Podcasts about Pripyat

Para empezar, la buena xente de Ofensivos tienen tema fresco y lo presentan con comunicau... Después, Gin y Nefta nos vienen a hablar del Breakdown fest que celebra su primera edición este próximo Jueves 17 en la Lata de Zinc de Oviedo con los portugueses Serrabulho, Absalem, Nuestroctubre y Chamako Wey. Escucharemos a todas las bandas, y con Gin repasaremos lo que han hecho Absalem desde nuestra última charla, allá por 2018. Y después, Abel, Jorge y Borja de Aneuma llegan con su tercer disco "Flesh&Bones" bajo el brazo y concierto de presentación el próximo Sábado 19 en la Sala Acapulco - conciertos - de Xixón. Un placer repasar su camino escuchando música de los 3 discos y lo que vaya surgiendo mientras tanto. Y además, Espantayu, Elisa C.Martin, Blast Open, Rock Gijón, При́пять/Pripyat, Los de Marras, Marela, The Darkness, BEHEMOTH!, Wet Cactus y Rainbow

Pripyat, 26 de abril de 1986. El equipo de esa ciudad ucraniana se entrena a primera hora con vistas al decisivo partido de mañana. Se trata de una semifinal de copa amateur, pero hace tiempo que el FC Stroytel Pripyat piensa en grande. El objetivo es ascender a la tercera división soviética. Para lograrlo han llegado varios futbolistas profesionales y para ello se ha construido este estadio Avanhard que ahora alberga la sesión preparatoria. Con un aforo ampliable hasta los 10.000 asientos, este recinto es tan nuevo que aún no se ha inaugurado. La fecha marcada para ello es el inminente Primero de Mayo, fiesta grande en la URSS. El Avanhard supone una muestra de las ambiciones del club y también del mimo del estado soviético con los 50.000 habitantes de Pripyat. No en vano, se trata de una ciudad creada para albergar a los trabajadores de la gigantesca central nuclear de Chernobyl. Ese mismo sábado 26 de abril de 1986 un madrileño aterriza en Ucrania con una misión de espionaje futbolero. Y al mismo tiempo, un murciano asiste a las clases en la Facultad de Kiev. Ellos nos ayudarán a reconstruir un fin de semana catastrófico, el del peor desastre nuclear en tiempos de paz. No, el Stroytel Pripyat no jugará aquella semifinal. Y el estadio Avanhard nunca se inaugurará. Accede a contenido exclusivo sobre este capítulo en nuestra newsletter: www.brazaletenegro.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@brazaletenegro Twitter: https://twitter.com/brazaletenegro Instagram: https://instagram.com/brazaletenegropodcast Brazalete Negro, el true crime del fútbol. Y, recuerda, Bill Shankly no tenía razón.

It was just supposed to be a regular safety test... but in the early morning hours of April 26th, 1986, something went terribly wrong... For those opposed to nuclear energy, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident was the nightmare scenario. But it took a while for the rest of the world to even find out. By the time they did, the effects of the explosion had spread shockingly far--and fast. Today we look back on the accident that was a disaster in the making, all the fallout, and how the Soviets downplayed it.  And as bad as Chernobly was--could it have been even worse...? Get access to new episodes early and ad-free: Patreon.com/80s

Er denne efterfølger 15 års ventetid værd? S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl er et survival horror-spil og et førstepersons skydespil, udviklet og udgivet af den ukrainske udvikler GSC Game World. På trods af at hedde S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, så er spillet faktisk det fjerde spil i serien, som første gang så dagens lys i 2007. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl har været hele 15 år undervejs, og udviklingen er gået alt andet end gnidningsfrit. Oprindeligt blev spillet annonceret helt tilbage i 2009, efter udgivelsen af det tredje spil i serien, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 skulle oprindeligt være udkommet i 2012, men blev droppet samme år, hvor det oprindeligt skulle være udgivet. Men i 2018 dukkede spillet op igen. Udviklerne havde skiftet til grafikmotoren Unreal Engine 5, og spillet var sat til at udkomme på PC og Xbox Series X|S i 2022. Men i 2020 invaderede Rusland Ukraine, og udviklerne måtte flygte til Prag i Tjekkiet, mens bomberne sprang i deres hjemland. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 blev udskudt flere gange, men nu er det her endelig. Spørgsmålet er, om spillet kan leve op til 15 års ventetid. Nu skal vi nemlig anmelde S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. I denne episode deltager Mark Elsberg, Lau Mellemgaard Eskildsen og Morten Urup. Tusind tak fordi du lytter med.

Im Jahr 2009 erschien der vorerst letzte Teil der Stalker-Serie, Call of Pripyat. 2010 wurde erstmals Stalker 2 angekündigt, dann geriet das ukrainische Studio GSC Game World in finanzielle Schwierigkeiten, schrammte knapp an der vollständigen Auflösung vorbei. Weiterlesen

Odcinek Super Charge #11 zabiera nas w podróż do uniwersum S.T.A.L.K.E.R., przybliżając jego historię, tło fabularne oraz najważniejsze wydarzenia. Odcinek doskonale przygotowuje na premierę S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Serce Czarnobylu. Omówimy chronologię gier, od Shadow of Chernobyl po Call of Pripyat, a także przedstawimy kluczowe postacie i tajemniczą Strefę. Dowiesz się także, jak uniwersum ewoluowało na przestrzeni lat oraz jakie nowości czekają na graczy w nadchodzącej grze. Idealne przygotowanie na premierę! ROZDZIAŁY:00:00:00 - 00:00:08 INTRO00:00:09 - 00:01:08 WPROWADZENIE00:01:09 - 00:07:15 PODSTAWA UNWERSUM00:07:16 - 00:14:24 GRY00:14:25 - 00:23:17 FABUŁA00:23:18 - 00:28:03 MOWA KOŃCOWA00:28:04 - 00:28:15 OUTRO

Hello, poison fans! This episode we are discussing the aftermath of the accident at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, both immediate and later. Radiation Sickness is no joke and what these people went through was horrible. We will discuss some of the people we mentioned in the previous episode and what became of them as well as what happened to Pripyat its residents. That radioactive cloud that arose from the destroyed reactor 4? Yeah it traveled and it was not until radiation was picked up by Denmark, Finland, and especially Sweden that the rest of the world began to realize something crazy had happened. Lets get into it... Again, we always want to say thank you for listening and support! You guys are the best! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thepoisonersalmanac Follow us on socials: The Poisoner's Almanac on IG- ⁠https://www.instagram.com/poisoners_almanac?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==⁠ Adam- ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@studiesshow?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc⁠ Becca- ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@yobec0?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/goldstar002/support

Hello my poison friends! It is time we discuss some abandoned towns out there that have been made uninhabitable by toxic materials. We've talked a little about Wittenoom in Australia during our talk on Asbestos, but what about the multiple abandoned lead mines and the town basically sitting on hell? And we can't have this episode without discussing what happened at Chernobyl and the surrounding city of Pripyat. This will be a 2 parter because of the amount of info surrounding the latter, but it is gonna be wild. Also, come follow us on socials and feel free to reach out to us in comments or DMs! You guys are the best! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thepoisonersalmanac Follow us on socials: The Poisoner's Almanac on IG- ⁠https://www.instagram.com/poisoners_almanac?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==⁠ Adam- ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@studiesshow?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc⁠ Becca- ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@yobec0?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/goldstar002/support

Another one of those movies that we had better memories of.. J - 5/10 M - 4/10 For daily horror movie content follow the podcast on Twitter / Instagram @darkroastcult Each week we choose a movie from one of the horror genre to discuss the following week. Follow along each week by keeping up with the movies we are watching to stay in the loop with the movie club! Check out other podcasts, coffee and pins at www.darkroastcult.com ! THANKS TO ANDREW FOR MAKING THE INTRO SONG. (soundcloud.com / andoryukesuta)@andoryukesuta Chris, his girlfriend Natalie, and their mutual friend Amanda are traveling across Europe. They stop in Kyiv, Ukraine, to visit Chris' brother, Paul, before heading on to Moscow, Russia, where Chris intends to propose to Natalie. Paul suggests they go for an extreme tour of Pripyat, an abandoned town which sits in the shadow of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Chris is against going on the tour and would rather stay on the original plan of going to Moscow, but Paul insists. They meet tour guide Uri and are joined by a backpacking couple, Norwegian Zoe and Australian Michael. Uri drives them through Ukraine, before they arrive at a Chernobyl Exclusion Zone checkpoint, where they are refused entry by the Ukrainian military. He then takes them to an alternate entry he discovered years ago. The group stops at a river where Uri points out a large, mutated fish apparently able to live on land; while returning to their van several other mutant fish are seen. The group is worried about radiation poisoning, but Uri assures their safety with a Geiger counter. After spending a few hours exploring, Uri takes them to the upper floor of an apartment building and shows them the Chernobyl nuclear plant on the near horizon. After hearing noises at the other end of the apartment, it is found to be a bear which runs through the hallway past them, but not harming them. The group prepares to leave Pripyat, but Uri finds the wires in his van have been chewed through. He tries to radio for help, to no avail. As night falls, the group decides on whether to hike to a nearby checkpoint which is 20 km (12 miles) away, or to stay put and wait for help. Suddenly, strange noises come from outside, so Uri goes out to investigate and Chris follows. Shots are heard and Paul runs out to investigate, returning with Chris, whose leg has been severely mauled, and claiming that Uri has been taken. While they decide to stay the night in their locked vehicle, they are attacked by dogs. The next day, Paul, Michael, and Amanda go out to look for Uri. They follow a trail of blood to an abandoned cafeteria and find Uri's mutilated body. They take his gun and are chased by a creature through the building before returning to the van. Amanda checks her camera and one of the pictures shows a humanoid creature inside one of the apartment buildings. Natalie stays with the wounded Chris while the others begin the hike to the checkpoint.

In what still stands as the worst nuclear disaster to take place on this planet, the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine on April 26 1986 was the catalyst that led to the downfall of the Soviet Union. Poor materials, rushed construction, and a staggering amount of ineptitude regarding the design and operation of the nuclear reactors were the main factors in this shit show we're about to dig into. What exactly happened that night? What kind of impacts are still being dealt with today? How the hell does a nuclear reactor even work? Oh you bet your sweet ass we'll cover it, all you gotta do is press that play button. Sponsor: Mini Museumhttps://shop.minimuseum.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=historicallyhigh

When the team inside of the control started their test on the morning of April 26th 1986, no one knew that these events would change the course of nuclear power in the world.  The explosion and ensuing contamination has left a mark on the Ukrainian landscape; however, it is the spirits that have decided to remain that has people wondering.  Could the world's worst nuclear disaster also be the cause of all of the hauntings in Pripyat?Promos: Creepy Tapas - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creepy-tapas/id1647997787                    Missing Magnolias - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing-magnolias/id1585504130             For more information on what happened that night checkout this amazing documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-luJ9_-L28      Thank you for listening to the Paranormal Peeps Podcast. Check us out on Twitter @CPRParanormal on Facebook Paranormal Peeps Podcast or Coldspot Paranormal Research and on Instagram coldspot_paranormal_researchSupport the show

Kärnkraftens vara eller icke vara har under lång tid diskuteras i Sverige och frågan har återigen blivit aktuell efter skenande elpriser och klimatkris. Men hur farligt är det egentligen med kärnkraft och är det ett energislag som vi bör satsa på? Det har Emma frågat Janne Wallenius som är professor i reaktorfysik på KTH samt grundare och teknisk chef för bolaget Blykalla medan Clara har läst på om strålningsförgiftningar och kärnkraftsolyckor.Klipp och musik:The SimpsonsRegeringskansliet, Pressinbjudan- Ny kärnkraft i Sverige – ett andra stegTV4, Daniel Heldén ”Det ska inte byggas ny kärnkraft”SR P4 Uppland, Rekordhögt förtroende för ForsmarkAtoms For Peace Speech - Eisenhower 1953SVT, Tage Danielsson om sannolikhetMessage of evacuation the city of Pripyat (1986)Aftonbladet TV, Min fråga- Kärnkraft eller vindkraft?Vår tenta i kärnkraft hittar du på instagram, @akursen_poddmail: akursenpodd@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first episode of our new run has Rory and Chris sit down with Ukrainian commentator Dmytro Dzhulai to discuss the emotional tale of FC Stroitel Pripyat FC and the context behind one of the most tragic and catastrophic disasters in the world. They also discuss other stories from Ukrainian football, Dmytro's memories of the national team and reminisce about the good ol' days of football. FC Stroitel Pripyat was recommended to us by Charlotte Patterson. We have also produced a blog article on the club, featuring photographs and testimonies from Ukrainian football fans. Special thanks to Charlotte Patterson, Dmytro Dzhulai, Artur Valerko, Serhiy Peichev and Zorya Londonsk.

