Oops, I Became a Manager, and Oops, My Team is Toxic, aimed at helping managers and leaders in the veterinary profession build stronger leaders and create and maintain positive work cultures. The Oops Management Series currently includes three books, available to purchase on Amazon. Amy also tells us about Vet Team Training, and her work to help develop teams through practical and real-world techniques. The website offers free information and videos for anyone with a passion for animals, as well as RACE-accredited courses for veterinary technicians looking to continue their education. More information about Vet Team Training is available at www.vetteamtraining.com. More information about the CE courses offered by Vet Team Training is available here.

Ana Duggan (McMaster) and Tim Newfield (Georgetown) join the Infectious Historians to discuss smallpox. The conversation begins as always with a survey of what smallpox actually is as well as its broad history. After Ana and Tim share the reasons they chose to research smallpox, they move on to speak about recent research about historical smallpox, particularly through the study of the virus' ancient DNA samples. Ana and Tim also discuss the differences which make the study of smallpox more difficult compared to other pathogens, and reflect upon where the field might be heading, particularly in the context of the Antonine Plague.

[This episode is available on Video Podcast via YouTube] Talia Newfield is one of my flow-based business coaching clients & she is a self-love and fitness coach for women. In this episode, we talk about her journey as a brand new (and very young) entrepreneur. The experience for many new entrepreneurs is often challenging in many ways than one. Talia shares her journey towards balance and flow particularly struggling with the hustle mentality and the obsession to constantly move the needle forward because of self-inflicted pressure. This is a relatable & helpful episode for those of you who are new to the entrepreneurial journey or are still perhaps struggling to find your bearings when it comes to healthy and balanced entrepreneurship. Key topics: The consistent obsession with moving the needle forward What true self love and acceptance look like as a new entrepreneur Ways to start balancing feminine and masculine energies  Authenticity as the path to least resistance Creating results by slowing down How finding your flow really looks like amidst the never ending to-do lists Burnout and hustle is optional Defining what success means to you & leading a values led life If this episode resonated with you, screenshot, share & tag me on socials IG: @_nicolaaay. I always love hearing from you! Send me a DM with what hit home for you & let's chat! Subscribe to my channel on Youtube Follow me on TikTok _____________________________________________ Ways to work with me: ✨ [PRIVATE MENTORSHIP] Ready to dive into building your business with less hustle & more F L O W? Apply for my 6mo of private coaching with me in 2023.⁠ Click here.⁠ ✨ [WORKSHOP] Learn how to create & activate a powerful and practical vision board in this $17 workshop. Understand why & how vision creation works in a dynamic & immersive way. Download it ⁠here.⁠ ✨ [PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM] Join me inside this 8 week hybrid group mentorship program, EMBODY. This is all about helping you become the most confident version of yourself in all areas of life & unlocking your mindset to take back your power & create a life of possibility, not limitations⁠. Click here⁠ to find out more about the program that has helped women change their lives forever.  ✨ [FREE CONSULTATION] Not sure which one is for you? I can help you get clear on what the next best step is for you (no strings attached!) Click⁠ here⁠ ✨ [RETREAT] FIND OUT MORE ABOUT “THE SURRENDER EXPERIMENT” Bali Retreat 2024 ⁠here. ⁠

Many of us as Christians are familiar with the parable of the lost sheep in Matthew 18, where the shepherd leaves the 99 just to find the one. This is a story that resonates deeply with today's guest on The Stories Collective, Mike Lockwood. Mike was born and raised in the small town of Newfield, NY and his parents were divorced before he could even remember them being together. Growing up in a small town provided lots of opportunities to get in trouble (as Mike describes) and by the time he was in high school he felt like his reputation preceded him. He didn't have much of a faith background but after high school he and his friends began questioning what the purpose of life was. This led to Mike starting to attend church though it took a while for him to place his trust in Jesus. There was a girl at the church named Mindy who would sing special music and he felt almost immediately that this would be the woman he would marry. Mike and Mindy married in 2001 and moved to Iowa for Mike to start Bible college - they also found out they were pregnant with their daughter quickly into their marriage. Life was moving fast, and though they had developed Christian community Mike began to struggle in his faith. He felt that he didn't fit the mold and began to doubt that God could really work in his life. This led to a years long time of rebellion being in and out of his home and struggling to walk with the Lord. Years of some poor choices and alcohol addiction culminated in the fall of 2005. Mike experienced two instances where he could've and almost died. One experience being an accident and the other being a result of choices he had made. He had truly reached the bottom, and this is where God began to pick him up. Mike finally realized that God had never left him. The Shepherd had come to find the one that had left the 99. Though it was not an overnight change, Mike's life began to turn around. Listen in and be amazed as Mike walks us through how he came back to the Lord, how his marriage and family life was restored and so much more. The incredible and miraculous change that Jesus worked in Mike's life is undeniable. God never gives up on us and that is certainly evident in Mike's story. Mike's interview on The Now Life podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5zLkPqiTaKumOfiplrsoRZ?si=ea37bef2da114c7fReckless Love by Cory Asbury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc6SSHuZvQEMen's Summit October 2023: https://dscchurch.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/1780506Harvest Compassion Center: https://harvestcompassioncenter.orgResident Strangers podcast: https://www.dscchurch.com/resident-strangersWould you please subscribe and leave us a review? This will help our podcast reach more people! We'd love it if you'd share this podcast with your friends on social media and beyond. Join us next Wednesday to hear another story of God's faithfulness!

Positive teamwork is essential to run a successful business. Amy joins Megan to talk about different ways to handle difficult team members, what to do when your team is toxic, and how to keep your team happy in the long term.    Learn more about Amy Newfield: https://www.vetteamtraining.com/amy-newfield Learn more about Amy Newfield's books: https://www.vetteamtraining.com/buy-the-book Learn more about The Vet Rehab Summit: https://vetrehabsummit.com/ Learn more about Paw Prosper: https://pawprosper.com/ To learn about Onlinepethealth, watch a free webinar, or join any of our Facebook groups, click here: https://onlinepethealth.com/podcast

You might have wondered: do Hasidic Jews get shunned if they leave the faith? Does their family sit "shiva" for them -- meaning, does their Hasidic family consider them as if they are dead, and perform the rituals of mourning? In this long-form interview, I talk to Zalman Newfield. Zalman is a professor, researcher, and fellow exiter from Hasidism. For his research, he set out to answer the above questions and many others. Zalman interviewed 74 people who left the fold and his findings tell a complex, yet universal, story. He published his findings in his wonderful book 'Degrees of Separation - Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism'. In our talk, we cover many topics about the relationship with the community while leaving: from the challenges of maintaining a relationship with family in the community, to custody battles, to ways of holding on to parts of the past that are valuable. Zalman's work can be found on his website at https://zalmannewfield.com/ and you can buy his book on Amazon or directly from the publisher here: https://tupress.temple.edu/...If you enjoy this interview, like, subscribe and leave a comment with your thoughts.

Courtney Pullen is the President of the Pullen Consulting Group with more than 25 years of experience in individual and family coaching. In this revisited episode, Courtney joins us  to explain the importance of teaching financial literacy as early as possible to your children. He says that it would help if you were intentional when talking about wealth and finances with your family. Plus, Courtney explains how to pass on the proper values to your children around wealth. Tune in as we chat about grit, teachable money moments, and dealing with your own money issues.   IN THIS EPISODE: [01:50] When are kids ready to hear about how much money is in your family?   [04:20] You need to be intentional when it comes to talking about money.  [09:30] How wealth can hinder the process of instilling values to your children.  [12:30] We need to not deprive our children of the opportunity to earn.  [21:20] An example of how Courtney promotes grit into his children.    KEY TAKEAWAYS: You need to teach your kids financial literacy from a young age; the sooner, the better!  Let your kids make money mistakes; anything can be a great teachable moment. Define the purpose of your wealth; that way, you can pass on the proper values in your children.  Parents need to deal with their own money issues before teaching their children about money.  LINKS MENTIONED: Website www.PullenConsulting.com   LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtney-pullen-54a1035/ BIO: Courtney Pullen M.A. is the President of the Pullen Consulting Group.  He has more than 25 years of experience in individual and family coaching, business and management consulting, leadership development, communication, and team building.   Courtney received his graduate degree in Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado in 1983.  He was a Clinical Associate at the School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver.  Courtney also spent 17 years as a Senior Consultant with Conversant Solutions, a Communication and Collaboration Consulting firm to Fortune 100 Companies.    Courtney has lectured frequently, conducted numerous workshops, and been published in the areas of individual and organizational change, behavioral finance, communication, and family wealth dynamics.  He is a former contributing editor to the Journal of Financial Planning and the Journal of Practical Estate Planning and is a faculty member of the Sudden Money Institute.  He also holds Fellow status in the Purposeful Planning Institute and is a graduate of the Newfield coaching program.    He has spoken at regional and national conference of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), Investment Management Consultants Association, (IMCA), and Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), as well as estate planning symposiums and family foundation conferences.   His primary focus is as a consultant to financial services firms and affluent families.  He is the author of Intentional Wealth: How Families Build Legacies of Stewardship and Financial Health.  He is also on CPWA faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

It's Memorial Day Weekend, and this afternoon in Newfield volunteers will be placing flags at the graves of fallen service members at Woodlawn Cemetery and then Trumbulls Corners Cemetery. There's a 10am ceremony on Monday at Woodlawn. Cass Park is hosting its Family Friday roller skate night starting at 5:30. Some live music this evening includes the Tarps playing at Hopshire Farms, Pierce Walsh and the Makers at Finger Lakes Cider House, and Destination After Dark at Treleaven Wines, all starting at 6, and team 607 has a GLOW event at Deep Dive tonight. Cayuga Shoreline in Interlaken has a summer kick-off weekend noon to sunset this Saturday, Sunday, and Monday with DJs and food trucks all weekend, plus live music with NEO Project on Saturday night. Strong Maybe is playing Saturday at the Downstairs and Metasequoia is at the Range. Of course it's also Cornell Commencement weekend, so expect lots of traffic on east hill and around town. A peek ahead to next week, the Ithaca Festival Parade is Thursday night! Lots more 14850 Happenings at 14850.com. Subscribe to the Ithaca Minute in iTunes or Google Play, RadioPublic, TuneIn, Stitcher, or via RSS feed, follow 14850.com on Facebook and Twitter, or subscribe to the 14850 Magazine Daily newsletter.

