Podcast appearances and mentions of Sam Shepherd

Fr. Pat Driscoll discusses why miracles seemed much more common in biblical times, Dr. Sam Shepherd on Pope Francis' prioritization of environmental issues, and Joseph Pronechen on Divine Mercy and the Sacred Heart.

We discuss the tri news and review all the racing from the weekend including IRONMAN Texas, Challenge Taiwan and Challenge Gran Canaria. New Zealand blackcurrants have been show to have an impact on endurance performance. We chat to Dr Sam Shepherd to find out more. (0:02:11) – This week IRONMAN Australia Port Macquarie (0:02:50) – Hayden Wilde on a WTCS start list (0:09:41) – Ultro Audio earbuds competition  (0:10:27) – Challenge races from the weekend (0:16:23) – IRONMAN Texas race review (0:39:13) – Intro to supplements for performance (0:45:48) – Dr Sam Shepherd LINKS: More about CurraNZ at https://curranz.com/ IRONMAN Texas at https://www.ironman.com/races/im-texas Ultro Audio Earbuds at  https://www.ultroaudio.com

The Chelsea Hotel sits at 222 West 23rd Street in Manhattan…since it was completed in 1884, the place has been a hangout for some very colourful characters…most were New York eccentrics and bohemians who needed a place to live…but it also attracted some famous people. At one point or another, it was home to sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke who wrote a big chunk of “2001: A Space Odyssey” in his room…later, Stanley Kubrick, the producer of the movie version of the book would stay there… Other long-term guests included photographer Robert Mapplethorpe stayed there…so did included beat writer Jack Kerouac, playwrights Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Sam Shepherd, actors Dennis Hopper, Uma Thurman, Elliott Gould, and Jane Fonda…plus, for extra colour, poets William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg—not to mention Andy Warhol and some of his crew. The Chelsea was also a favourite haunt of musicians…Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Waits, Jim Morrison, Jeff Beck, Joni Mitchell, Alice Cooper, the guys in Pink Floyd, and many, many others. But the most notorious floor was floor 1…it was designated the “junkie floor,” the place where guests with drug problems were placed so that staff could keep an eye on things… This was where ex-Sex Pistol Sid Vicious and his American girlfriend, Nancy Spungen checked in…they were given room 100. It was in that room Nancy died…it looks like she was murdered...but by whom? ...Sid was charged with killing her, but did he?. This is “Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry”…and this time, it's the wild story of the death of Nancy Spungen and the questions that still remain decades later…around whether Sid Vicious actually did it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode I'm joined by Dr. Sam Shepherd, Head of Sports Science at Precision Fuel and Hydration, and a leading expert on lactate. Together, we dive into the fascinating world of lactate, training zones, and the cutting-edge Norwegian Method often associated with elite triathletes like Gustav Iden and Kristian Blummenfelt. We wrap up by exploring the Norwegian Method - a high-volume, high-intensity training approach that emphasizes frequent threshold training and precise lactate testing to fine-tune performance. While it may seem like a modern innovation, the principles behind it have been around for decades. In fact, my own journey with lactate began in 1987, and it's amazing to see how today's tools bring more precision to what was practiced back then. Topics we discuss on today's show are: What is lactate? Is it the villain in training or a misunderstood ally? Lactate thresholds: Understanding the key markers and why they matter. Measuring lactate: How it's done in the lab or the field. The Norwegian Method: Is it revolutionary or simply refined? Practical insights: How athletes can use lactate data to enhance training. The future of lactate testing: Real-time monitoring and its potential to transform training. Whether you're an athlete, coach, or sports science enthusiast, this conversation offers valuable insights into how understanding lactate can elevate performance.   Listen now and unlock the secrets of lactate and cutting-edge training methodologies. Be sure to subscribe and leave a review if you enjoy the show!   To follow Precision Fuel & Hydration please use these social media links: Instagram: @precisionhydration Facebook: @precisionhydration Twitter: @thesweatexperts YouTube:  www.youtube.com/c/precisionhydration LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/precisionhydration Here is some other cool stuff you might be interested in:   Free online sweat test: https://sweattest.precisionhydration.com/pages/why-personalise-your-hydration-strategy Quick carb calculator: https://www.precisionhydration.com/products/precision-fuel-sample-pack/#thecarbcalculator Athlete Case Studies: https://www.precisionhydration.com/athletes/case-studies/triathlon/ Sign up for Simon's weekly newsletter Sign up for Beth's weekly newsletter Follow Simon on: Instagram @thetriathloncoach Facebook simonward1 YouTube TheTriathlonCoach **To get a free copy of my personal daily mobility routine, please click HERE** To contact Beth regarding Life Coaching, please visit her website at BethanyWardLifeCoaching.uk. Sports Nutrition questions - if you have a sports nutrition question that you would like answered on the podcast, please email it to me via Beth@TheTriathlonCoach.com. Join our SWAT/High Performance Human tribe using this link, with a happiness guarantee! You can watch a brief video about the group by going to our website here, and join our SWAT High Performance Human tribe here. If you would like to help offset the cost of our podcast production, we would be so grateful. Please click here to support the HPH podcast. Thank you! Visit Simon's website for more information about his coaching programmes. Links to all of Simon's social media channels can be found here.  For any questions please email Beth@TheTriathlonCoach.com.

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Carbohydrates and Fats are the body's main source of energy in endurance sports and getting them right can make or break your race day.  That's why I invited Sam Shepherd, a researcher and fellow nutrition enthusiast, onto the TNA podcast to discuss the science of energy production and how you can use it to perform at your best.  There's a lot to talk about here so we're breaking the conversation into two episodes. This week we're focusing on carbohydrates, and next week we'll dive into fats.  Sam begins by sharing studies on the oxidation of carbohydrate and fat during endurance events. They've show that carbohydrates are the body's main source of fuel early on but, after about two hours, fats take the lead. Knowing this can help us make better fuelling choices, but like all things sport nutrition there are a lot more factors to consider. Your fitness level, training status, and environmental conditions (like altitude or temperature), all affect your body's use of carbs and fats during exercise.  The intensity of your exercise can also make a big difference, with higher intensities require more carbohydrates and prolonged moderate intensities relying on fats.  You also need to consider your typical diet. People who eat more fats, will burn more fats and people who have a carbohydrate rich diet, will favour carbohydrates during exercise.  Even your sex can influence these dynamics, with women generally utilising more fat as a fuel compared to men at similar intensities. So how do you find out your fuel oxidation rates? The most precise method is physiological profiling through lab tests. However, these tests are costly and complex, so they're not accessible for most people. Thankfully, using these general principles to guide your nutrition strategies can still make a huge difference.  We then discussed the ever popular low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diet. While this diet can enhance your fat burning ability, it often compromises your capacity for high-intensity workouts. Whether or not to adopt such a dietary approach largely depends on your lifestyle, support system, and training goals. Personally, I've found few athletes who can maintain and benefit from an LCHF lifestyle long-term. It often disrupts life's social and practical aspects, becoming unsustainable despite its potential performance merits. Think you're ready to optimise your energy strategy and leave your competition in the dust? Hold on, there's more to uncover! Sam will be back for part two, where we'll dive into fat oxidation and give you practical strategies to fuel for victory. Until then, keep fuelling right, training hard, and racing your best! LINKS: Support the TNA Podcast: https://www.dietitianapproved.com/legend Check how well you're doing when it comes to your nutrition with our 50 step checklist to Triathlon Nutrition Mastery: dietitianapproved.com/checklist   Start working on your nutrition now with my Triathlon Nutrition Kickstart course: dietitianapproved.com/kickstart It's for you if you're a triathlete and you feel like you've got your training under control and you're ready to layer in your nutrition. It's your warmup on the path to becoming a SUPERCHARGED triathlete – woohoo!   Join the waitlist for our next opening of the Triathlon Nutrition Academy www.dietitianapproved.com/academy   Website: www.dietitianapproved.com Instagram: @Dietitian.Approved  @triathlonnutritionacademy Facebook: www.facebook.com/DietitianApproved   The Triathlon Nutrition Academy is a podcast by Dietitian Approved. All rights reserved. www.dietitianapproved.com/academySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hiatus Open Admission!Women & Their Tattoos"Creating Our Own Clouds" Guest Samantha ShepardOriginal air date:  02/22/2024It was such a pleasure to host Sam Shepherd in discussing her tattoos and journey on the way to get them!PLEASE NOTE: We discuss multiple topics and some may be distressing to listeners: discussion of  depression, trauma.More info on Sam:Samantha Shepherd is a LMFT who lives in San Diego, CA. She is multiracial, a member of the latinx community, and bilingual in Spanish. "I show up as my authentic self to therapy so my clients can. I love working with individuals who are ready to make some changes in their life. I am not a "one-size-fits-all" type of therapist and that's what I fucking love about my work. I work with different issues such as trauma, attachment styles, cultural identity, first generation college students, etc. I'm just getting started opening my private practice and I'm looking forward to serving more of my community."If The Couch Could Speak Podcasthttps://open.spotify.com/show/4VlB5Bfzj8n0GSeGNYPGA7Charles Bukowskihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_BukowskiHenry Rollinshttps://www.henryrollins.com/Rene Magrittehttps://www.moma.org/artists/3692Banksyhttps://www.banksy.co.uk/Grave of the Fireflies (spoilers)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies* * *  Support the showWant more sweary goodness? There's now the availability of Premium Subscription for $3 a month! Click the "Support The Show" link and find out more info.* * *F*ck The Rules Podcast is produced by Evil Bambina Productions, LLC. You can find our podcast on Amazon Music/Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and many more!***Social media/podcast episodes are not intended to replace therapy with a qualified mental health professional. All posts/episodes are for educational purposes only. If you are in need of assistance for mental health services, please check with your PCP, your insurance provider or an online therapist directory for the nearest mental health professional.*****Susan Roggendorf is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Iowa. In addition to hosting and producing her podcast, she's running a private practice as an independent provider full-time. Susan is a National Certified Counselor through the NBCC as well as an Emergency Responder & Public Safety Certified Clinician through NERPSC. When she's not busy with all those things, Susan is usually busy annoying her adult children or gardening.

Welcome to episode 254 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!The off-season is upon us but that doesn't mean that we will stop dropping fire episodes replete with knowledge bombs. Case in point…joining us this week to chat about the latest and greatest fueling and hydration sport science is the new Head of Sport Science at Precision Fuel and Hydration, Dr. Sam Shepherd. No time like the present/off-season to level up your fueling game and this conversation is worth its weight in carbs.Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

The honorable Sam Shepherd returns with his raviest Floating Points album yet, and probably the years best electronic release.

On January 26 of 2024, San Francisco Ballet premiered a commissioned work by Canadian American choreographer Aszure Barton. It was titled “Mere Mortals” and explored the science and ramifications of AI through the ancient myth of Pandora. With a brand-new score by world-renowned British electronica composer Sam Shepherd, aka Floating Points, and video and sound design by Barcelona-based Hamill Industries, “Mere Mortals” was a big gamble for new artistic director Tamara Rojo as she closed out her first season with the Ballet. It paid off. Not only was “Mere Mortals” a hit with critics, with the San Francisco Chronicle calling it “a passionate success,” but it also proved to be a box-office bonanza, so much so that San Francisco Ballet brought the production back to the stage just three months later for several encore performances. Perhaps more importantly, many in the audience were first-time ballet-goers, many of whom saw the piece more than once.In this arts climate when so many dance companies are struggling to get even their regular audiences back in the door, what was it about “Mere Mortals” that made it such a hit? In this interview, Aszure opens a window into her choreographic practice and how it may have contributed to an event equally invigorating to her dancers and her audience.Aszure is the artistic director of Aszure Barton & Artists, which she founded very early in her career as a creative outlet for the collaborative and anti-hierarchical instincts she'd had to repress in her dance education. Two decades later, Aszure Barton & Artists, which includes a core staff of creative collaborators, has created work all over the world with a wide array of artists and institutions, including Mikhai Baryshnikov, Nederlans Dans Theater and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Aszure is currently the choreographer in residence at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and is also developing a new piece in partnership with trumpeter and composer Ambrose Akinmusire. 

In the 1970s, serial killer Rodney Alcala killed at least 7 people in California, New York, and likely many other states. When he was arrested, hundreds of photographs of men, women, and children were found that he had taken as a “professional photographer”, and many were extremely explicit. While he was eventually convicted of 7 murders and other crimes, it is believed the hundreds of unidentified subjects of his photographs could be victims of Alcala's that are currently cold cases. Here are the photos that have been shared with the police asking for the public's help in identifying the people in them. If you have information about the identities of the people in the photographs, you can contact Sgt. Sam Shepherd with the Huntington Beach Police Department at (714) 536-5947. Click here to join our Patreon.  Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group.  To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've been having a look back through the Tape Notes archive to bring back some of our favourite early episodes that you may have missed. This selection is our conversation from November 2019, with Sam Shepard, Floating Points. EPISODE NOTES In this episode John heads to EMS4 studios in Shoreditch to chat with Floating Points a.k.a Sam Shepherd, about how he recorded and produced his latest release, Crush.  Talking from deep within Sam's musical laboratory, we peer behind the curtain and find out how Floating Points music is created and crafted, pulling apart some of the tracks from his second album along the way. We get to hear how live performance and classical music are a serious influence in his writing process in addition to experimenting with the impressive number of synths he's collected over the years. Geekery is in abundance in this episode.  Listen to find out why space was scant in Sam's student bedroom, who sick Anna actually is and why sometimes all you need is a Yamaha Reface CS in your backpack.  Tracks discussed: Last Bloom, Annasickmodualr, Bias. TAPE IT Thanks to our friends at Tape It for supporting the podcast. Visit tape.it/tapenotes or use the promo code TAPENOTES in the app to get 50% off. MUSIVERSAL Skip the waitlist and get your 25% discount HERE   LINKS TO EVERYTHING TAPE NOTES  https://linktr.ee/tapenotes    Listen to 'Crush' here. 'Crush' - Pluto Records, Ninja Tune. Intro Music - Sunshine Buddy, Laurel Collective    GEAR MENTIONS Logic Pro Ableton Sibelius Akai S950 Sampler API Desk  ARP 2600 ARP Rhodes Chroma Buchla Synth Korg Volca Beats Marshall Time Modulator MAM ADX1 Dunlop MXR Flanger Neve Preamps Publison Infernal Machine Multi-Effects Processor Roland EV-5 Expression Pedal Yamaha CS-70 Yamaha Reface CS   OUR GEAR https://linktr.ee/tapenotes_ourgear HELP SUPPORT THE SHOW If you'd like to help support the show you can join us on Patreon, where among many things you can access full length videos of most new episodes, ad-free episodes and detailed gear list breakdowns. KEEP UP TO DATE For behind the scenes photos and the latest updates, make sure to follow us on:  Instagram: @tapenotes  Twitter: @tapenotes  Facebook: @tapenotespodcast   YouTube: Tape Notes Podcast Discord: Tape Notes Patreon: Tape Notes To let us know the artists you'd like to hear, Tweet us, slide into our DMs, send us an email or even a letter. We'd love to hear!  Visit our website to join our mailing list: www.tapenotes.co.uk TAPE NOTES TEAM Will Brown  Tim Adam-Smith  Will Lyons  Nico Varanese  Guy Nicholls  Jessica Clucas Katie-Louise Buxton  Seb Brunner-Stolovitzky  Jonathon Coughlin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's podcast episode, Chief Victory Officer Eric Guy is joined by physicist, inventor, engineer, and cancer survivor Sam Shepherd. They explore how technology is transforming health and wellness, bringing groundbreaking advancements that can directly improve your life.Takeaways:Instead of giving up when you face challenges, seek out-of-the-box solutions.Diet plays a significant role in maintaining your health and preventing inflammatory diseases.Making decisions out of fear will always lead to poor outcomes.Many factors must align for cancer to develop, so your efforts should be on interrupting this biological pathway.New technology has the potential to disrupt the trillion-dollar/year medical industry.Quotes:“There's no reason for people to get sick anymore.”“Fear is what gets people killed.”“I went from a 97% chance of being dead in 10 years, to alive, well and cancer-free.” MAKE THIS YOUR BEST DAY YET!

If Philip Glass or Steve Reich experimented with EDM, we would arguably find their Venn diagram convergence in Floating Points. In fact, Sam Shepherd (aka Floating Points) recently composed his first ballet for symphony orchestra and electronics, Mere Mortals, for the San Francisco Ballet. We’ll get you dancing to your own beat with the twinkly, vibrant track “Del Oro.”  

