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While French acknowledges possible privacy concerns, he explains why the long-time storage of personal data would be unnecessary.

Simon Robert French stopped by the Music You're Missing studio for a second time to discuss building his career following the viral success of "Robert's Place." He also talked about preparing for and announcing his new single "Your Son," which releases on June 28th. Additionally, he announced two upcoming concerts: a free show on June 28th at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City, and a headline slot at Music You're Missing's own Acoustic Night Out on Friday, August 23rd at Cantab Underground in Cambridge MA! Follow Simon Robert French and pre-save Your SonFollow Music You're Missing:Musicyouremissing.orgMYM TikTokMYM InstagramBrendan Jeannetti InstagramMusic You're Missing is a popular artist interview podcast based in Boston Massachusetts hosted by Brendan Jeannetti. For business inquiries, contact musicyouremissingpodcast@gmail.com.

Mike is joined by Dr Tanveer Ahmed, Psychiatrist & Social Commentator, about South Australia's plan to ban social media for kids under 14, amid concerns over its impact on child development. Former High Court chief justice Robert French will explore legal options for the ban, also proposing parental consent for 14 and 15-year-olds.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Riding the wave of viral success from his touching track, Robert's Place, Simon Robert French sits down with Music You're Missing host Brendan Jeannetti. Together, they delve into the inspiration behind the song, Simon's unexpected rise to fame, his daily songwriting ritual, his admiration for Noah Kahan, and the exciting prospects that the future holds!FOLLOW SIMON ROBERT FRENCH: instagram.com/simonrobertfrench/tiktok.com/@simonrobertfrench?lang=en FOLLOW MUSIC YOU'RE MISSING: Musicyouremissing.org instagram.com/musicyouremissing/instagram.com/brendanjeannetti/Music You're Missing is a top music podcast based in Boston Massachusetts. For business inquires, contact musicyouremissingpodcast@gmail.com

Robert French is a former software developer, former actor, turned author of the Cal Rogan Mysteries. he was born in Oxford and now lives in his beautiful adopted city, Vancouver. It has taken him many years and several books (either partial or failed) to learn the writers' craft. He invites you to enjoy the six Cal Rogan Mysteries. Six days a week you can see him at the Vancouver Public library hunched over his computer working on the next book in the series, as yet untitled. Make sure to check out this author: https://www.robertpfrench.com You can listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, or visit my website www.drkatherinehayes.com

Welcome to Episode 26 where I had the pleasure of interviewing author, Robert French. Robert French is a software developer, turned actor, turned author who was born in Oxford, England, and was brought up in the East End of London. At age 26, he emigrated from the UK to Canada “for a couple of years”; he has been there ever since. He is the writer of the seven (so far) Cal Rogan crime thrillers about a drug-addicted ex-cop who fights his way from living rough on the streets to being a much-sought-after PI. Robert is passionate about the beauty of having the right words on the page and with every new book, His goal is to make it better than the previous one.

In the final episode of Season 3, we sat down with the Chief Justice of the High Court, Robert French. He tells us about his career and law, what he is doing now and his tips for current law students. We hope you enjoy!

Passing an alley full of addicts on the way to work each day gave way to the beginning of a novel. "I often used to walk past an alley that was always teeming with addicts and I got obsessed with the idea of how awful it would be to wake up one morning in that alley." Robert is passionate about the beauty of having the right words on the page and with every new book, his goal is to make it better than the previous one. BIO Robert P French is a thriller and mystery author best known for the “Cal Rogan Mysteries Series.” French began writing in 2003 when he resigned from his job as Chief Technology Officer at a company he had invested his heart and soul into. He is a software developer, turned actor, turned author who was born in Oxford, England, and brought up in the East End of London. At age 26, he emigrated from the UK to Canada “for a couple of years”; he has been there ever since. He is the writer of the seven (so far) Cal Rogan crime thrillers about a drug-addicted ex-cop who fights his way from living rough on the streets to being a much-sought-after PI. Get the Cal Rogan Mysteries on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Cal-Rogan-Mysteries-7-book-series/dp/B08FWYMM37 Learn more about Robert by visiting his website https://www.robertpfrench.com/ This episode is brought to you by Creative Edge Publicity To learn more about your host, Kim Lenging, visit www.kimlenglingauthor.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kim-lengling1/support

