Podcast appearances and mentions of phillip pullman

Livros mencionados:The War Poems, Wilfred Owen; O Quinto Filho, Doris Lessing; Saga dos Mundos Paralelos, Phillip Pullman;Uivo, Allen Ginsberg;O Lado Errado, Davide Coppo;O Coração Pensante, David Grossman.Sigam-nos no instagram: @leiturasembadanasEdição de som: Tale House

SPOILER: At the end of this franchise, they kill Pod.   Our season on bad YA film adaptations continues with 2007's The Golden Compass, based on the Phillip Pullman novel. In this episode, Billy has a bad day at work, Codie has a violent day at work, and Toby tries to ruin everything. Enjoy!   Next Episode's Homework: Inkheart (2008)   linktr.ee/soonmajorpod

The question in the title isn't rhetorical! Pippa has an answer for KJ about why Phillip Pullman's book goes by so many names, as well as info about the movie adaptation and the HBO series... and all the ways those adaptations went astray. Website: https://adaptordiepod.wixsite.com/mysite  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/adaptordiepod  Cover art by Jess Rubio. Music by Isabel Forden.   Sources: THE DARK SIDE OF NARNIA by Philip Pullman: https://web.archive.org/web/20010628221443/http://riff.hiof.no/~steinabl/PULLMANLEW.HTML THE GOLDEN COMPASS MOVIE WHAT WENT WRONG by Andrew Blair for Den of Geek: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-golden-compass-movie-what-went-wrong/ WHERE DID 'THE GOLDEN COMPASS' GO ASTRAY? from Vulture's The Take (no byline): https://www.vulture.com/2007/12/golden_compass_scripts.html HOW HOLLYWOOD SAVED GOD by Hanna Rosin for The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/12/how-hollywood-saved-god/306444/ Philip Pullman's thoughts on the HBO series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=oce5gKgdPFM&t=75s Kathleen Crawford's interview with Casting Networks: https://www.castingnetworks.com/news/how-all-of-us-strangers-casting-director-kahleen-crawford-turned-people-watching-into-a-thriving-career/ HIS DARK MATERIALS IS FINALLY GETTING TOLD WITHOUT (MUCH) BACKLASH by Nathan Smith for SyFy: https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/his-dark-materials-golden-compass-religion-church-hbo-movie

Panpsychism is the theory that consciousness (or mentality) is fundamentally present throughout the natural world. It has been gaining popularity across a variety of disciplines, from author Phillip Pullman, to neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist, to philosopher Phillip Goff. Jordan Peterson's ideas on consciousness intersect with panpsychism and it has a following amongst ecologists who want to advocate that non-human nature has rights. This lecture will attempt to describe and then evaluate panpsychism from a Christian perspective.Please note that the ideas expressed in this lecture do not necessarily represent the views of L'Abri Fellowship.For more resources, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library at labriideaslibrary.org. The library contains over two thousand lectures and discussions that explore questions about the reality and relevance of Christianity. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit englishlabri.substack.com

In a special edition of Front Row recorded at this year's Hay Festival, school children and young people put questions to four giants of Young Adult Fiction.Anthony Horowitz has written books for both adults and younger readers, but here discusses his iconic creation Alex Rider. Manon Steffan Ros won last year's Carnegie Medal, the first translated book to read the prize having originally been written in Welsh. Alex Wheatle is the author of the hugely popular Crongton Knights series, having written his first novel Brixton Rock in prison. And Frances Hardinge is the only children's author other than Phillip Pullman to win the Costa Prize Book of the Year with the Lie Tree, as well as being the other behind other much loved YA novels including Fly By Night.Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

We're back! On this episode we discuss the second book in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman.

The fellas complete their first trilogy with Phillip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass. In this episode they discuss a bit of angelology, the mulafa's strange body plans, what this book would be called if it wasn't named after a very minor and comparatively mundane object object, and did Will really walk 500 miles to be back with Lyra.Apologies for audio errors for the majority of the episode, they have been rectified.Trigger warning for the Catholic Church pedophilia scandal.

The fellas cross distant worlds in their discussion of the second in Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. The discuss the strange change in perspective on the hero Lyra through the introduction of Will, the surprisingly naked biblical allegories, and the confusing timeline of Lord Asriel's war to whack God.

Spoiler Warning. Chris and Taylor review the a fantasy drama television series, His Dark Materials, based on the trilogy of novels of the same name by Philip Pullman. It is produced by Bad Wolf and New Line Productions, for BBC One and HBO, with the latter handling international distribution. Season 3 picks up where we left off, where Lord Asriel called upon the angels to help him wage a war, and Mrs Coulter abducted her daughter Lyra to take her to "safety" back in their own world. This prompts Will to try and find Lyra to save her from her mother. The series stars Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Will Keen, Lewin Lloyd, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ruta Gedmintas, Amir Wilson, Nina Sosanya, Jade Anouka, Sean Gilder, Simone Kirby, Andrew Scott, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jonathan Aris, Chipo Chung, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Jamie Ward, James McAvoy, Alex Hassell.Follow us on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepotentialpodcast/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepotentialpodcast/?ref=pages_you_manageTwitter: https://twitter.com/thepotentialpodThanks to our sponsors: Keen: get your first 10 minutes with any psychic advisor for only 1.99 with our link - that's $99 In savings: https://trykeen.com/potential

Penn and Scrapple reunite to discuss the last book of His Dark Materials, "The Amber Spyglass" by Phillip Pullman. While there are some tangents regarding Prince Harry, penises, and Philadelphia restaurants, the pair manage to discuss Lyra and Will and their adventures. 

Join Penn and Rusty as they analyze book II in "His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife" by Phillip Pullman. New characters like Will Parry and Dr. Mary Malone are introduced as they interact with old favorites like Lyra, Lee Scoresby, and Serafina Pekkala.  As as aside, pardon our slight audio issues!  

This week we're back in our fantasy bag and deep diving into daemons with publishing publicist and podcast host Hannah Love! She is 1/4 of the Down The Rabbit Hole podcast and is probably the reason you've heard of Ella's novel. We discuss her cat Pekkala, Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials and all the hilarious ways in which cats let you know that they're very unimpressed with you. Send us YOUR pet stories (Ready, Pet, Go!) at comfortcreatures@maximumfun.org and don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe! Plus, follow us on social media: @Ccreaturespod on Twitter and @comfortcreaturespodcast on Instagram!Don't forget, it's not just your support we want- any guest ideas, topic suggestions or content that you want from us, please let us know!

To już! Dziś razem z Wami świętujemy trzecie urodziny naszego podkastu! Ten odcinek, podobnie jak w latach poprzednich, składa się z odpowiedzi na Wasze pytania. Tym razem pytaliście i pytałyście nas o to, jak układamy książki na półkach, jaką poezję lubimy czytać, jakie książki były kamieniami milowymi w naszym czytelniczym życiu. Tak więc spodziewajcie się mnóstwa tytułów, zabawnych historii i książkowych wyznań! Ale to nie wszystko: przygotowałyśmy dla Was rozdanie! Na trzecie urodziny do wygrania mamy trzy wyjątkowe książki. Mamy nadzieję, że o nie powalczycie i w ten sposób będziecie z nami świętować trzecie urodziny! Dziękujemy Wam za kolejny wspólny rok! Książki, o których rozmawiamy w podkaście, to: Neil Gaiman, „Gwiezdny pył”, tłum. Paulina Braiter, MAG; Terry Pratchett, książki ze Świata Dysku, tłum. Piotr Cholewa, Prószyński i S-ka; Marion Zimmer Bradley, „Mgły Avalonu”, tłum. Dagmara Chojnacka, Wydawnictwo Zysk i S-ka; Gabriel García Márquez, „Sto lat samotności”, tłum. Kalina Wojciechowska, Grażyna Grudzińska, Muza; Colm Tóibín, „Brooklyn”, Peguin Viking; Rebecca Solnit, „Mężczyźni objaśniają mi świat”, tłum. Anna Dzierzgowska, Karakter; Małgorzata Rejmer, „Bukareszt kurz i krew”, Czarne; Emilie Pine, „O tym się nie mówi”, tłum. Joanna Figiel, Cyranka; Phillip Pullman, seria Mroczne Materie, tłum. Wojciech Szypuła, MAG; Lemony Snicket, „Seria niefortunnych zdarzeń”, tłum. Jolanta Kozak, Egmont; Charlotte Brontë, „Dziwne losy Jane Eyre”, tłum. Teresa Świderska, MG. Mamy Patronite! Jeżeli chcesz dołączyć do naszego grona Matronek i Patronów, będziemy zaszczycone! Dla tych, którzy zdecydują się nas wspierać, mamy spersonalizowane książkowe rekomendacje, newslettery głosowe, podziękowania na stronie i wiele więcej! Szczegóły tutaj: https://patronite.pl/juztlumacze Zachęcamy do odwiedzin na naszym profilu na Instagramie: https://www.instagram.com/juz_tlumacze i na Facebooku https://www.facebook.com/juz.tlumacze oraz na naszej stronie internetowej https://juztlumacze.pl/ Intro: http://bit.ly/jennush

O que esperar do final de His Dark Materials? A série é uma produção HBO e BBC One que estreou em novembro de 2019. É uma adaptação da trilogia Fronteiras do Universo, de Phillip Pullman, considerada uma das grandes obras literárias da atualidade. A série já conquistou três prêmios do British Awards nas categorias técnicas por suas duas primeiras temporadas. A terceira temporada será lançada no dia 05 de dezembro de 2022 e chega ao streaming da HBO Max. Como já é sabido, a produção sempre propôs a finalizar a história em três temporadas, seguindo fielmente os eventos do material original, como tem feito até aqui. Na terceira temporada de His Dark Materials, é esperado o combate intenso contra a Autoridade, já que as duas primeiras temporadas pavimentaram a preparação para a guerra final. Para te lembrar dos principais acontecimentos das duas primeiras temporadas e te preparar para o que esperar do final de His Dark Materials, Amanda Barreiro conversa com Paulo Vinicius e sua amiga Ludmilla Angelo, em sua primeira participação no Perdidos na Estante. Bom episódio! Assista ao trailer que te faz pensar sobre o que esperar do fim de His Dark Materials https://youtu.be/uLPwwXC7ups Livros para ler mais e seja feliz A bússola de ouro A faca sutil  A luneta âmbar O fim é só o começo (Carol Vidal)  Mais um beijo pra gente! Quer receber um beijo nosso no próximo quadro "Momento do beijo"? É só nos deixar um salve em qualquer rede social ou um comentário no post. Estamos loucas para te beijar! ;) Ficha técnica Apresentação: Amanda Barreiro, Paulo Vinícius e Ludmilla Angelo Pauta: Amanda Barreiro Produção: Domenica Mendes Assistente e edição: Leonardo Tremeschin Capa e descrição da imagem: Amanda Barreiro Agradecimentos Especiais Esse episódio foi produzido graças a Airechu, Aline Bergamo, Allan Felipe Fenelon, Amauri Silva, Caio Amaro, Camila Vieira, Carol Vidal, Carolina Soares Mendes, Clecius Alexandre Duran, Daiane Silva Souza, Guilherme De Biasi, Igor Bajo, Janaína Fontes Vieira, Lucas Domingos, Lu Bento, Luiz Henrique Soares, Marina Jardim, Marina Kondratovich, Moacir de Souza Filho, Nilda, Priscilla Rubia, Ricardo Brunoro e Rodrigo Leite. Segue a gente, a gente é legal!  