Chernobyl is a city in northern Ukraine that was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history on April 26, 1986. A power surge during a safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant caused two massive explosions that blew off the reactor's roof and released a cloud of radioactive material into the atmosphere. The accident killed dozens of workers and firefighters, exposed millions of people to radiation, and forced the evacuation of over 100,000 people from the surrounding area. The city of Chernobyl and the nearby town of Pripyat remain largely abandoned and contaminated to this day, although some people still live and work in the exclusion zone. #chernobyl #pripyat #ukraine #abandoned #urbex #stalker #chernobylzone #chernobylexclusionzone #slav #radiation #russia #decay #exclusionzone #radioactive #nuclear #chernobyldisaster #gopnik #chernobylhbo #chornobyl #memes #slavmemes #travel #hbo #stalin #hardbass #cheekibreeki #tschernobyl #abandonedplaces #ussr #tchernobyl #USSR #Russia #Aftermath #chernobyl #pripyat #ukraine #abandoned #urbex #stalker #chernobylzone #chernobylexclusionzone #slav #radiation #russia #decay #exclusionzone #radioactive #nuclear #chernobyldisaster #gopnik #chernobylhbo #chornobyl #memes #slavmemes #travel #hbo #stalin #hardbass #cheekibreeki #tschernobyl #abandonedplaces #ussr #tchernobyl #sovietunion #ww #cccp #soviet #history #communism #meme #ussrmemes #socialism #lenin #cykablyat #sovietmemes #vintage #russianmemes #worldwar #historymemes #russian #dankmemes #usa #marxism #communist #slavic #slavicmemes #retro #podcast #fun  #RightToDie #Lawless #PersistentVegetativeState #FamilyFeud #AmericanHistory #HistoryNerds #HistoryPodcast #HistoryMystery #ThisD #TVNewsHistory #TVNewsHistory #TVNewsFlashback #OldTVNews #BehindTheNews #NewsNostalgia #forgottenstorys #AfterTheFact #Viewerdiscretion  #CaseyKasem #at40 #love #TFLers #tweegram #photooftheday #20likes #amazing #smile #follow4follow #like4like #look #instalike #igers #picoftheday #food #instadaily #instafollow #followme #girl #iphoneonly #instagood #bestoftheday #instacool #instago #all_shots #follow #webstagram #colorful #style #swag #amazing #followme #all_shots #textgram #family #instago #igaddict #awesome #girls #instagood #my #bored #baby #music #red #green #water #harrystyles #bestoftheday #black #party #white #yum #flower #2012 #night #instalove #niallhoran #jj_forum #love #instagood #me #tbt #cute #follow #followme #photooftheday #happy #tagforlikes #beautiful #self #girl #picoftheday #like4like #smile #friends #fun #like #fashion #summer #instadaily #igers #instalike #food #love #photooftheday #portrait #baby #me #instamood #cute #friends #hair #swag #igers #picoftheday #girl #guy #beautiful #fashion #instagramers #follow #smile #pretty #followme #photo #life #funny #cool #hot #bored #girls #iphonesia#movies #theatre #video #movie #film #films #videos #actor #actress #cinema #dvd #amc #instamovies #star #moviestar #photooftheday Hollywood #goodmovie #instagood #flick #flicks #instaflick #instaflicks #27club #Cobain#explore #fridayfuckery #podcastlife #podcasts #youtube #book #deus #fy #fyp #interview #podcasthost #radio #90s #apple #applepodcasts #author #bringingthefuckery #goat #superman #death --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daniel-hudson9/message

