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Too Opinionated
Too Opinionated Interview: Shawn Lilly

Too Opinionated

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 71:24


Today on Too Opinionated we sit down with rising Musician Shawn Lilly to talk about his recent releases.  Shawn combines an ability to play any instrument with the skill to cross multiple genres. Evoking notes of Phish and The Beatles with heavier fare reminiscent of bands like Yes and Rush, Shawn's unique blend of music is the creative cornucopia that you have been missing.  In addition to his individual music endeavors, Shawn is part of the Group Bread & Circus. He also plays as part of his hometown Saint Albans house band. He writes and accompanies musicians playing in local festivals, coffee shops and most recently The Coal River Songwriters Festival. Shawn's musical roots run deep, and he often has family Jam sessions with his dad, Uncle and Grandparents.  When not making music Shawn is a loving Father to his two children and enjoys watching Dr Who. Shawn's new music video is out now. Watch Armageddon of the Dragon - Tongued Apparition here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONA6j5LDzwE For his new release Shawn made an energetic and quick song named K in a single day so he could get as raw of a sound and writing as possible.  Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/album/k-single/1812977204 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7eC2SeWD71gA5QBSVxZ1YA Shawn's YouTube channel is filled with every type of music. A gifted storyteller his albums often tell an entire narrative that will have you marveling at his creativity. A true lover of music in any form, Shawn's work will appeal technically to professional musicians and emotionally to everyone.  https://www.youtube.com/@shawnlilly1/featured Want to watch: YouTube Meisterkhan Pod (Please Subscribe)  

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
Part Two: A Madhouse Against the Nazis: the Story of François Tosquelles and Saint-Albans

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 71:02 Transcription Available


Margaret continues talking with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
Part One: A Madhouse Against the Nazis: the Story of François Tosquelles and Saint-Albans

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 70:16 Transcription Available


Margaret talks with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
212: Secret Panfish Market, an Empty Urn, and the Cost for a Murder

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2025 126:02


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy national School Librarian DayYankees - innovators or big fat cheaters?Should church pay retiring child abusers?Road linking VT and Montreal scrappedVT goin' nuclearPotential changes to VT's little known panfish marketWelch wants local dairy farmers to get their milk in schoolsThe feds are usingVermont's prisons for immigration  Amtrak's Vermonter celebrates 30th anniversaryProgressive young  Vermonters are giving away inheritances(53:30) Break music:  Boomslang - “Together”https://boomslangvt.bandcamp.com/track/together  BETA goes coast to coast Burlington city council president challengeThe mad hatter of Manchester They're cutting the kids rocket programsVT family gets an empty urnLocal group expected to acquire Burke Mountain ski resortEat Vermont appVermont Brewer Donates Captured CO2 to Cannabis Grower SunCommon Sues Former Manager Who Defected to Competitor(1:38:57) Break music:  Ranjii - “Dear Lifehttps://rajnii.bandcamp.com/track/dear-life-2 Scumbag map Murder for hire plot foiledEast Ryegate shootoutHit and run / attempted homicide Rutland roofer tax evader Man arrested in Virgin Islands for threatening VT county prosecutor Plainfield dog scofflawSlow down for amphibians and salamanders Coyote attacks person in HinesburgThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comOutro Music by B-Complex

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
211: Unilever Is Evil, Flop Flop Friday at the Police Station and Bone Buildin'

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2025 136:38


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy national Memory DayUhhh, what did we miss?Portugal recap?Amazon coming to EssexFewer regulations for at-home food makersProposed changes to Vermont's ‘right to farm' law make headway in the SeBen & Jerry's claims parent company fired CEO over brand's progressive acAs US-Canada relations sour, Vermont businesses are facing boycotts Canadian Ire Over Trump Hits Vermont's Distillers (52:02) Break music:  Brunch - Dr. Benway (Live at Robot Dog) https://brunchtheband.bandcamp.com/track/dr-benway-live-at-robot-dogShelburne Cop Who Hit and Killed Cyclist Pleads Not Guilty  Woodstock police chief in limboBuffalo pothole banditRutland gets a gay barSenate Votes to Confirm Zoie Saunders as Education Secretary Report details costly restoration work needed at Bennington Monument VT students win fish art contest(1:32:29) Break music:  MF Oblivion - From the Woodshttps://mfoblivion.bandcamp.com/track/from-the-woods-ft-dj-lucas-subjxct-5 Scumbag map School shooting avertedHung jury in thieving trooper trialPipe bomb found during Vermont traffic stop, police  Berlin thief? Hit and run driver identifiedBurlington kidnapping plotBears coming out of hibernationWorld happiness rankings 2025Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comOutro Music by B-Complex

L'Heure H
Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole : Un siècle de soins psychiatriques innovants

L'Heure H

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 40:29


L'histoire de Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole commence en 1821, lorsque frère Hilarion rachète un vieux château pour en faire un asile humaniste destiné aux femmes atteintes de troubles psychiques. Faute de moyens, il cède l'institution, qui se développe sous l'impulsion du préfet de Lozère et devient un hôpital psychiatrique. Durant la Première Guerre mondiale, l'ergothérapie y prend forme pour soigner les soldats traumatisés. En 1936, le psychiatre François Tosquelles révolutionne les soins en réunissant les patients au cœur d'un processus thérapeutique créatif. Sous l'Occupation, Saint-Alban devient un refuge pour résistants et artistes, dont Paul Éluard, et favorise l'émergence de l'Art Brut (Dubuffet, Forestier, Sirvins). Après le départ de Tosquelles en 1962, l'approche ouverte et humaniste décline au profit d'une psychiatrie plus institutionnalisée. Aujourd'hui, l'Établissement Public de Santé Mentale de Lozère perpétue cet héritage, mais sous une forme plus moderne et structurée. Merci pour votre écoute Vous aimez l'Heure H, mais connaissez-vous La Mini Heure H https://audmns.com/YagLLiK , une version pour toute la famille.Retrouvez l'ensemble des épisodes de l'Heure H sur notre plateforme Auvio.be :https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/22750 Intéressés par l'histoire ? Vous pourriez également aimer nos autres podcasts : Un jour dans l'Histoire : https://audmns.com/gXJWXoQL'Histoire Continue: https://audmns.com/kSbpELwAinsi que nos séries historiques :Chili, le Pays de mes Histoires : https://audmns.com/XHbnevhD-Day : https://audmns.com/JWRdPYIJoséphine Baker : https://audmns.com/wCfhoEwLa folle histoire de l'aviation : https://audmns.com/xAWjyWCLes Jeux Olympiques, l'étonnant miroir de notre Histoire : https://audmns.com/ZEIihzZMarguerite, la Voix d'une Résistante : https://audmns.com/zFDehnENapoléon, le crépuscule de l'Aigle : https://audmns.com/DcdnIUnUn Jour dans le Sport : https://audmns.com/xXlkHMHSous le sable des Pyramides : https://audmns.com/rXfVppvVous aimez les histoires racontées par Jean-Louis Lahaye ? Connaissez-vous ces podcast?Sous le sable des Pyramides : https://audmns.com/rXfVppv36 Quai des orfèvres : https://audmns.com/eUxNxyFHistoire Criminelle, les enquêtes de Scotland Yard : https://audmns.com/ZuEwXVOUn Crime, une Histoire https://audmns.com/NIhhXpYN'oubliez pas de vous y abonner pour ne rien manquer.Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Invité de la Rédaction France Bleu Drôme Ardèche
Ardèche : Julien Fougeirol, maire de Saint-Julien en Saint-Alban, "dans les starting-block" pour le départ du Paris-Nice

Invité de la Rédaction France Bleu Drôme Ardèche

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 6:23


durée : 00:06:23 - L'invité de la rédaction, ici Drôme Ardèche - La commune de Saint-Julien en Saint-Alban en Ardèche accueille le départ de la sixième étape du Paris-Nice ce vendredi 14 mars au matin. Le maire Julien Fougeirol et ses équipes sont sur le pont depuis 3 mois, et depuis 5h du matin ce vendredi, pour organiser cette grande fête du vélo.

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
209: How Old Is a Kid?, Inflated Bird Numbers, and an Ambulance Fracas

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2024 118:36


Let us know what you think - text the show!Happy national Sangria DayIts easier to get to TampaMayor concerned about Burlington police staffing reportSaint Albans has its own policing problemsUVM men's soccer wins 2024 NCAA tournamentPro-Palestinian ballot measure fails to make it to bal Tenants vs landlords$21.8M housing project to create 40 units in Newport area Governor to again ask lawmakers to delay juvenile justice Burlington Cannabis Shop to ClosePutney Mountain Hawkwatch Recent Canada lynx sightings (1:01:46) Break music:  Bone Bone - “Jounce”https://burlingtonelectronicdepartment.bandcamp.com/track/jounce Will it lamp?Bethel's 1st annual drag ChristmasCollecting VermontianaManure spreading ban Barre emergency crews to get better radio coverageWCAX Investigates: Why didn't financial irregularities trigger state invBernie Look alike(1:28:27) Break music:  Cave Chimera - “Things Change”https://cavechimera.bandcamp.com/track/things-change Scumbag mapShaftsbury man faces years  of jail without trial after re-offendingAmbulance fracasVT man accused of serious mail threatsSoBu man connected with Saint J robberyBelvidere camp murderSaint Albans grocery store clerk assaulted The ol crash and grab in RutlandNewport woman charged with forcing teen to drink detergent mixture -Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comOutro Music by B-Complex

LaughBox
Episode 139 - A Christmas Surprise with Simply St. Nick

LaughBox

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024 42:55


For over forty years, John Johnson (Simply Saint Nick) has been a character actor and historical presenter, notably bringing the role of Santa Claus to life in the most authentic way. His debut on stage (and as Santa no less) was at the age of six in an elementary school production of “Twas the Night Before Christmas.” Since then, John has gone on to study acting with the Alban Arts Academy in Saint Albans, West Virginia. He has also attended classes taught by such artists as Pam Chibora, Leah Turley, Sean Watkins, Adam Bryan, Marlette Carter, and Kelly Strom. He has performed regionally in such shows as “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” as Father Christmas (2011), “Miracle on 34th Street” as Kris Kringle (2012), “The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus” as Nicholas (2013), and “Adventures in Santa Claus Land” as Santa (2019). He has also performed the role on local television commercials and on various Christmas specials regionally. But it isn't his acting abilities that make Santa John unique. Rather, it is his great faith in Christ – the Reason for the Season. Yes, John has always portrayed the role from the Christian perspective which goes all the way back to Nicholas of Myra (270-343AD). Nicholas was the prototype of the Santa we know and love today. Santa John has studied carefully over his lifetime both the history and the traditions of the character that he portrays. His portrayal emphasizes service to Christ, love, joy, peace, and hope – the bedrocks of the season. Couple these things with the fact that Santa John truly loves children, maintains a jolly demeanor, and a deep love of the role and you have something special in him. The additions of real whiskers, custom tailored suits, and real accessories make Santa John someone to believe in. In 2023, Santa John even wrote a book about his life, his faith, and role as Santa Claus. It is available at Westbow Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Christianbooks.com. Click the title to get a copy of “Simply Saint Nick: My Life as a Real-Life Christian Santa Claus.” Amazon link https://a.co/d/97qKnNo Interview with the Christian Chronicle, December 2023 https://christianchronicle.org/peace-on-earth-and-goodwill-to-men-christian-santa-professes-christ/ https://simplysaintnick.com/  

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
208: Booze at the Movies, Transgender Stagecoach Champ and Spider Brains

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2024 110:45


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy National Salesperson DayMajestic 10 gets a liquor licenseBurlington City Council weighs graffiti ordinanceRutland's Cortina Inn gets temporarily shut downLawsuit alleges abuses in hotel program Vermont to Begin Testing Milk Supply for Bird Flu |Supreme Court Approves Demolition of Burlington CathedralVermont Construction Company citedMayor announces pick to create Burlington overdose prevention ceVermont Supreme Court rules in favor of Williston dog rescue VSP poke holes in Derby Line driver's shooting claim Bernie says next Senate term “probably his last”(52:15) Break music:  Caitlin Canty -”Odds of Getting Even”https://caitlincanty.bandcamp.com/album/come-by-the-highway-homeSaint Albans nuisance property lawA Moving Company Helps Seniors Make a Smooth Transition Cannabis company sues over free speechYou can buy weed in Sharon, VT Whatchu know ‘bout Sharon, VT?St Mikes research finds hope for Alzheimer's in spider brainsHandy Family Sells Notorious Church Street Apartment ComplexWe're big time now - getting a 2nd Jersey Mike's(1:34:48) Break music:  Dylan Patrick Ward - “Piles”https://dylanpatrickward.bandcamp.com/album/neer-do-wells Scumbag mapN.Y. Man sentenced on federal drug charge State upgrades homicide charges against Pownal stabber Rutland Scarface faces new chargesBarre police logMan hits cop with carThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comOutro Music by B-Complex

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
206: A BETA Rival Emerges, Fairfax Mascot Drama, and the Ice Cream Union

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2024 113:32


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy Black FridayJudge dismisses lawsuit against Burlington's short-term rental regulations -St. Albans landlords with problem properties could face fines under proposalHartland Planning Commission persists in farm store opposition -Something in the Rutland drinking waterIlona Maher is a finalist on Dancing with the StarsPhil Scott again appoints Zoie Saunders secretary of educationGov. Scott Wants to Move Back Climate TargetVermont department orders some workers back to the office40 new officers graduate from Vermont Police AcademyBurlington's dilapidated police building is dragging down department morale Wait…who is Heart Aerospace?(56:28) Break music: Wombaticus Rex - Anthembanger (Rico James remix)https://soundsofrico.bandcamp.com/track/anthembanger-rico-james-remix Mascot drama in FairfaxIce Cream UnionPlainfield Co-op balances nostalgia and growth with planned expansion |Freshly energized apprenticeship programs take on new industries Skida's Growing Hat Empire Is Turning Heads Activists Want to Remake Shelburne Road After Cyclist Is Killed Kraemer & Kin to Relocate in the Champlain Islands The Raider Reporter(1:35:46) Break music: Eric Mike Daniels - Wayward Feline Voguehttps://ericmikedaniels.bandcamp.com/track/wayward-feline-vogue Scumbag mapMan arrested for trying to run down stranger with car, police sayVt. man pleads not guilty to attempted murder in father's stabbingWoman assaults hospital guardRutland man jailed for assaultHartland rock robberGun threat neutralized in WaterburyThree people charged with living and defecating in historic Guilford cemetery Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comOutro Music by B-Complex