Robert P. French was born in Oxford England in 1944. Early on he developed a love of working with computers. As you will learn, he lived within 40 miles of the first 5 computers in the world.   He obtained his first software job in 1963 and never looked back. Well, not back, but as you will learn, he did find new directions along the way that greatly advanced his career and took him along different life paths.   Today he is the author of, thus far, seven books in the acclaimed Cal Rogan series. Robert's life story is fascinating and by any standard unstoppable.     About the Guest: Robert French is a software developer, turned actor, turned author. He is the writer of the seven (so far) Cal Rogan Mysteries, crime thrillers about a drug-addicted ex-cop who fights his way from living rough on the streets to being a much-sought-after PI. The series, set in Vancouver, Canada, reflects the best and worst of the city. He is passionate about having the right words on the page and with every new book, his goal is to make it better than the previous one. Robert was born in Oxford, England and was brought up in the East End of London. His fascination with computers was born from his love of science fiction, especially Asimov's I Robot books. At age 26 he emigrated from the UK to Canada “for a couple of years” and his been here ever since. At age sixty, he started a transition to writing and after many false starts he published his first book seven years later. His loves are his family, science, language, certain elements of philosophy and craft beer       About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes UM Intro/Outro  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:22  Welcome to unstoppable mindset. And today. Wow, this is a fascinating way to introduce someone we have a software developer turned actor turned author. I don't know what to say to that except Robert French. Welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Robert French  01:38 Thank you very much, Michael, I'm delighted to be here.   Michael Hingson  01:42 We're going to have to get into this software developer and all of that. Robert and I have had some interesting discussions, among other things, talking about computers. Robert was born in 1944. I was born in 1950. But when Robert was was born, and for a while there were a total of five computers in the world. And they were all within 40 miles of where you were born in England, right?   Robert French  02:07 That's correct. Yeah. Yeah, they were to Bletchley Park,   Michael Hingson  02:12 ah, probably used for decoding or something.   Robert French  02:16 That's right. Yes, they were under the care of the famous Alan Turing.   Michael Hingson  02:21 Right. And, of course, we've got a few more computers in the world than that today. But I remember when Robert and I were talking, I pointed out how both of us grew up in a time when a disk crash was really a disk crash. This were these large 16 inch platters that you would place into a disk drive and the heads would flow over the disks a tiny, microscopic amount above the disk. But if something messed up, and the head dropped onto the disk drive, it tore it up, and it made a wretched noise.   Robert French  03:02 Yes, and all your data was lost?   Michael Hingson  03:07 was immediately and totally lost. Absolutely. It's, it's pretty amazing. Well, tell me a little bit about about you and growing up and so on and how you got into the whole business of software development and such.   Robert French  03:23 Well, yeah, it was interesting. I was born in the East End of London, which is like the dodgy End of London. I was born actually in Oxford, but brought up in the East End of London, which is the kind of dodgy End of London. And my parents sacrificed quite a lot to send me to a good school, where I became fascinated with mathematics and wanted to become a mathematician. Then I started reading science fiction. And the idea of computers came up and I got fascinated with the whole idea of computers. I made a decision. That's where I wanted to place my career. Rather than being a mathematic mathematician and working in kind of esoteric arts. I thought I'd rather do something practical with computers. And so I became a computer programmer and did that for for a lot of years, almost 50   Michael Hingson  04:30 I remember Isaac Asimov's UNIVAC   Robert French  04:35 I actually worked for the company UNIVAC at one point in my career. Yes, I do.   Michael Hingson  04:42 It's one of my favorite Isaac Asimov stories. And I heard about it long before I actually was able to read it because it finally got put in a in a readable form for me, was the ultimate question. You're familiar with that?   Robert French  04:55 Yes, yeah.   Michael Hingson  04:56 And and of course It was it was, what was well, what was the question? I was trying to remember. Oh, it had to do with entropy. When entropy doesn't expand anymore, or when does it? Yeah, first, when does entropy reversing think it was. And, and the story goes that there was the UNIVAC and it progressed and became more powerful. And eventually it lived in hyperspace, and was an all encompassing computer. And every time anyone asked the question about whether entropy could be reversed, the computer always answered, I don't know, I don't need insufficient data to know the answer to the question. And finally, at the very end, the computer said, I have the answer. And the answer to the question was let there be light.   Robert French  05:51 Yes, that's the nice a great story. A couple of other as in life stories have inspired me. But one is his robot series. Yeah, the AI robot. That was one of the things that made it made me want to be a programmer. He vastly underestimated the time it would take for artificial intelligence to emerge. He missed it by about 50 years, but still pretty good. But another one that really interested me and inspired me was I forgotten the name of the the actual book, but it was about the planet Aurora, where people didn't ever didn't meet in person. But they projected images of each other holographic images of each other. So if you wanted to go for a walk in the woods with a friend, they would walk in their words, you would walk in yours, and each of you would have a holographic image of the other one walking with you. And in some ways, that was the precursor of the internet.   Michael Hingson  07:02 Sure. Yeah. Sure, well, and in with iRobot, and the series, of course, the three laws of robotics, he is very, very creative and clever about what robots could do and couldn't do. And then of course, there were a few times that the laws got circumvented. And it turns out it was human error and turn instructions to the computers or to the robots and so on.   Robert French  07:28 Yeah, the the three laws of robotics, it's interesting that there are lots of discussions these days in the world of artificial intelligence, about the whole issue of how do you control artificial intelligence, and how you might put the three laws of robotics into into effect. So a lot of people are concerned about artificial intelligent intelligence running amok.   Michael Hingson  07:55 Right. Well, and, and just the whole lack of discipline and a lot of what we do today, of course, today, yeah, everyone wants everything immediately. And they want everything and they want their so called freedom, and they don't recognize, which is what the laws of robotics at least addressed. They don't recognize their own responsibility to freedom.   Robert French  08:14 Mm hmm. Yes. So there's the old adage, you have no rights without duties.   Michael Hingson  08:23 Correct. So you got into software development, love to learn a little bit more about that.   Robert French  08:28 When I started on, obviously, mainframe computers, it was this was in my first job was, I started my first job on January the 11th 1963. And the first computer I worked on was, of course, a mainframe because they were all mainframes. And I worked for years on mainframes, I emigrated from England, to Canada in 1971. The original plan is I'd go to Canada for a couple of years and work and then maybe go back to England and now 51 years later, I haven't gone back to England, or not to live anyway. And, you know, I graduated through the mainframes worked on many computers, then worked on PCs and I had one of the early luggable computers, which was an Osborn computer. And I just worked on mainly I did some, I had during my career I had some jobs in marketing and in in product management, but and in but mainly I still my love was always developing software. I just I loved working on the development of piece of software and then what seeing people use it being happy with it. That was that was a great motivator for me?   Michael Hingson  10:01 Well, of course, you've seen so many different kinds of advances much, not just the whole physical issue of computers and so on, going from the big huge things that were programmed by patch boards that you would just plug into slots and systems that we talked about. Well, I, I was a student in Palmdale High School, and was a lab assistant for our physics professor. And one day, he asked me to take some time. And he had these big patch boards, he said, Just take all the wires out of the patch board, which was a major struggle into themselves. Because there was a lot of fun. But, but computers have progressed physically. So now of course, one of those patch boards wouldn't even be of small fraction of what goes on a chip.   Robert French  10:56 Oh, no. When I think back to the mainframe days IBM's I think last large commercial computer was the 371 58. Yeah, I believe my iPhone is orders of magnitude more powerful than that machine, which cost $2 million, or there abouts.   Michael Hingson  11:22 I remember at UC Irvine, we had an IBM 360. And we had a PDP 10.   Robert French  11:29 Yeah, they were great machines, those PDP 10 machines, as long as you didn't cut your fingers on the paper tapes. Yes.   Michael Hingson  11:38 And as long as you were careful about putting the duct tape in the right way, yes. Well, so now of course, the other part about computers is how software has advanced. And as you said, the iPhone is magnitudes more powerful than the 370. And we we started hearing even in the mid 70s, about computers learning what we now call artificial intelligence, I worked with Ray Kurzweil, as he was developing the original Kurzweil breathing machine. And the thing about the breathing machine was that it also did learn and you could start scanning a page with the computer, of course, scanning was totally different than you have to build up a page of text, line by line with a camera, literally scanning each line then moving down a little bit and scanning the next part until you got a whole page as opposed to just taking a shot. But as it scanned and as you read, the machine really did learn something about the text and the print and re had done the what at that time, were probably very simple, but still steps to allow the machine to learn to read better is the more you read a book.   Robert French  13:04 Hmm, yeah, he because while he's a genius, you're lucky to have worked with   Michael Hingson  13:09 him. And of course, he went on and did other things after he sold Kurzweil Computer Products. But it still was very creative and clever to be able to have a machine, even then, that learned and as a user of the machine and then helping with the original testing and evaluation. As I read books with it, it was clearly obvious that it learned as it went along, it literally would read pages better the more I read, when I could go back and read a page that I had read and just see how much better it was after reading several pages.   Robert French  13:41 Yeah, it's amazing, isn't it? And now, of course,   Michael Hingson  13:44 it's a whole different ballgame in terms of what artificial intelligence does and can do, and its availability. But it's interesting to see how things are improving and getting better over time. And it will be fun to to really see what happens as machines learn and so on. I'm not a fan of Ray Kurzweil singularity necessarily. I'm not sure that we're going to marry the brain and artificial intelligence together, although problem will try but I don't know whether that will be a good thing or not. But I guess we'll see.   Robert French  14:19 Yeah, yeah. Well, certainly, even if one can't map the brain and download it to a computer, I could still see a possibility of a brain being connected to a directly connected to a computer and living inside a robot. Sure. So which is a pretty scary thought.   Michael Hingson  14:49 What were some of the last projects you did in terms of software development?   Robert French  14:54 The last the last major project that I did was a A system that would create would put all of an organization's manuals, online and searchable. So the basic idea was, hospitals were a target market for us. The basic idea was that you could take all of your manuals as PDFs, and word documents, and JPEGs, and whatever you really wanted. And you put them all into our system, you just upload them to our system and create a structure for a set of for all of the manuals of your organization. And you could search all of the manuals in very sophisticated ways more flexible, even than Google searching. Yes, you could say things like, I want to find a document that has the word, heart, and catheter within five words of each other. And it would instantly present that document or documents to you. And it had all sorts of built in security. So you were only allowed to search for what you needed. But it meant that anyone in our hospital had access to all the documents that exists all the manuals that existed in that hospital. At that time, it was I it was a problem finding manuals, you know, people would spend an hour searching for a particular manual to do a procedure. So that was the last big project that I worked on.   Michael Hingson  16:42 And you said that the manuals typically were in like JPEG format or something like that.   Robert French  16:47 Usually they will Word or PDF. But you know, sometimes they would have JPEGs that were associated with the Word documents or the PDF documents. Of course, they couldn't search the JPEGs.   Michael Hingson  17:03 Well, I was wondering about that, of course, today. Now, even more people are demanding that the documents are accessible. The Google, of course, had the large library of millions of books that didn't inherit it, and they would put them up as pictures. And it took a court fight to get Google to agree and slash be compelled to put the documents up as accessible documents.   Robert French  17:31 Hmm. Yeah, that's I didn't know about that. That's, I'm glad that I'm glad the court said that.   Michael Hingson  17:38 It's all about inclusion, of course. And well, they are and, and other organizations are beginning to work on that. Now, of course, in this country, it's not quite as stringent in Canada yet. But in this country of within the last month, the government has said that the Americans with Disabilities Act does apply to websites, because a lot of times lawyers have been making the case or trying to make the case while the ADA was passed before the internet. So how can websites be held accountable and responsible for being accessible? Clearly, the ADEA doesn't apply. And a number of us have said, well, of course it does. Now, of course, the government has finally said, Yes, it does. But Congress still needs to stiffen the laws. And that will be another story.   Robert French  18:24 Yeah, yeah. Well, first getting Congress to move is not always easy.   Michael Hingson  18:31 Yeah, well, it says bad is will can entropy be reversed? And maybe the ultimate question will be the same, will have the same answer. So you worked with that until you were 60. So what was that? 2003 years or so?   Robert French  18:54 Yeah, yeah, it was about the company fails to get its last. Its last financing because of the burst of the tech bubble in 2003. And that's when that's when I started to think about other options.   Michael Hingson  19:13 So what other option Did you decide upon to reverse your entropy? Difficult? Or maybe to see entropy and larger growth? Yes. I don't think that most people probably understand that that whole joke and it's a physical basically, the laws that entropy can't be reversed. And things are constantly expanding like the universe is constantly expanding. And you know, it's like Murphy's Law, which is if anything can go wrong, it will route around and then there's no tools commentary on Murphy's Law which was Murphy was an optimist. But But then the other one, which is the commentary on Murphy's law that says once you open a can of worms, you can only put the words back in a bigger can. So yeah. So maybe it should be continued to expand for?   Robert French  20:07 Well, just on this subject of entropy, it's probably one of the worst understood words by the general public. But what? Well, it was interesting. You know, whenever a company folds, the first thing that you do is start looking for contracting work, which is what I did, I got on the phone and started calling people. And this particular day, it was in March of 2003, I had finished talking to a bunch of people and I put down the phone. And I opened a Word document, because I'd had this idea in my head for quite a while. And it was about a strange plague hitting the Earth. It was kind of an apocalyptic sort of tale. And I started writing, this was about three in the afternoon, I started writing, and I just kept on writing. And suddenly, it was no one in the morning or something. And I just written for eight hours. And I'd written 1000s of words. And I thought, wow, this is the most fun I've had for a such a long time. And that's how it all started. That book, I kind of ran out of steam on. So I started a different book. And the second book was going nowhere. So I started a book about an assassin. And it just wasn't that book became boring. Though, I did use the opening chapters in another book that in one of my Cal Rogen books. Then finally I got an idea for a kind of a business thriller. But I had said in an area in which I had some experience, I were somebody I know was was conned by a, a venture capital company, or will they call themselves a venture capital company somewhere to novel based on that. And I actually finished it, it was the first thing I actually finished completely. And I was I was quite happy with it. I thought it was pretty good. So I sent out query letters to I think it was 70 Publish literary literary agents, and a bunch of publishers and got back 70 rejection letters and other things. Yes, exactly. And this was before the day that you could submit submit via the Internet. The publishing was really quick, I was really slow to adopt technology. So as luck would have it, I booked myself into a Writers Conference. And I thought, well, this book is good. I mean, it's just I don't know how to market it. That's the problem. So I went to the Writers Conference. And the first day was the all the all the all the sessions were about the art of the art of writing. And   Robert French  23:27 I went, took those those courses, and realized the marketing wasn't the problem. The book was the problem. And I it was just that I didn't really understand how to write a book. I, I assumed because I was an avid reader, that I would be a natural writer. But as luck would have it at that conference, I met an editor who gave me a 37 page report on the book. And I decided that the book was a non starter. But through that, through that editor, she she was wonderful. And she mentored me through my first real book. And it all started because I was doing it contract in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, which is the dodgy area of town. And every day I'd walked past this alley to get to the to the the office I was working in. And this alley was full of drug addicts. And I remember saying to my editor whose name was Lisa. I said, Gosh, I go past this alley every day. And I keep thinking, how awful would it be to wake up in that alley, which was just awful, just terrible place? And she said, Well, who would wake up in an alley like that? And I said, Well, if it were a lawyer, yeah, that would be kind of ironic. And if it were a businessman, we interesting but then I thought well if you're a cop That would be great. And so I have this idea of a cop waking up in a alley full of drug addicts covered in blood. And Lisa asked me a bunch of questions. And the first my first novel, which is called junkie, started to come together in my head. And she mentored me through that novel and the second one, and that's grown into a series of seven books now,   Michael Hingson  25:26 are they self published, or traditionally published,   Robert French  25:29 this self published, I tried going the traditional publishing route, I got some interest, but I think my age was working against me, because publishers are more interested in people who are younger than I am. And who will have lots of books in them. So anyway, I, I learned about self publishing and took a bunch of courses and went that route. And now I think if a publisher came to me, and made me an offer, unless it was a really good offer, I don't think I'd be interested.   Michael Hingson  26:06 But you, you now have seven books. So you've clearly established a track record, in the fact that you keep writing them. I'm sure it's in part because you want to, but I would also suspect that you had success with   Robert French  26:19 them. Yeah, yeah. I've had some success with them. And, you know, somebody asked me, When are you going to stop writing? I'm 77. Now. So they asked me, When are you going to stop writing? And I paraphrase Charlton Heston and said, when they prize the computer out of my cold, dead hands, so I'm just gonna keep doing it. And one of the main reasons I do it is, over the years, I have established a mailing list of people who are fans of my my books, and the feedback I get from those people is just wonderful. It's this, I've met so many wonderful people through this mailing list. And they are the people that that keep me going. When I have bad times. It's those people who make me feel that I can still do this.   Michael Hingson  27:20 Do you publish through Amazon? Or where do you how do you publish?   Robert French  27:24 Amazon? Yeah, I went, I decided to go exclusive with Amazon. Because when I when I was publishing through Amazon, and Kobo, and Apple and Google, Barnes and Noble, I did an experiment with a couple of books and made them exclusive to Amazon. And they just did so much better. So I decided to go exclusive with Amazon on all the books. Can you   Michael Hingson  27:55 answer those when you're publishing through Amazon? I assume it's Kindle Direct Publishing? Yeah. Can't Can't you also make the books available from Amazon through other distribution channels and so on?   Robert French  28:09 Yes, you can. Yes. And Amazon will do that, too. Also, Amazon. Another reason for being with Amazon is that they also do the books in paperback, and in hardcover now. So I've got all of my books are in paperback and in large print. So that's, that's one of the things that Amazon does, which I like.   Michael Hingson  28:36 So have any of them been also produced in audio?   Robert French  28:41 Not yet, I really want to do them in audio. But I have a particular problem in doing them in audio, because the books are written in first person, present tense, from the point of view of multiple characters. So some chapters will be written from the point of view of a woman's, for example, and some even from a child. And then they'll say, there'll be saying, man standing here waiting for cow, and he's late again. So I need a woman actress to voice those, those chapters. So it means that in order to do audiobooks, I need to put together a team. Well, I did have a stint of acting. So I do know a bunch of actors. So I will do that at some point. But and hopefully soon, but right now, I'm just so busy that I can't devote the time to it.   Michael Hingson  29:41 I'm thinking though that with the fact that you're going through Amazon, it would be interesting to see if you could raise a discussion within Bada bing published through audible which is owned by Amazon because ANA has has produced they have done what they call audible originals, and they're very capable and Do oftentimes use more than one person to deal with a   Robert French  30:05 book. Oh, I didn't know that.   Michael Hingson  30:08 Oh, there's a lot of that.   Robert French  30:11 So because my thought was that I would know how to edit audio and video, I thought of assembling the actors and getting them to read the chapters and then editing it into an audible book, which, you know, Amazon will let you do that. So they're called Amazon, audible originals. Did you say, well,   Michael Hingson  30:36 audible originals are books that are not traditionally published elsewhere, but published through audible. Do you use Audible at all?   Robert French  30:46 No, I don't. I'm not a I'm not an audio book.   Michael Hingson  30:49 That's fine. We want to and it doesn't violate the laws of robotics. But But in your case, I'm sure it would be called an audible original because it's not published anywhere through traditional publishing, although the your books are so either way, though, they they do produce audio books, and oftentimes have at least two people reading it, if not more. I remember one that I read last year, you've seen the movie Alien? Yes. Yeah. Okay. So there's a book called Alien shadows, which is another one where, oh, what's the Gorny weavers character's name? Yeah. And the cat? Yeah. Are, are they actually they were in suspended animation. And they're brought out of suspended animation for something and they ended up fighting aliens again. And there are like about 10 different actors that are dealing with all the different characters. So I really think that it would be interesting to explore whether audio audible could do it and would do yeah, I'll certainly look into that. Thank you. I would, I would think that would make a lot of sense to do. I do a lot of audio reading on airplanes. But nowadays, mostly not opposed to Braille. Because I believe that Braille is still the basic means of reading and writing that I have. My wife and I read books together. So we pipe them through the house. So whatever we're doing, there's a book going, usually TV, but a book. She's learned how to listen to audio, and not fall asleep. So she That's great. Yeah, it's it's really wonderful when a number of actors do it. And there are some actors that can do a number of voices. But I understand what you're saying for your book. But I would definitely explore audio through audible and see what you could do.   Robert French  32:52 Yeah, I will definitely do that. Thank you,   Michael Hingson  32:55 it would make a lot of sense to do. Well, so you, you were an actor, while software developer, actor and then reader tell me more about that. Yeah,   Robert French  33:05 I, my first one, my first job when I was five, I wanted to be a cowboy. But my first job that I wanted to do is I wanted to be an actor. And my father probably quite rightly, taught me out and said, you know, with your mathematical ability, you should do something else. And actually, to some extent, he was instrumental in pointing me towards computers, or encouraging me towards computers should I say, but I always liked acting. I was in every school, my every play my school ever produced. And after school, I did a few acting, few plays and musicals. So in my 50s, I thought I'd like to try acting. So I took a tour course and went for auditions and found myself getting lead roles pretty quickly in local theater. And then I kind of realized I needed a better acting, a better acting coach. So I took lessons from Larry Silverberg, who was a wonderful, wonderful teacher, and he was in Seattle, and twice a week I would drive down to Seattle and do courses with Larry, and then I'd started doing a few movie things. Then, I just kind of realized that acting no matter how good an actor you are, in in the world of movies, it's they're always looking for a look. And I didn't have one plus or didn't have the one they wanted. Plus the the The movies that are made in Vancouver are all three American audiences almost all, and they needed people with American accents. And although I can do an American accent, it's just not very good. So that so I decided that pursuing that as a profession was not a good idea. So I continued acting in local theater for a while. But once I started writing that just completely overtook, took all my spare time. So that's when I stopped acting.   Michael Hingson  35:36 It's always radio for the BBC or the CPC.   Robert French  35:39 Yeah. I wouldn't mind doing radio. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  35:45 So you, so what's your next book,   Robert French  35:48 The next book is was in inspired by a podcast that I listened to, I'm a bit of a podcast addict. And it was about a, an amazing, but quite evil woman who ran this cryptocurrency scam. And I thought that would be an interesting part of a book. And so that's, that's the next book in the Cal Rogen series that I'm starting to write. Plus, I've got another series of books on the on the development stage. And my protagonist has a 12 year old daughter. And so the next series of books will be her as a detective in the year 2040 2045, when she's grown up, because in the current series, she's got five years old. So I'm very interested in what the near future holds for us with robotics and artificial intelligence and the social issues that we're facing and social media and cryptocurrencies and all of those things. So I'm very excited about writing books set credit, five years in the future.   Michael Hingson  37:10 Have you ever read any of the books by JD Robb the in depth series?   Robert French  37:14 I haven't No, no.   Michael Hingson  37:17 So JD Robb, who is nor Roger, yeah, Roberts, has written a whole series there, the Eve Dallas series, and I think they're now 54 or 55 books. And they start out in like 2058, I think, or 2057. And are very, they're fun to read. There are some steamy parts, but that's okay. They have absolutely captured what both me and my wife's attention. So she doesn't even want to read those piped through the house. She wants to read those on her own, but she wants the audio version. So we're both now on book number 20 in that series, but they're fun. And I'm sure that your take will be different. And that's a good thing. So it's a wonderful series to write. But she has been very successful with that.   Robert French  38:05 Oh, that's great. Oh, definitely. I knew I knew that Nora had started writing books under the JD Robert, I didn't know anything about them. So I will check out to the Eve Dallas series.   Michael Hingson  38:20 They're all they're all something in depth. And they're fascinating the characters evolve and grow. And the whole series has been very fascinating to observe character, character development, and because she's done with them, but I'm anxious to read yours as well now, so definitely get them out there and also get them out in audio, that'll be a lot of fun for a lot of people, for sure. Actually, something that you might think about is there is a the Library of Congress has the National Library Service for the Blind and print impaired. And I'm sure there is an equivalent in Canada. They also use their own readers to record books, and it might be worth reaching out to them to see if they might be interested. I've not seen any that they individually record that have several actors, but nevertheless, it's a fascinating thing, but I would still think audible would be the best way.   Robert French  39:19 Hmm, yeah, I will definitely look into that audible originals idea. That'd be great.   Michael Hingson  39:26 Well, tell me more about sort of your view about self publishing as opposed to traditional publishing and the differences in the values and so on.   Robert French  39:34 Well, I'm not a huge expert in traditional publishing. There. I know people who are both traditionally published and self published and generally prefer the self publishing side of, of their, their work. traditional publishing is going through some huge upheaval Almost, and they're very, they've been very slow to react to the ebook market. And they, they just don't seem to have got it. Their books, the one of the key things about the ebook market is books should be cheaper when they're ebooks than in on paper. But frequently, the traditional publishers will have the ebook and the paper book at the same price. And it seems like they're trying to grab all the money they can out of the marketplace before it's lost to them. So now, they might well be wrong. But that's, that's a bit how I see it. If somebody came to me and said, I wanted to be an author, which way should I go, I would say if you're going to choose go with self publishing, you have more control you make you make more money and midlist author with with a publishing house, doesn't make a heck of a lot of money. But a midlist author, on KDP, with Amazon can make a very nice living. So I would I have become a big fan of self publishing.   Michael Hingson  41:27 And the more you learn how to market, the better you will be and the more successful you will be in it is true that with self publishing, you have to do more of your marketing. But even in the regular publishing world today, authors aren't usually selected that can't bring their own marketing skills and marketing presence to a book. They want you to have significant social media presence, newsletters, blogs, Facebook, and social media outreach and so on, that you again, bring yourself much less what they might do,   Robert French  42:10 huh? Yeah, gone are the days when you signed a deal with a publisher, went back home and started writing the next book. And they did everything?   Michael Hingson  42:20 Yeah, very much. So. So tell me about your writing process, your style, and so on.   Robert French  42:25 Yeah, it'sa bit weird,   Michael Hingson  42:27 which you talked a little bit about it, but   Robert French  42:30 goes with goes with my personality. I don't do a lot of planning of a book, I tend to write by the seat of my pants as a pantser, as they say, so I'll get an idea for a book. And I'll kind of do a mind map of where I think it's going and what it's going to what it's going to be like, and who's going to be in it. And just, I don't even always know how it's going to end. But once I've kind of got got it settled in my gut, I just start writing. And I write and things happen. And now of course, I have a cast of characters who are in most of the books, and when they show up, they know, I know what to do with them. And it's it's a lot, it's a it's a lot of fun. And I frequently surprised myself, you know, I'll be writing thinking that this chapter is going to end a certain way. And then somebody will say something, and it will trigger something in my mind, and the chapter will go in a quite different direction. Now this can be difficult, because you can write yourself, it's write itself into a corner. And sometimes it takes a while to get out of it. But I always think if I can surprise myself, I can surprise my readers. So it seems to work for me. And I really like working this way. I did one time just for fun. Think about planning out of book, The wet. Some people know they know how many chapters it's going to be what's going to happen in each chapter. And I started to do that and my head exploded. I just couldn't to couldn't do it. So sorry.   Michael Hingson  44:24 Your characters are beginning to tell the story.   Robert French  44:28 That's right. That's absolutely right. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes you ask a question. And I'll think, hey, what would be an interesting answer to that question that I just wrote down? And that might send something in a completely different direction. The other thing is sorry, gone. No, go ahead. But the other thing is that one of the things that I learned from the literary agent and author Don Masse is With every book should have tension on every page. And so when I'm not fixed in what has to happen in the chapter, I can make tension appear on a page by somebody giving a an odd answer or asking a question that nobody's got the answer to. And all those things create tension, but they're sometimes drive the story in a different direction. So that that works really works for me.   Michael Hingson  45:35 Does it sometimes surprise you when that happens? Oh, yeah. Oh,   Robert French  45:38 yeah. I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes, you know, at the end of a day of writing, I'll, I'll look at what I've written and say, Wow, that was good. But different.   Michael Hingson  45:52     Robert French  45:57 Oh, yes. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah,   Michael Hingson  46:01 probably must be depressing. After a while   Robert French  46:03 it is. I'm subject to depression as well. And sometimes writer's block will be one of the triggers. But I usually get writer's block, because I've let the storyline go in a really interesting direction. And have a really unexpected, you know, I've been working towards an expected result. And I thought, No, this unexpected result with much better, and then sometimes takes me a long time to re gather the strands of the story with this new element in it. And, you know, that can take, you know, a couple of days to work out. But yeah, it's except when I'm in a long period of depression, writer's block may last a day or so how do you get over it? What happens? Well, in the, in the short term writer's block, eventually, something will click, you know, at some, you know, sometimes I'll wake up in the morning and think something, wow, that might work in the book. And so that will happen. When I get into, you know, a long, longer period of depression, that writer's block becomes semi permanent. And what gets me out of that is, I'll end up going to my doctor, and he'll getting some medication. So   Michael Hingson  47:31 until you allow yourself to relax and start to just really think about it again. Yeah, listen to your characters.   Robert French  47:39 Yeah, yeah. In a recent depression, something happened that helps quite a lot, is I woke up in the morning, and I was still half asleep. And I had this image of two women standing over looking down over the dead body. And I built a whole chapter in my mind about it. And as soon as I got up, I actually wrote down first 500 words of the chapter. And it was indicative of being in a depression because it was very, very dark. But I thought, you know, if I didn't make it quite so dark, it could actually be an interesting start to a story. So things like that help stuff pops into your mind. And you think, Wow.   Michael Hingson  48:30 Well, I'm looking forward to checking out some of the books certainly, and I can't end this without asking you, what kinds of thoughts and observations and advice you might have for people who want to write. Yeah, it's   Robert French  48:45 interesting that you're out, you should ask that I've just finished a guest blog post for a blogger in United Kingdom. And the title is what to do for an aspiring writer. And my advice would be that if you're don't think that you just you're just going to be a writer, the chances are, you're going to be a publisher too, and you're going to need to be good at it and good at marketing too. But the thing that will distinguish you over the long term is good writing. So if you don't have experience in writing don't do what I did. Don't assume because you're an avid reader that you're going to be a good writer. I spent I didn't waste but I used up quite a few years writing when I could have done a lot better. So make sure you're good. Writers Conference is a great thing to go to for aspiring writer, because they have courses which are given by actual published successful authors on how to write. You can meet agents, you can meet editors, you can meet publishers. But take as many courses as you can, on the craft of writing, read as many books as you can on the craft of writing, and just become a very, very good writer. Because at the moment, self publishing is what is the Wild West, but that's not going to last forever. And the good writers will be the ones who stay in and, and rise to the top, they've still got to be a good marketer and publisher. But I think the key is to become a very, very good writer. And if you if you can go to somebody I know went to a conference, they met one of their favorite authors, and asked me author if they would become their mentor. And they say, yes. So that's, that's something that is always worth doing. Because if you have a mentor, I was lucky that Lisa, my editor became my mentor. And, you know, I could call her anytime and ask her any question about writing? And she would, she would tell me, so a mentor is really good if you can get one. Do you work with an agent today? I don't work with an agent. Now. Now, it's all self publishing. It's all self publish. Yeah, but I do use Edison's   Michael Hingson  51:29 and there's a lot of value in editors, good editors are going to help you really bring out what is important and relevant about not just telling you how to rewrite something or whatever, I remember when we did thunder dog, we had a wonderful editor. And Chad said up front, I'm not going to try to rewrite this book, this has to be you and your story and your style. But what I need to do is to help you enhance it, to make it something that people will want to read and will connect with them. And he had some great suggestions about transitions and so on in the book. I don't know whether you if you read thunderdog, or not.   Robert French  52:13  Yeah, it's no, it's on my list.   Michael Hingson  52:15 Well, one of the things that we do in Thunder dog is we start off with something that happened on September 11. And then we transition back to things in my life that that are relevant to that and taught me something that I could then use to that event. And then at the end of the chapter, we go back to that event, finish it and then go to the next chapter and do the same thing. And Chad said, Well, the problem is, I get lost with the transitions. I don't know where I am, I'm suddenly somewhere else. The transitions are not very good. That's a fair comment, as opposed to, well, you got to you got to rewrite all of this and all that. He said, The transitions aren't good. So we we I actually spent a weekend working on the transitions. Once he taught me what that meant. And the transitions became, I think one of the better parts of the book, and others have said the same thing. And that's, that's one of the things that an editor should do is really help good writers become even better writers?   Robert French  53:14 Mm hmm. Absolutely. I had a, I had an experience with an editor. On my third book, Lisa, was involved in a couple of other projects. And she couldn't be my editor for that book. And so I found another editor who was really, really wonderful. And the book I mentioned about the assassin that never went anywhere, the first chapter of that book was great. And I used it in the new book. And it was a long, long chapter. And it was a it was a flash forward. So you know, after that chapter, it flashed back 14 days to see how one got to that situation. And the editor said that chapter is way too long. And so I broke it up into three different chapters, and flashed, flashed back after each chapter. And it really, really worked. And just, you know, but just to know that the chapter was too long, that's all she had to say, to make me fix it, which was really great and actually had a lot of other really good comments as well, where somebody was acting out of character, you know, would that person really do that? And I thought they probably wouldn't. So,   Michael Hingson  54:48 yeah, that's that's the sign of a good editor. Oh, she was great. Yeah, yeah. Well, if people want to reach out to you and learn about the books and other things like that, how do they do that?   Robert French  54:59 They thing to do is to go to Robert P French.com. That's my website. And if you first page is a list of my books, the book junkie is the first book in the series. And if you click on that, I'll send you a free copy of the first book. So so if anyone's interested in following up, that's the way to do it.   Michael Hingson  55:28 And is that that's the best way then to contact you, as opposed to email or something like that.   Robert French  55:33 But yeah, on my website, just click contact, and then then my email addresses, then people can email me,   Michael Hingson  55:40 and they can learn all about any social media that you happen. So   Robert French  55:43 yeah, I've got Facebook. So Robert P French offer?   Michael Hingson  55:49 Well, I really appreciate you coming on and giving us your insights and demonstrating that you, you took up challenges that came in your life, and you work through them, and even with depression, and so on that comes up, you're able to, to eventually get past it. So don't don't stop doing that. You don't want to depressed, Robert around.   Robert French  56:11 No one does.   Michael Hingson  56:13 But we're really glad that you you came here and you're talking with us. And I appreciate it very much. And so people can go to Robert P french.com. And get all the information and I hope they buy your books. Well,   Robert French  56:25 thank you very much. And thank you very much for inviting me onto the podcast. I really appreciate it. And just as an aside, I didn't after our first conversation I did have I did go to accessibe.com. And it was really very interesting. So I'm glad you made that connection for me.   Michael Hingson  56:49 Well, I hope that you'll use it to to get to work on your website, if you haven't yet. I certainly will. Yes, it works. Well. Yeah, I was very impressed with the demo. Well, thanks for being here. And I want to thank all of you who listened today, I learned a lot and enjoy talking with authors. It's fun to compare notes. And it's also fun to talk about the good old days of computers and such things. So thanks very much for for doing that, Robert. And again, thank all of you for listening. 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Une première partie Roots avec une sélection spéciale Culture d'Alex Easy Style  suivi de Vince Irie pour la deuxième partie, avec un set  spécial Robert French & Frankie Jones.

