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Hey look, it's some Greeks! Bearing gifts! What could possibly go wrong? Today the Trojans will find out the answer to that very question, which will take us (at last!) into the story of that freaking horse. In Virgil's masterful hands it becomes a parable of Greek rhetorical trickery, Odyssean danger, and above all Roman anxiety over just how we should feel about the Greeks. On the one hand, without them, there would be no Aeneid. On the other hand, they're...kinda sus. Plus: why you should read the Aeneid instead of letting Grok do it for you.  Use code HERETICS to get 20% off Field of Greens: fieldofgreens.com Order Light of the Mind, Light of the World (and rate it five stars): https://a.co/d/2QccOfM Subscribe to be in the mailbag: https://rejoiceevermore.substack.com

In this fascinating interview, accomplished fund manager Stuart Widdowson of Odyssean Capital (an associate of Harwood Capital) takes me through 13 stock ideas

Comedian Daniel Bergamini performs at our live show and tells about the time he and his girlfriend narrowly avoided a hospital trip after loosing a sex toy. Daniel then joins us in the studio to talk about the whole, Odyssean night, which began with a near trip to the hospital, then a night out that ended with a party where everyone was drugged. This leads to CJ and Sean sharing their own stories of drinking Odysseys. Sean shares a story about how a massive beer purchase lead to a three day lost trip and we share the science of why groups of drunks are more likely to get sloppy then loan drinkers, which can lead to more chaotic Odysseys.

For our latest show-within-a-show, we'll revisit Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's The Iliad. We'll be reading it a few books at a time and having a more in-depth chat about it than we do about most books. These two episodes cover Books 1-4.Episode 1: The Iliad drops us right into the middle of the action, where "the middle" is 9 years into a 10 year conflict and "the action" is a couple of easily-affronted guys who instantly get mad at each other. Then we're treated to some maneuvering among the gods, some Odyssean trickery, the Catalog of Ships, and the less-impressive Catalog of Boys. (Books 1-2)Episode 2: Just as the Trojans and Greeks seem on the brink of a giant clash, pretty boy Paris is shamed out of the crowd and cajoled into dueling Paris' former husband Menelaus. Surprise, surprise - the gods intervene! And after a brief interval, the gods spur the two sides into bloody action. (More like Aga-neg'em-on, amirite.) (Books 3-4)Find out more about how to get these episodes monthly at patreon.com/overduepod.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of The IC Interviews, Dave Baxter welcomes back Stuart Widdowson, Managing Partner of Odyssean Capital, the firm that manages Odyssean Investment Trust. The trust was set up in 2018 and is known for its approach of investing in a concentrated portfolio of UK listed companies too small for inclusion in the FTSE 250.The trust applies a private equity mindset to its operations in the public sphere. Stuart discusses the five aspects of the trust's methodology that make it stand out from the crowd. He also talks about the qualities he looks for in the companies he selects and focuses on a handful of Odyssean's current holdings. This interview was recorded on 24 November. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Odyssean Process, published by Odyssean Institute on November 24, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Our White Paper The Odyssean Process outlines our innovative approach to decision making for an uncertain future. In it, we combine expert elicitation, complexity modelling, and democratic deliberation into a new way of developing robust policies. This addresses the democratic deficit in civilisational risk mitigation and facilitates resilience through collective intelligence. Any feedback, collaboration, or interest in supporting our work is most welcome contact@odysseaninstitute.org Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Here is my interview with Dominic Cummings on why Western governments are so dangerously broken, and how to fix them before an even more catastrophic crisis.Dominic was Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister during COVID, and before that, director of Vote Leave (which masterminded the 2016 Brexit referendum).Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript here. Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes.Timestamps(00:00:00) - One day in COVID…(00:08:26) - Why is government broken?(00:29:10) - Civil service(00:38:27) - Opportunity wasted?(00:49:35) - Rishi Sunak and Number 10 vs 11(00:55:13) - Cyber, nuclear, bio risks(01:02:04) - Intelligence & defense agencies(01:23:32) - Bismarck & Lee Kuan Yew(01:37:46) - How to fix the government?(01:56:43) - Taiwan(02:00:10) - Russia(02:07:12) - Bismarck's career as an example of AI (mis)alignment(02:17:37) - Odyssean education This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.dwarkeshpatel.com

Stuart Widdowson founded Odyssean Capital, is co-manager of the Odyssean Investment Trust, and has a wealth of experience investing in UK-listed smaller companies.  We discuss the lessons Stuart has applied to public equity investing from his days in private equity, the rewards derived from investing in good quality companies that can be improved, and the overall state of the UK market. Show notes:[01:28] Stuart discusses his early career[04:12] Swapping private equity for public equity investing[06:11] The market imperfections in small cap investing[07:44] A focus on global niche market leaders[09:35] Stuart's ambitions for Odyssean Capital and its cultural values[11:51] The meaning behind the Odyssean name[12:49] The benefits of concentration[14:25] Managing risk and avoiding bad businesses[16:41] The quality attributes Stuart looks for[19:38] Pattern recognition in TMT, healthcare, specialist industrials and services[22:18] Being cycle aware rather than trying to time cycles[24:18] The role of static and dynamic valuation[28:20] Managing for liquidity[31:27] Identifying companies with the potential for self-help[34:15] Backing people and focusing on what is fixable[36:05] Being credible when engaging with companies[39:37] The structural headwinds facing UK equities and the valuation opportunity[43:16] Contrarians come in first[44:18] Navigating a higher cost of capital[47:20] Find out what you enjoy and are good at and get a good mentor

Take a walk on the warped side with this in-person program featuring stars in their respective fields. The new book The Warped Side of Our Universe is the result of the collaboration of Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne and award-winning artist Lia Halloran. It brings to vivid life the wonders and wildness of our universe's “Warped Side”―objects and phenomena made from warped space and time, from colliding black holes and collapsing wormholes to twisting space vortices and down-cascading time. Through poetic verse and otherworldly paintings, the scientist and the artist explicate Thorne's and his colleagues' astrophysical discoveries and speculations, with an epic narrative that asks: How did the universe begin? Can anything travel backward in time? And what weird and marvelous phenomena inhabit the "warped side"? In their book, Thorne and Halloran take readers on an Odyssean voyage using epic verse and more than 100 pulsating paintings to shed light on time travel, black holes, gravitational waves and the birth of the universe. Join us in-person to hear them share tales of the warped side. MLF ORGANIZER George Hammond A Humanities Member-led Forum program. Forums at the Club are organized and run by volunteer programmers who are members of The Commonwealth Club, and they cover a diverse range of topics. Learn more about our Forums. In Association with Wonderfest. This program is part of our Good Lit series, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Watch the video interview HERE) In this interview, fund manager Stuart Widdowson of Odyssean Investment Trust takes Vox through 17 stocks 00:00 Outlook for equities 05:05 M&A activity 07:20 Generative AI Ascential 08:35 RWS Holdings 11:15 Wilmington 13:20 Spire Healthcare 17:10 Benchmark 19:50 NCC 23:45 Chemring 26:05 Elementis 29:30 Flowtech Fluidpower. 32:10 Gooch & Housego 34:55 James Fischer 37:20 Stabilus SA 39:45 Xaar. 42:25 XP Power 45:15 Videndum 47:15 How to assess indebted companies 49:15 Dialight 51:25 Where looking to deploy capital