The Mind Mate Podcast
215: Emmy Van Deurzen on Authenticity, Dreams, and Existential Wisdom

The Mind Mate Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2024 71:04


In this episode of The Mind Mate Podcast, I had the absolute privilege of speaking with Emmy Van Deurzen, an iconic figure in existential psychotherapy and philosophy. We delved into the rich terrain of dream analysis and discussed how our unconscious lives can reveal pathways to authenticity. We also explored Emmy's personal journey: her love of Socrates sparked during her youth, the profound impact of growing up in a post-World War II world, and how these experiences shaped her relentless pursuit of life's deepest questions. About Emmy: Emmy van Deurzen is a leading existential psychotherapist, philosopher, and prolific author. Born in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1951, she studied French and philosophy in Montpellier, France, before earning a master's degree in phenomenology and existentialism under Michel Henry. Emmy's career began in France, where she worked in innovative psychiatric settings, such as Saint Alban and La Candelie, while training in psychotherapy and clinical psychology. In 1977, Emmy moved to the UK, where she contributed to the Arbours Association and Antioch University before founding the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in London. As an advocate for existential therapy, Emmy has authored influential books, including Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy in Practice. Her works have been translated into multiple languages, and she remains a global authority on existential psychology, helping people navigate crises, dilemmas, and transformations. Her upcoming book, The Art of Freedom, is set to release in 2024. *** Welcome to The Mind Mate Podcast, your compass for navigating life's biggest questions. Hosted by Tom, a psychotherapist and writer, this podcast dives deep into the heart of existentialism, philosophy, and mental health. Join us as we explore how meaning is shaped across different cultures and belief systems—from East to West, religious to secular. We bridge the worlds of science, art, and therapy, blending philosophical insights with practical tools for living a fulfilled life. Expect thought-provoking conversations with philosophers, therapists, artists, spiritual seekers, teachers and academics who are pushing the boundaries of what it means to be human. Whether you're seeking personal growth, deeper self-awareness, or just curious about the human condition, this podcast will help you navigate your path. Find out more here: https://ahern.blog/

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
205: Bring Back Saloon Doors, Too Woo Woo, and a Groton Hero

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2024 129:54


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy National Flossing DayLet's acknowledge the electionHistoric Gains by Republicans Shift Montpelier's Balance of PowerWe can't bring our guns to the bar - is this even America?Burlington police chief Jon Murad will not seek reappointment City Council's plan for a safer downtownBurlington Council Proposes Steep Fees for Vacant Buildings Officer hits, kills bicyclist in South BurlingtonDavid Zuckerman concedes UVM Health Network announces widespread service cuts Burlington's only movie theater, Merrill's Roxy Cinema, to close its doors (53:59) Break music: watercoat - “Just Once in My Life”https://watercoat.bandcamp.com/track/just-once-in-my-life-2  Study group hesitant about psychedelic therapy in Vermont  In Brattleboro, a citizen journalist is breaking — and making — news Depression-era murals return to Bellows Falls New Land View Project on South Burlington South Burlington reconsiders non-citizen voting New border crossing hours PFAS in game meat More parades in RutlandOfficials urge caution as tick season becomes year-round Lil Jon coming  to 2025 Champlain Valley Fair(1:40:58) Break music: Coyote Reverie - “Thistledown”https://coyotereverie.bandcamp.com/track/thistledown Scumbag Map Don't peek - what is the cost for a ticket for 124 mph? Suspects in Rutland murder case kill wrong guyRutland man sentenced for drug trafficking Vt. man pleads not guilty to federal bank robbery chargesGroton stabber caught in NHWhatchu know bout Groton, VT? Man beats parents to deathBurglar used car to drag ATM into parking lotThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comOutro Music by B-Complex

1010 WINS ALL LOCAL
NYC celebrates the WNBA Champs with a parade...A deadly fire in Saint Albans Queens...As the World Series approaches the better business bureau tells fans to watch out for fake tickets

1010 WINS ALL LOCAL

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 7:05


Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
202: Bachelor Survival Class, Gatorade IVs, and an Indecent Question from Glo

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2024 114:15


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy National Necktie DayThe wedding is off!...and back onDairy workers report unsafe work, low payAmazon to pay $400,000 in settlement over Vermont ban on tobacco product salesDoctor sues Vermont's former prison health care provider alleging fraudShortage of IV fluids could force hospitals to postpone procedures Norwich University student newspaper can resume publishing, but with ‘ethics reviwwOrvis cutting jobs, mail-order business Ballot Item Asks Burlington Voters to Bolster Police OversightYou can't bring your gun to a polling placeVermont Man Dies After Contracting Rare EEE Virus Bove Brothers Add Burlington Properties to Real Estate Empire Burlington Electric seeks to buy out city's wood-burning plant VT population only up a bit(51:45) Break music: Vallory Falls (Richmond) - “Art School (Time to Leave)”https://valloryfalls.bandcamp.com/track/art-school-time-to-leave Goddard's Latest Buyer Envisions Housing, Art Studios Massive comic book collection up for saleGPS goat collars make debutPitch a friend dating eventAirport eatery to closeWoodstock places police chief on paid leave Brattleboro struggles with firefighter staffing Church Street looking for next Xmas tree(1:19:31)  Break music: Midnight Atlantic - “The End of Summer”https://midnightatlantic.bandcamp.com/track/the-end-of-summer Scumbag Map  Ethan Allen Homestead Museum burglarized but exhibits were untouched One Man's Buying Spree Exposes the Drugs-for-Guns Trade in VTVT man stopped w/ guns and drugs Richford gun incident Montpelier knife fightWoman punches people at a group homeNaples statue  erectedThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comOutro Music by B-Complex

Civil War Weekly
Episode 187: Cedar Creek

Civil War Weekly

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2024 33:08


In episode 187 we go over the raid at Saint Albans, Vermont and the Battle of Cedar Creek. https://cwweeklypod.wixsite.com/my-site *Mobile capability through the app Spaces by Wix. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CWweeklypod --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/civil-war-weekly/support

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
201: A Proposal, More Roy Orbison and Edmunds Hoodrats

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2024 113:48 Transcription Available


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy National Chocolate Milk DayYankee check in?VT Attorney general race is interestingEEE on the declineGet your gut checkedMultigenerational housing in JerichoVermont's only national park could expandThe state wants to build a new women's prison. We got a wild dogVermont's large st corn maze(52:36) Break music: Nahte Renmus (Feat Art Morera) - “Accolades”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmVriG9oOmE&ab_channel=NahteRenmus Vt. elementary school children mistakenly eat THC gummies South Burlington secures bus drivers amidst nationwide shortageWalmart moving to Rutland mallBrattleboro park closed to get rid of Japanese….plantsMichigan University to Open New Dental School in Vermont Have we talked about Beansie's? Vermont has 'rules' for the way you should eat apple pie  Vermont regulators to stop accepting new retail cannabis applications Goddard Buyers Envision 'Bustling, Busy Campus Again' Judge dismisses senators' lawsuit over education secretary (1:26:24)  Break music: Tiger Strike - “Sundering”https://tigerstrikevt.bandcamp.com/track/sundering Scumbag Map Drunk driver hits cars and boatsSaint Albans man robs community kitchen Saint Albans clerk robbed at knifepoint Good cop: Burglary in process foiledBad cop: Cop assaults person over jaywalkingStabbing in Battery ParkMan shot in chest in RutlandPawlet triple murderTheft at Dog Mountain Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comOutro Music by B-Complex

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
200: Zoloft Springs, Chris Columbus of Trees, and Worst First Date

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2024 99:22


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy National Biscuits and Gravy WeekVermont is searching for EEE, one mosquito at a time UVMMC has too much moneyMental Health Urgent Care center closer to opening in BurlingtonBurlington says “Whoops, we might need cops”Vermont State University Enrollment Rises Fatal plane crashA bright leaf seasonTunbridge World FairThe hunt is on for Essex's best tree(48:36) Break music: Long Gone John & TallGrass GetDown - “Aint Gotta Think About You”https://longgonejohn.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-ophelia Celebrity waiters at Ronald McDonald HouseBurlington may lower speed limitOlympian Ilona Maher to Compete on 'Dancing With the Stars' Progress on Sound MitigationWhat to do with Roxbury Village School buildingMorristown sees rise in car theftRutland competitive BBQ teamWhoopie pies return  to Rutland(1:19:11)  Break music: Real Ova Deceit (feat Doctor A) - “Going For it”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrXMBVsleG8&ab_channel=RealOvaDeceitLLC Scumbag Map  Loose dogs cause crashVermont's Roman Catholic Diocese faces another wave of lawsuits Cedar Drive aka New Hamsterdam in BerlinNew Hampshire man pleads not guilty to Vermont murder Suspected bank robbers remain in jail | Local News | Royalton police officer facing domestic violence charges placed on leave  Banyai arrested…againWest Glover murder Bennington man arraigned on attempted murder after victim jumps from windowBucky the buckethead dog returned to ownerThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comOutro Music by B-Complex

Disgorgeous
Episode 290: Rhône-in' on the River 3: Put the South in Your Mouth ft. Todd Cavallo of Wild Arc Farm

Disgorgeous

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 74:26


The boys are re-joined by Todd Cavallo from Wild Arc to do two things: hype up New York Natural Wine and figure out what Slow South of the Rhône Valley does exactly. There's some light Robert Parker Chatter, and then all of a sudden everyone goes full berserk dead-eyed nattie. We love to see it folks, sometimes it really just is that easy. Guys, drink Natural New York wine, hopefully Todd's but if you don't like those he'll help you find something else. Also, uh, let something beautiful happen to you every day

Boring Books for Bedtime
The Ecclesiastical History of England, by the Venerable Bede, Part 2

Boring Books for Bedtime

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2024 50:40


Let's relax and sleep with more history of the British Isles from the wonderful Bede. This time, we wander through four centuries of Roman influence, build some walls, and learn about Saint Alban, who got a miraculous drink on a hill!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read “Ecclesiastical History of England” at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38326   Music: "Boring Books for Bedtime,” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com   If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, http://www.boringbookspod.com.

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
199: Did Lincoln Color?, Skunk Milk and An Attempted El Kabong

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2024 127:25


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy National Coloring Book dayGlo's skunk updateWhoop there it is / who let the dogs outWhy does Vermont keep flooding? Cheif Murad doesn't like repeat offendersBurlington rugby star Ilona Maher wins Olympic bronze Vote for the ghost of Dick Sears Accidental Covid-19 case dismissedTraffic-calming devices installed on busy Burlington street New UVM surgical office approvedVermont in top 10 states with most federal disaster declarations (1:01:23) Break music: Suburban Samurai - "Zombie" https://suburbansamuraimusic.bandcamp.com/track/zombie  Sage Farm Goat Dairy wins national award South Burlington City Council bounces pickleball solutions Brazen bears rattle Stowe Giant pinecone-like egg statue coming to new Williston art park Resort planned for former SVC campus 'advancing'Dog Mountain cancels summer festival(1:41:10)  Break music: Violet Crimes - "Some Exceptions May Apply" https://violetcrimesvt.bandcamp.com/track/some-exceptions-may-apply Scumbag Map  Driver intentionally drives wrong wayImpressive shoplifting in Bellows Falls & Brattleboro Brandon teen charged with sex assaultWaterbury man arrested for Morristown murderMontpelier bat attack 77-year-old Bennington woman charged with trying to grab gun from police officer 18-year-old arraigned on felony charges after violent attacks in BenningtonSpringfield man faces multiple drug chargesChinese turtle smuggler convictedThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comOutro Music by B-Complex

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
198: Talking in Taxis, a Known Masturbator, and the Last Taco in Brattleboro

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2024 131:51


Let us know what you think - text the show!Happy National Talk in An Elevator DayReopened investigation into Smuggs drowning concludes One year into the Vermont State Uni systemVermont State Police confirm found remains belong to Roberta Martin Woodstock voters to decide on short term rentalsOutright Vermont wants to boycott twitterParents left scrambling after state revokes license of Richford child careECHO Leahy Center to embark on $3M exhibit renovation Cuarto Torres to get a faceliftSara Holbrook Community Center to closeAn inmate's pleas about her dangerous cellmate were dismissed. Then she You gotta trust your shroom guyBreak music: Dylan Patrick Ward & the Loveable Losers - “I cant wait to be alone”https://dylanpatrickward.bandcamp.com/track/i-cant-wait-to-be-alone New Digger managing editorVT rowers headed to OlympicsWest Nile virus in Alburgh mosquito poolTito's Taqueria fined by Dept of LaborCrazy Cat Lady Ceramics81.1% of Vermont Lakes Are Too Polluted for Swimming Top ice creams flavors in VT: Did your favorite make the list? ()  Break music: Mavstar (feat Joint Manipulation) - Mavstar City https://mavstar.bandcamp.com/track/mavstar-city-feat-joint-manipulation-2 Scumbag Map  Man arrested in South Burlington on aggravated assault, kidnapping, and buThree charged in Kayla Wright homicide case - Lunenburg man jailed after rampage at St. Johnsbury transportation building  Essex police officer assaultedAssault case of Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore ends in mistrialRutland girls trying to make the world safer for turtlesThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comOutro Music by B-Complex

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
197: Burlington Burial Oops, Pricey Trees in Montpelier, and Attempted Supermarket Sweep in Berlin

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2024 113:09 Transcription Available


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy National Lottery DayLaw enforcement uses roadblock to find jurors Man shot by police in Burke charged w/ attempted aggravated murder oSaint albans woman deported rather quicklyBurlington trying to fix old pipes1st leg of Burlington's Champlain Parkway set to open this summHigher Ground says Burton pulled plug on South End move UVM Staff Union Asks University to Reinstate Mental Health Positions Burial Mix-Up at  Burlington's Lakeview Cemetery  (52:15) Break music: Trevor Robinson - The Last Pay Phone on Earth https://trevorrobinson.bandcamp.com/track/the-very-last-pay-phone-on-earth Goddard College Campus Is Back on the Market |251 club celebrates 70 years Fairfax town-wide garage sale Library / Police Station in Rutland? European tree technology comes to Montpelier Thai Kitchen in MiltonBurlington City Council to discuss police oversight Creemee Confidential: What It Takes to Create Vermont's Dessert(1:31:04)  Break music: The Owl Stars - Hit Em for Me https://citizenbare.bandcamp.com/track/hit-em-for-me Scumbag Map  Man hospitalized after shot by pellet gun in BrattleboroElusive fugitive captured in Burlington Former Vermont trooper stripped of certification Burglars caught on camera at state park Woman assaults, robs seniors on Church StreetPolice try to ID woman involved in SUV theft, car break-ins  Man pulls a Supermarket Sweep in BerlinThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comOutro Music by B-Complex