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David Armstrong is a thought leader and inspiration to many working in the field of psychoanalysis and organisations. In this podcast David shares his experiences of working with pioneers in the field after joining the Tavistock Institute in 1959. David describes how alive the Tavistock project was in its early days.  Innovations coming from the Tavistock Clinic through infant observation, attachment theory and the work of Menzies-Lythe and Ronnie Laing among many others. And from the Tavistock Institute through Eric Miller, Eric Trist and A.K. Rice and colleagues. David shares his experience of attending Wilfred Bion’s study group and how he became engaged in psychoanalytic work led by the Tavistock Clinic.  He shares how the work in the Institute had a radical and political edge.  ‘Democratising the workplace’ was and is, one of David’s inspirations in this field, and remains vital today.   David discusses the question, ‘what is a psychoanalytic approach to organisations’, and highlights the importance of the action-research approach, which he feels has become marginalised, as a drift towards external consultancy now dominates the psychoanalytic-systems approach.  David discusses the mutual interaction between the external and internal world as key to his work, and how there has been a shift from working with the Organisation-in-the-mind, to Networks-in-the-mind.  In this wide-ranging discussion, David shares his interest in how religious dissenting traditions such as Methodism also influenced the psychoanalytic-organisational field, bringing  social change and the group to the fore.    Bio David Armstrong  David studied philosophy at Oxford University then trained as a psychologist in Cambridge University and has worked in action research and organisational consultancy for over 60 years. He joined the Tavistock Institute working alongside some of the pioneers in the field.  David went on to work in the Grubb Institute and Tavistock Consultancy Service.  David has worked in this field with senior executives and executive teams in business, government, health and education in the UK and worldwide.  His experience includes working with executives in pharmaceuticals, investment banking, NHS trusts, local government, higher education, prison governors and for senior civil servants. He is a leading thinker in the domain of psychoanalysis and organisations, bringing insights and sharing experiences that have inspired the wider field.   David is a distinguished member of ISPSO. David is author of Organization in the Mind: Psychoanalysis,Group Relations and Organizational Consultancy, edited by Robert French.