Anesthesia Machine? Check ✅ Emergency Drugs? Check ✅ Checklists are an integral part of our daily lives in the vet clinic, increasing efficiency and safety. You may use them in you OR, but do you use them in your ER? Today Amy Newfield is here to talk to us about WHY checklists are the s**t and why we should be using them everywhere. Amy knows education. She has received speaker of the year awards, worked with translators in over four countries, has over 60 published printed works in eight countries and recently published her very own book. She is a self-described border collie. Resources mentioned in this episode: AAHA: https://www.aaha.org/publications/newstat/articles/2021-04/anesthesia-best-practices-prepare-compare-be-aware/ https://www.anesthesiallc.com/publications/blog/entry/checklists-as-important-as-ever-in-anesthesia-patient-safety M&M Article: https://www.kickassvets.com/blogs/blogMNMRounds.php https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0018578720931752?journalCode=hpxa Checklist Manifesto Book: https://amzn.to/3JEAXOG Amy's website: https://www.vetteamtraining.com/

Chances are, if you're a veterinary technician, you were asked for a “working interview” during the hiring process. This week, we've got a veterinary technician who cautions that not only may working interviews be illegal, but that may put interviewees at considerable risk. Viewfinders, you don't want to miss this one! Hosts Dr. Ernie Ward and Beckie Mossor, RVT, are joined by Amy Newfield, MS, CVT, VTS (ECC), owner of Veterinary Team Training. The trio talks about all things “working interview,” including what Amy considers a “working interview, how Dr. Ward's “working interviews differ from most, and Beckie's firsthand experience being asking “to prove her skills.” Viewfinders, there's a lot to process in this week's episode. We want to thank Amy for sharing her perspectives, experiences, and advocacy for veterinary technicians. If you'd like to learn more about Amy, visit her website at https://www.vetteamtraining.com/ #veterinary #veterinary #vettech #veterinarytechnician#veterinary #podcast

Molly Tanzer is the award-winning author of five novels, two collections, and many works of short fiction. She lives outside of Boulder, CO with her notorious cat, the Toad. Follow her on Instagram @molly_tanzer.This story originally appeared in Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, 2012.Narrated by: Mary MurphyMary is a New York based actor/voice-over artist. She loves the world of audio drama and is delighted to be back on board the StarShipSofa. She has performed in theatre, film, TV, animation, radio, and video games. A few of her recent credits include the one-woman play An Evening With Lola Montez, It's A Wonderful Life, a streamed performance of the piece Near Nellie Bly, Divination of The Three for Asheville Fringe, and the audio dramas Frontier Gentleman, Chinook, and Newfield. She can be heard voicing various characters for Disney, GoKidGo, LeapFrog, the Center For New American Media, Audible, and Audimance. She has also been a regular performer on the audio drama series Fireside Mystery Theatre, The NoSleep Podcast, The Wicked Library, To the Manor Borne By Robots, and Campfire Radio Theater. marymurphyonline.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to an episode with Ashish Kothari. In his book “Hardwired for Happiness” Ashish outlines an easy-to-follow recipe that can help anyone increase joy, health, love, and meaning in their lives. His transformational approach is secular, interdisciplinary and integrates learnings and best practices across the fields of science and spirituality. Get Ashish's new book here: https://amzn.to/3yyzfdh Ashish is an executive coach, author and founder of Happiness Squad, a company focused on helping individuals and organizations unleash the power of happiness and well-being to achieve their full potential. Ashish is a deep expert on happiness and human flourishing having read over 450 books and trained under masters across the disparate fields of spiritual wisdom traditions, psychology, and neuroscience. Prior to starting Happiness Squad, Ashish spent over 17 years at McKinsey and Co, a premier management consulting firm, supporting thousands of leaders and their organizations succeed through increasing their effectiveness, building more human-centric cultures, and developing new mindsets and capabilities at scale. He served as the co-dean for the Centered Leadership as well as Reenergizing organizations training programs at McKinsey and is a highly sought-after expert on leadership and well-being, both internally and externally. Ashish is a Newfield-certified ontological coach trained to help leaders overcome obstacles through the use of language, mood, and somatics to shift how they observe the world. He also has a Master's in Business administration (MBA) with a specialization in Organizational behavior from Chicago Booth and a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India. Ashish is married and lives with his wife Lizzie, son Ashwin and their dog Ms. Puggles in Boulder, Colorado. He serves on the advisory board of the CU Leeds business school. Get Ashish's book here: Hardwired for Happiness: 9 Proven Practices to Overcome Stress and Live Your Best Life. Ashish Kothari. https://amzn.to/3yyzfdh Enjoying this episode? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

What if we told you that billions of people around the world are walking around, but they are not truly awake? Are you one of them?Ashish and Anil will dive into this topic with today's guest, Veronica Love, who will share simple yet powerful tools, better than an alarm clock, that will wake you up. And once you're awake, you will be curious for more. Veronica is the global CEO of the Newfield Network, one of the world's leading transformational learning organizations. Their work in personal growth, coach training, professional development, and within organizations increase your reach and influence over your life and surroundings.Veronica holds a master's degree in acupuncture and is a professional certified coach. She's led Newfield's signature Coaching for Personal and Professional Mastery program for over 18 years in eight countries and in two languages. She has trained leaders, coaches from organizations including NASA, Google, Nike, IBM and more.Veronica powerfully integrates linguistic, emotional and somatic awareness to foster potent learning environments, equipping coaches and leaders with the capacity to generate transformative and sustainable change for their clients and organizations. Ashish himself is a testimonial of her work.In this new episode of the Happiness Squad podcast, Veronica will talk about two models that will allow you to develop your own self-awareness and will reveal some effective tips on how to unlock your potential and find real meaning.You will also find out what real happiness means for Veronica and what brings happiness in her life.You will learn more about the importance of self-awareness and why Veronica dedicated her life to helping people wake up.Veronica will talk about the three core levels of awareness and how you can develop the practice of self-awareness.Veronica will reveal an amazing story of personal transformation she encountered in her professional experience.She will also talk about Newfield Network's mission and practices, the difference between remaining asleep or setting aside the time to become aware and emotionally agile and so much moreListen now to learn a new way to rewire your brain fro happiness and fulfilment! Resources:Happinesssquad.com @MyHappinessSquad InstagramAshish Kothari LinkedInAnil Ramjiani LinkedInHappiness Squad Youtube ChannelNewfieldnetwork.com Book:Hardwired for Happiness: 9 Proven Practices to Overcome Stress and Live Your Best Life

On the eve of the largest annual gathering of literary scholars, the MLA convention in San Francisco, a discussion of this year's presidential theme, Working Conditions, with the MLA President. For more about this episode, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/WorkingConditions

Caffeinators, you love her memes. You love her podcasts. You love her books. You love that she calls you a unicorn. You love Amy Newfield, and so do we! This woman has a direct line to our funny bone, but more importantly, she is doing some amazing things in our field. SHE is THE unicorn. Just after our first episode with her in 2020, her first book, "Oops, I Became a Manager" came out. Now, in 2022, her second book, "Oops, My Team is Toxic" is available. Is there a third book on the horizon? Tune in to find out. The bottom line is, she leans on her experiences, her successes, and her failures in her books and is very real and authentic. If you haven't already, check out Vet Team Training and all that she is doing with it. AND!! She's gracious enough to let us give away two copies of BOTH of her books in conjunction with the release of this episode! Head over to our social channels for more info, but as per usual, download and listen to this episode today. This one is GOLD. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vettechcafe Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vettechcafepodcast Like and Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMDTKdfOaqSW0Mv3Uoi33qg Our website: https://www.vettechcafe.com/ Vet Tech Cafe Merch: https://www.vettechcafe.com/merch If you would like to help us cover our podcast expenses, we'd appreciate any support you give through Patreon. We do this podcast and our YouTube channel content to support the veterinary technicians out there and do not expect anything in return! We thank you for all you do.