Have a Day! w/ The History Wizard

Hey, Hi, Hello, this is the History Wizard and welcome back for Day 17 of Have a Day w/ The History Wizard. Thank you to everyone who tuned in for Day 16 last week, and especially thank you to everyone who rated and/or reviewed the podcast. I hope you all learned something last week and I hope the same for this week. We're going to do something different this week. We've been learning about some, frankly depressing things. War, genocide, slaughter, ethnic tensions and cleansings. These are all important things to be learning about. Especially the ones that are happening in the world right now. But it is always important to remember to take care of ourselves. We need to take some time to breathe and remember that we are human beings with thoughts and feelings and that we require rest or we will, quite simply, die. So today, after our visit to the Alchemist's Table, we are going to learn about the history of juggling! Today's libation is called Herb Garden. It's 1 oz each of gin, elderflower liquor, and jagermeister. 2 splashes each of Orleans and Cardamom bitters, and a splash of lavender simple syrup. Shake well and strain into a glass with muddled mint. Top with lemonade and enjoy! So! Now onto the juggling. First let's get the obvious out of the way. What is juggling? Juggle is a verb and it is defined as to continuously toss into the air and catch (a number of objects) so as to keep at least one in the air while handling the others, typically for the entertainment of others. Though it also bears mentioning that what we will be discussing in this episode is more specifically referred to as toss juggling. Bounce juggling and contact juggling also exist as distinct disciplines. Moving forward I'll be using the general term juggling, but know that we are discussing toss juggling. The classic tool for juggling is, obviously, balls but you can juggle anything that you can throw. I've seen people juggle knives, flaming torches, chainsaws, music stands, bowling balls. Anything you can throw. Although, the three most basic juggling props are balls, clubs, and rings. The oldest archeological depiction that we have of juggling comes from ancient Egypt from around the 21st century BCE. There was some wall art in the Beni Hasan cemetery complex that appears to show 4 young women juggling balls. We say appears to be because without text based evidence describing the scene or the ability to talk to someone who made the art it's just a guess. But you can look up the wall art, and it looks like juggling to me. The next big piece of juggling in the historical record comes from the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history and it is not only my favorite story from the history of juggling, but it is also one of my favorite historical stories to exist, full stop. Xiong Yiliao was a Chu warrior who fought under King Zhuang of Chu during the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. Ancient Chinese annals state that he practiced nòngwán, "throwing multiple objects up and down without dropping". During a battle in about 603 BC between the states of Chu and Song, Xiong Yiliao stepped out between the armies and juggled nine balls, which so amazed the Song troops that all five hundred of them turned and fled, allowing the Chu army to win a complete victory. Dude just walked in between two armies about to fight and pulled one of the biggest bluffs since the Empty Fort Strategy. But also, NINE BALLS!??!?! That's amazingly impressive. The world record for most balls juggled at a single time TODAY is only 11. The record was set by Alex Barron on the 3rd of April, 2012. Juggling 9 balls is still considered a massive achievement. I've never really been able to progress beyond 3. There's another story from the Spring and Autumn period of a man named Lanzi who was known to walk around on stilts that were “twice as long as his body” while juggling 7 jian swords. Let's put aside, for a moment, that jian swords are not weighted even remotely close to how modern juggling clubs or knives are and that they are far longer. The current record for most clubs juggled is only 8. It was set in 2023 by Moritz Rosner who managed a bare 18 tosses and catches before losing the pattern. Lanzi, by the way, was probably not the guy's actual name. Lanzi was often used as a general term for itinerant entertainers during this time. The Ancient Greek historian Manetho once described jugglers and acrobats thusly:  “birds of the country, the foulest brood of the city.” Male and female jugglers jumped forward and backward over swords or tables; girls threw up and caught again a number of balls or hoops to the accompaniment of a musical instrument; others displayed an astounding skill with their feet and toes while standing on their hands. And the Greek historian Xenophon once had this to say about the performance of a dancing girl at a party hosted by Socrates: And at the instant her fellow with the flute commenced a tune to keep her company, whilst someone posted at her side kept handing her the hoops till she had twelve in all. With these in her hands she fell to dancing, and the while she danced she flung the hoops into the air - overhead she sent them twirling - judging the height they must be thrown to catch them as they fell in perfect time. The record for ring juggling, by the way, is only 13 rings and was set in 2002 by Albert Lucas who managed exactly 13 throws and catches. Now, many of these ancient historians were known to exaggerate, so it's unclear if these historic records are real, or if they were just picking numbers they assumed were impressive. If the former, it's wild that the records have increased by so little. If the latter, they were correct. Ancient Roman sources make mention of jugglers and juggling fairly frequently. They mention contact juggling with glass spheres a number of times and Sidonius Apollinaris, a Roman officer leading a legion in the French province of Niemen, allegedly wrote in his letters that he enjoyed juggling three or four balls as a hobby for his own satisfaction and to entertain his companions in the legions. The Boke of Saint Albans, published in England in 1486, contains one of my very favorite  juggling fun facts. It mentions a “Neverthriving of Jugglers” as part of a list of collective nouns. This is hilarious and painful and it is nearly impossible to make a thriving wage as a juggler. Stewart Culin in Games of the North American Indians, a book that was written in 2012 lists examples of juggling among the Naskapi, Eskimo, Achomawi, Bannock, Shoshone, Ute, and Zuni tribes of North America. One example, quoted from George Dorsey, describes a game played by Shoshone women who juggled up to four balls made of mud, cut gypsum, or rounded water-worn stones. Dorsey describes betting contests in which the women raced toward an objective such as a tree or tipi while juggling. This is very similar to a modern day sport called joggling where participants juggle while jogging. From 1768 onwards, when Phillip Astley opened the first modern circus he included jugglers along with his equestrian acts, acrobatics, and clowns. And in 1793 when John Bill Rickets brought the idea of the circus to the United States and performed for George Washington he juggled while on horseback. So largely from the 18th century forward juggling has been heavily associated with the circus. There have been man firsts and exciting advancements made in the field of juggling over the years. From Jim Harrigan creating the concept of comedic juggling to Dewitt Cook inventing the modern concept of club juggling when he performed a routine using Indian Clubs. Indian clubs are a heavy wooden club that was and still are used as a strengthening and conditioning tool. They are much heavier and not weighted quite the same as modern plastic clubs. There have also been more weird stories, such as Enrico Rastelli who was born in Siberia in 1896. Widely hailed as one of the greatest jugglers of all time he was the first recorded person to juggle 10 balls, though he was never able to juggle 9. There was also Charles Hoey who was the first to juggle 4 clubs, though he could not stop juggling without dropping. When performing on stage the curtain had to be closed while he was still juggling so the audience wouldn't see him drop. Juggling has a long and delightfully quirky history. It's one of my favorite party trick, though one that I don't practice as often as I used to or as often as I should. Still, it's fun to do and fun to learn about. I hope you enjoyed learning about it, because next week it's right back into the breach. That's it for this week folks. No new reviews, so let's get right into the outro. Have a Day! w/ The History Wizard is brought to you by me, The History Wizard. If you want to see/hear more of me you can find me on Tiktok @thehistorywizard or on Instagram @the_history_wizard. Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe to Have a Day! On your pod catcher of choice. The more you do, the more people will be able to listen and learn along with you. Thank you  for sticking around until the end and, as always, Have a Day.  

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
196: We Need an OTB, Pickleball Compromise and a Poorly Planned Escape

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2024 138:33


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy national Rock n Roll DayAdam had a baby!UVM Nurses strike dealWhistleblower Alleges iSun Leaders Misled Shareholders Manhattan Pizza & Pub WalkoutAddison drunk prosecutor settlesVermont launches problem gambling websiteLaw aimed to protect cyclists New VT law cracks down on thefts Ethan Allen Express getting fasterOne  contractor carted away thousands of tons of flood debrisSpecial state park beer of Vermont(1:12:15) Break music: Nahte Renmus (Feat Jarv) - “Puddin' Cup”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro7MeHaLvMw&ab_channel=NahteRenmus  Folks pissed about PickleballRecycling household batteries is now the lawNo quarry in Saint AlbansGreat Bristol Outhouse RaceSale price for Goddard College's campus is $3.4 million;  Hundreds sign up for refugee assistance training Changes at Jericho General storeBarton woman regains home in tax sale settlement Future of movies in VT?(1:53:40)  Break music: Lutalo - “Ocean Swallows Him Whole”https://lutalo.bandcamp.com/album/the-academy Scumbag Map Teen driving 107 mph Man hit several cars VT police search for hit & run Man wanted for dragging officer Burlington knife threat Bennington man escape does not go well Saint Albans crime roundup Chinese turtle smugglerThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comOutro Music by B-Complex

Saint of the Day
St Alban, First Martyr of Great Britain (early 3rd c.)

Saint of the Day

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2024


He was a soldier in the Roman army and, according to the venerable Bede, was brought to faith in Christ by a fugitive priest to whom he gave shelter. The saint exchanged clothes with the priest, allowing him to escape and ensuring his own martyrdom. Some writers, including St Bede, place his martyrdom during the reign of Diocletian (286-303).   Saint Alban's tomb was venerated as early as 429 by St Germanus of Auxerre. The town of Verulamium is either his home town or the place of his martyrdom; near it a monastery was founded, around which grew the English town of St Albans.

Saint of the Day
St Alban, First Martyr of Great Britain (early 3rd c.)

Saint of the Day

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2024 1:01


He was a soldier in the Roman army and, according to the venerable Bede, was brought to faith in Christ by a fugitive priest to whom he gave shelter. The saint exchanged clothes with the priest, allowing him to escape and ensuring his own martyrdom. Some writers, including St Bede, place his martyrdom during the reign of Diocletian (286-303).   Saint Alban's tomb was venerated as early as 429 by St Germanus of Auxerre. The town of Verulamium is either his home town or the place of his martyrdom; near it a monastery was founded, around which grew the English town of St Albans.

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
194: Glo's 8 Seconds, Zoning Middle Finger and a Lifeguard Shortage

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2024 139:08


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy National Vanilla Milkshake DayFried chicken comment2 Vermont senators sue Gov. Phil Scott Burlington Mayor Dodges Media Conservative group challenges non-citizen votingVt. marijuana company questions authority of Cannabis Control Board Nurses union at UVM Medical Center threatens strike More than 4 million skiers braved Vermont's weird, wet winter VT national guards graduate from Brazilian mountain school(51:18) Break music: The Steppes - "Dynamite"https://thesteppes.bandcamp.com/track/dynamiteZoning middle finger in Huntington Historic temperaturesLifeguard shortage Murder Case Against a Burlington Teen Has Been Moved to Juvenile Court Montpelier distillery celebrates Pollinator Week New mural captures camaraderie of Old North End neighborhood Consultant deems Vermont health care system ‘badly broken' Work continues on new Montpelier post office location (1:35:26)  Break music: Kiley Latham - “Daydream”Scumbag Map Three in custody after manhunt in Northeast Kingdom VT. Man charged in ‘Whitey' Bulger death pleads guilty Man kidnaps woman, childSecond teen arraigned on gang sexual assault at drinking party Arrest serves as a cautionary tale for selling vehicles online  Melee in the parkFive men arrested after Springfield drug bust  Fairfax man in his best polo assaults officer Grand Isle man arrested for waving gun, holding up trafficBarre dealership's ex-auto parts director admits to $575K fraud scheme  Need volunteers for goose bandingThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comIOutro Music by B-Complex

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
192: Burlington Cops Scare Kids, Felons to Farmers and a Saint Albans Sandwich Thief

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2024 153:21 Transcription Available


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy National VCR DayBennington County Senator Dick Sears has died at 81 - VTDiggerBurlington cops scare high schoolers w/ fake shootingVermont ACLU takes Essex County Sheriff's Department to court in public VT Christian Alliance allege they are discriminated against due to LGBTQ protections for foster kidsBeta reports full test flight of vertical takeoff prototype Wreck of 1971 plane crash discovered in Lake Champlain 84-year-old man rescued from glider crash25K Vermonters lose internetBurlington repeat offender takes plea deal on federal robbery charges I-89 study focuses on South Burlington exit (1:00:07) Break music: Kate Kush - “False Cry”https://katekushmusic.bandcamp.com/track/false-cry Burlington garden club honors found member with benchA Developer's Storm Cleanup Crossed Into a Burlington ParkArchaeological dig at old psychiatric hospitalVermont reports lowest fertility rate in the US amid national decline -Topsham student sues after denied scholarshipCostco hot  dog price stays firm Darn Tough is wrestling with ‘rampant' social media  scams.(2:00:53)  Break music: FOZ - “Sense of Imperfection”https://foz-music.bandcamp.com/track/sense-of-imperfection  Scumbag Map Lawnmower thiefSerial Killer - thousands of remains Shelburne drug traffickingDeadly police chase through Colchester Stolen dump truckWallingford man seriously beatenHigh-speed chase ends in crash, driver threatens police with hammer  Breakfast sandwich thief in Saint AlbansBear freed from stuck jugThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comIOutro Music by B-Complex

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
191: We Hate VT Developers, Smuggs Sniper, and a Townshend War Hero

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2024 154:09


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy national dinosaur dayWhy am I so happy that Trump was convicted?Negro league baseball recordsWhat does passage of Vt. psychedelic mushroom law mean? The Rosa parks of being stoned at workBurlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak reappoints Jon Murad as police chief US Supreme Court could take up South Burlington land use case Colleagues call death of Mazza the end of an eraWindham school district in crisisSome Burlington City Council members not aware of plan to support waterfront  homeless camp Plans to convert Burlington YMCA into housing hit a snagVT bought an island(1:01:43) Break music: HASKELL - “Let Me In”https://haskellsucks.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-in Townshend veteran finally honored by FranceVt. becomes 1st state requiring oil companies to pay for damage from climate Barriers meant to prevent truck stuckages at Smugglers Notch get tested rightCommunity pushes back on Goddard College campus buyer A reason to watch women's Olympic rugbyA Group of Burlington Neighbors Is Painting Over Graffiti Themselves Unearthed by accident: a plant lost to Vermont for a century is discovered VT spelling champ headed to DC & Update VT 3rd best state to learn to ride a bike(1:50:42)  Break music: WiseAcres - “Adjust the Angles”https://wiseacres.bandcamp.com/track/adjust-the-angles Scumbag Map 42-year-old homicide solved Danby Walmart shootingNorthfield Kristal goes on rampageSaint Albans crime blotterVt. police say chronic littering culprit caught, fined Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comIOutro Music by B-Complex