This weeks show starts off in a classic style with music from The Wailers, Gregory Isaacs, Linval Thompson, Robert French, Freddie McGregor, U Brown, The Itals, Don Carlos, Junior Ross & The Spear, Owen Gray, and Sugar Minott. New Music this week comes from Willi Williams, Khalia, Jon Moon, Sandawana, RSNY, Ginjah, Anthony B, Tarrus Riley, Sean Paul with Jesse Royal and Mutabaruka, Kush I Krown, Macka B, Eddie Skuller, Bushman, and Kabaka Pyramid with Damian Marley. Also this week we celebrate The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with two speeches presented over dub music. In the Dub Zone this week you will hear dubs from Bass Lee, Zion I Kings, Dreadlock Tales, and Mercy & Friends. Extended dub mixes feature Sharon Little and Subatomic Sound with Screechy Dan. Enjoy! Bob Marley & The Wailers - Concrete Jungle - Catch A Fire Deluxe Edition - Tuff Gong Gregory Isaacs - Can’t Take The Vibe - One Man Against The World - VP Records Linval Thompson - Jah Jah The Conqueror - Ride On Dreadlocks 1975-1977 - Blood & Fire Robert French - Mr. Babylon w/version - EAD Productions  Clive Hunt & The Hit Team - Man From Far - Blue Lizzard - VP Records Freddie McGregor - Rootsman Skanking - Rootsman Skanking - Abraham U Brown - Roots Is Roots - Thompson Sound All Stars: Linval Thompson & Friends Vol. 1 - Thompson Sound The Mighty Diamonds - Back Weh (You No Mafia) - Reggae Anthology: Pass The Knowledge - VP Records Keith Porter & The Itals - Temptation - Mind Over Matter - Ital Music Don Carlos - Sweet Africa - Tribulation - Attack Dawn & Christine - Holy Mount Zion - Burning Rockers (The 12” Mix) - Burning Sounds Junior Ross & The Spear - So Jah Jah Say - Prince Alla & Junior Ross: I Can Hear The Children Singing 1975-1978 - Blood & Fire  Owen Gray - It’s Time For Love - When Jah Shall Come - Pressure Sounds Sugar Minott - Aint Nobody Move Me - RAS Portraits - Ras Records Willi Williams & The The Lone Ark Riddim Force  w/ Bass Lee - There’s A Place/Deep Within - Glory To The King - A Lone Productions Al Campbell - Ites Gold & Green - Jet Star Presents: Reality Calling Vol. 1 - Jet Star Burning Spear - Recall Some Great Men/Great Men’s Dub - Chant Down Babylon: The Island Anthology - Island Records Martin Luther King Jr. - I’ve Been To The Mountain Top April 3, 1968  Nat Birchall Meets Al Breadwinner - Wise Man Style/Dub Of The Prophet - Upright Living - Tradition Disc Max Romeo - Martin Luther King - Reconstruction -Mango Kahlia - Hallelujah - K-Licious Music Pressure Busspipe - Jerusalem Mountain - Big Feet Records Jon Moon - Praise Jah/Praise Jah Dub - Brighter Day - Yutman Records J Written feat. Alborosie - Fear To Understand - Written Music Sandawana - Egg In A Basket - Standing On The Peak 1 - Tall Ites Music RSNY - Stand Firm - Rsny Music Wailing Souls - All About You - Back A Yard - VP Records Alborosie - Live Conscious - Alborosie Meets The Wailers United: Unbreakable - VP Records Kailash Irie - Seems So Strange (Police Brutality) - Black Tears Riddim - Donsome Records Ginjah - Get Up Now - Lioncub Productions Dub Zone featuring Strictly Dubwize & Extended Dub Mixes Bass Lee - Inna One Drop Style - Bass Lee Inna One Drop Style: Melodica Showcase - A Lone Productions Zion I Kings - Mountains Remove Dub - Zion Ites Dub - Zion High Productions Dreadlock Tales - Horn Of Zion/Dub Of Zion - Dreadlock Tales Music Mercy feat. Jeremy Turpin & Kingfly - I Feel Good With Your Sax/ I Feel Bad Without Your Melodica - Mercy & Friends: Sound System To The Top - Culture Dub Records Sharon Little - Don’t Mash Up Creation/Don’t Mash Up Creation Version - One Love 12” Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream - August 28th 1963 Scientist with the Forces of Music - Martin Luther King - International Heroes Dub - Tamoki Wambesi Gussie Clarke - Let Off Supm - Gussie Clarke Dub Anthology - Music Works Onu Onuora & AK7 - Pressure Dub - Pressure Drop - Zola & Zola Zema - Free At Last/Freedom Dub - Black Sheep - Melchizedek  Subatomic Sound System feat. Screechy Dan - Babylon Soon Fall(rockers 7” mix)/Wicked Man Soon Fall (horns dub)- Subatomic Sound ============================= Anthony B - Back to Normal - Massive B/Ineffable Music Tarrus Riley - Be Great - 21 Greatness Riddim - Innovation Muzik Perfect Giddimani - Choppa - Dumplin’ Shop - Evidence Music Naomi Cowan - Splashing Dancing - Dancehall Anthems - VP Records Sean Paul feat. Jesse Royal & Mutabaruka - Guns Of Navarone - Dutty Rock Productions  Toots & The Maytals feat. Ziggy Marley - Three Little Birds - Got To Be Tough - Trojan Jamaica  Kush I Krown - Blast From The Past - Grindz Recording Studio Macka B - Face To Face - Gentrification - Peckings John Holt & Irie Ites - On A Friday Night - Irie Ites Records Eddie Skuller - Rock On/Rock On Dub - Eddie Skuller Music Kirkledove Bennett - Straight 4 To The Crown - Straight 4 To The Crown - Tad’s Records Kabaka Pyramid feat. Damian Marley - Kontraband 2 - Ghetto Youths International Presents: Set Up Shop Vol. 4 - Ghetto Youths International Kamrun feat. Collie Buddz - Planters Paradise - Ineffable Records Mr. Williamz feat. Chief Rockas - My Heavenz - Puffers Choice Vol. 3 - Scotch Bonnet Records Blackout JA & Liondub feat. Ranking Joe & Blakkamoore - Wrath Of The Supreme - Love Dancehall - Liondub International Dirty Live Dub - Ya Man - The Camel Walk - Culture Dub Records Mercy feat. Baltimores & Elijah - Sound System - Mercy & Friends: Sound System To The Top - Culture Dub Records Trinity & Irie Ites - Rock Ina Dancehall/Dub Ina Dancehall - Cuss Cuss Riddim - Irie Ites Records Bushman feat. Earl Chinna Smith - I Believe - Burning Bushes Music