In this week's edition of the Weekly Investment Trust Podcast, Jonathan Davis, editor of the Investment Trusts Handbook, speaks to James de Uphaugh, lead manager of the Edinburgh Investment Trust (EDIN), and Stuart Widdowson, manager of the Odyssean Investment Trust (OIT). Section Timestamps: 0:00:29 - This week's guests 0:01:35 - The markets this week 0:03:03 - Money Makers Circle 0:03:47 - News and announcements 0:08:03 - Annual results 0:16:46 - Interim results 0:20:21 - Q&A with James de Uphaugh 0:20:56 - Taking on the Edinburgh Investment Trust 0:22:47 - Immediate reactions and changes due to the then-developing pandemic 0:25:24 - Factors influencing good performance to date 0:27:34 - The gearing strategy 0:30:16 - Advantages of managing an investment trust 0:32:15 - The UK market performance 0:34:38 - Investment style 0:37:36 - What is the trust's "special sauce"? 0:39:46 - Portfolio weightings and changes 0:45:11 - The discount and ambitions for the trust 0:46:56 - The UK as a place to invest and the impact of the pound 0:49:41 - Close 0:51:10 - Q&A with Stuart Widdowson 0:50:26 - Market developments in 2023 so far 0:52:33 - Sentiment to the UK market 0:55:34 - Specific issues with the UK equity market 0:59:07 - Company valuations 1:02:03 - Odyssean's rating and share buy backs 1:02:46 - Close Trusts mentioned (with tickers): Thomas Lloyd Energy Impact (TLEI), Urban Logistics REIT (SHED), Next Energy Solar (NESF), Ashoka White Oak Emerging Markets (AWEM), Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT), Ceiba Investments (CBA), Third Point Investors (TPOU), Round Hill Music Royalty (RHM), Baker Steel Resources (BSRT), Aquila European Renewables (AERS), NB Private Equity (NBPE), Dunedin Enterprise (DNE), RM Infrastructure Income (RMII), Abrdn Property Income (API), Vietnam Enterprise Investments (VEIL), M&G Credit Income (MGCI), Fidelity special values (FSV), Henderson Far East Income (HFEL), Asia Dragon Trust (DGN), Literacy Capital (BOOK), Pantheon (PIN), AEW UK REIT (AEWU), CT Property Trust (CTPT), Impact Healthcare REIT (IHR). If you enjoy the weekly podcast, you may also find value in joining The Money Makers circle. This is a membership scheme that offers listeners to the podcast an opportunity, in return for a modest monthly or annual subscription, to receive additional premium content, including interviews, performance data, market/portfolio reviews and regular extracts from the editor's notebook. This week, as well as the regular features, the Circle features a profile of BioPharma Credit (BPCR), as well as taking a look at the thirty year performance of thirty-six surviving trusts that pre-date the birth of King Charles III. For more information about the Money Makers circle, please visit money-makers.co/membership-join. Membership helps to cover the cost of producing the weekly investment trust podcast, which will continue to be free. We are very grateful for your continued support and the enthusiastic response to our over 150 podcasts since launch. You can find more information, including relevant disclosures, at www.money-makers.co. Please note that this podcast is provided for educational purposes only and nothing you hear should be considered as investment advice. Our podcasts are also available on the Association of Investment Companies website, www.theaic.co.uk. Produced by Ben Gamblin.

Hello and welcome to an all new episode of Some Like It Scott! On this week's episode, the two Scotts test their nightmare comedy bona fides with a review of Ari Aster's third film, the Odyssean epic, BEAU IS AFRAID. After discussing Joaquin Phoenix's performance, Aster's numerous themes, and whether the film might just have been "too much", the co-hosts turn their attention to the news of Robert Pattinson's casting in Chloe Zhao's upcoming Dracula film, as well as Charli XCX's addition to the cast of FACES OF DEATH remake from HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE's Daniel Goldhaber. See time codes below:   4:24 - BEAU IS AFRAID review 1:00:15 - Robert Pattinson in Chloe Zhao's Dracula movie 1:06:17 - Charli XCX in Daniel Goldhaber's FACES OF DEATH remake   Next week: ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET. (Theaters)   Patreon: www.patreon.com/MediaPlugPods

It's a horror filled weekend as Dom is joined once again by Sean of Math Teacher Movies to break down the latest film from auteur Ari Aster, the disturbed mind behind "Hereditary" & "Midsommar," his third feature film, Beau is Afraid. An Odyssean, Lynchian journey centered around Joaquin Phoenix's character Beau, who is attempting to avoid the mass amount of crazy people surrounding his apartment who takes a lot of medication for his perceived anxiety to get to his mother's (Patti LuPone) funeral. He ends up getting kidnapped by a suburban couple (Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan) who are attempting to use him to replace their son who died; a forest theater troupe that shows him his potential future; reunites with a former crush (Parker Posey) before going through one of the most bonkers climaxes of all time. It's a whirlwind of emotions and events that is all a representation of Ari's inner anxiety and insecurity, not to mention it sours by at 3 hours. They also take a minute to talk about Evil Dead Rise, the latest installment in the Evil Dead franchise, which is just as bloody and disgusting as the last few. It's all covered here on the #talkintvpodcast as they get closer to the summer! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talkintvpodcastgmailcom/support

Leading Fund Manager, Stuart Widdowson of Odyssean Capital covers 15 fast paced stocks including: #CBP #DVO #CHG #ASCL #WIL #STM #ELM #XAR #FLO #SPI #BMK #RWS #DIA #NCC #VID #OIT Watch the Video Interview HERE

Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove audiobook. When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school over 30 miles from his home. He commuted by horse-and-wagon or horse-and-sleigh each weekend, and seven of those long and challenging journeys are recorded in “Over Prairie Trails,” published in 1922. Grove has a sharp eye for details of nature that were of life-and-death importance to the lone prairie traveller — the shifting aspects of skies, wind, fog, and snow. On one level, the book is a treasury of documentary observation and nature writing. However, while Grove claims to offer a naturalist's “plain truth,” we come to realize that he is creating a “tale” as much as a nature diary. He selects and arranges his material. Sometimes this means transforming his accounts into archetypal heroic journeys, casting himself as the Odyssean adventurer who battles his way through seas of snow and fog to return to his wife and child. At other times, his reports launch meditations on the nature of observation, consciousness, and the construction of meaning. “Over Prairie Trails” is a landmark in Canadian writing, influencing the way nature — especially the Canadian winter— would be written about for decades to come.