Louise is enjoying the sunshine this week with her roasted courgette, halloumi and sundried tomato bake and Renee is sharing lemon ricotta pasta and a delicious cherry berry cocktail that's perfect for the summer.This week we're talking about His Dark Materials - the book/tv series by author Phillip Pullman. We talk about our favourite characters, witchcraft and spirituality, and ask the all-important question - what is Dust?The Renee is releasing her nervousness around sharing her gifts with others, and Louise is releasing her over-commitment to commitment. Renee is feeling awesome about watching QI and Louise is cleaning and cleansing the heck out of her home.For complete show notes and links, go to awesomeon20.com/episode60Follow Renee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Renee_awesomeon20/Follow Louise on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Louise_awesomeon20/Support the show

Happy Thursday, kiddos! On today's episode Max is going to teach us the proper etiquette for encountering giants in the forest, and Janey is going to give us another impossible riddle? What is up with these kings?!Starting a podcast of your own? We recommend using Buzzsprout to get your podcast out on all platforms! Sign up today and get a $20 Amazon gift card!Max's sources:"White as Milk, Red as Blood: The Forgotten Fairy Tales of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth," illustrated by Willow Dawson, translated by Shelley Tanaka, with a forward by Phillip Pullman"Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany," article by Victoria Sussens-Messerer for The Guardian Janey's sources:"Wise Women: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World" by Suzanne I. Barchers

We're joined again by middle grade author Stephanie Cooke to talk about her favorite childhood book: The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman. In this spicy episode: Is it ok to include sexism, classism, and racism in fantasy books as worldbuilding, rather than theme or subject? What's the difference between critiquing organized religion versus spirituality itself? This is a deep one, folks. Not for the faint of heart! Stephanie Cooke is the author of the Oh My Gods! series and other books, which you can check out here. Music credit: striding background 0H_10m4 by Setuniman via Freesound.org

Hoy exploraremos aquellos mundos “de abajo” que pueblan por igual antropología y literatura. Los inframundos son, ante todo, lugares que pueden ser recorridos, que tienen habitantes y sobre todo, puertas por las cuales se puede (a veces se debe) pasar. Comenzaremos por uno de los inframundos más populares en la imaginación occidental, el Infierno de Dante, para luego aventurarnos en otros sitios: ríos que llevan a las tierras de los muertos, minas andinas o ciudades demoníacas en las cuales algunas personas han decidido habitar y trabajar. Muchos viajeros se han adentrado en los inframundos y aquí recogemos algunas de sus historias. Y como las puertas funcionan en ambas direcciones, muchas entidades suelen visitarnos para participar en los asuntos de los vivos, quizás ser agasajadas o temidas, según el caso. Excavar en busca de los mundos de abajo es también ir hacia atrás, hacia pasados enterrados que puede ser peligroso perturbar. Sin embargo, en estos mundos permeables los habitantes de ambas tierras van y vienen, negociando, disputando o cuidándose mutuamente para sostener el cosmos. Las obras de las que hablamos en este capítulo son: La divina comedia de Dante Alighieri; El paraíso perdido de John Milton; Das Steinerne Licht de Kai Meyer; El telescopio de ámbar de Phillip Pullman; Bajo el agua negra de Mariana Enriquez; Pensando en Supay o desde el Diablo de Pablo Cruz; Los tambores de los muertos de Marcio Goldman; La caída del cielo de Davi Kopenawa; Comemos a las minas y las minas nos comen a nosotros de June Nash

Quentin.. cher Quentin, une personnalité à suivre de près.  Un pur produit de l'Event devenu une des plus belles réf en matière de "Story-telling" spé Event.  Pour reprendre le super  article fait avec l'Innovatoire :  "Depuis le plus jeune âge, nous écoutons des histoires, nous écrivons des histoires et nous vivons nos histoires. Danny Harris disait d'ailleurs que “le storytelling est le plus vieux métier du monde” car “après la nourriture, le toit et l'amitié, les histoires sont la chose dont nous avons le plus besoin au monde” complète Phillip Pullman. Du conte lu par ses parents avant de s'endormir, aux premiers récits imaginaires d'enfants, nous sommes configurés pour vivre des histoires et même, des expériences. Évidemment, on constate aujourd'hui l'émergence du contenu dans les métiers de la communication. On parle d'ailleurs d'une chaîne de valeur complète, de la copie pub à l'événement physique : tout est lié.  Et plus qu'une campagne “produit”, les annonceurs content aujourd'hui des histoires de marque qui s'inscrivent dans le temps long et en multicanalité. Le business modèle des agences s'adapte, les annonceurs modifient leurs briefs et de nouveaux acteurs se positionnent. Au revoir la famille hollandaise qui mange du fromage blanc en souriant naîvement, bien le bonjour au storytelling ! Ce « jus de cerveau » vertueux et capable de faire le lien entre l'histoire et la réalité. C'est encore plus S3XY non ? " La suite sur --> https://www.linnovatoire.fr/le-storytelling-des-marques-amplifie-lexperience-evenementielle-partie-1/ « LES BONNES HISTOIRES, CE N'EST PAS CE QUI MANQUE, MAIS LES MEILLEURES, CE SONT LES VRAIES.”  Quentin Thieulin Directeur Conseil & Responsable du planning stratégique chez LIVESTORY  https://www.linkedin.com/in/quentinthieulin/

On your latest A View on Access, Tim Calvert shines a spotlight on Phillip Pullman's The Book of Dust and checks out what's coming up with audio description at The Bridge Theatre. Immerse yourself in the audio described production and touch-tour of The Book of Dust: La belle Sauvage, which took place on February 5th 2022 at the Bridge Theatre.  In this sequel story to His Dark Materials series, follow two young people on their journey to deliver baby Lyra to the safety of Jordan College. But as flood waters rise and mystical beings and dark assassins emerge to claim the child, will their little boat reach the safety of Oxford in time? Upcoming AD productions at The Bridge Theatre:  Straight Line Crazy with Ralph Fiennes - AD show Sat 4th June  The Southbury Child - AD show Sat 30th July Find out more here: Bridge Theatre AVOA is written, presented and produced by Tim Calvert of Calvert Creative Concepts for RNIB Connect Radio and The Audio Description Association. For more information or to get involved email aviewonaccess@gmail.com  Image shows the poster of The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage production. Two young people in a both, one clutching a baby, heading through rough waters with the famous Tower Bridge London in the background.

The Ladies get together to discuss The Golden Compass, a story about a young girl in a different universe on a destined journey to another universe.

En plena bajada de temperaturas y con heridos por el camino, hacemos un episodio sobre el frío. El origen de la palabra, su relación con la muerte y hablamos de pistolas de lágrimas, de las frases rídiculas de Mr.Freeze, de Snowpiercer, Phillip Pullman, Hermano de Hielo, Fronze y Hans Christian Andersen. Menciones especiales: Libros: Snowpiercer, El libro de las lágrimas, Luces del norte, Hermano de hielo. Películas: Las crónicas de Riddick, El día de mañana, Snowpiercer, El resplandor, El día de la marmota, Los odiosos ocho, y Batman y Robin. Series: Riverdale. Podéis seguirnos en Instagram en @macedoniasalvaje y en Twitter en @macesalvaje, donde compartimos artículos de los que hablamos y recomendamos todo tipo de artefactos culturales.

When it's time to talk about the Phillip Pullman novel The Golden Compass (1995) and the corresponding Chris Weitz film The Golden Compass (2007), you find a guest with more than one tattoo inspired by His Dark Materials, and that's where author and podcaster Mallory O'Meara comes in. Mallory O'Meara is most recently the author of Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol, as well as the LA Times Bestseller The Lady From The Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick. She also hosts the literary podcast Reading Glasses with filmmaker and writer Brea Grant. IT'S OUT!!! Order Maggie's Graphic Novel, SQUAD !!!! If you like us, you'll also enjoy: Following the pod on twitter: https://twitter.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast

What a thrill it was to chat with Robin Whitten, founder and editor of AudioFile Magazine. I rely on their reviews for all of the audiobooks I check out at my library (yes! You can check out audiobooks at your library). Today, Robin and I chatted about how a narrator can bring you deeper into a story or drag you further out of it, how a good narrator can redeem an average book (and vice versa) and why the movie version of The Golden Compass didn't work. If you have never read The Golden Compass, I highly recommend you take Robin's advice and experience it on audio. It's a full cast production and it is truly something special. Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram     Guest: Robin Whitten Website/Twitter/Behind the Mic with AudioFile Podcast/Audiobook Break Podcast   Discussed in this episode: The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman His Dark Materials Series by Phillip Pullman Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel by John LeCarré   Kate Winslet narrated audiobooks: The Twits, The Minpins, and The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl Matilda by Roald Dahl You're a Bad Man, Mr. Gum by Andy Stanton Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen   The Golden Compass movie His Dark Materials television series Other audiobooks narrated by Sean Barrett (voice of lorick Byrnison) Neil Gaiman self-narrated audiobooks Always by Morris Gleitzman Always is the final book in the story of Felix, the hero of Morris Gleitzman's Once, Then, Now, After, Soon, and Maybe The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, read by Alfred Molina and a Full Cast The Iliad, narrated by Anton Lesser David Copperfield by Charles Dickens   Discussed in our Patreon Segment The AudioFile Magazine Golden Voices Simon Jones George Guidall Gerard Doyle Laura Lippman Linda Emond Robert Bathurst Jason Culp   (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links, meaning I get a few bucks off your purchase at no extra expense to you. Anytime you shop for books, you can use my affiliate link on Bookshop, which also supports Indie Bookstores around the country. If you're shopping for everything else – clothes, office supplies, gluten-free pasta, couches – you can use my affiliate link for Amazon. Thank you for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)