Mark started his professional work life as a consultant with Accenture, where he helped clients for 14 years. He founded his advisory business in 2005, and in 2022 joined Journey Strategic wealth through a merger of his firm with Journey. Prior to graduating from university, he was an auto mechanic, was in the auto parts industry, and spent time as a retail store manager. Mark's focus has always been either providing advice or fixing things. What drives Mark is helping others reach their goals. Mark believes both financial freedom and fun can occur concurrently. You will find that he has an active (sometimes too active!) sense of humor. He's quite proud that his teammates Angela and Melissa have been with him for 14 and 12 years and will do everything possible to make sure Danielle stays “forever”, as well. He's a little nutty about college basketball, golf, and several other sports. In addition, he loves taking beach and golf trips with his family and is an avid reader. Mark holds an Accounting degree from Virginia Commonwealth University as well as the CFP® and RICP® designations. Thank you to @mathewpassy (on Twitter) for the show production. Please leave us a rating in your favorite podcast player! Show Notes: 6:00 - Mark's background 17:30 - Embrace your strengths and weaknesses 22:30 - Good moments coming from scary times 27:30 - Starting a business from a passion 29:00 - Building teams 34:00 - Mark's approach to advising 37:24 - Where Mark thinks we are relative to history 46:50 - The power of checks and balances 50:45 - Finding and retaining employees 58:30 - Thinking about planning for aging 1:10:00 - Why you need to get your Power of Attorney documents done! 1:13:00 - Talking to the older member of your family about the aging process

This is episode 1098 of the Arete Coach Podcast with Severin Sorensen and his guest Terrie Lupberger, MCC, she is an ICF Master Certified Coach, Executive Coach, senior instructor for coaching at the University of Miami, CEO of Terrie Lupberger and Associates, and former CEO for the Newfield Network USA. Terrie Lupberger is an MCC out of Boulder, Colorado. She combines her 20+ years of global leadership and management experience with her executive coaching and change-management expertise to bring forth the very best out of her coaching clients. She coaches her clients with an expansive body of knowledge, tools, and unique processes to better support them in navigating their challenges and generating greater impact. In her coaching, she utilizes her research into what makes change really stick, teams, emotional intelligence, conscious leadership principles, and quantum theory. Today she is the Program Director and Co-Facilitator of The Coach Partnership's Team Coaching Certification Program. She is also the Co-Facilitator of The Disruptive ChangeMaker, a virtual 3-month, online program for coaches, leaders, and other changemakers that brings quantum-based theory into business practice. Terrie also co-facilitates The Executive Sanctuary, a development program for nonprofit CEOs. Since 2013, Terrie has been a Senior Instructor at the University of Miami's certified Professional Coaching Program. Since 2010, Terrie has been the Director of Training with The Coach Partnership which offers the Newfield Coaching Program in Asia. Terry is the former CEO of Newfield Network USA. In the podcast, we explore Terrie's journey into executive coaching, lessons in life and some lessons learned in her coaching journey. From the safety of her first positon at the US Department of Treasury, to her transition into the helping and serving professions of coaching. She shares her experience learning coaching method first in Newfield, and then later learning journies into neuroscience and other fields. She shares her power questions and explores how she views 'the brilliance of coaching is a safe space to explore possibilities.' She shares her views on human beings being meaning makers, and the stories we tell to provide meaning, and how often 'its all made up.' She gives voice to the notion, 'do I need a story about this?' These musings and more can be found in this episode. The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io. This episode was recorded on September 29, 2022 via Zoom Video. Copyright © 2022 by Arete Coach™ LLC. All rights reserved.

Art Smith is the author of Something From Nothing: Joe B. Foster and the People Who Built Newfield Exploration and the president of Triple Double Advisors, a Houston-based energy consulting and investment firm. In this episode, Art, who has been researching and writing about the energy sector for four decades, talks about the oil industry's soaring profits, the long-term price of oil, and the companies he believes will perform the best in the years ahead. (Recorded August 2, 2022).