From Beneath The Hollywood Sign is thrilled to welcome our newest sponsor, www.HappyMammoth.com. Use code BENEATH at checkout for 15% off of your entire first order! EPISODE 42 - “Eva Marie Saint: Star of the Month (July)” - 07/01/2024 Blonde, beautiful, sophisticated, and chic, there was no one in Hollywood quite like EVA MARIE SAINT. This versatile, elegant actress had an incredible emotional range and left an indelible mark on the landscape of film. July 4th marks her 100th birthday of this national treasure and in this episode we take a look at her extraordinary career. Come hear about her incredible life and a career that spanned from live TV to Broadway to film and television where she was directed by all the greats — Hitchcock, Kazan, Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, John Frankenheimer, Paul Bogart — and held her own opposite Hollywood's greatest leading men — Cary Grant, Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck, Paul Newman, Montgomery Clift, James Garner, Bob Hope, and Warren Beatty.  SHOW NOTES:  Sources: Eva Marie Saint: A Journey From Newark to Hollywood's Iconic Heights (2024), by Alexander Harmony; Hitchcock's Heroines (2018), by Caroline Young; Kazan: The Master Director Discusses His Films (1999), by Jeff Young; Hitch (1978), by John Russell Taylor; Destination Hitchcock: The Making of North by Northwest (2000), by Peter Fitzgerald; “As Eva Marie Saint Turns 97, Celebrating Her Seductive Turn in ‘North by Northwest',” July 4, 2021, by Brent Lang, Variety; Robert Osborne interview(s) with Eva Marie Saint, www.TCM.com; “In Search of a Classic Saint Revisits Hitchcock Role,” September 10, 2000, by Gene Triplett, The Oklahoman; “Saint in Hollywood; Forthright Star Actress Illustrates Devotion to Work and Family,” May 10, 1964, New York Times; “All About Eva Marie,” February 22, 2011, Vanity Fair; IMDBPro.com; Wikipedia.com; Movies Mentioned:  On The Waterfront (1954), starring Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, and Karl Malden; That Certain Feeling (1956), starring Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, and George Sanders; A Hatful of Rain (1957), starring Anthony Franciosa, Don Murray, and Eva Marie Saint; Raintree County (1957), starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Maire Saint, and Rod Taylor; North By Northwest (1959), starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint; Exodus (1960), starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, and Sal Mineo; All Fall Down (1962), Warren Beatty, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Angela Lansbury, and Brandon deWilde;  The Sandpiper (1965), staring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Eva Marie Saint; The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966), starring Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, and Eva Marie Saint; Grand Prix (1966), starring James Garner, Yves Montand, and Eva Marie Saint;  The Stalking Moon (1968), starring Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, and Robert Forster; Cancel My Reservations (1972), starring Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, Forest Tucker, Ralph Bellamy, and Anne Archer; Splendor In the Grass (1981) (TV-movie), starring Melissa Gilbert, Cyril O'Reilly, Ned Beatty, Eva Marie Saint, and Michelle Pfeiffer; Nothing In Common (1986), starring Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint, Bess Armstrong, and Sela Ward; I Dreamed Of Africa (2000), starring Kim Basinger, Daniel Craig, and Eva Marie Saint; Because of Winn Dixie (2005), starring Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson, and Eva Marie Saint; Don't Come Knocking (2005), starring Sam Shepherd, Jessica Lange, and Eva Marie Saint; Superman Returns (2002), starring Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, and Eva Marie Saint; Mariette in Ecstasy (2019), starring Geraldine O'Rawe, Eva Marie Saint, Mary McDonnell, and Rutger Hauser; --------------------------------- http://www.airwavemedia.com Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The second decisode is here, and who better to bring for the occasion than our first CU returner Sam Shepherd? Tune in for an interesting discussion on polylogarithms, category theory, and literally everything in between!

Summary In this episode of the Tip of the Spear Leadership Podcast, Mike Nasti interviews Ben McKinnon and Sam Shepherd, both lieutenants in the fire service. They discuss the importance of being the firefighter your kids think you are and the need for a strong foundation in your career. They emphasize the role of officers in setting a good example and being a leader both at work and at home. The conversation also touches on the challenges of transitioning from firefighter to officer and the importance of allowing firefighters to make their own decisions and learn from their mistakes. In this conversation, Mike Nasti interviews Ben and Sam from the Back of the Bay podcast. They discuss the role of a fire department officer and the importance of being versatile and adaptable. They emphasize the need for officers to be both doers and finessers, taking on different roles as needed. They also discuss the importance of creating a positive culture within the fire department and the impact of their podcast in promoting growth and improvement within the fire service. The conversation concludes with reflections on memorable firefighting experiences and advice for new officers. Takeaways Be the firefighter your kids think you are and set a good example for them and the community. A strong foundation is crucial for a successful career in the fire service. The transition from firefighter to officer can be challenging, but it's important to find a balance between being a boss and being one of the guys. Allow firefighters to make their own decisions and learn from their mistakes. Communication and repetition are key to effective leadership in the fire service. Fire department officers need to be versatile and adaptable, taking on different roles as needed. Creating a positive culture within the fire department is crucial for growth and improvement. The Back of the Bay podcast has been successful in promoting growth and motivating firefighters to be their best. Memorable firefighting experiences can teach valuable lessons and help officers become better leaders. New officers should focus on personal growth and invest time in making themselves and their crew better. The Importance of a Strong Foundation Finding the Balance Between Boss and Buddy Advice for New Fire Department Officers The Impact of the Back of the Bay Podcast "Be the firefighter your kids think you are." "Set a good example for your crew and the community." "The challenges of transitioning from firefighter to officer." "You have to figure out where you fall into place in the scenario and the situation or the scenario and the job can be different." "You know, it just, it just changes and it makes things so different." "If you think that bugles equivalates to being able to just watch your crew work basically, then you're wrong." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-nasti/support

Subscriber-only episodeExtra Fucking Special SeriesWomen & Their TattoosEpisode 11It was such a pleasure to host Sam Shepherd in discussing her tattoos and journey on the way to get them!PLEASE NOTE: We discuss multiple topics and some may be distressing to listeners: discussion of  depression, trauma.More info on Sam:Samantha Shepherd is a LMFT who lives in San Diego, CA. She is multiracial, a member of the latinx community, and bilingual in Spanish. "I show up as my authentic self to therapy so my clients can. I love working with individuals who are ready to make some changes in their life. I am not a "one-size-fits-all" type of therapist and that's what I fucking love about my work. I work with different issues such as trauma, attachment styles, cultural identity, first generation college students, etc. I'm just getting started opening my private practice and I'm looking forward to serving more of my community."If The Couch Could Speak Podcasthttps://open.spotify.com/show/4VlB5Bfzj8n0GSeGNYPGA7Charles Bukowskihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_BukowskiHenry Rollinshttps://www.henryrollins.com/Rene Magrittehttps://www.moma.org/artists/3692Banksyhttps://www.banksy.co.uk/Grave of the Fireflies (spoilers)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies* * * Want more sweary goodness? There's now the availability of Premium Subscription for $3 a month! Click the "Support The Show" link and find out more info.* * *F*ck The Rules Podcast is produced by Evil Bambina Productions, LLC. You can find our podcast on Amazon Music/Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and many more!***Social media/podcast episodes are not intended to replace therapy with a qualified mental health professional. All posts/episodes are for educational purposes only. If you are in need of assistance for mental health services, please check with your PCP, your insurance provider or an online therapist directory for the nearest mental health professional.*****Susan Roggendorf is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Iowa. In addition to hosting and producing her podcast, she's running a private practice as an independent provider full-time. Susan is a National Certified Counselor through the NBCC as well as an Emergency Responder & Public Safety Certified Clinician through NERPSC. When she's not busy with all those things, Susan is usually busy annoying her adult children or gardening.

Merry Quizmas Everybody! The Brothers are once again joined by Aidan Hampson, A-Mase and The Quiz Master General, Sam Shepherd, for a quiz on all things Chili Peppers. It's the Tangled Tigers vs The Lady Cops, let the madness begin!We are part of the Deep Dive Podcast Network: https://twitter.com/DeepDivePodNetFollow us on the good old socials:Twitter:Ben: https://twitter.com/universallyrhcpSam: https://twitter.com/stacktownsendInstagram:Ben: https://www.instagram.com/universallyspeakingrhcp_pod/Read ‘Me and My Friends' - The World's #1 RHCP Newsletter - Subscribe here: https://buttondown.email/rhcpsessions.Check out Red Hot Chili Riffs here: https://www.youtube.com/@RedHotChiliRiffsCheck out our Drum Ambassadors (Jack Johnson) projects here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdy0pbWSOg6f8vcYnngIQ0ACheck out our Bass Ambassadors (Aidan Hampson) projects here: http://aidanhampson.co.uk/Check out friend of the pod, Dan Boyd's Pop Shock Podcast - for all your pop culture needs! Audio: https://anchor.fm/popshockpod / Video: https://youtube.com/channel/UCHY5pXX_x7Kv4e8wJmHoK5AFor your vinyl needs please shop at Black Star Records: https://www.blackstarrecords.co.uk and Black Wax Coffee and Records: https://blackwaxcoffee.co.uk/

This week on the show, we're joined by Sam Shepherd, AKA Floating Points. His discography is full of beautiful and strange electronic music—bubbling Buchalas, skittering beats, washes of synthesized sound, and even moody, spacious post-rock. But underneath it all, his love of jazz is clear. In 2021, he teamed with an actual jazz legend: the late Pharoah Sanders, as well as the London Symphony Orchestra for Promises, a single 46-minute composition broken into nine movements.  Though the artists were separated by decades in age, their approach is simpatico. Just as Shepherd has moved between genres and styles, so did Pharoah. His early work with John and Alice Coltrane established him as a dynamic, sometimes frighteningly intense sideman, and his first run of records, including 1969's Karma, featuring “The Creator Has a Master Plan,” helped set the stage for what we now call “spiritual jazz.”  But Sanders, who passed away in 2022 at the age of 81, cared very little about what genre you filed his records under. “I just play whatever I feel like playing,” he told The New Yorker. Sanders stayed restless and creative—listen to his playing on Sonny Sharrock's masterful Ask the Ages or his works with Bill Laswell, and you'll hear what we mean. In 1977, he waded into deeply personal waters with the self-titled Pharoah, which will be reissued by Luaka Bop on September 15th. Exploring new age adjacent sounds, funk, and passionate ballads, it's a radical departure from his early work, but perfectly in keeping with Sanders' unpredictable ethos.  Likewise, Promises is hardly the “back to basics” late career album you might expect an 80-year-old artist to make. It's its own thing, a meditative sojourn that relies on silence as much as sound. And next week, on September 20th, Floating Points will be joined by past Transmissions guest Shabaka Hutchings, as well as Caribou, Four Tet, the Sun Ra Arkestra, and others for the first-ever staging of Promises live at the Hollywood Bowl. Ahead of that show, Shepherd joined us from his studio to discuss his his years collecting records, making Promises—and we even got him to reveal Pharoah's favorite place to eat in LA.  Transmissions is a part of the Talkhouse Podcast Network. Visit the Talkhouse for more interviews, fascinating reads, and podcasts, like Drifter's Sympathy, with Emil Amos of Grails, Om, Holy Sons, who will be our guest next week on Transmissions. And of course No Way Out: An Oral History of Sunburned Hand of the Man, curated and produced by J Kelly Davis and presented by Aquarium Drunkard and Talkhouse. Back soon. Next week on the show, Jarvis Taveniere of Woods.

Dr. Sam Shepherd is a Senior Lecturer in Exercise and Sports Nutrition at Liverpool John Moores University. Mikki and Bev discuss his work on the effects of the blackcurrant supplement CurraNZ on athletic performance. We share excerpts from Mikki's interview with Dr Shepherd where he talks about the benefits of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and how it helps to improve both fat oxidation and adaptations in muscle-related substrate metabolism. Lastly in our Coaches Catch-Up Bev and Tim review the weeks racing and share some VO2 workout ideas. (0:07:37) – Competition for a pair of ULTRO Earbuds (0:08:00) - INFINIT Nutrition 10% discount using the code FITTER10 at https://www.infinitnutrition.com.au/ (0:08.15) – CurraNZ – The benefits of this blackcurrant supplement and its role in improving athletic performance. Plus use the code MIKKI for a 25% discount off your first order. (0:10:52) – Dr Sam Shepherd on HIIT and the benefits of CurraNZ on performance and recovery (0:28:17) – Simon Cochrane takes the win at Ultraman Canada in a record-breaking time (0:31:50) – Coaches Catch-up with Bev and Tim. LINKS: ULTRO Earbuds at https://www.ultroaudio.com/ Infinit Nutrition 10% discount using the code FITTER10 at  https://www.infinitnutrition.com.au/ Note: For the code to work you need to have created an account and be logged in. CurraNZ at https://curranz.com/ Follow Dr Sam Shepherd on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SamShep_ExSci Mikkipedia Episode ‘Exploring the Mechanisms and Effects of CurraNZ - Dr Sam Shepherd' at https://podcast.mikkiwilliden.com/168/transcript More about Hexis at https://www.hexis.live/ Follow Simon Cochrane on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/cochranesimon/ PTO US Open at https://protriathletes.org/events/pto-tour/us-open/pro/ WTCS Sunderland at https://sunderland.triathlon.org/ Superior performance improvements in elite cyclists following short-interval vs effort-matched long-interval training at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31977120/ Optimizing Interval Training Through Power-Output Variation Within the Work Intervals at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336641479_Optimizing_Interval_Training_Through_Power-Output_Variation_Within_the_Work_Intervals High-intensity decreasing interval training (HIDIT) increases time above 90% VO2peak at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00421-020-04463-w

This week on the podcast Mikki speaks to Dr Sam Shepherd, Senior Lecturer in exercise and sports nutrition at Liverpool John Moores University, all about uncovering the mechanisms behind the Curranz supplement. Sam is a lead researcher in that field and, while Mikki has spoken a couple of times to Fleur Cushman, who is director of Health Currency, the company behind the Curranz supplement, Mikki wanted to talk to those who are in the lab and analysing the data. Sam and Mikki speak about both the performance and the health applications of the supplement, and how Sam sees its potential for athletes and the general population alike. Importantly, Sam talks about his skeptical science mind when hearing about the supplement, and how he is excited now for the future work to be conducted to understand further how the supplement can help. They kick off the episode though by talking about the wider team that Sam works with investigating the concept of ‘fuel for the work required' and how our understanding of fuelling the athlete has changed over time. It's a wide reaching conversation that you are going to enjoy, athlete and health enthusiast alike.Dr Sam Shepherd (Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Nutrition) is an academic staff member with teaching duties. Sam's research aims to develop exercise and/or nutritional strategies to 1) improve cardio-metabolic health and insulin sensitivity in at-risk populations (metabolic syndrome, type I and type II diabetes, aging), and 2) maximise the metabolic adaptations to acute and chronic exercise training. Contributing to achieving these aims is a large body of work that focuses on understanding the molecular regulation of skeletal muscle lipid metabolism. Sam is also an expert in the use of immunofluorescence microscopy and transmission electron microscopy, methods which are integral to previous and ongoing research studies. Contact Mikki:https://mikkiwilliden.com/https://www.facebook.com/mikkiwillidennutritionhttps://www.instagram.com/mikkiwilliden/https://linktr.ee/mikkiwillidenSave 20% on all NuZest Products with the code MIKKI20 at www.nuzest.co.nzCurranz supplement: MIKKI saves you 25% at www.curranz.co.nz

Show: True CSIEpisode: Sam ShepherdYear: 1954The Fugitive was a very successful TV show in the 1960's about a husband accused of killing his wife, but he was innocent!  A one-armed man did the crime. This week, Sarah and Megan detail the case that inspired the TV show and movie. There is no one-armed man involved, but there is a murdered doctor's wife and a husband that may or may not have beaten her to death. It's the story of Dr. Sam Shepherd and his wife, Marilyn.  Check out our website: https://www.buzzsprout.com/837988Linktree: https://linktr.ee/itsalwaysthehusbandpodcastLike our Facebook page and join our group!!Instagram: @itsalwaysthehusbandpodcastTwitter: @alwaysthehubsEtsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ItsAlwaysTheHusband?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=776055218Theme song by Jamie "I'm Gonna Kill You, Bitch" NelsonSupport the show

Floating Points - "Problems" a 2022 single on Pluto / Ninja Tune Throughout the year, British electronic musician Floating Points (aka Sam Shepherd) has been releasing some excellent stand-alone singles, including today's Song of the Day. Just last week, he announced the songs will be collected and released on limited vinyl for the first time on December 16th.  Today's featured track is accompanied by a video directed and produced by the creative team Hamill Industries, a frequent Floating Points collaborator. In a press statement, they wrote: "'Problems' is meant to agitate every single room that its ecstatic sound waves reach. We wanted to celebrate it with movement and dance and reshape it through sound, by using techniques that allow the sonification of images. We have used lasers that spin and move with the music, making visible their sinuous shapes. It was important that this video shaped the electrical feeling you get when being on a dancefloor, the urge of dancing when sound waves reach your ears." Read the full story at KEXP.orgSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Can advertising's immense power to change behaviour be used for good? In this brand new podcast, produced by Intelligence Squared, Myra Nussbaum, President and Chief Creative Officer at Havas Chicago and Dan Lucey, Chief Creative Officer at Havas New York, talk to the people who are harnessing the power of advertising to help people and the planet. This week, Dan and Myra were joined by Sam Shepherd and Ashely Geisheker from Leo Burnett in Chicago. Last year, Sam and Ashley were part of the team behind The Lost Class, a campaign to raise awareness about the members of the high school class of 2021 who were killed by guns. The film was produced by Leo Burnett in support of Change the Ref's campaign to introduce universal background checks for gun sales. Among many other awards, it was nominated for an Emmy. Sam Shepherd is Executive Vice President and Executive Creative Director at Leo Burnett Chicago. He has received a host of top industry honours including Titanium Cannes Lions, D&AD Black pencils and Agency of the Year. He has worked with world class brands from HBO and BMW to Absolut Vodka and Oreo. Passionate about many social causes, his pro bono work for the charity Water is Life aims to raise life-saving donations and awareness for access to clean water in countries such as Kenya, Haiti and India. Ashley Geisheker is Executive Vice President and Head of Production at Leo Burnett Chicago. She leads all aspects of the creative agency's production capabilities and has steered ambitious productions for brands including Bank of America, Samsung and Wingstop. Her clients and work have been recognised by major industry awards including Cannes Lions, The One Show and the Effies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can advertising's immense power to change behavior be used for good? In this brand new podcast, produced by Intelligence Squared, Myra Nussbaum, President and Chief Creative Officer at Havas Chicago and Dan Lucey, Chief Creative Officer at Havas New York, talk to the people who are harnessing the power of advertising to help people and the planet. This week, Dan and Myra were joined by Sam Shepherd and Ashely Geisheker from Leo Burnett in Chicago. Last year, Sam and Ashley were part of the team behind The Lost Class, a campaign to raise awareness about the members of the high school class of 2021 who were killed by guns. The film was produced by Leo Burnett in support of Change the Ref's campaign to introduce universal background checks for gun sales. Among many other awards, it was nominated for an Emmy. Sam Shepherd is Executive Vice President and Executive Creative Director at Leo Burnett Chicago. He has received a host of top industry honors including Titanium Cannes Lions, D&AD Black pencils and Agency of the Year. He has worked with world class brands from HBO and BMW to Absolut Vodka and Oreo. Passionate about many social causes, his pro bono work for the charity Water is Life aims to raise life-saving donations and awareness for access to clean water in countries such as Kenya, Haiti and India. Ashley Geisheker is Executive Vice President and Head of Production at Leo Burnett Chicago. She leads all aspects of the creative agency's production capabilities and has steered ambitious productions for brands including Bank of America, Samsung and Wingstop. Her clients and work have been recognised by major industry awards including Cannes Lions, The One Show and the Effies.

