Podcasts about Nowhere Man

Horror > Are your friends real or imaginary? Are you sure? Probably best to prove it one way or another before you lose your mind.All parts played (badly) by the infamous Arbuthnot, who can be contacted via arbuthnotjones@outlook.com

Mitch Axelrod joins Jon Stone and I as we discuss the first CD of "Anthology 4" (aka: "The one with most of the new stuff").        Plenty of George Martin discussion, thoughts on "Nowhere Man" and "In My Life", along with the ultimate question - "What was up with George's guitar on [both the rehearsal and released] 'All You Need is Love'".   #madeonencastr.

Aldarion claims to ask for only two years, but takes a lot more; Alan and Sara ask for only two hours, and only take a little bit more. Join The Man of the West and the Shieldmaiden of Rohan as we begin to discover that maybe we should have asked for more than 10 episodes in the story of Aldarion and Erendis from Unfinished Tales. Ancalimë, the daughter of Aldarion and Erendis, is born just in time for Aldarion to let her down; the King's Heir proves to be as blind as he can be, just sees what he wants to see; and Núneth once again proves that motherly advice is not always good advice. We decide to stop long enough to smell the Oiolairë, note that guile is the last thing we want the Valar to send our children, and wonder if Aldarion just used the Númenórean version of “calm down, woman”. Also, we'd buy tickets to see Turuphanto in concert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Voor sommigen is hij Orphan X. Anderen kennen hem als de Nowhere Man. Nu is hij iemands Aartsvijand… Uitgegeven door Bruna Uitgevers B.V., A.W. Spreker: Ad Knippels

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9Support the show, a product of Hope Media: https://hope1032.com.au/donate/2211A-pod/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Season five of Expanse is a rollicking tale from the Great Sandy Desert. It's 1999, and a young American man is missing in the Australian outback. Police soon realise there's something very strange about this case — the man appears to have plunged into the desert on purpose, and seemingly doesn't want to be found.In season five of ABC's Expanse podcast, host Erin Parke investigates the strange saga, which spans three decades, two continents and a colourful cast of characters.At a time when so many of us feel lost, what's the most extreme thing you'd do to feel found?Follow Expanse on the ABC Listen app.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9Support the show, a product of Hope Media: https://hope1032.com.au/donate/2211A-pod/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ich hatte Stefan zu Gast um über die Serie "Nowhere Man" aus dem Jahr 1995 zu nerden. P.s. Ich bitte das stellenweise Rauschen zu entschuldigen.

Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot pay tribute to the late musical genius Brian Wilson, who died at age 82. They'll discuss Wilson's transcendent music, including doing a deep dive on his masterpiece, Pet Sounds.Join our Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/3sivr9TBecome a member on Patreon: https://bit.ly/3slWZvcSign up for our newsletter: https://bit.ly/3eEvRnGMake a donation via PayPal: https://bit.ly/3dmt9lUSend us a Voice Memo: Desktop: bit.ly/2RyD5Ah Mobile: sayhi.chat/soundops Featured Songs:The Beach Boys, "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times," Pet Sounds, Capitol, 1966The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967The Beach Boys, "In My Room," Surfer Girl, Capitol, 1963The Beach Boys, "Lonely Sea," Surfin' USA, Capitol, 1963The Beach Boys, "Don't Worry Baby," Shut Down Volume 2, Capitol, 1964The Beach Boys, "Surf's Up," Surf's Up, Brother/Reprise, 1971The Beach Boys, "Still I Dream of It (Original Home Demo, 1976)," Good Vibrations:Thirty Years of the Beach Boys, Capitol, 1993The Beach Boys, "Sloop John B," Pet Sounds, Capitol, 1966The Four Freshman, "I Remember You," Four Freshmen and 5 Trombones, Capitol, 1955The Gamblers, "LSD-25," Moon Dawg!/LSD-25, World Pacific, 1960The Beach Boys, "I'm Waiting for the Day," Pet Sounds, Capitol, 1966The Beach Boys, "Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)," Pet Sounds, Capitol, 1966The Beach Boys, "Let's Go Away for Awhile," Pet Sounds, Capitol, 1966The Beach Boys, "Caroline No," Pet Sounds, Capitol, 1966The Beach Boys, "You Still Believe in Me," Pet Sounds, Capitol, 1966The Beach Boys, "Pet Sounds," Pet Sounds, Capitol, 1966The Beach Boys, "Hang On to Your Ego," Pet Sounds, Capitol, 1966The Beach Boys, "That's Not Me," Pet Sounds, Capitol, 1966The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows," Pet Sounds, Capitol, 1966The Beach Boys, "Little Deuce Coupe," Pet Sounds, Capitol, 1966The Beatles, "Nowhere Man," Rubber Soul, Parlophone, 1965The Beatles, "She's Leaving Home," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967Horsegirl, "2468," Phonetics On and On, Matador, 2025See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nowhere Man, mind control, parapolitical thrillers, 1990s, The X-Files, Larry Hertzog, The Prisoner, Bruce Greenwood, Joel Surnow, gang stalking, identity erasure, deep fakes, surveillance state, Nowhere Man as prophetic, electroshock therapy, Artichoke Treatment, psychic driving, militias, Order of Nine Angles (O9A), digital Gladio, Sovereign Order of Saint John (SOSJ), private intelligence groups, FBI, political assassinations, doubles, extreme low frequency (ELF), UFOs, MILAB (military abductions), Colonia Dignidad, false memories, the importance of memories to identityMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/Additional Music: Ilsahttps://ilsa.bandcamp.com/album/preyer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's time for a minor-league Lennon "classic" this week as we stray into Nowhere, Man (cough). Does the song deserve its high reputation? Is it fair to call it entry-level Beatles? And does it have the weight that's often attributed to it?   Rankings: Track-by-track Ranking eMail: beatlesstuffology@gmail.com Twitter: @beatles_ology Instagram: beatlesstuffology JG's Blog: Judgementally Reviews… Andrew's Blog: Stuffology   Produced By: JG McQuarrie

A Gab Four spectacular!    Jon Stone, Lonnie Pena, Martin Quibell and I gathered to talk about the characters and stories in Beatles songs.     They started with covers of folks like Long Tall Sally, and this episode takes us through Rubber Soul, where the band gives us Michelle, the Nowhere Man, and asks about the possibility of exchanging golden rings in favor of getting behind the wheel to "Drive My Car!"