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Joe Biden has decided Kamala Harris is to be his pick as vice president based on the fact she is an African-American woman. Should identity politics have a place in the presidential campaign, or should people of power be chosen rather on merit? (3:27-25:20). Dan Tehan has announced a review into Robert French's freedom of speech on campus model. Should we be concerned about the issue of free speech rights on Australian campuses and should we be pushing further for a more in-depth review of this issue? (25:38-47:19). JK Rowling has been long under pressure to give in to the woke left whose failure to deal with the lessons of the Harry Potter Books and has subsequently faced the wrath of cancel culture. Does Harry Potter belong in the ‘woke left basket' and are identity politics being taken too far by the cancel culture mob? (47:20-1:00:35). This week's culture picks include Netflix' series The Umbrella Academy, 2008 Australian movie Lake Mungo and 2019 film The Lighthouse (1:00:40-1:14:07)   Show Notes:   How Kamala Harris or Tammy Duckworth as VP could impact the Asian American and Pacific Islander vote: Deepa Shivaram https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/two-women-biden-s-vp-list-have-little-known-advantage-n1236073   Biden picks Kamala Harris as VP nominee: Christopher Cadelago and Caitlin Oprysko https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/11/joe-biden-vp-pick-kamala-harris-393768   Kamala Harris Got So High Smoking Weed in College She Thought She Was Listening To Snoop Dogg and Tupac: Nick Gillespie https://reason.com/2019/02/12/kamala-harris-got-so-high-smoking-weed-i/   The Real Reason Cancel Culture is Rejecting “Harry Potter”: Renee Gorman https://areomagazine.com/2020/08/07/the-real-reason-cancel-culture-is-rejecting-harry-potter/   Culture Picks:   The Lighthouse (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7984734/   the 2008 Australian film Lake Mungo. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0816556/   the Umbrella Academy on Netflix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Umbrella_Academy_(TV_series)