What a thrill it was to chat with Robin Whitten, founder and editor of AudioFile Magazine. I rely on their reviews for all of the audiobooks I check out at my library (yes! You can check out audiobooks at your library). Today, Robin and I chatted about how a narrator can bring you deeper into a story or drag you further out of it, how a good narrator can redeem an average book (and vice versa) and why the movie version of The Golden Compass didn't work. If you have never read The Golden Compass, I highly recommend you take Robin's advice and experience it on audio. It's a full cast production and it is truly something special. Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram     Guest: Robin Whitten Website/Twitter/Behind the Mic with AudioFile Podcast/Audiobook Break Podcast   Discussed in this episode: The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman His Dark Materials Series by Phillip Pullman Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel by John LeCarré   Kate Winslet narrated audiobooks: The Twits, The Minpins, and The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl Matilda by Roald Dahl You're a Bad Man, Mr. Gum by Andy Stanton Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen   The Golden Compass movie His Dark Materials television series Other audiobooks narrated by Sean Barrett (voice of lorick Byrnison) Neil Gaiman self-narrated audiobooks Always by Morris Gleitzman Always is the final book in the story of Felix, the hero of Morris Gleitzman's Once, Then, Now, After, Soon, and Maybe The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, read by Alfred Molina and a Full Cast The Iliad, narrated by Anton Lesser David Copperfield by Charles Dickens   Discussed in our Patreon Segment The AudioFile Magazine Golden Voices Simon Jones George Guidall Gerard Doyle Laura Lippman Linda Emond Robert Bathurst Jason Culp   (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links, meaning I get a few bucks off your purchase at no extra expense to you. Anytime you shop for books, you can use my affiliate link on Bookshop, which also supports Indie Bookstores around the country. If you're shopping for everything else – clothes, office supplies, gluten-free pasta, couches – you can use my affiliate link for Amazon. Thank you for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)

This week our picture book is ‘Ghosts in the House!' by Kazuno Kohara and our chapter book is ‘The Monsters of Rookhaven' by Padraig Kenny Articles referenced by Nina with Halloween craft activities for kids to go alongside Ghosts in the House can be found: Here - https://hannahsartclub.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/spooky-haunted-houses-inspired-by-kazuno-kohara-october-2011/   And here - http://www.prayingforparker.com/ghosts-in-the-house-by-kazuno-kohara-and-an-extension-activity/   The photographic project Matt was mentioning can be seen on our social media accounts: @TrunchbullPod on twitter and @eventhetrunchbull on Instagram   The interview with Padraig Kenny, referenced by Matt, was conducted by Dave O'Callaghan for easons.com and can be viewed here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOgsAWK_mV0   An article detailing the buying of film and TV rights for ‘The Monsters of Rookhaven' is here - https://www.thebookseller.com/news/dream-logic-snaps-rights-kennys-monsters-rookhaven-1274987   We also reference various of our own past episodes in this one, which can be found at the following links: Ep 17: Howl's Moving Castle - https://eventhetrunchbull.podbean.com/e/episode-17-shooting-stars-look-up-and-howls-moving-castle/ Ep1: Not Now Bernard - https://eventhetrunchbull.podbean.com/e/episode-1-monsters-young-werewolf-and-not-now-bernard/ Ep 2: Pog - https://eventhetrunchbull.podbean.com/e/episode-2-grief-the-sad-book-and-pog/ Halloween Special #1: The Jumbies - https://eventhetrunchbull.podbean.com/e/halloween-special-1-ghosts-for-breakfast-and-the-jumbies/   We also mentioned A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicholl and The Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman.   Episode Transcript will follow later this week, and will be available here - https://eventhetrunchbull.wordpress.com/home/transcripts/   And as always you can check out our bookshop dot org shop front here - https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/trunchbullpod   What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com

Welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break #22, where we are pleased to welcome Jen DeTracey as our guest!   Our Coffee Break series is your chance to get to know members of our diverse OMS community. In each episode, you'll join Geoff Allix for an intimate chat with a different member of our global community. Our guests will share their personal stories and talk about their challenges and victories, large and small. We hope you find common cause and a source of inspiration from the stories of these very special people.   As always, your comments and suggestions are always welcome by emailing podcast@overcomingms.org. This episode is a little departure from our normal guest format, but we hope you enjoy the conversation with Jen, coming to you straight from Montreal, Canada.   Bio:   Jen DeTracey was diagnosed with MS in 2010. Within six months, she thought she'd never work again. At the time of diagnosis, she was at the peak of her career as a marketing consultant. After navigating rough waters for several years, Jen explored how to begin thriving while living with MS and fatigue.    Fast forward to 2019, Jen became a certified life coach. As a result of this training, she uncovered how to dramatically improve the quality of her life, recognizing that mindset is paramount to wellness and well-being. Jen launched the Women Thriving with MS YouTube channel and Facebook group. In 2021, she launched the weTHRIVE membership to support women who want to connect with others and discover how to thrive with MS.  We are better together.    Questions:   Jen, welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break. We're so pleased to have you on our program. The purpose of this series is to better get to know some of the diverse members of the OMS and larger MS community from around the world, and today you're in the hot seat. Can you tell our audience a little bit about yourself, what you do, where you're from, etc.? When were you diagnosed with MS and how did you initially deal with it? Did you find the healthcare infrastructure in Canada, where you live, supportive and useful in getting and managing your diagnosis? When you were diagnosed, I believe you were full steam ahead with your marketing career. What kind of lifestyle changes did you have to make to deal with the new MS reality, and how did that affect your work? Sounds like you dealt with some difficult emotional and physical barriers after your diagnosis. Can you give us a little insight into what you experienced and what helped you manage some of these challenges? Can you tell us about Lift Strategies, the book you wrote? What's it about and why did you decide to write it? You also ultimately founded Women Thriving with MS. Our listeners can get a whole host of links in our show notes, but perhaps you can tell us what Women Thriving with MS's mission is, and the impact you hope to make on the MS community through this effort? If there is one thing you can do to make a positive impact on the MS community – let's call it your legacy – what would that be? So, what's next for Jen DeTracey? Finally, if you tap into your experience with MS for a nugget of wisdom that would help people ease into and better adopt the necessary changes they need to make to their mindsets and lifestyles to live a healthier physical and emotional life with MS, what would that advice be?   Katy's Links:   Check out Women, Live Better with MS - Discover 4 Powerful ways to REDUCE Stress, a four-part coaching series for women living with MS Check out Jen's coaching website, Women Thriving with MS Check out Women Thriving with MS on Facebook Check out Women Thriving with MS on YouTube Check out Women Thriving with MS on Twitter Check out Jen's book on marketing on Amazon   Coming up on our next episode:   Thinking of getting pregnant or already are? Join us on September 29 for the next episode of Living Well with MS, featuring OMSer Ingrid Adelsberger's firsthand account of pregnancy while having MS. You won't want to miss hearing her story and her insights on this important life experience.   Don't miss out:   Subscribe to this podcast and never miss an episode. You can catch any episode of Living Well with MS here or on your favorite podcast listening app. Don't be shy – if you like the program, leave a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you tune into the show. And feel free to share your comments and suggestions by emailing podcast@overcomingms.org.   S3E41b Transcript Coffee Break #22: Jen DeTracey   Geoff Allix (1s): Welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break, a part of the Overcoming MS podcast family, made for people with Multiple Sclerosis interested in making healthy lifestyle choices. Today, you'll meet someone living with MS from our global overcoming MS community. Our guest will share their personal perspective on the positive and practical lifestyle changes they have made, which have helped them lead a fuller life. You can check out our show notes for more information and useful links. You can find these on our website at www.overcomingms.org/podcast. If you enjoy the show, please spread the word about us on your social media channels. Finally, don't forget to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode.   Geoff Allix (46s): So, get your favorite drink ready and let's meet our guest. On this episode of the Living Well with MS Coffee Break, I'm joined by Jen DeTracey. Jen's bounced back from her MS diagnosis to author a book on marketing called Lift Strategies and launched a health coaching business called Women Thriving with MS. So, Jen, welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break. We're so pleased to have you on our program and the purpose of the Coffee Break series is to get to know some of the MS community from around the world. And so today is your turn and could you tell us all a bit about you, where you're from, what you do and so on.   Jen DeTracey (1m 26s): Yeah. Hi, Geoff. It's great to be here. And I'm from-- I've been living in Canada for most of my life. Right now, I'm in Montreal and I came from a family of four kids. I'm the only one with red hair and I was the runt of all the tall people. And what's interesting is my father was in the Canadian Armed Forces. So, we moved around a lot, around Canada. We were down in the US in Alabama, which was shocking to me as a Canadian, for a year, as well as in the UK when I was six. So, I had many different schools and was constantly adapting to change. And at 21, I fell in love, but it was with marketing. I attended a business college.   Jen DeTracey (2m 9s): Yeah, I was my love at the time. And when I graduated, I actually started to do college radio, which was really exciting. I sort of dove into music in a very deep way. And my dream was to work for a record label. We had a small one in Canada, an independent, still exists called Network Records. I don't know. Have you heard of an artist called Sarah McLaughlin?   Geoff Allix (2m 32s): I'm aware of the name but I can't think of anything she's done.   Jen DeTracey (2m 36s): Yeah. Well, you know, she's kind of been there, done that now, but back in the day because, I'm 55 right now, back in the day when I hopped into the music business at 26 and was doing that, I was doing marketing for her and that was a blast. In fact, I was in the music business for 10 years until things moved more to digital and dotcoms were dying. And I started my own business and that was a marketing strategy business. So, and I've been doing that online actually. I switched to moving to only meeting with clients online about six years ago, long before COVID hit, as a way to manage my energy.   Jen DeTracey (3m 21s): And so, I'm doing that presently and I basically aim to work about 20 hours a week and I also started, but I know we'll get into this later. I started the Women Thriving with MS Community. So, we can chat about that in a bit.   Geoff Allix (3m 38s): Absolutely. And then when were you diagnosed with MS?   Jen DeTracey (3m 42s): Yeah, it was back in 2010, so almost 11 years ago now. And ironically, it was like at the busiest time of my life, darn it. I was on a three-day speaking tour and right before I left, I noticed I was hugely fatigued and I was just like, okay, I'm just tired because I'm working a lot, like 10-hour, 12-hour days. And, you know, my left hand was acting a little funny and I was kind of like, what's going on with that? So, when I did the tour, it was very compressed and crazy. And I got up on the second morning of that tour and I just was-- I was like, I'm so tired.   Jen DeTracey (4m 23s): I've got to get out and run because I need to get some energy. And I was running, my left foot started to drop. And I actually, I thought it was hilarious. I'm like, this doesn't hurt. So, what's going on here? But I felt I did have to hide that while I was up speaking with people. Like I had to put a table in front of me, so they couldn't see my leg on day three, which was kind of hanging a little bit. So, when I got back to-- this trip was in Northern Canada. And so, when I came back home where I was living in Vancouver at the time, the next day I went to my naturopath and I went to my physiotherapist to try and get me in shape.   Jen DeTracey (5m 7s): And they said, "You know, if there's any problems, just come back on Monday. We think there's something in your C3, C4 area of your neck. So, we'll check that out, you know." Again, in the meanwhile, I had plans on that Saturday. So that was on Friday. On Saturday I had plans to go see a play and I met up with a friend and she said, "What's going on with your leg?" And I said, oh, don't worry about that. Like, let's just go in and watch the play. And she's like, "Well, you know, I think you need to go to Emergency." So, I said, well, let's watch the play first. So we went into the play, had dinner because, you know, you can't go to Emergency before having something to eat because you never know how many hours you're going be in there for. You can't go on an empty stomach.   Jen DeTracey (5m 47s): Yeah. So that's what we did. And so, I was fast-tracked and that night at the hospital, they had done all, everything. And then they've moved me into a holding tank area and they said-- I said, "Excuse me, can I go home now? You've done all these tests." They're like, "No, we're going to page a neurologist to come in in the morning." And I'm like okay. Like I was clueless. What does that mean, you know?   Geoff Allix (6m 12s): And when you think it might be bad because I've been through the whole chiropractor, osteoporosis type thing that it could be a trapped nerve. And equally, I had a dropped left foot early on, which I discovered from running because I used to do a lot of running and you, yeah, you're expecting it to be a trapped nerve because-- And a lot of sort of chiropractors or osteoporosis people are sort of saying, "Oh yes, we think it's trapped nerve here that's causing this." And so, yeah, to then be told that you're going to see a neurologist, you know, why we would have to see a neurologist? So, I can imagine. But how was the health care system in Canada for treating MS?   Geoff Allix (6m 53s): Is it pretty good?   Jen DeTracey (6m 54s): Yeah. What's interesting is it is pretty good in some ways. If I can just, I want to backtrack for a sec to-- So what happened there in that situation was that I was diagnosed within 48 hours with MS. And then they put me on the steroids, gave me the lumbar puncture and everything. And what I found was that I was so pumped up on those steroids that I couldn't sleep, and I felt crazy and that's kind of how I left the hospital, you know, in that state of shock. So, when we look at the healthcare system, I can say that, yes, like I was able to access a neuro and this neurologist, she was great.   Jen DeTracey (7m 38s): I was so lucky to get her, you know, in the lottery of neurologists. When I left the hospital though, they don't prepare you for anything. You know, I'm pumped up on steroids. I'm in shock. They don't talk to you about diet or next steps. They just say, "You know, here's a piece of paper with some information on the MS Society. And you're going to see a neurologist in three months and just carry on with your normal life."   Geoff Allix (8m 4s): So to speak the medical part was okay, but the support side of it was maybe a bit more lacking?   Jen DeTracey (8m 12s): Yeah. There's nothing in place and you know, I think that this is 11 years ago. And I think now with hospitals in Canada and, you know, they're being sort of a stretch of, you know, not as many resources available because the demand for serving people is so high that I don't know if that will ever happen. And that's something that I would like to see change in that industry. It's amazing how you could, if you could just sit down with somebody and say, "Okay, yeah, like this is shocking for you to go through this and here are the next steps that will be happening for you," I think just a great entry point into starting that new journey.   Geoff Allix (8m 53s): Yeah. I mean, I don't, I've spoken to people from lots of countries now, and I can't think of anywhere that they've said actually that there was someone who gave that sort of support. I mean, there was an element I had of that sort of support, but it was from a neurologist who really had been through the process many times before, but he wasn't trained to give the emotional support side of things. So, yeah. And I'm not aware of any country where they do, to be honest, certainly no one's told me about it, but you're right--   Jen DeTracey (9m 24s): I think in the US, yeah.   Geoff Allix (9m 26s): I was just going to say, yeah, you're right. It would be hugely beneficial.   Jen DeTracey (9m 32s): When I have-- I've had a conversation more recently with a woman who's an MS nurse in the US. She's actually retiring, but there's a whole body of MS Nurses internationally. Most of them are in the US and Canada. And I think that they are more astute to important information beyond the medical side of things for MS. But in Canada, we don't really have that structure in place. And I'm curious in the UK, if you have something like that.   Geoff Allix (10m 4s): We call it a postcode lottery here. So, it is dependent on where you live really. So, some, I mean, we have a great health care system with the NHS. It's free of views and that's, you know, very effective. And I think a lot of people, myself included might have private healthcare, but that actually find that the national NHS system has been the main thing that they're using, but it does depend on where you are. You certainly get different treatment. And if you're in different parts of the UK, so Scotland has different medications allowed as opposed to Wales, which has different medications allowed compared to England.   Geoff Allix (10m 45s): So, it does very much depend on where you are. So, after diagnosis, what's next? So, what changes did you make? How do you deal with the reality of having MS?   Jen DeTracey (11m 2s): Yeah, you know, at that point, because I was at the peak of my career, I really didn't have-- I had enough time to take a break when I came home from the hospital for maybe two to three weeks. And that's because my daughter who lives in Spain, I had a plan to go visit her, but I knew I couldn't. It just wasn't really, I didn't have the capacity, the energy, and after, you know, being on these steroids. So, I basically used that time to recover, but I had six months of training contracts where I would go and do full-day trainings and also regular clients. And so, I had to figure out how can I make that work.   Jen DeTracey (11m 43s): Because one day, a full training was very difficult. So, I just tried to space them out in a way where I didn't do two days in a row anywhere. And the challenge for me was because I had put so much time and energy into my business in the last three years, leading up to this situation of being diagnosed, that it was completely my identity. So, it was very hard for me. And I took naps every day, but I was reluctant at that point. I've surrendered to that now. Naps are like awesome. But back then, I was just like, why do I have to take these naps? So, you know, by the time I finished those contracts and was just pushing through in my MS denying state of mind, I just hit a wall and, you know, I could barely get out of bed.   Jen DeTracey (12m 31s): And, you know, I think the biggest fear was losing my mobility. So that's kind of where I landed. And then I had to, you know, really had to look at things and figure out how to do my life differently because denying MS was not working for me. And living in that vacuum around living with MS and fear was just, you know, it was kind of basically purgatory, right?   Geoff Allix (12m 54s): So, what did help with managing the challenges of having MS?   Jen DeTracey (12m 60s): I think for me, I was really lucky because my neurologist, first of all, told me when I met with her at three months, she said, you know, often people will grieve their diagnosis for up to three years that she has seen that. And it was really helpful that gave me permission to be able to grieve. It gave me permission to acknowledge that being diagnosed with MS can be traumatic. And so, I just had to make some changes in my life. And also, people were making changes on my behalf. I don't know if you've heard the stat that 75 percent of people that get diagnosed with MS lose family members or friends, because those people can't handle it.   Jen DeTracey (13m 42s): And that happened to me. I had some, a friend that I was hanging out with that I lost. She just couldn't handle it. I quit running, which I had been doing training for a 10K because I couldn't. So, I had to look at like what could I do? Who was I as a person if I wasn't going to be able to work anymore? That was a possibility. And if I was not going to be able to run anymore, which was my way to destress, you know, how was I going to change that? I know. Did you go through some bumpy times yourself, Geoff?   Geoff Allix (14m 14s): Yeah, certainly. I went from being very active, so running the marathon. Not long before diagnosis, I used to surf, rock climb, mountain bike, snowboard, and a lot of those things. I'm not entirely ruling them out. I mean, I've been snowboarding since diagnosis, but that's come become harder recently, but, yeah, it's difficult. When that's kind of your, that, as you said, that my life outside work was sport. And a lot of that's become harder. So, yeah, you do have to work out, but you have to work out.   Geoff Allix (14m 56s): What can you do now? Rather than think about the things that I can't do, I'm thinking about the things I can do and trying to expand the things I can do.   Jen DeTracey (15m 5s): Absolutely. I think that's, you know, in that soul-searching that I had, where I was deep-diving and asking myself who am I now? Like, who's Jen DeTracey now? And at that point, I decided, you know, one of the things was I needed to feel positive and hopeful. And so, I just kind of had my connection with God in the way that it was. I wasn't really a church-going person, but just that and getting into spirituality. And I had already been doing meditation, but I knew that I needed to get back into that. And I started to get back into my stretching and meditation routine because that was something I was doing before diagnosis to have that in my toolkit. And also I realized that I needed some therapy and the therapist that I picked to help me deal with my anger and upset around the MS just happened to be Buddhist.   Jen DeTracey (15m 56s): And she really taught me about how to embrace feelings. So instead of being angry and pushing MS away, which wasn't really working for me anyway, pushing it away, it just got worse was that I just had to acknowledge those feelings around it. And by bringing those feelings closer, as opposed to pushing them away, they were able to not feel so big and diffused. And that got me to the place of acceptance around living with MS. So instead of having this relationship of hate or anger towards MS, it was, you know, it's not like I always liked it, but I could accept that it was there. And I think that was a huge, huge turning point for me to realize that MS is a part of me, but it's not who I am.   Jen DeTracey (16m 43s): So, when people say I have MS, I don't-- for me, I like to say I live with MS, you know. That just feels better for me than saying I have it, you know. I don't know. That's what's feels comfortable for me.   Geoff Allix (17m 1s): I think a lot of people put that as an acronym of PwMS, People with MS, that you're with MS, you don't have MS. But I mean, yeah, I guess it's just words, but I think it's a mindset thing of how you think about it as much as anything.   Jen DeTracey (17m 18s): Exactly. To me, it's a mindset thing. And, you know, as part of what I started to do is I started through my therapist. I started going to silent retreats and they were kind of nice because I could have that time to soul search, but I was getting fed by someone else. I could sleep as much as I want, and I had a spiritual director that I could talk to once a day. And I did three 10-day silent retreats over a period of time. And that was really, really great for me and I realized instead of running, I could ride my bike, even though in the first few years, I did have some topples, but I'm good now. And I got back into swimming, and I've always loved walking. So, all of those things seem to work.   Jen DeTracey (17m 59s): And the only thing that seemed to be getting in my way were vertigo relapses, which in retrospect, back seven years before I was diagnosed, I had a vertigo relapse so bad that I had to be wheeled into the hospital. Like I was just like throwing up everywhere. I couldn't like sit up or anything and had to be put on some kind of drip to calm me down. So, relapses, vertigo relapses have been with me. I have a lesion on the eye center in my brain. And when they were, they are nowhere near like they were in the past. There was one I had, it was so bad. All I could do is lay on my bed or on my floor and listen to audiobooks like Phillip Pullman's Golden Compass, you know, so that's what I did, you know.   Jen DeTracey (18m 47s): I'm like, I couldn't go outside at first because the light in my eyes was too intense. And so, I just, you know, I was kind of rolling with it and I was living by myself. So, it was a very kind of lonely time, but it was a time of incredible reflection and just figuring things out for me.   Geoff Allix (19m 6s): And could you tell us about your book Lift Strategies, and why you decided to write that?   Jen DeTracey (19m 13s): Yeah, that's a great question. And the thing about the book was because I had been experiencing these dark times of being in this dark place. In fact, you know, there was a time in the beginning where I felt suicidal because I felt that the rug had been pulled out under me. But basically, I just asked myself, what is it that I want to do that I haven't done yet? And because I had been out there speaking and technically professional speakers have a book, I decided I'm going to publish a book. And so, I had all these weekly blogs that I'd written for seven years from my marketing strategy business, and I revamped them, and I hired a person to create the book cover and to edit, and all those kinds of things to make that book look really stellar.   Jen DeTracey (20m 1s): And, you know, that really helped me get back on track. And I also reduced my work hours and I set a goal for myself. I get that book done in a year, to me 18 months because I had some bumpy periods, but, you know, the day that I had my book launch at a little café and brought friends and colleagues that was a pivotal time for me. It's like I hadn't gotten through the hardest part of my life. And I had created something and put my focus towards it. So really it was just for me, that book was-- it saved my life. That's what it did. It saved me and it put me in a positive frame of mind, and it gave me a purpose. And I think that having a purpose is so important to healing.   Geoff Allix (20m 43s): And the other key thing in your bio mentioned is that you founded Women Thriving with MS. So, could you tell us a bit about what Women Thriving with MS is and the impact that you hope it will make?   Jen DeTracey (20m 59s): Absolutely. So, my mission, the mission with Women Thriving with MS is to guide women who are surviving with MS to connect with others and discover how to thrive with MS. And when I say thriving, what I mean is living that best life with MS. And this idea came to me at one of my silent retreats. Actually, I was getting some healing touch on a table, and I had this voice come to me saying I could do something more purposeful. And I was really curious about that. What would that be? And so, I walked the labyrinth, and I went up to my little room at my desk, in my little room. And I started to think about why is creating an online community of women living with MS important to me?   Jen DeTracey (21m 47s): And I think I just wanted to create a space for women to feel they belonged, that they mattered, that there was something for them that may be in their day-to-day life, they didn't feel sometimes understood by the people around them, or they didn't have the encouragement of others who know what it's like to live with MS. And so that's kind of where that came from. And I just feel that having-- I started off with a private Facebook group and during COVID, I invited women to gather on Zoom.   Jen DeTracey (22m 28s): And women really liked it. And I took them through the coaching experience. And this led to me starting a membership called weTHRIVE, which I just had the first opportunity to open that up in April. So, I have members in there now and, you know, basically, I take them through a process where they focus on one key area of their life that they want to focus on for a six-week cycle. And then every three weeks we meet online, and we see, you know, where the barriers are, where they're breaking through, and look at mindset. And we celebrate those wins no matter how big or small.   Geoff Allix (23m 12s): Okay. We'll add links in the show notes if anyone wants to look for more information about Women Thriving with MS. There's links available there, so definitely worth checking it out. And that sounds like a great approach. I think, you're almost setting your own target, but then helping each other to achieve those targets, no matter how big or small they are.   Jen DeTracey (23m 33s): Exactly. And that's why as part of the membership for women that want to participate, not all do, they can be part of a buddy program so that they have weekly support from one another. And one of the members, and what she said was she loved the accountability buddy group, because it keeps her honest, you know. We can say, yeah, yeah, well, I did my exercise or whatever, but when you're in an accountability group, it's like, you know, you can be a little more honest about where you're at, right?   Geoff Allix (24m 4s): Yeah. Especially actually works well I think now because of COVID and the virtual world that we have, that if everyone's joining up remotely, then actually it doesn't matter. You don't have to be physically living in the same town being somewhere else is sort of normalized in community, hasn't it?   Jen DeTracey (24m 23s): Absolutely. And if you think-- Yeah, totally. And, you know, Geoff, if you think about it, I mean, there's so many people that live with MS that live in small towns that don't necessarily have the resources, that don't even have, you know, because depending on their income, they may be living in a place where the hospital or different things are quite far away. And so, what is there for them if everything's in person?   Geoff Allix (24m 50s): So, to wrap up on the things you're doing for the MS community, if there's one thing that could be your legacy for your impacts on the MS community, what would that be? What would you hope that would be?   Jen DeTracey (25m 4s): Yeah. To me, that's creating a movement for women with MS together from all around the world to support them in just living their lives better with MS. That's really what I'm aiming for as my legacy.   Geoff Allix (25m 18s): Okay. And what are you planning next?   Jen DeTracey (25m 22s): Oh, there's always something, Geoff. What I'm going to do is in October, October 18th, I'm going to run a two-week event that's going to happen on certain days called Women Striving to Thrive with MS and it's going to be a coaching sort of two-week period so that people can just hop on and experience that. And if they want to, after that, they can join the women. Pardon me. They can join the weTHRIVE membership when the doors open because I only open the membership twice a year. So, they only have a couple of times when they can become a part of it.   Geoff Allix (26m 3s): Okay. That's worth knowing. But presumably, all the information is available online about how you go through that membership process.   Jen DeTracey (26m 10s): Yep. It will be in the links below, and at www.womenthrivingwithMS.com and so on.   Geoff Allix (26m 15s): And there's a question that we ask all our guests on the Coffee Break, which is that if you were to think about one nugget of wisdom that could help people, maybe the newly diagnosed, adapt to the change they need to make to their lifestyle, to their mindset, to live the best life they can with MS, what would that advice be?   Jen DeTracey (26m 40s): Okay, well, I'm going to cheat and have three little nuggets if I can.   Geoff Allix (26m 44s): That's fine. Absolutely.   Jen DeTracey (26m 47s): So, number one is the slow down with MS. You know, take the time to rest and nap. And before you crash, build that into your life. It can be very restoring and help with the mental health. Then number two is trust yourself. You know your body, especially when you live with MS. You really get to know your body and you know what's best for you. And the last one is number three, which is know that we're better together when we live with MS. Living in a vacuum is a lonely place. I know because I've been there and if you're not already part of an MS community, find one that's a good fit for you, like Overcoming MS, Women Thriving with MS, because we matter.   Jen DeTracey (27m 38s): And, you know, it's important to have that support and belonging so that you can heal and be healthy and experience harmony.   Geoff Allix (27m 48s): Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think because I came across Overcoming MS very early, then I felt part of a community, but I mean, I don't know what it would be like, but I imagine it would be really difficult if you were diagnosed and you saw your neurologist maybe every six months and in between nothing, that complete vacuum of support. I mean, the support is there, if I can go to the hospital, I can see an MS nurse, but these are things that I have to ask for. I can imagine that people could just be sitting at home, see their neurologist, maybe even annually and in between that having no experience, because I don't have a sort of Overcoming MS community.   Geoff Allix (28m 33s): I don't know anyone else with MS. My father had MS, but that was many years ago when he died. So, yeah, it would be very lonely. I think you're absolutely right. But for that community, and slowing down as well, that's a really useful bit of advice I was given actually from my first visit to a physio, since I was diagnosed with MS, who actually said, "You need to stop worrying about things like speed and time and things like that." For example, don't worry too much if you're late occasionally. He said, "Honestly if you're late, what's the worst thing that could happen?" So, he said, "Getting stressed is more of a problem for you than actually being late.   Geoff Allix (29m 16s): So, assuming you don't work as an ambulance driver or a fireman, then being late is not a big issue." And he was absolutely right. Actually, yeah, you can say to someone, "Yeah, I'm sorry. I was a bit late, took me a bit longer getting out of the house,” which it sometimes does. And people will accept that. It's not a big thing. It doesn't really matter too much, assuming you're not in a time-critical job obviously. Yeah, but absolutely. Thank you very much for that. And with that, I'd like to thank you for joining us, Jen DeTracey.   Jen DeTracey (29m 52s): Thank you, Geoff. It's a pleasure being here today.   Geoff Allix (29m 54s): Thank you for listening to this episode of Living Well with MS Coffee Break. Please check out this episode show notes at www.overcomingms.org/podcast. You'll find all sorts of useful links and bonus Information there. If you'd like to be featured in a future Coffee Break episode, or have any suggestions, please email us at podcast@overcomingms.org. You can also subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast platform, so you never miss an episode. Living Well with MS Coffee Break is kindly supported by a grant from the Happy Charitable Trust. If you'd like to support the Overcoming MS Charity and help keep our podcasts advertising free, you can donate online at www.overcomingms.org/donate.   Geoff Allix (30m 38s): Thank you for your support. Living Well with MS Coffee Break is produced by Overcoming MS, the world's leading multiple sclerosis healthy lifestyle charity. We are here to help inform, support, and empower everyone affected by MS. To find out more and subscribe to our e-newsletter, please visit our website at www.overcomingms.org. Thanks again for tuning in and see you next time.