Richtig gelesen. Auf Michelle Zauners viertem Album «For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)» singt doch tatsächlich Schauspieler Jeff Bridges («The Big Lebowski») mit. Tiefe Reibeisen-Stimme trifft auf zarten Indie-Pop. Passt das? +++ PLAYLIST +++ · 22:54 – TREAT MODE von AVALON EMERSON · 22:49 – HUMAN NATURE von DESIRE · 22:45 – DIGITAL LOVE von DAFT PUNK · 22:40 – TARDIS von GREENTEA PENG · 22:34 – NOWHERE MAN von GREENTEA PENG · 22:31 – FAMILY AFFAIR von SLY & THE FAMILY STONE · 22:28 – WOES OF THE WORLD von SABA & NO I.D. · 22:23 – CRASH von SABA & NO I.D. FEAT. RAPHAEL SAADIQ & KELLY ROWLAND · 22:19 – I LOVE YOU von KT GORIQUE & RIGA · 22:13 – SINGULIER von KT GORIQUE · 22:10 – MERLOT & GRIGIO von YAYA BEY FEAT. FATHER PHILIS · 21:55 – BRUISED LUNG von SUPERCHUNK FEAT. ROSALI · 21:51 – RUNNING/PLANNING von CMAT · 21:46 – DOWN ON THE FREEWAY von LAEL NEALE · 21:41 – AGE OF CONSENT von NEW ORDER · 21:37 – CLEAN HEART von PERFUME GENIUS · 21:33 – QUEEN von PERFUME GENIUS · 21:30 – REDONDO BEACH von PATTI SMITH · 21:23 – VILLAIN von ANNAHSTASIA · 21:21 – IF NOT NOW, IT'S SOON von SELF ESTEEM · 21:15 – I DO THIS ALL THE TIME von SELF ESTEEM · 21:12 – STAY von SEA LEMON · 21:08 – GHOSTS & ALIENS von CLAIRE MY FLAIR · 21:05 – APPEAR DISAPPEAR von THE YOUNG GODS · 20:56 – FLIGHT SIMULATOR von PRUNE CARMEN DIAZ · 20:53 – LEMME KNOW von MY MORNING JACKET · 20:48 – BEGINNING FROM THE ENDING von MY MORNING JACKET · 20:41 – MAHGEETAH von MY MORNING JACKET · 20:37 – COUNTRY HOUSE von BLUR · 20:33 – MEN IN BARS von JAPANESE BREAKFAST FEAT. JEFF BRIDGES · 20:30 – PICTURE WINDOW von JAPANESE BREAKFAST · 20:25 – HONEY WATER von JAPANESE BREAKFAST · 20:22 – MEGA CIRCUIT von JAPANESE BREAKFAST · 20:18 – BE SWEET von JAPANESE BREAKFAST · 20:15 – MY LOVE MINE ALL MINE von MITSKI · 20:11 – THIS BOY IS TOCOTRONIC von TOCOTRONIC · 20:07 – ELECTRIC GUITAR von TOCOTRONIC

Send us a textA group of friends become convinced they are not alone after moving into a new Rough House in the suburbs. When the original owners return, all hell breaks loose! On Episode 658 of Trick or Treat Radio we have a return engagement a long time in the making as we meet up with the Rough House Publishing boys to find out what they've been cooking up. We also discuss the film Presence from director Steven Soderbergh! There is much reminiscing, shenanigans, and plenty of uncrustables humor! So grab your camera with the 14mm lens, a medical grade vomit bag, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: BUFF, Boston Underground Film Festival, Reanimator 4K Remaster, Gabe Bartolos, Rough House Publishing, Derek Rook, Steve Van Samson, Gore Shriek Resurrectus Vol 3, Tom Skulan, Mike Wasion, Silver Scream, Mark Bloodworth, weird westerns, The Nowhere Man, Ravenous, Randy Carter Dies A Lot, FantaCo, Slaygoth, Lucio Fulci's Zombie, Scare-A-Con, Jack-o-Lantern breasts, hottest Quint ever, Corpse Monger, This Slaughterhouse Earth, Marz Attacks, Slaughtered Kingdom, Death Mask, Newbury Comics, Bull Moose, Strawberries, The Brady Bunch, That's Entertainment, Capital Toy, Turning Page, Faust, Dead World, Garbage Pail Kids, Fangoria, Satanic Panic, 18” singing Rob Zombie doll, Trollenberg, The Dead Omnibus, Redneck Zombies, Clutch of Personalities Podcast, oil painting of uncrustables, Forbidden Planet, John Carpenter, The Real Ghostbusters, Retro Ridoctopus, The Crow, Throbbos, Dead of Winter Film Fest, Slanging and Banging, O.J. Samson, MZ the booth babe, Cinema Box, Prevue Network, The 4k77 Project, Steven Soderbergh, Presence, Lucy Liu, David Cronenberg, Knock Knock, Eli Roth, House Humpers on the brain, Done and Doner, Companion, Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, The Passion of the Christ, Black Dynamite, Cedric Yarbrough, Too Many Cooks, Robot Chicken, 12 Oz. Mouse, Aluminum Falcon, and A-Thrilla The Hun.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TrickOrTreatRadioInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show

Spartacus is a figure who floats between history and allegory. Read by Helen Lloyd. Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit. Image: Promotional poster for the film, Spartacus. 1960. Credit: Allstar Picture Library Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

People have been saying for decades that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was secretly replaced by a look-alike, but what really keeps the theory alive are the eerie clues hidden in Beatles songs and album covers.Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicateInfo on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScreamInfo on the next WEIRDO WATCH PARTY event. https://weirddarkness.com/TVIN THIS EPISODE: It's one of the strangest conspiracy theories ever created by mortal man. Was Beatles legend Paul McCartney killed in 1966 and replaced with a look-alike? We look at the evidence for and against this bizarre rumor. SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…Episode Page at WeirdDarkness.com: https://weirddarkness.com/NowhereMan“Nowhere Man: The Paul McCartney Death Conspiracy” posted at The UnRedacted:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paulisdead=====(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.=====Originally aired: November, 2018TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckj5j6m

Watch the video version HERE!:  https://youtu.be/C8aCNTUmLbE A Real Nowhere Man by The Better Neversis based on the original idea of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and The Beatles in their 1965 hit single Nowhere Man and embellished by the pessimist philosophy of David Benatar that takes Lennon's notion of futility a step further. Original music and lyrics John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Original arrangement The Beatles. This version's lyrics by Matti Häyry, inspired by David Benatar's seminal book Better Never to Have Been 2006, and performance by Matti Häyry. A REAL NOWHERE MAN Better never to have been This your parents didn’t see So they sent you down that road of misery Failed to grasp asymmetry Thought too much of quality Couldn’t see that all they had was fantasy Sleep is good, calm is better (No life) But the best would be never (All right) To have been brought into this sadness at all They were blind as they could be With their dreams of harmony Pollyanna be their guide to destiny Sleep is good, calm is better (No life) But the best would be never (All right) To have been brought into this badness at all Nonexistence, let me stay Can there be a brighter day? Without you and me and without anyone Sleep is good, calm is better (No life) But the best would be never (All right) To have been brought into this madness at all Better never to have been Quality, asymmetry Better never to have been at all Better never to have been at all Dedicated to Amanda Sukenick on her the-meaning-of-life-according-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy better-never-to-have-been anniversary. 