This weeks show starts off with music from Bob Marley & The Wailers, Bunny Wailer, Clinton Fearon, Gregory Isaacs, Brent Dowe, Dennis Brown, The Wailing Souls, Robert French, Willie Williams, Black Uhuru, Peter Broggs, John Clarke, Barrington Levy, and Michael Prophet. New music this week comes from Mortimer, Green Lion Crew with Danny I,Empress Naphtali, Ras Akkurate with Ras Shiloh, Ruffi, Screechy Dan, Bazil, Burro Banton & Leno Banton, Feldub with Mr. Williamz, Ras-I, and Sydney Mankind. Also this week we ride the Come Together Riddim featuring Lutan Fyah and Million Stylez as well as get into some christmas songs from Freddie McGregor, Cocoa Tea, Chronixx, Dub Proof, and Gregory Isaacs. In The Dub Zone this week you will hear dubs from Dub Proof, Jack Ruby and The Black Disciples, Megumi Mesaku, Feldub, Illbilly Hitek with Zion Train, R-Juna, and Joe Ariwa with Adam Prescott. Extended dub mixes feature Pablo Gad, Danny Red & Nick Mannaseh, Brisa Dub Sounds, Brother Dan & Fikir La Amlak, and Luv Fyah with Sista Habesha  Enjoy! Bob Marley & The Wailers - One Drop - Songs Of Freedom - Tuff Gong Bunny Wailer - Rootsman Skanking - Rootsman Skanking - Shanachie Clinton Fearon - Why Worry - History Say - Baco Records Gregory Isaacs - The Sun Shines For Me - Mr. Isaacs - VP Records Brent Dowe - Forward Up - The Reggae Train: More Great Hits From The Highnote Label - Heartbeat Records Freddie McGregor - Irie Christmas - Reggae Christmas From Studio One - Heartbeat Records Dub Proof feat. Addis Pablo - Irie Christmas Dub - Seasons Greetings - Dub Proof Music Cocoa Tea - Christmas Is Coming - Rocking Dolly - Ras Records Dennis Brown - Rocking Time - Reggae Anthology: The Crown Prince Of Reggae Singles 1972-1985 - VP Records The Wailing Souls feat. Ranking Trevor - War - Reggae Anthology: The Channel One Story Chapter 2 - VP Records Robert French - Mr. Babylon - E.A.D Productions Willie Williams - One Love - Up Tempo Records 12” Black Uhuru - No Loafing (Sit and Wonder) - Sinsemilla - Island Records Peter Broggs - Jah Golden Throne - Selena 12” John Clarke - Babylon Spanking - Visions Of John Clarke - Wackies Michael Prophet & Mad Professor - Lot’s Wife/Lot’s Dub - Rootsman - Ariwa Barrington Levy - Please Jah - Prison Oval Rock - VP Records Chronixx - Santa Claus Do You Ever Come To The Ghetto? - Crime Free Christmas - Mountain Music Mortimer - Fight The Fight - Fight The Fight - Easy Star Records Raging Fyah - Better Tomorrow - Strictly The Best Vol. 60 - VP Records The Meditations - Taking Out - Can’t Stop The Flow Of Life - Meditations Music Roots Revealers feat. Goldy - Pot Of Gold - Roots Revealers Music Green Lion Crew feat. Danny I - To The East/Mountain Of Illusion (To The East Dub) - Be Still - Ineffable Records T’Jean Bennett - Brainwash - Izreal Records Empress Naphtali - Calling For Peace - Evergreen - Empress Naphtali Music Ras Akkuret feat.  Ras Shiloh - Parental Guide - Overcome - Kohanim Music Ruffi - Feel All Right - Sunshine Reggae Riddim - Daytamax Muzik Gregory Isaacs - Christmas Time - The Table Is Going To Turn - Jet Star Records Busy Signal feat. Josey Wales - Bring Back The Vibes - Parts Of The Puzzle - VP Records Screechy Dan feat. The Frightnrs - Bandits - Daptone Records 7” Cornel Campbell & Errol Scorcher - People Cruel 12” Mix - Rubadub Revolution - Pressure Sounds Al Campbell - Old Time People Say - One 2 One Glen Washington & Al Campbell - High Power Music Brigadier Jerry - Ram Dance Master - Ram Dance Master - Tad’s Records Dub Zone featuring Strictly Dubwize & Extended Dub Mixes Dub Proof - Frozen Christmas Dub - Seasons Greetings - Dub Proof Music Jack Ruby & The Black Disciples - Free Rhodesia - Jack Ruby Presents The Black Foundation - Heartbeat Records Megumi Mesaku - Megumi Special - Saxy Rocksteady - Mafia & Fluxy Feldub - Rockers Anthem - Weapon - Banzai Lab Illbilly Hitec feat. Zion Train & Danman - Money (Illbilly Hitec Remix) - King Size Dub - Echo Beach R-Juna - Give Thanks - Dubs and Praises - Dubophonic Records Joe Ariwa & Adam Prescott - From Creation - Adam Prescott Meets Joe Ariwa - Ariwa Sounds Pablo Gad - Hard Times/Hard Times Dub - Best Of Pablo Gad - Reggae On Top Danny Red & Nick Manasseh - Be Grateful/Grateful Dub - Cousins Brisa Dub Sounds feat. Jah Pinks - Mama Earth Is Heaven - Sunriver Recordings Brother Dan Meets Fikir La Amlak - Higher Region/Bay Leaf and Thyme Dub - Strengthen My Faith - 8 Eye Productions Luv Fyah Meets Sista Habesha - Ancient One/Ancient Dub - Inner Standing Sound System ===================================== Warrior King feat. Mr. Diamond - Music Is Life - Macles Music Free Nationals feat. Chronixx - Eternal Light - Empire Ras-I - Cease Fire - Tsojourna - Ras I Musique Chezidek & The Ligerians - Beat Dem - Timeless - Baco Records Soulmedic - Terrible - Jah Kebra Music Sticky Joe & Kingston Express feat. Horseman & Richie Phoe  - Mr. Big Man/Mr. Big Man Dub - Kingston Connection - Joe Simpson Music Burro Banton & Leno Banton - Better Days - Massive B Bazil feat. Naaman - Downtown - Grow - X Ray Production Pressure Busspipe feat. Kabaka Pyramid & Jah9 - Lion Is A Lion Remix - Rebel With A Cause Feldub feat. Mr. Williamz - King Of Iration - Weapon - Banzai Lab Illbilly Hitec feat. Longfingah & Kinetical - Chase - King Size Dub - Echo Beach Sydney Mankind - Rub Anotha Kutchie Load - Depth of Art Records Ras-I - Still Ah Blaze - Come Together Riddim Reloaded - Larger Than Life Records Lutan Fyah - Boom Draw - Come Together Riddim Reloaded - Larger Than Life Records Million Stylez - Rub A Dub Warrior - Come Together Riddim Reloaded - Larger Than Life Records Trevor Spark feat. Digital English - Come In Raggamuffin - Cuss Cuss Riddim - Digital English Devon Clarke - Voltage/Voltage Dub - Cuss Cuss Riddim - Digital English Sugar Minott - Love Of Jah - Sugar & Spice - Ras Records