Let's talk science fiction! Continuing with my “Where to Start” series, this episode is on where to start reading sci-fi. I'm joined by YouTubers Angela from the Literature Science Alliance and Tori Morrow. For exclusive bonus content and early access to episodes, consider joining the Chapter 3 Podcast Patreon   Looking for a book mentioned in the episode? Check here! *Note that all links are affiliate links from which we earn a commission to support the podcast Books from On My Radar segment: A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Holowell: https://amzn.to/3nmf0ur It All Comes Back to You by Farah Naz Rishi: https://amzn.to/38ZaLfO White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson: https://amzn.to/3k0Q8Xa Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune: https://amzn.to/3E8dQZm City of Thieves by Alex London: https://amzn.to/2X8mdUm First Light by Casey Berger: https://amzn.to/2Xcqo1j No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull: https://amzn.to/3C1mK9q Destroyer of Light by Jennifer Marie Brisset: https://amzn.to/3l6cFkA Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky: https://amzn.to/3hleIQJ Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson: https://amzn.to/3txf77w Other Books/Authors Mentioned His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman: https://amzn.to/2XbwYVG Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor: https://amzn.to/2X8b2KO The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins: https://amzn.to/38Xr0dC The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld: https://amzn.to/3ntSCz8 The Giver by Lois Lowry: https://amzn.to/3niUDyg Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card: https://amzn.to/3E4jJ9X The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov: https://amzn.to/3BUWI7w The Replicas series by Marilyn Kaye: https://amzn.to/3E64Ns8 Myst series: https://amzn.to/3tzUbNk Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang: https://amzn.to/3BWY01Z Do You Dream of Terra-Two by Temi Oh: https://amzn.to/3tvTJiU Exhalation by Ted Chiang: https://amzn.to/3hmax7d Kindred by Octavia Butler: https://amzn.to/2YMHp2A Expanse series by James S.A. Corey: https://amzn.to/3yYS4Dx The Martian by Andy Weir: https://amzn.to/3niPg29 World War Z by Max Brooks: https://amzn.to/3twoKTP Jurassic Park by Michael Crighton: https://amzn.to/2XiaJgO Dune by Frank Herbert: https://amzn.to/3yYsA9r The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells: https://amzn.to/2X5erdm Binti by Nnedi Okorafor: https://amzn.to/2YMRCvV The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers: https://amzn.to/3jWd4GR A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers: https://amzn.to/3A3UeDd We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker: https://amzn.to/3lgJfQC Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel: https://amzn.to/3z3jJ6i An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green: https://amzn.to/2VvTub4 Hyperion by Dan Simmons: https://amzn.to/3hl5zrt Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee: https://amzn.to/38Xua0Y To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers: https://amzn.to/3nnFZWC The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin: https://amzn.to/3EgHxrs Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden: https://amzn.to/3Aefu9m The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden: https://amzn.to/3E0s1jj A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine: https://amzn.to/2XggWtR Catfishing on Catnet by Naomi Kritzer: https://amzn.to/3E78rSf This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada: https://amzn.to/3hmoYbf The Stand by Stephen King: https://amzn.to/3k0k45x Nyxia by Scott Reintgen: https://amzn.to/3k2ds6Y The Fold by Peter Clines: https://amzn.to/38UDXEO The Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson: https://amzn.to/3k2y0fe Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson: https://amzn.to/390Agxv Scythe by Neal Schusterman: https://amzn.to/3C2e2re The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord: https://amzn.to/3hlCufq Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon: https://amzn.to/3z26jb1 Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell: https://amzn.to/3E9HRrG Exit West by Mohsin Hamid: https://amzn.to/3nlnVw9 Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett: https://amzn.to/3tuouVm This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone: https://amzn.to/2YBEGsA Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart: https://amzn.to/3z2WLfR   Follow us on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok @Chapter3Podcast and you can also find Bethany talking about books on YouTube @BeautifullyBookishBethany. You can now find episodes on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy6yRiktWbWRAFpByrVk-kg Interested in early access to episodes, private Discord channels and other perks? Consider joining the Chapter 3 Patreon! Or join our public Discord. A new episode will be available to download in two weeks!  This episode was recorded using a Blue Yeti USB condenser microphone kit: https://amzn.to/342dnqx