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
190: Vineyard Shenanigans, War of 1812 Theme Song, and a Civilized Scumbag

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2024 143:55 Transcription Available


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy Brother's DayIts hot AFPhil Scott hates beesHoward Dean, Miro Weinberger rule out runs for governor of Vermont Trend? The olds are retiringTenant protections failUVM halts construction of housingVt. officials say $1M Lake Carmi aeration system made water quality VT Search and Rescues are risingThe Circus Smirkus guy has a memoirDoes Burlington ha ve too many cannabis shops?(59:47) Break music: Fattie B - "Too Complex"https://equaleyesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lo-fi-foolishness-dated-references-collaborations-creations-1994-til-now Dozens of layoffs at former Vermont Teddy Bear distribution center due to  Dude jumps off 89 overpass, livesNorth hero - Grand Isle bridge stuck upThe Harlem Wizards?The “Play Every Town Project” Alleys project underwayOnce Off-Limits, Burlington's Rock Point Is Gradually Welcoming the Public  Castleton library gets an elevator How many fire trucks does Castleton need? Whatchu know ‘bout Castleton, VT?VT's first black restaurant owner is honored(1:47:39)  Break music: Watercoat - "With or Without"https://watercoat.bandcamp.com/album/circles-on-my-map Scumbag Map Iowa Woman Fraud Milton man arrested for voyeurism Rutland man tries to escape probation officeRandom punching Burlington robbery at gunpoint Would be pipe-bomber gets 6 yearsBurlington man accused of assaulting police officer  We got a biter! A civilized scumbag - Hartland break-inInvasive  beetles on Burlington beachThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comIOutro Music by B-Complex

Two for the Road: Movies with Matt and Adam
8 1/2 (1963) and Black Bear (2020)

Two for the Road: Movies with Matt and Adam

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2024 57:12


Text Matt & Adam!We're back with the theme "the movie process". Many people consider "8 1/2" (1963) to be  Fellini's masterpiece. A movie director tries to figure out  his next project. What's a dream? What's real? Sometimes were not sure. "Black Bear" (2020)  stars Aubrey Plaza as woman film maker trying break her creative roadblock. The first thirty minutes of the film is a little slow, but the last hour is so good, that it makes the first part so much better. Definitely worth checking out.Next up, Matt introduces Adam to indie director Hal Hartley with "Trust" (1990) & "Simple Men" (1992).Have your own recommendations? Contact the show:24theroadshow@gmail.com

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
189: Weathervane Returned, Vermont Master Sculptor and Jamaica Stories

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2024 118:26


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy National “Shades” DayNo one wants to be the racial equity directorBurlington mayor seeks to reduce graffiti problem Meet your next governor, Poa MutinoMan accused of killing gf says not enough evidenceWhatchu know ‘bout Searsburg, VT?Women's prison proposal too bigWe got our weathervane backVeteran broadcaster Stewart Ledbetter to run for Vermont Senate (36:54) Break music: The Funky Flats - “Play the Fool”https://thefunkyflats.bandcamp.com/track/play-the-fool Notch Road barriers fail to stop tractor-trailerVT master sculptor wins a webby VT team heading to national drone championships Sip & Shop returns to RutlandNew chef at Starry Night cafeWe're getting jamaican cuisineBrattleboro granola business for sale(1:20:46)  Break music: Gas Station Dog Exchange - “Air”https://gsde.bandcamp.com/track/air Scumbag Map  2 wrong-way drivers stopped on Vt. interstates, police say Ex-corrections officer charged for smuggling tobacco into Rutland prisonSaint Albans woman arrested for restaurant theftsPolice say masked man killed in St. Johnsbury died from gunshot wounds to his VT man shoots at occupied homeDerby Line man held without bail after domestic assault, resisting arrest  Former Vermont man charged for alleged role in death of James ‘Whitey' Bulger Stay alert for turtlesThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comIOutro Music by B-Complex

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
188: Junktown VT, Too Much Drumming in Milton, and Not Board Material

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2024 132:11 Transcription Available


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy National “One Day Without Shoes” DaySanders, 82, cites Trump, nation's problems in reelection bid (wcax.com)Phil Scott appoints a demRoxbury junk ordinanceWhatchu know ‘bout Roxbury, VT?Cannabis Company Could Lose License for Using Banned Pesticide Vermont opioid deaths decline for the first time since 2019,Birdman Bike Lawmakers at odds over retail theft billMilton Inclusion FestivalFilm about tragic Vermont farmerPlainfield Co-op to Move to Plainfield Hardware (1:03:59) Break music: Raw Deff & Rico James - “Gung Ho”https://rawdeffandricojames.bandcamp.com/track/gung-ho  Burlington tries to quell annual student move out mess Bitcoin ATMs Breakfast-gate in Barre Shady Mendon motel owner promises not to be shadyVt. police seek ‘artist' behind vandalism in playful social media post Save the St Albans clock towerBurlington businesses say construction hurts businessNew Marker Provides History of Battery ParkVermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas turns 30  (2:04:28)  Break music: silence_Castor - “Elsewhere”https://silencecastor.bandcamp.com/track/elsewhere Scumbag Map  Suspicious deaths in South HeroNH fugitive found in Warren Colchester man convicted for role in killing of drug rivalWindham strangler Sex assault in BarreBurlington man busted in perv sting Saint Albans police blotter Attempted murder in Kirby, VT Lamb history made in VT Chinese dye dogsThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comIOutro Music by B-Complex

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
187: Pizza Recall, Uppity Nurses, and a Fight Over Loose Pigs

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2024 157:46


Let us know what you think - text the show!On this week's show:Happy National No Pants DayAnother Howard Dean run? Scott doubles downFrozen pizza recall900% increase in blood disease at UVM MCDo nurses know how much other people make?Dental hygienist shortage Report: Burlington offers just ‘adequate' nature space Vermont road crews navigate multiple mud seasons Killington wants to expand Rabies vaccine bait drops to begin this weekend  The Crazy Contraption Camp (1:03:59) Break music: Tabarnak - “The Bark”https://tanarnak.bandcamp.com/track/the-bark We lost another diner - Betsy's Dot The future of fertilizer? Pee, says this Brattleboro institute Pretty girl problems - former Miss Vermont kicked out of AirBnB for being too hot Scowling Brandon woman named poet laureate Cannabis as a home businessNo political events on playgrounds Contact-less parkingBurlington library getting shady A more inclusive school calendarVergennes mayor confirms city picked to host juvenile justice facility 6th grader inspires Enosburgh dog park (2:04:28)  Break music: Terry Donahue - “Stumblin' In”https://terrydonahue.bandcamp.com/track/stumblin-in Scumbag Map  Men in Orleans cited after fight over loose pigs Milton man hit & runFormer Bristol man gets 18 years in prison for plotting with mother to kill his ste Ortiz gets 7 years for leading drug ring in Orleans County -  Newport wild ride Saint Albans cocaine charges Fairfield grand larceny Tennesse e groper in BerlinThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comIOutro Music by B-Complex

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
186: Boy Scout Burlesque, Norwich Scandal, and Street Sweeping Is a Hoax

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2024 136:28 Transcription Available


On this week's show:Happy National take your pick dayBurlesque dayHug an Australian dayYour first kiss dayBirdhouse vandalState Sen Bobby Starr retiresEx-Norwich University president sued over inappropriate behaviorThe future of downtown Brattleboro uncertainBarre to Sell Two Parking Lots for $1 to Housing Developer Barn preservation grantsAirport taxi rate Vermont confirms first measles case since 2018 Impacts of Vermont's single-use plastic ban, 4 years later  Best beard in VTBruins fan goes viral w/ maple syrup sign(53:22) Break music: The Champlain Shoregasm - “As the World Comes Apart”https://thechamplainshoregasm.bandcamp.com/track/as-the-world-comes-apart  Tree planting beef in Charlotte Timbersports coming to Maplefest Street sweeping season in BurlingtonNorwich Olympic rowerMarshfield couple spreads sunflower seeds for Ukraine Bradford  restaurant finedTanya Sousa debuts new children's book ‘Rescued' at Newport, Lyndon libraries Morrisville needs a bridge trollVTrans to install obstacles to prevent stuck trucks on Notch Road  Animal communicatorVt. sheriff's deputy who caused mistrial loses job (1:33:05)  Break music: Yann Falquet - “Du long de la mer joile” (Along the pretty sea) https://yannfalquet.bandcamp.com/track/du-long-de-la-mer-jolie Scumbag Map Drugs and guns in BarreCops arrest man accused of choking, knife threat Rutland man charged with taking photos of girlRutland stabbingBurlington machete attackTwo arrested after defecating in victim's car during Barton-Lowell crime spree - Newport DispatchShots fired in JaySaint J BB gun bandit Montpelier police logNewport man faces federal gun charges  Would be ATM heist in East Wallingford, VT Bald eagles vs blue herons Winners of pet photo contestThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comIOutro Music by B-Complex

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
185: Salute to Pizza Drivers, Manchester Vampires and the Derby Little Drummer Boy

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Play 18 sec Highlight Listen Later Apr 20, 2024 147:26 Transcription Available


On this week's show:Happy National Pizza Delivery Driver Appreciation DayJoe's Pond officially iced out early Sunday morning  + Danville man winnerWarning: ‘Cicada-geddon' is only a month away (wcax.com)Vermont's elderly workforce Restaurant owners say Burlington police failed to respond during vandalismER visits increase due to e-bikesFatal car crashes finally trending downWelch sighting - he's a real Senator, y'allFinally, a new kid prison in Vergennes VT data privacy bill unlikelyManchester vampire(56:49) Break music: Sleepy Spectre - “Tumble Bus”https://gatchi.bandcamp.com/track/tumble-bus-feat-john-francy-windross95 Alzheimer's memory cafes are popping upNew Miss Vermont crownedCastleton University sex assault art installmentWeightlifters set state recordAn alley is getting revitalized in Waterbury Panton is getting a big-ass solar arrayWe missed a momo eating contest Brattleboro art smash partyEssex flea marketMystery cash in Winooski(1:48:36)  Break music: Bergadler - “Solid Veronica”https://bergadler.bandcamp.com/album/solid-veronica Scumbag MapVt. police arrest teen in connection with multiple homicides Hardwick man gets knife pulled on him by passenger Derby gun thief Whatchu know ‘bout Derby, VT? Saint albans RV arsonist Thieves target convenience stores for vapes Kid thrown out of truck Alleged dog feces flinger Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comIOutro Music by B-Complex

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
183: Eclipse - Oh No!, Middle Finger Epitaph, and Coin Drop Ideas

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2024 160:28


On this week's show:Should we introduce the show to any out-of-towners?Happy International Plan Your Epitaph DayIts manure season!VT state troopers discipline reportBanyai video…hahahahhaIts too expensive to be a legislatorMaple producers boil down how the sugaring season fared (wcax.com)Cheese & Wine Traders closes suddenly VT Flannel buys VT Teddy Bear CoUpon taking office, Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak pledges to Montpelier to get a replacement post office nearly a year after floods left it wSneak preview of South Burlington's Hillside East development Burlington sinkholeNew state senate bill addresses sexual assault on college campusesGov. Scott Vetoes Flavored Tobacco Ban (55:58) Break music: Mercy No More - “Point to Your Messiah”https://mercynomore.bandcamp.com/track/point-to-your-messiah  Port-a-potty businesses cashing on on the eclipse Possible cannabis grow site in RutlandBarre making switch from police cameras What is a coin drop? Barton budget mishapWood boiler beefin Waterbury getting a skatepark The Saint J scale business that changed the worldTeen canoers rescued from Colchester pond New VT based novel none of us will readSome Hotels Are Forcing Out Homeless Guests to Book Eclipse Tourists(1:49:37)  Break music: Mysundrstood - “Humble”https://www.instagram.com/mysundrstood/ Scumbag MapNine illegals arrested at border UVM student charged in graffiti  Berlin woman on probation for selling drugs is caught selling drugs Montpelier police logNew charges filed against man involved in fatal crash with rookie Rutland Police High speed chase in BrandonMan arrested for assaulting officers, hospital staff with chainsaw in St. Johnsbury man arrested for disorderly conduct with whip Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comIntro/Outro Music by B-Complex

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary
182: Mermen and Mermaids, Doulas, and Matt Is Mean to Colchester

Three for the Road: Vermont News and Commentary

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2024 145:06 Transcription Available


On this week's show:Happy International Mermaid DayOpening Day thoughts, Matt?Do you have an eclipse plan?VT data privacy actBurlington police warn of GPS tracking devicesCar thefts continue to climb as lawmakers debate stricter penaltiesVT's most popular creemee stand for saleBirch syrup?Sen. Sears, Gov. Scott applaud Senate approval of a bill cracking down on drugsFinal Reading: Phil Scott's education secretary pick draws opposition Doulas want to be used moreAre we surprised that the dude who built your house was high on opioids?Vermont Supreme Court suspends law license of Addison County's (1:12:24)  Break music: Whiskey Priest - “Whiskey”https://whiskeypriestband.bandcamp.com/track/whiskey New VT spelling champLyndon covered bridge hit by truck yet again St J getting a co-opAnimals in Colchester blowing through school bus stopsSaint Albans girl wins national archery contestSkateboarding class in Brandon VT book banning policies 80-year-old VT couple prepare original musical VT woman writes horny rock star novel (1:41:40) Break music: Freddie Losambe - “Burnout”https://freddielosambe.bandcamp.com/track/burnout Scumbag MapPolice thank public for help finding South Burlington shootings suspectsStealing from the disabled in Essex JunctionAttempted home invasion in Saint Albans3 arrested in Saint J stabbingNewport serial arsonist Newport man kidnapping charges Hydraulic theftBarre police logBarre City vandalFlorida man causes havoc in BarreMontpelier peeping tom and othersThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4 Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.comIntro/Outro Music by B-Complex

Educational Renaissance
An Interview with Jeff Andre

Educational Renaissance

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2024 47:36


In this episode, we welcome Jeffrey Andre to the Educational Renaissance Podcast. As Dean at the Ecclesial School at Saint Alban's, Jeff helped launch the Ecclesial Schools Initiative, an exciting network of sustainable and accessible schools providing classical Christian education for children of diverse social and economic backgrounds, at affordable tuition. Learn about what it means to provide educational leadership and how to serve your schools more effectively. Links from this episode: Jeff Andre Bio Ecclesial Schools Initiative Gainsville Study Center SCL presentation by Jeff The Educational Renaissance Podcast is a production of Educational Renaissance where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading. Take a deeper dive into training resources produced by Educational Renaissance. Read Rethinking the Purpose of Education by Jason Barney available now through ⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠.