In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom discuss the web series Nowhere Man, and the graphic novel issues 136-144. Blog Post

In this conversation, my returning guest (see episodes 189 – 245 – 266) discusses his recent visit to Spain, where a belated Beatlemania is in full swing. He also offers his insights on the recent May Pang documentary, The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, as well as his take on David Whelan's investigation into John Lennon's … 286: Nowhere Man '24 with Robert Rosen  Read More »

The Beatles Made a Mistake - Mike Cohn It should be a comfort to each of us to know that we'll probably never make a mistake as big as the one The Beatles made during this week in 1966.Following the critical and sales success of the prior year's “Rubber Soul” album, the Beatles released a new album, “Yesterday and Today,” in June 1966. The album was released in the US and Canada and contained songs that had been withheld from North American versions of other Beatles albums.Musically, it's a solid album featuring “Drive My Car,” “Nowhere Man,” “We Can Work It Out,” “Day Tripper,” and of course “Yesterday.”Where The Beatles went wrong was in the choice of the album art. The cover photo shows all four Beatles wearing white butcher's frocks with decapitated baby dolls and pieces of raw meat in their laps.The photo is in incredibly bad taste even to the less sensitive standards of 1966.I'm sharing this because on this day in 1966, The Beatles admitted their mistake and replaced the cover.I think The Beatles' experience with this botched album cover decision holds four lessons.First, it's important to acknowledge that when a team is moving quickly, team members will make some mistakes. “Yesterday and Today” was The Beatles' twelfth album released in North America in four years.Second, when you make a mistake, be willing to admit it. The Beatles did not blame their label for picking the cover. In fact, band members insisted on the cover over the label's objection.The Beatles said the cover was meant to be a protest against the savagery of the Vietnam War. I've always been skeptical of that as it seemed like an after-the-fact justification, but I appreciate that they owned the mistake.Third, correct mistakes as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. The Beatles corrected their mistake by recalling all the albums and pasting a new cover on top of the original.A few savvy DJs and record store owners did not return all the albums. This created a lucrative collector's market in copies of “Yesterday and Today” with the original cover. I've seen some sell for nearly $40,000.Finally, after correcting the mistake, put the memory aside and move on. After the cover debacle of “Yesterday and Today,” The Beatles went on to make some of their greatest albums including “Revolver,” “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,” the white album, and “Abbey Road.”Mistakes happen. I make them. You make them. Your team makes them. Even The Beatles made mistakes.Let's acknowledge that mistakes will happen when moving quickly. Then, when we do make a mistake, let's own it, correct it, and move beyond it.It's quite possible, as it was for The Beatles, that your best work may follow your biggest mistake, How to connect with AgileDad: - [website] https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram] https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook] https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linkedin] https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/

Singles Going Around- Back To Mono Volume 7Mono records, recorded and transferred in mono. To be played loud!Buffalo Springfield- "Sit Down I Think I Love You"The Byrds- "Artificial Energy"Otis Redding- "Hard To Handle"Nat Stuckey- "What Am I Doing In L.A.?The Monkees- "I'll Be Back Up On My Feet"The Yardbirds- "Drinking Muddy Water"Ray Charles- "I Got A Woman"Love- "Orange Skies"The Beach Boys- "Girl Don't Tell Me"The Beatles- "Nowhere Man"Bo Diddley- "Who Do You Love"The Rolling Stones- "Get Off Of My Cloud"The Mar-Keys- "Mustang Sally"The Uniques- "Treat Her Right"Dr John- "Walk On Guilded Splinters"

Rafa Panadero y Javier del Pino hablan de músicos como Chubby Checker, Alice Cooper y Elvis Presley... junto al amigo secreto descubrimos los secretos detrás de la canción "Nowhere Man".