Nearly ten years in the making, Hideaki Anno's final entry in the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise is Evangelion: 3.0+ 1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, a prolonged exercise in extreme emotional catharsis. The Human Instrumentality Podcast ends its season on Eva by contrasting its Miyazaki-ish first half with its End of Evangelion-remixing climax. We go deep on the lasting occult and philosophical themes that keep drawing fans old and new into its heart-rending jaws. Other excursions include a long disucssion on the purpose of art and fantasy, with a little environmentalist melancholia along the way. Joining us is filmmaker, screenwriter, critic and podcaster extraordinaire Emily Yoshida, whose work at websites like Grantland, The Vulture and others is among the best anime criticism (and film criticism in general) out there. Yoshida tells the story of how she got into Eva, and in return the hosts discuss how her podcast It's Cool to Like Anime (R.I.P.) became a foundational influence on the Human Instrumentality Podcast. Together we discuss the complicated experience of loving anime as a leftist, and draw paralells between Eva and Phillip Pullman's seminal His Dark Materials books. Yoshida's It's Cool to Like Anime is no longer online, but below is a selected heavy-hitters list ofher published work. Look out for her writing as part of FX's series Shogun in the future. ‘Sailor Moon': The Explainer (https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/sailor-moon-the-explainer/) Ghost in the Shell and anime's troubled history with representation (https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/9/11612530/ghost-in-the-shell-anime-asian-representation-hollywood) An Introduction to Japan's Most Idiosyncratic and Exciting Animation Director, Masaaki Yuasa (https://www.vulture.com/2018/03/an-intro-to-japans-most-idiosyncratic-animation-director.html)

Original broadcast date May 3, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/05/binary-system-podcast-125-alice-isnt-dead-part-3-chapter-1-and-other-things/ Alice isn't Dead returns for its final season! While recapping the first chapter of Part 3 we also wander into some brief thoughts on gun ownership (spoilers: we do not want them to take your guns away) and then we jump right into American Gods: how the show is really different from the book and how much we LOVE IT. Then it's on to the San Diego Book Crawl, last weekend's Transformers Earth Wars “Victorion” event, Gregory McGuire, Phillip Pullman, and a little bit about Pokemon Go that segued into Zombies Run. No, we don't know either. (Also we don't have much new news on the IDW Transformers situation, but we're always up for some rampant speculation.) The outro music this week is a clip from "Roll Out" by Mount Holly, which they wrote for the Transformers Earth Wars trailer. Listen to the whole song on the Hasbro youtube feed. https://youtu.be/_GPmZyHJzX0 Correction: the one bookstore Elizabeth missed when mentioning the book crawl was Mysterious Galaxy, which is also a very cool shop. https://www.mystgalaxy.com/

It's finally happened: Jules has finally persuaded Madeleine to talk about tea. Have no fear, however, because tea, coffee, tobacco, opium and many other substances have had a profound and tangled effect on history, human development and even literature. This week the dragons unravel how a seemingly innocuous substance such as a coffee bean or a tea leaf can in fact completely change the trajectory of a culture, which is reflected in poetry, prose and science. From there the dragons discuss how you can use this in your own work in terms of worldbuilding - the addition or subtraction of a single substance can change everything. Under the microscope this week - His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman, The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, Jodi Taylor's Time Police Series and many more.   Title music: Ecstasy by Smiling Cynic

Este cuarto capítulo aborda la relación entre objetos y mundos, deteniéndonos en tres en particular: los espejos, las brújulas y los relojes. La antropología tiene mucho para decir acerca de lo que llamamos "cultura material": la relación entre humanos, no-humanos y objetos abarca varias bibliotecas, por lo cual elegimos hacer foco en un aspecto de esa relación: ¿qué mundos percibimos a través de o junto con ciertos artefactos? Para pensar en esa cuestión los invitamos a rastrear distintas brújulas, espejos y relojes en la literatura: el aletiómetro de Phillip Pullman, los relojes en la obra de Lewis Carroll o los espejos portales en Michael Ende y Kai Meyer. Hablaremos, además, Julio Cortazar, James Barrie, J. K. Rowling, entre otros. Las brújulas nos orientan en un mundo-espacio, si confiamos en ellas. Los relojes nos enmarcan en el tiempo, recordándonos nuestra mortalidad. Atravesamos y somos atravesados por los espejos, que nos transportan y dialogan cacofónicamente con quienes podríamos llegar a ser. ¿Qué relaciones establecemos con los objetos? ¿Qué relaciones establecen los objetos con nosotres? ¿Cómo encastramos el deseo, el destino, la verdad, en las piezas que los componen?

His Dark Materials é a adaptação da trilogia Fronteiras do Universo, de Phillip Pullman. Se você curte fantasia e aventura young adult com daemons fofinhos e viagens interdimensionais, não deixe de dar uma conferida! Depois de um histórico conturbado de adaptações e para alívio dos fãs, His Dark Materials está caminhando para a sua terceira e última temporada com a produção cuidadosa e de altíssimo nível da BBC One e HBO, disponível no Brasil pela HBO Go. Além de agradar a crítica, com reviews ultrapassando os 80% de aceitação no Rotten Tomatoes, por exemplo, também agradou aos fãs da trilogia, em geral, com uma narrativa que pretende ser bastante fiel aos eventos dos livros. A série estreou em 03 de novembro de 2019 e conta com a talentosíssima Dafne Keen (estrela-mirim de Logan) vivendo a Lyra Belacqua, além de grandes nomes como James McAvoy (Lorde Asriel), Ruth Wilson (Sra. Coulter), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Lee Scoresby) e James Cosmo (Farder Coram). É preciso, ainda, ressaltar o magnífico trabalho dos dubladores e animadores dos daemons e do urso Yorek. A produção de His Dark Materials é assinada por Laurie Borg, com roteiro de Jack Thorne. Ficou curioso? Ouça também a nossa conversa sobre A Bússola de Ouro, primeiro livro da trilogia, lá no PnE 115! E vem conferir o que achamos de His Dark Materials! Fala com a gente! Ouviu o episódio? Conta pra gente o que você achou. Pode nos chamar nas redes sociais, comentar nessa postagem ou nos mandar um e-mail para contato@leitorcabuloso.com.br Ficha técnica Apresentação: Amanda Barreiro, Fernanda Castro e Paulo Vinícius Pauta: Amanda Barreiro Assistente: Leonardo Tremeschin Edição: Leonardo Tremeschin Agradecimentos Especiais Agradecimentos especiais a quem nos apoia, especialmente a Rodrigo Leite, Airechu, Melisa de Sá, Cláudia Rodrigues, Nilda, Lucas Domingos, Carolina Mendes, Sidney Andrade, Caio Amaro, Abner De Souza, Marina Jardim, Carol Vidal, Dayse Cristhina, Priscilla Rubia, Leandro Gomes, Francisco Faria, Thiago Ruediger, Marina Kondratovich, Allan Felipe, Lu Bento, Clecius Duran, Alessandra Rocha, Igor Bajo, Nielson Rocha, Ricardo Brunoro e Amauri Silva. gif de fundo branco com bonequinho desenhado com coração vermelho onde se lê "enviar abraço virtual carregando" seguido de uma barrinha de carregamento. Quando a barrinha enche, aparece "abraço entregue" Não nos perca de vista!

A Bússola de Ouro dá sequência ao nosso arco de fantasias que estão em alta na cultura pop, e ainda tem aquele gostinho de sci-fi que deixa tudo melhor. Publicado originalmente em 1995, em uma época bastante proveitosa para as grandes aventuras infantojuvenis se desenvolverem, A Bússola de Ouro é o primeiro volume da trilogia Fronteiras do Universo - ou His Dark Materials, no inglês britânico -, o universo mais do que consagrado de Phillip Pullman. Através da história de Lyra e Pantalaimon, a trilogia aprofunda temas bastante complexos e traz à tona debates como a importância da ciência sobre a religião e a necessidade de sempre questionarmos o que nos dizem ser inquestionável. No Brasil, A Bússola de Ouro é publicado pela Suma em uma bonita edição, de 2017, com 344 páginas de crianças teimosas, daemons fofinhos e figurões autoritários que precisam ser desbancados. Ficou interessado? Vem com a gente ouvir o episódio de hoje! Quer saber mais sobre A Bússola de Ouro? Confira também: [Resenha] A Bússola de Ouro [CabulosoCast] Cabulosos em Quarentena - Dia 1 Fala com a gente! Ouviu o episódio? Conta pra gente o que você achou. Pode nos chamar nas redes sociais, comentar nessa postagem ou nos mandar um e-mail para contato@leitorcabuloso.com.br Ficha técnica Apresentação: Amanda Barreiro, Fernanda Castro e Paulo Vinícius Pauta: Amanda Barreiro Assistente: Leonardo Tremeschin Edição: Leonardo Tremeschin Quer ler o livro "A Bússola de Ouro"? COMPRE [A Bússola de Ouro] Agradecimentos Especiais Agradecimentos especiais a quem nos apoia, especialmente a Rodrigo Leite, Airechu, Melisa de Sá, Cláudia Rodrigues, Nilda, Lucas Domingos, Carolina Mendes, Sidney Andrade, Caio Amaro, Abner De Souza, Marina Jardim, Carol Vidal, Dayse Cristhina, Priscilla Rubia, Leandro Gomes, Francisco Faria, Thiago Ruediger, Marina Kondratovich, Allan Felipe, Lu Bento, Clecius Duran, Alessandra Rocha, Igor Bajo, Nielson Rocha, Ricardo Brunoro e Amauri Silva. gif de fundo branco com bonequinho desenhado com coração vermelho onde se lê "enviar abraço virtual carregando" seguido de uma barrinha de carregamento. Quando a barrinha enche, aparece "abraço entregue" Não nos perca de vista!