Can advertising's immense power to change behaviour be used for good? In this brand new podcast, produced by Intelligence Squared, Myra Nussbaum, President and Chief Creative Officer at Havas Chicago and Dan Lucey, Chief Creative Officer at Havas New York, talk to the people who are harnessing the power of advertising to help people and the planet. This week, Dan and Myra were joined by Sam Shepherd and Ashely Geisheker from Leo Burnett in Chicago. Last year, Sam and Ashley were part of the team behind The Lost Class, a campaign to raise awareness about the members of the high school class of 2021 who were killed by guns. The film was produced by Leo Burnett in support of Change the Ref's campaign to introduce universal background checks for gun sales. Among many other awards, it was nominated for an Emmy. Sam Shepherd is Executive Vice President and Executive Creative Director at Leo Burnett Chicago. He has received a host of top industry honours including Titanium Cannes Lions, D&AD Black pencils and Agency of the Year. He has worked with world class brands from HBO and BMW to Absolut Vodka and Oreo. Passionate about many social causes, his pro bono work for the charity Water is Life aims to raise life-saving donations and awareness for access to clean water in countries such as Kenya, Haiti and India. Ashley Geisheker is Executive Vice President and Head of Production at Leo Burnett Chicago. She leads all aspects of the creative agency's production capabilities and has steered ambitious productions for brands including Bank of America, Samsung and Wingstop. Her clients and work have been recognised by major industry awards including Cannes Lions, The One Show and the Effies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“It's all in the grind Sizemore.” On this show we're taking a look at Ridley Scott's war epic BLACK HAWN DOWN (2001). As the events the film depict fade from memory, how does it play today? What point was the film trying to make? And how in the hell has Ridley Scott only ever made one film with exploding helicopter. We ask many questions on this show, but do we have any answers? Listen now and find out. Show notesDirector: Ridley ScottCast: Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Josh Hartnett, Sam Shepherd, Tom SizemorePlot: US soldiers are dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture the lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.Episode 126.Follow Exploding HelicopterTwitter: @chopperfireballWebsite: explodinghelicopter.comInstagram: explodinghelicopterFollow Nick RehakTwitter: @TheRehakWebsite: Rehak Radio

Joining Cinema60 for this episode is Gabriele Caroti, former director of BAMcinematek and founder of film distribution company Seventy Seven. This month Seventy Seven is releasing into theaters the 2K restoration of Barney Platts-Mills' Bronco Bullfrog, a gritty but delightful piece of British kitchen sink realism, originally released in 1970, set against the backdrop of the working class teens in East London. In this episode, Gabriele speaks to Bart and Jenna about the labor of love that went into getting this underappreciated film into repertory cinemas across the country, and they oblige him by grilling him on its production history and enduring cult fandom. Topics of discussion include suedeheads, the band Audience, Princess Anne, young love, teenage boredom, electric blankets, time travel, bringing movies to the people and more. It's a lively discussion of a lost classic ‘60s youth culture film with a fella who's making old movies new again.The following film is discussed:• Bronco Bullfrog (1969) Directed by Barney Platts-Mills Starring Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd, Roy Haywood, Freda Shepherd, Dick Philpott, Chris Shepherd, Stuart Stones, Geoffrey Wincott, J. Hughes Sr.Also mentioned:• Reign of Terror (1949) Directed by Anthony Mann Starring Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart• The 400 Blows (1959) Les quatre cents coups Directed by François Truffaut Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) Directed by Karel Reisz Starring Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts• Billy Liar (1963) Directed by John Schlesinger Starring Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles• Black Peter (1964) Cerný Petr Directed by Milos Forman Starring Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova, Jan Vostrcil• Three Sisters (1970) Directed by Laurence Olivier & John Sichel Starring Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Purnell• Bleak Moments (1971) Directed by Mike Leigh Starring Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan• Private Road (1971) Directed by Barney Platts-Mills Starring Susan Penhaligon, Bruce Robinson, Michael Feast• Scum (1979) Directed by Alan Clarke Starring Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth• Babylon (1980) Directed by Franco Rosso Starring David N. Haynes, Trevor Laird, Victor Romero Evans• Gregory's Girl (1980) Directed by Bill Forsyth Starring John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Jake D'Arcy• Looks and Smiles (1981) Directed by Ken Loach Starring Graham Green, Carolyn Nicholson, Tony Pitts

Durée : 57:30 - Émission spéciale autour de l'album Promises de Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders et l'orchestre symphonique de Londres! Notre coup de cœur des dernières semaines.  Dans le LSD, on vous parle du label Luaka Bop qui a sorti cet album en 2021. Un label créé par David Byrne (Talking Heads). Dans la Chronic, on développe l'album composé par Sam Shepherd alias Floating Points. Bonne découverte ! 

Take Fountain with Ella JamesS02E10 – Alexandra DaviesMini-Bio (IMDb): Alexandra is a graduate of the University of Western Sydney (Theatre Nepean) one of the top competitive acting schools in Australia that accepts only 18 students each year. She graduated in 1998 with a High Distinction average. Her background as an actor has her accomplished with over 350 episodes of series TV; (starring in 3 major Australian productions and guest starring in many more). She was nominated for Best New Talent for her role in YOUNG LIONS which she starred in with Alex Dimitriades.Alex has also had the privilege of leading several features and all up has appeared in 14 short and feature length films. She has worked with Sam Shepherd, Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel, Josh Lucas, Hugh Jackman, Wil I Am, Robert Taylor and Academy award winning Director Gavin Hood. She won best actress in 2016 for her lead role in PAST IMPERFECT at the Canberra short film festival in Australia which she also co-produced. In 2012 Alex and her family moved to Los Angeles on a Green card to further pursue her successful acting career established in Australia. She performed in 3 independent films as a lead whilst in LA and was network tested for a TV medical drama. As a writer/director Alex wrote, starred in, produced and directed the 20 min short comedy concept RUN in 2015 which she is now developing into a full length feature film. In 2018 Alex produced and directed the 7min Proof of Concept titled ANGEL BABY. She is set to direct the feature length version under her company she founded in late 2020; BACK BURN FILMS in Australia. As well as writing the feature length version of RUN, Alex is also producing the feature film SINISTER CITY and the TV series DAX BAXTER - DEMON HUNTER through her company.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Alexandra Davies. View a video version of this episode on YouTube at : Subscribe, rate and review Take Fountain at all good podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spreaker, Spotify, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Podbean, Radio Public, Tunein etc.For all episodes, visit the Take Fountain Website at: https://www.bitesz.com/show/take-fountain/RSS Feed: https://www.spreaker.com/show/4958442/episodes/feed For more...follow Take Fountain on Twitter and Facebook Twitter: https://twitter.com/ejtakesfountain Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ejtakesfountain Follow Alex on Social Media:Twitter https://twitter.com/no1alexdavies Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770377165This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4958442/advertisement

Un génial producteur, DJ et musicien britannique incarnant le visage de la musique électronique du futur. Playlist : SILHOUETTES (I,… The post S04E38 Sam SHEPHERD-FLOATING POINTS first appeared on Radio Campus Angers.

Un génial producteur, DJ et musicien britannique incarnant le visage de la musique électronique du futur. Playlist : SILHOUETTES (I,… The post S04E38 Sam SHEPHERD-FLOATING POINTS first appeared on Radio Campus Angers.

Esta semana, en un nuevo capítulo de Rebelión Sónica, los invitamos a conocer parte de “Promises”, el nuevo disco que unió a tres actores muy diversos de la música contemporánea: el saxofonista afroamericano Pharoah Sanders, el músico de la electrónica británica Sam Shepherd, alias Floating Points y la Orquesta Sinfónica de Londres. El álbum, que fue editado por el sello Luaka Bop el pasado 26 de marzo, está separado en nueve pistas de diversas duraciones, solo denominadas “Promises Movement 1”, “Movement 2” y así, hasta llegar al nueve. A su vez, la portada tiene impresas formas troqueladas que se muestran a través de una pintura de la reconocida artista visual estadounidense, de origen etíope, Julie Mehretu. A su vez, hay una película llamada “Promises: Through Congress” del director Trevor Tweeten, que une las implicancias y conexiones de la obra “Congress” de Mehretu con el álbum de Sanders, Shepherd y la Orquesta Sinfónica de Londres. En la parte final del programa, viajamos al pasado, para escuchar el legendario saxofonista -quien tocó con grandes como John Coltrane, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman y Sun Ra -en su faceta de titular, con material de su disco de 1971, “Thembi”. Recuerden que Rebelión Sónica se transmite todos los miércoles a las 10, 17 y 23 horas por radio Rockaxis -se repite además el domingo a las 19-, con la conducción de Héctor Aravena.