We continue our miniseries on the 1980s movies distributed by Miramax Films, with a look at the films released in 1988. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   On this episode, we finally continue with the next part of our look back at the 1980s movies distributed by Miramax Films, specifically looking at 1988.   But before we get there, I must issue another mea culpa. In our episode on the 1987 movies from Miramax, I mentioned that a Kiefer Sutherland movie called Crazy Moon never played in another theatre after its disastrous one week Oscar qualifying run in Los Angeles in December 1987.   I was wrong.   While doing research on this episode, I found one New York City playdate for the film, in early February 1988. It grossed a very dismal $3200 at the 545 seat Festival Theatre during its first weekend, and would be gone after seven days.   Sorry for the misinformation.   1988 would be a watershed year for the company, as one of the movies they acquired for distribution would change the course of documentary filmmaking as we knew it, and another would give a much beloved actor his first Academy Award nomination while giving the company its first Oscar win.   But before we get to those two movies, there's a whole bunch of others to talk about first.   Of the twelve movies Miramax would release in 1988, only four were from America. The rest would be a from a mixture of mostly Anglo-Saxon countries like the UK, Canada, France and Sweden, although there would be one Spanish film in there.   Their first release of the new year, Le Grand Chemin, told the story of a timid nine-year-old boy from Paris who spends one summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother has lodged the boy with her friend and her friend's husband while Mom has another baby. The boy makes friends with a slightly older girl next door, and learns about life from her.   Richard Bohringer, who plays the friend's husband, and Anémone, who plays the pregnant mother, both won Cesars, the French equivalent to the Oscars, in their respective lead categories, and the film would be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film of 1987 by the National Board of Review. Miramax, who had picked up the film at Cannes several months earlier, waited until January 22nd, 1988, to release it in America, first at the Paris Theatre in midtown Manhattan, where it would gross a very impressive $41k in its first three days. In its second week, it would drop less than 25% of its opening weekend audience, bringing in another $31k. But shortly after that, the expected Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film did not come, and business on the film slowed to a trickle. But it kept chugging on, and by the time the film finished its run in early June, it had grossed $541k.   A week later, on January 29th, Miramax would open another French film, Light Years. An animated science fiction film written and directed by René Laloux, best known for directing the 1973 animated head trip film Fantastic Planet, Light Years was the story of an evil force from a thousand years in the future who begins to destroy an idyllic paradise where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.   In its first three days at two screens in Los Angeles and five screens in the San Francisco Bay Area, Light Years would gross a decent $48,665. Miramax would print a self-congratulating ad in that week's Variety touting the film's success, and thanking Isaac Asimov, who helped to write the English translation, and many of the actors who lent their vocal talents to the new dub, including Glenn Close, Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Grey, Christopher Plummer, and Penn and Teller. Yes, Teller speaks. The ad was a message to both the theatre operators and the major players in the industry. Miramax was here. Get used to it.   But that ad may have been a bit premature.   While the film would do well in major markets during its initial week in theatres, audience interest would drop outside of its opening week in big cities, and be practically non-existent in college towns and other smaller cities. Its final box office total would be just over $370k.   March 18th saw the release of a truly unique film.    Imagine a film directed by Robert Altman and Bruce Beresford and Jean-Luc Godard and Derek Jarman and Franc Roddam and Nicolas Roeg and Ken Russell and Charles Sturridge and Julien Temple. Imagine a film that starred Beverly D'Angelo, Bridget Fonda in her first movie, Julie Hagerty, Buck Henry, Elizabeth Hurley and John Hurt and Theresa Russell and Tilda Swinton. Imagine a film that brought together ten of the most eclectic filmmakers in the world doing four to fourteen minute short films featuring the arias of some of the most famous and beloved operas ever written, often taken out of their original context and placed into strange new places. Like, for example, the aria for Verdi's Rigoletto set at the kitschy Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, where a movie producer is cheating on his wife while she is in a nearby room with a hunky man who is not her husband. Imagine that there's almost no dialogue in the film. Just the arias to set the moments.   That is Aria.   If you are unfamiliar with opera in general, and these arias specifically, that's not a problem. When I saw the film at the Nickelodeon Theatre in Santa Cruz in June 1988, I knew some Wagner, some Puccini, and some Verdi, through other movies that used the music as punctuation for a scene. I think the first time I had heard Nessun Dorma was in The Killing Fields. Vesti La Giubba in The Untouchables. But this would be the first time I would hear these arias as they were meant to be performed, even if they were out of context within their original stories. Certainly, Wagner didn't intend the aria from Tristan und Isolde to be used to highlight a suicide pact between a young couple killing themselves in a Las Vegas hotel bathroom.   Aria definitely split critics when it premiered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, when it competed for the festival's main prize, the Palme D'Or. Roger Ebert would call it the first MTV opera and felt the filmmakers were poking fun at their own styles, while Leonard Maltin felt most of the endeavor was a waste of time. In the review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin would also make a reference to MTV but not in a positive way, and would note the two best parts of the film were the photo montage that is seen over the end credits, and the clever licensing of Chuck Jones's classic Bugs Bunny cartoon What's Opera, Doc, to play with the film, at least during its New York run. In the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper chose one of its music critics to review the film. They too would compare the film to MTV, but also to Fantasia, neither reference meant to be positive.   It's easy to see what might have attracted Harvey Weinstein to acquire the film.   Nudity.   And lots of it.   Including from a 21 year old Hurley, and a 22 year old Fonda.   Open at the 420 seat Ridgemont Theatre in Seattle on March 18th, 1988, Aria would gross a respectable $10,600. It would be the second highest grossing theatre in the city, only behind The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which grossed $16,600 in its fifth week at the 850 seat Cinerama Theatre, which was and still is the single best theatre in Seattle. It would continue to do well in Seattle, but it would not open until April 15th in Los Angeles and May 20th in New York City.   But despite some decent notices and the presence of some big name directors, Aria would stiff at the box office, grossing just $1.03m after seven months in theatres.   As we discussed on our previous episode, there was a Dennis Hopper movie called Riders on the Storm that supposedly opened in November 1987, but didn't. It did open in theatres in May of 1988, and now we're here to talk about it.   Riders on the Storm would open in eleven theatres in the New York City area on May 7th, including three theatres in Manhattan. Since Miramax did not screen the film for critics before release, never a good sign, the first reviews wouldn't show up until the following day, since the critics would actually have to go see the film with a regular audience. Vincent Canby's review for the New York Times would arrive first, and surprisingly, he didn't completely hate the film. But audiences didn't care. In its first weekend in New York City, Riders on the Storm would gross an anemic $25k. The following Friday, Miramax would open the film at two theatres in Baltimore, four theatres in Fort Worth TX (but surprisingly none in Dallas), one theatre in Los Angeles and one theatre in Springfield OH, while continuing on only one screen in New York. No reported grosses from Fort Worth, LA or Springfield, but the New York theatre reported ticket sales of $3k for the weekend, a 57% drop from its previous week, while the two in Baltimore combined for $5k.   There would be more single playdates for a few months. Tampa the same week as New York. Atlanta, Charlotte, Des Moines and Memphis in late May. Cincinnati in late June. Boston, Calgary, Ottawa and Philadelphia in early July. Greenville SC in late August. Evansville IL, Ithaca NY and San Francisco in early September. Chicago in late September. It just kept popping up in random places for months, always a one week playdate before heading off to the next location. And in all that time, Miramax never reported grosses. What little numbers we do have is from the theatres that Variety was tracking, and those numbers totaled up to less than $30k.   Another mostly lost and forgotten Miramax release from 1988 is Caribe, a Canadian production that shot in Belize about an amateur illegal arms trader to Central American terrorists who must go on the run after a deal goes down bad, because who wants to see a Canadian movie about an amateur illegal arms trader to Canadian terrorists who must go on the run in the Canadian tundra after a deal goes down bad?   Kara Glover would play Helen, the arms dealer, and John Savage as Jeff, a British intelligence agent who helps Helen.   Caribe would first open in Detroit on May 20th, 1988. Can you guess what I'm going to say next?   Yep.   No reported grosses, no theatres playing the film tracked by Variety.   The following week, Caribe opens in the San Francisco Bay Area, at the 300 seat United Artists Theatre in San Francisco, and three theatres in the South Bay. While Miramax once again did not report grosses, the combined gross for the four theatres, according to Variety, was a weak $3,700. Compare that to Aria, which was playing at the Opera Plaza Cinemas in its third week in San Francisco, in an auditorium 40% smaller than the United Artist, grossing $5,300 on its own.   On June 3rd, Caribe would open at the AMC Fountain Square 14 in Nashville. One show only on Friday and Saturday at 11:45pm. Miramax did not report grosses. Probably because people we going to see Willie Tyler and Lester at Zanie's down the street.   And again, it kept cycling around the country, one or two new playdates in each city it played in. Philadelphia in mid-June. Indianapolis in mid-July. Jersey City in late August. Always for one week, grosses never reported.   Miramax's first Swedish release of the year was called Mio, but this was truly an international production. The $4m film was co-produced by Swedish, Norwegian and Russian production companies, directed by a Russian, adapted from a Swedish book by an American screenwriter, scored by one of the members of ABBA, and starring actors from England, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States.   Mio tells the story of a boy from Stockholm who travels to an otherworldly fantasy realm and frees the land from an evil knight's oppression. What makes this movie memorable today is that Mio's best friend is played by none other than Christian Bale, in his very first film.   The movie was shot in Moscow, Stockholm, the Crimea, Scotland, and outside Pripyat in the Northern part of what is now Ukraine, between March and July 1986. In fact, the cast and crew were shooting outside Pripyat on April 26th, when they got the call they needed to evacuate the area. It would be hours later when they would discover there had been a reactor core meltdown at the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. They would have to scramble to shoot in other locations away from Ukraine for a month, and when they were finally allowed to return, the area they were shooting in deemed to have not been adversely affected by the worst nuclear power plant accident in human history,, Geiger counters would be placed all over the sets, and every meal served by craft services would need to be read to make sure it wasn't contaminated.   After premiering at the Moscow Film Festival in July 1987 and the Norwegian Film Festival in August, Mio would open in Sweden on October 16th, 1987. The local critics would tear the film apart. They hated that the filmmakers had Anglicized the movie with British actors like Christopher Lee, Susannah York, Christian Bale and Nicholas Pickard, an eleven year old boy also making his film debut. They also hated how the filmmakers adapted the novel by the legendary Astrid Lindgren, whose Pippi Longstocking novels made her and her works world famous. Overall, they hated pretty much everything about it outside of Christopher Lee's performance and the production's design in the fantasy world.   Miramax most likely picked it up trying to emulate the success of The Neverending Story, which had opened to great success in most of the world in 1984. So it might seem kinda odd that when they would open the now titled The Land of Faraway in theatres, they wouldn't go wide but instead open it on one screen in Atlanta GA on June 10th, 1988. And, once again, Miramax did not report grosses, and Variety did not track Atlanta theatres that week. Two weeks later, they would open the film in Miami. How many theatres? Can't tell you. Miramax did not report grosses, and Variety was not tracking any of the theatres in Miami playing the film. But hey, Bull Durham did pretty good in Miami that week.   The film would next open in theatres in Los Angeles. This time, Miramax bought a quarter page ad in the Los Angeles Times on opening day to let people know the film existed. So we know it was playing on 18 screens that weekend. And, once again, Miramax did not report grosses for the film. But on the two screens it played on that Variety was tracking, the combined gross was just $2,500.   There'd be other playdates. Kansas City and Minneapolis in mid-September. Vancouver, BC in early October. Palm Beach FL in mid October. Calgary AB and Fort Lauderdale in late October. Phoenix in mid November. And never once did Miramax report any grosses for it.   One week after Mio, Miramax would release a comedy called Going Undercover.   Now, if you listened to our March 2021 episode on Some Kind of Wonderful, you may remember be mentioning Lea Thompson taking the role of Amanda Jones in that film, a role she had turned down twice before, the week after Howard the Duck opened, because she was afraid she'd never get cast in a movie again. And while Some Kind of Wonderful wasn't as big a film as you'd expect from a John Hughes production, Thompson did indeed continue to work, and is still working to this day.   So if you were looking at a newspaper ad in several cities in June 1988 and saw her latest movie and wonder why she went back to making weird little movies.   She hadn't.   This was a movie she had made just before Back to the Future, in August and September 1984.   Originally titled Yellow Pages, the film starred film legend Jean Simmons as Maxine, a rich woman who has hired Chris Lemmon's private investigator Henry Brilliant to protect her stepdaughter Marigold during her trip to Copenhagen.   The director, James Clarke, had written the script specifically for Lemmon, tailoring his role to mimic various roles played by his famous father, Jack Lemmon, over the decades, and for Simmons. But Thompson was just one of a number of young actresses they looked at before making their casting choice.   Half of the $6m budget would come from a first-time British film producer, while the other half from a group of Danish investors wanting to lure more Hollywood productions to their area.   The shoot would be plagued by a number of problems. The shoot in Los Angeles coincided with the final days of the 1984 Summer Olympics, which would cut out using some of the best and most regularly used locations in the city, and a long-lasting heat wave that would make outdoor shoots unbearable for cast and crew. When they arrived in Copenhagen at the end of August, Denmark was going through an unusually heavy storm front that hung around for weeks.   Clarke would spend several months editing the film, longer than usual for a smaller production like this, but he in part was waiting to see how Back to the Future would do at the box office. If the film was a hit, and his leading actress was a major part of that, it could make it easier to sell his film to a distributor.   Or that was line of thinking.   Of course, Back to the Future was a hit, and Thompson received much praise for her comedic work on the film.   But that didn't make it any easier to sell his film.   The producer would set the first screenings for the film at the February 1986 American Film Market in Santa Monica, which caters not only to foreign distributors looking to acquire American movies for their markets, but helps independent filmmakers get their movies seen by American distributors.   As these screenings were for buyers by invitation only, there would be no reviews from the screenings, but one could guess that no one would hear about the film again until Miramax bought the American distribution rights to it in March 1988 tells us that maybe those screenings didn't go so well.   The film would get retitled Going Undercover, and would open in single screen playdates in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Dallas, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, St. Louis and Tampa on June 17th. And as I've said too many times already, no reported grosses from Miramax, and only one theatre playing the film was being tracked by Variety, with Going Undercover earning $3,000 during its one week at the Century City 14 in Los Angeles.   In the June 22nd, 1988 issue of Variety, there was an article about Miramax securing a $25m line of credit in order to start producing their own films. Going Undercover is mentioned in the article about being one of Miramax's releases, without noting it had just been released that week or how well it did or did not do.   The Thin Blue Line would be Miramax's first non-music based documentary, and one that would truly change how documentaries were made.   Errol Morris had already made two bizarre but entertaining documentaries in the late 70s and early 80s. Gates of Heaven was shot in 1977, about a man who operated a failing pet cemetery in Northern California's Napa Valley. When Morris told his famous German filmmaking supporter Werner Herzog about the film, Herzog vowed to eat one of the shoes he was wearing that day if Morris could actually complete the film and have it shown in a public theatre. In April 1979, just before the documentary had its world premiere at UC Theatre in Berkeley, where Morris had studied philosophy, Herzog would spend the morning at Chez Pannise, the creators of the California Cuisine cooking style, boiling his shoes for five hours in garlic, herbs and stock. This event itself would be commemorated in a documentary short called, naturally, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, by Les Blank, which is a must watch on its own.   Because of the success of Gates of Heaven, Morris was able to quickly find financing for his next film, Nub City, which was originally supposed to be about the number of Vernon, Florida's citizens who have “accidentally” cut off their limbs, in order to collect the insurance money. But after several of those citizens threatened to kill Morris, and one of them tried to run down his cinematographer with their truck, Morris would rework the documentary, dropping the limb angle, no pun intended, and focus on the numerous eccentric people in the town. It would premiere at the 1981 New York Film Festival, and become a hit, for a documentary, when it was released in theatres in 1982.   