The last episode ended on the evening of December 3, 1965 when my father suffered a massive heart attack and died instantly during a nationally televised NBA game between the 76ers and the Boston Celtics. As I have mentioned previously, this podcast series examines the enormous evolution of consciousness that began to take place in the western world during the 1960s, as well as looking at what happened to me personally during those turbulent times, which led to my life-long commitment to the greater realization of human potential.    It also seeks to present you with some fundamental ideas that you might find useful as you grow through your own inner evolutions, which is something we all do, whether we're aware of it or not. That's just the way our intelligence works.   So, even though the events surrounding my father's death were extremely traumatic, this is not an autobiographical look back at them. Rather, I am going to describe some of the realizations I experienced that began to open a pathway to my own inner growth. Looking back, I can see that without having the slightest awareness of it, I had been living my life with two basic assumptions that I had been taking for granted. As naïve as they may sound, these assumptions were simple - everything was going to stay the same and I would live forever. Of course, I knew intellectually, as we all do, that that these ideas are ridiculous. In reality, everything here ends and everybody dies. But as we all must learn sooner or later, there is a vast difference between believing a theoretical concept of something and experiencing the actual reality of it. And that's especially true when it comes to death.   For me, the aspect of sudden death was a powerful and rather rude teacher. It felt like having to learn how to swim because the luxury cruise ship you had been traveling on suddenly sank. The next thing you know, you're in a freezing cold ocean and you notice a dark fin sticking out of the water that keeps circling around you. Of course, that's just a metaphor, but that's kind of what it felt like. But the death itself was also accompanied by an additional, mysterious factor. On top of the shock and grief, I had to ponder the series of cryptic omens that had preceded it that were particularly unnerving. As you may recall, along with several less intense events, I had experienced a jarring, recurring nightmare for three consecutive nights, followed by an incredibly vivid dream that my father had died. Then in the real world, the dream came true the following night, exactly the way I had dreamt it. In metaphysical terms, this is called a pre-cognitive dream, which is more of a prophecy than a premonition. So, under the surface, there was always this other element that I had to deal with, which was the uncanny experience that I had somehow foreseen the future. It had been incredibly strange and I had to ask myself – “How could that have happened? How could you have seen something in such detail the night before it happened? And, what does that say about time and the nature of life itself?” There was another deeply troubling aspect to the experience as well.  In real life, when I began living through the events of the dream, I knew exactly what was coming next and I wanted to change the events. But to my severe shock, I found that I had no control over anything whatsoever. The incredibly odd fact was that I had absolutely no volition. Nothing that I thought, felt, or decided made any difference at all. I was awake. This was real. But it was like I was walking through a movie that had already been made. I knew that nothing could be changed because somehow, I knew that the present had already happened in the past. It was all too overwhelming to even try to understand. Some years later, I came come across a profound quote from Einstein that seemed related. “The distinction between past, present and future is nothing but a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Of course, I found the idea fascinating, but in trying to grasp it, all I could come up was that my understanding of my life in the world was incomplete, and that there was a lot more that I needed to learn, to say the least.  It's like you're living your adult life learning your lessons and something unexpectedly alters your reality. Suddenly you feel like a preschooler enrolled in a babysitting club at an advanced university.  Everything had changed so fundamentally for me that I felt like I didn't know this world anymore. As boxer Mike Tyson once put it, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” And believe me, it was quite a heavy punch for this 16-year-old kid to take. At the foundation of it all, the basic impermanence that underlies all of life had become abundantly clear to me. My father had been an incredibly powerful person, the central figure not just in our family, but in the entire world around him as well. And in less than five seconds, he was gone for good. Vanished without a trace. So, it quickly drove home the fundamental impermanence of life. Nothing here lasts. Everything ends. Which brings up some deeper questions. Why does this creation even exist in the first place? What are we doing here? What is the real purpose of my life, if there even is one?” Suffice it to say that I eventually put all these thoughts and questions aside and got on with living the new version of life that had been presented to me. And it picked up pretty quickly. After all, I was in the middle of my junior year in high school and we are blessed with a tremendous amount of resiliency at that age. As soon as I began to return to my normal school life, a nice little coincidence happened for me. You may remember from a previous episode that my father had made me promise that I would say the Kaddish prayer for him after he died. I made that vow on a Saturday and eight days later, I said the prayer for the first time at his graveside. Amazingly, I had completely forgotten about that promise until those first words came out of my mouth that day in the cemetery.  I started attending the synagogue near our house twice a day and I had to get into the routine of getting ready to go there every morning and night. A new Beatles album had just come out and I got into the habit of listening to it as I prepared to leave. Like all their other albums, its songs took up permanent residency in my mind almost immediately upon hearing them.  The album was called “Rubber Soul” and it was quite a departure for the band. Many years later, once the Beatles had become history and were being studied from a cultural perspective, this album came to be viewed a major turning point in their career. Listening to it was giving me quite an emotional boost and one day, I heard a deejay say that the release date for Rubber Soul had been December 3, 1965, which was the exact day that my father died.  Now, all my life, I've been one of those people who are always on the lookout for “signs.” It's hard to explain exactly why, but if you happen to be one of them, you understand. Anyway, for me, this information meant that somehow, everything was in synch. As insanely disruptive as the death had been, on some level, it all made sense and in some way the universe was still in good working order. I might very well have been grasping at straws, but who cares? The fact that the dates were identical made me feel a little better. And no matter how small, I needed all the “feel better” I could get. Importantly, from the larger standpoint of the evolution of the times, the group had a distinctively new sound. Later this would be understood to be the very beginnings of psychedelic music, and the songs were mainly written and recorded while the band was under the steady influence of marijuana. If you listen to the song “Girl” you can hear someone inhaling a joint, and George Harrison once commented that the album was “the first one where we were fully-fledged potheads.”  But the songs had a new level of depth to them as well. Remember that Bob Dylan had once told the Beatles that he liked their songs, but the trouble was that they weren't about anything. John Lennon said that he took that comment in on a profound level, and when you listen to him sing “Nowhere Man,” it certainly sounds like it. “He's a real nowhere man. Sitting in his nowhere land. Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.” Those words immediately got me. At the time, it sounded like he was talking about everyone, myself included. He continued, “Doesn't have a point of view. Knows not where he's going to. Isn't he a bit like you and me. He's as blind as he can be. Just sees what he wants to see…” In the present day, the song is looked at as an absolute classic and we take it for granted, but back then, it was truly incredible to hear these kind of ideas expressed in a Beatles song. In another cut, “Norwegian Wood,” George Harrison played the sitar for the first time ever in western music, which was truly a sign of things to come. And finally, there was the song, “The Word.” It's a song about love, but it's not a standard love song because it's actually about universal love, which is a theme the Beatles would expound upon seriously over the next few years. “Say the word and you'll be free. Say the word and be like me. Say the word I'm thinking of. Have you heard the word is love? Now that I know what I feel must be right. I'm here to show everybody the light. Give the word a chance to say that the word is just the way.” So, at the end of 1965, big changes were underway. The Beatles had evolved into a new level of musical genius and don't forget, they were the leading force of cultural change in the entire word, so the larger world of popular music was changing in an enormous way as well. And as difficult as it had been for me, I had gone through the first truly major change in my life, and one of the key parts of it had been the fact that I had gone through an experience that had defied science and logic. But something even bigger was waiting for me just around the next corner. Let's take that up in the coming episode, so as always, keep your eyes, mind and heart open, and let's get together in the next one.

Singles Going Around- Loving CupGrabbed some new records for this new episode!Bo Diddley- "Road Runner" (Live)The Primitives- "The Ostrich"Lightnin' Slim- "Hoo Doo Blues"The Byrds- "Lover Of The Bayou"Huey "Piano" Smith- "Free, Single and Disengaged"The White Stripes- "Lafayette Blues"The Prime Movers- "I'm A Man"The Faces- "Too Bad"Love- "She Comes In Colors"The Rolling Stones- "She's A Rainbow"The Greatful Dead- "Box Of Rain"Muddy Waters- "Got My Mojo Workin'"The Velvet Underground- "I'm Waiting For The Man"The Beach Boys- "Breakaway" (45 Version)The Beatles- "Nowhere Man" (45 Version)The Rolling Stones- "Loving Cup"*All Selections taken from various Lp's and 45's.