BECOME A PRODUCER! http://www.patreon.com/themidnighttrainpodcast   Find The Midnight Train Podcast: www.themidnighttrainpodcast.com www.facebook.com/themidnighttrainpodcast www.twitter.com/themidnighttrainpc www.instagram.com/themidnighttrainpodcast www.discord.com/themidnighttrainpodcast www.tiktok.com/themidnighttrainp   And wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.   Subscribe to our official YouTube channel: OUR YOUTUBE    So most of us deranged lunatics already know the story of the boston strangler which is what we are discussing tonight. Some of you may be asking yourselves, “ but guys, I thought you only did unsolved cases” well we do and this one is no different. Even though you know the story, you may not know all the craziness surrounding the case. Most people straight up believe the killer was Albert Desalvo, and he seems like the logical choice, especially since he's been linked directly by DNA evidence to one of the crime scenes, which we’ll talk more about later. There's also much evidence that does not necessarily add up to Desalvo being responsible  for all the murders. One thing  a good portion of people don't realize is that desalvo was NEVER convicted of the Boston Strangler murders. We will start off with Disalvo's story and how he became known as the perpetrator behind these heinous murders, and then we’ll get into the crazy stuff.         Born on September 3, 1931, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Albert DeSalvo was in and out of trouble with the police from an early age, but nothing as gruesome as the "Boston Strangler" case. DeSalvo admitted to murdering 13 women in Boston between 1962 and 1964, most of whom were elderly and alone. He was killed in prison in 1973, after being sentenced to life. DeSalvo, a well-built 29-year-old, had a history of breaking and entering. He had spent time in prison for a bizarre series of peeping tom escapades where he would knock on ladies' doors, pretend he was a model scout and proceed to measure up the flattered woman if he was lucky enough to get in. It seemed like a harmless, albeit disturbing pastime and DeSalvo spent 18 months in prison for such sexually oriented mischievousness. DeSalvo had a tough upbringing. He was brought up with four siblings and his father was a wife-beating alcoholic. As a boy, Desalvo became a delinquent and spent time in and out of prison for petty crime and violence. Years after he had been discharged from the army for disobeying orders, he settled down and married Irmgard Beck, a girl from Germany. They lived modestly and, despite Irmgard giving birth to a handicapped child, the family managed to sustain itself. Irmgard was aware that DeSalvo was highly sexed and tried to avoid intercourse for fear of having another handicapped baby. However, a healthy boy was born and DeSalvo appeared to become a conscientious family man, liked and appreciated by colleagues and his boss. He was also known to be an outrageous braggart, which perhaps led the police to later disbelieve his claims to be the Strangler. Between June 1962 and January 1964, a series of grisly murders took place in Boston. All the victims were women who had been strangled. The Boston slayings were blamed on one lone sociopath, and mystery still surrounds the case. The "Boston Strangler" has been held accountable for around 11 of 13 murders of female victims. No one was actually tried for the Boston murders. But DeSalvo was—by the public at least—believed to be the man responsible. DeSalvo actually confessed to each of the 13 official Strangler murders. However, some doubt was shed on DeSalvo's claims by people who personally knew and worked with him. What makes these particular murders stand out in the annals of serial killing is the fact that many of the victims were mature or elderly. The combination of old age, loneliness and vulnerability, adds to the brutality and tragedy of the events. Anna Slesers, a seamstress and devout churchgoer was the first victim to be murdered on the evening of June 14, 1962. She lived on her own in a modest brick house apartment at 77 Gainsborough St. in Boston. Her son Juris was meant to come by to pick her up for a memorial service. When he discovered her body in the bathroom with a cord around her neck tied in a bow, Juris assumed she had committed suicide. Homicide detectives James Mellon and John Driscoll found Slesers in an obscene state; nude and stripped of dignity. She had been sexually assaulted. The apartment looked as though it had been ransacked, with Slesers' purse and contents strewn on the floor. Despite what appeared to be a robbery, a gold watch and pieces of jewelry were left behind. The police settled on the hypothesis that it was a botched burglary. Just under three weeks later on June 28, 1962, 85-year-old Mary Mullen was also found murdered in her home. Two days later, the body of 68-year-old Nina Nichols was also discovered in the Brighton area of Boston. Again, it appeared to be a burglary despite valuable silver that appeared untouched. The ransacking didn't seem to make sense to detectives. Nichols was also found in a state of undress, her legs wide open and her stocking tops tied in a bow. Then, on the same day, a second body was discovered a few miles north of Boston, in the suburb of Lynn. Helen Blake was a 65-year-old divorcee and her murder was more gruesome. She had suffered lacerations to her vagina and anus. Again, the bow trademark was evident; this time made from tying her bra around her neck. Like the previous crimes, the scene appeared to be a burglary. After this brutal slaying, it was clear that Boston had a serial killer in its midst. Police Commissioner Edmund McNamara canceled all police leave due to the severity of the situation, and a warning went out via the media to Boston's female population. Women were advised to lock their doors and be cautious of strangers. Police profiling had already decided that in all probability they were looking for a psychopath, whose hatred of older women may actually be linked to his own relationship with his mother. It wasn't long before McNamara's fears were realized. A fourth brutal slaying took place at 7 Grove Garden in Boston's West End on August 19. The victim was 75-year-old widow Ida Irga. She had been strangled and she was on her back on the floor wearing a brown nightdress, which was ripped and exposed her body. Her legs were apart and resting on two chairs and a cushion had been placed under her buttocks. Again there was no sign of forced entry. Less than 24 hours later, the body of Jane Sullivan was found not far from the previous victim at 435 Columbia Rd in Dorchester. The 65-year-old nurse had been murdered a week before and was found dead in the bathroom. She had been strangled by her own nylons. Terror spread throughout Boston as the city feared another attack, but it was three months before the Strangler struck again. This time the victim was young. Twenty-one-year-old Sophie Clark was an African American student who was very mindful of her safety, and rarely dated. Her body was found on December 5, 1962, a few blocks away from the first victim, Sleser. Clark was found nude and had been sexually assaulted. She had been strangled by her own stockings and semen was discovered for the first time. Somehow, despite Sophie's precautions, she had still let in the murderer. Although Clark did not fit the same profile as the other victims, the police were sure it was the work of the same killer. Furthermore, this time they had a lead regarding the killer's possible identification. A female neighbor informed the police that a man had knocked on her door, insisting that he had been sent to paint her apartment. He finally left after she told him that her husband was sleeping in the next room. Three weeks later, another young woman's life ended tragically. Twenty-three-year-old Patricia Bissette was pregnant when she was found dead in her apartment near the area where Slesers and Clark had lived. Bissette was discovered by her boss when she didn't turn up for work. Her body lay in her bed covered by sheets, and she had been sexually assaulted and strangled with her own stockings. While the city appeared to have been spared another attack for several months, the police desperately tried to find any connection between the women and people they may have known. Every sex offender on the Boston Police files was interviewed and checked, yet still nothing turned up. Before long, a series of murders started again. This time the body of 68-year-old Mary Brown was found strangled and raped 25 miles north of the city in March 1963. Two months later, the ninth victim, Beverly Samans, was found. The 23-year-old graduate had missed choir practice on the day of her murder, May 8, 1963. (1956–2002) Samans was found with her hands tied behind her back with one of her scarves. A nylon stocking and two handkerchiefs were tied around her neck. Bizarrely, a piece of cloth over her mouth hid a second cloth which had been stuffed in her mouth. Four stab wounds to her neck had most likely killed her rather than strangulation. There were a further 22 stab wounds to Samans's body, 18 in the shape of a bulls-eye on her right breast. She had been raped, but there was no evidence of semen. It was thought that because of her strong throat muscles due to singing, the killer had to take to stabbing her instead of strangulation. The police, who were now desperate, even sought the help of a clairvoyant. He described the killer as a mental patient who had absconded from Boston State Hospital on the days the killings took place. However, this was soon discounted when another murder was committed. On September 8, 1963, in Salem, Evelyn Corbin, youthful-looking 58-year-old divorcee became the latest victim. Corbin was found nude and on her bed face up. Her underwear had been stuffed in her mouth and again there were traces of semen, both on lipstick stains and in her mouth. Corbin's apartment had been ransacked in a similar fashion. On November 25, Joann Graff, a 23-year-old industrial designer was raped and killed in her apartment in the Lawrence section of the city. Several descriptions of her attacker matched those of the man who had asked to paint Clark's neighbor's flat. The description detailed a man wearing dark green slacks, dark shirt and jacket. On January 4, 1964, one of the most gruesome murders was discovered when two women came across the body of their roommate. Mary Sullivan was found dead sitting on her bed, her back against the headboard. She had been strangled with a dark stocking. She had been sexually assaulted with a broom handle. This obscenity was rendered even more disturbing by the fact that a Happy New Year card lay wedged between her feet. The same hallmarks of the killer were evident; a ransacked apartment, few valuables taken and the victims strangled with their own underwear or scarves, which were tied into bows. The city was panic stricken and the situation prompted the drafting in of a top investigator to head the hunt for the Strangler. Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in the state, began work on January 17, 1964, to bring the serial killer to book. There was pressure on Brooke, the only African American attorney general in the country, to succeed where others had failed. Brooke headed up a task force that included assigning permanent staff to the Boston Strangler case. He brought in Assistant Attorney General John Bottomly, who had a reputation for being unconventional. Bottomly's force had to sift through thousands of pages of material from different police forces. Police profiling was relatively new in the early 1960s, but they came up with what they thought was the most likely description of the killer. He was believed to be around thirty, neat and orderly, worked with his hands and was most likely a loner who may be divorced or separated. In fact, the killer ended up being found by chance, not by the work of the police force. After a spell in prison for breaking and entering, DeSalvo went on to commit more serious crimes. He had broken into a woman's apartment, tied her up on the bed and held a knife to her throat before molesting her and running away. The victim gave the police a good description, one that matched his likeness sketch from his previous crimes. Shortly afterward, DeSalvo was arrested. It was after he had been picked out of an identity parade that DeSalvo admitted to robbing hundreds of apartments and carrying out a couple of rapes. He then confessed to being the Boston Strangler. Despite the police not believing him at the time, DeSalvo was sent to Bridgewater State Hospital to be assessed by psychiatrists. He was assigned an attorney by the name of F. Lee Bailey. When DeSalvo's wife was told by Bailey that her husband had confessed to being the Strangler she couldn't believe it and suggested he was doing it purely for payment from the newspapers. During his spell in Bridgewater, DeSalvo struck up a friendship with another inmate, an intelligent but highly dangerous killer called George Nassar. The two apparently had worked out a deal to split reward money that would go to anyone who supplied information to the identity of the Strangler. DeSalvo had accepted that he would be in prison for the rest of his life and wanted his family to be financially secure. Bailey interviewed DeSalvo to discover if he really was the notorious killer. The attorney was shocked to hear DeSalvo describe the murders in incredible detail, right down to the furniture in the apartments of his victims. DeSalvo had it all worked out. He believed he could convince the psychiatric board that he was insane and then remain in prison for the rest of his life. Bailey could then write up his story and make much needed money to support his family. In his book The Defense Never Rests, Bailey explains how it was that DeSalvo managed to avoid detection. DeSalvo was Dr. Jekyll; the police were looking for Mr. Hyde. After a second visit and listening to DeSalvo describe in grisly detail the murder of 75-year-old Ida Irga, Bailey was convinced his client was the Boston Strangler. When he asked DeSalvo why he chose a victim of such an age, the man coolly replied that "attractiveness had nothing to do with it." After many hours of questioning and going into minute detail of what the victims wore or how their apartments looked, both Bailey and the police were convinced that they had the killer. One disturbing revelation was when DeSalvo described an aborted attack on a Danish girl. As he was strangling her he caught sight of himself in the mirror. Horrified by the ghastly vision of what he was doing he released her and begged her not to tell the police before fleeing. DeSalvo was incarcerated in what is now known as the MCI-Cedar Junction prison in Massachusetts. In November 1973, he got word to his doctor that he needed to see him urgently; DeSalvo had something important to say about the Boston Strangler murders. The night before they were to meet, however, DeSalvo was stabbed to death in prison. Because of the level of security in the prison, it is assumed that the killing had been planned with a degree of co-operation between employees and prisoners. Whatever the case, and though there were no more murders by the Strangler after DeSalvo had been arrested, the Strangler case was never closed.   So there you have the basic tale of the strangler. We didn't get to crazy into details because quite frankly you either already know the story or you can find literally hundreds of other podcasts on just Desalvo and The Strangler murders, so really there's no reason to rehash all that. We want to look into the other circumstances surrounding the case.   GEORGE NASSAR/F. LEE BAILEY        George Nassar was the man that Delsalvo originally confessed to being Strangler to. Nassar would contact his lawyer F. Lee Bailey to tell him he should come and talk with Desalvo. If that name sounds familiar it's probably because Bailey was involved in some pretty notable cases throughout his career. There's another local connection in this episode for us. Bailey, who used to be a Rocky River Ohio resident, was the man who famously got Sam Shepherd acquitted of murdering his wife. If you are not familiar with that case, you may soon as it is another unsolved case from our own backyard that I have a feeling we may cover at some point. He also represented Patty Hearst and yes...O.J. Simpson. Bailey’s cross examination of detective Mark Fuhrman is considered  by some to be the key to Simpson's acquittal.  The man was pretty good at what he did even if he is a jackass. The confessions came when  DeSalvo was arrested and sent to Bridgewater State Mental Hospital. Dr. Ames Robey was the medical director:   “Well, the first thing that was so obvious about Albert was his incredible need to be somebody important. He would brag about almost anything. He gave the feeling, although he didn’t say so at that time, that he sort of wanted to be as well known as, quote, “the Boston Strangler.” Three months later, George Nassar, another inmate at Bridgewater, had an odd conversation about the Boston Strangler with his lawyer, F. Lee Bailey. Bailey recalled his talk with Nassar: “He asked me whether or not it would be possible for someone who had done the stranglings to write a book. And my off-hand answer was sure, but he might go to the electric chair as a consequence. Later on, I was asked to go down and see this fellow, Albert DeSalvo, by my client.” Bailey expected to come face to face with a monster. Instead, he met a married man with two children who seemed concerned about his family: “I was a little incredulous because everybody develops a profile. You’re looking for a monster, somebody that, you know, the jowls are dripping and it just didn’t seem to fit. He wanted to be able to tell his story. He said, ‘I would like to find out why I am like this. Maybe people can give me tests or something.’” According to Bailey, DeSalvo confessed he was the Boston Strangler. “I had no way of knowing whether or not he was telling the truth, fantasizing because he was crazy, or had read a lot of things in the newspapers and wanted to be famous.” Two days later, Bailey returned to Bridgewater with a tape recorder and a list of questions. With DeSalvo’s permission, Bailey had struck a deal with the Boston police. They would provide Bailey with details only The Strangler would know, as a way of testing DeSalvo. In return, Bailey was guaranteed that the tapes would never be heard in court. Deputy Superintendent John Donovan, retired Chief of Homicide in the Boston Police Department, said he was intrigued by what he heard: “His descriptions of the crime scenes were just so accurate that that impressed me very much.” But when Dr. Ames Robey heard the tape, he was not so impressed. He believed there was another explanation for DeSalvo’s knowledge of the crime scenes: “Albert indicated to us that he had gone to the various sites that the newspapers had named after the police tape was off the doors in the apartments, just to sort of be there and see what it was like.” Dr. Robey says that DeSalvo had a photographic memory. He may have visited the victims’ apartments, or perhaps he was just repeating what someone else had described to him. Then Robey began to believe that DeSalvo’s friend, George Nassar, was somehow involved: “I first began to wonder about something going on when no other inmates would come near them. And they would immediately stop talking if the guards or staff came anywhere near where they could hear. But they would have extensive conversations about what, of course, we didn’t know.” A career criminal, George Nassar had been imprisoned for killing a gas station attendant shortly after the Strangler killed his last victim. Nassar agreed to discuss his role in the case and his relationship with Albert DeSalvo for the first time: “With Albert DeSalvo, I was simply an associate. I’ve done the same thing with many, many prisoners. People come to me and ask for advice. I give it to them if they say, if it’s worthy of me assisting them, I assist them, for my reasons because I feel it’s a worthy thing to do.” The Massachusetts Attorney General ordered that news of DeSalvo’s confession be kept under wraps. Within the police department, there was a split over whether DeSalvo was, in fact, the killer. Then someone leaked the story of the confession to the local papers. In response to the story, two women came forward. One was a survivor of a possible Strangler attack. The other was a neighbor of one of the victims. They were brought to Bridgewater to see if they recognized any of the inmates. Surprisingly, the one familiar face did not belong to Albert DeSalvo, but to George Nassar. Is it possible that he was actually the Boston Strangler? Dr. Ames Robey thought it was possible: “George Nassar would fit the profile of the Boston Strangler. We found nothing that would rule him out, not even one iota.” George Nassar denied the accusation: “I do not kill women. I’ve never conceived of it. I wouldn’t conceive of it. I have great respect and regard for women, beginning with my mother who brought me up that way.” Lee Bailey wasn’t convinced his client fit the profile of the Strangler: “George Nassar was eliminated as the Strangler. I don’t think he had the profile to strangle. George Nassar used a gun.” Albert DeSalvo was the state’s prime suspect, even though there was no physical evidence that linked him to any of the killings. F. Lee Bailey suggested that DeSalvo undergo hypnosis. He recalled the session: “We had him hypnotized and age regressed right through one of the homicides. And the things that developed in the presence of a very bright medical hypnotist were of great interest.” The session revealed that DeSalvo had had problems with every significant woman in his life. According to F. Lee Bailey: “We found an involvement of his wife who he’d married in Germany, his daughter who had a physical disability that troubled him greatly, his mother whom he had a love-hate relationship. And it was just the beginning.” Dr. Robey observed the session and came to a completely different conclusion: “The answers were almost implied in the question, which, at least from my training, is something you don’t do. I was not at all convinced that anything had been uncovered. And was a little surprised later when Mr. Bailey announced what had occurred under hypnosis was ‘definitive evidence.’ Albert, even with the crimes he was charged with, he was considered gentle, polite. His sexual proclivities, his general attitude, he was not angry and hostile.” In the summer of 1965, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office conducted its own interrogations. The transcripts of those interviews were never released, but author Susan Kelly obtained a copy while researching her book called “Deadly Charade.” Susan came to believe that Albert DeSalvo was playing along: “When you read the transcript and you come to a point where Albert gives an incorrect answer to a question, he is guided to give the correct answer. And Albert, who was a smart guy, caught on very quickly. This man was not the Boston Strangler, he didn’t kill anyone.” Lee Bailey strongly disagreed: “They had the right guy, beyond question. No one has ever come up with anything meaningful to contradict that. The question is, how could we try him as the Strangler and close the file in the public’s mind?” Lee Bailey struck a deal with the State. Albert DeSalvo went on trial, but not as the Boston Stranger. Instead, he was tried for sexual assault and other crimes in connection with the “green man” case. In return, the State agreed not to press for the death penalty. According to Bailey, it was the right thing to do: “That’s all we wanted. Nobody ever wanted Albert on the street, including Albert, and to ask not to be executed so that he could be studied seemed to me a reasonable objective.” After less than four hours of deliberation, the jury reached its verdict: guilty on eight criminal counts. DeSalvo had wanted to be sent to a mental hospital, but his insanity defense failed. He was sentenced to life in prison. Susan Kelly had suspicious as to why: “It was a much more severe sentence than he would have received normally on the sex charges of which he’d been convicted. But he was being sent to the prison as the Boston Strangler. It was that simple.” Dr. Ames Robey concurred: “I think the most difficult part of all of this was the feeling that whether they had it solved or not, they had quieted the public’s concern. So, theoretically everyone was happy.” In prison, DeSalvo was re-united with his old friend, George Nassar. Once again, questions were raised regarding Nassar’s possible involvement with the stranglings. Nassar admitted nothing: “Because Al was not tried, this case had become mythical, it became part of, like, a public fantasy of what really happened. It became a continuing mystery, when it should’ve been resolved. And I was part of the mystery.” Outside of prison, DeSalvo had become a legend. But inside, he feared his fame had made him a marked man. After more than six years behind bars, he asked to be transferred to a cell in the prison infirmary. Here, he would be isolated from the other inmates. On the evening of November 25th, 1973, DeSalvo telephoned his former psychiatrist, Dr. Ames Robey. “He wanted to talk to me, to tell me the, quote, real story. He didn’t say what the real story was and I could only hope that this is what I would hear, but I never heard it. DeSalvo told Dr. Robey that he also intended to tell a reporter the same story. But before he talked to anyone, he was found in his cell murdered, stabbed repeatedly in the chest. Some believed that DeSalvo was involved in a drug deal gone bad. Others, including George Nassar, say DeSalvo was killed in a dispute over cuts of meat he was allegedly selling on the prison black market. To Dr. Robey, it was clear what had happened: “Somebody didn’t want that interview happening. And I think they’ve said before, ‘dead men tell no tales.’” Three inmates were eventually charged with Albert DeSalvo’s murder, but no one was ever convicted.   While Nassar and Bailey are convinced that Desalvo was the strangler there are many people that think Nassar had something to do with the murders and used Desalvo and Bailey to get Desalvo convicted. Dr. Robey said “I think Albert became the Boston Strangler because he wanted so much to be the Boston Strangler. It was the most important thing in his life. For somebody that felt all his life that he was a nobody, all of a sudden he could become world-renowned.”  Author Susan Kelly, who has written a couple books about the Strangler case, said of Desalvo being the killer “After eight years of research on this case, one thing I’m certain of is that Albert DeSalvo was not the Boston Strangler. There are a number of very good suspects. None of them happen to be Albert DeSalvo.”   Shortly after his murder, authorities came across a collection of poems that DeSalvo had written while in prison. One of them provided an intriguing footnote to the legend of the Boston Strangler. It read:   Here’s the story of the strangler yet untold The man who claims he murdered 13 women, young and old Today he sits in a prison cell Deep inside only a secret he can tell People everywhere are still in doubt Is the strangler in prison, or roaming about?              Nassar was in prison twice. He was convicted, along with two buddies, in the killing of a store clerk during a robbery spree. He was paroled for this offense in 1961. The Boston Strangler slayings would begin the following year. The next murder , for which he is still serving his life sentence, would be the one that brought him i contact with Desalvo. He was convicted of killing a gas station clerk after an eyewitness identified him as the shooter. He has maintained his innocence and has requested several retrials, all of his appeals have been denied. While two of the murders took place after Nassar was caught for this crime that hasn't stopped people from speculating that he was somehow involved in the other slayings, possibly with Desalvo. Some followers of the case have also straight up declared Nassar to be the real Strangler, claiming that he fed details of the murders to DeSalvo. DeSalvo, they speculated, knew that he would spend the rest of his life in jail for the "Green Man" attacks, and "confessed" so that Nassar could collect reward money that they would split—thus providing support to DeSalvo's wife and two children. Another motive was his tremendous need for notoriety. DeSalvo hoped that the case would make him world-famous.    Besides Desalvo and Nassar, there were suspects in several of the other murders, leading many to suspect that not all of the murders were committed by one person. The fact that the victims were so wide ranging in age and type, and that aside from strangling there were many inconsistencies in MO from case to case led many to believe there wasn't one perpetrator but several. For instance, On June 14, 1962, the Strangler claimed his first victim, 56-year-old Anna Slesers. Earlier that day, a painting crew was working at her apartment. Sixteen days later, the same painting crew arrived at the apartment building of Helen Blake. She became victim number two. Two of the paint crew's alibis could not be corroborated by their boss or coworkers. For many people that's enough proof Desalvo was not the killer of these two.       Victim number 6 was Sophie clark. Police investigating this murder came upon a suspect, a man she used to date. The man was seen entering Sophie's apartment building and fleeing the buildin a short time later covered in sweat. According to authorities the man was given polygraph tests on two separate occasions and failed them both.          There was also a strong suspect for victim number 7, Paricia Bissett. The suspect in this case was her boss. Detective found that she was having an affair with her happily married boss at the time of her murder. It was also discovered during the autopsy that she was...wait for it...pregnant. Sounds like a big stinky pile of motive.         Despite these guys all be strong suspect in the respective case, authorities just basically said fuck it after Desalvo confessed, and even though he got many details of the murders constantly, they pretty much just stopped looking into theses leads. On person associated with the case had this to say                                        “There’s a possibility that some of the older women died at the hands of the same person. Each of the young women who died was murdered by a different individual who had his own motives.” “If you hated a woman back in the early 1960’s, you could kill her, loosely wrap a stocking around her neck, and hope that the police would think it was the Boston Strangler. All the grizzly details were printed in the papers at the time. If you wanted to commit a murder, here was your diagram.”   To go along with the multiple killer theory,Former FBI profiler Robert Ressler said, "You're putting together so many different patterns [regarding the Boston Strangler murders] that it's inconceivable behaviorally that all these could fit one individual." John E. Douglas, the former FBI special agent who was one of the first criminal profilers, doubted that DeSalvo was the Boston Strangler. In his book The Cases That Haunt Us, he identified DeSalvo as a "power-assurance" motivated rapist. He said that such a rapist is unlikely to kill in the manner of crimes attributed to the Boston Strangler; a power-assurance motivated rapist would, however, be prone to taking credit for the crimes. The family of one of the later victims, Mry Sullivan believed that Desalvo was not Mary's killer and even formed an unlikely partnership with Disalvo's team to try and prove he was innocent and to find Mary's real killer.   On January 4, 1964, Mary Sullivan was found by her roommate, strangled to death and sexually assaulted. In a final morbid gesture, placed at her feet was a Happy New Year card.   The police collected semen left on Mary’s body by the killer. But in 1964, there was no way to match it to a suspect. Albert DeSalvo later admitted he’d killed Mary. However, two families have formed a surprising alliance to challenge his confession: the family of Mary Sullivan and the family of Albert DeSalvo, including his brother Richard:                            I never believed my brother was the Boston Strangler from day one. I just want the name cleared. That’s all. Albert was not perfect. Albert did some bad things. Albert was not a murderer.”         Mary Sullivan’s sister, Diane, also believes that DeSalvo was not the killer:                              I’m gonna do everything I can to find her murderer, to find the murderer of Mary.”   According to Casey Sherman, Mary Sullivan’s nephew, he contacted the Boston police and asked about possible DNA evidence in The Strangler case: “I made several inquiries to the Boston police department and they told me flat out that they did not have any physical evidence left in the Boston Strangler case to test for DNA evidence.” So Mary Sullivan’s family turned to the only evidence available to them: Mary’s remains. Casey said the family felt exhumation was the only way they could settle the case: “We had to do the exhumation of my aunt’s body. It was a horrible experience. We didn’t want to do it, but it was our last and only recourse, we thought, and it was the only chance to find her killer.” The Sullivans got help from a team of forensic experts, including world-renowned Professor of Law and Forensic Science, James Starrs: “We were obviously looking for any seminal fluid, and we do know that seminal fluid will fluoresce under UV light. So we looked, and seminal fluid fluoresced, and it was also in the right location for seminal fluid. It’s on pubic hair.” Forensic molecular biologist Dr. David Foran was another member of the team: “So we examined that, hoping to get any DNA from it. We had to be extra careful because, obviously, her hair is going to have her DNA in it, so one of the tricky parts becomes isolating DNA only from this material that’s stuck in the pubic hair, and not from the hair itself.” Dr. Foran successfully isolated a DNA sequence and compared it to Albert DeSalvo’s genes using DNA taken from his brother, Richard. The results were virtually indisputable; the semen was not Albert DeSalvo’s. It confirmed to Casey Sherman that his family made the right decision in exhuming his aunt’s body: “When he said that there was DNA, they believed, from Mary’s killer on her body, and that DNA didn’t match Albert DeSalvo, it was just complete vindication as far as I was concerned.” The results led James Starrs to lay down a challenge: “For those who say that Albert DeSalvo did do it, the shoe is on their foot now. It’s for them to come forward and show the evidence to prove that Albert DeSalvo did do it.” But if Albert DeSalvo did not kill Mary Sullivan, then who did? The detectives who first investigated the killing found a strange piece of evidence in her bathroom. According to Diane Dodd, Mary’s sister, it implicated Mary’s abusive ex-boyfriend: “They found an ascot cut up in the toilet. When my sister dated this person, that’s all she bought him for presents, because he loved ascots. So I could see him definitely cutting that ascot up in the bathroom, and I could absolutely see him killing Mary.” Another suspect emerged based on an eyewitness account. A neighbor saw a man in Mary’s apartment at the approximate time of the murder. Mary’s roommate had a boyfriend who matched the description given by the neighbor. He may have had access to Mary’s apartment, and her keys, explaining why there were no signs of forced entry. Casey Sherman felt this scenario made sense: “Her apartment key had gone missing the day before she was killed. Now this key hadn’t fallen off the keychain. It was taken off.” The suspect was brought in for a polygraph test. According to police, his responses were deemed “untruthful.” Once DeSalvo had confessed however, investigations into this suspect and Mary’s ex-boyfriend, were closed. According to author Susan Kelly, the police also had strong suspects in several of the other murders: “If Albert wasn’t the Boston Strangler, who was the Boston Strangler? From what my research indicates, there wasn’t one, there were many.”   So what conclusions can we draw? Well hold onto your tits cus here's a tidbit we’ve left for the end. In 2013, authorities claimed to have a familial match to Desalvo of the substance taken off the body of Mary Sullivan. After this they exhumed the body of desalvo to get a sample for comparison. The sample from Desalvo matched the one from Mary. The conclusion made was that this is proof that Desalvo was the strangler. But in reality it only proves he killed Mary Sullivan or at the very least raped her. Were the murders all done by Desalvo, some seem to think this proves it. Despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary it seems the authorities demm this worthy of calling it a win and claiming Desalvo was the sole Boston Strangler. Many people are calling this case officially closed. But despite this it is hard to find a real consensus on this one. Read 50 articles on the case, get 50 different opinions and answers. So Did Desalvo murder MAry and try to make it look like the strangler? Was he the only killer of all these women? Did George Nassar have anything to do with it, or F. Lee Bailey? Did the authorities let multiple murderers go due to a “bogus Confession” we may never know as Nassar maintains his innocence, Desalvo was brutally murdered in prison, and there's a lot of strange discrepancies from case to case. Many of the murders deviated from a single M.O. suggesting multiple killers, or a schizophrenic one. Oh did we mention George Nassar was a schizophrenic? SO what do you all think? Let us know. One last fun tidbit for you guys. In 1971, the Texas legislature unanimously passed a resolution honoring DeSalvo for his work in "population control"—after the vote, Waco Representative Tom Moore, Jr. admitted that he had submitted the legislation as an April Fool's Day joke against his colleagues—his declared intent was to prove that they pass legislation with no due diligence given to researching the issues beforehand. Having made his point, he withdrew the resolution… So that's pretty awesome. Horro movies based in Mass: https://www.ranker.com/list/best-massachusetts-horror-movies/ranker-film        