But it would take Morris another six years after completing Vernon, Florida, to make another film. Part of it was having trouble lining up full funding to work on his next proposed movie, about James Grigson, a Texas forensic psychiatrist whose was nicknamed Doctor Death for being an expert witness for the prosecution in death penalty cases in Texas. Morris had gotten seed money for the documentary from PBS and the Endowment for Public Arts, but there was little else coming in while he worked on the film. In fact, Morris would get a PI license in New York and work cases for two years, using every penny he earned that wasn't going towards living expenses to keep the film afloat.   One of Morris's major problems for the film was that Grigson would not sit on camera for an interview, but would meet with Morris face to face to talk about the cases. During that meeting, the good doctor suggested to the filmmaker that he should research the killers he helped put away. And during that research, Morris would come across the case of one Randall Dale Adams, who was convicted of killing Dallas police officer Robert Wood in 1976, even though another man, David Harris, was the police's initial suspect. For two years, Morris would fly back and forth between New York City and Texas, talking to and filming interviews with Adams and more than two hundred other people connected to the shooting and the trial. Morris had become convinced Adams was indeed innocent, and dropped the idea about Dr. Grigson to solely focus on the Robert Wood murder.   After showing the producers of PBS's American Playhouse some of the footage he had put together of the new direction of the film, they kicked in more funds so that Morris could shoot some re-enactment sequences outside New York City, as well as commission composer Phillip Glass to create a score for the film once it was completed. Documentaries at that time did not regularly use re-enactments, but Morris felt it was important to show how different personal accounts of the same moment can be misinterpreted or misremembered or outright manipulated to suppress the truth.   After the film completed its post-production in March 1988, The Thin Blue Line would have its world premiere at the San Francisco Film Festival on March 18th, and word quickly spread Morris had something truly unique and special on his hands. The critic for Variety would note in the very first paragraph of his write up that the film employed “strikingly original formal devices to pull together diverse interviews, film clips, photo collages, and” and this is where it broke ground, “recreations of the crime from many points of view.”   Miramax would put together a full court press in order to get the rights to the film, which was announced during the opening days of the 1988 Cannes Film Festival in early May. An early hint on how the company was going to sell the film was by calling it a “non-fiction feature” instead of a documentary.   Miramax would send Morris out on a cross-country press tour in the weeks leading up to the film's August 26th opening date, but Morris, like many documentary filmmakers, was not used to being in the spotlight themselves, and was not as articulate about talking up his movies as the more seasoned directors and actors who've been on the promotion circuit for a while. After one interview, Harvey Weinstein would send Errol Morris a note.   “Heard your NPR interview and you were boring.”   Harvey would offer up several suggestions to help the filmmaker, including hyping the movie up as a real life mystery thriller rather than a documentary, and using shorter and clearer sentences when answering a question.   It was a clear gamble to release The Thin Blue Line in the final week of summer, and the film would need a lot of good will to stand out.   And it would get it.   The New York Times was so enthralled with the film, it would not only run a review from Janet Maslin, who would heap great praise on the film, but would also run a lengthy interview with Errol Morris right next to the review. The quarter page ad in the New York Times, several pages back, would tout positive quotes from Roger Ebert, J. Hoberman, who had left The Village Voice for the then-new Premiere Magazine, Peter Travers, writing for People Magazine instead of Rolling Stone, and critics from the San Francisco Chronicle and, interestingly enough, the Dallas Morning News. The top of the ad was tagged with an intriguing tease: solving this mystery is going to be murder, with a second tag line underneath the key art and title, which called the film “a new kind of movie mystery.” Of the 15 New York area-based film critics for local newspapers, television and national magazines, 14 of them gave favorable reviews, while 1, Stephen Schiff of Vanity Fair, was ambivalent about it. Not one critic gave it a bad review.   New York audiences were hooked.   Opening in the 240 seat main house at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, the movie grossed $30,945 its first three days. In its second weekend, the gross at the Lincoln Plaza would jump to $31k, and adding another $27,500 from its two theatre opening in Los Angeles and $15,800 from a single DC theatre that week. Third week in New York was a still good $21k, but the second week in Los Angeles fell to $10,500 and DC to $10k. And that's how it rolled out for several months, mostly single screen bookings in major cities not called Los Angeles or New York City, racking up some of the best reviews Miramax would receive to date, but never breaking out much outside the major cities. When it looked like Santa Cruz wasn't going to play the film, I drove to San Francisco to see it, just as my friends and I had for the opening day of Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ in mid-August. That's 75 miles each way, plus parking in San Francisco, just to see a movie. That's when you know you no longer just like movies but have developed a serious case of cinephilea. So when The Nickelodeon did open the film in late November, I did something I had never done with any documentary before.   I went and saw it again.   Second time around, I was still pissed off at the outrageous injustice heaped upon Randall Dale Adams for nothing more than being with and trusting the wrong person at the wrong time. But, thankfully, things would turn around for Adams in the coming weeks. On December 1st, it was reported that David Harris had recanted his testimony at Adams' trial, admitting he was alone when Officer Wood stopped his car. And on March 1st, 1989, after more than 15,000 people had signed the film's petition to revisit the decision, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Adams's conviction “based largely” on facts presented in the film.   The film would also find itself in several more controversies.   Despite being named The Best Documentary of the Year by a number of critics groups, the Documentary Branch of the  Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences would not nominate the film, due in large part to the numerous reenactments presented throughout the film. Filmmaker Michael Apted, a member of the Directors Branch of the Academy, noted that the failure to acknowledge The Thin Blue Line was “one of the most outrageous things in the modern history of the Academy,” while Roger Ebert added the slight was “the worst non-nomination of the year.” Despite the lack of a nomination, Errol Morris would attend the Oscars ceremony in March 1989, as a protest for his film being snubbed.   Morris would also, several months after Adams' release, find himself being sued by Adams, but not because of how he was portrayed in the film. During the making of the film, Morris had Adams sign a contract giving Morris the exclusive right to tell Adams's story, and Adams wanted, essentially, the right to tell his own story now that he was a free man. Morris and Adams would settle out of court, and Adams would regain his life rights.   Once the movie was played out in theatres, it had grossed $1.2m, which on the surface sounds like not a whole lot of money. Adjusted for inflation, that would only be $3.08m. But even unadjusted for inflation, it's still one of the 100 highest grossing documentaries of the past forty years. And it is one of just a handful of documentaries to become a part of the National Film Registry, for being a culturally, historically or aesthetically significant film.”   Adams would live a quiet life after his release, working as an anti-death penalty advocate and marrying the sister of one of the death row inmates he was helping to exonerate. He would pass away from a brain tumor in October 2010 at a courthouse in Ohio not half an hour from where he was born and still lived, but he would so disappear from the spotlight after the movie was released that his passing wasn't even reported until June 2011.   Errol Morris would become one of the most celebrated documentarians of his generation, finally getting nominated for, and winning, an Oscar in 2003, for The Fog of War, about the life and times of Robert McNamara, Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War era. The Fog of War would also be added to the National Film Registry in 2019. Morris would become only the third documentarian, after D.A. Pennebaker and Les Blank, to have two films on the Registry.   In 1973, the senseless killings of five members of the Alday family in Donalsonville GA made international headlines. Four years later, Canadian documentarian Tex Fuller made an award-winning documentary about the case, called Murder One. For years, Fuller shopped around a screenplay telling the same story, but it would take nearly a decade for it to finally be sold, in part because Fuller was insistent that he also be the director. A small Canadian production company would fund the $1m CAD production, which would star Henry Thomas of E.T. fame as the fifteen year old narrator of the story, Billy Isaacs.   The shoot began in early October 1987 outside Toronto, but after a week of shooting, Fuller was fired, and was replaced by Graeme Campbell, a young and energetic filmmaker for whom Murder One would be his fourth movie directing gig of the year. Details are sketchy as to why Fuller was fired, but Thomas and his mother Carolyn would voice concerns with the producers about the new direction the film was taking under its new director.   The film would premiere in Canada in May 1988. When the film did well up North, Miramax took notice and purchased the American distribution rights.   Murder One would first open in America on two screens in Los Angeles on September 9th, 1988. Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times noted that while the film itself wasn't very good, that it still sprung from the disturbing insight about the crazy reasons people cross of what should be impassable moral lines.   “No movie studio could have invented it!,” screamed the tagline on the poster and newspaper key art. “No writer could have imagined it! Because what happened that night became the most controversial in American history.”   That would draw limited interest from filmgoers in Tinseltown. The two theatres would gross a combined $7k in its first three days. Not great but far better than several other recent Miramax releases in the area.   Two weeks later, on September 23rd, Miramax would book Murder One into 20 theatres in the New York City metro region, as well as in Akron, Atlanta, Charlotte, Indianpolis, Nashville, and Tampa-St. Petersburg. In New York, the film would actually get some good reviews from the Times and the Post as well as Peter Travers of People Magazine, but once again, Miramax would not report grosses for the film. Variety would note the combined gross for the film in New York City was only $25k.   In early October, the film would fall out of Variety's internal list of the 50 Top Grossing Films within the twenty markets they regularly tracked, with a final gross of just $87k. One market that Miramax deliberately did not book the film was anywhere near southwest Georgia, where the murders took place. The closest theatre that did play the film was more than 200 miles away.   Miramax would finish 1988 with two releases.   The first was Dakota, which would mark star Lou Diamond Phillips first time as a producer. He would star as a troubled teenager who takes a job on a Texas horse ranch to help pay of his debts, who becomes a sorta big brother to the ranch owner's young son, who has recently lost a leg to cancer, as he also falls for the rancher's daughter.   When the $1.1m budgeted film began production in Texas in June 1987, Phillips had already made La Bamba and Stand and Deliver, but neither had yet to be released into theatres. By the time filming ended five weeks later, La Bamba had just opened, and Phillips was on his way to becoming a star.   The main producers wanted director Fred Holmes to get the film through post-production as quickly as possible, to get it into theatres in the early part of 1988 to capitalize on the newfound success of their young star.    But that wouldn't happen.   Holmes wouldn't have the film ready until the end of February 1988, which was deemed acceptable because of the impending release of Stand and Deliver. In fact, the producers would schedule their first distributor screening of the film on March 14th, the Monday after Stand and Delivered opened, in the hopes that good box office for the film and good notices for Phillips would translate to higher distributor interest in their film, which sorta worked. None of the major studios would show for the screening, but a number of Indies would, including Miramax. Phillips would not attend the screening, as he was on location in New Mexico shooting Young Guns.   I can't find any reason why Miramax waited nearly nine months after they acquired Dakota to get it into theatres. It certainly wasn't Oscar bait, and screen availability would be scarce during the busy holiday movie season, which would see a number of popular, high profile releases like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ernest Saves Christmas, The Naked Gun, Rain Man, Scrooged, Tequila Sunrise, Twins and Working Girl. Which might explain why, when Miramax released the film into 18 theatres in the New York City area on December 2nd, they could only get three screens in all of Manhattan, the best being the nice but hardly first-rate Embassy 4 at Broadway and 47th. Or of the 22 screens in Los Angeles opening the film the same day, the best would be the tiny Westwood 4 next to UCLA or the Paramount in Hollywood, whose best days were back in the Eisenhower administration.   And, yet again, Miramax did not report grosses, and none of the theatres playing the film was tracked by Variety that week. The film would be gone after just one week. The Paramount, which would open Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on the 14th, opted to instead play a double feature of Clara's Heart, with Whoopi Goldberg and Neil Patrick Harris, and the River Phoenix drama Running on Empty, even though neither film had been much of a hit.   Miramax's last film of the year would be the one that changed everything for them.   Pelle the Conquerer.   Adapted from a 1910 Danish book and directed by Billie August, whose previous film Twist and Shout had been released by Miramax in 1986, Pelle the Conquerer would be the first Danish or Swedish movie to star Max von Sydow in almost 15 years, having spent most of the 70s and 80s in Hollywood and London starring in a number of major movies including The Exorcist, Three Days of the Condor, Flash Gordon,Conan the Barbarian, Never Say Never Again, and David Lynch's Dune. But because von Sydow would be making his return to his native cinema, August was able to secure $4.5m to make the film, one of the highest budgeted Scandinavian films to be made to date.   In the late 1850s, an elderly emigrant Lasse and his son Pelle leave their home in Sweden after the death of the boy's mother, wanting to build a new life on the Danish island of Bornholm. Lasse finds it difficult to find work, given his age and his son's youth. The pair are forced to work at a large farm, where they are generally mistreated by the managers for being foreigners. The father falls into depression and alcoholism, the young boy befriends one of the bastard children of the farm owner as well as another Swedish farm worker, who dreams of conquering the world.   For the title character of Pelle, Billie August saw more than 3,000 Swedish boys before deciding to cast 11 year old Pelle Hvenegaard, who, like many boys in Sweden, had been named for the character he was now going to play on screen.   After six months of filming in the summer and fall of 1986, Billie August would finish editing Pelle the Conquerer in time for it to make its intended Christmas Day 1987 release date in Denmark and Sweden, where the film would be one of the biggest releases in either country for the entire decade. It would make its debut outside Scandinavia at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1988, where it had been invited to compete for the Palme D'Or. It would compete against a number of talented filmmakers who had come with some of the best films they would ever make, including Clint Eastwood with Bird, Claire Denis' Chocolat, István Szabó's Hanussen, Vincent Ward's The Navigator, and A Short Film About Killing, an expanded movie version of the fifth episode in Krzysztof Kieślowski's masterful miniseries Dekalog. Pelle would conquer them all, taking home the top prize from one of cinema's most revered film festivals.   Reviews for the film out of Cannes were almost universally excellent. Vincent Canby, the lead film critic for the New York Times for nearly twenty years by this point, wouldn't file his review until the end of the festival, in which he pointed out that a number of people at the festival were scandalized von Sydow had not also won the award for Best Actor.   Having previously worked with the company on his previous film's American release, August felt that Miramax would have what it took to make the film a success in the States.   Their first moves would be to schedule the film for a late December release, while securing a slot at that September's New York Film Festival. And once again, the critical consensus was highly positive, with only a small sampling of distractors.   The film would open first on two screens at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, December 21st, following by exclusive engagements in nine other cities including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC, on the 23rd. But the opening week numbers weren't very good, just $46k from ten screens. And you can't really blame the film's two hour and forty-five minute running time. Little Dorrit, the two-part, four hour adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, had been out nine weeks at this point and was still making nearly 50% more per screen.   But after the new year, when more and more awards were hurled the film's way, including the National Board of Review naming it one of the best foreign films of the year and the Golden Globes awarding it their Best Foreign Language trophy, ticket sales would pick up.   Well, for a foreign film.   The week after the Motion Picture Academy awarded Pelle their award for Best Foreign Language Film, business for the film would pick up 35%, and a third of its $2m American gross would come after that win.   One of the things that surprised me while doing the research for this episode was learning that Max von Sydow had never been nominated for an Oscar until he was nominated for Best Actor for Pelle the Conquerer. You look at his credits over the years, and it's just mind blowing. The Seventh Seal. Wild Strawberries. The Virgin Spring. The Greatest Story Ever Told. The Emigrants. The Exorcist. The Three Days of the Condor. Surely there was one performance amongst those that deserved recognition.   I hate to keep going back to A24, but there's something about a company's first Oscar win that sends that company into the next level. A24 didn't really become A24 until 2016, when three of their movies won Oscars, including Brie Larson for Best Actress in Room. And Miramax didn't really become the Miramax we knew and once loved until its win for Pelle.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon, when Episode 117, the fifth and final part of our miniseries on Miramax Films, is released.     Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