It's one of the strangest conspiracy theories ever created by mortal man. Was Beatles legend Paul McCartney killed in 1966 and replaced with a look-alike? We look at the evidence for and against this bizarre rumor. SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…“Nowhere Man: The Paul McCartney Death Conspiracy” posted at The UnRedacted:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paulisdeadWeird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. = = = = =(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2024, Weird Darkness.= = = = =Originally aired: November, 2018CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/nowhere-man-paul-mccartney-changeling-conspiracy/

Heather and I are talking about feeling average. Most people that think they are averagePeople call themselves averageWhat are the benefits or drawbacks of thinking you are average Heather and I want to hear about you support your supervisees to see how they are exceptional. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychology-yesterday/202402/why-most-americans-believe-they-are-middle-class

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Yale educator and TV writer/producer, Aaron Tracy, returns to chat with me about surviving the WGA writer's strike, finally teaching the podcast at Yale, and his latest audio thriller on Audible, Nowhere Man, starring Lee Pace and Zosia Mamet. Aaron Tracy also teaches “The Art and Craft of Television Drama” at Yale University, and his TV credits include Law & Order: SVU, Fairly Legal, The Tap, and Sequestered, a serialized thriller that ran two seasons, for which he was Creator and Executive Producer.  He is also a Creator, Director,  and Exec. Producer of scripted audio dramas for iHeartRadio, Audible, and Spotify, with various production partners including: Supreme: The Battle For Roe, his 9-part audio drama starring Eva Longoria (feat. Maya Hawke and William H. Macy); Murder in Bermuda (feat. Mary-Louise Parker); and many others. His most recent is Nowhere Man (exclusively from Audible, premieres Thursday, December 14, 2023), a noir political thriller Executive Produced by and starring Lee Pace, with co-stars Zosia Mamet, and Chazz Palminteri. “Set in the mid-1980s, Nowhere Man is a dark, paranoid thriller about temptation and obsession through the prism of a profession most people don't even know exists.” Aaron's debut audio drama, The Coldest Case, a detective thriller starring Aaron Paul, Krysten Ritter, and Alexis Bledel, premiered as the #1 download on Audible in 2021, and has since become the most downloaded show in Audible Plus history. [Discover The Writer Files Extra: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at writerfiles.fm] [If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file Aaron Tracy and I discussed: Why he loves the ‘80s period pieces How his directing experience has shaped his writing Why he teaches the narrative podcast the same way he teaches Television Drama The two greatest innovations of the modern TV art form  What aspiring TV writers should be reading And a lot more! Show Notes: Yale University – Aaron Tracy Aaron Tracy Audible Page Amazon Author Page for William Goldman Story by Robert McKee [Amazon] Save the Cat by Blake Snyder [Amazon] Aaron Tracy on IMdB Aaron Tracy on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you in touch with the healing properties of your emotions? In this episode, the amazing Karen Lorre joins us to help us understand the intersection between emotions, healing, and meditation, how we can improve our lives through them, and awaken our minds' full potential so it can conspire with the universe in our favor. Karen is a True Mastery Coach, Writer, and actress who starred in One Life to Live, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Malcolm in the Middle, Nowhere Man, and The X-Files, to name just a few. She is also the Author of "Chronic Pleasure: Use the Law of Attraction to Transform Fatigue and Pain into Vibrant Energy," "Effortless Enchantment: A Memoir of Magic, Magnetism, and Enchantment," and "Chronic Pleasure in Relationships: Inspire the Best in Men."All her life, Karen felt this urge to understand how things work; she studied psychobiology (how the mind affects the body), the Science of Mind, and the Law of Attraction and has been meditating consistently for the last 15 years. In over a thousand hours of acting in TV shows and movies, Karen noticed her body reacted while playing different characters and even experienced physiological changes after months of "being" other people. We had a fantastic conversation about Karen's journey to becoming a True Mastery Coach, her self-healing techniques, and how, through meditation, self-improvement, and spiritual growth, she overcame mental health issues for which doctors didn't have an answer. We also talk about her books, the near-death experiences that changed her, how to use our emotions to enhance creativity, release our subconscious blocks, and much more. Tune in to episode 14 of RADitude and learn how to use the hidden power of your mind to start Liv-nRAD and Loving Contagiously. In This Episode, You Will Learn:Karen talks about her journey into becoming a True Mastery Coach (3:10)About Karen's first glance at the power of the mind (7:10)How Karen cured her narcolepsy (11:50)The Law of Attraction's transformative power (18:20)Karen talks about the power of appreciation and gratitude (28:50)Karen's guided meditation for World Peace (35:20)Connect with Karen:WebsiteLinkedInLet's connect!WebsiteContact UsLinkedInInstagramFacebookTwitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this exclusive series in partnership with Penguin Random House India, we will shine a spotlight on two compelling contemporary voices each month, individuals who are reshaping the landscape of Indian literature. In this special episode of Books & Beyond, Tara and Michelle converse with Aditi Kumar and Shivalik Bakshi as they take us on a tour of the Indian Army and give us an insider's view of defence families.Exploring the heartbreaking story of the forgotten men of the 1971 Indo-Pak war and the relentless search to get them back home, Shivalik Bakshi brings us the story of his own uncle, Capt Kamal Bakshi who was declared ‘Missing-Believed Killed' after the Battle of Chamb, in his book “Nowhere Man”. Aditi Kumar's novel “Operation Payback” is the story of a Veer Nari who decides to join the Indian Army to honour her husband's legacy, and delivers an audacious plan of action to deliver much-deserved payback not just for herself but for the entire nation. Tune in to hear heartfelt and never-before-heard stories about individuals who serve in the armed forces!Produced by Aishwarya Javalgekar‘Books and Beyond with Bound' is the podcast where Tara Khandelwal and Michelle D'costa uncover how their books reflect the realities of our lives and society today. Find out what drives India's finest authors: from personal experiences to jugaad research methods, insecurities to publishing journeys. Created by Bound, a storytelling company that helps you grow through stories. Follow us @boundindia on all social media platforms.

On this week's episode of Grease the Wheels, we title it after where we were last week, nowhere to be found! Sorry about that, we needed a week to get back to the grind. This brings us to the theme of today's episode, where we go deeper into some of the crazy stuff that is coming down the pike and the relative rate of advancement in the automotive industry over the last 20 years versus the previous 50. A “Nowhere Man” in this case is a technician who's skills and training cannot keep up with the rate of advancement, and are relegated to doing menial work like brakes and tires - and they're going to get paid like it. From rear wheel steering, to all of the firmware going live on Autonomous Driving V, to iMax screens in the back of the 7-Series. Whenever there is a significant skill gap, and the lower skilled technicians keep sopping up all of the gravy, this is automatically going to create tension in the shop. With the growing number of EV's this presents a new problem for “Nowhere Men”, because if you mess it up - you can die! Bottom line, the entire industry is getting more complicated by the day, so we all need to keep our training up and on top of the latest features that are breaking! Also Uncle Jimmy pitches the console Turkish Press and “Operation: EV-Training”This episode is distributed by The Wrenching Network. Whether you're a technician, a mechanic, or someone who just loves the car scene, The Wrenching Network is a place that you have to check out. They have all sorts of great content, gear, and snacks to keep you turning wrenches in whatever capacity you do it. Also if you see us over there, make sure you say hi and leave a comment with what you think about the episode! 