Main Fiction: "The Apiarist" by Cara HoffmanCara Hoffman is the author of three New York Times Editors' Choice Novels and a founding editor of The Anarchist Review of Books. Her latest book, Ruin, is published by PM Press. She lives in Athens, Greece.This story originally appeared in Ruin (PM Press, 2022).Narrated by: Mary MurphyMary is a New York based actor/voice-over artist. She loves the world of audio drama and is delighted to be back on board the StarShipSofa. She has performed in theatre, film, TV, animation, radio, and video games. A few of her recent credits include the one-woman play An Evening With Lola Montez, It's A Wonderful Life, a streamed performance of the piece Near Nellie Bly, and the audio dramas Frontier Gentleman, Chinook, and Newfield. She can be heard voicing various characters for Disney, GoKidGo, LeapFrog, the Center For New American Media, Audible, and Audimance. She has also been a regular performer on the audio drama series Fireside Mystery Theatre, The NoSleep Podcast, and many other audio venues.Fact: Looking Back At Genre Fiction by Amy H SturgisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's episode looks at “All You Need is Love”, the Our World TV special, and the career of the Beatles from April 1966 through August 1967. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a thirteen-minute bonus episode available, on "Rain" by the Beatles. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ NB for the first few hours this was up, there was a slight editing glitch. If you downloaded the old version and don't want to redownload the whole thing, just look in the transcript for "Other than fixing John's two flubbed" for the text of the two missing paragraphs. Errata I say "Come Together" was a B-side, but the single was actually a double A-side. Also, I say the Lennon interview by Maureen Cleave appeared in Detroit magazine. That's what my source (Steve Turner's book) says, but someone on Twitter says that rather than Detroit magazine it was the Detroit Free Press. Also at one point I say "the videos for 'Paperback Writer' and 'Penny Lane'". I meant to say "Rain" rather than "Penny Lane" there. Resources No Mixcloud this week due to the number of songs by the Beatles. I have read literally dozens of books on the Beatles, and used bits of information from many of them. All my Beatles episodes refer to: The Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn, All The Songs: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Release by Jean-Michel Guesdon, And The Band Begins To Play: The Definitive Guide To The Songs of The Beatles by Steve Lambley, The Beatles By Ear by Kevin Moore, Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald, and The Beatles Anthology. For this episode, I also referred to Last Interview by David Sheff, a longform interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono from shortly before Lennon's death; Many Years From Now by Barry Miles, an authorised biography of Paul McCartney; and Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey. Particularly useful this time was Steve Turner's book Beatles '66. I also used Turner's The Beatles: The Stories Behind the Songs 1967-1970. Johnny Rogan's Starmakers and Svengalis had some information on Epstein I hadn't seen anywhere else. Some information about the "Bigger than Jesus" scandal comes from Ward, B. (2012). “The ‘C' is for Christ”: Arthur Unger, Datebook Magazine and the Beatles. Popular Music and Society, 35(4), 541-560. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2011.608978 Information on Robert Stigwood comes from Mr Showbiz by Stephen Dando-Collins. And the quote at the end from Simon Napier-Bell is from You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, which is more entertaining than it is accurate, but is very entertaining. Sadly the only way to get the single mix of "All You Need is Love" is on this ludicrously-expensive out-of-print box set, but the stereo mix is easily available on Magical Mystery Tour. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript A quick note before I start the episode -- this episode deals, in part, with the deaths of three gay men -- one by murder, one by suicide, and one by an accidental overdose, all linked at least in part to societal homophobia. I will try to deal with this as tactfully as I can, but anyone who's upset by those things might want to read the transcript instead of listening to the episode. This is also a very, very, *very* long episode -- this is likely to be the longest episode I *ever* do of this podcast, so settle in. We're going to be here a while. I obviously don't know how long it's going to be while I'm still recording, but based on the word count of my script, probably in the region of three hours. You have been warned. In 1967 the actor Patrick McGoohan was tired. He had been working on the hit series Danger Man for many years -- Danger Man had originally run from 1960 through 1962, then had taken a break, and had come back, retooled, with longer episodes in 1964. That longer series was a big hit, both in the UK and in the US, where it was retitled Secret Agent and had a new theme tune written by PF Sloan and Steve Barri and recorded by Johnny Rivers: [Excerpt: Johnny Rivers, "Secret Agent Man"] But McGoohan was tired of playing John Drake, the agent, and announced he was going to quit the series. Instead, with the help of George Markstein, Danger Man's script editor, he created a totally new series, in which McGoohan would star, and which McGoohan would also write and direct key episodes of. This new series, The Prisoner, featured a spy who is only ever given the name Number Six, and who many fans -- though not McGoohan himself -- took to be the same character as John Drake. Number Six resigns from his job as a secret agent, and is kidnapped and taken to a place known only as The Village -- the series was filmed in Portmeirion, an unusual-looking town in Gwynnedd, in North Wales -- which is full of other ex-agents. There he is interrogated to try to find out why he has quit his job. It's never made clear whether the interrogators are his old employers or their enemies, and there's a certain suggestion that maybe there is no real distinction between the two sides, that they're both running the Village together. He spends the entire series trying to escape, but refuses to explain himself -- and there's some debate among viewers as to whether it's implied or not that part of the reason he doesn't explain himself is that he knows his interrogators wouldn't understand why he quit: [Excerpt: The Prisoner intro, from episode Once Upon a Time, ] Certainly that explanation would fit in with McGoohan's own personality. According to McGoohan, the final episode of The Prisoner was, at the time, the most watched TV show ever broadcast in the UK, as people tuned in to find out the identity of Number One, the person behind the Village, and to see if Number Six would break free. I don't think that's actually the case, but it's what McGoohan always claimed, and it was certainly a very popular series. I won't spoil the ending for those of you who haven't watched it -- it's a remarkable series -- but ultimately the series seems to decide that such questions don't matter and that even asking them is missing the point. It's a work that's open to multiple interpretations, and is left deliberately ambiguous, but one of the messages many people have taken away from it is that not only are we trapped by a society that oppresses us, we're also trapped by our own identities. You can run from the trap that society has placed you in, from other people's interpretations of your life, your work, and your motives, but you ultimately can't run from yourself, and any time you try to break out of a prison, you'll find yourself trapped in another prison of your own making. The most horrifying implication of the episode is that possibly even death itself won't be a release, and you will spend all eternity trying to escape from an identity you're trapped in. Viewers became so outraged, according to McGoohan, that he had to go into hiding for an extended period, and while his later claims that he never worked in Britain again are an exaggeration, it is true that for the remainder of his life he concentrated on doing work in the US instead, where he hadn't created such anger. That final episode of The Prisoner was also the only one to use a piece of contemporary pop music, in two crucial scenes: [Excerpt: The Prisoner, "Fall Out", "All You Need is Love"] Back in October 2020, we started what I thought would be a year-long look at the period from late 1962 through early 1967, but which has turned out for reasons beyond my control to take more like twenty months, with a song which was one of the last of the big pre-Beatles pop hits, though we looked at it after their first single, "Telstar" by the Tornadoes: [Excerpt: The Tornadoes, "Telstar"] There were many reasons for choosing that as one of the bookends for this fifty-episode chunk of the podcast -- you'll see many connections between that episode and this one if you listen to them back-to-back -- but among them was that it's a song inspired by the launch of the first ever communications satellite, and a sign of how the world was going to become smaller as the sixties went on. Of course, to start with communications satellites didn't do much in that regard -- they were expensive to use, and had limited bandwidth, and were only available during limited time windows, but symbolically they meant that for the first time ever, people could see and hear events thousands of miles away as they were happening. It's not a coincidence that Britain and France signed the agreement to develop Concorde, the first supersonic airliner, a month after the first Beatles single and four months after the Telstar satellite was launched. The world was becoming ever more interconnected -- people were travelling faster and further, getting news from other countries quicker, and there was more cultural conversation – and misunderstanding – between countries thousands of miles apart. The Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, the man who also coined the phrase “the medium is the message”, thought that this ever-faster connection would fundamentally change basic modes of thought in the Western world. McLuhan thought that technology made possible whole new modes of thought, and that just as the printing press had, in his view, caused Western liberalism and individualism, so these new electronic media would cause the rise of a new collective mode of thought. In 1962, the year of Concorde, Telstar, and “Love Me Do”, McLuhan wrote a book called The Gutenberg Galaxy, in which he said: “Instead of tending towards a vast Alexandrian library the world has become a computer, an electronic brain, exactly as an infantile piece of science fiction. And as our senses have gone outside us, Big Brother goes inside. So, unless aware of this dynamic, we shall at once move into a phase of panic terrors, exactly befitting a small world of tribal drums, total interdependence, and superimposed co-existence.… Terror is the normal state of any oral society, for in it everything affects everything all the time.…” He coined the term “the Global Village” to describe this new collectivism. The story we've seen over the last fifty episodes is one of a sort of cultural ping-pong between the USA and the UK, with innovations in American music inspiring British musicians, who in turn inspired American ones, whether that being the Beatles covering the Isley Brothers or the Rolling Stones doing a Bobby Womack song, or Paul Simon and Bob Dylan coming over to the UK and learning folk songs and guitar techniques from Martin Carthy. And increasingly we're going to see those influences spread to other countries, and influences coming *from* other countries. We've already seen one Jamaican artist, and the influence of Indian music has become very apparent. While the focus of this series is going to remain principally in the British Isles and North America, rock music was and is a worldwide phenomenon, and that's going to become increasingly a part of the story. And so in this episode we're going to look at a live performance -- well, mostly live -- that was seen by hundreds of millions of people all over the world as it happened, thanks to the magic of satellites: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "All You Need is Love"] When we left the Beatles, they had just finished recording "Tomorrow Never Knows", the most experimental track they had recorded up to that date, and if not the most experimental thing they *ever* recorded certainly in the top handful. But "Tomorrow Never Knows" was only the first track they recorded in the sessions for what would become arguably their greatest album, and certainly the one that currently has the most respect from critics. It's interesting to note that that album could have been very, very, different. When we think of Revolver now, we think of the innovative production of George Martin, and of Geoff Emerick and Ken Townshend's inventive ideas for pushing the sound of the equipment in Abbey Road studios, but until very late in the day the album was going to be recorded in the Stax studios in Memphis, with Steve Cropper producing -- whether George Martin would have been involved or not is something we don't even know. In 1965, the Rolling Stones had, as we've seen, started making records in the US, recording in LA and at the Chess studios in Chicago, and the Yardbirds had also been doing the same thing. Mick Jagger had become a convert to the idea of using American studios and working with American musicians, and he had constantly been telling Paul McCartney that the Beatles should do the same. Indeed, they'd put some feelers out in 1965 about the possibility of the group making an album with Holland, Dozier, and Holland in Detroit. Quite how this would have worked is hard to figure out -- Holland, Dozier, and Holland's skills were as songwriters, and in their work with a particular set of musicians -- so it's unsurprising that came to nothing. But recording at Stax was a different matter.  