Welcome to this special bonus episode of When Belief Dies. This is a cross over episode with The Graceful Atheist Podcast. Daniel and Sam interview David on his podcast this week, and we all thought it would be really good to allow Daniel and David to interview Sam on When Belief Dies. The video version of this conversation can be found here. You can find/follow Daniel here: Twitter You can find/follow David here: Twitter Website/Links Daniel and Sam interviewing David on his podcast can be found here Resources mentioned in this episode: Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind How Physics Makes Us Free Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness Philip Goff and Phillip Pullman on Panpsychism __ I am currently fundraising for a new PC due to a major technical failure with my current iMac that will see it get decommissioned in the near future. If you can help, please donate here. __ We hope you enjoy our show. When Belief Dies aims to honestly reflect on faith, religion and life. Your support via Patreon enables us to cover the costs of running this show and look to the future to make things even better as we build upon what we already have in the works. Please take a look and consider giving. Alternatively, you can support the show with a one-off gift via PayPal. Use this link to navigate to the website, to find us on social media and anywhere else we might be present online. #Podcast #Deconstruction #God #Agnostic #Christian #Atheism #Apologetics #Audio #Question #Exvangelical #Deconversion #SecularGrace #Exchristian

Phil, Jake and Jason are joined by new guest Christina to gussy-up the List of Every Damn Thing by ranking the fictional princess Cinderella, the 80s glam-metal band Cinderella, and the hip-hop trailblazer Spinderella.If you have something to add to the list, email it to list@everydamnthing.net (or get at us on Twitter and Instagram). You can view the full list at everydamnthing.netSHOW NOTES: RIP to Shock G. of Digital Underground, who died not long before we recorded this episode. Jessica Rabbit is considered to be a Disney Princess by us. The character of Cinderella is so unremarkable in the 1950 Disney movie that they don’t even include her as an ingredient in this official trailer. Charles Perrault, who wrote the Cinderella story best-known in contemporary culture, is pretty much the father of the “fairy tale” genre. His works-- derived from folk stories-- also include Little Red Riding Hood, Puss In Boots and Sleeping Beauty. As we discuss in this episode, Brandy played Cinderella in the 1997 Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella TV movie. Phil didn't mention it but when his wife listens to "The Boy Is Mine" she agrees that the boy is Brandy's. Jake, however, knows the boy is Monica’s. Jason didn’t mention that Drew Barrymore’s air fryer is part of a Wal-Mart Collection. We mention Princess Diana. You can get the Di-themed Beanie Baby for just $50k on eBay. I Was A Rat by Phillip Pullman is just fantastic. Phil recommends it.  Songs (and music videos) of Cinderella’s that we discuss include “Don’t Know What You Got Till It’s Gone” (partly shot in Bodie State Historic Park), “Nobody’s Fool”, “Somebody Save Me”, “Shake Me” and “Gypsy Road”. We also discuss their unremarkable deep-cut “Winds of Change” (not to be confused with “Wind of Change” by Scorpions). We engage in a bit of a hot-or-not session with metal guys, including Tom Keifer, Dee Snider, Stephen Pearcy (aka the guy from Ratt),Kevin DuBrow (aka the guy from Quiet Riot), Vince Neil, Brett Micheals, Slash and Jon Bon Jovi. Here's Michael Bivins (of Bell Biv DeVoe) in the video for “Motown Philly” by Boys II Men. Here’s a clip featuring the real voice of Gilbert Gottfried. The video for “Fresh” by Kool & The Gang is maybe the best interpretation of the Cinderella story and features the best K & the G song too. That's not our opinion, that's a fact. This trailer for the 1977 Cinderella erotic fairy tale movie that Phil saw as a kid acknowledges the foot fetish aspect of the story. The poster art for the movie is pretty great. Jake mentions that Salt-N-Pepa make an appearance in Coming 2 America. Spinderella does not. It looks like Hurby “Luv Bug” Azor was, in fact, in a relationship with Salt for a while in the 80’s. Jake should really know who Wendy Williams is. Jack Kirby continues to be Phil's example of someone who did work-for-hire in a creative field and didn't get paid. Jake was wrong: Spinderella is credited as a one of the producers on some of Salt-N-Pepa’s albums. But he was right when he guessed that she’s not even a performer on the album that features “Push It”. Here’s a clip from the Salt-N-Pepa Lifetime movie. We talk about the NWA song “I Ain’t Tha 1” (written and performed by Ice Cube). The lyrics are troublesome, but tame in comparison to some of his later more misogynistic songs. ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:Brittany Murphy * Dolly Parton * the Brothers Grimm * Ever After (1998 movie) * Quentin Tarantino’s foot fetish * Meghan Markle *  social mobility * step-mothers * sheeple * Jenny McCarthy * Barry Bonds, the home run king of all time * Bridgerton * Steve Jobs * toe shoes * Bon Jovi * the word “moist” * wind chimes * MTV’s My Super Sweet 16 * kefir * ShakiraBelow are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here):TOP TEN:1. Dolly Parton - person2. interspecies animal friends - idea3. Clement Street in San Francisco - location4. Prince - person5. It’s-It - food6. Cher - person7. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character8. Donald Duck - fictional character9. Hank Williams - person10. air - substanceBOTTOM TEN:134. Lincoln Logs - toy135. broken glass - substance136. Jenny McCarthy - person137. Jon Voight - person138. Hank Williams, Jr - person139. McRib - food140. war - idea141. cigarettes - drug142. QAnon - idea143. transphobia - ideaTheme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was edited by Jake MacLachlan, with audio help from Luke Janela. Show notes by Jake MacLachlan & Phil Green.Our website is everydamnthing.net and we're also on Twitter and Instagram.Email us at list@everydamnthing.net. 

    Mat Fraser is an actor, writer, presenter, performance artist and drummer. In 2012 he drummed at the 2012 Paralympic Games closing ceremony with Coldplay and in the 80s and 90s he performed with several bands including Fear of Sex, The Reasonable Strollers, Joyride, The Grateful Dub and Living in Texas. He's just been nominated for a BAFTA for Crip Tales on BBC, and recently appeared in the huge BBC adaptation of Phillip Pullman's “His Dark Materials”. We chat to Mat about his punk days, panto, performing with Coldplay - and we all geek out about drumming in general. 

In this episode you will meet the team Paul, Gwyn, Lara and Holly. We chat about what we are reading just now including Neil Gaiman, Barabara Erskine, Phillip Pullman and Kathleen Jamie. Paul interviews Dylan Hughes, Dave McCall and Sue Miller founders of Wrexham Carnival of Words and previews this year's festival www.wrexhamcarnivalofwords.com.

An interview with Wendy McLeod MacKnight, author of three books for middle-grade readers, who shares her habit of drafting quickly and revising painstakingly, her advice on getting to know your characters before you write them, and her delighted surprise at discovering Voldemort under Quirrell's turban. 20 minutes. All ages. A full transcript is available at CabinTales.ca. Show Notes [0:00] Intro [1:15] Interview with Wendy McLeod MacKnight CA: Do you ever do object studies, either as an exercise or has an object ever figured in one of your books? WMM: Oh yeah for sure…Probably my most intense was when I was writing about the paintings at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery …  The idea was what would it be like to be stuck in the painting, you can't get out, and then what if you made a friend who has not the greatest home life and is an artist, and wishes they could get into the paintings because wouldn't life be easier. He can't get in; she can never get out…. that's one of the things that I recommend is to really drill down into the character's internal and external struggle through it all. …   [3:50] CA: Do you have any favorite plot twists? WMM: … I really enjoyed the moment when I discovered that Voldemort was up in Quirrell's turban… The very ending of The Frame Up solves a problem between my two main characters perfectly. …people have come to me since then and said, “I did not see that coming.” …That's so great.     [5:00] CA: … How do you feel about sad endings or endings where the good guy loses? … WMM: …. I think that in middle grade, even if it's sad there has to be hope. … I think though, once you get into YA, then I think you've got a lot more flexibility. … When I read too many books like that, I usually need like a palate cleanser, like give me something funny. …. But I think that we do kids a disservice when things are too easy and don't cause pain, you know.   [6:40] CA: Will you stick with middle grade? WMM: … I'm obsessed with middle grade. … the books that I read when I was in middle grade are still the books I find great comfort in now as an adult. … And they're the books that you're picking out…. And you have to see yourself in them… I think that even that's part of the reason why the first few books I've written, I set in New Brunswick. …   [8:15] CA: Do you have any favorite settings from other people's fiction? WMM: … I love really amazing worldbuilding. So, like Phillip Pullman's worldbuilding in The Golden Compass … I could live in anything that was kind of Dickensian. … you also have to be really careful, especially when you're writing for kids, to not get bogged down in so much minutia that they get bogged down with you. … I really love books set in Canada. …   [9:25] CA: And do you have any favorite fictional characters? WMM: Oh yeah. For sure Meg Murry from A Wrinkle in Time. … Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon. I love David Copperfield…The main character in The War that changed my Life by Kim Brubaker Bradley, that character stayed with me for so long.   [10:00] CA: And are there any setting or character exercises that you would recommend to young writers? WMM: I always tell them that they need to interview their main characters…. And I do that a lot with settings too. … the more you can know your characters and the more you can know the place before you start…   [11:50] CA:. While you're drafting, do you do self-editing or do you just let it out? WMM: I get it all out. So I always have to remind myself that it's probably going to take me 8 drafts and I just don't, I'm not going to worry about it anymore. … Sometimes at the end of the book it's, like somebody wrote this book and I don't know who it was. …. There are moments when the characters on your page sometimes feel more alive than the people that are around you. … that's the magic.   [14:00] CA: So you've said you spend a lot more time revising than drafting. WMM: …I write full time, so I could get a first draft done within probably six weeks. If it's you know, if it's anywhere between 50 and 80,000 I can probably get that. Like usually when I'm really into writing, I'm writing like 2500 to 3000 words a day. But it's also, they're not good words. It's just getting it all out, right? So very fast first drafts, very very very slow revisions.   [14:35] CA: And do you have a favorite POV to write from? WMM: I love first person. … The Frame Up, I have dual points of view…. I think third person gives you more freedom. … I don't think I could ever write second person. …   [15:30] CA: And have you ever written an unreliable narrator? WMM: Not in the typical sense of an unreliable narrator. …. I think that would be fabulous. I have been toying with that, so that may be something in the future.   [16:10] CA: And you have written about siblings. WMM: Yes. It's a Mystery Pig-Face! is about a brother and sister… and I do not espouse, by the way, name-calling -- but I did use it in this particular story because my brother, when we were kids, used to just torture me. … I think I'm in almost all of my books in some way. … I think there's probably a bit of me in some of the parents as well. …   [17:40] CA: And what do you think is scarier: humans or monsters? WMM: Humans… we have a lot of people who are very damaged. … Certainly in my old job and things that I saw -- I would rather take my chance with a monster. … I do feel that most people are redeemable. And the human monsters I met are almost always products of situations where they needed people when they were very young and they didn't have those people. And that's probably the same with most of the monsters too, right? If they had a really great monster mom and dad or a really good monster friend…   [18:40] CA: Did you tell stories around a campfire as a kid? WMM: I did. … Like you'd be on some overnight trip and you'd all be trying to freak each other out, to terrify each other before you went off to your tents… I was usually more on the receiving end of the terror though, because I am such a scaredy cat. …   [20:00] CA: Do you have a favorite scary movie or scary story? WMM: In terms of scary books, I thought Jonathan Auxier's The Night Gardener was so creepy… And in terms of movies, I'm going to go really old school… The Exorcist. …I'm going to have to watch something funny before I go to bed tonight, just thinking about it….   [20:30] CA: Do you collect anything? WMM: … I've always collected rocks. … And if I ever see anything while I'm out about The Wizard of Oz… because I love that movie so much.   [21:40] Wendy McLeod MacKnight introduces herself WMM: I'm Wendy MacLeod McKnight. I am the author of three middle-grade novels: It's a Mystery, Pig-Face!, The Frame Up, and The Copycat. The Frame Up has been published in Taiwan and is currently being translated into French and is going to be published in French in the next year. I love middle-grade fiction so much. My heart is just embedded. And I love writing about where I live, which is New Brunswick, but I also love writing about all over the world too, because this is an amazing time to be an author right now. [music]   [22:30] Find out more about Wendy McLeod MacKnight   You can find out more about Wendy McLeod MacKnight and her books from her website at WendyMcleodMacknight.com. You can hear more great creative writing advice from Wendy McLeod MacKnight on Cabin Tales Episode 3.5, “Author Interviews about Inspiration”; on Episode 4, “Bad Things Happen,” about plotting; on Episode 6.5, “Author Interviews about Beginnings,” and on Episode 8, “The Never-ending Story,” about revision.   [23:35] Upcoming National Public Reading If you like the spooky stories on Cabin Tales,  join me for a National Public Reading on March 16th, at 9 a.m., when I'll be telling a tale or two to some local students in a virtual visit funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and administered through the Writers' Union of Canada and the National Readings Program. Drop me an email at cabin@catherineausten.com to ask for the zoom link if you want to listen in.   [24:10] Thanks and coming up on the podcast I'll be back next week with leftovers from my interview with Philippa Dowding, the award-winning children's author, poet, and musician, who joins us from Toronto. Thanks for listening. Credits Music on the podcast is from “Stories of the Old Mansion” by Akashic Records, provided by Jamendo (Standard license for online use). Host: Catherine Austen writes books for children, short stories for adults, and reports for corporate clients. Visit her at www.catherineausten.com. Guest Author: Wendy McLeod MacKnight is the author of three middle grade novels: It's a Mystery, Pig Face! , The Frame-Up and The Copycat. In her spare time, she gardens, hangs with her family and friends, and feeds raccoons. Visit Wendy online at wendymcleodmacknight.com .  