In the summer after her junior year of college, my mom decided that she wanted to see the country by taking a cross-country road trip... on a Vespa! In 1959, girls didn't do such things. It was an Odyssean voyage of perils and triumphs, and she told me this tale over a cup of coffee in her quiet suburban kitchen more than 60 years later. Yes, I had heard a small snippet of this story, but never the complete adventure. I was glad I asked. I have a Patreon page! Please check it out. If you make a small pledge you'll get to see photos and clips from my journals and hear a bit more about some of the stories. This is a fun way that I can share visuals with you. Check it out HERE. Or at patreon.com/dianathebard If you want to hear more on any particular subject, or if you want to ask a question or simply connect, you can find me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dianathebard or reach out on the website: bardofhudson.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Paul is joined in this episode by Stuart Widdowson, Founder of Odyssean Capital and Fund Manager of the Odyssean Investment Trust. Stuart and his co-Manager, Ed Wielechowski, have a unique investment approach and look at UK smaller companies through a private equity lens. They discuss why permanent capital is important to them, how they deliver returns by engaging with company management teams, current valuations in the small cap market and their ‘Client, Team, Self' culture. They finish with a quick fire question round that includes Stuart's advice to young finance professionals and an extensive reading list for those listeners wanting to learn more about investing. To find out more about Odyssean Capital and Vermeer Partners please see the links below:   https://www.oitplc.com/ https://www.odysseancapital.com/ www.vermeerllp.com

On this week's Money & Markets podcast Dan Coatsworth and Danni Hewson take a look at what has been another bumpy week for markets with a commodities rally not able to deliver the big market comeback some investors had been rather hoping for. They look at what's behind the defence stock bounce, boosting the likes of BAE Systems and Rolls Royce and how utility companies like SSE have responded to Ofgem's new distribution price control proposals. Plus, Dan is chatting to the Fund manager of Odyssean, one of the few investment trusts not to have lost a lot of money this year, and on the menu are Chemring, Videndum, Stabilus and Spire Healthcare.  There is also a new boss for Whitbread, and we discuss why the battle for high street chemist Boots ended with it being taken off the market by US owner WBA, for now.  With a drop in scratch card sales, we also look at why the government's green savings bond has flopped and Tom Selby brings us up to date on plans for the pension triple lock.

In this episode the guys make their way through the rest of Book 3 where we find more regressive pulls back to the old Troy as well as Homeric tags and Odyssean cameos. At the first stop Aeneas is stunned to find a remarried Andromache still alive in Epirus, but also still obsessed with the past and her dear departed Hector. And even more things are off—she seems to be living in a low-rent, Euro Disney, knock-off “Tiny Troy” with a mini Simois, scant Scaean gates, and paltry Pergamum. It's like we've entered Vergil's version of the Upside-Down or some other referent to a show Dave hasn't seen. Aeneas hightails it out of this creepy place and heads for (at last!) Italy, the land of murses and selfie-sticks. Now there's some solid Homeric “fan service”—crowd pleasing walk-ons by Scylla, Polyphemus, Achaemenides, and Bill Murray. Oh, and Aeneas' dad dies. Blink and you'll miss it.  

Coming to you from Greece where I have begun my Odyssean voyage this summer. I have landed in a tiny town called Agios Ioannis in Crete where I am attending a writing residency. Here are my first impressions... I have a Patreon page! Please check it out. If you make a small pledge you'll get to see photos and clips from my journals and hear a bit more about some of the stories. This is a fun way that I can share visuals with you. Check it out HERE. Or at patreon.com/dianathebard If you want to hear more on any particular subject, or if you want to ask a question or simply connect, you can find me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dianathebard or email me at bardofhudson.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Ben Kempf returns to the podcast! This time, he joins Austin for some holiday fun as they each share their top 10 favorite AIO Christmas episodes. Some are predictable but some are quite surprising! Along the way, they discuss if a recent story arc all takes place at Christmastime, the possibilities of angels in Odyssey before Malachi, and the reason why some Christmas specials just don't work well. Listen to AIO Audio News' review of A Christmas Conundrum Hear Ben's latest episode of A Bit of Time Travel Find out what Odyssey Geek did for Christmas last year

When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school over 30 miles from his home. He commuted by horse-and-wagon or horse-and-sleigh each weekend, and seven of those long and challenging journeys are recorded in “Over Prairie Trails,” published in 1922. Grove has a sharp eye for details of nature that were of life-and-death importance to the lone prairie traveller — the shifting aspects of skies, wind, fog, and snow. On one level, the book is a treasury of documentary observation and nature writing. However, while Grove claims to offer a naturalist's “plain truth,” we come to realize that he is creating a “tale” as much as a nature diary. He selects and arranges his material. Sometimes this means transforming his accounts into archetypal heroic journeys, casting himself as the Odyssean adventurer who battles his way through seas of snow and fog to return to his wife and child. At other times, his reports launch meditations on the nature of observation, consciousness, and the construction of meaning. “Over Prairie Trails” is a landmark in Canadian writing, influencing the way nature — especially the Canadian winter— would be written about for decades to come. Genre(s): Nature, Memoirs --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/3daudiobooks0/support

Stuart Widdowson, Managing Partner of Odyssean Capital is looking to double the client's money every five years. Here he outlines how he achieves that, and what he's looking for in the companies in which he invests, using the best of private and public equity investing styles. Odyssean runs a concentrated portfolio focussing on smaller companies. 00:37 Stuart's background 01:27 How did the Odyssean IT come about? 04:37 What return are you looking to achieve? 06:00 Public equity v private equity investing 08:35 Attributes Stuart looks for in companies in which he invests 11:20 What are private equity & trade buyers looking for? 13:09 Flowtech Fluidpower (FLO) 17:05 How do you realise the potential in companies? SDL (SDL/RWS). 21:00 Which companies in your portfolio are most likely to have a bid approach? Attributes private equity doesn't like? 22:20 Elementis (ELM) 26:40 Where do your ideas come from? 27:37 How long do you spend researching an idea? What are the catalysts for buying? 28:40 Xaar (XAR) 31:28 How much do you look at what other fund managers are doing? 32:42 Clinigen (CLIN) & its profit warning 36:48 Which holdings are you most excited about? Chemring (CHG) 38:30 Sector selection: healthcare Spire Healthcare (SPI) and Vectura (VEC) 42:53 Inflation & how can investors plan for it? Stuart is the Managing Partner of Odyssean Capital, which he founded in 2017. He has spent the last 18 years investing in public and private UK small and mid-size corporates and a further two years providing investment advice in the same field. Prior to founding Odyssean, he was a Director and fund manager at GVQ Investment Management. In 2009, he became lead fund manager of Strategic Equity Capital plc. Over the following 7 years, was instrumental in driving a turnaround in the performance and fortunes of this closed-ended fund. Stuart began his career as a strategy consultant undertaking commercial due diligence and strategy projects for private equity and corporate clients. In 2001 he joined HgCapital and spent five years executing small and mid-cap leveraged buyouts in the UK and Germany, including working on a number of public to private transactions of UK quoted companies. http://www.odysseancapital.com/ Odyssean Investment Trust: http://www.oitplc.com/