While Steve Cropper was a great songwriter in his own right, he was also adept at getting great sounds on covers of other people's material -- like on Otis Blue, the album he produced for Otis Redding in late 1965, which doesn't include a single Cropper original: [Excerpt: Otis Redding, "Satisfaction"] And the Beatles were very influenced by the records Stax were putting out, often namechecking Wilson Pickett in particular, and during the Rubber Soul sessions they had recorded a "Green Onions" soundalike track, imaginatively titled "12-Bar Original": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "12-Bar Original"] The idea of the group recording at Stax got far enough that they were actually booked in for two weeks starting the ninth of April, and there was even an offer from Elvis to let them stay at Graceland while they recorded, but then a couple of weeks earlier, the news leaked to the press, and Brian Epstein cancelled the booking. According to Cropper, Epstein talked about recording at the Atlantic studios in New York with him instead, but nothing went any further. It's hard to imagine what a Stax-based Beatles album would have been like, but even though it might have been a great album, it certainly wouldn't have been the Revolver we've come to know. Revolver is an unusual album in many ways, and one of the ways it's most distinct from the earlier Beatles albums is the dominance of keyboards. Both Lennon and McCartney had often written at the piano as well as the guitar -- McCartney more so than Lennon, but both had done so regularly -- but up to this point it had been normal for them to arrange the songs for guitars rather than keyboards, no matter how they'd started out. There had been the odd track where one of them, usually Lennon, would play a simple keyboard part, songs like "I'm Down" or "We Can Work it Out", but even those had been guitar records first and foremost. But on Revolver, that changed dramatically. There seems to have been a complex web of cause and effect here. Paul was becoming increasingly interested in moving his basslines away from simple walking basslines and root notes and the other staples of rock and roll basslines up to this point. As the sixties progressed, rock basslines were becoming ever more complex, and Tyler Mahan Coe has made a good case that this is largely down to innovations in production pioneered by Owen Bradley, and McCartney was certainly aware of Bradley's work -- he was a fan of Brenda Lee, who Bradley produced, for example. But the two influences that McCartney has mentioned most often in this regard are the busy, jazz-influenced, basslines that James Jamerson was playing at Motown: [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "It's the Same Old Song"] And the basslines that Brian Wilson was writing for various Wrecking Crew bassists to play for the Beach Boys: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)"] Just to be clear, McCartney didn't hear that particular track until partway through the recording of Revolver, when Bruce Johnston visited the UK and brought with him an advance copy of Pet Sounds, but Pet Sounds influenced the later part of Revolver's recording, and Wilson had already started his experiments in that direction with the group's 1965 work. It's much easier to write a song with this kind of bassline, one that's integral to the composition, on the piano than it is to write it on a guitar, as you can work out the bassline with your left hand while working out the chords and melody with your right, so the habit that McCartney had already developed of writing on the piano made this easier. But also, starting with the recording of "Paperback Writer", McCartney switched his style of working in the studio. Where up to this point it had been normal for him to play bass as part of the recording of the basic track, playing with the other Beatles, he now started to take advantage of multitracking to overdub his bass later, so he could spend extra time getting the bassline exactly right. McCartney lived closer to Abbey Road than the other three Beatles, and so could more easily get there early or stay late and tweak his parts. But if McCartney wasn't playing bass while the guitars and drums were being recorded, that meant he could play something else, and so increasingly he would play piano during the recording of the basic track. And that in turn would mean that there wouldn't always *be* a need for guitars on the track, because the harmonic support they would provide would be provided by the piano instead. This, as much as anything else, is the reason that Revolver sounds so radically different to any other Beatles album. Up to this point, with *very* rare exceptions like "Yesterday", every Beatles record, more or less, featured all four of the Beatles playing instruments. Now John and George weren't playing on "Good Day Sunshine" or "For No One", John wasn't playing on "Here, There, and Everywhere", "Eleanor Rigby" features no guitars or drums at all, and George's "Love You To" only features himself, plus a little tambourine from Ringo (Paul recorded a part for that one, but it doesn't seem to appear on the finished track). Of the three songwriting Beatles, the only one who at this point was consistently requiring the instrumental contributions of all the other band members was John, and even he did without Paul on "She Said, She Said", which by all accounts features either John or George on bass, after Paul had a rare bout of unprofessionalism and left the studio. Revolver is still an album made by a group -- and most of those tracks that don't feature John or George instrumentally still feature them vocally -- it's still a collaborative work in all the best ways. But it's no longer an album made by four people playing together in the same room at the same time. After starting work on "Tomorrow Never Knows", the next track they started work on was Paul's "Got to Get You Into My Life", but as it would turn out they would work on that song throughout most of the sessions for the album -- in a sign of how the group would increasingly work from this point on, Paul's song was subject to multiple re-recordings and tweakings in the studio, as he tinkered to try to make it perfect. The first recording to be completed for the album, though, was almost as much of a departure in its own way as "Tomorrow Never Knows" had been. George's song "Love You To" shows just how inspired he was by the music of Ravi Shankar, and how devoted he was to Indian music. While a few months earlier he had just about managed to pick out a simple melody on the sitar for "Norwegian Wood", by this point he was comfortable enough with Indian classical music that I've seen many, many sources claim that an outside session player is playing sitar on the track, though Anil Bhagwat, the tabla player on the track, always insisted that it was entirely Harrison's playing: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Love You To"] There is a *lot* of debate as to whether it's George playing on the track, and I feel a little uncomfortable making a definitive statement in either direction. On the one hand I find it hard to believe that Harrison got that good that quickly on an unfamiliar instrument, when we know he wasn't a naturally facile musician. All the stories we have about his work in the studio suggest that he had to work very hard on his guitar solos, and that he would frequently fluff them. As a technical guitarist, Harrison was only mediocre -- his value lay in his inventiveness, not in technical ability -- and he had been playing guitar for over a decade, but sitar only a few months. There's also some session documentation suggesting that an unknown sitar player was hired. On the other hand there's the testimony of Anil Bhagwat that Harrison played the part himself, and he has been very firm on the subject, saying "If you go on the Internet there are a lot of questions asked about "Love You To". They say 'It's not George playing the sitar'. I can tell you here and now -- 100 percent it was George on sitar throughout. There were no other musicians involved. It was just me and him." And several people who are more knowledgeable than myself about the instrument have suggested that the sitar part on the track is played the way that a rock guitarist would play rather than the way someone with more knowledge of Indian classical music would play -- there's a blues feeling to some of the bends that apparently no genuine Indian classical musician would naturally do. I would suggest that the best explanation is that there's a professional sitar player trying to replicate a part that Harrison had previously demonstrated, while Harrison was in turn trying his best to replicate the sound of Ravi Shankar's work. Certainly the instrumental section sounds far more fluent, and far more stylistically correct, than one would expect: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Love You To"] Where previous attempts at what got called "raga-rock" had taken a couple of surface features of Indian music -- some form of a drone, perhaps a modal scale -- and had generally used a guitar made to sound a little bit like a sitar, or had a sitar playing normal rock riffs, Harrison's song seems to be a genuine attempt to hybridise Indian ragas and rock music, combining the instrumentation, modes, and rhythmic complexity of someone like Ravi Shankar with lyrics that are seemingly inspired by Bob Dylan and a fairly conventional pop song structure (and a tiny bit of fuzz guitar). It's a record that could only be made by someone who properly understood both the Indian music he's emulating and the conventions of the Western pop song, and understood how those conventions could work together. Indeed, one thing I've rarely seen pointed out is how cleverly the album is sequenced, so that "Love You To" is followed by possibly the most conventional song on Revolver, "Here, There, and Everywhere", which was recorded towards the end of the sessions. Both songs share a distinctive feature not shared by the rest of the album, so the two songs can sound more of a pair than they otherwise would, retrospectively making "Love You To" seem more conventional than it is and "Here, There, and Everywhere" more unconventional -- both have as an introduction a separate piece of music that states some of the melodic themes of the rest of the song but isn't repeated later. In the case of "Love You To" it's the free-tempo bit at the beginning, characteristic of a lot of Indian music: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Love You To"] While in the case of "Here, There, and Everywhere" it's the part that mimics an older style of songwriting, a separate intro of the type that would have been called a verse when written by the Gershwins or Cole Porter, but of course in the intervening decades "verse" had come to mean something else, so we now no longer have a specific term for this kind of intro -- but as you can hear, it's doing very much the same thing as that "Love You To" intro: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Here, There, and Everywhere"] In the same day as the group completed "Love You To", overdubbing George's vocal and Ringo's tambourine, they also started work on a song that would show off a lot of the new techniques they had been working on in very different ways. Paul's "Paperback Writer" could indeed be seen as part of a loose trilogy with "Love You To" and "Tomorrow Never Knows", one song by each of the group's three songwriters exploring the idea of a song that's almost all on one chord. Both "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Love You To" are based on a drone with occasional hints towards moving to one other chord. In the case of "Paperback Writer", the entire song stays on a single chord until the title -- it's on a G7 throughout until the first use of the word "writer", when it quickly goes to a C for two bars. I'm afraid I'm going to have to sing to show you how little the chords actually change, because the riff disguises this lack of movement somewhat, but the melody is also far more horizontal than most of McCartney's, so this shouldn't sound too painful, I hope: [demonstrates] This is essentially the exact same thing that both "Love You To" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" do, and all three have very similarly structured rising and falling modal melodies. There's