durée : 00:55:39 - Pharoah Sanders - par : Alex Dutilh - “Promises”, l’album qui réunit le musicien britannique expérimental Sam Shepherd alias Floating Points et l’octogénaire Pharoah Sanders, titan du saxophone, est un tourbillon d’électronique, de jazz et de musique classique, qui repose sur un équilibre parfait entre composition et improvisation. - réalisé par : Fabien Fleurat

durée : 00:55:39 - Pharoah Sanders - par : Alex Dutilh - “Promises”, l’album qui réunit le musicien britannique expérimental Sam Shepherd alias Floating Points et l’octogénaire Pharoah Sanders, titan du saxophone, est un tourbillon d’électronique, de jazz et de musique classique, qui repose sur un équilibre parfait entre composition et improvisation. - réalisé par : Fabien Fleurat

In the history of criminal defense and trial lawyers, there are only a few, who become household names. F. Lee Bailey is one of those lawyers. At various times in his life, he was considered America's go-to lawyer. He has been involved in several so-called "Trial's of the Century". His clients include: Sam Shepherd, the wrongly convicted doctor that was the basis for the movie and tv show, The Fugitive; Boston Strangler; Patricia Hearst, the daughter of the one of America's richest families who was kidnapped and then joined the SLA, Symbionese Liberation Army; George Edgerly, the first polygraph defense case; Ernest Medina, the court martial related to the My Lai Massacre; and, OJ Simpson, to name a few. Bailey graced the covers to Newsweek and other magazines related to his rise to prominence. He has written at least 20 books including, The Defense Never Rests, For the Defense, To Be A Trial Lawyer, When the Husband Is The Suspect, Excellence in Cross Examination and his latest book, The Truth about the OJ Simpson Trial, By the Architect of the Defense. In our one on one we discuss Bailey's direct, rapid fire and assertive cross examination style. He discussed how he approaches he different witnesses by circling them, luring them into complacency and pouncing on them using speed, precision, pace, word choice and logic. In our conversation, you'll hear trial stories, war stories, cross examination, strategies from the most famous lawyer in the 20th century. We discuss the state of lawyering, the state and quality of current cross examinations, Marcia Clark, Christopher Darden, Johnnie Cochran, OJ, Robert Shapiro, Judge Ito, Mark Fuhrman and the best cross examination of a crime scene officer I've ever seen, Sgt Rossi, who responded to the Bundy murder scene. We talk about the glove, the jury and more. Bailey discusses defending Patricia Hearst, the heiress who made international headlines when she was charged with bank robbery and more. He discusses how he got hired, his involvement, the impossibility of the defense and his incredibly powerful cross examination of the government's psychiatrist witness Dr Joel Fort. Bailey tells you his secrets to his swaggering style: don't use notes, don't take your eyes off the witness, look for signs of a struggling witness, use pace and speed. His style has been called swaggering and tenacious. I have read all of lawyering books and you can tell I have a great admiration for his courtroom swagger and style. During our interview, he will take you behind the scenes of one of the most storied careers in the history of trial lawyers. Even at this age, Bailey's swagger is unmistakable. In the end, he pays this writer the highest compliment, saying that he knows a great trial lawyer when he sees one and points to yours truly. Listen in as Bailey shares his secrets to his swaggering style: don't use notes, don't take your eyes off the witness, look for signs of a struggling witness, use pace and speed, and more. During our interview, he will take you behind the scenes of one of the most storied careers in the history of trial lawyers. Please be aware we are relying on impressions, recollections, memories and interpretations.

Actress & Playwright Lois Robbins is Baring It All with Call Me Adam about her work on HBO's Sex and the City, TV Land's Younger, and ABC's All My Children and One Life To Live. Lois also discusses her legacy, lessons learned, & philanthropic work. Lois has worked with such Hollywood luminaries as Vanessa Redgrave, Jonathan Rhys, Casper Van Dien, Molly Ringwald, Kathy Najimy, Meg Ryan, and Melanie Griffith. In 2019, Lois debuted her solo play L.O.V.E.R at NYC's Signature Theatre, directed by the esteemed Karen Carpenter & produced by the legendary Daryl Roth. Connect with Lois: Website Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Like What You Hear? Join my Patreon Family to get backstage perks including advanced notice of interviews, the ability to submit a question to my guests, behind-the-scene videos, and so much more! Follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Visit: https://callmeadam.com for more my print/video interviews Special Thanks: My Patreon Family for their continued support: Angelo, Reva and Alan, Marianne, Danielle, Tara, and The Golden Gays NYC. Join the fun at https://patreon.com/callmeadamnyc. Theme Song by Bobby Cronin (https://bit.ly/2MaADvQ) Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell (https://bit.ly/2YNI9CY) Edited by Drew Kaufman (https://bit.ly/2OXqOnw) Outro Music Underscore by CueTique (Website: https://bit.ly/31luGmT, Facebook: @CueTique) More on Lois: Lois Robbins is a native New Yorker and accomplished actress. Lois recently shot the independent filmThe Aspern Papers, in Venice, Italy alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Jolie Richardson, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. She also stars in the film Shepherd, which filmed in Budapest in 2017, directed by Lynn Roth, and the feature One Nation Under God with Casper Van Dien, Kevin Sorbo, and Antonio Sabato Jr. Lois will also be starring in the feature YA adventure film Montauk alongside Molly Ringwald. She can be seen starring in the independent films Blowtorch, opposite Billy Baldwin, Kathy Najimy and Armand Assante, Juvie alongside Eric Roberts, and in Ithaca, Meg Ryan’s directorial debut with Sam Shepherd, Melanie Griffith, and Meg Ryan. On the stage Lois has starred in two world-premiere musical comedies: My History of Marriage, by Academy Award and two-time Grammy winner David Shire, Lee Kalcheim and Samuel Kalcheim presented by the 2011 New York Music Theatre Festival; and A Time for Love by David Shire and Richard Maltby, Jr. at the Rubicon Theatre Company at the Roundabout Theater’s Black Box. She also starred as Stephanie Dickinson in Cactus Flower at the Westside Arts Theater produced by Daryl Roth. In the fall of 2019, Lois starred in her self-penned one-act comic play titled: L.O.V.E.R. The play is a riff on childhood, adolescence, and finally adulthood from a grown-up woman’s point of view. Directed by Karen Carpenter, L.O.V.E.R. premiered at the Signature Theatre in New York City. Lois has starred in productions at the Eugene O’Neil Theater Center, Goodspeed Opera, Trinity Repertory, Studio Arena Theater, Rubicon Theater, Schoolhouse Theater, and Roundabout Theater. She has also graced the silver screen in Town and Country, The Screamaker, Hudson River Blues, and Motherhood. Lois is best known for her roles on daytime television including One Life to Live, Loving, Ryan’s Hope, and All My Children. Her additional television credits include guest shots in: Sex And The City, Law & Order, Kingpin, Once And Again, Law & Order SVU, and Blue Bloods. Lois’ most recent television work was the recurring role of "Penelope" on Younger. Lois places a high importance on philanthropic work; she is actively involved with Evelyn H. Lauder’s Breast Cancer Center, the Plastic Pollution Coalition, Alzheimer’s Drug Foundation, and the Lung Cancer Research Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lois Robbins is a native New Yorker and an accomplished actress. Lois Robbins recently shot the independent film The Aspern Papers, alongside Vanessa Redgrave and Jolie Richardson. She also recently completed Meg Ryan’s directorial debut with Sam Shepherd, and Melanie Griffith.  This past fall Lois starred in her self-penned one-act comic play titled: L.O.V.E.R. Lois shares the reasons behind her choice to live a bold life. Produced by LegRoom Creative Engineered by www.podcaststudioservices.com