Jonathan Davis, editor of the Investment Trusts Handbook, and Simon Elliott, head of investment trust research at Winterflood Securities, review the week and the main market movements in the latest edition of our weekly investment trust podcast. Trusts mentioned this week (with tickers) include: Jupiter Green (JGC), Jupiter UK Growth (JUKG), Keystone Investment Trust (KIT), River and Mercantile UK Micro Cap (RMMC), AVI Japan Opportunity (AJOT), Hipgnosis Sonds Fund (SONG), RTW Venture Fund (RTW), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), Bankers (BNKR), Ruffer Investment Company (RICA), Aberdeen Standard European Logistics Income (ASLI), Drum Income Plus (DRUM), Impact Healthcare (IHR) and Target Healthcare (THRL). We also discuss the outlook for the investment trust sector going into the New Year. Meanwhile the Money Makers circle is now up and running. This is a membership scheme that offers listeners to the podcast an opportunity, in return for a modest monthly or annual subscription, to receive additional premium content, including interviews, news updates, market and portfolio reviews and regular extracts from the editor's notebook. For more information about this new offering, please visit www.money-makers.co/membership-join. Included this week: an interview with Stuart Widdowson, manager of the Odyssean investment trust. You can find more information, including relevant disclosures, at www.money-makers.co. Our podcasts are also available on the Association of Investment Companies website, www.theaic.co.uk. Produced by Ben Gamblin.

In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell.Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own—works that pondered the nature of narrative itself. Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler’s Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul... François Fénelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey, The Adventures of Telemachus��a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for one hundred years—resulted in his banishment... and the German novelist W. G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5626

In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own--works that pondered the nature of narrative itself. Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler's Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul... Fran ois F nelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey, The Adventures of Telemachus--a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for one hundred years--resulted in his banishment... and the German novelist W. G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. Intertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn's struggles to write two of his own books--a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father--that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.  _______________________________________________ Produced by Maddie Gobbo & Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," a new, unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

This episode discusses the topic of “open access” and the financial challenges that affect publishers, researchers, academic institution libraries, funding agencies, and governments, along with how blogs also serve as a way of disseminating scientific knowledge.

Madeline Miller, the New York Times best selling author of Circe and Song of Achilles, discusses the reasons we need a new perspective for the Odyssean witch, why she evolved into an evil seductress, the role of gods and whether we should like Odysseus in the first place? For more information about Classical Wisdom's Podcast Classical Wisdom Speaks, please check out our website at: http://classicalwisdom.comYou can learn more about Madeline Miller on her website: http://madelinemiller.com/circe/ You can purchase Madeline's book, Circe, here: https://www.amazon.com/CIRCE-New-York-Times-bestseller/dp/0316556343

Dennis and Jay discuss their recent Comic peregrination from St. Louis, to Oconomowoc, WI to C2E2.  Listen as our heroes recount their Odyssean quest. What treasures did they find?  Were any cheese curds encountered?  Or beverages with paper umbrella and Lotus blossoms?  All will be told.You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.

On this episode of Side Quests, Mr. Wes Schantz and I discuss (a) the end of the Shinra mansion, Vince, and the ghostly enemies there, (b) the path and relationship of Sephiroth to you, Jenova, and Lucrecia, and (c) how the game rewards the Odyssean over the Achillean elements in one's character or style of play. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this podcast, we discuss Hal Hartley's movie, Simple Men (1992) and try to understand the larger themes we think are being presented in this Odyssean tale, such as the transcendence of character and the transformation of gender dynamics. Ultimately, we are sure we have only just scratched the surface and look forward to future revelations when we re-visit the film again. Thank you, Nicholas and Nicole, for giving us this opportunity and for setting us upon our own journey into exploring the films of Hal Hartley. 

Charles, the Executive Chef of The Grey Lodge, loves food. He loves it so much that he has walked through fire, sailed with pirates, and witnessed self-harm in pursuit of Excellent Cuisine. In this episode, he shares his Odyssean journey to bring you snacks and meals that will delight your senses and pair with perfect beverages. In addition, he'll tell you about the excitement of Philly Beer Week, happening now at pubs and eateries throughout the Philadelphia area: http://www.greylodge.com/pbw.html Are your tastebuds tempted? Visit the pub's website: http://www.greylodge.com Copyright 2018, 6630 Productions