Down in the Chamber of Secrets, Harry finds Ginny, chats it out with Tom Riddle, and fights the basilisk. Email us at restrictedsectionpod@gmail.com to tell us what you thought of The Heir of Slytherin or even what you think of us! We'd love to read your email on the show. Be sure to subscribe to know right away about new episodes, and rate and review! SUPPORT US ON OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/therestrictedsection THANK YOU LOVE YOU IG: https://www.instagram.com/restrictedsectionpod/ TW: https://twitter.com/restrictedpod FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rspoddetentioncrew/ You may be interested in this list of translated versions of Tom Riddle's name anagram. This episode featured: Special guest Jason Hilton! IG @picturesofjay TW @picturesofjay90 Jason plugged The Witches of Eastwick. Jason did NOT plug Cats (2019). Christina: IG @yagirloftheworld TW @tinafontina Christina plugged The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman. Brooke: IG @passion_for_parks TW @grumpybrooke Brooke plugged podcast favorite Hey Riddle Riddle! Grace: Email Grace at restrictedsectionpod@gmail.com. Grace plugged PocketGuard.

IT'S VALENTINE'S DAY! Harry finds the one ring -- I mean Tom Riddle's diary -- and gets absolutely assaulted by a grown ass dwarf dressed as a cherub. Email us at restrictedsectionpod@gmail.com to tell us what you thought of The Very Secret Diary or even what you think of us! We'd love to read your email on the show. Be sure to subscribe to know right away about new episodes, and rate and review! Hey we were featured on a list! https://blog.feedspot.com/harry_potter_podcasts/ SUPPORT US ON OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/therestrictedsection THANK YOU LOVE YOU IG: https://www.instagram.com/restrictedsectionpod/ TW: https://twitter.com/restrictedpod FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rspoddetentioncrew/ This episode featured: Special guest Tiffany Hathorn! IG @allaboardthewoowootrain TW @tiffanyhathorn Tiffany plugged BoxFox. Christina: IG @yagirloftheworld TW @tinafontina Christina plugged IG HP fan artist @art_byflor Grace: Email Grace at restrictedsectionpod@gmail.com. Follow Brandylane Publishers on IG @brandylanepublishers, FB @brandylanepublishers, & TW @brandypublish. Grace plugged All Recipes' Peachy Bread Pudding with Caramel Sauce recipe. Mary-Peyton: IG @richmondreads TW @crookmp Mary-Peyton plugged the His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman. Tiffany Hathorn is a single mom to a video game-loving 10-year-old boy. A lifetime lover of fantasy, she's been reading (and obsessing over) Harry Potter since 1998. A proud geek, she spends her time reading, writing, playing games, performing in dinner theater (until COVID crashed the party), singing badly, hanging with her equally geeky friend, and living in her overactive imagination. She blogs about life as a single WAHM and homeschooler at Single Mommy Warrior. She also serves as a copywriter for female entrepreneurs at www.TiffanyHathorn.com. In addition to the links above, you can connect with her via the following social media platforms: Single Mommy Warrior IG Single Mommy Warrior FB

Caitlin, Anya, and Alan welcome Francis to the team as we start Will's adventure in ‘The Subtle Knife' by Phillip Pullman. We talk about mental health, willpower, and how much we hate a certain Witch Queen. The Subtle Knife has a very different start and tone to it- which fits our weird pandemic time-capsule perfectly.We recorded the podcast on March 18th 2020 when lockdowns associated with the COVID pandemic became ubiquitous. We were feeling a lot of anxiety…Philip Pullman wrote the Young Adult Mystery ‘The Ruby in the Smoke' in 1985 as well as three more sequel novels.What is a Babel Fish??Caitlin's Tolkien podcast is called: So You Want To Read Tolkien…The book by Philip Pullman that is full of Tolkien thoughts is ‘Daemon Voices'The Multi-verse theory is a thingWhat is Schrödinger's cat again?Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche was a Nazi and Fredric Nietzsche's sister.Nietzsche is most often associated with Nihilism but he wasn't actually a fan of it.Follow Francis on Twitter: @franciswindramOur theme song is Clockwork Conundrum by NathanGunnFollow us on Twitter: Anya @StrangelyLiterl Cailtlin @inferiorcaitlin The Podcast @MoTPodPlease email us contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com

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It’s time for school! YAYSIES! I love school, and today, I share some of my opinions on the new virtual learning environment! (Spoiler alert: I love it.) I also have a Page Proposition for The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman.

In this episode the host Ben talks all about Phillip Pullman the renowned british author and shares with you some of his greatest works to date. Stay tuned till the end for a sneak peak on the next project episode (Episode 10). Remember to leave us a review on wherever you are listening! It helps our show spread to new people and new locations! Thank you so much! Links: His Dark Materials Sally Lockhart Series The Book of Dust 1 (La Belle Sauvage) The Book of Dust 2 (The Secret Commonwealth)

Rabbis Avraham Kivelevitz and Kalman Worch pick up from 16 years ago,to begin a whole new series of debate and intelligent argument over a wide range of Torah subjects.Rabbi Kivelevitz,based on his own personal observations,cities the sorry state of respect for civil authorities evinced by so many graduates of Yeshivishe institutions, and bemoans the lack of civility displayed by present students towards secular studies teachers and general apathy for the rote subjects taught during the three to four hours usually afforded for their study.He also expresses concern for the bright young person,who due to language issues or other factors cannot excel in Gemara learning, and feels shunted away and inferior,despite having a creative mind.Exposing the students to serious literary fiction from the masters of their craft, with passages analyzed as thoroughly as the Talmidim are expected to pick apart a sugya, will give gravitas to the language and milieu being studied,and bring home the positive virtues found in the non-Jewish world.Within a carefully crafted framework,these classes would unleash the natural critical speculation that all adolescents have as to the nature of the human.As the themes and language are not sacred, passionate Talmudic trained teachers,can create an pedagogic arena where all students can shine in their reading and suggestions to the author's intent.Arguments can flow freely as to how these books and stories,written centuries ago in some cases,are palpably relevant for today's times.Rabbi Worch believes that rigorous and entertaining instruction in the sciences are indeed important,but feels the literary beauty of Tanach and Chazal are what need to be unearthed and stressed .He opines that the pathos and power of Midrashim and Aggadata dwarfs their drawn out English knockoffs(Choni Ha Maagol vs.Rip Van Winkle).He also fears that the overtly Christian views of writers like Milton and C.S.Lewis can dangerously subvert Emunah,while more contemporary authors can easily insert salacious content or innuendo that is inappropriate.The pair bicker over the quality of translations from Kafka to Dostoevsky,and whose fantasy is superior J.K.Rowling's or Phillip Pullman's.Please leave us a review or email us at ravkiv@gmail.comFor more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast is powered by JewishPodcasts.org. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click jewishpodcasts.fm/signup to get started.

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We’ve started a new book! That’s right, after finishing The Golden Compass, our fantasy experts here at The Painted Lines are onto the second part of Phillip Pullman’s trilogy. We get introduced to a new character called Will, and even start to enter new worlds in these early chapters of The Subtle Knife. Listen to […] The post A Pod Has No Name – The Subtle Knife Starts off Strong appeared first on The Painted Lines.

After the success of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, studios optioned fantasy novel series left and right for a while. Looking for a LOTR successor, they picked up Phillip Pullman's The Golden Compass, part one of the His Dark Materials series. While they are terrific books, the film The Golden Compass comes off as shallow, confusing, and at times, just plain weird. Worst of all, they took an amazing ending and truncated it, leaving you with a movie that stops short. At least it has an awesome cast. We're joined by the delightful Paul4AllSeasons once again on this magical journey.