This weeks show starts of with music from Half Pint, Ini Kamoze, Dennis Brown, King Jammy & Dre Island, Sugar Minott, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Israel Vibration, Michael Prophet, Cornell Campbell and Ranking Dread, Barry Brown, Peter Tosh, and Wayne Jarrett. The show continues on with classic selections from The Itals, Junior Murvin, Robert French, Jacob Miller with Augustus Pablo, Errol Dunkley, The Mighty Diamonds, Gregory Isaacs, and Hugh Mundell. Extended dub mixes come from Big Youth, The Upsetters, King Tubby and Soul Syndicate, Senya with Aston Barrett, Pablo Moses, Black Uhuru and Ranking Joe, Sammy Dread, Linval Thompson, and Burning Spear. Selections from Triston Palmer, Yellowman, Freddie McGregor, Tarrus Riley, Papa Levi, Eek A Mouse, Junior Byles and I Roy, John Holt, Aswad , and Dennis Brown with Gregory Isaacs rounds out this weeks show. Enjoy! Half Pint - Greetings - Greetings - VP Records Ini Kamoze - Hail Me Idrin - Ini Kamoze - Island Records Dennis Brown - Icy Road - Slow Down - Greensleeves King Jammy & Dennis Brown feat. Dre Island - Gun Town - King Jammy Presents Dennis Brown: Tracks Of Life - VP Records Sugar Minott - Herbsman Hustling/Herbsman Huslting Dub - Sugar & Spice - Ras Records Bob Marley & The Wailers - Kaya (kaya40 mix) - Kaya 40 - Tuff Gong Israel Vibration - The Same Song - Power Of The Trinity: Skelly Vibes - Ras Records Norris Reid - Freedom Train - Give Jah The Praises - Rockers International Michael Prophet - Fight It To The Top - Singerman - Blood & Fire Cornell Campbell & Ranking Dread - Bandulu/Hard Time - I Shall Not Remove 1975-1980 - Blood & Fire Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock) - Natty Dread - Tuff Gong  Barry Brown - Lead Us Jah - Let's Go To The Blues - Kingston Sounds Peter Tosh - Whatcha Gonna Do - Legalize It Legacy Edition - Columbia Legacy Wayne Jarrett & Scientist - Love In A Mi Heart/Dangerous Match Nine - Junjo Presents: Wins The World Cup - Greensleeves Augustus Pablo - Silent Satta - The Rockers Story: The Mystic World Of Augustus Pablo - Shanachie The Itals & Trinity - Ina Dis Ya Time/Ready Done - Love Love Love 7” Robert French - Mr. Babylon - EAD Productions Junior Murvin & Dillinger - Roots Train (Extended Mix) - Police & Thieves Remastered - Island Records Jacob Miller - Baby I Love You So - Classic Rockers - Island Jamaica Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown - The Rockers Story: The Mystic World Of Augustus Pablo - Shanachie Augustus Pablo - Casava Piece - The Rockers Story: The Mystic World Of Augustus Pablo - Shanachie Chronixx - Skankin' Sweet - Chronology - Chronixx Music Protoje & Chronixx - Who Knows/Who Knows Dub Mix - Overstand Entertainment 7” Errol Dunkley - Black Cinderella - Reggae To Reggae - Pama International Hugh Mundell - Jacqueline - Junjo Presents: Wins The World Cup - Greensleeve The Mighty Diamonds & Tommy McCook - Danger In Your Eyes/Danger In Your Dub - Gussie Presenting The Right Tracks - VP Records Gregory Isaacs - Sad To Know (You're Leaving Dub) - Gregory Isaacs: Dub Versions - Tad's Records Tyrone Taylor - Cottage In Negril - Love & Inity Big Youth - Waterhouse Rock (Groove Corporation Remix) - Select Cuts From Blood & Fire - Select Cuts Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters - Vibrator - Arkology - Island Records Senya - Children Of The Ghetto (disco mix) - Cobra Style - Heartbeat Records King Tubby & Soul Syndicate - Dub In The Right Way (Dreadzone Remix) - Select Cuts From Blood & Fire - Select Cuts Pablo Moses - Music Is My Desire -  A Song - House Of Moses Black Uhuru - Rent Man - Zion High - Blood & Fire Ranking Joe - Rent Man Style - Zion High - Blood & Fire Sammy Dread - Rainy Days - Strong Like Sampson: Linval Thompson Presents The 12” Mixes - Hot Milk Linval Thompson - Long Long Dreadlocks - Ride On Dreadlocks 1975 - 1977 - Blood & Fire Linval Thompson - Dreader Than Dread - Linval Thompson & Friends: Rockers From Channel One - Trojan Records Ranking Dread - Natty On The Rock - Linval Thompson & Friends: Rockers From Channel One - Trojan Records The Revolutionaries - Africa Love Dub - Linval Thompson & Friends: Rockers From Channel One - Trojan Records Burning Spear - Civilize Reggae - Social Living - Blood & Fire Triston Palmer w/ Jah Thomas & Ranking Toyan - Entertainment 12” Mix - Jah Thomas 12” Rulers: Midnight Rock 1981 - 1984 - Greensleeves Yellowman - Mr. Chin - 20 Super Hits - Sonic Sounds Freddie McGregor - Lovers Rock JA Style - Mr. McGregor - VP Records Cornell Campbell - Boxing Around - Reggae Anthology: Scorchers From The Mighty Two - VP Records Joe Gibbs & The Professionals - Boxing Wild - Joe Gibbs Tarrus Riley - Beware - Parables - VP Records Papa Levi - In A Mi Yard - Mango White Mice - Try A Thing - White Mice - Basic Replay Eek A Mouse - Anarexol 12” Mix - Eek Ology - VP Records Junior Byles & I Roy - Fade Away/Rootsman - Jama 12” Horace Ferguson - Sensi Addict - Soul Jazz Records Presents Dancehall The Rise Of Jamaican Dancehall Culture - Soul Jazz John Holt - Police In Helicopter - Police In Helicopter - Greensleeves Peter Tosh - Nah Goa Jail - No Nuclear War - EMI Aswad - Shine - Bubblin Records 12” Dennis Brown & Gregory Isaacs - Big All Around - 12” Rulers: Gussie Clarkes Music Works - Greensleeves Bob Marley & The Wailers - Iron Lion Zion - Gold - Tuff Gong

This week, Legend car driver Robert French returns to the studio to talk about everything from NASCAR to his own experiences racing all over, from Daytona to Wall Stadium Speedway. Watkins Glen made for some great talking points with a surprisingly quick race, but there is plenty of talk in the garage area regarding driver placement. Formula 1 is on their summer break and has been relatively quiet aside from a few rumors of drivers either staying in the series or possibly racing elsewhere next year. Indycar had some testing at Mid-Ohio after their race.   Then we get into our upcoming local events and we recap events from Saturday night, where we saw an awful lot of action from all our regular divisions and still got to wrap up before 10 P.M. There was so much more to this episode, you must listen to find out the rest. Don’t forget to like us on Facebook, Subscribe on YouTube, iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, Podcast Addict and more. If you would like to be a guest on the show, feel free to email us, or just send us your comments, questions, or death threats at Racingpodcastnj@gmail.com.