Les Nuits de France Culture
"C'est compliqué de dire fou, ou malade mental, ici on dit pensionnaire"

Les Nuits de France Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2024 31:37


durée : 00:31:37 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - En 1990 le psychiatre et psychanalyste Jean Oury, un des fondateurs de la psychothérapie institutionnelle, donnait cinq entretiens "A voix nue". Dans le premier, il s'arrête à Saint-Alban, étape essentielle de son histoire, où il se trouva pour la première fois en contact avec des malades mentaux - invités : Jean Oury Médecin, psychiatre et psychanalyste, fondateur de la clinique La Borde

Portugueses no Mundo
Joana Dias: Saint Albans, Inglaterra

Portugueses no Mundo

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2024 31:09


A história de portuguesa no mundo da Joana Dias começou de forma contrariada. A Joana achou que ia para Inglaterra por uns meses, mas já lá vão 9 anos. Quase uma década que se resume na palavra resiliência.

Les Nuits de France Culture
Une autre histoire de la folie à Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole 2/2 : Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole ou la résistance à la folie

Les Nuits de France Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2023 65:00


durée : 01:05:00 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - En 1989, la productrice Cécile Hamsy restituait dans "Profils perdus" l'esprit de Saint-Alban, cet hôpital psychiatrique situé dans le département de la Lozère, où l'on pensait qu'il "faut soigner l'hôpital avant de soigner le malade". Deuxième et dernier volet. - invités : Jean Oury Médecin, psychiatre et psychanalyste, fondateur de la clinique La Borde; François Tosquelles Psychiatre

Les Nuits de France Culture
Une autre histoire de la folie à Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole 1/2 : L'esprit de Saint-Alban

Les Nuits de France Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2023 65:00


durée : 01:05:00 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Philippe Garbit - En 1989, la productrice Cécile Hamsy restituait dans "Profils perdus" l'esprit de Saint-Alban, cet hôpital psychiatrique situé dans le département de la Lozère, où l'on pensait qu'il importait de "soigner l'hôpital avant de soigner le malade ". - invités : François Tosquelles Psychiatre

NYC NOW
November 14, 2023: Midday News

NYC NOW

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2023 8:56


Police are investigating an apparent triple stabbing after three people were found dead this morning in Saint Albans, Queens. Meanwhile, Democrats are challenging New York's congressional map in the state's top court, with a hearing set for Wednesday. Also, the Essex County Holiday Lights Spectacular is scheduled to start November 17th at Turtle Back Zoo, West Orange, New Jersey. Finally, a NJ Advance Media three-part investigation, featuring newly-released radio transmissions and reports, delves into the major Port Newark cargo ship fire that killed two firefighters over four months ago; WNYC's Michael Hill is joined by investigative reporter for NJ Advance Media Ted Sherman to discuss the series.

Restitutio
517 Walking with God (Josh and Daisy Jones)