Episode 76Torso Murders What do an ancient riverbed, Elliot Ness, and at least 12 headless torsos have in common? They are all involved in tonight's episode! Tonight we are diving into our first real foray into true crime. We discuss one of the nation's craziest unsolved serial murder cases ever. And the best part is… It takes place in our own backyard! Tonight we discuss the Kingsbury Run Torso Slayings, better known as the Cleveland Torso Murders.  The Kingsbury Run area of Cleveland Ohio is actually built on an ancient riverbed that once fed into the Cuyahoga river, long before it caught on fire of course. This area is just south of downtown Cleveland and within the area known as the Flats.  While the first body attributed to the Torso Killer was found in September 1934, there are questions as to when the killings actually started as the first mention of a headless body in The Run was in the Cleveland Leader on November 13,1905. A woman scavenging in the Case avenue dump for saleable scrap came across the headless body of a man who was shot in the chest. In early September Frank LaGossie was walking along the beach near his house cleaning up the beach and collecting driftwood when he saw something that didn't really look right sticking out of the sand. As he got closer La Gossie realised what he was seeing wear the lower half of a human torso. Severed at the waist, it was still attached to the thighs but missing it's lower legs. La Gossie ran to his friends house and called the police. It was determined that the body was that of a woman in her mid thirties, about five foot six and weighing 120 pounds. There was evidence that a chemical was used on the body and the coroner claimed the killer tried to use something like quicklime to destroy the body but used slaked lime instead which accidentally helped preserve the body. The body was not water logged so it was determined there Torso was not in the water that long. No other clues were found so police began looking through the missing persons files for women who may match the description they could come up with.       Having read the reports of the murder, Joseph Hedjuk phone Cleveland police reporting that he had found human remains along the beach in North Perry, which is about 40 miles east of Cleveland, two weeks earlier. Hedjuk said he'd reported the find to lake county deputy Melvin Keener who determined that the remains were animals and convinced Hedjuk to bury the find on the beach. On September 7 extensive digging unearthed Hedjuks find, part of a shoulder blade,a partial spinal column and 16 vertebrae. All these pieces matched the Torso found by La Gossie and showed similar exposure to lime based chemical preservatives. The next day two brothers digging in the sand near the first torso discovery found a compatible collarbone and shoulder blade. Safety five days of sensational headlines, tons of worthless leads and clues, and tons of conjecture, the nameless Torso, dubbed Lady Of The Lake, residentially disappeared from the headlines. Her remains were buried in the Potter's Field section of Highland park cemetery on September 11 and Clevelanders seemingly just moved right on from the grisly discovery. And we've still yet to hear mention of Kingsbury Run! September 23, 1935 brings us the story of 16 year old James Wagner and 12 year old Peter Costumes. The two boys played that day among the waste and rubble of Kingsbury Run near E.49th and Praha Avenue. Kingsbury Run was a neglected area that was full of weeds, trash, and debris left by drifters and homeless people that dwelt in the area. Around 5 on the boys decided to have a race down a 60ft but known as jackass hill. James got to the bottom first, he asked something strange in the brush nearby. A minute later he was running back up the hill telling Peter that there was "a dead man with no head down there"! They ran to find an adult and called the police. When police arrived they found the headless emasculated corpse of a young white male. The christ was nude except for black socks. While searching the area, detectives soon found another corpse about thirty feet away. It was the headless and emasculated torso of an older man that had a strange orange reddish tinge and unlike the first corpse which was relatively fresh, this one was badly decomposed.  They searched the area for more clues and found the severed genitals of both corpses and actually found the head of the first torso found. Their first corpse was eventually identified by fingerprints and Edward Adrassy. The second body has no fingerprints and was never identified. The reddish huge suggested that the body was exposed to some sort of preservatives similar to the first body found a year earlier, but that was not something investigators put together. Andrassy was well known to police as " a drunkard, marijuana user, pornography peddler, gambler, pimp, bellicose barroom brawler, bunko artist and all around snotty punk". He ran in tough circles around many undesirables, which meant there were possibly many people with motive. This includes a man who supposedly visited Andrassys house when he was away and told his parents that he would kill Adrassy if he didn't stop paying attention to the man's wife. Detectives drew the measure implications from the clues and bodys. First, the victims knew each other and the body of the unidentified victim was held until the bodies could be dumped together. Second, the bodies were drained of blood and washed before being dumped, there was no other explanation for the complete absence of blood around the bodies at the scene. Three, a park of motor oil found at the scene was most likely there to  burn the bodies. The oil had traces of blood and hair in it. Also they suggest that the careful placement of the body suggests that the body's were not dumped hastily but placed carefully and purposefully. Some suggested that the castration was some sort of criminal ritual like a mafia gesture. Beyond this this police had nothing and soon Clevelanders began to forget about this horrific crime. One last thing about this crime: detective Orly May uttered something to his partner that would end up being somewhat prophetic, he told his partner " I've got a bad feeling about this one." 1936 rolled around and we find Elliot Ness fresh off his celebrated fight against the Capone crime syndicate. He was the newly appointed Director of Public Safety in Cleveland. On the night of January 25th into the morning of the 26th, several dogs were raising the alarm around the Hart Manufacturing Company. At one point a resident decided to do something about one of the barking dogs. As she entered an alert where the dog was she found the dogs straining at it's leash trying to get to a bushel basket that was laying against the back wall of the building. The resident looked into the woman walked back out and found a local butcher named Charles page and told him there were some hams in a basket in the alley. Page went to investigate believing this may be evidence that a butcher shop may have been robbed in the area. What he found was something completely different. He found body parts in the basket. More specifically an arm, two thighs, and the lower half of a female Torso. The body parts bite evidence of coal dust and coal lump imprints. They also found a burlap sack nearby with a pair of cotton underwear wrapped in newspaper in it. Also another sack was found nearby containing chicken feathers. The body was identified after an expert named George Koestle looked through more than 10,000 possible matching fingerprints to finally find a match to a  Florence Polilo. She had been married at least twice and was divorced from her second husband Andrew Polilo in the late twenties. As with our last victims Ms. Polilo was no stranger to police. According to police she figured in a number of barroom brawler and vice activities. She was arrested for soliciting in 1930 and occupying tons for immoral purpose in 1931. She was also arrested for prostitution in Washington D.C. in 1934 and again in Cleveland in 1935 for illegally selling intoxicating beverages. She'd been reportedly going downhill fast in the time leading up to her death. The police find that she had many aquaintances but no one really knew her. They looked for a man she lived with when she moved back from D.C. who reportedly beat her. They also had reports she was in a barroom brawl with a black man in the night of her death. They sought men locked to her with amazing names such as Captain Swing and One Armed Willie, but nothing came off these queries. The police determined the body was place where it was found at around 2:30am which is when all the dogs were heard barking. Police surmised that a very sharp knife in the hands of an amateur was used. A couple weeks later, on February 7th the rest of Ms. Polilos relative were found… Minus the head. Detectives were quick to mention there was no connection between this and the Andrassys killings. We're going to kind of run through the rest of the victims here somewhat quickly for the sake of time. June 1936: Early one morning in Kingsbury Run, two young boys discovered the head of a white male wrapped in a pair of trousers close to the East 55th Street bridge. Police found the body of the twenty-some-year-old man the next day dumped in front of the Nickel Plate Railroad police building. Clean and drained of blood, the corpse was intact except for the head. Pierce again determined the death had been caused by decapitation. In spite of a fresh set of fingerprints and the presence of six distinctive tattoos on various parts of the body, police were never able to identify the victim. There was no evidence of drugs or alcohol in his system. And the contents of his stomach showed his last meal was baked beans and judging by the state of suggestion he was killed a day or two before the body was found. Day after three Torso was found the head was out on display the county morgue in hopes that someone could identify him. A plaster reproduction of the man’s head, along with a diagram of the kind and location of the tattoos, were made to display at the Great Lakes Exposition of 1936. More than one hundred thousand people saw the “Death Mask” and tattoo chart. The “Tattooed Man” was never identified. The original Death Mask, along with three others from the case are on display at the Cleveland Police Museum. This would be the murder that would spark the legend of the Cleveland Torso Murders and the hubby for The Mad Butcher Of Kingsbury Run. Police and experts still differed on opinions on the case including whether the first body was part of this whole messed and some even doubted whether Polilo was part of it. As Parents began telling their children to stay away from the Run, city editors started giving serious thought to a Cleveland Jack the Ripper! July 1936: A teenage girl came across the decapitated remains of a forty-year-old white male while walking through the woods near Clinton Road and Big Creek on the near west side. The victim had been dead about two months and his head, as well as a pile of bloody clothing, was found nearby. Judging by the enormous quantity of blood that had seeped into the ground, this man had apparently been killed where his body was found. He had no distinguishing marks. Although authorities didn't know it yet, this would be the only torso vision to turn up on the west side of Cleveland. Judging by the clothes going and other clues, police determined the victim to be a resident at a hobo camp in the Big Creek woods not far from the crime scene. Oddly enough Elliot Ness, still basking in the headlines he made for fighting police corruption and organized cringe remained silent on the subject. September 1936: A transient trips over the upper half of a man's torso while trying to hop a train at East 37th Street in Kingsbury Run. Police searched a nearby pool, which was nothing more than a big open sewer, and found the lower half of the torso and parts of both legs. Police sent a diver in to make the recovery. The number of onlookers that turned out to watch the grim spectacle was estimated at over six hundred, and the killer may well have been among them. Victim number six was in his late twenties and the cause of death, yet again, was decapitation. Coroner Pierce noted that the lack of hesitation marks in the disarticulation of the body indicated a strong, confident killer, very familiar with the human anatomy. The head had been cut off with one bold, clean stroke. The victim died instantly. Identification was never made. Six brutal killings in one year and the police had neither clues nor suspects. The Cleveland Press, The Cleveland News and The Cleveland Plain Dealer all reported almost daily on the killings and the lack of a suspect. Tension was high. Who was the "Mad Butcher" of Kingsbury Run? Giving in to mounting pressure from Mayor Harold Burton, recently appointed Safety Director Eliot Ness gets more involved in the case. Coroner Pierce calls for what the newspapers dub a “Torso Clinic”: a meeting of police, the Coroner and other experts to discuss information and to “profile” someone who could be responsible for these gruesome killings. The police department put detectives Peter Merylo and Martin Zelewski on the case full time. They move deftly through the seedy underworld that constitutes the Run and the Roaring Third, often dressing the part, often on their own time. By the time the case had run its course, the two had interviewed more than fifteen hundred people, the department as a whole more than five thousand. This would be the biggest police investigation in Cleveland history. The November elections return Harold Burton as Mayor, but Coroner Pierce is replaced by the young democrat, and now legendary, Sam Gerber. Gerber’s fierce dedication to medicine, along with his degree in law, put him at the forefront of the investigation. February 1937: A man finds the upper half of a woman's torso washed up on shore east of Brahtenahl. Unlike all previous victims, the cause of death had not been decapitation; this had happened after she was already dead. The lower half of the torso washed ashore three months later at about East 30th Street. The woman was in her mid-twenties. She was never identified. June 1937: A teenage boy discovered a human skull under the Lorain-Carnegie bridge. Next to it was a burlap bag containing the skeletal remains of what turned out to be a petite black women about forty years old. Dental work allowed for the unofficial identification of one Rose Wallace of Scovill Avenue. Police followed every lead they had on her – they led nowhere. July 1937: There were labor problems in the Flats that summer and the National Guard had been called in to maintain order. A young guardsman standing watch by the West 3rd Street bridge saw the first piece of victim #9 in the wake of a passing tugboat. Over the next few days, police recovered the entire body, except for the head, from the waters of the Cuyahoga River. The abdomen had been gutted and the heart ripped out, clearly indicating a new element of viciousness in the killer’s approach. The victim was in his mid to late thirties; he was never identified. April 1938: A young laborer on his way to work in the Flats saw, what he at first thought was a dead fish, along the banks of the Cuyahoga River. Closer inspection revealed it to be the lower half of a women’s leg, the first piece of victim #10. A month later police pulled two burlap bags out of the river containing both parts of the torso and most of the rest of both legs. For the first time Coroner Gerber detected drugs in the system. Were the drugs used to immobilize the victim or was she an addict? The answer might come when they found the arms; they never did. She was never identified. August 16, 1938: Three scrap collectors foraging in a dump site at East 9th and Lakeside found the torso of a woman wrapped in a man’s double breasted blue blazer and then wrapped again in an old quilt. The legs and arms were discovered in a recently constructed makeshift box, wrapped in brown butcher paper and held together with rubber bands. The head had been similarly wrapped. Gerber noted that some of the parts looked as if they had been refrigerated.  While searching for more pieces, the police discover the remains of a second body only yards away. These two bodies had been placed in a location that was in plain view from Eliot Ness’s office window, almost as if taunting him.  Both victims #11 and #12 were never identified. August 18, 1938: At 12:40 A.M., Eliot Ness and a group of thirty-five police officers and detectives, raid the hobo jungles of the Run. Eleven squad cars, two police vans and three fire trucks descend on the largest cluster of makeshift shacks where the Cuyahoga River twists behind Public Square. Ness’s raiders worked their way south through the Run eventually gathering up sixty-three men. At dawn, police and fireman searched the deserted shanties for clues. Then, on orders from Safety Director Ness, the shacks were set on fire and burned to the ground. The press severely criticized Ness for his actions. The public was afraid and frustrated. Critics said the raid would do nothing to solve the murders. They were right, but for whatever reason, they did stop. July 1939: County Sheriff Martin O’Donnell arrested fifty-two-year-old Bohemian brick layer Frank Dolezal for the murder of Flo Polillo. Dolezal had lived with her for a while, and subsequent investigation revealed he had been acquainted with Edward Andrassy and Rose Wallace. His “confession” turned out to be a bewildering blend of incoherent ramblings and neat, precise details, almost as if he had been coached. Before he could go to trial, Dolezal was found dead in his cell. The five foot eight Dolezal had hanged himself from a hook only five feet seven inches off the floor. Gerber’s autopsy revealed six broken ribs, all of which had been obtained while in the Sheriff’s custody. To this day no one thinks Frank Dolezal was the torso killer. The question is: why did Sheriff O’Donnell. Other suspects:Most investigators consider the last canonical murder to have been in 1938. One suspected individual was Dr. Francis E. Sweeney. Born May 5, 1894, Sweeney was a veteran of World War I who was part of a medical unit that conducted amputations in the field. Sweeney was later personally interviewed by Eliot Ness, who oversaw the official investigation into the killings in his capacity as Cleveland's Safety Director. During this interrogation, Sweeney is said to have "failed to pass" two very early polygraph machine tests. Both tests were administered by polygraph expert Leonarde Keeler, who told Ness he had his man. Ness apparently felt there was little chance of obtaining a successful prosecution of the doctor, especially as he was the first cousin of one of Ness's political opponents, Congressman Martin L. Sweeney, who had hounded Ness publicly about his failure to catch the killer. After Sweeney committed himself, there were no more leads or connections that police could assign to him as a possible suspect. From his hospital confinement, Sweeney sent threatening postcards and harassed Ness and his family into the 1950s. Sweeney died in a veterans' hospital in Dayton on July 9, 1964. In 1997, another theory postulated that there may have been no single Butcher of Kingsbury Run because the murders could have been committed by different people. This was based on the assumption that the autopsy results were inconclusive. First, Cuyahoga County Coroner Arthur J. Pearce may have been inconsistent in his analysis as to whether the cuts on the bodies were expert or slapdash. Second, his successor, Samuel Gerber, who began to enjoy press attention from his involvement in such cases as the Sam Sheppard murder trial, garnered a reputation for sensational theories. Therefore, the only thing known for certain was that all the murder victims were dismembered. Black dahlia connection: The gruesome 1947 murder of aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, THE BLACK DAHLIA, which inspired countless books and films, remains unsolved. Yet, Short’s killer, many believe, may have been the Cleveland Torso Killer. On January 15, 1947, her nude body was discovered cut in half and severely mutilated in a vacant lot near Leimert Park in Los Angeles. The killer not only cleaved the body in twain and mutilated the corpse, but Short had also been drained entirely of blood and the remains scrubbed clean. Short’s face had also been slashed from the corners of her mouth to her ears, creating a chilling effect known as the “Glasgow Smile”- resembling The Joker. “It was pretty gruesome,” Detective Brian Carr of the Los Angeles Police Department said. “I just can’t imagine someone doing that to another human being.”Dubbed “The Black Dahlia” by the press, the case made headlines for weeks as every aspect of Short’s brief life was examined by LAPD detectives and the media. The closest thing they had to a clue was that Short had been working as a waitress before meeting her untimely end.  A round-up of the café’s habitues yielded nothing. Dahlia_Map The exhaustive homicide investigation went nowhere. As per usual in a high profile murder case, there were several confessions by kooks and a plethora of sketchy witnesses looking to get their names bold-faced in the tabloids. Black Dahlia Evidence The Elizabeth Short murder remains one of the most bizarre cold cases in history, fueling a true crime cottage industry of novels and films that purport to solve the crime. Yet, The Black Dahlia may have been a victim of an infamous serial killer who terrorized America’s heartland: The Cleveland Torso Murderer. As the bodies piled up, The Torso Murderer always chopped the heads from his victims’ bodies, often cleaving the torsos in half. Several of the male victims were castrated and others were cleaned with a chemical solvent. The victims’ remains were inevitably found months or years after they had been mercilessly butchered. Identification by police was often impossible as the victims’ heads were rarely found. Often it was truly “a hank of hair, a piece of bone…” Initially, LAPD investigators probing the Elizabeth Short murder conducted a reexamination of the Cleveland Torso Murderer case files. While the similarities were uncanny, the link to the Dahlia case proved inconclusive at first. In 1980, a former Cleveland Torso murder suspect, Jack Anderson Wilson, was under investigation by renowned LAPD homicide detective “Jigsaw” John P. St. John. St. John claimed he was close to proving Wilson had not only been the Cleveland Torso Murderer but had also butchered, Elizabeth Short – the Black Dahlia. Before St. John could arrest him, the suspect died in a fire in 1982. A local Cleveland man who studied the case for years named James Nadal is certain that the aforementioned doctor Frances Sweeney is indeed the killer. He lays out evidence in an interview with Cleveland magazine in 2014. He puts forth on his 2001 book that there was a vagrant named   Emil Fronek who claimed a Cleveland doctor tried to drug him in 1934 — right around the time the murders may have begun. Badal also believes he's identified the butcher's laboratory, the place where he disarticulated his victims. You can find the Cleveland magazine interview online if you're interested. It's good reading and definitely interesting. The story of the vagrant being poisoned we are going to include here because it's pretty interesting and it's definitely an intriguing part of the tale:       In November 1934, Fronek supposedly was walking up Broadway Avenue, looking for food. He said he found himself on the second floor of a doctor's office. The doctor said, "I'll give you a meal." While Emil was shoveling the food down, he began to feel woozy and wondered if he'd been drugged. So he ran down the steps, onto Broadway and into Kingsbury Run, got into a boxcar, fell asleep and awoke three days later. He said he went back to Broadway and East 55th, but couldn't find the doctor. He decided Cleveland was pretty dangerous, so he went to Chicago and got a job as a longshoreman. In August 1938, his story got back to Cleveland. Detective Peter Merylo was sent to Chicago to bring him back. Two policemen drove Fronek up Broadway slowly. When he got to the area around East 50th and East 55th, he says, "It's here someplace." They walked up and down the street several times, but he couldn't find anything that looked like a doctor's office. Ness interviewed him. Officially, they decide — this is what the papers report — that they didn't think it had anything to do with the butcher. They were convinced the butcher's laboratory was close to downtown. Another interesting theory involves a series of killings actors the pond. They were also dubbed The Torso Murders. They happened forty years earlier, in London.  While Jack the Ripper was terrorizing Whitechapel, a second serial killer was dismembering bodies and dumping the body parts.  Most of them ended up in the Thames, but a few were found in secluded parks… Near Whitechapel.  At one point during the Ripper investigation, the two murderers were even compared and it was decided that The Torso Murderer of London and Jack the Ripper were not the same serial killer.  It is unlikely that the killer from 1888 in London dismembering bodies was the same killer doing it in Cleveland in 1936.  Even if the London murderer was 18 at the time, he would have been 58 when the first body turned up in Cleveland.  However, there has been speculation that the two sets of murders could have been committed by a father/son.  It is possibly the earliest mention of a father passing along his desire to kill to a son.  At the time of the Torso Murders in Cleveland, this was dismissed as farfetched, but recent research has revealed that some of the details of the crimes are almost exact matches for each other.  In 1937 however, it was proposed by a coroner who was aware of the Torso Murders in London and Ness made the coroner swear to never repeat the theory or he’d fire him for being incompetent.Do there were have it, the most chilling, crazy, headless serial killer you've probably never heard of.. Unless you're from Cleveland is a big time serial murder enthusiast. Was it related to the black dahlia? Was it a deranged doctor? Was it actually a group of people it a bunch of copycat killers disposing of bodies so as to throw off authorities? We may never know. Cleveland's very own Jack the Ripper.  There are many books as one might expect written about this subject. Much of the information for this episode was gathered from two places. First a book entitled "Maniac in The Bushes and more Tales Of Cleveland Woe" written by John Stark Bellamy II. It contains numerous stories of true crime and disasters from Cleveland throughout the years. He had a series of these books which are great reading even if you're not from Cleveland which detail other major crimes like the Sam Shepherd murder trial and disasters like the Collinwood highschool fire and the May Day riots. The second source was the Cleveland police museum website.  As far as the top ten movies for tonight… There are several documentaries based on these murders. A movie called Kingsbury Run was released in 2018. The movie is about a killer who is basing his crime spree off of the Torso Murders. It's currently got a 5.9 star rating on IMDB .The Midnight Train Podcast is sponsored by VOUDOUX VODKA.www.voudoux.com Ace’s Depothttp://www.aces-depot.com BECOME A PRODUCER!http://www.patreon.com/themidnighttrainpodcast Find The Midnight Train Podcast:www.themidnighttrainpodcast.comwww.facebook.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.twitter.com/themidnighttrainpcwww.instagram.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.discord.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.tiktok.com/themidnighttrainp And wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Subscribe to our official YouTube channel:OUR YOUTUBE

Elixir is an one hour weekly music podcast featuring in depth discussions with DJs, Musician, Collaborators and Club Influencers about the real creations of art, balance and life.Elixir Specials are DJ Mixes which attempt to bring focus to an artist or a DJ. This round, we are putting our focus on the revolutionary, Floating Points.Sam Shepherd is a British electronic producer, DJ, musician, co-founder of Eglo Records and leader of 16-piece group called Floating Points Ensemble from Manchester, England, known professionally as Floating Points.

Watching others progress and develop has been a cornerstone of Sam Shepherd's career. With a background in hospitality and retail Sam has always focussed on how to help others grow. In this insightful conversation she talks about why this matters and how, her own experiences with leaders she has worked for has helped shape her own passion for being a leader who helps others to grow. She also has a wonderful piece of advice for us all, either setting out on our career or in our current roles. Sam Shepherd is the Group Director of Human Resources at O'Callaghan Collection (https://www.ocallaghancollection.com), one of the leading privately owned hotel groups in Ireland.

Everyone has a dad or father story that has become a cornerstone of their existence. That story may be a painful one or a powerful one but the impact of it stretches into multiple areas of our everyday lives. Join me as I interview 13 influential men about the impact that a father story has had on their education, business, families, and self-care. Being the first entrepreneur in your family can seem like a dream and a nightmare at times. Having another entrepreneur in the family gives you an edge. Although AJ's father died when he was young, learning that his father was a risk-taker sparked something for him. AJ has owned his own barbershop and even moved to Columbia where he currently resides. Those highlights don't overshadow a something shared by his mentor Sam Shepherd when he was about to become homeless. "You will learn more from living in your car than you will learn from running home to your mama!"This sparked something within AJ that made him look at how he was measuring up in life. What was the real goal and did he really have what he needed to achieve it? That meant sidestepping validation in order to gain discipline through becoming uncomfortable. Like his ritual of taking a cold shower in the morning. It is not what you do while everyone is watching...it what you do when you think you are the only one that knows what happened. A.J. Vassar is a former Division One football player now living his dream in Colombia. The Author of "Day Grades" and creator of "Underground Wealth Road". After his football days, A.J. found himself homeless and a mere five years later he donated five cars to five people less fortunate. A.J now works and speaks with UnleashU Now and runs the Speakers Courses that will teach you to craft a universal message that you can take to almost any stage. From rags to riches, A.J Vassar is the international speaker, educator, and coach you need in your life! Connect with AJ Vassarwww.facebook.com/aj.vassar

On Today's episode, Sam Shehperd, a self-published author will be sharing his entrepreneurial story along with his expertise in book writing and self-publishing. Sam is a junior at UMD and has published 3 books while still in school.Where You Can Find Sam Shepherd:Sam’s InstagramShow Notes: [0:51] - Introduction[1:28] - All about Sam’s Education[1:48] – Sam shares what is involved with being a self published authorWhen self-publishing you have to create the publishing process yourselfAmazon is the easiest way to self-publish your bookThumbtack is a great place to find editors [3:55] – How Sam’s education has played a role in him publishing his booksLetting your mind grow and experiencing new things helps come up with content [4:43] - Sam shares what his books are about[5:30] – The most challenging thing for Sam when publishing his first bookFiguring out the workflow and processFear of disapproval during the process and after the book has been published [6:50] – How Sam has leveraged being a student in his publishing processConnecting with administrators and librarians to help find information for his books [7:30] – Sam shares the most rewarding thing about publishing his books.Being recognized for something that you create [7:58] – Why creative content is preferable to a “9-5 job”You have control over your time and what you are doing [8:40] – What is unique about Sam’s book compared to othersThe more you read his books the more you will learn about Sam through indirect messages. [9:05] – Bluehost Advertisement:Bluehost is my #1 recommended web hosting provider and I have used it for all of the websites for my current and past businesses. Sign up for Bluehost today to take your first step towards creating your website. (If you use my Bluehost link I will earn a commission) [10:28] - The first step someone should take when wanting to publish a book.Write down your ideas!Do research about your publishing options and what the pros/cons are.[11:58] - Methods to promote your books and build a brand around yourselfSocial mediaWebsite and E-Mail list[14:00] - Making creative content has a lot more work than what is expected[15:51] - Fast five sectionMost valuable class: High School English classRecommended book: Mind Gym by Gary Mack and Complex Mind by Sam. Recommended business tool: Instagram / Facebook / SnapchatMethod to keep on track: Balancing time between responsibilities Most productive time of day: Depends on when he falls into a rhythm [19:43] - Main Takeaway: Don’t be afraid to share your ideas with the world and write them down!Mentioned Resources:Note: Some of the resources below may be affiliate links, meaning I receive a commission (at no extra cost to you) if you use that link to make a purchase.Student Built Startups websiteBluehostComplex Mind by Sam ShepherdBreaking Point by Sam ShepherdPositive Thoughts by Sam ShepherdMind Gym by Gary Mack

This episode digs into the journey of Sam Shepherd, an English electronic musician and neuroscientist, who records and performs music under the name Floating Points along with being a co-founder of the label Eglo Records. From getting a Sun Ra remix picked up by Giles Peterson to releasing the landmark electronic LP of 2019 in Crush, your ears will be drenched in a producer that wows and astounds at every turn...