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The author of Nowhere Man (2000) returns for a conversation prompted by the book's recent re-publication, augmented with an array of new material and appendices. Robert will also be making a rare personal appearance in St Louis on October 4th in St. Louis – details here.  Among the subjects we talked about this time round were:  Robert's website … 266: Nowhere Man '23 with Robert Rosen Read More » The post 266: Nowhere Man '23 with Robert Rosen appeared first on .

On May 25th 2020, in Minneapolis, a black man named George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer named Derek Chauvin who put his knee on George Floyd's neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, thus asphyxiating him. That tragic event had an immediate global impact, sparking off demonstrations and riots, not just in the US but across the world. But who was George Floyd? Where did he come from? What was he like? What was his life? These questions are all addressed in the book co-authored by my guest today, Robert Samuels, and Tolu Olorunnipa called “His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life & Struggle for Racial Justice” which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non Fiction this year. It's a superbly researched book which provides a look at George Floyd's ancestry and how the trauma of slavery & discrimination is typically passed down in Black families in America. In today's interview, I ask Robert Samuels what the research was like given the raw emotions that must have been omnipresent. This is obviously a difficult subject, but one that must be discussed and this book certainly helps to open our eyes and instigate these important conversations.  Books mentioned in the episode: Favourite book I've never heard of: “Nowhere Man” by Aleksandar Hemon (2002) Favourite book of the last 12 months: “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak & Other Stories” by Jamil Kochai (2022) The book that he would take to a desert island: “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck The book that changed his mind: “Locking Up Our Own” by James Forman Jr. (2017) Buy Robert Samuels book: https://amzn.eu/d/jeix2UR Follow me ⁠⁠⁠@litwithcharles⁠⁠⁠ for more book reviews and recommendations!

It's The Night Before the Open Championship, and the LLG gang is ready to Get Back to it. It's been a busy couple of weeks in pro golf, and The Things We Said Today include a discussion of the return of Jay Monahan to his job as the nominal head of the PGA Tour. But the Nowhere Man has yet to be seen in Merseyside this week.Duffer, OTP Lefty, and JScore touch on the performance of The Fools on the (Capitol) Hill sent in Jay's place, Jimmy Dunne and and Ron Price. Dick Blumenthal's main line of inquiry: Tell Me Why the deal had to be with the Saudis. The obvious answer, of course, is Money (That's What They Want). Jimmy and Ron had little to say about the terms of the deal before the deal, other than We Can Work it Out later. The DOJ will certainly have its say about What Goes On, as will the Taxman when it comes to dealing with the 501(c)(6) issues.As for the Open, as usual, everybody's talking about Little Lord McIlroy, who's fresh off his win at the Scottish Open. But I've Got a Feeling you know what the gang thinks of Rory's chances of winning. Baby You're a Rich Man, but you won't be a winner at Hoylake, Not a Second Time. He and his many media fanboys will just have to Wait until next year, just like they've been doing for 8+ years now.The End. 

Our journey through the psychedelic dreamlands of Magicant continues! On the surface, this fantastic world is (mostly) sunshine and rainbows, but there's a deep, and literal, well of sorrow underneath. Meet the sad queen in her majestic palace, the friends who'll lay their lives on the line for you, and a man who doesn't exist - as Cat and Jess unpack the Jungian mysteries of this surprisingly dark chapter of Ninten's adventures. “MOTHER,” She Wrote mixes audio drama and talk podcast to chronicle the strangest, most thought-provoking, most heart-rending video games ever made: the MOTHER series, as it's called in Japan, and EarthBound as it's called everywhere else. This first season chronicles MOTHER (1989), known as EarthBound Beginnings in English-speaking countries. For links and transcriptions, head to https://mothershewrote.earth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New York Times bestselling author and screenwriter GREGG HURWITZ joins BOOKSTORM Podcast to discuss The Last Orphan, his latest thriller in the bestselling Orphan X series! We dive deep into the character of our beloved hero, Evan Smoak. He's referred to as The Nowhere Man now ... so what's driving the changes he's making? What does it mean to become more human? We talk about Evan's guiding principles and how he determines who needs a lethal dose of justice. Do his actions line up with his beliefs? Is there such a thing as good and bad? We talk about these and other deep (but somehow also entertaining!) subjects like vengeance, facing our monsters, and resilience. Gregg even gives us a hotline telephone number to call EVAN SMOAK! This interview is a do. not. miss! Join us!

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In this episode, Rich has a conversation with Robert Rosen.Robert Rosen is a successful author, editor, and writer. He is best known for his international bestseller, "Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon," which has been translated into many languages. His latest book, "A Brooklyn Memoir," is about growing up in Flatbush in the 1950s and 60s, surrounded by Holocaust survivors and WWII veterans who fought against the Nazis. Rosen's investigative memoir, "Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography," has received critical acclaim from various publications, including Vanity Fair and academic journals. Throughout his career, Rosen has edited pornographic magazines and an underground newspaper, written speeches for the Secretary of the Air Force, and received a Hugo Boss poetry prize. His work has been published in numerous international publications, including The Village Voice, Uncut, and La Repubblica. Rosen attended Erasmus Hall High School and the City College of New York, where he studied creative writing with Joseph Heller and Francine du Plessix Gray. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Mary Lyn Maiscott, who is also a writer, editor, and singer.Here are links for you to bookmark, save, follow, memorize, write down, and to share with others:Robert Rosen - Nowhere Man Available Everywhere Books A

Gary Rooney is a former rated fighter and has over 45 years of teaching experience. He is the founder of The Lab, a boxing gym based out of Eureka, CA. Gary is also a former actor with roles in Spyder, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown, Days of Our Lives, and Nowhere Man. For more information about The Lab, or to sign up for a class, find them on Facebook (@thelabeureka).