*Note: This episode was previously released in May to our members.* For several years now, we’ve heard the outcry from SOFREP members to add a second show a week, and we have finally delivered!  This one does not disappoint.  SOFREP writer The Odyssean, who served doing intelligence for the Army, and went on to do data collection and analysis in the private sector working in countries like Japan, breaks down some of the conflict in the region right now.  He joins Drew Dwyerand me to give a great in-depth perspective from a guy who’s there been on the ground. We dig into his article “Japanese government issues citizens DEFCON warning because of North Korea,” and also have some fun talking about the documentary, “Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang.”  While we’re taping, a very special guest makes an unscheduled appearance in the studio that you will not want to miss. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Ian Scotto here back from Las Vegas, and let me tell you, the Hurricane Group house was packed with a lot of names familiar to you the listeners, and shit did indeed get rowdy.  From the SOFREP end of things we had Jack Murphy, James Powell, The Odyssean, Kurt Troter, and Alex Hollings.  And our friends from The Loadout Room and The Arms Guide there were Travis Pike, Erik Meisner, Rex Nanorum, Mark Miller, and Scott Witner.  Even more familiar names came out for the annual Team Room/Crate Club event including Frumentarius and Christian Prosser who you'll hear from. I start off sitting down at the house with Kurt, Travis, Erik, Mark, Scott, and Jens (A.K.A. Rex) and hearing about about their experiences at media range day.  You'll hear which firearms really impressed the guys, and some of the big names in attendance to the exclusive event including James Yeager, Instructor Zero, and regular on the podcast, Kris "Tanto" Paronto.  I'm then off to the Team Room event at Sierra Gold that couldn't have been more awesome.  What an experience meeting all of you who loyally listen to the podcast, I'm always humbled and impressed by our audience.  Be sure to keep your eyes on SOFREP.com and especially LoadoutRoom.com for more great content as SHOT Show 2018 continues on. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Athletes spend their lives fighting for a spot in a field of 2,000 triathletes in the most grueling competition on Earth. Their prize? Thrashing through a 2.4 mile open-water swim in the Pacific, fighting trade winds and a convection oven of heat on a 112-mile bike and finishing with a marathon - a 26.2-mile run. Becoming an IRONMAN at the World Championships at Kona wasn't a dream of Jen Ator's. As Fitness Director at Women's Health and author of The Women's Health Fitness Fix, she was happy to fit runs through Manhattan and no-nonsense strength-training workouts into her busy days. That all changed when reps from Chocolate Milk called with an offer to make her an IRONMAN. And while she said it took her a few days to accept the branid's invitation - an invitation to compete in a race that allows athletes 17 hours to finish - she now counts it as the goal she's proudest of accomplishing. Alongside her on the journey to Kona that she details on this week's episode of #WeGotGoals was an all-star cast. Eight-time Olympic medalist in speed skating Apolo Ohno would train with her and both Ator of Ohno received guidance from world-class coach and seven-time IRONMAN World champion Paula Newby-Fraser (a woman who does not know the word quit). Like most audacious goals, it didn't come without brief periods of imposter syndrome. Three months before her trip to Kona, Ator recounts a night spent crying and questioning her own abilities as the minutes slipped away between her and her first half IRONMAN race - a 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike and 13.1-mile run. "Kind of by a act of God or stroke of grace or something, my watch kind of malfunctioned after the swim in the transition to the bike," she recalled of the race. "All I could do was be in the moment and do it. And I kind of just plugged along and I worked the plan that me and my coach had figured it out and really paid attention to my effort." Ator blew her "self-deprecating goal" out of the water and turned her new confidence and attention to Kona - the true test of her training. Because Ator was among an elite group of invite-only participants at Kona, she wasn't required to qualify for the race like the majority of participants. The thought of that made her feel unworthy of the field of competition. "I had a talk with one of the pro Ironman athletes before and he said, 'look Jen, maybe at the beginning of this you didn't deserve to be here. Sure maybe at the very beginning. But now you've done everything that all these other athletes have done to get here,'" She said. "That kind of attitude kind of helped carry me through the rest of the day." Even, she recalled, in the lava fields known for their heat and for the clear path that's left for unexpected gusts of wind known to knock riders clear off of their bikes. The wind was everything she'd heard. Ator recalled riding her ultra-light road bike in what's known as the arrow position. As she leaned over her handle bars, she shook with the fear that she may too have her race cut short by a fall. Newby-fraser preparing Ator for that exact moment: "You're going to be tempted to sit up and sit back because that's the instinct that feels safer ... that is the time that you need to lean in and commit because the safest thing you can do, practically speaking, is lean over that front wheel." Listen to how Ator's run at Kona concluded and where this author, editor and IRONMAN is setting her sights next. And if you like what you hear, be sure to rate and review #WeGotGoals on iTunes and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. --- JAC:Welcome to #WeGotGoals, a podcast by aSweatLife.com on which we talked to high achievers about their goals. I'm Jeana Anderson Cohen; with me, I have Kristin Geil and Maggie Umberger. KG: Good morning Jeana. JAC: Good morning. MU: Good morning. Jeana,  you spoke with Jen Ator, who is the fitness director of Women's Health this week. JAC:I sure did. And what an inspiration Jen is. Throughout our talk I think I gasped, I had a smile across my face and I definitely cried. MU:Good summary. And she is also an Ironman Kona finisher which I didn't know what that was prior to hearing this interview. JAC: So what’s actually really interesting about this is the campaign that Jen was a part of with chocolate milk is actually something I worked on in my past life the year before she was on it. So in 2013 I was a part of that campaign working on chocolate milk. And I got to see sort of the journey that she went through and I just missed her by a year. So throughout her explanation of sort of what she went through and how she was trained by Paula Newby-Fraser and how she had these incredible teammates like Apolo Ohno I could identify with that journey so deeply because I'd seen it once before. But her sort of personal take on it was so interesting to hear, one because she had been an athlete before and two because she had this sort of wavering journey of self-doubt accomplishment and in believing in herself just as I feel anyone does. The first time they do anything. KG: While she was training with chocolate milk team she had some sort of realization that she mentioned during the podcast. Can you speak to that and describe what her big epiphany was? JAC:She realized that she was the thing standing in her way which was incredible to hear her say because I believe that was the moment I cried. So Jen realized at the end of her half Ironman which is a 1.2 mile swim of 56 mile bike ride and a thirteen point one mile run she realized that she blew her own projected time out of the water because she wasn't running with a watch and there was a malfunction with it in her actual swim. She saw that she actually could accomplish so much more than she was giving herself credit for when she just sort of let go and was in the moment as an athlete and trusted her training. MU: And her training really is pretty simple she talks about loving just straight strength and running amidst being the fitness director of Women's Health. JAC: Yes. So her preferred training normally is not Ironman training. Ironman training is really involved. Oftentimes athletes will have to do two disciplines in one day sometimes morning sometimes evening or sometimes they'll have to stack them in a brick workout. But she is generally a big fan of just down and dirty strength training program sort of similar to what you'll see on the pages of Women's Health and also in the pages of her new and second book Fitness Fix. They have a mix of a lot of different things but they'll always have the sort of tried and true, pick up some dumbbells and do this workout kind of routine. And that's her preference and it works for her. But when she was training for Ironman she was doing these long workouts these distance workouts. She was running more than five or six miles because she had to finish a day of fitness with a marathon. JACShe'd never run a marathon before doing Ironman Kona which is sort of nuts to think about but she did it. She got through it and she was able to hug her dad at the finish line. MU: We can't wait to hear your interview with Jen here. JAC:I’m Jeana Anderson Cohen and I'm here with Jen Ator, who is the fitness director at Women's Health. Jen, thank you for joining me. JA: Thank you so much for having me. JAC: So Jen you have a really cool job and we're so excited to have you but you're also an accomplished athlete and a writer and a published author. Can you tell me a little bit about how you spend your days? JA:Yeah you know the kind of beauty and madness of my job and my career is that no two days are ever the same in fact rarely are two days ever even remotely the same. As the fitness director here at Women's Health, I balance a lot of different responsibilities. First and foremost I'm responsible for the stories and the editing of the fitness content inside our magazine. So that involves a lot of working back and forth with writers getting stories approved. Coming up with the monthly lineups that I pitch to our editor in chief and writing a lot of the stories myself and kind of managing our internal team and all the goals and deadlines that we have here. I also work on our online content. I do a lot of our videos so there'll be days where I might take a two hour break in the middle of the day to change into some workout clothes and go record some videos for our social team and our online team. And then there's other days where I'm doing I do a lot of press and interviews with the different objectives and things that we're working on for the brand. So yesterday I was in Atlanta doing a bunch of press at the CNN headquarters there. So you know that's kind of one of the more glorious looking days where you know you're getting hair and makeup and you're running on and off set and trying to catch up frantically with your e-mails as you're in between everything. But a lot of the days are just plugging behind a desk and you know working very long hours. I always joke that there's rarely days where I don't have a second job, where I don't go home at the end of the night and and have another big chunk of assignments or things that I need to work on. So there's plenty of days where it's just kind of grinding through a very very big long to do list and then you know I get to mix in some opportunities to have some fun and go check out new brands and new workouts and talk to experts and just kind of experience a lot of the cool stuff happening inside the fitness scene. JAC:So before I asked you our two big questions I need to know what is your favorite workout right now? JA: You know I I probably buck the trend of most fitness centers. I'm not I'm I'm I'm a pretty traditionalist. I am not