En reaktor exploderar på kärnkraftverket Tjernobyl och enorma mängder radioaktiva partiklar slungas ut i atmosfären. Men myndigheterna mörklägger olyckan för befolkningen i regionen och resten av världen.Nya avsnitt från P3 Dokumentär hittar du först i Sveriges Radio Play I den närbelägna staden Pripyat, tillåts livet pågå som vanligt. Människor sitter i solen, barn leker utomhus – alla omedvetna om att luften är fylld av radioaktiva partiklar.Veckorna efter olyckan dör 28 personer av akut strålsjuka och uppemot 200 000 personer får lämna sina hem för att aldrig återvända. Hur kunde reaktorn explodera?P3 Dokumentär om Tjernobyl är en berättelse om historiens värsta kärnkraftsolycka, om vetenskapsmän som satte politisk prestige framför människoliv och om dem som befann sig mitt i katastrofen.Medverkande:Natalia Storm, kärnkraftsingenjör på Tjernobyls kärnkraftverk.Oleksii Breus, senior operatör på Tjernobyls kärnkraftverk. Översättning/svensk röst: Dmitrij Makarov.Leif Moberg, före detta strålskyddsexpert på Statens strålskyddsinstitut.Valerij Legasov, kemist och medlem i den Sovjetiska statens kriskommission (på band), svensk röst av David Book.Av: Moa Larsson.Producent: Emma Janke.Exekutiv producent: Jon Jordås.Producerad av: Ljudbang.Publicerad: 2023.

The days leading up to April 26, 1986 were relatively calm for those living in the city of Pripyat. They had no idea that only a short distance away, the worlds' worst nuclear disaster was about to unfold... or did they? Odd rumours have been surfacing around the internet that something was already amiss at Chernobyl long before the meltdown occured on that fatefull day. There was something soaring through the sky; something incredibly strange...   Craving more episodes? Keep up to date by following the podcast on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you may be listening to the show! Don't forget to give the podcast a 5 star review!   Looking for more Moonlight Lore? Check out the website: Moonlightlore.com ____________________ Wanting to support the show & get more episodes? Donate to the Patreon: Moonlight Patreon ____________________ Check out the show on Instagram to see extra content: Moonlight Instagram ____________________ Have a question? Want to get in contact? Email me at: Moonlightlorepodcast@gmail.com   Music Credits go to: Kevin MacLeod: https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html Purple Planet Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Welcome to the final installment of our grand experiment, Good, Great or Garbage month! We're ending things on a high note with a double-feature of new and exciting music for your listening pleasure: Giant Palm from Naima Bock, and Pripyat from Marina Herlop! Do these interesting new-ish releases make our toes curl? Do they belong in the illustrious TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on? Spoiler alert: the fate of Giant Palm is in your hands! Just follow this link to our blog and vote on our poll, which will remain open for one week, and the results will be shared in our next episode! So get voting, pals! And while you're at it, feel free to join the bizarre and often confounding conversation on our official blog! Just leave a comment on the post of your choosing, telling us what you thought of our latest episode, recommend some new music or movies or whatever else, or just tell us about your day. We don't care. Have you ever seen a cursed film? Tell us all about it. Do you own a cursed film? Send it our way! We're always willing to endure a deadly curse to entertain our never-expanding audience! Of course, you could always send us an email if you're feeling more verbose. We know you won't, but our door is always open. We're also on Instagram, but nobody cares about Instagram anymore. Thanks for listening, and thanks for voting! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/trappo/message

Ecoutez la suite du récit consacré à la catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl en 1986. Cinq heures après l'explosion, alors que les pompiers luttent contre un incendie impossible à éteindre, des particules radioactives s'échappent du réacteur en fusion et contaminent l'atmosphère. Personne n'a encore pris la mesure du drame qui est en train de se jouer.  Après son arrivée à Pripyat, la commission gouvernementale est divisée en 4 groupes : le premier travaille sur les causes de l'accident, le deuxième part faire des mesures de radioactivité dans Pripyat, le troisième travaille sur un plan d'évacuation des civils, et le quatrième, auquel appartient le chimiste soviétique Valery Legasov, travaille aux mesures à prendre pour limiter les dégâts, éteindre l'incendie et nettoyer la zone. Dans ce deuxième épisode de la mini-série Tchernobyl du podcast "Au cœur de l'Histoire", l'historienne Virginie Girod raconte les premières réactions à l'accident de la centrale à différentes échelles : celle du gouvernement, mais aussi celle des scientifiques envoyés sur place pour trouver des solutions.Sujets abordés : KGB - politique de Glasnost - catastrophe nucléaire Tchernobyl - Mikhaïl Gorbatchev - histoire de l'URSS - parti communiste Union Soviétique - superpuissances Guerre Froide - bloc de l'Est.  "Au cœur de l'histoire" est un podcast Europe 1 Studio. Ecriture et présentation : Virginie Girod - Production : Adèle Humbert - Direction artistique : Adèle Humbert et Julien Tharaud - Réalisation : Clément Ibrahim - Musique originale : Julien Tharaud - Musiques additionnelles : Julien Tharaud et Sébastien Guidis - Communication : Kelly Decroix - Diffusion et rédaction : Eloise Bertil - Visuel : Sidonie Mangin   Bibliographie : https://theconversation.com/tchernobyl-35-ans-apres-laccident-nucleaire-decouvrez-comment-la-nature-y-a-repris-ses-droits-118082 Markiyan Kamysh, La Zone, Arthaud, 2016 SOURCESTranscription des cassettes de Legasov en anglais :https://legasovtapetranslation.blogspot.com/2019/10/tape-3-side-b.html Igor Kostine, Tchernobyl, Les Arènes, 2020 DOCUMENTAIRESLa bataille de Tchernobyl, Thomas Johnson, 2006Le sacrifice, Wladimir Tcherkoff, 2004.    Archives : La catastrophe vue des USA (Washington), Jean-Pierre Joulin, 30 avril 1986L'explosion des réacteurs de la centrale de Tchernobyl, interview de Pierre Tanguy, patron de la sécurité nuclaire à EDF, par Stéphane Paoli et Jean-Pierre Joulin, 30 avril 1986"Parlons vrai", interview de Pierre Messmer, Président du groupe RPR à l'Assemblée nationale, par Catherine Nay et Gerard Carreyrou 30 avril 1986"L'incident est-il terminé ?", Jean-Pierre Joulin, 2 mai 1986

It's that time again! Our favorite albums from 2022 include Pripyat by Marina Herlop, A Thousand Butterflies by Aftab Darvishi, Ghost Song by Cécile McLorin Salvant, Evergreen by Caroline Shaw and the Attaca Quartet and What is American by PUBLIquartet. The music has been chosen by Relevant Tones hosts Austin Williams, Matthew Dosland, Stephen Anthony Rawson and Seth Boustead.

On 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukranian SSR in the Soviet Union, one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven, the maximum severity, on the International Nuclear Event Scale took place when, while running a test, the operators accidentally dropped power output to near-zero, due partially to xenon poisoning. After the scheduled shut down,  a rupturing of the fuel channels led to a complete meltdown of the reactor's core and the great nuclear disaster to have ever happened. Later, it came to light that the people involved in the accident experienced a series of strange events revolving around sightings of a mysterious creature described as a large, dark, and mutated man with gigantic wings and piercing red eyes. People affected by this phenomena experienced horrific nightmares, threatening phone calls and first hand encounters with the winged beast which became known as the Black Bird of Chernobyl. Could this be our Mothman from Point Pleasant? If so, one thing is clear. MOTHMAN DEFINITELY GOT BETTER AT THE WHOLE HARBINGER OF DOOM THING!Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling is created for adult audiences only. The content and discussion in this show will necessarily engage with various accounts that include violence, anxiety, fear, and occasional body horror. Much of it will be emotionally and intellectually challenging to engage with. We will flag especially graphic or intense content so as to never put you in an uninformed or unprepared position. We will do our best to make this a space where we can engage bravely, empathetically, and thoughtfully with difficult content every week. This week's episode includes descriptions/sound related the following sensitive content:ExplosionsRadiation SicknessNightmaresStalkingAnimal AttacksHigh-Stress SituationsCheck it Out!Mothmen 1966https://store.steampowered.com/app/1755030/Mothmen_1966/Bigfoothttps://www.bigfootplay.com/Chernobyl: History of a TragedyCheck this out on AmazonMothman Archivehttps://archive.wvculture.org/history/notewv/mothman.htmlWoodrow Derenberger Interviewhttps://youtu.be/k7p06V3JrlkVisitors from Lanuloshttps://a.co/d/aMSrMgrThe Mothman Prophecies: A True StoryJohn KeelCheck this out on AmazonStrange Creatures From Time and SpaceJohn KeelCheck this out on AmazonThe Silver BridgeGray BarkerCheck this out on AmazonReal Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the DarksideBrad SteigerCheck this out on AmazonMothman: The Facts Behind The LegendJeff WamsleyCheck this out on AmazonSmall Town Monsters: The Mothman Trilogyhttps://www.smalltownmonsters.com/shop/iik9sw349cgim4k4mzc9lkxppt19i3Adverts!Support Campfire on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/campfiretalesofthestrangeandunsettlingSatisfy All of Your Merch Needs:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/campfire-tales-of-the-strange-and-unsettling?ref_id=25702Join the conversation on social media atwww.campfirepodcastnetwork.com Discord: https://discord.gg/43CPN3rzInstagram:instagram.com/campfire.tales.podcastGoodPods:https://goodpods.app.link/T0qvGnXnplbTwitter:www.twitter.com/campfiretotsau Facebook:www.facebook.com/campfire.tales.podcastVisit Our Linktree for Any and All Campfire Info:https://linktr.ee/CampfirepodcastSpecial Thanks:Gregg Martin for music contributions! Go follow him on Instagram at Instagram.com/reverentmusic , on Bandcamp at https://reverentmusic.bandcamp.com/releases or on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/album/6QVhQsYQeeBVOtxrelehTI?si=V5CAxS8sSXyVFn14G7j-GAAdditional Music & SFX Provided By: Artlist.ioElias Armao for graphic design! Go follow him on Instagram at instagram.com/doggedlinedesignsupply Jonathan Dodd for merch design! Show him some love at https://linktr.ee/jonathandoddEaston Chandler Hawk! Support his work at https://linktr.ee/eastonhawkartChristina at The Crescent Hare! Support everything she does at https://thecrescenthare.bigcartel.com/productsTodd Purse at Create Magic Studios! Support his work at https://linktr.ee/Createmagicstudios