also a bit of "Paperback Writer" that seems to tie directly into "Love You To", but also points to a possible very non-Indian inspiration for part of "Love You To". The Beach Boys' single "Sloop John B" was released in the UK a couple of days after the sessions for "Paperback Writer" and "Love You To", but it had been released in the US a month before, and the Beatles all got copies of every record in the American top thirty shipped to them. McCartney and Harrison have specifically pointed to it as an influence on "Paperback Writer". "Sloop John B" has a section where all the instruments drop out and we're left with just the group's vocal harmonies: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Sloop John B"] And that seems to have been the inspiration behind the similar moment at a similar point in "Paperback Writer", which is used in place of a middle eight and also used for the song's intro: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Paperback Writer"] Which is very close to what Harrison does at the end of each verse of "Love You To", where the instruments drop out for him to sing a long melismatic syllable before coming back in: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Love You To"] Essentially, other than "Got to Get You Into My Life", which is an outlier and should not be counted, the first three songs attempted during the Revolver sessions are variations on a common theme, and it's a sign that no matter how different the results might  sound, the Beatles really were very much a group at this point, and were sharing ideas among themselves and developing those ideas in similar ways. "Paperback Writer" disguises what it's doing somewhat by having such a strong riff. Lennon referred to "Paperback Writer" as "son of 'Day Tripper'", and in terms of the Beatles' singles it's actually their third iteration of this riff idea, which they originally got from Bobby Parker's "Watch Your Step": [Excerpt: Bobby Parker, "Watch Your Step"] Which became the inspiration for "I Feel Fine": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I Feel Fine"] Which they varied for "Day Tripper": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Day Tripper"] And which then in turn got varied for "Paperback Writer": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Paperback Writer"] As well as compositional ideas, there are sonic ideas shared between "Paperback Writer", "Tomorrow Never Knows", and "Love You To", and which would be shared by the rest of the tracks the Beatles recorded in the first half of 1966. Since Geoff Emerick had become the group's principal engineer, they'd started paying more attention to how to get a fuller sound, and so Emerick had miced the tabla on "Love You To" much more closely than anyone would normally mic an instrument from classical music, creating a deep, thudding sound, and similarly he had changed the way they recorded the drums on "Tomorrow Never Knows", again giving a much fuller sound. But the group also wanted the kind of big bass sounds they'd loved on records coming out of America -- sounds that no British studio was getting, largely because it was believed that if you cut too loud a bass sound into a record it would make the needle jump out of the groove. The new engineering team of Geoff Emerick and Ken Scott, though, thought that it was likely you could keep the needle in the groove if you had a smoother frequency response. You could do that if you used a microphone with a larger diaphragm to record the bass, but how could you do that? Inspiration finally struck -- loudspeakers are actually the same thing as microphones wired the other way round, so if you wired up a loudspeaker as if it were a microphone you could get a *really big* speaker, place it in front of the bass amp, and get a much stronger bass sound. The experiment wasn't a total success -- the sound they got had to be processed quite extensively to get rid of room noise, and then compressed in order to further prevent the needle-jumping issue, and so it's a muddier, less defined, tone than they would have liked, but one thing that can't be denied is that "Paperback Writer"'s bass sound is much, much, louder than on any previous Beatles record: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Paperback Writer"] Almost every track the group recorded during the Revolver sessions involved all sorts of studio innovations, though rarely anything as truly revolutionary as the artificial double-tracking they'd used on "Tomorrow Never Knows", and which also appeared on "Paperback Writer" -- indeed, as "Paperback Writer" was released several months before Revolver, it became the first record released to use the technique. I could easily devote a good ten minutes to every track on Revolver, and to "Paperback Writer"s B-side, "Rain", but this is already shaping up to be an extraordinarily long episode and there's a lot of material to get through, so I'll break my usual pattern of devoting a Patreon bonus episode to something relatively obscure, and this week's bonus will be on "Rain" itself. "Paperback Writer", though, deserved the attention here even though it was not one of the group's more successful singles -- it did go to number one, but it didn't hit number one in the UK charts straight away, being kept off the top by "Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra for the first week: [Excerpt: Frank Sinatra, "Strangers in the Night"] Coincidentally, "Strangers in the Night" was co-written by Bert Kaempfert, the German musician who had produced the group's very first recording sessions with Tony Sheridan back in 1961. On the group's German tour in 1966 they met up with Kaempfert again, and John greeted him by singing the first couple of lines of the Sinatra record. The single was the lowest-selling Beatles single in the UK since "Love Me Do". In the US it only made number one for two non-consecutive weeks, with "Strangers in the Night" knocking it off for a week in between. Now, by literally any other band's standards, that's still a massive hit, and it was the Beatles' tenth UK number one in a row (or ninth, depending on which chart you use for "Please Please Me"), but it's a sign that the group were moving out of the first phase of total unequivocal dominance of the charts. It was a turning point in a lot of other ways as well. Up to this point, while the group had been experimenting with different lyrical subjects on album tracks, every single had lyrics about romantic relationships -- with the possible exception of "Help!", which was about Lennon's emotional state but written in such a way that it could be heard as a plea to a lover. But in the case of "Paperback Writer", McCartney was inspired by his Aunt Mill asking him "Why do you write songs about love all the time? Can you ever write about a horse or the summit conference or something interesting?" His response was to think "All right, Aunt Mill, I'll show you", and to come up with a lyric that was very much in the style of the social satires that bands like the Kinks were releasing at the time. People often miss the humour in the lyric for "Paperback Writer", but there's a huge amount of comedy in lyrics about someone writing to a publisher saying they'd written a book based on someone else's book, and one can only imagine the feeling of weary recognition in slush-pile readers throughout the world as they heard the enthusiastic "It's a thousand pages, give or take a few, I'll be writing more in a week or two. I can make it longer..." From this point on, the group wouldn't release a single that was unambiguously about a romantic relationship until "The Ballad of John and Yoko",  the last single released while the band were still together. "Paperback Writer" also saw the Beatles for the first time making a promotional film -- what we would now call a rock video -- rather than make personal appearances on TV shows. The film was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who the group would work with again in 1969, and shows Paul with a chipped front tooth -- he'd been in an accident while riding mopeds with his friend Tara Browne a few months earlier, and hadn't yet got round to having the tooth capped. When he did, the change in his teeth was one of the many bits of evidence used by conspiracy theorists to prove that the real Paul McCartney was dead and replaced by a lookalike. It also marks a change in who the most prominent Beatle on the group's A-sides was. Up to this point, Paul had had one solo lead on an A-side -- "Can't Buy Me Love" -- and everything else had been either a song with multiple vocalists like "Day Tripper" or "Love Me Do", or a song with a clear John lead like "Ticket to Ride" or "I Feel Fine". In the rest of their career, counting "Paperback Writer", the group would release nine new singles that hadn't already been included on an album. Of those nine singles, one was a double A-side with one John song and one Paul song, two had John songs on the A-side, and the other six were Paul. Where up to this point John had been "lead Beatle", for the rest of the sixties, Paul would be the group's driving force. Oddly, Paul got rather defensive about the record when asked about it in interviews after it failed to go straight to the top, saying "It's not our best single by any means, but we're very satisfied with it". But especially in its original mono mix it actually packs a powerful punch: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Paperback Writer"] When the "Paperback Writer" single was released, an unusual image was used in the advertising -- a photo of the Beatles dressed in butchers' smocks, covered in blood, with chunks of meat and the dismembered body parts of baby dolls lying around on them. The image was meant as part of a triptych parodying religious art -- the photo on the left was to be an image showing the four Beatles connected to a woman by an umbilical cord made of sausages, the middle panel was meant to be this image, but with halos added over the Beatles' heads, and the panel on the right was George hammering a nail into John's head, symbolising both crucifixion and that the group were real, physical, people, not just images to be worshipped -- these weren't imaginary nails, and they weren't imaginary people. The photographer Robert Whittaker later said: “I did a photograph of the Beatles covered in raw meat, dolls and false teeth. Putting meat, dolls and false teeth with The Beatles is essentially part of the same thing, the breakdown of what is regarded as normal. The actual conception for what I still call “Somnambulant Adventure” was Moses coming down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. He comes across people worshipping a golden calf. All over the world I'd watched people worshiping like idols, like gods, four Beatles. To me they were just stock standard normal people. But this emotion that fans poured on them made me wonder where Christianity was heading.” The image wasn't that controversial in the UK, when it was used to advertise "Paperback Writer", but in the US it was initially used for the cover of an album, Yesterday... And Today, which was made up of a few tracks that had been left off the US versions of the Rubber Soul and Help! albums, plus both sides of the "We Can Work It Out"/"Day Tripper" single, and three rough mixes of songs that had been recorded for Revolver -- "Doctor Robert", "And Your Bird Can Sing", and "I'm Only Sleeping", which was the song that sounded most different from the mixes that were finally released: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I'm Only Sleeping (Yesterday... and Today mix)"] Those three songs were all Lennon songs, which had the unfortunate effect that when the US version of Revolver was brought out later in the year, only two of the songs on the album were by Lennon, with six by McCartney and three by Harrison. Some have suggested that this was the motivation for the use of the butcher image on the cover of Yesterday... And Today -- saying it was the Beatles' protest against Capitol "butchering" their albums -- but in truth it was just that Capitol's art director chose the cover because he liked the image. Alan Livingston, the president of Capitol was not so sure, and called Brian Epstein to ask if the group would be OK with them using a different image. Epstein checked with John Lennon, but Lennon liked the image and so Epstein told Livingston the group insisted on them using that cover. Even though for the album cover the bloodstains on the butchers' smocks were airbrushed out, after Capitol had pressed up a million copies of the mono version of the album and two hundred thousand copies of the stereo version, and they'd sent out sixty thousand promo copies, they discovered that no record shops would stock the album with that cover. It cost Capitol more than two hundred thousand dollars to recall the album and replace the cover with a new one -- though while many of the covers were destroyed, others had the new cover, with a more acceptable photo of the group, pasted over them, and people have later carefully steamed off the sticker to reveal the original. This would not be the last time in 1966 that something that was intended as a statement on religion and the way people viewed the Beatles would cause the group trouble