somebody who—you know I check out a lot of the new workouts. I love them for what they give to different people and I love them for first and foremost being vessels to bring more people into fitness. I'm somebody who's lived my life with sport and fitness as a huge centerpiece of it. So for me anything that brings more people into it I'm I'm so jazzed about but I think just with my schedule and you know the different fitness goals that I tend to be working towards I tend to be a pretty straightforward, a pretty basic fundamental—I like a good run good solo run, a good long swim by myself and some pretty basic strength training. Some simple circuits and pair dumbbells or resistance band and a good playlist and I'm good to go. JAC: Gets the job done. JA:It does. JAC:Yeah I get it the same way and this is not about me but I'm kind of the same way or I will a couple days a week opt to work out alone because it just clears your head. JA:Yeah and I think you know especially in the field that I’m in we have access to so much so it's such an amazing thing to be able to go check out the latest spin studio and you know go to the latest yoga class or the latest fusion class and sometimes it can get murky of, is this my job or am I doing this for my fitness? You know and so I kind of tend to keep the two pretty separate and my workouts are my workouts and like I said you know it gives me so much and I have my own goals and objectives of why I have my own why of why I workout. So for me that just tends to be easier to do in my own kind of bubble rather than going to all the different classes. But certainly like Tone House is a great one, that's always a lot of fun to go with a group. And Swerve is a cycling studio here in New York that I've really been liking so there's there's definitely ones that you know I always have a great time whenever I get an opportunity to check them out. But I tend to be a go at my own speed type person. JAC:I love it. Know who you are. So can you tell me about a big goal that you accomplished and how you got there. JA:Yeah probably the biggest goal I've accomplished is I completed the Ironman, the World Championship Ironman in Kona and that was back in 2014. And it was by far, the process of it was by far the most transformative thing I've ever done. And like I said I've been an athlete my whole life. I played D1 lacrosse I have fitness in my job title but this was really pushing it for me. I had never done any type of endurance efforts before and for anyone listening that that isn't familiar with Ironman. It's a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike and then a full marathon at the end just in case you felt like you hadn't done enough. And I had done one sprint triathlon. I had done maybe two half marathons prior to tearing my ACL and having ACL and meniscus reconstruction. So I had been approached by chocolate milk, who we had worked with a bunch with work stuff and they were putting together a program and wanted one female everyday athlete and then they had a male pro athlete who was Apolo Ohno the speed skater. And they said, hey, like we would love for you to join him and we want to kind of document the two of you trying to reach this big goal that neither of you have any experience to be able to do. And it took me probably three weeks to answer you know there was there was a lot of gut check soul searching because it was so far outside my comfort zone. It was something that I truly did not know if I could do. I had never clipped into a road bike before. I was terrified of swimming in the open water. I don't particularly love ocean swimming. So while I grew up a competitive swimmer I I was not experienced in open water swimming. And I never run a marathon before and at that point I was only running about three miles a few times a week. I was about 13 months postop so I had a lot of doubts. A lot of insecurity about doing it because not only was I going to try to do it I was going to try to do it in six months and I was also going to do it while sharing our experience with a large audience. And it was really intimidating. But you know I think at the end of the day it was an opportunity to do a arguably one of the most famed and historic and legendary races that I've watched you know year after year those NBC broadcast. I mean I watch them I cry to them it's always so moving. You know it is an opportunity to do something that I had so much respect and reverence for. And also it was an opportunity to really see what I was made of. And you know I realized at that point in my life, I admit I had built a career out of trying to encourage women and people to chase their big goals and I'd spent my career interviewing athletes and then you know putting those into stories that people could read and be inspired by. And yet I was kind of sitting on the sideline a little bit and I was intimidated by the challenge of it for myself. And so you know I decided just to say OK I'll do it. I'll try and I'll try my best. And you know win lose or draw, I’ll put everything I can into it and then began some of the hardest months of my life. Thankfully my workplace was very understanding it's not like I could just be out of work for half the day to go train. But they were more understanding if you know if I squeeze in a swim in the morning and come in with a little bit wet hair you know they they kind of gave me some passes here and there. But you know I really I they teamed us up with some coaching staff and some nutrition staff members that really to just day after day give us the tools to be able to go out and do this. Because I certainly would not have been able to do it on my own. So I had a one on one coach, I used this great app called Training Peaks which you can use for free and just kind of log your workouts. It allows you to kind of like set your plan for the week and then as you complete them it syncs with your watches and it'll show you if you were like green and did an amazing job in your workout or yellow and you know kind of got there or like red you didn't do it. But I also had a coach that would then can go in and I would leave notes for him. He was really big on—he wanted me to leave emotional notes as well as performance notes so not only you know how did it go, how did it feel, how was your knee, how was you know this and that but how did you feel. So it was really an interesting process of watching how much your emotional state you know being stressed from work or you know coming back on a red eye from a business trip and you know feeling really exhausted and run down or having a lot of anxiety over a workout that felt kind of you know too much for me at that time. It showed in the performance you know it reflected in the workouts that maybe went really well or didn't go so well and he really took all that into account and would adjust my schedule and my workouts based on not just my physical progress but you know my emotional things that were going on too and my logistical things that were going on and so yeah, I basically just really committed to the plan and had a lot of doubts had no idea how all the pieces were going to fit together. About three months in, we did a half Ironman. Apolo did Boise. Then three weeks later I did Muncie, Muncie, Indiana. I found myself doing a half Ironman which is 70.3 so half the distance of the full Ironman and I was super intimidated and even going into that I didn't think I was going to able to do it. You know I was crying the night before I. I was I was certain that I had not done enough work to be able to do this. And kind of by a act of God or stroke of grace or something my watch kind of malfunctioned after the swim in the transition to the bike. So I was getting nothing—I had no idea where I was at. I think it was recording the whole time but it was showing me weird screens. So I had no perception of what I was doing. All I could do was be in the moment and do it. And I kind of just plugged along and I worked the plan that me and my coach had figured it out and really paid attention to my effort. And I finished that had no idea about what my time was and I'll never forget the moment where you know I was I was with my dad and a couple of our other, you know, our team that was working on this project and they told me my time and it was easily like two hours faster than what I had projected for myself. Like. My really like self-deprecating goal just got blown out of the water. And I think that was probably the most eye opening moment. Obviously then three months later finishing the race in Kona was probably the most emotional moment—but that one in Muncie Indiana was was the most eye opening of wow. Like I can do so much more than I think I can. Like I I am the thing in my way. I really grabbed onto that moment and really let it kind of fully you know affect me because I was so blown away that the whole time I mean my whole support staff, everybody else thought I could do this. You know everybody else was like hey your training's going really well you're doing the work outs. But me as the individual as the self doubting individual was so certain that I hadn't done enough that I wasn't measuring up that I wasn't going to be able to do it. And then to exceed you know I hadn't even thought I would succeed. I definitely thought I was going to fail and then to not only succeed but to blow out any perception that I had of how I could do, it was really a turning point for me. And so from then I was able to kind of you know it didn't get mentally easier. There were plenty of really tough workouts and I did a lot of it on my own. And a lot of people said oh well you should join a running group here in the city or you should join a biking group here in the city because then you’ll have people to share these huge workouts with. And for me it was really important because I knew when I got to that Ironman I was going to be doing it alone. There wasn't going to be anybody running with me there wasn't going to be anybody biking with me. And I was going to spend that time possibly up to 17 hours of my life alone. And so for me it was important to spend those months practicing that. And for me that meant having to do the workouts by myself. And so you know there were a lot of really towards the peak of that training cycle. And I was probably doing lower mileage than other people in Ironman training plans because we were trying to be really cautious of my knee to not you know get injured and to do just enough that I needed to to complete the race because I wasn't trying to race the race. And so yeah I I remember I mean on a Friday I would do a 4-mile swim; on a  Saturday then I would wake up and do 110 miles on the bike and then get right off and run 7 to 9 miles. JAC:Wow. JA: And then the Sunday I would run 20 miles. So this was all so new to me and so so outside of what I'd ever done before. And so yeah there were a lot of very humbling moments during all that but I really you know after that half Ironman I was able to just say hey OK something's working I don't have to understand it but I'm going to respect what they're putting together for me and what they're telling me to do and I'm going to trust that I've got really smart people helping me do this and if I do what they tell me to do to my best to the best of my ability I'll be able to do this thing. And so yeah October rolled around race was here we went to Kona two weeks early to adjust to the heat and kind of get used to everything there and even still I really did not think I'd be able do it. It's just such a massive massive thing. And I remember the night before crying to my dad who was there with me. And I said What are you know what are they going to do? We had been recording these you know little videos that ran on YouTube and we did eight of them to kind of show the journey and I said, What are they going to do if I don't finish? What are they going to—everybody is going to see that? How are they going to make the last … you know I was so nervous about letting other people down are so nervous about the external perception of taking on something like that that was so big and you know. At the end of the day I woke up this morning and said—I still have the alarm on my phone the alarm notification on my phone because I never want to forget it but I just set up the alarm to say, Cherish this day. And I really felt like at the end of those six months I had already gone so far outside of what I thought I could do for myself that you know no matter what happened—I feel like a lot of times when we get into races and we you know are chasing the big goals we immediately are focusing on the negative of it. You know the performance or I want to reach this goal or I want to do this thing. I just said you know I've put in so much work like this has already been like the most transformative thing I've ever done in my life. I just want to go out and enjoy it and I don't want to waste this once in a lifetime opportunity that I'm being given on being caught up on the nerves or being caught up in the anxiety of what if I fail or anything like that. And so I went out and I had a very thought through mental game plan because for me the the performance side was a little bit more straightforward. You know it's basically just figuring out that yellow type of effort that that feels comfortable to sustain. And you know I kind of broke up the race in three parts. The swim, my mantra was I can and I just kept repeating I can do this I can do this I can do this. And for me that was a huge part of reaching a level of deservedness to be there. Because these are the best athletes in the country. These these people have worked some of them their lives to be there. And you know I kind of got a fast pass to be able to enter this race through this opportunity that I was given. And I took it so seriously but I also felt so undeserving because of all these other amazing athletes that were around me and you know I really had to I had a talk with one of the pro Ironman athletes before and he said look Jen, maybe at the beginning of this you didn't deserve to be here. Sure maybe at the very beginning. But now you've done everything that all these other athletes have done to get here. Like you've put in the work. So you have to kind of remember that that you've put in the work. So that kind of attitude kind of helped carry me through the rest of the day. During the bike I said I am doing this am doing this I am doing this I am doing this because I needed to be present. I needed to be focused on the mile I was and I needed to not be worried about the run that was coming up. I knew that I needed to be very very present because the bike to me was the way the most technical, the thing that I had to be the most you know concentrated on getting my nutrition at the right time getting my speed at the right time focusing on my pedal stroke all of those things. So, I am doing this. And then the run was, I will do this because you know I I knew it needed to be emotional for me. I knew I knew it was going to be emotional for me. And I remember talking to my dad at the very start of this and and we mapped out you know we broke down there's different cutoff points for this race. And you have 17 hours to complete it. So we had figured out OK well you know even if you if you make it through the bike cut off then you have eight hours to do the marathon. So technically you could walk it. You could walk it. You could walk an entire marathon. And that was kind of one of the questions that I had to answer myself before I said Yes. I said, am I willing to walk an entire marathon depending on whatever happens that day, because I've no idea. Would I be willing to walk for 26.2 miles? And I said yeah you know? To be able to walk on historic ground like that to be able to follow through on something that I’m going to set out to do. Yeah I would be willing to walk it even though I'd be a very long long part of a day. So thankfully I got there and I didn't have to walk. And I was able to to run the whole thing but I just kept saying, I will do this. And I I broke it down by thinking about one person every mile. Because you're also not allowed to use headphones so I'm a big music person when I run other races I listen to music and you couldn't have anything. So there's there's a lot of thinking that goes on during that day and you’ve gotta manage your your headspace more so than your you know physical space. And so I said you know I'm going to I'm in a force myself to only think about one person for every mile. And I dedicated a mile to each, to 26 people that had really been the reason that I was there. You know from from my doctor who gave me the green light and then you know help monitor everything that was going on and making sure my knee was solid. To Apolo being such a great team mate and supportive friend. To you know my best friend in high school who I played lacrosse with and she's always been an inspiration to me. You know, just different people that along the way and I get choked up even just thinking about it now. You know who have built me up and supported me and given me the confidence that I didn't have in order to do something like this because like I said I I did not believe I could do it. But they all did. And you know I think one of the greatest gifts you can give somebody is is your confidence in them and you know I'm kind of living proof of that. I know I have been the result of people giving me their confidence in me and that lifted me up enough to take on big goals and to chase things that seem intimidating and so that that run is probably one of the most memorable runs I've ever had. And you know I got I got back after and wrote a letter to each person and told them you know what I was thinking of, and what part of the race I was in and which mile I dedicated to them and it really just brought the whole thing full circle. And you know I got to cross that finish line 13 hours and 17 minutes after I started. JAC: Wow. JA: Yeah a very long day. I got to do that and I got to run to my dad and hug my dad who was standing at the finish line. But it was really such a beautiful race to remember that you know to be able to finish it remembering that I'm really here because of so many people and I got to share this with so many people. And for me that made it so much more meaningful than just if I had accomplished a singular goal on my own. So yeah that very long winded story is definitely my biggest goal that I've accomplished. JAC: Jen. What an incredible saga is the best way. It was like Odyssean. JA:It felt it, it felt it during the time. JAC:So I have so many questions. First and foremost I think it's so interesting that you sort of felt the weight of your decision to say yes to this throughout. Just hearing you talk about it at different points: What if I don't succeed? What if I don't succeed? And then just seeing yourself not only succeed finish crush it. You didn't walk a marathon you probably stopped a couple times if you had to eat something but like just hear you tell it, you killed it! Was there any point during the bike during the swim during the run when you didn't think you could do it? JA:Yes. There was one specific point in the race where I did not think I could do it. And I was approaching the climb to Hawi so the road to Hawi is kind of a signature point of the Ironman World Championship bike course. And it's about a 7 mile climb, just a steady low grade inline but steady for I believe about 7 miles. And then when you get there that's the turnaround point of the bike race and I'm climbing and it had been a really tough—again, I'm not a strong cyclist but I was climbing and you know it's really hard and there weren’t a ton of women in the race. There's probably about I think 635 the year I did it and total about 1200 age group guys. So lot of guys, not that many women. As I'm climbing this woman and all hot pink hot pink like helmet, hot pink tri suit, hot pink bike, hot pink shoes, everything. Starts climbing past me. And she's like oh, man the heat and wind are brutal today. I was like oh yeah. You could tell this woman had done this. She just looked so pro like she was like just jacked and so impressive and a slightly older woman and just looked like, OK, she's been here before and so I was like I'm glad to hear you say that because this is my first time. And she's like just keep going just keep pedaling. You're almost there. Thank you. Thank you. And she's like keep it up. Great job. And you know it was so nice because throughout the entire race whenever a woman passed you or you passed a woman there was there was a real solidarity and there was a very, everybody cheered for each other, everybody is support each other. It was really nice. So she passed me up she went you know that was it. And I get to the turnaround point. I'm coming back. And now you're going down a downhill and throughout the race you're kind of going through these lava fields and some of them have these kind of like big rocks that you're going through. So you're facing a lot of headwind but then you're also because of how these rocks are you get these sudden bursts of sidewinds that kind of come out of nowhere and you know our coach coaching staff and team had told us about this so they had said you know you're going to feel you could feel the gusts coming from the side. And it's it's a little bit shaky at times. I mean these bikes are super light. I feel like my bike weighed probably 12 pounds you know and you're coming downhill. And all of a sudden the the sidewinds are really starting to pick up and I'm looking down and I wasn't always super comfortable in that aero position where you’re leaned over the bars and you're really down low on your bike that that was intimidating to me to get used to, especially when going downhill. And one of our coaches was the legendary Paula Newby-Fraser. And she's the queen of Kona. And I remember her saying to me there are going to be times where you get scared and where that wind comes out of nowhere and hits you on the side and you feel shaken. And she's like, you're going to be tempted to sit up on your bike. You're going to be tempted to sit up, sit back because that's the instinct that feels safer and she's like that is the time that you need to lean in and commit because the safest thing you can do practically speaking is lean over that front wheel because these bikes are so light that if you're sitting up and sitting back that front wheel can get picked up a lot easier from these gusts up side wind. So I'd remembered that she said that to me I was trying to stay down,  was trying to stay down. And all of a sudden I look up and I see all these people in front of me are swerving around something and I can't tell what's going on but they're clearly like really moving around something. And as I get closer I see the all pink everything. And the woman was being carried off in a stretcher. JAC: Oh God. JA: And I mean I was shaking. I was tearing up. I had to actively be like, oh my gosh calm down calm down because it was the only moment where—I had passed the point of thinking, oh my gosh can I do this. Once I got through the swim I was like oh man, all right. We'll figure this out. We're going to we're going to get through this. It was the only point of the race where I thought maybe I won't be able to do this because there's somebody who is clearly more experienced than me clearly has done this before and she's not even able to finish because of freak—you know maybe she was reaching for her water or when when a gust of wind came in and wiped  her out. Or maybe—who knows? You know and anything like that could happen. And I I could just be I could be done. And again I found myself kind of sitting up and I was trying to get my composure and I heard Paula you know as I'm like shaking trying not to cry and trying to push through it and I just found myself saying commit commit