First, sending our love to all those impacted by the Florida hurricane. Second, It's spooky season - Abandon places and fast food restaurant murders! The Titanic has to be the most talked about abandoned ship, The Chicken Church, Pripyat was the city most affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, The Dome Homes, City Methodist Church, Ponyhenge, Łapalice Castle, Beelitz-Heilstätten Hospital, Canfranc International Railway Station, Kennecott, Power Plant IM - Charleroi, Brown's Chicken murders, Burger Chef murders, Domino's pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon, Denny's owner Cyrus Salehi, Pizza Hut delivery driver Hasan Rahman, the killing spree of dishwasher Paul Dennis Reid Jr., Domino's pizza driver Sherry Eyerly, Five Wendy's employees died after being shot execution-style during a robbery in Queens, Brown's Chicken Borrowed info from cntraveler.com and businessinsider.com This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. Today Chernobyl is a ghost town that is visited by curious people from all around the world. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion!  https://www.facebook.com/carman.carrion.9/ https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY Please Review Us on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Music and sound effects used in the Destination Terror Podcast have or may have been provided/created by:  CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Myuu: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiSKnkKCKAQVxMUWpZQobuQ Jinglepunks: https://jinglepunks.com/ Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Kevin MacLeod: http://incompetech.com/ Dark Music: https://soundcloud.com/darknessprevailspodcast Soundstripe: https://app.soundstripe.com/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we invite you to join us on a journey to some cool and unique abandoned places around the world. Kelsey shares some places she would love to visit, from picturesque houses in Africa to a place of worship in Indonesia. All hail the chicken church! And a few that you may want to visit with a macabre fascination, such as a underground labyrinth of millions of bones and a disaster that left a whole city abandoned indefinitely. Alanna shares two abandoned WWll related places and their interesting histories that draw tourists from around the world. Happy listening, and don't forget to keep it cryptic! Tags: Gereja Ayam, Kolmanskop, Paris Catacombs, Fordlândia, Pripyat, Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Wolfsschanze, Wolf's Lair, U Boat, U-352 linktr.ee/castlesandcryptids Website: castlesandcryptidspod.squarespace.com

This week the society takes a field trip to the desolate, dusty ghost towns of the North America and Europe. First stop the mining Town of Bodie CA, then the pristine homes of Kitsault BC and then to the irradiated land of Pripyat. Do these places hold ghostly happenings, spooks and specters, cryptids? Grab your EMF readers and join the ghost hunt. If you have any questions or topics you'd like to see the society cover, please reach out at Contact@hushhushsociety.com You can find all our audio, blogs and drop sweet ratings at www.hushhushsociety.com Leave us a review on Apple, our website, Podchaser or GoodPods You can grab Hush Hush merch and help support the show on Patreon Link up with the society on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter  Join our Discord and chat with us

On April 26th, 1986, at approximately 1:23:40 AM, the small town of Pripyat, Ukraine was hit with one of the biggest disasters the world has ever seen. Sources: Chernobyl Disaster - Wikipedia Chernobyl - HBO Miniseries www.history.com/chernobyl disaster timeline world-nuclear.org - Chernobyl www.usatoday.com www.radiox.co.uk Valery Legasov - Wikipedia --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/madderthanacaterpillar/support

This is a revamped version of a previous episode. I will select a few of my older episodes and remake them with better quality than before! On April 26, 1986, an explosion erupted the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine when the number four reactor, after a routine test, suddenly dropped power to near zero before overloading. Built up steam blew the 1,000 ton reactor lid through the roof, exposing a 700 mile radius to 400 times more radiation than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Two workers were killed in the initial explosion, while 29 others would die in the days and weeks following, mostly firefighters who were unaware of the exposure. The nearby town of Pripyat was evacuated three days later. The roughly 50,000 residents were told the move was temporary. They never returned. The cleanup efforts were costly and long, with many workers being exposed to high amounts of radiation. After almost a year, a steel sarcophagus was placed over the reactor to contain the radiation. In 2016, a dome like concrete sarcophagus was built over the reactor and old protection that will last 100 years. At the time of the explosion, the Soviet government did everything to conceal the event. Even the manager of the test that lead to the explosion threatened his workers and said that no explosion actually occurred. It wasn't until other European countries noticed the high levels of radiation, when the Soviet Union admitted to the world what had happened. The Soviet government continued to lie to its citizens in the surrounding area of the power plan and said they were fine. Since 1986, over 100,000 deaths are attributed to the explosion. The official death toll remains at 31 according to Soviet records. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone won't be livable for another 24,000 years. the soil, plants, water and animals are highly contaminated, although animals a seemed to adapted to the radiation and appear fine.

Chernobyl and its neighboring city Pripyat are two of the most haunting abandoned places on earth - but what is it really like in the exclusion zone today? In this season finale we'll hear from Mykhailo "Misha" Teslenko, a Ukrainian guide who has spend years exploring the remains of the worst nuclear disaster ever. We'll talk about what the real risks of radiation exposure are, the people who still live and work in the exclusion zone, and why so many things you may assume about Chernobyl are wrong. We'll also cover the dangerous and foolish actions of the Russian soldiers who recently invaded it, and why they posed such a danger to the rest of the world. Finally, we'll discuss Misha's return to his home in Bucha after the Russian massacres there, and what it is like living through one of the most horrifying genocides in modern history. Special thanks to musician Elizaveta, who allowed us to share her beautiful song "Home" at the end of the episode. Misha's links: Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Elizaveta's links: Website | Twitch | Spotify | Twitter Save the Children Ukraine Donate to the Government of Ukraine Abandoned America's Chernobyl/Pripyat Photo Gallery --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abandonedamerica/support

There are reports that many Ukrainians have been experiencing nightmares about what are called "Chorts" - demonic entities from Slavic mythology. This appears to coincide with a huge black flying cryptid over Chernobyl before the nuclear accident. The terrifying creature rose above the horizon of Chernobyl and Pripyat - a hideous humanoid with giant wings, a black headless body, and red glowing eyes sending a message of doom to all who gazed upon it. The time has come and the demons have been summoned - they are all part of the war machine. Tonight on Ground Zero, Clyde Lewis talks about CHERNABOG. #GroundZero #ClydeLewis #Chernabog https://groundzeromedia.org/5-18-22-chernabog-ghosts-in.../ Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis is live M-F from 7-10pm, pacific time, and streamed for free at groundzero.radio. There is a delayed broadcast on our local Portland affiliate station, KPAM 860, from 9pm-12am, pacific time. For radio affiliates near you, go to talkstreamlive.com. To listen by phone: 717-734-6922. To call into the show: 503-225-0860. The transcript of each episode will be posted after the show at groundzeromedia.org. In order to access the entire archived shows/podcasts, you must sign up on our secured server at aftermath.media. If you want access to the entire online Ground Zero library, which includes videos, audio clips, e-books, e-magazines, documents, a news aggregator, a social media platform, plus the archived shows/podcasts, it's $12 a month. Check out the yearly specials!

In this week's episode, we'll be visiting four super creepy and, in some cases, haunted amusement parks! We'll visit some Disney parks, the notoriously haunted Shawnee Lake park, the Pripyat amusement park, and the Land of Oz!Follow Scary Savannah and Beyond on Apple - https://apple.co/3JcqQixFollow on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3KVeyveFollow everywhere else - https://bit.ly/3uw0tQyOn What We're Watching, we explore the classic 1985 film, “Return to Oz,” Brett relives some of his childhood fears.And on Layla and Coffee talk, we talk about some treats and a new coffee mug, featuring Coffee!Follow on Social Mediahttps://www.twitter.com/scarysavannahhttps://www.facebook.com/scarysavannahhttps://www.instagram.com/scarysavannahhttps://www.twitter.com/brettlayChapters0:00 Intro6:58 Haunted Amusement Parks9:50 Scarowinds15:00 Disney Parks29:00 Lake Shawnee43:36 Pripyat Amusement Park48:55 The Land of Oz1:00:07 What We're Watching - Return to Oz1:08:24 Layla and Coffee Talk1:11:28 Outro~~~~~~~~~~~Indie Drop-InAll content legally licensed from the original creator. Thank you to Scary Savannah and Beyond for the great episode. You can find Indie Drop-In at https://indiedropin.comHelp Indie Drop-In support indie creators by buying us a coffee!https://buymeacoffee.com/indiedropinBrands can advertise on Indie Drop-In using Patreonhttps://patreon.com/indiedropin Twitter: https://twitter.com/indiedropinInstagram: https://instagram.com/indiedropinFacebook: https://facebook.com/indiedropinAny advertising found in this episode is inserted by Indie Drop-In and not endorsed by the Creator.If you would like to have your show featured go to http://indiedropin.com/creators~~~~~~~~~~~

In this week's episode, we'll be visiting four super creepy and, in some cases, haunted amusement parks! We'll visit some Disney parks, the notoriously haunted Shawnee Lake park, the Pripyat amusement park, and the Land of Oz!Follow Scary Savannah and Beyond on Apple - https://apple.co/3JcqQixFollow on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3KVeyveFollow everywhere else - https://bit.ly/3uw0tQyOn What We're Watching, we explore the classic 1985 film, “Return to Oz,” Brett relives some of his childhood fears.And on Layla and Coffee talk, we talk about some treats and a new coffee mug, featuring Coffee!Follow on Social Mediahttps://www.twitter.com/scarysavannahhttps://www.facebook.com/scarysavannahhttps://www.instagram.com/scarysavannahhttps://www.twitter.com/brettlayChapters0:00 Intro6:58 Haunted Amusement Parks9:50 Scarowinds15:00 Disney Parks29:00 Lake Shawnee43:36 Pripyat Amusement Park48:55 The Land of Oz1:00:07 What We're Watching - Return to Oz1:08:24 Layla and Coffee Talk1:11:28 Outro~~~~~~~~~~~Indie Drop-InAll content legally licensed from the original creator. Thank you to Scary Savannah and Beyond for the great episode. You can find Indie Drop-In at https://indiedropin.comHelp Indie Drop-In support indie creators by buying us a coffee!https://buymeacoffee.com/indiedropinBrands can advertise on Indie Drop-In using Patreonhttps://patreon.com/indiedropin Twitter: https://twitter.com/indiedropinInstagram: https://instagram.com/indiedropinFacebook: https://facebook.com/indiedropinAny advertising found in this episode is inserted by Indie Drop-In and not endorsed by the Creator.If you would like to have your show featured go to http://indiedropin.com/creators~~~~~~~~~~~

In this week's episode, we'll be visiting four super creepy and, in some cases, haunted amusement parks! We'll visit some Disney parks, the notoriously haunted Shawnee Lake park, the Pripyat amusement park, and the Land of Oz!Follow Scary Savannah and Beyond on Apple - https://apple.co/3JcqQixFollow on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3KVeyveFollow everywhere else - https://bit.ly/3uw0tQyOn What We're Watching, we explore the classic 1985 film, “Return to Oz,” Brett relives some of his childhood fears.And on Layla and Coffee talk, we talk about some treats and a new coffee mug, featuring Coffee!Follow on Social Mediahttps://www.twitter.com/scarysavannahhttps://www.facebook.com/scarysavannahhttps://www.instagram.com/scarysavannahhttps://www.twitter.com/brettlayChapters0:00 Intro6:58 Haunted Amusement Parks9:50 Scarowinds15:00 Disney Parks29:00 Lake Shawnee43:36 Pripyat Amusement Park48:55 The Land of Oz1:00:07 What We're Watching - Return to Oz1:08:24 Layla and Coffee Talk1:11:28 Outro~~~~~~~~~~~Indie Drop-InAll content legally licensed from the original creator. Thank you to Scary Savannah and Beyond for the great episode. You can find Indie Drop-In at https://indiedropin.comHelp Indie Drop-In support indie creators by buying us a coffee!https://buymeacoffee.com/indiedropinBrands can advertise on Indie Drop-In using Patreonhttps://patreon.com/indiedropin Twitter: https://twitter.com/indiedropinInstagram: https://instagram.com/indiedropinFacebook: https://facebook.com/indiedropinAny advertising found in this episode is inserted by Indie Drop-In and not endorsed by the Creator.If you would like to have your show featured go to http://indiedropin.com/creators~~~~~~~~~~~

This week we travel to Chernobyl and a couples experience with some black eyed children in the abandoned town of Pripyat. And a haunted castle with many ghosts and that of a Jester who refuses to leave.

This episode is exploring history. The history that lead to one of the silliest and longest lasting religious disputes ever, the history of several towns and cities that are no longer occupied, and the coming of age ritual of an ancient warrior society.This, is, Weird Shit!