Restitutio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2023 66:08


Listen to this episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts Have you ever read miracle stories in the bible and asked yourself, "I wonder if this happens today?" My guests today are Josh and Daisy Jones of the UK who share their testimonies of God intervening in and through their lives. Hear about Josh's miraculous healing from asthma, Daisy's baptism when a Muslim spoke in tongues, and various adventures walking with God both at home and abroad, especially in Israel. They also talk about their interesting journey to unitarianism as well as their plans to organize the first UCA (Unitarian Christian Alliance) conference in the London area in the summer of 2024.   —— Links —— For more about the Unitarian Christian Alliance (UCA) see unitarianchristianalliance.org. Check out episode 500 The Gifts of the Spirit in Early Christianity See also our 7-part series on the Holy Spirit, covering various major views of the manifestations of the spirit, especially speaking in tongues. Take a listen to episode 310 Are Gifts of the Spirit Available Today? with Sam Storms Lastly, check out these previous episodes on healing Support Restitutio by donating here Join our Restitutio Facebook Group and follow Sean Finnegan on Twitter @RestitutioSF Leave a voice message via SpeakPipe with questions or comments and we may play them out on the air Intro music: Good Vibes by MBB Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) Free Download / Stream: Music promoted by Audio Library. Who is Sean Finnegan?  Read his bio here —— Transcript —— This transcript was auto-generated and only approximates the contents of this episode. Sean Finnegan: So Josh and Daisy Jones, so great to have you on the show today. Thanks for joining me. Josh Jones: It's our pleasure. Wonderful to be here. Daisy Jones: Yeah. Thanks for asking us. Sean Finnegan: Yeah, yeah. To begin with, I thought you could just introduce yourselves a little bit and tell a little bit about who you are and then we could get into your story a little bit and your background. So who who are you? Who are the Joneses? Josh Jones: An unconventional couple presently living in in north London. I'm a serving officer in the Parish regiment being served for 20 years in one capacity or. And we have got two wonderful children, joy and Isaac, five and three respectively. Days. Do you wanna talk about yourself? Daisy Jones: OK. Well, I guess my my first role is is mummy at the moment cause I've got a 5. And a three-year old and they are an absolute joy. In fact, they're both called joy because one is called joy. And the other one is called. Isaac, which means join laughter. So we're in the stage of still sleepless nights a little bit. I'm still nursing my youngest. So if you hear a cry in the background, I might have to disappear. But such is life. But we didn't want to miss this opportunity to speak with you because we listen to you a lot and you know we wanted to share our story. Sean Finnegan: Let's hear about how you came to faith. I don't know who would like to go first, but I've heard that in the UK in general and London in particular, there are a lot of secular minded people. So how is it that you two are Christians? Really, I guess. Would be my first question. Who would? Josh Jones: So yeah, so I was actually born in Australia. I grew up there in New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, Portugal, before moving to England at the age of 12. And as a young kid, I was, you know, forced to go to church. My, my parents did have a faith. It is like live and vibrant today, very much so. But thinking in the younger days was very much just trying to instill in me some good behaviour and some. Good Bible stories. At the age of 12, moved to a place called Orpington in Kent. Again, just outside London up to the South East this time as opposed to the NW where we are presently and went to a really good Baptist Church, I very quickly fell in love with the word of God. There were some really godly men there who used to run the Bible study week by week, would go and just really enjoy studying the Bible as I got into my. Kind of later teens 1 by 1. My friends would leave as the lure of of teenage life just became too strong for. And but I just kind of fell more and. More in love. With the word. So I remember coming home from school and just like going. Into my other. Garage that we had converted and just like reading, reading the Bible and kind of got to age like 1617 or it's like, you know, this is real. Then if I pray something should happen because you know, this book is a story of men and women. And having supernatural encounters with a divine God, you know, every character is almost like a Marvel superhero in the sense that something extraordinary is happening in their lives. It's not just a blind faith, it's it's a living faith. And so I just started kind of praying where I was asking questions to understand what this particular passage. And or personal events in my life answers just started to arrive through all interesting and peculiar. News. There's a big move of God. Some Americans were probably aware of it in 1994. It was kind of aptly named the Toronto blessing. You know, I I. Did sense a change in the atmosphere in the churches? I saw people kind of leading what I'd more say, more spirit filled lives, passionate prayer activity, sharing their faith. And I knew that's what I wanted to do. And and in that period of time, you know, I saw miracles personally in my own life. I was healed, miraculously, of asthma that I had been suffering from from about 7:00. And right to the extent where I got prayed for in church and then completely forgot about it because there was a word that, you know, God wanted to hear someone ask for. And I had that since I was 7 and like my dad, he was like a fantastic rugby player. You know, I once made the B team at the age of seven. And on my glorious attendance on the pitch. I promptly had a a desperate attack within 10 minutes and got rushed to hospital, so my dad's hopes for a rugby player. You know, wearing the Kiwi jersey, we were cool, he. Crushed. Ohh man and. Sean Finnegan: Those those guys are epic. Those Kiwi rugby guys? Incredible. Josh Jones: And my dad was he was a fantastic rugby player and so there I was with my little inhalers, you know, and I was 19 at the time, 18 or 19. 18 I would. Have been a few. Weeks later, I went for my check up and my local doctor's surgery and I completely forgotten about the prayer and there was a new Doctor and I went through the test, et cetera. Then I went into her kind of office and sat down. And and she just started telling me off. I was like, what are you doing in here like. When the really aggressive. Voice, why are you wasting my time? And I'm just. Like what are you talking? About I'm here for my annual asthma check. Up and she said to. Me, there is nothing on these records to indicate. You've ever had asthma? In terms of the tests that I did in terms of all the scans and whatever they what they did for that for that check. Up so that. Was an astonishing thing for me. And you know, never, ever looked back. So I went the, the inhalers and all that stuff. Sean Finnegan: And how? How old are you now? You don't look 19 to me. Josh Jones: No, no, I'm 47 now. Sean Finnegan: 47 OK, so that's that's a long track record of not having asthma. Wow. That's incredible. Josh Jones: Yeah, yeah. Oh, absolutely, yeah. Yeah. And so, you know, I got baptized. I led my best friend to to faith, baptized him in the local swimming pool, cause his family were Buddhists. And if they if they knew that. He had come. To faith they would have kicked him out of the house. And and you know, I was kind of that term on fire. Now the interesting thing is is. That I was clearly part of the Trinitarian Church and through all my study of Scripture, I never believed Jesus was God and I always knew that my understanding of who God was and. Who Jesus was was. Different from my Bible teachers from the. Pastors and this type of thing. But I never knew there was a name for it. I was completely oblivious to what is. Unitarianism and the history of the church, that council creeds. And stuff like this I. Was just like for me, Scripture is clear, but the outworking of my faith was sharing the gospel and I felt I could do that without having to confront this issue. Because it was just. I was young, I was energetic, and this type of. Thing. So I took a year out in. In that time I felt that the reason why God was was going to do this and my father, in good kind of Kiwi fashion because at the age of 15 he was given 500 bucks and told to go make his way in. The world you know. I I was 18 is like right. If if you don't. Get a job within within one week. You're out of the house. And that was me. You know, on my knees, praying and like, literally that day get a random phone call from a friend of mine who. Just thought he would call me to offer me a job in the local Silver Spoon Cafe and I was like, thank you Lord. So I was living in this kind of vibrant spirit filled love of being in relation with God went to university. I then set up running something called the alpha course. Do you know what the. Alpha course is. Uh, nothing. Do you know its? Sean Finnegan: No, I'm not familiar. Josh Jones: Yeah, it's basically an Anglican introductory course to God. The meaning of life. It's meant to be for beginner Christians and also people inquiring. So it's a very popular course here. Run by the kind of. I say conservative, evangelical Anglican wing, but it's hugely popular. Josh Jones: Yeah. So the catch phrase is who is Jesus essentially and it's. Basically questions. Daisy Jones: That was the original catch phrase slogan. Josh Jones: Yeah, yeah. And it's a 12 week course and the unique thing about it is introduced this bit. Who is the? Holy Spirit so. It kind of jumped on the back of. Kind of. The outpouring or whatever term people would like to use in 1994, and it gave people to kind of transition from a a reading about stuff to kind of stepping forward in terms of an in filling. Of the spirit. Now the the intriguing thing is that clearly it's a Trinitarian course and. And the and one of the key catchphrases of it was based on. CS Lewis's most famous phrases. Which was either Jesus. Was either Mad Bad or God. Now, clearly, I never believed that and, but I couldn't tell anyone that because here I was running this and. I always said you. Know Jesus is mad, bad God or. Who? He said he was. And because he was running, because I was able to just slightly amend certain parts. Sean Finnegan: You got away with that, huh? Daisy Jones: I got away with it. Josh Jones: I mean, I knew the book. I knew the book back. I literally memorized the entire book. But what I was able to do was present Jesus as he declared he was. Now, I didn't have the same knowledge as I do now in terms of Messianic prophecy is. But what I just didn't do was just present Jesus as God Almighty. And the the amazing thing is, as I recall, genuinely everyone who completed that course came to an independent, genuine faith. And from this little church grew this really vibrant community, you know, from there, I was involved in setting up a youth group, taking a whole bunch of young kids to church. I mean things. You could never do today. You know, with another kind of friend. We took a. 3 year old A5 year old A7 year old a nine year old and 12 year. Old to church. Really met their parents once you know. You could never do. Things like that in this morning. Yeah. Yeah, end up. Joining a a pretty vibrant rock band. Sean Finnegan: And what? What did you play? Josh Jones: So I played bass. Yeah. So I I recall one day it was my coming to the end because I studied law at university. Yeah, I'd always in the careers office had always been Paris marines or submarines. But with this explosion of faith, I always kind of joked that. I'm in God's army now, so. You know, this is this is where. I'm going to serve. And so I decided to do law. I remember praying in my room that I really wanted to have the opportunity to share my faith with kids in school and. Stuff like this. The next day, my Rd. from Hertfordshire. I was up to Saint Albans and on route. Halfway through I met this bloke called Mark James, who is now quite a famous worship leader in the Vineyard Worship movement and wasn't well. He wasn't then I had seen his band play. A month or so before, we'd only kind of shook hands. I said hi. But anyway, we got chatting on the zebra crossing and he goes. What you doing on Friday? It's like nothing. And he goes well, we're going into. The local school. With the band. We would like you to to play bass. To come and. Share your faith. And I wasn't really a musician by any stretch of imagination I can. I can. I'm maturing. I can play a rhythm and I can move. These guys were proper musicians. You know I'm the fool who can who can move around the stage. But that was me, you know, on the Friday there. I am in a school sharing. My faith, not four days after, you know, getting my knees and prayers saying, Lord, I'd really love to, to share my faith in schools with. Young people and then from. There joined something called our nation and spent the rest of the year basically touring around different schools doing that exact same thing, whilst somehow managing to do my law degree at the same time. I never let on. That my understanding of. Who God was was was different. To Michael, there are there are a few things that I used to kind of. Day, but again, it was before the age of the Internet. From what I recall, I hadn't met anyone with any of the knowledge that you or who's the who's the chat that we met? The yeah. Fancy Buzzard. You know, I just wasn't exposed to to any of this stuff. And and to me it's not wasn't important. Because I was seeing God move, you know, people's lives were being. Daisy Jones: Changed. Can I add an interesting detail? A little factoid. OK. Josh was in two bands that were unrelated. The secular one was called dusk and the. The Christian one was called dust. So yeah, that's a fact. So yeah, the one with Mark James's dust, isn't it? Yeah. Josh Jones: Yeah, yeah, does. Now I'll kind of just bring. This particular part to a close and then we can go over to Daisy and then and then. Maybe back to me. In this period of time where I was, I felt very close to God. You know, I spent lots of time just out on the streets. Share my faith and many, many dark hours and that an incident occurred in the spirit that shook my faith in a way that I just. Was not expecting. It created like a kind of a a darkness, and it wasn't that my faith in God was shook, but it was my. Love for God? In, in the sense that I couldn't understand what had happened and you know, I struggled with this thing for almost five years. And I went to kind of senior leaders, people who I trusted. But because I was always kind of on the fringe of the church as I. Was a part of. Not so much because of my understanding who God was, but because I. Was out there living, sharing, preaching. I never really had that deep mentorship, and when I finally got to speak to the past, who I really respected, the advice he gave me was terrible, he said. Basically, if you can't understand why this happened, you will never trust God. It culminated with me at the age of 2526, walking away from everything that I was doing. I remained faithful in season and out of season as best as I. Good. And reconciling what had happened, what had got to a stage where I just was broken inside. And so I decided to step back and. Walk my own. Path, which I regret doing, and in that time I did get married. Not please Daisy and during up the Army, the parish regiment. There's a amazing verse that you. Know if we are faithless. God is still faithful and you know, slowly and surely he called me. Back and I've got many miraculous testimonies of extraordinary protection and provision and guidance, particularly whilst on operations and stuff like this, and and my son. Has really made a tremendous difference, but the kind of summary statement so I can break clean and that my beautiful wife speak is looking back. Whilst I was aware of what success looked like potentially in the spirit using kind of military terminology, what I wasn't aware of was my enemy and I didn't have the maturity and understanding of of. That's quite what it meant. When you know when Jesus said, you know, Satan is the father of lies, and that when he speaks deception, it comes out. As truth you. Know we live and fight this battle daily. We see how effective Satan's lives have been in terms of the corruption. Some of the. Most simple statements in the history of mankind, you. Know you're over God is. One and how they can turn 1 into a a purity you know. It's just but. How Satan can make but not just truth in the in terms of words and. Corrupt stuff, but actually in the spirit. As well, and I lacked the maturity of understanding just how deceptive. He can be and the absolute requirement to go back to the scriptures and test everything against the scriptures. Fast forward a number of years till about seven years ago, six years. Yeah, you always. Daisy Jones: Yeah, yeah, 6 1/2 years. Josh Jones: Well, that's marriages. And we met before then. Daisy Jones: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, yes. Josh Jones: In the February, yeah. Yeah. So do you. So do you spend some time on on young Daisy? Daisy Jones: Completely different background, so I'm a born and bred Londoner. My father is British, fiercely Welsh, and my mother's Argentinian, and so she's very Catholic. And my mother's side of the family are. Very Catholic. And so I grew up Catholic. I was baptized Catholic. I then flew over to Argentina for my Holy Communion. And. Yeah. Yeah. And it was actually quite embarrassing because they they handed me the cup of wine and basically I drank all of it because. Daisy Jones: I thought. That's what I was meant to do. You're supposed to. Sean Finnegan: Take a sip and. You can't. Daisy Jones: I was supposed to take a sip and I took the whole thing and I could hear all my family. The background. Goats up her like this, but anyway so but. It was still a good experience. And but sadly, that's where my official faith journey ended. Formally so my mom, I kind of see her as a Catholic marvel superhero. So she's she's worked for the Catholic Church for many years now. Well, now she works for a Christian charity that work with persecuted Christians in. The Middle East. But she's worked for the Catholic Church for many years, and so. Catholic highlights include going to Rome for the Catholic Great Jubilee in 2000 and sharing bread broken by John Paul the 2nd and sharing that with my. Mum, that was pretty cool. Even though I didn't identify as a Catholic at the time, but I still believed very strongly in God. Sean Finnegan: And and were you in Saint Peters Square, Vatican for that? What? What an amazing. Daisy Jones: Yes, yes. Sean Finnegan: Spot that is. Daisy Jones: It's just amazing it it it really is amazing. It's really amazing. Thing. And then my mom also organized Pope Benedict the 16th, who to my Protestant friends is Pope Ratzinger. I guess to come over. And that was around 2010. So she organised a big event in Hyde Park. And so I went to see him there, which was an amazing experience. Again, and because she'd organised it, obviously we were kind of in the front and I had all these bishops and Cardinals behind me. And I remember turning round and apologising to them, saying, oh, I'm you're far more pious than me and. I shouldn't really. Be here and I'm not. I'm not even Catholic. And I remember a nun who was next to this quite important cardinal. She said to me. Oh, you're right where God wants you to be. And I thought, OK. I'll roll with that. Another notable moment in my Catholic history with a bit of a Latin American flavour. Is a few years ago I went to the hills in northern Argentina in a place called Salba La Linda, which means Salta the beautiful. And there's a lady there who claims she says she sees apparitions of. The Virgin Mary. Thousands of people come from all over the world. Every Saturday they come to see her. So even though I was very non Catholic at the time and but still a very strong believer at that time and wanting to honour my mum who'd invited me, I went there and that was a pretty mad experience if you've experienced. The South American Catholicism, I don't remember seeing a branch on the way up to the hill Slash Mountain that didn't have hundreds of plastic rosaries on, you know, and and then when you got there, she prayed over you with a rosary in one hand and then she put her hand on your your head. And there were loads of people falling over and stuff, but very silently in a very Catholic way, not a Pentecost. The way. Sean Finnegan: I do want to hear, I guess I'm curious about the Unitarianism a little bit more because what, Daisy, what you said is that you, you never believed in the. Trinity at all. Daisy Jones: No, I know, I know. I mean don't. Sean Finnegan: You have like the Catholic. Daisy Jones: No. Yeah, I mean, I definitely did the sign, but I didn't know. What I was doing but. My heads, God and Jesus, were always distinguishable, distinct. Sean Finnegan: So then you're an example of a Catholic Unitarian. Right. Daisy Jones: No, no, I I don't. I I I cause I didn't even know the word Unitarian. It was just my it was just my understanding of it. I I never shared it. There was no real forum to share it. Sean Finnegan: Right, but here. Here's. Here's what I'm thinking. About is my own mother. She was a Baptist, I think a Southern Baptist. And she said she never believed in the Trinity and she was always, you know, she would never use EU word Unitarian. But she would she, but that that did describe what she believed. She believed that there was a father. Daisy Jones: 100%. Sean Finnegan: And then there's Jesus, OK. So I wonder how many people are in that category even now in Orthodox Christianity and Catholic Christianity and Anglican Christianity among evangelicals of all different stripes, you know? I I bet. There are lots of Unitarians that you know that it's not. Organized in their mind behind a word or a theology, it's just sort of like it's just sort of fuzzy. Daisy Jones: Yeah. So yeah, so those are my kind of highlights of my Catherine Catherine. Oh, gosh, sorry. Catholic, Unitarian. And then on my dad's side. So I'll go into a bit of my dad's family history, cause it's quite interesting from a non conformist Unitarian. Angle I come from about 5 generations of very non conformist Christian thinkers who wanted the disestablishment. Of the church. So they were a mixture of Welsh and from the Isle of Man. I don't know if you've heard of the Isle of Man. It's a kind of small island. Just off the coast of Britain, obviously, and so my ancestors were big on. Trying to well, they wanted freedom from worship. They didn't want to send taxes to the Church of England. They wanted the freedom to worship and for everything to be decentralised from Westminster, which is still why the Welsh and the Scottish hate the English because they think that it's still very centralised around Westminster. So my ancestors are kind of. Famous for rejecting the Affination Creed for not noticing Lent and not observing Ash Wednesday and things like this. So I like to think well, we I've just had an update from ancestry.com. I've still got 60% of Welsh blood flowing through my veins. So I like to think I've got a drop of that non conformist blood in my veins, definitely. Sean Finnegan: Well, at least you don't have the accent. To us, we need a translator. Daisy Jones: Ohh yeah, no. Well, she's well, she's very strong. Sean Finnegan: We Americans have no idea what they're saying. I yeah, I really. Daisy Jones: That's my dad's side, but unfortunately my dad is agnostic. I I checked in with him last week. He's 85 and I said daddy. You know, you still don't believe in God, and he said no, but I respect your, you know, beliefs and I love you and blah blah as you've mentioned before the UK. Is quite a. Secular landscape Brits tend to be just quite cynical about everything and just miserable sometimes. Maybe it's the weather. I don't. I went to university, I went to Durham University where Harry Potter was filmed. There I met my best friend, who is a evangelical Protestant, and I think she was the first person I'd ever met who was like an evangelical who actually believed in God and was Protestant, I guess. Thinking back through my faith journey, one of the things that really impacted me was. Meeting her parents and her parents, inviting me to pray with them all out loud around the table. It really had an effect on me about how powerful prayer was because prayer for me was always at night and to myself, and obviously always praying for other people, but very silent and very solemn. In the Catholic way, whereas this was very dynamic and I felt really moved by it, it moved me to tears actually. And I thought this is what I really like. This kind of charismatic expression of faith after university. I also took a year out in Spain and then I moved to Argentina. I went to Argentina for a bit. And then when I came back, I did a series of jobs, completely wild, different jobs. I've always talked for the last 20 years, but I also did a bit of modelling very badly. And then I also did just other things. Other work. I had a shop I was designing things. It was quite a hectic life. But because I didn't have that kind of firm biblical church foundation thing, I think I kind of drifted off and got very attracted by the esoteric things new agey kind of things. I kind of got lured into reading esoteric books. Reading about the new age and stuff like this. And also made friends with people who were kind of in that environment. I guess I was craving the spiritual. But again, I didn't really have that firm Biblical Foundation to realize that it's not what God wanted and it's not what I should have been doing. God really convicted me. That I should leave the new Agey world slowly, slowly, I started to kind of remove certain items like the Buddha on my on my wall and stuff like this, and to get rid of my esoteric books and stuff. I started listening to Derek Prince, who's a very famous Pentecostal preacher. He's died now. He's he was at Cambridge and he was a philosopher, originally had no interest in religion, and God hit him one night and suddenly he had this. Big healing and deliverance ministry. And so I started listening to. It's really powerful sermons, and they really. Really impacted me and I remember him saying about his healing and deliverance ministry that he felt. Really ill equipped to do it but he just did it anyway because he thought that. God would equip him. At the time, so that really stuck in my mind. Sure enough, in a very cliched way, I kind of everything was going wrong in my life and I guess I hit rock bottom. Them and it's a very cliched story and sometimes I think, God, you know, despairing at some of us going ohh, you know, another one who had, who was so stubborn and had to like, you know, get to a certain place in order to accept. So, yeah. So. So that's basically what happened is that I text a friend of mine who I I could see. Salt and lighten him and I asked him, could you take me to your church? And so, yeah, so I drove for four hours on Sunday and arrived at his church. And I arrived just in time for the pastor to. You say that there was someone there and then he went on to describe everything I'd done in my life and everything. I wanted to kind of clear out of my life. And so my legs just took me to the altar. It's never happened since it had never happened before. And there then I gave my life to Jesus in a full and whole way there and then. And. Yeah. And then my life changed quite dramatically after that in a very good way. After that, I decided to do an alpha course. And the alpha course. Is a very Anglican introductory course to God or to Jesus, as they'd say, and the meaning of life, basically. But it's a very, very popular course here. Millions of people do it. It's for those. It's inquiring, people who want to do it basically. And there's a focus on the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit Weekend at the end of it. So I decided I wanted. To do that. And at the same time, I continued going to this very charismatic Pentecostal church where I had been born again, and I had. A love for. Jews, Muslims and the gay community, and I felt like. Like I was going to do something, helping them, serving them, loving them in some way. That's what God had impacted on me at this conservative, very white middle class church. I met a friend who is the interfaith minister, was the interfaith minister at Lambda. Alice's Lambeth Palace is kind of our this is a really weak comparison, but it's like our Rome. It's the head of the Anglican. Church in the world? Yeah, but it's like a pauper's palace compared to Saint Peters Square. But anyway, so he worked there, but he was working with Muslims, and he invited me to this party with. Lots of. I guess the Christian Anglican movers and shakers I went there, I was just kind of chatting at this party and he pulled me aside and he said Ohh, would you pray with me and my friend for my friend and I said, yeah, OK. So I went with him and it was him. Who I obviously he's an established Christian. It was his friend who was a leader at Holy Trinity, Brompton. HB is the biggest church in the UK and the biggest Anglican and the biggest church. I think in of any denomination. It's it's a very big. Like big branch of. And they asked me to pray for their friend. And I thought, Oh my gosh, I'm a baby Christian. What am I doing here? I'm totally not qualified to be praying for these people. But anyway, I prayed for their friend and normally in that situation, I would definitely let the men lead the prayer. And especially because they were more. Qualified than I was in many ways. But I started just leading the prayer and the Holy Spirit just gave me words of knowledge about their friend, about his upbringing. It obviously chimed A chord with their friend. Anyway, the prayer went well and afterwards I pulled my friend to one side and I said, why did you ask like little old me? To pray and he said. Well, he said. I could tell you were good in dark places, he said, and he left it at that. And I thought. OK. So that was a kind. Of signpost for me, one of the first signposts. That I maybe was going