in America. In the middle of the recording sessions for Revolver, the group also made what turned out to be their last ever UK live performance in front of a paying audience. The group had played the NME Poll-Winners' Party every year since 1963, and they were always shows that featured all the biggest acts in the country at the time -- the 1966 show featured, as well as the Beatles and a bunch of smaller acts, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Yardbirds, Roy Orbison, Cliff Richard and the Shadows, the Seekers, the Small Faces, the Walker Brothers, and Dusty Springfield. Unfortunately, while these events were always filmed for TV broadcast, the Beatles' performance on the first of May wasn't filmed. There are various stories about what happened, but the crux appears to be a disagreement between Andrew Oldham and Brian Epstein, sparked by John Lennon. When the Beatles got to the show, they were upset to discover that they had to wait around before going on stage -- normally, the awards would all be presented at the end, after all the performances, but the Rolling Stones had asked that the Beatles not follow them directly, so after the Stones finished their set, there would be a break for the awards to be given out, and then the Beatles would play their set, in front of an audience that had been bored by twenty-five minutes of awards ceremony, rather than one that had been excited by all the bands that came before them. John Lennon was annoyed, and insisted that the Beatles were going to go on straight after the Rolling Stones -- he seems to have taken this as some sort of power play by the Stones and to have got his hackles up about it. He told Epstein to deal with the people from the NME. But the NME people said that they had a contract with Andrew Oldham, and they weren't going to break it. Oldham refused to change the terms of the contract. Lennon said that he wasn't going to go on stage if they didn't directly follow the Stones. Maurice Kinn, the publisher of the NME, told Epstein that he wasn't going to break the contract with Oldham, and that if the Beatles didn't appear on stage, he would get Jimmy Savile, who was compering the show, to go out on stage and tell the ten thousand fans in the audience that the Beatles were backstage refusing to appear. He would then sue NEMS for breach of contract *and* NEMS would be liable for any damage caused by the rioting that was sure to happen. Lennon screamed a lot of abuse at Kinn, and told him the group would never play one of their events again, but the group did go on stage -- but because they hadn't yet signed the agreement to allow their performance to be filmed, they refused to allow it to be recorded. Apparently Andrew Oldham took all this as a sign that Epstein was starting to lose control of the group. Also during May 1966 there were visits from musicians from other countries, continuing the cultural exchange that was increasingly influencing the Beatles' art. Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys came over to promote the group's new LP, Pet Sounds, which had been largely the work of Brian Wilson, who had retired from touring to concentrate on working in the studio. Johnston played the record for John and Paul, who listened to it twice, all the way through, in silence, in Johnston's hotel room: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows"] According to Johnston, after they'd listened through the album twice, they went over to a piano and started whispering to each other, picking out chords. Certainly the influence of Pet Sounds is very noticeable on songs like "Here, There, and Everywhere", written and recorded a few weeks after this meeting: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Here, There, and Everywhere"] That track, and the last track recorded for the album, "She Said She Said" were unusual in one very important respect -- they were recorded while the Beatles were no longer under contract to EMI Records. Their contract expired on the fifth of June, 1966, and they finished Revolver without it having been renewed -- it would be several months before their new contract was signed, and it's rather lucky for music lovers that Brian Epstein was the kind of manager who considered personal relationships and basic honour and decency more important than the legal niceties, unlike any other managers of the era, otherwise we would not have Revolver in the form we know it today. After the meeting with Johnston, but before the recording of those last couple of Revolver tracks, the Beatles also met up again with Bob Dylan, who was on a UK tour with a new, loud, band he was working with called The Hawks. While the Beatles and Dylan all admired each other, there was by this point a lot of wariness on both sides, especially between Lennon and Dylan, both of them very similar personality types and neither wanting to let their guard down around the other or appear unhip. There's a famous half-hour-long film sequence of Lennon and Dylan sharing a taxi, which is a fascinating, excruciating, example of two insecure but arrogant men both trying desperately to impress the other but also equally desperate not to let the other know that they want to impress them: [Excerpt: Dylan and Lennon taxi ride] The day that was filmed, Lennon and Harrison also went to see Dylan play at the Royal Albert Hall. This tour had been controversial, because Dylan's band were loud and raucous, and Dylan's fans in the UK still thought of him as a folk musician. At one gig, earlier on the tour, an audience member had famously yelled out "Judas!" -- (just on the tiny chance that any of my listeners don't know that, Judas was the disciple who betrayed Jesus to the authorities, leading to his crucifixion) -- and that show was for many years bootlegged as the "Royal Albert Hall" show, though in fact it was recorded at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. One of the *actual* Royal Albert Hall shows was released a few years ago -- the one the night before Lennon and Harrison saw Dylan: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone", Royal Albert Hall 1966] The show Lennon and Harrison saw would be Dylan's last for many years. Shortly after returning to the US, Dylan was in a motorbike accident, the details of which are still mysterious, and which some fans claim was faked altogether. The accident caused him to cancel all the concert dates he had booked, and devote himself to working in the studio for several years just like Brian Wilson. And from even further afield than America, Ravi Shankar came over to Britain, to work with his friend the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, on a duet album, West Meets East, that was an example in the classical world of the same kind of international cross-fertilisation that was happening in the pop world: [Excerpt: Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar, "Prabhati (based on Raga Gunkali)"] While he was in the UK, Shankar also performed at the Royal Festival Hall, and George Harrison went to the show. He'd seen Shankar live the year before, but this time he met up with him afterwards, and later said "He was the first person that impressed me in a way that was beyond just being a famous celebrity. Ravi was my link to the Vedic world. Ravi plugged me into the whole of reality. Elvis impressed me when I was a kid, and impressed me when I met him, but you couldn't later on go round to him and say 'Elvis, what's happening with the universe?'" After completing recording and mixing the as-yet-unnamed album, which had been by far the longest recording process of their career, and which still nearly sixty years later regularly tops polls of the best album of all time, the Beatles took a well-earned break. For a whole two days, at which point they flew off to Germany to do a three-day tour, on their way to Japan, where they were booked to play five shows at the Budokan. Unfortunately for the group, while they had no idea of this when they were booked to do the shows, many in Japan saw the Budokan as sacred ground, and they were the first ever Western group to play there. This led to numerous death threats and loud protests from far-right activists offended at the Beatles defiling their religious and nationalistic sensibilities. As a result, the police were on high alert -- so high that there were three thousand police in the audience for the shows, in a venue which only held ten thousand audience members. That's according to Mark Lewisohn's Complete Beatles Chronicle, though I have to say that the rather blurry footage of the audience in the video of those shows doesn't seem to show anything like those numbers. But frankly I'll take Lewisohn's word over that footage, as he's not someone to put out incorrect information. The threats to the group also meant that they had to be kept in their hotel rooms at all times except when actually performing, though they did make attempts to get out. At the press conference for the Tokyo shows, the group were also asked publicly for the first time their views on the war in Vietnam, and John replied "Well, we think about it every day, and we don't agree with it and we think that it's wrong. That's how much interest we take. That's all we can do about it... and say that we don't like it". I say they were asked publicly for the first time, because George had been asked about it for a series of interviews Maureen Cleave had done with the group a couple of months earlier, as we'll see in a bit, but nobody was paying attention to those interviews. Brian Epstein was upset that the question had gone to John. He had hoped that the inevitable Vietnam question would go to Paul, who he thought might be a bit more tactful. The last thing he needed was John Lennon saying something that would upset the Americans before their tour there a few weeks later. Luckily, people in America seemed to have better things to do than pay attention to John Lennon's opinions. The support acts for the Japanese shows included  several of the biggest names in Japanese rock music -- or "group sounds" as the genre was called there, Japanese people having realised that trying to say the phrase "rock and roll" would open them up to ridicule given that it had both "r" and "l" sounds in the phrase. The man who had coined the term "group sounds", Jackey Yoshikawa, was there with his group the Blue Comets, as was Isao Bito, who did a rather good cover version of Cliff Richard's "Dynamite": [Excerpt: Isao Bito, "Dynamite"] Bito, the Blue Comets, and the other two support acts, Yuya Uchida and the Blue Jeans, all got together to perform a specially written song, "Welcome Beatles": [Excerpt: "Welcome Beatles" ] But while the Japanese audience were enthusiastic, they were much less vocal about their enthusiasm than the audiences the Beatles were used to playing for. The group were used, of course, to playing in front of hordes of screaming teenagers who could not hear a single note, but because of the fear that a far-right terrorist would assassinate one of the group members, the police had imposed very, very, strict rules on the audience. Nobody in the audience was allowed to get out of their seat for any reason, and the police would clamp down very firmly on anyone who was too demonstrative. Because of that, the group could actually hear themselves, and they sounded sloppy as hell, especially on the newer material. Not that there was much of that. The only song they did from the Revolver sessions was "Paperback Writer", the new single, and while they did do a couple of tracks from Rubber Soul, those were under-rehearsed. As John said at the start of this tour, "I can't play any of Rubber Soul, it's so unrehearsed. The only time I played any of the numbers on it was when I recorded it. I forget about songs. They're only valid for a certain time." That's certainly borne out by the sound of their performances of Rubber Soul material at the Budokan: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "If I Needed Someone (live at the Budokan)"] It was while they were in Japan as well that they finally came up with the title for their new album. They'd been thinking of all sorts of ideas, like Abracadabra and Magic Circle, and tossing names around with increasing desperation for several days -- at one point they seem to have just started riffing on other groups' albums, and seem to have apparently seriously thought about naming the record in parodic tribute to their favourite artists -- suggestions included The Beatles On Safari, after the Beach Boys' Surfin' Safari (and possibly with a nod to their recent Pet Sounds album cover with animals, too), The Freewheelin' Beatles, after Dylan's second album, and my favourite, Ringo's suggestion After Geography, for the Rolling Stones' Aftermath. But eventually Paul came up with Revolver -- like Rubber Soul, a pun, in this case because the record itself revolves when on a turntable. Then it was off to the Philippines, and if the group thought Japan had been stressful, they had no idea what was coming. The trouble started in the Philippines from the moment they stepped off the plane, when they were bundled into a car without Neil Aspinall or Brian Epstein, and without their luggage, which was sent to customs. This was a problem in itself -- the group had