In this episode John heads to EMS4 studios in Shoreditch to chat with Floating Points a.k.a Sam Shepherd, about how he recorded and produced his latest release, Crush. Talking from deep within Sam’s musical laboratory, we peer behind the curtain and find out how Floating Points music is created and crafted, pulling apart some of the tracks from his second album along the way. We get to hear how live performance and classical music are a serious influence in his writing process in addition to experimenting with the impressive number of synths he’s collected over the years. Geekery is in abundance in this episode. Listen to find out why space was scant in Sam’s student bedroom, who sick Anna actually is and why sometimes all you need is a Yamaha Reface CS in your backpack. Tracks discussed: Last Bloom, Annasickmodualr, Bias.Gear discussed in epsiode:S950 sampler, ARP 2600, API 1608, API vision, API 512c pre, STUDER A80 tape machine, ARP Rhodes Chroma, Yamaha CS70, Buchla, MAM ADX1 Drum Machine, Marshall time modulator, Yamaha Reface CS If you'd like to help support the show you can donate as little or as much as you'd like here, (we really appreciate your contributions): Donate You can learn more about our partners Focusrite here. Follow us on Social Media to keep up to date with the latest episodes and submit questions: InstagramFacebookTwitter Visit our website to join our mailing list: www.tapenotes.co.uk  

Después de haber ido adelantando trabajos es momento de irnos encontrando con ellos en su conjunto. Nos pasa con el sorprendente 'Jdid' de los franceses Acid Arab, con Sam Shepherd retomando su proyecto Floating Points en formato largo, también nos cruzamos con las nuevas piezas de artistas como Omar Souleyman, Midland, Panthera Krause y muchos más. La Lista I: St. David - I Got the Music [Let's Play House] Acid Arab feat. Radia Menel – Staifia [Crammed Discs] KX9000 - World Wide Weeb [Pont Neuf Records] Hercules & Love Affair - Change [Skint] TSHA – Me You [Counter Records] Tourist - Still Life [Monday Records] Cyence - Slave (Dark Disco Mix) [Correspondant] Omar Souleyman – Layle [Mad Decent] Kostrok - Mundo Disco [theBasement Discos] Midland - Frequency FM [Graded] Grant feat. Jenifa Mayanja – The Road In Front Of Me [Lobster Theremin] Edward - Paradise [Giegling] Floorplan - Fiyaaaa! [Aus Music] Disco de la semana: ‘Crush’ de Floating Points, publicado por Ninja Tune Leyenda: 'Typerope' de Mathew Jonson, publicada por Itiswhatitis Recordings en 2003 La Lista II: Grimes & i_o – Violence Sascha Funke - Geisterfahrer [Permanent Vacation] Lost Trax - Surface Treated [Delsin] Steven Warwick – Open Fire Hydrant [PAN] Panthera Krause - Birthday Club (Real Club Version) [Riotvan] Bnjmn - Intercellular [Bright Sounds] DJ Spinn - U Ain't Really Bout Dat Life [Hyperdub] Kangding Ray - Azores [Figure] Ray Kajioka – Taking Action [Kanzleramt Music] RoughLinerz - Pump [Monkeytown Records]

While walking our dog, Maggie, near the Popo Agie River on a frigid day last winter, I noticed a tiny, slate-grey bird standing on the ice next to open water. As I watched, the bird, an American dipper, dove into the water and disappeared. A little while later, it popped out of the river and back to its spot on the ice. I was transfixed with wonder. Maggie and I have also seen kingfishers, American kestrels, lots of mule deer, various kinds of snakes, ruffed grouse, and, to my shock, a badger in our backyard. Add to the animals, all the plants and flowers, the geology, the weather, the night sky and we can't help say with Psalm 104, “O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.” Wyoming Catholic College students study God's Creation as part of our math and science curriculum under the watchful eye of Dr. Sam Shepherd. Dr. Shepherd and his family moved from Ireland this summer to join our faculty. He is our guest this week on The After Dinner Scholar.

Nita June Davanzo of DogStar Theater Company joins Maggie and Anna to discuss Intimate Constellations, DogStar’s upcoming evening of stories, music, conversation and wine featuring the works of Arthur Miller, Susan Glaspell, Sam Shepherd, Tenessee Williams and more. Photographer/Artist Nathaniel Gray stops by to discuss Santa Barbara Project, his two-year community photography project featuring black

AFTERBUZZ TV - AfterBuzz TV's Mini Spotlight edition, is a short form interview series featuring actors & artists discussing their roles and shows as well as their thoughts, passions and journeys. In this episode host Nick Mardi interviews Wayne Pere. Wayne Pere has a supporting role as scientist, Dr. Emerson in the Sony/Marvel feature VENOM opposite Tom Hardy. He’s also featured in the upcoming new DC HBO series Watchmen; the indie feature Trial by Fire starringLaura Dern, and Fonzo starring Tom Hardyand recently had roles in Billionaire Boys Club and director Rob Reiner’s Shock and Awe.     Born in Houma, Louisiana, of French and Cajun ancestry, Péré attended Louisiana State University, where he studied drama and first worked with future filmmaker Steven Soderbergh who later made him a charter member of the director’s “Baton Rouge Mafia” – a stable of former LSU actors who regularly appear in Soderbergh’s films. Péré considers his performance as Crow in the LSU stage production of Sam Shepherd’s The Tooth of Crime as a seminal experience that had led him to pursue character roles in Hollywood. Arriving in Los Angeles, Péré starred alongside Holly Hunter, Bill Pullman and Carol Kane in the west-coast premiere of Beth Henley’s play Control Freaks. He later portrayed the title character in Soundman, an independent film that was inspired by Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Since then, Péré has been busy, moving easily from series regular and guest-starring roles to important character parts in the movies. His television series credits include: Cloak and Dagger, Roots, Underground,South of Hell, Nip/Tuck, Treme, American Horror Story, Banshee, Ghost Whisperer, Dead Last, NYPD Blue, The Flash, Star Trek: Voyager, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Friends, That 70s Show, Brimstone, Tracey Takes On…, The Practice, Las Vegas, and NCIS. His feature film credits include: Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House (as John Ehrlichman), Spider-man: Homecoming, The Beguiled, Free State of Jones, The Case for Christ, Heart Baby, The Big Short, Out of Sight, The Limey, Galaxy Quest (as the extraterrestrial Lt. Lathe), Ocean’s Thirteen, The Informant!, 99 Homes, Fantastic Four,American Ultra, I Saw the Light, King of Herrings and Trumbo. When he isn’t on a soundstage, you can find Péré in the great outdoors – hiking, rock climbing, backpacking, exploring the wilderness. He’s also an accomplished director with the feature film Extreme Walking, the award winning short Kink, and several other shorts and music videosunder his belt. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

My name is Bill Huffman and I am an independent journalist. I have spent the past nine months taking a deep dive in the abduction and murder of 10 year-old Amy Mihaljevic from Bay Village, Ohio on October 27th, 1989. I was the same age as Amy when she was abducted and I lived in the neighboring city of Rocky River so it feels like this case has been around my whole life.I am searching for answers to a mystery that has baffled investigators and the community because this abductor didn’t just pick Amy off the street; he called her on the phone and arranged a meeting with her abductor. This case has been a focal point in a city where crime doesn’t happen often but when it does it makes sure to become a national story, case in point, the Sam Shepherd case that spawned movies and television shows. This city of less than 20,000 people has a knack for finding itself in the middle of these unsolved mysteries. This podcast is here to set the story straight and hopefully find answers to the mystery that has gripped this community and Amy’s family for nearly 30 years.

My name is Bill Huffman and I am an independent journalist. I have spent the past nine months taking a deep dive in the abduction and murder of 10 year-old Amy Mihaljevic from Bay Village, Ohio on October 27th, 1989. I was the same age as Amy when she was abducted and I lived in the neighboring city of Rocky River so it feels like this case has been around my whole life.This case has been a focal point in a city where crime doesn’t happen often but when it does it makes sure to become a national story, case in point, the Sam Shepherd case that spawned movies and television shows. This city of less than 20,000 people has a knack for finding itself in the middle of these unsolved mysteries. This podcast is here to set the story straight and hopefully find answers to the mystery that has gripped this community and Amy’s family for nearly 30 years.

Once again, we are watching a Terrence Malick film about a murderer on the run. What is remarkable is that Days of Heaven feels like it's by the same artist as Badlands, but it never really feels like he's repeating himself. This is the tale of a romantic lying duo who works on a wheat farm run by Sam Shepherd. Yet Eric argues, they are not the real focus on this movie. Instead it's by a clever observer who is fated to be let down by those she trusts...   Terrence Malick's Five 1) Badlands 2) Days of Heaven 3) The Thin Red Line 4) The New World 5) The Tree of Life   –Leave us your thoughts on this movie at TheArtImmortal.com –Subscribe to Eric’s video game YouTube channel, Constant Diversion –Listen to Austin’s other podcast, The Immortals.   Twitter iTunes YouTube   Join us next Friday for their review of The Thin Red Line.  Artwork by Ray Martindale Theme Song by Adam Lord 

A new month means a new bit of equipment! This month Ratzi's reviewing the brand new Pioneer DJ DDJ-SB3 controller! What better way to get into the controller than a tech talk with Product Specialist Sam Shepherd! Every Thursday, host Ratzi will be chopping his way through commercial, underground, throwback and old school vibes, as well as mixes, interviews and album exclusives from special guests! However, the show isn't only about music! Every month Ratzi will be testing and reviewing a new piece of industry standard equipment! All of the podcasts will be recorded live on the particular decks / controller featured that month, and on the last Thursday of the month the podcast will be aired LIVE with Ratzi ready to answer any questions live in the mix!

The ECD pair discuss their ability to adapt, the advent of the Super Bowl war room, how to succeed, why good work dies, and the value of competition.

A new month means a new bit of equipment! This month Ratzi is reviewing the brand spanking new Pioneer DJ DDJ-1000! He starts off the month with a mix, sharing his first impressions on the controller and a guest interview and tech talk from Product Specialist Sam Shepherd. Every Thursday, host Ratzi will be chopping his way through commercial, underground, throwback and old school vibes, as well as mixes, interviews and album exclusives from special guests! However, the show isn't only about music! Every month Ratzi will be testing and reviewing a new piece of industry standard equipment! All of the podcasts will be recorded live on the particular decks / controller featured that month, and on the last Thursday of the month the podcast will be aired LIVE with Ratzi ready to answer any questions live in the mix!