EPISODE 1446: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to author of THE WORLD AND ALL THAT IT HOLDS, Aleksandar Hemon, about Sarajevo, Jerusalem and the political power of "macaronic" language Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles. He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation, and the 2020 Dos Passos Prize. He lives in Chicago. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author, Gregg Hurwitz, spoke with me about why all writing is a process of self-discovery, how to humanize a trained assassin, and the latest Orphan X thriller, THE LAST ORPHAN. Gregg Hurwitz is an award-winning and internationally bestselling author of 23 thrillers including the ORPHAN X series. He has been published in 33 languages, and the Los Angeles Times called him “... a thriller giant."  He is also a NY Times bestselling comic book writer, having penned stories for AWA (Knighted and the critically acclaimed anthology NewThink), Marvel (Wolverine, Punisher) and DC (Batman, Penguin). His eighth Orphan X novel is The Last Orphan, the ongoing series featuring The Nowhere Man, “Evan Smoak, a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He's also a man with a dangerous past.” #1 NY Times bestselling author Meg Gardiner said of the book, "Just when I thought the Orphan X novels couldn't get any better, Gregg Hurwitz takes the series to an even higher level. The Last Orphan is pulse-pounding, heart-stopping, and thought-provoking.” Gregg Hurwitz has written screenplays and TV scripts for many of the major studios and networks, has published poetry, numerous academic articles on Shakespeare, and has taught fiction writing at USC. [Discover The Writer Files Extra: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at writerfiles.fm] [If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file Gregg Hurwitz and I discussed:  The reason he never took a creative writing class Why Orphan X is the culmination of his career Plot as character in motion How every writer's voice is as distinctive as a fingerprint Writing Batman vs Bruce Wayne and villains vs antagonists Grabbing a bourbon with William Faulkner And a lot more! Show Notes: GreggHurwitz.net The Last Orphan By Gregg Hurwitz (Amazon) Gregg Hurwitz Amazon Author Page Gregg Hurwitz on Facebook Gregg Hurwitz on Instagram Gregg Hurwitz on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we chat to multi-million New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, Gregg Hurwitz. He's written many screenplays, comic books, took charge of Batman, and is known for the 'Orphan X' series. The newest one, 'The Last Orphan', sees Evan Smoak, the Nowhere Man, on one last mission after he was taken from a group home as an orphan and trained as an assassin.We discuss how he made a plan at the start of his career, in order to make writing a regular job so it could last as long as possible. Also, you can hear how he's managed to get back to a state of pure writing, without any of the distractions that surround success. We chat about how even though he's written and published many books, he still gets stuck in the baggy middle like everyone else. Gregg runs through his extensive research, which has seen him jump from planes, train with Navy SEALS, and go under cover in mind control cults.Support the show at patreon.com/writersroutine@writerspodwritersroutine.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Help spread the darkness! Vote Up This Episode at https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mvjsnkbz – you can vote up to 3X per day! Find Weird Darkness in your favorite podcast app at https://weirddarkness.com/listen. PLEASE SHARE Weird Darkness with someone who loves paranormal stories, true crime, monsters, or unsolved mysteries like you do! Recommending Weird Darkness to others helps make it possible for me to keep doing the show!IN THIS EPISODE: It's one of the strangest conspiracy theories ever created by mortal man. Was Beatles legend Paul McCartney killed in 1966 and replaced with a look-alike? We look at the evidence for and against this bizarre rumor. SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…“Nowhere Man: The Paul McCartney Death Conspiracy” posted at The UnRedacted:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paulisdead= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. Background music provided by Alibi Music Library, EpidemicSound and/or StoryBlocks with paid license. Music from Shadows Symphony (https://tinyurl.com/yyrv987t), Midnight Syndicate (http://amzn.to/2BYCoXZ) Kevin MacLeod (https://tinyurl.com/y2v7fgbu), Tony Longworth (https://tinyurl.com/y2nhnbt7), and Nicolas Gasparini (https://tinyurl.com/lnqpfs8) is used with permission of the artists.= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46WeirdDarkness™ - is a production and trademark of Marlar House Productions. © 2023, Weird Darkness.= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.com/archives/14539

Aleksander Hemon's new novel, The World and All That it Holds starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, and then takes us from Bosnia, to Uzbekistan, to China and elsewhere, covering a convulsive period of history in which the technological advances, the political turbulence, and the displacement of people bear striking similarities to those of our own time. At it's heart, though—not exactly beneath the grand sweep, but entwined with it—is a love story between two men, Pinto and Osman, and a novel that never loses sight of the fact that within beneath History, there are humans living, humans loving, humans losing and, crucially, humans coming to understand the scale at which the decisions they make can count.Buy The World and All That it Holds: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/5273994/hemon-aleksandar-the-world-and-all-that-it-holds*Aleksandar Hemon was born in Sarajevo and lives in Chicago. He is the author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, Love and Obstacles, and The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work also appears regularly in the New Yorker and Granta, among other publications.Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel Feeding Time here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/7209940/biles-adam-feeding-timeListen to Alex Freiman's Play It Gentle here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, we had a lively interview with Gregg Hurwitz, the author of The Last Orphan,#8 in the Orphan X series by Gregg Hurwitz (Minotaur Books 2/14.23Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan, the latest New York Times bestselling Orphan Xthriller--when everything changes and everything is at risk.As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with theprogram and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that thegovernment would do anything to make sure never got out.When he remade himself as The Nowhere Man, dedicated to helping the most desperate intheir times of trouble, Evan found himself slowly back on the government's radar. Havingeliminated most of the Orphans in the program, the government will stop at nothing to eliminatethe threat they see in Evan. But Orphan X has always been several steps ahead of hispursuers.Until he makes one little mistake...Now the President has him in her control and offers Evan a deal - eliminate a rich, powerful manshe says is too dangerous to live and, in turn, she'll let Evan survive. But when Evan left theProgram he swore to only use his skills against those who really deserve it. Now he has todecide what's more important - his principles or his life.TRIVIALast Week's Question Was:Where did Dorothy L. Sayers get the names for her characters in “The Nine Tailors”a. graves in the cemeteryb. the neighborsc. school friendsd. the baptism role in churchShe grew up in the tiny village of Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire after her father was given theliving there as rector of Bluntisham-cum-Earith. The church graveyard next to the elegantRegency-style rectory features the surnames of several characters from her mystery The NineTailors.This week's question is:Gregg Hurwitz received the Harvard Undergraduate-Scholar Award for what?a. Chessb. Boxingc. Pole vaultd. Croquet

The Crew is back... and so is Evan Smoak! In this episode, the guys are joined by New York Times bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz to discuss his latest Orphan X thriller, THE LAST ORPHAN.  As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan Program. When he broke with the Program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure never got out. He remade himself as The Nowhere Man, dedicated to helping the most desperate when they have nowhere else to turn, which landed him back on the government's radar. Having eliminated most of the other living Orphans, the government will stop at nothing to end the threat they see in Evan. But Orphan X has always been several steps ahead of his pursuers. Until he makes one little mistake... Now the President has him in her control and offers Evan a deal — eliminate a rich, powerful man she says is too dangerous to live and, in turn, she'll let Evan survive. But when Evan left the Program he swore to only use his skills against those who really deserve it. Now he has to decide what's more important — his principles or his life. You can learn more by going to https://gregghurwitz.net/ _____________________________ Don't forget to subscribe to The Crew Reviews, hit the "like" button, and leave a comment or a review.  And if you want to learn more about the guys from The Crew or see additional author interviews, visit us at http://www.thecrewreviews.com Follow us on social media Twitter | @CREWbookreviews Instagram | @thecrewreviews Facebook | @thecrewreviews #GreggHurwitz #TheLastOrphan #TheCrewReviews