got used to essentially being treated like diplomats, and to having their baggage let through customs without being searched, and so they'd started freely carrying various illicit substances with them. This would obviously be a problem -- but as it turned out, this was just to get a "customs charge" paid by Brian Epstein. But during their initial press conference the group were worried, given the hostility they'd faced from officialdom, that they were going to be arrested during the conference itself. They were asked what they would tell the Rolling Stones, who were going to be visiting the Philippines shortly after, and Lennon just said "We'll warn them". They also asked "is there a war on in the Philippines? Why is everybody armed?" At this time, the Philippines had a new leader, Ferdinand Marcos -- who is not to be confused with his son, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, also known as Bongbong Marcos, who just became President-Elect there last month. Marcos Sr was a dictatorial kleptocrat, one of the worst leaders of the latter half of the twentieth century, but that wasn't evident yet. He'd been elected only a few months earlier, and had presented himself as a Kennedy-like figure -- a young man who was also a war hero. He'd recently switched parties from the Liberal party to the right-wing Nacionalista Party, but wasn't yet being thought of as the monstrous dictator he later became. The person organising the Philippines shows had been ordered to get the Beatles to visit Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos at 11AM on the day of the show, but for some reason had instead put on their itinerary just the *suggestion* that the group should meet the Marcoses, and had put the time down as 3PM, and the Beatles chose to ignore that suggestion -- they'd refused to do that kind of government-official meet-and-greet ever since an incident in 1964 at the British Embassy in Washington where someone had cut off a bit of Ringo's hair. A military escort turned up at the group's hotel in the morning, to take them for their meeting. The group were all still in their rooms, and Brian Epstein was still eating breakfast and refused to disturb them, saying "Go back and tell the generals we're not coming." The group gave their performances as scheduled, but meanwhile there was outrage at the way the Beatles had refused to meet the Marcos family, who had brought hundreds of children -- friends of their own children, and relatives of top officials -- to a party to meet the group. Brian Epstein went on TV and tried to smooth things over, but the broadcast was interrupted by static and his message didn't get through to anyone. The next day, the group's security was taken away, as were the cars to take them to the airport. When they got to the airport, the escalators were turned off and the group were beaten up at the arrangement of the airport manager, who said in 1984 "I beat up the Beatles. I really thumped them. First I socked Epstein and he went down... then I socked Lennon and Ringo in the face. I was kicking them. They were pleading like frightened chickens. That's what happens when you insult the First Lady." Even on the plane there were further problems -- Brian Epstein and the group's road manager Mal Evans were both made to get off the plane to sort out supposed financial discrepancies, which led to them worrying that they were going to be arrested or worse -- Evans told the group to tell his wife he loved her as he left the plane. But eventually, they were able to leave, and after a brief layover in India -- which Ringo later said was the first time he felt he'd been somewhere truly foreign, as opposed to places like Germany or the USA which felt basically like home -- they got back to England: [Excerpt: "Ordinary passenger!"] When asked what they were going to do next, George replied “We're going to have a couple of weeks to recuperate before we go and get beaten up by the Americans,” The story of the "we're bigger than Jesus" controversy is one of the most widely misreported events in the lives of the Beatles, which is saying a great deal. One book that I've encountered, and one book only, Steve Turner's Beatles '66, tells the story of what actually happened, and even that book seems to miss some emphases. I've pieced what follows together from Turner's book and from an academic journal article I found which has some more detail. As far as I can tell, every single other book on the Beatles released up to this point bases their account of the story on an inaccurate press statement put out by Brian Epstein, not on the truth. Here's the story as it's generally told. John Lennon gave an interview to his friend, Maureen Cleave of the Evening Standard, during which he made some comments about how it was depressing that Christianity was losing relevance in the eyes of the public, and that the Beatles are more popular than Jesus, speaking casually because he was talking to a friend. That story was run in the Evening Standard more-or-less unnoticed, but then an American teen magazine picked up on the line about the Beatles being bigger than Jesus, reprinted chunks of the interview out of context and without the Beatles' knowledge or permission, as a way to stir up controversy, and there was an outcry, with people burning Beatles records and death threats from the Ku Klux Klan. That's... not exactly what happened. The first thing that you need to understand to know what happened is that Datebook wasn't a typical teen magazine. It *looked* just like a typical teen magazine, certainly, and much of its content was the kind of thing that you would get in Tiger Beat or any of the other magazines aimed at teenage girls -- the September 1966 issue was full of articles like "Life with the Walker Brothers... by their Road Manager", and interviews with the Dave Clark Five -- but it also had a long history of publishing material that was intended to make its readers think about social issues of the time, particularly Civil Rights. Arthur Unger, the magazine's editor and publisher, was a gay man in an interracial relationship, and while the subject of homosexuality was too taboo in the late fifties and sixties for him to have his magazine cover that, he did regularly include articles decrying segregation and calling for the girls reading the magazine to do their part on a personal level to stamp out racism. Datebook had regularly contained articles like one from 1963 talking about how segregation wasn't just a problem in the South, saying "If we are so ‘integrated' why must men in my own city of Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love, picket city hall because they are discriminated against when it comes to getting a job? And how come I am still unable to take my dark- complexioned friends to the same roller skating rink or swimming pool that I attend?” One of the writers for the magazine later said “We were much more than an entertainment magazine . . . . We tried to get kids involved in social issues . . . . It was a well-received magazine, recommended by libraries and schools, but during the Civil Rights period we did get pulled off a lot of stands in the South because of our views on integration” Art Unger, the editor and publisher, wasn't the only one pushing this liberal, integrationist, agenda. The managing editor at the time, Danny Fields, was another gay man who wanted to push the magazine even further than Unger, and who would later go on to manage the Stooges and the Ramones, being credited by some as being the single most important figure in punk rock's development, and being immortalised by the Ramones in their song "Danny Says": [Excerpt: The Ramones, "Danny Says"] So this was not a normal teen magazine, and that's certainly shown by the cover of the September 1966 issue, which as well as talking about the interviews with John Lennon and Paul McCartney inside, also advertised articles on Timothy Leary advising people to turn on, tune in, and drop out; an editorial about how interracial dating must be the next step after desegregation of schools, and a piece on "the ten adults you dig/hate the most" -- apparently the adult most teens dug in 1966 was Jackie Kennedy, the most hated was Barry Goldwater, and President Johnson, Billy Graham, and Martin Luther King appeared in the top ten on both lists. Now, in the early part of the year Maureen Cleave had done a whole series of articles on the Beatles -- double-page spreads on each band member, plus Brian Epstein, visiting them in their own homes (apart from Paul, who she met at a restaurant) and discussing their daily lives, their thoughts, and portraying them as rounded individuals. These articles are actually fascinating, because of something that everyone who met the Beatles in this period pointed out. When interviewed separately, all of them came across as thoughtful individuals, with their own opinions about all sorts of subjects, and their own tastes and senses of humour. But when two or more of them were together -- especially when John and Paul were interviewed together, but even in social situations, they would immediately revert to flip in-jokes and riffing on each other's statements, never revealing anything about themselves as individuals, but just going into Beatle mode -- simultaneously preserving the band's image, closing off outsiders, *and* making sure they didn't do or say anything that would get them mocked by the others. Cleave, as someone who actually took them all seriously, managed to get some very revealing information about all of them. In the article on Ringo, which is the most superficial -- one gets the impression that Cleave found him rather difficult to talk to when compared to the other, more verbally facile, band members -- she talked about how he had a lot of Wild West and military memorabilia, how he was a devoted family man and also devoted to his friends -- he had moved to the suburbs to be close to John and George, who already lived there. The most revealing quote about Ringo's personality was him saying "Of course that's the great thing about being married -- you have a house to sit in and company all the time. And you can still go to clubs, a bonus for being married. I love being a family man." While she looked at the other Beatles' tastes in literature in detail, she'd noted that the only books Ringo owned that weren't just for show were a few science fiction paperbacks, but that as he said "I'm not thick, it's just that I'm not educated. People can use words and I won't know what they mean. I say 'me' instead of 'my'." Ringo also didn't have a drum kit at home, saying he only played when he was on stage or in the studio, and that you couldn't practice on your own, you needed to play with other people. In the article on George, she talked about how he was learning the sitar,  and how he was thinking that it might be a good idea to go to India to study the sitar with Ravi Shankar for six months. She also talks about how during the interview, he played the guitar pretty much constantly, playing everything from songs from "Hello Dolly" to pieces by Bach to "the Trumpet Voluntary", by which she presumably means Clarke's "Prince of Denmark's March": [Excerpt: Jeremiah Clarke, "Prince of Denmark's March"] George was also the most outspoken on the subjects of politics, religion, and society, linking the ongoing war in Vietnam with the UK's reverence for the Second World War, saying "I think about it every day and it's wrong. Anything to do with war is wrong. They're all wrapped up in their Nelsons and their Churchills and their Montys -- always talking about war heroes. Look at All Our Yesterdays [a show on ITV that showed twenty-five-year-old newsreels] -- how we killed a few more Huns here and there. Makes me sick. They're the sort who are leaning on their walking sticks and telling us a few years in the army would do us good." He also had very strong words to say about religion, saying "I think religion falls flat on its face. All this 'love thy neighbour' but none of them are doing it. How can anybody get into the position of being Pope and accept all the glory and the money and the Mercedes-Benz and that? I could never be Pope until I'd sold my rich gates and my posh hat. I couldn't sit there with all that money on me and believe I was religious. Why can't we bring all this out in the open? Why is there all this stuff about blasphemy? If Christianity's as good as they say it is, it should stand up to a bit of discussion." Harrison also comes across as a very private person, saying "People keep saying, ‘We made you what you are,' well, I made Mr. Hovis what he is and I don't go round crawling over his gates and smashing up the wall round his house." (Hovis is a British company that makes bread and wholegrain flour). But more than anything else he comes across as an instinctive anti-authoritarian, being angry at bullying teachers, Popes, and Prime Ministers. McCartney's profile has him as the most self-consciously arty -- he talks about the plays of Alfred Jarry and the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio: [Excerpt: Luciano Berio, "Momenti (for magnetic tape)"] Though he was very worried that he might be sounding a little too pretentious, saying “I don't want to sound like Jonathan Miller going on" --