San Francisco's Magic Theatre Artistic Director Loretta Greco talks about her friendship and work with the late playwright, actor, author, screenwriter and director, Sam Shepard, who passed away on July 27, 2017 at the age of 73.Transcript:Speaker 1: Method to the madness is next. You listening to method to the madness, a public affairs show on k a l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. I'm your host, Lisa Keifer. And today I'm speaking with Loretta Greco, the artistic director of San Francisco's magic theater. We'll be talking about Sam Shepherd, one of America's greatest playwrights who passed away this year, July 27th, 2017 at his [00:00:30] home in Kentucky due to complications of Lou Gehrig's disease at the age of 73. Sam Shepard spent a decade as playwright in residence at San Francisco's magic theater. Loretta, thank you for coming over here. My pleasure. And I just want to talk about Sam shipSpeaker 2: because I feel like if people pass away and then it's over, I have to talk about his work. And you actually worked with him for several years. How did you [00:01:00] meet? Well, I should back up and say that I had been reading about the magic theater in San Francisco my whole life. I grew up in Miami, went to school in New Orleans, Washington, New York. And it was because of Sam, uh, you know, uh, John Lyon gave Sam a residency there for 10 years, starting when starting in 74 to about 84. But that's where he wrote bury child and full for love and true West family trilogy, family trilogy, and probably [00:01:30] well undoubtedly plays that are going to go on forever. And, uh, and so when I got here 10 years ago, I started looking for Sam and he, he was, he, when you say you were looking for him drop, what do you mean?Speaker 2: Well, I mean, literally I got there and there was like no number, no, like it was there. It was a lot of fun tracking them down. And I finally, um, I went through his agent and Judy Dolan and she sort of was a great like guard dog. So I had to meet her and then she said, [00:02:00] Oh yeah, yeah, Sam will love you. And so, but you said you're on your own, you know, here's this number. You have my blessings, good luck. And, um, when we finally reached each other about five years ago, six years ago, he just, he was incredible. He was just so real. And so we, I was reaching it because I wanted to celebrate him while I was still around and you had just taken over the magic taken over. And I wanted [00:02:30] to do a shepherding America where we went through all of his major plays and, um, but I didn't want to do it if he didn't want to be a part of it.Speaker 2: And, um, so that's why I was reaching out to him. Boy, it was just something meeting him. He came out and he did an evening where he just read from his work and Lisa, it was incredible. And that's when we spent about five days together. And then, you know, he, he surprised me several times in San, like he'd just show [00:03:00] up. Um, and then if he was in New York and I was in New York, we would see each other there. So he was just, he was so incredibly kind and generous and I think, um, a lot of other things as well. But I think those are the things that you don't hear about him as much. Um, he's just incredible. Let's talk about his work just a bit because I feel like he's one of our greatest absolute rights. What is it that you find or found in his work that made you want to seek him out?Speaker 2: [00:03:30] Well, they're inexplicably, they are, um, not, they are plays that are not meant to be understood, fully digested, wrapped up in a big bow. They're works that are there to make you feel and to lean in. They're muscular, they're visceral, they're active, they are totally active. And um, I just, I got in a huge argument once with the patron, cause I said [00:04:00] Shepard is without a doubt our greatest American. Dramatist and um, you know, she took me on. What about Miller? What about Alby? And I said shepherd has been writing. He's, he wrote into his six decade, he wrote, since he was a little, you know, late teens, he wrote 55 plays. He wrote screenplays. He has five collections of pros, like the sheer magnitude and depth of that work. I mean there isn't [00:04:30] a canon like it. Actors kill to play these roles. I mean, you know you fell in love with them. I do. You know, through his work. I mean you can't, my introduction was true west and I was so blown over and then that led me down the path.Speaker 3: Are you crazy? You went to college [inaudible] you're rolling in the docks floating up and down in elevators and you want to learn how to live on the yaks. Yeah, I do [00:05:00] lake. Hey, there's nothing down here for me. There never was when we were kids here was different. There was a lights here then. No, no. I keep coming down here like it's the 50s or something. I get off the freeway and familiar landmarks. They turn out to be unfamiliar on my way to do these, these appointments. I wondered on the streets, I thought I recognized they turned out to be replicants as traits. I remember streets I mr member streets. I don't know if I lived out of her. If I saw [00:05:30] him in a scary field, the just don't exist. There is no point in crying about that as not been rammed down their lien. Please dear mommy, I can't save you and you can let me come with you guys. Let me come with the weight that I choose to live in the middle of nowhere. Huh? You think [00:06:00] it's some kind of philosophical decision I took. Boy, I live out there. Be Cold. I can't make it here.Speaker 2: Jessica Lange said that no man she had ever met compared to Sam. In terms of maleness, what do you think about that statement? You know, um, he had it going on until the last time I saw him and I saw him when he was sick. I said, what do you think she meant by this wellness? He is [00:06:30] profoundly male. He is. Um, first of all, he was a long, tall drink of water, man. He just, I'm, I'm five, nine and he made me feel small and that's great. And he's just, I mean, come on. He hunts. I, I can't, it's so [inaudible] reminds me of, he reminds me a lot of William Faulkner, the way they live, the way they drank their maleness. And what they said about [00:07:00] the myth of the American dream? Well, exactly. I mean, I think the thing about Sam was he was the iconic marble man.Speaker 2: I mean, he, he hunted, he, he, he smoked, he drank. He, um, he rode horses. He loved his horses, he loved his dogs. He, um, he was just incredible and he lived so long that he really did experience the west, that old mythic west and [00:07:30] the promise of the American dream. And then lived to see that promise reneged, you know? And so I think that, um, he also, he turned heads everywhere. He went. I mean, we'd be sitting in a diner and people would come up and say, are you Sam Shepard? And they'd be in their teens all the way to women, much more mature. Um, what was it like for actors to work under his direction? Did you [00:08:00] observe that? I knew several, and I think that actors loved him because, because a, he was an actor and a fine one, and he understood and respected the craft.Speaker 2: And so he guided with a loving, gentle hand, but he didn't get in people's way. He knew that if he laid a little path that people would find their own way. And so he wasn't a micromanager. He really [00:08:30] let people soar and find their own, their own journey to his characters. And he said once that he assumed that if you are, if you're doing this, and you must understand what I'm saying. Yes, yes. And speaking Sam's words like that's come on. Malcovich um, James Gammon, um, uh, uh, ed Harris, Kathy Baker. Um, these are people that were drawn to that [00:09:00] muscularity and lived for it. And it, I think that Sam and that work baked a kind of muscularity into the magic into Steppenwolf so that then it set the bar high in terms of what theater really was and what you needed to feel across the boards for it to be viable. And he never stopped writing.Speaker 1: If you're just tuning in, you're listening to method to the madness. Public Affairs [00:09:30] show on k a l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. Today we're remembering Sam Shepard and talking with Loretta Greco, San Francisco's magic theaters, artistic director, Sam Shepard's association with the Magic Theater included 24 productions in total. He spent a decade as playwright in residence where he premiered his master works buried child, true west and fool for love. He returned in the year 2000 [00:10:00] to direct the world premier of his work, the late Henry Moss. And he had just written a fictional [inaudible]Speaker 2: book, which is kind of autobiographical in his last year. The one inside was published last January and he wrote it while he was sick, but he wrote it and it's astounding. The particle of dread was published a [00:10:30] couple months later. That was his re dreaming of Oedipus. And he did it in dairy Ireland with Steven Ray. It's an incredible script and his latest spy of the first person has just come out. It's being published months after his death. He was working on this as he was sick. He was recording it and he was dictating to Roxy and sandy has two sisters. And um, and it's my understanding [00:11:00] then his daughter. And, um, and then Patty Smith worked with them on both the last two novels to help that it, they go way back and they remained such close friends. And so, I mean, who does that? I mean I just, I opened this book, I wanted to look at the letters between Sam and Joe Chaikin before I came here and look at what he opens this with.Speaker 2: It's a Brecht who he loved Brecht and Beckett. This is [00:11:30] his opening quote. You can make a fresh start with your final breath. Oh, that's, that kills me. Yeah. He never stopped. The last time I saw him was the day before he left for Kentucky. I sat with Sandy and Roxie and Sam and my partner mark in Healdsburg. And um, Sam was writing, we talked about Beckett. We talked about where do you think the Beatles came up with the lyrics for blackbird? He was contemplating all these things [00:12:00] and he said to me, can you believe it? I'm still writing. I'm not stopping. I can't stop. I mean, I think this is the thing about Sam. He was profoundly himself from the beginning until the end. Flawed and damaged and chasing a dream of America that did not exist any longer and chasing the tail of his father.Speaker 2: And he did it honestly, humbly and painfully. And I love him for that. [00:12:30] He never made facades. He never hid. He was profoundly himself till the end. Yeah. What was your favorite of his works? Well, you know, it's funny, I would have, if we had talked a year and a half ago, I would've said Barry Child, because I have, I have loved that place since I read it 1978 and didn't know what the heck to make of it. And I kept reading and reading and I finally directed it and I thought, oh my gosh, it's like king lear. It's like you could direct it five times. Yeah. [00:13:00] Just start to, to grasp the, the depths of the meaning of that play. But I did full for love last year and I have to say, Lisa, it was like working on a Beckett play. When you work on Beckett, you think you know a little something and then you get in rehearsal and you realize you know nothing.Speaker 2: And every day it's like an archaeological dig and you learn a little more and you make a discovery and that leads to 17 other big deep questions. Working [00:13:30] on fool for love was one of the joys of my life because it was also, I mean, Sam never shied away from taboo. Right. So it's a love story about siblings and um, see this is where I see the Falkner connection. Yeah. Because the more you read say an Absalom, Absalom, you know, it's about incessant and family. It's about miscegenation. I mean it's about all these things and every time you read it you see something else, [00:14:00] a real artist. That's what you feel when you read it. It's new every time. Every time, every 10, it will be a new play. I really do feel like fool and berry child and true west, if there's a bottle that gets dug up centuries from now, those are going to be in it.Speaker 2: I mean, they're going to talk about who this country was and what, what our goals were, what our aims were and how broken hearted and yet undaunted the human American [00:14:30] spirit thing is. He got to appreciate the world's appreciation of him pretty early on. Like you say, when you met him, you sensed the honesty and the appreciation. He was one of the shyest people I'd ever met for him to do an interview for me to convince him to do an interview with Rob Harwood at the SF chronicle. I had to agree to come and sit with him and he, he detested post show talk backs. [00:15:00] He didn't want to talk about the work. He didn't, you know, if you asked him what is it about, he would say, Oh, if I knew I wouldn't have to. Right. And so he, he was uncomfortable in a way with the kind of fame, but I, you know, like [inaudible] I think he appreciated, the thing is he got that Pulitzer early, that was 79 for a play he wrote in 78 and [00:15:30] I think, you know, it's funny because he said to me once, I don't know what all the fuss is about those plays, they're just plays.Speaker 2: I wrote when I was a kid, you know, [inaudible] you know, but, but that wasn't him being self-deprecating. That's really what's really lad. And I mean he was so comfortable in his skin as a human being and as a male. But as a, as an actor, as a, as someone who was famous, I never saw him and joy that in the way [00:16:00] I did. Interesting that he moved easily between his literature and film and his acting and acting. You know, that's not easy for a lot of people to go in between those. I know. And, and it's interesting because he was up for an academy award the same year that he won the Pulitzer. And I think that the acting informed the writing and the writing informed the acting. And that's the thing about the writing. There's [00:16:30] not an extra syllable. I mean there just really isn't. And he wrote Paris, Texas and many other Oh, absolutely.Speaker 2: Films. So he really knew both sides of the camera. And I have to say the pros, his five collections of pros, um, motel chronicles and, and cruising paradise and dad of days and, and great dreams of heaven. Those, we would read them every day. Every time I was in rehearsal for live the mind for Barry Child for fool, for love, [00:17:00] for a big Sam Festival we did on a 70th birthday, we would start every day by opening the books and reading his prose, short little pieces that were all about this country and they are magnificent and a completely different discipline. That's one of the hardest, you know, that's one of the hardest short stigma. And I think, I think if there was one thing he wouldn't mind me saying is that he wanted [00:17:30] to crack the long form novel and he felt like he never did. He wanted to write something that was longer form and it just kicked his booty.Speaker 2: You know? And, and he talked about that several times with this before or after he had written the, the, the novel, the fictional, the novel, the, I'm one inside, and I haven't read this by the first person, but, or spy of the first person. But the one inside is like a little novella. It's, it's [00:18:00] naked. It is so unbelievably transparent about him and his dad, him and his dad, him and his women, him and his drinking. Maybe our listeners don't know about his relationship with his father. Maybe you can tell it was, um, I learned part of this from Sam. The last time I saw him. I didn't know that his dad was a Fulbright scholar. He told me his dad was a, was an absolute learn it man. And [00:18:30] he knew he was a bomber pilot. He went to war and he came back and, um, he, he was lost it to his dad and it really destroyed him.Speaker 2: Sam's, you know, his family was, you know, his mom was a rock and his, you know, his home was full of violence and alcoholism. His Dad, I mean, if, you know, lie of the mind, you know, it's a pretty, pretty, uh, close to Real, you know, [00:19:00] portrayal of how his dad died in the middle of a highway, run down drunk. And, um, and Sam will talk about it, you know, um, in, in, uh, in a variety of ways. But I think that his dad's heart ache and his dad's being destroyed and, and that being present in his household. I mean, Sam writes about finance and m knows it firsthand and I think that he wanted more time [00:19:30] with his dad. His Dad was a man of very few words and I think that Sam spent his entire life trying to figure him out.Speaker 4: Yeah. I grew up in this, this World War Two world where the women were continually trying to heal up the man, you know, and, and suffering horribly behind it. Now, I don't know why that came about, but I have a strong thing that had to do with World War II. These men returned from this sheer ROIC [00:20:00] victory of one kind or another, and entered this Eisenhower age and were devastated in some basic way. You know, I mean, almost all those men that, uh, that, that were of my father's generation seemed like they were devastated in a way that, that it's mysterious still and the women didn't understand it and the men didn't understand it. So the, the, the, uh, the medicine was booze for the most part. Boots. It suddenly occurred [00:20:30] to me that I was maybe avoiding a territory that I needed to investigate, which is a family and add voided for, for quite a while. Because to me it was, it was, it was a danger in, in, I was a little afraid of it, you know, particularly around my own man and all of that emotional territory. You know, I w I didn't really want to tip toe in there and then I said, well, maybe a better,Speaker 2: and he, he also [00:21:00] wrote about how you really never escape the past, the history. No, and I think that, you know, sometimes people think about him and his images stick dialogue, which is absolutely unparalleled. But for me, in all of these mediums, Sam is digging up our primordial pasts. He knows that you can't take a step forward without the ghosts of what came before. And he knew that as a young writer [00:21:30] and he never forgot it.Speaker 4: I do honor the ones that have come before me, you know? I mean, you know, it's ridiculous to think that you're, uh, you're, you're, you were born out of thin air. There's, there's, there's things that, uh, there's ancestors, you know, and uh, if you don't honor your ancestors in the real sense, [00:22:00] you, uh, you're committing a kind of suicide. Yeah.Speaker 2: Do you have a story that you can tell us about you and Sam that you wouldn't mind sharing maybe no one else in the world knows about? I'll tell you two things. One is that I had loved his writing for so long and when we finally met, I picked him up at the cleft. It's funny because I got him this beautiful sweet that was basically like an apartment [00:22:30] with views, almost three 60 of the city at the top of the cliff hotel. And I picked him up there and met him in the lobby and I was taking him to see a show and we would then spend almost a week together and get to know each other. But I was so nervous and he was nervous. He said he, he's, he was late and he said, I got in the elevator and I just couldn't figure out all those buttons.Speaker 2: And he said, next time I do not want to be in a fancy hotel, I want [00:23:00] to put me up in a Ho motel, right by the water, by the magic or just on the other side. And I was so nervous, Lisa driving him that I turned the wrong way on Franklin. I've been driving on Frank Lennon golf since I moved here. I knew one goes north and one goes south. I turned onto oncoming traffic. I was just beside myself. I was so nervous. There was no one in my life that I would have been more nervous about meeting. [00:23:30] And you know, we hung out in the theater and just talked and talked one day and I'll tell you, I just, I grew to love him and, and he, the thing about him is he was just profoundly real and he wanted to make sure I was too.Speaker 2: And so one time in New York I met him and I was supposed to go to a matinee and he just, we were supposed to have a quick tea. We ended up having lunch and just, and I asked him about Joe Chaikin and he started to talk about [00:24:00] making tongues and savage lab, which made it at the magic and with Joe and Lisa, his eyes brimmed with tears talking about how humbled he was to be in a room with Joe, let alone making something with Joe. And if you read their letters back and forth, you know, they had an extraordinary relationship. Betty talked about that time and then he, he started [00:24:30] talking about back at any, started reciting back at just off the, I mean off the cuff. And I was sitting there listening to his stories and I just, I thought, I don't ever want to get up. Like I just don't want to leave him. He loved making theater so much and he remained in awe of the masters and in awe of all those Irish cats. And [00:25:00] um, but him reciting back at that was, that was a highlight for me. Yeah, that's pretty great.Speaker 4: It's very interesting to me, aloneness. Very interesting. Because it's always this balance between aloneness and being a part of a community or a part of, you know, it's always been interesting from the very start is this exile. That's what Beckett is so powerful. I said, [00:25:30] you know, he's bad. It's all about Exxon. It's about banishment about being cut away. Uh, and then at the same time having to take part in it.Speaker 2: Since he had kind of a, well, he had a bad relationship with his father. Was he able to bridge that and get past that and have a good relationship with his own kids? I wish that I could speak to that personally. What I'll tell you is, man, he loved Jesse and Jesse loves him and I know all of his kids, [00:26:00] Anna and Walker. I mean they were there the whole time. And, and what I know is Sam speaking of them and he often said, it's, it's a wonder that Jessica and I turned out to have the greatest, most sane human beings ever and a miracle that Jesse is as extraordinary a man and father as he is. And Sam once said to me that just hearing the sound of his daughter's voice set him right every time. So I know, I mean, I [00:26:30] think that he was just, that he was mythic, that he was interested in things larger, you know, than a kitchen table story.Speaker 2: And I think, um, the size of him, the size of his is gonna live on. And I think that people are going to, when they think about the American spirit, I really do think they're going to call upon his, his Canon of work, which is unparalleled. Again, 55 plays five collections of prose. And he played [00:27:00] over 50 roles on film. Yeah, I mean it's just, there hasn't been an artist like him and I, I really don't think there'll be one. Again, are you going to be doing anything coming up? We're going to do something at the very end of the season to commemorate him. Mike, a big Rawkus memorial and when you say end of the season, but it would be in May. And then we're going to set an annual celebration of Sam on his birthday at the magic every November [00:27:30] 5th, and we're hoping it'll be like Bloom's day. Like everybody getting together to read Joyce on, uh, on Bloom's Day. We want to get together and just have a community where people just pick up Sam's work and read it aloud and that every year we can hear his words hit the air and be reminded of their power. Loretta, it's so great to talk to you about Sam Shepherd. Thank you so much for coming on method to the madness. You are so welcome.Speaker 5: When you die,Speaker 2: [00:28:00] go straight to heaven or hell.Speaker 5: When you die,Speaker 2: disintegrate into energy.Speaker 5: When you die, who are reborn into another body. When you die, you turn dished. When you die, you travel to other [inaudible]Speaker 2: planets.Speaker 5: When you die,Speaker 2: you get to start all over.Speaker 5: When [00:28:30] you die, get marked in the book. When you dry,Speaker 2: rejoined with your ancestors.Speaker 5: Where'd you die?Speaker 2: Oh, your dreams will come true.Speaker 5: When you die,Speaker 2: you speak to the angels.Speaker 5: When you die, he'll get what you deserve when [00:29:00] you die. It'sSpeaker 2: absolutely the finalSpeaker 5: when you die and never come back. When you die, you die forever. When you die,Speaker 2: it's the end of your life. You've been listening to method to the madness. A public affairs show on k a [00:29:30] l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators today show was all about Sam Shepherd. You can find all of our podcasts on iTunes university. We'll seeSpeaker 6: you in two weeks. [00:30:00] [inaudible]. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Actor-Director-Playwright Michael Wright and I explore risky venues as well as finding your creative voice. We talk about taking a chance with your writing and staging your original work to draw an audience into your world. University of Tulsa professor Michael Wright is a theatre director, actor, teacher, and playwright. Michael’s theatrical work plays with form, audience interaction, and uncommon theatrical venues. He is the author of Playwriting in Process, Playwriting Master Class, and Sensory Writing for Stage and Screen. Michael received awards for his work as a teacher of playwriting from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the Kennedy Center. During the podcast, you’ll hear us mention the Tulsa Artists' Coalition Gallery and Playwright David Blakely, the playwright in residence for Tulsa’s Heller Theatre who’ll be featured in a later interview. We also talked about Sam Shepherd and his play True West. Michael mentioned the WomenWorks program for female playwrights in graduate school but there are no links as that is a by-nomination program. If you are a women in grad school, talk to your playwriting professor about the University of Tulsa's playwriting competition, WomenWorks. Be sure to listen until the end of the interview for Concise Advice from the Interview, and Words of Wisdom from George. SallyPAL can now be found on Acast, Blubrry, GooglePlay, iTunes, Overcast, PlayerFM, Pocketcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, and, of course, my host platform, Podbean. Be sure to check out Podbean the week of November 27 when the SallyPAL podcast will be a featured show!   If you sign up for the mailing list on SallyPAL.com, you’ll get a free insert for your creator’s notebook. It’s a list of people you’ll need to help you produce your show along with some great links to more in-depth information.  

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“变化的真聪明啊！” 这是身边人第一次听Floating Points的直观评价。身为遗传学和神经学博士的Sam Shepherd (a.k.a Floating Points) 把他严谨的科学态度同样带入了音乐中。灵动的音符就像神经元一样穿插、交织在一起，形成完整的系统。强大的控制力将细节摆放的恰到好处，以便听者能自由的穿梭于他的音乐空间里。

From a young age, Sam Shepherd has rejected the idea of neat, tidy musical categories. He studied classical piano growing up, but felt confined by what he calls the "dots on a page." It wasn't until he heard a performer really making a classical piece his own, breaking out of strictly classical feel, that he was hooked. Now, Shepherd writes music under the alias "Floating Points." Influences of classical, jazz, electronica, pop, and world music all blend to create a sound that doesn't fit squarely into any one style. This episode features a piece titled "Peroration Six," which Shepherd describes as careening towards and then falling into a black hole. To find out more about the music of "Floating Points," check out the website floatingpoints.co.uk. Music is Music is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

London-based artist Floating Points (aka Sam Shepherd) performs a set of intricate textured electronic blends live on KEXP. Recorded 05/03/2016 - 3 songs: Silhouettes, Argenté, Kuiper.Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Triangle Productions is closing its 25th anniversary season with a tribute to another long-running Portland theater institution: Storefront Theatre. During its twenty year run, Storefront was infamous for productions that pushed every boundary imaginable. They put on over-the-top shows involving nudity, drugs, and a fabulous DIY aesthetic of glitter and glue guns—shows that ranged from Sam Shepherd (who came out to work with the theater) to a radical sex play about a porn store called “Quarters” to a reimagining of “Beauty and the Beast,” where the Beast bit the dust (and Beauty got naked).“It was unsafe and a mess and the most magical, amazing, astounding place I had ever been in in my life,” recalls actor Wendy Westerwelle, a charismatic local actor who first performed with Storefront in 1974 and continues to grace stages today. “There was no, ‘what if it sells?' There was no, ‘what's our season?' The politics of it was ‘screw it – we're artists and we're going to do what we do.'” To introduce Triangle's show, "Storefront Revue: The Babes Are Back," we invited four Storefront vets to take us back in time. Here are some of the highlights from our interview with Don Horn, Henk Pander, and actors Wendy Westerwelle and Vana O'Brien.

Don Johnson became a household name through his role as shiny suited Miami police officer Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice. He discusses the art of the comeback as he stars alongside Sam Shepherd in new film Cold in July. Novelist Carys Bray discusses her own devout Mormon upbringing in the North-West of England which lies at the heart of her debut novel A Song For Issy Bradley. As new poems are discovered by Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, we speak to his acclaimed biographer Adam Feinstein about their significance. Plus we discuss why some established authors are choosing to self-publish their work with writer Kate Pullinger and Cathy Rentzenbrink of the Bookseller.