SOFREP.com managing editor, former Army intelligence analyst, and our resident go-to guy to talk Asia, The Odyssean hops on with us for Episode 301.  We hear about some mysterious kidnappings and deaths in the region that the media has not touched on.  We also get into an in-depth discussion on martial arts. Jason Delgado and I also shoot off on the current widespread issue of sexual assault allegations throughout politics and Hollywood.  We read an e-mail from a listener, and we love hearing from all of you.  So shoot us your questions, comments, and voice memos to sofrep.radio@sofrep.com.  Also, be sure to leave us a review on iTunes, we read them all, and greatly appreciate your help in rising in the ranks, most recently ranking above Bernie Sanders podcast in our category.  Let's keep the momentum going. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

This week marked the annual meetings for Hurricane Group in NYC, discussing the future of the company, and our individual goals with what we do.  One big change I wanted to let you all know about, and that many of you will be happy to hear, we will continue to do two shows each week in their entirety with SOFREP Radio, as well as Brandon Webb's The Power of Thought podcast, but these will now be free to hear immediately on the SOFREP app as well as Apple Podcasts and elsewhere.  We decided on this change for many reasons, but we want to continue to expand on the listener base that we have.  For those who signed up as members of the podcast as we experimented with this format over the past half year, we greatly appreciate it.  I would encourage those of you in that camp to become full fledged Team Room members and check out all of the great content that the guys you hear on SOFREP Radio regularly are working on.  If not, we hope you continue to listen, and if you run into any issues with your current membership, feel free to e-mail me personally at sofrep.radio@sofrep.com, and I'll be sure to forward you over to the right place now that we have an incredible customer service team at the company.  With that, our new managing editor, a man of mystery, The Odyssean joined me in studio while he was in town for the meetings.  And believe it or not, we live streamed, which you can check out, but he was sure to keep his identity concealed.  For those not in the know, The Odyssean has worked in Army intelligence, as well as on the private side doing work in Japan for many years.  For this show we discuss how important music can be to the operator working in an unfamiliar environment.  We also hear a story of T.O. creating a go-bag for a friend, and the importance of being prepared.  That's something we always stress to our Crate Club members. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Keynote lecture by Professor Astrid Erll (Goethe-University Frankfurt) recorded at 'In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe' conference, UCD, September, 2016.

Keynote lecture by Professor Astrid Erll (Goethe-University Frankfurt) recorded at 'In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe' conference, UCD, September, 2016.

In this episode, David asks: Is it currently on a conveyor belt of some kind, is something wrong with it beyond the fact of its sentience, and is it going into the air conditioning system?

Husserl-Archiv, Colloquium Phaenomenologicum

Husserl-Archiv, Colloquium Phaenomenologicum