The Chernobyl, Russia nuclear disaster was the worst nuclear disaster in history and occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Plant. A catastrophic eruption ripped through the power plant on April 26, 1986, spewing radioactive particles into the sky. The deadly blast was caused by the explosion of the RBMK reactor number 4, a result of human error and faulty equipment. More than 50,000 people from the nearby town of Pripyat were evacuated following the blast. But plumes of deadly radioactive matter were sent high into the atmosphere as the uranium core lay exposed in the days that followed. The particles were swept across Europe by winds. Officials in Sweden, almost 700 miles away were alerted of radiation levels within their atmosphere within 48 hours of the explosion. Soviet authorities initially denied the claims anything happened but were forced to reveal the mistake as the scale of the accident unfolded. The initial impacted areas were Ukraine, Belarus and western Russia, with some areas contaminated indefinitely and to this day are still wastelands. The World Nuclear Association said: “Most of the released material was deposited close by as dust and debris, but the lighter material was carried by the wind over Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and to some extent over Scandinavia and Europe. ”The weather was a big factor as rains and snow were responsible for bringing radiation down to the ground, where it would penetrate into the Earth. The World Health Organization says an estimated 7,722 square miles of land in Europe was affected by radiation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Russian forces in the forested exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear site may be receiving potentially dangerous levels of radiation. After the nuclear accident trees were felled and radioactive material was buried across the site. As the forest regrew its took up much of that radiation - making it the most radioactive forest in the world according to Tom Scott from Bristol University who studies radiation levels in the region. The troop's activities, from digging trenches to lighting fires as missiles are fired, may be releasing radiation. Its unclear how dangerous this is, but those with the greatest and most immediate exposure risk are the troops themselves. Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef has suffered a mass bleaching event – where coral can be killed by rising temperatures. This is the latest in a series of such events which also affect other reefs. Kate Quigley from The Australian Institute of Marine Science is working to breed corals that can be more heat tolerant. However, she says this is not a solution in itself without addressing climate change and continued ocean warming. Understanding the human genome has reached a new milestone, with a new analysis that digs deep into areas previously dismissed as ‘junk DNA' but which may actually play a key role in diseases such as cancer and a range of developmental conditions. Karen Miga from the University of California, Santa Cruz is one of the leaders of the collaboration behind the new findings. And can fish do maths? Yes according to Vera Schlussel from the University of Bonn. Her group managed to train fish in both addition and subtraction. Many animals undertake remarkable migratory journeys; travelling thousands of miles only to return to same burrow or beach they departed from. Yet, unlike humans, they don't have digital or paper maps to guide their way, so how are they able to orientate themselves with such accuracy? In the second part of this migration story, CrowdScience's Anand Jagatia explores how animals are able to navigate using the sun, stars, smells, landmarks and magnetism to help guide them. Anand journeys to the coast of Florida where he helps to place a satellite tracker on a sea turtle in order to follow the long-distance journeys of these animals. He then visits a lab in North Carolina to meet a team that is recreating the earth's magnetic fields to examine how sea turtles might be using these forces to find their feeding and nesting grounds. Anand wades into the hotly contested topic of just how birds may be sensing magnetic fields – and hears about one of the latest theories that suggests birds eyes may be exploiting quantum physics. The range of navigational tools we encounter throughout the animal kingdom from whales to ants is beguiling, Anand asks what does our increased understanding of these feats might mean for animal conservation as well as human development of mapping systems. (Image: Radiation hazard sign in Pripyat, a ghost town in northern Ukraine, evacuated the day after the Chernobyl disaster. Credit: Getty Images)

Russian forces in the forested exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear site may be receiving potentially dangerous levels of radiation. After the nuclear accident trees were felled and radioactive material was buried across the site. As the forest regrew its took up much of that radiation - making it the most radioactive forest in the world according to Tom Scott from Bristol University who studies radiation levels in the region. The troop's activities, from digging trenches to lighting fires as missiles are fired, may be releasing radiation. Its unclear how dangerous this is, but those with the greatest and most immediate exposure risk are the troops themselves. Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef has suffered a mass bleaching event – where coral can be killed by rising temperatures. This is the latest in a series of such events which also affect other reefs. Kate Quigley from The Australian Institute of Marine Science is working to breed corals that can be more heat tolerant. However, she says this is not a solution in itself without addressing climate change and continued ocean warming. Understanding the human genome has reached a new milestone, with a new analysis that digs deep into areas previously dismissed as ‘junk DNA' but which may actually play a key role in diseases such as cancer and a range of developmental conditions. Karen Miga from the University of California, Santa Cruz is one of the leaders of the collaboration behind the new findings. And can fish do maths? Yes according to Vera Schlussel from the University of Bonn. Her group managed to train fish in both addition and subtraction. (Image: Radiation hazard sign in Pripyat, a ghost town in northern Ukraine, evacuated the day after the Chernobyl disaster. Credit: Getty Images) Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Julian Siddle

In this week's episode we'll be visiting four super creepy and, in some cases, haunted amusement parks! We'll visit some Disney parks, the notoriously haunted Shawnee Lake park, the Pripyat amusement park, and the Land of Oz! On What We're Watching, we explore the classic 1985 film, “Return to Oz,” Brett relives some of his childhood fears. And on Layla and Coffee talk, we talk about some treats and a new coffee mug, featuring Coffee!   SOURCES: Massacre of Clay children remains an infamous episode | News | wycoreport.com Lake Shawnee Amusement Park - Visit Southern West Virginia Find us on the web: www.scarysavannahandbeyond.com Please support the podcast: www.patreon.com/scarysavannah Give us a call and leave a voicemail about a story idea, a message for the podcast, or if you currently live in a haunted house  (we'll play it on the show!) ph. 912-406-2899 Get some goods at our awesome merch store! https://scarysavannah.square.site Visit us on social media: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/scarysavannah Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scarysavannah Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scarysavannah YouTube: Scary Savannah and Beyond - YouTube Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scarysavannah For some reason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scarysavannahandbeyond You can follow the show creators on Twitter as well! Brett: https://www.twitter.com/brettlay Crystal: https://www.twitter.com/aquablonde27

March 12th 2022 Yuriy returns to the radio station he used to work at before the war and goes on air to tell Ukrainians to keep fighting. He received a message after the show from a listener who spoke of her small town in Donetsk that had been taken over and she was trapped. Yuriy draws a parallel between the once flourishing towns and cities in Ukraine and the ghost town of Pripyat that was devastated by the Chernobyl power plant explosion. ----more---- You can show your support for the Kyiv Declaration here: https://kyivdeclaration.org Here are some organizations where you can donate  Red Cross The Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will continue to respond to existing and emerging humanitarian needs. https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal Voices of Children Voices of Children helps children affected by the war in eastern Ukraine. They provide psychological and psychosocial support to children. It helps them overcome the consequences of armed conflict and develop. https://voices.org.ua/en/donat/ Save the Children Save the Children is Distributing essential humanitarian aid to children and their families https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/where-we-work/europe/ukraine Revived Soldiers of Ukraine Revived Soldiers Ukraine (RSU) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing aid to the people of Ukraine so that they may fulfill fundamental rights and freedoms such as right to life, right to appropriate and affordable medical care, freedom of belief and freedom for an adequate standard of living. https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=EECANTTJNHN7Y

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Millionaires Don't Pay Their Fair Share Into Social Security. Rick Scott Wants to Keep It That Way: Today, people who are earning $1 million in 2022 stop contributing to Social Security. Those who are earning $2 million stopped contributing in January. Those earning $500,000 will stop contributing this spring. Most people don't know this, because most of us—94 percent of workers—contribute all year long. The overwhelming majority of workers see 6.2 percent deducted from every paycheck, all year long. Not the wealthiest. They essentially get a pay raise: A 6.2 percent increase in their take-home once they have earned $147,000. Millionaire earners just got theirs. The Ukrainian Crisis and the Case for the Abolition of the Nuclear Industry: Escalating tensions between Ukraine, NATO and Russia caused after Russia recognised the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk has seen the Cold War spectre of nuclear war between Russia and the United States return to haunt public consciousness. While public opinion is divided on whether Russia plans to invade Ukraine proper, the fear that a nuclear war will erupt should the US or NATO intervene to assist the Ukrainians directly, by sending troops to Ukraine for example, is universal. Although this prospect has heightened fears of global nuclear apocalypse, Ukraine, along with several neutral neighbouring countries, is already faced with nuclear catastrophe in the event of a full-scale war with Russia even if Russia prosecutes this war using conventional weapons or NATO does not intervene in the conflict. This is because Ukraine's sizeable nuclear fleet of 15 reactors could be attacked, either accidentally or deliberately targeted, by enemy action or sabotage by rebels in the event of war. Granted, no precedent exists to estimate the damage that could be caused by a military strike against a nuclear facility as no major conflict has been fought in a country with so many reactors before. It is nonetheless fairly reasonable to presume that, if only a few of these power stations were damaged, Pripyat will not be the only deserted town in Ukraine that would have had to have been abandoned through nuclear calamity by war's end. It is just as reasonable to presume that the damage and panic caused by an attack on a nuclear power station would be greater than that on a comparable fossil fuel or renewable energy power station. Put differently, that the harm, broadly defined, wrought by an attack(s) on its energy system would be less but for the existence of its civilian nuclear power programme. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/politicsdoneright/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/politicsdoneright/support

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After the catastrophic disaster at the Chernobyl  Nuclear Power Station in Ukraine in 1986, around 50,000 people were evacuated from the nearby city of Pripyat. The residents were told to take just the clothes they were wearing along with their passports, and reassured they would be allowed to return soon after. However as radiation levels were so high, the decision was made to create a 30km 'exclusion zone' around the Chernobyl power station and for the past 35 years the city of Pripyat has become a ghost town, frozen in time in Soviet 1986, and now giving way to nature. Philip Grossman is a scientist, engineer and filmmaker, who has visited the city of Pripyat and the Chernobyl exclusion zone 14 times. He explored the abandoned buildings which are still highly radioactive in parts still today. Colm Flynn talks to Philip Grossman about his experiences exploring the exclusion zone, as well some of the misconceptions around the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster. They also talk about the overall safety of nuclear energy today. 

The Red Forest - Part OneWritten by Mick DarkPerformed by Mick DarkAudio Produced by Mick DarkCover Art by Mick DarkAlex Porter makes a move across the world to Ukraine for a new opportunity and a life change. Instead, he enters an intersection of the of the old, cursed world and the new affected world. A battle between the two worlds commences and Alex is in the center. Leaving is no longer an option.In Part One, Alex discovers his new town of Pripyat is plagued by things borne of disaster. Mutated by man's mistakes. He has a terrifying encounter.Taken from a 5 part series of The Red Forest by Mick DarkTwitter @MICKDARKVOICEReddit https://www.reddit.com/r/MickDark/Facebook https://bit.ly/3hCdEZe#mickdark #mutation #woods #forest #thing #forest #horror #monster #creepypasta #ukraine #werewolf #night#evil #scary #redforest #chernobyl #creepy #chilling #audiobook #series #radioactive

This year marks 35 years since the horrific nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. I chatted with a great friend of mine, Dave Mullis, about his experiences exploring Pripyat and Chernobyl. Dave has had the opportunity, through university research, to visit the disaster zone four times since 2008, and the stories he tells about those experiences in this episode are fascinating. He describes the sights of abandoned apartments and empty milk bottles outside a school still awaiting collection 35 years on... I've uploaded some of Dave's photos on Instagram @worsttraveller Don't forget to follow The Worst Traveller on YouTube! Check out The Worst Traveller Blog at www.theworsttraveller.com If you enjoy this episode please do leave a 5* rating and review on Apple Podcasts - it would mean the world! The Backpack I recommend: https://www.discoversalkan.com/store/?ref=12 The Equipment I use: Podcast Microphone: https://amzn.to/33yNyiY On The Go Mic: https://amzn.to/3jLycgk My Instagram: @tomjpage + @worsttraveller My TikTok: @theworsttraveller See you next week!

In this episode we talk about the Chernobyl incident, which was the worst nuclear accident... ever.  We discuss the explosion and the aftermath including a creature that may have been trying to warn the people of Pripyat, Ukraine days before the accident. This creature believed to be like the Mothman or the Mothman himself. We also discuss the many hauntings that have been reported as well. This subject is one we find extremely interesting and was suggested by one of our listeners who also found it just as interesting. Our drink of the evening is also called Chernobyl and it packed a punch but in a good way. Happy Easter everyone, we hope you enjoy this episode!