We have special guest Legend car driver Robert French in the studio for his input on all the different aspects of racing this week.  We discuss his ARCA ventures as well as his modified and legend car plans for the year.  He is currently tied for the most wins in the legend car division.  Tony Stewart announced his retirement plans which include upwards of 75 races throughout the year...   We go over the confirmed drivers on Formula 1 for the 2017 season.  Sad news in the world of Monster Trucks regarding GraveDigger.  The Wall Stadium Banquet was a blast, and much more.  Don't Forget to Subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and YouTube.  Then like our Facebook page. 

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Funeral Mass held at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Hampton, VA, for Rev. Robert E. French, former Pastor of ICC. Born December 20, 1936 Baptized January 10, 1937 Ordained May 1, 1963 Born to Eternal Life August 22, 2016 Reflections: Msgr. Michael McCarron Prelude Song: "Mem’ry is a Rose" Gathering Song: "Soon and Very Soon" First Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-9 Second Reading: Revelations 21:1-7 Gospel: Luke 24:13-35 Homily: Msgr. Robert Perkins Offertory Song: "Amazing Grace" Communion Songs: "I Have Loved You," "I Am the Bread of Life," "Here I Am, Lord," You Gather In The Outcast" Recessional Song: "How Can I Keep From Singing"

Robert is a seasoned software developer, game designer & adjunct college professor who has been designing and developing for just over three decades. He has been an educator since the late 1990’s and his fun but direct approach to everything he does is both efficient and effective. Robert has just… Continue reading The post Robert French, Indie Game Developer and Teacher appeared first on ardee XYZ.

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Season 1, Episode 8 – This week, we’re once again joined by the lovely Denise Ratfield of Pink Boots Society and Stone Brewing Co., who (like the dope lady she is) brought #AllTheBeers. Robert French is also back in the studio with us. We try three varieties of Societe’s “The Bachelor”, learn more about Denise, and learn that Jason simply dominates during “Guess That Brew.” If you have yet to hear about Societe Brewing Company in San Diego, California, well…get in the know! They’re making killer beer in San Diego that’s uncompromising and true to their take on what craft beer should be. Societe Brewing Company – The Bachelor Denise brought three varieties of Societe’s American IPA, The Bachelor, to share with us. These growlers were provided by our good bud, Mike Sardina, Societe’s “Ruler of the Underworld.” Mike is one of the most sincere craft beer geeks we’ve ever met, and he’s a perfect fit over at Societe. The Bachelor is an ever-changing, single hop IPA. The hops in the beer vary from batch to batch, so you can really get the true essence of whatever hop was used in the beer pretty well. The first variant of The Bachelor we’re drinking is made with Mosaic hops. Mosaic hops tend to come off very much like passion fruits, and this beer definitely delivers the fruit, perhaps even all over your face. The second variant of The Bachelor is made with Amarillo hops. Amarillo is a great hop for IPA, especially when combined with Simcoe, so it’s really nice to see it used in The Bachelor as a single hop. The third variant of The Bachelor is made with Citra. [Citra is so hot right now. So hot.] We all love its citrus-like characteristics and it really shines in this beer. Societe makes some of the cleanest beer you’ll ever drink, and Citra in The Bachelor is a match made in beer heaven. Feature: “Guess That Brew!” We’re back for another round of “Guess That Brew.” This time, we’re reading two reviews of two very different but much sought after brews. Jason proves once again that he is the master of this game. Don’t cross this dude—he’ll lay the smack down. Feature: Denise Ratfield and “Unite Pale Ale.” Denise Ratfield has been involved in the brewing industry since 1995 when she worked on the bottling line at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. She currently works at Stone Brewing Co.’s headquarters as their Brewceptionist. Along with working at Stone, Denise has been an active member of the Pink Boots Societyas the Social Media Committee Chair. She also recently organized the massive brewday that was International Women’s Collaborative Brew Day. Pink Boots Society is comprised of women who work in the beer industry. Their main goal is to empower women in the brewing industry through an open exchange of ideas and scholarships. There are many women working behind the scenes in the beer industry, whether they be brewers, brewery owners, shop owners, or even beer writers. Their voices and advancement in the industry are important. Pink Boots Society is there to help them advance and thrive, and encourage even more women to get involved in the beer industry. Mike Hess Brewing and Pink Boots Society Collaboration Beer – Unite Pale Ale As mentioned earlier, Denise was the event organizer for International Women’s Collaborative Brew Day. The idea was originally brought to Denise and Pink Boots Society by Sophie de Ronde from Brentwood Brewery in the United Kingdom, in collaboration with Project Venus UK (think Pink Boots Society, but in the UK). The thought was to have women in the beer industry from all over the world unite for one day and brew a beer. In this case, it was a pale ale made with Cascade hops—a true classic. A recipe was posted online, and those who participated could tweak the recipe as needed and brew the beer. Over 70 breweries around the world participated. The beer was named “Unite Pale Ale.” The variation of Unite that we are drinking this week was brewed at Mike Hess Brewing Company in San Diego, California, by two team members from Stone Brewing Co. in Escondido, CA, Laura Mirsch (Brewer at Stone Brewing Co.) and Hollie Stephenson (Brewery Supervisor at Stone Brewing Co.). It’s a 4.9% pale ale that’s quite delicious. Latitude 33 and Pink Boots Collaboration Beer Label Denise is all about the Pink Boots Collaborations these days, and her latest is with Latitude 33 Brewing Company out of San Diego, California. Denise and Kevin Buckley (Latitude 33’s Brewmaster and Head of Brewing Operations) made a 5.3% oatmeal pale ale (ah-hem,John…?) with Nugget, Nelson, Southern Cross, and Motueka hops named “Worldly Scholar.” It’s on draft and in bottles, and it’s available RIGHT NOW! Funds raised from the sale of the beer will benefit Pink Boots Society scholarships. Denise will also be pouring this beer at Beervana, a two day celebration of craft beer in New Zealand. If you didn’t hear already, we’re officially on Stitcher. Cheers, and we’ll see you next week! Subscribe to the show:RSSiTunes – While you’re there, give a review of the podcast!Stitcher Thumb us up on Facebook:facebook.com/fourbrewers Follow us on Twitter:twitter.com/fourbrewersshow Got a question? Feedback? Email us:feedback at fourbrewers dot com. Help support Four Brewers!Donate via PayPal

Season 1, Episode 7 - This week, we’re shaking trees and drinking something old and tasty with award-winning local homebrewer, Robert French. Denise Ratfield of Pink Boots Society and Stone Brewing Co. is also along for the ride.   Fort George Brewery – Sunrise Oatmeal Pale Ale and 3-Way IPA Jason is, once again, bringing the Fort George love with these two excellent offerings, Sunrise Oatmeal Pale Ale, and 3-Way IPA, which is a collaboration between Fort George, Block 15, and Boneyard Beer. Suffice to say, we’re all becoming huge fans of Fort George. The topics of the localization of breweries and prioritized markets also come up in the discussion. Feature: Homebrew – Robert French’s “Old Bandersnatch” and “Shake Your Tree.” Robert French is a long time friend of ours, and he’s been brewing for about 18 years. Recently, he built this super-dope single tier brewing stand that’s just beautiful. But he’s not just a pretty dude, with a pretty brewing stand—he makes excellent beer, too. Robert French and His Brewing Stand Robert’s first offering is his rye whiskey barrel-aged old age called, “Old Bandersnatch.” It was aged in an eight gallon rye whiskey barrel for two weeks. This bottle has about a year or so of age on it, and it’s tasting fantastic. It won gold in the first round of the National Homebrew Competition in San Diego, and it completely deserves it. This beer is also a testament to the wonderful grain that is Maris Otter. It’s silky, smooth, and has just the right amount of sweetness with a wonderful texture. Robert French – Shake Your Tree His second offering is a beer that he made for his daughter’s wedding, called “Shake Your Tree.” It’s a peach saison that was fermented with White Labs’ WLP670 American Farmhouse Blend. Whole, puréed peaches were added to the fermentor. This beer is about a year old and the peaches still shine through wonderfully and are complimented perfectly by the brettanomyces yeast present in the beer. Feature: “Going In Blind.” Going In Blind – Green Flash White IPA and St. Feuillien Saison Sara‘s back and pouring the brews for another round of “Going In Blind,” but this time, she’s pouring some beers that Yvonne purchased. To be honest, both of these beers were zingers for all of us, but in the end, Matt narrows it down and ultimately gets the gold star for this round. If you didn’t hear already, we’re officially on Stitcher. Cheers, and we’ll see you next week! Subscribe to the show:RSSiTunes – While you’re there, give a review of the podcast!Stitcher Thumb us up on Facebook:facebook.com/fourbrewers Follow us on Twitter:twitter.com/fourbrewersshow Got a question? Feedback? Email us:feedback at fourbrewers dot com. Help support Four Brewers!Donate via PayPal

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