to go into some kind of healing and deliverance ministry. Then when I got baptized. I actually ended up doing healing and deliverance on a lady who was there. So when I got baptised, I decided I didn't want to go the church route because all the baptisms I'd seen in church were very fast and furious, and it was like dunk towel, dunk towel, dunk towel. And I thought, look, if I'm gonna be completely born again. I need serious prayer and I. Want it to be intimate? That and so I reached out to a pastor and I said, look, would you baptize me not in a church? And he said, yeah, sure. I can baptize you anywhere. He's like, I can baptize you in the 10s, which is like, I don't know, the Hudson River, which is pretty gross or the sea, which I thought was cold. And and it. Or or your. Bath and I felt great. It can be nice and warm and I'm really happy with that. So we planned a date when obviously Josh could attend and his sister, who's a big worship leader in in a in a big church in South London. Unbeknownst to everyone he brought along last minute, two people and one of those people was an enquiring Muslim, but she didn't announce herself to be a Muslim. She didn't say anything and she was totally dressed as a Westerner. There was no indication she wasn't hijabi, she she was completely westernized. So when I got dunked in the privacy of my bathroom, she broke out into tongues and she didn't know what was happening. She didn't understand it at all. But when that happened. And as soon as I got out. And got dressed. There was a lot of commotion going on and then she asked. Me to baptise her. So at my baptism I ended up baptising a Muslim into the Christian faith, and that was pretty wild too, because, well, I've never baptized. Anyone. And secondly, just before I was about to put her in the water, I had a word of knowledge basically. That she was. Here for something really bad that had happened to her, and God was showing me what had happened and the people involved, and that she was gonna completely. Be set free from that, so I whispered to her what I could see. She was very shocked and she said that's exactly why I came today. Because I want to be. Free from this and then Josh's sister who's amazing. She said to her. I see you in white robes before the throne of God, and you are so precious to him and she her eyes just totally. She just just totally popped out of her head and she. Said I've had that recurring dream for a very long time. And you've just confirmed again why I'm here. So that was pretty crazy. And again, it was confirmation I had like. Confirmation that one I maybe had. A ministry with Muslims and two, that healing and deliverance is obviously for today. So then then out of the blue, I got asked to teach English to Arab Orthodox coptics and apostates out of the blue, my friends asked me, she said, would you teach English to all these people? And I said yes, I would, and turns out. The location was the church that I had become born again in. Yeah, that was actually a real privilege. That was about a year and a half and I heard some amazing stories about when Jesus visits Muslims. He really visits them in a really powerful way. So, like, at the end of their beds, speaking to them on the motorway, in dreams, in visions, I I heard the most amazing things. And they really left everything. They left their families, their countries and. Thing. Now I'm gonna say something super controversial. Obviously I'm already heretic in the Trinitarian world, but I'm likely to be a heretic in every world now, but I don't actually like the word apostate and the only reason I'm using. It is because. In the Koran, Jesus is the Messiah. He is. Marcia he is Al Masir, which is the Messiah. He is Marcia. He said. Jesus Christ, the Messiah. He's the word, you know. He's the healer. He's the mender of bones. And so for me. Dems love Jesus Christ. They just don't understand him in his fullness, and obviously they've got the one God part right. I'm gonna get a lot of haters. What I'm saying here, but I've just gotta. Say it, but obviously. We think Trinitarianism is the stumbling block for Jews and Muslims. That's just a fact they can't understand that God. Die. And so for me, I was just talking to them about the Jesus I love and also teaching them. English, which was which was really. Then I did a term in in prison. Not because I was arrested and went to prison, but I did prison Alpha, which is the alpha course in prison. So it's introducing the prisoners to faith. And that was pretty amazing because obviously I broke all the rules. We weren't meant to hog the prisoners. I hug the prisoners. What was weird was I I ended up getting Facebook requests from them in prison I was like. Hang on, he's. That has he got a mobile phone, but that was really amazing and that definitely impacted me massively on my face journey. I was always naturally Unitarian, but I'd never really thought that clearly. Obviously, I never thought that Jesus and God were one person. I always saw them separately. Ironically, yeah, all the Catholic iconography does portray them as completely different anyway, so for me there was always a distinction between. God the father and Jesus. And so when Josh and I started dating, I just came out with it and just said you don't believe Jesus is God, do you? And and yeah, he paused. And I thought, ohh, that's the end of our relationship. Short lived relationship and and no. And then he confirmed that he never. Taught Jesus as. God, when he was running out. The courses at university. And then I was like and then and and then after that I was driving with Josh and we were off to see his atheist, Pagan druid friends who live with loads of lizards. It's, and that's another story. But anyway. And we were off to see them. And I feel the Holy Spirit prompted me. To speak to a friend of mine who is the most knowledgeable person with the biggest encyclopedic brain I know on the scriptures and everything else he was learning Latin and Greek from too. He speaks multiple multiple languages, and he's very, very. Right. And I met him doing some. I was hosting some politics events. I thought, OK, I'll text him to see what he thinks about the Trinity. So I I sent him a message and I said, hey, I know you're on the board of a very ancient Trinitarian society, but you don't really believe in the Trinity. He and he responded almost instantly and said thank you so much for contacting me, Daisy, he said. Actually, no, I don't. And my parents run a Unitarian Bible study group, so. We went to this Bible study group and we met loads of cool people which introduced us to the very exclusive Unitarian community. Then we got invited to David Seaborn Jones, who's lovely and absolutely lovely. And we got invited to his house. Umm. And for a fellowship with Santoni Bozard because he was in the. And when we prayed, I I confess that our dream is to maybe open a. Hmm. Yeah, well, no. Open the church here. And it was Anthony Buzzard who said I see you may be opening a church, a Unitarian church in Israel. Josh Jones: I'm sorry. That's that's the point in. Sean Finnegan: Israel. Yeah, yeah. Josh Jones: That's before we realize that we celebrate Sabbath and stuff like that. So. I'm often like. Arguing with little Carlos on the thing going. Carlos like... Josh Jones: Although I've a I love the respect. For a lot of the stuff that Carlos. So yeah, so Daisy introduced us. Sean Finnegan: So when when did? You meet Anthony. Josh Jones: Maybe 3-4 years ago. 4 favored and. Daisy Jones: Before it was 20, joy Joy was one, so it must. Sean Finnegan: Yeah, yeah. Four years ago, OK. Daisy Jones: Have been four years. Josh Jones: Ago, yeah. So from so I took up this really unique job here in Northwood bays and I, you know, we got married, we moved in together, we started to develop this kind of little community of Unitarian Christians. I started to understand more about the history and this type of thing. And my my vision still was to look. It was almost like to infiltrate. Into the Church of England, a bit like a Nicodemus type of character in a way to try and bring about positive change because you know, I'd been part of Trinitarian churches or no Unitarian churches at all. Wear off and so I kind of again still discretely I was because still developing my understanding and started going for the the Bishop's advisory process, whatever that, that that was it because our, our, our real aim actually my real aim in the first instance was trying to build unity through community and not doctrine and 1st instance. So it was trying to bring about the love and. Daisy Jones: Now versus. Josh Jones: What about working of our faith? To then demonstrate and bring influence in communities, really to show the love and and the positive effects that people who follow you sure can bring to a community. And because that's what I've always seen in my younger days and it's like my sister, you know, you can break into the hard landscape here in the UK if you go out and preach the. Word and spirit and faith. Because God will be there and people's hearts will be changed, people's lives will be moved. Well, we had this vision to try and unite churches, to get churches to look outside their purview. Of their four walls, to get people to pull resources. To pull ideas. You know, a church full of old people helping. Maybe the church with like the young kids, you know, get a few churches together so that young people can form a good youth group thing. But basically all my ideas and work were just poo pooed, you know, the passing it back to me and don't look, having grown up in churches, I've got thick skinned Germaine. I'm not. I'm not taking it super personally, but when the guy in charge of the bat, I transpired, was the guy who was promoting the transgender liturgy in the Church of England. I was just like. There is no way in our good Lord sweet Earth I'm letting latch app determine whether I suitable. So we withdrew ourselves from that one of the offshoots of the church we were attending was gonna be shut down. And The thing is, it was full of very beautiful old faithful Christians. A lot of them quite set in their ways, but. They did outreach in the school, so sharing the gospel, you know, they did work with old people and stuff. Like this so we. Just thought it's wrong just to shut this down so days and another couple stepped up to and we ended up Co leading this church about a year and. 1/2 and you know. I was able to do that. You know, we were preaching. Regularly so just preaching. Daisy Jones: You're preaching Unitarianism in a Trinitarian church. Josh Jones: Yeah, basically. Daisy Jones: Totally undetected because we were just preaching the word. Josh Jones: And most people don't. They're blinking bibles. Do you know what I mean? So. Daisy Jones: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it does help when you're preaching from the. Old Testament and the. Arms you you can go under the radar, but it wasn't in an underhand way or anything. It's just we we just preached what was spilled and. What was written? And and that was it. And it wasn't anything under housing. Josh Jones: Yeah, we, you. Know with the hope of changing hearts and minds and developing people and introducing people to God's name. You know what it meant to be the Messiah. You know what? Were the prophecies in the Hebrew Bible that were then actually fulfilled in Yeshua? Well, I didn't, you know, these are terms probably still using the word Christ and stuff like this. But then it just got to a point where you know every now and again there'll be a. Like a a focus on the. Trinity and it. Will just infuriate me massively and we just got the points like where we actually wanna step outside of this. Now we want to have the freedom to really share what's on our hearts. So in the early stages about community, it was about just showing the word the. Passport that we we used to do lots of stuff on the on the military base where we are here. So running kind of messy church for kids and this time. The thing but the the kind of division changed to like I really now want to counter the Trinitarian narrative and. Take that head on. Daisy Jones: And also our love for juice and Muslims. You know, when we were in Israel, we're gonna have to do another show on on the miracles that happen in Israel, not least an Orthodox rabbi running after me and grabbing my arm and asking me what my secret was because I had joy. So I got to tell him about Yeshua and say, you know, I love Yeshua and I love Israel and had a good joke with him because then he prophecy. Died and I said wait, you're not meant to do that. You just think that old prophets did that. Anyway, he has been wishing me a happy Shabbat every Friday for the last five years. And we had other amazing encounters where we just had Jews on their way to synagogue and just come up to us out of the blue. Stop us in. The street and say. And in Galilee and and the sky just stopped us. And he was all in black with his little briefcase on his way to synagogue. And he stopped, and he wouldn't stop staring. And he was about to walk into a lamp post. So I was like, hey. Josh Jones: In in. Daisy Jones: Hey, so anyway he he. Just can't he? He didn't even say hello. He said I want you to know, I believe that Jesus walked on water here. And and then he. Josh Jones: Asked us to share. Jesus with him. Tell him about Jesus. This is a random bloke. Who literally just walked up to us as. We were walking from our. Hotel down to this. To the wherever the town centre is in in the the base. Of Galilee. Literally. Daisy Jones: I would really say it was hotel. It was a. Shed, but anyway. Josh Jones: Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean. It was astonishing, I mean, absolutely astonishing. Daisy Jones: Yeah, it was amazing. Josh Jones: Yeah. So we, we we met this a Muslim kind of evangelist who'd met a a French guy, was it who was gonna basically convert to Islam. He was all happy. And he showed this little photo of him. Anyway, the next day we'd arranged to go and meet this guy, but we were running late. Not that this was the imam guy, just to again speak about. Stuff and we're in the proper. You know what The streets are like in Jerusalem, completely crowded and. And then David just says. Stop that, man. I look around and I and she's pointing towards like a backpack and. Like a bloke with. A massive brown. Hair like uh. And so I just went out. To this guy and I just. Stopped him and I said I do. Do you mind? Stopping my wife would just. Want to speak to you? I have no idea. Why? Anyway, Daisy comes up. Daisy says you're the guy who's gonna convert to us, aren't you? And he goes, yeah. Why? And it's like I'm like, oh, my goodness, this is like one random bloke in thousands. How did Daisy know? Anyway, I said, look, I think we can give him a word and we'd like to just share our faith with you and speak to you. Give your story this type of thing. And so we end up going to the where's the beautiful, the beautiful cafe at Christchurch in near Saint? There David's gate and. Daisy Jones: Yeah, the concern. They're the only Protestant church within the walls. Josh Jones: Yes, that's the one. Have you been there? Sean Finnegan: Are you talking about the old city? Yeah. Nails. Yeah. Which gate is it? Josh Jones: So David's gate it's. The oldest Methodist Church in. Sean Finnegan: Yes, I I had. Yes, I do remember. Seeing that, yeah. Josh Jones: Best place to stay, I'd say. And best food anyway. So it was getting late and we sat down. We got coffee. I remember going into the toilet and just praying that God would give me the words to say, you know, help me witness. But. But I just pray for God to. To help us. You know, witness to this guy. Here we go outside. There's no one. Around except this old woman kind of sitting maybe 10 meters away from us. You know when you know that, someone can hear what you're talking about and they're. But they're trying not to be too obvious that they know that they. Kind of almost want to get. Involved in the conversation. And so she's rattling a little chair. And so I just went over this and just kind of introduce. Myself, but I can't remember quite how it happened. Daisy Jones: I told you invite. Josh Jones: Her over? Yeah. And basically walks as kind of 80 year old Palestinian Catholic woman who takes over the conversation with this young French guy. And gives him the most amazing testimonies of God's healing of God's speaking to her. Of this vibrant. Faith of this. Old Palestinian Catholic woman and we were just blown away. It was just like, wow. Sean Finnegan: And she spoke English. Josh Jones: Yeah, yeah. She spoke English. Yeah, yeah. Daisy Jones: And the reason why she was there was. Because she was. Waiting for a friend. She never turned up. I saw her on her own. I felt. Sorry for her. I was like come. On come over and then she did. She did all the evangelizing for us. And then that was it that. With him back to being a Christian again. Sean Finnegan: Yeah, well, that's great. It's great to hear that God is at work today and that that's really the message that's shining through from the two of you. Your testimony, your, your experiences, that's so great. So tell us about this conference that's coming up. You guys have a a plan and you have Co conspirators. And your hope. Daisy Jones: We've hooked up with. The Christadelphians it's a miracle I'm checking. No, we love. Sean Finnegan: Charismatics and Christadelphians working. Together it is a miracle, absolutely. Josh Jones: The UCA. I think it's a wonderful resource. I I use a lot of it and I do hope to become a more active participant in. In videos and and debates as we go. Forward, but I. There is this real. Sense of, you know, opportunity to try and build a community of Unitarian believe it's here in the UK. And actually I think and aim for a conference is a fantastic idea. The vision very much aligns with what the UA wants to do. You know, Daisy and I represent a I think was our background. We we are quite comfortable speaking with Unitarians and Christians from all different flavours. And so therefore perhaps. On call us. Honest brokers in every respect because we do have our own particular kind of where we learn issues. But. The unifying call really was saying it's Romans 15 five to seven, you know. May the God of patient endurance and encouragement grant you all to be in agreement with one another. So that was one mouth and one mind. You might glorify the father of our Lord Jesus, the anointed one, therefore accept one another just as the anointed one has accepted you. Daisy Jones: Although that's not the official strap line of. Josh Jones: The IT is. Not but. That that's the vision, really, one mind, one mouth, you know, come together to and unify in, in to kind of learn about and share our faith in God. The father, the ones we. God and but also to reach out across Europe because you know Europe, there are a number of, you know, little strongholds of Unitarian Christians across Europe. And so it's an opportunity to, to pull people together. The great challenge, how we're is finding a location and the Trinitarian churches basically were turning around saying, no, no, no. So my plan was and hopefully no one from it was to find a a church that has perhaps become more liberal in their meanings. And there's a particular denomination where, sadly they've sold off more than 5060% of their churches in the last four or five years they've made amalgamate. They're very much fall under the liberal banner, but actually the nice thing is that presents a freedom and an opportunity. So we found a a wonderful location now where they've agreed that we can host it. I'm not gonna say where it is at the moment, so I need. To go down and. Do the the wrecking, but everything seems seems fine. Sean Finnegan: Is it near? Josh Jones: London. Yep. Yep, it's near London. OK. Yeah, it's. Yeah. Sean Finnegan: Well, that, that. Gives people a a rough idea of where, where. Josh Jones: Ohh yeah, and it's a beautiful. Daisy Jones: Historic location. Josh Jones: Sorry, historic location. So everyone would love. To go there. Daisy Jones: And I think that's the angle we want. We want to entice the Americans here with the historic. Your perspective, I know you know well we we want the whole board to come. I think that that I think the whole board have said they'd like to come, but no, we we want to focus it on the kind of restorative aspect, restoring the faith back to what we believe is the original 1st century Christianity. And this is our little. Sean Finnegan: You are Americans. Daisy Jones: Historical bit, but it you know, I mean it is pretty historical to have a UCA conference in Great Britain and the United Kingdom, you know, and and and that's why we want to incorporate. Great. The other activities like a day at Speakers Corner where we've met lots of Unitarians and you know and we we'd love to also organise a debate with Dell as we're discussing and planning. So it has been tricky, as Josh said, because we always get initial. Yes. Yes, of course. And then I'll and then I've always had. To ask them. Can you just check with your board that this is OK? They check with the board. It's like, sorry your theology. Sucks. You're not welcome. And and so this has happened like I don't know 20 plus Times Now we've just been asking, asking. Anyway I think we do have a location and to be disclosed soon, very picturesque, very beautiful and I think. Sean Finnegan: Do you? Have a time when it will happen. Josh Jones: Yes, Sir. Was it the last? Daisy Jones: We're thinking July next year, aren't we? Josh Jones: Weekend in July. Daisy Jones: It's July next year. Let's not pinpoint it. Josh Jones: What? Yeah, yeah, yeah, just so we would like to maximise it, cause July, August, September. Is holidays for Europe as well. Is if we can link it in also with maximize your opportunity for the. Americans to come and. Daisy Jones: And good weather because we've. Sean Finnegan: Well, yeah. I was gonna ask about that. Is it the case that in July there might be like a day or two without? Daisy Jones: Had three. Sean Finnegan: Without rain? Yeah. Daisy Jones: No, I I think. I think London gets a bad. I think in the 80s and 90s it rained more than it did now. But I mean we, we've had I say I'd say three weeks of of a. Josh Jones: Yeah, definitely. Daisy Jones: Summer of of. Great. And now it's back to like blankets. Sadly, but no, we would like we would like to do it. Josh Jones: In the summer and yeah, we've reached out to different, you know, through this process, you know, developing relationships with Unitarians in more European countries that I was unaware of. So, you know, one individual in Copenhagen knows some people in Norway, people in Norway. For people in Denmark so that that that is developing and and also here in the UK, we're really developing our our understanding of you know there are different large Unitarian communities. Daisy Jones: Big messianic one. Yeah. And we're kind of quasi messianic. Josh Jones: Aspiring messianic. Yeah. And so, you know, winning. It'll be an opportunity for for people to come and meet and also new, you know, those newly out of the Trinitarian. Faith because. And by next year, there's gonna be a lot more of them, you know? And so it's that chance, that sense of belonging and some. Some good teaching. Sean Finnegan: When you are persecuted or an isolated minority, you know you can put aside a lot of these other issues to to meet together and you know, I think if if the conference can be a place where people. Don't feel pressured to conform to 1 doctrinal package other than Unitarianism can really spur on a camaraderie rather than a competition between groups. Yeah, that's what it's done in the US, and so many of the groups in the US, especially people from my background. Daisy Jones: Yeah, definitely. Sean Finnegan: Not I was never really. In the way but my. Parents were but. They all built these kingdoms. And they built these. Walls as high as high as they. Could and they and it. Was all loyalty based on Ohh are you with this person or? Are you with that? Person and that was my parents generation in my generation. What I've seen overwhelmingly is the tearing down of these walls and overwhelmingly people saying well. Maybe we have some disagreements, but that's OK. I'm not intimidated by you. You're not. Intimidated by me so. Let's work together as much as we can. This is really a period of of building in the unitary movement because we're not persecuted, we're excluded. I can't attend certain conferences. I can't attend certain universities. I can't get published by certain publishers, right, so I'm excluded. But I'm not actively persecuted. OK. And so we have. An opportunity to build, to build coalitions and you know, the UCA is an alliance. Doesn't mean you're free. Churchill and Stalin were an alliance, right? They weren't friends. They didn't even like each other, but they they they were. They were allies in World War 2. So that's really a starting point. Hopefully it goes beyond just sort of like putting up with the other person. So I'd love to see that soft thing happen. Where there's banding together and pooling of resources and and and you know marketing and getting the. Message out because. I think there are, I think you're. Right. There are all these sleep. Others in the churches that are just like, yeah, that never really made sense to me. They just didn't have a word for it. And I think we can agitate for a truth revolution within Christianity. Josh Jones: That's it. Daisy Jones: Yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%. And I think another interesting thing is that the Christadelphian church here have incorporated 1000 Iranians. So not for this conference, because they're English. They've just come and their English isn't. Josh Jones: That you 100. Daisy Jones: Great. We we're not going to spend the whole conference, you know, finding translators, falsely translators. But maybe in the subsequent conferences, you know, we could have a whole bunch of Iranians and Iraqis and people who who found us. Josh Jones: It is wonderful that we have this opportunity to branch out and and and share ideas and stuff like this. Sean Finnegan: Well, let me come back on the the Iranian comment. It's interesting because I did an interview with Sam Tiedeman on africat the Persian. And Afriat is a little known Christian from the 4th century who was a Unitarian. Living in the land of Persia, which is the land of the Iranians who speak Farsi, sounds like the word Persia, right? So you can say to the Iranians when they're at this conference that they can have ethnic pride in Unitarian Christianity going all the way back to the three. Three 20s and three 30s and three 40s, right about the time that Constantine died and Athanasius was agitating in the West. In the East offer how? It was writing his demonstration, so you have to check out that interview there. But there there might be some coming full circle with these Iranians, you. Know they took. A little detour to Islam for, you know, 13 centuries, 15th century. But now they're back, you know. And so I'm so excited about this. Conference. How can people hear more about it? I suppose we'll post it on Unitarian Christian alliance.org. Or or do you have other ways people can find out? Daisy Jones: Yeah, we need to square away the venue officially. So we're in the final stages of that, and then we need a bit more back and forth with the board. Just confirming everything's cool and then we're going to push, push, push. Josh Jones: Yeah, as I. Said so, we're lining up some, some hopefully. Some really some high profile debate. Some practical activities and some activities left and right at the conference that people want to attend that are not bespoke as part of the conference. So you know visits to the British Museum where they've got. This great book Biblical history for. Sean Finnegan: Ohh yeah, I've always. Wanted to go to the British. Daisy Jones: Museum amazing. It's amazing. Josh Jones: Yeah, yeah, you know, and you need. Sean Finnegan: You need about a week, right is. Isn't it just so big? Josh Jones: So yeah, and then we'll do, we'll do you know, we'll get stuff out on Facebook on YouTube, we'll pass you around. All the Unitarian commentators so they can put it on their different podcasts and stuff like this. Sean Finnegan: Facebook groups and. Twitter or ex whatever we call this. Josh Jones: Yeah, yeah. Sean Finnegan: This social media now. That sounds really great and is it? Is it? Mainly targeted at. Academics. Or is it more practical or inspirational? Or how would you characterize? Josh Jones: It's gonna be all. Yeah. Yeah. So we would like it to. We're gonna, we're going to model it on the US model. So combination of academic, theological, practical, personal, the whole smorgasbord of of Unitarian. Daisy Jones: And we're and. We're trying to make it as affordable as possible. So initially I think we did want the big grand venue until we got the invoice. And then we were like, oh, actually you. Know what we do? Want students coming and also we want everyone to be able to afford to get both a plane ticket from Europe and to be able to afford to to come. So I think we're we're also looking at catering and house cater all that kind of stuff. So I think we're moving for the first conference, it won't be residential. Which is what we were hoping for at the beginning, but it will be more affordable overall. We hope. Yeah, exactly. Sean Finnegan: It is near London, so we can't. You can't think it's going. Oh yeah. To be too inexpensive, right? It's a big city. Josh Jones: Yeah. Well, you'll be surprised. I said I've I've hopefully applied a bit of my my military planning to this to this little conundrum and a bit of spiritual cunning and wisdom in terms of. And because, you know, we're not blessed with America, we're all your joint. Super churches everywhere. We just we just. Which is which is. Sean Finnegan: Well, anything else you guys wanna share real briefly or say before we close. Josh Jones: Now I just say thank you once again, Sean, you're an inspiration. You know you've made a real difference in people's lives, you know, fulfilling your mission in, in, in, you know, in love and kindness and and with a good dash of humour. So yeah. Which is brilliant. Daisy Jones: Yeah, nothing apart from gifts for today. And we love Christadelphians and we're really excited to be all working together. That's. Josh Jones: It, yeah. Sean Finnegan: Awesome. Awesome. Well, thanks so much.