We have learned a great deal about radiation here on earth, and that knowledge has paved the way for us to discover a solution to an even more difficult problem, radiation in space. Space explorers need to be able to move and work without worrying about radiation. Dr. Oren Milstein, CEO and Co-founder of StemRad, has created a wearable radiation shielding vest that takes up minimal space and protects the most susceptible vital organs — like bone marrow, reproductive organs and lungs — from the harmful effects of radiation. TRANSCRIPT: Intro: 0:01 Inventors and their inventions Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We’ll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we’ll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace. James Di Virgilio: 0:39 Welcome to Radio Cade, I’m your host, James Di Virgilio. We’re exploring a series on space colonization. And today my guest is Dr. Oren Milstein. He’s the CEO and co-founder of StemRad. And he’s working with radiation. When dealing with deep space. Radiation is one of the most important challenges facing astronauts and colonization of not only the moon, but also Mars. Dr. Milstein, welcome to the program. Dr. Oren Milstein: 1:05 Thank you, James. It’s really great to be here. James Di Virgilio: 1:07 Your research is fascinating. I think the best way for us to start out our discussion today is to talk about radiation in general. What is it? And why is it something that is so important to deal with? Dr. Oren Milstein: 1:20 Radiation is a topic that people really don’t know how to grasp . You don’t feel it. You can’t see it, it doesn’t have a smell or a taste, but it’s there it’s like something almost mystical, I would say, but there is a way to measure it specifically ionizing radiation. It’s ionizing because it creates occurrence. So it’s creates ionized particles that generates current and that current is something measurable and you could actually compute different doses of radiation based on that current. So really what it is, it’s photons. In most cases that strike, for example, a cell of the body and generate charge particles. In the case of the cell, it could be a free radicals that are able to create mutations within the DNA and therefore hinder a replication of that DNA and ultimately cause cell to undergo apoptosis or suicide, and also create higher susceptibility to cancer down the road James Di Virgilio: 2:19 When we think of radiation, most Americans, especially they think of the nuclear power plants, three mile Island Fukushima and of course, Chernobyl, maybe in the largest sense they think of an atom bomb and all of these cases, if radiation strikes, can you see it? Is there a wave of radiation you see coming at you or is it something invisible? Dr. Oren Milstein: 2:38 Radiation really is invisible in the spectrum that we’re talking about. It’s invisible. You have to understand that the ionizing radiation that we’re talking about is basically just another portion of the spectrum of light. So it’s invisible light . So to speak of a higher frequency that has penetrating power and wreak havoc within the tissue, that it, but it is a form of light and you have a spectrum, but that is not harmful at all. Within the spectrum of light arrange , that is not harmful. Is there a way to detect, well, basically radiation monitors sensors are what the modern world utilized to sense radiation. Back in the day of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and nobody had those capabilities. The radiation was just something that nobody even realized even the U.S. military had overexposed itself, not realizing until many years after the damage that was incurred in the soldiers unnecessarily. So , so we’re very lucky to have radiation monitoring in place all around the world in a way that today these sensors, our network to the point where you can almost not smuggle irrigation, emitting device into the U S through its courts or airports without the government knowing about it. James Di Virgilio: 3:51 And so let’s take a look at it. Maybe the most famous example of radiation exposure that wasn’t in wartime Chernobyl. I’ve had a chance to go to both Hiroshima and Chernobyl during the world’s cup. I went and visited Chernobyl and Ukraine. It was an amazing experience, a sobering experience. And one that taught me a lot about something I didn’t really know about, which is radiation, but while you’re walking around the site of Chernobyl, they know here in this town of Pripyat where most of the hotspots are, right? So you’ve got your Geiger counter It’s beeping, you’re walking around, it’s telling you what’s there. And they’ll say, Hey, don’t walk over there. Here’s a hotspot. Of course you can’t see it. You would never know. You would have no idea, right ? What’s around you. It’s completely invisible. But if you were to stand on that spot for enough time, it would really obviously, as you mentioned, wreak havoc. So I know that someone you learned from that was formative in your experience was one of the first responders. And one of the only people in the outside Soviet union world to come assist with the victims of Chernobyl, what did he learn? And what did you learn from that experience of radiation directly into first responders and those that were helping to save people from that disaster? Dr. Oren Milstein: 4:57 So really a Chernobyl was kind of like the inspiration for me that the start StemRad, even ahead of the Fukushima disaster, which served as the trigger for the founding of the company. I was deeply inspired by my professors by my PhD mentors experience Dr. Ira Reisner was basically on the tail end of his post- doctoral studies back in 1986, when he got a call that there’s been a disaster in the USSR, we’re talking about the days of the USSR still. And if he could get on a plane together with two U.S. physicians, Robert Peter Gale, and Dick Champlin, and try to treat those first responders that had gone in courageously and put out those fires within the reactor that exploded. If it could go out and treat them that the Russians, they don’t have the capability to treat them. And that specifically my professor, Dr. Reisner during his research, he found a way to transplant bone marrow that is not identical and still get a good outcome. And bone marrow was what the Russians needed to save these courageous firefighters because they were exposed to doses that really specifically wiped out their bone marrow, the bone marrow, being the most sensitive organ in the body when it comes to radiation, the most sensitive tissue that was wiped out to the point where their blood counts were really low falling fast. That is the body blood factory after all. And the only remedy the Russians were smart to realize that was bone marrow transplant patients. So they went over, this is before there was even any kind of diplomatic relations between Israel and the USSR . So Dr. Reisner was obviously deterred from going there and frankly didn’t even know how to go there. So they arranged for a plane for him that landed in Moscow. The first responders had been transferred to a hospital in Moscow, and that’s where he together with two other scientific advisors for StemRad today, Robert Peter Gale and Dick Chamblin, they harvested bone marrow from siblings, from brothers and sisters. Bone marrow is only half identical. And they put that bone marrow through the process for which professor Reisner, that’s his claim to fame, that this process of being able to remove immune cells specifically T-cells from within the bone marrow graft and in doing so enable tolerance so that the bone marrow graft given by the donor, in this case, brother, or sister to the recipient is accepted and not rejected within the body of the recipient. And also does not wreak havoc due to the presence of immune cells from the donor. So that was his specialty. But the only problem was that he had done this process only rabbits, very successfully. So he used certain molecule called peanut to gluten and actually to capture the T-cells from within the bone marrow graft . And they did that under conditions that were very difficult. He told me with very old age centrifuges in conditions that were only sending sterile. And this is the first time ever doing this in the human setting. And they’re doing this to save about 25 people that would die without it basically walking dead people. And they went through an arduous process and they were able to harvest that bone marrow removed about 99% of the immune cells transplant into the recipient . Unfortunately though this only prolong their life by a few weeks, ultimately they did succumb to what we call graft versus host disease. So the remaining T-cells within the bone marrow, those that were not successfully eliminated from the bone marrow grafts , we’re able to grow and expand and ultimately attack the recipients from the inside. Basically there wasn’t graph rejection, but the graph rejected the recipients and ultimately they died. Most of them. I think they saved only two people using that methodology. So, the human setting is many times more challenging than the animal setting. You have to remember the rabbits and mice . I said that they’re very uniform and their genetics, everything is almost binary in the way they respond. Either get no response or a full response. In humans, a lot more gray area. And yeah , that was a tragic outcome for that courageous effort , but left me with a thirst to try and solve the problem. James Di Virgilio: 9:05 And you mentioned something there, very interesting. One major thing I learned in Chernobyl is there were a handful of people who responded early, were highly exposed to radiation, but did not succumb to it. And as far as I knew, no one really knows why that is. It’s just that some people tend to be able to handle it better. And that’s fascinating to me, that’s sort of hard to understand, right? Because as the story you’re describing, you have these invaders come into your body, they basically get into your bone marrow. They change, as you mentioned, what’s going on in there. And then that’s, what’s going to wind up killing the patient. You’re mentioning in your research to we’re about to talk about, but can you speak for a second on how some people handle radiation better? Dr. Oren Milstein: 9:50 Yeah. It’s a very interesting topic that you were touching upon. Uh , we really don’t have a very good answer. What we know is that there is a whole distribution in those responses. So the responsiveness of the tissue of the person to a certain level of dose varies in a very big way to the point that you’re right. We do have what we call an LD 50 threshold, a dose at which 50% of the population would perish. But that’s just kind of like a mean, or an average, that though . So you have those being five fevers, for example. So you would have 50% dying and 50% not buying at all, why you would be subscribed to one group rather than the other, we can’t tell. But more than that, we have people that would die from doses as low as one grade or one seabird . If you use those units and then you have people that wouldn’t die from eight seabirds , and these people are from the same populace without any very different background between the two. So it’s really extreme that one could take potentially eightfold , more radiation than the other and still survive. Whereas the other succumbs and why this exists, nobody has a very good answer. There is a gender difference. Women are generally more susceptible to radiation than men. There is an age difference. Generally younger people, especially children are more susceptible than older people. There is a mass issue. Generally, if you have more body fat than you’re more protected, that’s for sure the case, if you compare an obese person to a very thin person and there’ll be, this person would be clearly more resistant in a significant way, people must realize that mass blocks radiation and does so in a good way. So radiation is not something you cannot block. You can definitely block it. Just a matter of how much mass you need to block it. So I just touched upon a three or four factors creating this variability within the populace , but it can add up to the extreme where you’re going to get people that are way more sensitive than the others. James Di Virgilio: 11:52 I mean that’s such a good 30,000 foot view of testing, anything medically, including something like COVID and you nailed it. Testing on animals is so much different than humans because each human is drastically different from another. And at times we don’t even know why their defenses may hold up better, but it does make it a challenge, which is what makes your research. I think so fascinating. So you take these stories, we’ve just talked about, you begin to develop a strong interest in them. You do your own studies on mice, but you do something very unique, unexpected. Even when you read about it today, it doesn’t seem to make any sense. Tell us what it was that you discovered. Dr. Oren Milstein: 12:27 So basically I had a strong desire to make sure that no first responder doing the courageous act that had been then Chernobyl would wind up with a lack of bone marrow following exposure. And my initial idea was to harvest bone marrow from each first responder that would potentially go into a nuclear disaster worldwide and store that bone marrow in a place that should he needed, or she needed. It could be transfused in their bodies. Bone marrow is very amazing in the sense that a transplantation is something that is able to work. And in the case of transplantation, we don’t transplant large amounts of bone marrow. We’re talking about small amounts of bone marrow that are transplanted. So today a leukemia patient that receives a radiation therapy and his, or her team , this was a wiped out. Should you send that person home without any kind of transplantation , then that person would perish within a week or so. So he or she would die from the treatment, not from the cancer. So what we do today is we basically harvest bone marrow from an identical donor that is identified through the bone marrow registry. And that donor doesn’t give all of his or her bone route . Doesn’t get half, just give a small, a tiny percentage of the bone marrow up to 5% of the donor’s bone marrow is given away. And that donor has lunch and goes home. Doesn’t suffer the consequences of giving just 5% of his or her bone marrow. Whereas the recipient that’s 5% or even lower, is able to replenish all of the bone marrow and all of the blood forming system to the point where that person lives for many years after due to that gift of life, so I thought quite nicely , why not harvest bone marrow from all of these courageous responders and freeze it, and whenever they need it, we transplant it. And then you wouldn’t have the problem of locating an identical donor because each potential victim would already have his own bone marrow stored. I started looking at doing that, but that turned out to be a potential logistical nightmare to harvest bone marrow from so many potential individuals around the world who really don’t know who is going to be going in, where at what given point in time to save the day when the numbers add up, it gets to millions of people. They would have to harvest bone marrow from. And then you look at the side effects of harvesting bone marrow that one to 10,000, you have severe complications. So you’re looking at a situation where for sure you’re going to have in the process of trying to save these people already severe complications . So I just went back to research and continued working on mice with my research was basically finding ways to enable engraftment of bone marrow. That is not identical, basically to induce tolerance towards mismatched bone marrow grafts . And then I stumbled upon an amazing observation that whenever I was irradiating the mice, there were some times mice that would survive even without bone marrow transplantation, maybe one to 10 mice or so they would just go on and live without any transplant. And I’d tried to figure out what was going on. And then I learned that in the process of irradiating, sometimes I leave a segment of a mouse outside of the radiation field, and that segment could be as minimal as just the pale of the mouse . So it was enough for me to leave the tail of the mouse outside of the radiation field to have that mouse recover from radiation injury without introducing new bone marrow into that mouse. And ultimately what I figured out and what was basically also established in the literature that bone marrow within the vertebrae in the tail of the mouse is of a quantity that is in excess of what is necessary to survive. And that quantity is two and a half percent. So you need as little as two and a half percent of your bodily bone marrow. I assume it could say it’s identical and it’s not rejected and no complications to regrow your bone marrow and return to normal blood counts and as little as one month. So that was basically my understanding that if you can save a person by introducing so little identical bone marrow into his or her body, why not protect that same amount of bone marrow within the body of the first responder while he or she is responding to an event. And that is something that I really latched on because I realized that it solved a big, big problem. The problem of being able to shield from radiation, how do you shield from radiation in a way that you don’t inhibit the performance of the first responder? Sure, you can put the first responder in a nuclear bunker, but that won’t do so well for his job definition. And the past people have tried to invent suits that protect all the body, but these suits do very little to block the radiation. Even a 100 pound suit, a 200 pound suit will do nothing to block gamma radiation because that mask would be spread out throughout your whole body. But given this finding that it’s enough to protect the bone marrow, to get recovery of the individual, we can focus shielding just on where bone marrow is. And then I studied the distribution of bone marrow within the human body, the amazingly good 50% of the body’s bone marrow resides within the hip region of the individual. And that lends itself to the personal protective equipment that we later developed. Because now you don’t have to this mask all over the body of the individual, you can focus a significant amount of shielding on a specific area of the body. So our product is called three 60 gamma product. What it does, it puts basically about 15 kilograms or about 30 pounds of mass around a minimal area of the body, as small as 11% of the body surface area. And in doing so you basically create protection. That’s on par with a suit that would weigh half a ton. So these half ton suits were never brought to market because it would never work. But this solution is something that I felt was reasonable and it could be very meaningful for protection of first responders. James Di Virgilio: 18:28 What you said there is mind boggling on so many levels. You go back to the Chernobyl story and there was true, just incredible heroic acts that occurred that you learned about there from people that lived in Ukraine that were living under the USSR that were not fans at all of the Soviet union that knew that in their community, they had people that were in trouble that knew they were going to die. That went in right underneath the reactor, right into the reactor long exposures to save other people’s lives, truly moving stuff. They did so wearing rudimentary hazmat suit or what people think of when they think of people going into a nuclear disaster. But what you’re describing is basically like a back brace, or if you like to lift weights, something you would use when you’re squatting, it’s very minimal, it’s wearable. You can go in. And this discovery you’re saying that you can protect the main part of your bone marrow, which is in your pelvic region, as you mentioned. And just by protecting that from radiation, your body then is able to fend off the rest of the radiation you receive in the rest of your body. That’s essentially what’s happening right? Dr. Oren Milstein: 19:31 In effect. The result is exactly what you described, at the biological level what happens is that the bone marrow that is rescued by this shielding within the hip region is able to proliferate to multiply in the hours and days and weeks following the exposure. And then when it reaches a certain level, then the cells, the bone marrow STEM cells, if you will, they’re able to enter the bloodstream. They leave the bone cavity and they migrate into the bloodstream. And then they know how to hone directly towards bones that were wiped out by the radiation. And then they settle within these empty bones. If you take the bone, you take a cross section , you can see after the radiation it’s empty and these small cells know how to repopulate these empty areas. And they proliferate like mad. So on average, each STEM cell is giving you 10,000 better cells. And that process goes on until the bone are full of red prosperous bone marrow within as little as one month. James Di Virgilio: 20:30 That’s incredible quite the discovery. And a question comes to mind, in the Chernobyl disaster as in space, which we’re about to talk about. You had very limited times, you could have a worker go in. Now, the Russians were incredibly rudimentary. They were essentially making things up. There’s a road in Pripyat out that they knew was heavily radiated. And they would say, drive 110 miles an hour, get out of your car, spend exactly four minutes, cleaning something up, get back in, get out. Right? That was obviously a bad idea, but there is a reality that there’s only so much time, a first responder should be spending in an environment like this. Does the gamma three 60 belt, ss this able to allow first responders to spend more time saving people without changing a shift? Or is it a scenario where they spend the same amount of time? They just have protection. Now we know that 15 minutes will be safe, so to speak. Dr. Oren Milstein: 21:17 So that’s a question that we get from our customers all the time. So they want to know how much longer they can stay in. And what I like to answer is that even in Chernobyl, they were very cognizant of the radiation. It’s not sometimes the first responders are portrayed as, as people that didn’t know anything about the radiation just went in blindly. No, they knew very well. And actually they went in, in shifts of 12 minutes, in Chernobyl and those 12 minutes had everything been like a uniform spread of the radiation. It would have been okay. But what happened was they went in and groups of let’s say 10 people with only the commander observing his radiation monitor and the other nine spread out on the roof of the reactor. So the problem is that the radiation deposits or the radioactive material, the fall out was not uniformly present on the roof of the reactor. You had piles of debris, highly radioactive, but then you had the areas that were not so radioactive because the radiation dose, the dose rates declines exponentially with distance, right? So if you increase your distance twofold from the pile of rubble , then the radiation decreases fourfold . So what do you see is a crazy distribution of sickness within this group of 10, you would have seven that are unscathed really. And then three that were standing near the rebel, even for a few seconds. And they received that high dose of radiation. It’s really a matter of uniform or non-uniform exposure. So with these first responders, they can never know if it’s going to be uniform or non-uniform and therefore they must have protections. My pitch to customers is go in as you plan to go in under the assumption of uniform radiation, but should it not be uniform you’re protected. To what extent you’re protected theoretically? You could stay twice as long as what you would have without the protection. But I would never add to the case for the first responders to go in longer than what they had planned. I just want them to go in knowing that even if their plan was not accurate given the circumstances, there able to survive. James Di Virgilio: 23:21 Yeah. And that’s definitely a comfort, like you mentioned, in Chernobyl, all those first responders, there’s a monument to the firefighters nearby who all perished, you went in knowing exactly what they were doing. Dr. Oren Milstein: 23:30 They all knew exactly what they were doing, James Di Virgilio: 23:33 Right. Knowing it was a death sentence. Dr. Oren Milstein: 23:35 There are a lot of people belittling how much they knew, especially in America, the USSR was not the perfect place, but you had people that were heroes there. And these people were heroes. James Di Virgilio: 23:43 Yeah true heroes. And again, people that politically oftentimes did not align at all with what was being done, had to go in, could have attempted to run away, fight, take whatever punishment, but they didn’t. They responded immediately knowing that death was certainly the sentence and attempt to rescue others, really amazing stuff. And your innovation obviously is helping that. And now we’re going to talk about space and space colonization. So astronauts of course are facing radiation. Right? Once we leave the Earth’s atmosphere in the magnetic field, the radiation gets to be serious. It gets to be much more serious. The closer we get to the sun, as we have cosmic galactic radiation, that’s bad, that’s really bad stuff. Right? Solar flares, things like that. So you had to develop something that was a little bit different, right? You couldn’t have used the personal protection device in the same way. Instead you developed device that had to be a little heavier, a little bulkier, but still does the same thing. What were some of the challenges for developing protection in space? Dr. Oren Milstein: 24:36 So that was a tremendous shift in the company’s overall outlook to the market from dealing with a, the worst case scenario of a nuclear disaster. Suddenly we’re also dealing with the best case scenario of sending people to Mars. And that’s what NASA wants to do today. So being involved in both worlds really creates a great sense of fulfillment. But to your question, the technical challenges were quite significant, but surprisingly, not something that we could not overcome. And I saw we could from day one. So we collaborated with Lockheed Martin who was building the spacecraft to take people back to the moon and onto Mars and lucky for me to have good physicists working for me. And it was very apparent to us that the radiation threatening space is quite different than the radiation threat here on earth. You’re concerned less about gamma radiation, more about radiation emanating from the sun and from the galaxy and this radiation, and this is something I didn’t know, actually going in is not photons. You’re talking about actual particles ion , mostly hydrogen plus. So H plus particles that are huge compared to photon . So you’re talking about something that millions of times larger than a photon, huge particles and coming at energies much higher than that, of a photon and gamma radiation. So it sounds very scary and I thought going in wow, but the very quick, I was comforted to know that even though they’re so energetic, because they’re so big, you’re able to block them, you’re able to shield against them. So they don’t seep in easily through the atoms in the shielding material like photons do. So photons are able to seep through bathrooms of the led in the shielding here. They’re so big, it’s pretty easy to trap them. Now the best material for trapping photons here on earth is lead. Specifically Virgin lead. That is pure lead. That’s what we use in a three 60 gamma solution, but in space, should you use the lead? You’re going to create what we call secondary radiation. So the particles are going to strike the lead , then create a gamma wave or an alpha wave or a better wave, which going to be dangerous in itself. So better to use what we call low Z materials . So atoms, with a smaller number of protons within them and an atom with the smallest number of protons is obviously hydrogen. So use hydrogen to block hydrogen. That’s basically what we’re looking at today. So we basically used almost, I would say off the shelf, polymers such as polyethylene, you could even use water by the way, any material that is rich and hydrogen is able to effectively block hydrogen atoms or ions coming from the sun with creating minimal secondary radiation. So that was one challenge. The material challenge was easily overcome. And then we had the whole issue of what are you going to protect? Are you going to protect the same organs they are protecting here on earth? Or are you going to look at the picture a bit differently here ? So, given the nature of the relation space, we were actually driven in the direction of looking at a bit differently because you do have the threat of a high dose coming from the sun, just like a high dose coming from a Chernobyl reactor. That creates what we call acute radiation syndrome, which is wiping out the bone marrow and deaths within a month or two, but in parallel, you also have radiation coming from the galaxy, what we call galactic, cosmic rays, and they’re coming in regardless of any sun activity. And it’s a constant bombardment of ion sometimes bigger than hydrogen has a biggest lead by the way, coming in from supernova in the galaxy. But they’re coming in at a very low dose rate . But if you’re looking at a long duration mission, not the mission of a week to the moon, like the Apollo astronauts , but a mission to Mars, that’s a three year round trip, then you’d better try and mitigate as much of that low level, dose as well. So here we realized we’d be better off having a solution that protects against both . So having something that is able to minimize the chance of acute radiation syndrome, vis-a-vis Chernobyl, but also help as much as you can in the dose. That’s incoming on a daily basis over the duration of three years. So working with Lockheed Martin and given the luxury of microgravity , we decided to expand upon the three 60 gamma solution and going from a hit belt, we went all the way up to a vest , a vest that protects from under the hip and all the way into the chin of the astronauts and in doing so, protecting the bomber, but also vital organs, such as the lungs, such as the stomach and the gastrointestinal system. And in the woman also the very sensitive breast tissue and ovaries, and in doing so you’re shielding the bone marrow and preventing that horrible death like in Chernobyl, but also contributing to the reduction of the likelihood of cancer within those organs in a very significant way. So what we have is instead of a heavy metal like lead , we have polyethylene instead of just the belt , we have a whole vest . James Di Virgilio: 29:33 And what is this vest way ? And are the astronauts wearing this every day? Only when they go out for a space walk, what does that look like? Dr. Oren Milstein: 29:40 Yes, that’s something that is still evolving. As far as how they’re going to use it, but the weight is 27 kilograms for a larger male, maybe 22 kilograms for a smaller frame, female. So ballpark 50 to 60 pounds of mass. But bear in mind that it’s just mass. There is no weight in space and we’re using that to our benefits . It’s never too heavy. So whenever I wear this vest here on earth, it’s pretty bad. But in the ISS, we have one vest on the station right now, circling earth, there it’s meaningless, but what is not getting less is the launch mass . So you want it to be light for the purpose of not burdening the launch with the additional mass that you could avoid. So having it weigh not as much is a big boom for whoever’s launching this mass in this case, the NASA where it costs a crazy amount of money to launch mass for the lunar environment outside of earth gravity, well, it’s currently $50,000 per pound. So any pounds you can take off the weight of the garment is really appreciated. And we’ve done that. So we’ve capitalized on the body self shielding. So we will be realized that you want to protect all these organs, but some of the organs are more protected naturally than others. Meaning that you have organs that are more concealed by the body’s tissue than others. On one extreme, you have the woman’s breast tissue, which is completely exposed to the outside environment. So you need to have a lot of artificial shielding. So that’s where the vest is really thick , but then you have areas that are naturally concealed, like parts of the gastrointestinal tract, like parts of the bone marrow, specifically the anterior bone marrow is quite well shielded. So we created a variable thickness that accommodates the natural shielding properties of the body and in doing so, we reduced the potential mass of about 50 kilograms to just 27 kilograms. And that’s part of our patents that was also employed in the 360 gamma solution that had we not utilized this understanding, but then it would have been almost twice as heavier and really a no-go for first responders. James Di Virgilio: 31:42 That’s really interesting stuff. Weight, obviously anyone who’s a pilot understands the importance of weight , even here just flying right. Sub the Earth’s atmosphere, low orbit, and then of course, going to space even more so $50,000 per pound, you just shaved off 25 pounds. I know you’re saving a couple million dollars there. So looking at how to use it, I want to go back to that. You mentioned we’re not totally sure how to use this yet. So NASA space X, anyone working on space exploration has to deal with what you just mentioned, shielding the spacecraft from radiation, and then also shielding those who are living at the astronauts any dwelling you build any structure you have, they must be shielded. So do we have any suggested ideas of how we would use these vest once we’re up in space? I land on Mars. What is my daily life potentially looking like when it comes to radiation? Dr. Oren Milstein: 32:29 Right. Initially I was thinking that this would be worn only during solar particle events, what we call SPE and layman term, maybe solar flare is more acceptable. These events occur on average a couple of times a year, and usually they’re benign, but sometimes they’re quite awful on the magnitude of going in such a Chernobyl reactor . And the problem with these eruptions of the sun is that they’re really not foreseeable. There is a correlation with the number of dark spots that you count on the sun, but sometimes it could be like very few dark spots, but still you have a solar particle events and astronauts they have just between 30 minutes and one hour warning before it hits them. That is a small amount of time, but we feel it’s enough time for the astronauts to be able to wear their vests. Should they be on hand. And then they have to wear it for the duration of the solar particle events , which could be a day, which is pretty long in itself, but it could be up to two weeks. And that’s where the product comfort comes into play. There are dynamics of the product and that’s exactly what’s being tested on ISS right now. Is, is this something that you can wear for more than a day for more than a week, maybe even, and that’s something that’s being tested. We invested a lot of effort making it comfortable and flexible. It’s comprised of 15,000 parts that each part moves independently of the other so that you create a fluid like motion. It’s a really nice, very nice solution that we hope to also display at the Academy museum very shortly. But to answer your question, yes, whenever there’s a solar particle event , it will be worn, but from talking with astronauts more and more, I realized that if they find it comfortable, they’re going to wear it whenever they go to bed. Even if there’s not a solar particle event , just to avoid the background radiation that I mentioned from the supernova, as much as they can, no , they won’t wear it for the whole mission because at the end of the day, it is quite a bulky garment, but they’re going to wear it whenever it’s critical, vis-a-vis solar particle events, or when they’re sleeping. That’s a vision that I currently have on the way to Mars. You’re looking at a three year mission. You can have solar particle events on the way there when you’re there. And on the way back, they’re going to have at least a handful of solar particle events. It’s going to be very important to have the vest on hand, to prevent in an extreme case fatalities during the mission in a more likely case to reduce the likelihood probability of cancer in their bodies, years after their mission is done. James Di Virgilio: 34:52 And it begs the question, why not shield the structure they’re in or the spacecraft they’re in from these types of radiation events? Is it a weight issue? Why not create a coating on the craft or the dwelling? Dr. Oren Milstein: 35:06 So that was really the direction of many, many scientists over the years. I would say that there were a few that try to do what we’re doing. Those people that tried, that didn’t have our methodology of selection , shielding. But to answer your question, why not shield the whole craft? Well, we calculated that to get the same effect on the Orion capsule, which is massive flagship to the moon and beyond built by Lockheed Martin. So you can either take four vests in aggregate weigh about 200 pounds, or you can add 14 tons to the shielding, of the vehicle. So that’s basically the number we’re looking at. The comparison is extreme. You just would have to double the weight of the vehicle, going back to the calculus of how much a pound or a kilogram costs to deep space, about $50,000 for a pound. The number becomes catastrophic for any organization. That’s trying to go outside of earth gravity well. So it’s really not possible at all. At least if you’re doing it on earth, if you’re doing it on the moon, now you can send an unshielded that aircraft and possibly shield it on the moon. And then the gravity well is not so bad and go on to Mars, but you’re talking about a very difficult situation compared to having these vests on hand. James Di Virgilio: 36:17 Quite elegant solution, as you just mentioned, there’s potentially no exploration of Mars at all, unless you have a way to do it more efficiently. And that’s exactly what this solution is providing. You can see this vest for yourself, if you Google Astro rad, it’ll pop right up. You can see images of it. People actually wearing it. Get a look forward of course, as you mentioned, you guys are on like kind of the final tweaking phase to see what’s it going to look like? How might you reshape it? But it’s quite remarkable. Obviously space colonization is going to be something that amazingly, it still feels amazing to me, right in our lifetimes is pushing forward rather aggressively to hear your story today, Dr. Milstein going through Chernobyl radiation, bone marrow space. It all seems so big, but remarkably you’re answering a lot of questions in ways that are quite compelling using evidence to back up what you found. Just absolutely fascinating stuff. It’s been great to have conversations with you. We at the Cade look forward to potentially seeing some of your stuff here on exhibit at the museum. Obviously we look forward to keeping in touch with you, Dr. Milstein, CEO, co-founder of StemRad. Again, you can find this stuff online. Definitely check it out. Thanks for being with us today. Quite the insightful episode. Dr. Oren Milstein: 37:26 No thank you, James. It was a pleasure talking with you and I hope that information is going to help other innovators and entrepreneurs and making the mission even safer. Outro: 37:36 Radio Cade is produced by the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention located in Gainesville, Florida. This podcast episodes host was James Di Virgilio and Ellie Thom coordinates inventor interviews, podcasts are recorded at Heartwood Soundstage, and edited and mixed by Bob McPeak. The Radio Cade theme song was produced and performed by Tracy Collins and features violinist, Jacob Lawson.

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