As we're in the period between Christmas and New Year, the gap between episodes is going to be longer than normal, and the podcast proper is going to be back on January the ninth. So nobody has to wait around for another fortnight for a new episode, I thought I'd upload some old Patreon bonus episodes to fill the gap. Every year around Christmas the bonus episodes I do tend to be on Christmas songs and so this week I'm uploading three of those. These are older episodes, so don't have the same production values as more recent episodes, and are also shorter than more recent bonuses, but I hope they're still worth listening to. Hello, and welcome to this week's second Patreon bonus episode. I'm recording this on December the twenty-third, so whether you hear this before Christmas is largely down to how quickly we can get the main episode edited and uploaded. Hopefully, this is going up on Christmas Eve and you're all feeling appropriately festive. Normally for the Patreon bonuses in the last week of December I choose a particularly Christmassy record from the time period we're covering in the main podcast -- usually a perennial Christmas hit like something off the Phil Spector Christmas album or the Elvis Christmas album. However, this year we're in the mid sixties, a period when none of the big hits of US or UK Christmas music were released, because it's after the peak of US Christmas music and before the peak of UK Christmas music. There were Christmas albums by people like James Brown, but they weren't major parts of the discography. So today, we're going to have a brief run-through of the Beatles' Christmas records. These were flexi-discs -- which for those of you who are too young to remember them were records pressed on very, very, thin, cheap plastic, which used to be attached to things like kids' comics or cereal boxes as promotional gimmicks -- sent out to members of the group's fan club. In a way, these were the Beatles' very own Patreon bonuses, sent out to fans and supporters, and not essential works, but hopefully interesting and fun. They very rarely had anything like a full song, being mostly made up of sketches and recorded messages, and other than a limited-edition vinyl reissue a few years back they've never been put on general release -- though one song from the discs, "Christmas Time is Here Again", *was* released as a B-side of the CD single of "Free as A Bird" in 1995: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Christmas Time is Here Again"] Other than that, the Christmas records remain one of those parts of the Beatles catalogue which have never seen a proper widespread release. The first record was made on October the 17th 1963, at the same recording session as "I Want to Hold Your Hand", at the instigation of Tony Barrow, the group's publicist, who also came up with a script for the group to depart from: [Excerpt, the Beatles' first Christmas record] Barrow apparently edited the recording himself, using scissors and tape, and much of that was just taking out the swearing. Incidentally, I've seen some American sources talking about the word "Crimble" being a word that the Beatles made up themselves, but it's actually a fairly standard bit of Scouse slang. The second Christmas record was recorded at the end of the sessions for Beatles For Sale and was much the same kind of thing, though this time they incorporated sound effects: [Excerpt: The Beatles' Second Christmas Record] That was never sent to American fans. Instead, they got a cardboard copy of an edited version of the first record (it's possible to make records out of cardboard, but they can only be played a handful of times). They wouldn't get another Christmas record until 1968, though British fans kept receiving them. The third record sees the group parodying other people's hits, including a brief rendition of "It's the Same Old Song" interrupted by George Harrison saying they can't sing it because of copyright, and an attempt to sing Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction" and "Auld Lang Syne" at the same time: [Excerpt: The Beatles' Third Christmas Record] The fourth record, from 1966, was recorded during the early sessions for "Strawberry Fields Forever", and titled "Pantomime: Everywhere It's Christmas". For those outside the UK and its sphere of cultural influence, pantomime is a British Xmas stage tradition which is very hard to explain if you've not experienced it, involving performances that are ostensibly of fairy stories like Cinderella or Snow White, but also usually involving drag performances -- the male lead is usually played by a young woman, while there's usually an old woman character played by a man in drag -- with audience participation, songs, and old jokes of the "I do declare, the Prince's balls get bigger every year!" type. As the title suggests, then, the 1966 Christmas record is an attempt at an actual narrative of sorts, though a surreal, incoherent one. It comes across very much like the Goon show -- though like one of the later episodes where Milligan has lost all sense of narrative coherence: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Pantomime: Everywhere It's Christmas"] it's probably the best of the group's Christmas efforts, and certainly the most fully realised to this point. The 1967 Christmas record, "Christmas Time is Here Again", is even more ambitious. It's another narrative, which sees the group playing a fictitious group called the Ravellers, auditioning for the BBC: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Christmas Time is Here Again"] It also features parodies of broadcasting formats, which I've seen a few people suggest were inspired by the Bonzo Dog Band's then-recent Craig Torso Show radio performances, but which seem to me more indicative just of a general shared sense of humour: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Christmas Time is Here Again"] But that record has become most famous for having one of the closest things on any of these records to a full song, the title track "Christmas Time is Here Again": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Christmas Time is Here Again"] As well as later being issued as the B-side of a CD single, that was also remade by Ringo as a solo record: [Excerpt: Ringo Starr, "Christmas Time is Here Again"] Although my favourite use of the song is actually as an interpolation, with slightly altered lyrics, in "Xmas Again" by Stew of the Negro Problem, one of my favourite current songwriters: [Excerpt: Stew, "Xmas Again"] "Christmas Time is Here Again" would be the last Christmas record the group would make together. For their final two Christmas releases, they recorded their parts separately and got their friend, the DJ Kenny Everett, who was known at this point for his tricks with tape editing, and who shared their sense of humour (he later went on to become a successful TV comedian) to collage them together into something listenable. The highlight of the 1968 record comes from George's contribution. George, a lover of the ukulele, got Tiny Tim to record his version of "Nowhere Man" for the record: [Excerpt: Tiny Tim, "Nowhere Man"] And for the seventh and final Christmas single, recorded after the group had split up but before the split was announced, Everett once again cobbled it together from separate recordings, this time a chat between John and Yoko, Ringo improvising a song and plugging his new film, and Paul singing an original Christmas song: [Excerpt: Paul McCartney, "Merry, Merry, Year"] George's contribution was a single sentence. In 1970, the fan club members got one final record -- an actual vinyl album, compiling all the previous Christmas records in one place. All the Beatles would in future record solo Christmas singles, some of which became perennial classics, but there would never be another Beatles Christmas record [Excerpt, the end of the third Beatles Christmas record]

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