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Saint of the Day
St Alban, First Martyr of Great Britain (early 3rd c.)

Saint of the Day

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2023


He was a soldier in the Roman army and, according to the venerable Bede, was brought to faith in Christ by a fugitive priest to whom he gave shelter. The saint exchanged clothes with the priest, allowing him to escape and ensuring his own martyrdom. Some writers, including St Bede, place his martyrdom during the reign of Diocletian (286-303).   Saint Alban's tomb was venerated as early as 429 by St Germanus of Auxerre. The town of Verulamium is either his home town or the place of his martyrdom; near it a monastery was founded, around which grew the English town of St Albans.

Saint of the Day
St Alban, First Martyr of Great Britain (early 3rd c.)

Saint of the Day

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2023 1:01


He was a soldier in the Roman army and, according to the venerable Bede, was brought to faith in Christ by a fugitive priest to whom he gave shelter. The saint exchanged clothes with the priest, allowing him to escape and ensuring his own martyrdom. Some writers, including St Bede, place his martyrdom during the reign of Diocletian (286-303).   Saint Alban's tomb was venerated as early as 429 by St Germanus of Auxerre. The town of Verulamium is either his home town or the place of his martyrdom; near it a monastery was founded, around which grew the English town of St Albans.

Dad Up
Ep. 185 - Inspiring Through Hope & Action | Tom Murphy and Bryan Ward

Dad Up

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2023 61:54


Tom Murphy is the proud husband and father of four living in the charming City of Saint Albans, VT. Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA where his parents ran a small shelter and recovery home for the hopeless in their own house, Tom has gone on to take this mantra of helping and caring for others in need his life's mission. Tom graduated from Cooperstown High School and then became an All-American at the University of Brockport, taking second place at the 1997 NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships. Tom spent the next 16 years advancing through the railroad industry, eventually becoming a Corporate Director for the world's largest shortline regional railroad company, RailAmerica. He ran their National Rail Traffic Control Center until stepping down and pursuing his full-time passion of being a Superhero. On top of his “mild-manner” role in the railroad, Tom has gone on to become the successful entrepreneur of multiple small-town businesses, namely one of Northern Vermont's premiere restaurants and bars – Twiggs: An American Gastropub and The Clothier. Tom is also a former professional mixed martial artist with a record of 8-0, competing in both amateur and professional fights, including on the popular UFC Ultimate Fighter Season 2. Tom now travels the nation with his good friend and wounded warrior Rick Yarosh. The two have spoken to over 2-million students on the power of HOPE and Action, focusing on empathy activation and student empowerment. Their unique message leaves students, educators and parents inspired and with tangible strategies that give students the courage to Jump into Action to change and save lives! Dad Up! Dad Up YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/DadUpPodcast Dad Up Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dad-up-podcast/id1486764562 Dad Up Website: https://www.daduptribe.com/ Dad Up Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daduppodcast/ Dad Up LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/Daduptribe Sweethearts & Heroes Website: https://www.sweetheartsandheroes.com/ Sweethearts & Heroes Instagram: https://instagram.com/sweetheartsandheroes Sweethearts & Heroes LinkTree: @sweetheartsandheroes | Linktree Sweethearts & Heroes YouTube: https://youtube.com/@SweetheartsandHeroes Sweethearts & Heroes Book: https://www.amazon.com/Pillows-Affective-Teachers-Custodian-Chronicles/dp/B09GTS96BW --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daduppodcast/support

Dan Snow's History Hit
The Psychiatric Hospital that Fought Fascism

Dan Snow's History Hit

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2023 25:12


There are descriptions of suffering early in this episode that some listeners may find distressing. As hospitals and institutions across the European frontline were taken over to serve the war effort in the 1940s, what happened to psychiatric hospitals, housing some of the continent's most vulnerable in often prison-like conditions? Well, approximately 45,000 psychiatric patients died of starvation and disease in France alone. One psychiatrist described the scenes he witnessed during that time as being as bad as the concentration camps. But there was one hospital that, not only defied this fate but thrived during the war. Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, in Southern France, had a death rate of less than 10 per cent – and no deaths from malnutrition. Not only did staff and patients stay alive through pooling skills to create food, foraging in the local area and keeping livestock, it actually became a hub of the French Resistance - storing ammunition, and acting as a safe house for Jewish refugees and freedom fighters. The hospital not only fought fascism but also provided a more community-focused treatment that proved to have a revolutionary effect on patients.Joining Dan on the podcast to tell this extraordinary story is Ben Platts-Mills, a writer who has worked in the mental health sector for 16 years. He came across it when he was looking into the work of French painter Jean Debuffet and saw that much of the artwork he'd collected was done by inpatients at Saint Alban during the war.You can read more about Saint Alban-sur-Limagnole and Ben's other work here: https://www.benplatts-mills.com/Produced by Mariana Des Forges and edited by Dougal Patmore.If you'd like to learn more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad-free podcasts and audiobooks at History Hit - subscribe to History Hit today!Download the History Hit app from the Google Play store.Download the History Hit app from the Apple Store. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.